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  • Rashomon

    Rashômon

    I wanna watch this movie

    誰說誰誰像誰誰扮誰誰就像誰

    是我非我我是我我亦非我

    羅生門

    Maybe truth only exists within ourselves, because we only believe what we want to.

    Today some company affairs was on and we had to settle it down with 3 pissed off people.

    It's so cool to hear 3 entirely different stories from 3 people for the same event, which reminded me of this film.

    I don't know man I'm lost and tired, I guess it's none of my business...

    I'll just focus on what I'm supposed to do!

    Peace.

  • Back to Malaysia

     

    Back to Malaysia. (hi Nissan and Hi little white!) 

    So the decision has been made and I have parted with my Taiwan business ventures. I've been in Malaysia for a week now and was incredibly busy.

    Anyhow, my goal from hereon will be focused on Malaysia and USA. I will possibly be back and start this company in the Bay Area quite soon, sometime during March or April I presume.

    I am now spending pretty much all of my times preparing for the USA company; things like translations, applying for FDA licenses, figuring out costs and overheads, taxes, import/export regulations and the like...the clock is clicking!

    Besides all the mindless, boring preparation processes, I am glad to be back on my sales position. Been meeting various old and new clients, just a couple days ago I signed a new client! I think I really do enjoy my life more in Malaysia, despite the hot weather, slow ass internet and mosquitoes...at least I don't have to deal with all the nonsenses such as small talks, power trips and all those annoying office bullshits in Taiwan.

    Hm...besides work I haven't done much lately, watched a few movies though, I think I'm in love with Kate Winslet, damn it she's married to Sam, though he seems to be a good guy, talented of course.

    Make sure to check out:

    Revolutionary Road


    Made me think about relationships, identity, dreams, and life...

    Alright that's it for now!

    Till next time!

  • Say NO to Foie Gras!

    Say NO to Foie Gras!!!
    (WARNING! DISTURBING PICTURES!!!)

    For once I'm with PETA.

    So I was doing my research about liver diseases, and came across the famous French dish of Foie Gras (fwa-gra), or "Goose Liver". (鵝肝醬)

    Basically the gooses and ducks are forced-fed with large amount of corns and feeds, which causes the liver to fatten to up to 10 times as big; though it was claimed in France that true quality Foie Gras are achieved through voluntary feedings.

    The gooses or ducks would then suffer from liver diseases and eventually choke and die, before they die it's a long and agonizing process since the force-fed cause their throats and rectums to burst, they eventually over vomit and suffocate and die.

    Here are some pictures for Foie Gras production...

     
    Forced fed causes great amount of vomitting

     
    Suffocates and dies due to excessive vomits

      
    Ruptured rectums...


    Voila! A dish I will never eat!

  • So uh...back to reality.

    Hm...

    Haven't a clue what to write about; so anyway, I'm back to Taiwan, needless to say, I'm as happy as our former Taiwanese president Chen Shui Bien, who was released from jail for 7 days and then put right back in. (i.e. SUCKERED.)

    No man, I'm not happy at all, I'm depressed as shit.

    Taiwan is hella cold, it's about the same temperature as in the Bay, but strengthen, geared with extra chilly wind and annoying misty rains, the weather alone here is enough to make a man doubt for a brighter future.

    And the new Anti-smoking law is annoying, basically you can no longer smoke within any indoor environment where 3 or more people are present, and public places like schools, libraries, airports are all strictly prohibited from smoking.

    I mean it's reasonable and I have no problem with that, what annoys me with this law is the all too happy non-smokers jumping around singing and dancing, the hell you so happy about? If I wasn't a smoker, I'd probably start smoking just to spite these all-too-happy people.

    And I think I'm giving people the impression that I'm gay, I swear I've answered the question "Hey Jacky how come you still don't have a girl friend?" at least 20 times since I got back. I went to this bar last Saturday and was having a great time, talking to people and shit, and this dude had to rub it in my face by inviting me for a dance, he actually did that "Shally we dance?" stance. Oh man.

    AND I ACCPETED!

    LOL, yeah actually I was being friendly, and I realized that he was only using me as the wingman to dance with another girl, what a wuss, so that got me thinking and I went ahead and invite this girl to dance with me, who then giggled and rejected me several times, I wish I can say "NO" like she did, it's amazing, it's like she's trying to get rid of some rash, like "You down for some RASH?" "FUCK NO BOY, STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME!"

    Oh well, life is being life, can't ask for too much; gotta finish 3 power points in the next 4 hours, what will you have me do?

    Thanks for all my home boys and girls who showed me what it'd be to like to be home! I miss you all too much already.

