Minu­tes before 8.30am Eas­tern time, the usual up-time for apple store maintenance.

Been wai­ting for MBP refresh for months, hope­fully it’s really hap­pe­ning later.

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Finally after a decade, with the help of social media, we’re able to get back in con­tact.
200 com­ments still coun­ting… Hope to see them soon. =)

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Sunshine

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Fon Tok Tee Nah Taang - SEK LOSO»

命中注定 庾澄庆»

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Cute ninja theme…

櫻花落滿地 有一種神秘 凝結了空氣
黑夜裡偷襲 去攻擊 煙霧當武器
忍者的物語 要切斷過去 忠心是唯一
隱身要徹底 要忘記 什麼是自己

- 周杰倫, 忍者

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beauty.

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How do i get my girl­friend to…

How do i get my boy­friend to…

My gf…

My bf…

How do i get my wife to…

How do i get my hus­band to…

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上週末剛看十月围城, 算是2009年華人影壇巨作.
耗資 4,300萬人民幣 (~九百萬坡幣) 在上海建1:1比例的香港中環(1906).

演員陣容強大, 陳可辛製作, 陳德森導.

甄子丹 饰演 （赌徒）沈重阳
黎明 饰演 （乞丐）刘郁白
谢霆锋 饰演 （车夫）邓四弟
胡军 饰演 （刺客）阎孝国
梁家辉 饰演 （革命党）陈少白
王学圻 饰演 （商人）李玉堂
李宇春 饰演 （戏班女）方红
曾志伟 饰演 （探长）史密夫
范冰冰 饰演 （妾侍）月茹
周韵 饰演 （阿四未婚妻）阿纯
巴特尔 饰演 （小贩）王复明
王柏杰 饰演 （少爷）李重光
任达华 饰演 （戏班主）方天
张学友 饰演 （兴中会会长）杨衢云
李嘉欣 饰演 （大家闺秀）刘郁白的爱人
张涵予 饰演 （保护对象）孙中山

影片讲述1906年10月15日来自四面八方的革命义士，商人、乞丐、车夫、学生、赌徒、戏班主在香港中环浴血拼搏，粉碎了一场暗杀行动，保护孙中山的故事。负责接待他的义士商人知道有一批满清政府派来的刺客暗杀，所以请了一批身怀绝技的保镖护送，最后顺利将孙中山安全送去日本。
(http://baike.baidu.com/view/2181547.htm)

腳色多可是沒有混亂的感覺, 每個角色都有自己的故事, 自己的奮鬥.

所有人都是為了孫文的安全而犧牲. 孫文本身是為了革命.
戲中為此而犧牲的有沈重阳（赌徒）, 刘郁白（乞丐）, 邓四弟（车夫）, 方红（戏班女）, 王复明（小贩）, 李重光（少爷）, 方天（戏班主）.

看是為了革命而犧牲, 可是卻不完全是如此.

沈重阳（赌徒）賭性難改, 為錢可做任何事. 他的理由是念慈, 是他與李玉堂（商人）的小妾的女兒. 情人為了女兒, 改嫁李玉堂. 後來以讓女兒知道親父的身份作為條件要求沈重阳（赌徒）保護李玉堂（商人）.

刘郁白（乞丐）愛上父親的女人, 害得父親與愛人雙雙在面前死去, 從此淪落為乞丐, 與煙為伴. 為了李玉堂（商人）的賞識, 為了解脫所有的痛苦而奮鬥犧牲.

邓四弟（车夫）是李玉堂（商人）忠實的僕人. 四弟人生很簡單很天真. 一是照相館里的阿纯（阿四未婚妻）, 雖然知道她跛腳但還是一樣喜歡她. 二是希望主人能過開心, 就這樣為主犧牲.

方天（戏班主）為歸天津家鄉, 第一幫犧牲的人馬, 除了女兒方紅, 戲班里所有人都被刺客刺殺.

方红（戏班女）為完成父愿, 也讓父親能過回家鄉安葬. 為了阻擋炸藥車而犧牲.

王复明（小贩）被趕出少林, 一路走到香港, 在這裡賣臭豆腐. 身型高大, 愛花, 廝惡如仇. 為李玉堂激發而參加保護一個人的任務. 為斷刺客後路而犧牲.

李重光（少爷） 李玉堂的獨子. 唯一為了革命而犧牲的角色. 從小受陳少白與孫文的書的影響, 堅定著革命的信念. 被選為孫文的替身調虎離山. 為阎孝国所殺. 最後才了解自己活了17年原來就為了革命, 代孫文延長會議一個小時的時間.

每個人都在保護孫文這是來港的革命會議能順利完成, 帶著不同的理由, 以平民的身份參加保護的行動. 不同的人, 不同的夢想, 不同的方式, 不同的身份. 或許他們根本不知道自己是為了偉大的革命做壯烈的犧牲者, 可是每個人都在保護著自己奮鬥的原因.

