心淡 容祖兒
作曲：徐繼宗 填詞：黃偉文 編曲：唐奕聰 監製：陳永明/舒文
想不起 怎麼會病到不分好歹
連受苦都甜美 我每日捱著 不睬不理
但卻捱不死 又去痴纏你
難道終此一生 都要這麼 不可爭一口氣
很謙卑 只不過是我太過愛你
連自尊都忘記 跌到極麻木 只好相信
又再爬得起 就會有轉機
若我不懂憎你 如何離別你 亦怕不會飛☆
＃由這一分鐘開始計起 春風秋雨間
限我對你以半年時間 慢慢的心淡
付清 賬單 平靜的對你熱度褪減
一天一點傷心過 這一百數十晚
大概也夠我 送我來回地獄又折返人間
春天分手 秋天會習慣 苦沖開了便淡 ＃
(說甚麼再平反)只怕被迫一起更礙眼
(往後這半年間)只愛自己 雖說不太習慣
畢竟有限 就當 過關
Monday, June 23, 2008
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Quote of the day
"An amateur expects things to work, and is surprised when they don't; a professional expects things to not work and is surprised when they do."
Friday, February 08, 2008
Busy searching for truth(s)
If there is ever a truth or a number of truths for the matter of life, I would be delighted to know that. Spending most of my time looking for it/them and has no success so far makes me wonder if the effort worthwhile. It might be just a puppy chasing its tail action, which is something that I will never know.
What I do realize is that, the truth can come in different degrees of certainty (so as evidence in legal). As an engineer, what works in the lab and still reproducible every time (most of the time up to 99.9%) it shows that you have got something right. The hard part is the one to get there, but once you are there, you are fine. As a patent engineer, I think it works differently. You might be able to draft a good argument in minutes or hours. The effort required depends on how much you are willing to spend. However, you would think that you have come to the result, the fact is it is still subjected to the interpretation of all other people who will read your work at some point of time in the future (or never). The contrast is, you think you have parked well at the destination, it is never a "sure" thing, and always subjected to further discussion. When you think that you will be having easier life because now you don't have to work to the absolute rightness, the target of absolute rightness has become multiple targets. You get one of them, you dont get to cover them all.
What I do realize is that, the truth can come in different degrees of certainty (so as evidence in legal). As an engineer, what works in the lab and still reproducible every time (most of the time up to 99.9%) it shows that you have got something right. The hard part is the one to get there, but once you are there, you are fine. As a patent engineer, I think it works differently. You might be able to draft a good argument in minutes or hours. The effort required depends on how much you are willing to spend. However, you would think that you have come to the result, the fact is it is still subjected to the interpretation of all other people who will read your work at some point of time in the future (or never). The contrast is, you think you have parked well at the destination, it is never a "sure" thing, and always subjected to further discussion. When you think that you will be having easier life because now you don't have to work to the absolute rightness, the target of absolute rightness has become multiple targets. You get one of them, you dont get to cover them all.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
meal of the day
Meal that on lunch and dinner table
a. chilli fried drumstick meat
b. chilli fried rice
c. steam drumstick
d. fried rice with mixed beans
e. tofu soup and tomato soup
f. chicken stew with tomato
g. lettuce - fried?
h. steam chicken piece on rice (chicken rice)
i. fried scramble egg wrap rice - ham and mixed bean
j. oyster source with vegetables
General tips
=========
Vegetables take longer to cook - but it is fine to eat raw. Beans even longer.
Meat is shorter - pan fried takes more than 5 mins
Food is easier to cook in boiling.
cut in small piece for easy to cook.
Think how to make sure things are cook and how the seasoning adds up.
Thaw time
1. meat should not be frozen and rethawed.
2. Meat thawed at room temperature (drumstick) takes longer than 1 hour.
Fried rice
1. heat rice in microwave ( add water if necessary) keep it at dry as possible
2. heat mixed bean in microwave 1 min or more to cook
3. Pan + oil (heat) . Let the beans in first for 2-3 mins
4. Add rice in ( by right no more water is required).
5. Add oyster sause / chilli sauce
Chicken rice
1. cook the chicken broth with chicken cube. 2 cube for 2 cups of rice. boil water as little as possible to dissolve the chicken cube.
2. chicken strips seasoned with soya bean and salt
3. wash rice in the rice pot, then add mixed bean/ vegatable first, followed by chicken strips
4. add in the broth. add more water to the suggestion line in rice pot if necessary.
5. cook.
Steamed chicken
1. chicken - cut and add salt and soya sauce
2. put in the steam pan for 20 mins
Fried rice
1. cut chicken strips (0r cube size) so that it is easy to cook
2. heat pan + oil
3. Add in chili sauce and seasoned chicken
4. cook for 3 mins
5. Add in rice to cook. Try to avoid adding water ( add a bit if required)
Tofu fried
1. Heat pan + oil
2. Add in Chilli sauce and tofu and egg at the same time
3. Cook for 10 mins
4. Add any salt / soya sauce
Tofu soup
1. boil water, add chicken essense 1 cube is enough
2. Add bean / vegetables - 5 mins or more (after water is boiled)
3. Add chicken strips (soya/salt seasoned) , add tofu at the same time.
4. cook for another 5 mins
a. chilli fried drumstick meat
b. chilli fried rice
c. steam drumstick
d. fried rice with mixed beans
e. tofu soup and tomato soup
f. chicken stew with tomato
g. lettuce - fried?
h. steam chicken piece on rice (chicken rice)
i. fried scramble egg wrap rice - ham and mixed bean
j. oyster source with vegetables
General tips
=========
Vegetables take longer to cook - but it is fine to eat raw. Beans even longer.
