"加油"努力的英文

同事問我"加油"的英文怎麼說，是要更努力加油認真唸書的"加油".
一時我直覺回答 "go hard". 感覺這是比較口語的說法就是了。(而且字典好像查不到，這個說法是我的幻覺嗎?)
查了一下網路上的字典，感覺 "go at" 和 "push on" 這兩個算是順眼。
偶而會被問到一些自己也不知道的英文，就跟著學吧。
上次有人問我約會的"電燈泡"的英文，查了之後才知道 "third wheel" 這個說法。
嗯，還滿該學這個字的，以前學生時滿常當 third wheel 這角色 :P

Condom with Happy Meal

I came across this news article when I read Taiwanese news:
紐西蘭麥當勞快樂兒童餐禮物竟送保險套

Then I found the article by NZ Herald:
Child's McDonald's meal comes with condom

In the NZ Herald one it says the grandparents found the condom first and the Taiwanese one says the 7-year-old girl actually saw it.
This tells us, don't believe everything in the news. It might not tell the whole truth.
It also tells us that Happy Meals do wish you a happy day, or night. :P

桌曆, 不低調

剛好好幾個 team member 都去開會，想說就跟 team leader 訂個時間吧。拿個桌曆就跟老闆在會議室坐著聊。沒想到又講了好久，開會的人後來回來了，看到我、老闆加桌曆。唉，又不低調了。

結果，講那麼久，時間還是要我自己安排一個出來... 也對啦，自己的事自己負責。

Upaper 五分埔達人, 莎莎

ND 今天叫我看 Upaper，有我會有興趣的事. 我是不看捷運站內報紙 Upaper 的，這次特地跑去它的網站看一下，喔，原來是莎莎呀。
【達人帶路】五分埔招牌美味 莎莎推薦
ND說今天有三張都是她。嗯，我也不知道為什麼她是五分埔達人？一張介紹美食，兩張介紹變裝。也許是她之前當外景主持人有去那邊採訪過？所以對五分埔熟？
天哪，看來我身邊的人都被我弄到知道莎莎了，不知何時更多人會知道，而且不只是看過她是房屋仲介電視廣告女主角。不過那房屋仲介廣告還增加曝光滿多的。每個分店都也貼那份廣告。也有看到公車側面也有貼那個廣告。如果能看到自己的臉被公車載著跑，應該滿奇特的吧！

辦公室十災

鼠災
蚤災
蟑螂災
霉味災
跳電災
馬桶堵塞災
網路斷線災
冷氣停轉災
伺服器當災
長子加班災

前一陣子電影 The Reaping 一直在廣告，重複播那十災。原本我只是模仿寫下辦公室裡發生過的"災害"。過了一陣子發覺，發生的頻率比我想的還頻繁 @@

ZM Sealed Section

I listened to a NZ radio station ZM today (over the Internet) and they were having this Sealed Section thing. The callers call the radio station to ask questions about sex and the "experts" will answer. The questions and discussion I heard were quite explicit. (which is why I don't give examples here :P) At first I was surprised that they could discuss such issues so openly on radio. But after a while I realized that those are common issues that people face and they are not taboo topics.

I guess I've watched too much Taiwanese news. They dramatize, and ridule with every bit they can dig up and try to use private issues of public figures to scandalize the audience. I got used to thinking of those issues as scandalous. That's just not healthy @@
OK. Less stupid news. More books and ZM :)

貴子坑親山步道

還是記錄一下好了，我又跟爸去走了一個台北市的親山步道，貴子坑。
還是沒什麼好講的，感覺又是莫名奇妙。
一直走樓梯往上會很累。
貴子坑那邊有個露營區(跟步道無關)，有興趣的人可以去查詢一下。
報告完畢。

下下步是什麼

今天跟大老闆聊了，大老闆講的幾個重點是，要知道自己要什麼，要去想下下步做什麼。
就像下棋一樣，要想下下步做什麼，選擇下一步時才能往那個方向去。
當然，人生不想下棋一樣都在你的掌握之中，能想到的就想，其他的就 have faith 加隨緣囉。

因為 team leader 把我帶去堵大老闆，在會議室談，太不低調，team member 發覺了就來問我怎麼了... aiya...

No compilation error

It's kind of weird that I got very few compilation errors for the whole day today. I worked on a small program that modifies our test data to add some extra information in it. I didn't code it quickly but it was surprisingly smooth. There were a few times that I had been coding for half an hour or even an hour. Then I compiled the code after so many code changes, and it compiled successfully! And many times, the code ran properly too!

