14 Tips for Designing a Highly Productive Home Office (GTD Friendly) (via The Couch Manager)

Nice found for some tips to tidy up your home office… umm or simply your desk at home. Do you have any good tips?

14 Tips for Designing a Highly Productive Home Office (GTD Friendly) UPDATE: I got a tweet from David Allen, the GTD author himself, saying this was "Very Cool" – made my day :) ********** I recently moved to a new apartment where I (finally!) got my own room to set up as a home office. I’ve been a hardcore follower of GTD for quite a while, so I wanted to make sure I take the lessons learned over the years from my personal experience, and design the perfect home office from the ground-up. For those who don’t know … Read More

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Lomography: Capturing daily life with style

My very first Lomography prints

On April, Lomography Hong Kong held a roadshow for the first time at Times Square. I have long been interested joining as a Lomographer since it’s product seen at CitySuper stores and the interest is further fueled with Instagram – the iPhone app and an Internet community sharing “lomo” like photos.

This exhibition gave me an opportunity to learn more about the Lomography community in Hong Kong and has landed me the first Lomo camera: The Lomo LC-A+. It’s a top-of-line Lomo camera at the time I purchased, now replaced by the flagship Lomo LC-Wide.

The Lomo LC-A+ camera is created in honor the very original Russian made Lomo LC-A camera debuted in 1984. With the camera, it’s most important feature is the Russian made lens, as subsequent models are with lens made in China (this might not view as a big deal to many, but it does has differences in terms of picture texture); besides the lens, it uses 35mm film, with 4-step focus selection, fully-automatic exposure detection and multiple exposure. Photos taken with this camera are famous for it’s slightly-dark-and-blurry edges and unexpected color textures.

I’ve chosen this camera over the other likes including the Diana-F or Sprocket Rocket because of: 1. It’s smaller size; 2. Ease of use; 3. the Multiple Exposure feature; 4. The ability to install an instant-back for instant photos; 5. and in terms of art I will have the unexpected colors for every pictures I took with this camera.

The Lomo LC-A+ camera is come packaged with a nice wooden “crate”, along with a very-thick Lomo LC-A+ book, cable release, and two rolls of 35mm film. Here’s some unboxing photos of my camera:

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Talking back to Lomography, what is it? In the world nowadays when almost everything’s being dominated by digital, people including me starting to miss the heritages: just like when people now wanted to preserve old buildings; that’s no exception to photos and that’s what Lomography’s all about – fronting the analogue film photography and it’s “unexpected” nature when taking photos. And there has “Ten Golden Rules” of Lomography:

  1. Take your camera everywhere you go
  2. Use it any time – day and night
  3. Lomography is not an interference in your life, but part of it
  4. Try the shot from the hip
  5. Approach the objects of your lomographic desire as close as possible
  6. Don’t think (william firebrace)
  7. Be fast
  8. You don’t have to know beforehand what you captured on film
  9. Afterwards either
  10. Don’t worry about any rules
To know more Lomography, visit the website www.lomography.com
At the mean time, view my first roll of photos taken with the LC-A+ here at Facebook.

Defining: Love

Finding the definition of Love…

“…can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure (“I loved that meal”) to intense interpersonal attraction (“I love my partner”). “Love” can also refer specifically to the passionate desire and intimacy ofromantic love, to the sexual love of eros (cf. Greek words for love), to the emotional closeness of familial love, or to the platonic love that defines friendship,[4] to the profound oneness or devotion of religious love…” -Wikipedia article on Love

The above context is explaining what I wanted to blog about in the topic of love. It’s not solely about interpersonal romantic relationships – it’s a description of the feelings of an individual towards just about anything.

Lovemore.hk

There’s an interesting and truly meaningful project – “Lovemore.hk 你還可愛麼“, learnt when I was browsing the blog of 卓韻芝. This voluntary project gathers creative personel around Hong Kong to create short films related to the topic of “Is Hong Kong people still able to love?” – That is, to love the people around you, the ones you don’t know, or actually care about them – especially to those most people might have been forgotten: the old ones, the ones who worked hard for a living (against the “loveless” government.)

The project has deeply inspired and reminded me the bits of “love” Hong Kong people are losing. Nowadays the HK people can only remember one thing: “No Money, No Talk”. It is cruel to see Hong Kong’s being overrun by Big Name Developers-Monopoly and Landlords – they have been controlling the living of every HK people to the degree of almost unescapable. When you’re watching the news, or reading the paper, the news of inflation is always cannot be avoided.

TVB news has been documenting about the issue again and again:

It seems that in Hong Kong there’s not much people who cares about the group who loss the most of love – they’re losing the love from the community, they’re losing the love from the ones around them – the most touched example is that the old ones – the ones who was to build the modern Hong Kong to the golden age we’re now at – are now the least cared and just sitting at Retirement Homes (安老院), hopelessly waiting for their final days.

Who loves them?

Finding the Love of… Mine

I admit that I do sometimes diving into kinda “depression”, when thinking of my experiences: including failure attempts of, you know, romantic love; or just seeing friends around me have found their partners.

There’s still time, however, for it. It’s no hurry for this.

After reading the Lovemore project, I feel that I’d rather be finding the ultimate goal of love: Making everyone feel the love.

I’d rather be happier when the ones around me are happy; I’d rather be happier to help my friends resolving their relationships on their own romantic love.

When everyone feels the love, they’d be happy – and when I see them happy, I’d be happier.

Sounds stupid? It’s nothing shit I’m writing on here. Feel the love and be happy, people!

我不能得到愛,不緊要。只要我還可「愛」,令他人有「愛」,我就滿足了。你,還可「愛」嗎?

Dinner at The Brunch Club & Supper

There’s just one favorite dining place I’d like to share – Brunch Club & Supper at Causeway Bay.

This place is famous for brunches and British Egg Benedicts, however for myself I prefer their cozy atmosphere and mid-range priced items for acceptable food. People loves heading there for chit-chats and just find some time to spend the dinner.

For my two time visits, they offer three or four course dinner for around $200. I have to apologize that at the time of writing of this review recommendation (I guess this post cannot be called a “review” since I’m unable to accurately review any food I’ve eaten there ;-p), it’s already quite a length of time since my last visit. Every time of my visits, I’d prefer sitting by the window, having a few glasses of wine, while watching the city moving on.

Enjoying the wine

Mentioned about their cozy atmosphere, the place is filled with classy decoration and just, designer “feeling” – a definite place for white-collars.

Brunch Club & Supper
1/F, 13 Leighton Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.
852 2890 2125