Meat is shorter - pan fried takes more than 5 mins
Food is easier to cook in boiling.
cut in small piece for easy to cook.
Think how to make sure things are cook and how the seasoning adds up.
Thaw time
1. meat should not be frozen and rethawed.
2. Meat thawed at room temperature (drumstick) takes longer than 1 hour.
Fried rice
1. heat rice in microwave ( add water if necessary) keep it at dry as possible
2. heat mixed bean in microwave 1 min or more to cook
3. Pan + oil (heat) . Let the beans in first for 2-3 mins
4. Add rice in ( by right no more water is required).
5. Add oyster sause / chilli sauce
Chicken rice
1. cook the chicken broth with chicken cube. 2 cube for 2 cups of rice. boil water as little as possible to dissolve the chicken cube.
2. chicken strips seasoned with soya bean and salt
3. wash rice in the rice pot, then add mixed bean/ vegatable first, followed by chicken strips
4. add in the broth. add more water to the suggestion line in rice pot if necessary.
5. cook.
Steamed chicken
1. chicken - cut and add salt and soya sauce
2. put in the steam pan for 20 mins
Fried rice
1. cut chicken strips (0r cube size) so that it is easy to cook
2. heat pan + oil
3. Add in chili sauce and seasoned chicken
4. cook for 3 mins
5. Add in rice to cook. Try to avoid adding water ( add a bit if required)
Tofu fried
1. Heat pan + oil
2. Add in Chilli sauce and tofu and egg at the same time
3. Cook for 10 mins
4. Add any salt / soya sauce
Tofu soup
1. boil water, add chicken essense 1 cube is enough
2. Add bean / vegetables - 5 mins or more (after water is boiled)
3. Add chicken strips (soya/salt seasoned) , add tofu at the same time.
4. cook for another 5 mins
searching for free air
Not knowing that air is so precious in california, I searched literally all the gas stations along El camino. To my disappointment, air is only fee at Colorado but the offer does not extend to California.
Here in california, everything is about money. If Singapore is materialistic, California is the place that you live buried in dimes and pennies. Everything is attached to a price here. Every service is charged by hour. The only thing that I treasure most and still free is the library access. Although I am not sure how long the priviledge will be available.
I remembered back in 90's, EON service had an advertisement that showcased a lady who sent her car to a service center for the steering was too hard to turn. Acting defensely, she argued that the price quoted for service was too expensive, when the service agent told her that "air is free for the car tires."
What if the economy of US really collapses? What does it mean when the economy collapses. Are the people do not produce enough? OR they produce less relatively? If the consumption is less than the production, does it result to the disaster? What about the huge investment of US funds?
While I am not sure how would I survive for the rest of the life if the money issue keep hovering over my head.
Here in california, everything is about money. If Singapore is materialistic, California is the place that you live buried in dimes and pennies. Everything is attached to a price here. Every service is charged by hour. The only thing that I treasure most and still free is the library access. Although I am not sure how long the priviledge will be available.
I remembered back in 90's, EON service had an advertisement that showcased a lady who sent her car to a service center for the steering was too hard to turn. Acting defensely, she argued that the price quoted for service was too expensive, when the service agent told her that "air is free for the car tires."
What if the economy of US really collapses? What does it mean when the economy collapses. Are the people do not produce enough? OR they produce less relatively? If the consumption is less than the production, does it result to the disaster? What about the huge investment of US funds?
While I am not sure how would I survive for the rest of the life if the money issue keep hovering over my head.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
create and print your favorite word calendar online
Create and print your favorite word calendar online
and you can print it .. :)
http://www.calendarsthatwork.com/
and you can print it .. :)
http://www.calendarsthatwork.com/
Friday, April 27, 2007
come to know noun strings
I don't know that people called them that, even though they appear very frequently in my words. It is a happy thing to know that they exist and they are legitimate, even though warnings are given to people who deal with them. Potentially, they become bad stains to your writing. Here are some comments on noun strings:
From
http://trc.ucdavis.edu/bajaffee/SAS90B/Course%20Content/Grammar%20Syllabus/nouns%20as%20adjectives.htm
Nouns as adjectives
====================
Some authors advise against using nouns as adjectives, but consider the following example, where the first two words are nouns functioning as adjectives:
(a) Plant disease diagnosis requires both traditional and new techniques.
To avoid using the nouns as adjectives, you would need to add two prepositional phrases:
(b) The diagnosis of diseases of plants requires both traditional and new techniques.
How do you decide which is better? As always, use your ear (listen for rhythm or its absence) and most importantly, consider your reader. I would use (a) because the noun string isn't difficult to understand and doesn't wring the rhythm from the sentence, whereas the repetitive start of (b) The diagnosis/ of diseases /of plants/ is deadening. A third version would be fine:
(c) The diagnosis of plant disease requires both traditional and new techniques.
