Kai, The Informologist

I just thought of these things after the prayer meeting had passed:

• Parents coming to the states
• Seattle trip between May 4th to May 11th (I’ve booked the hotels but now it seem that was done in too much of a hurry)
• My housing situation for next year – I don’t just need to find a place for me, but for Pipi as well
• S.F trip between May 20th to May 28th
• A good weekend! – Don’t forget Powerpoint!

Yeap. Just prayers for today, now that everything is starting to settle down.

It’s been awhile since I last did a link sharing. With much more time, I have mustered a bunch of them (all from Stumble Upon), hope it’s fun for you.

• [Game] 50 Free PC Games! Download them, play them, all for $0.
• [Photography + Craft] Ready-made Camera – now you can make your own cameras, just print them and follow the instruction (however easy or difficult it may be!) Have fun!
• [Cartoon] Real-life Simpson? I’ll definitely watch it if they are being casted.
• [Photography] Clone yourself - today! Nah, just using the technology of photography.
• [Religion] Read the “memo from God“. It should make you twitch a little, at least.
• [Photography + Travel] Ahhh, the Great Wall of China – if you haven’t been there yet take a sneak peek first!
• [Game] You can’t play game at your job. Absolutely not, except for Drag Soccer – once you master it, the computer seems more like a ‘dumb-dumb’.
• [Game + Cartoon] Awww, this is where the Team Fortress originated from.

That’s it – have a good weekend.

Thanks to ‘Cute Coffee Tree’ for the information.

“The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released today an interim final rule extending the period of Optional Practical Training (OPT) from 12 to 29 months for qualified F-1 non-immigrant students.” – via DHS

Here are the criteria to be eligible:

• Currently be participating in a 12-month period of approved post-completion OPT;
• Have successfully completed a degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) included in the DHS STEM Designated Degree Program List from a college or university certified by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program;
• Be working for a U.S. employer in a job directly related to the student’s major area of study;
• Be working for, or accepted employment with, an employer enrolled in U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ E-Verify program. E-Verify is a free, internet-based system operated in partnership with the Social Security Administration that helps employers to determine the employment eligibility of newly-hired employees; and
• Properly maintain F-1 status.

For more information, visit DHS or IU Office of International Services’ OPT page.

If truly extended, it would be worth the $340.

Go beat them – not you Cahill, because you are injured at a time like this! Shame on you! No, your promise to return better than ever doesn’t help to ease my anger.

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Update: Nope, no last-minute grasp for the Toffees. It was a much better game though. Sadly, Man Utd are cut to 2 points with one game in hand.

Yes, I did watch the Chelsea vs. Wigan game for all of the 89 minutes. I gave up hope as time counts down for regular time. I closed the window of ‘LifeFooty’ and went back to research. What a waste of time, it wasn’t even a good game!

A minute later, I was back on Firefox (like I always am) and onto Soccernet. Final score 1-1. It was amazing, so I turned on Live Footy and manage to see the last replay of the Emile Heskey goal. I was screaming on the inside, since I was still in the library.

Personal opinion, I don’t think Chelsea deserves the win if the opponent is any other team. It was a sloppy game from the start, no one emerge to take charge at the Stamford Bridge. Wigan was careful (at times, too careful). The balls were not being kicked around hard enough, they were just rolling. People weren’t jumping in to tackle. Wigan got their lucky break amongst the countable few chances that they were privileged to throughout the game. Looking at it democratically, out of 3 teams – that is Man Utd, Chelsea and Wigan, 2 of them had hoped for this result, so I’d say the resulting draw is favorable.

Today, again at 3pm ET Chelsea will visit Everton at Goodison Park and hope for a lucky break of their own. Now with both sides struggling to bring their best men onto the field for the game and the growing tradition for David Moyes’ men to uphold upset against top teams, the favorite of the game is surprisingly Everton (if you understand this: the odds is that Everton is only given 1/4 ball, which indicates their likely chance to win over drawing or even losing!).

As a Man Utd fan, I’m undoubtedly going to root for Everton whose manager has done a fair share to bring the team up to their current status in recent years. If Everton were to bag this game, I will be expecting a white flag from Chelsea. Honestly, who is listening to Avram Grant anyways – not his players, I don’t think. At this time of the season, with retrospect, Jose Mouriho is very much being missed (again, at least by the Chelskis).

Go Toffees!

You can try, but the response might not change.

Speaking of tech support – here’s a 3-panel that I think is quite funny. Funny because it does happen in real life. And here’s another… wow… this is really. wow. I won’t be surprised that there are people who really did that. Mmm… yeah. Oh my gosh. Uh huh, uh huh.

Actually, we haven’t yet encounter any of these silly request, but there are cases quite similar to those, so when reading about them, it gets to be quite funny. And guess what, there’s a website dedicated to this tech-support-thingy. Very interesting.

Now, say it with me – “All Hail the Machines!”

(There’s a fairly good chance I’m one of the people causing the joke.)