Week 11: Oscar in IT World

12 March 2009 seemed to be an important date for some IT friends. For those who play strategy game, they will be anticipating the latest version of Red Alert 3 expansion. Edward has waited for months just for this moment. And for those who are fanatic of the latest technology development, this is also the day the latest version of Windows 7 (Built 7057) available on the net. (It is released earlier, but torrent and direct download are available on this day).

Oscar Awards were given out currently, Joel has downloaded the whole ceremony. He has currently turned to a download mania, who continuously sucking bandwidth just to fulfill his endless desire for movies and games. You should understand that life will be boring without these digital stuffs. Moreover, we have too little homework after we done the documentary (I wonder how Ms Chan influence other lecturers, they all said we need time to relax and postponed all our homework).

What I feel both exciting and nervous was the result of our documentary. It is just like a mini Oscar. We all wanted to see who get the Best Documentary Award. Keoh Ying always says our documentary is the best. I has faintest confidence about it. There are 3 groups of students who are doing tattoo as their title. I watched others' documentaries. They are all up to the world standard. I shall give all 50 over 50 if I were Ms Chan.

Week 12: Irony behind the Earth Hour

Will the power generator in the electric plant stop generating power for one hour because there are no body using it? 28 March 2009 8.30pm, will the miracle happen?

I think I am just too naive to think so. I waited for days, hoping that the light polluted City would be swollen by the darkness even just 3600 seconds. I remembered that there was once a black out in my home town and the sky was so beautiful. All stars were so bright and well decorating the lonely sky. I was in the paradise. 'Earth Hour' seemed to be the best opportunity for the grey sky above the city to change its grown.

8.25 pm, I offed all the light and went to the playground. Heavily rained a few hours before, cozy and moisturised air freeze the place. Sadly, visible light still shined the night scenery. I comforted myself that the planed time was not reach yet, but it made no different even an hour later.

Why there are still so many stubborn people, so occupying with their own business until they have no time to accompany the mother earth in the real darkness? Have they watched 'Wall-E'? Do they think that one day they will all migrate out the earth and enjoy life in outer space, forgetting about the earth? Think over it yourself.