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Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. — John Dewey

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Car wash and BBQ

30th Apr 2005 17 0 Daily Scribble

Contrary to last night, I went to BBQ at Jackson’s place with a big group of colleagues tonight. I arrived a bit earlier so I also washed my car using Jackson’s fancy car washing equitments. He got everything a car washing shop has,… [...]

night life

29th Apr 2005 18 0 Daily Scribble

I think I am really getting old. Tonight I went to a bar, Bar None, in Yale Town with Pat and her friend, I found myself not really enjoying going to those places, I think the music is too noise and meaningless, the people there are doing nothing really… [...]

Talk to the CEO

28th Apr 2005 30 0 Daily Scribble

Today during lunch Bob Bailey, the CEO of PMC, sat with our table. I knew this is going to happen when we picked his usual table in the first place. This is the first time I had ever talked to him since I joined the company. He is pretty much up to my expectation,… [...]

hacked

27th Apr 2005 23 0 Daily Scribble

I’m so upset today, my website at home got hacked and the front page is defaced. I suspect it is due to a loop hole in the Apache server since port 80 is the only port opened to my linux box thru the router. So I patched Apache to the latest version… [...]

time keeper

26th Apr 2005 22 0 Daily Scribble

My name Horace is originated from the God of time keeping in Greek (not Geek) mythology. I used this the opening line in my Toastmaster timer speech. Unfortunately, a good opening doesn’t lead to a smooth ending. I had too many um/ah and… [...]

enoki mushroom beef roll

25th Apr 2005 158 1 Daily Scribble

Tonight, I made enoki mushroom beef roll for dinner the first time. I spent quite some time in preparing it and the out come is very delicious. This is the latest addiction to my favourate recipe. Other than that, nothing much happened today,… [...]

tax

24th Apr 2005 16 0 Daily Scribble

Apirl is the tax season of the year, and people are busy in preparing their tax returns. With only 1 week left before the filing deadline, I finally started preparing my tax return tonight. I have been a loyal customer to Quicktax for many years.… [...]

facial

23rd Apr 2005 17 0 Daily Scribble

Lately, I’m getting in touch with my feminine side more often. Today I had tried my first facial treatment. Pat had bugged me to have facial treatment with her for quite some time. Today I finally gave in and go with her. Luckily, the beauty… [...]

food festival

22nd Apr 2005 18 0 Daily Scribble

This weekend the annual Eat! Vancouver food festival is taking place in BC Place. I went to the first day of the show after work with Pat. The ticket price is $12 regular, $10 with a donation to the food bank. So I bring along some old canned food digged… [...]

badminton

21st Apr 2005 22 0 Daily Scribble

I havn’t played badminton for the past two weeks, today I found my skill level had dropped alot. The weekly badminton game has less and less player, Jason, Edwin and Anson havn’t came for a long time. I can only play with those Mandarin… [...]

surf web

20th Apr 2005 14 0 Daily Scribble

Havn’t surf web for quite some time already. I usually only go to a few websites that I familiar with. Today when I was reading an article from PC magazine introducing top websites of 2005, I clicked through some of the links to visit them.… [...]

Pope Bendict XVI

19th Apr 2005 24 0 Daily Scribble

White smoke rising from the Sistine Chapel chimney, Joseph Ratzinger from Germany has became the 265th pope. As a Catholic myself, having a new pope, the leader of the Church suppose to be quite exciting, but I just feel indifference towards… [...]

last game

18th Apr 2005 17 0 Daily Scribble

Andrew Bell is leaving the company, today is his last day. He is the grand master at work, and he is the person got me interested in playing Chess. He used to played with Jackson alot, Jackson quit playing after his interest faded after a while,… [...]

research progress

18th Apr 2005 20 0 Daily Scribble

- setup CVS shared between cygwin and linux – ported Eurane module to ns 2.28 – installed tcl-debug – debugged avoidReordering_ warning… [...]

making cards

17th Apr 2005 18 0 Daily Scribble

This afternoon, we had a card making session after the World Youth Day meeting. The whole parish team sit together, formed a assembly line, and cruched out all sorts of cards like Birthday cards, Thankyou cards, Get Well cards, etc. The cards… [...]

deaf begger

16th Apr 2005 16 0 Daily Scribble

I think many people have encountered the deaf beggars in the restaurants. They just walk into a restaurant, putting down a card on your table. Usually the card says that they are deaf and ask for donation. You can either take the card and give him… [...]

carrot and stick

15th Apr 2005 41 1 Daily Scribble

I got my market adjustment number today, not very satisfying, and it’s partly related to last year’s performance review. I don’t think I am doing exceptionally well and I got myself exposed to some political turmoils in… [...]

coperate culture

14th Apr 2005 24 0 Daily Scribble

This afternoon when I had a meeting with the consultants from Versity about testbench architecture in the upcoming project, the consultant make a interesting comment about his observation in PMC’s coperate culture. He pointed out… [...]

whole day training

13th Apr 2005 23 0 Daily Scribble

I have all day training today from 9:30a.m. to almost 5:00p.m. Even the lunch time is not free, I have to go another presentation on the USB bus. Usually people say all day long meeting is quite unproductivity. But somehow I am managed to get some… [...]

purpose of life

12th Apr 2005 17 0 Daily Scribble

This topic somehow arised in our Lasalle email group. I guess if you ask 100 people, you will found 100 different answers. I think the quest for the purpose of life is fun but meaningless, except it gives you a warm and fuzzy feeling and sophisticated… [...]

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