Thoughts beyond my life & my travel - Bel

Many moms love to see their baby's pictures printed on a magazine. No wonder the parenting magazines love to print them. These moms will surely buy a few copies to show it off to their friends and relatives, and say, "this is my daughter, see how cute she is." A reporter called this evening to confirm a photoshooting session for the magazine cover. What? It's tomorrow? I didn't think she's aware that she didn't make the calls to speak to the moms at all. I finally managed to find her a mom for the photoshoot and I can feel the joy of the mom who has a chance to make her daughter "a cover girl".   I'm sure I will be ecstatic if her daughter can be the cover girl!

What I remember the most about this movie was "imagine you are protecting your family", that's what Sandra Bullock tried to teach Michael Oher how to play American football. Everyone does protect their family in one way or another, say spending more time with his wife when she is feeling unwell, or giving up a job for taking care of his mom. In some points of our lives, we are facing dilemmas and have to make some decisions. The opportunity cost might be high but you can always justify the costs when it's all for whom you care in the family. They are all amazing and brave but we might not understand what their stories are about.

More galleries have found Sheung Wan a new home since a few years ago. It's an old area with a mix of traditional shops run by elderly. Now there is an emerging growth of avant garde or trendy shops or service apartments making the place more hip but expensive in some ways. Maybe it will become HK "new Manhattan" one day. See a very nice service apartment just crossed the street from my building. It's a facelift of an old building from head to toe, and is now worth a fortune!

I felt horrible when I turned 30. Then I started to hate being asked how old I am as I couldn't tell people that I was twenty something anymore. But then you will get used to it, find your comfort zone, and happy to be 30 something and enjoy your life till your body reminds you getting older and older. So what about when I'm 40, 50 or 64? Try the response by kd lang at a TV interview . "50 is the new 16" - I love that! Whether this answer cames from her originally, I don't know but it's definitely a light-hearted way to face with your age.

Since Apple introduced the Mac, and later the iPhone and iPad, the brand has been a global leader in the market. I later realised how influential Steve Jobs was on Pixar when visiting the Pixar exhibition in Hong Kong. It surprised me that Steve Jobs was actually involved in Pixar's success story and sold the company to Disney in 2006. My friend told me their company hired a senior executive whose annual salary is HK$400 million. She considered that salary high, and not reasonable. I disagreed. If that executive does a brilliant job like those global leaders who moved the brand to the next level, why not pay them a handsome amount of money? They deserve it! I also grasped the concept of "continuous improvement" in the Pixar exhibition. Take an in-depth look at the stretches of how "Woody" looked at Toy Story or how "Kevin" looked in the movie Up! You would lose excitement if they really looked like that! Fortunately, those are the only st...

  It's been a while that I didn't buy a new watch. I still love my agnes b and nafnaf watches. Today I bought myself a HK manufactured chronograph because of the closure sale. I believe the watch business here isn't that good anymore that forces the shop to close. At a new year party, I met a British old man who has been doing watch manufacturing business in HK for decades. He complaint about how bad the business has become and he had to sell his BMW for a cheaper Japanese car.   Although I don't know about the brand of this watch, I love the red and the design. I hope it's as durable as my agnes b watch.

The radiation leaks has imposed a food horror, threatening the business of many Japanese restaurants. I heard a few colleagues rushed to have Japanese cuisine right after the news as they believed those food were yet to be contaminated. It's only 2 weeks after the incident that I found myself dying for sushi. I went to Bento Express as usual and realized that it's closed. Was that impact of the incident so big? My friend and I went to a Japanese supermarket yesterday. The crowd were still there but the Japanese beef, though having 50% off, was not in good sales. Many sales promotion of Japanese wines and food are still going on but you can see their effort is wasted! Some customers seriously checked the manufacturing date to ensure the food was exported before the incident. I couldn't resist but bought sushi twice no matter where they came from. I assume they're safe to be consumed under the surveillance by the government. It is said that we should be more cautio...

Can you imagine life can be interesting in the way that your life and her life is interwined in some ways or another? I happened to visit natalie's blog 'coz her tweet was re-tweeted by a kd lang's fan. I didn't know her but somehow found her blog quite a good read and realised she lives in Hong Kong. It didn't hit me till I picked up pieces of memory that I did meet someone who called Natalie for the operating theatre video project. That's her! She's the one who told me that she worked in Sky TV in Australia before. Now I learnt the reason why she gave up everything and came to Hong Kong. She simpily gave up her career to follow her boyfriend .  Wow! That's pretty sweet about that boyfriend b. It almost sounds like another "sex and a city" story but time time, it's more like "love and a city".