My Cousin - 1

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I'm very excited that my cousin and his parents who live in Macau will come to San Francisco next Monday night for summer vacation, and they will stay in the U.S. for about three weeks. As his best cousin and also a San Franciscan, of course I have to give them a warm welcome. I haven't seen my cousin for two years, the last time I saw him was in Macau, that was the time when I spent my summer vacation there. On the other hand, this is my cousin's third time visiting San Francisco, he visited here once in 2001 and 2003. Seven years later, another visit, what would my cousin think of San Francisco today?



Speaking of my cousin, actually he is not my only cousin. I have eight cousins including him, but he is the only one who has deep feelings with me. We are like brothers rather than cousins, and indeed many people thinks that he looks like me, especially the eyes. When I was still in Macau, I usually spent my time on my homework and tests, besides that, I didn't have much time spend with my friend, but my cousin always visited me (sometimes I visited him) and spent our happy time together. Playing games, watching TV, what a happy time! Although we are now living in two different places, we still have connections via Facebook and emails, we are still best cousins and best friends. So why he can has deeper feelings with me than my brother? Everything should begin with the time when he was born.

I'll continue my cousin's story tomorrow.

Frankie P - 愛得太遲 (Cantonese)

He is really awesome! I think his singing is even better than Leo Ku! 最心痛是，愛得太遲。(^_^)

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4Gb-031eRQ&feature=youtube_gdata

Te Esquecerei, Assim Como A Maneira Que Me Esquceste…

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She has not contacted me for days, and I haven't contacted her either. I kept on asking myself the same question, why do I always think of her even I knew that wouldn't be a good ending? I don't know, I don't know why I have a very strong feeling of her, and that kind of feeling is very unique. I knew that she has the one she loves and cares about, then why I still think about her, how silly I am!

She never knows that I have feeling of her, and I never tell her that directly, maybe that is unrequited love, right?

When talking about love relations, we can never say who is smart or who is silly. Love is blind, sometimes it makes you to do or to think of something that you usually don't do or think of. It's exactly the way I think of her, and I think that I'm not silly, I'm just too simple, sometimes naïve.

I don't think that I lost my love because we have never started a relationship, everything was only my wishful thinking…

I will try to forget about her and work hard to myself happy, maybe I could meet another person that I love, a true love in the future.

When you miss a chance, you'd miss a lot of things

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Few days ago, I went to a mobile phone store and tried to get a brand new phone with special promotional deals. Indeed, I had been looking for that phone for almost two weeks, but I was light-minded and didn't make any decision until then.

Unfortunately, when I got into the store, I saw all the promotional tags that were stuck on the phone have been removed, that means the special promotional deals have gone, and if I still want that phone, I have to pay for a regular price. I was so disappointed and then left the store.

Although it's only a mobile phone promotional deal, it makes me think a lot of basic principles. There're not many chances in a person's life, and if you have a chance to do something or to change your life, you must grasp it nicely and not to let it go away. Don't be light-minded, if you do, you'll not only miss a chance, but you'll also miss a lot of thing. Opportunity knocks but once, it'll be too late to regret…

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Letter To Na

Even though I learnt Portuguese couple years ago, I don't use it very often, and I've already forgot many grammar rules and vocabulary… I still try to write this letter in Portuguese, I hope she will understand.

Minha cara Na,

Não sei como escrever esta carta para ti, não sei o que posso escrever. Embora conhecíamos uns aos outros na sala de aula para 18 semanas, tu sentavas na frente dentro da sala de aula, e meu assento estava bem atrás de teu. Havia tanta pessoas na sala de aula para as primeiras semanas, ainda me lembro do estudante coreano que se sentou ao meu lado. Quando a professora perguntou-lhe qual é seu nome? Ele respondeu em voz alta "KO!" Todos os estudantes riram… Entretanto, esse estudante coreano foi retirado da classe na segunda semana, mais e mais estudantes saíram depois do exame mid-term, tive a oportunidade de conhecer-te. Ainda que estávamos na mesma sala de aula, não tivemos mais oportunidades de falar uns com os outros, até a redacção final, escolhemos o mesmo tema - a preparação do terremoto. Ainda me lembro que me pediste o número da página do livro sobre o tema, devemos pesquisar e comparar as preparações do terremoto de duas escolas diferentes… A pesquisa foi bem difícil, né? Além disso, conhecia-te melhor desde então, também mantemos ligação via Facebook, às vezes, escreveste no meu "Facebook wall", às vezes, fiz o mesmo contigo. Eu estava tão feliz, porque nós tivemos temas semelhantes para falar, mas tudo mudou desde o final de maio…

Na manhã do dia de 27 de maio, recebi uma mensagem do teu namorado via Facebook, essa mensagem parecia um aviso, teu namorado avisou-me não escrever no teu "Facebook wall". Quando recebi essa mensagem, estava realmente furioso! Furioso! Mas, pude que fazer? Tu és namorada dele, e ele é teu namorado, é o facto, a verdade imutável. Tive pensamento tolo, se tu e tua namorado desmancharia mutuamente, eu teria uma oportunidade. Eu estava errado, é impossível.

