Kai, The Informologist

Bitter sweet romance.

I’m not predicting of an Oscar, but I won’t be surprise if they do receive a nomination here and there.
It’s simply a great story.

For spoiler sake, I’m going to limit any storyline. While RT only provide a scathing 28%, I adore the fact that the movie is co-produced by Will Smith. With that in mind, it does give out similar vibe and cinematic as The Pursuit of Happiness, which one can appreciate or stay away. Personally, I wasn’t too comfortable in the beginning but got settled in at the end.

The movie reiterated Will Smith’s maturity in mentality and acting. Hancock (one that I haven’t watch) is more like the goofy and playful side of him, while through Seven Pound, The Pursuit of Happiness and I Am Legend you can see a trend. A trend that indicate he is Prince of Bel-Air no more.

Again hopefully not revealing too much, but from my experience, I wasn’t too bright in guessing the storyline and only realize what’s going on 30 minutes from the credit rolling. You may figure it out half-way through, or if you have spent the time to research as your curiosity took the better of you, you may know what’s going on before the start. Whatever it might be, the unrevealing nature of the movie seem to splash its audience with the a refreshing surprise near the end. Guys beware, you might need to do the rub your eyes because you just yawned for like 20 times move.

Oh, and by the way, I think this is a good Christmas movie. Go figure.

Please do forgive the size of the picture.

With the constant falling snow, the temperature is expected to stay well below 30s until the Artic wind decide to stop drifting down.

To combat this, my girlfriend has came up with a way to keep my feet warm while I work at home (again, due to the snow).

Lovely. (I believe it is effective.)

Gridlock, impossible, avoid, dangerous, difficulty, troubled.

Those are the description for today’s traffic as affected by the continuous falling snow that had blanketed nearly the entire state, or King County at the very least. Those are also the reason why I am not on a bus to work right now.

With vehicles going less than a third of their regular driving speed, the metro is severely handicapped (although #346 near Northgate kept pushing through and was not late). Driving on the road is indeed unsafe with a number of fender bender due to slippery road, cars stuck on roadside, even the highway (520) between Seattle and Bellevue is shutoff for safety reasons.

It does look bad, but mostly inconvenient. What I realized, is our reliance on technology and how a simple snow storm can make such an impact.

Snow is still falling, and the most convention way of transport, walking, is being fully utilized today.

It would be crazy to think that out there somewhere, someone is depending on me for Man United news.

But for that fraction of possibilities – our team is doing fine.

Just fine.

Football, as graceful or beautiful as it can be, is an aggressive sport. And doing fine will not allow the critics to justify your title as European and English Champion, which Man United are to both.

They struggle to find the finishing touch of late, with a total of 3 goals in the last 3 goals, 4 draws in the last 7. I would call the two 5-goal games as outliers. Yes, I’m still a fan, and I still believe. In fact, I believe that United has the best depth amongst the top 3. Liverpool is on a lucky run, still is. Chelsea is just bullying their way through with their highly-paid 22-men squad, still is. Arsenal, really? I admire their skill and Arsene Wenger but I don’t think this is anywhere close to be their season.

In the case of United, the top 11 are solid, with only perhaps the midfield still requiring more maturity and chemistry as we are starting to see more action for Nani, Anderson and J.S Park (extraordinary Asian from an Asian’s perspective). The youngster has been impressive with Evans, Possebon, Rafael and Welbeck leading the pack. Up front, down back, even on the bench, things have really matured up.

And that is why, the expectation is much higher. Higher than just fine. These days, all these days as Man United fan, I have had expectation that each game is going to be robust. And now, goals should be flying in with Berbatov alive, Rooney on form, Carrick settling in, Ronaldo still solid.

Until then, we are just going to be expecting like we always do. For they are The Manchester United.

God is with us. – Matthew 1:23 (link)

This is my 3rd week starting at my new job and it has just been really fascinating.

Although I don’t really look at it as much as I used to or pray through it, during down time, at the back of my mind, I am thinking of the index card that Qj asked me to write and sticked onto the wall. It describes my desired position, salary and location. While even though it is not fully fulfilled, a lot of it is already underway, and way earlier than I had expected.

God has been really good. And its amazing what God can do in 12 minutes through our lovely Pastor Barbara.
She was just stating what Emmanuel meant – God is with us. So good, coffee with sugar and cream and whip cream on top, venti, kind of good.

YY is coming to visit for almost a month and I’m pretty pumped about showing her around, although I need to really learn to rest well and manage the time properly. On the side, I also got a boost for getting a car, although I’m feeling like I should really save for it.

The company that I currently work for is called TecAce, and my ‘department’ (if you can call it that), is CareAce. CareAce.net is a website specifically designed for supporting Samsung mobile that TecAce had a part in developing, including Blackjacks, Epix and Omnia. It has a lot of potential which I’m truly excited.

Bummer about missing the Christmas cruise though. Thankful for technology, especially Facebook where photos should be flooding in soon.

A’ight.
Call this disorganize. Or a summary.

God’s good. & Jake’s good because he’s gonna give me a ride!

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