Category: inspiration

  • DVD Review: Final Cut – your entire life recorded on a microchip

    Would you live your life differently if you knew that your entire life was being recorded by a microchip in your brain?  When you die, people might get access to watch your entire life thru your eyes? This movie made me really think about whether I would do things differently if I would ultimately be…

  • Love the rain, don’t like the heat

    I don’t like the heat.  On a very hot day, I joked with Kate (my 4 year old) one day that I’m going melt under the heat.   She got concerned that I’ll just disappeared one day.  That is when Angie jumped in and taught Kate about metaphores. I am working at home today, decided to…

  • push ups: 2,000 in 24 hours reached (archive from 2005)

    Archived from the Wayback machine of my Yahoo! 360 blog I’ve hurt my foot recently and have not been able to run for a while. So I’ve started shooting for the 2,000 mark in push ups. 1,500 was reached on May 10th, 1,000 was reached April 22nd, 500 was reached March 02 Push up Log…

  • Juliette Binoche: you can’t go wrong with her movies

    I saw the 1992 movie Damage by Juliette Binoche and Jeremy Irons, about a man who becomes romantically and obsessively involved with his son’s fiancee.  The ending was not good for both of them of course. I guess movies have to teach moral lessons.  In real life does infidelty really end up so tragically and…

  • Paris Running: St. Martin Canals

    I’m so tired today.   It’s glorious weather in Paris at 82 degrees.  This is my last full day Paris, I’ll be heading to Amsterdam tomorrow.  So I decided to squeeze in a run to see the lower part of the canals (St. Martin, see Y! Image) I ran 3.6 km then the heat really got…

  • Freedom Of Running

    Freedom Of Running

    Google Map: My parents’ house to Dublin Bart I’ve been busy with the Y! News launch last week, have not updated my run log. Running really gives me a lot of freedom to go anywhere I want without having to drive or carry around a bike and helmet. I have very traditional chinese parents who…

  • Who Wakes Up The Earliest In Downtown SF?

    I started running today at 5:20am down Ellis and Polk and to my surprise the prostitutes were already awake and working. I saw a total of eight along my run. When I ran back from Union and Polk one of the girls already got into a Taxi yelling her destination to the other girls. I…