Since I'll be at home this weekend. I'll try to reply my mails at home. And since the home PC is always "occupied" by my sis (I always see her facing the same website with ICQ, and I dun bother to find out), I'll use my lab's PC to reply the mails. So, what I do is I VNC in and try to read and reply my mails. connection is so slow. Mouse movement and click are so slow to respond. I finally gave up the idea and I go to sleep. Tomorrow, the guy is supposed to fix the adsl. Hope it;ll be better after switching ISP.

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Ok. Today is considered the first "field trip" of my program. Just 2 days ago. my professor wanted to read a journal. This journal is referred to in my one-and-only-one publication. I always thought that I have a copy and I'm supposed to read to before I can put down the citation. Ya... so I quickly go and download it online and pretend that I've read it. But the journal is kind of old, 1994. I went to library to photocopy, surprisingly, HKU doesn't carry the volumn. So I told the RA that this Journal is only available in PolyU, CityU and UST. I applied for the inter-link library card yesterday, I even begged that university librarian that to make the library card today.

So I went to PolyU (PolyU because it's the nearest, but still take 45min on bus) at 5pm. I went up to their library, and only found that they only have volumn 2 onwards. I checked again, the only available place is UST library. So I rushed to UST library this evening, by the time it was already about 7pm. It's located at the far west of kowloon, in fact beyond the bounary of Kowloon, further than my future home. The campus is new, big and more space. The feeling of going to a new, and modern campus is like going to SMU or NY-Poly while you are stuck in the old NUS building S15 and science canteen.

The library is new, and big. I got what I want and went to photocopy. Too bad, their photocopying machines don't accept the Otopus cards (HKU does). Obviously I don't want to waste money for a photocopying card of UST Card. I asked someone nearby for the card, and I pay her back. 12 pages, 30c each, total $3.6, and she just took my $2 coin, what a nice lady, from India (!!!) without an Indian face!

Here, all jounrals are bound in different colour. Made searching and returning to the original place easy. The library has 4 levels, built like in the style of shopping mall, i.e. the main section in the ground floor, and every higher level can see the ground level.

To summarise, I went to 3 universities. Took 4 different buses, a trip MTR and Mini-Bus each. I talked to 4 libarians from 3 different universities. Photostated 12 pages from a journal.

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Nomally, for these kind of mass mails, I would just send then to trash mails. But reading it reminds me of someone in Singapore.

Graduate House Lecture Series

How To Become A Game Developer

by Jason Chu
Chief Operating Officer
DigiPen Institute of Technology, Seattle

The lecture will define what a game is, the various essential elements of game development, a look at the DigiPen Real Time Interactive Simulation curriculum. A game production demo in 15 minutes and showcase of DigiPen students' animation works.

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Today marks the end... a full stop. But worse thing, is to try to prove no solution ever possible.

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Found an interesting pic.

Not bad huh?

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Back dating to last week. When I got the CD, I then went to a nearby fast-food restaurant. I ordered the "pineapple ham steak with rice" (direct translation). I got the dish and found a place to sit. Then I realise that there was only a piece of ham with pineapple. I brough back the dish to counter and asked for the "steak". Then the so-called manager told me, that piece of "ham" is not only just a piece of ham, it's actually "steak" but made from ham (that's why the name "ham steak"), thicker than ordinary ham. I got to bring the entire dish back to my seat and started eating.

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Today discover 2 things, money related, but they are my hard-earned money. Firstly I got the reimbursement in DBS bank. Secondly, the conference grant has finally been reimbursed, and credited into my a/c. I feel so much lighter now.

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There's another leturer in my dept, doing more or than the same thing as my supt does. Since he's preparing for some postgrad lectures for monday, he still works on sunday night. He asked me questions by email from 11pm until 3am, I slept. Then this morning when I woke up and checked my email, got a reply from him. He asked me to give him a call once I arrived at the lab. So does that mean that he's sleeping in his office? This morning I don't dare to delay my time, come to lab at 8:30am =( .

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Yesterday went for BBQ with some postgrad in dept. The BBQ site is just a 1/2 hr hijing my univ. We started walking at 6:30pm and started packing only 12:00am. I was so tired that after going back to my room, I bathed and slept. When I woke up this morning I found my pair of glass under my back, but they are still OK, not broken.

