Recently I discover that a lot of people around me are interested in photography, at my office as well as friends that I know. It seems to me that almost half of the people working in the IT field like to take pictures, with digital camera of course. For the rest who are not in [...]
After three short shopping days at Tokyo, we fly to Hokkaido [北海道], then rent a car from the Sapporo [札幌] airport. Hokkaido is a big island prefecture at the north of Japan. It kinda looks and feels like at Canada, wide open, green, blue sky, mountains, sea, lakes, hot spring and fresh fishes! I didn’t [...]
Welcome to sushistan, kawaistan and idolistan! Although Japan has a long and strong culture of its own for the past two milleniums, its modern mainstream culture could be described by three words: sushi, cartoon and idol. During my trip to Japan between September 26th to October 3th, as a first time visitor not speaking their [...]
Last week, I went back to Montreal after 6 months stunt at Shanghai, but only for a week, from 15/09 to 23/09. Mary and I didn’t feel any excitment before going, I had to work the day before, and we actually packed out baggage the morning before leaving. We had so many stuff to bring [...]
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"Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?"
Some people see a big wave coming and run away from it, but they ultimately end up beaten by the wave and fall down. I choose to stand face to the wave, waiting for it with open eyes (nose shut), and you won't believe how much fun I have jumping over the wave as it comes! As a bonus, I have my feet firmly in the sand before and after the jump. That is the attitude I choose from now on.
— A lesson learned from Phuket