Jan's Talkshow

I have enjoyed every bit of the talkshow tonight, was laughing out loud and in tears most of the night.

Should there be criticisms, I would say he ought to make some of the songs shorter; show time longer and souvenir better.

And his hair style - well done - i much prefer glamour silver this year than the tatty gold last year.

The Kebab Economics

Haven't been cooking for a long while. All associated skills seem a bit rusted which included onion chopping, the tolerance of heat etc.

What really took me aback today, was the shopping experience in the supermarket for preparing the steak and lamb kebab.


It was then I realised the true inflation effect and how expensive things are nowadays.

Don't need rocket science to figure the "Why" when you rub in the persistently cold weather damaging crops in mainland China, the drought cutting back Australia's wheat production and flooding affected European harvests. Just to sprinkle salt on the wounds for us all, food inflation is ever more apparent propelled with the high oil price.

Next time when you think about the seemingly good domestic retail sales from the outset, think again what drove that. Cuz I think what really contributed to that mirage, was nothing but the hefty increases in food prices.

He Did It & He Quits

As Edison Chen put on the performance of his life today, hopefully this will end the month-long celebrity photo scandal case in town. I am quite sick of it.

Nevertheless, this clip from his press con is worth watching again and again, partly because he's super handsome, partly I considered this a dual delicacy of not only a flawless public speech but a capably-written & legally binding statement too.

"Be Happy Always Is To Be Forgetful Sometimes"

Legend Lydia Shum passed away this morning.

The significance of this piece of news to me is: No matter how hard one has battled and how many small victories won in these cancer battles; how much fame one owns and how wealthy one is, one can almost never win in the war of cancer! This is most unfortunate for our generation living on earth and how I wish we can alter this dreadful fact.

This news is currently flooding all forms of media in town, in memoir and grieving for Lydia.

She once said "In order to stay happy all the time, you need to be forgetful sometimes, so u can delete all the sorrows, leaving only the happiness".

One good thing about being a legend is - people will remember you. The positive attitude to life as well as the signature laughter in this case.

Nintendo Wii Zapper

Played Ghost Squad the other day at a friend's house with the Wii Zapper.

One can certainly play the game with the wiimote but to perfect it, it felt a lot better with the zapper and if you follow the way I shoot, kneeling down and shielding from behind the sofa, the action-packed motion can guarantee an aiming of a higher accuracy.

History Burnt

While digesting the aftermath of the Camden's blaze, here comes another fire that swept through the over 6-centuries old national treasure of Seoul.


These have been important landmarks in the different stages of my life.


In a word, I’m devastated.

God Explained In A Taxi Ride

Author Paul Arden was responsible for some of Britain's most successful advertising campaigns and now he writes really useful, well designed books.

This is precisely a comic book that you can just flip through in a ride, presented in Arden's trademark visual style, he investigates and examines our relationship to the divine.

In it he says something like, "we can't easily believe things that we cannot fathom" (which to me is a fair statement).

"Yet if we can, then that's not what you called Faith" which I totally agree as well.

He also says, the answer is like blowing in the wind, you can always feel the wind but you can never see or touch it - just like god and just like faith.

An intriging little read that made me scratch my head. The book performed magic - it shut me up and now I stop asking "why".

100 Simple Secrets of Successful People

You don't have to buy the book, US$12 not worthy enough as a reminder of common sense. I encourage you to discover the beauty of Amazon's online reader - you can read the entire book here for free.

This is the first 23 out of the list of 100 taken from the book.

Not that I agreed to all, but worth putting them down for future reference I guess.

1. Competence starts with feeling competent
2. It's not how hard you try
3. Creativity comes from within
4. Take small victories
5. You can't force yourself to like broccoli
6. Resist the urge to be average
7. There is plenty of time
8. It's never just 1 thing
9. Don't keep fighting your first battle
10. Change is possible, not easy
11. Seek inputs from your opposites
12. Write down the directions
13. Anticipate irrationality
14. The best defense is to listen
15. Winners are made, not born
16. Do things in order
17. Get experience any way you can
18. Self-motivation works once
19. Speak slowly
20. Where you stand depends on where you look
21. Use your own self-interest
22. Remember who you are and where you are
23. Negotiate with confidence, or don't

Sweeney Todd: Bloody Wonderful

It proves once again, when you are not expecting much, much can be expected.

Johnny Depp's Oscar-certain performance in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - as the crazy barber who cuts people's throats while waiting to avenge himself on his enemies, is hopefully, gonna come back with a vengeance.



Bloody as it seems and not particularly thrilled with Depp's voice for musicals, he does have the intensity needed for the role. Added merit has to be his dazzling eyes - as always.

最爆笑新年賀辭

不死傳奇

睇完香港电台制作 "不死傳奇" 關於 家駒, Danny Chan, Leslie Cheung, Roman, Anita Mui, 更覺香港樂壇已死.

香港樂壇完了, 以前家駒 那些才是真正的音樂, Danny 才算是真的靚仔Leslie and Anita 才是真正 superstars...damn it...