A Collection of Daily Wisdom by Dennis Sylvester Hurd since September 2003.

Now that I work afternoons and don't get up for an alarm clock, I find that I can sleep quite late on the weekends too!

I was at a bit of a loss as to what to add as an entry today. During the past month, I have added some entries to this blog that showed snow on the ground. Well, that is a rare enough occurance to merit taking out the camera!

I decided that today I should add a picture that better represents New Westminster during January. So, here's a picture from Friendship Gardens in Tipperary Park just up by the City Hall.

Labels: digital camera, flora and fauna, New Westminster (Page 1)

Thankfully, today is Friday.

I am thankful because my class doesn't meet on Fridays. Don't get me wrong: I don't feel that working is evil. Yet, there are times when I wonder why people are so gung-ho about it.

Presently, I'm teaching afternoons, so I join in the great rat race heading homeward at 5:00 pm. Yesterday evening we were in the middle of one of the pouring showers that pretty much make up winters in Vancouver. It was black and greasy out. The roads were wall-to-wall head and tail lights.

I couldn't help but wonder why people set up their lives like that! It seems that in much of this society the goals don't justify the means. Too many people work hard to earn lots of money; only to find, they have no time to enjoy it because they're always working!

Judged by more universal standards, I think the rhythm of life created by a time clock is neither normal nor healthy.

Labels: opinions, relaxing

GUNG
HEY
FAT
CHOY!
* * * * *
HAPPY
CHINESE
NEW YEAR!

Labels: monkeys, temple

It's hard to believe that it was already time for another COMM 0003 midterm exam today. Doesn't time fly? I enjoy helping students write technical descriptions. I find BCIT's materials much more constructive than the writing skills typically taught in ESL schools.

Labels: BCIT (Page 1)

I left the computer on last night and apparently, Telus got its act together. WinXP healed my connection once TCP/IP was available. I surely rely on the Internet nowadays. Not having access seems as troublesome as not having utilities such as water or power!



Politics are not something I normally blog about. One should never assume they know nor try to affect the political affiliation of family or friends. Political opinions, no matter how heartfelt, are just that, only opinions! However, I've got to say Belinda Stronach is surely a breath of fresh air for that party. The good ol' boys are deriding her lack of experience; which plays as a plus in my book.

Her choice of web name --- www.belinda.ca ... is cute. I guess she figures she's Canada's top-most Belinda. Dare we call this the Cher-complex?

The newspapers reported rather less politically-relevant material at www.belinda.com. I guess it's time for Belinda.ca to release some 'emergency' money so her organisation's computer geeks can buy up that domain!

Labels: government, Internet

I was unable to create an entry from home today as there's a Telus outage in my area. Telus is the telecommunications company we must live with. Service in Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, New Westminster, and parts of Burnaby has been disrupted.

I don't fault them for the error .. but they are pretty lame at customer service! The customer representative I spoke with last night, did not even know about problems affecting thousands of customers. Typical!

Unfortunately, this affects the company that runs my domain-address space too. Things appear okay from the Burnaby Campus of BCIT.

It seems quite easy just to slip in another scanned image as long as we're on a roll. Last Friday's picture was taken in Pashupatinath. It is primarily a destination for Hindu pilgrims.

However, the picture below shows Jay when we were in Lumbini in south, central Nepal. This is a holy place for Buddhists as it was the Buddha was born.

Labels: Nepal

You may have wondered where the title of
yesterday's blog entry came from. In keeping
with the last few entries, Cat Stevens sings
Katmandu. Click the graphic above to listen.