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Archive for August, 2007
Swa-Rov-Ski. Not swarsiki.
the rice is worth these days?
Why?
Why must I do the researching and checking and take the risk of losing everything for everyone, just so you (would think you) could irresponsibly earn some big bucks quickly for yourself?
The spirit of most local entrepreneurs - start with minimum to zero risk assessment and continue on with zero risk management, screw the rest of the world, and (dream of) earning the big bucks for themselves.
A cross-platform personal wiki type notepad freeware.
We are getting toward the end of the summer holidays. This could be the last summer holidays that Alec would be with us all the time as he will become a teenager by the next summer holidays, and may start going out on his own with his friends. Since I practically take no holidays, I try to be home with Alec every weeknight and most of the weekends.
Don’t know what I am worrying about as it is unlikely that Alec would become the sort of teenager who hangs out all the time and never home. Until he is 16, the legal age (I think) to be allowed into video game arcades, he should probably be home with his computer still. The dilemma is though while I try to prevent him from playing computer games at home during school days, it could be the single most powerful attraction that keeps him from being a street junkie. Not that we are having that sort of problem to be worried about now but a parent can’t be more careful these days. The Dragonball anime strategy I used on him some 6 or 7 years ago should be able to ensure the righteousness in him.
It has become official now. Ever since I have started writing this blog some 4 years ago I have been trying to get Alec to develop his (or fight his lack of) interest in research and/or dairy type writing. Unfortunately, for some unknown reasons beyond anyone’s comprehension, M has never been with me on this. After the final couple of exams before the summer, M told me that she heard other mothers said composition is the single most important and heavily weighed type of questions in the exams. During the orientation of the secondary school last Saturday, the headmaster said all students are to carry a notebook with them at all times to take notes with, and also a journal is compulsory that everyone is to write up a full book of journal by the end of each and every school year! Thank you very much. That really makes me feel good for having the dead on correct exercise for Alec 4 years ahead of its time that couldn’t be practiced in real life! Her strategy must be “when all else failed, still don’t listen to him.”, and money well spent wasted to tutoring classes like these. (Note the name of the tutor at the end of the third message on that page that has been well featured on the back of some KMB.)
School hasn’t begun yet and already I am noticing the difference between this new school’s headmaster and the all previous ones that I have encountered. This one let his methods and actions upon them speak for himself rather than plain talking of ideals. Hopefully, Alec could keep up with all the extra workload.
Just selected a book at Page One with Alec for himself last Sunday on creative writing. Hopefully Alec will start discovering the joy of writing as I have soon enough. (Perhaps a bottle of Holy Water or some spiritual signs might help keep the evils away!)
That’s right, no need for AT&T, and once the method has been made public, most anyone can use all it’s functions including making and receiving calls.
Honestly, I wonder why manufacturers still bother to lock up anything at all.
Although this could help Apple sell a few more iPhones sooner than expected if they could keep up the greater demand, it’s still too little too late, I’m afraid. Already, I have met a few used-to-be die hard fans of the iPhone who have indicated they have lost interest in buying one.
Like most fetish gadgets, if it’s not made available almost as soon as its announcement, it’s useless. Apple, of all people, should know this better than anyone else.
Now, chop chop with that next feline, wilya?!
In the Outer Space. What was shown in Star Trek:Voyager episode Night and later The Void is as real as reality can be. The latest real one found is much bigger in size and is much further away than the Delta Quadrant.
“It is 1 billion light years across of nothing. That’s an expanse of nearly 10 billion trillion kilometres of emptiness.”
It seems to be completely empty. It is said that not even dark matters exist there.
Sometimes I feel like there are 23 of these in my brain…
Coincidence?!
Don’t get your hopes up.
In this evening’s episode, my first viewing, a Chinese bride got married to a Korean groom and having Chinese catered in a banquet hall instead of a restaurant. The food manager and the supposedly top flight chef seemed to set high standard on their food being served. On and on, the guests, the families, and the couple have high hopes for the food indicated over and over again that they expect the food to be to notch, utterly fresh, and piping hot, which the food manager concurred.
I hate to break it to you but, food simply can’t be any good in a huge banquet like that, just like buffet food could never be really good.
Why?
Imagine the Shark Fin Soup for instance. The single most iconic dish symbolizing the high grandiosity of the meal - being cooked in a pot the size of fuel tank!
We have a term for this style of cooking - “Large Wok”, meaning big trouble.
In the end, the couple indicated they were very happy with the food and said they love the Crab Claw most! Hello, crab claws are not made entirely with crab meat but mostly much cheaper frozen shrimp meat and flour.
Yeh, the dish you love most could be steaming hot but definitely wouldn’t be the freshest, connoisseurs.
Want meticulously good food cooked for you? Try the chef’s table of a renowned chef instead. As for the banquet, just enjoy the evening with the guests and yourselves, and forget about the food. And oh, one more tip for the marrying couples. Grab a loaf of bread if you expect to drink a lot but not plan on getting filthy drunk. Rice usually aren’t served in a wedding banquet.
Ever since the government has been levying the employers of “Foreign Domestic Helpers” for a re-education fund, I have been asking everyone (except government officials since one usually don’t get any useful answers from them, besides, it is the Immigration Department collecting the levy, and one knows damn well the Immigration Department is not in charge of educating foreign domestic helpers), just how exactly how do I get my foreign domestic helper any paid re-education by that levy? The answer given to me has always been, “Oh, you could just send your maid to get re-educated!”. Eh… OK but where to? Dead silence from all.
So there you have it. Today, we finally get the definitive answer in the news. YOU CAN’T. Not a dime of the levy has been spent all these years. They couldn’t spend any while awaiting for the courts’ verdict on the legality of the levy. Now that that’s been cleared, they don’t know how to spend them.
Once again, the government has done something which makes absolutely no sense, or at least not well thought off (if even thought of at all), just because the law does not prevent them from doing so and they get to bone you up the asses from doing it.
WhaUSay?!