Recalling last years, there are activities and another coming; Junk photo-trip, Junk-wine-night, wargame, night time cheung chau shooting; Days are well-spent.
I am feeling the time has come again.
2009年12月22日 星期二
2009年12月19日 星期六
a week of being an athletic
Summarize the week:
Day 0: gym + basketball
Day 1: gym + three hours of tennis
Day 2: gym (all thigh muscles) + tennis solely with Calvin
Day 3: gym + soccer (skill train under mark sir)
Day 4: mixed double tennis for 3 hours + volleyball
Day 5: gym - sorching exhausting biceps training.
Day 6: breast work out
Day 7: really a rest day !
While the last annual leave i spent splendid time in Kyoto, this week of annual leave I chose to test my physical limit with training muscles strength and improve my sport performance.
I inreased the frequency of gym training to nearly a daily basis. One part of muscle trained per day- but that does not imply that hour easily passed as the personal trainer will never rest your trained muscles. They made sure I had to exert full power for each lift/ pull/ push . If you cannot attain their standard they will help with the contraction , but not the muscle elongation part /' relaxation' part- which is often the toughest part as you have to withstand hundreds pounds descended to the muscle.
Day 0: gym + basketball
Day 1: gym + three hours of tennis
Day 2: gym (all thigh muscles) + tennis solely with Calvin
Day 3: gym + soccer (skill train under mark sir)
Day 4: mixed double tennis for 3 hours + volleyball
Day 5: gym - sorching exhausting biceps training.
Day 6: breast work out
Day 7: really a rest day !
While the last annual leave i spent splendid time in Kyoto, this week of annual leave I chose to test my physical limit with training muscles strength and improve my sport performance.
I inreased the frequency of gym training to nearly a daily basis. One part of muscle trained per day- but that does not imply that hour easily passed as the personal trainer will never rest your trained muscles. They made sure I had to exert full power for each lift/ pull/ push . If you cannot attain their standard they will help with the contraction , but not the muscle elongation part /' relaxation' part- which is often the toughest part as you have to withstand hundreds pounds descended to the muscle.
At the same time of gym training I increased the frequency of having a regular sport. I chose tennis simply because it’s exciting with lots of dash and muscle co-ordination. It is quite a good feeling when you make a great serve, hit a return ace or just see opponents' loser faces. (promised - tennis is a wonderful sport)
The whole week workout has added 3kg to my body. Done a body analysis on Friday, it said the muscle porportion has increased for a few percents, which implies most of the weight gain goes to muscle!!!
What a great week with exercise. Fruitful with weight gain and technique improvement, though a bit tiring.
2009年12月13日 星期日
Manutd | Hong Kong
At one side of the earth Manutd had the first home defeat to Aston Villa, but on another side the Manutd supporter was still joyful as Hong Kong finally topped Japan and Korea in East Asian football game.
I was sitting on the west stand of the HK stadium, and felt buzzing after the 1-1 draw, felt the power of the roar from HK supporters, and definitely went into craze when H.F.Yapp made the vital save of the game at penalties shot-out.
Oh what a great night I have had in HK stadium.....
I was sitting on the west stand of the HK stadium, and felt buzzing after the 1-1 draw, felt the power of the roar from HK supporters, and definitely went into craze when H.F.Yapp made the vital save of the game at penalties shot-out.
Oh what a great night I have had in HK stadium.....
2009年11月16日 星期一
Dream - from Monocle, issue 28, vol 2 Nov 09
Read the article on the plane to Hong Kong, and after that I repeatedly read it every day.
It is a preface for the Monocle, the small business guide -
Every age has its dream of happiness and in our time, there is no more powerful or widespread desire than to start up our own business. What does this tell us about ourselves? For a start, that it isn't enough for us to make money. We need to do so in ways that make us feel connected: to products, to customers and to our colleagues.