Now let's use a longer string of nouns as adjectives:
(d) Plant disease diagnosis technology has become sophisticated.
Your ear and brain should tell you that something is wrong with (d). When too many nouns are strung together as adjectives, the reader must wait too long to understand how the nouns are functioning. There is also a consonance problem (disease diagnosis technology).
I would revise (d) to (e) but not to (f):
(e) The technology of plant disease diagnosis has become sophisticated.
(f) The technology of the diagnosis of diseases of plants has become sophisticated.
In the following example (g), note how the excessive use of nouns as adjectives complements a static writing style:
(g) Earthworm burrow construction information has increased our understanding of soil stable aggregate formation.
Rather than resorting to prepositions, I would find an actor and action.
(h) By studying how earthworms construct burrows, we better understand how stable aggregates form.
From
http://www.designsensory.com/pws/lesson5/index.html
Unraveling Adjective-Noun Strings, Reducing Preposition Sprawl
A problem closely related to excessive use of jargon is excessive use of "adjective-noun strings"--that is, long strings of words that stack up in an attempt to modify a single word. These strings are common in science, technology, industry, and government. But that doesn't make them good professional style. They may sound impressive (if you allow yourself to be impressed by that sort of thing), but they are hard to decipher and are therefore bad style.
Here's a fairly simple example:
employee compensation level evaluation procedures
Tell the truth: didn't your brain stick and sputter over that phrase a couple times before you grasped its meaning? I'd have made your reading task easier if I'd written:
procedures for evaluating the compensation level of employees
Now unravel this string:
military trainee firing range regulations orientation manual
You should have come up with something like:
manual for orienting trainees to the regulations of a military firing range
The fundamental technique for unraveling adjective-noun strings is to read them backwards and break them into smaller modifying units, using prepositional phrases and sometime entire clauses. However, using this reversal technique doesn't mean that you always reverse the exact word order represented in the adjective-noun string, as you'll see in Exercise 1. Still, for many adjective-noun strings, a straight back-to-front flip (peppered with a few prepositions and articles) is all that's needed:
building radon source location method
We know the writer is telling us about some kind of method. A method for locating something. Locating what? The source of something. The source of what? Radon. What kind of radon? Radon in buildings. So, flipping the adjective-noun string front to back, we get:
method for locating the source of radon in buildings
Much easier to read, don't you agree?
Another technique for unraveling adjective-noun strings is to hyphenate chunks in the strings to show better modification: "Oil bearing shale deposits" becomes "oil-bearing shale deposits," lest your reader think you mean: "oil that bears shale deposits." There's a big difference between a man-eating shark and a man eating shark.
Remember, the rule is to hyphenate bundles of modifying words when they fall before the word they modify: "a pea-green boat" versus "a boat that was pea green."
You may argue that the first versions in all these examples are shorter than the second; am I not violating my own principle of "fat trimming"? Shouldn't professional communications be as brief as possible? Well, yes and no. Certainly, they should get the job done with as much economy, power, and persuasiveness as possible. But what IS the job? Saving space on paper or on a computer screen? No! The job is always to supply the reader's needs, and/or accomplish your persuasive purpose, while exhausting a minimum of the reader's mental energy.
True, in the previous four units I've urged you to use active voice, denominalize, trim fat, and reduce jargon, all of which tend to reduce sentence length at the same time they make sentences easier to read and information easier to assimilate and remember. But with unraveling adjective-noun strings, the task of making sentences easier to read happens to increase sentence length a little. Don't worry about that. I repeat: your goal as a communicator should be to supply the reader's needs, and/or accomplish your persuasive purpose, while exhausting a minimum of the reader's mental energy.
This is not a new idea. Over a century ago, Herbert Spencer argued this idea persuasively in an essay entitled "The Philosophy of Style." In that essay, Spencer points out that the more energy a reader must expend in wrestling with the form of a communication, the less energy he has available to expend upon its content. Conversely, the less mental energy he must expend in grappling with a communication's form, the more he'll have available to devote to its content. You definitely want the folks reading your communications to fall into category "B."
Why do adjective-noun strings exhaust so much of the reader's mental energy? Precisely because such strings pack nouns and modifiers together like figs and nuts, without doing enough to show us the relationship between the parts; consequently, they leave the reader to do the work of unpacking and sorting.
The other good reason to break up long adjective-noun strings is that they are often ambiguous, as we saw in the example of "man eating shark" and "oil bearing shale."
Let's deal with the following adjective-noun string in its full sentence context:
New motorcycle motor durability equipment tests are being performed by engineers.
This could mean:
Engineers are using new equipment to test the durability of motorcycle motors,
or:
Engineers are performing new tests on the equipment that makes motorcycle motors durable,
or:
Engineers are performing tests on the equipment that checks the durability of new motorcycle motors,
--or several other things. Often, if you are editing (or simply reading) the prose of another professional who is prone to express himself in adjective-noun strings, you will have to ask for clarification.
Very well! Let's see how you do at unraveling the following adjective-noun strings. As always, type your answer before looking at mine.
