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Name: Liang Yuan
Birthday: 6/8/1984
Gender: Male
Interests: Badminton, volleyball, swimming, cycling, gym, dancing shirtless at big parties, sipping my Lattes, watching movies and my favourite TV shows.
Occupation: Student
Message: message me
Member Since:
11/20/2004
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| OK this time they didn't send me an email warning and deleted my chatterbox!
I shall resurrect it in due time... meanwhile, I realise I haven't got any recent pictures to upload. On a more positive note, spring is finally here! The sun and the beach are back! | | |
| In Malaysia, an egg is simply... an egg. In Australia, you've got to get your head around the various terms - cage, barn-laid, free range, corn-fed, organic, etc.
I'm not even talking about additional processes, like salted or century, or the cooking methods, like fried, scrambled or poached. I am just talking about the 'raw' uncooked egg.
Here's a rundown:
Cage - means the hens are confined in small individual cages; cracks easily; shells of a pale colour; usually the cheapest; students' choice; animal rights activists and health advocates avoid.
Barn-laid - the hens can roam around in bigger 'barns'; better quality than cage; slightly more expensive; more well-to-do students' choice; animal rights activists more at ease.
Free-range - the hens can roam freely; better quality than barn-laid; more expensive; healthy choice for everyone.
Corn-fed - the hens are fed with corn?! vegeterians' choice.
Organic - 100% all-natural, from the hens' diet to the eventual eggs; most expensive; for the very very health-conscious.
What would you pick??? | | |
| I had just typed in a whole chunk of text and promptly deleted all of it. To cut things short...
1. I'm having a 2-week 'production' break!
2. I'm in the process of gathering documentation to apply for PR.
3. I'm eternally working on a 'Lava' (a client's name) project that my new nickname at Design Centre is now 'Lavaboy'.
4. I'm looking to buy Scissors Sisters's new album.
5. It finally feels like spring in Melbourne after winter seemed to be going on forever. To the beach tomorrow!
6. It's likely that I will soon need help from some of you guys... in filling out a survey for my research project. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to do this...
7. Thanks to yingming for dropping a msg in my chatterbox... I'm pleased to hand you this month's award for 'Best Effort at showing support on a boring xanga site'.
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Taken at a Jap restaurant in Sydney - various stages of a developing polaroid. Cool huh? | | |
| For as long as civilisation has prevailed, a person's 'house' is probably the single most valuable commodity. It contains all your beautiful furniture, fashionable clothes and accessories, antiques, trophies, photographs, paintings, high-tech electronics, valuable collections (from stamps to LV bags) and even memories. So it is therefore inevitable that when a person's house burns down to the ground, they say they've lost 'everything'. (Note: That's why insurance is important!)
Increasingly, however, other things have come close to the status of encompassing the idea of 'everything' - your million-dollar car, your office... and dare I suggest... your computer!
Today I wanted to get into the Design Centre but the building was locked (since it is Sunday) so I called the security guard only to find out there had been a robbery on level 6 (where the Design Centre is located). At that moment, numerous thoughts flashed in my head. One, my Mac Powerbook was not secured and left on my desk. Two, almost all the work I've done this year are stored inside. Three, even if some of the work done are backed up on the school server, there are still too much stuff in the computer that I can't replace. The list goes on but my mind stopped short of going further. I needed to ask a very important question.
Any computers stolen? Yes was the reply. I swallowed. How about the Design Centre? The robbery did not happen to the Design Centre room but to another office. PHEW! But I can't get up there until tomorrow in order to let the staff assess the situation.
I tell myself that the first thing I would do on Monday is to back up everything I've done for my clients onto the school server. As for my own work and photos, I would need to do the same very soon.
So, is your computer everything to you??? Please remember to make copies of all the digital work you've completed and your photos... because if you're not careful, or if you're just plain unlucky, 'everything' can be gone in a tick. | | |
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