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Saturday, September 26, 2009

20/26-9-2009 讀報 (Wk 39)

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My Literate Life with Sparknotes
63th (12.83%) of 491 since 1 Aug 09 /
Expect completion date: 11 Oct 10

AFI 100
7th of 100 since 12 Sept 09 /
Expect completion date: 9 Jul 11

匯控行政總裁駐港 鄭海泉瞄準大中華 2009-09-26 明報 A04, 要聞, 社評
巨星頭部真貌 2009-09-26 香港經濟日報 C06, 世事, 世事——關人馬事, 活力先生
藏櫃車深處入境海關X光機搗破喇叭箱藏K仔值1600萬 2009-09-25 蘋果日報 A20, 港聞
中環 wikipedia系列之專業行騙篇 2009-09-24 信報財經新聞 P37, 生活智慧
《遠東經濟評論》年底結業 2009-09-23 信報財經新聞 P20, 國際時事
開卷有益 商業書細訴前人成與敗 2009-09-21 文匯報 B04, Q版財經
「指引主義」與常識、判斷之死 2009-09-24 明報 B17, MP+觀點, 精裝君王論, 蔡子強

Funny: Oba-mao shirt sold in Beijing.

If you find this shirt in US, you could say people are not satisified with Obama administration and think he is too socialistic, at which western tradition would value socialistic as symbolic to bad. What a sarcasm to find in China. Of course you could always say the ringleader of capitalism is now a socialist, and it would be a praise instead, but I do not get in this way. This shirt is intented to sell to tourist.

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Saturday, September 19, 2009

13/19-9-2009 讀報 (Wk 38)

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New: (67th in 2009, 423th since 2005)
Finished: (36/37th in 2009, 263th in total since 2005)
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Anne Lamott / Publisher: Anchor; 1 edition (September 1, 1995)
Wall and Piece
Banksy / Publisher: Random House UK; illustrated edition edition (December 27, 2005)

My room is running out of space... over twenty is on my bed now. I am thinking of donating books to 回書店, but I guess the genre of mine is a little off-beat. Here would be the list of donated books that they are selling.

My Literate Life with Sparknotes
55th (11.12%) of 491 since 1 Aug 09 /
Expect completion date: 12 Oct 10

AFI 100
6th of 100 since 12 Sept 09 /
Expect completion date: 9 Jul 11

金融危機與教育 2009-09-18 信報財經新聞 P16, 時事評論, 教育評論, 程介明
主腦在逃 6成員26「影子新人」被捕 跨境假婚集團 3年「撮合」5百對 2009-09-18 文匯報 A04, 重要新聞
人盡皆知不值一文 2009-09-17 蘋果日報 B14, 投資, 立論, 林少陽
TCL料全年售液晶電視800萬台 惠州產業園三期投產 預計新增收入120億元 2009-09-17 文匯報 B05, 中國經濟
租碟風光不再 Blockbuster結束千分店 2009-09-17 信報財經新聞 P36, 理財投資, 放眼國際
簡文彬 反叛指揮家 2009-09-16 香港經濟日報 C05, 越界, 越界, 李慧敏
黑莓無秘密 2009-09-16 蘋果日報 E05, 名采論壇, GG細語, 左丁山
尹光 廟街虎度門 2009-09-16 信報財經新聞 P39, 人物, 人物, 鄭天儀
丹布朗新書《失落的符號》 開售破紀錄 2009-09-17 蘋果日報 A24, 國際要聞
蠟筆小新 作者行山失蹤 手機無人接聽 警大搜尋 2009-09-17 明報 B16, MP+
U-HALL 之寶「三嫂」 獲頒名譽院士 歷屆「最基層」港大員工 2009-09-19 明報 B23, MP+人物, 彭碧珊
海嘯一周年我學到的十件事 2009-09-17 壹週刊 A118, 財經, 第壹流, 蔡東豪

Funny:
The ultimate HK Nightlife Guide / The Dark Side hangouts The Dark Side ← I have to say he is more local than me.

Oh, The Temptation: Marshmallow test -
The kids are so cute.


A ture stoy recap from Bird By Bird way before Sister Keeper. V. touching.

An eight year old boy had a younger sister who was dying of leukemia, and he was told that without a blood transfusion she would die. His parents explained to him that his blood was probably compatible iwth hers, and if so, he could be the blood donor. They asked him they could test his blood. He said sure. So they did and it was a good match. Then they asked if he would give his sister a pint of blood, that it could be her only chance of living. He said he would have to think about it overnight.

The next day he went to his parents and said he was willing to donate the blood. So they took him to the hospital where he was put on a gurney beside his six-year-old sister. Both of them were hooked up to IVs. A nurse withdrew a pint of blood from the boy, which was then put in the girls' IV. The boy lay on his gurney in silence while the blood dripped into his sister, until the doctor came over to see how he was doing. Then the boy opened his eyes and asked, "How soon until I start to die?"

