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Happy New Year! A quick recap on my 2009: The first few months, I was in the process of buying my new place. The financial market was so low that mortgage was near impossible. I luckily got it (good rates too). My new place is city centre apartment in Manchester at a very good price. [...]

This post is dedicated to my good friend who just got fired because he writes a blog which has some very very small related stuff about work. The real reason is that his company is cutting cost and have targeted him. There is no doubt about it, this will get messy. The claim is very [...]

Definition of old school: “A group committed to traditional (old)  ideas or practices” How old is traditional? How traditional is old? The definition of “old school” would be different comparing someone in their 20s than someone in their 30s. The term old school is relative. I think the “old school” barrier is at age 30. [...]

I bought a new Microwave over the weekend. It is a Panasonic NNA554W. It cost me £150. It is a combination one, microwave, grill and oven. Shopping at Argos is a pain for these item, the description never tell you everything. You have the buy it, open it and to see whether it is what [...]

Let have a cup of tea and have a discussion about what we are going to do. I admire the British for developing structures and systems. But when it come to action, they are always slow to react. Where is the decision maker, where is the ruthlessness. In some case, just be more direct, rather [...]

A great speech of Cricket. All Cricket Fanatics enjoy http://www.stephenfry.com/blog/2009/07/16/cricket-speech-presented-at-lords-14th-july-2009/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/8146497.stm If you are a cricket fan, the 1st test in the 2009 Ashes Series is definitely not boring. It was probably boring for the couple of days that the Aussie was batting. But overall it is not. England got a good-ish score of 430 odd. But not good enough on that pitch, the Aussie [...]

Prof. (Emer.) Reg Mann (passed away on Sunday, June 7, 2009) aged in his early 60s after a stroke. He was my lecturer for “Chemical Reaction Engineering” at UMIST. He was very well prepared but not a very good teacher. He is more fond of his research and company. He once said to us student, [...]

I am by all means breaking my rules for starting to Twitter. I regard Facebook and other social networking sites are evil. So why I have change my mind about Twitter. Don’t get me wrong, there are certain aspects in Twitter that is similar to Facebook. Even if I block people from following me on [...]

What is Twitter? My take on it. It is text messaging to the world. Send short message and tell everyone what you are see, doing, eating etc. It is bit like voluntary (CCTV like) message surveillance. It is lazy blogging too. It is like telling you I have a new mobile and then stop there [...]