topkapi palace

the special exhibition on the Ottoman Empire was splendid. I could not finish all. The items were borrowed from Topkapi Palace in Turkey. It's just facsinating. If I have any chance in the future, Topkapi Palace should not be missed. It's just beautiful.

brownie monster

I've just remembered that the best thing that i've got from Singapore is BROWNIE! From the Brownie Factory @ Takashimaya. It's just wonderful...

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for...

This song of U2 is always my favourite. It expresses a strong spiritual desire to find...

"I have climbed the highest mountains
I have run through the fields
Only to be with you
Only to be with you
I have run I have crawled
I have scaled these city walls
these city walls
Only to be with you
But I still haven't found
What I'm looking for
But I still haven't found
What I'm looking for
I have kissed honey lips
Felt the healing fingertips
It burned like fire
This burning desire
I have spoke with the tongue of angels
I have held the hand of a devil
It was warm in the night
I was cold as a stone
But I still haven't found
What I'm looking for
But I still haven't found
What I'm looking for
I believe in the Kingdom Come
Then all the colors will bleed into one
bleed into one
But yes I'm still running.
You broke the bonds
And you loosened the chains
Carried the cross
And my shame
And my shame
You know I believed it
But I still haven't found
What I'm looking for
But I still haven't found
What I'm looking for
I have climbed the highest mountains
I have run through the fields
Only to be with you
Only to be with you
I have run I have crawled
I have scaled these city walls
these city walls
Only to be with you
But I still haven't found
What I'm looking for "

The Joshua Tree
June 15, 1990

two days@singapore

the trip lasted literally three days. So we saved the sleeping time to eat and walk around. it has been a fun trip. we had not yet completed our mission but we had something very unexpected. it is a surprise, indeed. singapore is not my market. ha ha ha.

anyway eat, drink and walk within such a short period of time, i think i am crazy. But i am happy.

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miao & meiyi

I've been waiting for their books for a long time. M & M are my most favourite Taiwanese female writers.

I get to know them when i first become interested in their "Exchange Diary No.3" It is about their trips to France and England.

Then I read all their exchange diaries, books and some comics.

They are very good at expressing their points of view from female's angles. Quite interesting. Their writings are getting better and better. You can feel the "energy" in their books.

Link to Miao
http://hercafe.yam.com/past/past.cgi/talksmiao

Link to Meiyi
http://myweb.hinet.net/home2/bamboo/

professional wedding organizers

organizing a wedding is fun but it is not easy. it is fun to work with my buddies. i don't contribute much but i think i have a role to play. like making funny noises when everyone feels frustrated or just crack a not very funny joke to make everyone laugh. or just follow instructions and complete them as soon as possible. Anywhere, three of us were very good partners.

last night, we had another chance to reunion. An old friend is getting married.
another friend gets married. that's a good news. we met his future wife at last.
We are experienced decorators. but this time we find one of the items mission impossinle.
Nitrogen balloons in church...
We had made thousands of possibilities about the flying ballons and how to kill the balloons. Or how to buy cheaper gases or even use towngas to make the balloons fly. but that sounds quite impossible indeed.

anyway, we will make the wedding looks more professional and beautiful. Or try to fulfill the requests. But definitely not nitrogen balloons.

data set

this is the third phase of the project. this is another new set of data. i like data sets. it is very difficult to explain why i just like them. data sets are living creature. they will tell many things, especially after different kinds of manipulation. they are always very honest with you, even you try to "manipulate" them. this is one of the reasons why i like playing with them. there are good data sets and rotten data sets. i prefer rotten data sets because i feel good turning sth bad into good.

i am a weird monster, having a strong attachment to data sets. i like data.

But definitely this is not the same logic, "women only love wicked men." This gives a very good excuse for women torturing themselves and accepting their fate.

Absolutely not. because it is almost impossible to turn a "wicked" person into sth good. I am not even interested in doing something like that. it's just a waste of time. I'd rather to concentrate on data mining.

poor sisters

i am fed up with those terrible titles of those christian columns about female christians.

"I am almost 26 years old, I am still single..."
"I am 33, I was dumped and no one would even want me..."
"I am 23, I am looking for love..."
"I was dumped after 7 years of relationship...tell me what should i do!!!"
"The men-to-women ratio in church is 3:7..."

Sounds desperate.
All these titles are concurrent. if i can do a statistics about that, i am sure they occur once every month.
i felt even more angry after reading the answers to these inquiries.

Pray hard.
Wait.
Go for counselling.
Wait
Wait and wait.
Do more exercises. (wat?!)
Have a positive self esteem.
Pray.
Don't victimise yourself.

O... man. Give me a break...
Most are making up their paces to meet the deadlines. Getting married before 28. 28 is a magic number. No life after 28. So I should have fallen into darkness for ages. The worst thing is that i was an "unenlightened" being. "Poor u, it's so unfortunately to be "unmarried"."
My goodness~
um... i don't think i look really that miserable to be "unmarried". It's pathological to be "unmarried".
in their eyes, this is true.
nothing can be done, except carrying the bad name.

永遠達明一派

The concert was fantastic. It's amazing to see so many ppl at the concert. Maybe i have not been to for a long time. it's quite easy to feel the heat. All the singers sing very well. it is quite hard recently to have someone sing well. Their voices are penetrating. very gd indeed.

Tat Ming were the last. They made ppl crazy and it was like time has returned to years ago. listening to the same song, sharing the same beat. nothing has changed. Lau still played very well and Wong still sang the same style and tune.

young forever in concert.

new term

the new term has started. it's been quite a hectic. but i am quite accustomed to the jobs and things. so it is less difficult to get around.
i find myself having more confidence while dealing with students. thanks to the training last year.
so many thx to God.

sg trip

finally i am off the package.
it costs me $1000 more.
anyway, going for a trip is always sth very good.

After all these travel arrangements, i realise i am not very good at doing all these things. i am just do not have the sense to get things done properly. i just mix things up so terribly. it almost drives me crazy.