Contact Lens

Strange. I went to sleep very early these days, and then dreamed a lot.

Last night I dreamed about being some sort of agent having some mission to accomplish. However, the mood of the dream was definitely not a action movie flick. But then ... I couldn't remember too much about detail.

I wasted last night ballet dance class because the contact lens on my right eye slided into the far edge of my eyeball. It was not until the end of the class that I had the lens removed from my eye. Terrible.

Very strange dream

I had a very strange dream last night. The characters in the dream was kind of in Japanese animation style, and the story background was like a Sci-Fi animated series.

It was sort of like the world after World War Three, and my ... daughter(!?) had a mail-ordered pet dog that needs to send back to the factory for special kind of cleaning because of the nuclear mutation thing (!?). But it seems like everytime when they sent us back, it was actually a different dog. And then the recently one they sent us was even a ghost (anime style, like the ghost in some Capcom fighting game). The scenes were full of gross body part decay and such.

I wonder what caused me to have that kind of dream, but I was ... in deep slept very deeply (because of all the brain power I used at work in programming). Strange.

Negative Thinking

I tend to preceive new events happening to me in a negative way. It happened at work while a slience-for-too-long client called me, or at home when my mom stopped me at the door telling me about some 2 months job oppotunity that my sister suggested. Usually after the reality sinked in, I would start to see some positive implication of those events. But it's the first impress that always started with as a negative. On the bright side, if things started very negative, it can only getting better as time goes by.

So you see, the same negative to positive cycle is happening here even while I am writing this blog.

Dream and then my over-sensitivity

It's breezing this morning. Finally the weather was realizing that it's about time to show some sign of being in winter.

I woke up this morning with a headache. It was probably because of the dream I had. But then even when I felt like my head was full of it, I couldn't recall anything from the dream. It's almost as if the brain was trying to protect me from recalling the dream in order to avoiding form having even more headache.

I found it kind of sad to see a 80s punk rock pop icon Bill Idol releasing a Christmas album. I was not sure what was the real motive behind such a project, but I guess "making a living" is probably one of it. Guess fame doesn't always necessary comes with fortunate.

Something was bugging me in the last 48 hours. I sensed that a friend was starting to distance oneself from me. Maybe this is just my over-sensitivity playing a game against myself. Maybe it's just a bunch of pure coincidence. Maybe that person was simply being too busy these days. But somehow it hurt and triggered even angry inside me beside of the frustration, feeling out of control and anxious about the uncertainty of the situation. Wait a second, maybe it was my ill temper that drove that person away from me :-E .

I had to spend a lot of effort to learn the Java stuff that I am dealing with at work these days, but at the same time I was thankful of having the opportunity of branching out my skill set. Something things that are good for me always inflict some pain in me one way or the other.

I feel like I am getting very easy to get tired these days. Getting old, I guess. Getting old indeed.

My strange dream last night

Let's see:

- I narrowly escaped form a train with tons of Communist referenced horrible poster on walls and heading to a poison gas chamber.
- I was in a room full of political comics book
- I was in a room which my pal Alex Wong showcased his U2 posters and stuff
- I was walking around deciding what to decorate my living room
- I was sort of in a action movie flick, jumping around roof top and floor while following stranger with action drama kind of dialog.

Yep. Guess that's pretty much I remembered about my dream.

Broken headphone

I knew this would happened eventually, and it happened yesterday: I broke the AudioTechnica inner ear headphone ... sort of. It was the extension chord that was broken due to a strong stretch while I was chasing a bus with a part of the extension chord caught by the a narrow gap next to a fence on the road. When I touch the end near the headphone jack, I can actually feel that the inner wires had been torn away. So this extension cable is a gonna. Luckily, I have a spare extension chord that looks exactly the same but in black color. That does annoy me at all as I don't care much about color matching or any sort of fashion statement. Once you sunk so low, you cannot sink any lower.

