好可惜！我的電影卷啊...

昨天（日）收到通知，我在自由時報的影音版抽獎抽中了一張“來約會8!（8 Dates）”的電影特映卷，2/3（二）7:00 pm 可在台北信義威秀觀賞，特映卷要在星期二中午前在自由時報總社領取。但是我現在人不在台北，不可能前往；而即使想要把特映卷讓給sis去看，sis手邊沒有我的證件不能去領獎；而現在才把證件寄去台北又太不實在了，只好忍痛放棄...（泣～）

這張特映券大概價值220元，而且中獎全台也就只有14個名額而已！只可惜這次timing真的不對，看不到這片西班牙的愛情喜劇片...好像很棒啊...全台灣也只有兩家戲院會上映，太可惜了啊... （淚奔～）

上映時間：2009.2.6
上映地點：台北信義威秀、西門町真善美
影片類型：愛情喜劇
發行國家：西班牙
“來約會8!”官方網站

Can't Live Without MSN?

Several days ago, there were some Taiwanese bloggers were invited by MSN to talk about ''What your life would become without MSN?'' And they were talking about it like whining kids, ''Oh my life would become so different.'' ''Life would be no fun at all.'' ''Oh it is so convenient that I can't even live without MSN.''

YOU MSN GEEKs! Like you meant it. What the heck you can't live without MSN? Where the heck is your darn phone and e-mails? Why can't you just pick up Ur pretty cell phone/landline and dial it to make a easier and faster communication. I can understand if you just want to save some dimes but if you say without MSN, you do not know how to communicate properly or how to live on (maybe they got too much time to kill). I would like to say, YOU FREAKs.


I am being definitely sarcastic when I see this kind of dumb interview ''What your life would become without MSN''? No kidding. Don't you have better things to discuss about or better topics and decent interviewers to get news? Media is so going down in Taiwan.

10 Reasons Why You Should Dump Your Loser Boyfriend

I have finished some part of this post before and now I just got it done. I was writing this for a friend who is not good at her relationship. Also, she meets a wrong guy to her. Their dumb relationship can be a example and that is why I post this. I dunno if she leaves her loser boyfriend yet and in a matter of fact, I don't really care. This dude is one of my blog readers too.

1. He is a LOSER. Did you read the title or not?
2. He is a mommy's boy. He loves HIS MOM more than you.
3. He loves HIMSELF more than you. If he has a dog, maybe he loves his dog more than you too.
4. He thinks he is superior to you. A screw-up even thinks he is better than you. You got that?
5. He CRIES way too often. A real man does not do that.
6. He LIES a lot. Especially to you.
7. He is wooing other girls. And He tells you he is doing that. Funny huh?
8. You thinks he is good to you but none of your friends think so. They hate him and he is actually a bad choice. Only you don't see that.
9. He treats you like shit. No one likes being treated like shit unless you are a Masochism.
10. He is NOT THAT INTO YOU. You should watch ''Sex and the City'' after this.

大手筆

Of course this cool scooter is NOT mine...

目前服役中的機車 - YAMAHA FUZZY 125 已經是 11年老車，行程兩萬七千公里而已。昨天晚上忽然發不動了，回不了家！本以為是電池壞掉，但後來求救於快要關門休息的機車行老闆，很神奇地用腳把我的車推回店裡看了一下，發現是啟動盤掛了，滾珠卡不住無法帶動履帶發動...

老闆說二手的只要800NT，新品1500NT。後來天人交戰一番，我的小FUZZY還要繼續服役，還是換新的好了，二手的很難預期哪一天會自己爆掉，畢竟我的第一個啟動盤也用了11年；因此老闆打了折算我1300NT。因為車子也很久沒保養了，看來狀況也不少，又換了濾網(破掉)100NT跟空氣過濾器(全黑)200NT。昨晚總共花了1600NT。

今天又去換了機油200NT，老闆好心贈送齒輪油(原50NT)。且因為煞車油已用光，碟煞形同虛設，把手右前方油槽清潔後加新油又去了200NT。接著我發現我的煞車燈也沒了，燈泡燒掉，換新要50NT。因此，今天又去了450NT。