Hm, maybe my SCJP study does help me to write Java programs more carefully. I remembered to add to catch exceptions on the PrintWriter before I compiled it today. I used to have the compiler complaining about it all the time.

Notes to self: It helps to first know what's the expected program behaviour, then think through and design it, then start coding. When coding, take the time to ensure a part is correct before moving on to the next part.

Meetings and more meetings

I was in meetings and discussions one after the other today. In total, I probably spent about 5 hours in those.
Some were useful for sorting things out. Some were possibly too slow and unnecessarily involved too many people.

Dehydrated again.

紐西蘭雪梨橋歡度75歲??

I post this rather late. Anyway, here it is.


紐西蘭, 澳洲給他傻傻分不清楚...
All "紐西蘭" in this article were replaced by "澳洲" a few hours after I captured this image, though.

週六晚上十點的捷運

補上班 + 加班. 週六晚上十點才坐上捷運回家. 明顯感覺人多又吵，自己在聽的隨身聽的聲音都被蓋過去了，此起彼落的談話聲混在一起，也聽不清一段對話。

是否要去搭另一班生活列車？這期間應該也會聽到許多人的不同聲音，甚至會把自己心中的聲音混淆或蓋過。無論如何，列車的行進不會因誰的聲音而改變，我只希望自己不會被影響而在車門前卻步。

Time for a decision, and execution

This is about the time to finalize a decision and start doing it.
Wish me luck. More importantly, wish me courage.

IKEA, dehydration

Don't know if there's anyone like me who goes to IKEA without the intention to buy any furniture. I just went there because I heard about it occassionally but I had never been there. And because my dad and I were looking for a place to go that rainy afternoon after we visited the museum in the morning.

In a way, IKEA is like a museum too. The goods are displayed to create a cozy or stylish feel to them. Different types of goods are placed in different zones, with a carefully designed path to lead the customers to go through one zone after another, after another, after another...
It took a long while to go through them. By the time we reached the exit, we were tired and thirsty. Dehydration, that's the impression IKEA has left on me.

故宮, 翠玉白菜

Dad and I intended to go to the 大英博物館250年收藏展 in 故宮博物院. As we approached the museum, we found that more and more people were heading for the museum. The traffic was jammed around the museum. When we got there, we saw long lines of people. One winding line was for entering the British Museum Exhibition. Another line was for buying the tickets. Both lines were really long. One museum worker announced that it will take 20 minutes to buy the tickets then line up for 60 minutes before entering the museum.

We tried to figure out how to get into the queue for the tickets. There were lines of people everywhere but we could see the end of the line. After tracing the line for a while. We finally saw the end of it. No, it definitely will not take only 20 minutes.

In the end, we decided to go to see the regular museum exhibition instead. The long queues were discouraging. I was more concerned that we wouldn't be able to comfortably see the items if it was too crowded inside, though.

There were many people at the regular museum exhibition too, but much less than the other one. The museum had been reburbished. It just re-opened recently. It looked more modern. We felt that there were less items on display, though. Many exhibition rooms were closed.

Due to the recent appearances on TV news, many visitors were interested in seeing 翠玉白菜. While we were in the museum, we could here somebody mention 翠玉白菜 every 2 minutes or so. There were actually signs at various spots that says 翠玉白菜 is in Room 30x. Many people did gather in that room. A crowd flocked around 翠玉白菜. I guess that's kind of a must-do for the tourists.
Although we had seen it before, I was still awed by the creativity and craft when I saw it.

It's interesting to go to a musuem to brush up my Chinese history once in a while. Hope there will be less people next time so we can easily go to the British Museum Exhibition.

Firefox 學長

我大多是用 Firefox, 而不是 Internet Explorer.
不知為何，逛到中文 Wikipedia 的 "Mozilla Firefox" 的描述, 發覺 0.7 版到 1.0 版的 code names 都是一些熟悉的地名，接著讀到這句:
Three Kings, Royal Oak, One Tree Hill, Mission Bay 和 Greenlane 都是紐西蘭奥克兰市内的地名；Whangamata 是紐西蘭科羅曼德半島一個靠海的城鎮。這些名字是由在奧克蘭長大的古德杰所命名的

難道, Firefox 開發團隊中有個主要的工程師是紐西蘭人嗎? 趕快搜尋一下 Ben Goodger 這號人物. 發現他不但是奧克蘭人，還是我同科系早一年的學長。我也沒看仔細，至少知道他有帶領 Firefox 的 project. 現在他是 Google 的僱員。

原來，我們這個科系的畢業生有在軟體產業這麼有成就的呀。也覺得有趣，讀這個科目感覺該去做 IC 設計, 微處理器, 嵌入式系統 etc. 我聽到滿多人是去做軟體的. Me too.

