this card came in on Sep 2 07 while i was ‘lost’ in shanghai disconnected from the world. cant find the word to describe the feeling when i saw the card today. thank you 倩吟 for remembering the day and now that you are also a 小老师, enjoy, take care and happy teachers’ day too 🙂
oh btw, it was Teachers’ Day in China on Sep 10. To all my teachers (past and present and future), thank you for your guidance, else i wouldn’t have make it here today. happy teachers’ day and may you be healthy and happy all year round 🙂

Motivation and Transfer in Language Learning
was hunting materials for my (exam) paper, and found this short n nice n neat article:
ED427318 98 Motivation and Transfer in Language Learning. ERIC Digest. Author: Ngeow, Karen Yeok-Hwa
read it through here.
Alas, back online finally!
this marks the day when we gotten our own internet connection, exactly 14 days after we landed in shanghai. have a lot to catch up. until then … …
MIA … upgraded to MT4
have been MIA for quite some time, was busying with transferring of all the files from the old server to the new server.
just upgraded MT4 from MT3.34 one day after its official release. had one glitch that require removing of entries from the mysql database, and the second problem so far is the “SCodeInsert” in the individual archive that was a ‘leftover’ from MT3.
hopefully everything else works fine from here 🙂
Warfare weapons = Weather Control?
perhaps this is not new for you but it’s definitely new for me *????*
saw this article “Can China control the weather?” off “Howstuffworks“. gives an overview of how warfare weapons are being employed for weather control in China, and something on the practice of cloud seeding 🙂
