水霞

某曰: 維納斯, 如果你係男人或tomboy就一定溝死女喇!
(she referred to my gentlemanship and personality - not my physical appearance!)

is it a compliment or a compliment in disguise? (-_-?)
我才不要做男人 - 怕甩頭髮, 怕陽痿, 又怕被人罵食軟飯靠女人。多累!

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京都保津川。
如果爸媽知道我天寒地冷, 一個人跑到這種地方, 一定會殺了我。

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真想不到會在公司內認識了個隔鄰dept的人, 跟某前同事, 一模一樣。
來自同一間大學, 愛說話
punchline, 語氣甚至是思考方式都很像
連選女朋友的理想條件也相同: 要靚, 要純, 又要蠢
前同事, 喜歡stephy
隔鄰dept的人, 喜歡唐寧

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saintvenus' stereo is playing:
容祖兒 - '如果睡袍太少布'

心奪われた。

即撈環遊完北美同泰國之後, 竟然有手信畀在下~
真係令在下受寵若驚
不過, 往後0既日子可能會見即撈多過見自己老豆
岡山縣白石海水浴場

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After months of hyper-long vacation, I returned to the office... Over this weekend I have to work. I guess it's a punishment for leaving the workplace too long.

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1. 06年12月
有個sales同在下講: '你而家皮膚仲有少少紅, 不過唔緊要, 你過左青春期就會好0的0架喇'
wtf - 我青春期已經係10年前0既事
我今年係24歲
真係玩0野到冇朋友

2. 07年1月某下午
訓到半夢半醒之時, 屋企電話響起
在下伸手接左電話來聽
電話的另一端: '你好, 請問閣下係咪2xxx-xxxx 0既戶主?'
在下: '係呀。'
電話的另一端: '你好, 我係電訊盈科0既xyz, 請問你屋企而家有冇大人晌度呢?'
既然如此, 在下唯有答佢話"冇"好了。

再一次玩0野到冇朋友... 真是very orz

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saintvenus' stereo is playing:
Ludwig van Beethoven - 'Klaviertrio Es-dur, op.70 No.2 - 3. Allegretto ma non troppo (feat. Wilhelm Kempff, Henryk Szeryng & Pierre Fournier)
梅艷芳 – '心債'

Cannavaro at workplace

from the first working day of 2007, I know it will be a good year. Today we've got a new manager, 豬脷仁, joined our dept from the Netherlands office. I almost screamed out when I first saw him, because he resembles Fabio Cannavaro (簡拿華路!) very closely.
Handsome handsome handsome!!!

Finally God gave me some blessing in this hell-like workplace~
but I don't think I can concentrate on my work anymore :D

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鮮蠔蝦乾粥

自己煮的話我堅持要吃得好, 在家我不要食快熟麵或盒飯。

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saintvenus' stereo is playing:
Gazette - '十七歲'

2006 & 2007

2006的5件事:
1. 讀完書畢到業 + 考professional exam
2. 轉了去hell-like dept, 證明了自己的工作 / 生存能力
3. 一個人去了日本2次, 到深山野嶺看櫻花, 賞紅葉
4. 搬屋, 真正5星級的家
5. 真正的交心朋友都對我很好, 我覺得自己好幸運

一年內竟然完成了首4項, seriously, 我真係覺得自己好超人 XD

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2007 resolutions / wishes:
1. 說一口流利英語
2. fast-track 2年 + big pay rise
3. professional exam one-shot pass晒
4. 到土耳其和吳哥窟旅行
5. 畀我睇一場Dir en Grey或Gazette的演唱會吧

岡山縣白石海水浴場

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12月只係返左3日 (原本4日, 其中1日sick leave) - don't ask me why, anyway I got paid!
又重溫以前undergrad學生時代sem-break的懶洋洋感覺, 甚至可以每天躲在家看《放學ICU》,《我們這一家》,《多啦A夢》同《Keroro軍曹》

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saintvenus' stereo is playing:
Gazette - 'Cassis'
Gazette - '貴女ノ為ノ此ノ命'

merry christmas

- Thanks to people who sent me christmas cards -

forgive me friends, you know I'm preparing for the professional exam, so I can't afford to reply you all one by one. Wish you all have a warm and merry Christmas.
大阪市中央区心斎橋筋, 麦かつ食堂・かつ満

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saintvenus' stereo is playing:
Wolfgang A. Mozart - 'Fantaisie sur "La Flute enchantee, "The Magic Flute"' (feat. Gil Shaham & Akira Eguchi)
Richard Strauss - 'Waltzes, "Der Rosenkavalier"' (feat. Gil Shaham & Akira Eguchi)

ルミナリエ

真係放假放到唔想返工。

為什麼去旅行不要跟團?
跟旅行團, 導遊不會帶你看這種沒有佣金收的東西/ 沒有shopping和食物(不能說美食), 而又不順路的地方。

神戸ルミナリエ, 神戸市中央区旧外国人居留地界隈および東遊園地

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saintvenus' stereo is playing:
中島美嘉 - '雪の華'
Gazette - '菫'
徐小鳳 - '徐想曲'

Not just a storm in a teacup.

