Diary- Aug 2009

Aug 12 (summer wrap-up)
1. gained 5 kilos
2. wrote an email to potential supervisors, nothing more
3. spent 5 minutes persuading customer representative to let me cancel my credit card
4. some memorable moments
5. (successfully?) finished 1st year course work
6. eat, sleep, lazy...
7. wondering how temperature is related to productivity
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Aug 18
(7:00)起床-打開電腦-(7:30)家樂氏玉米片鮮奶熱開水泡即溶咖啡-上網看無聊智障新聞-(9:00)玩DQ9,到神殿可以轉職了-看看電視,CNN在討論Michael Vick-(10:30)短暫的學習-(11:00)烤面包,煎蛋,火腿,起司,塗奶油,即溶味噌湯,蘋果-(12:00)騎小綠去學校-鬼混鬼混-(17:30)肚子餓吃昨天買一送一的微波食品,雞排馬鈴薯紅蘿蔔花椰菜-吃飽上車回家-路面顛簸明天不騎這條路了-(19:00)到家,吃品客,切香瓜,再玩一下DQ9,解開Battle master的任務,房間小悶熱,睡覺 (END)
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Aug 22~26
延著德法邊境往南走，經過從前國文課本中"最後一課"所提到的"亞爾薩斯"
The Last Lesson by Alphonse Daudet
(...) “My children, this is the last lesson I shall give you. The order has come from Berlin to teach only German in the schools of Alsace and Lorraine. The new master comes to-morrow. This is your last French lesson. (...) All at once the church-clock struck twelve. Then the Angelus. At the same moment the trumpets of the Prussians, returning from drill, sounded under our windows. M. Hamel stood up, very pale, in his chair. I never saw him look so tall.
“My friends,” said he, “I—I—” But something choked him. He could not go on.
Then he turned to the blackboard, took a piece of chalk, and, bearing on with all his might, he wrote as large as he could:
“Vive La France!”
Then he stopped and leaned his head against the wall, and, without a word, he made a gesture to us with his hand:
“School is dismissed—you may go.”
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Aug 29
Short comments on movies watched recently
Harry Potter: better suited for children
Red Cliff: reminds me of Sangoku Musou on PS2
G.I. Joe: I can't remember the cartoon I watched as a kid
Public Enemies: liked this one, recommend
The Taking of Pelham 123: a lot of tension going on there
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