Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Livescribe SmartPen

A pen that records audio and what you write and can upload them onto your computer. Where is this product when I was going to school? :( Granted, as a poor student, no way could I afford a $200 pen along with their proprietary notebooks.

Livescribe Pulse Smartpen

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Cute Lyrics - All I Want is You

All I Want is You - by Barry Louis Polisar

If I was a flower growing wild and free
All I'd want is you to be my sweet honey bee.
And if I was a tree growing tall and greeen
All I'd want is you to shade me and be my leaves

If I was a flower growing wild and free
All I'd want is you to be my sweet honey bee.
And if I was a tree growing tall and greeen
All I'd want is you to shade me and be my leaves

All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.

If you were a river in the mountains tall,
The rumble of your water would be my call.
If you were the winter, I know I'd be the snow
Just as long as you were with me, when the cold winds blow.

All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.

If you were a wink, I'd be a nod
If you were a seed, well I'd be a pod.
If you were the floor, I'd wanna be the rug
And if you were a kiss, I know I'd be a hug

All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.

If you were the wood, I'd be the fire.
If you were the love, I'd be the desire.
If you were a castle, I'd be your moat,
And if you were an ocean, I'd learn to float.

All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.

Thanks to STlyrics.com

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Amazon Profiling

I remember many many years ago (when Amazon was first established), I was genuinely amazed by their profiling (recommendation) system. They don't just recommend the stuff that I had browsed (that'd be a no brainer), but things along the similar line. Today, after my latest purchase of two DVD sets, my recommendation included a 2008 Sports Illustrated Swim Suit issue??? Have I been profiled as a MALE??! I'm so offended! :P

Recession v Depression

A saying for my non American friend (yes, friend, singular, can't think of any one else who'd voluntarily read my chit :). The saying goes like this:

When your neighbor got laid off, it's recession; when you are laid off, it's depression.

:)

A Year in Review

Instead of blogging about the depressing stock market, economy, auto and retail industries etc. etc., how about something mood lifting, like the first female inducted into professional Japanese baseball league -- Eri Yoshida, a 16-year-old Japanese girl who, known for her knuckleball, pitched to eight batters in her November 2008 tryouts without giving up one hit.

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I guess that's not technically an entire year in review, well, it's certainly a landmark of sort. :)

Sunday, December 28, 2008

The Little Joys in Life

I think I'm an easy to please person. Inexpensive little things make me happy -- a lighted fire place, a tub bath, Christmas tree. To me a great weekend is one that I can stay in and just watch lots of movies with my husband. (Yes, doesn't count without him.) But lately it seems these little joys are getting harder and harder to achieve.

Let's start with bubble bath. We spent a lot of time to find an apartment with a great tub, now California (as usual, I guess) is having water shortage issue, I feel guilty to enjoy such a luxury. A fire place -- air quality day. There are days in California that it's actually illegal to lit a wood burning fireplace!! That is not too much of a big deal, I really prefer an electric one better anyway, just suits my lifestyle more... oh, but then the extra electricity usage will contribute to destroying the environment and facilitate global warming... same can really be said about a Christmas tree... or our big screen TV.

Of course, all these whining just seems so petty given the fact that I still have my health, a great husband, a JOB, and a decent living place, albeit a rental. One should be grateful for what he/she has...

Ringing in the New Year

If you have not yet seen the new year video produced by jibjab plastered all over Yahoo.com, MSN.com, CNN.com, etc., here is the link

New Year Jib Jab Video

All things aside, 2009 is looking to be a grim year -- the housing melt down, the financial meltdown (or as they are referred to in Asia, the financial Tsunami), massive lay offs. My last day at work (before the new year), I heard rumors that there will be more lay offs come the new year. This honestly is the first time I work in a field where lay offs are real, for me and those around me. I don't think I will be among the next batch or two to go, but by the third and fourth, anything can happen.

I don't understand why companies lay off people in batches. It's bad for morale, granted, lay offs in and of itself are bad for morale, but doing it in batches are worse. It should be like peeling off a bandage -- just rip it off, you either stay or go. Nothing is worse if not knowing if you will be next. Or in my case, just knowing that people that I know will be lay off is depressing. But as the American saying goes: "When you neighbor gets laid off, it's recession; when you are laid off, it's depression." So far I am still in recession.