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The round corner returns
April 30, 2008

From generation to generation, a menu-bar on top plus round corners have been a special character of Mac OS. It's one of the things that makes a Mac different, and it's the kind of thing that could not be imitated by windows even if tens of thousands of windows users try to put their Start menu bar on the top of the screen. Starting from Leopard, though, things have changed. The round corners were gone. What is Steve thinking? To me, the retirement of round corners is one of the worse business decisions made by Apple. Luckily, it has returned. Not from Apple, but from a third party software called Displaperture. Thx for telling me, someone from neowin.net.

Meanwhile, as I returned to hall this evening, I attended the meeting for room arrangement. I finally decided to share a double room with a new roommate - William, instead of opting for a single room. Perhaps I'd save that privilege for next year..


Good luck cannot be shown off
April 27, 2008

Good luck cannot be shown off. The consequence does not necessarily have to be bad luck though. You could create unhappiness for yourself. I've been in deep frustration over my weekend, and I've still not fully recovered/self-healed yet.

I keep thinking about my stupid exam schedule and post-exam sessions these days. Have I told you that my exam finishes on 20th, JUNE. And then we're going to have a three-week clinical period afterwards. I don't give a damn on what it's going to cover.. I just simply don't like the fact that my summer holiday will start later than my P5 cousin's!! And then when my exam finally finishes, who's going to spend time with me? Will my trip to TW spoil just like last year's? Well, it's a 2-person problem, so who fucking knows?

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Given my bad mood, I should hardly continue. But I choose to do so because the following should be yesterday's content. Now that my mood is at least better than yesterday's, I think I should repay what I owed u. Well, there's a new version of Smultron, a popular html editor for Mac, and it looks quite good because it matches leopard's style. I thought u should know.. Another thing is that I've updated the theme pix, so I think we should keep a record of the old one.

 

PS Editplus is still the best html editor I've used, but then it's Windows-only = (

Showing off good luck
April 25, 2008

I don't check my horoscope regularly. In fact, I even have no interest in that.. But I should have got 5 stars for at least three consecutive days, starting Wed..

On Wednesday, which was the day I started to temporarily disappear from this site, we had our last Ecen session. Yep, no more Ecen. Lisa brought us (or at least me) a good news - I got A- in my role play, and now I should get an overall A- for Ecen. Thx Lisa.. And then on Thursday, I found out I got 100 marks for the chinese assignment done on web ct. "How is this possible!?" Cto asked when I told her today. Anyway this doesn't show that I'm good in Chinese, nor will I get good grade for Cden because I just got a C for my first assignment.. Anyway on midnight Friday, I found that I was in the direct-in list for hall readmission. That means I won't need to be interviewed before being readmitted. Isn't that great? Thx exco, thx lsk..

I doubt my good luck will continue though. After all, I'm never a lucky person. I don't mind to be in bad luck sometimes, but leave some luck for me when I need it.



So much Japs today
April 22, 2008

(The above image is adapted from Cto's xanga)
Well, we had practical session today. However, the guy was so bad that four of us became the first ones to escape. (Please refer to the extract of Ronald's xanga below for details. He knew the best because he stayed till the last min~) However, we were no lazy students. Instead of going home, we went to medical library for some research. We decided that we could comprehend (even better) the whole thing without that guy's full-of-BS lecture..

After going to medical library, we went to CWB. We had lunch at 和民 (yes, that's the pix), we watched "Run PaPa Run", and we left. It's not a bad day..

I then met my friend. I kind of wanted to have sushi, so we went to Genki. Kwai Fong's Genki was in fact quite good. It worths my recommendation if U want to have cheap sushi..

And that makes another day-with-no-revision.

Ronald's xanga 22/4/2008

人生苦短,人的確沒有太多時間可以浪費的了......

當你像我一樣上過今天的practical,即使是一個小時,你也會深深領悟這個道理;當你像我一樣由上午九半時到下午十二時四十五分,上足足三個小時居然中間只有合共十分鐘的休息時間而其餘時間都花在那個Prof. Tsao的狗屁笑話上的practical,你會絕對領略到這句說話的真締,兼且羨慕那些走堂去的同學。

這個星期的主題是Biochem,用一個星期追回cell structure﹑cell signaling﹑DNA﹑gene﹑protein synthesis﹑GM food......那些失落在上幾世的記憶。天曉得!一個星期的時間去重拾中六生物一個月的課程。未算狠!practical請來這麼「有建設性」的prof.,還能說些什麼?

