Dream Busts... a little bit

I went to Daihatsu car dealer and check the interior of the car. It looks very simple. I adjusted the driver's seat, went to the back seat and still felt comfortable sitting on the back seat. Enough room for the grocery. Back seat is collapsible, however, I do not think 2 bikes can squeeze in gracefully.

The dealer I went to is Daihatsu's major office, so they have a good selection of cars over there. I checked my dream color, green, and, ouch, it does not look quite like what I was dreaming of.

The green color I like is fresh green, like sprouts coming out of the trees in the early spring, however, this looks like sprouts have weathered quite a while. It's bitter, it's sour, and it has some hideous light coming through the green masquerade to grin at me.

Red is always a good choice for me. It is simple, colorful. Black and silver are out. They are so not me. White is ok. I just don't particularly like to get my car washed every week to keep its beauty.

Sync iCal and Goggle Calendar!

Goggle has released information how to sync iCal and Goggle calendar. It's very cool. I just had to try it as soon as I heard about it. As shown in the picture, the "Home" calendar on iCal corresponds to "Home" calendar on Goggle Cal. The "Sean Cheng" calendar corresponds to "Sean Cheng" on Goggle cal". Some of the nice and bad things:

* When I run iCal, it automatically syncs with Goggle calendar.
* Whenever I create an item on iCal, iCan syncs with Goggle calendar right away.
* If I have both Goggle calendar and iCal open, and I update an item on Goggle, then I'll need to force a sync on iCal. So it makes more sense to work in iCal.
* I can sync iCal with my cell phone, so my calendar will stay sync among 3 devices.
* If I write an item in iCal in Chinese, Goggle cal gets a Chinese item without any issue, however, iCal loses the Chinese characters and shows strange code. If I write an item in Goggle cal in Chinese, and open iCal to sync with Google cal, then Chinese characters show on iCal without any issue. This is very strange.

Wall-e

I really like Wall-e. Wall-e is in love in Eva, but there is not that much conversation between them, and the audience realize what is going on. Very successful. Some thoughts:

* Eva looks like just like an Apple product.
* It's cool for the lady to be the powerful one.
* It's heart breaking to see Wall-e treat his collection as trash and compress it in cubes after Eva uses the spare parts to restore it.
* It's hilarious to hear Mac's boot sound after Wall-e absorbs enough solar energy and 'boots' up. However, I think Eva should be the one to make that sound.
* Artifical insemination should be the norm on the space ship. *sigh*
* It is good to be the robot to do space trip. No need to worry about air supply.
* I'd like to have a Wall-e toy.
* Eva looks like a perfect design for mouse.

Dream Car, Again

Same car, same location this morning. That's when I took this photo. Kind of blurry. I guess I was in a hurry. This afternoon when I walked home, again, same car, same location. I am sure someone in that neighborhood bought this new car. I looked at it feeling that it was whispering to me "buy me buy me". How can I resist you?

Dream Car

I saw this Sirion on the way to work. It is my favorite model as of now. Though my favorite color is green or red, blue color still looks nice on this model. I took the photo when the owner got into the car. Not sure if the owner heard the noisy shutter from my cell phone.

Protect Marriage

There is a stupid article (click here, in Chinese) in today's online newspaper saying that US president's marriage is in danger, divorce is imminent, and the one who steps in to the marriage is Condi Rice. Come one, Condi is lesbian (why am I so sure of that?), so my first thought is, ok, these bad lazy reporters probably took something from National Enquirer again and made a deal out of it without using their brains. So I decided to goggle if it is said in any of the major US newspapers by using keyboard "bush rice marriage'. Hmmm I did not find anything, OMG I can't believe I just proved President Bush innocent, however, there is an interesting link about how to protect the sanctity of marriage. Read it. I love it :-)

Interesting Outcome from Politics

A friend forwarded me this interesting article on same-sex marriage vs Republicans, how Governor Schwarzenegger plays a delicate role in this political dynamics.

I especially like the citation from Ward Connerly in the last paragraph: “If you really believe in freedom and limited government, to be intellectually consistent and honest you have to oppose efforts of the majority to impose their will on people.”

And of course I'll keep my fingers crossed that prop 8 will be defeated.