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Yesterday I spent a full-day in a course about SPSS and Epidemiology conducted by the hospital. Not only that I already know most of the chapters they spoke on, but it was explained in such dilatory manner that I yawned to the computer screen like 8 times in half an hour (my colleague who went with me was as bored as I was actually took the initiative to calculate each yawn without my knowledge). When I signed on to this course, I was told that it was an advanced module of analyzing data based on medical setting. How annoyed me and my colleague were when the session turned out like we were stucked in a kindergarten class. Seriously I felt bad for my colleague as I was the one who persuaded her to join me and knowing that she is an Epidemiologist herself, I believed I’ve made a huge blunder.

Hence, both of us merely carried on with our usual net surf while waiting for the others to find their way through creating a graph or analysing T-test. I read plentiful that day, probably more than any other day, as I didn’t have the distraction of workload or stress, I was happily surfing away. I came to reading TheStar online (yeah, I was bored to death and nothing else to surf). Something caught my attention in the Lifestyle section, a piece of write up by Michael Cheang. It’s about taking up a challenge of writing a novel of 50000 words in 30 days (starting from Nov 1st to 30th). I was eager to find out more, but the url listed simply wouldn’t work. Then smart as I am, I did a search for “National Novel Writing Month”, and turned out nothing. Then I did “NaNoWriMo”, and Bingo! I got the url. And turned out that the ending is not “dot com”, but “dot org”. How careless can one be by putting up an “Official Site”, but turned out to be wrong. What more it was in a newpaper! I believe TheStar seriously needs to look into editing work before publishing, both printed and online. Here’s the correct url: http://www.nanowrimo.org/ I’ll be typing away once it starts.

Last weekend I was bunking in with a friend. It was a long drive up the hill of Bukit Antarabangsa. There wasn’t much to see at night with little help from the moon. However, one can tell that the surrounding is peaceful and well-kept, a residential area with a touch of small suburban environment. I was drowsy and dizzy after the maze-like road into a deeper part of the hill forest. At last, we pulled into a corner lot of double-storey terrace. The house is very much a family setting, with great implication of few bachelors too. I was amazed at the amount of DVD on the shelf.

As well as figurines and books on another shelf.

On closer inspection, I found that my friend has a huge collection of comics I adore - Calvin and Hobbes. We watched TV - Discovery’s Living & Travel, showcasting ice-cream phenomenon. Both of our eyes were glued to the tempting dessert on screen. We chatted until morning before we decided to hit the bed.

Next morning, as usual, I couldn’t sleep late whenever I am in someone else place. Instead of waking my friend, I went down to the living room to watch TV. Then I decided the place is worth to be in pictures. The place even has a Starbuck’s setting for wireless surfing.

A comical Scobby Doo’s statue was placed nere the TV set.

And a family of The Incredibles on the TV set.

With spiritual needs of individual, a neutral facial framed on the wall.

And stone or what-ever that is.

The kitchen was greatly designed, small but efficient.

And full-range of alcohol collections. No, we were very much sober the night before, didn’t need the boost.

When my friend woke up, both of us were hungry. So we hurriedly to the kitchen to make us some quick breakfast before retiring to the TV again.

After shower, we were out of the house. And I finally able to grasp in the beautiful scenery of the place. Along the road down hill, both sides are greens, and shades from the tall trees only allowed limited rays of sunshine on the road.

We headed for lunch with two other friends at Pudu or was it Imbi, not quite sure as I remember passing by Time Square. The place was crowded, but we managed to get a table. First one up was soupy Yong Tao Fu.

Then the dried one.

Herbal Dumpling Soup (My recommendation).

And Cheong Fun.

It was a heavy meal, but really felt like every bites are to certain delight.

Legally matrimony of a same-sex couple has created argument in the States. And someone posted something about why Gay marriage is wrong, I’ll just pick a few, the rest can be found at FBS.

“Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britney Spears’ 55-hour ‘just-for-fun’ marriage would be destroyed.”

And my liking in terms of gay marriage and adoption:

“Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That’s why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.”

“Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.”