Peter’s Blog V2

Jay released his new album – Capricorn (???).  As usual, he’s awesome (and still very daring with his outfits…).

The first hit is ??.  It’s another inspirational song from Jay to bring positive thinking to the society.

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Fail to chase down your dream?  Why not simply find another?

So nice having a happy family.

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For the most part, I’m not an artistic person.  But I recently found the following photography by Martin Klimas and was thoroughly impressed:

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Dubai has not stopped impressing the world with the continuously refreshed list of new world wonders.  This time, it’s the Atlantis hotel:

Dang I love the view from that window.  It’s a much better honeymoon destination than your average tropical beach resorts.  If my salary somehow goes up 100 times next March, I’ll book a room there for sure.

Nearly four years ago I wrote a blog post with this title, and it was about getting my “dream” job offer.  This time around, it’s actually what you might think it is.

Here’s a very subtle picture:

The photo journey of a stone:

Gift from the people at work:

This thing is sure taking up a lot of space in my cubicle!

Storm Riders, my favorite comic series from Hong Kong, has officially set foot across the entire spectrum of the entertainment industry by having released an animated movie – ??? (Storm Riders 2008).

I wouldn’t call it a great movie.  The plot is sloppy (which is the norm for movies), and the voice actors don’t quite sound into it.  However, as an animated version of a classic HK comic story, it’s excellent.  It’s got a good balance between the Japanese anime techniques and the Chinese styled sceneries and action representations.  It gives life to the ink-on-paper heroes that thousands of us have admired.

Storm Rider fans would love this, almost certainly more than the movie with real actors.  It’s got a “new” storyline, i.e. twisted side-line plot from the original series, without losing the heart or soul.  In fact, it assumes a pretty good knowledge of the characters, weapons, and locations in its audience.  It might be hard to understand this movie otherwise.

Check out some previews and commentaries.

For background information, ?? = Wind Cloud (AKA Storm Riders) is an HK comic series originated in the 80′s and had been extremely popular in the first ten years.  It’s likely the most well known and most read Chinese comic in history.  Numerous pop culture byproducts were created in the past ten years – souveniors,novel,  a movie (with seriously famous actors; sequel is in the making), two TV series, two or more computer games, and now an animated movie…