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*** WARNING ***
Korean / Taiwanese TV drama’s are very addictive, don’t say I didn’t warn you if you watch one and get hooked on them
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I started watching a lot of these during my job searching days last year. My wife’s grandmother had some, our friends had some, and we watched and watched. Right now we have a couple more series that we’re watching, and I’m just baffled about something.

It seems that in most of these movies, someone (usually one of the main characters) will have a serious disease with little possible hope of suriving. Of course this makes better emotional play for the movie, but after awhile it seems that the producers have copied each other in terms of their plots. It’s just funny sometime, when I’m watching one of these, I will guess correctly what would happen next, and my wife and I would just laugh at it, because it has become so predictable.

And you know what’s even funnier? We keep on watching these series even though we know the plots are very similar, and even though they are very predictable.

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Argh… I didn’t feel well at all today. Since last night, I’ve had this headache bugging me. When I woke up in the morning and went to work, it subsided a bit, but when I got to work it came back.
It didn’t help much that I spent most of today in the server room, where the cold air was blowing in our faces. I had to wear my jacket and put on the hood in there, must’ve looked like a fool to everyone

My back’s also hurting from lifting up a server incorrectly. Everyone knows that you’re supposed to lift with your knees, not your back, but can I help it if the server almost fell (2 people job) and I reflexively took the weight on my back? Ouch again….

Oh well, I managed to catch some zzzz’s on the train back home, and my headache went away. I just feel so tired, but have to go practice music for this Sunday. Hopefully the practice doesn’t take that long.

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Well well well, my friends who are blogging just grew by 1. Check out Henry’s (Wen2 as we call him) blog at http://hhartono.blogspot.com .

It’s kinda cool to be able to influence someone to join a trend, just as I originally tried out blogging after seeing my former manager blog. Hopefully these blogs will grow up to form a community of some sort, and then it’s time for us to take over the world… uhh… scratch that… maybe just having a blogging community would be good

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In a galaxy far-far away, this incident happened:

A web application was needed and created for a certain department. It was supposed to be up an running within a year. The application still was not running after 2 years…, and a certain developer who shall remain nameless, inherited the application for completion.

The developer was baffled when he looked at the application. He had a couple of problems:
- The application was found all over the place, development server, production server, different locations within the development server, and various different versions. He had no clue which files were the ones to work with.
- The application was started by a student, who had to leave because his/her co-op term finished after a few months, only to be continued by a consultant who also had to leave. End results: a complete mess, partly working application, a jumble of HTML, and scattered pieces of files that our poor developer had to figure out.

Our developer then met with the client, fixed the functional problems, found which files ware actually needed to function and still had a headache trying to figure out the HTML. Of course, he would like nothing better than to start all over with the application, but that would be time consuming. So the developer had to continue working on the messed up HTML, trying to fix it, since a specific designer is not available.

Moral of the story:
- Have complete documentation of applications that you are working on. This helps the next person coming in to know what you’ve done and what’s to be done.
- If you’re not very good at design, ask for a good designer to help with the HTML part. Do not allow developers to act as designers because it’s generally not their strong suite. What ends up happening is jumbled HTML that nobody can fix that easily. Of course, this works vice versa…
- If you don’t have the resources to complete a project, then identify this at the beginning so things like developers acting as designers don’t happen.

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I never really liked coffee before, never believed it when people said coffee would be addicting. So one day, I was strolling thru the mall, and innocently purchased a white mocca at Second Cup. “Hey, this doesn’t taste half bad”, I thought to myself and then thought nothing more.

Well, a month later, I’m buying white mocca’s at Starbucks, Second Cup, and wherever else I can find one. What has gotten into me? Somehow the taste really makes me enjoy it very much, and the cold weather doesn’t help either I guess.

Even now, I find myself thinking of coffee after meals. I think I better start restraining myself before this becomes a full blown addiction, because it’s kinda expensive

People, be careful of coffee, it’s addicting (as if anybody doesn’t know this already)

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Oh wow, nothing like finding out from searching something completely unrelated, that your own brother is blogging . He never told me, and I never thought my brother would have a blog.

The funny thing is, I was actually searching something at technorati (I think it was Raptors – Heat or something…) and found his post about the game. To my surprise, there were Indonesian words in there, and to my shock, it was my brother :).

I think I’ll leave him a comment to let him know that I’ve found him. Here’s the link if anyone wants to get to know him.

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For the last week or so, I’ve been learning to type with the dvorak layout. Mainly because it’s supposed to save your wrists a couple of miles worth of typing every day (http://www.theworldofstuff.com/dvorak/).

“Less Finger Travel: Because of the arrangement of the keys, the Dvorak keyboard requires less finger travel. It has been estimated that a QWERTY typist’s fingers travel 16-20 miles a day, while a Dvorak typist’s fingers will only travel about 1 mile. This is a major benefit to the health of your fingers.”

So, I’ve followed the training on this page, as well as typed a couple of pages worth every day. I’m glad to say that as of right now, I’m up 30 wpm on the dvorak layout. Of course, this is still a far reach from my normal speed of around 80 – 90 wpm, but hey it’s not bad for one week’s worth of typing.

I’m planning on getting up to speed within the next 3 or 4 weeks, and hopefully switch to dvorak for most of my typing, because my writsts have been known to hurt once in a while from too much computer work.

Another thing I found by learning dvorak is that it’s actually quite fun to be able to switch back and forth between two different layouts without too much trouble. I guess our brain is really wired in an amazing way.

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I added my site feed to the side bar if anybody’s interested.
http://darrick.blogspot.com/atom.xml

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Merry Christmas everyone, hope you have a blessed and joyful day !

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On Thursday night, I was driving on the 401 going to Church for music practice. This was after a whole day of snow, and freezing raing, so the road conditions were pretty bad. Well, little did I know I was going to get quite a scare.

Just before entering the 400, there is a bit of a slope on the 401. Now usually, going at about 100K/hr, I have no problems at all. But this day, the road was really, really, really (you get the point) slippery, and lots of vehicles were moving slowly. So in the middle of the climb, my car gets stuck and can’t move forward or backward. Usually, just the blinkers will take care of this while I try do something. Imagine my shock when I see in front of me a trailer that has the same problem as me, except… it was actually sliding back towards me !!!

So somehow in panic, I manage to move left a bit, and get halfway through before my car gets stuck again, right in the middle of the 401, blocking 2 right lanes. All the while the trailer was sliding back and appeared to be on collision course with the rear end of my car. A prayer and fleeting moment of panic later, the truck stopped, and I still couldn’t move.

To make the story short, a police cruiser came by to assist me, and salt trucks came and cleared the road ahead of me. Apparently I wasn’t the only one this happened to, according to the news, there were almost 100 incidents on the highway that night. I really thought there was nothing more dangerous than driving in Indonesia, now I stand corrected.

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