我看《西游》

我从小就看周星驰的戏长大的。他的无厘头式幽默总能让我开怀大笑。中学时，我们几个男生就会背戏里面的对白，演一演，然后大家就会大笑一番。我还记得每次去金河广场最顶楼（那时的顶楼是卖吃的）吃杂饭，那里的饭堂就一定会播周星驰系列的戏。以前要看很难的。。。VCD难找，DVD又还没面世。我跟朋友们都是一边吃，一边看，一边笑。所以，对白我们熟得很。夸张点可以说倒退来念对白都没问题。

我收集了大部分周星驰电影系列的DVD，到现在我还常常播来看。每一次要到好笑的地方我就先笑了。我老婆都说我白痴，每一套看了几十次，却还会笑，更白痴是，笑点前就开始笑了。但我不以为然。她不会了解每一套星爷的戏背后，都带着鼓舞人心的故事。通常主角是由小人物，慢慢演变成英雄，到最后成功了。如果你没有用心看，你不会发觉的。除了搞笑，整套戏是有教育的成份，总会让你偷窃一笑后，脑筋会想一想。

90年代他最多作品，那时可是巅峰期。2000年后，周先生开始减产了，偶尔来一部。周星驰迷的我一定不会错过观赏咯。一直到长江七号，我觉得不好看了，他没了年轻时那些搞笑。。。那时我想，真可惜啊。人老了，难道就江郎才尽吗？

2013年，他来了一套贺岁片，叫西游－降魔篇。我没有去戏院看，没时间也没机会。其实我不是很感兴趣，原因有两个，第一；我对长江七号太失望了，第二；西游里他没有参与演出。偶然我在youtube里看到，就估且click进去看一下，那片子的quality很差，声音也一样差。

虽然quality很差，我还是把戏看完，我。。。找回了以前的星爷，奇怪是戏里没有他。他的故事跟以前一样，让你猜不透下一步会怎样。一部好电影就是能让观众很想继续看下一秒会发生怎样。这一部《西游》就有这个魔力。他实在是太天才了。不止这样，全部细节都有连贯性。太厉害，太有心机了！比如说，一开始舒淇的手环是她伏魔的武器，她第一眼就爱上了文章，然后就把手环变成戒子送给文章，但被拒绝。直到到最后她给猴精打死了，文章把手环缩小变成戒子穿上。那手环可以自由伸缩，最后变成了金钢圈套在孙悟空的头上。还有一幕，猴精把文章的披头散发硬扯光，我才发现文章演的是唐三藏。我很快就猜到了，这是因为我看惯了星爷的戏。我不得不佩服星爷那颗头脑，天才！细节，连贯都做的太棒了。

这部戏值得看！值得收藏！毕竟好戏不多了。。。 谢谢你，星爷！陪伴我成长！

30 Things you Should Know to Help you Start a Photography Business

found a good piece of article. Keeping this a copy to remind myself...

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1. Find the best photography course or workshops that work for you

If you are going to invest in a photography course/workshop do some serious research first.

It’s a huge investment so find out who the teachers are. Are they industry professionals that are going to be teaching you relevant styles and techniques?

Is the style of teaching suited to your personality and photography?

Who are the ex students that have gone on to create successful careers?

Consider weekend workshops and online courses held by experts in their fields.

2. Find a great mentor

A mentor should be someone who has had a successful career, whose work you admire and is passionate about what they do. They should be available for at least one hour a month.

3. Get as much industry experience as you can

Intern with as many different photography businesses as you can, both large and small. My first interning gig was with a food photographer. I’ve also worked with high-end commercial product photographers, car photographers, and fashion and wedding photographers. I came away with valuable skills that I still use today.

4. Be Flexible when looking for an internships

When you are looking for an internship it’s often easier to offer your services on a casual daily basis or weekends or even nights rather than trying to find someone who will commit to a long-term internship.

