Sam found an apartment. It's in North Point, convenient to bus and subway and apparently small.
I can't wait to see it! :) Hopefully she'll send pics and we can all see what it's like.
Very exciting.
Saturday, July 30, 2005
As I was posting the last thread, sitting in the dark in bed letting the wireless networking doing it's thing, a bug flew and landed on the screen.
I hate bugs. They scare me. I get dry mouth and cold skin and tingly in the base of my neck when I see a cockroach. This was a little one so I wasn't really fearful of it, per se, but it made me wonder if its larger kin were somewhere in the darkened room waiting to come out and play as soon as I fell asleep. That begins to worry me.
If I had 7 wishes (there used to be a TV show about a kindly black fairy godmother that would visit children through their TV's and give them each seven wishes - does anyone else remember this show?) One of them would definitely be that wherever I went, all bugs within a 2 mile radius would drop dead and disappear. I like this more than wishing all bugs dead simply because I'm also somewhat of an environmentalist and understand the important role that bugs and insects play in our ecosystem and don't want my fear to harm the earth. Of course, I also understand that were I to walk by an insect research center that used bugs to study something important to the human race, this would be a source of not insignificant consternation to those scientists or lab techs or whoever. But this is one of those situations where they would have to take it on the chin for the greater good - my fear of things with more than four legs.
Of course, the bug wish would only be for if I had seven wishes. If I only had one, it'd be to win the megamillions lottery when it was over $360 million. I don't want to come off as venal, but hey, walking away with around $160 mil NPV post tax isn't bad. And after giving away to family, causes etc. I'd 'only' be left with less than 70 mil which is still enough to live somewhere without bugs.
Wish two would be to be able to read, write and speak the twenty most spoken languages on the planet (and their dialects) as an educated native (with academic registers). That'd just be cool.
Wish three - ability to impart good health on whomever I want.
Wish four - ability to stop time. I got this idea from another TV show from when I was a kid whose title I don't remember. This girl could stop time and walk around while everyone else was frozen. She could also unfreeze people by touching them and they could so stuff together in the frozen world. Pretty cool. Don't know what happens, though, if you're driving when time stops. In the show, the lights stayed on while time was stopped which implies machines still continued to operate. This could be very dangerous. Anyways, the main reason I want this wish is so I can sleep. How often are you falling asleep in some really boring meeting or class and you just wish you could sleep, but know you can't miss what's being said? Well, for me, it's all the time. This would effectively combat that. I could stop time, nap to my heart's content, then restart it and nobody would ever know.
Wish 5 - the bug wish.
The others I'm still working on. World peace isn't one of them. Not because I wish conflict on people, but because I actually think it's impossible. Call me a cynic, but I think conflict is key to how humanity evolves and improves itself. No competition, no evolution. I'm hoping for a better tomorrow.
I hate bugs. They scare me. I get dry mouth and cold skin and tingly in the base of my neck when I see a cockroach. This was a little one so I wasn't really fearful of it, per se, but it made me wonder if its larger kin were somewhere in the darkened room waiting to come out and play as soon as I fell asleep. That begins to worry me.
If I had 7 wishes (there used to be a TV show about a kindly black fairy godmother that would visit children through their TV's and give them each seven wishes - does anyone else remember this show?) One of them would definitely be that wherever I went, all bugs within a 2 mile radius would drop dead and disappear. I like this more than wishing all bugs dead simply because I'm also somewhat of an environmentalist and understand the important role that bugs and insects play in our ecosystem and don't want my fear to harm the earth. Of course, I also understand that were I to walk by an insect research center that used bugs to study something important to the human race, this would be a source of not insignificant consternation to those scientists or lab techs or whoever. But this is one of those situations where they would have to take it on the chin for the greater good - my fear of things with more than four legs.
Of course, the bug wish would only be for if I had seven wishes. If I only had one, it'd be to win the megamillions lottery when it was over $360 million. I don't want to come off as venal, but hey, walking away with around $160 mil NPV post tax isn't bad. And after giving away to family, causes etc. I'd 'only' be left with less than 70 mil which is still enough to live somewhere without bugs.
Wish two would be to be able to read, write and speak the twenty most spoken languages on the planet (and their dialects) as an educated native (with academic registers). That'd just be cool.
Wish three - ability to impart good health on whomever I want.
Wish four - ability to stop time. I got this idea from another TV show from when I was a kid whose title I don't remember. This girl could stop time and walk around while everyone else was frozen. She could also unfreeze people by touching them and they could so stuff together in the frozen world. Pretty cool. Don't know what happens, though, if you're driving when time stops. In the show, the lights stayed on while time was stopped which implies machines still continued to operate. This could be very dangerous. Anyways, the main reason I want this wish is so I can sleep. How often are you falling asleep in some really boring meeting or class and you just wish you could sleep, but know you can't miss what's being said? Well, for me, it's all the time. This would effectively combat that. I could stop time, nap to my heart's content, then restart it and nobody would ever know.
Wish 5 - the bug wish.
The others I'm still working on. World peace isn't one of them. Not because I wish conflict on people, but because I actually think it's impossible. Call me a cynic, but I think conflict is key to how humanity evolves and improves itself. No competition, no evolution. I'm hoping for a better tomorrow.
