When Doves Cry

As I wake its kaleidoscopic mind..

I’m not stuck in between a rock and a hard place. I’m in a hard place, and you’re my rock…you’re also my raft.

Who ever said you were inadequate?
I see the best in you that I am unable to bring out. There is much that I cannot fulfil and fail to satisfy. I cannot assure, let alone reassure – how much could someone, or anyone at all, need that?
Open your mind – I need to touch, to understand. Open your eyes – we need to see – that there is light, that there is no need for a tunnel to get to it.

Never settle for anything less than what you deserve. Never falter, never fear, never ever give in, because I will always, always have your back..just like how I know you have mine.

Update on Milk

Refer to previous post.

It’s been working out awesomely well! I have completed quite a few things off my list and added a few more, thanks to the gmail plug-in; it sits to the right of my emails in my inbox, emails me twice a day, sometimes more, and just virtually hassles me to get things done.
Highly recommended for short-term-memory (STM) impairments! =D

Remember The Milk!

So as the story goes, I was on the phone with a friend today, and the subject was ‘benzo-induced short term memory’. Before I continue, here’s the all important disclaimer: I don’t suffer from that, I just have an auto-procrastinating mind.
I decided to be a responsible near-adult, and in an attempt to pull myself out of limbo, finally signed up with this: Remember The Milk. Hey, I spend so much time glued to the net anyway, might as well be productive as well!

Because I’m not running a techie website here, coupled with the fact that 99% of the people who read this blog would just skip this post anyway, these are just some of the features RTM comes with:

• notifications via email/IM (even includes Skype)/sms
• gmail, gcal, iCal, twitter, dashboard (Mac), quicksilver (Mac), etc. integration
• Lists/Categories, Tags, Locations (using Google Maps!)
• offline support and sync with google gears
• mobile support and sync ability with iphone/ipod touch, blackberry, windows mobile

If paper really is your cup of tea, though, there is a weekly planner version of RTM that one can print out and have the satisfaction of manually striking out accomplished tasks.
For those who argue that other methods work better than these GTD apps, I might have to agree….because so much time was spent fiddling around with this thing that when I finally got out of the house, the shops were shut!! Curses, overdue tasks! =p
Let’s all hope I get used to this somehow, or I might just evolve into a huge blob of gelatin.

P.S. I personally prefer mental lists! ;)

Dearth

My chinese isn’t bad. It’s actually rather satisfactory, although I choose to ignore those loud murmurs of dissent rippling through the web now.

So this is how I manage to type in chinese: the computer helps.
All I have to do is think in english
—> translate it into what I think sounds like the correct chinese word/phrase/sentence (I often end up with a completely different something altogether)
—> translate that word/phrase/sentence into ‘han yu pin yin’, which is the english version of chinese, or more accurately, how someone with a basic knowledge of english and chinese tones pronounces anything at all
—> type out the ‘han yu pin yin’ using the chinese language system on the computer
—> run into a lot of problems because I don’t know how the actual characters actually look
—> realize I can actually type out a phrase and trust what the computer spits out to be the right one.

If that doesn’t work, I go through the whole cycle again i.e. think of a simpler expression in english, translate……you know the rest. The alternative is to use simple words to translate it in a ludicrously meaningful fashion.

All this unfortunately sometimes leaves me with the problem of getting the sentence structure wrong – one cannot simply translate directly, chinese sentences require a ‘flip’ most of the time – and the fact that I find it impossible to replace words such as ‘fucking’ (when used as an expression) for an example.
Of course, there’s always a work around: just type it in anyway!

Now I’m wondering who actually bothered to read through all that drivel.

我的华语不是不好，我觉得它还不错的。。虽然我选择不管那些在网上不讲道理的人。

这是我打出华文字的方法：是电脑帮住的。
我只要想出我想说的话
－》在我脑里把它从英文翻译成我认为是对的华语（虽然它的意思很有可能变得很不一样）
－》再把刚才所想象的翻译成汉语拼音。（哎呀会读华文的人知道汉语拼音是什么所以我懒得浪费脑力打出来。）
－》用电脑把华文字体打出来
－》伤脑筋应为我不会认对的华文字体
－》realize that 我其实可以把两，三，四个字打在一起，然后相信电脑所吐出来的是对的翻译

如果上面写的方式不成功，就要重复一切 － 想出比较简单的英文字，然后 etc. etc. 另一个方法就是用很多字来乱乱解释不会解释的事。。就象我现在在做一样！

这些翻译有时会照成我把华文句子弄错了，应为 1）华文是不能从英语直接翻译的，很多时候是要翻过来才对，和 2）我简直没有办法翻译一些字，比如 ’fucking’（当用为形容词时）。当然，这也有办法。。直接打出英文字就行了！

OK，我现在在wonder到底谁会读这一大堆塞。

-End of piss-

Talk about being verbose. I just needed something to do! Whoever bothers to read the “translation”, marks out of 100? =D (give me credit, I did use kindy-school chinese instead of peppering it with english…)

P.S. I don’t hate the chinese language, it’s just so…(oh, my head hurts…..)…hard….

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There are 10 types of people in the world – those who understand binary, and those who don’t.