Tuesday, March 15, 2011

20岁生日

我的生日落在每年的一个很特别的日子,
每年的三八妇女节就是我的生日,今年已经是我20岁生日了,
又长大一岁了...
3月8日当天晚上,
老爸买了个蛋糕为我庆祝。在吹蜡烛前,
和弟弟及昂昂和佳佳拍了张合照,
昂昂和佳佳已经成为我的弟妹了,
不知情的人还以为我真的有那么多弟妹。
除了家人为我庆祝生日,
中学时的一班好朋友也趁周日到GreenBox唱K.这是朋友们送给我的新钱包,
有新钱包用了...

Monday, March 14, 2011

Unstoppable

Unstoppable is a 2010 American action thriller film directed by Tony Scott, written by Mark Bomback, and starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine. The film tells the story of a runaway freight train, and the two men (Washington and Pine) who attempt to stop it.

In a rail yard within the northern Pennsylvania town of Fuller, a pair of workers for the Allegheny and West Virginia Railroad (AWVR), Dewey (Ethan Suplee) and Gilleece (T.J.Miller), are ordered to move a freight train off its current track to make way for an excursion train carrying schoolchildren. Dewey tells Gilleece not to connect the locomotive's air hose to save time; he does this knowing that the train's air brakes will be disabled on everything behind the gap in this configuration, but resolves to connect the hoses after parking the train on another track. Dewey begins moving the train through the yard, but sees that an approaching switch is not set to the right track. Against Gilleece's advice, Dewey jumps down to line the switch properly, while the independent brake and throttle/dynamic brake levers in the cab, unattended, fall of their own accord to 0% braking and full throttle, respectively. The train picks up speed, and Dewey is unsuccessful in his attempts to reboard. It leaves the yard and enters the main line unmanned.

Meanwhile, Will Colson (Chris Pine), a newly-hired conductor for AWVR, is partnered with veteran engineer Frank Barnes (Denzel Washington). Barnes and Colson meet in the southern Pennsylvania city of Brewster, where Barnes, a 28-year employee, finds out that Colson, who will be in charge of the train, is only four months out of training. They take their locomotive to a zinc plant outside the city of Stanton to attach their train for the day, where, after Colson makes the mistake of picking up too many cars, they head north on the main line towards Fuller.

In Fuller, the hostlers let yardmaster Connie Hooper (Rosario Dawson) know that that they have a runaway train headed into opposing traffic on the main line. Assuming the dead man's switch will trigger the brakes and turn the train into a "coaster" that stops a few miles from the yard, she tells them to catch up with a high-rail-truck and stop it. She also calls Ned (Lew Temple), a lead welder for the railroad, and tells him to set a switch to direct the train into a siding. When he arrives at the switch, after waiting some minutes, Dewey & Gilleece arrive, and it becomes clear that the train has passed already, moving faster than expected due to being under power. The hostlers proceed to catch up with the train, but do not succeed in boarding it.

Connie and the dispatchers work to get every train on the main line onto sidings. From the AWVR headquarters in Pittsburgh, Oscar Galvin (Kevin Dunn), vice-president of train operations, calls her and asks her what's happening and what she is doing about it. She has not yet figured out how to stop the train, but works to make sure that each of the grade crossings along the line are secured, since 8 of the tank cars on the runaway train collectively contain 30,000 gallons of molten phenol, a hazardous material.

Barnes and Colson hear the dispatcher's order to pull into a siding. Barnes says they cannot use the siding initially assigned since their train is too long to fit in it. He asks instead if a Repair-In-Place-track further down the line is clear and gets permission to continue along the main line to it.

Galvin rejects Connie's suggestion to derail the train in an area of lightly populated farmland, since it would be too costly and it is still possible to stop the train. An emergency meeting of railroad executives approves another plan, but Galvin refuses to let Connie listen in on the meeting. The train's odyssey becomes a media event, followed by helicopters with continuous coverage on television and reporters at crossings in small towns.

The company's plan, to have a lashup of two locomotives enter the main line ahead of the runaway and slow it down while an employee (Ryan Ahern) attempts to board the lead locomotive from a helicopter, fails catastrophically, leading to the derailment of the lashup locomotives and the death of the veteran engineer (David Warshofsky) operating them. Barnes and Colson make it into the Repair-In-Place track in the nick of time, as the runaway smashes through the rearmost car of their consist.

As the train passes, Barnes sees that the coupling on the last car of the runaway is open. He decides to put his locomotive in reverse and catch the runaway by coupling onto the back of it. Colson, at first reluctant, joins him. Galvin insists that Barnes, Colson, and Connie abandon the plan, but they refuse even after Galvin threatens to fire them. Barnes then reveals that he has already been fired by Galvin, forced into early retirement.

