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Vi has been my favorite text editor for many years. I learned how to use Vi in university and I never use any other text editor since then. Vi is an open source software and it come with any Linux distribution. Vi is still the most powerful and most… [...] Tonight is the project end party to celebrate the completion of the product. With the current economy, the department does not have a huge budget for celebration, so we have to say goodbye to the good old day of the snowmobile celebration party. … [...] 
I always have trouble understanding why something is romantic but something else is not. I went to shopping with Pat today. We saw some bag with different pattern, she pointed at one of the bags with some kind of flower pattern and said that’s… [...] I have been interviewing over 20 candidates in the past few weeks for the three full time positions we are hiring. I would like to summarize the good and the bad about the interviewees and share some interview tips for potential job seekers. I… [...] This weekend we went to visit my cousin’s baby girl in Seattle. Other than seeing the baby, we also spent the afternoon in the Seattle Premium Outlets. Tulaip Casino is right next to the outlet mall and it offers a pretty good buffet brunch… [...] After 3 weeks of interview, we have narrowed down to two candidates for a new grad position. Both of them have good enough, but not superb, technical skills. Both of them have good evaluation from previous co-op work term with my company. Both… [...] My friend is an elementary school teacher. Her grade 7 class is having career day to understand different kinds of jobs and she asked me as a guest speaker. I am a toastmaster, so I thought how hard can it be to speak in front of 20 kids. I was wrong.… [...] After the layoff last year, the size of my company has shrink quite a bit. The current office space seems to be too spacious with empty cubicles here and there. The management decide to lower the rental cost by terminating the lease of the 4th floor.… [...] Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Goldilocks. She went for a walk in the Silicon Valley. Pretty soon, she came upon a start-up company. She knocked and, when no one answered, she walked right in. Inside the office, there are three… [...] I went to an Air Canada focus group after work today. I was selected to participate in the focus group probably because I flew too much last year. I went back go Hong Kong in the beginning of the year, traveled went to India three times and went to… [...] This weekend I am organizing my study room and Pat was merging our books. We have so many books that they fill up three Ikea bookcases. I used to have a list of my books but that list is very out of date. I decided to spend some time to categorize our… [...] 
I and Pat went to Garden Works to have breakfast in the garden cafe. After the breakfast, we went to the nursery section for a walk among the green plants. Pat said I am not compassionate to animals and plants. It is true that I never own any pets or… [...] Contrary to the hiring freeze, my department is hiring new people, both new graduate and engineer position. I have been spending lots of my time doing interview in the past two weeks. I haven’t went to any interview for many years. This… [...] This term instead of taking a philosophy course, I am taking a economics course, game theory. Technically, I am not taking a course, I did not register. I am just going to the lecture to audit the course off the record. It is one of those huge lecture… [...] Today I fulfilled my duty as a citizen, I cast my vote to elect the BC provincial government. The candidate I voted for in my riding lost, but the party I voted for won the election. The Liberal party is able to formed a majority government winning… [...] It has been many years since I spend time in Toronto. Last time I came back for my friend’s wedding, I only stayed for a weekend. I did not even have enough time for my family, so I could not see most of my friends. I saw many friends in… [...] 
Charlie Chan-Ma (1995-2009), after several months of suffering from cancer, it left us quietly yesterday. Charlie is the most adorable and most lovely Golden Retriever in this world. Living with it changed my view on dogs and pets. … [...] Block university has a applied disablity study program that is related to Pat’s studies in autism, so we drove to St. Catherine to take a look at the university campus. Comparing to the huge campus of UBC, Block seems very small. Even… [...] I have a friend quited her job and went to study MBA planned for a career change. Very unfortunately, now she graduate right in the middle of the fiancial crisis. Jobs opening is drying up everywhere, especially on the traditional MBA related… [...] When I was in Bangalore, my friend showed me around the town. Now, he is visiting Vancouver, it’s my turn to show him around. I don’t want to taking him to the typical tourist traps. I have been to those places too many times. … [...] |
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