Rattles
Sunday, January 21, 2007
There was a date on Zixian's MSN: 4 March Biathlon. Out of curiosity, I re-clicked him to resume the broken conversation. Yay! I think we have found each other. He wants to take part in the race, me too. Both of us have some sort of resistance to actually taking part in the race due to the lack in training or a deficiency in swimming speed. But well, since now we have each other's company, we might as well make the best of the situation and be training partners. I think I will most probably take part in the "sprint" category: 750m swim + 5km run. The full race is 1.5km swim + 10km run: too much for me to handle now, maybe next year. Training is reaching mid-gear liao: ran 5km on Fri and today. I will increase the weekly mileage to about 15-20km in the next couple of weeks. Hmmm, looks like I will be adding one more To-Dos in 2007 and completing in very soon: Complete a biathlon race.
Have you been following the news? The weather is going crazy. Just a couple of weeks ago, the TV was showing The Day After Tomorrow and now the news is showing all that is not so far-fetch fiction. The extremely cold winter in Anhui, China and warm winter in Harbin, China. Even the hibernating animals are being affected. The cold wave that hit India killed many. At this point of writing, the news is showing Adelaide, Australia being hit by a torrential rain that has resulted in flash floods. Not to talk about the Pacific Ring of Fire earthquakes that have been hitting Asia. I still remember reading about a prophecy about 2007 (I have lost the source); it says that there will be a major disaster on the same scale as the 2004 Indian earthquake tsunami. Will it come true? I hope the prophet is wrong.
I wanted to watch Stranger than Fiction over the weekends but didn't manage to find someone to accompany me. Oh well, then I was too lazy to go all the way to Cathay Orchard (only theater showing; movie about to end run) to watch the movie alone. Some time was, once again, spent reading Photoshop literature. To me, PS is just like a lab: filled with all the instruments and chemicals you will ever need to complete reactions and, maybe, discover something new. In PS, commands and tools are your instruments to create something new... the limiting thing: your imagination and knowledge of how it works. And reading PS is like reading academic journals; it opens up possibilities. And from there, you emulate the steps, apply to your own system/images and see how things work out... perhaps a miracle might happen. If you want a glimpse of my PS library, here it is: an Amazon Listmania List.
Hah... financial accounting tutorial starts tomorrow. It has been a long time since I attended a proper class tutorial conducted by a TA. How will it be like tomorrow? Probably a feeling of nostalgia.
Ok, enough rattling. Time for bed. Nitz!
posted byWilliam at 11:54 PM