Richard.H's Blog » Time http://blog.richardhong.com Forrest gump runs, and I blog Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:49:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 30 mins in a Internet Cafe http://blog.richardhong.com/2006/08/04/30-mins-in-a-internet-cafe.html http://blog.richardhong.com/2006/08/04/30-mins-in-a-internet-cafe.html#comments Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:57:36 +0000 Richard.H http://www.richardhong.com/218

I am in a Internet cafe in Oxford city center right now.

Why am I here? Because I am careless enough to forgot bringing the address of Belgian embassy which I was going to send me visa application. So I either cycle back and return in half hour, or find somewhere I can get this address. I went down to a travel agent and the guy there didn’t feel like to check that for me using the computer right in front of him, instead, he told me where I can find a Internet cafe in town. Fair enough, so here I am.

It costs me 75p for half and hour, but I just need it for less than 2 mins to google it. I tried to negotiate with the owner here see if I can just use 2 minutes and pay less, but I guess he can tell that there is no way I can get that information but using his slow and crappy computer (they can’t even display Chinese characters), so he said no. And here I am.

I got the address now, it actually took less than one minute. But it’s quite a waste (75p is still money) for the rest 29 minutes, so here I am, writing this, meaningless post.

When there is a scarcity of time and location is limited, valueless thing could become priceless! What a great chance to learn economic theory in real life.

I think I had made most of this 30 minutes. Thanks for your reading. Gotta go now.

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4 mins in England

I was outside the randolph hotel waiting for bus to come home tonight. This photo was taken at the station. This kind of time reminder is new to me in England. They have that in Japan as well and the time does move. Whereas after a little observation tonight, I found that 4 minutes is actually longer than it suppose to be in England.

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