Blog of the Day
Can't think of anything special to write today.
The stupid computer is running low in memory after playing Yahoo pool for 2 hrs... and my AOL browser just pops out a message saying it has an illegal operation, want me to shut it down. I'll lose the internet connection if I do so. Just hang on to that, quickly write my blog.
Oh yeah, got to attend a friend's graduation ceremony tomorrow afternoon, and a postgrad farewell party in the evening, won't have time to write anythign tomorrow.
A Touching Story
from www.zaobao.com, written in Simplified Chinese.
一个疲惫的父亲天黑以后才回到家里，一进家门，就把自己扔进沙发，想休息一下。
“爸爸，我想向你要一点钱。”七岁的儿子站在卧室门口父亲说。
“什么？要钱！我知道你准是又要买那些没用的玩具。没有没有，如果你已经吃过晚饭，快去睡觉，没看见爸爸很累吗？”
儿子默默地走回自己的卧室。
过了一会，父亲有些后悔，也许儿子真的需要钱，他起身走进儿子的房间。
“儿子，你睡了吗？”他坐在儿子的床边。
“还没有。”已躺在床上的儿子睁大双眼望着父亲。“爸爸，我想知道，你做工一个小时挣多少钱？”
“这和你没有关系。好吧，如果你真的想知道，我告诉你，一个小时爸爸挣30美金。”疲劳的父亲稍稍有些不耐烦。“好了好了，告诉我，你需要多少钱？”
“15美金。”
父亲从钱夹里取出15美金递给儿子。
一拿到钱，孩子就一轱辘从床上爬起，掀开枕头，枕头下还压着15美金。
“你已经有这些钱，为什么还向爸爸要？”父亲忍住火气。
“爸爸，这15美金是我攒的零用钱，再加上你刚才给的15美金，一共30美金。现在，我全部给你，你明天可以早放工一个小时来陪我吗？”
父亲无语。
The Quality of Internet Service
I find that AOL internet service level is deteriorating. I always get disconnected when I dial-up, which means paying more for local phone charge. Also, the number of junk mails in my AOL e-mail account has been increasing, even though I've never used it. I guess AOL must be selling the e-mails to the people. There also lags in connection, very undesirable if I'm playing online game, and cause browser to hang. Finally, I hate the additional complusory browser provided by them, which takes up the RAM space of my computer.
So, if u want a good ISP, don't use AOL.
Result of Fortune Telling
Sob sob sob....
The Weather Reports
I wonder where do the weather forecast comes from as different TV channels and internet websites reports different weather forecasts, from temperatures, sunshire / rain, to sunrise & sunset times, etc. Don't know which one to believe...
Tasminia Registered Car
On my way home from the uni library yesterday, saw a tasminia registered car. How does it get here ? Fly across the sea ? I pondered ...
Problem
Can't get rid of the center tag for after I put the Harry Potter poster... Don't know why.... *ponder*....
Just Comment
I find it's kind of too early to see supermarkets start selling Christmas cakes, chocolates, gifts & deco when it's only October. And the TV starts having Christmas ads. This reminds me that Christmas is exactly 2 months way.
Nothing much to write today. But I find this cool poster of Harry Potter.
My handphone rang when I was still on my bed this morning. I thought it was my alarm, and pressed the reject call button immediately. The next moment, I looked at the screen and realized that it was actually an incoming call. The screen showed an unfamiliar number, and I was wonder who it was. Got up from the bed, the phone ring again, it's from the airline, telling me that my earlier flight date is confirm ! *Yupppiieee*
Someone Steals My Clothes
Went to collect my clothes hanging at the backyard this afternoon and discover that a t-shirt and a vest missing. I don't think it's taken by mistake as there's no others hanging their clothes there since yesterday. Who on earth stole my clothes ???
Thursday Blue
Feeling moody today, no motivation to do my work, tired... I guess it's due to the
over-reading of story book for the last few days. *yawn*
My New Flatmate
I wasn't sure what time my new flatmate moved into this unit. I was busy with my own work last night and only woke up only in the afternoon today. The first thing I noticed was the tidy corridor and the clean bathroom, toilet and kitchen. It is never been so clean and tidy since the day I moved in. My new flatmate must be doing the cleaning in the whole morning when I was still sleeping...
Remember the group assignment that I was complaining that my group was still making mistakes on the last moment of the deadline ? We've finally got the marks for the messy reports that we scrambled up, 96/100 !! Can't believe it !
With this kind of mark, I can savely secure a H.D. for the first half of the term for this subject. *ha ha ha*
Programming
This stupid programming assigment that I've been writing for the whole afternoon doesn't work well. It just doesn't give me a consistent result. I still haven't found out what went wrong.
*Pulling hair out*
Hope that I have better luck tomorrow...
Poor me, my flatmate is still making fun of me over my laundry disaster...*sob sob sob*
Laundry Disaster
Doing my usually weekly laundry yesterday. When the machine stopped spinning. I open the cover, and
Aaargh !!! All my white cothes insider the washing machines turns yellowish with pink and brown patches. What happened ?? Oh ! It's my IKEA cotten rug that I put into wash together with my clothes !
