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Dentist

30th Jun 2005 18 0 Daily Scribble

I have a dental appointment today. After visiting the dentist, my mouth feel funny for the whole afternoon. I used to be quite positive seeing dentist, but it changes when I had my first bad teeth last year. I used to be very proud of my good tooth.… [...]

German 3

29th Jun 2005 17 0 Daily Scribble

I finished my 8 lessons of German 3. This is a semi-private course at the teacher’s place. I think it is much better than the classroom course offered at the Vancouver school. The class is smaller, each of us get more time. The environment… [...]

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28th Jun 2005 15 0 Daily Scribble

I haven’t done a table topic in the toastmaster meeting for quite a while, so I volunteer myself today. Today’s toastmaster meeting is more special than usual, because it is the club got chartered. We invited the district governor… [...]

Futureshop Warrenty

27th Jun 2005 23 0 Daily Scribble

When I bought my palm pilot a few years ago, I knew it is going to break down when the manufacturer warranty expired. So I spent $50 to buy the buyer protection program of future shop, hoping to get a new unit when my palm is beyond repair. The no lemon… [...]

Carwash

26th Jun 2005 13 0 Daily Scribble

I am very exhausted today. After the auction dinner last night, I have to get up early at seven thirty this morning for another fund raising event, car washing at St. Paul. I think the word volunteer work or WYD promotion as a more appropriate description.… [...]

Waiter

25th Jun 2005 16 0 Daily Scribble

I was being a sales last week and I became a waiter this week. Tonight is another fund raising event for the World Youth Day. It was an auction dinner. I don’t really like this idea when it first proposed because it takes too much work. Indeed… [...]

Walk the dog

24th Jun 2005 24 0 Daily Scribble

I found taking care of Charlie, the golden retriever of Pat, is quite time consuming. I have to remember feed him every morning before I go to work and go home early to feed him dinner. Since he is very bored staying home all day, I try to walk him every… [...]

Layoff

23rd Jun 2005 21 0 Daily Scribble

There is another round of layoff today in the company. We had already lost track of the number of layoff, it maybe the fifth or the sixth round. It is not affecting the Headquarter in Burnaby at all. Over 60 engineers are let go in the Santa Clara… [...]

Reinstall

22nd Jun 2005 27 0 Daily Scribble

Today continues the painful process of installing software. I get most of the software installed, and I realized I forgot to copy two very important pieces of information from my old hard drive, they are my firefox bookmark and palm desktop… [...]

Computer Crash

21st Jun 2005 21 0 Daily Scribble

Fortunately, I am able to recover the data from my harddisk after running fixboot, fixmbr, chkdsk /p and fdisk /mbr on the recovery console from the Windows XP CD. However, unfortunately, the OS is beyond repair, I can’t even start file… [...]

Dual monitors

20th Jun 2005 19 0 Daily Scribble

Finally I received my dual LCDs at work after waiting for almost two months since I had talked to Uncle Bob. Colleagues gathered around my cube today and check out the dual LCD setting. I am not sure how to measure the productivity increase using… [...]

Selling T-shirts

19th Jun 2005 29 0 Daily Scribble

Today I spent almost the whole working on Worth Youth Day fund raising again. All those fund raising events taking too much of my time, and the amount we get back really won’t justify all the effort. Anyways, we are selling lots of stuffs… [...]

faith formation

18th Jun 2005 23 0 Daily Scribble

I went to the 2nd faith formation session held by the Vancouver archdiocese for everyone who is going the World Youth Day. The topic is on prayers, presented by the Youth Ministry director and the newly ordinate deacon Anthony. Claymoo make… [...]

Piano

17th Jun 2005 23 0 Daily Scribble

Pat will have her piano exam next Monday, so she is practicing piano very hard. To encourage her, I bought sushi for dinner tonight and deliver to her place. When I arrived, she was watching a documentary on the history of piano. The internal mechanism… [...]

Bubbling wine

16th Jun 2005 23 0 Daily Scribble

In today’s German class, the teacher offered us some bubbling wine to celebrate her admission to UBC education program. It seems that we have alcohol in every one of the past few German classes. It’s nice to have beer or wine and… [...]

social sense

15th Jun 2005 51 1 Daily Scribble

Maybe I am a person really lack of social sense, according to Pat’s complains. She had come up with examples that I’m can’t deny, thus I’m convinced that I have problems in this area. Am I social challenged? In some… [...]

First speech

14th Jun 2005 18 0 Daily Scribble

Finally, I had completed my first toastmaster speech. I don’t think I’m doing very well. I can feel my legs was shaking for the whole time. It is different than doing a table topic, where is more careful and have no expectation. My… [...]

self introduction

13th Jun 2005 41 0 Daily Scribble

I was preparing my ice breaker speech for the toastmaster meeting tomorrow. I found that it is quite hard to condense all the material into 5 minutes. There are so many things I want to talk about myself. I had picked school as the mean to describe… [...]

Freedom

12th Jun 2005 24 2 Daily Scribble

What is freedom? Does a person has the right to think freely and act freely as long as it doesn’t cause any harm to anyone? In a relationship, why both partner had to think alike and act alike? Can two people with totally different character… [...]

Ordination of deacon

11th Jun 2005 17 0 Daily Scribble

It has been a long day today. I had to wake up early in the morning to attend the ordination of deacon ceremony of Br. Anthony Ho at the Holy Rosary Cathedral in downtown. I have to pick up Pat and her friends as well. It was so rush that I don’t… [...]

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