There are some nasty weed growing in the drive way of Pat’s house. They grow so big that some really long branch with thorns are hanging over the drive way. Everything I drive by, the branch will touch my car and make some very unpleasing sound, although I haven’t notice any scratch so far. Tonight after I walked Charlie, I finally can’t stand the weeds anymore. I went into the garage and take out the big scissors. I chop off every branches I could find. Unfortunately due to the body of the plant is hidden behind some berry bushes, I couldn’t kill its root. Some of the branch has flower buds on it, I wonder what kind of flower would that be. I couldn’t pick up the branch with bare hand since it will poke my fingers. I have to wait a few days until the branches dry up then I can easily fold them into the bag. What’s the use of this kind of weed to human and to the nature? Someone should genetic modify this plant to make a new release to fix up the problems.
Monthly Archives: July 2005
Bridge
I had learned how to play bridge in F.1, but when my partner immigrate, I stopped playing. I had play casual games during lunch in Waterloo, but didn’t get very involved since I can’t always commit to the game, so I am the substitute player when others are busy. After putting down bridge for almost 6 years, I had chance to play it again today. We were trying out a new Korean restaurant and their service is really slow. While we were waiting, Jackson suggested play cards to kill time. By chance everyone in the table knows how to play bridge, so we opted for the sophisticated game than playing big-2. I had forgotten most of the bidding convention, all I still remember is 13 points to open, 7 points to answer, and 1NT opening means strong hand. I tried so hard to recall the meaning of 1C, but without success. Anyways, bidding is really easy for me today, since I had no hand with more than 7 points, I can only pass. I hope I get more chance to play bridge, but have to establish a stable partnership first.
Hainanese Chicken
I am having Hainanese chicken as dinner the second time this week. There are many reasons. First the hainanese chicken at So Kei taste very good and they are boneless. Second So Kei is really close to Pat’s place, only around the corner. Third, I am too lazy to cook dinner, especially I know there will be free (but crappy) lunch tomorrow at work. I am wondering, will there be any side effects of eating too many Hainanese chicken? Albeit, I still don’t feel like cooking at Pat’s place. I am not familiar with the strove and the cooking utensils. The fridge has no space to store food. It is full of useless bottles of sauces. I only need use the very basic ingredients, soya sauce, cornstarch, salt, sugar, pepper, sesame oil and chicken powder.
Myth of reuse
In the quarterly design analysis meeting, the manager of a cancelled project blamed the failure partly on the delay in verification. In that project, the verification schedule is underestimate at least by a factor of four. I think his comment is not totally fair to the verification team. One of the problem rooted from the myth of reuse. When there is some existing infra-structure available, the management just assume there is zero effort in reusing them in a new project. The reality is most of those so-call reused component are not structured nicely for reuse, and worse many of them lacks proper documentation due to schedule pressure. A true reuse component should have the quality of verification IP purchased from 3rd party vendors. Anything thing short of that quality should use a different term instead of reuse to stop confusion in project planning. Most of the time that falls into the port category, which require complete understand of the original code in order to use it with the new device. Sometimes that should be categorize as salvage, which is marginally better than writing fresh code. Mislabel salvage as reuse will only spell disaster later in the project
St. Mary T-shirt
After cleaning up Charlie’s mess last night, I had only slept for 4 hours. I had to wake up really early today to help distributing St. Mary’s T-shirts. Out of my surprise, there are not many people come to pick up their T-shirts, we end up having 40 T-shirts unclaimed. I definitely don’t want to waste another day giving them out, but it’s too many leftovers to blame the buyers for not claiming them. I hope Milgrid will take care of it without troubling us too much. They made me de the 12:00 mass announcement. The practice at toastmaster helps, but standing standing in front of 20 people is very different from in front of 400 people. The beginning part of my announcement is pretty good, but I begin to rush my words when it’s close to the end. That is one thing I have to keep in mind to improve the next time.