Alan’s Blog

I’ve been ill since last Wednesday. Just low fever 37.7 C on Wednesday morning. But went to 38.2 near noon and I was feeling really badly. So I took a taxi and went to hospital. The doctor diagnosed me as upper respirtract infection (I hope I am getting the translation right here.) But I did not cough or anything, I was feeling a bit strange. Anyways I am not a doctor.

So some  Anti-inflammatory intravenous drip (hope well translated) in the afternoon. I started sweating when I got home in the evening, after that fever’s gone. The doctor gave two days drip, since the fever’s gone, so I had only one drip.

Sunday was pretty bad for me, since the fever was gone. I had too much drink on my roommate’s birthday party. I felt really sick! Yesterday, I had a company training. I started to cough. Now still coughing. I think I missed the best time to kill the virus. Now I just hope my immune system will cure itself. Otherwise hospital again…

Hope I get well soon. and hope I can sleep well tonight in spite of the coughing.

One of my friends asked me to go on a spiritual trip. I think it is a wonderful idea. I think most temples in China are a bit too commercial recently. Nepal has just changed from a kingdom to a democratic republic, thus no kings but government by the people, for the people and of the people (well, in principle, we have to see how it goes). I have a college friend, and she is from Nepal. She’s been to China before and I asked her to be my information source.

There is still some craziness about my plan in July and August. I hope things will go well and I can make this trip in July…

I watched a developer talk show on Microsoft’s website. The interviewee was the danish guy who wrote turbo pascal and delphi. They talked on various tech and non-tech topics. One of the things that caught my attention was that AWT was such a terrible GUI framework for JAVA. Aha. I programmed almost 3 years java back in college. I did a lot of my GUI work with AWT. Back then JAVA was so new and OOP was so attractive that you don’t hear a lot criticism about AWT. But it was such a painful experience. So I got good programmer instinct. I knew AWT wasn’t that right.

Now I have been an embedded software engineer for 3 years. God, I miss JAVA…