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今天状况不错，至少还觉得蛮 enjoy 一下的

看看能 tahan 多久 :p

You Win !

Before I have any progress on my learning....

Before 27 Sept say good bye to me, finally I get this 'You Win' ! shown to me in the 2048 game that I had been play around for last few weeks.

So, it's time to say good bye to this game.

I really hope I can be more concentrate on my learning now!
Ok, ok.... now you see, I really have difficulty to get start learning here :-(

Dinner DIY - Fried potatoes with onions

Tried some other cooking these few weeks.

For once, I was crazy about caramelized onions taste, which is sweet.
At first, I was cooking the fried potatoes that favor by the caramelized onions.
Very simple preparation, need only potatoes that cut in equal size slices, onions, butter, and some salt. Cook them separately, the caramelized take very long time to prepare, 20-30 mins because it needs to be slow cooking.

Frying potato slices

Slow cook onions

gao dim!

The first try doesn't looks very attractive, a little bit dry & tasteless too

So, 2nd time, it's much better :)

2nd try

But hor, the quality is remains the same after this leh. It is just OK to eat, far far from taste good :p

Dinner DIY - 薯泥

雨天, 出不了市里逛逛, post个关于做薯泥的’经验’.

话说有天我在公司cafeteria吃了一餐配薯泥的午餐, 发现很好吃, 是我很喜欢的味道, 就是奶味和牛油味的东西.
回来Google搜了搜，就开始实验了.

Mashed potato

第一次, 太多奶了, 很湿
第二次, 非常有专业水准了. 我为我自己自豪啊，哈哈哈!

过程很简单：
1. 把薯仔切成颗粒，放进水里煮至软软, 大概20 - 30分钟能好
2. 取出薯仔，加入鲜奶，用力压扁那一颗颗的薯仔, 觉得太干的话, 就加多些鲜奶. 所以呢，这步骤是边压边加奶, 而且挺费劲的一个步骤
3. 差不多了，就加入牛油

然后，就可上菜啦!

我觉得主要‘功夫’是是要趁着热度把 2 和 3 搞定, 其它的没啥技巧可言

还有, 其实超市有卖那些薯泥粉, 应该会更简单.
但是我这人有点死脑筋, 我觉得那些东西太化学化了, 不够纯正, 我不喜欢 :)

Dinner DIY - 罗宋汤

OK.. think of this since weekend, but due to lack of tomato & carrot, not able to make it.

Today went to the supermarket to get that 2 thing, again this carrot is selling in 2 k.g pack, I really want to faint...

So, start the cooking :p
But actually all are only about peeling & cutting the ingredient into cubes, then dump it to the water to boil it together, no skill at all.

See, I am very generous to put very 'gao' ingredient

4 carrots, 5 potatoes, 2 big onion, 2 tomato (the extra 1 i put it back to the fridge)

Took me about 45 minutes to prepare all the thing, bcoz i have to peel with the normal knife, no proper peeler tool in this apartment. So, start to boil...

I start to worry am I cooking too big serve tonight..

So, turn the light to lower, then I took my bath.

dang dang~~ here's the look

Taste how?
85% of what I like it to be, but problem is I am not too sure what cause the missing 15% :D :D
Maybe next time I should try to put more tomato in the ratio...

This soup is really nice, I even missed this when I was in KL, my sister seldom cook nowadays. And I hate to drink soup selling outside.

Conclusion: I have a very nice evening with this warm 罗宋汤 ;)

Dinner DIY - 荷兰薯焖猪肉

Am happy today as my task can consider as finished as what I had planned to, so today I went off earlier. Leaving office by 5.30 p.m, so think of making a new try for my dinner.

My mind was thinking of 荷兰薯焖猪肉, so head to the supermarket to get the material.
It's so bad that the potato & onion is only selling in big pack, so I bought 2.5 k.g potato and 2 k.g. onion, I got to somehow think how to finish them in coming days .... -_-!!

