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There is a thread in Cari Forum about how to improve one's social skill. Quite a few of good suggestions have been proposed; one of them suggested to always keep yourself smiling at least.
I nodded. I couldn't agree more I guess.
There was once a couple of weeks I worked in Kumon Learning Center. While I was doing some markings, a little girl came to my front desk and asked softly, "老师,你一直在笑什么? (Teacher, what are you keep smiling about?)".
It's THE chocolate biscuits, and Ice Lemon Tea.
I thought of getting the QuickBite- chocolate cake again but I saw none on the rack, except this *blingbling* nicely wrapped chocolate biscuit.
It was slightly bitter at the first bite, but gradually you get the vanilla chocolate taste. Have I mentioned the peanut? No because it isn't peanut. It's walnut almond my dear.
And here it is, THE ice lemon tea. Yea I love tea, too, especially teh susu ice. I wonder if there is actually teh susu ice in can. Do tell me if you've seen any.
就背着一个背包,今天从家里一路一脚印往那既遥远又近在眼前的Brim Tower走去。也许是周末的关系,这一路上实在没多少车辆来往。也许是时间还早的关系,太阳也还没大肆地照耀。清风徐徐,小小的黄叶像落雨般从路旁的树上撒下来。天啊,真让人感到透体通畅。
我想是错别了这样的光景好一阵子了,这一路走来还真的有让人充电的感觉,一扫往日的阴霾。日子就是要这样地走才能体验到它的乐趣呀。
后记:脚酸。
最近却看了一部泰国片;一部在当地拿下了很多奖项的片子。内容不错,看了应该会给不少人在亲情、友情、爱情之间有所启发。它给我的影响,却好像不仅于此而已。
从来就没有觉得泰国有什么好。但自从看了这部片子以后,好想找机会到泰国走一趟,看看泰国适不适合自己长住,看看我能不能够接受当地人文风情。我也开始上网找看泰国文字长什么样子,上JobStreet看当地有没有适合我的工作,看那边的大学有没有我可以选修的科系。
会不会是我爱上了戏里的主角?
我想我是疯了。
我这个人的睡觉类型是所谓的浅眠。平时入睡后轻易地被惊醒不说,最近每每到了半夜2~3点还会自动地起床。到了闹钟要响前的10分钟才能稍微地又重新入眠。一觉到底,可遇不可求。
我要是农夫,种出来的田米一定比别人大粒!
昨晚发了一个很可怕的梦。
我梦见我骑着摩多在一条很宽的马路上载着我的家人,大约共5个人。骑着骑着,突然看到前方左边有不少的车辆停下来,还有救护车。我心里想着,这么大的阵仗,应该是有很严重的车祸发生了。
想着想着,突然我就见识到了事情的严重性。我看到马路上随意地置满了小孩的残肢;手啊,脚啊,头颅身躯等的把路面都盖得满满的,就好像有一辆学校巴士空坠一样。场面非常的可怕。
我没有因此而停下来,依然缓缓地向前走。眼角扫过同时却也发现躺在地上的伤患竟然有不少还是活着的。他们有些利用仅剩的肢体慢慢地爬。也有些静静地躺在原地眨眼。
我还是没有停下来。终于,我的摩多驶进入了事发地点,用不快的速度碾过一个又一个的残肢,车子带动身体就像越野一样时不时地震动。但是当中还有在眨眼和在爬的孩子,没有躲开我的车辆。车轮一次一次的碾过,耳边也传来一声声的惨喊声。
结束。
有些人看电影,只看一遍,看过就算。有些则会选择性地重看;就像周星驰系列的经典之作,一生好歹也要看上好几遍。我恰好是这种人。而且不仅是电影,连续剧我也会反复地看了又看;乐此不疲。
我人生中其中一部TOP 3的连续剧是袁咏仪和赵文卓主演的《花木兰》。第一次看是中学时期某年从电视上看到的。由于前后的时间差距太大,至今总共看了多少次我还真的数不出来。我想大约有5次应该错不了多少。
这部片子很有趣,述说的是花木兰代父从军的前后种种,和家人、军友、神仙、爱人、皇室等的爱恨情仇。除了两位男女主角,还有不少实力坚强的演员穿插在其中。
我记得一天晚上和老爸两人在客厅看这部片子的时候,剧情里花木兰她老爸和花木兰她本人在说着一些人生大道理。好像是说着,人生啊,很多事情不会事事如意;怎么来就怎么走,顺其自然。老爸在半睡半醒间突然问我,戏里的这番对白我有没有看明白。我看了看老爸。他娓娓地又说到,看戏如果可以边看边思考和吸收里边要传递的讯息,对做人有很大的收获。然后他又睡着了。
好像是自那个暑假开始,身边的朋友和老师都发现我疯了吧。
It has been awhile since my last post. I was having some Internet connection issues with my Celcom broadband. Eventually found out the way to get it back to rolling again.