The modern gigantic corporation undoubtedly offers humanity the most efficient means of generating capital but it has managed to brutally cut us off from people and things. We can no longer see what we have made or whom we have touched; We frequently can't stand back afer a lifetime and say, ' I did that' or I changed him or her'.
A business of one's own premises to end the alientaion. Entrepreneurial fantasies appear to be all about making more money - but in fact, as sober statisticians tell us, they are fraught with dangers. But that shouldn't put us off. Far from it, because the dream of entrepreneruship is, at heart, about an attempt to recover imaginative control over one's work. Ask people what business they might like to start and they will often speak about a desire to bgin a small restaurant or the pefect stationery shop, a little school or therapist's practice. They will cite examples of businesses where you can see the difference you are making to lives of others, where you know your customers and can have a realistic chance of making them happy. Though the idea of esrving people is often seen as demeaning, it is obviously one of the great pleasure of life (just ask kids, who like nothing better than to play at serving adults.)
Starting your own business is risky, but the recent economic turmoil suggests that we should recalibrate our notions of safety. The working world used to be divided into safte but boring jobs, and exciting but risky ones. Of late, many of the supposedly safe professions have been decimated - which should help us let go of illusions of safety (in any case - all of us are only a few rogue cancer cells away from the end at the best of times)
A world enterepreneurial start-ups wouldn't necessarily be a richer one economically. But it would be rich in a more interesting way. It would mean an increase in what we all love about owner-managed enterprises: the feeling that those who work in them genuinely care, that they are in control of their destinies, that they are able to exercise their curiosity and dthat they are enjoying serving us. I suspect that I'm not the only writer or reader at Monocle itching to plug some of the gaps of our customer society with a business of my own.
(Alain de Botton, at Monocle nov 09 issue 28, vol 2 - 'Time for a change' in small business guide)
It is a preface for the Monocle, the small business guide -
Every age has its dream of happiness and in our time, there is no more powerful or widespread desire than to start up our own business. What does this tell us about ourselves? For a start, that it isn't enough for us to make money. We need to do so in ways that make us feel connected: to products, to customers and to our colleagues.
The modern gigantic corporation undoubtedly offers humanity the most efficient means of generating capital but it has managed to brutally cut us off from people and things. We can no longer see what we have made or whom we have touched; We frequently can't stand back afer a lifetime and say, ' I did that' or I changed him or her'.
A business of one's own premises to end the alientaion. Entrepreneurial fantasies appear to be all about making more money - but in fact, as sober statisticians tell us, they are fraught with dangers. But that shouldn't put us off. Far from it, because the dream of entrepreneruship is, at heart, about an attempt to recover imaginative control over one's work. Ask people what business they might like to start and they will often speak about a desire to bgin a small restaurant or the pefect stationery shop, a little school or therapist's practice. They will cite examples of businesses where you can see the difference you are making to lives of others, where you know your customers and can have a realistic chance of making them happy. Though the idea of esrving people is often seen as demeaning, it is obviously one of the great pleasure of life (just ask kids, who like nothing better than to play at serving adults.)
Starting your own business is risky, but the recent economic turmoil suggests that we should recalibrate our notions of safety. The working world used to be divided into safte but boring jobs, and exciting but risky ones. Of late, many of the supposedly safe professions have been decimated - which should help us let go of illusions of safety (in any case - all of us are only a few rogue cancer cells away from the end at the best of times)
A world enterepreneurial start-ups wouldn't necessarily be a richer one economically. But it would be rich in a more interesting way. It would mean an increase in what we all love about owner-managed enterprises: the feeling that those who work in them genuinely care, that they are in control of their destinies, that they are able to exercise their curiosity and dthat they are enjoying serving us. I suspect that I'm not the only writer or reader at Monocle itching to plug some of the gaps of our customer society with a business of my own.
(Alain de Botton, at Monocle nov 09 issue 28, vol 2 - 'Time for a change' in small business guide)
2009年11月15日 星期日
Post Kyoto
I love Kyoto.
