Tomorrow is the federal election of Canada. Out of the three parties, NDP is the one I like least. It’s policy is too far into the left, held hostage by the unions and tends to harm the middle classes. The name NDP almost equal to more tax more welfare, which only the poors can benefit. I am indifference to the economy policy of the Liberal and Conservative, both looks pretty much the same to me, maybe there are minor difference here and there. Liberal has been in rule for too long and suffer from the common problems of all long-time ruling parties. Conservative seems a good choice except I hate they play the gay-marriage card. I oppose to gay-marriage myself, but I oppose letting single-issue pressure group hijack the election even more. Out of no choices, I will probably vote Liberal again, at least it is the devil I am familiar with. However from the pre-election survey, it seems the Conservative will have a minor government this time. In another word, which means we will have yet another election in a year or two.

I have made a bet with my colleagues on the number of releases of the subsystem we are working on when the project is done. I am quite pessimistic and guessed the highest number. It turn out my guess is right on, it really take 20 releases to fix all the bugs in the subsystem. So they lost the bet and have to buy me a beer. Our team when to the student pub at SFU to have beer and nachos, since of my colleagues have to get a textbook from the SFU bookstore. All of us were students of SFU, the oldest one had graduated over ten years, and he said it is the first time he go to the pub since graduated. We chatted about the school days and talked about all sorts of stuff. We all agreed that thou shalt not date an engineering girl. I had a bottle Belgium white beer, which was really good. I like making bets on various things, but don’t like having money involved, win a drink or a meal is more fun. I will keep the bet on tape-out release number as a tradition on all my future projects. Back in the old days, betting was one of my tricks to ask a girl out. Just bet a dinner with the targetted girl, then you lost a bet but win a date!

I am reading my philosophy textbook preparing for my philosophy course started last week. I found that my reading speed is much slower than I expected on this differcult materials. I can only read about 20 pages an hour, instead of 50 pages per hour on english novels, or even 100 pages per hour on chinese novels. So I need about 5 hours to finish the 100 pages weekly readings. This course is about introduction to philosophy, but mostly cover modern philosophy regarding the question on what do we know, which is epistemology. Other topics such as ancient and medival philosophy, values theory and metaphysics plays a minor role in thie course. I don’t have much reflection right now since I just start taking the course. Hopefully, this course will lead me to think more about some real yet useless questions.

Probably Jimmy Chan is the most famous person in Vancouver among Chinese. He opens beauty salon and run commercial featuring himself. You can find him doing anything you can think of in the commercial, ranging from flying, swimming, running, driving race cars to dancing in the latest one. Today he became the topic of our lunch group when Pat called me she met Jimmy in a resturant. For those of us who are learning dancing all cursed him spoiled the image of dancing. Pat trying to analyze the psychology of his weird behaviour. To me, he just makes no sense. Even though he is rich and he want to be famous, there are many other better ways then buy air-time to let people make fun of himself. I seriously doubt anyone will go to his beauty salon, don’t they afraid to be laughted by their friends? One of my other question is that he claims he is a Dr., I wonder where he get his degree from.

I brought Pat’s family to have oyster in Longsdale Quay today. The oyster bar is introduced by Leon, who visited me over the Christmas. He had really good oyster there a few years ago in Vancouver, it tastes so good that he can’t forget it all those years. The oyster bar in the Longsdale Quay is really good, cheap deal with high quality. Half a dozen of oyster shooters only cost $10. I like using the word shooters to describe fresh oyster. You can really shot the oyster down your throat like a drink. I don’t like oyster much, and somehow I always suspecious about I am allegic to it or not. I remeber I used to eat dry oyster congee when I am small. So I tried half a oyster and see my reaction. I think I am ok with osyters, I don’t feel anything wrong, except have to go to washroom after a while. Maybe I will try eating a fresh oyster nex time, everyone seems to enjoy it so much.