I got this funny sms from my girlfriend.
Human = eat + sleep + work + enjoy
Pig = eat + sleep
Human = Pig + work + enjoy
Human - enjoy = Pig + work
Conclusion:
Human who cannot enjoy = Pig that can work
I've been slowly moving my online activities into Google:
Personalised Homepage with tools like To do list and games like Bejeweled and Color Junction. Calendar, Picasa photo album, recently I started using Alert, RSS Reader and Notebook.
All of these, let alone Gmail which was the very first thing I fall in love with Google, makes me wonder about how safe it is to put all eggs in one basket, though the basket seems iron solid and reliable now.
Stumbled upon this page and found that BankWest has the best rate of at-call saving account, a whooping 6.60% introductory rate for a year.
Some of my money will flow there. Haha!
INFOCHOICE | Banking | At-Call Savings
Google Alert is cool. I started using it a while ago and it picks up some new things about Malaysia+Perth
on the internet which I won't search regularly myself. Here's one of them.
Flight 720 - Malaysia - Brindha Sithambarnathan :: ABC Perth
I went to see the Honda Asimo humanoid robot at the Perth Royal Show on the last day. Very impressive robot. But I find real human are still way more interesting than robots.
Cool Origami gallery:
TT's origami gallery
And how to fold them here:
TT's Origami Page
Some CG of origami folding too here:
Smooth Origami Animation by Crease Line Adjustment
There's a picture of the Kongmoon Rice Stick (江门排粉 or beehoon as Malaysians call it) features on Greenpeace website saying that the rice they use to make this rice stick is dangerous as it's experimentally Genetically Engineered (GE)!
I had made beehoon soup at home last week. It was nice. Let me know if you see a third arm growing out from my back, ok?
Month in pictures: September 2006 | Greenpeace Australia Pacific
See if you can see what's wrong with it.
(Hint: They might have ran out of letter 'V' at the time of construction.)
Professional Development Lectures for Research Students now available online at Graduate Research School - Current Students
Perth - Singapore - Shanghai - Suzhou - Shanghai - Shenzhen - Shanghai - Singapore - Kuala Lumpur - Singapore - Perth
I'm now back in Perth again.
The length and urgency of my to do list don't look very good at the moment. So, there may be some lag till I catch up on the last couple of days log in China and the family reunion in KL and gathering in Singapore.
We took a domestic flight to Shenzhen (深圳) this morning at 8am. We reached Shenzhen at 10am+ and then took a taxi to the hotel to check in. The taxi driver (the locals called them shifu(师傅)) seems like a reasonable and nice guy. I had a good chat with him on the way and he drive with good manner.
Opps. Battery low! Gotta switch off.
Had a morning of free time before we head down to do more scary business negotiations. We went to ChengHuang temple (城隍庙) area for some shopping and had the famous xiaolong bun (南翔蟹黄小笼包) and soup bun (灌汤包). 
At night we went back to the hotel restaurant for dinner again and I checked out the toilet which I get entertained by Jolin Tsai (蔡依林)'s karaoke MTV.
Heaps of heated negotiation today. Scary business stuffs. It was at the government research center and the lunch was like those in military service. And we were 'privileged' enough to sit in the military personnel room (军人室), the food are ok, but the presentation was very different compared to other meals we had in those posh VIP. But the watermelon was impressive. Very sweet and fine, and even the usual white part close to the skin are very nice. :D~
And also we were offered bottled water that the astronauts drink. :P
We had dinner back in the hotel in a posh VIP room. Hugh table and golden cutlery.
But the highlight of the day was a tour to the Oriental Pearl Tower. We went through the whole thing - the middle deck, the top 'space cabin' (350m) and the Shanghai development museum. Very nice view of the whole shanghai night light. It's so huge that it's all buildings as far as the horizon can be seen. And the musuem has a very detail re-presentation of Shanghai of different time. Very very nice, but we were running late to the musuem part and were rushing through the whole thing....
Also, I got a good picture of the nine dragon pole on the 5-level highway. I was told that there were a myth: The location of the pole was the dragon neck in fengshui as told by a chief monk of a temple after repeated failure to drill the piling into that location. Then the monk finally revealed a specific time and method to drill and it was successful after that but the monk died straight after due to the revelation of heavenly secret. Nine dragons statue was put on as part of the solution by the monk.
Today itenarary is to Suzhou(苏州).
