All of a sudden, my world turns turmoiled by various shocks and surprises at work and in my personal life.
A favor on resource locating for a colleague at another dept turning into a business line potically incorrect judgement. My email closing signature, with all the correspondence removed, is now used as the arrow in the complain letters shooting to my dept heads and that colleague's dept from everywhere by those 'gladiators' who claim to own the correct process... wait... excuse me...what is the definition of "correct process"? Who can judge if their "correct process" complying with other's?
Moreover, some accusations are based on a second hand and incorrect information. Interestingly, those big heads who shooting complain letters never ever ask their doubts to the email sender, who? ME! Instead, they simply speak from their viewpoint, based on a distorted truth... how ironic! This just so reminds me of our current president election dispute...
Some say that this is just politics. When you are at a certain level in a large company, you are not doing the business anymore, only politics remained... I can understand why they send out such complain letters and cause the snowball effect to strive for their "rights"... hope not, but I probably do the same if I were at their positions. Yet, is this common and a must to survive in the business jungle? If so, my disappointment will be added on the top of my depression... and if really so, is this time for my changing?????? i am soooooooooooo depressed and struggled...
sigh... the shock and arguement in personal life to come in the next posts...
Monday, March 29, 2004
Sunday, March 14, 2004
Friends gathering in Taipei
Seems many of my friends are gradually gathering in Taipei...
Andreas is now living in Taipei along with his family for an overseas assignment. Franziska is thus attending a Chinese language course to fit herself more into the local life. Little cute Jakob now greets "Xie Xie!" during the weekdays after spending most of his day times in the local daycare center. He switches to "Danke!" during the weekends when spending more time with his parents and back to "Xie Xie!" in the next week. In addition, Andreas' sister will come to Taipei for a short visit next week. The last time I met her was in Newcastle, wow, in 1996 or 1997!! Oh, then our old time common friend Ruth would certainly have a visit to Taipei sooner or later...
Ralf, Andreas' colleague, will also have his business trip here next week. We become friends thru Andreas when their first business trip to Taipei. It's just so coincidence that we often miss meeting each other. His arrival date to Taipei is usually the same date of my departure to Raleigh. Last year in March, he arrived Taipei in the morning and, the same day, I flied to Raleigh in the afternoon. We had a quick lunch together near my office, along with some of my colleagues... ahh... in a vegetarian restaurant... This Jan, the same thing would almost happen again. He decided to postpone his business trip and we at last will meet each other next week too...
My French friend, Laurent, is having his 1-year Chinese language course here. He is very brave to make such a big move in life, stopping his freelancing jobs, leaving his flat in France, and being a student again. He works very hard on his study, dedicating all of his time on practising pronounciation, conversation, writing and memorizing Chinese characters. By the way, another French friend, Myriam, is planning to move to Taipei for a short stay later this year too...
The interesting thing is... while friends are flying and moving over here, my plan of leaving this city is soon ongoing and my craving to life change is growing larger and lager... why so... i dunno...
Andreas is now living in Taipei along with his family for an overseas assignment. Franziska is thus attending a Chinese language course to fit herself more into the local life. Little cute Jakob now greets "Xie Xie!" during the weekdays after spending most of his day times in the local daycare center. He switches to "Danke!" during the weekends when spending more time with his parents and back to "Xie Xie!" in the next week. In addition, Andreas' sister will come to Taipei for a short visit next week. The last time I met her was in Newcastle, wow, in 1996 or 1997!! Oh, then our old time common friend Ruth would certainly have a visit to Taipei sooner or later...
Ralf, Andreas' colleague, will also have his business trip here next week. We become friends thru Andreas when their first business trip to Taipei. It's just so coincidence that we often miss meeting each other. His arrival date to Taipei is usually the same date of my departure to Raleigh. Last year in March, he arrived Taipei in the morning and, the same day, I flied to Raleigh in the afternoon. We had a quick lunch together near my office, along with some of my colleagues... ahh... in a vegetarian restaurant... This Jan, the same thing would almost happen again. He decided to postpone his business trip and we at last will meet each other next week too...