The police abort a plan of tripping a fuel cutoff switch on the locomotive's side with close-range gun blasts at a grade crossing when they realize the switch's proximity to the fuel tank. Another attempt to stop the train with derailers in a small town fails because the train is too heavy and going too fast. Evacuations begin as the train approaches Stanton, where the line crosses the town on a sharp elevated curve. Taking the curve at the runaway's current speed would result in it derailing and falling into a fuel oil tank farm, causing a major disaster.

Barnes and Colson catch up with the runaway. After Colson manually couples their locomotive to the train, they begin slowing it down with their dynamic brakes, but are unable to slow the runaway down enough to safely navigate the curve. Barnes goes out onto the train and begins setting each car's brakes individually, but the chase locomotive's dynamic brakes blow out and the runaway begins to pick up speed again. Colson then applies an independent air brake from the chase locomotive. These factors slow the train down just enough to get it through the curve with precarious tilting, rather than a derailment. After coming out of the curve, Barnes attempts to run to the lead locomotive, but is stopped at a gap between two cars that is too wide to bridge.

Ned drives up alongside the train in his pickup truck, and Colson jumps into the back. Driving at high speed they make it to the front of the runaway, where Colson jumps to the lead locomotive and finally stops the train. Barnes, Colson and Ned are declared heroes and the former two reunite with their worried families.

Friday, March 11, 2011

乐在双城

章雅乐出身富裕家庭,在父母意外去世后,继承了庞大的遗产。雅乐把婚纱店生意和其它投资都交给别人打理,自己却每天过着着挥霍无度,极其奢华的生活。终于 有一天,她发现了婚纱店的生意严重亏损,其它投资也付诸流水,还欠下银行一笔巨款。雅乐想找朋友帮忙,却发现以前所谓的好朋友都是为了钱才奉承她,如今见 她有难,都对她避而远之。
走投无路之际,雅乐意外得知母亲在新加坡投资过一家婚纱店"良辰美景",由阿姨--梅金凤打理。雅乐想把婚纱店的股份卖给金凤,以便解决财务问题,可是金凤另有想法,坚决不肯买下雅乐的股份,还要雅乐留下工作。雅乐穷途末路,于是把心一横,答应留下。两人的相處也因而擦出 了不少火花。

林文涛是金凤的养子,也是"良辰美景"的摄影师和金凤的"青海跆拳道馆"的教练。文涛个性温和淳朴,总是对雅乐循循善诱,尝试引导她 学习摄影和跆拳道,希望借此训练她的耐心和毅力,但雅乐嫌摄影无聊、练拳辛苦又粗鲁,还批评文涛木讷、没有情趣,却万万没想到自己已在不知不觉中爱上了文 涛......





潘乐瑶是雅乐一次被打劫,一起合力擒住劫匪时,而认识的朋友。乐瑶是个精打细算的聪颖女子,在模特儿界颇有名气,常以不同形象周旋在不同的有钱男人之中,因为嫁入豪门就是她终极的梦想。
一次偶遇,让乐瑶认识了美佳集团的总裁殷正凯。乐瑶看准他是一只金龟,于是透过从小青梅竹马的欧阳明的关系,加入了美佳酒店,甚至当上了正凯的私人助理,但她始终还是无法得到对方的青睐,因为正凯心中另有一女人,就是乐瑶同父异母的妹妹--潘乐萱。

当 年乐萱的爸爸发生婚外情,偷偷在新加坡另组家庭,还生了潘伟松和乐瑶两兄妹。乐萱的妈妈得悉后,把乐萱爸爸赶出家门,因此乐萱从小就缺乏父爱,造成她叛逆 个性。乐萱的妈妈后來遇车祸,临死之前要乐萱投靠父亲。没想到祸不单行,乐萱的男友 -- 钱文龙此时刚好被仇家追杀,被迫要逃亡到泰国。文龙免得拖累乐萱,要她离开马来西亚。乐萱在百般无奈之下,来到新加坡找爸爸,也因此而重遇正凯。正凯欣赏 乐萱直率的个性,而两人悬殊的身份、大不相同的生活方式,更是引起正凯对乐萱好奇的重要因素。两人渐渐成为好友,进而发展出一段感情。
乐瑶为了得到正凯,不惜在正凯姐姐--殷正雯面前说乐萱的坏话。乐萱在正雯的多番阻扰下,不禁心灰意冷,加上文龙此时又出现,更是让乐萱烦恼不已。一番挣扎之后,乐萱还是选择了正凯,文龙只好成全他们,无奈离开。
同时,正凯为了能和乐萱在一起,也不惜跟正雯翻脸,一再地跟乐瑶划清界限。乐瑶不甘心,要跟乐萱斗争到底,然而无论乐瑶多么努力争取,正凯仍然一心向着乐萱。乐瑶最终只能承认失败,黯然退出这段三角恋。
在乐瑶最失意的时候,欧阳明一直在乐瑶身边不离不弃。两人渐渐察觉对彼此有意思。欧阳明知道乐瑶还是希望嫁个有钱人,为了尽快致富,欧阳明误信假消息,把所有财产拿去投资,甚至把父亲欧阳风的婚纱店也抵押给银行,结果投资失败,父子一夜间背负巨债。乐瑶得知欧阳明负债全为了自己,深受感动,但此时的欧阳明却判若两人,对自己完全没了信心,更加不敢向乐瑶表白......