    Aiight let's get working!

    Peace

  • Relapse

    Em is BACK! And he's having a RELAPSE!

    Rumor has it this track is a freestyle, loving the Em flow!

  • Making 0 to 1 is the hardest

    “Making 0 to 1 is the hardest; once you have the 1, it’s a lot easier to make it 10.”

     

    Hm…what do you think? I made this up! (Sorta) I think I’ll copyright this thing.

     

    Anyway, just some thoughts for the past few months. Been doing lots of works trying to get this new company started. Worked with various managers, highly educated, experienced, intelligent, and talented, but none of which could survive more than 2 months with this new company.

     

    Because I think they’ve all dealt with making 1 to 10, they can hardly last with a 0 to 1.

     

    I’ve been thinking about this lately too, and what I learned from these managers. I think here are some important mentality to “make something out of nothing”:

     

    One of them would be Perseverance, as in never give up.

     

    Making 0 to 1 is a very tough and long and agonizing process. Why? Because you don’t see the results. It’s like going to school, you go to school, do your homework, do your projects, do your tests, score your Cs, for like…4 years, but during then you just don’t see the result. Then questions begin to rise.

     

    Where’s my degree?

    I don’t see where I’m heading towards.

    Maybe I won’t even get it!

    What if my major is not something I want to do?

     

    Blah blah blah…At this point a lot of us simply just give up, because we don’t have the will to stick with something for longer than 3 years.

     

    Starting a company is like that, except worse. Because there are no set rules or regulations for you to follow in order to achieve success in a company, you really are investing your time and energy based on the belief that “I WILL MAKE IT HAPPEN.”

     

    Sometimes I think to myself: “Do I feel happy? Is this something I really, REALLY want to do?” there are doubts for sure but then I say: “Like what the fuck else you’re gonna do? You have NEVER completed one single goal in your life so shut the fuck up and get to work, you’ll feel happy when the job is done.”

     

    So, before I achieve starting and running ONE freaking company, I’m gonna need to stick with my current ZERO, because if I give up now, I know I will live with this big, fat ZERO for the rest of my life. And I’m not REALLY starting this with ZERO, more like ZERO POINT FIVE, my dad worked his whole life for that POINT FIVE, nice head start! Now I have no excuses whatsoever, let’s do this shit.

     

    There are other important factors I think, contribute to making that 1 out of 0, but I’m tired I’ll write about it later.

  • Look what I found..

     
    Found a baby snake in my backyard the other night...


    It's actually beautiful, without the flash, it looks like a coiled up, pile of shit. But then my dog wouldn't stop barking at it, which pissed me off, I was like "Little White, what the fuck man? Stop barking at a piece of shit."

    But no, it was a living snake; I thought it was dead until I tried to remove it from my backyard, I didn't kill it though, just tossed it out into the yard.

  • A Short Advertisement from Jacky Cheng


    A Short Advertisement from Jacky Cheng

    It's been rainy the past few days and fortunately enough for me I just happened to have 2 days off for Monday and Tuesday.

    Well the weather was shitty, didin't want to go out, so I decided to embrace myself with a non-stop DVD marathon with the good ol' Malaysian bootleg DVDs in them night markets...I should take some pictures some day, it's beautiful.

    Anyways, I watched the all-hyped-up Cape No. 7 (海角7號, as seen above) at last, and repulsed as I should had been, the film was actually pretty damn good, especially if you are a local Taiwanese and understand some of the slangs...like KAO YAO(哭夭 literally Crying for Hunger, like a baby whinning and bitching for food), such a great word...which can be used in most occasions, not as good as DOUMA but LOL KAO YAO LOL... ha, ha.

    And then I watched The Accuracy of Death, a recent Japanese flick featuring the one and only Takeshi Kaneshiro (金城武), douma he's too freaking good looking but he's not that important, what inspired me to mention his film is not how good of a movie The Accuracy of Death was, but the repetitively mentioned quote:
      
    "HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT OF DEATH?"

    You know, this type of question is just as vague as "How's your day?" except it's a little deeper. I don't know how may fucking day is alright, but do I really not know? Hm...maybe I just don't think about it...or I just avoid thinking about it...? Uh...seriously though I've been thinking about death lately, I'm probably too bored the last two days.

    I mean, I start thinking about how I'll eventually die..., I don't mean to jinx myself but it IS a serious concern though, I mean I've been flying a lot, and everytime I fly I fear for a crash, it's all Final Destination's fault. Speaking of Final Destination, the same director who will do Dragon Ball, I feel much safer about flight accidents. But still...when the plane is about to fly or land, I'd always listen CAREFULLY to the captain's tone when he does the "*statics* 15,000 feet, crew safety check..." routine, I want to know he is alert and conscious.