My French friend, Laurent, is having his 1-year Chinese language course here. He is very brave to make such a big move in life, stopping his freelancing jobs, leaving his flat in France, and being a student again. He works very hard on his study, dedicating all of his time on practising pronounciation, conversation, writing and memorizing Chinese characters. By the way, another French friend, Myriam, is planning to move to Taipei for a short stay later this year too...
The interesting thing is... while friends are flying and moving over here, my plan of leaving this city is soon ongoing and my craving to life change is growing larger and lager... why so... i dunno...
Thursday, March 04, 2004
odd country name for Taiwan
How come the country name for Taiwan in the ISO 3166-1 Code List as "Taiwan, Province of China"?
Taiwan is OF COURSE NOT a province of China!
Okay, the followings might explain the country name source coming from:
Fourth, the country names used in ISO 3166-1 are all from United Nations sources. Using these country names officially notified by the countries to the UN Secretary General helps in keeping ISO 3166-1 politically neutral and thus acceptable to as many users as possible.
Yet...Taiwan is OF COURSE NOT a province of China!
Yeah, we may take the "China" in the "Taiwan, Province of China" as that in "R.O.C". But, to be practical, a letter with Taiwan, ROC on the envolope may directly be sent to PROC and the recepient may never receive it ever since...
*sigh*.... now, I am blaming myself being lazy and not joining the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally human chain activity...
Taiwan is OF COURSE NOT a province of China!
Okay, the followings might explain the country name source coming from:
Fourth, the country names used in ISO 3166-1 are all from United Nations sources. Using these country names officially notified by the countries to the UN Secretary General helps in keeping ISO 3166-1 politically neutral and thus acceptable to as many users as possible.
Yet...Taiwan is OF COURSE NOT a province of China!
Yeah, we may take the "China" in the "Taiwan, Province of China" as that in "R.O.C". But, to be practical, a letter with Taiwan, ROC on the envolope may directly be sent to PROC and the recepient may never receive it ever since...
*sigh*.... now, I am blaming myself being lazy and not joining the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally human chain activity...
Monday, March 01, 2004
Peanuts
Just read the Peanuts 2004 daily calender bought in Raleigh and find this hilarious comic strip.
A cool site for Peanuts:
- Snoopy first appeared in Oct 4, 1950!
- The very first Peanuts comic strip and the first time Charlie Brown is called 'Good Ol' Charlie Brown!
- and for the other characters...
Charles M. Schulz, what a great author!
A cool site for Peanuts:
- Snoopy first appeared in Oct 4, 1950!
- The very first Peanuts comic strip and the first time Charlie Brown is called 'Good Ol' Charlie Brown!
- and for the other characters...
Charles M. Schulz, what a great author!
Thursday, February 26, 2004
Static and Silence
Just got one of my favorite CD back, The Sunday's Static and Silence. Thought it was lost but actually lent it to a colleague long time ago...
This page contains short sound clips for each song in this CD. Here is all the lyrics for The Sundays. Among them, this one is my favorite. The followings is what I like the most:
...
when you're searching your soul
when you're searching for pleasure
how often, pain is all you find
but when you're coasting along and nobody's trying too hard
you can turn around and like where you are
...
Some news for The Sundays, though the latest one is in Feb 2002...
This page contains short sound clips for each song in this CD. Here is all the lyrics for The Sundays. Among them, this one is my favorite. The followings is what I like the most:
...
when you're searching your soul
when you're searching for pleasure
how often, pain is all you find
but when you're coasting along and nobody's trying too hard
you can turn around and like where you are
...
Some news for The Sundays, though the latest one is in Feb 2002...
Monday, February 23, 2004
NY and RTP, NC
Photos taken in New York and RTP, North Carolina for my trip in Jan & Feb, 2004.
Somehow, a faint vague voice deep inside murmuring, just hope the photos taken in RTP can be found under "that" directory... yet, a vain hope...