*Sob sob sob* My flatmate was giggling at my mishap when I tried very hard to stay calm and not to knock his head of his neck...
New Office Rules
1. If you can't get your work done in the first 24 hours, work nights.
2. A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the butt.
3. Don't be irreplaceable, if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
4. It doesn't matter what you do, it only matters what you say you've done and what you're going to do.
5. After any salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month than you did before.
6. The more crap you put up with, the more crap you are going to get.
7. You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard.
8. Eat one live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
9. When the bosses talk about improving productivity, they are never talking about themselves.
10. If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it!
11. There will always be beer cans rolling on the floor of your car when the boss asks for a ride home from the office.
12. Keep your boss's boss off your boss's back.
13. Everything can be filed under "miscellaneous."
14. Never delay the ending of a meeting or the beginning of a cocktail hour.
15. To err is human, to forgive is not our policy.
16. Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he/she is supposed to be doing.
17. Important letters that contain no errors will develop errors in the mail.
18. If you are good, you will be assigned all the work. If you are really good, you will get out of it.
19. You are always doing something marginal when the boss drops by your desk.
20. People who go to conferences are the ones who shouldn't.
21. If it wasn't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
22. At work, the authority of a person is inversely proportional to the number of pens that person is carrying.
23. When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried.
24. Following the rules will not get the job done and getting the job done is no excuse for not following the rules.
25. When confronted by a difficult problem you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
26. No matter how much you do, you never do enough.
27. The last person that quit or was fired will be held responsible for everything that goes wrong.
Where is lycosasia login page ?
I remember that I have a e-mail address with Lycosasia, but haven't been using it for a while. Today try to login, but can't find the login page anymore. It's nowhere on the lycoasia page. Has it been shut down ?
*wondering*
Thank you
J for fixing the light in the kitchen.
A RPG Dream
I've got a strange dream last night. It has a well structured story and it is very seldom for me to have a dream that I am playing another character.
It all started this morning when I woke up at 11:05am, finding it a bit early, I decided to get more sleep. (I usually get up at 12pm)
It started like this:
I was a little girl (about 10 years old) living with my parents in an apartment. I had a few siblings, 1 younger brother, 1 younger sister, but can't remember if I've got any eld siblings.
One day after breakfast, I was carrying a bag of rubbish out to the back door, where there's a fire staircase and a rubbish bin beside the door.When I went out of the door, I realized that something strange going on. The bin was missing and I could sense someone hidding behind the staircase. I got scared (I'm a little girl) and quickly ran back to tell my mother, who a middle-aged woman with short curly blonde hair. Soon, we realized that the whole flat is being watched. We can see some men in black watching us outside the windows, front door and back door.
My father (probably my step-father) said that it is probably due to something that was hidden by my mother in the storeroom. Since they got married and he moved into the apartment, she had never allow him to go into / near the storeroom.
Sudden, the whole apartment started to swing, the movement got bigger and bigger and eventually the building toppled but the structure didn't collaspe, so no one was hurt. We quickly crawled out of the building through the window and get onto the street. However, mother said we were still in danger, and we should head towards her brother's shop a few blocks away. So, we all ran all the way to my uncle's fabric store and straight right into the office at the back. Found my uncle (a skinless bald headed man) there who was shocked to see us.
Then, I woke up, looked at the watch, 11:25am. It seemed so long, but actually the dream only last for 20 minutes...
Sorry that I'm never been a good story teller
Take-away food
So tired after presentation today, didn't feel like cooking. I walked all the way to my favorite chinese eating house to buy take-away. Ordering deep fried calamari and my usually stir fried rice noodle with beef, and happily took a bus home.
The calamari smells so nice, but it turns out to be like rubber, hard and tasteless ... And the rice noodle doesn't taste as nice as it usually be. *sigh*...
May be today is just not my day...
Memory Game
Got
this cute flash game from my sis. Quite fun playing it, but it also confirms that I really have a lousy memory...
Edit
I guess I can never be a editor. Not only because of my poor grammar, but also I'll probably be driven to death while editing other people's work. I really hate to edit project reports and even presentation slides. Irresponsible work of some people will really drive me net.
For one of the project done last semester, when I was doing a final editing for my group report the night before the deadline at around mid-night. I realised that the part done by WL is totally wrong. I couldn't figure out where the numbers of the result comes from, and very obviously they are un-justified. Also the analysis on that results, of course, were wrong as well.
This kind of last moment shock really drove me mad. As there was no time to re-do all the Excel spreadsheet. I got to use my creativity to input some reasonable figures into the table and re-write an analysis report on that bunch of fake numbers. But the time I finished re-writing everything and furnished the report, it was already in the morning. I didn't get to sleep at all for the whole night ! I printed the report and met my group for a final check (but none bother to check my work), and gave WL a good scolding.
What's the result ? My report got 9/10. But none has even say
thanks to my hard work done.
