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Tuesday, Feb 12, 2008 8:28PM / Standard Entry

Kung Hei Fat Choy!

In the Spring festival, it may not be a good time to talk

about “death”, but let us face it: we are all born with

the inevitable destiny to die, right? So, why waste

any time and not live every minute of our lives to the

fullest - to LOVE; LAUGH; CRY; LEARN; THINK;

PRAY and to REACH OUT FOR OUR DREAMS!?

Following is a video of the 47-yr-old Prof. Randy Pausch

who has been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer

and was told in August 2007 to expect a remaining three

to six months of good health only…

On September 18, 2007, Prof. Pausch delivered his

"Last Lecture", entitled "Really Achieving Your

Childhood Dreams", at Carnegie Mellon University.

This talk was modeled after an ongoing series of

lectures where top academics are asked to think deeply

about what matters to them, and then give a hypothetical

"final talk", i.e., "what wisdom would you try to impart

to the world if you knew it was your last chance?"

Personally, I found this a very positive and uplifting life

story that is worth listening to. The video is 1 hr 44 min

long. You may skip the introduction to save you some

time.

Once again, may I take this opportunity to wish everyone

a HAPPY, HEALTHY & SUCCESSFUL Year of the

Rat full of LOVE and DREAMS !

The "Last Lecture" video:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5700431505846055184

Prof. Pausch’s blog:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/news/

有關兰迪教授的“人生最后一场演说”:

http://www.5xue.com/modules/leadyourlife/

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Wonderful Swiss Fashion and Music!

Friday, Jan 25, 2008 1:10AM / Standard Entry

On January 15th, 2008, my company, GIG GREATION, was proud to be the official video and stills production house appointed by the Swiss Consulate for the SWISS HONG KONG FASHION NIGHT event.

Before that, I didn't know that Switzerland produces these amazingly beautiful fashion other than their wonderful watches!

(Clip from A-K-R-I-S- fashion show)
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkxFpM-UwLU

It was absolutely amazing to watch BLANC DE CHINE's fashion show live! Their clothes are simply so BEAUTIFUL, ELEGANT and STYLISH but I didn’t know that the fabrics that they use are all from Switzerland too!

(Clip from Blanc de Chine fashion show)
Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHykdQwhLfw

But the highlight of the evening for me was to meet a very handsome, sweet and talented musician from Switzerland called Nicholas Senn. I have never seen anyone perform traditional Swiss musical instruction before. BTW, the musical instrument played by Nicholas is called Hackbrett. It was such a wonderful performance by him and it was extremely delightful when he performed together with a Chinese musician!
Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwpWS7k5hNo

Thanks to the Swiss Consulate for bringing Nicolas to Hong Kong or else I wouldn't have had the honor and joy to meet him in person!

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PASS THE CHEER with Eugene Pao's Live Jazz

Monday, Dec 31, 2007 1:02AM / Standard Entry

This afternoon, I attended a very enjoyable and meaningful charity function at the IFC.

I didn't know that for the past 20 years, Hong Kong's English radio channel, RTHK Channel 4, and English newspaper, SCMP, have jointly and continuously organized an "Operation Santa Claus" to raise funds for those small and unnoticeable organizations that need help in Hong Kong. This year's beneficiary is the Kwai Chung Youth Centre and the sponsor is Starbucks Coffee.

I guess the funds raised would not be too substantial even though the campaign had started at the beginning of December.  They are targeting to raise HK$200,000, but whether they can reach their target amount or not, I still think it is a good cause and a good act to try to raise people's awareness to those needy and less privileged during the festive seasons. I agree 100% with Jet Li's theory that if ALL OF US would contribute just a dollar to help the poor, the world would have a lot less poverty...

And of course, the most enjoyable part this afternoon was to sit amongst old and new friends and listen to Eugene's live jazz music! He and his buddy Mike were simply MAGICALLLL!   It was like having a massage to your soul! Here are a few pix to share with you (Oh, on the way out at IFC, I bumped into Marsha Yuan and her sister as well. I'm so glad that she is having a happy family reunion in Hong Kong right now! )

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SEASON'S GREETINGS from Wong Wong!

Tuesday, Dec 25, 2007 11:45PM / Standard Entry

Hi, Long time no see! I am dressed up to go to a party!

WISHING YOU ALL A HAPPY FESTIVE SEASON

and a REWARDING YEAR in 2008!

Hey, where are my presents ?!!!

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THE HEDGEROW'S SHRILL

Sunday, Dec 16, 2007 1:03PM / Standard Entry

THE HEDGEROW'S SHRILL

In quietness of time
near waters edge
the day with songs
and love to pledge
past like shadows
over serene hills
of sweet hedgerow's
broken shrill.

To find life's gentle space,
to celebrate life's simple grace
is to earth and friend
like road's bend
amongst more hedgerows still.

Across fertile valley
ploughed and new
we walk with spring
just numbered two
A distant hill
knowing still
good life exists beyond
the hedgerow's shrill.