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My room is running out of space... over twenty is on my bed now...

>> hey, are you mean that your bed have many books sleep with you? me too! funny...

--cynthia leung

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Saturday, September 12, 2009

6/12-9-2009 讀報 (Wk 37)

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My Literate Life with Sparknotes
49th (9.98%) of 491 since 1 Aug 09 /
Expect completion date: 25 Sept 10

AFI 100
5th of 100 since 12 Sept 09 /
Expect completion date: 9 Jul 11

New: (65/66th in 2009, 422th since 2005)
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Anne Lamott / Publisher: Anchor; 1 edition (September 1, 1995)

Finished: (35th in 2009, 263th in total since 2005)
The Hollywood Assistants Handbook: 86 Rules for Aspiring Power Players
Hillary Stamm & Peter Nowalk / Publisher: Workman Publishing Company; annotated edition edition (May 7, 2008)

This cocktail course in TST interest me.

When I am researching who watched all AFI 100, I find this blog. John has listed out 35 goals to be accomplished before 35. It reminds me of the movie The Bucket List.

Reading others bucket list is worthwhile, it reminds you to be alive to experience. Hope the following could inspire you BBC 50, Celestinechua, Project 183. Some experiential gift ideas are also interesting NTFirst, Cloud9Living, Redletterdays, Virgin Experience Days & Xperience Days.

高盛前分析員 網絡世界掘金 營業額3千萬美元 客戶過百萬 2009-09-11 香港經濟日報 A40, Executive & Market, 范偉潔、洪小晶
踩太子女擦李澤楷曹仁超林行止一拍兩散 2009-09-10 壹週刊 A042-048, 時事, 封面故事
見企業醫生前須知 2009-09-10 信報財經新聞 P41, 生活智慧, 傳承與壯大, 何華真
寫實主義與家庭小說 再談《安娜卡列尼娜》 2009-09-12 信報財經新聞 P28, 人文文本, 人文文本, 李歐梵
買書可贏百萬作者搞抽獎助讀者致富 2009-09-09 蘋果日報 A26, 環球Pop-up
嘩嘩嘩,娛樂怪獸啊! 2009-09-07 文匯報 C03, 副刊讀書人, 書評, 健吾

New vocab from 高登: 蝦條
Examples:
社工:慎防藉網上交友呃蝦條
小明很想有蝦條

Innovation: Aware Oral - Can identify AIDS by saliva.

New ipod & new book:

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Saturday, September 05, 2009

30/5-8/9-2009 讀報 (Wk 36)

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My Literate Life with Sparknotes
44th (8.96%) of 491 since 1 Aug 09 /
Expect completion date: 26 Aug 10

New: (63/64th in 2009, 420th since 2005)
The Concise Guide to Sounding Smart at Parties
David Matalon / Chris Woolsey / Publisher: Broadway (October 10, 2006)

Finished: (34th in 2009, 262th in total since 2005)
So Many Books, So Little Time (Citations)
Sara Nelson / Publisher: Putnam Adult; Fourth Edition edition (October 9, 2003)

Looking back to the books that I have bought over the years, there are so many (at least 158pcs) that I only half way through or even untouched. So many books, so little time would be my perfect excuse.

Sometime reviewing the books that I thought mind-change in the past is interesting. I could not imagine what I will be like now at that time.

I used to like reading business or investment type of books, I feel they are all BS now. I feel all novels & literatures are BS & head-dozing in the past, it turns out to be mind-boggling. Life is changing.

娛圈360血肉溝鬼魅50 Cult片榜 2009-09-05 蘋果日報 C20, 娛樂名人
踢爆同志湯玩恐怖分子波叔變波兒拗攣荷李活 2009-09-04 蘋果日報 C27, 國際娛樂
《絕代商驕》理論非正統 純屬經驗 等價未必可交換 「鯰魚」或搞破壞 2009-09-01 香港經濟日報 A31, Executive & Market, 梁巧恩
權威字典編收網友「外星話」 OMG!潮語攻陷英文殿堂 2009-09-01 蘋果日報 A22, 國際新聞
「划艇天后」翁家茵 化身寵物美容師 2009-08-30 文匯報 B09, 文匯體育
Swing 自私的復合 2009-09-01 JET P172-175, MY LIFE . MY STYLE
學內地潮語 掘金暢通無阻 「接機」變「劫機」 港人北上鬧笑話 2009-08-20 香港經濟日報 A29, Executive & Market, 沈怡 陳韻文

寫作指引十大好書 (pdf) 全國新書資訊月刊.民國96年8月號

Good book cover:

It could illustrate what "Medium is the message" mean. Massage would be a pun. I saw there are several copies in Shatin Commerical Press last week.

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yes i also can see you chaning your mind from reading your blog :)

--cynthia leung

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