Bikes Got Stolen

Both my commuter hybrid and my used-only-a-few-times mountain bike. Argh!

And oh mother’s day weekend! Ya, _Happy_ mother’s day.

But at least they didn’t take 詹占的, cos 佢的單車上裝咗個小孩位, 連嗰個都偷埋的話就真的是很慘了.

In view of the fact that I don’t really go mountain biking, I’m not going to replace it. I do need to replace my commuter bike tho cos now that it’s summer/spring time, I can’t bear to drive all the time. Driving also causes me to have a much shorter work day (need to do drop off and pick up) which doesn’t look good in my boss’s eyes.

I used to have a Trek bike. This time I got a Rocky Mountain. Unfortunately, in the rush to buy a replacement asap, I wasn’t quite prudent enough and didn’t get the best deal available. I mean, I still got an OK deal. But since I know that there’s a better deal, with my cheap 精 personality, I couldn’t help but felt regret and cheated (altho no one’s cheating, really).

I’m still very happy with my bike. It is nicer than my old Trek. Actually whoever stole my Trek isn’t really in luck cos I was planning to bring it to the shop and anticipated that the bike need its gear and chains replaced and my bottom bracket had some clicking problem and my hook for my rear fender is slightly defective that the fender falls down and rubs the tire from time to time. It wasn’t a bad bike but it had quite a bit mileage on it and needs some work done.

Anyway, here’s my new baby. 2012 model.

I’ve also bought a whole bunch of accessories (pedals, seat, fenders, speedometer, rack, lights and water bottle holder. I’ve already refrained from buying two other accessories to complete my need) which unfortunately, broke my bank. >_< Let’s hope that this bike last a long time and won’t get stolen again!

Unfortunately, since I’ve acquired this bike, I’ve only ridden on it three times due to sickness, weather and scheduling problems. It’ll be 登場 during my 75km fund-raising bike ride on Sunday tho. It will serve me well. And I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I can make use of it more for the rest of the summer, ideally at least 4 times a week going to work.

See You Next Time

Last post talked about my trip to 娘家。This post talks about 小妹's trip to 我家.

One month (well… almost one month). Time flies. Too bad that I had to go back to work. Feel a bit bad about leaving her on her own most of the time.

And she did so much housework for us: making desserts, hanging and folding clothes, wash dishes, cleaning up after us, tidying up the office floor, unloading the dishwasher, providing a distraction to 小Ｊso that we could work on something else etc.

Now that she’s gone, I’m worried. How are we going to pick up all these ‘extra’ housework??

I hope I didn’t slave her too much (I didn’t request her to do them. She volunteered.) and I hope she had a good time in here and didn’t find it too boring.

And it’s nice to have an extra body at home la. 感覺上是熱鬧點，又有人跟我一起返教會，很開心喲～

我一個月，佢一個月，總共兩個月，真的是很難很難得才可以這樣。

兩個月一眨眼就過了。

As I always said, if it’s not bcos of 大小二Ｊ，I think 我回流了喇。

可能這也是神的計劃的一部份耶，衪在這麼安排了很多'工作'給我囉。

On a separate note, the futon that we’ve bought two years ago finally 大派用場了喲！之前海倫媽媽都有用過兩次，但今次是瞓足一個月耶，很厲害呀！而且真的是很好瞓的啦，小妹睡完也讚，之前花的一筆是值回票價的！

HK Home 2013

Went back to 娘家 for the whole month of April. Didn’t do much. Just staying home and visiting family and friends. It was actually quite a nice stay. The only stress comes from 小Ｊ.

I think he had a very gd time there as well. Eat lots of food. Went to the park pretty much every day. Got lots of personal attention from everyone.

I had a very healthy time there. Work out once a day for 85% of my time there. Went jogging quite a bit. Shredded some pounds (altho has already gained them all back now I’m back in TO) and even made my PB of jogging the furthest in one go. Quite proud of myself. I’ve got to say, without work and with my family around to take care of 小Ｊ(and me! I basically don’t have to do any housework), it’s definitely a LOT easier to keep up with the exercise regime.

Didn’t meet every single frd that I meant to see cos apparently, some people simply has no desire to see me ever again. I reached out. Some of them gave me a minimal response but when trying to pin down an exact date and time, that person never got back to me. Some didn’t even respond to the first message. Felt a bit like broadcasting my request for contact to the universe and received no response bcos the aliens simply didn’t want to be in contact with me human. Oh well… I tried. 人家不願相見就罷了，勉強無幸福，下次我不再為這幾個人浪費心神就是了（現在是這樣說吧，可能下次又心血來潮去送上門找人家然後又再被人唾棄多一次）。

Some other frds tho, 真的很正，超易約，一叫就到，仲要連地點都就哂我，超唔話得。我愛你們。

其中一個 surprise 係在多人多認識的JY小妹妹，回流咗番香港幾年，我跟她基本上是沒有 contact 乜滯，之前返香港話搵佢話話吓又無咗回事，今次終於都搵佢，佢又肯出黎，見面的感覺又很良好，都唔覺得原來係咁耐無見，小妹妹除咗成熟咗小小之外，都無乜點變。