From
http://trc.ucdavis.edu/bajaffee/SAS90B/Course%20Content/Grammar%20Syllabus/nouns%20as%20adjectives.htm
Nouns as adjectives
====================
Some authors advise against using nouns as adjectives, but consider the following example, where the first two words are nouns functioning as adjectives:
(a) Plant disease diagnosis requires both traditional and new techniques.
To avoid using the nouns as adjectives, you would need to add two prepositional phrases:
(b) The diagnosis of diseases of plants requires both traditional and new techniques.
How do you decide which is better? As always, use your ear (listen for rhythm or its absence) and most importantly, consider your reader. I would use (a) because the noun string isn't difficult to understand and doesn't wring the rhythm from the sentence, whereas the repetitive start of (b) The diagnosis/ of diseases /of plants/ is deadening. A third version would be fine:
(c) The diagnosis of plant disease requires both traditional and new techniques.
Now let's use a longer string of nouns as adjectives:
(d) Plant disease diagnosis technology has become sophisticated.
Your ear and brain should tell you that something is wrong with (d). When too many nouns are strung together as adjectives, the reader must wait too long to understand how the nouns are functioning. There is also a consonance problem (disease diagnosis technology).
I would revise (d) to (e) but not to (f):
(e) The technology of plant disease diagnosis has become sophisticated.
(f) The technology of the diagnosis of diseases of plants has become sophisticated.
In the following example (g), note how the excessive use of nouns as adjectives complements a static writing style:
(g) Earthworm burrow construction information has increased our understanding of soil stable aggregate formation.
Rather than resorting to prepositions, I would find an actor and action.
(h) By studying how earthworms construct burrows, we better understand how stable aggregates form.
From
http://www.designsensory.com/pws/lesson5/index.html
Unraveling Adjective-Noun Strings, Reducing Preposition Sprawl
A problem closely related to excessive use of jargon is excessive use of "adjective-noun strings"--that is, long strings of words that stack up in an attempt to modify a single word. These strings are common in science, technology, industry, and government. But that doesn't make them good professional style. They may sound impressive (if you allow yourself to be impressed by that sort of thing), but they are hard to decipher and are therefore bad style.
Here's a fairly simple example:
employee compensation level evaluation procedures
Tell the truth: didn't your brain stick and sputter over that phrase a couple times before you grasped its meaning? I'd have made your reading task easier if I'd written:
procedures for evaluating the compensation level of employees
Now unravel this string:
military trainee firing range regulations orientation manual
You should have come up with something like:
manual for orienting trainees to the regulations of a military firing range
The fundamental technique for unraveling adjective-noun strings is to read them backwards and break them into smaller modifying units, using prepositional phrases and sometime entire clauses. However, using this reversal technique doesn't mean that you always reverse the exact word order represented in the adjective-noun string, as you'll see in Exercise 1. Still, for many adjective-noun strings, a straight back-to-front flip (peppered with a few prepositions and articles) is all that's needed:
building radon source location method
We know the writer is telling us about some kind of method. A method for locating something. Locating what? The source of something. The source of what? Radon. What kind of radon? Radon in buildings. So, flipping the adjective-noun string front to back, we get:
method for locating the source of radon in buildings
Much easier to read, don't you agree?
Another technique for unraveling adjective-noun strings is to hyphenate chunks in the strings to show better modification: "Oil bearing shale deposits" becomes "oil-bearing shale deposits," lest your reader think you mean: "oil that bears shale deposits." There's a big difference between a man-eating shark and a man eating shark.
Remember, the rule is to hyphenate bundles of modifying words when they fall before the word they modify: "a pea-green boat" versus "a boat that was pea green."
You may argue that the first versions in all these examples are shorter than the second; am I not violating my own principle of "fat trimming"? Shouldn't professional communications be as brief as possible? Well, yes and no. Certainly, they should get the job done with as much economy, power, and persuasiveness as possible. But what IS the job? Saving space on paper or on a computer screen? No! The job is always to supply the reader's needs, and/or accomplish your persuasive purpose, while exhausting a minimum of the reader's mental energy.
True, in the previous four units I've urged you to use active voice, denominalize, trim fat, and reduce jargon, all of which tend to reduce sentence length at the same time they make sentences easier to read and information easier to assimilate and remember. But with unraveling adjective-noun strings, the task of making sentences easier to read happens to increase sentence length a little. Don't worry about that. I repeat: your goal as a communicator should be to supply the reader's needs, and/or accomplish your persuasive purpose, while exhausting a minimum of the reader's mental energy.
This is not a new idea. Over a century ago, Herbert Spencer argued this idea persuasively in an essay entitled "The Philosophy of Style." In that essay, Spencer points out that the more energy a reader must expend in wrestling with the form of a communication, the less energy he has available to expend upon its content. Conversely, the less mental energy he must expend in grappling with a communication's form, the more he'll have available to devote to its content. You definitely want the folks reading your communications to fall into category "B."
Why do adjective-noun strings exhaust so much of the reader's mental energy? Precisely because such strings pack nouns and modifiers together like figs and nuts, without doing enough to show us the relationship between the parts; consequently, they leave the reader to do the work of unpacking and sorting.