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Just watched "The Classics", but I still dunno why the name of the show "The Classics". Well the show is a nice show, but just that watch on LCD moniter in a fully lighted lab doesn't bring me the mood. But for the first hour, I didn't know what the show about, why the girl always goes out with 2 different guys... why going to school in black uniform sometimes... etc...

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Posted the T610 thing is an online forum yesterday. Got answers from many people. the key is actually there. only when you are entering web addresses the symbol will automagically appear. So I could still go to my webpage.

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Went out to shop tonite. Found that I could only get something when I go alone.

• I passwd by a small shop on sport wears and equipment. I asked for the water bag you put into the backpack so that you can just suck from the tube when you are walking. I get it for HK$140! I never understand why so expensive, it'll be just similar to those urine bags used in hospital, right?. And, until now I still dunno how to remove the "bite me" cap the end of the tube and re-fill in the water.
• I went to "298 shopping centre", wanted to look for blue tooth usb port. But it more expensive than I thought. USB devices like memory stick/compact flash readers can get for only $50. But about the same size, a simple bluetoolth device cost about $200. Not worth it.
• Since I can't get what I want, I went over to next door, the "188 shopping centre". There were all the funny stuff, like jap vcd, games, magzine, .... and 2nd hand CD shops. I went toa 2nd hand CD shop, on glass door, I found the CD that I always wanted to get. It's brand new.
• Maybe I should say more about this CD first. I first saw it when it was first released in 1995. Saw it at Pacific Place (??? the one opposite of Fae East???) Tower Record. This just released Jap CD then was going for S$75!!! I didn't get it as I was, and I still am, an poor guy. Over the years, I read from the newsgroups, music review,... etc that the CD is the MUST-HAVE. People are asking for directions to 2nd hand CD shops in japan, just to source for the CD. Postings about any copied available in amazon/ebay aution sites. And the sad thing is CD is no longer re-released again.
• Hmm.... so it'll be nice for me to get the CD right, since it's brand new somemore. Well, CD shops are smart, they know that demand is high, the price is no longer something like S$75. it's more expensive by a f.ew magnitude. So should I get it??
• Hard Decision. It took me the same amount of time to consider as in the Tower Record. But after an hour, I went back to the shop and ask for discount. He didn't want to give a cent!!! In the end I gave in =( . But that guy told me the previous copy he didn't know it was so damn hard, it was sold for $800, the next copy, he's going to sell for $1200!!!
• I gave all i have in my wallet. After buy the CD, I only got HK$30 in my wallet for dinner.
• Well, the thing is not only about having bought the CD I always wanted to get. On the way back to hostel, I felt that I am blessed and these 2 years are general happy (except the time that I'm unhappy). I get do what I always wanted to do, but I didn't, due to whatever reasons. So, what else more do I expect???

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Oh...!!! Just discovered the worst bug in SE T610. The phone can't enter (~) tildel. That'll mean I can't get my own wap page.

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hongaila must gimme a treat... wahaha.. cause I help hongaila get HKD5000... wahahaa... I want to eat "long xia"!!!! DC

Oh... I heard this for a long long time. But I never bothered to find out the lyrics of this song. This is hard to follow...

Making Love (Out Of Nothing At All)

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I know just how to whisper And I know just how to cry I know just where to find the answers And I know just how to lie I know just how to fake it And I know just how to scheme I know just when to face the truth And then I know just when to dream And I know just where to touch you And I know just what to prove I know when to pull you closer And I know when to let you loose And I know the night is falling And I know the time's gonna fly And I'm gonna tell you everything I gotta tell you But I know I gotta give it a try And I know the roads to riches And I know the ways to fame I know all the rules and then I know how to break them And I always know the name ot the game But I don't know how to leave you And I'll never let you fall And I don't know how you do it Making love out of nothing at all Out of nothing at all Out of nothing at all Out of nothing at all (making love) Out of nothing at all (making love) Out of nothing at all (making love) Out of nothing at all Every time I see all the rays of the sun Are streaming through the waves in your hair And every star in the sky Is taking aim at your eyes like a spotlight The beating of my heart is a drum and it's lost And it's looking for a rhythm like you You can take the darkness from the pit of the night And turn into a beacon burning endlessly bright I gotta follow it Cause everything I own, now It's nothing till I give it to you I can make you find your power I can make you lose your fear I can make your body do some very magical things I'll make your inhibitions all disappear I can make tonight forever Or I can make it disappear by the dawn And I can make you every promise that has ever been made And I can make all your demons be gone But I'm never gonna make it without you Do you realy wanna see me crawl And I'm never gonna make it like you do Making love out of nothing at all (Making love) out of nothing at all (Making love) out of nothing at all (Making love) Out of nothing at all (making love) Out of nothing at all (making love) Out of nothing at all (making love)

