Superman: Secret Identity - Best American comics book I've read for a long while

If you haven't read "Superman: Secret Identity" yet. You owe yourself big time for missing a great piece of graphic novel literature. I learned about it from the podcast Totally RAD Show, and was totally amazed by well it's written and drawn. In fact, I need to find out more works from Kurt Busiek and Stuart Immonen and see if their individual work live up to the awesomeness of the collaboration in Secret Identity. This is definitely a gateway drug for those who are not a fan of US superhero comics. It's so well written that I was surprise by the fact that no movie deal was being negotiated about turning this series into a movie. Trust me, you'll enjoy as a good story, just like how Dark Knight won over tons of non superhero fans.

Jelly well made

Just tasted a cup of jelly that I made this afternoon. It tasted OK, which is not that much surprising, cause it would be a disaster if I couldn't well OK jello.

Decision: which weighted key piano to get?

After being intimidated by the piano lesson in "Learn to Play" with Garage Band 09', I was tempted to get a weighted key digital piano. After all, my waffling cheesy 4 octave with broken key flimsy keyboard really is showing its age. Plus in order to learn how to play a real piano I need to use one that has a padel and one that feels like real piano.

So I went to BestBuy and found Casio PX120, and was very impressed by it. It costed US$599 (tax not included) and I thought it was worth it. Too bad they didn't have it in stock or I would have already brought it.

But then I continue shopping around and found more differnt options here and there.

Yamaha YPG-635 looks nice with the wheel and have tons of feature, but based on what I read from the manual, This bad boy does NOT have the standard MIDI in out, which to me is a big big no no. It relies on some crazy driver to connect to a PC. Great, how about my Mac. It's not cheap anyway. I will never buy anything that limit me to a specific device.

I thought of going for some cheap option, like getting one of those Yamaha P65 (another review) refurb at $399 or Casio CDP-100, until I realized a serious problem of these older generation products: they only have 32 notes polyphonic, which will be a huge problem if later my skill move forward and start working on some complicated piece. The new ones with 128 polyphoic does not have the problem. Well, there's a reason for the price difference.

So I think I am back to choosing betwen Yamaha P-85 and Casio PX-120 . As of now, my choice is getting it from BestBuy for $599 with the 3 padal and stand included.

Jello

I haven't been making Jello for almost 10 years, and I just made about 10 cups of it. Hope they worked out. Why I suddenly did it? Because I have some Jello power left over, and I hate left over. When I see left over I always what to find a way to use them up. Basically that's my "not wasting stuff" tendency.

And if you ask why I had Jello power left over ... well ... I brought some Jello power thinking of using them as fake blood in a little indie clip project I made (but obviously the attempt was failed).

蘊釀憤怒

這幾天的心情相當差，原因是星期五下班的時候看到在擋風玻璃上夾著一張警告的票，警告我停車場已經發現我長期將車輛停泊在公衆使用的停車位置，如果我繼續將車輛停泊在這地帶，車輛有可能被拖走或被夾上扣留夾。

一種充滿無奈又帶憤怒的情緒充斥心裡。我之所以將車泊在這個購物商場的停車場而不將車輛泊在辦公大樓的停車場，是因為辦公大樓的車位配額不足，我沒有被分派到停車位置，只得自行找停車的地方。

現在面對這個情況，我也不曉得星期一應該如何上班。就算我將車子泊到另一個公眾停車位置，遲早也會被發現。居然上班的過程也要面對這種壓力，心中的憤怒就這樣蘊釀起來。

Feeling better after sleeping ... while having haircut

I was so frustrated about some lousy thing that happened around me, but then I am feeling better now because of 2 things: I had a hair cut, and I had a nice nap while I was having a hair cut. Once again, sleeping was is the ultimate way to cure my frustration ... at least for a short while. So even though the price of the hair cut was increased from $11 to $12 ($13 after I pay $1 tips), I think it's still worth it.

Nice Friday afternoon

From the office window, I saw some people relaxing and kind of like having fun with birds. Nice and peaceful. Wish I were there.