Rendezvous@NanoMakia

Today I am going to write about Tim Hortons… a few facts first. It is the largest food operator in Canada. “Tim Hortons commands 76% of the Canadian market for baked goods (based on the number of customers served) and holds 62% of the Canadian coffee market.” info from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hortons. Here are some visuals to assist in showing this essential part of breakfast:

Around $3+ for 6 donuts and $5+ for 1 dozen… good price I would say. Medium Coffee double double please… haha

Do you guys/gals know which part has the highest chance of causing your computer hard drive (the mechanical version not SSD) to be destroyed? Whenever you suddenly without realizing it, you hook onto the power cable of your notebook… and start to walk… bang… your laptop fall to the ground. If it was off… you might be fine since the hard drive is not moving… but, if it was on… you better hope that it is ok. With the invention of shock detection, this risk is somehow reduced but cannot be totally ignored.

The answer to the question is: Your hard drive’s read/write head. Whenever a hard drive receives intense amounts of force or impulse, imagine rotating at 5400 or 7200 times a minutes which is 90 or 120 times per second… then suddenly the head which is just floating above the platters bounce onto the hard drive platter….screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeech… there goes your hard drive.

Lesson to be learnt… check the laptop hard drive you are buying has shock detection or protection or just get a laptop with a solid state hard drive. Wanna hear a stupid thing I did… one day I was running some intense hard drive activity on my laptop… it was still working on it… and I decided to put it in my bag and walk home with it… bad idea… the hard drive was working non stop… but moving it along a distance somehow caused it to fail. And by the way, the hard drive I had was a 7200RPM with NO Shock Protection… now I can still use it… but only for data… even that it’s having issues. There are just too many bad sectors.

I found a nice link to a pictorial view of where hard drives come from:

http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/476-2-seagate-hard-drive.html

I had to admit that my forte in language should be in literature, another aspcet of language where i cna toy with meanings and words and its syntax. But… for my grammar, I’m always the big time loser.

I have never liked grammar. I am not the type who like to learn all the rules. I prefer vocabularies. It’s much fun!

But now, being someone who need to educate others about the rules of English, grammar of course is inevitable. I’m declaring war against Grammar!!! I got students who are so enthusiastic about learning the boring and stagnant grammar rules. *Here comes my biggest fear!*

Since I never liked grammar, how could you expect me to explain it with enthusiasm when I certainly do not like it and it will never become my forte. Duh! Yet, I had to do my best. I had to study the rules of grammar and yes revise all of it again.

I hope next time I get to deal with my forte… and something I love to do, LITERATURE!!!!! Hehehe…

These are my colleagues. In white is Carleen. The long straight blond-dyed hair is Syarifah. And the red shirt is Esther.

Hanging out at Silhouette, The Spring.

We often heard about old people saying…

” Girls’ underwear at not to be washed together with men’s clothing. If it happens, you (the girls) will bring bad luck to the men and causing them (the men) not to prosper.”

Hmm.. I was thinking.

If it’s true… then men shouldn’t be that worked up with the thoughts related to any sexual act. Touching stuffs like that would bring bad luck to men. The thing which made me ponder is that… then why in the first place would a man marry a woman? IF washing underwear, I mean both husband’s and wife’s together, is deemed in appropriate and will cause major destruction in the man’s prosperity, then what about their intimate relationship? Some would even just tugged at the ladies undies just for their carnal needs. They don’t differ much actually.

Underwears are just another clothing. What a man would wear, and what a woman would wear. What’s so funny about that? What’s so dirty about that? It doesn’t mean that men’s underwear is much ‘cleaner’ than a ladies’. If it’s dirty, then both are dirty. Imagine where we all are wearing it. What’s the big deal about it?

Sometimes, I find it weird for those sayings. Not that I want to dispute it but somehow, I just can’t help it.If washing the ladies’ underwear together with the man’s, people say that that man will not prosper. If we say that a husband helping his wife to dry her undies, people say that it is very inapporpriate and again that man will not prosper. If a man helps his wife to wash her undies, people will say that the lady has gone too far by forcing her guy to wash her undies for her.

That’s plain dumb, I would say. That’s SEXIST!

If a woman could do it for a man, why couldn’t the man do it for the woman? Especially when that woman is HIS wife. So what?! Think again…

If a woman dries a man’s undies, it’s her duty so it’s alright. If women washes men’s undies, there’s nothing weird about it, cause it’s her job. Worse, some would say that they’re born to do it. If washing the undies together, the woman is at fault for doing so cause it is against the taboo. Against the norms.

Think again. Don’t you think that traditional thinking are way too biased in favour over the man rather than the woman? I’m SO mad right now!

All of us were suddenly craving for buffet so we decided to walk all the way to Jubilee restaurant on Prospect Street. Each person was CAD15 for dinner. We tried to eat as much as possible… the Malaysian way… get as much value back as possible… haha.

Above is the first plate I had… as you can notice… a lot of the food I chose was a bad idea to start of a buffet… avoid flour coated food to begin ^_^

Above is the second plate I had. As seen, I targetted the more expensive items… prawns (dozens… I think I might get too much seafood), fish, mussels and ribs.

Above is my third meal… fruits… because I was just simply too full… haha… good suggestion is to start the meal with fruits to increase appetite.

Above is Adeline’s first plate.

Above is Eric’s first plate.

The mussels above… hmmm… so many. Almost all eaten by Eric… and he seems to think that the mussels seems to remind him of a certain body part… haha

Above, both of them enjoying the mussels.

Above is me showing of my first plate.

This is my final plate… ice cream. A meal is not complete without ice cream.