I was not able to surf at all previously even though I was connected. The speed somehow showed "a few" kbits but I can hardly sense any. Until I connect to the network using windows' dialler, yes it runs again :) REGARDLESS of the performance, in terms of speed.
I wonder if the BlueCube team is actually working on the new firmware and the application software.
I went for a small gathering last night with a few friends of mine whom I used to have lots of activities with, like singK from evening to early 4am, and "Hartz Chicken buffer"-theme gathering etc; that was like 3 years back, before I moved to Semenyih.
And yes, time is passing so quickly. I can still recall how panic I was when I first joining the company. And now, I'm proudly completing my 6 month probation soon on next week 22nd.
Thanks god.
Lately I added this Likeness UNRATED application to my Facebook account. It has a lots of interesting and daring quizzes compared to the original Likeness application. And this morning before I go working, I saw this very challenging quiz to answer.
If you managed to answer this, perhaps you can show me how!
Since I find that eating is really the KEYWORD to sort things out, lately I crazily prepared myself lots of food to work. Other than Pepsi the stabilizer, I bought Quick Bites chocolate cakes by Gardenia every morning from the grocery at the ground floor of my office building, RM1.40 each, AND I also brought the wheat bread by Gardenia too which I've prepared at home with Chocolate-Peanut butter. I prepared 6 pieces of the wheat bread yesterday, left with 2 pieces before I went home. So I prepared only 4 pieces today, but again 2 pieces were left. But luckily my colleague volunteered to handle them since she was staying late again.
Talking about food, we went to Summit for lunch this afternoon, the restaurant which we had attended to the most often previously. Due to the boringness, everyday-the-same-food that they provided according to my colleagues a few weeks back, we intuitively stepped around and at last explored Sahara, the now new lunch location of us. Their food is not bad, frankly, with the nice chicken-chop (again? yes, another topic on chicken chop). But the cashier is getting more and more arrogant to blindly charge us a few cents more expensive than the limit we'd flipped it on his face.
To find out who else other than me keened to visit Summit someday, I conducted a survey among our gang of 8 people. I was surprised initially when I first gathered the result from 4 people included me; 3 people actually voted for Summit as their preferred restaurant than Sahara. The final statistics is however a big disaster; We have 5 versus 3, and yes, 5 goes for Sahara.
Yet I came out with this solution to schedule our lunch location accordingly this ratio; Sahara on Monday, Wednesday and Friday; Summit on Tuesday and Thursday.
And so was today the first time we went Summit after the long gap. I picked my favourite dishes, fried eggs with bean and fried wan-tun with Mayonise; But soon I find out that it wasn't that delicious anymore as I'd expected. My colleague then said, "So now are we gonna reduce Summit to one day?".
Dann! How true.
Yes yes, you *should* see my lovely NDSL that I've bought few weeks ago. It's now completed with a carry bag in black, a crystal clear protection case in orange, and screen protectors.
I've actually asked for opinions about the combination of my black NDSL with the hard case in orange. This again showed that personal visual preference is really really objective.
I love the combo, of course!
For those who are interested, I've invested RM775 in total on the toy: NDSL RM550, EDGE RM130, Carry Bag RM25, Orange Clear Case RM30, Screen Protector RM40. I also bought a 4GB microSD memory card from my sister, which you can easily find in Low Yat at around RM100 I think.
