Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Morns Mourns
State: ColdAfter stepping out of LWN, I thought I just stepped out of mortuary. Every parts of the body was at a defrosed state.
Finally.. today was final lecture for Advanced Computer Networks. Sad. Its my favourite module.. just that for term 1 I was taught by a damn lousy lecturer.. I shall not comment on where he comes from.. And term 2 I got a fabulous lecturer who re-ignited my passion!!
oh. The Lemon and Herb Stepsils taste horrible. At first taste, one might think that washing detergent got into the mouth.
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Early morning news.
Massive demand caused the Beijing Olympic ticketing system to collapse on Tuesday as a second phase of sales for people living in China got under way, officials said. More than 200,000 Internet ticket applications for next year's Games were submitted each second at some points on Tuesday, jamming the site, the Beijing Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) said in a statement.
The BOCOG website received eight million hits in the first hour of sales alone, the statement said. "The website and phone lines are jammed. Even I can't get through by phone to the ticketing centre," Wang Yue, a BOCOG spokeswoman, told AFP.
The official Xinhua news agency quoted the head of the Bank of China's Olympic affairs department, Xu Chen, as saying he was shocked by the huge demand. "We had tested the booking system several times, but the number of buyers has been out of our expectations," Xu said. Just over 1.8 million tickets for the Games went on sale on Tuesday to people living in China, following a hugely popular initial round in June that sold 1.6 million. China will eventually sell a total of seven million tickets for Games events over three phases, with about 75 percent going to residents of China and the rest to overseas buyers.
oh. How come nobody complained that their train ticketing system has problems too? I'm a really poor victim of it.
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These days.. everything seems to turn looser. Belt... Ring... Watch...
WalkerGal walked on the sunny side.
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