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Unreality of time

31st Jul 2006 15 closed Daily Scribble

I just finished my second essay for my metaphysics class. It is about the unreality of time. I criticize an article from a famous philosopher who tried to convince people time is unreal. The first response of most people, including myself, is… [...]

Cleaning

30th Jul 2006 22 closed Daily Scribble

Finally after procastinated for 2 months, I can no longer stand the dust accumlated in my place. This morning I took the time to completely clean my place, dust the place, vacuum the carpet, swiper the floor and brush the tiolet. I think no one… [...]

Homily

29th Jul 2006 12 closed Daily Scribble

Today I went to a wedding in CMCC and to my surpise, I found the homily of Fr. Chiu, the priest of CMCC, is not too bad afterall. In all the weddings in CMCC I went, Fr. Chiu always give the same boring canned homily about marriage and love. Today’s… [...]

Garbage dump

28th Jul 2006 16 closed Daily Scribble

This morning, I helped Pat threw away some years old garbage sitting in her garage, like old wood fence, door removed from renovation, broken excerise machine. The garbage is so big that we have to deliver it to the city garbage dump ourself.… [...]

Vietnamese resturant

27th Jul 2006 9 closed Daily Scribble

There is a new vietnamese resturant opened close to work. It is a branch of another famous vietnamese resturant in richmond. The quality of food there is really good. Its menu has some special dishes not found in other vietnamese places. It has… [...]

Ford Explorer

26th Jul 2006 21 closed Daily Scribble

My car is sent to the body shop to repair the door lock today. I got a courtesy car from a car rental company. Since they run out of compact cars, they gave me a Ford Explorer. It is a hugh monster 4×4 jeep. I feel like driving a boat on the road.… [...]

Compotent Toastmaster

25th Jul 2006 13 closed Daily Scribble

I have completed all my ten CTM speeches and earned the title of compotent toastmaster. It has been a long way since I joined the toastmaster club at work. Most of my friends at work think spending an hour in toastmaster meeting and preparing mock… [...]

Weekend in Tofino

24th Jul 2006 14 closed Daily Scribble

I just come back from having a relaxing weekend in Tofino. I am refreshed and re-energized. We went in as two couples. Pat’s friend’s boyfriend is a funny guy. He is one of the few Pat’s friends I find comfortable to hang out… [...]

Tofino

20th Jul 2006 18 closed Daily Scribble

I havn’t had any vacation since last summer coming back from Europe. I am long for taking some days off to recharge myself. I am going to Tofino for the weekend. I will take two days off work plus skip one class. I didn’t plan this trip,… [...]

Outsource

19th Jul 2006 12 closed Daily Scribble

I had a drink with a friend coming back from Toronto tonight. He moved to Toronto a few years ago when his company closed down the Vancouver office, outsource all the work to China. He told me that his company is going to close the research and developement… [...]

Food creativity

18th Jul 2006 14 closed Daily Scribble

Today I had a taco salad for lunch in the cafeteria. The taco salad is freshly made in front of me. I saw the chef put a spoon of some kind of paste on the plate before putting on the taco shell. I wonder what he is doing, so I asked him. He explained to… [...]

Whinning

17th Jul 2006 13 closed Daily Scribble

Don’t want to sound like I am whinning, but in short it is a pretty rough day for me. I have told my story quite a few times already, in short here is the summary. Woke up early in the morning, went throught 3 hours of stressful P.Eng exam. Back… [...]

myyearbook.com

16th Jul 2006 16 closed Daily Scribble

It is the first time I heard about this website. I read it from the newspaper today. This site started last year and it is the fastest growing social connection site. It number of users has surpassed friendster and xanaga, only behind myspace.… [...]

PMC Picnic

15th Jul 2006 14 closed Daily Scribble

Today, PMC has the annual summer picnic in Confederation Park, games for the kids, free lunch and icecream. I met the family of many of my colleagues there. Those little kids are so cute and I pinched so many little faces today. I only stayed for… [...]

Lebanon

14th Jul 2006 11 closed Daily Scribble

Last night when I heard Israeli striked Lebanon in the news, I thought it was just yet another endless conflict in middle east and promptly forget about it. Today when I came to work, I found out one of my team members is having his vacation in Beirut… [...]

Mentoring

13th Jul 2006 10 closed Daily Scribble

Today the co-op student from another project came ask me questions about verificaiton. I guess I am the only guy in the area knowledgable in verification and yet kind enough to answer her questions. Her task is pretty straight forward, testing… [...]

Source of theology

11th Jul 2006 16 closed Daily Scribble

In my metaphysics class, the profressor talks about the nature of God and the source of theology. There are two sources of theology, experience and revealed. Theology from experience is easy to understand, namely the natural theology, ideas… [...]

Audio books

10th Jul 2006 15 closed Daily Scribble

I found driving to and from work without audio books is really boring. I can listen to my old CDs, which are merely background noise. Or I can listen to new mp3 downloads, which mostly are just mediocratie songs. So I search the bittorrent sites… [...]

Worldcup in Italian Town

9th Jul 2006 15 closed Daily Scribble

Italy won the world cup final. I was watching the game with Pat at Commerical Drive, the Italian Town in Vancouver. It is really crowded, we couldn’t find any seat in any pub. Luckily we are able to squeeze inside a small pizza resturant… [...]

Auto insurance

8th Jul 2006 14 closed Daily Scribble

It is time to renew my auto insurance. I have been procastinating the renewal until the last moment. This year I finally got the road star status qualified for 40% discount. I can also get cheaper insurance from private company instead of from… [...]

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