So recently my dearest friend P used this as her tag in msn: "Love is a decision, not a feeling"
Seeing as she is about to get married to a great guy, I treat with great reverence everything she says about love and marriage. And boobs. ahem. Cos you know, she is getting MARRIED, committing the rest of her LIFE to ONE lucky guy, and hence must know some truths about life and love that are elusive to us ignorant (and maybe therefore) unmarried girls.
So, even though her tag was not new to me, i was somehow awed by it and the meaning that it could bring into my life.
The next time she was online, i was brimming with hope that I'd finally found my personal guru who will lead me to successful relationship, answering the ever popular question of "how do i know if he is the one?" and maybe even write a book at the side. The conversation went something like this:
kampung girl (being very earnest): so love is a decision and not feelings huh?
P: (silent cos she was busy talking to her fiance, no doubt debating the names of their future babies)
kg (getting a bit impatient): so..to what extent is love a decision?
Pause. Then,
P: I think when you are tired and jaded with life..then love is decision
kg: ...(a bit stunned)... BWAHAHAHAHA.
i love my kooky friends. They say the most delicious things.
Sunday, May 06, 2007
Friday, May 04, 2007
How to crash MS Excel
1. Build a data table that is crucial for thesis writing - is crucial for graduating in time to get a working visa and start work with company you like.
2. Wait till the last minute to work so that by the time you make the table, there's only one week to defense day, your thesis is only half done and you're ready to curl up in a fetal position, cover your ears with both hands, and sing "lalalala i dont hear anything" 24 hrs a day.
3. Ensure that there are multiple columns and rows, and multiple columns under each of those columns. Merge Header cells that heads several columns.
4. Enter vital information collected from experiments, formed in large part by your sweat, blood and tears. Spend no less than one hour.
5. Make formulas in excel to perform complex calculations on data.
6. Calculated results doesn't make sense. Take 30minutes to check calculations and formula entry one by one.
7. Scratch head and watch youtube for 30 minutes because grad schools are not too selective about intelligence or problem solving skills when admitting students. (All the really smarty arses had dropped out at the undergrad level anyways and founded their own tech company which IPO-ed at 150USD per share last may)
8. Finally figure out whats wrong and correct it.
9. Draw lines in table. Take pleasure in coloring columns and rows, and drawing fancy double lined boxes around data.
10. Sigh in pleasure at work of art+science. Realize that some of the headers are merged wrongly.
11. **CRUCIAL STEP** DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT under any circumstances save the file.
12. Try to unmerge the wrongly merged header cells. Hi-light 3 merged headers and click "unmerge" (which is actually the same as the "merge " button) - that works.
13. Get greedy and try to unmerge every available header at the same time. About 18 of them.
14. **Poof**
15. Ask "Where the heck did my excel file go?"
16. Don't panic. try recovering file.
17. Recovery fail.
18. Panic.
2. Wait till the last minute to work so that by the time you make the table, there's only one week to defense day, your thesis is only half done and you're ready to curl up in a fetal position, cover your ears with both hands, and sing "lalalala i dont hear anything" 24 hrs a day.
3. Ensure that there are multiple columns and rows, and multiple columns under each of those columns. Merge Header cells that heads several columns.
4. Enter vital information collected from experiments, formed in large part by your sweat, blood and tears. Spend no less than one hour.
5. Make formulas in excel to perform complex calculations on data.
6. Calculated results doesn't make sense. Take 30minutes to check calculations and formula entry one by one.
7. Scratch head and watch youtube for 30 minutes because grad schools are not too selective about intelligence or problem solving skills when admitting students. (All the really smarty arses had dropped out at the undergrad level anyways and founded their own tech company which IPO-ed at 150USD per share last may)
8. Finally figure out whats wrong and correct it.
9. Draw lines in table. Take pleasure in coloring columns and rows, and drawing fancy double lined boxes around data.
10. Sigh in pleasure at work of art+science. Realize that some of the headers are merged wrongly.
11. **CRUCIAL STEP** DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT under any circumstances save the file.
12. Try to unmerge the wrongly merged header cells. Hi-light 3 merged headers and click "unmerge" (which is actually the same as the "merge " button) - that works.
13. Get greedy and try to unmerge every available header at the same time. About 18 of them.
14. **Poof**
15. Ask "Where the heck did my excel file go?"
16. Don't panic. try recovering file.
17. Recovery fail.
18. Panic.
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