Finally, I remembered his name, Lee Kheng Siang. The guy who sat next to me in 1B3 in CLHS.
There are times that my memory fails me, but this shouldn't be one. Too bad he's unlikely to be found. Well, at least, thanks to facebook, I did find a few whom I thought I would never find.
Thanks to a graduate from my church, who's great knowledge led me to look up the makeup of a pencil more carefully after some discussion about flesh marks of the past during church lunch. Thanks to this article, I am less worry about the dark mark on my right pinky.
There couldn't be lead poisoning, since the leads of pencils today are made of graphite (carbon) instead of lead (Pb).
Some interesting history about graphite and lead as writing tool.
Since both graphite and lead were used in ancient times, the yet to be identified graphite was being tought as "black lead or plumbago".
In 1779, Swedish chemist Carl W. Scheele determined that black lead was actually a form of carbon; in 1789, German geologist Abraham G. Werner reportedly gave it the name graphite, after the Greek graphein, meaning "to write.". Inks were already widely available and were usually applied to paper with a brush called a peniculus, which is Latin for "little tail", hence the basis for the word "pencil." -- Steve Ritter
Now graphite is mixed with clay at high temperature about 1000 Celsius, to produce smoothness and hardness.
I knew about this before. But today, as I was administrating the TOEFL test, I took the free time to check out this "we will match you saving" thing.
It is wonderful, and perhaps better than the interest rate.
Not only will the <$1.00 changes be automatically transferred from checking to savings account, the bank will match 5% (100% for first three months) of the change being transferred up to a maxium of $250/year earning for me.
I remember the policy used to be the fact that the Keep the Change feature rounds my checking account balance to the nearest highest dollar and put the changes into my savings account. Now the changes are taken from my purchases with the bank's checkcard. So it is a better idea to make purchases with the card instead of cash from now on.
The most popular religion today is not Christianity. It's the religion of how to be as "non-bias" as possible.
Labored whole day, just to come up with a batch file using XCOPY to do it.
In the case of synchronizing removed files, I used for loop, but the big trick was the setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion command. Without it, the variable seems to be non-dynamic.
I supposed I have to settle with it now anyhow, it is just not worth the time, despite the fact that I cannot remove hidden files, chinese character filenames, if they somehow exist on the backup folder. Nonetheless, at least all my Work files can now be backed up by a click on the batch file shortcut.
Sample:
@echo off
echo Syncrhonizing with Backup Network Drive...
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
FOR /F "delims=" %%a in ('dir /b /a /s "\\networkedpc\Work"') Do (set poi=%%a && if not exist G:\Work\!poi:~22! (echo "Deleting %%a..." && del /Q %%a))
endlocal
XCOPY "G:\Work" "\\networkedpc\Work" /D /I /S /Y
echo ...Synchronization Complete###
pause
Especially during some usb drive/software installation, it always flickered with auto setting on the monitor.
Finally got to solving this. Simply install the VGA driver from Biostar's site. I believe the previous driver was from Microsoft version of Nvidia.
At the same time, may have solved the USB devices connection problem by installing the SMBus and SMU drivers from the same site.
Evangelism is a command from Christ our Lord to everyone who professes Christian faith. It is not a duty within the offices of pastors, preachers and teachers alone.
Some 400 years ago, everyone was assumed Christian, as long as they were brought up in the Western culture or baptized when they were babies.
Now, people were assumed Christians, as long as they stay in the church services or attend/support church activities.
Where is the preaching of the Gospel? Where is the study of God's word? Where is the true conversion from a cursed sinner to a sanctified saint?
It is the law of God that we multiply on Earth.
Naturally, there will be competition in economy.
Logically, inflation shouldn't be.
Nonetheless, it is, resulting in the crisis of economy.
With competition, there are those who are willing to choose the immoral path. The only way for a human to deal with another human with immorality, is to have ulterior motives, even to a point, the actor has convinced himself of his own act.
If a vendor charges less than the others, he will be a big target for scrutable scandals if his business outgrows others'. While others exalt themselves with such attack to satisfy their jealousy, they publicly call it "justice".
It is a sinful concept to expect a chronological raise in salary, disregarding skills.
It is the balance of the natural law of God, that jobs are offered to those who are willing to be paid less than their less laborious neighbors to learn humility and improve discipline. Nevertheless, instead of admiring the diligence in others, it is man's sinful nature to be creative with the laws in order to ensure that their salary will always increase and that all jobs are restricted only to their kinds. Their wickedness, is like poison to the natural order of system set by God.
Last but not least, we lament upon the wickedness of man and do nothing about it. Our irresponsibility and unrepentant hearts are despicable unto God, everytime we cash in our checks.
I just had a dream. It was concerning a Saturday (I think) TOEFL Test.
It somehow began as I was finishing the test. Or at least that's as far as I could remember.
But it seems that of all the candidates, only one proper confidentiality form was handed to me by one of the staff (Tomoko, I think. I think I see her because she's probably the most responsible woman there, eventhough she hasn't gone through the process of becoming an ETS staff yet). While the rest of the "forms" (underneath the proper one) were hand written and signed on lined papers. As if no one knew where or how the get the confidentiality forms, and seems that that's how they were instructed to deal.
I immediately stopped the candidates from leaving and asked them to wait for me to print out the real confidentiality forms (so rush and hurry that I forgot I could actually send the one who filled out the proper form home).
Then I tried one staff's computer, the staff seems to be one of my high school 2A2 classmate, don't remember his name but the face's really familiar. Odd that I didn't even see the oddness in the dream. Loaded the browser, thought for a while, entered ets.org but was some chinese comic page (perhaps it has to do with the fact that this classmate just somehow popped into my dream for reasons beyond me right now) that came up. Concluded that the computer was virus infected. Thinking with frustration, "why don't they report this to me?!".
And it also occurred to me that they have been left, somehow, to initiate the test on their own without me, which is a good thing if all goes well and I could do other things. After switching computer, I still couldn't print it, I don't remember why now. As it is also the end of the day, staffs were leaving for home. I woke up under all the frustrations.
I believe if you think too much in a dream (I'm sure this is a non-lucid one), you could just wake up.
I do know that working with this one staff who doesn't even speak or understand English besides a vocabulary of perhaps 10 verbs and nouns, yet always pretends or says he understood, is like working with a gorilla version of Gilligan on Gilligan's Island. Somehow, I don't recall much of his face in the dream, very vague.
Apparently, this issue is caused by remote desktop connection. Resulting in the annoying wrong default printer printing on print. Thanks to this article.
