当两个人之间的信任和关心越来越少的时候，应该是友情渐渐消失的迹象吧？很多时候，是否愿意相信和关怀一个人，就多多少少看得出他/她在你心目中占了什么样的位置不是吗？

这几天既和死亡又和生命打招呼，令我再次觉得人生不过就是如此，有些事情又何必那么坚持呢？不是吗？

想要彻彻底底、清清楚楚、完完全全地研究并且了解任何一门学问的任何一个部分，都是很不容易的啊…坚持住！

CL does not stand for Chinese Language wor, it stands for Central Library in this context! :P

Just 2 things to share which may be helpful in this time of chiong paper deadlines. :)))

1st thing, in case many of you have not realised, we can now borrow up to 20 books!!! woah! so exciting! can borrow all the books for all the papers already!

2nd thing, if you want to print papers in the central library after staying over to chiong them overnight right, got a few points to take note. 1st, if you finish in the middle of the night and want to just send it to library, do it after 7am because they clear all the print jobs before that before they start a new day.

Then, if you need to submit like a few minutes after 8am, go inside the photocopy shop to print because the one outside will not be activated until like 8.30am onwards. BUT, if you need to print in colour, then bo bian have to wait until 8.30am for the ones outside to boot up loh.

That's all, everyone jiayou for all your papers wor!!! :)))

A hacker used one of the oldest tricks in the book to breach Sarah Palin's personal Yahoo! account—taking advantage of the password reset feature. If it could happen to a vice presidential candidate, could it happen to you? Absolutely.

The password reset allows you to change your password if you've lost or forgotten it by first answering a question that only you are supposed to know the answer to. But if you pick an identifying question that other people might be able to answer, your password is vulnerable to a reset. The person who requested the reset then has full access to your account—and that's what happened to Sarah Palin. According to news reports, a hacker correctly selected "Where did you meet your future spouse?" from Yahoo's list of identifying questions, and then tested a few permutations of "Wasilla High School" before arriving at "Wasilla high."

You basically have two options to protect yourself from intruders resetting your password. Option one is to select a question with an answer that hackers won't be able to figure out by researching you online, and making sure you don't have too much information about yourself on publicly available sources. It doesn't take too much effort these days for people to locate common identifying data like ZIP code, high school, or your mother's maiden name.
Your second option is to simply give the wrong answer to the identifying question you select. Just because the question is, "What was your high school mascot?" doesn't mean the answer can't be "X40g79."

Article with credits from Trend Micro Consumer Newsletter October 2008 issue.

曾经很肯定地认为它不完美，不是理想中所要的。但是我们生活在这世上，又有多少事情能够完美？敞开心胸，包容忍耐。时而息事宁人，时而装聋作哑；不求极时行乐，但求每天快乐。此时此刻的我，是幸福的。希望大家也要幸福喔！！！:)))

“第一次是偶然，第二次是必然，而第三次就是命中注定了。”

很喜欢这句话，但这种美妙的事情应该只有在电视剧情里才会发生吧？:)

突然之间，忽然觉得时间似乎又将再次飞逝而过了！没时间，我没时间！分秒必争！不想再次造成自己在学术上的遗憾，尽力而为，尽心而做，不要蹉跎岁月。转眼间，一个学期即将结束，云南之行，北京之旅，数月可待。跟时间的赛跑又来了！加油，陳馨玉！大家加油也是喔！:)))

今天，我突然觉得原来我只是你们的便利贴。我能做的只是一些小小心意，既然不被珍惜，我以后再也不会自寻麻烦了。很想体谅，不过心会痛。我应该开始学乖了。

As per mentioned in my earlier blog entry, my mum's ex-boss talked about his social circle as a question of our interview. He told us about his view on friendships and his different interaction with different categories of friends, namely: acquaintance, friends, close friends and confidants.

Before he started talking, he kept asking both me and Mei Ling, what are friends to you? How do you know who is your friend? Both of us stared at each other for a moment, and nothing really substantial came out of our mouths. I think if I asked this question to a lot of people, the same thing will happen too. Many of us just take it for granted that our friends are our friends, but how? But why? Have you ever given it a thought? Are all your friends the same to you?

My mum's ex-boss shared with us how he classified the people whom he know which I mentioned above, and how he will interact with them from there. I think a lot of us have generally the same mindset as him but not so consciously, or maybe it is just me? After talking to him, it made me think about the people around me whom I call friends. How many of them do I really know? How many of them do I really understand? How many of them really deserve me going all out to help them no matter where and when? How many of them can I really share with how I feel? How many of them can I really talk to with regards to my dark/weak side?

