小腳酸了

小腳酸了好幾天，今天終於開始康復起來。都是上星期二的芭蕾舞課中，因為太久沒有上芭蕾舞課，所以用錯了力，傷了小腿，害得我過去幾天行路的時候一垮一垮的。今個星期二上課時，一定要好好控制力度。

昨天跟朋友看表演，發覺他對藝術評論完全沒有興趣。當我對表演中的表達手法，編排和音樂運用進行分析和表達意見時，他甚麼也沒有說，完全沒有反應。但當我談到情節時，他似乎相當有興趣。

由他對表演團成員的熟識，和親切出席表演前的介紹會，我大概可以確定，他是一個 Fans. 他用Fans 的心態和行動參與他的愛好活動，支持她喜愛的團體。這種心態沒有甚麼問題，就正如不是每一個看電影的人，也喜歡用媒體審視的眼光去看每一套電影。

我只怪自己表錯情，太不適趣，下次看表演的時候，還是談談情節，說說戲服，便會少一點監介經歷。

Spent two hours in Apple store last night

I spent two hours last night at Apple store comparing various new iPod in order to find one that I want to "committee on". So far my conclusion is that I may get a iPod classic because it gives me well balance feature even though iPod Touch has some cool feature. But then I still decided to wait because:

• The homebrew scene of iPod Touch is in development, and it may be a good choice to get iPod Touch just as a WiFi device.
• There are quite some issues on the the iPod Classic that needs to nail down, including issues mentioned in macInTouch and Apple's own technical forum.
  

Some additional issue on iPod Classic:

• major slow down the song playback delay when browsing under the album flow mode.
• I still cannot get over the fact that I need to reconvert all my video media file in order to put them into a iPod classic.
• an additional USB cable (which allows me to use the iPod as an external harddisk at work) will cost me US$20, and the plug is so freaky proprietary. Apple just love keeping people in proprietary world.
• The 160Gb seems to be more reasonable from price perspective, but I can feel the weight difference between 80Gb and 160Gb. 80Gb seems to be have better weight as a portable device. The 160Gb starts to become slightly too heavy to be a real portable.
  

I also found that the new third gen iPod nano is so not friendly to control. Controlling the click wheel on iPod classic was much better an experience.

Hopefully one day I will get myself an iPod, but for now I give it a pass.

Cool cool home

Ever since my roommate came back (2 days ago), I was enjoying cool breezing home thanks to my roommate turning down the temperature. Well, I could do that myself when he's gone but I am too cheap and too concern about the high energy bill. At least when he is here I can justify the cost :-P .

中文手寫輸入的 iPhone

我有點期待支持中文手寫輸入的 iPhone，因為我實在不想長期用 Pocket PC 的手寫輸入，特別是英文字的輸入，準確度遠比Palm OS 輸入的準確度低。所以我期待著Apple 的軟體工程師巧妙地設計出好用的輸入介面，畢竟介面設計是蘋果的強項。

Buying clothing in United States

I am not a fan of doing appeal shopping as I am too price conscious. If I came to a point that I need to do shopping for clothes, it must be something driven by necessity. That happened yesterday when I realized that almost all my black pants had been shrink (mostly because of the dryer), socks are too short, and shirts were old (they were all shirts I brought a year ago, and I literally wore them weekly). It's time to shell out.

So I went to the Target need my workplace, and brought 4 pairs of socks, 2 shirts and 2 black Khakis. They all look pretty OK. Total cost was about US$95 (tax included), and I would say it's a fair price. Also, now that I know my size, it would be easier to buy clothing online.

Shirt size: Small, Mens
Pants size: 31 x 30

On a totally unrelated topic, I slept 8 hours last night. I was ultra tired when it was 9:30 p.m., so I went to bed. I knew I woke once at 3 a.m., but I felt like I want to sleep a bit more, so I fell back, and the next thing I know it was 5:30 a.m..

I just love sleeping.

IT Crowd, second season, brilliant

Just finish the episode 1 to 4 of second season of IT Crowd. For those who don't know it, it's a British sitcom on Channel 4 about three (errr ... actually 4 now) staff members in a IT department of a big company. I wasn't like the show in the beginning because I was expected a lot of inside geek jokes,but turns out there's not much tech content but rather mostly general sitcom jokes. The different expectation made me ditched the show in the beginning.

But then I started accepting the fact that the show is for general audience and not the geeks. Once my perception was gone, I started enjoying the show. In fact, I laughed out loud a lot of times in these 4 epsidoes of season 2. Those offbeat humors reminded me the good old Seinfeld and they are pretty well written.

So check it out.

新的工作

新的工作相當不錯，同事亦很友善，工作本身亦很吸引

，讓我有機會學習到一些我很想學的電腦知識。最有趣的是工作時間，同事們在工作非常認真投入，但上班和下班的時間卻非常準確，不會有（起碼這段剛開始的日子）超時工作的情況。

家裡亦已經有一段日子沒有蟑螂了，但願好景可以繼續吧。

頭痛

頭有點痛，也許是因為昨天沒有好好的吃午飯和晚餐。本來不打算化一整天重修電腦，但結果卻用了一天的時間。

6 a.m. in the office

Here I am being in the office at 6 a.m. . This is the first time I came to work at this job so early. The good thing is that I can leave at 4 p.m., and that can be very good for the sake of avoid lousy traffic.

For instance, the driving for this morning was actually pretty seamless. The only thing that stopped me, turns out, was the traffic light instead of traffic jam. Parking was great too. I can park very close to the elevator on the 4th Floor instead of parking far far away on the 6th floor.

The air conditioning system, though, doesn't seem to be on until 6:15 am. This is not way too bad, consider that the air conditioning system at the place I live in isn't particularly spectacular neither. So I can live with a little bit heat.