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May 3rd, 2008 is Shutdown Day, shutdown your computer for one day to appreciate other parts of life. Though I am not able to do it exactly on May 3rd, I am pretty sure I am willing to stay away from silicon for a day or two. And if a geek like me could do it, so could you!

Know more about Shutdown Day HERE.

Although I am pretty sure I would like to see the Clintons returning, but guess what... tonight I came across a logically better candidate that has ALMOST changed my mind.

visit the page HERE.

Macgyver 2008 - A decision America won't regret

Macgyver understands the needs of the average American, tax breaks, free swiss army knifes for every child. A free Houseboat for every American! War on Terror? Macgyver will take care of this in under twenty four hours once elected, no blood shed, just common sense. His solution for Iraq? a roll of toilet paper, a piece of coal and a bit of string. That's all Macgyver will need for a democratic and free Middle East...

This all within a week of Macgyver entering the White House...

Macgyver 2008, The smart choice.

耶穌說：『凡勞苦擔重擔的人可以到我這裡來，我就使你們得安息。』

Cares Chorus 是深崇詩班將會獻唱的一首詩歌，歌詞只寥寥數字，卻是很大的安慰和提醒。自己雖然談不上背負著甚麼勞苦重擔，但不快、憂慮和壓力倒是有的，願意學習把這所有都全然交上，並借這詩歌和大家分享神所賜的平安。

I cast all my cares upon You,
I lay all of my burdens down at your feet,
And any time that I don't know what to do,
I will cast all my cares upon You.

Listen on YouTube.

The beauty of dubbing is, it doesn't matter you are the talented young professional who appreciates a powerful Golf R32 as your statement of taste, or you are the ordinary fellow who spend every hard-earned dime on your budget pocket-rocket, it only takes a few easy tricks to give your beloved VW a killer-look.

Be it a MK2, MK3, MK4 or MK5, slam it on coilovers and silver-coloured big wheels will do. Deep-dished phat wheels like the ones above do the trick even better!

或許有些朋友會擔心我拍拖以後會令我在本來經已停滯不前的信仰路上往後退，可是由開始至今約兩個月，我敢說這段關係 (最少對我自己來說) 是滿有恩典的。當你迫切地想和身邊人分享所信的真理，想在她面前成為更好的見證，便會自然地因著祈禱和信心，令自己與神之間的關係更近。有更多的人以為我會為了她放棄自己的事奉崗位，我卻認為，讓她明白對信仰要有堅持和委身，在這階段來說，更勝過任何刻意安排的訊息。

In response to CNN host Jack Cafferty's comments on China and the Chinese-made, there has been massive anti-CNN protests throughout China and overseas Chinese communities. At the core of these activities, there is this civilian-made song named "Don't behave like CNN", with lyrics that say lies do not come true no matter how many times they were told.

You do not have to dig any deeper to realize that the Tibet riot and the boycott against Chinese-made, etc., all happened coincidently right before the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Listen to the song on YouTube.

Tonight, in the course of researching for my term paper, I told my girlfriend that I miss the UofT libraries; in response she asked, "is the CityU library really that bad?". Well... I was spoiled by the largest collection of academic literature in Canada, you can't compare when it comes to researching, I told her.

A quick search on wikipedia reveals that "The University of Toronto library system is Canada's largest academic library and is the third-largest in North America, after Harvard, and Yale. As of April, 2006, it held 10.5 million bookform items, 5.4 million microform items, and 1.9 million other items in its collections. The fourteen-storey Robarts Library is the main humanities and social sciences library, and the largest book repository in Canada. "

I could still remember the long nights spent behind piles of books at Robarts for those POL papers. But for one obvious reason, I love CityU just as much, I added.

In the past two years or so, AMD has handed over almost all its consumer market share to Chipzilla (intel), AMD's K8 platform was outperformed by Intel's Core architecture in terms of both price and efficiency. While AMD aims to regain market share and profitability with its multi-core Phenom processor lineup (K10 platform) by Q3 2008, the chip giant is striving for a come back by cutting 10% of its global workforce and CTO position, reports theregister.co.uk.

自從 Volkswagen 1996 年全面停產 Corrado 後，此德國汽車巨人足有 12 年時間絕跡於雙門轎跑車市場。雖然第 5 代 Golf 推出後叫好也叫座, 這幾年 Golf 和 Touareg 車系的成功更將 Volkswagen 品牌打得更响; 但缺少了雙門轎跑車, 車系陣容總是顯得有點美中不足。

在這 12 年間推出的歐系轎跑車當中，能稱得上被市場受落的僅有 BMW 3 系、其後的 Mercedes Benz C Coupe、 Audi TT 和一些比較小眾的對手如 Fiat Coupe、Peugeot 406 Coupe, 但 90 年代經濟轎跑市場則被東洋對手如 Honda Integra, Prelude, Toyota Celica 甚至「飛仔車」 Civic Coupe 等雄踞。

12 年後再出手，Volkswagen 實不容有失，遂先在 2006 年 ９ 月巴黎車展高調展出原型車 IROC Concept 測試市場反應，繼而宣佈一代經典轎跑 Scirocco 將會在 2008 年夏季挾 7 前速 DSG、200 匹 TSI 引擎等 Volkwagen 皇牌捲土重來。

手中拿著 Impreza WRX Hatchback、Integra Type R 等 catalog 的你，趕快拋掉它們吧，是時候秀點品味來看看!