Wake up! silly gal...
Somehow, a faint vague voice deep inside murmuring, just hope the photos taken in RTP can be found under "that" directory... yet, a vain hope...
Wake up! silly gal...
Sunday, February 22, 2004
my first photo logs
Two of my photo log sites:
http://www.fotolog.net/littleislander/:
This free fotolog site can only add one photo per day...
http://littleislander.fotopages.com :
This free fotolog site can add more photos at one time...
Getting start now...
http://www.fotolog.net/littleislander/:
This free fotolog site can only add one photo per day...
http://littleislander.fotopages.com :
This free fotolog site can add more photos at one time...
Getting start now...
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
snow in Durham!!
Monday, February 16, 2004
Valentine Heart
nothing much to say, just...
I'VE GOT A VALENTINE HEART!! a valentine heart formed by slices of apples!! AN APPLE VALENTINE HEART!!!
flying 19 hours at the altitude of 36,000 feet, this heart had accompanied me enjoying the Orions at my right hand side on the way to Alaska and back home to Taipei, contented...
I'VE GOT A VALENTINE HEART!! a valentine heart formed by slices of apples!! AN APPLE VALENTINE HEART!!!
flying 19 hours at the altitude of 36,000 feet, this heart had accompanied me enjoying the Orions at my right hand side on the way to Alaska and back home to Taipei, contented...
lost and found
the 12-year-old left his sunglasses at the heart-broken's.
Heart-broken: hey, you left your sunglasses yesterday.
12-year-old: see, you're not the only one who loses things...
Heart-broken: yet, your lost can be easily found. my lost can not...
12-year-old: yeah yeah. we all have things that are hard to find. believe me.
Heart-broken: right right... just my lost can be found by someone, but that someone does not want to find it for me... what can i do?
12-year-old: hmm...
12-year-old: get coffee?
Heart-broken: ^_^... yes, let's go!
Heart-broken: hey, you left your sunglasses yesterday.
12-year-old: see, you're not the only one who loses things...
Heart-broken: yet, your lost can be easily found. my lost can not...
12-year-old: yeah yeah. we all have things that are hard to find. believe me.
Heart-broken: right right... just my lost can be found by someone, but that someone does not want to find it for me... what can i do?
12-year-old: hmm...
12-year-old: get coffee?
Heart-broken: ^_^... yes, let's go!
Thursday, February 12, 2004
lost
the 12-year-old teased me,
you've lost your pot;
you've lost your car battery;
you've lost your room key, and
you've lost your voice.
what will you lose next?
huh? next? of course no next...yet...
just realised i've lost my heart... but...
found broken.
with a broken heart, i am finding my way out... and... have to...
you've lost your pot;
you've lost your car battery;
you've lost your room key, and
you've lost your voice.
what will you lose next?
huh? next? of course no next...yet...
just realised i've lost my heart... but...
found broken.
with a broken heart, i am finding my way out... and... have to...
Tuesday, February 10, 2004
charades
Charades is called "bi3 sho3 hua4 jiao3" in Chinese .
Last Friday, after the dumpling and Taiwanese rice noodle party, me, Kai, Erik, Tracy, and some testers played this game tegether. Amused to see how people from different countries acting out the words using various gestures and movements which are underminingly affected by their cultures or how they were brought up.
For example, Kai, the half American & half German & resident in France, placed one arm near his nose and raised up that arm to act out "An Elephant", whereas I, the Taiwanese, used two hands, placing my right thumb and point finger on my nose to form a circle in front of my chest and then my left arm streching out of this circle to form "An Elephant"! Do elephants look different in Taipei/Newcastle or New York/Boston/Paris?
How about the next... when Kai used two arms to round a circle in front of his belly and then bent aback his waist, Kenji the Japanese suddendly shouted "fat" and then "American"... the answer is......
Santa Clause!!!
Okay, okay, I was also teased for acting out "The Berlin Wall" and "Skiier"...
