Monthly Archives: September 2006

A student? Bleh.

How to be a student [via Lifehacker]
Just stumbled across a post onLifehacker, it’s about how to excel as a student in terms of time management. Here are three main points they have quoted a professor at California Polytechnic:
No matter how you slice it, there are only 24 hours in a day. Good time-management requires:

Not [...]

Across the Universe

Dedicate to my dear Min Min.
This is a song that has been sung by many different performers, for example the Beatles, Fiona Apple and Rufus Warinwright. It was originally composed and sung by the Beatles, but the version I like is the one sung by Rufus Wainwright.
Words are flowing out like endless rain into [...]

Holga Fun

I had some fun playing with Tiff’s Holga :)

Do you see me?
Me hiding with the rice cooker pan…
Taken by me :D

Wikipedia’s Friend: Pathway (Mac)

Pathway is an awesome little application that will help you browse Wikipedia in a more organized manner. The author of Pathway creates this application to address the distraction of the links on a Wikipedia page:
My idea for Pathway originated when browsing Wikipedia. I would always start off quite focused on a certain subject. Unfortunately, [...]

A dozen postcards crammed into my mailbox

I must have been good.

A rebuff to HK educational sector’s comments on blogging

Recently blogging has been a really hit topic among the main stream media in Hong Kong. Among all the report, some of them really gave me quite a shock, especially the comments on blogging by the “educators”: they claimed that blogging de-escalate students’ language skills and blogs are dangerous place where rumours and filthy [...]

You a Honkie? Don’t get pregnant unless you have money.

“社工界促港府修例 掌入境控制權杜絕內地孕婦拎著數 - Yahoo! 新聞”
Finally someone spilt out my thoughts.
資深社工賴仁彪亦透露,他曾先後接觸過五十個該類家庭,有十分一表示計劃把子女留港生活。他相信隨着接近入學年齡,留港小孩愈來愈多,對本港教育造成壓力,故建議政府盡快取回入境控制權,並與內地部門合作,當接獲棄養申請時,便通報內地調查。他認為政府不能就事件一刀切;否則,真正需要幫助的兒童便頓失援助。
中產或罷交差餉抗議
不過,代表一批中產人士的香港業主會會長佘慶雲認為政府責無旁貸!他氣憤說:「好多中產因為無錢先唔敢亂生小孩,但好可悲,大家竟要反過嚟幫濫用綜援嘅內地人免費養仔女!」他要求政府盡快正視問題;否則,不排除發起全港罷交差餉行動,甚至罷買樓行動。
More, while the government is trying to encourage couples to have more children, so as to alleviate the problem of ageing population, there is no beds in OBGYN in a public hospital for the locals? Is this some sort of “if you do not have [...]

USB Cell

I believe this is the MOST nifty gadget I have ever seen.
Now if I have those, I could only imagine myself taking them to uni everyday to scam their electricity and save lots at home!

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Yesterday’s Postcard Round-Up

Lille, France

Numansdorp, The Netherlands

Antwerp, Belgium

Dunedine, New Zealand

Christchurch, New Zealand

Omaha, Nebraska

Picture says it all.

from Maura-online
Oh man, looks like Lisa Miller in News Radio is a really cool character!
And yeah, don’t you even try me, or I will be wearing the same shirt which Lisa’s wearing. :P