Day of Surprises

Today's theme was surprise. Why?
It's the "anniversary" of a week.
Yes, and it's a cause for celebration! Why?
Because I want to spend as much time with someone as possible. ;)

Sense of Adventure

Where is it when I could have used some?
I could have stayed home longer or introduce someone to my parents.
I am glad that I don't need that sense to plan events of New Year's Eve.

Oceans Eleven was a great movie. Ocean Twelve is great too. I am sure Mr. Ocean and his crew have lots of this sense.

Bloomfield & Picton

I think someone knows where Trenton is, when I saw CFB Trenton. However, does anyone know where Bloomfield and Picton is?
Well, I went to those places today on a Christmas road trip with family.
The "Lake on a Mountain" has a nice view, but I do wish I was somewhere else.
Oh well, Christmas is for family.

Best Christmas Ever

Even though I am only three days into this Christmas holidays,
is has been the BEST Christmas ever. I am so thankful.
The sky is so clear tonight. The night is frigid but nice.
I am so glad I made to choice to head out tonight.
It's just lovely. Merry Christmas!

Feminine Side

It's ironic, but it's during the nastiest weather do I get in touch with my feminine side today. What exactly do I mean? Well, you would have to discover that yourself.

Perhaps you can also get in touch with your feminine / masculine side next time the weather gets nasty. However, you may have to make sure that side exist though, as I know a few of you don't have it. Apparently, it has something to do with your names. Too bad, you were born with them. Perhaps you can change them, I guess.

I am not making much sense, am I? Better sleep now.

Headache & Home

This is the first night I got home for Christmas, and I got a bad headache.
Haven't stayed home long enough for a long time, and haven't had a bad headache for a long time too.
See the pattern? I hope not. I don't want to think.

Ying & Yang

Good and Bad. Heaven and Hell.
I have mixed feelings today.
1 Good news and 1 Bad one.
I am relieved from the stress.
Yet, I am faced with another challenge.
It's also good, in a way. Worrying that something may happen is not a good feeling. However, getting no breaks with stress is not good either.
To make is worse, I still have to worry about something else.
Damn. Just throw them both at me together and let me deal with them now!
Life sucks too much.
Let's just hope this Christmas would be better.

Welcome to Canada

Whenever there is a day like today, the phase always sticks in my mind.

There aren't many countries in the world that can have 2 degrees Celsius one day and -20 the next. Not many countries in the world report wind chill factors at weather broadcasts. Certainly, not many countries that I want to be in that can give me the thrill (or chill) of walking for 30 mins, each way, to church in what feels like -32C.

Dear all, welcome to Canada!

Crazy Day

Yesterday was a crazy day.
These were what I had to do:
1) Combat shopping traffic on a route that would normally take a quarter of the time to complete.
2) Abandon a date after meeting her briefly.
3) Drive 300km in snow or at night.
4) Chase a bus along the terminal for one city block, and still missed it.
5) Missed another train because I didn't know it existed, which could have saved my time.
6) Having some drunk yelling gibberish from their car at me.

However, crazy as it was, I am still thankful, because it could have been a lot worse.

Something bothering me

I am considering a tough decision. It's about something I want to do, but couldn't see how I can pull it off the way it's going. Perhaps the right thing to do is to not do what I am doing, which seems counter-productive. Life sucks too often.

Tempting

One of the reputable bus companies is hiring part time drivers.
2 hour drive for the longest route. Regional transit. 15-26 hours a week. Pretty good pay.

Very tempting...

Buses, Fire Foxes, and Thunderbirds

I couple of interesting sites were nice additions to my study breaks.

As I said before, I want to be a bus driver. Apparently, there is a site for that. DriveaBus .ca Cool.

Then there is Mozilla Fire Fox. Exactly what is it? An internet browser gaining quite some market share lately. For one month ending yesterday, it had 10 Million downloads. What's the best part of it? A lot less likely to be attacked by hackers and viruses, since it not the overly popular market leader. It's simple, easy to use and have nice features like tabbed browsing (also in Netscape), popup blocker (also in IE) and ad blocker (extension to FireFox). It's also suppose to be more secure when using SSL connection. I am using it right now. So far, no major problems, except the need to download another Java Runtime from Sun.

Mozilla also has a Thunderbird, an email client, may be I will check it out next time.

Alright, back to study.

Interesting Charmed Quote

Seer: I want to be made human.
Piper: What? Why, in the hell, would a power demon want to be made human?
Seer: Hell being the operative word, as in I live there, and it sucks.

Care

What is care? What is love? Love cause care? Why do I care about someone so much? Does that mean I love her? What is Romantic love? How do I feel it? I feel something. Does that mean I romantically love her? Why, on Earth, do I think about these things just before exams?!

Dogs and Guitars

What do they have in common? Owners of both create as much annoyance to others as possible while providing enjoyment to themselves. Of course, well discipline owners of both can be very considerate to train their dogs well and play guitar only when welcomed. However, many owners failed to be disciplined.

Take my roommate, for example, almost every single day he has to make some noise with his guitars. Sometimes it's great short songs that are good to relax. Sometimes its just annoying fiddling while he studies. Other times is down right 2 hour or more of "band practice" with his friend. You may have noticed the "s"in guitars that I used. Yes, he has both a traditional guitar and an electric one.

Just like he has a German Sheppard and a Pit bull. Both of them bark at anyone other than their owner, and the Pit bull threatens to kill you all the time. Just like the electric guitar that can be heard 3 floors down.

Music to my roommate's ears can be noises to mine. Playmates to owners of dogs can also be monsters to others.

I want to be...

Someone who operates a large fascinating machine. Someone who repeats the same routine, but sometimes changes it. Someone who everybody else should yield to. Someone who controls at least 40 others lives. Someone who uses every single limb to work. Someone who wears sunglasses most of the time. Someone who is the least likely to violate the law. Someone who we call a bus driver. Apparently, it's not that hard to achieve. Dream on...and may happen some day if I dream too much.

Statistics

The art of create something out of meaningless lists of numbers. The art of confusing people with way too many hypothesis and probabilities. The art of naming same things differently so each book looks different than others while talking about the same thing. Who cares that Microsoft Excel doesn't generate a truly random number after 30,000 iterations?! Not an engineer, I must say. Those crazy hardcore statistican, may be. Why, why on earth, should that course be taught by those people?

Efficiency

The result of analysis of my lack of motivation to study is apparently my frustration towards my lack of efficiency. This creates a downward spiral for myself, because the less motivated I am, the less efficient I am, and the more frustrated I am. Silly, right? Try getting yourself to not think about something is apparently very hard. It's time for some brainwashing.