Plus, it's very interesting to see how quickly people guessed the correct answers. Erik and Tracy the couple always easily shouted out correct answers from each other's acting. Amazingly, I could quickly get the right answer from Kai's. This guy was soooooo kind to comment that it must result from my watching his behaviour closely! ha! seemed he could quickly guess mine too... anyway, in this case, how people think seems not affected by nationality and culture... interesting...
Playing this game was with loads of fun... we laughed out loud when the presenter kept using the same but audience-didn't-understand-at-all guesture or movement to act out the words. The presenter also laughed when audiences kept shouting out his/her every moverments, especially when Kai's acting... "uhh...touching his head, touching his face, uhh... thinking, wondering, ..." For one moment, I seemed to see a 12-year-old boy with a navy blue shirt, bursting out laughing with a sunshine-like face, wondering nothing and worrying nothing...
Last Friday, after the dumpling and Taiwanese rice noodle party, me, Kai, Erik, Tracy, and some testers played this game tegether. Amused to see how people from different countries acting out the words using various gestures and movements which are underminingly affected by their cultures or how they were brought up.
For example, Kai, the half American & half German & resident in France, placed one arm near his nose and raised up that arm to act out "An Elephant", whereas I, the Taiwanese, used two hands, placing my right thumb and point finger on my nose to form a circle in front of my chest and then my left arm streching out of this circle to form "An Elephant"! Do elephants look different in Taipei/Newcastle or New York/Boston/Paris?
How about the next... when Kai used two arms to round a circle in front of his belly and then bent aback his waist, Kenji the Japanese suddendly shouted "fat" and then "American"... the answer is......
Santa Clause!!!
Okay, okay, I was also teased for acting out "The Berlin Wall" and "Skiier"...
Plus, it's very interesting to see how quickly people guessed the correct answers. Erik and Tracy the couple always easily shouted out correct answers from each other's acting. Amazingly, I could quickly get the right answer from Kai's. This guy was soooooo kind to comment that it must result from my watching his behaviour closely! ha! seemed he could quickly guess mine too... anyway, in this case, how people think seems not affected by nationality and culture... interesting...
Playing this game was with loads of fun... we laughed out loud when the presenter kept using the same but audience-didn't-understand-at-all guesture or movement to act out the words. The presenter also laughed when audiences kept shouting out his/her every moverments, especially when Kai's acting... "uhh...touching his head, touching his face, uhh... thinking, wondering, ..." For one moment, I seemed to see a 12-year-old boy with a navy blue shirt, bursting out laughing with a sunshine-like face, wondering nothing and worrying nothing...
Monday, February 02, 2004
Lost in Durham
Gosh! It took me almost 1.5 hours to reach Duke University....
Followed the direction in the Yahoo map but turned out useless... turned right on "BARBEE RD/OLD DURHAM - APEX RD/S BARBEE RD" and, excuse me, I drove onto the wet muddy so called "Barbee RD" and ended up in the front yards of some country houses!! *sigh*...
Okay, then turned back to the East 54 and drove along the Chapel Hill RD (why are there so many Chapel Hill RDs in this area?)... so... I found myself in Cary! Cary (Concentrated Area for Relocated Yankee)!!! At last, got the correct direction info in a gas station and a supermarket. The warm-hearted middle-aged black man, with cute white short beard, even noted down the directions step by step, took me out of the supermarket, and showed me the direction back to N147. Though i was shiveringly standing in the cold weather with a thin T-shirt, my heart was warmed and full of appreciation.
In addition to kind and warm hosipitality of Durham locals, my adventure today also worths a bunch of good things! Found a beatiful lake, Lake Crabtree, on the way back to N147 and a nice state park (ahh... forget the name... dxxx). Plus, Duke Univerity is sooooooooo beatiful in the winter!!! It's really worthy to re-visit again and again!!
Followed the direction in the Yahoo map but turned out useless... turned right on "BARBEE RD/OLD DURHAM - APEX RD/S BARBEE RD" and, excuse me, I drove onto the wet muddy so called "Barbee RD" and ended up in the front yards of some country houses!! *sigh*...