After about 1 hr, here is the result:

Hahah.. oklah, it is not 荷兰薯焖猪肉, but ends up it is 荷兰薯炒猪肉. how's the taste? I would say, not too bad lah (*^__^*)

Also, I boiled few potatoes as the replacement for the rice. Put some butter when it is hot hot, then it taste quite nice! I learn it from my ex-PM in Amsterdam when he cook the dinner during my visit to his family. Ai.. I missed them.. they are very nice couples...

Eaten 2 biji baru remember should take a picture of it :p

Learning photographic

try to learn some simple photographic skills, first is with the little little cute memento i received/bought

I only use the Panasonic digital camera lah, not those canggih DLSR (or DSLR ?, i never able to call this thing ...)

effect is bad, it's quite blur images

only uploaded 2, there are few more, but all blur blur one :-(

Wordpress -> Blogspot

A friend asked me how to migrate her posts in Wordpress.com to Blogspot.com

This is interesting to me, so I ask for her permission to access for both blog website login, and start the conversion.

First step, of course Google to see what's the options out there lah.

So, I found this: http://wordpress2blogger.appspot.com/

And in just few hours, both her website in Wordpress.com had migrated to the Blogspot.com

The tool itself is very useful, magic is done 70% by it.

If you interested to know more, here are some more technical tips:

1. After export the posts from Wordpress.com, try to open it with a browser before convert it using the http://wordpress2blogger.appspot.com/

-> the exported XML might need some touch up, the problem I faced are mainly due to the '&' sign was not properly converted into the '&' HTML code, this will failed the conversion.

-> then there are some problem with the missing close tag as well

2. Always try to put your photo for any blog post in a free hosting site, she has a lot of photos that were keep in the private domain, this would take big effort to migrate those images to Picasa Web let's say. She would need to map properly what's the old & new image URL, and edit the related posts accordingly. Not a difficult job, but it's really very tedious work if u have a lot of old posts with a lot of images.

3. The comments within the post are migrated with some 'issue'. For e.g. a person that has comments on the post, with it's details of the email, is not migrated properly. The comments shows in Blogspot.com only contains the name, without the email.

BTW, MSN Live Writter seems like can post the post to different blog site as well. Since it has restriction to run this MSN Live Writer (my friend is using Mac, rich lady huh :p), also I am not a big fan of MSN itself, so I didn't have any real experience can share with you. You may try to play around with it, as the option I describe above might need a little bit more technical background

I do have fun when exploring on this, it is good to see things happen, especially things that is not related to work :D

Of coz I left the details of migrating the photos back to my friend lah, it is > 200 photos to do so leh. Would be days of work man.

Guess she will get mad with the process of

- get files from the private domain,

- upload to free image hosting domain,

- find the blog, then update the image's URL :p

我读<杜拉拉升职记> - how to be a boss

Excerpt from Chapter 31:
官僚的特点:
- 该做决定的时候吧，他思考；
- 遇到困难了呢，他授权!

Precisely, this is the boss style :)

我读<杜拉拉升职记> - about her recruitment standard

最近读着李可的<杜拉拉升职记>, 想写些读后感, 但是最近我非常不能专心在正经事上, 所以阅读的速度慢了很多很多.
(那我最近忙啥? 非常不好意思的告诉你, 我浪费很多很多的时间在网络上的通俗小说, 就是那些言情啦, 穿越啦等等等的没什么营养的小说）

好了, 回到主题, <杜拉拉升职记>在中国很火, 故事围绕着杜拉拉这没特别背景的女生在外企工作和攀升的过程.

这书不是告诉我们什么秘密, 但是它让我在某些方面有了另外的想法, 比如今天看到的这章:
Excerpt from Chapter 33:

拉拉定下了三条招聘原则：
一，这个人的专业技术是OK的程度，就是他能干得了活，但不出色；
二，这个人得平和而不求上进；
三，年纪小于30岁的不要，

这之前，拉拉把一位她觉得对她有威胁的人给干掉了（don't be so surprise, it is not kill, it's just fire :p)

这种招人的原则, 显示了招人的胸襟不大, 这情况之下
1. 如果想在一个公司混两口饭吃, 工作经历还算OK, 那就很可能拿到offer
2. 如果你还有很强的学习欲望, 热衷于金钱和'上位', 不用说, 肯定会被刷掉

