Happy Thanksgiving!

Super lazy on my extra thanksgiving holiday :D:D slept until 10sth and went out to drive around the Hope Range area again... People are just extremely wealthy! crazy crazy!!! waowaowao~~~ All of the houses are huge... I think a football court is a basic min size there... I had a feeling that if I have a stylist house like that... having a view as it is... I really find no reason to travel for holiday... haha... well... if I m wealthy like this... I probably have some more other adventure trip I can do, ho ho ho.... The most popular pet in the area is probably horses! I've seen a lot around :D..

I took these night photos in my birthday night! :D


I wanted to take this photos for long time... every time I passed there, I wanted to take a photos like this :D yea... finally made it!


Found these cool blossoms :D






And then I went back to and took a nap.. Went out to town and thought I could do a little shopping.. but ALL of the shops even cafe and stuff are closed!!!!

wao.... ya... and then went to Darius' friend, Ada's home for the Thanksgiving dinner!!!! It was amazing!!! All the food there I never had before but all of them are sooooo delicious... the best I have ever had in the US and the best western food I have ever had too!.... ya... Ada is a professional chief in a restaurant... and she is making a salad dressing for Trader Joe's!!! wao wao wao.... happy happy thanksgiving! :)

Super nice house!



Cool friends, delicious food~~




Little nap after main course~ lol

Told you an old "new function" :P

haha... today I m in such a good mood :D although it's a rainly day... Everything are smooth, I think... (well even thats not smooth... I think they are smooth.. coz I m in good mood ma :D:D) The first day after my 28th birthday... haha... let's celebrate~~ haha....

Today I just notice a function that exist for probably more than half year and was so excited about it!... haha... how stupid I am... I can't believe that I keep using google map almost everyday and I missed it! until you told me you've played with it already :D:D haha... and I just remember.... actually the first time I use google map to find the way to LA, the function was there already!!!!! wao... and I was impressed once already... haha... well, I used it in another way and it was in a different view la.... anyway... this time I found my house! haha... thats what excited me so much :D..... yup... I m planning to go Joshua Tree National Park this weekend.. hope that it will be good weather :)...

28th Birthday

Wao... I've started my 28 yo with my animation works :D:D haha... does it mean it will be a busy year lerh? haha.. hopefully it will be haha... otherwise my studio may be closed very soon after it started :P lalallaa.... busy busy busy... yea...


Let me check what I did I do in my last bday :D..... OOhohoh.... I didn't write my blog at all last birthday...! um... probably another boring working bday in the office, didn't do much... 2 years ago, I just back from London and kinda just lost my love... I invited like 20sth friends to come to my bday in a karaokae room? wao... can't remember why did I do that :D haha... maybe just need some noise from people. When was the last birthday I celebrate bday in karaokae? haha highschool maybe? :P well anyway... nothing about the k room but it was great to meet up so many good friends in one day... haha...and it was an excuse to gather friends all in one time I guess... :D ah... I remember even Garfield has come that time too waoooo! :D

I used to ask this question a lot... "why do we celebrate bday so seriously??" (esp when i forgot people's bday) haha... and I use not to celebrate much on birthday... It's still the same kinda day, it wont be longer or shorter, and we normally still needa work... The only thing I want, is to be in a quiet place with someone I love and have a nice dinner... haha... but somehow it didn't happen in the past few years! why why why... keep my finger cross for that will happen in the coming year... :D looking at the messages from facebook and tried to reply them all... and then I think... haha.. it's like it gives the bday a purpose now :D haha... I m glad to have a birthday like this... thanks facebook too :)



I planned a photo shoot around Hope Range area in my birthday in the morning and at night too.. but I couldnt' really sleep last night until 4:30 -_- and then when I woke up, it was no sunshine at all!!!!! I probably be spoiled since I came here, use to the sunshine everyday.... feeling disappointed and fell asleep again :P.. and then Igot a call from Donald but I didn't really awake when I talk to him :P can't remember what did I say lo haha... the only thing I remember is, it was 7:44 when he called... The very surprise thing was my boss bought me a bday sushi lunch plus a $150 gift vouture!!!! and haha... they bought a some super sweet cakes as well!!! haha.... shit... start loving them now :S...



wao wao wao... and I went to coffe shop after work to do some drawings.... but I found that I forgot my wallet at home after I ordered -_-!!! how ambarrasing~~~~ but then the girl gave me the tea for free :D haha... my lovely bday free tea :D:D ho ho ho... and then I started my night shooting... Nothing much... I found that the long explosure always make the image blury... unless I use the smallest aperture... um... it's still far from the quality we've got from the hammersmith bridge shoot with Bernard... I guess film is still winning sometime in some specific shoots... I've taken one shoot to the sky... which I will try more when we have a clearer sky... I can shoot the stars here!, which I never succeed to do so!!! everytime it came out with a very red sky with some really weak starts... but this time it is very clear stars!!! one more reason I love Santa Barbara ^__^ ~~



It's a few more mins to the end of today~ haha... 1 year older and I can poundly say that I did learn a lot this year too... :) It will be a tougth year I guess, I made my wish this year on........ hope that it will happen really... :)

Having a good day...