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This rant was writ­ten for the Whar­ton Under­gra­duate Journal

This is a tri­bute to the nice guys. The nice guys that finish last, that never become more than friends, that endure hours of whi­ning and bitching about what assho­les guys are, while dis­pro­ving the very point. This is dedi­ca­ted to those guys who always pro­vide a shoul­der to lean on but res­train them­sel­ves to ten­ta­tive hugs, those guys who hold open doors and give reas­su­ring pats on the back and sit patiently outside the chan­ging room at depart­ment sto­res. This is in honor of the guys that obli­gingly rei­te­rate how cute/beautiful/smart/funny/sexy their female friends are at the appro­priate moment, because they know most girls need that litany of sup­port. This is in honor of the guys with open minds, with laid-back atti­tu­des, with honest con­cern. This is in honor of the guys who res­pect a girl’s every facet, from her pri­vacy to her theo­logy to her clothing style.

This is for the guys who escort their drunk, bewil­de­red female friends back from par­ties and never take advan­tage once they’re at her door, for the guys who accom­pany girls to bars as buf­fers against the rest of the creepy male popu­la­tion, for the guys who know a girl is fishing for com­pli­ments but give them out any­way, for the guys who always play by the rules in a game where the rules favor chea­ters, for the guys who are acc­re­di­ted as boy­friend mate­rial but somehow don’t end up being boy­friends, for all the nice guys who are over­loo­ked, unde­res­ti­ma­ted, and unap­pre­cia­ted, for all the nice guys who are mani­pu­la­ted, mis­led, and unjustly aban­do­ned, this is for you.

This is for that time she left 40 urgent mes­sa­ges on your cell phone, and when you called her back, she spent three hours pains­ta­kingly dis­sec­ting two sen­ten­ces her boy­friend said to her over din­ner. And even though you thought her boy­friend was a chump and a jerk, you assu­red her that it was all ok and she shouldn’t worry about it. This is for that time she inte­rrup­ted the best killing spree you’d ever orches­tra­ted in GTA3 to rant about a rumor that roman­ti­cally lin­ked her and the guy she thinks is the most repul­sive per­son in the world. And even though you thought it was imma­ture and you had nothing against the guy, you pau­sed the game for two hours and hel­ped her con­coct a counter-rumor to spread around the floor. This is also for that time she didn’t have a date, so after nume­rous vows that there was nothing “serious” bet­ween the two of you, she drag­ged you to a party where you knew nobody, the beer was awful, and she flir­ted sha­me­lessly with you, jus­tif­ying each fit of rec­kless tea­sing by announ­cing to ever­yone: “oh, but we’re just friends!” And even though you were invi­ted purely as a sym­bo­lic warm body for her ego, you went any­ways. Because you’re nice like that.

The nice guys don’t often get cre­dit where cre­dit is due. And perhaps more dis­tur­bing, the nice guys don’t seem to get laid as often as they should. And I wish I could logi­cally explain this trend, but I can’t. From what I have obser­ved on cam­pus and what I have lear­ned from tal­king to friends at other schools and in the work­place, the only conc­lu­sion I can form is that many girls are just illo­gi­cal, mani­pu­la­tive bitches. Many of them claim they just want to date a nice guy, but when pre­sen­ted with such a spe­ci­men, they say irra­tio­nal, con­fu­sing things such as “oh, he’s too nice to date” or “he would be a good boy­friend but he’s not for me” or “he already puts up with so much from me, I couldn’t pos­sibly ask him out!” or the most frus­tra­ting of all: “no, it would ruin our friendship.” Yet, they con­ti­nue to lament the lack of data­ble men in the world, and they expect their too-nice-to-date male friends to sym­pathize and apo­lo­gize for the men that are jerks. Sorry, guys, girls like that are beyond my abi­lity to fathom. I can’t figure out why the con­nec­tion breaks down bet­ween what they say (I want a nice guy!) and what they do (I’m going to sleep with this com­plete ass now!). But one thing I can do, is say that the nice-guy-finishes-last phe­no­me­non doesn’t last fore­ver. There are defi­ni­tely many girls who grow out of that train of thought and rea­lize they should be dating the nice guys, not taking them for gran­ted. The tricky part is fin­ding those girls, and even tric­kier, fin­ding the ones that are single.

So, until those girls are found, I pro­pose a toast to all the nice guys. You know who you are, and I know you’re sick of hea­ring your­self desc­ri­bed as ubi­qui­tously nice. But the truth of the mat­ter is, the world needs your patience in the depart­ment store, your hol­ding open of doors, your party escor­ting ser­vi­ces, your pro­pen­sity to be a suc­ker for a pretty smile. For all the crazy, inane, absurd things you tole­rate, for all the situa­tions where you are the face­less, name­less hero, my acco­la­des, my ack­now­led­ge­ment, and my gra­ti­tude go out to you. You do have cre­di­bi­lity in this society, and your well deser­ved vin­di­ca­tion is coming.

Fu-zu Jen, SEAS/WH, 2003

ori­gi­nal url: http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~jenf/writing/rant04.html

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