Okay, another entry triggered by another person, not T Muk this time but Johnny Fong all the way over there in Japan.

There's nothing but admiration that I have for his courage to jump out of his comfort zone, from turning down the well-paid and comfortable job in HK and deciding to work in Japan instead for a lower pay and obviously the stress, uneasiness and anxiety that comes wth working in a foreign country.

An inspiration for me that I should jump out of my comfort zone too.

Fall break right now, but haven't been very productive at all. I vowed to myself that I would have to at least write up a song or two over the weekend, but things haven't turned out very well. Random tunes keep on popping up in my mind all the time -- I wish there were a program that could transform instantly the songs in my mind to the real, hard-copy, score-form that I could distribute to everyone and ask for comments. Such impulses of tunes just come and go so easily. One moment I could be humming up a random tune that sounds like the very ideal melody for an acappella song, two seconds after I stopped singing i could completely forget about the tune that I was just humming before I could even find pen and paper to jot it down.

Plans for tomorrow: Needa buy a power cord for my computer monitor, Gannett to get a checkup on my left pinkie to see what is that outgrowth of bone that's causing the pain when playing the piano, lunch/CS consulting hours with Vincent, BBQ (possibly?) with CF or dinner with Oat

Another random thought of the day. While I have always considered myself a liberal, a steadfast opponent of the war in Iraq and definitely a member of the group of Anybuddy-But-Bush'es, my advocacy of the outsourcing of jobs, a small goverment, low taxes and my stance that gays are acceptable but same-sex marriages are not have swung me more towards the conservative side, so rather than being able to proudly call myself a liberal, I can only claim that I'm a moderate Democrat with rather conservative moral values but a leftist yearning for changes in areas that don't intrude into traditional moral systems.