5. Sweep the floor and scrub the toilet

I landed a full time assisting job with a fashion and celebrity photographer because he noticed I scrubbed his toilet and cleaned his studio when I had nothing to do

6. Hang around with people who inspire and support you

Some of your friends and family are going to try and talk you out of pursuing your dreams.
They have good intentions but it’s your dream not theirs.

7. It takes 10,000 hours of work to become a master of your craft

If you spend 3 hours a day photographing and editing photos you will become a master at it in 10 years. There are no short cuts or magic formulas, just hard work.

8. Photography is not a job it’s a passion

When you love what you do it never feels like work.

9. Learn to embrace failure

Some of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs had spectacular failures before they found success.

Henry Ford had 5 businesses fail before he founded the successful Ford Motor Company.

Thomas Edison failed 10,000 times trying to invent the light bulb and after the 10,000th time; he succeed

Don’t be afraid to make mistakes

10. Your uniqueness is the most important asset you have

The photography industry does not need another Ansel Adams, Annie Leibowitz, or Alfred Stieglitz. Develop a unique style that sets you apart from everyone else

11. The most common cause of failure is quitting

Most people give too early. Building a business takes years, there will be set backs. Commit to the long haul.

Fact: the average entrepreneurial millionaire has been broke or nearly broke 3.2 times

12. There is no such thing as overnight success

It took me 5 years to actually make a profit. It took me ten years before that profit was enough to afford me a decent lifestyle

13. Having a full time or part time job while you build your business is a great idea

I worked full time in an Italian restaurant for the first 5 years

Having another job while I built my business had the following positive effects

• It gives you something positive do everyday while you are waiting for your first breaks
• It removes that “desperate” energy around you. Trying to find new clients in this headspace is really difficult. Nobody wants to hire someone that appears desperate it makes them wonder what is wrong with you.
• Your part time job may be the source of photography leads or your first big break. It was for me.

14. You will constantly be surprised by where your big breaks come from

I landed my first paid advertising shoot from waitresses I worked with. She introduced me to her husband who ran an advertising agency. One day he asked me to do a shoot for his agency. It was a simple product shot that should have taken an hour. I worked on it for 2 days, made a loss but earned a very happy and lucrative client.

15. Every time you are rejected means you are one step closer to success

Collecting new clients is a numbers game. In my early years I discovered that when I was showing my folio to Art Directors and Editors I was getting 30-50 “no’s” to every “yes”.

It took me many, many years to work out that this rejection is never personal. It often just comes down to potluck if you meet with someone on the same day they happen to have an assignment that suits you.

There are some very famous examples of people who experienced countless rejections before they achieved success

• Author, J.K Rowling’s manuscript Harry Potter was rejected 12 times before she found a publisher
• Walt Disney was knocked back 302 times before he got financing for creating Disney World
• Several record labels rejected The Beatles
• Colonel Sanders, the founder of KFC had his famous secret recipe knocked back a staggering 1009 times

16. Seek constructive criticism and learn from it

One of my greatest learning periods was during a 3-month stint working in a photo lab printing Black and white prints. Yes, last century when we marveled at the new mobile phone that was the size of a small refrigerator and twice as heavy.

I was shooting models tests all weekend and bringing them into the lab to print and process during the week. Two of my co-workers were 30+ year veterans who would critique my work and give me suggestions on improving technique and style.

Show your photos to as many industry professionals as you can. Ask for constructive criticism and learn from it. This is a great time of growth and learning.

Be grateful for all the praise your family and friends will always give your work but remember they will always love everything you do and may find it difficult to point out any faults.

17. Dress to impress

If you want people to take you seriously then you should take your appearance seriously.

18. Always read the fine print

Never sign a contract before reading the fine print. If you don’t understand it then find someone who does.

19. Work your strengths, hire your weaknesses

Aim towards outsourcing all the things that take you away from earning money for your business like book keeping and web design. Your time would be better-spent blogging or marketing.

20. Social Networking

Blog, tweet, flickr, facebook, instagram, google+, linkedin do it all and do it often.