The other good reason to break up long adjective-noun strings is that they are often ambiguous, as we saw in the example of "man eating shark" and "oil bearing shale."
Let's deal with the following adjective-noun string in its full sentence context:
New motorcycle motor durability equipment tests are being performed by engineers.
This could mean:
Engineers are using new equipment to test the durability of motorcycle motors,
or:
Engineers are performing new tests on the equipment that makes motorcycle motors durable,
or:
Engineers are performing tests on the equipment that checks the durability of new motorcycle motors,
--or several other things. Often, if you are editing (or simply reading) the prose of another professional who is prone to express himself in adjective-noun strings, you will have to ask for clarification.
Very well! Let's see how you do at unraveling the following adjective-noun strings. As always, type your answer before looking at mine.
Monday, April 16, 2007
To Stay and To leave
I believe end of the day. I will leave.
To me, freedom is all I could have. Born poor is something hard to change. Mind free is the only property that I own. Not anyone should take it from me.
The government and the governed. Well said, when the ministers can raise their own salaries without much debate, without any road block from the opposition, the future is clear that - you prosper if you are a Scholar now.
I wonder what does it mean to be a politician here. If you don't have any political rights. You don't debate. You execute whatever from the top to the down. You said you do not have much error margin to experiment with. Yes, I do agree.
And that's why I have to decide. End of the day, I can not see myself not suffering under the future policies. The future rules that say: you worker class, strive as hard as cows so that you could live in one room flat and eat at coffee shops with stinking old uncles (by the time, you are one of them). Obey whatever the elistists tell you. We the elitists in return, make sure you will survive although in a shameful way.
To me, freedom is all I could have. Born poor is something hard to change. Mind free is the only property that I own. Not anyone should take it from me.
The government and the governed. Well said, when the ministers can raise their own salaries without much debate, without any road block from the opposition, the future is clear that - you prosper if you are a Scholar now.
I wonder what does it mean to be a politician here. If you don't have any political rights. You don't debate. You execute whatever from the top to the down. You said you do not have much error margin to experiment with. Yes, I do agree.
And that's why I have to decide. End of the day, I can not see myself not suffering under the future policies. The future rules that say: you worker class, strive as hard as cows so that you could live in one room flat and eat at coffee shops with stinking old uncles (by the time, you are one of them). Obey whatever the elistists tell you. We the elitists in return, make sure you will survive although in a shameful way.
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Home - Think of home lyrics
Home (Think of home) - diana ross - the wits
When I think of home
I think of a place where theres love overflowing
I wish I was home
I wish I was back there with the things I been knowing
Wind that makes the tall trees bend into leaning
Suddenly the snowflakes that fall have a meaning
Sprinkling the scene, makes it all clean
Maybe theres a chance for me to go back there
Now that I have some direction
It would sure be nice to be back home
Where theres love and affection
And just maybe I can convince time to slow up
Giving me enough time in my life to grow up
Time be my friend, let me start again
Suddenly my world has changed its face
But I still know where I'm going
I have had my mind spun around in space
And yet I've watched it growing
If you're listning god
Please dont make it hard to know
If we should believe in the things that we see
Tell us, should we run away
Should we try and stay
Or would it be better just to let things be?
Living here, in this brand new world
Might be a fantasy
But it taught me to love
So its real, real to me
And I've learned
That we must look inside our hearts
To find a world full of love
Like yours
Like me
When I think of home
I think of a place where theres love overflowing
I wish I was home
I wish I was back there with the things I been knowing
Wind that makes the tall trees bend into leaning
Suddenly the snowflakes that fall have a meaning
Sprinkling the scene, makes it all clean
Maybe theres a chance for me to go back there
Now that I have some direction
It would sure be nice to be back home
Where theres love and affection
And just maybe I can convince time to slow up
Giving me enough time in my life to grow up
Time be my friend, let me start again
Suddenly my world has changed its face
But I still know where I'm going
I have had my mind spun around in space
And yet I've watched it growing
If you're listning god
Please dont make it hard to know
If we should believe in the things that we see
Tell us, should we run away
Should we try and stay
Or would it be better just to let things be?
Living here, in this brand new world
Might be a fantasy
But it taught me to love
So its real, real to me
And I've learned
That we must look inside our hearts
To find a world full of love
Like yours
Like me
Sunday, January 21, 2007
scene from roof top
The pictures are buried in my cell phone for many many years. The first was taken at the line (queue) for the entrance to a book sales. The crowd were just enormous. It was quite surprising for I never expected people here like books that much. Sometimes, it make me think that the price reduction is the main reason for the big crowd. Vividly remember they were people who asked their maid to wait in the line, while they sat some where else.It is sorry to see that but the fact is no one feel awkwared about it here. That itself is something awful.
The second and third pictures was taken from the rooftop of vivo city. Not knowing if the shallow water pool was meant for playful kids or merely a decoration, I was annoyed to see even family picnics took place there.
May be the citizens have gone of out place to plan their picnics at weekend. Bravo to the planner of vivo city who come out with such idea to attract the shoppers.
Friday, September 22, 2006
Testing from the live!
