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Acquisition

31st Oct 2005 17 0 Daily Scribble

Today PMC has announced that it will spend $4 million to acquire the storage division from Aglient. This news explains why we have to lend $2 million in the quarter result last week. Borrowing money to expand the company is a normal business pratice,… [...]

Romance

30th Oct 2005 20 0 Daily Scribble

Pat always complains I am a very boring guy, a typical engineer who knows nothing about romance. She have been trying hard to get me understand the concept of romance. So far I the aspect of romance I can get includes the element of surprise and… [...]

poker

29th Oct 2005 20 0 Daily Scribble

Normally, I won’t join my colleagues for their poker games, but today is an exception. It is Daniel’s birthday, who usually host the game. The big group first have dinner together at Abadeen Center, then head towards daniel’s… [...]

no-ip.com

28th Oct 2005 12 0 Daily Scribble

I have been using no-ip.com for my DNS redirection for many years. It basically maps the my domains (www.horace.org and trishama.no-ip.com) to the IP address of my webserver at home. It is a free service and very reliable. I don’t expect… [...]

Badminton

27th Oct 2005 19 0 Daily Scribble

I had a real badminton game today since I had stopped playing badminton in the summer. Last time didn’t count as a real game, I only played for 30 minutes due to the stupid AC said they will deliver my lost luggage on that night. However at… [...]

Round 2

26th Oct 2005 17 0 Daily Scribble

We had our 2nd match of the foosball tournament today. Both me and Anson did exceptionally well in the match. In the first game, we lost to the other team 5-0 straight. It is partly due to we were distracted by some other bad mouthed players before… [...]

Rush

25th Oct 2005 15 0 Daily Scribble

I have been feeling very rush since Sunday. No only the tape-in date is getting close at work, but also I have encounter unexpected problems in my thesis after work. It like I am continuously chasing something, couldn’t slow down and take… [...]

Dance gigolo

23rd Oct 2005 32 1 Daily Scribble

I just found out an ideal part-time opportunity from my cousins. What kind of part time job gives you $80 an hour basic salary, included dinner, on top of that every $5 for every 3 minutes of work, while you can have fun and excerise at the same time?… [...]

Natural disasters

22nd Oct 2005 15 1 Daily Scribble

Today, Father Perie didn’t talk about the Bible in his homily. He dedicate the whole homily to the victims of the Pakinstain earthquake, urge us to donation money through the national charity to help those victims. I think today’s… [...]

Visit of my mother

21st Oct 2005 17 0 Daily Scribble

My mother stoped by Vancouver and visit me on her way back to Hong Kong. She will stay for 2 weeks this time and another two weeks on her way back to Toronto. I originally planned to go back to Toronto on the X’mas, but couldn’t make it… [...]

First match

19th Oct 2005 15 0 Daily Scribble

Today I have my first foosball match with Johnathan Gay’s team. I am partnering with Anson. The tournament has 5 preliminary round, play one game each one, today is the first game. We did quite well today, beat the other team 2-0 games.… [...]

Flat tire

18th Oct 2005 26 0 Daily Scribble

I had a really bad day today. On my way to work, I hit the curb and resulted in two flat tires on the right side of my car. If it is only 1 flat tire, I could change the spare tire myself, but I couldn’t help when there are 2 flat tires. I called BCAA… [...]

Prep meeting

17th Oct 2005 19 0 Daily Scribble

I have a full day Prep meeting from 9:30a.m. to 3:30p.m. today. Time is so tight that I have to have my lunch in the meeting room, but we still couldn’t finish all the Preps. Prep is the short form of Problem REPorts, which is a database to keep… [...]

Dancing

16th Oct 2005 19 2 Daily Scribble

This weekend I had done lots of dancing. Last night was the Okotoberfest dance and dinner at St. Mary. The dinner is just so-so, and there were lots of old folks and Phillipines in the event. There were dance after the dinner, social dance music… [...]

Teacher strike

14th Oct 2005 25 2 Daily Scribble

The teacher union of Vancouver has been striking for a week already. I had finished school a long time ago, I thought teachers strike shouldn’t affect me, but I was wrong. The school workers support the teachers and went on strike as well.… [...]

Nici Ferrari Horse Power

13th Oct 2005 54 0 Daily Scribble

Pat bought me a small Nici keychain to hang on my backpack when she was in HK. Nici is a new European band that makes stuff animals. The characters are very cute and it is getting popular in these few years. Normally a guy like me won’t be crazy… [...]

Censored

12th Oct 2005 13 1 Daily Scribble

Censorship is one of the biggest threat to freedom. When one is not allowed to express his thought freely, he may soon lose the freedom of his mind. Now, I must keep telling myself that Pat is a very nice girlfriend, she has a good temper, she does… [...]

WYD journal done

11th Oct 2005 22 0 Daily Scribble

There ain’t much energy left in me to write today’s blog. I have spent half of the night writing the final chapter of my world youth day journal. (The other half of the night went to cook dinner, wash dishes and ns2) I had wrote 7 articles… [...]

Thanksgiving

10th Oct 2005 20 0 Daily Scribble

Pat made a very tasty thanksgiving dinner tonight. It has salad, turkey, grill mushroom and japanese tea rice, quite an interesting combination. After dinner, I baked cookies for the WYD auction, where each of us promised to take turn and bake… [...]

Wine and cheese

9th Oct 2005 20 0 Daily Scribble

For the first time, my group of friends at work had organized something that interested Pat. We had been saying to have a wine and cheese party for quite quite, and this Thanksgiving weekend I push it to become reality. The most important thing… [...]

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