林乐是金凤的女儿,是个渴望爱情的女人,可是没有一次恋爱可以持久,全因金凤对她的终身大事过度关心,每一位男朋友都必须经过她的严格审核,导致交往过的男人个个打退堂鼓。
一天,林乐在一民歌餐厅里认识了歌手Star,非常仰慕他的歌声和才华,两人一拍即合,迅速坠入爱河。为了捍卫这段爱情,林乐不惜跟金凤翻脸,无奈天意弄人,林乐在Star家里发现女人的衣物,却意外揭发了Star有变装的癖好,喜爱做女人打扮。
林乐大受刺激。伟松安慰林乐之际,发现自己已爱上了她,并表示愿意娶林乐。林乐本以为伟松是同情自己,后终被他的诚意所感动,答应嫁给他。当林乐穿上梦寐以求的婚纱,挽着伟松走进教堂的时候,她知道她终于找到了真正的王子......

文涛曾在一次比赛中意外导致对手受重伤,自此对跆拳道比赛蒙上了阴影,甚至对血产生恐惧感。雅乐得知一切以后,暗地里帮助文涛重新回到比赛的擂台上。正当雅乐以为可以跟心爱的人在一起的时候,文涛的前女友依婷却突然出现,让文涛和雅乐之间的感情备受考验......四 个名字带"乐"的女生虽然在她们的人生里各别遇到挫折和低潮,但她们都幸运地遇上了生命中的王子,陪伴她们找到了快乐的真正意义。原来,财富不一定买得到 快乐,高高在上的权利也不一定带来快乐。快乐其实可以很简单,只有了解自己真正要的是什么,勇敢追求理想,积极面对逆境,才能够找到生命中的喜悦。

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Sanctum

Sanctum is a 2011 3D adventure drama film directed by Alister Grierson and executive produced by James Cameron.

During an underwater cave exploration in Papua New Guinea, five people are trapped when a cyclone starts flooding the cave. With the water going up and the air running out, their only hope of survival is to travel through the unexplored underwater caves following the course of the river that leads into the ocean.

The film begins with the explorers 17-year-old Josh (Rhys Wakefield), expedition bank-roller Carl Hurley (Ioan Gruffudd) and his girlfriend Victoria, reaching the cave by helicopter at the Esa'ala Cave site.

Upon reaching the cave it is made known that Frank McGuire (Richard Roxburgh), Josh's father and a master diver, has already set up a forward base camp deep inside the cave. The team has been exploring the cave system for months, and have set up an excellent communication network that allows communication with the camp from above. While Victoria and Josh rappel down the cave, Carl chooses to dive and parachute into it, reaching the base camp before Josh and Victoria.

While the guests get comfortable, Frank and Judes decide to explore an unexplored section of the cave known as Devil's Restriction. Squeezing through a narrow passage they reach a giant cavern with huge ceilings, but while they are returning, Judes' hose snaps. With no backup tank, Frank offers Judes his full face driving mask to buddy breathe. After exchanging the mask twice, Judes begins to panic and refuses to let go of Frank's hose. Frank reluctantly pushes her away so that he can breathe, and Judes dies in front of his eyes. The entire action is captured and witnessed by the members of the forward base through the rover trailing the divers.

Josh accuses Frank of murdering Judes, while the others try to convince him that Frank took heroic risks in attempting to help her. Frank tells Josh that Judes knew the risks, and that Josh was responsible in part for the accident since he failed to procure the backup tanks. Meanwhile, a fierce storm develops on the surface, and attempts by the surface team to warn the divers fail. Unaware of the storm, some of the divers decide to return to the surface where they encounter water gushing in. Josh and Luko (Cramer Cain) refuse to escape without warning the dive team.