It is till the end of life of windows XP and many other matters. Including my life too may be. I wonder if this tool is going to give us new life.. Or may be it is going to made us miserable.
Life if short. Microsoft is clever enought to sing about it and provide the elixir.
To try out the feature, you have really have to click on link that are available on the live! webpage . The google will never return the correct link if you enter "microsoft live". They are rivals .. again officially.
Thursday, July 27, 2006
What a ODBD connection strings look like :
http://www.asp101.com/articles/john/connstring/default.asp
How To Handle Multiple Results by Using the DataReader in Visual C# .NET
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;311274
Connecting to MySQL database from your .NET applications -- introducing two methods.
http://www.codeproject.com/cs/database/ConnectMySQL.asp
Typed SQLDataReader
http://www.codeproject.com/cs/database/SmartReader.asp
ASP.NET: Accessing Data with C#
http://www.exforsys.com/content/view/1341/266/
MySQL 5 C# sample code using ObjectDataSources
http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/MySQLCsharp.asp
Another way of connection in C#
Well I'm assuming you need to know how to use MySQL with C# in general so I'll post this...
I personally use the MySQL.DataClient when using MySQL with .NET so I'll post that, though there are other options, just google .NET and MySQL.
You can download them from:
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/1.0.html
Code:
using MySql.Data.MySqlClient;
Connection string...
private string connectionString = "Server=localhost;Database=yourtable;User ID=youruser;Password=yourpw;Pooling=false";
Main body...
MySqlConnection MySqlConn = new MySqlConnection(connectionString);
MySqlConn.Open();
MySqlCommand MySqlCmd = MySqlConn.CreateCommand();
MySqlCmd.CommandText = "SELECT MAX(field) FROM table";
try
{
MySqlDataReader MySqlRead = MySqlCmd.ExecuteReader();
while (MySqlRead.Read())
{
Console.Write(MySqlRead.GetString(0));
}
MySqlRead.Close();
MySqlRead = null;
}
catch (MySqlException e)
{
Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
}
finally
{
MySqlConn.Close();
MySqlConn = null;
}
MySqlConn.Open();
MySqlCommand MySqlCmd = MySqlConn.CreateCommand();
MySqlCmd.CommandText = "SELECT MAX(field) FROM table";
try
{
MySqlDataReader MySqlRead = MySqlCmd.ExecuteReader();
while (MySqlRead.Read())
{
Console.Write(MySqlRead.GetString(0));
}
MySqlRead.Close();
MySqlRead = null;
}
catch (MySqlException e)
{
Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
}
finally
{
MySqlConn.Close();
MySqlConn = null;
}
Another Example from
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.SessionState;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using Microsoft.Data.Odbc;
namespace myApplication
{
///
/// Summary description for WebForm1.
///
public class WebForm1 : Page
{
protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button myButton;
public void butClick(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
string dbConnect; //Defines how we connect to MySQL
int count = 0; //Cycle through Records
OdbcConnection DB; //The MySQL Connection
OdbcCommand query; //The Query We Send
OdbcDataReader reader; // How we read the records
dbConnect = "driver={mysql ODBC 3.51 driver};server=localhost;port=3306;database=aspwork;uid=localhost;"; //Define how we connect
DB = new OdbcConnection( dbConnect ); //Define our connection
DB.Open(); //Open our connection
query = new OdbcCommand( "select * from testtable", DB );//Define our query
reader = query.ExecuteReader();//Execute the query
while( reader.Read() )//While we can read, read.
{
Response.Write( reader.GetString( count ) );//Write results
count++;//Increment our counter.
}
reader.Close();//Close our reader
DB.Close();//Close our connection
}
}
}
using System.Collections;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.SessionState;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using Microsoft.Data.Odbc;
namespace myApplication
{
///
/// Summary description for WebForm1.
///
public class WebForm1 : Page
{
protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button myButton;
public void butClick(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
string dbConnect; //Defines how we connect to MySQL
int count = 0; //Cycle through Records
OdbcConnection DB; //The MySQL Connection
OdbcCommand query; //The Query We Send
OdbcDataReader reader; // How we read the records
dbConnect = "driver={mysql ODBC 3.51 driver};server=localhost;port=3306;database=aspwork;uid=localhost;"; //Define how we connect
DB = new OdbcConnection( dbConnect ); //Define our connection
DB.Open(); //Open our connection
query = new OdbcCommand( "select * from testtable", DB );//Define our query
reader = query.ExecuteReader();//Execute the query
while( reader.Read() )//While we can read, read.
{
Response.Write( reader.GetString( count ) );//Write results
count++;//Increment our counter.
}
reader.Close();//Close our reader
DB.Close();//Close our connection
}
}
}
Monday, June 26, 2006
some link about management and quality
NASA 100 Lessons Learned for Project Managers
http://appl.nasa.gov/ask/issues/14/practices/ask14_lessons_madden.html
http://www.altisinc.com/Links/100_Rules.html
Quality management
http://www.skymark.com/resources/refhome.asp
http://appl.nasa.gov/ask/issues/14/practices/ask14_lessons_madden.html
http://www.altisinc.com/Links/100_Rules.html
Quality management
http://www.skymark.com/resources/refhome.asp
Friday, June 09, 2006
Not so common afterall
Common sense - not so common after all
When I passed by the corridor .. A worker was fixing the electric lining of the lights. He was on a portable ladder and holding a electrical drill. The floor was scatter with pieces of dirts and paint fallling from the wall. Surprisingly, there is not warning sign located around the work area. Instinctly, I moved away from there.
