My Life as Open Source

I’m taking folic acid as per my docotor. Pregnancy is tiring and sickening, it is the real energy drainer, I feel crappy, lumpy and ungainly. Less than 10 hours sleep a day was too little for me, maybe I’m just so damned tired, I have been experiencing some depression, making it hard for me to start the day, I hate morning so bad now.

I have never had this kind of illness before, althought my doctor said that pregnacy does not cause depression, merely unmasks it. Pregesterone and estrogen are known to have depression side effects and there sure is a lot of progesterone and estrogen running around.

Anyway, on Wednesday I will have OSCAR checkup, an ultrasound scanning and a blood test for Down’s Syndrome, let’s hope all will go well.

I’m thrilled to be able to announce that I’m pregnant, Derek and I are joyfully expecting a baby due in 24 July. I had my second prenatal appointment the day before yesterday and everything went great! When the doctor listened with a Doppler, he immediately found a strong, loud heartbeat (160 bpm). That’s my daughter or my son in there. That’s my baby. Wow.

Via 東南西北

話說星島日報報導，上月本港的反世貿示威中，警方指有人用螺絲射警察，星島更用上「警員痛入心」來形容中招警察，可惜我沒看過原文，只在東南西北處看scan 圖，文中登了兩幅相，caption 是「反世貿示威者曾以殺傷力極大的彈叉發射螺絲母攻擊警員」，但沒有說明相片出處，還好東南西北認出相片是出自委內瑞拉暴動，這樣的報導手法，是誤導，譞人以為上月反世貿示威中，有個這樣的人。

還是引用東南西北的話作總結：

Do you share my outrage at media manipulation!? It is alright to use that photograph, but there has to be an explanation about where and when it was actually taken. It is illustrative only, but it is being presented as Hong Kong fact.

Mainstream media and the Hong Kong Journalists Association like to harp on InMediaHK and its civilian journalists for the lack of professional and ethical codes of conduct. If this is the type of professional and ethical conduct that they practice, then the world is better off without them.

婚介 - 上星期明明試好size，昨天到金行取，試戴時離奇地兩個人都要小一號的，偏偏小一號的價格竟比原來的貴，sales 解釋入貨金價有變所致，因為款式是我們的心水，最終還是買了。細一點的介指比大一點的貴，怪。

長輩與家長 - 長輩家長的話一定要聽，否則一生背負不孝之名，長輩家長之威懾，好比《家春秋》的叔父輩，與長輩家長溝通，其實就是他們說甚麼你只能說好，他們要管的，那怕是雞毛蒜皮事，你不能拒絕。長輩家長呀，為甚麼你們都愛管年輕人的事？有天我做了長輩或 家長 (想起陶傑有篇講中國家長和西方Parents 的分別) 不！我才不會做中國家長，我絕不干涉年輕人的內政。

酒席 - 有人問我們的酒席上有多少個菜？我回答說八個。原來某甲的婚筵只得六個，結果被人笑足N 年。而某乙因突發事而倉促籌辦，只能找到十分街坊的酒席，同樣又被人講足N 年。原來不少人有這種笑人的心態，算是貪心嗎？我不知。