I am Your Sunshine

體檢 >< (還一直被律師催... 完全像是被老師催著交作業的小鬼, 超心虛) 原來還要比價! 真是不問不知道~ (什麼都不知道... 我喜歡活在我的虛構世界~~~~)

我沒說過, (想過要寫卻總是忘記, 或要寫的東西一直沒有累積到讓我有動力來新開一篇)
我很喜歡 Lifehouse 的聲音。

雖然當時我只聽過 You and Me，雖然我無法具體形容，
但 Lifehouse 主唱 Jason Wade 的嗓音絕對是我的那杯茶。
Na 在她 blog 裡貼了這首 Everybody is someone 讓我確定了我的想法，
也促使我寫這篇文章。

Everybody is Someone 開頭並不十分令人驚豔，並奇妙地帶有一點英搖風，
直到聽到某一段，忽然像被什麼東西”叮”了一下，整首歌亮了起來。
心裡有什麼東西蒸發出來緩緩而升，忍不住閉上眼睛，專心被撫慰被鼓勵。

I still find the question “what do you usually do on weekends?” very hard to answer. I can tell you what I usually do after work: gorcery shopping, TV, book reading in Borders, blog writing, BBS browsing, movie going and sometimes Valley Fair shopping when gas price was not outrageously high like it is now. But what do I do on weekends? You tell me.

The past weekend, I had friends over to pot luck, and went to oyster farm to eat oyster and Stinson beach to kill watermelon and places to do city sightseeing the other day. The week before… I don’t remember. And the week before that I had friends visiting from LA and we went to NAPA and Santa Clara (CPK, afternoon tea, and chatting outdoor in a nice evening.) And the week before that I was just back from Japan and was proably resting. The thing is, I do almost totally different things (aside from drinking and eating) every weekend. If there is a concert I am interested in, I will go to the concert; if there are some movies worth watching, I will go to the movies, and this can go on and on and on. Point is, how can you possibly expect me to answer such question? How can I possibly come up with an answer? Have to know that I am not a housewife with a newborn and a husband to tend to. If I were one, you can expect me to give you a very specific answer. But I am not, so why do you ask?

I hate that question (cuz I cannot help but wanting to really answer it, which is what I do when people ask me something) and people can not seem to stop popping that around. Yaks.

I don’t see why some are having doubts about whether people will care about chorus dancers in 70’s enough to see A Chorus Line while The Pajama Game revival seems to be quite a hit in Broadway this year. I enjoyed the A Chorus Line movie starred Mike Douglas as well as the pre-Broadway revival performance, but this 1982 movie is just a little better than unbearable. (Not that the movie is horrible, but the time differences makes it … unbearable.) I’m curious about what they have changed in the revival. Should have made some minor details fit to the modern world so that it would not look so ancient.

Like what kept being said in the Devil Wears Prada, “They must have done something right.”, or it would not be nominated for best revival just to bring the old show on.

Yap, yap. It’s been one of my most abundant evening lately. I’ve read 10 chapters in a row tonight. Bernie would know, the further you go, it’s harder to put the book down. But one’s butt has its limit. I finished 6 chapters and could not sit anymore. I can almost heard my butt grinding if only it has teeth. I strolled around CD section, listened to Sierra Swan once again, along with some so-so post-punk band called The Sleeping, The Pajama Game (I really like the song, “There once was a man”, but I will wait til I finish the 1982 movie to determine whether I wanna buy the revival soundtrack or not.), a few songs from Sunday in the Park with George, and The Light in the Piazza (which made me really wanna see the coming SF production just to know what it is about. And… I just bought the tickets for tomorrow. Very impulsive, but cannot do anything if hesitate too much.) Finishing scanning the stock I just scanned a couple of days ago, I went back to the book section, didn’t return to Seattle’s Best but grabbed a stepper, leaned my back on the shelf and stared again to read.

Back to the book I’m reading. A book I can easily finish at most 3 hours took me 1.5 hour to read 6 chapters when it iin English. I read a lot faster now, the speed is actually tolerable, but heck, when can I reach my speed as when it is in Chinese? It is so time wasting. The time I spent on these 16 chapters (by now it is 20), I could have well finished 6 regular fictions (not 南方有嘉木 type of fiction though. By the way, seems like I will have to buy another one, along with 匈奴… /_\)

The consecuve reading for the past week or so forces me to face the fact that time and money are limited. It is hard but necessary to eliminate things I like for things I love. There’s no take it all in real life.

