Oskar’s Weblog

Recently I quit like that sentence “couldn’t be worse” which is from US TV show call 90210; In life we always have some situation that you will say “couldn’t be worse”, yea in past couple days that word just keep flashing on my head and I tell myself that couldn’t be worse, which mean it will get better.

Recently I quite interest on 1 and 2 Corinthians, because the things which described by Paul is quit fit today’s world, and he keeps remaining us that believer should behave themselves avoid to know someone who is not believer, it doesn’t mean we have to avoid, it means we can’t do the things they do, we can’t follow their step. But as far as I see, a lot of people are doing that way now, follow those people’s step, just can’t stand in what they are believing in. For example, in the big thing, the gay marriage, some believer and some church accept gay marriage? In small thing, a lot of christian like drunk and night clubbing? when I look up the bible, I just think if the word in bible are confusing? or people just getting start to confuse themselves.

Now, I start to understand what my brother told me before, Los Angeles is not a place of a lot of flash bulb and purple light; what is that mean? In fact Los Angeles is a place of a lot of flash bulb and purple light, but what that mean is if the person won’t affect by outside environment, no matter where he/she goes, his/her heart and believe just represent the environment itself, so just keep in mind be yourselves, and not be compromise by others especially in this crazy world.

原則是在於自己的原則不會因外在因素而改變。

不會因身邊的人做而自己會跟著他們的步伐。

不會因社會的價值觀而改變自己的價值觀。

不會因國家的觀念而去改變對事件的判斷。

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.

You won’t save because your beautiful face, you can’t hide because you expensive suit; just like flu spread on the air, you can’t control it, you can’t stop it. Clacker and ironed shirt, sharp knife and bloody hand; it is the time you have to paid it off, it is the time you have to think what life is; materialism or spiritualism; the bill just a weightless of paper, market value just a pointless of number, if you don’t wake, you will cover by dust and never rise up. But when we wake yesterday, we already in the dust, we just did it again, clacker and iron shirt never confress, the ref. never give a red card, so why we need this world? Why ? People always proud of clacker and iron shirt, people wake, clacker and iron shirt run away after they created the mess; you know who is the one you should proud of? Is the one who will take respondsibility, the one who won’t leave after the mess, the one use his own power to recover the mess they created; and the guys who really develop the world, is the guy who change the weld in the black stage; who they are? Really?

I started to read a lot in these several week, especially some knowledge which not many people interest.. such as general relativity, dark matter, Aerodynamic … oh some utility books i.e. Objective-C…. well I just realize my time is limited by the speed of light with trapped by the dust in the universe, and what that means is too much to read and no time to do. So I tried to set a goal

1. Read the General relativity
2. understanding the dark matter
3. try to workout the quantum physics
4. understanding the aerodynamic
5. Read Objective-C …..

oh…. start over again… gee…

I m a guy who think the way is similar to hippie does, peace on earth, put flower on the gun, but I never drug so I couldn’t say I m a hippie.

Today when I talk to a guy about what people are thinking and doing today, I just has one clue, materialize and leak of future; where is their soul? I can’t hear anyone saying that “I m going to change the world” today, and I can only hear that I want to be a part of big Corporation, government, get a good job and make a lot money so I can enjoy my life. And I heard the ideal thing is to get a degree and get into the big corporation, and fight to claim up in my job. Many many keep telling me that if you want to be success in your job you have to be an evil; people has to be selfish, because no one care about what you think. But I don’t agree with each single word in the sentence.

So I think what is big corporation mean? Means good salary good future, but do you know big corporation is the creator of the unbalance world?   You know big corporation spend a lot of money to cover what they did and what they are doing, and wearing a beautiful mask stand in front of people, and saying that they are a good person and they just want to help. In fact when you spend more time to understand the meaning and the purpose of those advertisement, it is not hard to understand why they need to spend million to billion dollar to buy the mask and wear into their face, and you understand why those people have to spend hundred to thousand to buy the suit. 

Today, most people still want to get a job in big corporation, financial firm, banker or investment firm, they won’t realize that they are helping 5% people in the world to getting richer and richer, and puting the world in to the unbalance position; You know 700 billion dollar can save the whole africa kids, 700 billion dollar can let no one dead by hunger. But the 700 billion dollar is spending to clean the mess which created by 5% of people in the world. For those who work in those area, don’t you see you got blood in your hand, don’t you see you just hand your knife to the murder. I know you don’t realize it. Peace on earth.

