Today's happy karaoke part 2

It's so interesting today.

We arranged today to go to skiing and snowboard contest at AT&T park(It's a baseball court).

On the way to our friend's studio(It's a kind of apartment and we decided to drive another car to SF).

We thought that it might be a good idea to ask Hermit joined us.

He said OK and after we arrived his house on the sea.

His roommate was cutting his hair and she mentioned that they will go to Karaoke in JP town tonight.

And we were so glad to join them even though we went Karaoke yesterday already.

I mean at least that I was so happy.

The contest in AT&T park was so good. I will post it here tomorrow.

In there I met Jane and Lumi and asked them to join us too.

After we arrived there at eight clock.

We were surprised that there had many of her classmate in there already.

Before she mentioned that it might be three people only.

Her classmates are Artists. 

It was so coooooool.

I love and admire artist.

That's part of my favorite thing on this world.

And more people mean more fun.

I saw they were kind boring.

Even thought I was starving(I had stomachache during that time)

So I sang a very excited cantonese song for them.

That one is a movie soundtrack and it's a good song for opening.

It helps people get excited about it. And they did.

I felt so happy.

Even thought it was first time to see most of them.

I might feel a little bit nervous but I'm still happy.

I sang many songs again, haha.

It helps me release some stress. Hope their ears were not hurt so much by my voice.

And I was so happy to see Jane stayed with us, too.

It was so long I had not seen her since I moved to SJ ba.

She used to treated me very nice and I always went to church with her.

I like her so much in friend's way( She had married).

And it was so good we met her and spent good time together.

Like I said yesterday that God know my limits and God help me when I need it.

I felt that I am full of grace now.

It was not only because so many fun here but also so many good friends surround me.

Thank you, my Jesus.

These were all of us.

You guys ROCK!!

Today's happy Karaoke

Every time I had trouble or want to do something so bad, something will happen and it will save my ass.

Why I said that, because since I had arrived U.S. like 5 month.I want to sing Karaoke so much.

Hey don't laugh at me, I am Taiwanese.

We love Karaoke.

But it is so hard and usually there is no good Taiwanese song at all.

I need to thanks for James that he said there is one good place and he actually will go there today.

Before that he and mike cook for us. It's so nice.

Because James mother sent him some chinese medicine which is used for cooking.

And he cook one very good soup for us.

After dinner time, we went New-peters' Karaoke with him.

And another happy thing was I met some of my friends there.

They were all girls.

They went there for celebrating one girl's birthday.

I felt so happy and almost want to join them.

Actually I went their room several times and there is one girl who can sing very good song.

I mean you can feel something in there.

We sang a lots of songs. Actually me and Stephanie sang most of the songs.

HA!HA!......

I do feel happy and thanks for this good friends.

I knew some of them don't like singing. They showed up just for supporting me.

I knew it. Truly thank you, everybody.

Life because you guys became more beautiful.

And thanks for God too. Because you know where is my boundaries and he will show up when I need him.

Because love, so this world rotates.

There is one song which I love is writed by Lee.

If I translated it directly will be like this.....

I thought it is the end that my heart will not be touched again.

After I met you, the feel of fall in love comes again and again.

Some people asked me why you are so good that I cant forget you.

I said if you never saw her, you would not know.

She is so beautiful that even spring cant compare with her.

But these things are not important anymore because if she would like to come to my life either.

I will follow you to every corner of this world.

Even though I don't know what is future like?

But does it too early to say goodbye?

I love this song so many years.

I believe more than 10 years ba......

This is all of us.....

And this is the birthday girl....Tingi...

Happy Birthday lo...... 

I had good time.... thank folks....

To my dear friend

My friend...

I heard you said that you make a decision of you will move to another place and got a high rise of position.

I am truly happy for you.

But I had to say that I feel sad too.

SInce we had so many good time that we spent together.

I realize that it became a habit that called you out every time.

And I'm really used to that you just showed up.

This few month I believe we all changed a lot.

You had new position and move to another place and I chose to stay at US for six months.

I do miss old time and after hearing that probably that's the last chance we can hang out.

I had to say I'm shock. But I'm truly thank you for your companionship and you taught me a lot.

I am appreciate it. 

Hope you have better and better day than before.

Hope that I can see you soon.

Good-bye is just a part of life and most important is we do treat every moment as gold.

Leaving no regret about it.

Oh! I gonna miss you.

Hope that one day you will memorize that one guy who ever spent good time with you.

See you.... later ......  on the trip of life.

We shall meet one day.

During this time, I will just play the moment that I recored in my mind.

Although I have bad memorize ability, but you, I shall remember.

farewell......... ^^  My dear friend

Cook video 1

Hi everybody.

