As promised, some pictures of sunsets. Taken 2 Jan 2005, at Kapiolani Park in Waikiki.


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Well, things have finally settled down enough in Hawaii for me to sit down and write this entry. It's been quite hectic the past week, trying to find an apartment, starting the job, and just dealing with moving junk in general. I finally got Internet in my apartment this morning ( Read more... )

Well, definitely lots to write about since the last update. I should probably do these things more often, but things just get too hectic sometimes I suppose. I actually wrote most of this before I left for Hawaii, but then got too lazy to finish it, and I just now have Internet access at my apartment (see next post).

End of semesterThe semester ( Read more... )

Forget the Amazon wish list, somebody please just get me this.

And this.

For every typewriter in Hollywood, there are a thousand copy machines.

It especially irks me when people are under the impression that Hollywood has actually come up with an original idea, that the films haven't been done elsewhere and better. It bothers me in the same way that the QUENTIN TARANTINO PRESENTS (a wong kar wai film) DVD packages ( Read more... )

It's rare for me to see a movie that I simply cannot watch all the way through (I fall asleep every time during Electric Dragon 80,000 V), or that I'm actually angry at having seen (Moulin Rouge), but watching the un-cut, un-rated version of Ichi the Killer was definitely an experience. About 15 minutes from the end of the movie, I realized I was ( Read more... )

I set up an account on flickr, even though I'm not sure if I'll ever use it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tmk/

The 10 MB upload limit seems kind of stringent, but it's probably not so bad if you scale down all your photographs.

Why Isn't Maggie Cheung a Hollywood Star?
American producers do occasionally send Cheung scripts, but the independent films are always about, as she put it, "ABC's," or "American-born Chinese," struggling with their identity, and the Hollywood scripts feature dragon ladies or Chinatown mafia molls or martial artists or mysterious fortunetelling ( Read more... )

Long time no update. Finally went ahead and rejected MSFT's offer. The HR people were understandably pretty surprised, but I think I managed to explain it to them ( Read more... )

I believe the 1000 monkey theory works for photography as well. If I take enough photos, some of them are bound to be halfway decent. Here are some of those photos that I like:


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