>those old wives’ tales about having to gulp down your soup while it is piping hot, might not be so true after all.My mom, being one of those traditional Chinese moms, always insisted that we drink our soup and eat our food while it is scalding hot and that had time to manifest itself in our food. (Wait, there might be an essence of truth in that, but that’s not my point.)I bought prawn noodles for lunch and left it on the table for a bit, because I was called off to do something.When I came back the noodles and prawns were thoroughly soaked in the broth and had this delicious flavor from the soup and still managed to retain that fresh crunchiness.Needless to say, I slurped up every last drop in the bowl of noodles and my friend has vowed to try the noodles from that stall as well.Moral of the story: Take your time to eat your food and let it soak in the flavors from the rest of the dish. And sometimes, do listen to your mom. 
Taking time off from the grind and meeting up with an old friend for a dinner of cheap pasta, garlic bread and bubbly soft drinks, is just too good for words to articulate.
We talked for three hours straight without a break. It was amazing. It was also a stress-relief. I really needed that and the hugs that came at the end.
Sometimes, it is not all about the food or environment. It is all about the company.
NB: By the way, do I have this intense way of staring into people’s eyes when I talk to them? Just out of curiosity, because I have never noticed that I did that.
Last night I was hanging out with some of my neighbors and their friends, and two people described themselves as “liberal Republicans.” How is that possible? For the life of me I can’t understand how someone could describe themselves as liberal and yet support George Bush. I’m not trying to be sarcastic or insulting here, I just don’t get it. If any liberal Republicans are reading this, could someone e-mail me and explain?
Also, an interesting rumor I heard last night: The 2008 presidential election for U.S may turn out to be Hillary Clinton vs. Condoleeza Rice. Now, I’ve never liked the idea of Hillary running for president, because I don’t think she’s electable. But given the choice between her or Condi Rice, she just might be. ROFL!
Tonight, it is raining, and I’m smiling with satisfaction. Firstly, I just love rain and the thought that I am surrounded by water falling from the heavens. Secondly, the water is coming down and feeding my newly planted vegetable garden. 
There are posts all over the ’sphere’ today about the launch of VIRB. For those of you who aren’t familiar with what VIRB is:“Virb is a community website that combines social interaction with music and entertainment exploration. It’s a great way to keep in touch and meet people with similar interests. Use Virb to discover music, videos, cool companies and organizations… then share what you find with your friends.
I am going to run through something I liked very much; the customization page for the visual appearance of your VIRB homepage.You can fully customize the styles (I put a screen up on my flickr) and the basic page layout (I put a screen up on my flickr).
I really enjoyed the real-time preview of what your page will look like when you are styling your custom ‘VIRB page’. And the drag and drop of elements on the basic layout page is great and very handy when it comes to user friendliness.
I’m not too sure how well this will be accepted in the social music/video network since it is very over saturated as it is. But I wouldn’t have thought that Purevolume could stick it out with the big guns (ie* Myspace / Mp3.com to name a couple) and they are doing great (best design out of the bunch in my eyes too).
What will the future of VIRB be? Will they die once the hype is over? We will find out. I will be interested in seeing what else they bring to the table down the road to stay competitive and sharp.
Arsenal lose their first game at their new stadium and there is life for West Ham who somehow managed to scrape the three points. Robert Green earns the ‘Man of the Match’ award for a world class performance.
I’ve found a flaw in the umbrella, it might have been around since ancient China, but i’ve managed to do it. In windy conditions, they’re as useful as using a brown paper bag as contraception. Wikipedia tells me that someone has invented an umbrella that doesn’t break in windy conditions, well I’ve never seen one, never… Mind you I bet The Dell has one, somehow.
How many times have you been walking down the road, or watching the news, when you’ve seen someone in windy/rainy conditions being hurtled down the road by an inverted umbrella. Rather than being somewhat of a help, they become somewhat of an enemy, making your trip home harder than it really should be.
Earlier this week I was walking to a coffee house from office when it started to rain, I decided that despite the seemingly inevitable problems that would later face me, using an umbrella might be my best bet. To be fair, I’m somewhat of a novice when it comes to using them, I put it up and try and act like I’m someone from the ‘city’ who uses it every day, but in actual fact I probably look like a student, wearing a hoody, who’s stolen a nice mans umbrella just for the hell of it.
