A good thing about spending too much time online is that everyone could locate me easily. Around two months ago I got an email from a long-lost schoolmate Lorraine Yu from St. Stephen’s College about a reunion gathering on March 31st. It turned out that I haven’t seen many of these folks for more than 12 years! I couldn’t recognize some faces, not to mention their names. So the whole dinner-and-drink gathering was about introducing ourselves to each other (again!) and catching up with what happened in the last decade.

Last night, I met up another SSCer - William and his wife Flora from London. They were just married last July, what a lovely couple! We went to a restaurant in Causeway Bay for spicy crabs and prawns, and sweet desserts afterwards. Check out the photos.

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Having played around with WordPress 2.0, punBB, flickr and some xHTML/CSS for the whole night, I have just revamped the terribly out-dated HKU Mac User Group website, now with a new name HKUmac.com. Well, some codes are still not validated, but it’s 5 am now so I guess I should better rest.

Would somebody reward me with a MacBook Pro please?

It’s been almost a month after my LASIK surgey. My vision is perfect, zero degree for both eyes. Life after LASIK is a blast, I no longer have to look for my glasses every morning and I don’t have to worry about having dry, tired eyes with contact lens. One of the many things that I enjoy is: wearning sun glasses! It’s a snap to put on any sun glasses, hurray! Last weekend I bought a new pair of Oakley at Stanley Market: the Oakley HALF JACKET (Jet Black/Black Iridium). They are SO COOL! My sister bought a pair of CROSSHAIR S (she just had LASIK last week). Oakley is one of my favourite brands, I already got two pairs and can’t help adding more! If you want to send me a present next time, you know what to buy!

We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, then another. Then we are frustrated that the kids aren’t old enough and we’ll be more content when they are. After that, we’re still frustrated that we have teenagers to deal with. We will certainly be happy when they are out of that stage.

We tell ourselves that our life will be complete when our spouse gets his or her act together, when we get a nicer car, when we are able to go on a nice vacation, or when we retire. The truth is there’s no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when? Your life will always be filled with challenges.

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Since I was small, I’ve always had a weird obsession – I love the smell of books. I like it so much that I sniff through the pages of new books as if they were some kind of delicious dishes. My dream house should have a pretty big room as library and I could lie comfortably on a massage chair to read every night.

Somehow when I get older, I buy and read fewer and fewer books. I guess I just spend too much time reading on the Internet. Well, I should not use the word “reading”, I just surf and browse around. It’s a totally different experience from flipping through physical pages. Thus it brings me great enjoyment when I finish reading a few books lately: Bulletproof Web Design and CSS Mastery from my favourite CSS experts Dan Cederholm and Andy Budd, Good to Great, The Rule of Management and a few other Chinese ones.

Actually there’re always many people in the bookshops in Hong Kong, every time I go there I would end up buying a few books because of the “atmosphere”. If you think you won’t buy any book, try visit a book shop some time. Thanks to my best friend Bernice for bringing the books I bought on Amazon all the way from the States. Last but not least, please visit Anobii, a phenomenal booklist sharing site created by my friend Greg Sung. You can also find out what books I have over there.

This is supposed to be “big news” that I should have written about two weeks ago. Nonetheless I lacked the motivation to do it. So here I am, writing a blog entry without glasses, which I’ve relied on for the past 14 years.

It all started with my sister. Around a month ago she decided she wants to have LASIK at the Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, so we made an appointment to attend a seminar together. Somehow I couldn’t make it that day and then saw an advertisement from HK Laser Eye in a magazine, their clinic in Central is so close to my office so I guess it’d be nice to just pop up there sometime. After I attended the seminar on Mar 21, I was completely sold, even though my near-sightedness wasn’t really that heavy.

That clinic asked me to do a full check-up to determine whether my eyes were suitable for the surgery, so I did it, on the next day. Of course it went very well and they said I could have the surgery as early as Mar 24! I said to myself: Why not? So I did it too, the whole operation took less than 15 mins and now I have perfect vision! Am I crazy? No, I don’t think so. Millions around the world have had LASIK successfully and I honestly think I would not be so “lucky” to be the rare unsuccessful case. Goodbye glasses and contact lens!!!