Kyoto is a busy city when you look at the always-long queues at Kyoto station bus stop and crowded JR stations, but they are different with any other cities in the way of small businesses are simply everywhere in the city. I don’t know how many small businesses are making up the city, but what I saw during the stay at Kyoto was pretty many. From restaurants I have been to shops where I bought souvenirs or even the guesthouse I have stayed they are seldom gigantic co-operations, they are having different characters, and most importantly, they are with great services, not that kind of saying ‘Welcome’ ‘See you’ in Starbucks when getting in for a drink, but the type you feel you are the only one you will be treated in this way.
Before the trip to Kyoto I had a thought of whether it’ll be bored of just visiting temples, but it turned out with complete elimination of such thought. Unique services by small businesses make every parts of Kyoto different. I still recalled how considerate Ms Kahori was during the stay at her Chita guesthouse. I went the day before checking in just to say hello and asked if I could arrive a bit earlier the time of check-in to put the luggages at her house, and on the next day when I arrived, she said she’s already prepared for my room; She knew I love cycling around in Kyoto, so when I requested to rent her bicycle for second time she simply said to me quietly ‘no need to pay, no need, take the lock and go !!!’. And actually, it is fun to visit temples. Temples in Kyoto, other than the Buddha, have different characteristics. There is Fushimi-inari shrines where there are thousands of Tori (traditional gate usually at the entrance); There is Shoren-in temple where also opens at night time and lightens the temple in blue and yellow; There is Todaji temple where actually visitors can have fun on going through the hole of around 1.5 x 2 m which once getting through you will have enlightenment.
I made some good friendship with people around the world during the trip. Going to living room of guesthouse/ hostel every time I called it the day for the travel, I was able to meet someone. Italian, Danish, Japanese, German, Holland, Canadian, it is just the bonus from the trip that you can establish a relationship with people all around the world, and to know how different they are living. And through talking with them it is always interesting to know some information that you may not be aware of before, for example the ‘great’ attitude of Swiss towards Germans (ha, sorry Eli and Nadine) and kissing or hugging has never been welcomed in some of European countries (Please let me say it again, Davide)
The travel to Kyoto this time was excellent and I was already thinking of a re-visit in later years, probably with better Japanese the coming time.
Kyoto is a busy city when you look at the always-long queues at Kyoto station bus stop and crowded JR stations, but they are different with any other cities in the way of small businesses are simply everywhere in the city. I don’t know how many small businesses are making up the city, but what I saw during the stay at Kyoto was pretty many. From restaurants I have been to shops where I bought souvenirs or even the guesthouse I have stayed they are seldom gigantic co-operations, they are having different characters, and most importantly, they are with great services, not that kind of saying ‘Welcome’ ‘See you’ in Starbucks when getting in for a drink, but the type you feel you are the only one you will be treated in this way.
Before the trip to Kyoto I had a thought of whether it’ll be bored of just visiting temples, but it turned out with complete elimination of such thought. Unique services by small businesses make every parts of Kyoto different. I still recalled how considerate Ms Kahori was during the stay at her Chita guesthouse. I went the day before checking in just to say hello and asked if I could arrive a bit earlier the time of check-in to put the luggages at her house, and on the next day when I arrived, she said she’s already prepared for my room; She knew I love cycling around in Kyoto, so when I requested to rent her bicycle for second time she simply said to me quietly ‘no need to pay, no need, take the lock and go !!!’. And actually, it is fun to visit temples. Temples in Kyoto, other than the Buddha, have different characteristics. There is Fushimi-inari shrines where there are thousands of Tori (traditional gate usually at the entrance); There is Shoren-in temple where also opens at night time and lightens the temple in blue and yellow; There is Todaji temple where actually visitors can have fun on going through the hole of around 1.5 x 2 m which once getting through you will have enlightenment.
