Hausaufgabe

Sie haben eine Stadtrundfahrt in Hongkong gemacht. Erzählen Sie! Schicken Sie mir eine Email. Hallo Thomas, ich habe am letzten Sonntag eine schöne Stadtrundfahrt in Hongkong gemacht. Daüber möchte ich dir erzählen. Zuerst war ich in einem chinesische Restaurant in Pacific Place, und ich hatte viele Dimsum und chinesischen Tee zum Frühstück. Denn bin ich zu Fuß zur Peak Tram Station gegangen. Mit der Tram bin ich zum Peak Turm gefahren. Er liegt fast am höchsten auf der Hongkong Insel. Man kann einen tollen Blick auf den Hongkong Hafen werfen. Dann bin ich mit dem Bus nach Hunghom gefahren, und ich habe die golden Toilette besucht. Leider habe ich nichts besonderes gefunden. Danach bin ich mit der Bahn von Hunghom nach Lam Tsuen gefahren. Ich habe die Tai Po Bahnstation verlassen, und bin dort in ein Taxi umgestiegen. In Lam Tsuen liegt ein grosser Baum, wo man Wünsche machen kann. Meine Gesundheit ist mir am wichtigsten. Geld finde ich auch sehr wichtig. Ich brauche unbedingt ein neues Handy. Hoppla, ich habe wirklich viele viele Wünsche. Zum Schluss hat mein Freund in Lam Tsuen mich abgeholt. Wir sind mit dem Auto nach Taikoo gefahren. Dort sind wir einige Stunden eisgelaufen und haben zu Abend gegessen. Das macht viel Spass! Tja, Thomas, so langsam schreibe ich diesen Brief zu Ende. Ich hoffe es hat dir etwas Freude gemacht diesen Brief zu lesen. Auf wiedersehen. Viele Grüße, Angie

Gambling...

Finally the Euro and the Pounds have gained back against the green, all in a sudden within a day. It reminds me of the Chinese saying "win a candy, lose a factory". Yet, there is still a long way before I can win a laptop... if I ever will... =p There was something wrong with the microwave oven today. It didn't stop. My first reaction was to switch off the electricity supply. Later someone discovered that I also cut the electricity for the fridge, and the microwave oven is functioning well. So what happened in the afternoon?! If everyone read the Spiegel, am I wrong for not writing a word about the rumour of the resignment of our dear Chief Executive?

The Gender Genie

Today I received an email from S from Sweden telling me that she's also learning German through blogging. When I browsed around her site, I found this fun stuff - The Gender Genie, which claims to be able to determine one's gender from one's written text. So I immediately pasted my *selected* blog writings "Scheiss Tag!!!". I thought that having so many computer terms, the Gender Genie would think that the author is a male. Indeed, the Gender Genie did decide the author to be a male, but the analysis was very different from what I've thought, they use those little words like "the", "some", "like" etc. for the analysis. It's a little bit long to explain. Try it yourself. =)

A fun start

Today I met 3 German tourists on the way to my school. I suspected quite early that they are from Germany, because I seem to have heard the man said "ach so", but the remaining of their dialogs was in English as I understood. Though their English accent sounded like my teacher's. When the woman approached me, she also spoke in English, and she didn't assume I can speak English either. The first question from her was, "do you speak English?". Then when I asked the woman on the bus, they indeed are from Germany. Unfortunately they took off the bus too early before I could give them some surprises. ;-) Anyway, today begins with something interesting. And when I told my skype friend... A: I met three Germans today, but they spoke to me in English... A: and they even wonder if I can speak English... =p M: in the net? A: nope, on the way to my school, at the bus stop. some tourists. M: hmmm stupid germans A: that's not my comment. =) A: bcos except the "ach so", their dialogs were in English, so I didn't realize they're from Germany... A: but anyway... work hard.... bis dann! M: beware no you are only allowed to curse HK people :)

Scheiss Tag!!!

Finally the laptop can't even power on. The problem was much more difficult than I have conceived. Very initially, I was told the laptop can't boot from a USB CD-ROM, and it can't boot into the harddisk with an error message "operating system not found". At first, I supposed it can be a corrupted boot record or something, for which the problem can be solved softwarely. After lots of efforts, I successfully borrowed a USB floppy drive, and downloaded the WinXP start up disks (6 disks in total!!). The USB floppy drive and the disks are bootable at the laptop. However, applying fdisk gives the error with something like "No device is found". Then, it was determined that the BIOS can't detect the harddisk. The next question was how to determine if the harddisk is really broken. Having no idea, we tried to dissembled the machine and dug out the model of the HD, but then a terrible experience followed. With many difficulties we opened the laptop, and after we re-assembled it, it can't even be powered on. Something was short-circuited?! And it was my first time to hear "Scheisse..." in reality life since I learnt this word. No matter how many times I say sorry, this tragedy is irreversible. I do think I learnt alot, but I wasn't the one to pay for the cost in terms of $, though I do pay something else... I can't remember if I have said anything after I answered the question about the coming days' weather, and before the "sleep well" which suddenly sounded ironic. That night was cold, and left me awful memories and guilty feelings... :'-(