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you heard right, first one, today, 7.5 hours from now.
I hope I wake up in time.  ~_~

wow…5:11am, the sun haven’t even raised yet. Guess I finish my work early today. With the crazy hours I’ve been pulling, this is early. …better get some sleep….Friday will be the start of my exams.

I went to see the student co-ordinator the other day. I was somewhat worried about what I should do. I didn’t register for another sem nor did I apply for graduation. The reason being, I thought I was a credit short (elective) for completing the program. After a more thorough look, I actually do have enough (if I manage to make it through all the current courses).  I guess that’s good news. But it actually put even more pressure on me to get things done.

Oh I made the most tasty treat tonight. Pan fried eggplants. Just cut the eggplants in 5mm slices, add a bit of grill eel sauce(available in J-town) and throw them in the pan till they start to brown. It’s somewhat like a dish you can find in chinese morning tea, but less oily and no meat.  Of all vegies, I do like eggpplant the most.

weehad been working like a mad man these pasts days(weeks), so after today’s disappointing class(where I didn’t get to present my assignment after all that hardwork), I decided I can have the rest of the day off. No assignments, no nothing, just rest and what not.

So what did I go and do? I end up dragging ou tthe old monitor (support 1600×1200) to fiddle with dual boot’s linux partition. Remeber that resolution problem I have, where I can’t even get into the system to change the config? Well I fixed it. It’s finally displaying at 1440×900.  Took me a while, first it was forgetting the login password, then it was not knowing knoppix need a total restart(not just restart session) for the config file to take effect. All in all, I’m pretty pround that I’m finally linux literate. Now if only I can get it to do dual view…..

had a very very early dinner today, 4pm, ha ha. Basically, I’m just tired of cooking every night, so I decided to go and have a meal after my classes today. I was the only patron there. It didn’t bother me at all, I actually rather enjoyed it. I finally have time to take in the very pleasing interior design of the place. Had a phad tai and an iced coffee, bother were nice.  While dining, I over heard the conversation of the waitresses about how they wouldn’t want to work downtown. Everything eventually lead to the point that the bad traffic is the only thing keeping them from working DT. I wonder if I will feel the same….

Anyhow, when I got home, I decided to park back-in. Honestly, in a 2 car garage where the other spot is always filled, I rarely have a chance to park back-in. Though I always fancy the idea of getting in the car and drive out without having to change to reverse gear. I might just do this till my sis gets back from her trip. Heh heh, because her car isn’t in the garage, I now park dead centre with lots of room on both sides. Under normal situations, I always find myself parking front-in from a left turn. I just like to be able to see how far apart I am from the next car.

Oh here’s an interesting blog entry about decision making. http://roux.vox.com/library/post/what-do-your-sticks-say-about-you.html

If you are wondering about how my mind works.
1. I pick which ever that is most accessible and clean
2. I pick the second of the matching color (it’s only logical to do so, in order to pair the first with a second that’s identical)
3. typical Chinese sanitation technique, tea in bowl, dip napkin in bowl of tea, wipe chop sticks with napkin, ask the staff for a new bowl. …no I don’t do this much, since "most" places I go to in TO are relatively sanitize….relatively….

I’ve always manage to find the oddest things I need in the oddest of times. Usually during the busy days when my mind starts to drift off looking for information that has nothing to do with what I’m working on.

Today, I found my fix to repair my copy of knoppix on hd. The story goes, I installed it when I had a CRT. Had hell of a time to set the res to 1600×1200. Then I got my LCDs and so whenever I go into KDE, everything is messed up (res too high).  Being a major windows/mac person, I never really got into configuring  linux, especially using vi. With the recent work(forcing myself on a shell scripting course), I now have the neccessary understanding to fix the problem. …took me long enough, though I still hate using linux on a daily basis.

Last sem, a week before the exams. I decided to switch DV capture card(canopus yeah!) to the old box because the new one got a tv tuner to handle the video stuff. Only until the switch did I find out, it was the DV card’s driver that prevented my computer to go into stand-by mode. Honestly, I very much doubt anyone could have figure it out.

…oh and I just checked my sms, turns out my sis is flying over to europe to attend her friend’s wedding. She told me sometime ago it was in April. I haven’t paid attention to anything other than tests/assignments since end of Feb. Guess I will have the house all to myself for a couple of days. Better turn off front door lights. ooo…that also means the last piece of banana bread is mine. :p