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July 13, 2007

Dear Bloggy,

Oh no I haven't update Bloggy for so long... But then I blame the Chinese firewall which prohibit me from accessing my blog at home. So, I am not to be blamed, I am not to be blamed, I am not to be blamed. (don't remember who told me that if you repeat something 3 times in a row then it becomes a truth. Not sure if this is true :p)

Let's start with what I can remember..


July 8, 2007 (Sunday)

I went to the bookstore area which Sophie brought me to last week. It was good walking in those bookstores as you can never have such big ones in HK. All of them consist of like 3~5 floors. However, 99% of the book are Chinese. Not that I don't like to read Chinese but I am looking for books that discuss data analysis, and I wouldn't be able to crack subject like this in Chinese. So I ended up not getting anything on that.

Fortunately, I have decided to improve my Mandarin and I am starting from the fundamental. So went into the "school kid" section and bought 3 books which are designed for primary 1 students to learn PinYin. Not bad. :p

At night I saw Jay and Ying again. :D They are one of my best friends when I was working in Nortel Networks at Ottawa as an intern student. The gathering reminds me of so much priceless memory. I still remember my lovely apartment there, in which I could oversee the Ottawa river. I got my first job, bought my first car, learned driving manual, broke up with girl friend, started Tae Kwon Do, founded Nortel Squash Club with Martin ;) , learned skiing (I think it was in Ottawa?), first time skated on real ice, met Bing, Karen and An and so much more. It was really nice getting to see Jay and Ying in Beijing again after so many years. They treated me "Lamb hotpot" which I have always wanted to try. So tasty.. :D


July 9~12, 2007

Nothing much happening. There is not much progress in my project so I am starting to think of things from different directions. I went to a bar called D22 with Marshall and some other Googlers from US for their ambassador programs. It was funny that they show a movie in the bar. (Lolita) Good movie but my first time watching a movie in a bar. :p

Oh I also tried out the massage in Google :p It was pretty good consider that you can just take 30 mins off from work and relax a bit. ;)


July 13, 2007

Google rented out a cinema for the Googlers to see the moive "Transformer" It was OK but not as good as I expected. I think the computer animation is quite impressive; however, I could only see bunch of robots fighting one another and I couldn't really tell who are the bad guys and who are the good ones. However, there are quite a few good jokes in the movie. So, 7 out of 10 la.