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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs

Just renew the Apple Developer Program. This is the 3rd year. So many time I get confused about my work, and everything. So many company give me offers. Life become simple if I join them, lead the team.

“Sometimes life’s going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.” – Steve Jobs

Everyday thinking about what to do. It is really lucky to get a ticket for game of this mobile age. But planning, really difficult. What I am doing, and what I want to be….

“You’ve got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking, and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it, and like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don’t settle.” – Steve Jobs

又是很忙的一年。

停下來，從另一個角度看著自己每天工作的角落，就不禁問自己，我其實在做甚麼。

我很享受與軒軒玩耍的時間，和媽媽一起的時刻也很快樂，心可以平靜下來。

是白忙吧。

我覺得重要的，寫下來，好讓日後記得。

Jan

• 再見Office
• Visited Strawberry Garden.

Feb

• 13800 Project. 第一次給人用好意頭作原因講價。 

Mar

• X JAPAN live again. Complicated feeling.
• iPhone SDK announced.
• Quit Fung’s team

Apr

• Bought Stardom HD enclosure. So regret. Fxxking noisy. And it died 2 months later. It cost 1.4k

Jul

• Backup hd and working hd die together. 200 GB library lost
• Sold iPhone 2G
• Bought iPhone 3G. 第一部是花的，第二日去換了。
• dermes project start. Unexpected long project.

Aug

• Hong Kong Weather 1.0 for iPhone released. Top 1 in HK Free App.
• Interviewed by a magazine
• Received Call from Sean since graduation, ”死仔丫，冇見幾年變得咁勁”. Crazy guy, but I like you.
• Refused offer from Beijing. Personally I like to work outside HK very much.

Sep

• 29+1. Good Show. Thank you very much.

Oct

• Edit Before Call/SMS for iPhone released. Top 1 in HK Paid App.
• “Children Story Book” project start. Unexpected long long long long project.
• Refused offer from a large organization.

Nov

• Enjoy for iPhone released. Top 1 in HK Free App.

Dec

• Last Smile, First Tear. Good poster, poor story. But it still in my mind.
• Short trip to Shanghai. Thank you for the arrangement and everything.
• Bought Macbook. It cost 14k.
• 侄仔出世，我細佬成了父親，我成為了伯父。
• Fail to get ticket of X JAPAN Live in HK

08 年，身體很差，氣管很差，睡得很差。 白頭髮多了很多。腦筋變慢，說話很少。

小成功帶來更大的失落，是偏向灰黑色的一年。

很多想做的事未能達成，其望下年好一點吧 !

廿九歲的Jeffery請加倍努力。

是的，29 歲。這樣就活了二十九年，我不喜歡這樣的一事無成。

Happy New Year, my friends.

我沒有工作已經有半年了。很多朋友都問我

• 想放假放到何時
• 在家的日子怎過，悶死了沒有
• 其實想找什麼工作

其實我也不知放到何時，因為我不知做什麼好。不知道做什麼好因為我不知自己懂得做什麼。
越知得多，越覺得自己的不足。之前的工作有很多時間做Research，試Product，現在更是”Full Time” 在家睇news，每一秒的新事物，新skill，排山倒海而來。當每天醒來，望見新service，新library，新blah blah blah，不自覺想，我一直在做的，真是不夠水準。

除了對自己的信心，另一樣令我不知道找什麼工的原因，是試了過幾家公司，得出的一個結論 : Style和Value是不能change or train的，而當你的style和value與公司的不同，事倍工半之餘，大家都會很辛苦。不找工，是半放棄香港公司的價值觀和做事方法。找到我認同而又認到我的公司很難吧!

我是喜愛發夢的人，覺得自己可以做點不同的事，能給世界一點點特別的東西。然而，我也是矛盾的人，悲觀的人。

為什麼會突然說這些話呢? 其實是今天發生的事，今我想將自己平時的想法記下來。

今天去了中環食lunch，是我的一個舊朋友Belle請我去的，原因是她想向她的一位朋友推薦我作他公司的UI Designer。這位新認識的朋友其實我之前已從網上知道他的一點點，(公司和名字現在不說了，十畫都未有一撇呢 ! 一說大家都會知道的。) 他公司的運作正是我一直夢想但已不信香港會有人做到的方法 ! Workflow 是我在舊公司想做但失敗而回的，Team Scale更是我believe的small team。最做要，他們說出了我一直掛在口邊的話 : “每個人的lifecycle是不同的，為何不選擇自已最comfortable和最好performace的時間工作?” 如果我(能夠) join 他的公司，我不一定要每天回office的 ! 我搬到”山 ka la”的心願不就能能實現嗎 ?

我還concern甚麼呢?
Full time work? 他們提出的 remote work 我還有甚麼投訴。
是對自己的信心吧 ! 他們existing的UI我一直也覺得不錯，我會做得到嗎 ?
Next step，找些task試一試吧 ! (This is good for both. I also want to test the candidate in the ex-company, but result just disappointed me. )

另外Belle好像有些interesting的iPhone project，可以試一試吧。

真婆媽，自大信的Jeffery到那裏去了。

P.S. 街上真的很熱 !!!!!!!

大家都知我比人炒左，係咪？
未知就等我講多次，我零八年一月十一日Last day，三個星期無做野喇！
不過阿爸未知，佢知道會好煩的。

I plan to have a long vacation. Maybe a month, maybe half year. Many friends like to help me to get a job. I like to thank them very much. But, I don’t wanna waste your effort, at the time I still not sure what I like to do next. So, please forgive my laziness. And your help is really needed, don’t give me up.

BUT, Apple released the Macbook Air!
How can a jobless guy get that?

A voice from my brain, “GET A JOB”

OH………

Another voice, “GET A FREELANCE”

…….OK…..

The official price of Macbook Air is $14900, plus the Applecare $ 1860. Total $16760.
I drafted a quotation about a web design. Give them a friend price: $16000 for this kind of design + program blah blah blah. So kind I am.

However, people always like to bargain. I hate it.