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2006-06-26

 

Se7en

There are only seven things between me and my graduation. The seven items in my TODO list.

Yes, I have passed my proposal. According to my boss, the proposal is basically a contract. A contract between me and my committee on what I am supposed to do before they would grant me a doctorate. So once I finish the list...

Of course, there are some marginally interesting stuff, like

2006-06-25

 

Offer Letter

Why this guy has a big smile in his face? Well, you would too, if you get an offer like this. It looks authentic to me, as its wordings look exactly like my offer.

I can't help but read my very own offer letter again... Suddenly it does not look as good as before :)

2006-06-23

 

Swimming Again

I have been swimming in my apartment's swimming pool in the last few days. Before that, I have not swum for some 15 years, so it was huge for me. At first, I found out I have pretty much forgotten completely how to swim; it was more like sinking in the pool. But now I got back my front crawl and breaststroke styles.

Actually, there are not many sport activities I can easily do while staying at home most of the time for the World Cup, at least not until Wii is released so that I can play TV games while doing some exercise. (And no, I don't like dancing machines.)

2006-06-21

 

Heat the Champion

Finally, Heat won four straight games to defeat the Mavericks and took the title. A happy ending, indeed.

I'm not going to talk about Wade; nothing much else you can add from here.

But for Dallas...

Whining baby Mark Cuban, you don't deserve a championship. You converted the whole city of Dallas into whining babys and conspiracy theorists. Stupid Dallas fans, you don't deserve a championship either. Not since the day you booed Michael Finley, the man who devoted 8+ years to your franchise and got unwillingly kicked out to save your owner a few bucks so that he could whine more and get fined more. You make me feel ashamed of staying in Texas.

Now with four rings, Shaq can be a happy man and start to let Yao dominates the game...

2006-06-20

 

World Cup Continues

You knew I'm not going to update here a lot, yet you keep coming back to check. Didn't I tell you that I've been watching 3 or 4 World Cup/NBA games each day? Anyway, to reward you, I can talk about this article—what are the chances you see an article about Hong Kong in Soccernet, particularly at its World Cup page?

But what a shame. On top of picturing everyone as a gambling addict, Hongkongers also eat unhealthly and root for England because of handsome players. Also, I learned that there are actually suburban places in Hong Kong, even when there are tens of tall buildings with 50+ stories around...

2006-06-14

 

Very Busy

I've been extremely busy. Three World Cup games a day, plus the NBA Final, that's too much to watch. Too poor to pay for cable, I need to watch the World Cup on a Spanish channel. The first time I really wish I knew Spanish. The only two things I can understand are that they shout "goal" for 2 mins after each goal and when a player dribbling in a dangerous area they will keep shouting the player's name.

Despite being busy, I still find time to track visitors. One thing I noticed is that I have a visitor from Symantec. Looks like someone sent him/her a link to my blog. I don't think I put anything here that would displease people from Symantec, but you never know. Would I become another guy got fired from blogging?

2006-06-10

 

Proposal Scheduled

I have now scheduled my proposal. 6/26 is the date. Fingers crossed, nothing will happen to make me change it.

The biggest reason for this success, I think, is perfect timing. Not getting any reply in 3 days, a perfect timing for sending a follow-up is exactly what I needed. So, of course, the best time was after Dirk Nowitzki helped Dallas to defeat Heat in game 1 and Germany finished Costa Rica 4-2, but not too soon after so that someone had time to celebrate...

2006-06-08

 

Starbucks Experience

Today I had my worst Starbucks experience ever.

I was trying to get an iced grande mocha valencia, one of the less known but great taste latte. The "Barista," if you don't mind calling her one, was busying preparing for another customer. It took her 8 mins, because she forgot that that customer wanted two lattes instead of one. Never mind, I should be the next.

Well no. While she started planning about my drink long ago, she didn't realize she ran out of valencia syrup. So she started looking for the person ordered mocha valencia. She asked two customers came after me what they ordered before asking me, by the time she has already started to prepare the drink for the next customer. Then I told her that I would have a white chocolate mocha instead (which is always so freakingly sweet). She took a paper cup for hot drink, before I had to remind her that my drink is "iced."

Then she kept preparing the drink for the next customer, just to realize that she has already forgotten what the next customer ordered. Lather, rinse, repeat. After another round of Q&A, she finally got what us all ordered to make the drinks.

When she finally gave me mine, she spilled the drink all over, making the whole cup wet. (Yet she didn't mix the drink... how could she not do that and spill?)

Maybe there are too many customers for her to handle. It's hard to imagine what would happen if there are, say, more than three customers. And no, she's not new there. I've seen her there for a few months already.

For the record, the Starbucks I went to is at Bellaire & Stella Link.

2006-06-07

 

New Finding

My new finding is...
It is not humanly possible to schedule a proposal presentation with five professors in your committee in the summer, even if you already have one of them to be present via the phone.
Is there any chance I can do it before August? I doubt it.

Why on earth do I have five people in my committee?

2006-06-04

 

Maintain Your Vehicle

I went to Austin for the weekend. Other than the much cheaper gas price ($2.659 instead of $2.899), one thing I noticed is that there are many more signs that remind you to "maintain your vehicle."

I suppose this is a very important sign. What's more important than reminding you to make sure that your vehicle will run smoothly during your road trip? Of coures, if I somehow forgot to maintain my vehicle, I would certain go back and have my car checked before restarting the trip. The workers should feel great whenever they put up a new sign, knowing how many lives they are going to save each day by having the signs up.

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