My humor style is sarcastic :p

Developer R: there is no error-report or probe capture with debug log to make sense of this bug or any comment within .. Tester L: It was an output defect and I did attach the probe capture. Question : Does that mean error-report and debug log are required to open a bug even there's no error showing? Manager M of L: Well, I am not sure whether error-report will help or not in this case, it should be easy to recreate. But the developer asked, let's give it to him (and I see you already done that). Tester L: Thanks, M. Here is another question... R assigned the bug back to me. Shall I assign back to development team? Or shall I just wait and see if any further comment from R? Manager M of L: Since you have provided him new information, please assign the bug back to him. Thanks. N.B: The fact isn't as bad as it seems. The actions involved are deem to be appropriate.

想通了？

老實說，認識的朋友都那麼怪，現在我常常問自己：是我的問題嗎？:p 那次小予問我是不是不開心，我沒有回答，只是落淚了，我想我嚇呆了她... 有時也不太清楚自己的感覺，我想我只是不開心了兩三天。現在不開心的是有點覺得自己跟一部機器一樣冷血... 閃電式結緍嗎？我想不會發生在我身上；但是他要這樣做，也就隨他吧，這是別人的決定。也不會覺得他這樣做是錯的，只有他們才知道他們想要的是什麼。反正理智的決定不一定會有最好的結果。我很喜歡那個 greedy algorithm 的 analogy，有時我們是要用 random 的才會逹到 global maximum。一個問題是：我的criterion function 是什麼？ 也許我做決定的時候都想太多了：學位怎麼了、找工作怎麼了、生活怎麼了、理想怎麼了...？是要在事情發生才解決嗎？當我很努力地把一切枝節的問題都解決了，對不起，重點的問題己經不在... 事情現在這樣的發展，讓我連後悔的感覺也沒有，只有覺得："我是一個大笨蛋" 和 "算了吧..." 我有學懂了什麼嗎？

LongShanTemple 龍山寺

Long Shan Temple; Tawanese politics

A 2L glass - Hey, don't mistake, this guy is not Dutch :p

German count++; Renee, a colleague of Lai working in Singapore. Wierd enough, I have more German than Taiwanese acquaintances here in Taipei.

Language exchange notes

Don't ask me why I spend so much time to learn German. I know this is a task with a very low priority, I just find it handy to be able to encode a conversation in certain contexts... (1) If you want a part-time job in a cafe in Germany, learn these:

• Radler = Alster(wasser) : helles Bier mit Sprite
• "fake" Radler: helles Bier mit Fanta
• Spezi = kalter Kaffee: Cola mit Fanta
• Kinderbier = Vita Malz
• Krefelder = Alt Schuss = Schmutziges: Altbier (2/3) (?) mit Cola (1/3)

(2) Expressing your feelings:

• Ich bin krank NIEMALS mir ist krank
• Heiss /kalt: mir ist heiss/kalt ODER Ich fuehle mich heiss/kalt (external Faktor) "Ich bin heiss" gibts auch, aber es bedeutet was anders
• Gut: Ich bin gut = Ich bin eine gute Person Ich fuehle mich gut = ich habe gute Laune/ ich bin guter (gen.) Laune mir ist gut / mir geht's gut = Ich bin gesund, ohne Problem

(3) With and without -s- when linking words: bei Steuer kann mit s oder ohne geschrieben werden, Einkommen[s]steuer, auch bei Bahhof[s]straße, und auch bei Partizipien als 2tes Wort, richtung[s]weisend

DataPower

Towards my goal of becoming a computer freak, let me blog about my work. Oh yeah, this is the first time in history, but I am not going to get technical...

These are the crazily expensive toys which I have been playing for 3 months in Taipei - SOA appliances - what a fancy name. I was told the non-discounted price of the yellow box is 8,000,000 NTD. Of course only giantic clients can afford to buy these boxes.

If I stay until Dec, the end of this project, I will be able to go through a full testing cycle.

The magical boxes