I really really shouldn't have done that!!
Before the test, I was quite confident that I could pass IELTS (Band 6.5) this time. Actually in several self-practice of reading task, I was able to find out the answers of 2 out of 3 tasks' question within 15 minutes. This is my best record. I was sure that the abilities teachers had taught (and trained) me would help me make it.
The first test is, as usual, speaking. The examiner was Ellizabeth. Actually I had known her before that, but had never spoken with her. The questions were not that difficult this time (compared with those of my last exam). After the speaking test, although I personally felt that there're some vulnerebilities in my answers, I estimated that it should be 6 or more.
The listening part is my Achilles heel. Although I didn't do too bad in my self-test, I still had to be careful on it. Task1, task2, and task3. Not too bad. However, I got stuck in task4. I couldn't see what and where the tapescript was talking about even though I'd skimmed the whole questions before the tapescript started, thus I could just guess and fill in the gaps. I guessed it'd be 6.
The reading test has always been a big puzzle game. The heading and True/False/NotGiven questions are usually time consuming (especially T/F/NG one). Some questions were even asking about the structures of aeroplane and I once thought I'd just guess. Fortunately I got some time after answering (and guessing) the whole questions, so I just looked at those strange "structure" questions and tried if I could dig out some answers of them. Indeed, I found some, and thus corrected the answers. No sooner than I just finished correcting the last word had the examiner told us stop writing! Whew... Maybe 6.5 or 7, I suppose.
The last part - writing test - was where I had the most confidence of the four parts, and I knew I shouldn't miss it. I tried to calm myself down (I had been in "high tension" due to rescuing the last reading questions at the moment) and also keep myself aware of the following writing tasks. Mark (one of the examiners) said we could go to the toilet if we want (certainly he'd follow us). Unfortunately, I was the one that would like to go to the toilet. I knew I shouldn't waste too much time on it, so I raised my hand and dashed to the toilet with Mark after reading the writing questions. Somehow, I felt I had stayed in the toilet for quite a long time, and I wasn't quite sure how long I had spent on it. So when I finished task2, I asked Mark "do I still have to finish my writing by 16:03? Or do I get extra time on my writing?" Mark didn't say anything but just show me the timer which showed "10:26". What came to my mind was that "I have spent 10 minutes and 26 secends in the toilet, so I have that more time than the others". I didn't (also couldn't) think too much about Mark's meaning because I was totally thinking about the content of my writing task1 at that point, So I wrote the task with the normal (or maybe somewhat slow) speed. Then you may imagine what happen next. Just as I had wrote the 2nd (or 3rd) line on the 2nd page, the timer alarmed and Mark took our answer sheets away, including mine! At first I didn't realize what on earth happened and even thought that Mark might had forgotten how many minutes I still have. Mark told me that I had EXACTLY THE SAME TIME as the other candidates and the "10:26" meant the time we (including me) still had. I was so shocked and stunned for a while at the seat. I was thinking, "why is that !? Is that mean I have to take another IELTS exam 3 months later? What should I do?"
Knowing what had happened to me, Mark explained and analyzed the situation:
"You still have the chance. The writing test actually largely depends on task2".
I certainly know that (because task2 worths twice as much as task1 does). That is, if I did well in task2, I still have a chance to get 6 for the writing even though I didn't finish task1; otherwise there's no chance if I didn't do well in task2 even though I had finished task1.
"Did you finish task2?"
I did. I wrote 1.5 pages so I suppose there're about 300 words.
"How far have you gone in task1?"
1 page and 2-3 lines. But I was just finish writing the topic sentence of the 2nd part of the graph. Roughly 120 words. I was sure that I'd been doing well on the structure, vacab and variation, but I didn't know how it would be assessed if the task wasn't completed, so I guess...3 or 4?
"Do you think you've done well in task2?"
Could be. I was quite sure I could get 6 in task2 (at least from vacabulary, variation and structure's viewpoint). However, as long as I didn't have the time of checking my grammar, I wasn't really sure if I could approach 7.
In other words, "to pass the IELTS or not" really depends on how I did well in task2, and the probability of the result...I suppose 50 and 50?
"Then don't worry too much.Don't think too much during the weekend."
I would.
"But you can do nothing about it now, except waiting."
...I have to say it's true.
So, I came home with regretful mind. As I had applied the fast-result, I'll get my mark on the next Friday. ...I really really shouldn't have been to the toilet and also shouldn't have misunderstood what Mark meant !! Otherwise I am quite sure I can get 7 for overall !!! How shocking !!!! What an idiot I am !!!!!
These are what I need. Basicly they are Phillips drivers (magnetified head prefered) No. 0 and No. 1, flat-blade driver, cotton tips (aka Q-tips), thermal compound (silver contained), mini-vacuum cleaner, some light-coloured towels (in my case, white), toilet paper (or any other lint-free paper would work. Not shown in this picture), clean phone card (or other plastic card. Not shown in the picture) and 99% isopropanol (also not shown).