我遲到了十五分鐘,暗知不妙,心想一定錯過了很多珍貴的內容,唉呀!難得有個權威把我遺忘的內容重授一遍,我怎麼不珍惜呢?愈想愈焦急,愈焦急就愈內疚......結果,我到達後,安坐,準備筆記,拿出文具,然後就是聽他胡扯扯了整整十五分鐘,才正式開始今天的題目。換言之,準時的同學白白浪費了半個小時的青春。

好,反正我也遲來了,入正題就好了。

誰知他一來就打響自己的名堂:「我來自Anatomy,Biochem是自學回來的,呵呵呵......」什麼?自學的?叫我信不信你教的呀,先生?

叫我們捧腹但絕對不是捧場的是他控制時間的能力,噢!應該是被時間控制的能力。他耗了一個小時的寶貴時間,才教了 8 大張slides(現實是總數有74張slides),難怪他開始前也說:「下課後,大家可以去吃dinner了,呵呵呵......」

不是他的資料太詳盡,而是他的笑話和不相干的內容,簡稱廢話,太「爛」﹑太「冷」﹑也太多,簡直到了消化不良的地步。

其中有張slide顯示了cell membrane的lipid bilayer,他指着那層bilayer說:「這一支支東西,在cell membrane上是浮動的,正如我每次去銅鑼灣,街上的人總是多得走動不了,就會想起我們是這些一支支的lipid bilayer了......」他做了個企鵝走路的姿勢,模擬擠迫的情況。「有時候cell membrane有protein molecule,很大塊的......」他指着slide上的membrane protein molecule續說:「SOGO在這裡。」全場無言。

說Cell signaling的時候,他又打譬喻:「Cell像你們一樣,會收signal的。你們收的signal是什麼?當然是手提電話,手機一響你們就會離開這個lab了,可是,Cell是沒有電話的哦!哈哈哈......」他對於自己的笑話看來很陶醉。一半同學在收拾背包。

上了大半堂,他才若有所思的問:「Anybody don't know Cantonese?(國語)我要說普通話嗎?」沒反應。「普通話......普通人講普通話,小朋友講小話(笑話),大人就講大話啦,哈哈哈......」再一半同學收拾背包。

臨完結前,有一張嚇人的slide......

心血少一點的絕對會當場暈掉。他環繞這個題目講解得頗深入,我費盡九牛二虎之力去理解,最後他竟然說:「這些是PhD第一個星期的課程來的,你們不用學呢,修PhD的另當別論,呵呵呵......」

他有一句至理名言:「當你知得越多,就越不會解答問題。」為什麼呢?「我看過中五會考的選擇題,那些gene的我一條也不會答,現實上gene有很多exception的,我一個也選不了,但奇怪考評局竟然會有個答案跑出來!真奇怪!」

「所以,學海無涯,回頭是岸!哈哈哈......」

這一堂practical,開課時接近五十人,完結時剛好剩下二十五個。




Today's not bad
April 21, 2008

Well, I managed to get up at 7.30 this morning despite staying awake until 4 last night. Today's T1 turned out to be not bad.. It's even quite interesting in that Lisa and Yvonne the English tutors came to observe our tutorial.. They seemed to be bored, but cmon, we've been bored for a whole year in Ecen lessons! It's time to pay. (jk...)

We had curry for lunch, which was good. I went to Causeway Bay afterwards to buy some stuff before going back to hall. This consumed a protion of my free time today, but at least I got what I wanted.

And then in the evening I went out again. I had to go to TST, and that's why I decided to take the ferry. I've become increasingly in love with the ferry nowadays.. It's somehow different. Anyway..

Let's be brief...
April 20, 2008

...because it's really quite late now, and that I'll have T1 at 9 tmr. I've just finished everything I need to do on 1/F. They include floor-tee order form, some work assigned by my aunt, hall farewell party decoration (idea only) as well as a final review on gingivitis. I feel quite good now because it's rare that I can finish all the objectives I've set for myself.. Congrats Kevin...

Btw, do you know what yesterday's supposed to mean? It was our 6-month anniversary~ Get well soon...
Uniform, Yum Cha, & more
April 18, 2008

Well, I planned to do a bit more preparation for T2 this morning, but when I woke up at 10 am, I found that this was not possible. That's because we're attending a stupid session for uniform ordering. Instead of simply measuring our shoulder width, our arm length, our waist and leg, there were a lot more measurements. Like our chest, the circumference of the trousers, as well as the 褲浪 length.. Well, I know that's a standard procedure for professional tailoring, but cmon, are we really that professional? And would they, say, make a unique slim-cut uniform for a skinny girl with F-cup?