Just then, a small kid, happily walking through the work area and couldn't help to stop and watch for a while. While the drill was still operating, I was worried what would happen to him if that gadget fell on his little head. His face may not be as cute as used to be.
It is to me common sense. Walk away from construction area, avoid the work area, move away from the workers who are doing the lawn. The new generation seems to forget about the danger. They are not educated to that.
You could blame some other party for not setting up the warning sign. End of the day, the consequence is irreversible and the regret is on your own.
And then, I can't help but wonder.. when we say common sense. It is not so common after all. It change with geography , with time and may be with people. There is nothing to rely on, when it come to common sense. The only common sense that you could believe is, common sense change.
When I passed by the corridor .. A worker was fixing the electric lining of the lights. He was on a portable ladder and holding a electrical drill. The floor was scatter with pieces of dirts and paint fallling from the wall. Surprisingly, there is not warning sign located around the work area. Instinctly, I moved away from there.
Just then, a small kid, happily walking through the work area and couldn't help to stop and watch for a while. While the drill was still operating, I was worried what would happen to him if that gadget fell on his little head. His face may not be as cute as used to be.
It is to me common sense. Walk away from construction area, avoid the work area, move away from the workers who are doing the lawn. The new generation seems to forget about the danger. They are not educated to that.
You could blame some other party for not setting up the warning sign. End of the day, the consequence is irreversible and the regret is on your own.
And then, I can't help but wonder.. when we say common sense. It is not so common after all. It change with geography , with time and may be with people. There is nothing to rely on, when it come to common sense. The only common sense that you could believe is, common sense change.
Saturday, May 27, 2006
Letter for vandetta
Letter to vandetta
hi vandetta,
I think I miss you. Simply as a friend. I think what I need is just a listener. You don't have to approve on what you heard. I need the nodding once in a while to signifiy that you have heard. Yes, I need to pour out a bit of the contents in the bottom brain (heart) .. so that it won't be overflow.
Has it been a rough week. Full of tension, expectation, frustration and hope. Met with evil persons (collegues ) and met with kind angels (strangers). The good and the bad are not necessary as what you expected. The good and the bad give you the biggest impact while you were on these big emotional ride.
I am moving slowly, with little tiny hope towards the exit. Which still seem a very far far distance away. I am working / procrastinating towards the end. During the process, not wanting to lose everything, I am trying very hard to grab on different things. The exercise, the reading and my work.
Do I have enough hands to hold on them. I wonder. I need to tell myself . I will be fine.
hi vandetta,
I think I miss you. Simply as a friend. I think what I need is just a listener. You don't have to approve on what you heard. I need the nodding once in a while to signifiy that you have heard. Yes, I need to pour out a bit of the contents in the bottom brain (heart) .. so that it won't be overflow.
Has it been a rough week. Full of tension, expectation, frustration and hope. Met with evil persons (collegues ) and met with kind angels (strangers). The good and the bad are not necessary as what you expected. The good and the bad give you the biggest impact while you were on these big emotional ride.
I am moving slowly, with little tiny hope towards the exit. Which still seem a very far far distance away. I am working / procrastinating towards the end. During the process, not wanting to lose everything, I am trying very hard to grab on different things. The exercise, the reading and my work.
Do I have enough hands to hold on them. I wonder. I need to tell myself . I will be fine.
Sunday, May 14, 2006
More on food
Wonder what good food is? Wonder what good drink is? I tell you what good place to drink though. Here are two dreamy places that I will always remember sipping my coffee there.
Just quiet and cosy place to relax and indulge in the cafein sin.
The mornin sin
The evening sin
Just quiet and cosy place to relax and indulge in the cafein sin.
The mornin sin
The evening sin
find out the difference
Find out the difference between the thow pictures ?
Just would like to remember this special curry bun meal. Bought at narita airport, about 9 USD per meal. (you don't think japan is cheap don't you). The curry is not spicy at all, although you can see some of the visitors were having difficult time to deal with it.
Sometimes, when we are on the road, we tend to move out of our comfort zone. The outside world, spurs up our adventurous spirit making everyone a hero. I wonder are all the pilots feel the same way whenever they fly to a new place. You just have to be more courageous and bold to experience the culture.
Yet, with globalisation waves flooding the whole world, one can always find goods that origine from thousands of miles away. (ignore the fact that Africa is part of the world ). It is quite stupid to try new thing at new place and put yourself out there for humiliation. What I am saying is, you don' t have any excuse to explain your ignorance to others culture, because we are one world now.
Sunday, May 07, 2006
Ten ways that you could be longed
Ten ways that you could be longed
1. longing - prolonged unfulfilled desire or need
2. yearning - A persistent, often wistful or melancholy desire; a longing: a yearning for romance and adventure.
