Clie comes to an end...

My mum wants to get an color PDA for her, as she's been happily playing with my Palm Vx. So I thought, instead on getting a new low-end PDA for her, why not she can just take my Clie and I buy another one? So I quickly source out, and I locate Clie TH55, cool and thin machine, with camera and WiFi...

So I went around and check out the price to find that Sony suspended Clie, at least in Euro/US market, therefore not selling in HK too. This is a big blow... as I didn't find a eye-catching model for PalmOne...

So what should I do? should I settle for Palm T3 or continue to go for Clie? I'm don't know what I should get.

Conclusion: I got my Clie about 2 years ago for a very strange reason. My Clie served its duty, it now slipped away and put a stop, prompting me to go for some other things.

-- mr blog

Some rich guy is watching me...

The site is hacing a web count like this. What do I know from this? I realised that someone is really rich, with a computer of resolution 1280x1024? He must have a good display card, with a good monitor, probably LCD monitor, plus a powerful machine to support the display part. It must cost a alot!. And I haven't owned such kind so far. Most stuffs that I bought are cheap, low quality, but lasted for a long time...

-- mr blog

I changed my nick...

No more HonL... I change to something better describes me, AcA, stands for Abandoned child, Always...

-- AcA

90% out-of-concern + 10% curiousity

With the last 2 months, I bring my just-merely-edible lunch from the previous dinners. The nus gal in my lab used to pack her lunch to school. Some talk over her friends know that her mother was hospitalised. For the last 2 months, she stopped bring her lunch box. I was just concerned about her family... and out of curiousity, I ask her tonite straight, "how was your mum?". She shot for 5 seconds, seeing that she didn't want to talk, I explain that I just want to show my concern, it'll be perfectly alright uf you don't want to say anything. After this incident, I kept thinking about this. But nevertheless, I still wish that nothing goes wrong. Anyway, that gal might go to NUS next year...

-- mr blog

An unexpected mail...

Hey! There's a think think post for me in my letter box. A perspectus from UK liverpool!! They really send it to the other side of the world, in just over a weekend! That perspectus is heavy, even thicker than the convocation booket, about the size of a street directory, 271pages, fully coloured. Liverpool is rich! now I know why HKU is so different from NUS, NUS is learning the US style while HKU still sticks to the british style.

-- mr blog

Tropical Cyclone Alert No. 8

Yesterday was a free fay in HK, where HK annouce the first strong Tropical Cyclone Alert No. 8 in this year. The whole world was like putting a stop. My flat lobby has all pasted with masking tape on the glasses...
-- mr blog

TGI Friday as promised

My friend, A and I agreed that we shall go to the TGIF place for dinner one day. Having promised for almost 3 years, tonite is the nite. Food is considered bad, with the understanding that it's the TGIF. The standard is disappointing. But both of us are just having the idea that we are fulfilling what we promised to each other. Having your promise fulfilled is wonderful, but only after 3 years, and with one extra little baby in the tummy. Seriously, I don't think I go back to the place again and I don't know when we'll meet again. But I'm sure meeting the next time shall be as wonderful as tonite, if there is a chance.

-- mr blog

When it goes, it goes...

Well, S & J marriage is put to an end after 6 years. It gives me the feeling that relationship is so fragile. Not only in marriage, but all kinds of relationship.

"Love is a rush of wild wind
The scent of a summer rose
A whistle blowing down the distant track
And when it goes, it goes……"

-- mr blog

This is harder than secondary school composition...

I was hoping that I write the furst draft of pos today in the lab. I spent time reading online help and other accessible pos on the web. But I still can't settle for a stretegy to write one. It seems that those samples that I read don't follow the online guide. So I tried to write one up from scratch, and this is where I bang on wall. This is harder than writing a GP essay.

Maybe I'm rushing myself to write. Maybe it's not that urgent. I'll go back to what I used to do.

This morning, my friend chatted me thru MSN and told me a news that I was really shocked. People who know me know that I'm not easily shocked! But today I really didn't know what to respond! Why must the persons telling me bad news keeps on reporting worse and worse? Why must things turn out worse from bad?

-- mr blog

Another guy that chases me off...

I don't know how to write this down, so I just list them down in chronological order.

(background) Well, I've been downgraded to programmer/coder webpage administrator/coordinator. For this week, I'm supposed to set up a project webpage.

