1月 09, 2007

所以美好

In response to 廿九几, I have one little 「情話」

因為生命可以豐盛,所以美好!

Just read Peter Wong's testimony from 《中信》, and was touched by his experience. Peter was my "marriage" counsellor more than a year ago, although we finally chose to break up instead of getting married. He can't see anything, but has the ability to see through our thoughts. One day he said to us, "Hum, why are you guys sitting so far apart away from each other?" That told us something... yeah, for some reasons every time we meet all three of us are sitting in triangle, trying to keep as much distant as possible...

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Came across two articles about chef schools. It seems that getting into culinary schools is becoming a trend now, although the industry doesn't really need that many:

From Toronto Star: Prepping chefs
From The Albuquerque Tribune: Celebrity chefs inspire cravings for culinary jobs

It looks like a long education, like three years, is not something I really need. George Brown's one year program is enough.

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It's really difficult to learn French, especially following those CD's. They're OK, but I think it's a bit over priced. For one thing, you wouldn't learn how to complete a sentece at the end of the course.

Hum, may be I can podcast some Cantonese lessons, and earn some referral commisions to various websites :-)

Fortunately, frenchpodclass.com seems to be very good, they even provide a transcript for each episode!

dailyfrenchpod.com is another site, but you need to pay a montly fee for the transcript. They fact that they concentrate on grammar is something you can't miss.

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1月 04, 2007

Time to get serious

About learning French.

After doing some research on the best way to learn the language, here's what I got:

1. UW Extension French 101. Price: $1000 tuition, $5 CD, $12 voice mail.

2. Rosetta Stone Level 1&2, Price: $290 + Prime.

3. Living Language Price: $50

Hum, seems like #2 is the most promising as the reviews tell (and my friends and people from Askville).

Although I'll probably not going to take the DELF, I'm sure getting to know French is pretty useful as one day, I mean may be one day, I'll spend a few years in France :-)

Will I be able to bear all the load though? I'm taking a few classes this quarter: Digital Imaging, hip-hop dancing, a seminar series from Small Business Development Center, and now I even put French on my plate.

Argh, whopping workload.

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