State of the life now

Sooo, the holidays have been pretty boring besides working at Sitex as a sales promoter, with Delicia and Yu Rong who are really awesome people, and having a great supervisor and more than $300 bucks of cash, and a 8GB thumbdrive for a few days of leg-breaking work. And.. the best part is the experience. Whoo, dealing with all sorts of crazy people - PRCs who scream and shout, and use babies as pawns to try to get better deals, Indians who look for better deals elsewhere and come back just to show us and mock us for not being able to close deals. Then there are the nice ones - young secondary school Chinese scholar (so cute and innocent), Filipino man buying for girlfriend :)

Then, I got a lovebird, who is really sweet and intelligent. She can do a trick. That is, running through a hoop. Greeeedy lovebird! She only wants to get the treat. Haha.

Prayer is a two-way street

Nuggets of truth from my good friend, Will:

Jesus is all knowing. He is always with you, and always knows whats happening. But he wants to hear it from you. This is why we pray and talk directly to Jesus.

That, I accept and have accepted as simple fact for a long time. However I just came up with an analogy that I think is rather suitable for it.

Take for instance, your friend on Facebook, Bob. You’ve known Bob since you were toddler playmates, you don’t live near each other anymore, rarely talk, but you’re friends on Facebook. From Facebook you gain a sense of what his schedule is like, you see pictures that he posts weekly from school for his grandparents and family, you see the posts and notes he’s tagged in, you see him write sad faces or happy faces, all of which give you a good perception of who he is, and what kind of mood he’s in. Even though you two haven’t talked for more than a year, you still know all about Bob. So why should you talk with Bob on the phone? Why should we take the time to leave Bob a message on his wall or Inbox?

Because Bob was a significant part of your lives. The two of you shared many memories from being little and watching each other grow up. And if the time came that Bob needed you, you’d be there in a moments notice. But still, you never talk to Bob and Bob never talks to you. So the possibility of a great friendship goes no where, and there’s nothing personal about it.

Thats how it is for us and Jesus. He knows all about what we’re doing, a hundred thousand times more than Facebook could ever tell him about us, but sometimes we don’t talk to him. Why is that? He knows how many hairs we have on our head, he knows how many blood cells are in our body, he knows how tall we are down to the smallest measurement possible. Yet still… We don’t take time to talk to him about how our day was.

Prayer is a two way conversation, take advantage of it.

How to remove your recycle bin off your desktop in Windows 7

How to remove recycle bin off Windows 7 for a clean desktop.

1. Right click your desktop
2. Click Personalize
3. Click Desktop Icons
4. Uncheck the Recycle Bin option
5. Click okay

Voila! Clean Desktop!

Overthinking

Honestly, I haven't been as happy as I used to be since that Friday.

Before whoever is reading this goes into a frenzy, and comes up to ask me whether I'm okay, let me tell you this: I am fine, I am still happy. I still see sunshine.

It's just that a few clouds are blocking the view. But still, I am thankful for the few who love me with everything they've got :)

Because I am too cool, I get betas.

Got a Google Wave invite from Will the sunshine not too long ago, and I have to say, Wave is pretty fun, but it will be even more so if I get to Wave with more people.

I love getting my hands on betas and limited previews. When Gmail came out, I hunted the Internet till I got my hands on an invite from a kind soul - God bless his generous heart. At that time, Gmail was in a phase where people could only give out 5 invites each. Upon receiving this very rare, and prized possession, I couldn't help but let out a loud "WHOOHOOO!" How dramatic. Okay, I think you get my point.

Got my hands down and dirty when Yahoo Answers Beta was in its infancy, right before the sex-crazed desperados (read: horny guys who wanted non-personal virtual relationships) started asking silly questions. Back then, Yahoo Answers attracted a different breed - a breed of intelligent thinkers that questioned the workings of the world, and the axes the world turned on.

Then there was Joost. Gerard Vlemmings of the Presurfer kindly extended an invitation to beta. Online television that's doing pretty well now, pity my mediocre download speeds didn't do it justice.

The most happening thing this year was receiving Window.s 7 Professional from a friend, who got it way before the release date of October 2009. I think I got Win.dows 7 R.TM in September. For free. ($500 saved, ka-ching!) The best part is that it was legal because M.soft has a partnership program with various organisations. Friend, thank you very much :)

I'm a Mozilla Firefox beta-tester now. Which is actually pretty pointless and I do nothing.

Cut to the chase, having betas makes me feel special, because I get to see what the rest of the world doesn't. I'd share betas with you too :)

Batman Begins

Batman Begins was one of the last movies I watched with you. Way back in 2005. I remember coming out of the cinema and going, whoa, that was good, and the mother and the sister couldn't even comprehend what went on during the movie.

Today I lived, but everyday so do you :)

The Lake House

These days, I've been on movie sprees from my Hard Drive. I've watched Final Destination 3, Batman Begins, Idiocracy, Deja Vu, The Devil Wears Prada..

Today I watched The Lake House, for about the millionth time. And I have to admit that nowadays, I'm turning into a hopelessly romantic and sappy person. Which is both a good and a bad thing. Strange how my thoughts can oscillate between so many different things at once. Anyway, I love that movie, but The Dark Knight still is my favourite.

On the other hand, I had many meaningful conversations on Saturday night, taking the train home, the bus, and even the walk home with Evelyn that managed to dig up beautiful and memorable threads of the past. (Mission Trips, haha.)