Share your work, support other artists whose work you love and be generous with your information.

21. Shoot personal projects that inspire you

Unless you are lucky enough to be working for cutting edge magazines or alternative clients who love to push the envelope shooting only paid work will give you a very generic looking folio.

Shooting personal projects give you a chance to test new lighting styles, lenses, locations and it’s a brilliant way to showcase your personality.

22. Have a consistent workflow

Name and number and file every shoot in a consistent way. If you’ve ever spent hours looking for an image or even worse lost files you will understand the importance of this point.

23. Back up twice

Keep one hard drive on location and another off site. Hard drives fail. Protect your files.

24. If you pay peanuts you get monkeys

Use professional assistants. Having a great assistant means you never have to sweat the small stuff. Everything is taken care of. This means you can focus on getting the shot

25. An inexperienced make up artist or stylist can ruin and entire shoot

Work with a variety of different Hair and Make Up artists and Stylists till you find the ones that compliment your shooting style.

26. Always shoot in RAW

A RAW image file contains all the original data that the camera censor captured.

A JPEG is a compressed file that only retains about half the data of a RAW file.

Give image the best possible chance from the start. No excuses. Just shoot RAW.

27. Never store your memory cards in your back pocket and don’t shoot an entire job on one card

Pockets get holes in them and cards fail. I found out the hard way.

28. Be quiet

If you depend on your creativity for your living, then your most valuable piece of equipment is your mind. Taking time out everyday is a great way to do this and

29. Make friends with other photographers

The best advice on equipment and technique has come from spending time with other photographers. Social networking makes it really easy to connect with different photographers from all around the world.

30. Just start. Today

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The first thing I did when I decided to become a photographer was to get business cards printed that said Gina Milicia PHOTOGRAPHER. Even if I wasn’t 100% convinced I was ready or good enough the simple act of printing cards made it real to me.

I started out with a basic SLR camera and a cheap zoom I borrowed from my brother. I photographed only in daylight for the first 2 years because I could not afford flash gear and worked hand held because I also could not afford a tripod.

There will never be a time when you are 100% ready. There will always be something missing. Just start. Today.

by Gina Milicia

不能穷教育

政府最近又拿我们的教育制度开刀，之前的那波引起很多回响的“数理科目用回马来文来教学”课题让人摸不着金刚头，那是开倒车的做法。已经是事实了的事，我们就不要在这里批评了。

最近，教育部要在2015年，5岁的儿童就要上小学一年级。听了这样的决定，我就开始问自己“为什么他们要这样做呢？有什么好处呢？”

副首相今天在报纸里说：“我国的小孩很聪明，他们可以应付的来！” 请问副首相有何高见觉得他们可以呢？有哪一个先进国是这样的？

对不起，在这现实社会里，每个人都有议程，有目的的，所以，很难让我不去联想背后那些目的。

先猜为什么。。。

政府立志要成为先进国，先要有好的教育，这样才会大量的人才。那。。。怎样才要有那个量（volume）呢？啊！有了！把人才年轻化，让他们早熟，多了两个年龄层的人，就会变得好多好多了。届时，我国就更加多人才帮助国家的经济起飞，实现成为先进国家的梦想，成为高收入国家。2020宏愿即将来临了！好棒哦！与此同时，培育人才我们需要培育人才的“手”，就是老师们！增加就业机会，一举两得。好吗？

但是，同时让我也想到了一些阴谋。是的，阴谋论！是什么？可以捞更加多的钱。也许你会问，怎样捞？很简单！多了两个年龄层，就要多点教室啦，怎样？不够？给我盖教室！盖多点！全国有多少间学校？全部都给我盖个够！呃。。。老大，钱不够怎办？没关系，报价单拿来，提呈到财政部一致通过，钱会批下来的。哎呀，太低了？报高一点，可以的啦，可以拿到的，这工程，放心。

