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Name: Dennis
Birthday: 2/24/1983
Gender: Male
Interests: hang out meet new people eat good food cook good food play squash skinny dipping hike adventure break the rules camp help people be helped make people happy play music be crazy be thoughtful be sad be hilarious be different be special
Expertise: THINKING, COOKING, MUSIC, ADVENTURE GAMES
Occupation: Student
Industry: Education/Research
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MSN: denniscky@hotmail.com
Member Since:
6/7/2005
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| Have you ever had a dream where you were back to school and had to
finish a test? I just had one this morning. But what was really bizarre
about this dream was that there was a real Math problem in it!
Considering I don't really think about Math anymore and I have never
heard of this problem before, I was really surprised that it came up in
my dream. Did I make it up? Or some external intelligence? Where did
the problem come from? Anyway, I am going to share my dream with you:
I was in some school, and I had a couple classes that day. I met a new
person that morning who I was very interested in, but that person
didn't seem interested at all and I was disappointed. We were at my
place, but my grandmother was around at home also, so I couldn't act
too aggressively.
There was a take-home exam that I needed to hand in by about 3pm, but I
could not figure out one of the problems. So, I went to get lunch at a
take-out place instead. They have a choice of deep-fried chicken
quarters, and roasted wings in hamburger buns. I chose the roasted
wings, but that guy only gave me two wings in two buns. I asked for
more and he said since I'm nice he would give me one wing more. I
finished that 3rd wing immediately, stripped to the bone in one bite.
Then I looked at the Math exam. Most of the problems were easy (I don't
think the details came up in my dream at all), except the second last
problem:
There are five business cards in front of you, lined up horizontally
(think of them lined up on a wall). Your eyes are directly in front of
the middle one. Since the wall is flat, the ones on the side are going
to be slightly further from you. Find out the equations describing the
shapes of these business cards as perceived in your visual field.
I started to think about the problem, and I woke up. 
Questions for you:
1) (For science-oriented individuals) Solve this problem.
2) (For psychology-oriented individuals) Use Freudian Analysis to
explain why I came up with this dream and Math problem, and the
significance of this dream to my life, if at all.
3) (For others) Laugh and point out how ridiculous I am to even write this post.
My solution:
1) I thought about the problem when I woke up, and I kind of know how to do it and I didn't bother to work it out. haha
2) I remember some events that happened which might contribute to this
dream. But as in what this dream means to me, I have no idea:
a) My co-worker told me yesterday that he had a dream about school.
b) Often times I'm interested in somebody I don't know and they don't seem interested.
c) I met a person who was staying with his grandparents for a couple weeks.
d) I have lots of deadlines at work.
e) That lunch place reminds me of a Chinese place I sometimes go for lunch.
f) My friend is going to cook me chicken tonight. I wasn't sure whether
it's deep-fried or cooked other ways, but I don't like deep-fried stuff.
g) Yesterday I encountered an issue with monitor positioning and coordinates at work.
h) I have been reading a book about brain and music perceptions ("This is Your Brain on Music", I highly recommend)
Comments?
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| Just got bad news from Hong Kong, may her rest in peace...
Their family has been VERY strong through this, and I can't tell you how much I admire them. Sometimes, I'm surprised how suffering can make people so much stronger, tougher, and more ready to face challenges in life. Whether it's God's plan, I don't know, but what I know is, they all grew, in strength, in heart, in faith, and in how they view life. I could see the change. Compared to them, I am such a weakling. All the things I worry about seem so small that it's a joke to even mention them. Yet, I think about them every single day. When life goes relatively well, people start to worry about things that don't really matter, isn't that ironic? Or, is it just human nature to worry about things on the 'next level' when we are comfortable with things on the 'current level'? (I still remember that essay in AL Chinese hah) If so, what happens after the highest level? Or, we are just jumping back and forth between each one?
On the other hand, congrats to cousin having their first child. Souls leave, souls enter... that leaves me wondering. Life is like a story. There are high points, low points, twists and turns, stories within stories, stories outside stories. That's what makes stories meaningful.
Hope my jetlag and stomachache be gone soon. And my other petty problems.
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| 聽見 冬天 的離開 我在某年某月醒過來
我想 我等 我期待 未來卻不能因此安排
陰天 傍晚 車窗外 未來有一個人在等待
向左 向右 向前看 愛要拐幾個彎才來
我遇見誰 會有怎樣的對白
我等的人 他在多遠的未來
我聽見風 來自地鐵和人海
我排著隊 拿著愛的號碼牌
我往前飛 飛過一片時間海
我們也曾 在愛情裡受傷害
我看著路 夢的入口有點窄
我遇見你 是最美麗的意外
總有一天 我的謎底會解開
I will not give up.
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| I haven't written a blog for so long that I almost feel obliged to write one.
July 1st followed by July 4th... a pretty combination. Reading my friends' blogs about Hong Kong's July 1st celebration, I don't know how to feel - Is Hong Kong the same Hong Kong that I grew up in? Are we being slowly changed? Does our culture still exist? Or did we have one to begin with? The fact that I only go home every year or so makes it much easier for me to notice changes - the addition of mandarin everywhere, the appearance of mainland tourists, and now, the full-fledged 'Mainland-style' 10th Anniversary Celebration... I don't know whether I should belong to this place anymore? Maybe I'm just exaggerating; after all it's still the same land, same mountains, same city, same people?
Went to see the July 4th fireworks today. My first time in life seeing a large-scale firework up close and not on TV. It was purely impressive. The multitude of colours and sounds (sounds! I never knew fireworks were so loud, or even have sounds!) totally mesmerized me. For a moment, I forgot about all my troubles and immersed myself in the blossoming flowers in the sky and in the explosive sounds that shook my rib cage. I suddenly had a joyous feeling - that life is good, full of hope, and the best is yet to come. Things may not be perfect at this moment, but soon, soon enough, we'll all achieve what we want to achieve.
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| 想
想打人
想掟o野
想罵街
想
想甚麼?
想就有的麼?
點解呢個世界咁多蠢人, 包括自己?
我忍忍忍, 要忍到幾時? 等到幾時?
So be it.
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