Best quotes in 2015

Year 2015 is coming to an end, and this is another “end of year” series. Well, there’re no lack of “cool lines” I said throughout the years. Sometimes those are so cool that I’d mark that down and review that for my own leisure. This is kind of narcissistic… Anyway these are the coolest lines I’ve said this year.

The official English translation for “拉麵控” is “ramen whore”. — Aug 2015, on my crave for ramen

Display cars are like prostitutes, while second hand cars are like divorced women. — Dec 2015. Disclaimer: I drive a second hand car too.

Decaf 咖啡算唔算係咖啡?當然算,正如紮左嘅男人都射到無精子嘅精 — Dec 2015, when asked if decaffeinated coffee is considered coffee.

我一定要有D distraction 先可以專心 — Jan 2015, in the midst of my MFDS preparation.

“Federer vs Nadal” is like “Windows vs Mac” in the good old days, when the competition was so tense and fierce. “Federer vs Djokovic” is like “Apple vs Samsung” — the competition doesn’t get me as emotional. — July 2015, on Roger Federer’s Wimbledon final against Djokovic

Not all cool lines are my own quotes. Here’re some I appreciate so much:

我好努力去擺脫張志明,最後我發覺,我變左另一個張志明 — 春嬌與志明 (2012)

A picture’s worth a thousand words. Why not add a few more words in the picture, just to increase the word count? Because it looks shit. — Kai Wong, DRTV 2013

So here you are. Best quotes from 2015. Famous people like SJ and Abraham Lincoln got journalists and biographers to record their quotes. For the rest of us, we can only rely on ourselves. What’s the favourite quote of your own?

Tiniest things that upset me

It is often said that we should let go of the trivial matters that cause sorrow and focus on the delightful moments in life. I’ve tried and gained some degree of success, but there are at least a few seemingly trivial things that upset me at this moment.

1. Apple products innovate less these days.
This wasn’t so obvious at first, but reading about Microsoft’s latest hardware event made me realize, reluctantly, that the tech company that innovates nowadays is Microsoft, not Apple.

For the past few years iPhone has been upgraded with boring new features: fingerprint sensors, better and better camera, 3D touch, fitness tracking, etc.. (Who fuxking care about their health?) They’re handy, but they’re not innovative. As for iPad, since its debut in 2010 it has dominated tablet sales, remaining to be the only real tablet that matters. But given the release of Windows 10 (which fixes the mess Microsoft created in the past few years, under Steve Ballmer), I can see that the future of computing is not towards the post-PC concept introduced by SJ, but the modern hybrid PC best demonstrated by Surface Pro.

This worries me: Apple is no longer the driving force of computing innovation. True I’m very impressed by the latest super thin MacBook — elimination of all but one port and fanless design, but that innovation is too little, too late.

2. Kai leaving DRTV
What is DRTV? It’s my fav YouTube channel on photography. It’s not known for being informative or accurate in its product reviews, nor the photography knowledges it introduces. It’s really just Kai’s showmanship that entertains. He has now left HK for England, doing some occasional reviews there. But given that Digitalrev is posting online recruitment for a new presenter, Kai’s leaving is all but confirmed. This again upsets me. It’s like ER/Desperate Housewives’ ending all over again.

3. Work sucks. No this isn’t tiny.