It's a holiday season, Christmas and New year.

I found this <fly to the moon> song, very relax and lazy song.

Hope it is suitable for this sunday afternoon.

 

<Australia>

The movie is 2 hours and 45 mins, which i think it's too draggy.

If it's not in a cinema, I believe I would not able to finish watching it.

 

 

      The past 3 weeks have been overwhelming. There were too many things going on.

 

      My team lead went on vocation, so he arranged me to sit with two of my teammates, each for 1 week. It's not exactly sitting next to them, but watching them doing most of their work. Of course, not to supervise, but to learn. My teammates are so experienced, that makes me feel that I'm totally dumb. I have no idea about either UNIX command or Sybase command. I copied down every single command line on my note book. ( I have finished using 1 and half note book since I joined ML.) It's not easy to survive in Database team, because there're just tooooooo many things to learn. I'm a bit worried about my progress. It's been 2 full months, and I took 1 month to figure out that I should ask for work instead of waiting for my boss to tell me what to do. There're about 30 members in my team, obviously my boss doesn't have the time and energy to care what each individual of us doing. However, he is caring enough to send me a "congrats" email when I sent out my first email to user. After talking to another fellow TAP, who was in DBA team for before I joined, I realise that I really have to be "proactive" or else I will never really learn. Days were getting better after I talked to my lovely Sybase Indian teammates that I will pick up all the simple request coming from users. Some of my 8 working hours are finally occupied with work.

 

      Last Friday was "communication day" which promotions and bonus would be accounced. Since it's the last day of the week, I somehow was set to holiday mood. I woke up not late, put on jeans even though I didn't pay for charity. I was late for work, but I still went to buy myself bread for breakfast. By the time i sat in front of my desk, it was almost 9.15am. Then, I went to have a cup of tea with my buddy and forward my office phone to my mobile just in case that my director calls me. I was slacking for the whole morning, waiting for my director's call. He was actually on vocation too, so he made us answering his call in his office. I was a bit surprised that we still have a bit of bonus and it's more than what I have expected. My expectation was really really really low, considering the economy, ML being bought over by BAC and the fact that I have been working less than 6 months. However, it's much less than what I was hoping for. Haha. Anyway, I have to be grateful. Some people said that it's already a bonus to have a job.

 

Movies 

The bad thing about watching too many movies is that I can't even remember what I have watched. I didn't recall the movie title which I watched on Friday until I took out the movie ticket :p

 

<IP man>（叶问）

总的来说这是一部不错的电影。洪金宝的武打设计很漂亮，甄子丹打的也很漂亮。剧情就是最传统的无敌英雄战胜小日本。当然剧情并不十分重要，重要的是打的精彩漂亮。

 

<Yes Man>

一部轻松搞笑的电影，不过似乎有那么一点人生哲理，就是不要把机会挡在门外。电影搞笑的部分不错，没有很过火，还是值得一看的。     

      上班以后周末看电影成了主要消遣。经济不景气，不逛街买衣服，电影却一点也没少看。当然，其中烂片至少占了百分之七十，真正好看的电影实在很少。

      昨天去看了《Bolt》，不得不说这是少有的好片之一。有些电影的trailor做到很好，其实只是把电影的精华都剪辑了出来，除此之外电影就没什么其他好彩头可看。相比之下，《Bolt》的trailor做得并没那么吸引人，我看了很多遍，以为又是一部烂片（trailor实在有些失败）。可是有一天早上坐车去公司的路上，我看到TV mobile由FM93.8DJ主持的Bolt Movie Review。主持人给了5分（满分），吓了我一跳。向来没看过他们给3分以上的分数，bolt居然得到5分。这一下子就挑起了我的好奇心，等不及去看这部电影了。

      电影讲的是一只电视明星狗（bolt），在电视剧里面有神奇的力量可以保护它的主人Penny不受黑暗势力的伤害，而Bolt以为一切都是真的。一次拍摄后，它以为主人真的被绑架，便逃出摄影棚去“解救”Penny。阴差阳错之，它被带到了很远的地方。在返回Hollywood的旅程中，它慢慢的了解了真相，学习做一只普通的狗。这部电影的剧情很紧凑，笑料很多，却不像《马达加斯加2》那么over。动画片里通常会有几个神经兮兮，hyper的小角色，就像《马达加斯加》里面的企鹅。《Bolt》里面的仓鼠也是这类角色。它疯狂的运动短小的四肢，在球里面不分东西的奔跑，想必一定是很多小朋友的最爱。动画片制作人员对动物表情的拿捏也让我折服，开心与失落都处理得游刃有余。结局我就不说了，暴露电影的结局实在不怎么厚道，大家自己去看就知道了。

 

《Four Christmas》

圣诞电影通常都是喜剧，这部也不例外。一对couple到4个家庭过圣诞，状况不断，笑话不断。圣诞电影很难超越《love actually》，不过《Four Chirstmas》却要比《love vocation》好上那么一截。若想要一部轻松的喜剧片，也还是可以看看的，就给个3.5分吧。

 

《Beverly Hill Chiwawa》

看tarilor就知道不是什么好片子。首先，里面的狗狗都不可爱（真的没有一只可爱的），就基本上可以让电影不及格了。影片中唯一值得看的就是墨西哥的海滩，帅哥美女还真是多啊....不过也就只占了电影的几分钟， 哈哈。