:) a day start with a sweet call is always good...~~~ wooo :D:D thanks~~ not too busy but have quite a few projects done today... and then went for a basketball... almost didn't play games today... but only a 3 on 3 game and I played well :D haha... And then I went back home, cook (okay, reheat) a dinner, and worked a bit on my animation... the title is confirmed! :) probably the tagline too... unless I can come up with a nicer one with Eiji... I will use the existing one! :D he said it's not entirely correct grammatically but it does has a little charm in it :D lallalalla~~~~ (Eiji is my friend from London by the way~ I did told you about him, didn't I?) A little bit slow... the progress... but I am trying to do it in a time saving way... hopefully it will work nice... otherwise I will have about 100 frames to finish... and thats super un-flexible. if I wanna change anything on the tiltle and tag lines... I will have to redraw those 100 frames again.. -_-... finger cross~~~ btw, the logo for another friend of mind are almost done! haha... the whole book are almost finalized... hope that it will be on shelves soon! Hopefully my friends will buy this one too :D haha... yea... and and and... all names on Little Diggtak are done!!! Lets finalize the simple presentation and check out some book publisher next week!!!! wawawa... have to book the hotels this weekend!!!! otherwise I may sleep on street in Japan :P.... sounds cool... but not in winter time :D... and and and... dont know if I will have time to upload the tees I've done for long time during weekend :D and and and.... still haven't finish the drawing for my brother's new flat :P wah w hwh a...

Tout Doucement - Feist

You guys know me well, I seldom put lyrics on my blog... but this is really a good one. I quite like song even I didn't know its meaning... and somehow I wanted to find the lyrics of it tonight and found the translation. The song's in French and here is the translation listen to it on ilike or wherever you can find it la :D:D I really like Feist sososo much... don't know how could I missed her show in LA!!!!?!?!?!?! damn it (in American ascent)!!!!!

All slow, all slow, all slowly
Always, all slow, all slowly
This way
Life is amazing.

All slow, all slow, all slowly
Always, all slow, all slowly
This way
Life, I understand it.

Never go too fast
You got all the time you need
Beware of the dynamite
Take care of volcanoes
Of those young nervous ones
Who don't know how to go

All slow, all slow, all slowly
Always, all slow, all slowly
This way
Strolling prettily

Never go too fast
Loving simply
To get success
Be very very cautious
Love will then come
And snuggle up in your arms

All slow, all slow, all slowly
Always, all slow, all slowly
This way
Strolling prettily
Smiling prettily
Strolling prettily
All slowly

The Mist (8.5)

I was very very very very tensed throughout the whole movie.... I think it is one of the most scary horror movie I have seen. I use not to give high rating to horror movie but have to give a 8.5 this time!!!! It's based on a novel by Stephan King. And the director is the one who did the screenplay of green miles too... Doubtlessly the story and the screenplay was great... Supposed to be a 9 but the soundtrack esp at the end of movie wasn't that great... and one other thing I am not sure about is the motion graphic and the design of the monsters... well... even though... it scared me for whole night. Luckily, you wasn't here... otherwise you would see me scared and laugh at me probably!!! haha.... or the other way around...

Rey @ The Coral Sea

Rey, the guy who is going to do me the music for my animation, is from a band called The Coral Sea... http://www.thecoralsea.net/ (you can actually listen to more of their songs in myspace http://www.myspace.com/thecoralseamusic. He said they are invited to go to asian next year... possibly go to HK too :D wao... see hows it go lo... Let me show him around when he comes sin!! :) It seems that he will do it for me for free lerh... hehe...

Gain a bit weight back... :D

After a few weeks of hard workm, I've gain a few pounds back!!! haha.. 143lbs now :D:D get back to normal but still thinking i m tooo thin... maybe just that the people around me are too big... how depressing it is everyone in the basketball court saying I have to gain more muscles.. -_-... shit... I m short, thin, unskillful play now~~~~~ today I played with a black guy, similar height as i m but he can Alle-oop easily -_-... dunk super hard too... chi sin ga!!!!!

wahwahwah... btw, today I went into the fitness room... by the time I step in, I thought, it is really not my place... and I measured my weight and ran away straight lo... :D

a107 studio

Well... seems like I do have to start thinking about it like now... :D and write them down. It must be funny when I look at such a rough thought at some points later. Probably my concept is very wrong now :P I won't understand how it works until I go and try it.

