DigIT My Life
Had the busiest day today. Met joy for brekkie early this morning to get my scanner and pass her the VB book for wilson. Afterwhich, made my way to Office at 9 am. And by 9.45 am, had to leave for a client's place at Senoko Avenue. Did a system study (its not what you think Angela) till 6.15 pm and I had to rush back to Office AGAIN. Took a cab and met this most talkative taxi driver who just goes on and on about fake Martell VSOP's in Batam, how customs catch you when you purchase duty free goods on behalf of your friends (he has this concept that the customs watch your every single move once you pass the metal detectors
, probably he was once a secret agent or something) to how you should be honest if you have 2 packs of cigrettes when you pass the causeway, and not lie when customs ask if you have cigrettes or chewing gum, etc.. To top it off, he went through each topic repeatedly atleast 5 or 6 times, looking in the rear mirror at me, with his 2 hands waving around. That half hour ride in the cab was my worst ever experience with taxi drivers. At that moment, I only wished I could kick his sorry ass out the driver's seat. Well, made it to office, and then rushed to meet weichong at the gym (its already 8 pm !!).
Brains
Had our humourous conversations at the gym. Found out from WC that our lower left brain is the logical side, while the right is more on creativity and ideas (Seems like I'm missing both sides?).
The left cerebral hemisphere is supposed to be the coldly logical, verbal and dominant half of the brain, while the right developed a reputation as the imaginative side, emotional, spatially aware but suppressed. Two personalities in one head, Yin and Yang, hero and villain.
Hmm, but this was interesting :
The assumption has always been that handedness and brain asymmetry are strictly human traits--part of the great brain reorganisation that allowed our ancestors to use tools, speak and perhaps even think rationally. But handedness is now widely claimed for primates and even birds, amphibians and whales.
Well, pretty much the reason why some of us behave like animals.
There's more to read at http://www.mtsu.edu/~studskl/hd/LRBrain.html
www@wengkInTimes [This article is dedicated to WC.]
Even today with Technology so rampant around us and with Microsoft® controlling the vast majority of document editing and control software, we are still faced with many computer illiterate dummies who has no idea that a Thesaurus IS AVAILABLE in the dominant software called the MICROSOFT WORDS. We will first introduce the basic functions of this software for the benefit of our illiterate dummies.
Microsoft Words has been available ever since the early 1995s and has come very far to the 2003 version. Its user-friendly functions and flexibility in editing and managing documents has placed Microsoft in the fore front of document editing softwares. How did I know? I have no idea. (Go read the manual somewhere, or just click under Help>About Microsoft Office Word). The basic requirements for the latest 2003 version requires a Personal Computer with an Intel Pentium 233-MHz or faster processor (Pentium III recommended, if you worry, go get a P4 then.
). A memory of 128MB RAM or greater, and a harddisk of 150MB available disk space but if you decide for the optional installation files cache (recommended), it will require an additional 200MB of available hard-disk space. For optimal perfomance, I suggest a Microsoft Windows® 2000 with Service Pack 3 (SP3), Windows XP, or later Operating System.
In today's issue. We will touch on the Thesaurus function available in Microsoft Words 2003. In the normal page layout, and with an essay completed, you have the option to
1. Highlight a word, Select Tools>Language>Thesaurus, and the closest match in a Thesaurus will be available to the screen on your right.
2. Highlight a word, and press the key . This will automatically activate the Thesaurus to look for the closest match, again to the screen on your right.
3. Highlight the word. Get a Thesaurus from your shelf, library, or wherever you can find one, and search for the word that you have highlighted. (Dumbass!!)
4. Throw the computer away, and start typing on your typewriter.
The result for using the fourth option is that you won't have to figure out how to use the Thesaurus option in Microsoft Word. However, it also proves that you are such an old haggard that you have given up on learning how to use a box that can think for you.
- Chong Weng Kin is a freelance bullshitter.
Batam again tomorrow. Arrgghh...
