Today I suppose to work on my philosophy eassy due thursday, but instead I spent most of my time organizing my bookshelves. My place is more in shape after I put all my books into their place. I put the bookshelf in the hall way at the entrance. I think I did a good job catagorizing my books. The lowest level relates to my memories. They are my old engineering textbooks and photo albums. I wonder how much stuff I have learnt already gave back to the profressors. The second level is mostly foriegn content, Japanese mangas, anime art books, dictionary and language learning materials. I don’t collect many manga, only a few sci-fi classics, Akira, Nausciaa and Gunnm. I have almost all the released Macross Art books though. The third level is non-frictions including general science, economy, business, history, philosophy and books with inspiration. I didn’t read enough history books, this is one area I should focus on in the future. The forth level is chinese fictions and popular readings. I have a broad taste in reading chinese books, from martial arts novels to romance novels to translated novels. The top most level is the CD case and english fictions, the scope is quite limited, only sci-fi, Harry Plotter, Dan Brown and Philip Pullman. I have to overflow my religion books and recreational books to the bookshelf in my bedroom. This arrangement reflects my philosophy that relgion is one of my hobbies. I didn’t plan this arrangement ahead of time, I thought all my books would fit in one bookshelf. Probably when I realize I have to put some books in the bedroom, I grouped relgious books and hobby books together subconsciously.

Today is another great day to ski. Over the past week, we have lots of snow dump, we even see the city covered in white down here in Vancouver. Then this weekend has really good weather, sunshine and warm weather, it is a perfect day to ski. As usualy, I went to Whistler to take ski lesson today. Since I still have some cold, I take it easy today, joining my friends in lower level 5. The class started with 8 people in the morning, then 3 of them left us after lunch. I was thinking if the other two drops out as well, then I will have a super group with my friends only. I told my wishes to my friends, and they said I am bad. Shortly into the first warm up run, one of the guy have a spasm and have to go back to rest. Then we went over to the Harmony chair, came down on a black diamond run, and the remaining girl couldn’t handle the run and dropped out. So my curse is realised. It is one of the best ski lesson I had, each of us got lots of time from the instructor. 3 people with same skill level is most optimal for lessons. One-on-one lesson would be too tiring as you always have to play catch with with the instructor. 3 people gives us some rest on the way down while the instructure is coaching other people. Moreover, 3 people plus the instructor fit nicely into 1 ski lift. Too bad that the discount lesson is over this week. Taking ski lesson in Whistler really helps to improve my skill.

Everyone around me is sick. Both of my coworkers sitting to my left and right are having a cold. Pat has a cold. One of the guys I go out to have lunch has a cold. I think I got a cold from one of them. I think my cold symptom is not very serious. Sleep more and have some good excerise in Whistler tomorrow should cure my cold. Cold is caused by common virus that many people have to have it at least once every year. The good thing is once you have it this year, your body is immune to this year’s cold virus and you are safe until next year. Normal medicine or antibotics doesn’t work on cold. I think the scientist should invent some kind of nano bot that can identify and kill all the cold virus inside our body. Think of it as artificial white blood cell. All the nano bot are linked to the central database on the web, they can download and identify the latest virus pattern and fight them efficiently. Unlike natural white blood cell, it takes times to adapt to the new virus. I just have an idea for my next sci-fi murder mysterous. Someone hack into another person’s nano bot and turn them against his own body. Now I just need to come up with the twists and other details of the story that attract readers.

I am unpacking my CD collections tonight. I threw away lots of old pirate CDs, as those CDs has no collection value. I have consolidated my CD collection down to approximate 120 CDs, nicely fit in the Ikea Jarna CD case with glass door. To many people’s surprise, I do own original CDs despite my argument for mp3. My CD collection has the following catagories: my collection of Yukie Nishimura, movie soundtracks, anime soundtracks, easy listenings and a few chinese CDs. I got some of the chinese CDs cheap from 2nd hand market when I went back to HK a long time ago. I borrowed from someone three of the chinese CDs but never return. I couldn’t remember whom I borrow the CDs from, probably someone from Appleby. If you happen to know I own you a CD, please email me and I’m glad to return it to you. I actually got out of my mind and bought 5 chinese CDs, 1 Ukuleelee, 1 Tracy So, 1 Leo Koo and 2 Ekin Cheung, none of them except the Ukuleelee are worth the money. Yukie Nishimura is the only artist I am willing to pay for her CD these days. Since I am organizing my collection, I decided to order her latest CDs online to update my collection. I know I could probably download the music online, but it is different from owning the CD and display them as a complete collection.

Ever since Lee An won the best director at Oscar, his movie Brokeback Mountain became the hittest topic these days. I keep hearing everyone talk about this movie, either at work, in the radio, in the newspaper or in blogs. This afternoon I overheard some colleagues about it happening in the cubicle next to mine, and I joined the conversation. I havn’t watched this film and I am not going to. I am only interested in action movies or maybe comedies. When I make this comment, one of the colleague reply him with a grin in his face sayting that Brokeback Mountain has lots of “actions” too. Apparently he has watched the movie and able to appreciate its artistic value. Another guy shares the same 100% male oriented engineer mind set as me, also make his stand that he will not watch it. It’s not really about feeling uncomfortable about the gay thing or being homophobia. It is just that normal men dislike boring movies. We all agree that the writer of this movie is a genius with creativity to combine two old concepts into an catching one. Gay is nothing new and cowboy also is nothing new, but gay cowboy kinda interesting. This creation inspires me on a theme for the next blockbuster. Let’s say combining Startrek with gay, to become a gay captain for the next starship Enterprise. It would be interest to see how the gay captain go boldly where no man had ever gone before, to discover gay aliens. It would be interest to see how the relationship evolves between the gay capation and his Vulcan 2nd commander, persumably a male. Can a Vulcan justify homosexual by logics, that is a philosophical question demands an answer.