Sunkist’s Neighborhood

Had a hard day at work today. Quite unusual for Wednesdays. We are usually quite busy on Wednesdays morning but today it's more. I think what made it harder was that I had to do most of the paperwork with little help from the other colleague. Before I could finish, I had more orders on my desk. Only Suet-Ching helped last minute. The problem with me is that I don't open my 'golden mouth' for help! so serve me right haa. *I'm not very happy with myself*

In the afternoon, went to do a round of collection for Ulla, who has given birth. People at the lab gave mostly but some just went 'MIA' or simply not in office. Most people give quite willingly, some don't. I don't blame them since people at the lab don't have much dealings with people from Sales Team. What I'm surprised is that some people at the office, immediate colleagues, didn't seem very interested in giving. $ is a sensitive issue. There is no currently no standard on giving. With so many pregnant ladies in office, I'm sure people will come to complain having to give and give and give. I personally think that company should give a gift as part of 'welfare' and if immediate colleagues or close colleagues wish to, they can buy gifts on their own.

Time passes by and before I knew it, I had to leave for school. Interesting video I watched as part of integration course that I'm taking now on 'health, pregnancy, house care etc'. Very interesting and new for me. At least I get a general idea how the medical thing works around here. Got to sit beside this Philippino classmate. Very friendly girl. She married a farmer and they own a cow farm for milk. Very interesting and refreshing for me. Having worked in the children's farm and being in a real farm are different thing. You hear sad stories of course. I asked what do they do with old cows.. well to the slaughter house. You work hard all your life and in the end, you still go to the slaughter-house :( :~( sigh.. and how young are the calfs before they are separated from their mother? 3 days. Sad... how many months do human babies get milk from their mother or physically be with their mother?...  Human life vs Animal life = unfair.
I still find it interesting to go to the farm one day to see. She is very proud to share her website with me (I don't have it with me offhand).. 

Christmas Vacation

If you have been a long time regular of my blog you know that my favorite movie of all time is National Lampoons Christmas Vacation.  My number one rule is I can't watch it til December 1st.  I love the movie so much that I watch it at least 15 times throughout December.  This way I save my relationship with my girlfriend, otherwise I would watch it more.  I wore out my VHS tape of it and the best thing that could ever happen was Jen (my girlfriend) bought me the DVD. (god bless her)  Hope you enjoy the clip.  It also contains my favorite Christmas song as well from Ray Charles.  Whats your favorite movie during Christmas time?

• I hope you and your loved ones had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and that your Holiday kick-off has been painless.
• I hate the holidaze, as I'm sure I've mentioned before.  I'd be perfectly content not to receive any presents, as long as I weren't required to give them either.  Scroogelike? Damn skippy.  Staceypunkin dared venture out Thanksgiving night, the better to get "Black Friday" specials.  She reported 2500 people lined up outside Toys R Us.  Wal-Mart was similarly mobbed, and the malls were unseemly teeming. 
• Obviously, I found a sale on adverbs.
• I really miss "Grammar Rock" on ABC.  I don't know that I actually learned grammar from these little things, but by damn, I can still sing "Conjunction Junction" all these years later. 
• And when I was in college, a friend and I once drunkenly ad-libbed the interjection song: "Innnnnnnnnterjection! SHIT! An emotion! BALLS!" etc.  You get the point.
• I did learn the Preamble to the Constitution, though, in catchy jingle form. 
• My college career would have been more successful with a little less drunkenness, and a catchy Scholastic Rock jingle explaining differential calculus.
• On my lunch break tonight, I drove to the place with the stuff, also known as The Rally Station.  I turned on the radio, and the rock station was playing Metallica's "Master of Puppets."  This amused me, because not only is it one of the perfect driving songs, but it has the word "puppet," which always cracks me up.
• Other great driving songs: "You've Got Another Thing Coming" and "Breakin' the Law," by Judas (effin') Priest; "Kashmir," by Led Zeppelin; "Highway Star," by Deep Purple; "Smells Like Teen Spirit," by Nirvana;  and "Closer to Fine," by Indigo Girls.
• Okay, I admit it: I used to listen to Indigo GIrls all the time, and "Closer to FIne" was always a great song to drive to.  Emily Saliers and Amy Ray did wonderful harmonies, especially considering they're a mezzo-soprano and a tenor.
• I sang the tenor part, btw, and that hurt quite enough, thanks.
• I've written before about my farms and my island, and I freely admit that I also have a cafe.
• Taken alone, that sentence could imply that I'm a helluva lot richer than I really am, some sort of agricultural magnate/restaurateur.  I'm not.
• Anyway, the one that baffles me is the various fish games on Facebook.  The games seem to be more work than an actual aquarium would be.  Aquariums (aquaria?) are really fairly simple: feed the fish every day, and clean the tank periodically.  If you get certain slime-sucking scum-eating fish, they'll even remove the algae for you.
• I know some people who are slime-sucking scum eaters, and the last thing they'd do is help clean your aquarium.
• Today, I did something I haven't done in over a year: I left my house without my glasses.  My vision isn't prohibitively bad, but gosh, everything's so much clearer when I wear my glasses.  The other odd effect is that I feel very short without them.  Not only do I feel like I've shrunk from 6'4 to 4'4, the USS Nimitz seems to be at Corvette level instead of pick 'em up truck level.  This is disconcerting.  If I wanted to be a Hobbit, I'd move to Middle Earth and stop shaving my feet.
• Anyway, life is good--ten fingers, ten toes, one belly button, and a steady pulse--and I'll soon be home and tall again. 

I've posted Ben Hecks creations many, many times and the man is just amazing.  Yea, he's the guy that created the Xbox 360 and PS3 laptops among tons of other awesome gadgets.  Thanks to The Engadget Show we learn a little more about the man.

David Levy thinks so.  He is the author of Love and Sex With Robots and he's all for it.  I'm not too sure about that, hmmm, well.......hmmmm....maybe not.

And yes, it does travel in time...or at least to another part of the Crysis world.  Mr geek, I salute you!

Using projectors of course....the folks at Urban Screen took an old building and had some crazy fun by turning it into an interactive pinball machine.  Be sure to check out some of the other crazy things they've done.

Forgive me all for sharing this,,,,,,,,,,,,

I must say that I have mixed thoughts about "Cloud Computing".  What are your thoughts on this?  Is this gonna grow in popularity or is it just another fad?  I kind of like having my personal files with me and not in the Net World.  How much information about me will I allow Google to know about me?  I'm also not sure about the fact that they will only release this for Netbooks.  Why not my desktop?  Recent reviews on Netbooks clearly show that they have a short life span and tend to fail over time. (I just read a great article about netbooks that I will share as soon as I find the link again...sorry)