除了一般的強制排氣測試外，車子太久沒檢查了，後胎胎壓已趨近為零，需要充氣（難怪最近我在快速過彎的時候車尾會滑又飄＝,,＝）。老闆也幫我不甚靈光的方向燈座與horn加了去鏽潤滑油，至少目前尚不用更換一組550NT的零件；而停車桿也上了油。總算把久未保養的老車調整得差不多。這兩天大手筆地為了我的老車花了2050NT。老車還是安全為上，而且也要盡量把修車的花費花在刀口才是王道啊...呼呼。GO MY FUZZY！

P.S.換機油果然還是不能為了省＄太打混，這次不知道已跑了N km沒換過（正常時1000 km換一次），今天倒出更換時，機油只剩濃稠混濁的1/3量...(驚！)

[Music] Boom De Ah Dah (Discovery CM)

When you mess up or just feel like shit, think positive. Think where you've been, what you've seen, how you've enjoyed them. So many things great are out there in this world. Life is precious. Experiences are valuable. A bunch of things you got is priceless. Remember,

THE WORLD IS JUST AWESOME！

Ps. I do not have a mp3 function cell phone or I would put the song as my ringtone. I am feeling happy when I listen to this song. : )

(I wrote this partly because a few days ago a 24 year-old Taiwanese female singer killed herself only because of her unsuccessful love life. And that cost one young life. It sucks.)


Astronaut A：It never gets old, huh?
Astronaut B：Nope.
Astronaut A：It kinda makes you wanna...
Astronaut B：Break into song?
Astronaut A：Yup!

I love the mountains,
I love the clear blue skies
I love big bridges,
I love when great whites fly
I love the whole world,
and all its sights and sounds
Boom-de-ah-dah, Boom-de-ah-dah, Boom-de-ah-dah, Boom-de-ah-dah

I love the oceans,
I love real dirty things
I love to go fast,
I love Egyptian kings
I love the whole world,
and all its craziness
Boom-de-ah-dah, Boom-de-ah-dah, Boom-de-ah-dah, Boom-de-ah-dah

I love tornadoes,
I love arachnids
I love hot magma,
I love the giant squids
I love the whole world,
it's such a brilliant place
Boom-de-ah-dah, Boom-de-ah-dah, Boom-de-ah-dah, Boom-de-ah-dah
Boom-de-ah-dah, Boom-de-ah-dah, Boom-de-ah-dah, Boom-de-ah-dah, Boom-de-ah-da, Boom-de-ah-dah

Wikipedia: I Love the World

SHAQ Is The Sumo Man

以下為完全不負責任、完全不專業球評(?)討論這次的Houston Rockets vs Phoenix Suns 11/12相撲事件。(Shaq = Shaquille O'neal, Phoenix Suns Center)

J: Hey man, U gotta take a look at this. This is real fun. Shaq pushed the whole squad down.

Krynn: 太誇張了，退休之後應該可以去摔角。

J: Nash超白爛，自己衝去撞人家，結果跟張銘清一樣跌倒。然後Shaq把所有人都推倒，超強壯。

Krynn: 左推一下(T-Mac)，右推一下(姚明)，被推到的都中獎。

J: Nash平常這麼冷靜，這次不知道在衝動甚麼啊？馬上衝上去給Alston一拐子後就跌倒了。

Krynn: 可能跟老婆吵架了吧。

J: 我覺得是中年危機。畢竟快退休了(34歲，預計還能再打兩年)。

Krynn: 犯規犯得太明顯了，一點美感都沒有。Nash犧牲小我，其實是想下場休息了。

J：結果他左肩好像拉傷了。Artest（傳說中的球場火爆男）有夠冷靜，跟平常不一樣，大概是因為不在場上（鏡頭有帶到）。

Krynn: 最近變乖了，不過我覺得要等季中之後比較準...球季開始搞不好是教練或老板有特別吩咐，才會這麼乖。多打幾場就知道是不是真的乖...