    Last time before I took off for a flight I read about ALL recent stories from China Airlines...one of the biggest casualties happened in 2004ish when the plane safely arrived Japan, but the co-pilot accidentally activated the "Auto-Take Off" mode, which made the plane try to automattically fly itself back to the sky; but then the pilots didin't know and continued his attempt to pull the plane down, eventually the plane was split in half in mid air, and all 300-something passengers were lost.

    What a shame, the plane was safely landed, but one mistake caused all this...

    Back to my point, I may be too concerned about this because mathematically speaking, the chance of me developing a cancer and die for it is probably 1,000 times higher than I'll crash in a plane. But I still smoke almost a pack a day...

    An article I read earlier pointed out that by 2010, the number one cause of death of the world will be Cancer, the formally champ - Heart Disease will step down and place number 2.
     
    Now I've been doing lots of researches because I am indeed...selling health food. With this post about DEATH I'd like to remind all those who read my post, that the chances of us dying from any top three Chronic Disease and endanger ourselves from it is FAR, FAR, FAR greater than accidents in a long run, it's inevitable.

    And by Chronic Diseases I mean: Cardiovascular Diseases (meaning heart, blood, and brain, such as high blood pressure or cholesterol.), Diabetes, Cancer, liver and lung disease or even Depression. Depression has taken its toll on leading causes of death, it's not a direct cause of death but let's face it...it's a lead cause of not just suicide, but also ranging from abusive alcoholism to massive murdering freaks like the one from Virginia Tech.

    Not jinxing the non-smoker and non-drinkers though, our environments are producing way too much oxidation damages to our cells...like the air pollution, heavy metal, chemical fertilizer and pesticide residues in veggies and fruits, growth hormones and antibiotics in livestocks, eggs, and dairies...etc. All of which slowly damage our cells and cause unusual cell mutations.

    I was reading the news the other day, some woman in a 3rd world country was so happy that her daughter had her period at the age of 7. WOW! Amazing world we live in. Most toxic wastes are lipid-soluble, meaning they do not get metabolized away and will be stored in fats, that's why most women develop breast cancers.

    I know, I know, we all die someday, but I just want to accomplish some thing, see what I can pull most out of myself before it all ends, and before I do that, I try my best to maintain healthy diets, regular exercises, and besides these, I take health supplements that my own company produce!

    And I'm serious about this subject, if you're interested in knowing more about my products, let me know! They're coming to the US in 2009!

    Ah...8 More days till great times!

    Another day off tomorrow, I think I'm going back to Warcraft.

    Peace.
      

  • 獒犬

      

    藏獒,又稱獒犬蕃獒松藩狗蒼猊犬,(藏語稱為do khyi,意思是「拴系的犬」),原產于西藏青藏高原的大型猛。中國國家二類保護動物,世界級珍稀犬種之一。藏獒又有東方神犬之稱。

    藏獒性格剛毅,力大凶猛,野性尚存,有「一獒抵三狼」的說法。並且智商高,記憶力強。據說能對地震、雪崩等事先預警。藏獒對陌生人有強烈敵意,但對 主人極為親熱,是護衛領地的絕佳犬種。是遊牧民族的保護犬,同時也被認定是國王、部落首長的護衛犬。藏獒在西藏深受牧民的擁愛,被藏民視為神犬、天狗、活 佛的坐騎。

    藏獒的祖先是大約在一千萬年前的喜馬拉雅山巨型古犬,也是當時青康藏高原中數一數二的猛獸,直到大約六千年前才被人類馴服,並用於護衛當地居民的居住範圍。

     


    OWNED!!!

  • Grandpa's 90th Birthday

    Grandpa's 90th Birthday
     
    My grandpa cried 2 days straight, he was so damn happy everyone was here; I mentioned Jenny and Tom's name he cried immediately... then my mom came to visit then he cried again, he was like a little baby, too happy to see everyone. He held my hand and said "I'm so happy...(tears)" WOW!

    Well well well when's the last time we're all together? Like...NEVER? Almost all my cousins are here.

    The girl cousins and aunts.

    The 4th generation, healthy and thriving.

    Yo this picture is simply pimp. My 4th, 5h, 3rd uncle, and dad (2nd son) then the grandpa sitting. The last time the brothers took a picture like this was probably 20 years ago. The Chengs seem to have a tradition of not taking family photos.

    And of course the Happy Birthday song, with da Reeeeeeee-----mixxxxxx!!! featuring Country Mandarin, Techno English, and Nakashi styled Taiwanese.