Tenho ciúmes do teu namorado, mas ele trata-te bem, e tu sentes feliz, estarei feliz. Enterrarei o meu amor no meu coração, porque somos bons amigos sempre.

Queria que tu serás feliz todos os dias.

Um beijinho…

Vítor

Don't Blame Her 别 怪 她 - 吳卓羲 Ron Ng

別怪她 別怪她 別再傷心對吧
從遇見的一剎 是捉緊了嗎

Complicated Mood

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My mood is so complicated recently, and I don't even know what makes it being complicated. I feel that I have lots of troubles, but I can't tell what trouble I have, I think it may be "much ado about nothing". Sometimes those troubles make me feel stressed, a lot of pressure on myself that I almost can't breathe. Sometimes I feel very isolated, I feel that I'm always alone, and I can only bury all my troubles in my heart. No one can see when I feel happy, and no one can see when I'm so sad, eyes filled with tears. Who knows? Feelings of emptiness, I've already had them for years, I've been their best friends! Who else? No one!



I believe that we could be a good soulmate of each other, and we can talk anything we want to talk, we could be best friends, but I know you have your own lifestyle, I have my own lifestyle, too. We have been living in two different places in the planet, and it's not possible to make us together. I think what I can do for you now is to wish you always happy, it's my only wish.

A Dream… A Really Bad Dream…

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I don't know what's wrong with me, but I have had so many bad dreams at night for the recent months. Those dreams were pretty strange, and I was involved in those dreams also. Those dreams were not good dreams, because I'm totally different in my dreams. I'm a mean and bad-tempered person who always argue with other people, and I always love to scold people with lots of words that start with the letter "F". Every time when I scold the people so badly, I suddenly wake up from the dream and repeat my last sentence (usually with "F-word") in my dream, what so weird is I also point to the same direction as in dreams. Like if the person who is scolded by me in dreams is standing to my left, when I wake up from the dreams, I'll also point to my left.

Those dreams were certainly not good, I think I may have too much stress, I think that I have to learn how to relax myself.

Government To Allow 'Jailbreaking' Of iPhones

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Government To Allow 'Jailbreaking' Of iPhones

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Story posted 2010.07.26 at 08:50 AM PDT

Owners of the iPhone will be able to legally break electronic locks on their devices in order to download software applications that haven't been approved by Apple Inc., according to new government rules announced Monday.

The decision to allow the practice commonly known as "jailbreaking" is one of a handful of new exemptions from a 1998 federal law that prohibits people from bypassing technical measures that companies put on their products to prevent unauthorized uses.

The Library of Congress' Copyright Office reviews and authorizes exemptions every three years to ensure that the law does not prevent certain non-infringing use of copyright-protected material.

In addition to jailbreaking, other exemptions announced Monday would:

-- allow owners of used cell phones to break access controls on their phones in order to switch wireless carriers.

-- allow people to break technical protections on video games to investigate or correct security flaws.

-- allow college professors, film students and documentary filmmakers to break copy-protection measures on DVDs so they can embed clips for educational purposes, criticism, commentary and noncommercial videos.

-- allow computer owners to bypass the need for external security devices called dongles if the dongle no longer works and cannot be replaced.

Story posted 2010.07.26 at 08:50 AM PDT

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Sound For Video Class In CCSF

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Actually I don't have much ideas for what I can write today, but I got an email from our future instructor for the Sound For Video Class in CCSF this morning. Fine, just decided to write something about Sound For Video.


Sound For Video is a familiar and unfamiliar course or topic to me, I say it familiar because I have already had pretty good video production and / or editing background, and I mastered some basic techniques on video editing using Final Cut Pro. On the other hand, I don't have a lot of audio production and sound recording backgrounds, I don't know a lot about audio mixing, and the I did only learn some basic techniques on audio production last semester in CCSF. Besides of basic radio production, analog tape editing, multi-track recording and some basic experience on Sound For Video for the final project, I don't really have much experience on audio production.

I don't know if I can learn and master more techniques from this class, but I believe this class could raise my interest on audio for video, as well as for my future video projects. Gaining more experience on both audio and video is very essential for me, I think.