Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Moving

日新加坡房价大涨,又逢开学在即,在这个节骨眼上找便宜又舒服的房子真是很困难的事情,何况要找一套。听超人说原来他和曾经的室友找房的几次经历,开始都想找一套继续做室友,但后来由于种种原因无奈只能分开的事情,那个时候我对自己说,这次一定要成功,不会丢下谁的。可事情后来的发展却难以左右。

首先,胖墩禁不住便宜的单人床位诱惑叛逃了,这样尴尬地剩下4个人,因为有人需要单间,所以仍然必须是3个卧室的。就在地毯式的搜索各大网站未果而搬家的时间一天天临近的时候,我们的中介女士带来了便宜好房的希望,虽然离学校远了点,1个小时车程,不过想想以前父母在郊区上班,每天早起送我上学之后去做班车,远不止1小时,加上去看了以后觉得周围生活方便,新房子新家具,唯一的一点不便也就忍了。新房的出现是因为房东不满现在的租户总是拖欠房租,想另寻租户。看房那天见到房东太太,用Alva的话说是一个PP却很有礼貌的女士,虽然这个月的租金还没有收到,不过她还没有把这个意愿告诉房客,就连我们去看房都是装成她的搬运工去的,看过之后还送我们回到地铁站。房子还是很满意的,谈了价钱,增添家具的等等问题,虽然没有签合约,不过也算是半定下来了。这样过了两天,今天晚上瓜头却突然和我说她女朋友也要搬家,自然是和他搬到一起住,但她觉得新的地方离上班地方太远。了解了一下,9站地铁的距离,当然,也可以乘一站地铁,再坐公司的班车去,而那个地方,离我们的学校比新的地方还要远蛮多。言下之意,他就要退出我们维之不易的fellowship,跟随女友而去了。这样做未免有些不够朋友,可也算是男人的优点吧。

Fellowship,或许在各种矛盾面前确实有点脆弱吧,就连超人的魅力都没有办法维持住的,我也不必去计较太多。写出来,觉得怪怪的心情好多了。

后记:胖墩的新家3间房已经住了7、8个人,听说就连客厅里面都住人。爱安静的他后来又搬了一次,现在应该还不错吧。瓜头也不顺利,每天上放学一个多小时,后来住得不爽又搬一次,自己和女朋友都很远。事情就是这样的,这就是生活。

Monday, June 11, 2007

Happy wedding!

MM和Gengpu同学马上就要marry了。除了表达偶衷心的祝愿,还自告奋勇的当了次御用摄影师。同行的还有经验丰富的老年摄影师“耗子”,及影坛新星“光头”。如此华丽的阵容,令同在景点(植物园和圣淘沙)拍婚纱照的其他队伍望而生畏,都尽量和我们拉开距离,避免相形见绌的尴尬。拍摄圆满成功之际,放出此次豪华团队的照片,也算是做个广告,为今后进军专业摄影界做点准备。

主角们,手持自制反光板(poster),表情时而可爱时而呆滞。

本人,扮相极具艺术气质的头号摄影师,以浓密的胡须著称当代马克思。

耗子,老年摄影师,经验丰富,精神恍惚,乘车去目的地时带我坐过2个站头,之后想超近路却误入私人住宅区,差点被狗咬死。

光头,摄影爱好者,以性感的光头从某刚认识的MM那里迅速骗取了专业级的D200相机。虽然学习摄影只有短短2天,而且是网络远程教学,不过在此行中表现出的搞笑和创意,消除了耗子和我差点被狗咬死的阴影。

Thursday, June 07, 2007

What happened to google search?

Google search is acting really weired recently. First off, my homepage disappeared from the search results by using keywords "Pan Yu homepage" (without the quote marks), which used to be the second results on the first page, but now totally disappeared (I haven't found within the first 10+ pages). Instead, lots of other web pages which neither contain consecutive "Pan Yu" nor are homepages of any sort are listed. At the beginning, I was wondering whether this is caused by the "personalized search" just launched, though I don't remember enabling it. I logged out my google account, searched again, nothing changed. Then I asked my labmate Edward to try the same thing for his homepage. This time, more counter-intuitive thing happened. When he typed "edward sim", his homepage appeared at the end of the first result page, however, trying "edward sim homepage" returned irrelevant stuff as what happened to me.

I know google has integrated news results to the normal search results a moment ago, but apparently what listed for our homepage search are not news. Google is acquiring a lot of companies and participating lots of other services outside the search world. While it used to move cautiously, it is more aggressive nowadays. I'm a little worried about google because it used to be based on pure technologies and people are really admire the objectiveness and spirit behind this. Growing into an empire that dominate the web may not be bad, since a lot of innovations and good services really benefit everybody and change the world. But except all those services and the so called google operating system, I really hope the heart of google can always be the same, being dependable and reliable, moving solid moves.

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Web 2.0 services, my online office

Blogging is surely one of the pioneers of Web2.0, and also the first one I started to participate. In fact, the concept of wiki was before blogging, and I also started to search in wikipedia before writing my blogs, but I've never contributed anything to wiki except for "using" it. Below is a sketch of Web2.0 services I'm using currently:
Half of them are google services. In fact, from day one google launched gmail, the light of personal online office had turned on based on the large storage available for each account. Google had acquired a lot of Web2.0 companies and integrated their services under a universal account for each gmail user. An era of online office has come, just open your arms and brace it!

Monday, June 04, 2007

An international face...

始说是刘德华(香港人),被班主任起名Andy;胖的时候说像夏添(高中同学,圆圆脸);后来留了点小胡子变成尼古拉斯凯奇(美国人)和周总理(从前的人);胡子刮了变成木村拓哉(日本人);在任何国家的入关口都会被拦下来检查因为有胡子像中东人;在自己国家出关时又被当成日本人;还有人说眼睛颜色浅像越南人。天哪,从小到大,我的变化有那么大吗?像某个明星还可以沾沾自喜一下,可是到出入关的时候就咯儿屁了,难道那些人从来不看电影吗?