In my philosophy class, the professor is kind enough to review the draft of our final essay, give us some useful feedbacks and allow us fix up the problem before hand it in.? I just got the feedback today.? He crossed out almost 1/3 of my essay that are irrevalent and unnecessary to my argument.? I spent almost a day reading an article form Marx so that I can criticize his original argument, instead of second hand argument from the textbook.? The professor say I am too ambitious.? It is like trying to squeeze another full length essay into the final 1000 words of my essay.? He said I should focus in develop my existing arguments, which is good enough for a 2nd year course.? He also said I have a tendency to trash talk and disrespect Marx in my paper.? In a philosophical paper, both side of the argument should evaluated fairly.? Although I may think Marxist is rubbish, I should still attack it with respect.? First of all, if it is truely rubbish, then it doesn’t worth your time to even attack it.? If it is not complete rubbish, then you should at least be fair, try your best salvage some useful points from his argument and pay due respect to the author shedding some lights on the problems.? Most important, if you just trash talk your opponent, he will simply ignore you.? Philosophy search for the truth, dialog is a way to reach the truth.? If there is no dialog between the two side of the argument, the thesis and anti-thesis will not yeilds a better synthesis.

Both the headlights of my car are burned.? One of them was burned for a few weeks, I didn’t bother take it to repair until the next service appointment.? The other headlight was burned last night, so I have no choice but take it back to the service center.? It is quite dangerous to drive in the dark in snowy days.? The fix is very quick only a few took 15 minutes.? It is actually quite easy to change the lightbulb.? I see the serviceman unscrew the cap behind the headlight took out the burned bulb and put back the new one.? The service is quite good, I even got a free light bulb for the tail light since the serviceman didn’t check the warning signal.? I still suspect I was overcharged by the service center since the original light bulb from Volvo is quite expensive.? Later in the afternoon, I checked the web and found generic light bulb cost 40% less.? If any light bulb is burn next time, I will change it myself.? I saw the serviceman how to do it, I should be able to follow the instruction as well.? The only problem is if both headlight are burned, I cannot wait for the new light bulbs come in mail.

Today is my first snowday in Vancouver.? The HR sent out an email early in the morning encourage employees work from home instead of coming into the office.? Half of the team is not in today.? I found working at home is not very productive.? I end up have a really long lunch and drove my mom to supermarket.? There are just so many distractions and worst of all the network connection is quite slow.? It is impossible to debug any waveform at home.? I can only do some maintance of the testbench involves only text editing.? It is nice to stay home and relax for an extra day.? In order to leave the impression I am actually working hard at home, I keep sending emails every couple of hours.? Even I finish the work, I would send out the emails slowly and seperated by some time interval.? I don’t think working from home is feasible.? Unless you live alone and have a home office, so no one will borther you.

Today, after many procastination, I finally take out my skis and bring them to ski shop for waxing. I was lazy at the end of last season, I didn’t wax it before putting it back into storage, so I have to do it before this season begins. I went to the ski shop I used to go to and there is back logged until next sunday for waxing. The technician only comes in once a week in the ski shop. I guess the volume of waxing in one shop is not enough to support a full time staff. The suddenly fall early snow in november makes people take out their ski and snowboard much earlier than last year. I went to another ski shop to wax my skis. Luckily their technician is in today and clear up most of the back log. So I can pick up the skis by wednesday. I can’t wait to go skiing next week. Too bad that the project havn’t tape out yet. It will look back skipping work to go to ski. If the project stick with its original schedule, it would be finished by now and I can just take some free days off to Whistler.

This year snow falls on Vancouver much earlier than usual.? It is only november and we have our first snow fall.? I used to live in Toronto and I am used to having everywhere covers in white during the winter.? People here in Vancouver are not used to snow, so they think having a snow day is a big deal.? The street is empty, many people stay at home avoid going out and the few cars on the road are driving much slower than usual.? Other than the inconvinience having to shovel snow, I actually like snow.? Sunshine is good only if I want to have outdoor activities on that day.? Raining is quite annoying since the noise of the rain is quite and make everywhere wet.? Snow is quite and dry.? You feel so peaceful by looking out to the street from inside a comfort warm place.? You feel contented.? No need to mention I loves skiing more than any summer sports.? The first snow fall marks the beginning of the skiing season.? I will take out my skis tomorrow and take them to waxing.? I already planned going to Whistler next saturday.