Books or TV and movie.
Going out or sitting-still absorbing.
Concerts, musical or nice weather and fine wine.

(And now I know how to answer when asked why I don’t ski. “I have better things to do.”)

While struggling with what to give up and what to keep, here are some lines I came across (haven’t come up with an adequate adj. yet.) I would like to share:

They killed three people, for God’s sake.
It’s jerks like that who give burglary a bad name.

When a cop’s not near the suspect he suspects, he suspects the suspect he’s near.

Aren’t they nice?

very 80’s

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做某些事的理由,

除了現實上的考量之外, 也是可以有像是理想, 像是自我實現這些東西。

有的時候被這個金錢堆起來的世俗洗得太老練，(尤其在矽谷)

偶爾不小心會忘掉世界上除了錢還有其他東西，在生涯規劃上是該佔一定的地位的。

小組在我家聚餐

我做奶油烤白菜, 沒有前一次做的好吃, 但據說還不錯
Susan 做粉蒸排骨, Roger帶了海鮮沙拉, cindy 的魚香烘蛋很讚
另外還有炒麵, 春捲, 雞翅, Creme Brulee 跟各式飲料水果

(我規定大家要帶 home made food, 所以這次品質非常好。)

大家吃吃喝喝唱唱歌，雖然本來說要去泳池，但大部份的人都沒帶泳衣於是作罷。
最後玩了幾輪超好玩的 Apples to Apples，大家就解散回家。

然後我跟 chun 在家看了一集 Coupling，再到隔壁去看了穿Prada的惡魔。

(這兩篇完全是流水帳)

Oyster Farm @ Point Reyes
lots of oysters, yummy yummy

Kill watermelons at Stinson Beach

passed Golden Gate Bridge and Lombard St. (Why do I keep spelling it as Lampard? XD)

Dinner @ 嶺南小館 (Chinatown)

Night view on Twin Peak and Treasure Island

(sort of a city tour for our newcomers.)

Many thanks to our Kirk who drove all day. You’re remembered.

Instead of choosing a winner, which they claimed impossible, Flickr decided to gave everyone who entered the contest a month of pro account.

I am very disappointed actually. Not that I dreamt about winning this contest or anything, but let’s face the fact, one month pro account is like nothing but a scam to trick people into buying pro accounts. Yeah, you can use this chance to upload 2G of your photos, but then you still only have 3 photosets and 200 photos in photostream when your pro account expires. The only people benefit from this “generous” act is those who have already had Flickr pro accounts.

During the movie, I wondered what she wrote in the book?!

The plot is predictably so-so, but you don’t really care about the plot. (And if you know me, I don’t think that surprise is a must to make a movie good.) Just look at all those glamorous clothes, which are though pretty, not necessarily comfy to wear, is quite enough. A total visual blast.

Saying she’s not afraid of doing physical comedy, Anne Hathaway seems to be somewhat confined to ugly duckling stereotype. You knew her from Princess Dairy and the sequel, and Ella Enchanted. Her lasted Becoming Jane is in post-production which is a biographical movie about the young Jane Austen’s romance. I cannot picture her as Austen, and I am so sick and tired of the fact that every movie has to have romance involved nowadays, but I do look forward to it; I’d look forward to anything related to my beloved Ms. Austen, like I looked forward to Mansfield Park (1999), which eventually let me down.

The supportive what-is-his-job-title Nigel, played by Stanley Tucci, was an old acquaintance. He’s rarely the title star but you can easily find him in some of your fav films, such as Undercover Blues.

Meryl Streep is undoubtedly spetacular. Though some said that she looks like Cruella in 101 Dalmatians, which I cannot help but agree a bit, her performance is still fantastic and enjoyable. Her character is the most intriguing one. A devil she may be, but a definitely complicated and deep one that you can 反覆咀嚼，而發掘不同層次的味道。 (so sleepy, I will leave it in Chinese for now.)