J: 剛換隊的都比較乖。X！Nash剛剛原來是裝傷，槍響前還進中場三分球！而且Nash脖子上還忽然出現謎樣的草莓，這一切都是謎啊...

J: Shaq老了籃球打不好了沒關係，但還是可以繼續相撲去...來寫起來做紀念... NBA SUMO Live 2008...

Krynn: 嘿嘿..
2 ejections, 3 others get techs in Suns-Rockets
Libertytimes: 火箭太陽亂鬥，兩人出場

Jazz Festival 2008, Taichung

邁入第6年的台中爵士音樂節，今年去了就是連續兩年都參加了；星期五才去了台中聽一次，星期日為了閉幕式又去了一次，我們真是爵士狂啊！:P 大概是平日生活太苦悶了，以前在國外的日子充滿了音樂，不論Jazz、Lounge或流行樂，我想我們大概覺得去參加一年一度的音樂節，可以找回一些從前的樂趣吧。

在 7 pm開始的閉幕式中，我們終於從原 朋直四重奏（Tomonao Hara Quartet，日本團）中得到一點Jazz的感覺。真是覺得好難能可貴，終於感到不枉此行。

因為之前不論星期五，或是Ashin上星期天去聽的時候，好幾團的演奏都是過度吵鬧的，聽了Jazz這麼久，我們真的覺得；為什麼要把Jazz弄成Rock or Pop混在一起？Jazz雖然很自由，甚至很多可以即興演出(One and only)，但是也不能這麼長時間只演奏自己喜歡的音樂，把Jazz Festival變成了自己喜歡的Rock/Pop concerts。真的是與我們認知的Jazz大不同。Don't screw up our Jazz, okay?我以Norah Jones為標準看好了，只要比Norah Jones的快歌還吵鬧的，就大概不行了...

不過原 朋直四重奏終於重回我們喜愛的Jazz主調，慢的演奏讓我們覺得在浪漫的餐廳裡面吃晚餐就是要這種音樂（我當時確實是買了Asahi的啤酒與雞尾酒來配音樂 :P），快一點的演奏則讓我們想要站起來跟著一起搖擺。

但最後的壓軸團(?)居然又出現了桑塔露琪亞大樂團（這完全是依照我聽到的第一印象亂取的，不知道團名），整個又是重回bang bang電影大配樂團的調調，反正也是最後一個團體了；因此，我們站起來，走人，吃東西去... :P

Overall, it is an interesting activity. Still worth going if there is one held on other days. Peace out.

2008台中爵士音樂節
2008台中爵士音樂節官方網站
2008台中爵士音樂節表演團體簡介
原 朋直 Official Site

Blog Rating System

This is fun. Rate your blog just like movies. However, I was disappointed that I only got the result of ''general auduence.'' That means I need to swear more to get a better result?

But I like the green one much more, actually. :P

買東西也辛苦的年代

What’s Wal-Mart? Do they sell, like wall stuff? "Paris Hilton 「什麼是沃爾瑪？是專門賣牆壁的地方嗎？」─派瑞絲希爾頓（演員／歌手，美國）

這篇大概是半年前寫的，只是當時只是草稿，就沒有放上來。現在剛好遇到中國黑心毒奶事件，同樣都是針對中國貨，所以就稍微修一修拿出來，但對這次毒奶事件並未著墨。

現在這個年代，要買『非中國製』的東西不是一件容易的事情，Almost everything is MADE IN CHINA。所以連去一趟家樂福買日常用品，不花個一個半～兩小時是出不來的--在裡面走路到不同商品區花20分鐘，結帳花10分鐘，剩下的一小時是在檢查東西是不是中國製的，因為我越來越不愛用中國製的東西。而這只有一個原因：因為我愛惜生命。為了安全著想，非不得已，我寧願花多一點銀子來購買『非中國製造』的產品。菲律賓、泰國製的東西，品質都很不錯，不會輸給台灣，有機會的話我也都會使用。

