Rainy 30 June

It was rainy today, the 30th of June. Ten years ago, it was also a rainy day, when the last Governor said goodbye. And I worked at the CFO, issuing the last forecast for the RO.

Top up

top up
to add more of something, especially money, to an existing amount to create the total you need.

Examples:
This is the easiest way to top up your mobile phone card.
Students are able to take out loans to top up their grants.

Vocab learnt from my wife's email

disposition
the particular type of character which a person naturally has

Example:
She is of a nervous/cheerful/sunny disposition.

新君王論IV—曾蔭權的領導筆記

這書說曾蔭權在仕途上有一種特質，就是處於劣勢或逆境時，可以長期忍受，甚至耐得住折磨，當時機一到就尋找出路。好像2003年沙士之後，董建華委任當時任政務司司長的曾蔭權領導全城清潔策劃小組。曾蔭權果然能屈能伸，短期內提交長200頁報告，作出四十多項具體建議。當時有報紙形容曾蔭權遭投閒置散，屈就“全城清潔大隊長”的技術工作，但他終於以特佳EQ捱了過去。

626

今天是結婚兩週年的大日子，可惜我和老婆也要上班，晚上我們到了朗廷酒店的Main Street Deli吃晚飯，那裡人不是太多，食物質素不錯。

雖然日間很忙，但晚上能和老婆拍拖，也是很快樂。希望以後的週年紀念也可以很愉快地渡過。

ABAB

Bought a pair of ear rings from "agnes b" today. It is for tomorrow's 2nd wedding anniversary.
There are letters A and B on each of the rings. It means:
1. AB AB - the slogan of Pong Ma Ma.
2. Bi-Anniversary, i.e. 2nd anniversary! Ha! Ha!

Bel

Went to Bel again today. Still loved our flat very much!
Many people swam in the pool. Luckily, we are not in the low flats or it will be very noisy.

The managment is very efficient: They copied the manuals of all the electrical appliances for us.

Urine check

Consulted Dr. Chau again today.............as we have only little antibiotics left.
He seemed to be unhappy about our decision. Anyway, he proposed another option which is to check the urine regularly in the future, say once a month.

Busy at work

Resumed work at office today.......Many things left behind for me to finish!
Got to work hard now!

Radiography

I took vacation leave today as I had to stay at home at take care of Dau-dau. I continued to consult some experts on radiography to see whether the X-ray scan should be performed on Dau-dau. Their view is that it is not worthwhile to do the scanning at this stage.

X-ray

We went to the hospital again today for the scanning of kidney and bladder. The former was done by ultrasound. However, we did not do the one for bladder as we found that a considerable amount of X-ray will be used. I hope that this decision is correct.

回家了

豆豆終於回家了，由於婆婆家的大廈大裝修，所以豆豆會在自己家多住幾天，雖然我們會較忙，但也是值得的。

快出院了

豆豆明天便出院了，可以和我們共渡端午節。
今晚沖涼又再出現混亂的情況，看來養和的服務也是一般而已。

父親節

今年是我的第一個父親節，豆豆送了一張卡給我呢(媽媽幕後代畫、豆豆親自打手印)！
周醫生今天也有來巡房，還手舞足蹈逗豆豆開心呢！

老婆...辛苦了

今天下午在ToysRus買了很多玩具給豆豆，當是一種補償吧......
晚上Ceci陪豆豆床，我獨自回家睡，老婆...辛苦了。

很忙的一晚

今晚放工後到地產公司拿新屋鑰匙，終於以業主身份走進Belcher's，感覺很好！

之後馬上到醫院，途中發生一段小插曲，就是汽車無油，數度「跪低」，幾經艱辛才找到油站。

到了醫院後，立刻處理日間有醫護助理替豆豆沖涼不當的事情，當場把她教訓了一頓。

累了

今天早上放了半天假到醫院探望豆豆，晚上和老婆到Belcher's驗樓後亦有再到醫院。

豆豆情況穩定，他亦似乎很受護士們歡迎。

回家時已經接近12時，大家都累了。

穩定下來

吊了一天消炎藥後，豆豆的情況似乎已得到控制，今晚我和老婆在醫院裡陪豆豆吃飯，之後老婆更替豆豆沖涼，今晚陪床的責任便交給Yanti了。

入院

今早豆豆依然有些燒(~100度)，雖然再給他吃退燒藥後便退燒，但心仍放不下，下班後終於帶他見周醫生，醫生說這不像是包皮發炎，叫我們到養和驗尿，測驗結果顯示有菌，要馬上入院。

