Sometimes, a title, a sentence, or just a bunch of words would come to me before I get an idea for a story. Sometime it is simply a play of word or a phrase that I think sounded cool. Some examples are: 乾蒸麵, 愛的時候 .

I had this title for a really long time and never had a story to go with it. I finally got one today while watching In The Mood For Love, a great movie by Wong Kar Wai and I do believe it is better than 2046.

Thought of a story about this high school boy and this high school girl from another school who liked one another but the relationship never actually started. They are from different school but meet at a inter-school competition. They just notice one another and become serious. Their school are across from each other and are rivals. They have groupies at their own respective school and it makes it hard for them to show affection but they finally do get some time and away from anybody else. But then they have to part.

In F.5 the boy has to go overseas, US to further his education. The girl left also for UK. The lost touch. At the end of the story, it's about 10 years later in 2007 and the boy finds a woman who looks very familiar in the underground MTR as she gets off the train. From then on he tries to get on the same train as her.

This is from May 2008:

Somewhat inspired by Roald Dahl's The Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories, Ihhhhh have a story up my head.

The protagonist is a midget who is also a mechanical genius. He was born to regular Chinese parents. From an early age, he was small. Kids teased him but he did managed to have a few good friends and his family supported him all the way. Despite his size, he excelled in mathematic and the science and developed an interest in robotic. He went to MIT (or a really prestigious) on scholarship, went to graduate school on full scholarship. When he graduated the biggest tech companies lined up to hire him including Microsoft (with Bill Gate talking to him one on one), Apple (featuring Steve Job), Boeing, Lockheed Martin, NASA, GM, GE, Sony, Samsung, Honeywell, IBM and etc... He accepted one of the jobs and they gave him great salary but he was somewhat teased by the others and he felt unloved and lonely. He disappeared for a while and came back in a mechanical suit that allowed him to be like a regular person. He went into another company, remade himself and worked from the bottom up with no special treatment.

He either created the suit to follow his college interest or she, Kate, went to his company. He spend his days working on his mechanic suit after work, improving it, maintaining it and etc...

Only his best friend, Ronald, who helped him make the suit (without knowing it, Ronald worked in a robotic/mechanical engineering company and supplied some of the parts for the suit). Finally, the midget, let's call him Sean for now, got closer to Kate who doesn't know that Sean is in the suit (or that the suit is only a mechanical suit).