原因很簡單：中國製的東西在世界各地都傳出了災情，日本發生的中國農藥毒餃子、美國發生的毒玩具-彈珠中含有迷幻藥成分，小孩子誤含而因此中毒昏迷送醫、中國製的藥品造成病患死亡，中國毒牙膏……..更不用說食物的清潔度了，中國現在是世界上的製造大國，卻更是世界上的毒物、黑心產品發源大國。(2008/9最新：中國超級三聚氰胺毒奶事件。)

列出自己現在手邊現有的日常用品：

洗髮精：SHISHEDO (JAPAN) （半年前時，現在使用日本授權，台灣製造的花王 for men.）

髮臘：Gatsby (JAPAN)

洗面乳：SHISHEDO (TAIWAN) (半年前時，現在用Gatsby- Made in Japan)

牙膏：Colgate (Thailand)

護唇膏：Natural & Medicated (JAPAN)

牙線：Oral-B (IRELAND)

上面這些東西拒絕中國貨，不然還真的會有危險。

但是有些東西，中國製佔了絕大宗，幾乎沒有別國製的：

牙刷：Colgate (China) – 只用了兩個禮拜就會開始岔毛 @@

鞋子：Converse Wade 1.3 & Adidas Konan running (China). (鞋子99%沒其他國家做了，還好鞋子還耐用，跑鞋主力替換成Adidas AdiStar Cushion 6)

牙刷下次我絕對要試著找非中國製的，這次沒看清楚就買了，我認為這東西跟中國製牙膏一樣危險，每天用的話，有毒物質每天吃進去。

食物絕對不吃中國製的東西，很恐怖的是我發現，Nestle的罐裝咖啡(Coca-Cola公司出品)已經是中國製的了！未來會不會連Coke都會交給中國製作？如果連Coke都淪陷的話，我就會拒喝…

啤酒….超過半數現在都是交由中國製的，尤其是Kirin & Asahi這兩個日本啤酒大品牌，竟然也有一部份的產品都交給中國製，Oh crap！我都寧願花多一點錢買日本製啤酒，例如：中國製Asahi是金色罐子，日本製則是銀色罐子。中國製的我喝過一次，苦澀超難喝，從此以後我只喝銀色日本製。美國的Budwiser已交給中國製了，雖然是大品牌，拒喝。連想要喝啤酒放鬆時都會怕喝到中國製的，真是很麻煩！

總而言之，祝大家好運，愛惜生命....

It's Raining Cats and Dogs

It's just raining freaking fiercely now because of the strong typhoon SINLAKU we got here. The wind seems not the biggest problem but the rain. The rainfall just keeps going and going, and who knows how much damage it can cause eventually. It just doesn't look good.

Due to the storm's very slow speed, it is now forecast to not be past Taiwan until early Tuesday 9/16. It's just raining cats and dogs.

Keep safe, guys.

633... What The Hack?

許久沒寫政治文了，

不過如今馬囧既然已經把台灣玩到這種田地，

不用、也不想多寫，

不如直接看這創意短片笑一笑減少生活中的痛苦比較實在。


註1：沒看過『下次買給你』廣告者，請看下則短片再回頭看上面正片對照。


廣告中的標語『期待下一次，不如靠自己』，不如送給住在『先生府』中的馬先生好了。

（先生府與馬先生名稱由來：馬英九對中國只敢自稱先生，不敢自稱總統。到底馬囧是當地區領導人還是當台灣總統啊？怒....）


註2：馬囧總統選前633經濟政策廣告（證明廣告只要拍的夠帥氣，騙人就很好用）


馬囧廣告左學美國總統候選人Obama的CHANGE口號、右學南韓總統李明博的經濟747，現在是怎麼樣？這幾天怎麼才說這政見是八年內才能達到，才剛上任100天，就已經計畫好連任了啊？那這四年你能給我們甚麼東西？打嘴砲剩下來的口水嗎？

當初廣告拍這麼帥氣、打嘴砲打這麼兇，廣告裡面看來看去怎麼都沒有寫633經濟政策八年大計畫啊？你說啊～你說啊～～～～～～？？？（翻桌）

中國的新民主

2008奧運期間，中國在北京設了數個『和平示威區』，
要示威，還要五天前申請。
但到目前為止，示威申請全數被回絕，沒有一個通過申請。

甚至還有兩位七十歲的老婦人為了住家在七年前因為要舉辦奧運被無理拆除而連續提出示威抗議申請，連申請五次都被回拒就算了，還被判一年勞改。What the...?

