Today I missed a milestone on project beta release and got complained. Then, I fired a colleague. Then, I went out at the time that happened to be a military exercise that no traffic was allowed for half an hour. And then, I got hit by a truck. Fortunately, I'm not harmed.
After more than one year, Wang finally won a game since his injury in base-running. Although his strike counts is only average compared to his best days, but his GO/AO is a strong indicator that his sinker is back. Perhaps thanks to the luck brought by JJ Wang as in old Taiwanese saying. I think this win not only relieved his pressure to prove himself to Cashman and Girardi, but the stress of his teammates trying to help him out. Way to go, Wanger!
Another good new is that Tigers called up RHP Ni Fu-Te today, marking the first Taiwanese player to join MLB from CPBL (first player was Melvin Mora of Orioles). This is noticeable especially in the bad times of CPBL that struggles to attract audience and the national team lost all major international games in the last few years. I'm not a supporter for CPBL, but for Taiwan baseball players. If the team owners still think the professional baseball in Taiwan is a favor from them and everyone should thank them and never criticize them, the players have no choice but to prove that they can compete in MLB level and forget about CPBL.
Today our little girl is 37 weeks old and ready for the world any time. Estimated baby weight is now 3200g and growing, so Allie is very tired carry her around 24 hours a day.
This foreign student obviously knows more about the value of the heritage of Chinese culture lies in the Chinese characters than President Ma. I wonder if Ma has never actually speak to a real person from China so that he is stupid enough to toss the topic of "Reading Traditional, Writing Simplified" in his speech. I don't see any problem in the communication caused by the Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. People from China or Singapore write me emails in Simplified Chinese, and I write them back in Traditional Chinese, and we all understand each other.
Besides, I believe many young people in China now actually is getting more and more familiar with Traditional Chinese because that watch a lot of (pirated) TV programs from Taiwan, along with those embedded subtitles and on-screen-messages written in Trad Chinese. Hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese also learned Simp Chinese already. As a President, why bother raising an issue which is not beneficial in practical matters? He should know more about the influence of Taiwan Culture in the Great China area and enhance that, not to dump them to toilet and surrender to China.
Simplified Chinese is not logical, and it's one-to-many compared to original characters. It's not just a word being converted to a simplified form, but many words is dropped or replaced by another which only sounds the same, such as 發/髮 or 後/后. For this, I think it's not s good and complete system.
On the other hand, the symphonic system (Pin Yin) using Roman characters is a superior one than the ridiculous system used o the street signs in Taiwan. How am I supposed to know Cheng means 政 or 成, not to mention that Chi can be 基 or 奇, when they all use "Ch"? They are "Zh", "Ch", "J" and "Q" respectively in the China system. Isn't it more logical?
This is absolutely the coolest introduction I've ever seen from Microsoft. I wonder how real it is already and how soon we can see it in shops. Also check out this promo on YouTube.
Yesterday I heard a shocking and sad news. David's wife passed away after she gave birth to their second baby. All her family suffer from high blood pressure so it was very dangerous for her to be pregnant already. They tried several times to have a second baby, but all ended up with miscarriage in late pregnancy. It's the fourth time. I don't know what to say, just overwhelmed by the shock and sadness. It's the second time such tragedy happened on my friends. I found this picture of her and her son in my album.