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冰島鱈魚在 *beep* 玩得很開心的樣子，而且 *beep* 還有小羅可以看。
讓我又更想去 *beep* 看 *beep* 比賽了 (又那麼近)

背後介紹說是 comedy，
我卻怎麼看都覺得像是清淡的 thriller。
三個小鬼整整八十分鐘都處下風，
連 Mrs. Tingle 被他們綁在床上時也不例外，
我怎麼看都覺得這不太妙。

還可以接受的一個趣味小品。

ps. 飾演 Jo Lynn 的 Marisa Coughlan 非常可愛!
而且難怪我覺得她眼熟, 她就是在 Boston Legal 裡演 Alan Shore 秘書 Melissa Hughes!! :D

Hey TV, long time no see!

我總是說，美國的電視為了體貼大家夏天想出去玩，於是各大電視台也一起放暑假。
六月還有足球可看，在七月中世足轟轟烈烈地落幕之後，我也放開了電視走向陽光 (?)

但最近六七點常在家裡弄東西吃，電視開著轉啊轉地，不小心就會停在 TNT。
TNT 每天七點都播 Without A Trace，星期三到五還不只播一集。

早就知道 WaT 大受好評，卻一直沒有去看。直到最近一看不可收拾。

WaT的開頭有點平淡，一不注意往往讓人不小心想轉台。
但它總是有辦法讓我不由自主地從廚房邊做事邊看，走到電視機前全神貫注。

也許你會說，不過就是找失蹤人口。
但 WaT 的故事線總是讓你有種翻過一個山頭原來還有一個山頭的驚奇，
口味也許較清淡，但可一點也不會無趣，非常推薦。

這個夢實在太好笑了　記一下

夢到大家從我家樓上走下來，某國中同學林身穿藍色球衣，上面寫著 Shevchenko 8。
球衣跟 06/07 adidas 賽季的很像, 肩上都有三條白線，但是胸前不是Samsung (<-窮人的Sony!? XD) 我就一直盯著他的球衣看。（心裡想著，為什麼是 8 號? Sheva 明明是 7 號... ) 他就說，這不是 Chelsea 的球衣啦! 這是 Sheva 前一個球隊的球衣 (夢裡他忘記 Sheva 是米蘭了 XD) 我還來不及說 我知道啊... 但我懷疑他們的球衣也是藍色的, 還有 Sheva 之前也是 7 號吧 就被 morning call 吵醒了~ * 好笑之處在於, 我最近實在是太瘋這了

Duff explains Spurs snub

雖然跟他不熟。

衝著 Felicity Huffman 看的，本來沒有期望很高，雖然表面上會說，啊呀一定很好看的很有內容諸如此類的話。但看了才發覺，跟我所預期的完全不同。真的非常非常好看，那種讓你開始看就停不下去，迫不及待想知道故事會怎麼進展。

It is not so much about transgender, it is a bit about family, a bit about finding yourself. In short, it is just a page of a person’s life which is fun, beautiful, touching and all the other things that happen in life.

Recently (recent years, to be exact), I’m often commented as a person who “knows” how to live (productive or not, we can leave that for later discussion, or even better, just drop it :p) But it worries me sometimes (very rarely though) that I’m only an epicure while I’m living in a world where a pure epicure is not necessary a phrase of complement.

Sometimes, I do feel like a pure epicure. I mean, I don’t like work. I work to sustain my emjoyment. I enjoy every single beauty in life, grand or pristine. One might say, who doesn’t. Oh ho ho… that’s so wrong. For some people, work is their enjoyment, and sadly for some, if I can so judge, they can’t find enjoyment in any aspect in life. However, whenever I think of doing nothing but the things I like, I enjoy, like great food, concert, musical, books, clear and cool afternoon under the sun, and a spendid nightview plus a glass of whatever tastes good, nothing but those, I cannot consider actually doing it. Aside from the fear that I won’t be able to sustain myself , it’s shameless to rely financially on mommy when one’s 20 something and working (well, to do is one thing, but to think about it is like blasphamy XD), my biggest fear is actually that I might get bored with those, like I’m always warned about. How terrible it’ll be. Always play it safe like me, won’t possibly take that chance. (and now back to the old subject, without risk, the best you’ll get is mediocrity.)

And there’s another thing, I dug right down to the bottom of my heart and I felt …. well, that’s something I’m not gonna share here.