The mini-vacuum cleaner is driven by 4 batteries. Put batteries into it and found ...Eh??
The batteries don't fit into the space!? I never realise before that these rechargeable batteries were bigger than the normal ones...-.-;;
As I really need this vacuum cleaner in this work, I have to get extra “normal size” batteries before I carry on...
The big work is literally “going to start” ...in the near future. :P
This is the journal article I'd like to build in my EndNote. Here I'd call the strange O with two dots on it "mouse head". How to keyin the two red-squared strange letters?
Normally we can't keyin those strange characters through keyborad. Otherwise it'd end up like this...
"Character Map" is what I'm going to use. Normally this small program should have been installed in any versions of M$ Winblows. Launch it by [Start]->[All Programs]->[Accessories]->[System Tools]->[Character Map]; alternatively, it can also be launched by typing "charmap" in the [Start]->[Run] dialog.
It looks like the mouse head is on the lower left corner, but it's just too small to see. Try to click on it then
Bingo, it's exactly the mouse head. Click on [Select]->[copy]...
PS: Note that the keystroke (which means how you should type on your keyboard if you really want to) is also shown. In this case, hold [Alt] key on, type 0246 (the number key on the right hand side of you keyboard; not the ones in front of the alphabet keys), then release the [Alt] key.
...and then paste in EndNote (you know how to do this, don't you?) Finally the mouse head appears in my EndNote!
The second strange character (the odd "i") can also be typed into EndNote in the same way. Make sure you delete the previous character (in this case, the mouse head) before choose the second one; otherwise you'd choose both two characters rather than the second one (as you see in the picture, mouse head and odd "i").
So far so good. So we can keyin any strange item that can be found in the Character Map within this way, isn't it? Unfortunately not. Keep reading.
The word "alpha" is quite common in our daily use. Let's try if we can type the simble alpha into EndNote.
Here we exactly can find it on the Character Map. However, no keystroke is shown. Does it make any difference? As usual, [Select]->[Copy] and then paste into a new EndNote document and then...
Alas!! It just shows up a question mark rather than a simbolic alpha! Why is that?
...Actually it's understandable - it's a matter of computer code.
Click on the "Advanced View" check box, we can notice that the character set is Unicode. Those ASCII style softwares (i.e. those can just handle pure text file) such as notepad and sadly, Endnote can't handle this kind of code. Otherwise other unicode-supporting softwares like M$ Word, 
To know which characters can be pasted into EndNote (or other ASCII text editors), switch the character set into "Windows: Western". Those listed in the table are are what we can use.
No wonder Waleed said he'd never seen Khaled for a long time.
I wrote Waleed and "Rabiahl" in my diary whereas asked Waleed about "Khaled"... That's really a stupid mistake... 
In case the freeze happens after home, I tested the connection in front of the staff. Oh yeah, it's NEC chipset and this time it didn't freeze after connection. We then tried to transfer some big files between my laptop and MO. Unfortunately the good luck didn't last too long - still freezed up in a few minutes. Hmm, it's odd...
The staff doubted that it's my MO's problem, thus they connected the MO onto their desktop show machine. Again, it didn't freeze their system, so my MO drive and disk shouldn't be broken. But wait...the transfering speed was rediculously slow. How come it said "transfer time 120 minutes remained when it's just only a ~100MB file?
...Because the staff plugged the cable onto 
My Compaq Presario 2166ae can detect it without any error. The M$winXP can recognize it correctly as an USB2 card without extra driver installation (I've seen several cases that some "USB2" cards are in fact merely USB cards which means FAKE). It was fine until I connected my MO onto the adapter and the whole system soon freezed up! There's no BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) and even 3-keys-hot-reboot didn't work. In case it's caused by the MO 1.3GB disk, I tried other 650MB and 230MB MO disks and even my thumb drive but still no lucks, so my drives and disks shouldn't be the source of the problem. How come it freezed as soon as I connected them on then?
"Something to do with its driver?" I thoght. Disabled the device, I tried the driver CD and replaced the default one in the windows. Still freeze. There's no resource conflict on my system. The problem wasn't even improved after updating the USB2 patch and driver for WinXP on M$'s website.
The website of both 
Ducks.
Chicken on the road...?
Look! Two chicks!!
Oh oh, they're following us.
Lovely and colorful birds.
Snapshot of "rainbow" bird.
Lovely fish.
Baby penguin.
Peacock and 
Giant turtle! (frontview)
Giant turtle! (sideview)
Baby turtle...Hey! Are you all right?
Baby turtle...finally it gets up.
It looks like just 
Eh...? What's this?
Hey! What are you doing there Charlie!?
"The Warehouse! The Warehouse! Where Everyone gets a Bargain!"
...so, what should the K-mart do??