I don't know why I did this, but I decided to brave the cold and did some shopping.

I surprised myself my walking around Soho in 14 degree (-10 degrees Celsius) weather. Maybe it's the tall buildings blocking the wind, but I don't feel particularly uncomfortable at all. There's enough sun to keep me warm.

That kind of remind me a psychological just for fun test I took years ago. I only remember this answer: Winter sun means that you are cool on the outside but warm on the inside. That wasn't the answer I picked, but the answer stuck to my mind.

Today I am inspired. Feeling the warmth of the winter sun, I thought to myself, how many times we didn't make the effort to brave the cold and really get to know someone? I always hear complaints about the cool person not reaching out. What about ourselves? Did we make the effort to break the ice? If we don't succeed at first, do we try, try again?

Pilot Is Hailed After Jetliner’s Icy Plunge | New York Times

Taking this out of [This Article].

1. "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."—Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004

2. "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."—Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000

3. "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"—Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000

4. "Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country."—Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004

5. "Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican."—declining to answer reporters' questions at the Summit of the Americas, Quebec City, Canada, April 21, 2001

6. "You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.''—Townsend, Tenn., Feb. 21, 2001

7. "I'm the decider, and I decide what is best. And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the secretary of defense."—Washington, D.C., April 18, 2006

8. "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."—Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005

9. "I've heard he's been called Bush's poodle. He's bigger than that."—discussing former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, as quoted by the Sun newspaper, June 27, 2007

10. "And so, General, I want to thank you for your service. And I appreciate the fact that you really snatched defeat out of the jaws of those who are trying to defeat us in Iraq."—meeting with Army Gen. Ray Odierno, Washington, D.C., March 3, 2008

11. "We ought to make the pie higher."—South Carolina Republican debate, Feb. 15, 2000

12. "There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, fool me once, shame on—shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again."—Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002

13. "And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I'm sorry it's the case, and I'll work hard to try to elevate it."—speaking on National Public Radio, Jan. 29, 2007

14. "We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers."—Houston, Sept. 6, 2000

15. "It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet."—Arlington Heights, Ill., Oct. 24, 2000

16. "One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures."—U.S. News & World Report, Jan. 3, 2000

17. "People say, 'How can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil?' You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you."—Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2002

18. "Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness."—CNN online chat, Aug. 30, 2000

19. "I'm looking forward to a good night's sleep on the soil of a friend."—on the prospect of visiting Denmark, Washington, D.C., June 29, 2005

20. "I think it's really important for this great state of baseball to reach out to people of all walks of life to make sure that the sport is inclusive. The best way to do it is to convince little kids how to—the beauty of playing baseball."—Washington, D.C., Feb. 13, 2006

21. "Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream."—LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000

22. "You know, when I campaigned here in 2000, I said, I want to be a war president. No president wants to be a war president, but I am one."—Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 26, 2006

23. "There's a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.' "—Boston, Oct. 3, 2000

24. "They misunderestimated me."—Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000

25. "I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."—Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008

If only dumb women can marry rich and powerful, how do you explain Rupert Murdoch's wife Wendi Deng?

...by watching old TV.  Zach, classic Stephen Chow over here.

I have so many things to say, and I have nothing to say.

There was a post-Thanksgiving miracle, and then, a post-Christmas miracle.  Maybe the two miracles will cancel each other and become a curse...I know I am being pessimistic, but hey...

I think I am having attention deficit disorder.  I can't even concentrate on one thing to be outraged about on the news.  Should I be enraged by Madoff's Ponzie scheme?  Should I feel a head rush with new problems between Hamas and Israel?  Should there be wrath that Hank Paulson took the bailout money and ran?

Or, should I even be angrier about a guy who is denied from admission to the emergency room and died because registration insisted that the person should be carried by an ambulance rather than his son's car?

Civil servants not so civil | Opinion | Hong Kong Standard

Outrage over deadly delay | Opinion | Hong Kong Standard

I don't know...

First president ever to have 6 pack abs!

Huffington Post

也許有一天我不會用微軟視窗了。現在身處于Ubuntu之中打中文字,同處于視窗中一樣無比暢快。

Only heard about as my boss's childhood stories, the day of meeting the real McCoy has finally come...automat!

Sadly, due to crazy amount of inflation, hot dogs are no longer fifty cents.  But chicken quesadillas are three dollars, if there's any comfort in this.

Bamn!! Automat

I just handed in my last project for the semester, and for the degree.

There were days where I just want to walk out and quit.  There were days when I wanted to throw up my arms and give up.  I didn't do any of that.

Now the day finally has come, I'm at a lost and starting to miss those days.  Am I such a masochist?

The coming months are going to be scary.  I have a job now, but finding that job that pays better so that I can buy property, that's a different story, especially this job market.

I used to be afraid to leave my workplace, during the times when good jobs are readily available.  Now that I'm no longer afraid to leave, the job market sucks.  What irony!