Okay, the key of my studio is "to share". Share ideas, share creatives, share moliu thoughts. I believe we always have some stupid thought or some brilliant ideas that we have never used and somehow put it aside and wasted... I suppose we all want our ideas to become real somehow. Of course it is great if we can make it happen by ourselves. But to me, as long as it comes to real, it's not necessary to be done by our own hand. Why don't we put them into a pool so that everyone can use it? Mix and match and get inspired by each other... That's what creative supposed to be at the beginning, ya?

The ideal size of my studio is around 6 ppl. Me and one of my friend (anyone interested to join me? I will try to convince Mike, Tracy, Leo and Daat or not necessary from my existing friends indeed) + 1 senior creative + 1 junior creative + 2 technical people.

My studio will work on 3 areas.
1. Something that earns money. haha... thats the most diffiuclt part I guess :P Let's 100% concentrate on it at least in the first year really... It will include mostly BTL works, branding, printing works, Photo retouching, Product photos, websites, etc) to make sure me and people who work for me (if any :D) can get paid! Hope that pixi&pop can pay off all of my bills haha :D

2. New areas that can earn money in the future. Some works that I m not entirely familiar with but I believe I can handle it with some help from other parties. I will do these with less profit but to gain the experience for later jobs. (Create products?

3. Non profit projects. It's for our name and also for our own interest. (like the animaiton I m doing :P, illustrations for books, paintings, Siu Diggtak, more experimental stuff target on international awards)

Hopefully I can get a balance on those 3 areas eventually....

haha... above just my silly thought... let me do some research... see how's people do it outside sin~~~

Muddy Water

My friend host a show in a cafe called Muddy Water Coffee Bar tonight :) It is such a nice place there! a very closey cafe + bar with live band every weekends? They have some cool decoration and interesting artworks around. Very chill place... And surprisingly, they do good coffee!! I think I will go there every week in my rest of time in SB :D.... I m feeling I gonna miss SB a lot!!!! hahaha... Everyone around me just keep saying it is a nice place but boring when you stay here for long.. I really don't feel it! I just simply love this place :D Can't imagine how amazing it will be if I move here with you in some point of life :D haha... Sometimes I think, to save some money and open a cafe bar like this; letting musicians and artists to performs and show their arts; make some little money for living; very chill, and it is also a way of living... Just a dream I guess :P We belong to city, and we need that "something" from the city somehow...

Yup... Rey is a friend of mine that I met the first day I came to SB in Carina's birthday dinner :D Ya... I talked to him lately and he said he can do me the music for my animation :D:D how exciting...! I think I do have to finish it asap... and ready for some other challenges! :D cool cool.... just wait and see...

The Spiderwick Chronicles (6.5)

For the opening and the ending scenes I give it a 6.5... :D the 3D stuff were quite good indeed.. but well... thats a movie in 2008. I guess it has to be as least in this standard... The story was okay, just a fairytell stuff... no expectation and reasonable... nothing really surprised me... yea... kinda boring... :P I wouldn't suggest you to see it I guess...

Soya-cream VS Icecream~~

I've bought a Vanilla with chocolate chips with cherry soya frozen dessert (I call it soyacream :D) from Trader Joe's few weeks ago~~~ And it's like less than half calories than normal icecream and taste quite good too... So I bought the chocolate favour one last week but found it not as good as the other one... And 2 days ago... I've bought the real iceream there! Just ate both together... and found that how bad the soya one is!!! The texture is almost like Dairy Farms icecream~~~ well... it still taste like icecream tho... haha... I gonna try some other taste later too... haha... half calories lalallala~~~~ haha