I guess a lot of times, I have just chosen to take the easy way out, to treat almost everyone as friend of equal level. But I have gotten myself hurt all over and yet I still do not learn. Maybe it is time for me having stepped into adulthood to give some serious thought into this. I have to be fair to my well-deserving friends and myself. Balance emotions and rationale. :)

Today went to interview my mum's ex-boss for my sociology reseach term paper, and I must say I am super awed and impressed after the whole interview that lasted for almost 2 hours. He is a successful businessman turned entrepreneur who does personalised embroidery for companies but he only deals with the middleman, not the end user. It is a business tactics which I only got it after he explained very patiently to me and Mei Ling.

He shared with us his life trajectory, with specific references to his education and career path as per requested from our interview. I must say it was both an eye-opening and enriching experience hearing him talk. You learn new things and ways of life just by listening to him talk! You will also reflect on your own beliefs and principles and own ways of life by just talking to him. It is rather unbelievable but it is true!

I think when you talk with different people, from different walks of life having different types of life experiences, the interaction you have with each of them is different. And when you talk to people who have been through a lot and came out of it all being successful, you can benefit a lot. He even shared with us about his point of view on friendship which I will talk more in future when I have the time as it is really mind-tickling. :)

Due to my carelessness and blurness, I "donated" this amount to the club which I belong to. Even though the amount of money and time and effort spent in my 2 years is much more than that, I am just irritated that I still have to do so at the end of the journey and for the mistakes of other people. Haiz. Forget it, at least they are my friends. Shall scrimp and scramp for this week liao... Argh...!!!

I just finished watching this new Taiwanese Dance Competition on Channel U, and it is very nice! Oh man, especially to those people who like to watch people dance, you should catch this competition showed every Monday 8pm on Channel U!!

Throughout the short 1 hr, minus the advertisement times, my eyes were totally captivated with the dance items brought by the Taiwan dance groups!!! ^-^ Haha, finally another show which I can look forward to every week! For those who cannot afford to watch it at that timing, you can also catch the show in snippets on YouTube. ;)

With every exciting new technology innovation, mischief-makers are sure to follow. Here's a run-down on some new ways that spammers and scammers are trying to capitalize on modern conveniences like cell phones and instant messaging.

Mobile phone spam. These are text messages sent directly to your cell phone. It's a relatively new scourge in North America, but it's been going around Japan for years. One of the more irritating aspects of mobile phone spam is you can't tell if a message is junk until after you've opened it—and already been charged for it. One of the best things you can do to prevent mobile phone spam from reaching you is to block all text messages originating from the Internet. (This is how most text spammers operate, because it's free that way.)

Instant messenger viruses. IM viruses can spread very quickly by sending out to every contact in a person's instant messenger profile. The victim is sent a link or an attachment over instant messenger, and because it appears to come from a friend, they are more likely to trust that it's safe. No sooner do they click it than they start automatically downloading viruses, Trojans, you name it. The best way to prevent getting infected by an IM virus not to click a link or an attachment until you're certain it's okay. If a contact suddenly pops up on your instant messenger and, without any preamble or greeting, gives you a link, don't click it until you've confirmed with the sender that it's safe. You should also make sure you have the most recent version of your instant messenger client—it's more likely to have security updates that prevent these viruses from spreading.

Credits from Trend Micro Newsletter once again. ;)

Read the following from my Trend Micro newsletter so shall share it as it is relevant to all of us! :) It is called the top 5 internet Do's & Don'ts.

DO'S:

1. Do install a firewall. There are two kinds of firewalls: hardware and software. Most wireless Internet routers also work as firewalls, but you should also have a software firewall for more comprehensive protection.
2. Do install antivirus protection and update your antivirus software regularly. Just having antivirus software is not enough. Virus definitions change all the time, so it's important to do regular system scans and updates to make sure your protection is current and working.
3. Do shop on secure websites and avoid ones that aren't secure. You can tell if a site is secure by checking the URL: https:// means it's secure; http:// means that somebody could "eavesdrop" on your shopping session. You can also look for a padlock icon in the lower part of your browser window. Do not give out your credit card number over an insecure connection.

DON'TS:

1. Don't click randomly on links. If you get an email from a suspicious sender encouraging you to "Click here," figure out where "here" goes first. When you mouse over the link, you should be able to see the URL it connects to at the bottom of your browser. You can also right-click on the link to copy it, and then paste it into a Notepad or Word document to see what it is. And if you're ever in doubt about a link—don't click it.
2. Don't forward chain emails. Many chain emails are sent by professional spammers who use the chain to harvest working addresses. Once you forward on a chain email, the spammer has confirmation that you exist—and you'll get a lot more unwanted mail where that came from.