Friday night alone
I'm not lonely in the sense of not having people in my life to spend time with, but more in the sense that SAM is in HK and I'm over here in Taipei. She's already deep asleep, I bet, and here I am feeling a bit alone without her on the other end of a phone or on the other side of the bed.
Anyways, just thought I'd post a pic of us together to make the blog more multi-media. Don't expect music or video, though. Just not that talented.
Sometimes, it feels like the more often I look at photos of her, the more I smile. It's nice.
Friday, July 29, 2005
we're on a roll now!
So it's been awhile. And yes, a lot has changed. What to say but that in the first go around, I obviously didn't find that thing that made blogging compelling for me. But now I'm back and willing to give it another shot. And it's largely due to the last few days being rather blog-ful.
Not only did I discover and read the blog of a friend of mine, but I was also emailed a link to Jessica Culter's blog (why don't I ever meet these girls?) - http://washingtoniennearchive.blogspot.com/ - and discovered that SAM even has set up a blog now. Somehow, all this vicarious blogging has me now itching a bit to try this out again.
I discovered how much I enjoyed these three very different blogs. Each one was a different glimpse into the life of some person - two of whom I know and one whom I don't. I learned something in all three. Well, at least all three were entertaining in different ways. Power of human expression, I guess.
I suppose that this blog would be more interesting if I actually wrote about something personal. I think I may actually be writing about blogging rather than anything else because I'm a bit worried about how public this forum is. Interesting fact for self, I suppose. :)
So that's it for this entry. A bit weak, but it'll have to do for a restart effort. We'll see where this goes :)
Not only did I discover and read the blog of a friend of mine, but I was also emailed a link to Jessica Culter's blog (why don't I ever meet these girls?) - http://washingtoniennearchive.blogspot.com/ - and discovered that SAM even has set up a blog now. Somehow, all this vicarious blogging has me now itching a bit to try this out again.
I discovered how much I enjoyed these three very different blogs. Each one was a different glimpse into the life of some person - two of whom I know and one whom I don't. I learned something in all three. Well, at least all three were entertaining in different ways. Power of human expression, I guess.
I suppose that this blog would be more interesting if I actually wrote about something personal. I think I may actually be writing about blogging rather than anything else because I'm a bit worried about how public this forum is. Interesting fact for self, I suppose. :)
So that's it for this entry. A bit weak, but it'll have to do for a restart effort. We'll see where this goes :)
Sunday, October 31, 2004
Let's see...
So I've been hearing about this movement - blogging - for a while now. I'm intrigued.
I was giving this topic some serious thought today, between waiting for the shuttle bus and reading a book, and thought I would actually go try this out and try to understand the popularity of blogging.
The overarching goal of this blog will to be to explore why people blog and what is so compelling about it. As part of accomplishing that goal, I hope to read plenty of other peoples' blogs (my goal is at least one new one a day - let's see how long that lasts), post my own thoughts and material (whatever comes to mind - and believe me, there's a lot of random crap in my mind) and of course to use this as an online medium to explore pretty much everything and anything I want to.
I thought I would start my exploration with trying to figure out why, while waiting at the Star Ferry terminal for my shuttle bus, I felt compelled to write. Not just write, but to write something that people would read.
And I suppose that is at the core of blogging. It speaks to the basic human desire to feel like your opinion means something. At least it speaks to my desire to feel like my thoughts count. So I think human vanity may have something to do with it. The desire for approval (I AM hoping that at least someone reads it and thinks well of what I put down) and validation.
My methodology will be to write whatever I want to each time I post, but to be able to think, at the end of my post, about why I wrote and posted what I did that day. It may cover anything from movie reviews (likes or dislikes), my personal life and work and career. Basically, anything that's important enough, confusing enough or anger inducing enough to make me want to write about it.
I welcome any comments from anyone - especially on why they blog. However, I'm guessing that not too many people will comment - especially considering the relative obscurity.
Well, here goes world... I'm putting myself and my thoughts out there. Let's see where this leads.
I was giving this topic some serious thought today, between waiting for the shuttle bus and reading a book, and thought I would actually go try this out and try to understand the popularity of blogging.
The overarching goal of this blog will to be to explore why people blog and what is so compelling about it. As part of accomplishing that goal, I hope to read plenty of other peoples' blogs (my goal is at least one new one a day - let's see how long that lasts), post my own thoughts and material (whatever comes to mind - and believe me, there's a lot of random crap in my mind) and of course to use this as an online medium to explore pretty much everything and anything I want to.
I thought I would start my exploration with trying to figure out why, while waiting at the Star Ferry terminal for my shuttle bus, I felt compelled to write. Not just write, but to write something that people would read.
And I suppose that is at the core of blogging. It speaks to the basic human desire to feel like your opinion means something. At least it speaks to my desire to feel like my thoughts count. So I think human vanity may have something to do with it. The desire for approval (I AM hoping that at least someone reads it and thinks well of what I put down) and validation.
My methodology will be to write whatever I want to each time I post, but to be able to think, at the end of my post, about why I wrote and posted what I did that day. It may cover anything from movie reviews (likes or dislikes), my personal life and work and career. Basically, anything that's important enough, confusing enough or anger inducing enough to make me want to write about it.
I welcome any comments from anyone - especially on why they blog. However, I'm guessing that not too many people will comment - especially considering the relative obscurity.
Well, here goes world... I'm putting myself and my thoughts out there. Let's see where this leads.
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