一连几天的好天气，搞得我心里痒痒的，也没了心思工作。只是心里盼望周末也能够有个好天气。一早醒来，天气果然不错！盘算着不能浪费了这么好的天儿，得干点儿什么！起来后，就开始琢磨今天的安排。去深圳呢？还是去沙滩呢？最后终于决定，还是去沙滩吧，今年的第一次下海！刚入五月，人也应该不会太多。打电话约了明哥，多年的断背组合，哈哈！
2点来到浅水湾，果然人不是很多。如果是炎夏，就会见到沙滩上密密麻麻，躺满了红男绿女。来到老地方，铺上沙滩席，抹完防晒油，便戴上iPod躺了下来。5月的阳光不是很烈，加上有徐徐的海风吹过，即使没有太阳伞也不觉得热。感觉还挺舒服，先眯上一小觉吧！3点多的时候，明哥如约来到，还给我带来了Pret Manger的午餐。有一段时间没见了，吃着，喝着，晒着，聊着，躺着，时间就在不知不觉中过去。中间只下了一次海，五月的海水还挺凉，因此海中游泳的人并没有多少。多数都只是站在近岸边的齐腰水中玩着。5点多，晒得差不多了，和明哥收拾东西，坐上巴士到湾仔dianba了点儿东西，各自打道回府！
一个人漫步在湖边，发觉很多人都在驻足观看着什么。走近一瞧，原来是鸭妈妈带着一群小鸭子在春天的玉渊潭里悠游！也许是因为自己也刚刚有了宝宝，也许是因为人们对于小生命都充满了关爱，不禁也停了下来。直至鸭妈妈带着小鸭子游出了自己的视线。小鸭子时而顽皮地从妈妈身边游开，时而又忙不迭地跟上大队，生怕妈妈不要了自己，实在让人忍俊不禁！
这次回北京时间太短，因此没有跟同学、朋友们联络。自己一个人又实在闷得慌，所以一个人走去玉渊潭公园赏花。不想，以赏樱花而闻名的玉渊潭里樱花已经全部凋谢。只剩下一丛红色郁金香格外扎眼。五月的北京，风和日丽，春光明媚。尽管这仅存的一丛郁金香也已现颓象，在午后阳光的照射下，依然让人流连忘返。阳光透过红色花瓣，使得一朵朵郁金香就像小红灯笼一样！
把老婆，孩子留在了北京，一个人稍显落寞地回到了香港。现代的交通工具过于发达，下午还在北京阳光明媚的大街上走着，体会着春暖花开的舒畅。晚上已经到了另外一个城市，完全不同的城市，潮湿，闷热。让人无论从身体上，还是思想上都很难一下子适应过来。加上这次更多了一个让我牵挂的人，过路深圳，也没有了以往的激动，即便些许。只是呆呆地望着车窗外不断闪过的霓虹灯，并无任何想法，仿佛这一切与我无关。
发生了很多事，也将要发生很多事儿，还没有时间去细想。这许多要办而还未办的，不能着急，必须得慢慢来，一步一步 ...
Working on a project, I found some interesting things about 2007 public holidays for countries. The data may not be accurate since not all countries are counted.
