My Digital World

Last weekend I was not at home (which I mean that I did not go to my parents' house) since I went to watch movies. Last week, the annual Internationale Film Festival had been started. Several movies from all over the world were exhibitted in the cinemas in Rotterdam. Because it was a special week and because I wanted to watch movies, I stayed in Rotterdam and took a day off of my part-time work in the restaurant. I went to the movies with some friends: Wangyan, Luna and Villa. Our first movies started at Monday. the first movie we saw was very bad!!! During that movie ("Lost in Tokyo") I almost felt asleep. The first effort to sleep, I was jolt awake by crying of the man who plays in the movie. I have never heard a man cry in such a way that he is able to wake someone from his/her being unconscious. This man performs better that my alarm clock in the early morning. The second time that I was waken up, was a call of my friend Jimmy. He wondered where I was since he was also watching movies that day.

The second movie (Princess) was about a guy who took revenge against the porn market. That movie was a cartoon animation that was created by people who come from Denmark. The drawing is far most not so good as our familar anime/manga in Japan. But apart from that, there was one very remarkable thing in the whole movie: the voice of the girls. I was very amazed by the voice of the girls who play in the movie. Their voices seem like a man! Also the way how the girls talk, seems like a man. That may be very typical of people from Denmark, I guess. The movie itself was OK. After seeing a very bad movie, this movie was significant much and much better. However, this is not a way to judge the movie. So our first day of Internationale Film Festival ended with one very bad movie and one reasonble cartoon.

I forget what I have done in other days. My memory seems to be worse and worse. It might be because I become old. It is said that once you become older you will be wiser. Although I am agreed with this judgement, I like to add some comments. First, you might be wiser but the things that you need to pay for it is that you become more and more awkward. In my case, which I think that most people will also suffer, I will lost more and more memory. With respect to electrical explanation, short circuit will be created in my brain: people who becomes older and older, the connection of nervous systems in the brain will grow since they become wiser. Once the nerves fill the whole brain, they have no more space to expand. However they like continuing growing since we want be wiser. Therefore they expand in all direction which leads to chaos in the nervous system which results in malfunction in memory. Commonly the phenomena are short-memory or losing memory :P The last and not the least, don't take this too serious since I am in a weird mood again.

By the way, in the weekend, to be more precisely, at Saturday we continued with watching movies. They were the last movies we wanted to see. Starting with a Malaysian movie: "Love Conquers All". The movie was OK. The day before the movie started, I had a talk with Wangyan about loverboy. She didn't know what a loverboy is. And coincidentally our first movie was about loverboy. It was weird to watch a movie in which you tell a story that exactly played in the movie.
The second movie was "Before We Fall in Love Again". This was also a Malaysian movie. There was one word for this movie: boring! One positive thing of this movie was that it was slightly better than Lost in Tokyo. Every time when I watched a movie that I didn't like, I always say it was a waste of my time and money.
After the second movie we moved to my room to have a dinner. I invited Bou and his girlfriend (Sherry) to come to my place to enjoy the dinner together. Because Bou likes salm fish, I prepared salm fish for him. Besides, I did new experiments of how to make "yeung tofu - 酿豆腐" and "spare ribs- 排骨" (I dunno if I write the names correctly in English). I also cooked soup which is lotus-soup - 莲藕汤. All my friends were white mice at that evening. And surprisely, they all survive. My cookingskil is fortunately not that bad as what I expect.
Anyway, after the dinner we went to see our last movie ("Aachi & Ssipak"). It is a Korean animation. The story was about a world where people and aliens fought for their energy source which was shit. This cartoon was also OK. The most funniest part of the cartoon is the ads about shit. The remaining part of the movie was a bit flavorless.
When we left the movie, there was a guy who put his arm on my shoulder. When I turned back, I saw that it was Mark! We had a short talk since it was late and I wanted to bring the ladies to the nearest metro station. Mark also watched movie. He was with his brother and a friend. I haven't talked to Mark since he was on holiday to Mexico to visit his father and when he came back in The Netherlands, he started with working in Siemens. It was very nice to meet him in the cinema and have a talk with him. :) The world is really very small. You never know who you will meet.

The next day, I went with Faruk to Scheveningen. Faruk wanted to buy a analogue camera. And since he didn't have any sense of judging a camera he asked me to join him. I personally also don't have sense of how to judge a camera whether it is good or worthwhile to buy. But at least, I have some experience in taking pics. So, I might be helpful for him.
When we arrived in Scheveningen and when we took a look at the camera, there was one thing that caught my attention. I saw dark spots through the viewfinder in the camera very clear and big. However, they have no effect on the image. After we left I told to Faruk about my worries of the dark spots. If he likes to learn how to take pics, then he can buy the camera since it is well priced. But if he wants more with the camera, I advised him to save his money.

This week, my first week of the 3rd quarter starts. I haven't attend any lectures except the practical aasignment that was hold on Thursday. I really don't know what I am busy with. Due to circumstances I am non-stop doing stuff. Anyway, this Wednesday, I went to Amsterdam since I have a dinner with Nancy, Shukyee and Stephanie. It was a very long time ago that I see Shukyee since she was in Taiwan doing her exchange. I also haven't seen Nancy and Stephanie. I don't know why I am so quite (non-talktative) when I meet them. Among my many friends, I talk alot. It is not because I like to talk but I usually have things to tell.
Anwyay, we have had a nice dinner. Our plan was to eat India's food. But since nobodys know where the restaurant is where we want to go, we finally end in an Italian restaurant. The pasta and pizza that they served were nice. During the dinner we talk about our current life. I tell them that I am accepted to become a student-assistance of the last year's project in the Bachelor. This week I started with my job. My task is to help students with their problems concerning the assignments that they have to do at home and behind the computer (using MATLAB). This project is very tough to teach and to guide since the things that are discussed are at a very high level.
Nancy, Stephanie and Shukyee said that this is a typical job for me since I am a person who likes to give tuition to people and who have lots of patience. But I do not agree with the fact that I like the job that I have now. I apply for this job since I want to earn some money. Besides I want to learn more stuff in real life. So, this is a great opportunity for me to fullfill my wishes.
By the way, after the dinner we went to eat ice-cream. We went to Hagen-Dasz which I like very much. We took a chocolate buffet (I forget the name already:P). it was very nice! Here I have a very nice picture of my pretty friends:



How sweet! The cookies and the chocolate plus the icecream were so delicious! Oh, I forget to show my buddy in the photo. Here you have my pretty friends again with "gekkenbekken trekken":



There was one person that I missed: Airin! She was sick and so she couldn't come. Hopefully she feels now much better.

This week, I started with modelshooting for my promotion of Mr. and Miss Delft Paegants. I have a professional model who is a friend of my friend. She was in Holland for holidaying and she lets me to took pics of her for the promotion. That is very nice of her. My friend, Eileen, who is just back from holidaying in Asia with her boyfriend also offer her help. She likes to be my model too. I really have to thank to the two models plus other friends who help me with orginasing. Here I share some results of my shooting:














I want to use (after editting) two of these photos for doing the promotion. But I want to discuss this first with the models and the community-members.

Well, it is very late now and I write too much. This is my update of my current life. Next time, I have other stuff to tell.