• (boring) Before Prof supt last for conference last week, he mailed me, asked me to,
  1. setup project webpage
  2. put in more write-up of project
  3. ask V to design a nice webpage
  4. mail main school website administrator, ask them to put a link to our project....
  5. ...
• (boring) early this week. I mailed V and told her that we wanted this,... blah blah, blah. Ask her whether I write to the correct guy. She replied said she is only the graphic designer, should mail to F. She was already kind enough to forward that mail to F (the web designer), and CC to Prof Supt. To make sure that F does't ignore the mail. I wrote him another email, although wording are 90% the same.
• (boring) In the middle of the week, I was doing my own preparation. since someone else asked me dun put in 100% of your time into it. I was so naive to think that F has been working on it.... but...
• Today morning, I got F's email receipt sent to me (which I always request it, but very few send back). That proved that he wasn't around since the day I first talked to V. In the afternoon. F replied to all (me, V and Prof Supt), told me to ask my prof supt to send an official request to support, with more specific requirements, like web counter, etc....
• I thought, (damn, V should have told me all these right from the start). but since the time delay is not due to me, I'm fine with it. To me, they are just complicating the hold story. (To me, they just talk the dept layout and put in our webpage material, work done. I already emphasized that I wanted a nice-looking but informative webpage of 3 pages, how difficult can it be where the web programming is handled by me?)
• To better shield myself, I informed Prof Supt about the situation, with some recommendations of the requirement. That's to make myself not the bottle-neck, or delaying factor (actually there's not much things to do, just the webpage layout, since he wanted a nice looking one)
• So I told that PhD student what's happening all along, as I didn't involve him right from the start, reason to be clear soon. He was really surprised that I started all that, even told me with his (you can imagine as the normal look of a HKGer) cold eyes and cool laughter, "of course, you should get prof supt's consent to send the mail. You shouldn't have done so much without...etc etc". Of course I knew that. They have every reason to reject my request without prof supt's support or confirmation. I'm just trying my luck. More importantly, to cover my own ass.
• At night, prof supt finally wrote from denmark. he first replied me, asked me to write down what specification I need (probably he wrote right after reading the first mail from F. Prof supt always has the tendency to do it right after the first moment). 5 miniutes later, he forwarded my mails to F, quoting "...the forwarded email is self-explanatory...". I stop responding to any email, since what I wanted is being heard.
• I hope I'm doing the right thing in this entire mess. But all I want is, to get things done as soon as possible, without stepping on too many people. That's to say, being too protective or passive is not always good.

Morale of the story: Taking initiative doesn't always bring you positive effect, or thing you wanted. But all things you want to achieve start off with your own initiatives.

-- mr blog

I'm sick, and I'm sick of xxxxxx...

My body temperature is right, my throat is okay, but I know I'm sick after staying at home, looking at things that I'm least confident with. Am I not suitable, or am I forcing myself? Pardon me for whining here... but I'm a SICK person!!!

-- mr blog

Why must treat me as a tour-guide?

The past weekend and tonite have been going out with Mr and Mrs Timezlicer for his HK tour (I ask him why HK leh? he said by elimination.) I was asked, "are you tired of bring people around, and going to those same places over and over again?". I'll answer it here, answer: yes and no. Yes, I'm tired to going to same places over and over again. No, I'm not tired bringing different people around. Furthermore, I'm treated as a tourist, without having to pay for the expenses to be a tourist. This is one good way of looking at things. I'm interested to look at people's reaction to sightseeing a place or tasting food that I bring them. Their reactions can be so different that you dun mind bringing different people around the same places. Some you antipated they will have that reaction, and sometimes you feel yourself being a good tourists, of cos there are exceptions.

Good things must come to an end... standard of that Sushi place that i used to go has dropped a lot since I last visit. Milk products dun taste as good as I first tried. I guess it's time to move on for a new itinerary. But I don't foresee more people to come in the near future.

-- mr blog

No more badminton for me?

last few weeks, I'm been organising badminton in the club house. Not because I'm especially interested in badminton, but badminton seems to be most people's favourite sport, because it's not as tiresome as other sport. Although I that this is not a reason, I book badminton to please everybody. In the last macua trip, I had some conflict with someone, call A. This made me being the bad guy. I dun want agree that I'm the bad guy in this matter, but just that things would turn out if I can handle in in another way. So what do I do? Nothing, I finally convince myself that my duty is not to make everyone like me. I now just dun dun give a damn.

-- mr blog

15 min of Demonstration

1st July 2004. I joined the demonstration for 15 mins, walking across 3 streets. It's hot today, as high as 34C. News reports that there're even more people than the last year. I also wore the offically colour -- white, didn't put on any sticker or ribbon. But nevetheless, I think there's no use asking whoever to step down,... The situation is already bad enough...

-- mr blog

I'm feeling exhausted

I felt exhausted after the Macau trip. Not TIRED, but exhausted. I'm too shocked to describe what it was in macau now. But this trip makes to re-consider again, am I sitable stay here for good? Both my friends and I had a brief discussion and we all agree that the PULL factor is too great to chase me away. not even mentioning the PUSH factor. Monday, I got back to school, and learnt that I had to present another modified version of the program, which I had totally no confidence in fixing it (it's not even coded in the first place). OK, so I spent another night to come out with something that at least worked for one test case. Tueday, I was supposed to present that program to be bio people. There were some problem with their seminar room's projector which I can't present with my laptop. Finally we only show the powerpoint on thier seminar room's PC. My program is never showed, my effort for the past days are all wasted. That reminds me of a famous quote, "You either rush to wait, or you wait to rush." This is especially true.

-- mr blog