所以這件事證實了大家事前的推測，中國讓人示威只是作作樣子。
有記者就詢問了中國官方這件事情。

中國北京奧組委副主席王偉主席就對記者說：

''你們記者不瞭解中國的民情，中國的民主有中國自己民主的方法，
那就是 --『沒有民主』。謝謝各位。''

Toilet vs Tissues vs Environment Protection

These days the prices of many things are going up a lot, including tissues. Everyone is trying to figure out some way to save some of their salary.

So one of my friends proposed an amazing idea. That is, just wash your butt instead of cleaning it with tissues when you are at home. Not only you save money for tissue but your butt is going to be cleaner. The best thing is, you save the environments by preventing trees from cut down and you help improve the global warming! It's one stone THREE birds. Even better than Japan's auto toilets (which use more water and electricity and still need some tissues.)

Yeah, right, dude, that's a fantastic idea. I'll keep that in mind.

Dark Power

Human being’s negative power is very strong, formidable, and dark. I believe it can affect people around seriously in some way especially when you are not aware of it. So when you get contacted with too much this, no matter depressed, negative-thinking people, you are kinda in trouble. And that’s why I don’t usually get involved in other’s shit.

Nevertheless, I’ve been having this kind of friends around lately. Oh, believe me, they are really fucked up. That’s why I can’t run away. ‘Cause I’m their friend who sort of knowing how to comfort them or lead them out, but it’s actually up to them to pull themselves out of misery. Sometimes they just need someone to talk to. Sometimes they may look depressed but some of them look normal just like you. But if they just wanna keep this negative power going and going and going, seriously, there’s not much I can do for them. I just can say, dude, you are on your own because I’ve really tried.

The worst thing is, you are affected (or I can say, INFECTED) under the radar. That’s the beginning of being screwed. So you are on your way to get outta this dip shit too. You become the one who need some help out there. Of course you may escape of this different situation sooner than your friends do but you just don’t expect this could happen to you.

Despite this trouble I may get into, I’d still like to help if those friends are worth it. It’s friends for, isn’t it? But the thing is, you gotta work it out mainly by yourself. No one can help you through this step by step by holding your hand.

Don’t make me kick your ass all of the way out of it.

Life Without IM

Friends asked me, why didn't I see you on MSN? So I am just telling here. That's because you have pissed me off. Nah, I'm just playing with you. Actually, I don't get on it as often as before 'cause I think it takes too much time to make things go via IM.

However, friends still can reach me via phone calls and emails... If things are emergent, just call. Save time from typing a lot of words and prevent from one of us getting confused, like ''what the hell are you talking about?'' It happens a lot when people are in an impatient state. If not so hurry, just leave emails. I'll get back to you as soon as I can, if I use the web.

Do not leave me messages on MSN if I am not on because MSN lost messages. Very Often. Can't blame me on not replying your messages on MSN.

By the way, since yesterday my cell got half-dead. No ring tones, just vibrations even in outdoor mode (loud and annoying.) So I missed incoming calls these two days. I'll try to get it fixed soon.

Thus, I don't login MSN often unless it's necessary (or when I am totally wasting my time doing other things and I don't mind doing IM at the same time.) So maybe think yourself lucky when you see me on it. Life without IM, I admit that phone bills are somewhat increased, but I also eliminate some problems as well. Not that bad as people think.

Short Coversation Today Between Two Lonely Souls

The following transcript about Valentine's Day was slightly modified.


Ashin: Hey, tomorrow is (Chinese) Valentine's Day e..

JeffKnowsBest: Oh really. Got a date, YET?

Ashin: Nothing... Of course not.

JeffKnowsBest: Why don't ya ask someone out?

Ashin: Ask whom?

JeffKnowsBest: I don't know. Maybe someone you are interested in.

Ashin: No. There is not.

