being jobless is one thing. staying home all day doing absolutely nothing other than eating and poo is another. i hate the latter. being jobless is ok since, not like most ppl, i don't need a job to provide an identity. but the money factor is sinking in... fast!
just today i paid a big sum of money for fixing an old camera. it's a Yashica GTN. it's roughly 30 years of age. it's not one of those old collectible cameras but really it takes stunning photos. all becoz the photographer is me! muhhahaah! no just kidding. it's really a good camera. u get that solid feel once u hold it in your hands. it's got a very fast aperture of 1.7. i can't wait to bring it out for a walk tmr morning. now i'm excited!
the big sum of money is $600hkd. yup. it's nothing for most ppl of my age. but i feel the pain. that tells u what kind of misery i'm in at the moment. susie are u reading this? get me a job in sf and i'm flying right in tmr. no i'm just kidding. i'm not coming back for a foreseeable future. but do learn about the job market for me please. i'll bring u to tofu house again.
anyhow, this is all about to change. hohoohoo~
this reminds me of the movie trainspotting. "choose life, choose a job... choose life." hey that's so teenager!

another day wasted. instead of making one step closer to world domination, i simply turned on the ac, hide in my room, and took 2 naps. sleeping too much is not good to your brain. but then, i guess it's still better not sleeping enough. oh well.
last week i bumped in an old classmate. we spent time and had a good chat. that's a wonderful feeling. i always like this guy becoz of his honesty. apparently, he hasn't changed much in terms of his honesty so i guess he's a worthy friend.
it's about time to meet up again. hohohho.



the self-proclaimed king of kowloon, 曾灶財, has passed away a few days ago.
his story can be found in wikipedia, that is, if u can read chinese of coz. what he left behind thou, is a wealth of his graffiti that can be found on numerous locations throughout kowloon. photographed is one of his work at the TST Star Ferry Pier.
i can't say i truly love him, coz i didn't suffer and tolerate his persistence of putting his graffiti everywhere including at home like his family did. in many cases, i might have hated him if he really became the king of kowloon. u know, i happen to live in kowloon. but i do like his graffiti, and i sincerely hope that his work will remain and be preserved.
to be honest, it's not what it seems to be a king. being the king of the universe myself, i speak from experience. and this experience isn't pleasant. i still have to look for a freaking job that never happened. but anyway, it's all history now so, rip mr 曾灶財.

it's soo darn hot in hk. the humidity, the radiation, the air pollutants, plus the fact that ppl love to smoke while walking on the street make it a very unpleasant experience to be out there.
just yesterday when i was having a quiet walk on a little hill nearby my place. it's uncommon to have such a place where u are surrounded by trees and grasses. and i saw a guy there walking his dog. guess what he's doing in such refreshing environment? he's smoking! arh!! why?!?

i remember back then when i was a student, which was about 13 to 14 years ago, the number of smokers was falling. at least smoking wasn't a trendy thing anymore. but somehow it picked up momentum and gained in speed while i was away. now it's very common to see girls smoking on the street, some of them even teenagers still in their school uniforms.

how so very pathetic.

when these ppl get their well deserved cancer, what do they do? many of them rely on the public health system and keep other needy ppl on a long long line. but why? i thought they look good sucking that smoke in their body, and so in turn it must look good to carry that extra piece of flesh around. it looks especially good when they are burnt into ashes coz, hey! don't they love smoke to begin with?! so then why, do they want treatment now that they find out there is a little tumor in their body? while the choice was so freaking clear at the beginning that: u smoke, u get cancer.

for smokers who've got cancer and are about to die: you freaking deserve it. ur persistent of smoking those stuffs in ur body finally pays off. congrats. now pack ur stuffs and leave the public hospital at once, coz as a tax payer, i don't intend to provide you affordable treatment. it was your freaking choice. say hello to ur casket and smoke as hard as u can while u can, preferably in front of your children, just like how u forced others to suffer from ur secondhand smoke. many of them innocent citizens might have suffered from smoking-related diseases and you contributed it. your mere existence was a freaking waste, if not a net loss to the world. you yourself is a tumor of the world. but anyway since u're not staying much longer, have a nice day and bye bye. hopefully the world will be a better place without you, fucker.

edit: a friend post a comment saying that i was cruel. i think he's right. so let's say that i have a double standard and this cruel perspective, as he put it, isn't towards my friends. for those of you who consider me as ur friend, smoke as u pleased. i dont have any problem with that. just make sure u keep all the good stuffs to yourselves, or at least don't make me inhale that thing, which is a bit difficult.

edit: another friend challenge me to put it in a less harsh perspective. so here u go:
please quit smoking. smoking is harmful to your health, and it actually looks stupid. so are u happy now?

