In threes

Got a tag-back from Maria for this meme. Without fanfairs, here goes:

three physical things you like about yourself:

1) easily tan skin

2) legs

3) height

three physical things you don’t:

1) lack of hair

2) bad eyesight

3) nose

three things that scare you:

1) poverty

2) not able to see

3) being in a car driven by Leah’s dad 🙂

three of your everyday essentials:

1) computers

2) iPod

3) sugar rush from coke/chocolate/sweets

three things you are wearing now:

1) watch

2) Lance Armstrong wrist band

3) eyeglasses

three of your favorite bands or musical artists:

1) Perl Jam

2) Alanis Morissette

3) Blue Man Group

three things you want in a relationship:

1) desire

2) friendship

3) trust

two truths and a lie (which is a lie?):

1) I miss my relatives

2) I love eating

3) I love my job

three physical things that turn you on:

1) sight

2) sound

3) words

three of your favourite hobbies:

1) computer programming

2) reading

3) sports (golf, tennis, etc.)

three things you want to do really badly right now:

1) vacation

2) win lottery

3) drive

three careers you are considering:

1) photographer

2) chef

3) law enforcement agent such as FBI or Secret Service (but not before I fix my eyesight and get my citizenship first)

three places you want to go on vacation:

1) Italy

2) Japan

3) Oz

three things you want to do before you die:

1) learn to sail

2) learn to fly

3) drive a McLaren F1

three people you are throwing this to next:

1) Flaming Zinc

2) Badly Dubbed Boy

3) Neatly Sliced

DVD meme

I didn’t even know I got tagged to do the DVD meme by badly dubbed boy until Leah told me last night. So here goes.

Total number of films I own on DVD/video: At last count a few minutes ago, 72. This doesn’t include Leah’s own extensive collection though.

The last film I bought: Lost In Translation. Why didn’t Bill Murray win the Oscar for his role? Is there no justice in this world?

The last film I watched: That’s easy one. Star Wars Episode III. Bad acting but great movie.

Five films that I watch a lot or that mean a lot to me (in no particular order):

Contact: Probably the best Sci-Fi movie I’ve seen. Forgetting the possibility or impossibility of alien contact, the deeper question is whether you will volunteer to go or not despite the risk? Me? Definitely a go.

Forrest Gump: Tom Hank may not be the best actor ever, but his portray of Forrest Gump was pretty spot on. But it was the story that made this movie works. There isn’t another movie (that I know of) that digests recent American history that well.

Top Gun: I know it is cheesy and it is Tom Cruise. But when you were a bored teenager spending a long summer school break in Hong Kong without much spare money to spend, Top Gun was great movie to pass time!

The Original Star Wars Trilogy: Enough said.

Band of Brothers: I know this is not a film but since we are talking just DVDs… Easily the best TV mini-series by a long margin. The camaraderie of the paratroopers and the scarifies they made for the greater good can made even a grown man cries.

And to pass this on…

Flaming Zinc
authenticgeek
nada mas respira
Neatly Sliced

ex-Com(GS)municated

The AMEX letter has arrived yesterday with details on where I have to send my damaged Treo to complete the claim. I’ve just dropped the package off a Mailbox etc. on a UPS 2nd Day Air. So now I won’t have a cell phone for at least two weeks. Even the extra old cell phones we have in the apartment don’t help since they are locked to the old AT&T network and now I am with Cingular. Damn those stupid phone locking business! The whole point of GSM is so we can just use our SIM card on any phones in the world but no, these American carriers are too short-sighted to see the advantages and stuck at the revenue models of the mid-90s.

Wow, 16 years already

I was 13 when Tiananmen Square happened. No more need to be said.

And here is the CNN coverage. I am kind of surprise that they devote such a long piece to an event that has no major American interest.

Second Shower

I’ve just taken my second shower within 6 hours. Not because I didn’t do a good job the first time (I smelt great when I stepped out of the shower!), but because I’ve just came back from two hours of tennis with T.J. When will the fairy come around and give me enough money to live on so I don’t have to work and able to do what I did for the last 7 days, but for the rest of my life? I don’t ask for much, just so I don’t have to work 9-5 at a desk. Flexible hours is fine with me so I can play golf or tennis during the week. I think my friend T.J. has gotten it right. Being a personal trainer means he can just rearrange his clients schedule to suit his own schedule. I am better at software development than personal training so I guess I will have to wait for my turn…

Leah will be back this evening so my secluded life will be ending this afternoon. I think I will order some Chinese takeout for lunch/dinner, watch TiVo, play video games, and read. Basically things that I normally have to wait till Leah has gone to bed to do.

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