From a True Master

Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.

• Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Life changing event?

It was a dark, windy and wet night before Thanksgiving; as I head home in my cargo van, travelling at speed limit on highway 92, a Toyota in front and right of me began to spin. I remember I was wishing it will not come into my lane while stepping on the brake really hard. It did, head first. I crashed into its left front. The impact pushed the Toyota few feet to making it perpendicular to the lanes.

Some people who claimed near death experience say they saw a white light before they supposedly died. I saw it too, the moment right before the collision. The white light was actually more like my vision turning bright and blank obscuring the moment of the crash. Even though I don't remember seeing the crash but I sure felt it through out my body. The seat belt worked as it should and jerked my body back upon impact. Interestingly, the air bag did not deploy. Maybe the sensors was not working or the combination of the speed and impact location did not set off the airbag. The air bag may actually have injured me instead because of its 200mph speed in which it comes out.


I was dazed for a few moments and saw a man and a woman holding a child, running toward the center divide. I could not move but I was thought the worst for the child. As I sat there still dazed and feeling pain on my chest area, the man came over and asked if I was OK. He said he was sorry and that he did not know what happened that he started spinning out.

A few drivers stopped to help and I tried to call 911 3 times until I was able to get through. It was a busy night, since many drivers could not deal with the first wet pavement of the season.
Ambulance, CHP all, came. My hands were shaking as I was filling and signing the ambulance waiver. I was really shaken up from this accident. I am just glad no one got hurt.

Their Toyota is totaled but I was able to drive my big cargo van home with a damaged steel bumper and front grill.

So, was this a life changing event for me? I would say not. Sure, I may have died, other people in the other car may have suffered more injury; however, I just felt like things are going to happen, good or bad, no matter what happens. We can only hope for the best. Who knew the car in front was going to spun out and cross into your lane causing you to crash into it. We can always try to be safe but others may not.

I like to think that that night I saved 3 people in that Toyota. Why? If it wasn't for me on the lane they crossed into, it may have been someone else that maybe speeding or did not respond as fast as they could. If i have not steer the van towards the engine compartment of the Toyota, the impact may have been in the passenger's compartment. They may have been injured.

So I like to think that I changed their lives.

"Hug someone you love tighter tonight." I hate cliches. you should hug all you love tight no matter what happened or for nothing that happened.

55,555.50

What you are looking at ladies and gentlemen, is the odometer of my Ford Explorer. It hit 55,555.50 miles today sice I bought it in 12/28/03. Nothing Special, just wanted to share the moment. I was not paying attention to it until I filled up gas this morning and looked at the reading.

So like 2.5 years I drove over 55k miles, not alot compared to others but it is impressive iI think. Considering that for many months I was away and not driving it, the mileage might of have been even more.

What!? A Cadaver?

I showed up at the location for a production and found out I will be filming some cadavers. No one bothered to tell me. I was not affected by it until I started to imagingin how it was going to look like - a whole dead human body?

I started to think about the time when my cousin took my to the morgue to look at about 30 dead bodies from a bus accident. I was about 13 then and the site really amazed me. There were workers cleaning the poor naked accident victims on top of huge ice blocks. I realy felt sad for the relatives and friends who were there identifying and mourning their loss. Sad site.

The smell of formyldehyde they used to preserve the carcuss stayed inmy mind and nose for many years.

The filming was not bad. It was for a medical equipment company. They have a new endoscope camera they are launching and at the same time they were doing a demo to some sales people and I assume were medical students. The physician was poking and probing around with the new High Definition camera and the room and the table where the piece of human shoulder were propped up on was dripping with saline and some body juice. I tried successfully not to get any on me. One of our extention cord got soaked with it so we decided to let them have it. It was a good nice thick expensive extention cord too. Oh well. I dont want to clean it.

Why does he have to say things like that?

Took this shot of Big Bad Bruce for his promotional use. He's got 2 turntables and a microphone. Bruce is not bad. I think he is still represented by Lynn. I am not sure now since she got her NSX.

Met lots of DJs recently, one in particular craked me up. I saw him with cases of his CDs and just asked if he was using MP3 files, his replied was that "no they are not good enough quality and that his clients want the best." Along with Jeff we laughed.

Why does he have to say things like that?

Yes, it is true music from a music CD is higher in fidelity than highly compressed MP3 file, I doubt his client can tell the differnce from his low-end loud speakers.

Why does he have to say things like that?

Few weeks ago, Jeff and I were at a wedding and sitting next to us were this couple. We introduced ourselves and chatted a little. Out of the blue he says he came to the US when he was 7 years old so he does not have any accents. I turned to Jeff and lamented that my parents should of took me here to US when I was seven and not 8 years old. Since I came when I was 8, and not 7 I have an accent! Damn, should of came when I was 7.

Now, Why does he have to says things like that?

Lucky Dog

Left to right: Lynn, Jasmine, Claire, Jessica and of course OooLong the Lucky Dog.

OooLong met the beauty queens last Saturday while they were at my studio filming a promotion for the Sing Tao Daily. They are all the Cover Girls for Sing Tao Daily, a Chinese language Newspaper in the San Francisco BAy Area. They were selected from among the many applicants and all appeared on a monthly magazine Sing Tao publishes. There were 12 girls and at the end of the year we had a pageant to select the queen. This is out 3rd year doing this and my 3rd year producing the show. It was great and lots of fun.