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Originally uploaded by hoyanov.
another desktop image from edf energy. so now u know how my living will look like.... if only i have such a spacious living room.
in hk, the real estate industry operates in a very special manner. when we buy a flat, we pay according to the "construction area", or whatever it's called. this area includes: the area of the flat of coz, and the area of the public area outside of ur flat divided by the number of flats on ur floor. so in reality, the area u really get is what we call, "practical area" or whatever it is. and this practical area ranges from 40% to 80% depending on the architectural design and really mainly the integrity of the real estate companies' owners, which is nonexistent to start with.
by the way, this 80% practical area percentage is provided by the real estate companies, which is altered and highly inflated itself. the whole thing feels like a joke. haha very funny.
then, why must we accept such ridiculous deals? becoz we don't have any other choices. or, to satisfy u, yes we are just plain stupid.

really those mother lovers have way more tricks than what i just mentioned. what i mentioned was only a glimpse of tricks making a fortune while making a hell of life for the average joe like... who else? ME~! ARRHH~~!!

just finished watching the movie 300 on dvd. the expectation was high based on its reputation, and that turned into disappointment. to simply put, the imagery just isn't powerful enough.
don't get me wrong thou, the movie is full of blood. but how they managed to make it PG13-like with so many blood is almost a mystery to me. i believe their attempts to make it artistic partly due to its historical background, partly due to the producer's ambition backfire.
many of us have seen on photos how the massacre aftermaths look like, with the twisted, amputated bodies stacking up in piles. even in black and white, those imageries are extremely powerful. have u seen that photo of the dead body of the person who was ran over by a tank to a degree that's hardly recognizable? in fact, all u can see is the bloody clothes on the ground with a mash of flesh. this person was killed in Beijing on June 4th, 1989. try searching tiananmen on google image and u may find it.
when u make a movie based on mass killings and blood , yet it isn't half as powerful as what's happening out there in reality, i call this a failure. rated r? are u kidding me?
i think someone should make a movie based on the true stuffs with realistic imageries to give the public an idea how killings and wars are really like. they are not pretty nor romantic. they are absolutely terrifying, and in most cases, extremely stupid.


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Originally uploaded by hoyanov.
this is a desktop background image that i downloaded from edf energy. i like the image thou i'm not using it as my desktop. what i'd like to show is the interior of this apartment and the way it's decorated.
to make it short, i like it plain and simple yet stylish. another thing i like about it is that.. did u notice, there isn't any tv! when u consider the designs of the flats in hk, with the minimum space the designer somehow reserve a space where u put a sofa facing a tv, leaving 2 feet of space in between and voila, a living room.
why do we have to sit on a sofa and watch tv with so little time we have after work? is that our designated life style? an added bonus that comes along with every flat purchased in hk?
anyway, this image is to promote the use of CFL. save energy and cut down on our utility bills, too.

just added a new link. 香港獨立媒體.
also read the 專欄區. a very interesting read. if u're interested in anything hk, and if u can read chinese, go take a look.


i hurt my foot once again. this is the third time since i came back to hk. b4 that, i think i had hurt my feet about three times in total for my entire life. so i'm on track to beat my record.
o deep thought, i want u to tell me the answer. how did i hurt my foot for as many times in three months. oh well. from the look of it, i won't be able to walk freely for a week. damn.

so there's gone the forth mandarin lecture. what surprises me the most is that in every lecture someone's phone would ring. and more surprisingly, they actually answered the phone and freaking talked in class! whoa!

oh well, can't be bothered by such little things.

papa proposes to go on traveling later this year. the proposed destination is europe. i for one would like to join, but only if i'm still unemployed by then... so it's good and bad i guess.
regrettably, i didn't get a chance to travel europe in the past. as a matter of fact, there is a large part of US that i didn't get to see yet. driving from sf to ny and back sure brought great satisfaction, and great memory. but what about route 66? florida? texas? midwest?... the list goes on. what a shame.
anyhow, europe. but what good does it do? there are supposed to be a hell lot to see in europe. but what good does it do to see them? nowadays u can easily access to such images without a fuse. better yet, u get detailed descriptions and the rich histories behind all those pieces. some say u get that special feeling only on the spot. but this feeling is highly subjective. there are chances this special feeling is only a product of one's own wishful thinking.
traveling to most hk ppl, is just like looking at an aquarium and say "hey! i've seen the ocean! i even posed and took some cutie pictures while i was there. how cool is that."
anyway, i'd like to go to turkey and take some cutie pictures while i'm there. now i'm excited. yay.


 

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