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.
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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.
Biohazard
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.
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.