We went to yum cha then. It was somehow fun. Perhaps that's because it's been our long time we haven't done that.. We didn't take any pix though. I think some time in the future we should take one for the things we had, one for all of us, and...

Last but not least, I'd like to thank Cheuk, or Conroy, for securing my thumbdrive from the Ecen classroom. And thank God, I didn't put any videos in it XD

Cden, Ecen
April 16, 2008

Cden, Ecen... What are they? They're our dearest Chinese and English courses. If Ecen is the stupidest english course I've ever attended, Cden is the most ridiculous. Anyway they're finally coming to an end. We had our second last Cden tutorial this morning. Ronald et al. were there to introduce a new advertising campaign for Colgate. Their performance presentation was amusing enough. So, thank you...

I then had my Ecen dentist-patient role play today. I guess I was not bad, especially when we know the fact that I was ill-prepared and depended only on my bullshitting skills. Let's see how I performed next week, when we have the very last Ecen session. (Ronald's going to miss Lisa so much, isn't it?)

Btw, I fired my new student's parent, finally. It's only been half of a month, but it's like much longer.. I've evaluated myself, but then I decided that I have nothing to do with it. I really can't comply with the parent's demands. it's just not too kevinchan if I continued.. But now I've lost another source of money, so where does money come from? Macau maybe? But I don't have any company!! Fxxk it.

Being busy is good, somehow
April 14, 2008

I've told you, everything's fine today. I only feel boredom on my weekends, probably because my weekdays are too busy. Actually, I don't mind being busy and occupied; it keeps me away from loneliness. However, I'm okay only when I'm occupied by things I enjoy doing. Sometimes, I really hate what I'm supposed to do. "Happiness is not about doing something you enjoy, but being able to enjoy what you're doing." I read this somewhere I forgot, probably at someone's blog, and I find it very true. But there'd be no pain and sorrow in the world if everyone can do this. Sad, isn't it?

Anyway I'm good today because I've finally started working on this week's problem. This is the fourth-last problem I'm supposed to have in year 1. Whether I like BDS's curriculum or not, I love Bio. And as I was reviewing my AL thermoregulation today, I rediscovered myself. Thx, Simon.

Sunday, a boredom
April 13, 2008

I don't mean my life is boring though. Other days are fine to me, but every Saturday and Sunday mean a repetitive life. Weekends after weekends, I spend my day at home. Sometimes I wake up so late that I merely have the time and mood for anything, sometimes I'm supposed to finish something on a Sunday, but then I just decide to postpone it. We really need excitement for our lives, all of us. Is it possible for me to go outside and enjoy the sun and fresh air? Ya, that sounds stupid, but it's a little wish of mine now. Perhaps I want to play games with the sun... So, would you please do something?

Sigh... Perhaps you'll be interested to see this:


Finally..
April 11, 2008

Sorry for disappearing for days.. I know you guys must be missing me a lot~ I swear I miss you too; otherwise I won't come back, right?

The beginning of the past few days were tough, with the later part more enjoyable. Basically I was busy working on the my damn Chinese project from Sunday to Wed.. I merely had time to prepare T2 (on monday) and Ecen case study note. I just made the case up, but the outcome wasn't too bad. Chinese wasn't either. So basically I enjoyed my "weekend" from Wednesday afternoon to Thursday night. It's pretty like my ordinary weekends.. Fair? Well, I don't want to admit this.

And then I had my first T1 on Friday. Things are really messed up these days..When can I reorganize my life?



3G iPhone coming?
April 5, 2008

Do you like it as a 3G iPhone? Some rumour sites suggest this as the candidate. No one knows, but it'll likely be unveiled this summer. I don't like it very much, though. I mean, c'mon, the current model (i.e. mine) looks much smarter and high-tech and different, isn't it?

Sunday tomorrow, and Monday the day after. It's going to be the first T2 on Monday. Will this ignite more sparks or will it mean a lower show-up rate? We'll see..

Cden project
April 3, 2008

Trust me, this project sucks. There's a lot to do, and I'm still struggling to concentrate. Anyway I really hope to see it finish on time, so just let me concentrate, ok?

Btw, this is probably the most amusing Get A Mac ad of all:


Brief update
April 1, 2008

The popularity index up to now is 34821, meaning there's been (34821-34406) 415 visits since March 4, or on average 15.4 visits a day. Yeah, finally the average exceeds 15. Thx guys.



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