If memory serves me right, I never talked about the business world and politics on this blog. Maybe today I should start it - to show people I have brain and I think. :p

Last night I read Jeremy Zawodny's open protest to Google on his blog (title: 'Google Blatantly Copies Yahoo!?'). Zawodny, an employee of Yahoo!, found Google has copied Yahoo!'s promo page of upgrading to IE7 and sloppishly modified it. The Yahoo! PR group confirmed the page was designed by themselves and nobody, including Microsoft, has ever provided a template to Yahoo!, Google or MS's partners. Zawodny protested for Google's ridiculous and low act and provided two images to enable our side-by-side comparison:-

(source: Jeremy Zawodny's blog)

Yahoo! version Google version

The pages created by Yahoo! and Google are surprisingly similar - but note, Yahoo! designed and promoted this page in October and Google only started to publicize its version 2 days ago. So it is doubted that (perhaps I should say 'undoubted' to Yahoo! people) Google has plagiarized Yahoo!'s IE7 promo page.

And 11 hours later, Google 'revised' their IE7 promo page.

I read through the readers' comments on Zawodny's article and noted there's a respond from Matt Cutts (the head of the Google's Webspam team). Cutts apologized for Google's act - in surface, and then fought back by instances (which form the essential part of his article 'IE7 promo page') of Yahoo! plagiarizing Google's side ads designs and page layout, etc. with images for side-by-side contrasting. Here is one of the examples given by Cutts:-

(source: Matt Cutts' blog)

Google's version Yahoo! version

If Cutts' accusation of Yahoo! copied Google's UI design is grounded, Yahoo! is absolutely more 'wrong' in terms of extent, nature and visibility. So who is 'lower', actually?

Let's go into the reason of Google's copying. The laziest thought is the Google designers were too lazy or had too little time to come up with a new design, so they copied. I think, if they could get a new page within 11 hours, they must have had prepared a second version. And why did they prepare a 2nd ver.? Or will they be so stupid to copy their competitor in such a blatant way? Did Google intentionally plagiarize Yahoo!'s promo page to provoke them, let Yahoo! raise the issue and then go public, and thereby lead us to see Yahoo! has long been stealing Google's R&D results? Or the whole thing is just a blah marketing trick?

I'm pro Google. XD

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saintvenus' stereo is playing:
側田 - '情歌'

風邪

caught a flu again~ it's bad to sniff, sneeze and blow my nose all the day.
The last time of having a flu happened during the trip to Japan in October because I was infected in the plane, I believe. It's no fun to get ill when you are travelling.

かぜ藥 - 購自佐佐浪薬局, 盛惠1260円。

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saintvenus' stereo is playing:
Gazette - '花言葉'

小風景

栃木県日光市, 華嚴滝展望台

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saintvenus' stereo is playing:
Nicolo Paganini - 'Violin concerto no.1 in D major. op.6' (feat. Hilary Hahn)
Louis Spohr - 'Violin concerto no.8 in A minor, op.47, "in modo di scena cantante"' (feat. Hilary Hahn)
Gazette - '十七歲'

Questions about Blog

(Quoted from littleoslo's blog)

為什麼寫Blog？
為什麼在Blog上設定自動播放音樂而且不能關掉？
為什麼喜歡轉貼歌詞鱔稿新聞煽情故事但不發一言？
為什麼全世界已知道的事情還要樂此不疲的當奇聞介紹？
為什麼Xanga的用戶大部分是中學生？
為什麼火星文會在Xanga特別流行？
為什麼很多訪客是從搜尋美女寫真和辣妹性愛而來？
為什麼文章寫得愈長，留言的字數就會愈少？
為什麼不懷好意的留言總是匿名，並且表示剛巧路過？
為什麼Spammer比朋友更踴躍留言？
為什麼口說不在意到訪人次卻暗地裡記錄並且日夜查閱？
為什麼不想公開卻要將秘密寫在Blog上？
為什麼拿起相機拍照的時候便想到寫Blog？
為什麼聯線不上Blog的時候會開始焦慮？
為什麼要將寫Blog變為壓力？
為什麼寫明明可以轉載卻偏要盜用？
為什麼會為自己的文章沒有給抄襲而感到納悶？
為什麼不再寫Blog？

saintvenus adds:
為什麼朋友們要告訴你: 我正在看你的blog?
為什麼朋友們才是最不喜歡留言comment的一群?
為什麼女孩子們開始拍拖就會設立一個blog?
為什麼有些人英文奇差, 但又喜歡用錯漏百出的英文 (有時甚至夾雜英文粗話) 寫blog?
為什麼會在blog常說自己"很想死"?