There exist a certain pattern with catching a cold. The cold that I got isn't really over when I thought it should have been over during the night in Hong kong sleeping at Stanley's place. Today, in the office, my head and body is so heavy that I told DG that I got to leave for home to get some sleep. DG told me to try sleep on his bed. I tried, but I got up after an hour for the flimsy quilt could hardly keep me warm. Nonetheless, the hour of sleep recharged me. I got back to work. I kept myself sober and sane till 5pm and the cold symptom strike again.

castigate
verb [T] FORMAL
to criticize someone or something severely:
Health inspectors castigated the kitchen staff for poor standards of cleanliness.
Martina castigated her boyfriend for not remembering her birthday.

eyrie
noun [C]
1 (MAINLY US aerie) the nest of an eagle or other large bird which eats meat, usually built in a high, distant place
2 a room or apartment that is high up in a building:
I interviewed the chairman of the company in his seventh-floor eyrie.

chicanery
noun [U] FORMAL
clever, dishonest talk or behaviour which is used to deceive people:
The investigation revealed political chicanery and corruption at the highest levels.

I went to Hong Kong for grandmother's 97th birthday dinner gathering. Cousin Stanley announced his plan for the weddings which may take place on July 2008. Dad and I slept in their Kornhill apartment living room. It faces the mountain side of the Tai Tam Country Park. Cousin Stanley's fiancée, interesting, opined the gift of expensive flower boutique during Valentine's Day, which is imminent. If cousin Stanley were planning to send her the flowers, she'd rather get the equivalent cash amount instead of getting the gift of flowers.

I slept on my back with the head tilted backward and sometimes slept sideway to palliate the buildup of mucus inside the nasal passages. The nasal congestion symptom reached its peak during the beginning of the night.

Runny nose. The recent days were freezing cold. I googled and found people are actually practicing a so-called nasal irrigation (Youtube video)! It's fascinating! I'd have to try it sometimes once I get a hand on that pot!

I hanged out with IT these couple of days. We talked a lot. The vibe is good. However, I sense that we've lost touch with most of our local peer friends. I started my own family. She got promoted and was given more responsibilities. She said that the mind seemed to start to think differently when one is in the position of a manager. Positioning is the key to define one's duty; and in turn, the duty defines what and how she thinks and reacts to things around her. I think one may perform a manager's duty once he or she is given proper training on how to become one. Even those whom didn't have the privilege to be trained by professionals, practice makes perfect once he or she is in the managerial position for a certain period of time.

Blogger's labeling seems useful, but having all the key phrase and keywords adding into the labels for this post seems a bit tedious and the right column looks awful after a few editions of the keywords and after they pile up. Perhaps I'd have to treat the label as topics instead.

Waked up 11:30am this morning. The word that I'm going to learn today is beset and at the coalface.

beset
adjective [after verb]
troubled (by); full (of):
With the amount of traffic nowadays, even a trip across town is beset by/with dangers.

at the coalface UK
doing the work involved in a job, in real working conditions, rather than planning or talking about it:
At the coalface with a deadline looming, you sometimes feel under a lot of pressure.
The new methods will help teachers working at the coalface.
If you work at the coalface, you deal with the real problems and issues, rather than sitting in a office discussing things in a detached way.

It is the Chinese New Year. Mandy and August is in Hunan. I miss them very much. I watch August's photos on Smugmug almost daily. Mandy told me on the phone that August is getting fatter. The weather in Hunan is freezing cold. I wonder how they can survive without a heater.

This is the continuation of the blog. I have become a husband and a father. I got married and sired a girl. The baby's name is August.

Mandy and I went to a ice carving exibition in Guangzhou. I remembered I went to one in Vancouver with SL once. Or was it carol?

Rump of Freetone, including myself, went to Guangzhou UE Digital Technology Limited.

The past 2 days I spent time with Ray going to different places in Guangzhou. He's a California man born and raised in Missouri. Now in his sixty. One more meeting to go with him tomorrow morning to South China Normal University (华南师范大学). Today, we've already visited South China University of Technology (华南理工大学). Jasmine Yao 姚昊 lead us to meet Professor Luo Xuechao 骆雪超 (Dean of School of Network Education 网络教育学院).

SL finally found out my sinister act. She found out yesterday by reading this webpage.
I went to 開平 yesterday with 李燁 and her friends. It was fun.