蝙蝠俠

雖然有點連我都看得到的破綻，但新的Batman挺好看，Nolan導演非常有大師風範。

但導演如此偏愛貌不驚人的Joseph Gordon-Levitt，幾乎每部電影都起用，真是……雖然其實我挺喜歡他演的電影……

Slip vs Dress

我有兩件復古A字深色連身裙，膝上的長度，不修腰，闊裙擺，非常通風。老實説是太過通風，風蕭蕭兮地有點不自在，想貼身穿點甚麽增加安全感。於是想買一條黑色襯裙。

然而襯裙這玩意兒大概已在淘汰的邊緣，不是說買就能買到的，起碼在我平常活動的範圍內就買不到。昨天到瑪莎的內衣部一看，果然有襯裙，質料滑溜，剪裁貼身，純粹的襯裙款式，價錢牌上也名正言順地寫着“Slip”。不知是否物以罕為貴，索價三百多港元。雖然女性內衣的價格素來不依常理，但這價錢也真的難以接受。

正要放棄，卻走過同是英國品牌的H&M門前，那店正在減價，於是走進去逛逛。不旋踵看見一款黑色吊帶裙子，薄薄的純棉布料，高腰有點鬆泡泡的設計。這東西叫做“Dress”，但除了沒彈性，對我來說其實跟襯裙沒分別。價錢牌上寫着中國製造，原價99港元，特價30港元。於是速速撿了兩件，放下60元，大功告成，打道回府。

The Beaumount

我昨天在戲院看到這個地產廣告，聽到最後那外文發音，第一個感覺是：“有無搞錯，咁讀都得？”

這種發音真叫人側目。

參考：http://www.forvo.com/word/beaumont/

五月十五

月圓之夜，天上一輪銀盤，燦如火炬，冷若冰霜。海面鱗光閃閃， 明月彷彿近在眼前，遠方高樓華燈為之失色。美景如此， 當可解憂。

水馬

國家領導人來港愛下榻我寫字樓附近的酒店，森嚴的保安對我等蟻民帶來莫大不便。胡錦濤來港，前天上班看見街上巨大的水馬，立刻盤算翌日該怎麽繞道而行才能回到辦公室。

警方也是好樣的，竟然在巨型水馬中間開了一扇門讓我們通過上班，但警察已把附近團團包圍，如臨大敵。同事賭氣地說：“不如戒嚴啦。滿地都是水(水馬需用水注滿)，途人滑到誰負責?”頗有同感。

思歪

思歪未上任已醜態百出、信譽破產，還要讓他就職嗎？

普羅米修斯

星期一回家吃晚飯，飯後與弟弟聊普羅米修斯的劇情，研究到底發生了甚麽事。那討論雖算不上興高采烈，但也饒有趣味。一齣電影能引起觀眾茶餘飯後的討論，未嘗不是一種成就。

後話：幾天後弟弟仍樂此不疲，說："昨晚同朋友談論普羅米修斯，原來在＂異獸戰＂第二集已經有交代人是外星人獻給異形繁殖的祭品，而＂鐵血戰士＂中的外星人會用異形來訓練戰鬥能力。" 他認為以其他電影解釋這電影完全可行，我說那跟比較小李飛刀和打狗棒哪個厲害沒有分別。他說還可比較血滴子和降龍十八掌。笑死。

極速

洗衣機壞了，洗洗停停、洗洗停停。終於忍無可忍，今天午膳時以極速買了一部新的。厲害。

燭光晚會

地鐵上遇到不少去維園參加五三五集會的人，有穿着帶標語的上衣的沉默的成年人，也有身披黑衣興高采烈的少年人，一時之間不知該作何想。

3G mobile surfing solution in France – Orange Mobicarte “Internet Max”

I am currently in France.  And since my stay in France this time will last for more than two weeks (April/May 2012), I had explored about 3G surfing on mobile phones. I thought I would record my solution here and perhaps someone might find it helpful some day.

Of course, I didn't invent a solution. Rather, I followed what is said on this webpage -

http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2011/07/unlimited-mobile-3g-internet-data-in-paris-on-my-android-phone.html (this guy’s writing is quite interesting by the way)

The only things that I have to add are -

1. It didn't seem possible to get the Orange Mobicarte sim card at the CDG airport. I had a few hours to spare waiting for my train so I walked around the airport train station and a couple of terminals (2A and 2F) and could not find any Orange shop. You can get SFR and other sim cards as well as Mobicarte credits at the Relays, though. Actually when I asked if they had a Mobicarte sim card a shop assistant tried to sell me another brand (“You want a sim card? This is a sim card. Orange? No Orange.”).

2. I got the Mobicarte sim card from the first Orange shop in Aix-en-Provence I came across (there are a lot of these shops in this and other cities). There was one English-speaking shop assistant so communication was relatively smooth (this was very good luck). Because I was a foreigner the shop assistant let me test a dummy sim card to see if my phone could receive the signal. Then he did the registration (he made up some info such as my address) and activated the sim card for me. The startup kit cost 9.9 euros and included the sim card and credit of 5 euros which could be used for phone calls and SMS. I then had to buy and activate the "Internet Max" option - mobile surfing on cell phone for 9 euros per month. So I had to top up some more for the plan (I bought 10 euros and got credit of 12 euros to be used in one month). The shop assistant told me that “Internet Max” covered data of 500 MB per month, not unlimited data. I asked the clerk to handle the purchase of the internet plan for me. He tried but then realised it was not possible until my registration got through to the main system or something, which would take up to 2 days. He did tell me how to do it step by step, which was more or less as described in the webpage above.

3. My attempts to purchase the internet plan kept being denied until about 8 am the next morning (a wait for about 15 hours). After the successful selection of the “Internet Max”, option (it was option 4), I was told by the phone message that the activation of the plan could take up to 48 hours. But by noon that day I found that 9 euros had been deducted from my credit balance so I reckoned that the plan was good to use. That was about 19 hours after the purchase of the sim card, which was far better than the maximum waiting time of 96 hours/4 days. I am now surfing quite happily and it feels great.

4. The confirmation SMS on the subscription of the internet plan did not come until about 1130 the next day.

5. I didn't knew it but changing the sim card has not affected the use of whatsapp messaging at all. There was no need to uninstall/reinstall/reconfigure/reset the app in my phone.

I hope the above info would be useful for someone.