New Year Eve on Henderson Wave

With friends, Lunar New Year Eve on Henderson Wave...

Great time, beautiful smiles, blissful memories.

Full of Energy and Enthusiasm for the whole new year!

W3C- Keep urself updated in the World Wide Web

Just got recommended by my prof :D


World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

A great organization to keep you alert about what's going on on the World Wide Web.



Tim Berners-Lee
inventor of WWW and founder of W3C

About W3C

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.

W3 mission: "To lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web."

W3C primarily pursues its mission through the creation of Web standards and guidelines
Mr. Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web in 1989 founded W3C as an industry consortium dedicated to building consensus around Web technologies.

Movie- Ip Man

2 days ago I went to Orchard to watch the movie Ip Man (pronounced /eep. mun/) with Cam Anh, Mai, and Nico. The movie was a semi biography about Ip Man, the celebrated grandmaster of Chinese martial arts and the first grandmaster to teach the art of Wing Chun. Among his greatest disciples was Bruce Lee, who later influenced the whole industry of martial art film and martial art style itself. Starring Donnie Yen, who I basically didn't know about before this film.

The film zoomed in the part of Ip Man life during Japanese occupation of China. Different from many other martial art film, what "Ip Man" celebrates are actually the man's personality, his principles of life, his charisma in calmness and simple dignity. Among others, Donnie Yen was especially excellent in conveying the man's spirit. Being a highly accomplished martial artist himself, he embodied Ip Man's dazzling martial art performances in a beautiful and natural Zen like approach.

Beyond that, I have to admit my perception towards the Chinese has changed. I have grown more empathy with them, not just because I see the reflection of my own country's historical tragedy in their suffering under the Japanese rule, but because the film has subtly conveyed a humane message that spreads beyond both racial and national hatred and prejudice. Unlike most of Chinese films about this horrible period under Japanese occupation, the film was able to show a love for one's country alongside with a respectable empathy towards the enemy, as well as the so called "traitors". With a limited amount of time, the film didn't include much character development, which is undeniable its greatest weakness. However, with all other excellent aspects, "Ip Man" is a must watch movie which thrills and moves and probably will stay pretty long in your mind.

Reminder for the coming new year

Reminder:

1. Begin with the end in mind
   
2. Planning and Focus
   
3. It's not the thought; it's the implementation of that thought that can really make a difference.
   
4. My quality of life depends on how I look at the past, create the presence, and work for the future.
   
5. To be efficient I decide on when to open/when to close certain mental "doors" to the world.
   

For a start

I asked myself: why am I coming back to blogging? Facebook has done a pretty good job in keeping me busy. I almost forgot I used to have an active yahoo 360 blog, and 2 or more Blogger ones. Who cares? All my friends are on FB already. Just like me, they usually don't have the time to spend reading lengthy blog posts.

This morning, after having my cup of coffee, I visit FB as usual, except that this time I visit my info page, and find out my dusty blog sitting in the "my website" section.

how funny. FB has caused me to abandon blogging. At the same time, it reserves my blog address, so that some day I might come back and reread my own thoughts lying forgotten in my abandoned blogpages.

Life is like a rhythm. There is always a time where you find yourself coming back to an earlier point of mind, some time, of course, at a higher level.

For now, just wanna see how long it's gonna last :-) Me blogging again...yay!