又有三個差不多十年無見的舊戰友，喺第三者度得知我約咗某些人出黎食飯，竟然自薦要出現，咁既朋友邊度搵。

雖然有被人唾棄的時候，但能夠 get back in contact with some good friends, 算落我算是賺了。 ^_^

大家都請我食飯，我真係過意唔去。

有一餐又好白痴，明明係夾錢食飯，但到俾錢既時候我先發現原來我無帶錢包出街，淨係帶咗發達窿出街，結果變相屈朋友們請我食飯，自己都覺得自己超糗。

今次返去又可以跟媽過生日，乘機出街吃一餐。諗諗吓，上次返去賀小妹生日，再上一次是爸生日。呵呵，真好，佢哋Ｄ生日全部都係旅遊淡季！

不過坐飛機有夠辛苦的，去的時候還可，因為很幸運地有個空位讓小Ｊ坐，回來的那程比死更難受，睡又睡不了，位子又窄，電影又看不了，呆呆的坐十多粒鐘，好彩小妹跟人家掉了位，可以一齊坐，已經算是不幸中的大幸了。這就是做 cheap 精唔買多個機位的下場。>_<

A New Direction

I have not abandoned this blog, altho I know not that many ppl are actually reading or visiting.

But in view of this, the direction of this blog has changed a bit.

In the very beginning, the primary purpose of telling my frds who are geographically away from me about what I’ve been up to. And somewhere in the middle, it has kinda changed to some sort of daily life+review of movie/books/shows etc.

Now, it’s gonna to go back to basic a bit. It’s really kinda like a diary again. To record things that _I_ care, to leave a record for myself to read somewhere down the road (when I’m 60!??!).

Since I’m going to write about things that _I_ think are worth writing down, maybe this will keep my motivation a bit higher and will keep me squeezing out my precious time from Candy Crush to write something down that’s memory-worthy to myself.

Where to Start?

So many things happened in the past couple of months but no time/motivation to write them down.

I want to but what to write?? So many things. Can’t write them all down. Not enough time. Not enough motivation.

I’m writing this just to get my a kick start.

Skyfall

I know 我很 out, 而家先講 Skyfall.

其實我是在戲院看的呀，雖然是遲了很多，遲到差點找不到戲院的時候才看，但真的很愛這片喲！

Skyfall 已經成為我我最喜愛的 bond movie 喇！

一直對 bond movie 都沒特別喜愛，雖然也沒特別討厭，就是覺得一看無妨，不看也沒錯過什麼的感覺喇。Pierce Brosnan is _the_ Bond that I know of since I know that Bond is. He’s ok, but I don’t really care much about it. I would watch it if it’s shown on TV and if there’s nothing else to do but I don’t have any particular desire to watch those movies.

To me, Bond is more of an ideal in my brain without any particular images attached to it. To me, Bond is cool, with cool gadgets. And good looking. And chill. Doesn’t really do much fighting.

That’s why when I first saw Casino Royale (my 1st Bond movie in the theatre), I didn’t really like it much cos it’s not what I was expecting. No gadgets, too much hands-on fighting. And I really don’t see why all the people raved about Daniel Craig emerging out of the water, topless.

Also saw Quantum in theatre. It’s ok but again, doesn’t excite me much. Only went bcos someone else wanted to go.

Actually made the extra effort to go see Skyfall. When I finally managed to go, it’s almost 落畫, only a few theatres in my area were still showing it. Heard good things about it. Went in with quite an expectation and to my surprise, it didn’t disappoint me.

Loved the way how they mixed the new and the old stuff – tech and old school gadgets. And the subtle but not too subtle humor. Also liked the plot that there’s no saving the world and nuclear bomb kind of bad guy. Just an insane psycho seeking personal revenge (frankly, I’m quite tired of all these saving-the-world-from-nuclear/bio-weapon and zombie-taking-over-the-world plots).

And I could finally put a face to the vague, imagined Bond in my head. I thought Daniel Craig did a very good job this time. Admittedly, there were a few scenes that the way he stands were too pretentious, almost like Andy Lau standing on the roof in 無間道, for the sake of looking all cool and stuff. But surprisingly, this time, 我好buy喎. Maybe I’m just a sucker of pretentious guy. haha…

Anyway, I’m loving Daniel Craig recently because of Skyfall. Altho I’m still not a big fan of his topless scene in Casino Royale. Maybe I have to watch it again. Maybe I will change my opinion this time.

Liked the theme song a lot as well. Thought it fits the mood and the theme of the movie very well. But whether it deserves an Oscar, compared to the other competitors, 我有少少保留.

轉貼

看到有人在fb轉載的說，要多人 like 你的轉貼，只要寫一Ｄ懶有道理，但又似是而非的話，附上一張名人的照片，名人越出名越多 like，最好是奧班馬，愛因施坦之類的，然後說那堆'名句' 是出自該位名人便可。

很讚同，每天 fb 見到的都是數之不盡的轉貼，不是一些我毫不關心的歌曲就是那些所謂很有道理，發人深省的名句，再唔係就係一Ｄ貓貓狗狗的短片。

當然，我個人都貼不少遊戲求助的post，而且從來冇人迫我去看那些轉貼，自己犯賤，又要投訴，心態其實跟那些死都要看劇集，一邊看一邊駡的人相差不大。