JeffKnowsBest: So ask someone you are NOT interested in.

Ashin: Silly.

JeffKnowsBest: Why not? Or you can ask me to hang out with you tomorrow.

Ashin: I don't want to...

JeffKnowsBest: Me neither. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.....

Ashin: ............

A Wrong Decision Resulted In a Bad Consequence

Cynthia got my call last night and I was telling her some event and a person I felt mad about.

What she couldn't understand was why I was so angry about which she thought just more than nothing. Well, neither could I. The reason seemed so obvious that I was so pissed due to accumulating pressures and things around this person.

After cooling down and collecting my thoughts, I think what I am angry about was myself because I don't understand why I was irritated so easily at this person. It was just 40 mins or so and I just snapped. Out of experiences, I knew I would never get along well with this person but I still made a freaking bad decision that hung out with this person. Seriously, I've seen it coming, but I tried to persuade myself that it's unlikely to happen. Then very soon I proved myself wrong. I couldn't stand this shit. I couldn't stand my fun was totally ruined!

Maybe I should not be irritated so easily. But there is one thing I surely know - some people are just not meant to hang out with. If you happen to be in my situation unfortunately, my best advice is, get panic and bolt. Trust me on this and you'll thank me in the future.

Shush

Days ago, I was going to watch some old movies with a friend at night. Nevertheless, my friend's friend was invited to go together at the last minute. That's fine with me to watch movies with a stranger, I thought.

Yeah, I thought. Then I realized, I HATE GIRLS WHO TALK TOO MUCH AND LOUDLY. She just couldn't stop. She talked like all the way to the movie theater, during the movies, even after the movies. It was freaking annoying to me.

I think a girl should be a little more modest while talking, at least in front of a stranger. There is no need to show your damn opinions at one time because I don't care. Okay if you wanna talk, but just DO NOT GIVE BAD COMMENTS ON MOVIES like you are a sucky movie expert.

I was being quiet. Tired. Didn't wanna talk. Just watched two movies, and went back home. But I really wanted to shout at her, ''why don't you shut the hack up already!''



By the way, I was watching 正義悍將 (STREET KINGS) by Keanu Reaves and 功夫之王 (The Forbidden Kingdom) by Jacky Chen and Jet Li. The first was not bad. But the second, I believe it could be called ''King of rotten movies'' 'cause it really bored me.

Dude, Stop hi5 Me

Since we are not at a basketball court, dude, stop hi5 me.

I set up my hi5 account about 3 years ago and I found it boring quite soon. I just put it aside and started a friendster (now also put aside with hi5) and now, facebook rocks. When I almost forgot the hi5 thing and then I got several hi5 invitations via emails recently. I may add some of them but the truth is, it's kind of annoying. It's somewhat ridiculous that hi5 has become popular in Taiwan lately because for me, it's a outmoded stuff. Especially when people don't put their info or photos up, they just add other friends on their mail list. What's good about that? I don't see any fun of that and I am tired of these inviting shit.

If you guys wanna meet on the web, please get rid of the OLD thing and just use facebook which has more fun features. Just stop hi5 me.

Website of Facecook

Is That a Sick Joke or What?

I was contacting a friends who I've never been met in months. I asked him some of other's frineds' recent conditions.

When I asked about one friend's, he told me, ''he had a stoke.''

''What? Say again?'' I said. '' Is that a sick joke or what?'' I was thinking simutaniously.

''No shit, you did't know that? He just had it several months ago.'' he said.

''Darn, but he is still so young, less than 40 years old.''

''He got all the risk factors, and I am not so surprised about that.''

''But I still can't believe it. Did you see him?''

''Once, when he just got it. Right side paralysis. The speaking was not articulate. But not since then because it's too far from my working place. Never had another chance to go.''

''How's he doing now?''

''No idea about that. Maybe he'll get some motor functions back after rehabs.''

After the call, I couldn't get the mood back where it was. That's shocked news to me. Too shocked. A guy so young and he got a freaking stroke. And his life is half-screwed...

You know, things change. But it is really hard to catch on for laymen.