So the long weekend finally comes to an end... and tomorrow we all have to go to work... Well maybe it's good... Human's thinking is a bit weird sometimes... When you're busy, you want a holiday; when you are on holiday, you opt for more to do...

Well in this long weekend I've been so bored that I cook for myself... I lunched outside and on the way home I bought stuffs for the dinner... Lucky I'm still alive with my amateur cooking skills... :P Well at least I'm still doing fine... :P

I guess for those who love video games would know the biggest event recently is the release of Halo3.  Actually I have never played the Halo series... And apart from knowing it's a big hit First Personal Shooting game I have no knowledge at all why it's so popular... Anyway I never had an Xbox, so I had no way to find out... This time, I, being like a member of a pack of sheeps, followed the mass majority and bought a copy home... Well the graphics are stunning... but I still am not very fond of playing it... Maybe that's because I got too many games to play with at the moment... Will definitely need to invest more time to try this big hit... It's a sin to waste a good game you know... :P

I'm so looking forward to the upcoming Resident Evil movie... Thursday that is... :P 

It's Autumn... Autumn has arrived...

These 2 days when I was walking on the street I smelled something... it's the scent of Autumn... Finally Autumn is arriving...

Although the weather is still pretty damn hot, I can sense the dryness in the air and the special scent of early Autumn... out of the 4 seasons I believe I love Autumn most... but yet it's getting shorter and shorter every year... and in recent years I'm sure there were only 2 seasons left: Summer and Winter...

Anyway recently I've been "boiling" the TV series Heroes... very sleepy because of this... and last night I finally finished it... and now I can get back to my normal life... and I do need to sleep earlier tonight... zzzzz

I wonder who's still reading my blog, as even myself have not come back for more than a month... :P

Anyway... Today I've made a very stupid mistake while attempting to fix a problem at work... I really can't believe I made this silly mistake... Luckily it can be fixed but I have definitely wasted more time than I should have... And I am not talking about the time of myself only... I also generated more work for my colleagues... For this I apologize for my stupidity... I'll buy tea for them...

I've always been pretty strict to myself (at least at work)... but while towards others I tend to be as loose as I can be without forefeiting my basic believes and principles... Perhaps due to this I put more weights on my shoulders? Who knows? But I believe this is the right attitude and I shall carry on with this... This time I'm pretty disappointed at myself... But there's one thing that I know I need to learn out of it:

When you make mistake, you fix it! You learn from it! Then you have to move on!!! It's useless to be sad... Find improvements... and then grow from this !!!

Let's see then...

I can only think of one word to describe the recent sitution: B U S Y... I hope help would arrive soon so that I can focus on more important stuffs...

Very tired nearly every day after work... Today I will go to sleep ASAP... Getting old lar... can't rush for consecutive days...

Nothing much to update actually... But so far... so good... :) 

Just came back from the annual Family trip to Tokyo... 

Yes you got it right it's an annual event which I promised my parents some years ago that I will go travel with them at least once per year...

Photos are here: http://picasaweb.google.com/ardy.chu/Tokyo2007

This time we travelled to Tokyo (again!). Flight was really early at around 9:30AM 2nd July... Stayed there for 5 days and returned to the real world 6th July late night... It was generally a pleasant trip... Nothing much to worry about apart from where to go and what to eat every day in those 5 days... That's really terrific eh? :) I hope my parents and sister enjoyed it much too... 

Ok... where to go next year? Maybe Hokkaido? :) Look forward to that already... :) 

Went to watch the film: Live Free or Die Hard (i.e. Die Hard 4.0)... Well what can i say !? It's simply terrific!! The movie has been exciting from the very beginning till the end... I'm not saying this because I'm a long-time Bruce Willis fans... I simply want to say I haven't seen such high quality classic action movie for ages... It's a definite collection item of mine soon... Blu-ray for sure!!!

Yesterday was my colleague Billy's last day working with us... We had farewell lunch at Wanchai's Spaghetti House and then at night we went to dinner together... Good luck lar... I'm sure with your right and good working attitude you will succeed in whichever company you join:

http://picasaweb.google.com/ardy.chu/BillySLastDay 

Have been so tied up at work recently... It seems that many things have been done / started? But is it true?

I always believe people learn quickly when assigned with the appropriate responsibilities... and from what I understand most of the good people welcome responsibilities rather than resist them... but is that what I think subjectively only? I'm not sure... but I'm willing to try it out...

Anyway I'm sick again... very annoying... My friend asked me if it is due to stress... I told him no... I always believe I can handle stress pretty well... but there is something called sub-consciousness... Maybe mine is thinking the other way round... Anyway I believe I'm reasonably stressed... which keeps me moving... I still hold my work belief as always... but now I believe my first priority is to take care of the people around me... I hope this is not wrong...

Going to Tokyo soon next week... Sooooo looking forward to that !!!

Yesterday I went to shoot photos with my buddy Jojit... The topic this time is "Back Alley"... We walked all the way from Quarry Bay to Causeway Bay... It was so hot yesterday but yet the journey was a pleasant one... We didn't take a lot of photos but got some that I like:

http://picasaweb.google.com/ardy.chu/BackAlley

The photo journey ended at Causeway Bay, where we joined our friends for dinner to celebrate the birthdays of Kenny and Ken. As usual, we had a good time and it was always a pleasure hanging around with a group of decent people:

http://picasaweb.google.com/ardy.chu/KennySKenSBirthdayDinner2007 

I guess the answer at the moment is "To do"...

At least until people are more free...

But when? And how? I guess now it's my job to figure out...

One more task in the "To do" list then... Ha!

Ok I guess my words are pretty misleading... so I gotta say here that although I'm a bit stressed... I'm happy... :D

I'm happy that I am given a new opportunity to learn under such a friendly environment. I'm happy that this environment is surrounded by good people... I'm happy that work is getting adquately challenging and now I look forward to coming to work as there are new stuffs every day... I'm happy that I'm lucky and there is no need to be get unhappy at work like before... I'm happy that I'm better off than I was in a year ago...

So no need to be worried about me... I'm still hanging in there... I AM stressed, but I think I can manage it... Really thanks for all my friends who sent me warm messages after seeing my blog messages... I'm happy that I have friends like you... :)

Thanks... :D