My name is Oskar, and I m currently an ADC Student membership member, and I did enroll Selected and Student membership for several year already. This week I tried to purchase the Xserve from Apple HK by using the ADC one life time student hardware discount, and it turns out is my nightmare, I think I won’t purchase things from Apple HK directly and I m thinking should I renew my ADC membership.

In 22 Sept 2008 , I called Apple HK that I wished to purchase the Xserve system by use ADC one life time student hardware discount, and the salesman did check all my status and approve to purchase the Xserve order on phone. A day after in 23 Sept 2008, I make a payment in bank and just want to sit back and wait the system arrive. But in 24 Sept 2008, the nightmare came, I check my status in Apple HK website and they said my order has been cancelled, I have no idea why, so I made a call, and the guy on phone said I didn’t pay the payment,  so I head to the bank and check the account, the money has been withdraw. I just no idea why did it happen, so I called them again; I gave them all information I have such as check number to make sure that they resolve the problem for me, than they said they did make a mistake and they reverse and process my order, so I felt so confirm by that again, I receive a email at night that I will have the system on or before 26 Sept 2008 to 29 Sept 2008. 

Today 25 Sept 2008, I check my status in Apple website about my order to see if the system has been shipped or not, and I saw a BIG CANCELLED notice again. I called them and asked about the order, and this time they said I use the one-life time purchase hardware discount already, so I explain my situation to them, because I enrolled ADC Membership quite a while, and  the one I purchased with ADC hardware discount is in the period of my Selected Membership, and the order is used the  year pre system’s ADC selected membership hardware discount. I explain again and again, and Apple HK just transfer me to ADC hotline again and again, I m so frustrate and desperate.  They keep saying that they can resolve the problem but by than they just create more and more confuse. By now  when I m typing this email, they still haven’t solve the problem yet. 

You know, I love Apple and I love create thing in Mac, iPhone; and I love shop in Apple Store(in Canada and US), because it always give me a very good experience which can’t find in other store; I enrolled ADC membership is because I can get the latest and cheaper price of the hardware from which I can  do exotic things in the Mac, and I can get in touch with Apple engineer to test software and latest technology in the exotic OS, I believe my thought is same as you and Steve Woz back in 80’s which is I m going to change the world; Of course, this horrible shipping experience won’t stop my motivation in Mac and Apple, and I will continuous developing software in Mac and iPhone, but all I want to say is this experience is my dark spot on my good experience on shopping in Apple Store. Thanks for reading and take care……

Apple loyalty Customer and Developer

Oskar Wong. 

25th Sept 2008

Sometime it is hard to say goodbye to someone whose are close to you, and you will intend to leave your seat without any notification not because you don’t want let people know and because you don’t want to say goodbye and pretend I still there.

If we don’t have imagination, we won’t change the world; if we just looking on something in surface, we never know what is on the bottom; because most people are lack of imagination, there is no peace on earth, there is no utopia in world, and all of us are trapping in dogma; most of us are trapped with money, materialism and so-call paper in education, lack of imagination human just a hopeless, and someday they will fall into the dirt and never rise up again. 

So what is knowledge? is it only weight like a so-call “certificate”; when you look inside the so-call “certificate” just a paper; people can ‘t burn knowledge, but paper can; Sorry of all high educated include myself, knowledge is discover by ourselves.

Finally, I dream people have full of blood in their hand, government flag is make by human’s skin; hay you know what that is a we all trapped by law and “so-call” serving people’s government;

Without imagination, politician, businessman, money grabber…. the world is hopeless; and if you like to trap in that… keep doing it, but I will trying to walk away, far away…. into the wild. 

When I think whose have imagination, whose are not trapped by dogma, whose intent to change the world, whose are not intent to be a materialism;  John Lennon, Steve Woz, Steve Jobs, Christ McCandless……

把我的夢搖醒了

宣佈幸福不會來了

用心酸微笑去原諒了

也翻越了

有昨天還是好的,

但明天是自己的