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DC, no he didn't. On the night of Mid-Autumn, I went to shop and shop (crazy). Got a pair of shoes for hiking, pants that the lower halves are detachable, backpack for hiking. I wanted to get the water bag (with the tube) for the backpack, but I couldn't find in the shop. Anyway that pic (with a decor on Rome) was taken on that night at Times Square. If you can't remember, Times Square is the place where DC spent HK$1600 for japanese food with his brother, which can pay for my lunch eating at the univ canteen for 16 weeks (4 months!!!).

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did hongaila go to the Mid-Autumn festival celebration thingy?? DC

The third meeting is finally over. Professor seems to notice that I'm getting abit bored, or discouraged. If I'm now asked whether I'm interested in what I doing, I'll say only a yes if I can solve that. Is it what it should be?

For a long time I didn't go shopping. I shoped for thing I need for my hiking next month, 12 hours 42 km hiking. I got a pair of mountain shoes and back pack and pants in TimeSquare. To show that I was in time square I got this captured,
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And since today is the mooncake festival, I took a shot at grduate house, I also captured a shot of the grad. hse. under the 15th full moon.

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Tomorrow going to have my third meeting in this week. I had my second one this morning. When the prof wanted another meeting, he wanted this Friday. But then he remembered this Friday was a public holiday day. He actually wanted today afternoon, but it was fixed tomorrow. I though things are going be to different, since he joins in tweaking his brain. But what he was thinking is getting more and more close to my idea, in the end failed. =(

Just this afternoon, just when I thot I can give some good news tomorrow, I found out that what my method does is just "delaying" the bug to be uncovered. Oh no, I'm going to end up having nothing even after 3 meetings, with 4 brains working.

Finally convinced that the chinese idiom is not correct, even when I'm good-for-nothing, the other 3 guys should make up of one "Zhu-Ge Liang". Obviously it's now not the case. =(

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Mr Blow, dunno whether that mail is just for formality or what.

Anyway, today I just had my first lecture on a course titled "Foundation of Computer Science". It's for frestmen, doing CS, Soft. Eng, IS... etc. I thot the course is going to cover things like "what's secondary storage/input device/harddisk cylindar?" that kinda thing. But it turned out that it's just anther course on discrete maths.

Since today is just the second day after the school starts, everyone in the class was like a sheep, very guai-guai. So I'm going to do this, "English all-the-way". It will be interesting to see how they react, and no one would try to disagree.

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errr u mean hk native lang not canto meh? i only remember that the only ones who spoke english r the lawyers and police officers, those that need to liaise with the Brits last time. Mr Blow

Oh... Long time didn't write this. Well... I'd try to remember what I did since the I last posted, and try to remember the days in september...

Last the dept has a mini orientation for the new postgruates. The dept head and some others talked. The ironic thing is, they all urged the new students to speak in english. That would improve their english standard. I just had the feeling that I didn't know English is so important in the past year. ;(

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Passage of Deformed Man DC

McDull!!!! Why can't hongaila let both groups of friends read the same blog?? haha DC

Used to be DC's favorite

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Went for dinner with my friends... We had the same kind of conversation like before. Finally, I could tell what's so strange that I was feeling. I have basically 3 "entities" of friends, one group of HK friends who I knew for a long time, a group of friend in HKU, mostly younger, and those friends in Singapore. I have got this funny feeling since I was back from singapore, why am I talking on 2 threads of topics to 2 different group, and today I talked about another thread of topics with with another group of my friends. I am too tired of this kind of "context switchings".

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