Yep, I am working

For those who want to know whether I am still slacking at home doing nothing, I can assure that I am working and making some money now :-P

I am working on a one month contract-to-hire contract (it's the 2nd week now), and in the meantime I am still actively job hunting. In fact, I have a major interview next week that required me to study in advance and have to write a small application during the interview day within 6 hours. That's gonna be pretty exciting.

My current work seems fine. People there are pretty OK too. And I am gradually learning to communicate with other coworkers and client. No matter how it turns out, it's going to be a good experience.

Monday blue

Sigh, I rolled over some broken glasses (from Windshield I think) this over. Now I am worrying whether I may get a flat tire later today.

Did I also mentioned that it was rained like dogs and cats?

On the bright side, my headache seems to be gone after a lot of sleeping.

也許是時候

星期五晚上我從教會回家，在家的附近衝了黃燈，然後發覺車的背後好像被拍了照似的，唉，大蓋就這樣損失七十五美元了。

有些時候，我覺得我太受外在環境的影響。很多時沒法下定心意改變的惡習，要靠一些外在的提醒，甚至需要有一些負面的事情發生了，受了教訓，自己才肯乖下來。這就是所謂「賤骨頭」吧。

Tablet PC 愛恨參半

經過兩個月的使用後，我發覺我對我那部Tablet PC 愛恨參半。說負面的吧：

★太重了。我的Tablet PC 勉強通過「單手測試」，但當我在日常生活中使用的經驗，卻告訴我這部電腦似乎重了點。

★太熱了。特別是當使用了一段時間後，電腦背後的熱力甚至迫使我要加一些保護墊。現在我有另一部電腦作下載用，也許就用不著令Tablet PC長期開著了，儲在機殼的熱力該會下降一點了。

★不穩定。自用機以來，總在一些奇怪的時候會有Blue Screen of Death 發生，非常令我懊惱。我總覺得Vista 是禍首。

080888 .... mileage

It's an interesting scene that I realize before in the morning when I was taking my driving examination. The mileage said 080888. So I took a picture with my mobile.

Looking forward to the 088888 day.

Japanese and Korean comics in American bookstore

I knew that Japanese comics is big in America, but I didn't realize that Korean comics also got their foothold in US market. Maybe it's because the drawing style of Korean comics is almost the same as the Japanese ones. Anyway, here's the whole several book-shelfs of Japanese and Korean comics in a US Bookstore Border. And yeah, it's very astonishing that these comics can fill up three to four bookshelf.

About to start working tomorrow ,,, for a month at least

I am preparing for my work day now. This is a one month contract which allows me to continue hunt for permanent position. So I am a bit excited about this.

I also started serving at church with drumming last week. At the same time I am thinking about whether I should look around and find a church to settle in. We'll see.

Roach phobia

Seems like after the long hard battle I had with a big roach a night before out the town house I am living in, I started to have some sort of roach phobia. Suddenly I started to realize the disadvantage of not having a roommate living in the house.

OK Productive Day

I found today pretty productive:

- I vacuumed and washed the floor on the group floor
- I converted a lot of cassette tapes into MP3s (especially the French course Bonjour Hong Kong)
- I arranged a few interviews.
- I watched two Be My Guess episode
- I practiced dance a bit.
- I throw away all the boxes and have all the stuff I took from storage organized.

And you can see that I am very much crave for sanctification from work.

Speaking of works, I will start my one month contract this Wednesday. In th mean time I will look for other full time opportunities. The one month productive should be able to make me productive and at the same time give me some financial help during the job hunting period.

Delete or not delete

I have a whole box of software and CDR day back to early 90s, and I was thinking of simply ripping all the personal data and simply throw all the disc away since I don't use these ancient software anymore. However, I may need to change my mind.

It started when I tried to open some old Word document that I wrote back in the college, and Microsoft Word 2007 BLOCKED me from doing so, saying that the old version of word document needs to be read by the old import engine, but the old import engine has security problem. To put the long story short, I may need to reinstall the OLD VERSION of office (like, maybe Office 97?) to read my document.

Now there's an incentive for me to keep some of the old application. The question is ... which applications to keep? I sure don't want to keep all 200+ CDR discs just for the sake of some old data files. But then those data files preserve my precious memory.

Sigh, what a dilemma....

Here's my car

Well, by popular demand, here's photos of my car.

My room

Well, by popular request, here's the photos of my room.

I passed the road test

I passed my road test this morning, and finally have my driver's license back. Awesome. Now I can go anywhere I like ... as long as I can live with the high gas price. :-<

I experienced blue screen of death on Vista twice in the last 48 hours. So much for being more stable and more secure Vista is.