Merry Christmas and have a good year 2007

The message is of course to everyone, everyone in the world.

This long holiday, my first long holiday in this job, is quite good so far. Has been a spending holiday, also a relatively relaxing one. Got drunk twice already, drove around, also brought some senior family members to Macau for a one-day tour.

Some gifts for myself: Dream Theatre Score DVD, LiteOn DVD RW, picture taken by a Nikon D70 (lended by a relative)

PS: sorry, forgot to rotate the pic first :p

Another nice Christmas gift is Eason's autographed album. As some of you may have read from my blog, I've already bought his album not long ago. But thanks to CY for getting me this!!! This is gonna stay on my shelf (at least the cover with autograph, the CD to bobo).

2 more parties to come, before returning to work. This year, work is starting with a trip to Mumbai! I am not sure whether it's a good thing yet, as bobo is quite worried about my health. But these chances don't come round that often for sure.

Working in the weekend

Working in the weekend is probably the worst thing that could happen to working lives. I know many of you may need to work in the weekends quite frequently, but it's for sure something new to me.

This is already the second full weekend that I have to work, in Beijing, both times are for the same client. And for worse, we've been working from 9am to 12am. Fortunately, I can enjoy the luxurious hotel room tonight.

Waiting for my In-Room dining while watching Charlton Athletics vs Liverpool now, I'll write again when I have something not about work to say.

Misc

Another blog with a bit of everything...

ITU World
Took a day off last Thursday to go to the exhibition by International Telecommunication Union, in AsiaExpo, near HK Airport. The ticket cost me CHF50 (HKD330), but I think it was still worth it (though a lot of hk people got free tickets from somewhere, or student ticket costing HKD90 like CF had). Even though a lot of booths did not aim at people like us (they aim at mobile network providers who need GSM antennas or optical cables laying underground :-|, corporates who can afford tens of thousands on wireless LAN), some of the booths were just amazing to look at.

Samsung
Samsung 2
Shanghai something
Alcatel VIP room
China Hong Kong, reportedly cost $5m, so imagine how much Samsung's cost

Saw some amazing technology with CF.

3-D LCD: just the size of an LCD you find in a mobile, but able to display a 3-D image that you see from Disney 3D theatre! By Mitsubishi Electronics.

Quantom Cryptography: using photons to carry important data, based on quantom physics theories. Also by Mitsubishi Electronics.

Iris and face recognition using mobile phones: with 1M pixel camera (found on many mobile phones now), the software can recognise unique Iris features, another software reads face. Both are very quick and real-life demo was impressive! By OKI


Guangzhou
CL, TY, bobo and I all went to Guangzhou on Sunday, to look for goods in YiDe Lu for our Chinese new year market stall. Very interesting trip with purpose. Hopefully we will be able to find something unique and interesting to sell :-)

2 Albums
Bought 2 Canton-pop albums recently:
Eason Chan - What's going on ...?
Hacken Lee - "Yin Tsau Teng 2"

Very different style, and definitely I love Eason's so much more. 2 or 3 pop songs, but altogether give a quite good mix of music. Favourite so far: 黑擇明

誰也在暢讀死亡的筆記　不如來推推理
要求存似電玩遊戲　操練著戰機
死也未怕又怕甚麼苦戲　不如重溫好戲
死亡遲早都找你　切勿憑自己

Another recent favourite:
Kiss Goodbye - 王力宏

Baby 不要再哭泣 這一幕多麼熟悉
緊握著你的手彼此都捨不得分離
每一次想開口 但不如保持安靜
給我一分鐘專心好好欣賞妳的美

幸福搭配悲傷 痛是在我心交叉
挫折的眼淚不能測試愛的重量
付出的愛收不回 還欠你的我不能給
別把我心也帶走去跟隨

每一次和你分開
深深的被妳打敗
每一次放棄妳的溫柔 痛苦難以釋懷
每一次和妳分開
每一次kiss you Goodbye
愛情的滋味此刻我終於最明白