I hate ppl with bad memory

I know I'm probably being hypocritical, but I do hate ppl with bad memory.

1. I don't feel respected. Most of the time, I can remember important things they said a few months back, but they can't even remember what I asked them to do a few days ago.

2. They make me repeat something I've said/mentioned to them many times before. This gets boring after a while.

3. If my work is depending on them remembering to do necessary things, I'll be screwed. And most likely they'll be annoyed if I go checking on them too often.

This is NOT BSO.

Lust, Caution

I went to see Lust, Caution last Saturday at Embarcadero Center, SF. It is very similar to Paul Verhoeven's Zwartboek: WWII, espionage, full frontal nudity... Zwartboek is very good, Lust, Caution is even better. The story might be a little weaker, but the acting in general is a lot better. It does not have explosions or car chase, but there are several very tasteful love-making scenes. Most of important of all, Lust, Caution has a non-Hollywood ending that left me in sympathy of the characters. Ang Lee seems to be still using his usual techinques of film-making, and he is good at showing the subtle feelings of characters. Its chances of major Oscar nominations (except Foreign Language) are slim, judging from its NC-17 rating and the lukewarm reviews of western critics. Overall, this is a very decent period drama. 8/10.

Bleeding nosebleeding

I wasn't aware of the dry heat until recently.

The heat is bearable, since most of the time I stay in A/C rooms.

But the humidity in Folsom is constantly below 20%, compared to the above-70 percentages in Ann Arbor and San Fran. The dryness combined with my recent cold has inflicted me with several most unfortunate nosebleeding already.

The internet is a good thing. It explains the basic info I need to know about the cause of and dealing with nosebleeding. So tomorrow I'm going to get a humidifier at Walmart.

People, don't set an auto desktop lock for some nonsense ergonomic reason. It won't let u return to your desktop until your eyes have some "proper rest". If you have a heart attack, you need to use the internet to look up the symptoms.

Aside from the drab preaching above, I really have nothing to say. I'm merely trying to leave a post for July.

It's all business

For those of you good folks out there that are kind enough to still remember me, here is a Conan O'Brian clip that quite accurately shows my workplace.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0960835/

Sorry, wrong link above. Here's the clip:

http://www.nbc.com/Late_Night_with_Conan_O'Brien/insider/video/

Transmorphers! Genius!

It's probably japanese

New Transformers Trailer,

much better than the 1st one

Helarios gmae

An Inconvenient Truth

washingtonpost

wait

wait is a command that pauses until another process completes its execution;
wait is a crappy low-budget film starring ryan reynolds, oh, wait..., its name should be waiting...;
wait is what you need to do in order to see the transformers movie, unless you are one of the lucky ones that went to a test screening: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/32455;
wait is what an aspiring graphics phd student needs to do in order to get her feel-good research published in the celebrated siggraph conference, which means she should hold it up for nearly a year;
wait is what many foreign students need to go through in order to know the result of h1b lottery and start their low-pay IT job in the us;
wait is what I need to do in order to get to play the pirated version of palsword 4;
wait is a beetles song that I've never heard before until I looked this word up in wikipedia;
wait is what keeps us alive from committing suicide: we are constantly waiting for sth to happen, and when it happens, we start to wait for another thing...

Wealthiest Person in Mainland China

Yang, Huiyan, 25, Female, Graduated from OSU, and Married...

Blogging while intoxicated?

I am writing this blog entry, so I guess I am at least a little drunk.

Instead of talking about drinking, I'll show some pictures about poster art.





All that they do is showing some retarded guy standing in front of an illuminating light.

BTW, the award for best poster design goes to:

What do you do with pieces of a broken heart

No Title

Irony: Ghost Rider is listed as one of my grade-5 anticipated films of the year, yet it impresses me in the totally opposite way.

Suggestions: If you want better than GR, go and see 300, another highly-hyped fanboy movie adapted from comic books (or should I say graphic novel? According to the human in Blood and Chocolate, they are different), but it's very likely to deliver. If you want to see worse or have a thing for bad movies, try Wicker Man, again starring no other than Nicolas Cage. (What's next for him? Next.) If you are really unfortunate, like me, to stumble upon Paris Hilton's Pledge This, then this is 1.5 hours of life that you'll regret forever to lose.

Phone Call: I called my niece (daughter of my sister) an hour ago. Lovely.

Deaths: An uncle on my mother's side passed away at the age of 6x a few weeks ago. I lived at his house for 3 years during high school. Farther of my advisor died later in the same week, at the age of 82.

Hunger: I just ate a Wendy's spicy chicken burger. Feels so much better now.

Spring Break: Over.

Prediction Result

15/24

deja vu?

Quick Predictions

Best Pic: Babel
Best Actor Lead: Forest Whitaker
Best Actress Lead: Helen Mirren
Best Actor Support: Eddie Murphy
Best Actress Support: Jennifer Hudson
Best Director: Martin Scorsese
Best Original Screenplay: Little Miss Sunshine
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Departed
Best Cinematography: Children of Men
Best Editing: The Departed
Best Art Direction: Pan's Labyrinth
Best Costume Design: Curse of the Golden Flower
Best Original Score: Babel
Best Original Song: An Inconvenient Truth
Best Makeup: Pan's Labyrinth
Best Sound: Dreamgirls
Best Sound Editing: Pirates of the Caribbean 2
Best Visual Effects: Pirates of the Caribbean 2
Best Animation: Cars
Best Foreign Film: Pan's Labyrinth
Best Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth
Best Doc Short: The Blood of Yingzhou District
Best Short Animation: No Time for Nuts
Best Short Film: Binta and the Great Idea

Happy Chinese New Year

Fortune Cookies

I want to talk about fortune cookies. There is no such thing in China or other Asian countries. It is in fact originated in California.

One of my friends collects fortune cookie quotes. I do not, and most of the time, I just toss the "words of wisdom" away.

The other day, I was eating with another friend at Panda Express. He got a cookie that says: kiss the person next to you. So I had to tell him not to and he should keep it for next time when he sits with a girl.

I know the "wisdom" is faux, and the "prophecy" is vague. But a lot of the times, I do relate to those words very much.

For example, I once got a cookie saying: you'll be surprised soon. I had hoped for a good surprise. At the end of day, I did get surprised, but in a bad way. To be more exact, it was both good and bad.

The bad news is I got rejected from a major internet company (A) I applied for a job. I'm not revealing its name in case anyone is holding this against me. It is a company that I (and probably many others) would like very much to get into. I passed its first-round on-campus interviews, and went to Silicon Valley for an on-site. One day after the on-site, my recruiter at that company emailed me saying that she'll be preparing an offer for me, but it's not definate until after final executive review. Anyway, I was really excited and thought this was a done deal, otherwise she wouldn't be telling me about the offer so early. But... I guess you already know what the bad news is.

The good news is I did get a job offer at a financial service company (B). Ironically, I thought I was going to have the offer from A, so I didn't prepare much for the on-site interview at B. And after the on-site at B, when I was in the airport waiting for security check, I received the call from A telling me the final answer is no.

I got another job offer, er, scratch that, fortune cookie yesterday. It said: You'll be making an important decision. Yes, I am going to have to make that decision pretty soon. I'm not really interested in the job offer from B because it doesn't match my major very well. I still have a couple of interviews to go this month. And I'll be making a decision early Feb.

In conclusion, I'm talking about fortune cookies and job hunting. And who cares about fortune cookies?