這晚，我和豆豆在醫院過了第一夜，他手上插著鹽水管......我們一家心裡像插了根刺。

發燒

今天豆豆有少許發燒，大約100度，我們給了他一些退燒藥。 (事後發覺這是不對的)

血尿持續

今天是第二天持續有血尿，我們擔心可能有問題，但由於今天是星期日，所以祇有帶豆豆到St. Paul看門診，醫生說是包皮發炎，給了我們一些消毒藥水和教我們替豆豆洗澡時要拉低包皮少許，方便清潔。

血尿

今早替豆豆換片，發現有些血跡，剛巧今天要到健康院覆診，所以問了當值醫生這情況有沒有問題，她說沒有大礙，叫我們放心。

F duty

I had my first F duty today. Weather was not so good. Handled a lot of press enquires about the toppling of a helicopter at the airport.

home on the range

In addition to "Sleep, Little Child", this is another song that can make my son fall asleep easily:

Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam (漫遊)
Where the deer and the antelope (羚羊) play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day

Home, home on the range (牧場)
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day

advance

advance (adjective) (There should be no 'd' !)
happening, done or ready before an event. (e.g. We got no advance warning/notice of the changes.)

advanced (adjective)
1. highly developed. (e.g. This is the most advanced type of engine available.)
2. At a higher, more difficult level. (e.g. An advanced English course)

Gym after dinner

Tonight, Ceci and I had dinner at the California Pizza Kitchen at Mongkok. Afterwards, we had a walk at the "Woman Street". It was just 9 o' clock when we came back to Tsim Sha Tsui. Both of us suddenly had an idea: How about go gymming?

Yeahhhh....... We then went to the Physical.......Ceci danced at the Jazz dancing class and I did some weight training. I even had my shower there.

On our way back home, I bought some late dinner (Shanghai dumplings and beer) and enjoyed it at home with TV.

What a wonderful night!

Transition Lens (全視線)

Transition lenses (in fact, Transitions is a brand name) are photochromic lenses which have millions of molecules of substances such as silver chloride or silver halide embedded in them. When exposed to UV rays, as in direct sunlight, the molecules undergo a chemical process that causes them to change shape. The new molecular structure absorbs portions of the visible light, causing the lenses to darken. The number of molecules that change shape varies with the intensity of the UV rays. When you go indoors and out of the UV light, a different chemical reaction takes place. The absence of the UV radiation causes the molecules to "snap back" to their original shape, resulting in the loss of their light absorbing properties. In both directions, the entire process happens very rapidly.

An important note about photochromic lenses: because they react to UV light and not to visible light, there are circumstances under which the darkening will not occur. A perfect example of this is in your car. Because the windshield blocks out most UV light, photochromic lenses will not darken. For this reason, most sunglasses with photochromic lenses also have a certain amount of tint already applied to them.

Tax Return

Although I have been lazy for many days, I have to fill in the tax return today ......because it is nearly due. A very special feeling this time because I write my son's name in the return! Thanks to Ceci, she gave up her right to claim the allowance for our son.

Talk

Delivered a talk at the Science Museum today. In fact, I did a similar talk 2 years ago but I got less time (only 45 minutes) this time. I found that the pace of the talk was even better and the whole presentation was less boring than last time! (because of -N as suggested by C.W. Li .....see yesterday's blog?)

+1-N

看完了「觸動人心: 李燦榮溝通方程式」一書，雖然李兄嘗試介紹很多不同的東西，但我略嫌每樣都不夠深入。整本書令我印象最深的是他「+1-N」心方法。

所謂「+1」，意指跳一級思維的方法，即多想一步，或多走一步。也就是說，我們不要停留在同一個層次去想，必須要想遠一個層次。

至於「-N」，意指刪減原有層次的「沙石」，沙石多少，因人而異，故「N」是個不定數。