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- What a month - 2008!!!
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This is not even February and three of my family member/close friends have left this world! What a month!!
Went to his funeral last weekend – young doctor in his 40s… heart attack… the mortuary was pack with his co-worker, friends and family. Over 10 years of knowing him & his wife – and now he is gone.
Why, we ask? NOT FAIR!
Like I say before – treasure the time with your love one(s)… because you never know when would be the last time you will be able to hold their hands and tell them you love them.
Would more reading be better for me – just to take my mind away? sigh….
Wednesday January 30, 2008 - 10:26am (PST) Permanent Link | 1 Comment - Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year to you all! So, how’s your new year so far?
Oh well – within the first week of New Year: two close family deaths within 48 hours. Not a fun way to start the new year.
If you love someone – family member, your mom, your dad, your wife, your husband, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, your uncle, your fish… whoever that would be – tell them now!!!
Because you may not have tomorrow to tell them.
Monday January 7, 2008 - 11:48pm (PST) Permanent Link | 1 Comment - More time for book - anyone?
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Another book by Grisham? So soon? Sure!
But this fiction has nothing to do with the usual “lawyer” stuff. Relatively short book (around 250 pages) and talk about football in Italy (not soccer – American football!). After his last book (the innocent man) – this is kind of a “feel good” book. With my current time off, I can get this finish within a week.
Apart from spending my time with my family, reading; I am getting my character(s) level up on Titan Quest (if you have no idea what I am talking - go Google it!) … cool graphic.
Thursday October 18, 2007 - 11:27pm (PDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments - Traditional vs. Simplified???
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I have received the following email from one of my Chinese friends:
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聯合國決定於2008 廢除繁體中文. 若成了, 那每個香港人、台灣人幾乎都得學簡體字,
想想我們老祖先千年留給我們的姓名也將因簡體而變形,繁體中文一經廢除，中文字的字意來源、當中造字的智慧亦無從考究中華文化遺產的摧毀不僅發生在中國, 也行將全世界,可能以後要讀繁體字只能在日本, 這多諷刺呀!想了就可怕, 請將這封信用力寄出去. 下面網站是為了反對這項決定 大家去投票吧 謝謝
投票步驟:
1.點下方網頁進入
2.滑動轉軸到下方一點的地方,點 Sign the petition
3.填寫資料
4.送出即成
5.轉寄給其他朋友Please send this to all your friends and relatives. Sign the petition by logging on the web:
http://www.gopetition.com/region/237/8314.html
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For those of you who don’t read Chinese character – this is a Petition to UN – the abolishment of Traditional Chinese in UN documents (vs. simplified Chinese).
I found the agreement quite interesting – I am not going to say Yes or No… but just something to chew on for today.
Wednesday August 8, 2007 - 09:41am (PDT) Permanent Link | 1 Comment - To clean… or to read?
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I found that it is almost impossible to clean my pistol while I am trying to catch up my Deathly Hallows. I don’t want to “grease” my book and I can not concentrate on the reading neither.
Decision, decision??
So, I finished Harry Potter #7 last night (or very late this morning).
Once again – Spoiler Ahead! Spoiler Ahead! Spoiler Ahead! Spoiler Ahead! Spoiler Ahead!
Spoiler Ahead! Spoiler Ahead! Spoiler Ahead! Spoiler Ahead! Spoiler Ahead! Spoiler Ahead!
Everyone is dead!
Weasley family is gone!
Lupin is dead!
Snape is double-agent, double under-cover.
Dumbledore is alive (somewhere)
Even Dobby (elf) is murdered!!
OK, OK – not all of the above is truth (some of them are)… so, you have to read the book and figure out what is what.
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So – do I like the ending of the book? I guess so. I can see that the story line can spawn to other titles and Harry would live for a very, very long time (after all – he did defeat Voldemort).
Remember the part when Dumbledore talks to Harry Kings Cross (the bright white room)? It just reminds me of Neo talking to the programmer (creator of the Matrix) again… where is Agent Smith when you need him!?!
So - Harry won the girl and lives happily ever after. If this is gonna be the last of Harry series, I am going to miss all the characters.
By the way, I found this online...
SPOILER ALERT: Those who do not wish to know what happens to the characters after the book ends should stop reading here.
Rowling said the world was a sunnier, happier place after the seventh book and the death of Voldemort.
Harry Potter, who always voiced a desire to become an Auror, or someone who fights dark wizards, was named head of the Auror Department under the new wizarding government headed by his friend and ally, Kingsley Shacklebolt.
His wife, Ginny Weasley, stuck with her athletic career, playing for the Holyhead Harpies, the all-female Quidditch team. Eventually, Ginny left the team to raise their three children _ James, Albus and Lily _ while writing as the senior Quidditch correspondent for the wizarding newspaper, the Daily Prophet.
Harry's best friend, Ron Weasley, joined his brother, George, as a partner at their successful joke shop, Weasley's Wizard Wheezes. Hermione Granger, Ron's wife and the third person of the series' dark wizard fighting trio, furthered the rights of subjugated creatures such as house elves in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures before joining the magical law enforcement squad. The couple had two children _ Rose and Hugo.
Luna Lovegood, Harry's airily distracted friend with a love for imaginary animals who joins the fight against Voldemort in the Order of the Phoenix, becomes a famous wizarding naturalist who eventually marries the grandson of Newt Scamander, author of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them."
http://www.comcast.net/entertainment/index.jsp?cat=ENTERTAINMENT&fn=/2007/07/...
Monday July 30, 2007 - 11:14am (PDT) Permanent Link | 2 Comments