什么？老师不够？给我盖多点大学，师训大学，训练出一批老师来应付短缺。又可以捞啦！

什么？需要课本对不对？给我来出点书籍，教育课程给5-6岁的。又捞啦！

交通？衣服？食物？种种带有关联的，统统都有的捞！

好捞处多多都有！

其实真正好处是有的 - 给那些双薪父母。这对拼命赚钱生活的双薪父母们有好处，他们没时间照顾孩子，又要给钱托儿所帮忙照顾小孩顺便教育小孩。他们终于可以省下这笔钱，拿来给孩子去上课了。这样一来钱多了，顺理成章变成高薪一族，恭喜啊！感谢政府推动的经济改革+教育改革，让我们多了好多钱花！有钱花，带动整个国家的经济，小生意业者感受到生意好了，经济起飞了，慢慢迈向好的生活了。政府形象变好，人民喜欢！可以长生不老了，好好也！

也有些人觉得小孩子应该无忧无虑的度过他们那6岁学前光阴的。毫无压力的成长，毫无压力的，自由的玩耍。

是对是错，绝对不是短时间可以测出，需要的是时间。让我们来看一看，这一次可以行多远。

想清楚，要猜疑！

最近闹得沸沸扬扬的白包事件，肥狗偕同笨狗向大家拜年，派派钱给华裔乐龄的当儿，也顺顺便羞辱一番。笨狗说冤枉，被肥狗陷害。肥狗说小事一桩，华语媒体夸大，又说不了解华人文化，草草了事。我怎样也听不下去，54年后的今天，你还不了解？54年前的很多很多年叻？加起来有多少年了啊？一句不了解就想算？好吧，我就当你放狗屁，不跟你一般见识，希望全部人可以看清楚你这条肥狗厉害都有限，根本不能有作为，如何替人民做事，更不用说你！对！就是你！会看明白这些字的你！不会帮你一条毛！人民代议士？干！省点吧！

好啦，过了几天，就出现猪头事件啦，普通人就会猜，应该是被欺负的人干的吧？作为报复行为。他们应该是要替被欺负的人出出气。有可能吗？有可能！可能是毛头小子，也可能是思想不成熟的某政治家想把事情复杂化。也可能是肥狗那伙干的，为了掩饰，让其他人忘了他干的“好事”。

每天都被这些笨蛋围绕着，还真感到无聊！难道不可以好好做事，脚踏实地吗？我不教你看歪，我教你好好看时事，多点猜疑，用多种角度看，自己决定未来。现在不像以前酱单纯，每个人都有心机，看有没有耍，或者耍多耍少而已。他们没为谁，为的是自己跟那几只在家等小小虫的小鸟。

醒醒吧，沉睡的狮子！

We, voted them?

Everytime i hear our minister being interviewed, they cannot answer it correctly! 1st, they did not hear wat is the question, in their heart they are so defensive till they shut their ears! They just wanted to say wat he wanted to say, is this a debate? y r u so defensive? i have never hear other minister from other country so defensive? We need some one who is charisma, able to handle the situation calmly and not like wat we hear/see in the video. Obviously, we did not vote them to represent us! They are being "choose" not becos they are capable, just to fill up the table.

Y u wanna quarel with a journalist? Can you be diplomatic? this is world wide TV, whole world sees this! Y u wanna mention other country, y u wanna condemn others and just to show u r better? Y u wanna interrupt, when ppl is asking you a questions? Never hear and fully understand the whole situation! The example u given is totally not related. Pls dun answer when ur head is HOT! Cos... u r mempersiasuikan...

I am so looking forward on the coming GE!!!