Basketball tonight~~

I went to UCSB tonight but the leisure centre didn't open!!! close for Tusday 11NOV -_-.... damn it.... and then I went to the outdoor court and saw 2 ABC playing there... Very obviously they are ABC by seeing their built... i think they are like 50% bigger than me (very scientifically) Well anyway... I start playing a game with them... One of the guys was surprisingly very fast... and I didn't catch his speed at until the 2nd game! And, he shoot so well outside the 3 points line! The ball was quite slippy and I didn't use to it and made a few air ball :P haha... but then the guy said to me (in a nice way indeed) "hey dude, you actually shouldn't jump shoot outside the lines unless you have your muscle built better", eeeer...... I mean... yea... I guess I am strong enough to throw the ball from 3 points... just that I am not use to you ball dude... Well of course I didn't say that, but just made a few 3 points and won the game :P haha... lalalala.... and I thought I won the last game too. We play 21 points and I got 21 first... but they said I had to make a 3 points before actually win the game.. but I missed the shoot and start from 15 points again -_-... what a rule... and then I reached 21 points 3 times before them but didn't make that last fucking shoot -__- come on.... 3 times... so totally I've got 40 points and couldn't win the game... It was fun though :)

Self-defensive mode

Somehow it started itself. Every time when I am in this kinda situation, my self-defensive mode (that's what I call it) starts at some point... No one can make it started. Nothing I can do to start it too... but it just start at some point. It takes longer to come lately tho... It's not like happening after I have a good sleep or what... it can happen in the middle of the day, when I was doing sports, or at the 3rd sip of coffee in a cafe. pretty random, pretty unpredictable. The situation still there... and I do still care about that... but the negative feeling would just gone or go out of my brain. haha... I m such a lucky person~~~~ can't imagine how people survive in all negative feeling all time (like anthony... :P shhhhhh......). I understand it really... We all know it doesnt help anything if we dont get away from that feeling, but we just can't at the moment. Human being... thats human being~...

btw, suddenly this song played on my player... how funny, just see the first 2 lines...
十二號　漫步加州的果園　遺失一臉幽怨　沒對你　再有留戀 (really? I can try bor)
十六號　沐浴九州的溫泉　遺失癡心一片　大概我　情緒快要復元 (wah... a bit far from Tokyo lerh...) 黃偉文, 你好啦你~~ enough~~~~!!! :)

Lakers won!!!

09NOV08!!!!! (quite difficult to remember a number like this lerh, but I should :D)


It's the first time I went to see a NBA match in my life!!! LA Lakers vs Houston Rocket. Yea~~ Yao Ming! Indeed, the atmosphere there wasn't as HOT as I thought... haha it's just one of the 82 season games this year after all... people are reasonably quiet throughout the game...




Me and Nestor sat on the last row! haha I didn't know it was the last row when I bought it. But indeed the court is not that big... and I can see the game quite clearly... I think the view was just a tiny bit wider than the widest view when you play NBA TV games. I can still recognise most of the players from the distance. haha... The court wasn't full at all at the beginning... but about 10mins after it started almost all seats were filled up.. I think they must have some super cheap ticket to sell after the game started. um.. probably cheaper than what I was playing... -__-.... anyway... It was a cool experience :D


I actually support Lakers! but Yao Ming was against them ma... With the (Chinese unique) especially strong national emotion, I don't mind if Huston win the game :D haha...


The game was good in the first half. Rockets lead Lakers for over 15 points in the first quarter... Seeing them playing from that distance, it's like they are making shoots super easy. But then they were same points in the half-time... People started getting super big popcorn blows and eat eat eat.... wao... The half-time show was quite good too... it was a pair of gymnastic people... doing quite well really. Kobe was awesome esp. in the 3rd quarter! He made every single shoots and no one could actually stop him! McGrady sucks ~~ He had 3 points in the whole game... He was in the court almost 40 mins I guess. Aaron Brooks was playing quite good tho!

SUN YUE didn't play at all (I found that he is inactive in the roster list when I check him online)... but I saw him on the court before Lakers doing their warm up! haha.. yup... not in the warm up time but before that, how weird! He looks like very thin and not that tall really... but indeed he is 6ft 9 la! come on... 1 ft taller than I m!!

Final was a 2-30 points won of Lakers... People said Rockets might have chance this year... I can't see it from this game really..


After the game, we went to a super old American dinner... super retro! haha... I would be a nice place to take photos. You may consider a bit lo... :)




The food was quite bad tho, haha... I haven't discript the food as bad for a while la... eer... They are super big portion... I should take the photo of the steak! its like a double size we do in HK!.... the guys sit next to me ordered the steak and also eggs and ham too! At last he couldn't finish the eggs! and pack the eggs and 1/3 or the steak back!!!!!! yes, the egg white more precisely. He finished the egg yuk and pack the egg white home! My friend said, ya, thats Americano :D~~~~~

The Heartbreak Kid (6.5)

Quite a typical comedy with Ben Stiller... Seems that he has been fixed to do this kinda charactor :D well... I am surprised how similar is this movie to the others of him! Relationship, by the beach, balblabla haha... they are all too similar haha... well... not a bad one tho... at least there are nothing I feel bad about... and the girls in the moive are quite pretty too :)

