Informal Affairs

xiaoqiang says: alright, it seems like i haven't been updating my blog frequently recently. i solemnly apologised for that.
quick update: currenty busy with my work. good news is my contract with TODAY has been extended to APRIL'03. bad news is i am learning new stuff a my job as as they require me to do something else on the paper. which means i might have lesser time for me to do my own stuff. *sigh*

as all can see, i have a orangish banner below the blogger ad on the top. it will there there temporary as i am designing a new banner for my blog. do look out for the new banner.

sorry~ah, edmund if you are reading this. i kinda have no time to do your logo design. sorry :þ

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++ Master and Commander: the far side of the world++

Russell Crowe is Lucky Jack Aubrey, the Navy greatest fighting captain and Paul Bettany is ship's doctor Stephen Maturin. The ship, the Surprise, is suddenly attacked by a superior enemy. With the Surprise badly damaged and much of his crew injured, Aubrey ?the "Master" of the Surprise and "Commander" of his men ?is torn between duty and friendship as he sets sail in a high-stakes chase across two oceans, to the far side of the world, to intercept and capture their foe. It's a mission that can decide the fate of a nation ?or destroy Lucky Jack and his crew. The film is based on the narrative outline of the tenth book in Patrick O'Brian's legendary "Aubrey/Maturin" series of high seas novels about the British navy during the Napoleonic Wars.

++ Infernal Affairs III ++

2004, it is the worst of times. 10 months after Chan Wing-yan (Tony LEUNG C.W.)'s murder, Lau Kin-ming (Andy LAU) faces an internal investigation and is reassigned to unimportant task. His marriage with his wife Mary is shattered and he does not even have the chance to see his one year old daughter. Exhausted, Ming's everyday life seems like hell, but he still firmly believes that the situation will change.

At this time, a star of tomorrow is on the rise within the police force. Young officer Yeung Kam-wing (Leon LAI) with one great service after another and his under 40 age he is headed to the top of the police force; in Ming's eyes that is who he used to be! On a chance encounter, Ming and Wing become good friends but discover Wing's mysterious side. One of HON Sum's spies commits suicide right in front of Wing. Ming suspects that Wing may be just like him, an undercover agent for the mob!

As Ming is about to start an investigation, he realizes that a mysterious handicapped person is following him night an day. From Sum's spies, Ming discovers that the mystery person is Sum's former business partner Shum Ching (Chen Daoming), who appears to be related to Wing. Deciding to turn a new leaf, Ming goes through all kinds of hardship to find one piece of evidence after another. On one hand he wants to destroy Ming, on the other he has to prevent his own identity from being exposed. Unfortunately every time he gets close, he ends up with nothing. Wing and Ching even force him into a corner. After numerous setbacks, gradually Ming feels that Wing is not suspicious at all and begins to doubt himself.

Yan has been with Sum (Eric TSANG) for two years already, but Sum has never trusted anyone easily and only assigns meaningless jobs to Yan. In order to gain his trust, Yan betrays himself and breaks the law time and time again.