There are also friends of mine who wonder whether they should get NDSL or PSP. This is definitely a must-ask question, and you can get a lot of answers from google. According to the comparison posted by Chris Roper at IGN dot com, the following results are concluded.
| NDSL | PSP | |
| Processing Power | - | WIN |
| Screen(s) | TIE | TIE |
| Battery Life | WIN | - |
| Controls | - | WIN |
| Load Times | WIN | - |
| Portability | WIN | - |
| Media | - | WIN |
| Wireless | TIE | TIE |
But I personally did not go through the analysis until this level. To me the main point is about the game itself. Put it this way; If you like PS-style game, take PSP. If you don't, then NDSL might be what you are seeking for.
NDSL is capable of playing movies with the homebrew applications developed for different types of clip formats. One of them is DPG, which is for MoonShell. Think back in previous time when I wanted to convert clips format to of different types, I used Super Convertor; it can transform among most of the common types, and most importantly, it is a freeware :) See their official website here.
However I find that the software (v2008.build.30 (Mar 22, 2008)) does not support Vista Home Premium at all. It turned my pc into a bluescreen with lots of words, and before I finished reading the first line, it reboot itself automatically. Perhaps anyone of you could share more information on this.
Since my current objective is to convert to MoonShell compatible clip format, someone actually recommended BatchDPG, a simple yet good tool for the only one type of transcoding.
To use the software, you need to install AviSynth and MS .NET 1.1 prior to the installation of BatchDPG. You can find all the links in their website here.
<HTML>3. Say if you want the ebook has the name "Bravo", click File > SaveAs, in the filename text field, type "Bravo.xht" (including both ") and click save.
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Matt Is Cool
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Yes we all do agree
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17th Feb 2008, Sunday
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Been struggling for a while with Izzi broadband at my area. People said Kelana Jaya is a highly congested place, with the internet performance averagely below what you can get from other places. An average speed of 300kbps, which when during peak hours it’ll go extremely down to 10kbps (when it’s 0kbps, I persuade myself that someone is doing maintenance or upgrading, so it’s not counted), while the highest speed I’ve ever seen with Izzi is 500kbps, and it happens once is a whatever-color-moon. This brought me the thought of getting Celcom broadband. After a long period of self counseling, i finally registered a Celcom postpaid account for Celcom Broadband d98 package at The Curve BlueCube center on the day, and ordered a BlueCube modem from Johor, which is very expensive T_T
~Why Celcom instead of Maxis?~
Maxis provides 3.6Mbps as well as Celcom at the same price RM98. The difference is that at this price, Maxis included a modem for rental to the user, with the conditions of minimum subscription of 18 months. Celcom provides no modem, but no minimum subscription required.
19th Feb 2008, Tuesday
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The modem was arrived at around 3pm to my office, delivered by NationWide courier service, who promised a 1 day delivery and they did. The modem is much more smaller than I have expected. It’s even smaller than my 7610, palm-size.
After setting up the device and plugging it in, the driver and software were installed automatically. I was shocked when I first connected to the network, I got a speed of around 10kbps with a GPRS connection. I soon realized that I can set the option to enforce the modem operates only in UMTS/HSDPA mode. Then the speed raised. The highest speed I got at the night is around 178kBps.
The more surprising figure is here. In the next day morning, I saw that it was running at 262kBps.
20th Feb 2008, Wednesday
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This is the part with the MOST surprising figure. It’s running at around 10~20kBps.
The End.
That was the end of my holiday in my hometown, early in the morning around 5am, while I was about to leave to the airport. She woke up.
And I knew why she did.
Thanks...
