There are so many other exciting things I can do if I can finish this thorny job this week.

Here are two pictures he and I drew using the Windows Painter. Enjoy.

The TV series first interests me for a few reasons, such as the job and the cancer situation of Walter. But the most important one is seeing how a fifty-year old loser teacher as well as a cancer patient can beat the odds. To modify a line from another TV series about drug-dealing Weeds: will this “over-qualified, under-achiever” give in under the crush of this unfriendly world?

There are, however, a few disappointing episodes in season 2 and 3. I feel the playwrights forgot the fight for survival theme and distracted into boring scenes of family disputes. The episodes about Walter’s wife having an affair or bitching about a divorce ruined the tension and the suspense in the show, that is, to fight for survival.

In my opinion, the best part of the show is the scenes when Walter and Pinkman are caught in crises and how they managed to get over in one pieces.

I am still looking forward to watching season 4 next year, but I hope the meth lab chemist can beat the weeds grower (as in Weeds) in the consistent of producing quality. Come back Hisenberg and the little Jassie.

By the way, the episode 10 of season 3, which is titled Fly really turned me off and I hope it won’t come back again.

Hisenbery and Jessie will be back in 2011.

The chemistry teacher in Breaking Bad has the following motives to suddenly shift his life and become a drug trafficker:

• He is a teacher in high school and does not accomplish much in his life. Although he is obviously a competent and knowledgeable person, his teaching job does not give him the vibes of life, not to mention the payment.
• To earn more money, he has to do physical labor in a car wash. Life is such that if you have no money, there is no funny.
• Lung cancer. For a man over fifty, nothing but a deadly disease can galvanize this person to act. Suddenly he wants to live with a vengeance and do things he never dared to do before. One has to die anyway and why not attack life with some guts?

Breaking Bad (or BB for short) is a story about a desperate man trying to live a worthy life. Maybe it is a little late but he has to make the last struggle.

Other thoughts:

• It feels real that he blocks the camera temporarily to hide his weeping when leaving a farewell message to his family.
• A bad guy with a fierce beast (such a dog) always die miserably in the TV/Movie. A bad person with a snarling beast is doubly hateful.

Today I will start by writing a TV show I just started watching: Breaking Bad. Although I just finished the first episode of season one, I am already so intrigued and decide to follow through.

On my frequent bus rides and daily sauntering home, I think of this show and a few scenes in it. It dawned on me that to make a show interesting, the script writer must be really talented and know how to make the whole story both real and gripping. I noticed some of the tricks and prototypes in Breaking Bad and fiddled the idea that I should write down my understanding of how the Breaking Bad is crafted in each episode and  how the story gradually evolves.

This will keep my head and fingers busy and provide a seclusive corner in my stagnant mind.

After a few days of search, I found the following ways to access twitter on my Nokia Symbian phone.

1. The easiest way is to visit http://wkg.me and input your twitter account information. After that, you will have an quite intuitive interface to do your normal tweets.
2. Using http://twittermail.com and register your twitter account. After that, you can send a tweet to your secret email account suffixed by @twittermail.com. But for users from China, one needs to climb over G.F*W to visit the twittermail site.
3. Install the application Mobitile on the phone and send tweets from it. I put it at the bottom of the list because I don’t like its ads and keyboard operations — especially its slow flash interface.

You can find more mobile phone applications for twitter at Twitter Fan Wiki.

Update: I found Snaptu quite handy when it comes to serving as a mobile phone feed center. Using twitter on Snaptu is hassle free and I enjoy using its News&Blogs app. Also, since Twitter is so open to the third-party API, it is impossible to gfw it.

We went there at 7:30 a.m in the morning and only managed to meet the sales representative at about 11:00 am. In less than two minutes, we decided to buy two sets and rushed to the counter for the paperwork and deposit.
Everyone around me appeared eager to buy and the atmosphere was nothing short of feverishness. The media people came and there were two police cars in the scene. One of the security guards told me some people began to queue up from previous night.

There was a strange festivity in the air and everyone seemed to have a party. But the real winner is the real estate sharks.

I consider this is very abnormal and the real estate companies are making obscene amount of money out of the pocket of common wage earners. How long will this last? I am not sure, but so far the bubble is still growing, at least in Xiamen.

(photo shows people queuing up to buy the apartments)