3. desire - the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state
4. hankering, yen - a yearning for something or to do something
5. pining - a feeling of deep longing
6. wishfulness - an unrealistic yearning
7. wistfulness - a sadly pensive longing
8. nostalgia - longing for something past
9. discontent, discontentedness, discontentment - a longing for something better than the present situation
10. miss - feel or suffer from the lack of; "He misses his mother"
regret - feel sad about the loss or absence of
desire, want - feel or have a desire for; want strongly; "I want to go home now"; "I want my own room.
yearn - desire strongly or persistently
1. yearn - hanker, long
you can yearn by
pine, yen, yearn, ache, languish - have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover"
desire, want - feel or have a desire for; want strongly; "I want to go home now"; "I want my own room"
2. yearn - have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover"
you can yearn by
pine, yen, ache, languish
die - languish as with love or desire; "She dying for a cigarette"; "I was dying to leave"
hanker, long, yearn - desire strongly or persistently
3. yearn - have affection for; feel tenderness for
you can yearn by
cherish, hold dear, treasure, care for - be fond of; be attached to
1. longing - prolonged unfulfilled desire or need
2. yearning - A persistent, often wistful or melancholy desire; a longing: a yearning for romance and adventure.
3. desire - the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state
4. hankering, yen - a yearning for something or to do something
5. pining - a feeling of deep longing
6. wishfulness - an unrealistic yearning
7. wistfulness - a sadly pensive longing
8. nostalgia - longing for something past
9. discontent, discontentedness, discontentment - a longing for something better than the present situation
10. miss - feel or suffer from the lack of; "He misses his mother"
regret - feel sad about the loss or absence of
desire, want - feel or have a desire for; want strongly; "I want to go home now"; "I want my own room.
yearn - desire strongly or persistently
1. yearn - hanker, long
you can yearn by
pine, yen, yearn, ache, languish - have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover"
desire, want - feel or have a desire for; want strongly; "I want to go home now"; "I want my own room"
2. yearn - have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover"
you can yearn by
pine, yen, ache, languish
die - languish as with love or desire; "She dying for a cigarette"; "I was dying to leave"
hanker, long, yearn - desire strongly or persistently
3. yearn - have affection for; feel tenderness for
you can yearn by
cherish, hold dear, treasure, care for - be fond of; be attached to
Saturday, May 06, 2006
hougang horrible yet the best
Never thought of there is such scene in Singapore.
When I was amazed by HongKong people spirit to walk out for their rights, I always believe that no such thing in singapore. However, these pictures prove me wrong. Even that it could be temporary hype factor because of election hit, it is still a WoW to me. Singaporeans (in most case ) earn my respect today.
source
http://singaporeelection.blogspot.com/
When I was amazed by HongKong people spirit to walk out for their rights, I always believe that no such thing in singapore. However, these pictures prove me wrong. Even that it could be temporary hype factor because of election hit, it is still a WoW to me. Singaporeans (in most case ) earn my respect today.
source
http://singaporeelection.blogspot.com/
Saturday, April 29, 2006
story teller
You got have good story to tell... of course. The story line must be new and exciting or painful or extremely unique so that no one would ever forget.. May be what I am saying is that it is what a story is all about. Else it should not be a story at all.
Although, looking through my own story, which I really mean the blogs that I have rubbished. I realized that some are horribly boring just like the person who wrote it. Exactly, who would want to read such tasteless expression.
There are yet some good (adjective: interesting, invigorating) one. It is quite obvious that, if the story was told to others, it sound nicer ( adjective : pleasant ) than the one that only me talking to myself.
Don't you think so ?
Therefore, I am very pleased to announce that -- a good story teller must always only tell the story to others but not to himself/herself.
Somehow, remember those were the days where I have writen tons and tons of essays and compositions for examination preparation. In many languages and in many genre, they are. Argumentative, narrative, descriptive ( although limited to adjective such as : good, nice , pleasant and pretty ) .. you name it. The good-essay need to have certain quality. I just can not remember all of them. And also, If I could, I may not be able to reproduce what I have written now. Ultimately, time has changed, mind is gone. Mentally, I could never be the myself in 17 again.
If day allows, it is endearing to read them back. I wish the special afternoon will realize in future.
Although, looking through my own story, which I really mean the blogs that I have rubbished. I realized that some are horribly boring just like the person who wrote it. Exactly, who would want to read such tasteless expression.
There are yet some good (adjective: interesting, invigorating) one. It is quite obvious that, if the story was told to others, it sound nicer ( adjective : pleasant ) than the one that only me talking to myself.
Don't you think so ?
Therefore, I am very pleased to announce that -- a good story teller must always only tell the story to others but not to himself/herself.
Somehow, remember those were the days where I have writen tons and tons of essays and compositions for examination preparation. In many languages and in many genre, they are. Argumentative, narrative, descriptive ( although limited to adjective such as : good, nice , pleasant and pretty ) .. you name it. The good-essay need to have certain quality. I just can not remember all of them. And also, If I could, I may not be able to reproduce what I have written now. Ultimately, time has changed, mind is gone. Mentally, I could never be the myself in 17 again.
If day allows, it is endearing to read them back. I wish the special afternoon will realize in future.
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