这一段日子以来纷扰不休,想当笑话讲也不知要从何说起。所幸终于毕业了,成绩也不至于让人失望。也算是对得起为我付出许多的他们。期间心情不是很好。我想也不是没有来由的。说是有些恐惧也是情有可言吧。人生还是不要有太多的变化才好。
好的变化总是要的。可以选择的,就要勇敢的踏出那一步。昨天,是我人生第一次的见工。
约好的时间为下午2点。大约11点左右就从家里出发到Kajang的Ktm Station。 也许是上天给的考验,里面的车位满了,新纪元的也满了。没有选择的余地,就只好到‘附近’food court的停车场去。真的很远。
之后,搭ktm转putra lrt再搭德士,大约1点到了那栋大厦。天气实在是热的很。吃了午餐,闲逛了一下,大约1点45分就走进那间公司去报道。
从秘书手上拿了一份厚厚的表格,花了将近40分钟来作答,完成了第一个考验。后来就在秘书的带领下,在一群办公空间穿梭,到了老大的房间面谈。又过了大约半个小时,终于老大带我到第三个考验的场所去,作答一份仅仅5题的试卷。限定时间是2个小时,但是时间过了一半不到,我就已经头昏脑胀,结果只好放弃。尽管作答了才大约一半,也无力再继续做下去了。
在人群挤压中回到了Kajang ktm,结果下起雨来。等了半个小时,不见雨势有停止的迹象,只好哭着撑伞跋涉。
开始忧郁。
偶尔从睡梦中惊醒,就这样到了第二天早晨,开始了心里无数的对话。慢慢地慢慢地到了傍晚,渐渐地把自己给说服了要勇敢地从新开始找工作。就在大约傍晚6点的时候,电话响了。
" ... I want to offer you the job ... "
轰隆……
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诡异现象:电话后不久就下起了倾盆大雨,突然间家里电话连续响了大约10秒钟。不是“铃~铃~”一声一声地响,而是“铃~”这样长音持续了10秒。
带着美丽的心情,我醒来迎接了一个美好的早上。
大约10点左右当我意识到我不得不进食後,我决定好好给我煮一碗蘑菇汤,补充精力。虽然那是罐头食品,可是我想,这就是所谓的都市生活吧。想到这里,嘴角禁不住微微地往上弯了一弯。其实最近因为要赶大量功课的关系,买了着实不少的方便食品,摆满了在楼下那客厅的桌上。
就在我三步做两地走到了桌旁,依稀眼角似乎看到了什么在墙角动了一下。心里登时紧了好几圈。
是老鼠吧?我想……同时,我把眼睛有多大张多大,往那个角落瞪。答案它并没有让我等太久,就依照它自己原来的脚步慢慢地走出来,却也让我立刻就看清了它的原貌。原来是那小四,阿四脚蛇啊,呵呵……
什么?四脚蛇?脑筋突然变很好,过去看过的电影里的恐怖画面全都似乎被调了出来一幕幕地上映在脑海里。恐龙掠杀人类的血盆利齿,巨蟒长大嘴巴飞奔在眼前,受伤的人类一边颤抖一边嚎哭,脸都黑了白沫都吐了也还顾不了停不住的血流,不得不紧绷着神经注意四周有可能又蹦出敌人的暗处……
于是我拔腿就跑,往楼上房间躲。想了一想,这样下去也不是办法,总得要把它给赶出去。于是,在士毛月,4月13号,上演了一出近代的人兽大战。
材料:
木棍一支,长约150cm
驱蚊油一罐
纸箱若干
过程:
- 它其实不怎么好动,当它发现有人之后就会躲起来禁止不动,这时候就要赶快用纸箱把它的路线给封锁。因为这次行动的主旨是双赢的结局,所以只要把它请出屋子外就好了。纸箱围起来的路障要能引导它走出屋外。
- 路障设好後,就要逼它行动。只要在它近距离的旁边制造一些动静,就能驱使它迈开步伐寻找新的方向。如果不能确定它的危险性,远距离攻击武器会比较安全。这时候驱蚊油和木棍就可以派上用场。
你一定不会想到,我们老家地震就算了,那个你也待了好几年的地方,竟然一连几天地震了好几次。 你一定也想不到,那个我们一起去过的国家,有一个末日预言就在今年,甚至有好几个预言家都提出类似的说法。 你又怎么会想到,科学家还发现有高几率外星人在太阳系徘徊,估计有可能年尾会来到地球。 这么...