老婆永远是对的

老婆永远是对的。

如果老婆错了，一定是我想错了。

如果我没想错，一定是我听错了。

如果我没听错，一定是我看错了。

如果我没看错，只要她不认错，那她就没错。

如果她认错了，那么参照第一条。

坚持，加油！

我开始挑剔自己的摄影器材。觉得它们不够好，我以前不会这样的。

我会珍惜我有的东西，把它变成最好，把它的潜能发掘出来，我常常会这样而有点小骄傲。

但最近，我疯了。便得爱比较，爱看自己的不够人处，忘了看自己的厉害之处。

天啊，要怎样才能回归自我呢？

尋找伯樂

撰自网络。。。

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報導指，1980年後出生的“Y世代”年輕員工喜歡轉換工作，每份工作平均只做一年半，有者坦言追求多方面發展，嘗試不同的東西，趁年輕多往外發展、見識，累積工作經驗。

雖然僱主贊同年輕人為累積不同工作經驗，學習更多專業知識而換工作，不過，才工作一年半就決定換工，未免太過倉促，因員工還未瞭解公司的運作就貿然辭職，確實有點衝動。

雇主會認為他們缺乏耐心與責任感，而且太過自我，導致忽略同事感受和公司利益。儘管時代變遷，不過仍有頗多雇主無法接受年輕員工那種過於“自我”的工作態度，且須經過一段時間的瞭解後，才逐漸找到和他們共事的模式。

年輕人換工作全憑自己的“喜好”，而“喜好”又取決於當時的“心情”。所以，不難發現在辦公室裡常常會聽到這樣的談話：“我最近心情不好，想換換工作；這份工作壓力太大了，心情不好真想不幹。”

轉職12大原因

綜觀以下轉職的12大原因，有多少項是“點中”你的心聲呢？

1. 薪資待遇欠佳

2. 自覺才華難以發揮，工作環境不適合

3. 對公司的經營方針有疑慮

4. 無法與主管共事

5. 對職場工作氣氛不滿意

6. 企業教育訓練不足

7. 升遷管道僵化

8. 出國進修

9. 對行業前景及公司未來堪憂

10. 自己的能力未受到肯定

11. 家人反對

12. 公司營運不佳，另謀發展

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在这里连接全篇文章。

你不知道的事

亲爱的问我，蝴蝶会眨眼睛吗？为什么要眨眼睛才会飞？

我想，那是王力宏的新歌，确实很好听。我嘴角微扬起，等她问

当我刚开始听到这首歌的时候我也很好奇，蝴蝶怎么会眨眼睛呢？想了想，我才记得小时候，老师曾说过，蝴蝶翅膀上的图案会像是有一双大大的眼睛，这是它们保护自己，以防死敌来侵袭。

所以，力宏新歌歌词所表达的意思，应该就是从蛹开始蜕变成蝴蝶的时候，眨眨翅膀，学习开始飞行。多优美的词啊！

这就是华语的厉害之处！很棒吧？

现在让我们来听听这首很棒的曲子。

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王力宏-你不知道的事  蝴蝶眨几次眼睛 才学会飞行  夜空洒满了星星 但几颗会落地   我飞行 当你坠落之际  很靠近 还听见呼吸  对不起 我却没捉紧你   你不知道我为什么离开你  我解释不能说放任你哭泣  你的泪滴想倾盆大雨 碎落满地 在心里惊醒   你不知道我为什么很小心 可现在你看不见的高空里 多的是 你不知道的事   蝴蝶眨几次眼睛 才学会飞行
夜空洒满了星星 但几颗会落地   我飞行 当你坠落之际  很靠近 还听见呼吸  对不起 我却没捉紧你   你不知道我为什么离开你  我解释不能说放任你哭泣  你的泪滴想倾盆大雨 碎落满地 在心里惊醒   你不知道我为什么很小心 可现在你看不见的高空里 多得是 你不知道的事   我飞行 当你坠落之际  噢噢~ 你不知道我为什么离开你  我解释不能说放任你哭泣  你的泪滴想倾盆大雨 碎落满地 在心里惊醒   你不知道我为什么很小心 可现在你看不见的高空里 多的是 你不知道的事 

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思想轉換 - 心態的力量 The strength of mindset

Would like to share some great story i read from forwarding emails. Here is one...

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女兒向父親抱怨，事事都很艱難。
A daughter complains toward the father, everything is difficult.

