11 posts tagged “qotd”

How many jobs have you had in the past five years? Where and what did you do? 
Submitted by M.  

In reverse chronological order they are:

• "eBusiness Technology Planning Manager", Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd., Hong Kong
• "Manager, Advanced Technology and Media", Arthur Andersen, Hong Kong
• "Principal Consultant, Internet & Intranet Application Development", Hongkong Telecom, Hong Kong

More details of what I did can be found in my resume.

If you knew you had one week to live, what would you do, where would you go, who would you see? 
Submitted by normatheartist

I am a fairly conservative person when it comes to extravagant spending. So if I am sure that I only have one week to live. I will have an amazing party with everyone I know and then use the rest of the money to lay a down payment on a Lamborghini or Austin Martin, depending on which I money for.

"Go out with a bang" per se.

What are three things you want to learn, and three things you can teach others to do? 
Submitted by bookishbiker.

Would like to learn:

• Speak and read Japanese
• How to pilot an airplane and helicopter
• How to scuba dive

Can teach others:

• How to in-line skate
• How to windsurf
• Use the Macintosh in an intermediate to advance level
  

What item(s) do you have to prevent yourself from buying at the grocery store? 
Submitted by Places Unknown.

In no particular order or priority.

• Coca Cola (aka. Coke)
• Ramen Noodles
• Potato Chips
• Tropicana™ Orange Juice
  

If money were no object, which five luxury items would you rush right out and buy? 
Submitted by lorilyn.

The items would be:

1. Ferrari
2. A condominium
3. A diamond ring
4. Harley Davidson motorcycle
5. A hotel
   

What was your favorite game to play at recess in grade school? 
Submitted by Elisheva Chana.

It has been a very very long time. So this is really testing my memory.

As I recall it was cops and robbers.

BTW: half of that was in Hong Kong and half of that was in Canada. The above applies to the time when I was going to school in Hong Kong.

What are five things you're good at?
Submitted by HapaLove.

I believe the five things that I am good at are:

1. Alpine skiing
2. Windsurfing
3. In-line skating
4. Identifying up and coming technologies
5. Everything about a Macintosh computer
   

What's the most famous movie you've never seen? 
Submitted by Mike.

I am someone who love watching movies so it is hard to say which is the "most famous movie" I've seen thus far.

Some of the most famous movies I've seen are:

• Star Wars (Episode IV) (1977)
  
• Footloose (1984)
  
• Risky Business (1983)
• Top Gun (1986)
  
• Pretty Woman (1990)
• Schindler's LIst (1993)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
  
• Titanic (1997)
  
• Black Hawk Down (2001)
  

It is very difficult to judge the degree of "famousness" for a movie. Do we judge by its box office receipts?

Well one thing I did do with this exercise is to date myself.

[Edit] A commenter correctly informed me that I had misread the question. So here is my revised answer.

I guess the most famous movie that I had not seen has to be "Gone With the Wind". It is such a long movie that I never really wanted to sit through the whole thing. Or was that the book that was long? Any way, that's has to be the most famous movie that I had not seen.

Other famous movies that I had not seen are:

• Broke Back Mountain
• God Father (any of the series)
• To Here to Eternity
  

What's on your "do before I die" list?
Submitted by Caroline.

This is a question I had heard brought up many times, but has yet to think of an answer... until now.

I think I will list my top 10 "Do Before I Die" items in reverse priority (10 being the most desired):

1. Go bungee jumping
2. Go for a luxury African Safari
3. Go skydiving
4. Get my Level 4 sailing certification and then purchase and live on a sailboat
   
5. Get certified for scuba diving (Rescue level)
   
6. Get my private pilot license
7. Get my motorcycle license and purchase a Harley Davidson
8. Go alpine skiing in the Swiss Alps
9. Visit Mount Everest (again)
   
10. Obit around the Earth either on a spacecraft or space station

I figure I have just a little less than 20 years to accomplish all this. Not that I expect to live another 20 more years. It is just that many of these items have ages limitations.

If you could get someone in your life to start a blog, who would it be and why?

I would love to get my mom to start a Blog. She is totally unfamiliar with computers, but she had been asking me to show her how.

Unfortunately, she lives 6 months of the year in Toronto and I currently lives in Hong Kong.

Of course if I do show her how I would definitely start her off on the Macintosh.

I think that she will have a lot of fun with a Blog. She is not that good in English, but she can also do it in Chinese. The only problem would be, that I will need to find her a pen input device [method] on the Mac for her to write in Chinese. Since i do not know how to use the various different Chinese keyboard input methods.

I believe VOX and the Mac will definitely get her there, my only problem now will have to wait until September when she comes to Hong Kong for six months.