5 weeks after the launch of the new camera E-3, the local Olympus representative office organized an E-3 event for the local Olympus user group. Thanks to the user group leaders and the Olympus office, there were lots of E-3 and the whole line of lenses for us to try out. The E-3 is really [...]
Filed under: Photography, Services & Products on November 26th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Even though many things in Macao are very unreal, there are places in the city that I can spend hours to take photos …
Lou Kau Mansion:
Filed under: Photography, Travel on November 23rd, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The roof-top paintings are marvelous … ooops, those are wallpapers, not masterpieces. The shopping mall is wonderful … hey, it’s a copycat from shopping mall in Las Vegas and Tokyo. The “gaming” hall is huge … but no one is gaming, and thousands of people are gambling. The square is romantic as [...]
Filed under: Photography, Travel on November 22nd, 2007 | No Comments »
Pretty much like Samba of Brazil, Flamingo of Spain, Tango of Argentina … Fado is a national treasure of Portugal. Fado (translated as destiny or fate) is a music genre which can be traced from the 1820s in Portugal, but probably with much earlier origins. It is characterized by mournful tunes and lyrics, often about [...]
Filed under: Entertainment, Music Video, Search-a-holic on November 15th, 2007 | No Comments »
Stumbled upon a couple of blogs about a young Chinese designer Liu Yang (now lives in Germany) . She designed a series of graphic icons to compare the German and Chinese cultures … very interesting and pretty accurate 8-). You probably know which color represents Chinese …
Queues
Travelling
More graphics after the jump.
Filed under: Entertainment on November 10th, 2007 | No Comments »
While reading the book Supernatural, I spare some time to read a book recommending by my ex-colleague - “Chasing Daylight” by Eugene O’Kelly. This book is about what one shall do before too late. I cannot tell whether it is a good book yet as I am only half way through it. However in the [...]
Filed under: Book on November 7th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
So after the open-heart operation, I need to visit the hospital clinic once in a while to check various things. Here is a recap of the conversation today I have with the doctor:
Doctor : (Look blank)
Me : (Smiling)
[ 30 seconds later ]
Doctor : (Look blank) You look familiar, have we met before ?
[5 seconds later [...]
Filed under: Open-hearted, Services & Products on November 5th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Similar to many book lovers, I am a serial reader (not serial killer). That is, if I read a good book then I will read all the books written by the same author. For example, all the books by Dan Brown (Angels and Demons is actually better than Da Vinci Code, from my point of [...]
Filed under: Book on November 2nd, 2007 | 1 Comment »