Either way, it wasn’t working. Around five minutes into my trip it flipped outwards, thus producing two problems. One (the most minor) is the fact you’re going to get wet for a while. Secondly, and more crucially, you’re going to have to try and re-invert the umbrella, with your cold and numb hands. It proved to be as hard and painful as I suspected it to be, attempting to force the metal bars back towards the center was beyond annoying, not to mention embarrassing with masses of students passing me by, not caring about the rain.
Needless to say, it got worse, five minutes later it inverted again, this time with disastrous consequences, the central beam managed to change to somewhat of a ‘Dutch angle’ leaving me no option but to force it back in. Like slapping a naughty-child that little bit too hard, the umbrella had clearly had enough, and gave me no more shit for the duration of the walk.
It’s now lying lifelessly on my bedroom floor, a shadow of its former self. I won’t be using it again, and I think it knows it…
Jelsoft has released an update to their vBulletin Project Tools, as the product is now nearly feature complete.
Below is a list of features, and a brief overview of the vBulletin Project Tools.
* Unlimited number of admin-definable issue types can be selected for each project, whether it be to report a bug with your forum software, or features and tasks.
* Searching using the tools can be sorted, and you can use group options to do so.
* You can save your searching reports to complete them at a later time/date.
* You can subscribe to reported issues to track them, which enables you to receive updates on the issues.
* Submitted issues can have files attached along with them.
* Issue lists can be viewed in a sortable tabular form, or in timeline style.
* Issue status, priority and users assigned to them can be changed via AJAX.
* You can vote on issues, and find out which bugs affect different people.
* Issues can be categorised and tagged, which helps a great deal with searching and sorting.
* A patch attachment type is available, for a much more easier readable patch diff.
* Calendar Widget can be used to make an easy selection of dates.
Having flu is really annoying. Or any of its variations, like when you’ve had it for a while so you go the Doctors only for him/her (usually him) to offer the profound prognosis that it’s a viral infection that is “doing the rounds.” At the other end, you have the blurred and confusing line between what constitutes a cold and flu. I’m sure on council estates, even if you can’t move and your eyes are starting to roll back - you’ve only got a cold.
But having flu (or whatever) is actually quite interesting. I don’t get ill very much anymore, back in the days of school I used to miss one day in five, though admittedly subconsciously having to do P.E on cold Friday mornings probably had something to do with it too. But no, since college my immune system has finally got off its ass and whips anything that comes close back into touch. Alas, it normally finds me at Christmas, but for some reason its hit me in February this time (I blame my brain getting confused between the Chinese New Year and the regular one).
The great thing about having flu is the ’stages’. You always know when you’re not going to be on top of the world when you get that dreary feeling, like you just want to sit down for a while. Then comes the lack of appetite. This is stage two, and is much more definite and precise than stage one. Stage one can often just be the infamous “24hr bug” - surely invented by ‘City workers’ skiving. Then follows the actual illness as it overpowers your already struggling white blood cells. The headaches, the sore throats and so on, I’m in that stage.
This is the most boring of the stages, and is usually the common way of understanding if it is a cold, flu or a ‘viral infection’ simply depending on how long you feel like this. I may well perk up tomorrow, in which case it’s a mild cold, or it might be at the weekend, who knows. Then you get the brilliant after period where you suddenly feel fantastic. You haven’t been able (or willing) to do things for the previous week, and suddenly you feel revitalized and ready to conquer the world.
Of course, this is gods way of telling you that you’re a twat, as this is ALWAYS followed by the period in which you have “over exerted yourself” after doing sweet FA for the past week(s). However, despite my knowledge of the area, I’m sure God will throw some kind of curveball my way, in which I miss the initial “over exertion” stage, only to be confronted by a second one. Seriously - you can’t win.
Jelsoft Enterprises Limited just announced their first batch of official and supported addon products. Creating a better community experience. Starting off with a project tool-, and blog system, these products add on top of their successful forum software.
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