I made some good friendship with people around the world during the trip. Going to living room of guesthouse/ hostel every time I called it the day for the travel, I was able to meet someone. Italian, Danish, Japanese, German, Holland, Canadian, it is just the bonus from the trip that you can establish a relationship with people all around the world, and to know how different they are living. And through talking with them it is always interesting to know some information that you may not be aware of before, for example the ‘great’ attitude of Swiss towards Germans (ha, sorry Eli and Nadine) and kissing or hugging has never been welcomed in some of European countries (Please let me say it again, Davide)
The travel to Kyoto this time was excellent and I was already thinking of a re-visit in later years, probably with better Japanese the coming time.
2009年11月2日 星期一
Pre-Kyoto
Before the trip time is just packed fully - not until the time I broaded into the plane I shall not get relaxed. Working has been dominated the time definitely, and it shall end just 2-3 hours before the plane flies to Japan.
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I am looking foward to the trip - Been to Kyoto once when i was young, but never have I tried to travel alone before. Excited about the problem arised, excited about everything to be occured during the travel (Hope they're not silly nor stupid things on me)
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I am looking foward to the trip - Been to Kyoto once when i was young, but never have I tried to travel alone before. Excited about the problem arised, excited about everything to be occured during the travel (Hope they're not silly nor stupid things on me)
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2009年10月8日 星期四
These days i am just immersing myself into the world of TV games and computer. Going to friend's house for PS3 after every am shift, played till late for shooting and controlling footballer.
I was hoping for some kind of fun filling the empty time.
Yet enlightenment on the way home tonight after another TV games noticed me of the life I am having was not that good. Suddenly I felt myself guilty of playing TV games all the time and wasted the empty time.
The time ends. Time to work.
I was hoping for some kind of fun filling the empty time.
Yet enlightenment on the way home tonight after another TV games noticed me of the life I am having was not that good. Suddenly I felt myself guilty of playing TV games all the time and wasted the empty time.
The time ends. Time to work.
2009年9月18日 星期五
I miss the time
The first step into A5 is never that happy. With the tough placement in department of medicine during my student years plus some rude treatment by nurses I was quite lost when I was sent to be a Temporary Undergraduate Nursing student (TUNS) in A5 before I was promoted to Registered nurse in a short future.
Yet those doubt and possible fear was all gone with later experience. I was actually stepping into a ward with warm atmosphere where laughs can always happen; I grew already a lot with help from senior nurses - I can still remember how Dorothy and Irene teaching me on urgent EOT and emergency situations while I was just a TUNS. Yes the work load is the heaviest within the hospital, admissions can reach 20 in 7 hours, but all along the working time it's joyful.
What can you expect more, when you learn under warm atmosphere ?
2 Years, and now provided that an vancancy is made in isolation ward, tomorrow is the last day of my so-far medical career in A5. I'll miss the time !
Yet those doubt and possible fear was all gone with later experience. I was actually stepping into a ward with warm atmosphere where laughs can always happen; I grew already a lot with help from senior nurses - I can still remember how Dorothy and Irene teaching me on urgent EOT and emergency situations while I was just a TUNS. Yes the work load is the heaviest within the hospital, admissions can reach 20 in 7 hours, but all along the working time it's joyful.
What can you expect more, when you learn under warm atmosphere ?
2 Years, and now provided that an vancancy is made in isolation ward, tomorrow is the last day of my so-far medical career in A5. I'll miss the time !
2009年9月12日 星期六
Rotation
Once again I need to rotate to another ward. It'll be the third ward I work in 2009, which means I have to adapt the third working style within a hospital. I think it's pretty shit - normally to adapt it takes at least a year but the circumstance is that I had 3 rotations within 2 years.
If rotation really helps people mature I'll think it's completely silly.
If rotation really helps people mature I'll think it's completely silly.
2009年8月26日 星期三
Woman
Seen a blog about woman
Whatever you give a woman, she’s going to multiply.