Okay, then turned back to the East 54 and drove along the Chapel Hill RD (why are there so many Chapel Hill RDs in this area?)... so... I found myself in Cary! Cary (Concentrated Area for Relocated Yankee)!!! At last, got the correct direction info in a gas station and a supermarket. The warm-hearted middle-aged black man, with cute white short beard, even noted down the directions step by step, took me out of the supermarket, and showed me the direction back to N147. Though i was shiveringly standing in the cold weather with a thin T-shirt, my heart was warmed and full of appreciation.
In addition to kind and warm hosipitality of Durham locals, my adventure today also worths a bunch of good things! Found a beatiful lake, Lake Crabtree, on the way back to N147 and a nice state park (ahh... forget the name... dxxx). Plus, Duke Univerity is sooooooooo beatiful in the winter!!! It's really worthy to re-visit again and again!!
Saturday, January 31, 2004
a party in Durham, NC
Went to Tracy's birthday party last night in Durham, NC and enjoyed a lot the easy-going party flow.
Felt a bit didn't-know-what-to-do at the beginning cause most of the people in the party were so new-face for me. Also, most of the testers had not arrived and in fact I haven't had time getting to know them well yet. Kai was busy smoking and talking with Tracy outside of the kitchen. Chatting with Erik was nice and that helped getting thru my ice breaking time. (Erik is very keen at obversation when he vividly described the water fall from the huge water tanks in LAB and the appearance of Chinese Thousand Egg in the party. He seems more like a writer to me than a software engineer... getting to admire his talent...)
Get back to the party... is this sort of a culture shock? Taking the time going to the party as an example, in my culture, attending the party on the dot is showing the respect to the host. However, my party experiences in Newcastle, England had me getting used to a different aspect. My German friend Ruth once commented from her observation, "If the invitation lists the starting time at 7pm, then eventually we'd better show up after 8pm in case the host hasn't done the preparation and to avoid the awkward ice breaking period." Ha, this finding helped us enjoy many parties thru our staying there. Interestingly, I kind of still arrived early in the tester group (though at 9pm, an hour later than the listed time. Plus, Kai may not be counted as a guest, I assume.) hehe...
Secondly, parties I used to have are among closed colleagues and good friends. We have more common topics, similiar life experiences to share, no matter happiness or problems. Last night, it was also a new experience. Amazed to find that there were several groups from the hosts' friend nets, including colleagues, neighbors, friend's friends and... friends met via the Internet communities. Eli and Emily were two of them and said that they met each other and Tracy in person the first time last night... wow... I felt surprised but impressed by this kind of first enounter...
The party went on more relaxing for me when getting to know more people and when other testers arriving. Yet, felt left alone when Kai suddenly left the party and dropped the words that he would be back later but didn't before I headed back. Although I usually can manage myself well in social activities (thanks for Mom) and not a too attached person, deep in mind, I find myself need a fimilar person/thing around to feel secured. In that case, Kai was the one since he was the person I knew the best in that party (uhh...did I?)
Ha, loads of self-finding from last night's party... wait... wasn't it supposed to a birthday party? Tracy didn't make her birthday wishes though... ahh... okay, maybe another different view on the birthday party...
Last question, can't help wondering why people are now getting more closed via the text conversations, but lack of the feeling of intimacy or fimilarity when meeting face to face?
Felt a bit didn't-know-what-to-do at the beginning cause most of the people in the party were so new-face for me. Also, most of the testers had not arrived and in fact I haven't had time getting to know them well yet. Kai was busy smoking and talking with Tracy outside of the kitchen. Chatting with Erik was nice and that helped getting thru my ice breaking time. (Erik is very keen at obversation when he vividly described the water fall from the huge water tanks in LAB and the appearance of Chinese Thousand Egg in the party. He seems more like a writer to me than a software engineer... getting to admire his talent...)