This white headphone is also a living prove that I should not have anything frequently used gadget in Pearl White color. A white gadget like this pearl white headphone eventually turned into a light gray thing that really repels people when they walk closer to me and seeing all the dirts on the able. I really should stick with my kind of color: silver, gray, or even black.

Lyrics without melody (2)

不是首先
也不是最後一個
我的痛楚
數千個也在同和

怎樣解釋
結果亦一樣經過
我只需要
脫下我身上珈瑣

放聲哭
放心哭
淚水可替我消毒

在半空
在幽谷
感覺沒有了拘束

我知我仍有感覺
眼淚過後有幸福
孤單
但不再孤獨

Lyrics without melody (1)

那是甚麼樣的感覺


是忠誠
是忠貞
還是沒有膽再任性

未盡情
未任性
就當成長階段完成

身份繼續確定
四方八面公認
旁人都為你高興
未察覺你眼角的淚影


未有做
還是
做不到
光天化日裡愛得驕傲

讓美夢
隨年日消耗
就安穩荀且見步行步

從理智再次入手
容玻璃包進傷口
讓每個觀眾
看不出有多荒謬

不再問誰在撲空
到那日回頭望揭盅
分不清苦楚還是個美夢

Immigration Interview

I got my immigration interview today, and basically it went thru OK, but I still have some documents missing. The another lady who did pre-interview with me even told me that I don't need to present some financial documents like Tax return and stuff, and instead only need to present my latest bank statement with HK$400,000 or above, and the last 6 months band statement. Later I found out that they are not needed.

I am so glad that I kept all my old password, SSN card and such. Or otherwise I may need to check US Department of Homeland Security (previous called USINS,or US Department ... Immigration .. blah blah)

The interviewer told me that once they got my F1 and H1B, I should get my Visa after a week. I will come in form of a paper envelope. Inside the envelop there will be a plastic bag. Inside the plastic bag (......) there will be my passport, some info and a brown envelope. I was told more than 3 times today that DO NOT COPY THAT ENVELOPE, and it has to be in my hand carry luggage. The X-ray can be left in my hand carry luggage, and I should keep it for a year. After one year, if no official request me to turn it in, I can destroy it. (..... k, whatever)

I was also told that I should double check my name and info on the US Passport that I am about to receive.

Nice drumming

I went to Hong Kong Cultural Center to see a dance performance by Hong Kong Dance Company this afternoon. It was OK. But what really took my heart today was actually the pop jazz performance by some Philippians musicians outside the Cultural Center. I spent some time watching the drummer playing, and he was really good.

I really need more musician (not necessary famous ones) playing real instrument live in Hong Kong. We have too many done-by-sequencer-and-sampler kind of music product in Hong Kong, thus makes appreciate whoever plays live with real instrument.

Wake up from a dream, but ...

I woke up from a dream, but somehow I didn't remember the detail. I just remember that it has something to do with watching movie.
oh well ...

A dream journal

I woke up this morning with a dream about work! This rarely happens but then it just did. In the dream I was with my ex-coworker Wilson. I must be dating it back to the old days, cause he's still my helper in my dream. Our client was discussing with us about the changes regarding to the work. Something like that.

And after spending so much time to prepare for my immigration interview, I still found myself missing some minor stuff like photocopy of my HK ID Card and such. I got to go to the workplace tomorrow morning to get some of those works done.

A Dream

I woke up this morning from a strange dream (well I rarely have normal dream anyway): in the dream, I was sort of in America. I didn't have a car and I walked through parking lot after parking lot just trying to get back to my new apartment, When I got there, my old roommate Jospeh Lai and his wife Simon was there visiting my room. I was very tired, while they were looking around in my apartment, making comments about the scene from the apartment. There was some neighborhood having party right next to my apartment, and we could see them from my apartment's window.

And basically that's it. There were some other minor stuff here and there but this is basically the dream.

To think of it, this sounds like a pretty normal dream, isn't it?