The Bourne Identity The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum
What I like about Bourne movies is you can win by being smart without uncessary violence... well, in Bourne case, you gotta be quite fit and well-trained as well :)
My boss assigned me a new task. He simply said something like "there's some problem about delay payment, get info from all teams and recommend how to resolve it"...
With my puzzled facial expression, my boss added
"It's not going to be easy. If it were easy, we would do it ourselves already...that's why you are here"
I don't know how you feel, but I felt very good after hearing that.
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Listen to Dhamma on TV the other day.
The monk taught that life is like a glass with clean water (good deed) and salt (bad thing/sin) in it.
If we did a lot of bad things, the water will be very salty becuz there's more salt than fresh water.
On the other hand, if we keep doing good, like pouring more clean water into the glass, although salt sill there but it won't taste as bad as before.
I usually like movie about cars, army, soldier, comedy...this one is a creative combination of those + robots.
I watched it in the IMAX theater so the wide screen and big sound was all there. By the middle of the movie, I was totally part of the story....forgot all headache things I had earlier that day. I guess that's the quality of "good" movie I'm always looking for.
The movie was longer than I thought... around 2 1/2 hours.
This seems to be the most active groups of friends in terms of meeting.
Very nice to meet after a while. Glad to see Pen all lively, didn't seem like someone who had operation a few months ago. Same with P Tuk, tall, pretty and slim as before...didn't look like a new mommy of 3-months baby.
Will be a lot nicer if they didn't let us wait for food forever. :D
Hola! I'm back from Leadership Journey with my colleagues in Spain. Many of them I've been working with in the past 7 months without meeting them in person. So this is very exciting to me. and they are all niiiiiice people!
The weather during the time was very nice - sunny in 25-29C. Sun up before 6am (not sure exactly when becuz I wasn't able to catch the sunrise in the morning :P) and sunset around 9:30 PM. I've been outside (mainly) walking the entire time that the sun was up...imagine how tanned I would get right now :).
Madrid and Barcelona are so different. Each is charming in its own way. Madrid is an older city...not as well plotted as Barcelona. Things are a bit more expensive in BCN, for example Metro ticket 1 ride is 1Euro in Madrid but 1.24Euro in BCN. Anyway, Metro in BCN seemed to be more well planned...more convenient in terms of the location of stations.
Enough said... here are a few of pictures from this trip...I was out of memory card space so I only got around 800 pictures...hmm have to plan better next time!
The closest metro (subway) station to my hotel
Plaza Mayor Gran Via Real Madrid stadium Kio Towers Side entrance to Retiro Park (opposite to Museo de Prado)
Avila historic town
Segovia Casa Milla & Casa Battlo, Barcelona Sagrada Familia - yes it's still under construction. Expect to complete in the next 25 years. The guide told us to come visit again. Parc Guell
Barcelona Colon Port Vell Street performer behind the Cathedral. There were several of street performers but this is my favorite.
Museo De Picasso La Ramblas - walking street Palau de Musica - Unesco heritage site One of the outdoor cafe on Sunday afternoon
It's been quite a while that I managed to stay away from any disturbing movie, you know -- I mean all those famous Asian ghost movies, psychopath movies, any movies that cause additional stress to the already stressful real life.
For some reason, I chose to watch "28 weeks later" in hope that it won't be too bad too take.
Totally WRONG!
Since the very first few minutes, there was blood all over the screen, couple with very high pitch background music, switching of dark and very bright flash of light and the unnecessary detail of cruel killing.... My migrane came back...I had my Peppermint Field Gel handy.
I managed to stay till the end of the movie.
...there's one of my friend. She had "Panic Attack" -- meaning even a slight incident of loud noise...or just a tendency of someone in the movie being kill (no violent scene showing) -- she will break out crying and need to get out of the theater because she couldn't breathe! I don't remember what was the movie I saw with her that I had to accompany her to get some air. I only remember that it was just a PG13 movie. Well, I don't blame her... I think we have the right to watch a movie of our choice...anything entertaining in our way. Right??
Can't wait to see Shrek the Third. My favorite is the donkey, the voicing of Eddie Murphey :)
Yesterday I went for lunch with friend as usual... afterwards I took a walk...passing by the bookstore... then BAMM.. a familiar face standing inside the bookstore holding a magazine.
From a quick glance, nothing much change except the darker and (more) uneven colored skin. The posture is never change- stand arrogantly with chin up--that's what caught my eye. The best of all --- still wearing the same shirt since 2000!!!
Didn't get a chance to stop and say hi as we are in a hurry to another building. Just can't help wondering sometimes the past that we thought was far away...faded away... and gone...sometimes it just came back to haunt you at work!
very funny, huh? ^^
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Adversity does teach who your real friends are. -Lois McMaster Bujold <3775h156>
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none. - William Shakespeare
The other day I went outdoor market shopping after paying respect to the Buddha , did some tam-boon @ Wat RaiKhing.
Just realize the temple is so close to my house, about the same distance to my office -- yes, my daily commute to work minus city traffic jam...so it was a very nice drive on a nice day.
The closest metro (subway) station to my hotel
Plaza Mayor
Gran Via
Real Madrid stadium
Kio Towers
Side entrance to Retiro Park (opposite to Museo de Prado)
Avila historic town
Segovia
Casa Milla & Casa Battlo, Barcelona
Sagrada Familia - yes it's still under construction. Expect to complete in the next 25 years. The guide told us to come visit again.
Parc Guell
Barcelona Colon
Port Vell
Street performer behind the Cathedral. There were several of street performers but this is my favorite.
Museo De Picasso
La Ramblas - walking street
Palau de Musica - Unesco heritage site
One of the outdoor cafe on Sunday afternoon
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