Get back to the party... is this sort of a culture shock? Taking the time going to the party as an example, in my culture, attending the party on the dot is showing the respect to the host. However, my party experiences in Newcastle, England had me getting used to a different aspect. My German friend Ruth once commented from her observation, "If the invitation lists the starting time at 7pm, then eventually we'd better show up after 8pm in case the host hasn't done the preparation and to avoid the awkward ice breaking period." Ha, this finding helped us enjoy many parties thru our staying there. Interestingly, I kind of still arrived early in the tester group (though at 9pm, an hour later than the listed time. Plus, Kai may not be counted as a guest, I assume.) hehe...
Secondly, parties I used to have are among closed colleagues and good friends. We have more common topics, similiar life experiences to share, no matter happiness or problems. Last night, it was also a new experience. Amazed to find that there were several groups from the hosts' friend nets, including colleagues, neighbors, friend's friends and... friends met via the Internet communities. Eli and Emily were two of them and said that they met each other and Tracy in person the first time last night... wow... I felt surprised but impressed by this kind of first enounter...
The party went on more relaxing for me when getting to know more people and when other testers arriving. Yet, felt left alone when Kai suddenly left the party and dropped the words that he would be back later but didn't before I headed back. Although I usually can manage myself well in social activities (thanks for Mom) and not a too attached person, deep in mind, I find myself need a fimilar person/thing around to feel secured. In that case, Kai was the one since he was the person I knew the best in that party (uhh...did I?)
Ha, loads of self-finding from last night's party... wait... wasn't it supposed to a birthday party? Tracy didn't make her birthday wishes though... ahh... okay, maybe another different view on the birthday party...
Last question, can't help wondering why people are now getting more closed via the text conversations, but lack of the feeling of intimacy or fimilarity when meeting face to face?
Monday, January 26, 2004
Strand
Strand, a great bookstore in New York City for art, fiction, history, children and all other sorts of books, in a fairly bargained discount price, 1/2 of original price for most of the paperbacks
almost can't resist my shopping desire when spotting Winnie the Pooh, Raggedy Ann, and even MARY POPPINGS!!! all are in my childhood reading memory. My parents bought a set of children's reading novels and the above were all there, of course, in Chinese version... ahh... start getting the sense why i am now involved in translation business...
almost can't resist my shopping desire when spotting Winnie the Pooh, Raggedy Ann, and even MARY POPPINGS!!! all are in my childhood reading memory. My parents bought a set of children's reading novels and the above were all there, of course, in Chinese version... ahh... start getting the sense why i am now involved in translation business...
Making dumplings in New York
Guess what? Lucien and I just made dumplings here in New York, which is the first time in 10 years we've made the dumplings together. Lucien wanted to do it to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year but couldn't find time. So, now the sister comes visiting, serving as a Taiwanese food express delivery person and a cook...
okay, in fact, it's quite fun doing the dumplings. Have to recall our home recipe and buy all the ingredients we did in the old time. Quite amazed that we actually did find all the stuff needed in the Chinese supermaket, especially for the dumpling skins. Chopping the chives and cabbages, mixing the vegis with the minced pork, wrapping the dumplings while chatting with Lucien, making the corn soup... all in all, reminds us of many memories we have long forgotten...
and the strange thing is... we had the dumplings with the couple Lanchi (tw) and Taka (japan) together for the Golden Global Award watching party...
will add the photos tomorrow...
okay, in fact, it's quite fun doing the dumplings. Have to recall our home recipe and buy all the ingredients we did in the old time. Quite amazed that we actually did find all the stuff needed in the Chinese supermaket, especially for the dumpling skins. Chopping the chives and cabbages, mixing the vegis with the minced pork, wrapping the dumplings while chatting with Lucien, making the corn soup... all in all, reminds us of many memories we have long forgotten...
and the strange thing is... we had the dumplings with the couple Lanchi (tw) and Taka (japan) together for the Golden Global Award watching party...
will add the photos tomorrow...
