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Three positive things for five days challenge:  (finished!..or not?)

• Met my great friend from Japan & her mother. Can’t believe the Tokyo Ronald McDonald House visit was already 7 years ago!! (…seems I wrote all these in easyjournal.com, but the website is gone already!! darn!) Changing bedsheets, counting stocks for each room…hahaha.
• One item on my to-do list is to visit PP Elephant Parade. Great that I could K.O.  two items in one goal. Aren’t they cute?
• Went to singing class again. My singing teacher is working as a translator in a Japanese company……wah =O=”…and she speaks German and Italian too. Ho ging. Seems my whole day is quite Japanese-related.

Debrief

Three positive things challenge..hmm~ this week is DEFINITELY not the most positive weeks of the year, with a number of little hiccups. Anyway, when you chose to magnify the positive ones and ignore the unimportant sadness, things aren’t that bad really. It is your choice!

Three positive things for five days challenge: 

• Met my MCS friends! It’s so hard to get everyone together especially when we all have our own life / family / bf. Happy catch-up~~
• Sat is always a good day of the week…:3
• …(running out of ideas tim..) er…I had a good sleep? haha

Sun

• I had a really, really, bad dream. Was gasping for air crazily. Rushed to my parents’ room to see if they are okay. Then I fell asleep on their bed, haha. It’s one of the good things when you live at home.
• Went to play mahjong with beenthai!! So happy, but still couldn’t manage the mahjong skills XDDD
• Was finishing up my assignment…am very very grateful that I have a team of legal advisors >___<  hahaha (more like I am forcing them to help, yeah!!!). Ho ging ar really!

Three positive things for five days challenge: 

Annual leave again.

• Grabbed my “Studying Law” textbook and had a read on “Written English“. Interesting chapter on some basic grammar in formal writing.
• Completed 3 of out 6 questions for my surveying assignment. Lower than my expectation…anyway. It’s again the glass half-full / half-empty thinking.
• Happy that b went to visit our portfolio in Beijing :3  I haven’t been there yet bu

 

 

Three positive things for five days challenge: 

Happy day because I have stepped out of my comfort zone although its my valuable annual leave.

• Finally made the mentee lunch happen, out of my laziness and busy schedule!!
  My two mentees are two 1996-born cute cute girls. Very happy that we shared our childhood’s dreams…I blowed a lot of water…ordered all my favorite dishes (! yes, MY favorites) in 黃家沙, and truly excited for their second year campus life ahead :)
• finally went to the GYM today, out of my laziness and busy schedule!!!
  I (again..and again..) promised myself to go running every Tue and Thurs. Oh well…HAHA….very weak, also happy (?) that I am a pretty malfunctioned human being.
• finally K.O.-ed the discussion forum posts for my MSc surveying today, out of my laziness and busy schedule!! The next challenge is the assignment due on Mon…sigh.

 

經常有朋友轉載facebook page “Humans of New York” (HONY)的帖子.HONY在紐約的大街小巷訪問各式各樣的人 – 夫婦,學生, 上班族, 小朋友等等. 而帖子的format都很簡單 — 一張被訪者的獨照, 然後quote一句簡短的話.

看似容易嗎? 這個facebook page已經差不多有900萬個likes,更結集成書, 加印再加印.

原來這個page的管理人只是一個29嵗的美國人, 他一畢業就於trading firm工作, 但兩年後因金融海嘯被開除. 因爲HONY, 他的人生有趣多了, 今天的他更被TIME獲選為30 under 30之一.

我立刻想到,爲什麽香港沒有Humans of Hong Kong? 香港這個魅力之都是多麽有potential呀! 有趣的人和事多得是呢! search一下, facebook原來已經有4個”Humans of Hong Kong” 但一一都失敗了.致命傷如下:

1) 有著這麽好的題材, 管理人們沒有恆心去update, 4個pages都被荒廢了

2) 被quote的話語太無聊. 太無里頭, 看似發人心省, 其實完全沒有含義…

3) 相片拍得太hea. 相反HONY所有照片都非常專業傳神

4) 最重要的是, HONY的照片都能巧妙地connect到那句話. 看到照片,你就仿佛站在這human身邊,感受到他的語氣聲調情感.

他成功的地方,就是每一個post都有水準, 恰到好處地capture到the right moment, the right line, 讀者們才會找到共鳴. 這技巧絕對不簡單!