My nephew (my brother's little baby son) is so fun to play with. He seems to be very interested in musical instruments, like my chessy guitar and "my" keyboard (it actually belongs to my dance classmate Wincy). Maybe I'll teach him to play some simple tune when he grows older. He's his cute face, taken by my chessy PDA camera NX-70V.

http://deecay.hopto.org/deecay/photo/2004_02_28/

It was not a good start this morning. I woke up with my hair stuck up and felt cold because of the weather change. And then I realize that I couldn't find any color sort-of-matching clothes to wear in order to keep me warm. On the top of that, my head was aching, probably caused by reading the e-Book "Fight Club" on my Sony Clie in bed.

So I was like I zombie leaving my room and went to the bathroom and found some strange crystal decoration in the bathroom. I was not Superman so the crystal wasn't even close to jeopardize my life. It did, though, keep me from leaving my clean clothes on the bench if I ever considered taking a shower before going to work. I was not this morning, but heck mind-me. And hell knows if my headache had anything to do with the crystal.

So now I am in the office in some sort of cranky mode. Nice way to start a morning.

The latest album by Indigo Girls, "All That We Let In", is a refreshing musical journey that kept me happy for the last one week. With all the studio production with complex layer, sampled loops and complicate-for-the-sake-of-being-complicated rhythm, it's nice to hear this 90s release an album that is so basic to the basic. I was never a big fan of folk rock except the old REM materials, but "All That We Let In" reminds me what makes good music: nice melody, elegant performance and joyful singing. This is not some sort of breakthrough album, but should your long commute become more bearable, if not turned into a joyride.

2:55 pm, Tuesday afternoon, woke up after overslept. This could happen either when I am jobless or when I have a sick day off. Well, I can "gladly" tell you that it's the second reason. This is good consider that I have tons of things to work on for the dance orgs (http://acdpc.netfirms.com & http://theava.netfirms.com/), and then my 3D modeling study is lacking behind. But as you probably know what happen when you got a sick day off from flu. You don't have the energy to anything else besides sleeping and another else that is simple and relaxing.

So I guess writing my weblog is simple and relaxing :-P

My HGC Powercom Internet connection is still going well. This is something that kind of puzzled me. The connection was extremely crappy for months, but suddenly it become pretty stable and well performed. I wonder if the recent comparison report in a popular weekly Magazine (Next Magazine) forced Hutchison to take some action on the Internet connection problem.

I brought an electronic gadget that is really useful. People who knew me well may already realize that I use my PDA a lot. It's my second brain, entertainment center, education source and creative hub. But my PDA, Sony Clie NX-70V, while not notorious in short battery life, still not a battery life long enough to sustain a whole day usage if I really push it to the limit. Fortunately, a nice device is on the market to solve my problem. In fact, it seems to be on the market for a while already. It's basically a battery pack that holds 4 AA batteries. It provides power to the PDA thru the HotSync port, and at the same time charge the PDA. So whenever I am on the road not using the PDA, I can just connect it to the charge, thus making sure that the battery level is always at the peak. I was told that such a frequent charging will reduce the battery life of my device to slightly less than a year. But then for the sake of allow me to take the full benefit of my PDA, I still think it's worth it.

Hey, this message is for Hansel: the SmartTone commerical that you saw was a rip off of a Moby's music video. The song for the music video is called "In This World", a song from Moby's lastest album "18". I have a OK video capture from Channel V, and I can give it to you if you want. It's a very nicely made music video, almost like a short film. Of course, I am pretty sure that you can also find it from OverNet (eDonkey 2000) or BT anyway.

There are tons are items I want to put in my blogger today, but the most important thing is probably the fact that my Internet connect was back to normal, and actually slightly better than usual. It was magically happened since last night when I have to unplug the modem from directly connected to the wall to connecting to the extension chord. I could hardly believe that such an arrangement could make such a difference, and I still think of it as a pure coincidence. Well, at least my life is back to normal.

But to think about, the lack of Internet connection in the last several days have some positive side effect. For instance, because I was able to surf the web, I spent more time on practicing guitar and keyboard. I got time finish the TomCat installation. I did some Lightwave 3D modeling exercise. All because I didn't spent (wasted) anytime on surfing the web.

I almost lost my pair of glasses. I left it at restroom of the dance studio in the afternoon, and I rushed to that place at night. What made me realize is how much I got affected by something minor as this. I know I was like this since I was young, but that doesn't mean I should just accept it this way.

My throat is still itchy, and worried me. This is usually a sign of close to getting a flu. It's nice that after a day of tiresome dance practice, my sore throat still haven't turned into flu yet. But it's so close. I have to keep drink hot water in the coming one to two days.

Have you ever woke up and regarded about a lot of things you said a day before? This morning I woke
up with a not-so-comfy thorat, so I was trying to recall what I did and what I said last night. I started to realize that I was over-talkative last night, unlike the silence I do usually when I am in the crowd. It was partly because of the excitement caused by seeing the old pals I rarely seen. But showhow I felt like the darker side of me was stimualated to get out whenever I was with my old pal. Whatever I usually restrain myself to talk about suddenly all flood out of my mouth in an almost uncontrolable fashion.

So I do regard talked in yelling fashion. I regard saying things that are anti-social, something that may even get me into jail if people didn't know that I was joking. They were, though, part of the side product of my crazy brain, so even though I regard them, I take full responsiblity of what I said.

Maybe I really should locked in a cell, or become a independent movie script writer, whichever creates more damage to the society (here I go again >:-D )

9:51 am. First day of UAT. (For those who have no idea about the IT industry in HK, UST is a stage which user test our system) Saw client arrived to our site. Since I couldn't do anything now as the users are testing our system, I write this weblog to capture my memory of the crazy I had in the last two week.

Days couldn't be more exciting in the last two weeks. I was in two dance competition and one singing competition, worked until midnight (although that's nothing comparing with my collegues who worked over night ALL THE TIME), played drumset on Sunday service, and still managed to download, install and read a great Japanese comics Mobile Police on my Palm to read while I was on the way to work.

Regarding to the dance competition, I treated it as a journey to learn how to handle my stage frightenness. I used to have terrible stage fright right before the performance and such emotional stage hurted my performance almost everytime. Yesterday I tried resting and relax my shoulder that seemed to work a bit. I guess I just need more experience to get myself losen up.

I saw some technically great teenage dancer dancing yesterday, but they all dance with soft and feminine gestures. Now I start to realize why it is importnat to dance "like a man". Certainly the boys who danced the demonstration session didn't. This doesn't mean I don't like the dance they did. it was good. It's just that now I have a better idea about what "dance like a man" means.