Saturday, January 24, 2004
Freezing in New York
gosh! New York is sooooooo cold... -9C... it's like walking in the freezer...how can Lucien and Shaye bear with this freezing weather? Hope Raleigh would be warmer...
by the way, heard Taipei is also cold too. even snowing in YangMing Mt, 20 mins driving distance from my house, almost the city center... what happen, World?
better go to bed soon to get the jetlag away...
by the way, heard Taipei is also cold too. even snowing in YangMing Mt, 20 mins driving distance from my house, almost the city center... what happen, World?
better go to bed soon to get the jetlag away...
Monday, January 19, 2004
referendum
here is the vedio clip for the interview on "謝志偉嗆聲". Choose the date of "2004年1月8日".
here is the discussion on that interview:
"台視的「謝志偉嗆聲」1 月 8 日的節目訪問了譚慎格教授及岡崎教授，譚教授以不甚流利的中文，闡述布希之前被誤導而說出「反對台灣公投」的內幕，美國政府後來對台灣公投立場的轉變（由「反對」變成「不支持」），美國為什麼從來不承認台灣是中國的一部分，以及他為什麼堅決主張台灣一定要舉辦 320防衛公投的原因。..."
i am now more and more wishing the preventive/defensive (whatever) referendum will be held on 3/20....
here is the discussion on that interview:
"台視的「謝志偉嗆聲」1 月 8 日的節目訪問了譚慎格教授及岡崎教授，譚教授以不甚流利的中文，闡述布希之前被誤導而說出「反對台灣公投」的內幕，美國政府後來對台灣公投立場的轉變（由「反對」變成「不支持」），美國為什麼從來不承認台灣是中國的一部分，以及他為什麼堅決主張台灣一定要舉辦 320防衛公投的原因。..."
i am now more and more wishing the preventive/defensive (whatever) referendum will be held on 3/20....
Thursday, January 15, 2004
Live in Skudeneshavn and Flipper
The webcamera in Skudeneshavn
This corner reminds me of the dolphin Flipper. When meeting him, he was sleeping and sometimes snoring under the ferry in the harbour...
Yet, Grete said that Flipper has been missing for a long time and heard dead already... pls, don't be true...
News for Flipper:
October 2002: Flipper is missing, and some people fears that the popular dolphin is dead. The Norwegian Institute of Marine Reserch has no information supporting that theory. The dolphin has not been seen since June.
November 2002: A carcass found on a beatch in Karmøy is supposed to be Flipper. Investigations of the 3 m. long carcass (witch had no head), shows that is was a small basking shark.
July 2003: Members of the foundation: "Flippers Venner" (Flippers friends) are worried. Flipper has not been seen in Norway this year.
This corner reminds me of the dolphin Flipper. When meeting him, he was sleeping and sometimes snoring under the ferry in the harbour...
Yet, Grete said that Flipper has been missing for a long time and heard dead already... pls, don't be true...
News for Flipper:
October 2002: Flipper is missing, and some people fears that the popular dolphin is dead. The Norwegian Institute of Marine Reserch has no information supporting that theory. The dolphin has not been seen since June.
November 2002: A carcass found on a beatch in Karmøy is supposed to be Flipper. Investigations of the 3 m. long carcass (witch had no head), shows that is was a small basking shark.
July 2003: Members of the foundation: "Flippers Venner" (Flippers friends) are worried. Flipper has not been seen in Norway this year.
last minute
suffering from my unorganised and "everything in the last minute" behaviour...
- missing the River Dance performance in Taipei last night so to grade the final exam, which i should have done so one week ago... plus, the ticket is quite expensive... : (
- hurrying to the college this evening so as to deliver the scorecard, because i again missed the due time for inputing students' grades via the website...
priority... priority...*sigh*...
- missing the River Dance performance in Taipei last night so to grade the final exam, which i should have done so one week ago... plus, the ticket is quite expensive... : (
- hurrying to the college this evening so as to deliver the scorecard, because i again missed the due time for inputing students' grades via the website...
priority... priority...*sigh*...
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