Jason Wong, HKG, YVR, HNL

Nowadays, how many people have the backbone to stand up for mistakes that ones’ committed?  Recently, there were tons of incidents that I have encountered in current labor force where people made mistakes but they never stood up and dealt with the problems - instead, blaming others, changing subjects or in the worst case, making false claims and lies about things that was not true at all.  My job is about people relations, so I tend to get people in more “accelerated” way.  In other words, I see people with more darker sides than most people do.  Give human civilization another 5,000 years, I bet we will see invertebrate human form emerging in every world corner.

Today, it was my good friend’s birthday whom I have known for decades.  She was great in every way - kind, friendly and good-hearted.  Almost an year ago, some personal business has changed her life and it was always hard to see good people get sucky treats.  In any case, to lighten up her mood and try to pull her out of her blue, I did something special which I hope that can cheer her up.  I hope I was successful.  I always find, not everybody in the world can deserve everything: wealth, happy marriage, great health, good look.  You may have perfect 10 in every way but as long as you are not in your coffin yet, you never know when the world may turn his back on you.  For those who think they get everything in the sunny coast - they better think of rainy days.

Have you ever encountered “perfect-timing” in life? I did. I remembered, the very last day of my university study, I had one last evening examination to attend. After the examination, I returned home by driving 15 Km. Believe me or not, from the campus all the way to my parents’ house, all traffic lights (there were around 23 lights in total) were green (not even amber) and I reached home with normal driving speed (55 Km) in 10 minutes. That was a very surreal moment - it was like all stars lined up in one line or something.  The least I could say, that night was very special. A perfect finale for my academic life. (Of course, those of you who know me better, should know that I had studied other degree/programs later but anyway, that was second stage of my life)

It has been 10 years since I have had a proper piano teacher. After today’s assessment exercises, I got good ideas how to improve my movement and rhythm more by putting more soul in each strike. It was frustrating in the beginning to get rid of bad habit - like Jazz/Groove Move, Front/Back Twists, etc. But I spent hours in doing exercises, and I have seen some improvement over my constant banging/striking. Anyway, it would be interesting 6 months later to see how my bang/strick works.

Almost one week has passed since my last post.  Other than more works and more meetings coming to my door - there is nothing really unique.  Time flies really fast when you are not looking at the clock.

Since today, I needed to position my neck in certain way, so that I could feel less about the pain, I ended up sitting/lying around my couch and watched TV for the whole evening. I am not a couch potato. Ever since, Sex and the City, Will & Grace, Ally McBeal were no longer on TV, I have stopped watching any show religiously in daily basis. Today, I ended up watching tons of reality TV shows that I found myself very saturated with these REAL PEOPLE, REAL STORIES plots. Not just in Asia but in America, I really find entertainment industry, especially TV media, is hitting a dead end. Nobody seems to care about creativity in making more witty and funny sit-coms. Anything that is new, none of them can last for a season or two. Very, very few can last for more than 4 seasons. The good old time where you sat back and watched some intelligent shows era is well over years ago. How sad…

Woke up ths morning, got this intense neck to chest sharp pain coming from my spine. Went to the office but could not stay for long. Took a leave and lied in bed for hours. The back muscle is still tense but hopefully it will be fine by tomorrow if not 100%. I always get this kind of chronic muscle/joint pain coming from nowhere. This time is probably due to poor sleeping posture.

After working non-stopped for 6-7 weeks, I finally got some personal time to have a hair cut appointment.  My stylist has consulted with me for 5 minutes and I have decided to go with something shorter for hot and humid Hawaii summer season.  Viola, the picture is my after-make over.  Please excuse the background where my cats were trying to make a stand on top of my shopping bags.

(For those with sharp eyes, they can tell the photo is taken by a webcam.  Just want to take it and go and take a full shower after a work-out session.)

Ever since, Burberry has discontinued Canine Fashion last Fall, I was having a bit blue feeling - no more fashion or clothes for my dog.  To emphasize how much do I care about my dog, well, my dog received his first Burberry sweater before I did.  I did buy my clothes to match my dog’s outfits in Canada - quite extreme huh?  Well, I love him and that’s all I can say the least.

Today, I went to Nordstrom.  Guess what, I’ve found something really nice for my dog.  It’s Juicy Doggy Couture!  I got the one which said, “My Dog for President” plus a nice hood attached.  The material is pretty decent too - cotton with small blend of spandex.  My dog loves skin-tight clothes and this material is perfect for him.  The only thing that I hope Juicy Couture can improve is option for colour.  I don’t like black and the only thing that is available is pink.  I got the one with a more taupe in it and it won’t look too bad on my male dog.  Besides, pink is hot for man fashion now.  To complete the story, I have bought a pink T-shirt and pink blouse for my parents.  That concluded my shopping trip this evening.

I am getting a bit more concerned about nowadays, applicants never bother much to compose a well written cover letter before sending their resumes along.  Occasionally, I did receive resume and “memo” looking cover letter: “Hey man, I am looking for a job, give me a ring.” and the fun part was, these candidates’ expected salary range = $80K USD and up.  Speaking of resumes, I received more and more PHOTO attached or GIF/JPEG “artworks” resumes…I don’t mind if those photos are professionally taken or those art works are well rendered - the poorest things are - they are too low-resolution, too dimmed, too yellow, too sloppy…Anyway, long story short, if you want a potential employer to look at your application, please have a decency to write or at least “copy” a professional cover letter along with your resume.  Nothing worse than having bunch of U-Grads submitted their ill-prepared package in such a care-free fashion.