Scribble Pad is eleven years old!

Happy 11th birthday, Scribble Pad!

As per custom, here's the number of viewers based on the counter. The one for 2018 is as of 16:13 hours.

2008: 4746

2009: 13300

2010: 23226

2011: 31677

2012: 37412

2013: 42469

2014: 46926

2015: 50532

2016: 53716

2017: 56798

2018: 59939

Actually, I can do better than that, here's a bit more detail:

The reduction in view seemed to have plateaued.

Out of that 8 viewers, 4 should be from various bots, 1 or 2 from myself, so I have 2 to 3 actual viewers per day, woohoo! =P

Good thing this is not a revenue generating endeavour, but simply an online diary of sort that I use to note down thoughts, events and stuff so I can refer back to in the future.

And I believe in sharing, and I also believe that some of what I wrote will be beneficial to someone somewhere. That if someone is touched, enlightened, soothed, helped, or simply smiled through reading the stuff I wrote, it would be worth the effort posting all these online instead of just keeping them offline.

Anyway, thank you for reading this blog, I hope you get something out of it.

Other |hyped up heads up| category entries.

致敬

我喜欢看小说，偏向有魔法、有龙、用刀弓剑年代那些奇幻类型的故事。

也很喜欢科幻，但对有关太空的科幻就比较没兴趣。

当然也有看其它类型的，那些犯罪、战争、侦探、律师、虚构的小说等等。

真的没兴趣是那些史实啊、爱情啊、传记啊…

从漫画转向小说应该是小学五、六年级的事吧？

一开始是看华文小说，倪匡写的《卫斯理》系列的科幻小说，我买了和看了好多本。

是很多很多那种。

上了中学后，同学介绍我《龙枪》系列的奇幻小说，把一本借给我看。

金鱼记忆的我偏偏还能记得我一生人看的第一本《龙枪》小说…

那是我开始看英文小说的起发点，从此就没有停过。

有点奇怪的是，爱看小说的我，竟然没有接触到武侠。

也许就是从来没有人推荐，一直到我开始工作了才有位同事借了几本给我看。

当然，是金庸大师写的武侠小说。

那时的我，已经看了十多年的英文小说，几乎有十年没看华文小说了。

所以看得比较吃力，虽然喜欢故事情节，但始终没有迷上武侠小说。

今天，二零一八年十月三十日，这位著名的武侠小说家在香港病逝，享年九十四岁。

虽然我只是个到今天才知道他原名叫查良镛的小小书迷，但我还是要在此献上我的敬意，感谢金庸为华人文学的贡献。

还真的祈望自己可以不烦金钱的写作，像这些著名的作家那样有流传千古的作品。

继续梦吧…

随兴随想 |系列|

Escaped (2)

Another colleague got out.

The second this year.

The first is already well on his way in his new job, I sincerely hope he is doing well.

The second will leave us in December, all the best to him as well, hope he will be happier with the new job.

And don't be a stranger.

Will I get mine?

Other |temperamental thoughts| category entries.

看医生天

昨天去诊疗所看医生，其实主要是那不能断根的鸡眼又给我麻烦，但也顺便复诊几周前漱口有血的事。

因为虽然不再吐出血丝，但喉咙单边疼痛一直没好。

很爱拉着病人讲话的奶奶级医生叫我为了安全起见，还是去给专科医生看一看，以防是癌症什么的。

然后她就开始跟我讲她朋友癌症的故事…

我是那种很容易可以置身其中，跟倾述者有同感的人。天赋来的。

但有时候身为一个很好的倾听者或许也不是一件好事…

还有其它病人在等啊！停车要超时了啊！我还要快点回家继续工作的啊！

最终拿了两份转诊信就快快跑人了。

今天去看耳鼻喉专科医生，等了几个小时就诊五分钟，觉得医生草草了事。

我喉咙单边痛，觉得有伤口什么的，他却只对我敏感的鼻子有兴趣。

我从小就鼻子敏感了啦！告诉我我的喉咙什么事嘛！？！

结果他也不知道我喉咙什么事，随便做了一些猜测，给了我三种鼻子敏感的药，叫我喝多点水，要我下个星期三再复诊。

真的，现在的医院纯粹为了赚钱，再也不是健康医疗为主。

勾叉零蛋三角形！

下个星期三复诊耳鼻喉专科。

后个星期三去看皮肤专科。

看来星期三是看医生天，唉…

随兴随想 |系列|

心的频道：双向经营

不要问我，为什么这么久没联络？

不要问我，为何对某某人比对你好？

不要问我，为何不点赞你面子书的讯息？（真的，有没有搞错？！？）

问问你自己，你是否有做那些你想要别人对你做的？

我常常对我孩子说，你要别人怎么对你，你就怎么对别人。

一段感情，友情也好、爱情也好，是要双向经营的。

不要那么的自我，什么公主王子病的。这世上，除了父母，没有人有必要对你好。

要别人对你好，你也得付出，也对别人好。不要只会受而不施。

理所当然的我们都会对那些也对我们好的人比较好。

友情是不平等的，有经常互动的、玩笑娱乐的、志同道合的，当然会比没有的较好。

只是见面嗨掰的朋友，又怎么能和天天互动玩笑的朋友关系平等呢？

真的，友情是要互相经营呵护的。

心的频道 |系列|

The plunge (2)

Ten days after I took the plunge.

Heard nothing thus far.

The trepidation and doubt have not reduced.

In fact, quite the contrary, because since then, another option emerged, adding to the uncertainty and apprehension.

There's a follow up on the very first option today, though it doesn't really amounted to anything concrete so far, more like a FYI.

Felt a pang of conscience when I divulged only selected bits of information, and withheld some other, for the sake of my own interest.

Self-preservation? Or have I become a duplicitous person?

Other |sane side| category entries.

Backlogs #21: Auto delete

This screenshot is dated 30th of July 2015, titled "Auto delete".

In order to somewhat control my untameable e-mail inbox, I am rather ruthless when it comes to e-mails that I deemed useless or spammy in nature, I just delete them without reading through.

Okay, some may get a quick glance through to ascertain their spammy nature before I delete them.

I also practise this in my instant messaging group, and I guess in my selective memory...

You will need to know Manglish, Mandarin and Hokkien to understand this conversation.

Auto delete and selective memory for the win! =P

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