Chinatown @ Victoria

F.I.R. 的主唱其实是个美女

Revisiting Jeff Chang's classical love songs

刚刚突然想到翻出来我那堆“珍藏”了几年的CD，又听起了那张张信哲的精选集，觉得阿哲的歌的确是经得起时间的考验。最喜欢这首《别怕我伤心》：

专辑：等待
歌手：张信哲
歌名：别怕我伤心

好久没有你的信
好久没有人陪我谈心
怀念你柔情似水的眼睛
是我天空最美丽的星星
异乡的午夜特别冷清
一个男人和一颗热切的心
不知在远方的你是否能感应

我从来不敢给你任何诺言
是因为我知道我们太年轻
你追求的是一种浪漫感觉
还是那不必负责任的热情
心中的话到现在才对你表明
不知道你是否会因此而清醒
让身在远方的我不必为你担心

一颗爱你的心
时时刻刻为你转不停
我的爱也曾经深深温暖你的心灵
你和他之间是否已经有了真感情
别隐瞒对我说别怕我伤心

Mass lay-off

Today's certainly an unusual day. I never expected to experience company acquisition and staff lay-off during my very first co-op work term! And it came all of a sudden. Nobody's heard of anything about that before today's lunch time. At 11am, we were still having a QA meeting, and the QA director was talking about the possibility of extending our co-op contract for the summer, and my supervisor was planning for the final drop of the PDF project. Just one hour later, the whole QA team except us the three co-ops are gone. I just couldn't imagine that! Why was SchemaSoft sold to Apple? And why Apple can't even retain a couple of QA people? Maybe that's just what business means. I don't understand business though. Anyways, now we co-ops are 'in charge of' the QA part of the project. But how am I gonna take up the responsibilities? My supervisor apparently didn't teach me all the stuff that she has been doing... Worse comes to worse, it's only six weeks though. Apple obviously doesn't need the QA team here as they have their own. I can stay simply because I'm a co-op and they can't lay me off before I complete my work term. Sad. I've become someone extra now... What's sadder is that I gotta start to look for another co-op job seriously now. I hope I can get into a larger company just to avoid another acquisition/lay-off/whatever!

The Empress Hotel

In front of the Legislative Building in Victoria, B.C.

At Inner Habour, Victoria