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) (via The Couch Manager)
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********** 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 … Love in the Riots… http://ow.ly/5lkes
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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:
- Take your camera everywhere you go
- Use it any time – day and night
- Lomography is not an interference in your life, but part of it
- Try the shot from the hip
- Approach the objects of your lomographic desire as close as possible
- Don’t think (william firebrace)
- Be fast
- You don’t have to know beforehand what you captured on film
- Afterwards either
- 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 2125A cup of the best (or stickiest) Hot Choolate in HK
Months before, I have read about an article about the opening of a new chocolate boutique in Hong Kong, not the ones from France or Belgium, but it’s a Hong Kong original namely Vero.
Perhaps you may not known their award-winning executive pâtissier Koo but your must be known their signature product: The Xocolatl. It’s basically a line of their hot chocolate beverages with high consistency and thickness, made with highly concentrated chocolate, varying from different degrees of chocolate and region of cocoa.
Recently the Eat & Travel Weekly iPhone app featured a second-drink-discount coupon for the Xocolatl drinks, so that’s a bargain for me and so why not go for a try?
I’ve tried their flagship Xocolatl Signature 75% ($45), the 75% in the name means the “darkness” of the chocolate. The drink is made at the time you place the order. Steamed with very little amount of milk, and topped with a thin piece of chocolate (that will be melt in front your eyes).
You’ll have to drink the drink as soon it’s served or otherwise it’ll be cooled down and lost the “soul”.
The drink is so thick that tastes like you’re eating (or drinking) a piece of chocolate that just melted. Be cautioned that you’ll feel sweet to the tired so you should’t leave your tummy too full before having this drink.
Enjoy it slowly or try with Vero’s side-dishes like macaroons or mini muffins and you should finish it in no time (actually, the drink is served in a small glass like the Demitasses for the espresso.).
So be sure to get the coupon and it’s free to download until May 2.
Vero Landmark Shop 236, 2/F, Landmark Atrium, 15 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong. (852) 2559 5810 Vero Lounge 1/F, Fenwick Pier, 1 Lung King Street, Wanchai, Hong Kong. (852) 2559 5882Have a bite at HK’s largest pizza
In terms of pizzas in Hong Kong, I guess it’s being overwhelmed by chain-store, Hong Kong-style pizzas, people seem to have no choice but to eat those what-so-called pizzas: including weirdly ones the Hut is offering.
But there’s still hidden gems in Hong Kong that offering pizzas far more tasty and to the original Italian taste, like the one I’m writing about here – Paisano’s.
See how HUGE they are!
This Sai-Kung originated store is famous for their huge (yes I mean it, it’s HUGE) pizzas – the 24″ pizzas, and the 12″ slices off from the 24″. The shop is mainly provide the pizzas in 4 varieties, The Paisano’s, Vegetarian, Hawaiian and Cheese Pizza; but there’s other flavors and sizes (14″, 16″) available made-to-order. A typical person should be enough for a slice ($25~$45) or otherwise the 24″ is definitely good for a party of 8 ($190~$330).
Besides it’s huge “form-factor”, I’m mostly liked their pizzas being fresh from the oven that you really can taste the “crush” from the pizza base. However on the downside (for me) is that they seem to have no beef as a topping, only pork-based toppings like Italian Sausage, ham, or salami.
Close-up to the toppings
Their Central store-location is close to the nearby (and also famous) pizza store Pizza Express, I guess that maybe good for more traditional dining experiences, but for the casual dining, lunches or the times you just alone and don’t feel full after your last dinner, Paisano’s definitely the place you could afford and settle your starving belly.
Paisano’s Pizza 9 Lyndhurst Terrace, Central (852) 2544 4445 (Central shop)Emmy The Great’s Virtue Details, Free Download
I have just wandered one of my fav musician, Emmy The Great’s Facebook and have found that there’s two of her new songs from her new album, Virtue, is available to listen at the following blog:
Emmy The Great’s Virtue Details, Free Download.
Btw, who’s Emmy The Great? For those who do not know her much, Emma-Lee Moss (Emmy The Great) is a HK-born Chinese-English musician who has the love in music with the likes of Weezer, The Smashing Pumpkins and The Lemonheads. She had moved to London at the age of 12. She has then since into the indie-folk scene of British music and be renowned when she debuted the album “First Love” – with the singles We Almost Had A Baby and First Love. The album has acclaimed “Best Albums of the Year 2009″ for The New York Times.
Emmy’s new album, Virtue will be released on June 13, 2011.
