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Please visit to my yahoo blog which has my latest sharing.

http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/char4978

Video and Radio

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:06:06 GMT

An amateur videomaker (Suggest watching "Gatsby" Motion Graphic Video")

http://www.youtube.com/charliefung

Host of a Internet Radio Program about Film review and news (Cantonese Only)

http://www.openradiohk.com/prog.php?id=4

BALANCE

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:50:11 GMT

I believe our bodies and our living habits should have a precise balance. That means if our living habits are going wrong, such as drink heavily, lack of sleep, improper diet, our bodies are going wrong as well, such as being sick, feeling tired, and lack of vitality. As our bodies and our mind are intimately connected by the nervous system. Creativity won't appear without a healthy body. And nowadays, we rely on medicine to keep our bodies healthy, but not a good living habit.

I tried to use a good living habit instead of medicine to fight with illness. Once, I felt not well, I avoid the improper food, which has too much oil and monosodium glutamate (MSG). I keep regular intake of water and adequate sleep. It works on me. The self-recovering ability recovered my body to get over the illness. This experiment reinforced my belief on the balanced living. Because of the intimately connection of body and mind, an energetic body will improve my creativity definitely.

WE HAVE TOO MUCH TIME

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:45:44 GMT

I listened many friends said how busy they are, how much work they have to handle, no time being with family and no time for themselves. I think not only my friends; most people think they don't have enough time. But I have a totally different point of view. I think our problem is WE HAVE TOO MUCH TIME. You may think it's unreasonable. Because the majority think time is like money, more is better. But please listen to me. I asked a friend about time. Here's our conversation.

I asked, "How long you think you will live to?"

He answered, "I think I still have 50 years to live."

He's 30 now. It's reasonable to think he will live to age of 80.

Then I asked, "If you had only half of 50 years, 25 years only to live, you think your life will change?"

He answered, "Nothing much different"

I asked, "How about 10 years only?"

He answered, "I will spend more time to travel, because I really enjoy traveling, and I will do more voluntary to help more people."

I asked, "How about 1 year?"

He answered, "I will definitely quit my job, go travel with my family. To go the place I really wanna go."

I think most people will have the similar answers. What did the answer told me? It told me that most people really know what is the most important in their lives.

But please count the hours we spent for the most important things per week.

10 hours, 5 hours or less?

And please count how many hours we spent for watching TV, playing video game, go shopping, singing karaoke, working overtime.

5 hours, 10 hours or more?

Most people spent more time on those minor activities than the most important thing. Because they think they have time still. My friend, he thinks he can live to age of 80. He didn't do the most important things right now, because he thinks he has 50 years to do it.

However, I'm so cruel to ask him a question.

Who tell you that you can live to age of 80?

Are you really sure you have 50 years left?

Why not 1 year? Why not 1 day?

To recall my statement, I think our problem is WE HAVE TOO MUCH TIME.

I would like to correct it to WE MISTHINK WE HAVE TOO MUCH TIME.

Thus, we forgot we are living at the moment of "Present". We spent our time for our future. We earned a lot of money for our retired life. We spent our time for our past. We used many nights to regret our mistake and our unhappy experience.

We always forgot the present. We always think we have too much time to waste.

LIVING IN THE BOX

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:33:10 GMT

Yahoo will tell you about 56,700,000 web site for Creativity, and Google will tell you about 62,000,000 for it. Psychological literature will show you more than 60 different definitions of creativity as well.

Let's keep it simple.

The dictionary told that Creativity is "The ability to invent".

Yes, Creativity is to invent something new. We will consider that the game with new gameplay is creative. We will consider that the movie with new narrative style is creative. But how about our lives? Our lives are creative? Do we have the ability to invent our lives?

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. - 'George Kneller'

I believe Creativity really exist in our bodies after birth. From some children's drawing, you can see they can use the new perspective to describe things. In my childhood's drawing, I drew people with blue skin color, the TV in sphere sharp. But now, I think I lost this kind of imagination. Some surveys have shown that between the ages of five and seventeen, creativity decreases from 90% (at age five) to 10% (at age seventeen). That means we will gain different kind of abilities but lose creativity through growth.

It's no doubt that growth gained me knowledge through education, experience through trial, wisdom through my parents. But growth also gained me a box. A box of various boundaries, limitation and condition. Since I was educated, people told me a lot of "DO and DON'T". I really feel like living in a box. I was depressed in some periods of my life. I thought I really lost the meaning of life. I was just living under other people's will. I never thought my depression could be cured. I consider my depression is a part of my life, being with me in my coffin as well.

Real Beauty

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 03:57:26 GMT

No wonder our perception of beauty is distorted.

Ghost in the city

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 03:17:34 GMT

Many years ago, I listened a song named "Ghost in the city". I forgot what the song is, but the name is in my mind all the time. There are many ghosts in my city, selfish people, family tragedy, being a working machine, chasing wealth blindly, have perfect life through consumption, being a freak if no those social wisdom.

Ghost in the city - part 1

Ghost in the city - part 2

I perfer being a freak rather than man without soul.

My disc recommendation in HMV

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 02:48:14 GMT

When I tidied up my totally messed room, I found out something.

When I was working in HMV, I wrote some disc recommendation for HMV music guide, a music magazine. But all I wrote is about video.

I scaned two of them, and wanna share with all you guys here.

I didn't write a professional article. But I just wrote for sharing with others.

In this semester, I am trying to gather some classmates to be a video sharing group to share our good video veiwing experience.

I believe we can gain through giving.

And I hope you guys can gain something through sharing with me.

Mission Statement

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:11:30 GMT

Mission Statement

"Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale,
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing. "
--From Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5), William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

I agree all of us are nature born meaningless.
I award the meaning of life to myself.

Life is short.
I remind myself that every day could be my last day in my life.
Do not hesitate to do what I want to do.

Our world is full of lies.
Especially business persons are good at telling lies.
They told me that my life will be wonderful if I consume.
Do not believe those lies.
I remind myself the real happiness never came from consumption.

Our world is full of norm
People creating the norm are intelligent.
People believing the norm are foolish
Even though I could not break the norm, I could be conscious of the truth that it is just norm, no need to fulfill it.

Do not take it for granted at anytime.
Even if my parents, my lover, my friend, they are not responsible to love me.

Life goes on, even though it is bitter.
Make it bittersweet.
Make it meaningful by my own hands.

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:41:44 GMT

What does movie mean to you?

A 120 mins entertainment? A touching story? Star? Action?

I have worked in Movie channel for 3 years. 3 years maybe 1/30 in my life, but this 1/30 life changed my whole life.

Thanks, Movie Channel. Thanks, Movie.