It's really nice to leave message at here again.

This time I want to share about our daily life at San Jose.

Before this, I need to explain that I never really cook when I stay at Taiwan.

Of course I cook instant noodle before, but real dish. never.

After I got here, I mean SJ. I feel so many interest in cooking.

Like now, I cook three meals a day for four to five people.

I cook for everybody before in SF. That's like seven people.

During that time, I invited a student in AAU to share some works or course in our loft.

It's pity I left there, because I had invited Astro's designer to share with us too.

But anyway I had good life at here too.

Like I said, I cook three meals a day.

Usually mike will cook with me.

And Li-wei do cook too.Oh man, he is good at instant package.

Like a master.

He and Stephanie will help us do dish washing.

I want to share part of my joy about here.

So we took video and share with people.

Hope you can feel our happy at here too.

peace........

Naoto Fukasawa in connecting 07 (ARTICLE 1)

Naoto Fukasawa in connecting 07(ARTICLE 1)

We met Naoto at connecting 07 in SF. He was one of major speakers. Most of his speech was about his work and why or how he think he want to do design like that.He tried to explain it to everybody. But time is short.

He was not most attractive speaker on the stage. But everyone is touched by his work. Although he is quite famous now.He still try his best to do good design.After speech, I want to talk with him and maybe ask him to sign for me on his book.I bought it last month, Sept..

I didn't see many people want to talk with him. I mean like us. We looks more like design fan than designer. It's fun.And why not? We went to his seat, we introduced ourselves and try to discuss questions with him.I didn't ask many questions ,like I always do. Actually I wrote several questions and tried to discuss with him before. But I didn't ask all of them. I tried to act more polite and gave him more respect.But I still asked him several questions.

First of all, I asked one of my biggest question now. I asked him that sometime, I feel tired. Because I did many design which I felt meaningless. I apply many style but just for appearance.

Before he answer we should know that Naoto is famous about doing minimal design which is full of Japanese culture inside.I asked this question was kind respect what he did and maybe he would agree with my point.It's a little bit tricky.If he agreed with my point which was very shallow, I would feel sad. I apologized that I asked this kind tricky question.

Naoto answered that question in a different way.I didn't recored every words he said precisely.I just want to express what he said to us.

He said we should build one ability that allow us express our idea precisely.Once we got good idea, but we don't have good sense of beauty or good forming ability, idea will disappear.Which is very pity.And he encouraged us that keep practicing and experience more.I shouldn't feel too rush of myself and take baby steps.One day, my switch will turn on.Then I can realize. 

I felt that I'm relieved. And I know more about what I should do now.It's simple. Just keep walking.Recently, I just finished one presentation here. Of course I didn't do presentation like I always did.I only do design.And I felt desired that I want to change my design or execute process.People who know me closely will know that I do that all the time.It's kind normal to me.Because I feel boring easily. If I kept doing same thing.And I am lucky that the company which I stay provide me a Wacom tablet with touch screen. So I tried to apply it to my process.Even though I spent more time to finish it.And I am not satisfied what I did yet.But I do feel good.Because it's first time that I use that device and apply it in project. This is first story. 

The second story is that I met many good designer here and they showed me many of their design and sketches.I felt that designer here is more concerned about sketches than Taiwan's designer.And I do see some good sketches were pasted all over the wall.So I can compare it.I felt that it is true.When you see many many sketches on the wall.The good one will reveal it automatically.I am not saying good sketch means good design.But good skill's sketch will be more outstanding and attractive.I think this is what Naoto said why we should sharp our skill.Many things are like strategy than a random behavior.

This one is also reflect to what Naoto answered about another question.

I heard people asked him that why he did supernormal.He use a metaphor to answer.Like a seesaw, when every designer on this world try to make stuff outstanding and aggressive.Naoto think he should do something different with others.So he chose another side which was minimal and normal.Maybe some people will think it is easy when they saw what Naoto did.Like Milan furniture exhibition last year what Naoto showed in there didn't get many echo. But for me. It is more difficult.Because it required more sense of beauty and more precise forming ability.It is not easy when you reduce stuff from your design.So I think if Naoto answered that question in east way(more philosophy thought), people here will not understand.But they can understand strategy. It's more easy for west sociality.It is interesting if we compared same question where he answered it in different place.We can discuss that later.

There were few other questions that I asked him.Maybe I can share it with my thought to you guys.Here is some of his presentation pictures. Enjoy it!

I left piece of my heart here...

I look at pictures about here once and once.

I realize there is no place like this anymore.

What is grow up looks like ?

Why one person can has both happy and sad together?

Why one person can has both possession and abandon?

Does this is a reality or just a dream?

No matter what it is? Right now I tasted bitter and sweet both at same time.