1st Day of Class

Last night is the beginning of the Auditing class. The instructor spent about 10 minutes to go through some standard term-opening items and then...

"That's it for tonight. You may go."

Everyone in the class were in shock. No one moved for one full minute and the instructor just smiled and said nothing. We then realized that this was not a joke and started to leave.

I could still catch my last train and had an easy night, but imagine those who fought the traffic, drove all the way to downtown, and paid $10 parking only to hear the instructor calling it a day in 10 minutes - I would not be happy.

Let's see how the next class will go.

Scream!

My boss was gone for a 2-week vacation in August. Guess what happened? 5 computers went blue-screen within the 2-weeks span!

The last time she had a 2-week vacation, the server room's UPS went dead and down with it, the servers. I swear there's a curse going on.

Wolf Totem

Finally I got my hands on the Chinese novel, Wolf Totem, the story of a young Beijing student on exile in Mongolia during the Cultural Revolution.

Because of my background in environment science, the first chapter had already lured me into the story: it described the local leaders who insisted on total eradication of wolves in the grassland without considering the effects on the food chain. My head is screaming "this story must be translated into English", "this is great environment course material" as I flipped through the pages. Not surprisingly, an English translation project is already underway. The British Penguin Group bought the English copyright and will publish the book in 2007. I'm really looking forward to it.

What has gotten into Zidane?!

It is so disappointing to see Zidane ending his legendary career with an ugly headbutt and a red card.

What Materazzi said to provoke the soccer great might forever be a mystery, hope the press won't be too hard on Zidane.

Farewell, my soccer hero!

Bye Bye, King of Divers! (拜拜插水王!)

葡萄牙影帝 Cristiano Ronaldo

Go home with your Portugal teammates and learn something called "sportsmanship"!

(Now I have one more reason to love Zidane!)

Cheating Portugal Highlights vs France World Cup
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QSHB-AQZ1E

買球票送 葡萄牙花式插水表演, 抵睇!