她不知如何應付生活，好像一個問題剛剛解決，新的問題又會出現，她有些厭倦。
She finds it hard to cope with life, seem a problem just resolve, the new
problem appeared again, she was tired.

父親是一位廚師，把她帶進廚房。
Her father is a cook, bring her into the kitchen.

他先往三口鍋裡倒入一些水，然後放在旺火上。
He goes toward first to pour into some waters in 3 pots, then puts on the fire.

不久，水開了。
Soon, water boiling.

他往第一口鍋裡放一些胡蘿蔔，第二口鍋裡放入雞蛋，第三口鍋裡放入碾成粉末的咖啡豆。
He put some carrots in the first pot, put an egg into the second pot, put some coffee powder into the third pot.


20分鐘後，父親把火關了，把胡蘿蔔撈出來，放入一個碗內，把雞蛋撈出來，放入一個
鍋內，然後把咖啡舀到一個杯子裡。
20 minutes later, father off the fire, take out the carrot. Go to the scond pot take out the egg, and then ladling up

the coffee to a cup.

父親轉身問女兒：
The father turned to ask his daughter:


「孩子，你看到了什麼？」
'Kid, what do you come in sight of?'

「胡蘿蔔，雞蛋，咖啡。」她說。
「Carrot, egg, coffee」She say.

他讓她靠近一些，摸摸胡蘿蔔。
He lets her come closer to touch the carrot.

她注意到他它們變軟了。
She noticed the carot become soft.

父親又讓女兒拿一個雞蛋，打破它，剝掉殼，這是一個煮熟的雞蛋。
The father lets the daughter take the egg, breaking it, peel the egg shell,this is a cooked egg.

最後，父親讓她喝了一口咖啡。
Last, the father lets her drink a mouthful of coffee.

嘗到濃濃的咖啡，女兒笑了，怯聲問道：
Taste to the very thick coffee, the daughter smile, she asked:


「父親，這意味著什麼？」
'Father, what does this mean?'

父親說，三樣東西面臨同樣的逆境——煮沸的開水。
The father says three things face same adverse circumstances-boiling water.

但其反映各不相同。
But its reflection is not same.


胡蘿蔔入鍋前是強壯的、結實的，放進開水，它變軟了、變弱了。
The carrot, before put in to the pot, it is strong and hard, after putting into the boiled water, it become soft,become weak.


雞蛋原來是易碎的，薄薄的外殼保護著液態的內臟，開水一煮，內臟變硬。
The egg is originally crumbly, the very thin outer shell protects the
internal organs of the liquid, once the boiled water cook, the internal organs become hard.

粉狀咖啡豆則很獨特，進入沸水，它們便改變了水。
The coffee bean powder then is very special, entering boiling water, they changed the water then.


在艱難和逆境前，可以學胡蘿蔔、雞蛋和咖啡豆，可以屈服，
也可以變得更堅強——甚至，可以改變環境。
We can learn how carrot,egg and coffee bean react in the difficulties and adverse circumstances. They can accept defeat, can become stronger, and even can change environment/surrounding.


父親說：
The father say:

你改變不了環境，但可以改變自己；

Your cannot change the environment, but can change yourself;

你改變不了事實，但可以改變態度；
Your cannot change the fact, but can change an attitude;

你改變不了過去，但可以改變現在；
Your cannot change the past, but can change the present;

你不能控制他人，但可以掌握自己；
You have no command over others, but can control yourself;

你不能預知明天，但可以把握今天；
You can't predict tomorrow, but can hold on today;

你不能樣樣順利，但可以事實盡心；
You can't be doing smooth and well in everything, but can devote your best effort;

你不能左右天氣，但可以改變心情；
You can't change weather, but can change a mood;

你不能改變容貌，但可以展現笑容；
You can't change facial appearance, but can emerge with smiling face;

是的，心態有時比什麼都重要。
Yes, the mindset sometimes is important compares with others