Happy Birthday...
February 04, 2007
February is one of the month with the most Birthdays on my friends list. Febby, Ada and myself. Happy Birthday to Feb and Ada, wish you two all the best for this coming year.
A friend of mine recommended the movie 
"Happy Birthday" to me yesterday. I have heard of this movie before, but I read the lyrics of the theme song and figured it's a sad movie, so I didn't feel like watching it. After my friend told me a little bit about the story and who starred in it, I got tempted.
Once I started watching, I realize it is a story from a book that was written by the actress Rene Liu 劉若英 - <<我想跟你走>>. The movie version is more detailed than the book, because the "Happy Birthday" story is just one of the many stories she wrote in the book. It is a true story that happened to Rene's friend.
The movie is so real in so many aspects, and it is very touching especially towards the end of it. I was crying, even though I knew the ending from the book already. The feeling from the movie is far more stronger than the book. Now that I can visualize the characters and their emotions, they strike me much much harder than reading words from the book.
勇敢地把從前 情人節快樂
變成祝你生日快樂
一輩子 靠今天 接觸 --- 生日快樂電影主題曲
Another good, sad movie like memories of Matsuko.
Author: elmolulu » Comments:
What a "great" way to start a new month...
February 01, 2007
Today @ work was blah, spent the first half of the day fixing stupid anchor links. I don't know why I put the anchor tags outside the td tag, I was so stupid and it was my own fault.
Got myself all worried for doing such a lousy job and actually submitted to my bossES. Then when I THOUGHT I fixed everything and re-submitted the link, my bigger boss found MORE things to change.
She INSISTED on consistency, which is a good practice for Website I understand, but I think she not being there when the project begins is what caused most of these understanding or communication problems. She wants to do things a certain way, but then there is also the client. I feel like I'm torn between my bigger boss and the client.
Sometimes I think she overlooked/didn't know the fundamental problems of cross platforms and browser issues. I kept the menu titles all in one line for a reason. The reason being if we push the titles to a second line, spacing problem will occur across platforms and browsers. However, she kept saying all menu titles must be the same as all paragraph headings. So either I can tell the client to change the headings or I will have to lengthen all menu titles.
I'm starting to question to what extent do we have power to control the Website? Who has the final say on the site? Maybe we have some say on the look and feel, but do we have power over client's content? That's questionable. But I'm not planning to challenge that anytime soon.
Also, if I don't work on a PC, it is very hard for me to notice any discrepancy between the systems. Supply me a PC, then I'll be able to make sure everything works the same way on both systems. It's so hard to work without the proper tools. What I had to do was walking back and forth between my station and the library, finding an available PC and then login and test the site. It was such a tedious process and it was no way near efficient. Honestly, I was somewhat stressed today because of that Website! I had to get myself a coke and chocolate to keep myself in a happy mood!
Oh, and some more comments on the content; how the headings should be worded, formatted and etc. I don't know what I'm suppose to do anymore. What exactly are my responsibilities? Am I now the content editor? I have no clue.
If the entire Website is a standalone project and client asked us to put in the content, then without a doubt I'd be doing the content editing. BUT this is different, I was being told to create a design for the client and then the client will update the content himself.
I feel like I'm a Web content babysitter now, how is it possible to watch every changes that the client makes and then advise them what's better and what's not. I think this is a somewhat ridiculous request. Okay so now we reviewed all the content and made all necessary corrections and some not so necessary adjustments, what happens in the future?
Even if we educate the client what should be done, there is no guarantee that the client will follow the rules. In most cases, clients RARELY follow the rules. They just end up doing whatever they feel most comfortable with. Then what are we suppose to do? Do regular check up on their Websites?! Same problem may occur again and when that time comes, am I the person to point the finger to again?
Sometimes it is just not so easy to work under so many constraints. One person wants you to do this, the other person wants you to do that. Then a third person comes in and tells you that you can make your own decisions. I think I'm officially turning into a Web design puppet.
Design my foot!!
Oh and that was just the first half of my day, the latter half is far more interesting and exciting! LOL
So I got off work early today to renew my driver's license. I got there in time, just to find out I DID NOT have my driver's license with me! I made a fool out of myself by searching so desperately to find the license but no luck. So I started panicking and thinking where my license could be placed. I decided to go home and check the pants I wore for badminton from 2 weeks ago and on my way home I went to pick up my pants from the "sewing" store (the kind that helps you to trim the pants?!). I got home, found my license in my pants, started to feel stupid again because that means I drove for more than 2 weeks without a license in my wallet. I realized how lucky and careless I was. I quickly go back to the licensing place and got my renewal just before their office hours ends.
After that, I went to get 
Norah Jones' new album - Not Too Lateand I'm currently enjoying it.
I don't really like today except the last part, and I was saying earlier that February is my favorite month!! It'll soon be going downhill on my favorites chart!
Now I'm getting a headache from all those stress and panicking...lol...
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