So what's the story for tonight ? I'm here, sitting in front of the computer doing editing again. Damn it ! Here's WL again ! Still never bother to check his own work ! &%#@(&$!^
The kitchen's light is spoilt. I think it may never get repaired as nobody bother. T is away and moving out soon, the other 2 guys never bother ... And me, I don't know how to fix it .... Also too busy with my assignment this week.
Tots about that lecture
1. Drop-Dead-Boring !
2. All speakers talked too fast. I had a hard time trying to understand what they were talking, even though I've went thro' the paper quite thoughtly.
3. Managed to picked up some potential questions that may be asked ...
The Spy To-Be
My group is going to have an article presentation on Wednesday. It's really an advantage to be in the second lecture class. There will be 1 or 2 group(s) presenting the
same article in today's lecture. So, I'm going there to check them out.
They will distribute a copy of their presentation slide to the class and the lecturer will also discussed the article and hand out a discussion paper. Hopefully I won't get caught and able to make a better presentation on Wednesday with the Monday materials.
Got hail storm again today....
Bakuteh
I bot a
bakuteh pack months ago, but didn't really have the drive to cook
bakuteh. Today, I finally make an effort to cook it. Bot 1 kg of pork ribs from the meat shop in the afternoon, start cooking the soup, chop the ribs into small pieces, throw them all into the soup and cook for 1 hour. Done ! But 1 kg of ribs... I can't fnish it alone. Nvm, carry the whole pot to my friend's place. Good food tastes best when it's shared among friends :)
Junk Food
I'm never really a big fan of junk food, and really hate it recently. It's always my last choice of meal. Since I've been busy with my assignment lately and have no time to cook, I find that my dosage of junk food increases dramatically, from meat pie, McDonald's (it really sucks), KFC, forzen pizza, can soup, to instant pasta, etc, etc, etc ... Very bad of health arh ? I hope that I won't need to live this way next week...
Blog @ Lecture
You know, it's very hard to concentrate during the lecture when it's held in a computer lab, especially when the topic discussed is not that interesting. I just can't keep my hands and eye off the computer, surfing the net, reading news, checking e-mail and writing blog.....
What has the lecturer been talking about ? I have no idea... I think he is talking about how to go about doing the next individual assignment, but I've already lost track 10 mins after he began talking... What a terrible student I am !
*sigh* *shake head*
Nevermind, I'll read the lecture notes when I go home later. Oh No ! Just remember that I'm meeting friends for movie after class. Ok, next day then.... cannot... need to complete my current assignment and prepare for tomorrow's group meeting....
*Quite disappointed with myself* OK, finaly date, next Thursday before the next lecture....
To U,
After reading my blog for so long, when are u going to start writing yours so that I can get a bit of enjoyment also ?
Hey ! Don't try look away & pretend that I'm talking to someone else ! Yes ! Yes ! It's u ! U know who u are ! U better start writing, and keep up with it everyday when u logon to your computer... I want something that is entertaining, OK ??
Nothing really great happened today.
Only in the evening, witnessed an attempted murder in the kitchen and my smoked salmon got stolen by the murder suspect subsequently...
I can't understand why Geocities keep shuting down my link to the flower photo.... too popular issit ???
Self-Declared Break
Don't think that I only have 2 lectures a week, I would have an easy life. I haven't got enough sleep for the past 1 week even though I was having a one-week break.
So, I decided to give myself a holiday today. No work, no study, plenty of sleep. Also went for a movie in the afternoon, bot myself a second-hand story book and had yoga in the evening .....
*arhh* Fully re-charged for the busy week ahead !
Canberra Floriade
Likely to be my last chance of going to see the beautiful flower exhibition in Canberra, I joined the tour oragnized by SSA and dragged my friends along. The trip turned out to be quite disasterous. With a loud and bitchy organizer, total 6 hours journey on the bus, bad weather (cloudy and raining), we were already half-dead when we finally reached the Floride. Worse when we were told that we only have 2 hours to go round the park and take photos, and another 15 mins to take photos at the Capital Hill before heading back home....
What to do ? We were all running around like mad women on the muddy paths to take as many photos as we could. The flowers this year is not that great (can't match with the Armsterdam floriade), and with my lousy photography skills, couldn't expect to take any good quality ones to turn out (despite I actually took close to 100 photos in 2 hours).
Want to see my photos ? Wait long long lah ! Too busy to organized them properly now.....
Tired...
Have been aways for days, finally get to enjoy the comfort of my little cosy room.....
*yawn*....*Zzzzz*
Communication Phenomenon
Forms of communication changes so much with the advancement of technology that sometimes amazes me how people communcates.
Story 1: My friend told me that her friend talks to her flatemate using mobile phone when they are both at home!
Story 2: My friend send me an e-mail the other day telling me to reply her immediately on some tour booking matter, when she has no way to know if I was online or near any computer or would be checking e-mail on that day ! (I only found out about that e-mail on the next morning)
Story 3: My dear flatemate likes to go to Uni to send me e-mail when he can talk to me at home :-(
Research Phenomena
The more I read, the more confused I am, as the researches contradict one another .....