If you give her sperm, she’ll give you a baby.
If you give her a house, she’ll give you a home.
If you give her groceries, she’ll give you a meal.
If you give her a smile, she’ll give you her heart.
She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her.
So…If you give her any crap, you will receive a ton of sh!t.”
This is true, really true.
Whatever you give a woman, she’s going to multiply.
If you give her sperm, she’ll give you a baby.
If you give her a house, she’ll give you a home.
If you give her groceries, she’ll give you a meal.
If you give her a smile, she’ll give you her heart.
She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her.
So…If you give her any crap, you will receive a ton of sh!t.”
This is true, really true.
2009年8月17日 星期一
Swine flu spread is not going to stop
Department of medicine is admitting so many patients. With the atmosphere of flu and swine flu, I can really feel the increased admission of patients. For every shifts there must be some transferred cases from isolation ward for being ruled out swine flu, or cases from emergency department for questioning swine flu cases.
I know one day there must be a confirmed case in my ward, and yes, it comes today.
May God bless my ward, and my colleagues who are getting fever and flu symptoms.
I know one day there must be a confirmed case in my ward, and yes, it comes today.
May God bless my ward, and my colleagues who are getting fever and flu symptoms.
2009年8月15日 星期六
Was | Is | Will
On the coming Ma Wan photo gallery, it's all about was, is and will . I have come across a number of photos, ideas that match the topic, but none of them is comparable to the relationship between you and me.
The gallery just triggered my thinking over these years. Thinking of some important things, my jobs, life ...........
The gallery just triggered my thinking over these years. Thinking of some important things, my jobs, life ...........
2009年8月9日 星期日
Sick leave , just make me sick.
With the swine flu, the new ward I am working has to close to deploy staffs to either medical/pediatrics/isolation wards. Today is the 2nd last day of my so-far surgical life, yet I was unluckily deployed to another surgical ward. The reason is because there's a shortage of staff in there, due to sick leave.
I am okay to go if people are really sick and cannot attend duty, but what I have been hearing today is that people may not be sick. I am indeed angry, but I can say nothing.
Is that what a nurse should be ?
A month of surgical life has already let me feel this department is just shit.
I am okay to go if people are really sick and cannot attend duty, but what I have been hearing today is that people may not be sick. I am indeed angry, but I can say nothing.
Is that what a nurse should be ?
A month of surgical life has already let me feel this department is just shit.
2009年8月4日 星期二
4am in the morning
Just earlier in the day I come across a medical doctor and he asked when I will go back, I simply replied ' I don't know' , then when I backed to the ward I received the news of return to department of medicine. I have thought of a possibly return, but never have I thought it to be that early with sudden cease of surgical life.
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It's 4 am in the morning and still there is a work-day to go in the morning, but I could not get myself asleep any more. When I close my eyes the scenes of working in medical unit pop up.
And I just cannot wait any longer.
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It's 4 am in the morning and still there is a work-day to go in the morning, but I could not get myself asleep any more. When I close my eyes the scenes of working in medical unit pop up.
And I just cannot wait any longer.
2009年7月27日 星期一
Football
Days have to be challenging. While I am trying to settle at the new working environment I am trying to do something to occupy life. Football is one of them.
Life has to be fun, and it is quite a good idea to gather boys and play some ball on grass pitch. Thus I started to arrange some game. I do not mind people are not playing well, what I mind is people are enjoying the 1.5 hour on the grass pitch.
Happiness is the most important ingredient of life !
Life has to be fun, and it is quite a good idea to gather boys and play some ball on grass pitch. Thus I started to arrange some game. I do not mind people are not playing well, what I mind is people are enjoying the 1.5 hour on the grass pitch.
Happiness is the most important ingredient of life !
2009年7月12日 星期日
A new working enivornment
Today is the seventh day I worked in another ward. Just got home, had a late lunch, able to go internet to write something.