During the escape Luko is badly injured and Frank drown him in a mercy killing. Frank asks Victoria to use Judes' suit but she refuses. As a result, later her body becomes too cold. Later George, Frank's buddy, suffers from decompression sickness and stays behind so that he will not slow down the group. Victoria dies crossing a gorge in the cave. Her body had already been cold and she found it difficult to grasp the rope. When Carl shines a torch in her face to see if she is fine, she loses her foothold and trips. Her hair becomes trapped in the equipment. Despite Frank's warnings, she uses her knife, unknowingly cuts the rope and falls into the churning waters below. The divers lose all but one rebreather in the accident. The teams regroup and decide to rest. Frank explains that he intends to use the rebreather to dive and find a way to come back for them.

Carl, maddened by grief, suddenly dives in with the last tank and Frank loses him in the cave. Josh happens to find bat droppings and infers that there might be a way out, because bats only use passages (and entrances) that are big enough for humans. The two make their way out and find an opening up to the surface along with a Japanese tank from World War II that crashed through. They both decide to find another way through the cave rather than wait to be rescued. They find a crazed Carl who attacks Frank and mortally injures him by impaling him on some minor stalagmites before diving back into the cave without a tank in hope of finding a way out.

Josh is forced to mercy kill his father in the same manner as Frank mercy killed Luko. Josh dives and continues to swim on a single tank. As he swims, he sees Carl who has died due to lack of oxygen. When his light dies, he uses the light in the boar tooth his father gave him. Finally the tank runs out of air and Josh, remembering his father's words, uses air bubbles trapped on the cave ceiling and continues ahead. Finally exhausted and on the verge of giving up, Josh sees sunlight ahead and breaks the surface, emerging in the Solomon Sea and swims to a nearby beach.

Monday, March 7, 2011

最后一个小时

现在距离我20岁的生日还有不到一个小时的时间,
Haiz...
又长大1岁了...
转眼间就20岁,
都不知道这20年来我是怎样过得,
人生就是如此。

也许在转眼间我就30岁了,
到时可能跟另一伴一起渡过生日,
也许...

倒数19岁的最后1个小时内,
外面却下起雨了,
在这雨天的晚上是最适合入睡的时候,
可是,
这个时候的我在等待凌晨12点的到来,
期待那个时刻收到朋友们祝贺的生日短讯。

Thursday, March 3, 2011

久违了...

已经有一段时间没有更新blog了,
这阵子都闲着在家“煲戏”,
自从结束training后,
就一直呆在家,
老爸还常说,
我在家吃老米。

自从training后,
我就很害怕毕业的那天到来,
我怕出社会工作,
我怕这三年的学历都是白费的,
我怕...

以前我还会为了见到偶像而努力,
可是,
现在已经没有那个推动力了,
我发现自己的设计电脑软件、摄影、和概念都不是掌握到很好,
这两年来的成绩都是靠朋友和讲师的帮助才过关的,
其实,
自己根本没有实力,
出到社会要如何是好,
谁能告诉我,
我该怎么办啊???

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

农历新年之年初九

天公诞是福建人的大日子,
而身为福建人的我也在这一天祭拜天公。
福建人把天公诞看得比大年初一接财神还重要,
因为天公诞有着这样的传说。

天公诞的由来:
传说中,唐朝黄巢的军队曾在农历新年间从北方前往南方,北方军队在遇到服饰与语言不同的福建居民时,由于听到这些居民自称是“狼”(福建音“人” 的读音)而大开杀戒。
面对北方强兵的福建
居民,只好纷纷逃到甘蔗园内躲避。一直到北兵弄清楚是怎回事,停止了杀戳,福建人才走出蔗园。 侥幸仅存的福建人便把走出蔗园的日子,即正月初九日,用来补过新年,形成了后来的风俗。 以整株的甘蔗拜天公感谢天恩。
身为福建人的我也很重视这一天,
在年初八的那一天,
老妈就会忙着准备拜祭用的食物,
如:白斩鸡、烧肉、鱼、虾、水果、发糕、年糕、蛋糕、红龟粿、粽子、面条、面线、甜食、黄梨、红鸡蛋、芋头糕和果冻。
将近晚上十一点半我们就开始把拜祭的食物和神料拿到车房准备。
天公诞一定不能缺少的就是甘蔗,
以整株的甘蔗拜天公感谢天恩,
老爸往年都是以纸甘蔗来取代甘蔗,
在烧完天公诞的神料后再将它放到烧宝炉去烧,
若是买甘蔗来拜祭就要将甘蔗的头砍下放到烧宝炉去烧。这些就是拜祭天公诞的神料,
香烛、大金、小金、龙香、天公座、天公衣及手折金元宝等。