Top 5 countries with most public holidays:
我抱我女儿的本事又长了。现在的情况整个一跟以前完全倒转。怎么说？本来在我老婆怀里是哭的，到我怀里就不哭了！不仅不哭，还能在我怀里美美地睡去。我老婆哄她睡觉，看着着了，放下，人家又醒了。我哄她睡觉，睡得沉着呢，放下也不会醒！现在小宝就认我，我抱她就不哭，我抱她就她就能睡着。嘛叫登峰造极啊，jie奏叫！而且，现在慢慢也摸着一些路子了，经验也慢慢累积起来了。每次必待她从浅层睡眠过度到深层睡觉才把她放下，这样她就不容易醒。
小宝也开始喜欢上洗澡了。洗澡的时候都很乖，不哭不闹。就是相当紧张，生怕自己掉到水里。小手使劲抓着我的衣服，轻易不肯放手。特逗！
For years, I just can't fully dedicate myself to my own work. My title is Oracle DBA which is I am passionate on and what I was looking for. To be an Oracle expert was my career goal once. Maybe it still is. Maybe not. I am not quite sure right now. Seems like nobody in this company knows what a DBA is, what a DBA is supposed to do and how important a DBA is to business. In this company, particularly in this department, nobody makes me feel like a DBA but more like a database operator, or even a database programmer. e.g. I told my manager I was going to apply CPU(Critical Product Update) patches to all our Oracle databases. I explained to her how important it is to do so. And this is to comply with company security policy. Her response made me feel "What hell is the CPU patch? Why do we need to apply those damn patches? Is it really important? Why don't you just put aside that and spend more time on more useful things like programming?" Forgot to tell you the funny thing is I am working for a development team even I take care of all the databases from development to UAT to production. So this development team manages all the related systems from development to production as well. What a mess! From my point of view, nobody here has production support experience. So they think production support is an easy job. Nothing needs to be done as long as the systems are running well. In other words, as long as there is no problem, they think you have done nothing. They think people like me (DBA, UNIX Admin) live an easy work life everyday. They think the production support doesn't take time at all. Only development work is very important. Only development takes time and creates value to business. That's what in these guys mind. So they always demand me to get involved in the programming work, whenever possible. They don't care if I have some other work to do or not. As I say, actually on their mind they think I don't have work to do at all. So when they assign work to me, they don't even ask me if I have some other work to do or not. They just assign. They just tell me to complete what they assign to me. Whenever I tell them I need to do my own job which is a DBA's responsibility and I don't have time to spend on programming, they think, at least they make me feel I tell them a lie and I don't want to write programs for them. Gosh! I miss these days in my previous company. During that period, I was working on shift and really tired physically. It's around 2000 and people were nervous about the millennium worm problem. However, I was happy since I felt being taken care, being respected. Management really appreciated my work. Developers also respect DBAs and often ask us for advices and how to improve the code performance. They all know how important DBAs are and the great value DBAs have to a business success. But here in my current company, I feel really tired both physically and mentally. What I did have never been appreciated. I don't feel being respected at all. Nobody asks me about the code performance, the data model design, never, ever! So it's really a mess in our databases. I told them many many times and they don't care. They think I try to slow down their work, try to stop them from creating revenue for the company. Finally I gave up. What can I do? They threatened me and they told me to stop. 7 years, I've been working for this company this long. I've never get promoted. Actually, I got degraded once due to the office politics. I feel really frustrated working in this company, particularly in this department. I can't see a bright future for my career if I continue. A pitiful DBA!
今天又是老婆带女儿去医院复查的日子。自打女儿出生以来，一直都要定期去医院复诊，因为她的新生儿黄疸有些偏高。这个问题也着实一直困扰着我和老婆，想尽办法想把她的黄疸指数降下来。虽说这是一个出现在新生儿中相当普遍的现象，可身为父母，依然免不了担心紧张。上午11点，老婆从医院回到家打来电话说不用再去医院复查了，女儿的黄疸指标已经降了下来。听到这个消息，终于松了一口气。相信老婆在听到医生告诉她这个消息的时候，也必定是喜出望外。我们的小宝终于从黄疸的阴影里脱离了出来，更加健康地成长！
女儿让我有了成就感！
话说前天晚上，我闺女哭得正酣畅淋漓呢，我一抱她，嘿，居然不哭了！这可把我给乐坏了。要知道，之前是不管什么情况，只要我这当爹的一抱她，她就开始哭个不停！现在倒过来了，我能不美嘛？！不仅不哭了，而且乖乖地在我怀里躺了一个多小时之多！
真有成就感！没什么追求了，我！
I just can't stand it any more. The workplace sucks. Full of unfairness, politic conflicts and unawareness on purpose. I know I must do something, I must ...
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