Candy Cane Christmas
Genre: Holiday
Released 30 November 2009
© 2009
Rating: 5/5 Soothing jazzy Christmas tune!
This jazzy Christmas tune is available as a time-limited free download from iTunes. I love how this song brings up the holiday mood and brightens up my day…
Spice up your music library with jazzy Christmas song like this! Happy holiday~
I’ve been busy crunching numbers and digesting journals in the recent weeks, so much that I didn’t have much time to open Google Wave invitation that has been sitting idle in my inbox for long. Well, today I did, after the majority of my loads are off of the list.
Google Wave’s fun factor depends on the number of friends (or family and colleagues) you have in your contact list. Only those with Google Wave account can hop on your communication wagon.
The interface design is pretty good, but it is still not intuitive enough for beginners to discover what they can do with it and how to do it. Perhaps mimicking typical email interface to something that is revolved around the complexity of Google Wave isn’t a good idea afterall.
Judging by the performance, Google Wave isn’t that great when it’s running on my Safari; It ran slower as soon as I opened Google Wave. Aside from that, there’s really nothing much to comment at this moment…
Still, Google Wave is an interesting communication concept that works pretty decent at its preview stage; It worth trying and exploring. I feel excited imagining a streamlined communication and collaboration for work and leisure. Not to mention the amount of reducible paperwork if this streamlined communication works well.
Why don’t you take Google Wave a spin yourself and see how you like it? I do still have some Google Wave preview invitations left. Drop me a line if you wanna get one.
If you know fun ways to use Google Wave, drop me a line, leave a comment below, or wave me directly.
Overview of projects that have been keeping me busy lately:
The first project up on the list is ShuttleNet, an interactive kiosk displaying shuttle bus arrival information, route, schedule, and map. This interactive application is built using Flash from scratch with user-centered approach—gathering input from the users during design phase and continue involving them in usability tests in implementation phase.
The result? An attractive interactive system that works the way users expect it to be, effectively delivering information in a visually pleasing manner.
I need Garfield to stop me from writing essay when I’m about to enter sleep deprivation condition. Otherwise…
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Rainy day + Vanilla drink + Jazz by Jay Soto = Perfect Tuesday.
My Gmail theme was minimalist until I changed it to dynamic theme recently. Dynamic theme changes according to time or weather of the city where I live in. I like how rainy day is represented in ‘Tree’ theme as a soothing and pleasant color blend:
My entire Gmail was filled with vibrant blend of purple tone until the rain stop.
The application for NUSAE Exco 09/10 is now open to all NUSAE members, including prospective members and freshmen, with the following positions available:
Please take a look at this document to learn more about responsibilities for roles listed above. If you’re interested in any of those positions above, you may download the application form and indicate the position you’d like to apply for. Please complete the form and send it to nus.angklung [Email address: nus.angklung #AT# gmail.com - replace #AT# with @ ] by 22 August ‘09.
Join the upcoming street soccer tournament on 18 July 2009 at The Cage, Kallang!
Cash reward of $250 and $150 for winning team and first runner-up are up for grab along with goodies from the sponsors.
Registration is as simple as forming a team of 5-7 soccer players and pen it down on the registration form before 15 July 2009. Visit soccerbonanza.blogspot.com for details of game play, prizes, rules and registration.
My friend emailed me funny short stories about conversations with children. The first one is in a class room:
A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales.
The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small.The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale.
Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible.The little girl said, ‘When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah’.
The teacher asked, ‘What if Jonah went to hell?’
The little girl replied, ‘Then you ask him’.
During art lesson:
A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child’s work.
As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was.
The girl replied, ‘I’m drawing God.’
The teacher paused and said, ‘But no one knows what God looks like.’Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, ‘They will in a minute.’
In sunday school:
A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds.
After explaining the commandment to ‘honour’ thy Father and thy Mother, she asked, ‘Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?’
Without missing a beat one little boy (the oldest of a family) answered, ‘Thou shall not kill..’
At home with mom:
One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head.
She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, ‘Why are some of your hairs white, Mom?’
Her mother replied, ‘Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white.’The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and then said, ‘Momma, how come ALL of grandma’s hairs are white?’
Persuading them:
The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture.
‘Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, ‘There’s Jennifer, she’s a lawyer,’ or ‘That’s Michael, He’s a doctor.’A small voice at the back of the room rang out, ‘And there’s the teacher, she’s dead.’
Basic biology lesson:
A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood. Trying to make the matter clearer, she said, ‘Now, class, if I stood on my head, the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I would turn red in the face.’
‘Yes,’ the class said.
‘Then why is it that while I am standing upright in the ordinary position the blood doesn’t run into my feet?’A little fellow shouted,
‘Cause your feet ain’t empty.’
Even just some simple manners can get complicated:
The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray:
‘Take only ONE . God is watching.’Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies..
A child had written a note, ‘Take all you want. God is watching the apples.’
Those stories above are amusing!
But imagine yourself in such situation and hearing such responses from innocent children just right before your eyes/ears. Hmm… Now we know why we should not mess with the children.
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