mind over matter March 26, 2008

here’s a clip from i’m a cyborg and that’s okay, which i recently watched. the moral of the story is that “normal” people, including mental health professionals, can be more abnormal than the patients, something i find to be increasingly true the older i get.
the first korean lesson of the year went well considering [...]

快使用雙截棍! March 23, 2008

everybody knows who bruce lee is, right? well, for some reason one day i started thinking about it, and realised that for the life of me i had no idea even whether his movies were in english or canto (as it turns out, they are in both). well, 35 years after the fact, [...]

lab barbecue March 14, 2008

as it turned out, the mango cake was subsequently sequestrated by aunty yin fong, leaving me with a choice of green tea cake or tiramisu. and, since there seems to be a surfeit of chocolate cakes on the increasingly emergent menu, i decided to go for green tea. they still have about 40 hours to [...]

in the red March 12, 2008

thanks to a tip-off from aika, i called up the tie rack at the airport this morning to enquire about job applications. they said that they were looking for someone to work in the mornings, as opposed to the (uber-lucrative) night shift that i had been hoping to work.
anyway, i will have to (snail — how backward!) [...]

鬼佬 = 热气-immune? March 12, 2008

sunday is the annual lab barbecue, which does not involve roasted rodents or pigeons (though the latter might be nice). the main lecturer is supplying the roastables, but has subcontracted snacks and desserts to the rest of us.
my mother has volunteered to donate a cake, after all she will be making a mango cake and a [...]

self-service announcement March 11, 2008

as soon as i decide to proceed with the decision to discontinue my formal study of french, i am immediately called upon to use it. ha ha ha.
well, this has reminded me that so as not to allow three years of (by turns hard and slack) study (and money) to go to waste, and as [...]

by which all shall know that i have finally begun constructive activity March 10, 2008

whenever the time comes to update the cv (a good and bad sign — there’s been a job to add, currently status is unemployed), the part that always makes me cringe most is the “hobbies” section.
this used to be because i had no hobbies.
then, it was because my actual hobbies (shopping, reading) sounded painfully lame.
now, [...]

things i like about ‘my’ car (mazda 121 metro) March 10, 2008

people always say that at first, you’ll drive anything that has 4 wheels and gets you from point A to point B. then, you need it to look good… then, you need speed, etc. therefore, you keep ‘upgrading’ your car. however, i like the car i’m currently using because: 
it doesn’t use much petrol
it’s not too large, [...]