Tonight I had dinner with Pat’s best friend’s dad and brother who are visiting Vancouver.? Since they have to exchange birthday present, it is the trouble of sending in mail.? It is interesting that they have the same birthday.? In the dinner, the dad had drank too much wine and start complaining her daughter cannot find any boy friends.? As fas as I know her, she is always single.? One of her problem is her standard is too hard.? She want guys who is smart, rich, handsome and most important he has to be better than her, .? These kind of good guys are limited in supply, as herself is quite capable.? She is had an undergrad degree and now studying law.? Her dad joke that the tuition of law school would really worth the money if she can fish a lawyer-to-be husband.? I have always wanted to introduce my two single friends at work to her.? My friends are quite decent, no bad hobbies, good income, just maybe a bit geeky.? Pat has striked down the idea saying her friend won’t like them.? I think her friend is just too picky.? It is a common delimma for capable single girls.? Regardless of their own appearance, it seems all of them want to find good quality guys.? It seems good quality guys usually avoid those girls since they are just too demanding.? The desire of the good quality guys doesn’t match the desire of single capble girls.? Why can’t single girls simply accept the reality and lower their standard of boyfriend criteria?

I have been looking for a Bitchar-G remote control car running at 57MHz for quite sometime.? To be exact, I am loooking for a discount deal.? I saw places I could get it for marked up price, but already own 3 Bitchar-G, I don’t have the incentive to get the last one.? Especially I got two of them in a really good deal.? Then I found out a colleague has a 57MHz Bitchar-G for a couple of years.? That is the only Bitchar he has, so he rarely play it because no one race him.? He heard about my racing trace in the cubicle next to my, so he come over and ask for a race.? We had some good time and two more colleagues join the race.? I never expect all four different frequence Bitchar G can race together.? His car only has the stock 10k rpm motor, can’t compete with upgraded cars with 16k rpm motors.? When I ordered my 1.6 motors, I ordered four of them, expecting I will get a cheap 57MHz eventually.? I am happy to sell the extra motor to him since I am no longer looking to get the 57MHz car.? It is nice to cash out the spare part, althought I am actually take a small lose to get rid of it.? I havn’t played the race track for a while already.? We all know the company sucks, but at least we can make the office more fun.

Fr. Guy, pronounce as gey, of St. Mary is going to preach in Taiwan for good.? Tonight the church organized a farewell party for him.? I usually sleep through his Homily, so I can’t really remember any of his sermon.? Howevere, Fr. Guy always very supportive to the Chinese community.? I met him outside of St. Mary a few times in different fund raising event of other Chinese churches.? It is his dream to go to spread the gospel in China.? The farewell party is full of blessing.? We had potluck dinner in the church basement and then followed by a small but touching show put together by the parishers in the church.? The church office gave Fr. Guy three farewell gifts to bring to China following the 3 things Jesus tell his disciples to bring when he sent them away.? It is a staff, a pair of sandles and two T-shirts.? Especially, the staff is very meaning and makes Fr. Guy cry in front of the crowd.? The staff can be disassemble into three sections.? The wood of section is collect from an important place related to Fr. Guy, his family farm, courtyard of St. Mary and New Westminster Abbey.? Each section symbolize a blessing from people in each stage of his life.? I think this is the art of gift giving.? You have to give meaning to the gift and make the reciever not just remember the fact who give him the gift, but also the message embedded in the gift.? When giving a gift to someone, you are not only giving him a tangible thing that he could use, it is also a way of non-verbal communication.? You want a message attach to the gift so that the reciever will remember your words everything he sees the gift.

Last year I went to the World Youth Day in Germany with a group of 12 people from St. Paul.? Since we came back to Vancouver, we havn’t had a gathering with all 12 people.? There is always one or two people are missing.? Tonight it is very special, we have all 12 people came together again.? We went to mass, then dinner and watch the DVD of our trip prepared by one of the member.? It brings back so many good memories.? One team leader also handed each of us back an envelope, in which we wrote down what we expect to get from WYD before we go.? I totally forgot what I wrote, and it turn out I didn’t really want anything.? I just want to have a good time, come back and show off my trip.? I think I had accompished it.? Although we had spent two weeks together during WYD and more time before the trip on preparation.? I didn’t develope a very close feeling towards this group.? I feel I am part of the group and I like to come out to see them once a while.? I don’t think I make any really good friends personally in the group.? I don’t contact any of them other than the reunion.? Even if there is no reunion, I probably won’t miss them too much.? I think part of the reason is this group are mostly girls.? Naturally I don’t get along very well with girls.? The remaining few guys are much younger than me and we don’t share any common interest, so I don’t have any incentive to hang out with them.? The nature of the WYD group is just like reunion of old classmates.? You know them quite well, modesty care about them and you belongs to the group.? Somehow you feel both close and distant to them at the same time.? You know they are close to you, but you just can’t feel it that way.

Today at lunch, my friend made a common saying I have too many theories.? I forgot since when I start trying to theorize everything I come across.? A theory is nothing more than its explanation power.? I am trained as an engineer, I have a firm believe on things can and should be explained.? Many other engineers would stop applying their science sense outside of their field of work.? Then I came across philosophy and learn that almost everything things most people think as fundamental can actually can be further examined.? Many philosophers would only interest in their research topic.? Cross over engineering with philosophy breeds an very interesting character of myself.? Engineering is applied science, use scientific theory to solve problems in the world.? We can do the same to philosophy, apply philosophical theory to solve other problems in the world.? If there is a problem, there is always a solution.?? The problems in engineering usually is building something to serve some purpose.? The problems in philosohpy is very different, it uses reasons to convince people to accept your point of view, since we can’t directly measure how the problems are solved in philosophy.