Literally, the input virtual keyboard is the pain in the ass every time I text! The keys are so tiny that I always make typos.

I could not imagine things could get any worse last weekend. I left work with a little bit concern, because I did not do the job perfectly, as I am always the perfectionist. And what bothered me was after I posted one thread on BBS about how bad my landlord is, he saw it, and he seemed to be so pissed off that he kept on arguing with me constantly until I deleted that thread. Yup, though I did what I wanted, yet it might be a little embarrassing to see that angry face in the house again. Anyway, compared with what happened on Sunday, those little trivial things are just no big deal-I LOST MY CELLPHONE!!! After my shopping in the mall, I went to KFC where there are always many people on weekends. When I hopped on my bike, and went as far as two blocks, I realized my cellphone which was in my jacket pocket was gone. I went back to look for it, but I could not find it. So I spent a whole afternoon canceling my old number and buying a new cellphone. I could not live without it, and I know it did not make any sense to wait for the 'Goodies' to return it to me. I never lost anything in my life, and obviously this time I will remember it quite well. I was too careless, thinking nobody will notice me. The whole weekend was not that normal, and I definitely did not want to be miserable by myself. So in the end, my classmate and I went shopping, so that I could get out of the unlucky circle as fast as I could. Today, it turned out the last minute shopping last night did pay off eventually.

I really hate using credit cards, maybe because I am very conservative. I just don't like being constrained by the bank, who tells me when to pay the bills. I am not an economist, but I really think it's the credit card that caused the financial crisis around the world. We should just go back to natural economy. Anyway, the problem is I have to use credit cards now, and because my visa is expired this month, and changing my home address makes my new card is delayed, I have to use another mastercard. Darn~The good side is I won't have a vacuum time when I don't have a credit card, yet the bad thing is I am so involved into this credit card thing, which means I will have to pay the bills each month if I don't want to pay extra. Ironically, the reason why I wanted to have two credit cards was because I was attracted to the gifts which would only be given to credit card applicants. Never did I think I might one day use either of them, and yet now it seems the two cards might very well save my ass. Being greedy is a smart thing.

Technically, it's not birthday today, but I am glad that our team threw me, including other two, a nice birthday celebration picnic. A nice break from the working environment, except the sun was quite strong. I think I need my sun screen tomorrow.

Fruit Cake and Pizza
Let's Dig In!

26 years ago, I was born, and today, well, technically speaking, nothing major happened yet, except a stupid earthquake struck Zigong, Sichuan. Obviously, it's not something I'd like to see on my birthday.

Well, astrology says I am supposed to be quite lucky these days, but till now I am not feeling it yet, not literally unlucky either-just ordinary days. Anyway, today's vendor meeting was kind of disappointing, mainly because I was not quite prepared and things I got are just not what I wanted initially. As it says, engineers are different from marketing salesmen, and as far as I am concerned, the difference lying there is just too obvious. I can't say which attitude is better, but I just know things existing there have their reasons. One of the managers used to say that we need engineers who are not paying too much attention to what they should wear, or what perfume they should put on, so having heard that I bought two dark blue shirts one day just for work, even though I am not trendy at all. My point is how come engineers cannot be fashionable without being called shallow, and how come marketing salesmen cannot be nerdy without being  considered to be dumb. Stereotypes? People like to judge others before they even know who they are. Is it something just existing now or lasting from ancient times when we were apes? Or is it because people are just too busy to get every little detailed information not so seemingly valuable to them? Whatever reason, I am afraid staying in this huge melting pot for too long, we might have a biased thinking just as some we despise eventually. One of my friends proudly told me that now he learned the technique of knowing if he wants to make friends with a person by just having a short conversation with him. Yeah, I am glad that he is capable of mastering that "technique", yet I kind of doubt if that's something partial which we have been telling each other not to be like. On the other hand, while deciding whether this one is what we would like to get along with, do we consider if the other person is thinking about the same thing too? It would not be fun to live in such a tiresome world, yet what we are dealing with every day might quite well be what we have not hoped for in the end.

Da Gangsters	Da Gangs Part Two
Crazy Four	The Model Couple
Nice Belting, dude	Trying Something Else?

It was fun to have those gangs to have the little birthday party after work, and it proved time was well wasted. Nice birthday, thank you, guys. I admit some of the pics are kind of crazy, but don't kick my A$$...:P

Some were given away, and some were still kept in the cages. Right now, for the first time since I moved to this new apartment, my hamster population shrinks to 4, which I think is a perfect number for me to keep, even though one of the hamsters had 8 babies on the first day of the National Day-7 hamsters, to be exact-one was eaten by its mom, I suppose. So the new schedule for hamster adoption should launch soon, since those little creatures grow so fast. The curiosity and excitement I used to have are all gone as time goes by, yet I don't feel it's a burden for me to carry every day. Still, these hamsters can help me kill some of the boring time I might endure, and that's a blessing. The National Day holiday is finally over, and it passed so fast. I gave up my plan of going home a few days before the holiday, and I can imagine how exhausted I might have been if I took the plane home and back here. Mom called me several times during the holiday, and I am glad she's cool with it and that everything's good back home. I still have several annual leave days left, and I might choose one of the days when traffic is not crowded to get back.

A new start...