8:30am Breakfast at the Sichuan 四川 restaurant at the hotel. Buns, congee (皮蛋瘦肉粥) and some small dishes. Hot and peppery. And some freshly made noodle (担担面) too. The people working in the restaurant are all very young and doesn't seem very well trained. Haha! And they keep smiling with shyness.
9am+ Got on the van and headed to Suzhou. Saw quite some stuffs on the way. Lots of electric bicycles, tricycle taxis, five-level Highway with nine dragon scupture on the center pole, lots of huge advertisement boards, etc. The pity is I didn't get many good photo of all these as I'm in the car and the glass is not very clean. Haha！
11am+ we reached the factory and had some exchange. And the water they provide is from Nestle. 
After the factory tour, it's LUNCH!! Yeah! We went to SongHe Restaurant (松鹤楼) on the historical ShanTang Street (山塘街). The food are very nice. Small portion of many many dishes without the scary super expensive stuffs. Ha! 
Outside our room in the restaurant. Very Suzhou look. 
Gui Fish 桂鱼
Chicken Head Rice 鸡头米
little lake trout 小塘鲤鱼
Sugar vinegar white raddish 糖醋萝卜
After the lunch, we had some 20 mins to walk on the historical street. 
Me on the ShanTang Street
Water way and boat
Theatre
Then we had a long drive back to Shanghai. Had another long and exhausting meeting in a cafe called 上岛咖啡厅. By the time the meeting is done, it's almost 9pm. Everyone was rather tired but still not hungry because of the late lunch and finger food. So we all went back to hotel and rest. I managed to borrow my boss's laptop to check email and blog about this.
Tomorrow morning breakfast at 7:30am. Then some big negotiation are awaiting. Big day tomorrow! Stay tune. Hope I'll have time tomorrow night too.
I'm in Shanghai(上海)!!!!!! Unreal!
Pearl Tower (明珠塔)
Shanghai airport is huge! And the city is a mix of old and modern. Big highway with bicycles on it. :P
The China people are nice to us. They insisted to order shark fin soup after we order some very specials dishes and declined the shark fin openly. I killed a small shark today. But the soup is really really nice, so thick and yummy. It's not anythin like the sharkfin soup we have at wedding... it's one bowl each separately with candle at the bottom... And the restaurant is at the side of the Huang Pu river(黄浦江). Superb view of both side of the river night light... 
The hotel is beauiful too, called DongHai Hotel 东海宾馆. We stayed at the top floor, great far away view, but looking directly down is not very good, messy rof top of flats. About RMB470 a night. The workers in the hotels are nice but not very experienced let alone professional. Lots of young cute girls everywhere... :P Probably all concentrated at these high class places... 
Gotta sleep. Good night.
Going to Shanghai for a week helping a company do translation. Yeah!!
Cape Telecoms Limited
I went to Applecross Primary School last week to do a presentation for the Computer science school. And the Melville Times had a photographer over and picked up the news.
I've been really busy for the past week or so and will continue to be very busy for the next couple of weeks or so.
Last weekends was pretty full. I went to a comedy night sponsored by my housemate's Deloite social club. It's the Big Hooha at Brisbane Hotel on Saturday night. That was the first time I've been to a live comedy. I have to say that they are very fast, creative and well-expressed.
There are 6 guys and 2 gals in the team - one is sort of the MC, two teams each has 2 guys 1 gal and one guy is at the back with a keyboard and music effect.
It was really funny! They can express whatever with no or very little props and the audience can still make out what they are trying to play as. And many little games they played on stage are ad hoc, getting a word from the audience and come out with stuffs within seconds. Pretty amazing talent. So I really enjoyed it. :D
Then Sunday was the UWA EXPO. I was helping up at CS school with photographing and at the vision lab. Here are the photos of UWA EXPO @ CSSE, also featured on the The Wonderful World of Computer Science page. I managed to sneak in to one of the photo I took. Hehehe!
photos of UWA EXPO @ CSSE.
Then after I finished my duty at uni, I rushed off with friends to the AMWA Malaysian community food fair for Charity. Here's some photos featured on AMWA website.
AMWA Community Food Fair for Charity.
You may have listened to this hilarious Irish kid Becky's proposal to knock her school down. If you haven't, here it is:
Demolition Becky
At UWA, we have some real demolition going on at the old Chemistry building enar the guild. I only managed to took some shots before it's all cleaned up. I didn't have my camera with me when it was actually being knocked down bits by bits.
