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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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New (old) project

31st Jan 2006 63 0 Daily Scribble

Finally I my at work holidays comes to the end. Since my previous project was finished, I have been idling for a few weeks waiting for the new project assignment. I am officially joining a new project today and assigned new tasks. It is glad to have… [...]

Moving out

30th Jan 2006 49 0 Daily Scribble

I have been thinking about moving out of my current place for a while. The location is very inconvinient and quite far away from anywhere except work. With luck, I found an apartment rental near Joyce station, where is much closer to Pat’s… [...]

Year of the dog

29th Jan 2006 23 0 Daily Scribble

Today is the Chinese New Year. Me and Pat joked that this year is the year of Charlie, Pat’s golden retriever. There isn’t much new year atomsphere here in Vancouver. Unlike HK, the chinese new year is just yet another normal day.… [...]

omakase

28th Jan 2006 20 0 Daily Scribble

Tonight I went to Tojo’s to have our year end dinner with Pat and her family. Tojo is one of the best japanese resturant in Vancouver. The speciality of Tojo is the omakase menu, which you specify the amount you are willing pay and let the… [...]

Goodbye laptop

27th Jan 2006 70 1 Daily Scribble

I finally have to say farewell to my old laptop, it is the first laptop I ever owned. It is given to me on my first day of work. It had worked trustfully for 5 years and it is time for it to retire. The company is moving everyone to critix, which is a windows… [...]

Layoff in Santa Clara

26th Jan 2006 18 0 Daily Scribble

My company just had a small layoff today. All the R&D people of the microprocessor division in Sanata Clara site are let go, including my friend Suzanne. We had quited the custom MIPS processor market and the remaining few guys are working… [...]

post baccalaureate

25th Jan 2006 19 0 Daily Scribble

In order to take courses in SFU, one must register in an acedemic program, either credit or non-credit. Since I am looking into what to study after my M.Eng degree, I need to register into a program. Having a ph.d. is one of my goal, but probably… [...]

Volunteering

24th Jan 2006 17 0 Daily Scribble

I am checking out volunteering oppertunities in Burnaby and Vancouver today. Pat complains I am not “good” enough because I am not doing any volunteering work. From my previous forced volunteering in highschool, I have really… [...]

Treasure hunt in the library

23rd Jan 2006 17 0 Daily Scribble

I am the type of person who cannot study at home, except I have to work with my computer. It usually end up surfing the web or watching TV. Thus, I went to Bread Garden to study my philosophy reading today. Finished first two of Descarte’s… [...]

Election

22nd Jan 2006 12 0 Daily Scribble

Tomorrow is the federal election of Canada. Out of the three parties, NDP is the one I like least. It’s policy is too far into the left, held hostage by the unions and tends to harm the middle classes. The name NDP almost equal to more tax more… [...]

Beer bet

19th Jan 2006 31 1 Daily Scribble

I have made a bet with my colleagues on the number of releases of the subsystem we are working on when the project is done. I am quite pessimistic and guessed the highest number. It turn out my guess is right on, it really take 20 releases to fix all… [...]

Philosophy Reading

18th Jan 2006 17 1 Daily Scribble

I am reading my philosophy textbook preparing for my philosophy course started last week. I found that my reading speed is much slower than I expected on this differcult materials. I can only read about 20 pages an hour, instead of 50 pages per… [...]

Jimmy

16th Jan 2006 23 2 Daily Scribble

Probably Jimmy Chan is the most famous person in Vancouver among Chinese. He opens beauty salon and run commercial featuring himself. You can find him doing anything you can think of in the commercial, ranging from flying, swimming, running,… [...]

Oyster

15th Jan 2006 17 1 Daily Scribble

I brought Pat’s family to have oyster in Longsdale Quay today. The oyster bar is introduced by Leon, who visited me over the Christmas. He had really good oyster there a few years ago in Vancouver, it tastes so good that he can’t forget… [...]

Paper

14th Jan 2006 11 0 Daily Scribble

I have submitted my first paper to the Internetional Wireless Communication and Mobile Communication Conference. The content of this paper is directly from my master thesis. Before the christmas holidays, Dr. Tejinder told me about this… [...]

Philosophy

12th Jan 2006 16 0 Daily Scribble

I have my first philosophy class tonight, PHIL 300, introduction to philosophy. I have interest in philosophy for a few years. First I started with questions on religion, then slowly it branch out to all major fields in philosophy, as I found… [...]

Denist

10th Jan 2006 14 0 Daily Scribble

I have a dentist semi-annual appointment today, it is just a regular clean up. Many people scare to see dentist, but I am not one of them. I never afraid of dentist, probably it is because I never had really bad toothache nor bad experience with… [...]

Small world

9th Jan 2006 14 0 Daily Scribble

It is indeed a small world after all. Yesterday I met a guy in my dancing class, literally, he is a friend of a friend of a friend of Pat, friend to the power of 3. Anyways, I didn’t pay much attention to him and we didn’t even introduce… [...]

24″ LCD and the art of hotpot

7th Jan 2006 19 0 Daily Scribble

Today, the 24″ widescreen LCD I ordered from dell has arrived. It is fantastic. I have almost the same screen area as 2 19″ LCD, with about the same price. The Dell 2405FPW is highly recommanded from computer review and is selling… [...]

Outlet Shopping

6th Jan 2006 13 0 Daily Scribble

Today I went to the Premium Outlet Mall in Seattle for the first time. Actually it is my first time shopping in an outlet mall. I have experienced some time very unusal when I crossed the border this morning. Normally, the US custom just waive you… [...]

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