I am still exhausted - as I have to handle 2 full cubicles in new ward for most of the time, at the same time that I learn to follow new working way. At the first few days I was missing the days in prior ward, where I am accustomed to routines, doctors, and other working colleagues.
Going to a complete new enviornment is a tiring process, as you have to accomdoate new things, new style, new people, but that's what a life has to be.
Keep moving.
I am still exhausted - as I have to handle 2 full cubicles in new ward for most of the time, at the same time that I learn to follow new working way. At the first few days I was missing the days in prior ward, where I am accustomed to routines, doctors, and other working colleagues.
Going to a complete new enviornment is a tiring process, as you have to accomdoate new things, new style, new people, but that's what a life has to be.
Keep moving.
2009年7月10日 星期五
This is friday; this is the start of countdown
I have made up my mind, I shall set a year-time for myself to pursue my next challenge.
Life has to be challenging.
Life has to be challenging.
2009年7月7日 星期二
I am feeling like something big to my life is going to happen
When talking about challenges, I am always thinking of doing something big to my life / doing something I want to do. Yet you know there's always restraint in life that stops you from making your dream comes true, while one of them being the money affair.
This is also applicable to me. For years I am thinking, but I am not acutally working on my dream because of a stable job I am having, because of the fear of never finding a comparable job.
But on the other hand, being as a outsider looking on myself, I shall reckon this man is just too too timid to do anything, which I certain do not allow people to label me in such way.
What a contraindicated man I am, but the reality is that contraindicated. I want to explore, and I fear to lose.
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However, I know something is going to happen gradually.
This is also applicable to me. For years I am thinking, but I am not acutally working on my dream because of a stable job I am having, because of the fear of never finding a comparable job.
But on the other hand, being as a outsider looking on myself, I shall reckon this man is just too too timid to do anything, which I certain do not allow people to label me in such way.
What a contraindicated man I am, but the reality is that contraindicated. I want to explore, and I fear to lose.
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However, I know something is going to happen gradually.
2009年7月5日 星期日
2009年6月11日 星期四
2009年6月6日 星期六
The moon
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The 'shoot the moon' idea just came on my way back home from beach volleyball, when I noticed the moon was just so bright and white.Backed home and soon leave home again, I went to the pedestrian where the moon was complete free of obstruction. Set up the tripod, put on the zoom lens.
Shooting it is a bit difficult - the DSLR has error on light sensing and locating, so during the whole shooting I was manually controlling the camera.
Woo ~ That's beautiful !
2009年6月4日 星期四
On counting down
Days are counting down for the trip to california. Cannot stop thoughts on the time in there - It is such a sunny place with too many magnificant scences and food and fresh air.
Unlike last time, I shall head north of california. Yosemite national park must be a place to revisit (and I have already booked a tent in there for 4 days!); And there is Lake Tahoe for me to explore ......
Unlike last time, I shall head north of california. Yosemite national park must be a place to revisit (and I have already booked a tent in there for 4 days!); And there is Lake Tahoe for me to explore ......
2009年6月1日 星期一
Change | not changing
Things are changing. My age, my working place, my cameras, my clothes, but still there are things not changing.2009年5月30日 星期六
A flash of beautiful moment in my mind
It's a long long time ago - in Long island, just had a shooting session in nighttime, eaten a breakfast, and lazily lying on the beach watching the dawn.2009年5月29日 星期五
I bought the lens
Finally I bought the lens I have been looking for years.
This is expensive, but I think it worths. There is a ultrasonic motor, there is an image stabilizer, and I can just shoot a 200mm image with 1/50 seconds promptly, regardless of my shaking hands.
2009年5月28日 星期四
Count down
It is just merely ten days, but it seemed to be eternity for me. Even I was working I was thinking of the time in there with you.
Time is so difficult to me these days with the torture of good times.
Time is so difficult to me these days with the torture of good times.
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