I am tagging all my previous blog entries. It is a long, tedious, yet rewarding process. Reading my old writings is like having time machine to the past. I am surprise by how I thought 4-5 years ago. I can tell something about me has changed and some other things never change. One thing that changes is my writing was really poor back then. I made lots of spelling mistakes. That was before Firefox comes with the spell checker feature. I guess Firefox really really helps me a lot in using the right word.
I can’t tag too many post in one day before I get bored and lost my patient. I can tag at most one month worth of blog entries a day while I am watching TV. I already finish tagging all entries newer than 2008. I am now working my way up starting form the first entry in 2005. With the current rate of tagging, it will take me a month to tag all the posts. There is no hurry to get all the posts tagged, I can take my time and enjoy the time passage to the past.
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I have quite an unique concert experience last night at the performance of Musica Intima. This is a small group of armature singers singing in a carol choir unlike any choir you heard in the church or in school. Although the musical piece is arranged in SATB parts, their style is contemporary instead of traditional. In last night’s concert, they are singing poems from 19-20th century famous poets with newly composed melodies. The concert is at the Anglican cathedral in downtown and the venue is not very full. I guess this type of music is not really main stream.
I found the music very soothing. The vocal variety is great and undoubtedly the choir is very talented and able to preform very technical pieces. My only complain is the songs transform sound of the words in lyrics to an extreme to suit the melodies, as a result I could not understand most words in the lyrics. Luckily, before each pieces, a choir member will introduce the poem they are about to sing, or I will be totally lost. My favorite song is titled “sleep”, the choir even ask the audience to close their eyes to imagine the song and the poem as a dream. The concert is quite interesting, something worth to see at least once. But I might probably get bored seeing it the second time.
Charlie has diagnosed with lung cancer and possible cancer in other vital organs. Although it can still eat, drink and walk, he is much less active than he used to be. I have been wanting to put it to sleep in SPCA to end his suffering, but Pat object to the idea and thinks Charlie should die peacefully at home. I can imagine it is a tough decision to take your pet to SPCA, especially it grew up with you and has been accompanying you for many years.
Pat has a good friend who is a vet. She gave us some good advice on when should we put Charlie to sleep. Sometimes it is more cruel to the animal prolonging its needless suffering on the world. Here are the signs we should watch out for Charile:
signs of coughing – lung cancer / cancer spread to lungs might cause them to cough a lot
coughing up blood – i’m guessing if the tumour is around the throat you might notice that
general appetite / demeanour
check his gum colour – should be nice and pink, if it is pale (white) – if there is a tumour in the liver like a blood blister, if it pops and bleeds into the abdomen – the animal might go pale. If the colour is bluish / purplish – probably not oxygenating ok, short of breath / can’t breath properly.
Any difficulty in breathing – take him to the vet if he does appear breathing up / colour not great / gasping for air – this is critical.
size of belly – if they are really bleeding into the abdomen due to the popped blood blister in liver, you might notice the belly getting fatter and when you poke on it, there is a wave pattern that you can see.
Charlie has none of the above symptoms yet, so it should be able to live on for a while and and kicking around in the house. It is easier to make the touch decision if we some objective guideline on when should we say goodbye to Charlie. For the mean time, let’s feed Charlie well and let it enjoy the remaining days of its life.
I just signed up for Google Adsense for my blog. Adsense is an service to display small online advertisement on your website. As you may see the Google ads in the column on the right hand side under the Google Adsesne.
I am very reluctant to display ads on my site for a very long time. I don’t need the extra money to maintain the site nor my blog have much traffic to give me any meaningful amount of revenue. Most important, I don’t like ads spoiling the layout of my site or interfere with visitors reading my posts. Just like Google advertisement on its own search engine, Adsense is not intrusive. It only display a few text links and it can blend in pretty well with my layout.
I don’t expect to get much from the ads. I don’t know when I will get enough clicks on the sponsored links to reach the payment threshold and receive the cheque from Google. But since I have some content with a few readers, why don’t I put them into good use. I will donate whatever I got from Adsense to the Church.
Let’s see how well Adsense works out on my site. If it works great, maybe I should persuade all my friends who has a blog sign up with Adsense and donate the ads payment to a charity. The donation amount may be very tiny, but free money is still better than no money.
