TGIF

It's been a busy week. We were invited to dinner Wednesday night at Pam and Steve's apartment and Pam cooked up a wonderful meal. Pam just arrived back in Malaysia this week after about a month in North America. Michel and Amy joined us and it was lots of fun. We had heard so much about Pam from Steve it was great to finally meet her.

Thursday was a test for my students. I also introduced their SQL assignment and gave them a bit of what SQL is capable of. For you techies out there, I have set up an application server with Coldfusion and mySQL running on it. Coldfusion also servers as my web server so the course is good to go as far as having all the software available to me and the students. The students are using mySQLqueryBrowser to access the Northwind database that I imported into mySQL.

This weekend I will be marking the test (debugging Actionscript). We are also attending mass at a Catholic church as Rowena offered to drive us. Apparently it will be quite an experience as Catholic masses here in Malaysia tend to be more charismatic or evangelica. I will let you know how it goes. It is a late Saturday mass.

Other than marking and mass, it is a quiet weekend. I will also be finishing off some programming I am working on. I must make time for a workout and a swim as well.

We have a 'newbee' meeting at 3:30 to go over our health coverage and the recommended providers. That's probably a good idea. On thursday we witnessed a bad wipeout by a 30 year old male who was not watching were he was walking. He fell off a ledge and hurt his back and it looked like he needed an ambulance. You really have to watch where you put your feet as there is very little in the way of railings or yellow markers in dangerous areas. I will take a few pics to illustrate what can happen to the unwary.

Tonight Shelley and I will walk up to the Subang Parade mall to get some groceries as we are out of many things. A cab ride back from there is typically 5 ringgits or $1.50. We will probably have supper there as well. They also have a bookstore (MPH) which is quite good, especially for computer nerd books.

TTYL,

Jim