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Patty Keung

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Patty is a veteran in the Asian media and entertainment business. Over the past 20 years, she has held key positions in many big companies...
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Patty is a veteran in the Asian media and entertainment business. Over the past 20 years, she has held key positions in many big companies. From the '80s to the '90s, she was working in Ogilvy & Mather, Saatchi & Saatchi and Academy One Films. From 1995 to 1997, Patty was instrumental in the setting up of the Channel Marketing function at Hong Kong Cable Television Limited when she was the Deputy Marketing Controller over there. In the years of 1997 to 2000, Patty joined Time Warner's Turner Entertainment Networks Asia, Inc. as Regional Marketing Director and looked after all the marketing activities for Cartoon Network and TCM in the region as well as helped launch HBO into India. From March 2002 to Oct 2004, Patty joined Celestial Pictures as Group Marketing Director looking after all of the communications and promotional activities for the company's integrated media and merchandise businesses in Asia. She has also been personally involved in the creation and production of numerous T.V. commercials and promotional videos.

Whilst working for Celestial, Patty was inspired by the many classic Shaw film legends that she had the honor to meet in person. This had triggered her interest in writing stories and becoming a film director. In mid-year 2004, Patty decided to quit her job and went to study for a 1-year film-making course (Nov 04 to Sept 05), jointly hosted by the Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers and the Hong Kong government.

In 2005, Patty has written her first book "The Close Encounters with the Shaw Film Legends" which was published by Sing Tao Publishing to many parts of the world and has stayed in the No. 1 Rank in "Sing Tao's Top 10 Selling Chart" for many months. The book was also ranked as the No. 10 in the “Best Selling Books in Singapore” by the "Top Culture Index" of Yazhou Zhoukan (Vol. 19 Issue 26).

In 2006, Patty has made her first attempt in directing a dark humor short film "BLACK OUT" and written the original movie concepts of “BEAUTIFUL LEG", “2882”, “CAMAY and HER DOG", “KILL AND RUN” as well as “THE DARK PIANO". During the same time, she has also launched a bi-lingual print and web publication, INWEDDING magazine (now renamed as INMAGAZINE) in the position as contract Managing Editor in only 4 months' time from scratch.

In July 2007, Patty's 3-min trailer of “2882” is selected to be shown at the 11th FANTASIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL in Montreal. In November of the same year, Patty has won the MTV Asia competition as the director and editor for the best video to accompany the track titled "I'm Proud To Be Chinese".

Patty is indeed an energetic person who has the proven track record to create and manage projects of various natures, magnitude and scales. She is a rare gem who not only possess creativity but also the necessary marketing sense and production skills to make a world-class top-notch producer/writer/director, based out of Asia. She now owns her film and promotions company, GIG CREATION Limited (www.gigcreation.com) which offers corporate image and branding services as well as film production services to clients.

柏姜 (原名“姜佩安”) 是一位資深媒體及市務推廣從業員，持有澳洲悉尼MacQuarie大學工商管理碩士學位，及英國特許市務學會(The Chartered Institute of Marketing)之市場學文憑；亦曾接受由「香港電影工作者總會」及「職業訓練局」合辦的全曰制「第二屆電影專業培訓課程」。柏姜擁有在亞洲媒體、廣告、影視製作及市務推廣行業的豐富經驗。

在過去的二十年期間，她親自參予製作了無數電視廣告及公司/商品宣傳片。她曾出任之職務包括：全球第二大的線上廣告聯網及線上廣告科技供應商Real Media Ltd.亞洲地區行政總監；「天映娛樂」有限公司集團市務總監；「香港有線電視有限公司」助理市務總監；以及「時代華納」旗下之Turner Entertainment Networks Asia, Inc地區市務總監，負責策劃及監督CARTOON NETWORK卡通頻道和TCM(Turner Classic Movies) 頻道在區內之所有推廣活動，並協助該公司在印度展開HBO收費電影台服務。

由於在「天映娛樂」出任集團市務總監一職時，柏姜能有幸接觸到很多經典「邵氏電影」之台前幕後前輩，被他們感動及啟發後，在2004年底，她便毅然放棄了在市務推廣事業上努力近二十年之成果，而决定投身藝術及文化事業，因為她希望可以在她有生之年，能夠把她的一些經驗與想像與眾分享。

在2005年5月她以筆名「柏姜」推出她生平的第一本著作【邵氏巨星零距離接觸】，由「星島」出版到世界各地，並很快便榮登「星島出版十大暢銷書榜」首位達數月之久，並在「亞洲週刊」(第十九卷二十六期)之熱門文化指標，被列為「全新加坡最熱門書籍」之第10位。

在2006年期間，她以特約行政編輯身份，破天荒僅以4個月之短時間，為Cytech Ltd. 從「零」開始建立了全內部之中、英語編輯及攝製團隊，出版了全港首創的中、英雙語高級結婚美容時倘月刋inWEDDING雜誌 (現改名為inMAGAZINE)。在此期間，她並創作了多個電影原創故事，包括了《美麗的腿》、《2882》、《佳美與她的小狗》、《錯殺夜驚魂》及《黑鋼琴》等，她亦自編、自導及自製了黑色幽默英語短片《BLACK OUT》。

她的《2882》預告片，曾於加拿大滿地可2007年度舉行之「第十一屆Fantasia International Film Festival」內展出。同年11月，她親自執導及剪接之音樂錄像，令她成為了MTV音樂頻道亞洲區 "I'm Proud To Be Chinese"一曲 (譯名為“中國人之驕傲”) 最佳音樂錄像比賽的冠軍得主。

在追尋電影夢想之際，柏姜亦創辦了GIG CREATION (十激創作坊www.gigcreation.com)，為客户提供公司形象設計及影視攝製服務。

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