Then, 如果你是 type 2, 面试失败后, 你需要觉得自己能力不好吗？
或者, type 2 的你, 要改变自己的追求去符合这招聘的原则吗？

所以呢, 自己的实力, 自己心里要有个底.
每次的面试的失败, 有时真的不一定是自己的问题, 因为双方都在找着适合的人
candidate 找着他要的工作环境和上司
recruiter 找着他觉得他能‘驾驶’的下属, 不是很多人能做到非常乐意的找个能力比自己强的人做下属, 那威胁性会很大的, 所谓的养虎为患啊

当然, 如果失败次数多了, 除了上述的可能性, 可能就是工资方面了.

今天就这么多...

讨厌...

这两个都听过吧？

可爱 = 可怜没人爱
聪明 = 失聪又失明

今天学了个‘新词’
讨厌 = 讨人喜欢，百看不厌

但是只适用于某些条件优秀的人, 不然别人会吐血身亡的 !
请自重, 搞出人命是犯法的 !

阿花教了我这
蛋白质 = 笨蛋 + 白痴 + 神经质

:D

我顶

这词有意思

广东话：
我顶=我顶你个肺的缩写，就是非常不爽你的意思

华语：
我顶=我支持你

中文字，真的很有意思

無哩頭掌門人智力測驗答案

事先声明，这出处无从考究，因是朋友转发email的内容，如果你们发现原创，请告知，毕竟尊重作者是我的基本原则
And, this is my #100 post! Enjoy reading!

1. 小明自己做暑期作業，第二日，佢死左，點解？
Ans：因為'自作業，不可活'。

2. 麥兜自己沖涼，估一近代文學作家名。
Ans：朱自清 (麥兜是只漫画猪）

3. 話說有間名牌鋪頭一折大減價，有個女人走左入去掃貨，但佢買完出黎之後就死左佢究竟點死？
Ans：抵死

4. 鍵盤入面邊個掣最靚仔？
Ans：F4

5. 咩毛最普通？
Ans：Normal

6. 隆胸兩邊隆哂要一萬，但隆一邊只需三千。估一四字成語。
Ans：一波三折

7. 拉乜野可以學到野？
Ans：Library

8. 英文有廿六個英文字母，當E同T走左之後，會剩低幾多個英文字母？
Ans：21 個，因為ET搭UFO走左。

9. 大口仔搽紅唇膏，估一英文生字。
Ans：Direction（大red唇）

10.恭喜發財，估一國家名。
Ans：比利時（俾利是）

11.點解呢個世界上有東京、南京、北京但無西京？
Ans：因為西經比唐三藏取左。

12.阿明同阿珊去打劫銀行，事敗逃亡，但D警員追捕果時唔追阿明，淨係死追阿珊, 點解呢? 估一山脉名。
Ans：因為'喜瑪拉雅山'（起碼拉阿珊）

13.如何用三盞燈同一張凳營造一個緊張氣氛?
Ans：燈燈燈凳

‘烦’这个字

我一直觉得‘烦’这个字很有意思。

火 + 页， 想象一下一页纸张被火烧了，想象一下那种熊熊烈火，纸张很快就被烧成灰。
当人有种心烦的感觉，人就像那张纸，被无形的火烧着心，很快的，这人就会精神崩溃。

当我觉得烦的时候，就会精神不集中，记忆变差，而且还是极差那种，遇事总觉得不顺心，阻碍处处。当事事不顺心时，就觉得更烦，然后恶性循环的把心情搞得更差。工作效率变差，脾气变差，耐性便差。。。。。我好像‘病’得不轻啊！

当'王'字遇上'皇'字

同事说，有个电视节目挺有意思，是关于中文字的, 节目里头说：

有一天，'王'字在路上遇上了'皇'字：

'王'字说：当皇上可真不容易啊，头发都白了。。

看, 够意思吧! 简单的一句话，就能很准确的说明了 '皇' 跟 '王' 的分别。

但我其实想加上一句，

'皇'字应该说：小王你也不容易啊，头发都掉光啦 :D