Congratulations to Joni and Chung!

Made a stupid movie with some friends for Joni and Chung's Wedding :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn7iRnP7sCQ

I really shouldn't have got married

...if it's because of the tax rate. Apparently, there are three ways tax rates are calculated:
- Single
- Married, filing jointly
- Married, separately
I can either choose filing jointly or separately, but either way, the final amount of taxes we need to pay as a couple is *more* than if we file separately as singles. Yes, it's not always true when conventional wisdom says marriage can save you taxes. Here are the tax rates: as you can see, at lower tax brackets, filing jointly translates to savings. But towards the high brackets, filing as a couple actually have the same rate as a single (which doesn't make any sense to me). And there is no way to go back, married filing separately only means both of us will be using half the bracket of filing jointly.

So it looks like the US government is encouraging poor people to get married, and rich people to remain single.

Mind Games

Have spent most of the free time in the past week reading Death Notes. Just finished all tonight, and feeling very exhausted now. It all started a week ago when I watched the movie at a friend's place, after that curiosity makes me read the first half online, until I get the rest yesterday. It's definitely one of the best comics I have read. A lot of mind games, and reading and understanding all the tactics going on is like a brain teaser. Sometimes I really wonder who can actually come up with those ideas to write a book...that person must be crazy in some way. Looking forward to the remake of the movie by Hollywood. I am sure it will happen, the question is when.