Blow (7)

Wanted to see this movie since I was on cinema! but haven't seen it until now :D It's a movie about a life of a durg dealer (I hate the Chinese name btw) kinda base on a real story kind movie la.... But dont they need to make it so educational?! very sick america! It is quite a good movie with a lot of little touch and detail stuff... They are not surprising when I see it now in 2008, but it must be pretty cool when the movie showed on screen... The first half of the movie was quite nice I have to say but the story was pretty crab I have to say... not surprising at all... it's like he had a few years great time earned good money good life... blalblbabla but then got into the jail a few times... coz of his family and wife... things like that.. and at last he went to jail again and his daughter never came to see him in rest of his life.... come on, can it be even more boring?!

Well... Johnny Depp was still doing okay... but the makeup or styling really have to improve a lot la.... we can see their research on 50s 60s 70s.... but it's too obvious they were trying too hard to do that making the movie quite weird somehow... maybe only to me... Johnny Depp just looks exactly the same age throughout the movie, while the movie is about his life from his 20sth to 40-50 -_-... we are not stupid man.. We would never think he is older if you only add a big belly under his shirt, just looking fake and thats it.

Ishi's back!

haha... My land lady came back from holiday and Ishi came back on last Tuesday too.... woooo.... hello Ishi Ishi~~~~ welcome back... he's lost weight since he didn't use to the food and place there lerh~~ poor him... but when he came back he ate a double meal instantly!! ho ho ho~~~

Still hurt

I have hurt my chest from basketball like 2 weeks ago and stopped doing any sport from last week. I just feel painful even I have a deep breathe. :( I thought it was just muslces and suppose to be recover quite quickly. But I don't see I m recovering since then. Especially the time when I just wakeup, it hurts. I should go to doctor if it's still the same after this week. But turn out, I am having more time to do other stuff and I can concentrate on the website a bit more. Well... maybe that's not bad...

Tattoo shop in Ventura

Haven't been writing so often in my blog for loooooong time :)

This morning I came to Ventura to find the tattoo shop recommended by Jeff :) Super nice weather, typical California autumn sunshine but cool. Went to the tattoo shop the first thing... As most of other tattoo shop I've been, there's a girl with short hair, and tattoo all over, very chill but friendly (you know their kind of friendly) sitting there. Asking me if I have any question? asked a few things.... $100/hr min $80... booking and things... and saw a bit their portfolio... Evil Dave is the best as Jeff recommended... pretty good in colour really... but I do not have the feeling of, oh I have to do a tattoo here... um... if I have decided the thing I wanna do at any chance before I go, I will come here again :) well... no rush as usual :) and I am thinking maybe I should wait until I meet you~~ Maybe we can do something together... hehe... I was thinking a half pattern could be nice, ya?

Then I walked around the little main street, and went into an Antique shop... things are pretty expensive but a bit better than Santa Barbara ones :) I did find something and bought it for you... ho ho ho... maybe your bday gift? haha... Well, I m not a person who love to celebrate dates.... but I really dont mind to do it.. just that when I wanna buy something to someone... I will buy it... I could never find something perfectly fit when I try to buy sth for people bday~~ haha.. and I always can't wait to send out the gift... haha... anyway... the first time I see you will be close to your bday.... and most likely it will be your bday gift~~~ haha... Will force you to put in studio... coz it will be your first gift :D haha, even if you dont like it~~

Just ate a burger in Habit. They do good stuff there! you can try when you come. They do gill sandwich without meat as well :) I m thinking maybe I should stop eating beaf too :D I m now sitting in a very nice cafe ssuper quiet nice little (but spacious) one :) Gonna do some more research on japan and porbably book some hotels... and will start doing the layout things lo~~~~~~

(A week later, I found that Ventura is actually a very big city! haha the little main street I've been was just a tiny part of Ventura :D)

Kiss Kiss Kiss Kiss...

Seems that it is becoming real soon :)~~ but I m also scared at the same time... um.. what if.... what if.... um.... just don't think too much...how can I not thinking of it tho ~_~

Big Big Party..

It was a Halloween party in Darius' home... The biggest house party I was in!!! It was over 100 people there!!! can you believe it? more than 100 ppl in a house!!!! everyone are dressing super cool ^__^ Petra was there as well... she was quite drunk and keep telling people I m the most important employee in the office... hehe... Honestly I think Darius is 100 times more important than me la... just that they never lost him and they dont know how bad it will be without him in the office jei..
haha anyway check out the photos on my flickr la :D:D