嗯, 要和學長看齊 :P


Wikipedia (Chinese) - Mozilla Firefox
Wikipedia (English) - Ben Goodger
Ben Goodger's blog: millenium | ten

電視上看到小學同學

最近常在電視上看到小學同學。
完全跟她不熟，畢業後從來沒碰面過，只有同學聚會時偶而會聽別人提起。
雖然如此，偶而在電視上看到時還是會注意一下。
這一兩週每天看到也覺得挺有趣的。
最近演的這支廣告播放的很頻繁，秒數又長，應該在台灣看電視很容易注意到吧。
不知對她的演藝生涯會如何？

廣告可去這裡看

ㄟ, 對了, TC 你最近有上電視、報紙嗎? :P

CSI: 南宋

這個週末在電視上看到在播"大宋提刑官"，之前聽說這部是中國的 CSI，好像還不錯，就停下來看看，一個週末總共播了三集，看了三集一個案子都還沒破。

大宋提刑官的背景在南宋，敘述提刑官宋慈如何利用犯罪科學、法醫鑑定的方式來找出真相，破解命案。聽起來很像CSI，只是時代是在中國宋朝，沒有許多現代的儀器和科學知識，但是還是可以從線索著手，在犯罪現場模擬狀況，用科學方式來推理。凶器、傷口、證物、不在場証明、時間、證人、動機等等...

比起 CSI, 大宋提刑官劇情牽扯的比較遠，討論角色之間關係也用了較多的篇幅，也有些是描述主角本身的性格等。
可是，實在是太慢了，古代辦案真是古代速度呀。看習慣 CSI 那種一個小時破一兩個案子的節奏，來看大宋提刑官覺得劇情進展的太慢了，而各段的對話等也太慢或太長。上網查了一下，原來我看到的這個案子總共要演 6 集，天哪，如果是 CSI 的話, 應該一集，或最多兩集就夠了。

台北燈會小惡魔角

台北燈會小惡魔角
之前在台北燈會看到不少人頭上戴者發光的小惡魔角，後來想到，可能是之前萬聖節留下來的
原本我還想是哪個電影宣傳完留下的.. Devil Wears Prada? Love Actually?
也有同事覺得那是豬耳朵, 豬年應景. hahaha
不知.. 有人賣, 有人買. To me, 這些惡魔角反而成為今年燈會的特色

幾個有惡魔角照片的 blog page:
http://www.wretch.cc/blog/puddings274&article_id=8634011
http://wiselyview.net/plog/read-805.html
http://www.wretch.cc/blog/ahao823&article_id=13962471

請修好漏水

每次去桃園機場都希望下雨。期望見到它的獨特之處。
進出了幾次第二航廈，每去一次就會罵它一下。
看了網路上的新聞和留言，發覺大家都已經把爛的地方寫出來了。
簡單的說，就是動線差，會漏水。
真的，會漏水。不過，要看到漏水要有點運氣，畢竟大部分的人都偶而才會去機場，看漏水還得去第二航廈，而且可能是出境才行，入境大廳在出境大廳之下，漏水可能不會從出境大廳再漏下去??
當然去的那時後還得有下雨才行，越大越好。
進出了幾次，也只有幸運的碰過一次。四、五年前，雨天，第二航廈，出境大廳，驚奇地目睹雨水從屋頂多處滴下來，滴進放在地上的水桶。負責清潔的女士則拿著拖把站在一旁，偶而在某些積水的點拖過幾遍。
搭台北香港的航班更是會覺得，兩小前後所進出的兩個機場，怎麼差這麼多。
嗯，據說漏水漏了六、七年了，現在還在漏。機場改名字倒是很快呀！
嗯，小時候就有聽說台灣要成為亞太營運中心。是我太沒耐心，還是它只是喊爽的？

我覺得呢，有兩種作法。一種就是把漏水修好，規劃對旅客更便利的動線，更清楚的標示，也讓那些空蕩的餐廳和商店多點客人吧。
另一種呢，反正這麼多年都沒有修漏水的決心，就乾脆利用漏水，規劃室內的流水造景。可以搭配燈光、音樂、景物，甚至在某些區段還可以加入色料、香精油、花瓣、紙船什麼的。
並且，改名水源機場。


網路上的新聞, blog, 留言等:
改名 不如改善國家門面
桃園機場全球85名　國際評比0顆星
中正機場第二航廈的動線實在不知道是怎麼設計的……
(圖) 漏水的二期航廈
從曼谷新機場落成啟用看台灣的危機