Journals
Monday,Sep 5 2005, 07:04:07 AMthe value of money
i am writing here because i'm awfully bored. i think i am tired of playing wow, i think i will unsubscribe for real this time. maybe after a while when i want to play again i'll pay again to get my account back. doesn't matter. and maybe i'll start guild wars too. i'll see. but anyway. today i am writing about something i've always been thinking about. it seems like when i was little/younger, there was always stuff that i've always wanted, but never really got to buy because my parents disallowed for various reasons (but mostly "wasting money"). now that i'm actually bringing in the income for the family and should be able to buy whatever i want, i don't really see anything i really want to buy anymore. back then there would be things like (just as an example) video game consoles that i really want to get, and would be the happiest boy in the world if i can get one. but i would end up either not being able to (for reasons stated above) or have to wait a long time before i could. now that i have the money, i don't really want those things anymore. i think it's kind of ironic. i don't know if it happens to everybody else or just me. when i was little, there would be so many things that i want, but never really have the ability to get many of them. i would've been really happy at those times if i were able to buy those things. i would work really hard to make my way to getting those. for example, i worked hard on agum.com the first few months to make those $200 to buy that PS1 back in like 1998 or whatever. i don't know if you're understanding what i'm saying at all. now i'm working, and i'm making the money, but i don't really have certain things i want to spend it on that can make me really happy. it's not like back then, when there were certain things that i just really wanted to get and i would be really happy to buy them. i think the point is that, now that i actually have the money, the point of spending the money is kind of gone -- and i now work for the sole reason that i don't have anything else to do in my life if i don't work, not because there's something i want to get. due to this philosophy, i kind of think that when kids really want something, parents should really buy them it. as an adult, you really don't feel the same kind of happiness a kid does when he can get something that he really wants. i'm buying stuff i want now -- mp3 player, new cell phone, new digital camera, maybe even a DS -- but none of this stuff gives me the same kind of happiness when i buy them as i did, for example, when i got my super nintendo and then nintendo 64 when i was little. really, the happiest time of a person's life has got to be his/her first 20 years -- there is like no arguing of it. you could say that when you are a grown-up, you save money for the bigger stuff. a house. a car. and more stuff like that. it might be just me but i don't think, even getting the car of my dream, would make me as happy now as i did when i got a video game console when i was 12. does it make saving up money from work now meaningless? i don't know whether i can conclude that, but i definitely can say that i am spending bigger money now for less happiness -- comparing to before when i could spend little money for big happiness. (although, back in that age, that "little money" was relatively big for me)
Thursday,Sep 1 2005, 07:53:01 PMmore stuff going on/wrong
watching CNN news videos and reading the articles, you can see what's going on at New Orleans.
it is literally like Day After Tomorrow, except happening in a place in the real world. 80% of the city is flooded. there are people literally dying on the streets and dead bodies are just laying around. a news report said a man went into a seizure and died right in front of everyone else near the convention center. there are people trapped at the city's convention center without food and water waiting to be rescued. and then there are looters, some even ...
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Wednesday,Aug 31 2005, 08:08:53 PMpunishment on human beings
first there was the tsunami, and then there's hurricane katrina. (well, a while ago there was SARS too, but it seemed like nobody other than HK people considered it a big deal) natural disasters. God doesn't forget to leave out any part of the world. this only reminds me of Edmond Leung's song, from after the SARS, called "Tale of a Dead City" 廢城故事: 人這樣渺小 竟反了天 恐慌裡會望見甚麼的遠見 繁盛炒得太高 人性知得太淺 欠上帝 人太狂妄需要天洗禮 (full lyrics) translation for the non-chinese readers: ...
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Wednesday,Aug 31 2005, 05:18:54 AMa lot of time
today was almost the first day, ever since i started work, where i basically had nowhere to go after work (and i got off work on time at 5:00 sharp). i came back around 6, washed dishes from days ago, cooked dinner, washed dishes again, finished eating and everything and it was only 8. i even showered and still had plenty of time to chill around. i think in the long run i'm going to have a lot of nights like these. it would actually allow me to do something at night...
by having nothing to do, i mean not having anyone to go to dinner with, not eating ...
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Monday,Aug 29 2005, 08:28:31 AMJust thinking
looking at My Pictures folder make me miss my senior year again. here are some more pics from Vegas trip that i never posted before (there were too many, i could only pick): check out my taunt the general consensus seems to be that i look handsome in this pic =/ i always fall asleep at brookstone. you can see my Chapman To hairstyle (from infernal affairs) here. on that little train. that train ride is cool btw. Paris buffet -- my favorite. better than Bellagio! Bellagio - the king of them all - how could i forget to post this pic before? D4 striking a ...
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