It was Jason’s birthday today, we go to have dinner in Richmond to celebrate his big day, then head to Jason’s place to continue the party. The night was fun, we had karaoke, mahjong, poker and lots of beer. Out of co-incident, it is Steven’s girlfriend’s birthday too. Steven made several cheese cake to share with everyone. I had a good time until the moment I go home and open the door. I found out Charlie had shited in the living room. The ground zero is stink like hell. I instantly waked up from my half drunk state. I called Pat for help at once. She instructed me how to clean up the most disgusting I had ever clean up. After almost 20 minutes of hard work, the stains almost go away. I have to clean it one more time after the carpet is dry off tomorrow. To punish the bad behavior of Charlie, I’m going to lock him outside tonight. The moral of this story is never leave the dog unattended inside the house. Should not have any mercy of locking it outside and let it shive in cold when you are away.
Monthly Archives: July 2005
Secret course
One of my colleague is taking a very interesting course lately, she keep it such a secret that raised my curiosity. It took me quite a while to guess the correct answer. My first guess is language and second guess is singing, both are not right. She gave me some hints but they are quite ambiguous. It is related to music, need to use the mouth, does require any body movement, and it is not a musical instrument. It turn out she is taking the DJ training course offered by the local Chinese radio station. We all question her is that a bit too old to be a DJ, but she said someone is older than her in the class. If she pass the final exam, she will assign a time slot in twilight to start with. I think it would be fun to express yourself through the airwaves, even though there ain’t many audiences. At one point back then, since I like talking so much, I thought of applying for DJ as well. I did joined the Chinese radio station in Waterloo for a term. The radio only broadcast 2 hours a week in Sunday afternoon. Since the time is so inconvenient, and lack of audience, I didn’t last long enough to get my own time slot. I think my voice sounds quite good over the radio, kinda like the voice of the famous DJ Ngan Lun Mo in HK.
Library
After meeting up with my profession in the evening, I decided to have dinner in the downtown area before heading home. I was talking to Pat while I was search for a good place to eat. She recommended the Ramen place next to the central library. On my way there, I checked out the central library, since I can’t resist the temptation of books. It is the first time go there. The library is much larger than I expected. It also have lots of table used for study, the one next to windows has really good view. The library has newspaper from all over the world, and I took a look at a German newspaper. I think I can guess the meaning of some of the headlines. On my way out, I applied for a library card in case I need to borrow books from there in the future. The only complain is that the location of the library is quite inconvenient. It’s a long walk to the sky train station after having my curry Ramen as dinner.
Humor
The toastmaster magazine of month has some good articles on how to be humorous in the speech. Use jokes effectively in the speech to further delivery your message is the hardest thing to master. The article give some very good pointers on how to delivery the laughs, contingency plan when the audience don’t laugh and simple elements of humor. All humor are rooted from the element of surprise. A joke is funny because it breaks the normal train of thoughts of your audience. Rule of three and pinch line is the most comment technique. If you had just told a joke and no one laughs, the best way to deal with this situation is pretend you were serious. You’ll look like an idiot if you try to explain the joke or force a few laughs from yourself. Most people will long forget the content of the speech, but still remember the joke used in the speech. Here is my to first try to write my own joke.
How can a romantic movie make the audience cry?
1. One or both of the main characters has to leave town
2. One or both of the main characters is about to die
2. One or both of the main characters has really bad acting
Wedding planning
No, the title is not what you are thinking. I’m not planning my own wedding yet. Tonight I went to a wedding planning of my friend who is going to marry in August. I will be one of the groomsmen for the couple. It is kinda interesting that I know the couple separately without knowing they are together. I found planning a wedding is quite time involving. It is more than merely a banquet or a ceremony, rather it like a show where the bride and the groom are the leading actors. The planning session is quite messy and the details are full of errors. How can someone plan the groom’s speech after the toast to all the tables? I seriously doubt the groom can still stand straight after forced down so much alcohol at each table, let alone he have to delivery a good and touching speech. The banquet is western style, but they couple choose not to set up a dance floor. What a waste. In my own wedding, I’ll definitely have a dance floor. I will force all my groomsmen and bridesmaids to dancing crush course before hand. I will the power to assign who is going to dance with whom among them. That would be a good opportunity to setup future couples.