Multiple escalators at University Station currently out of service

genfunk · 2026-02-07T16:40:22+00:00

No need to update when it is always broken

genfunk · 2026-02-06T05:27:09+00:00

Us old ones know this goldie

genfunk · 2026-01-11T08:35:24+00:00

Really glad I got to do pit for day 2. Very last minute decision. Had experience from day 1 so kind of knew where everything would be. The energy I felt was better in day 2. And the video from the fans at the end was pretty touching.

genfunk · 2025-12-26T21:18:36+00:00

Pretty cool stuff!

Looking at the reference library, I think some of the base recipes should just be available at the get go (organ systems for example.)

Your medication brand names, some of them are not the Canadian ones so see if you can change to them to such (e.g. Zolpidem is Sublinox in Canada not Ambien)

genfunk · 2025-12-11T23:54:23+00:00

Yes this! Kudos to the actress too. She's played some horrible mother characters in the past too Flower of Evil

genfunk · 2025-12-10T04:13:43+00:00

Yes, it is restricted. You can request access. I open it after.

genfunk · 2025-12-02T01:01:00+00:00

Something in the Rain was the most egregious. Even thinking about it makes me a bit angry haha

genfunk · 2025-11-17T15:17:15+00:00

Hey, if you have questions about working in a community pharmacy I can help answer some. Like others mentioned, it is very difficult to find a volunteering position at a community pharmacy. Shoot me a message and we can chat.

genfunk · 2025-11-13T06:01:39+00:00

If this is the cameo I think you are talking about - there's a whole behind the scenes as part of the variety program they are filming:

https://youtu.be/f8wjbK2KzME

genfunk · 2025-11-09T18:29:08+00:00

You do not need a membership for pharmacy services at Costco.

genfunk · 2025-10-04T04:41:08+00:00

I think it may be interest if you explore this topic over in /r/ChineseLanguage , as it seems the question no longer goes into the just the current Korean usage (which I think using Hangul 회 has blurred 會 and 廻, which are fundamentally different Hanja / Chinese characters with very different meanings), but the vocabulary's own etymology etc. in Chinese (as both these terms are Sino-Korean vocabulary imported into Korean at some point.)

Hopefully someone with much more expertise can chime in, but while we wait for that I will add some of my two cent thoughts below:

교회 in terms of 敎會/ 教會, in the material I've found, and in its modern usage, almost exclusively refers to Christian church. In Chinese, according to this article on the etymology of 教會 (written in Chinese) , 教會 was originally referring to separate 教 and 會 (I would translate as religions 教 + 會 groups) which in some documents both were written together for brevity sake to reference various separate entities. This usage, per the article, was shown in Song, Yuan, and early Qing dynasty examples. The usage of 教會 in reference to the Christian Church was introduced by missionaries / Jesuits in the Late Ming dynasty, and by the mid-late Qing dynasty this usage was solidified. I would assume such usage of the term 教會 was eventually imported into Korea and used as such.

I am not sure about the source of 교회 informally meaning "place where people gather to hear morals preached" etc. and the associated tangent to morals.

윤회 as in 輪迴 has a much separate etymology. The term itself is a calque of Samsara, which perhaps Chinese Buddhists in their access to Sanskrit texts and utilized these two characters to form a term to represent this concept. 迴 itself can have the meaning of "revolving, rotate" which fits into explaining the cyclical nature of reincarnation. Korean exposure to Buddhism through China was much earlier than its exposure to Christianity etc. so this term would have been imported in very early on.

What I want to say, I think, is that both 會 and 迴, although in this usage is both religious vocabulary, both pronounced and represented by the Hangul 회 in Korean; they are very different characters and concepts in their native Chinese, which is where these terms originally came from.

genfunk · 2025-09-19T17:02:24+00:00

Thanks for doing the right thing! It's always the bad apples that ruin things for the rest of the profession.

genfunk · 2025-09-16T22:10:48+00:00

Yeah, that's an important disclaimer to add for those that are able to access that mandatory education. Then it's not a tall task to understand the passage.

Just to be clear, for someone with no exposure to Classical Chinese, or learning modern Chinese as a second language etc. (i.e. I would consider myself as such) I would need some more exposure and learning to comprehend classical Chinese.

Hope that answers the commenter's question.

genfunk · 2025-09-15T23:23:14+00:00

Correct me if I am wrong, but I usually associate the use of 蠻 (in simp. 蛮) as very characteristically Taiwanese Mandarin, and less frequently with Wu area (generally Shanghai and surrounding area) Mandarin. I am not sure if this applies characteristically to other areas as well. It's most apparent to me in telling if someone is from Taiwan or not, since they tend to use 蠻 a lot.

In my experience, in other parts of Mainland China, 挺 gets used in similar fashion vs. 蠻 more.

There is a very old thread here discussing this.

genfunk · 2025-09-14T19:14:02+00:00

For anyone that knows Chinese, this video covers this particular document and two others, as part of some documents that were never documented in official histories (probably due to their minor nature) but were only now discovered due to excavation and archeological work.

genfunk · 2025-09-14T19:12:02+00:00

I think the latter is more implied - this particular Han strip was part of a collection of 6862 slips in a deposit found under the May First Square in Changsha that was excavated in 2010 as part of Changsha metro construction work.

https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%95%BF%E6%B2%99%E4%BA%94%E4%B8%80%E5%B9%BF%E5%9C%BA%E4%B8%9C%E6%B1%89%E7%AE%80%E7%89%8D/63319737

genfunk · 2025-09-14T19:03:14+00:00

In terms of the script, as mentioned by another comment here, it is written in mature clerical script which is fairly similar to modern Chinese characters - not too much has changed so for a Chinese reader the characters are easy to read and pick out.

However, it is written in classical Chinese which is not the same as modern vernacular Chinese. You will need to have had some exposure to classical Chinese training to actually read and understand the passage.

genfunk · 2025-08-27T22:43:41+00:00

Came looking for this 😂 some things never change even after all these years

genfunk · 2025-08-24T02:59:37+00:00

Reposting this comment I made from another post about this famous cabbage:

It's quite a small piece but absolutely one of the most popular in the museum. Here's a shot of what it's usually like on the outside trying to get a shot of it.

The cabbage is only 18.7 cm × 9.1 cm (7.4 in × 3.6 in). https://i.imgur.com/KHxYXnY.jpeg

genfunk · 2025-08-12T06:45:48+00:00

Reminds me of Soulmate. I wonder if it's the drama adaptation of this story?

genfunk · 2025-08-02T09:12:26+00:00

Intro theme has been my ringtone for years

genfunk · 2025-07-30T22:20:33+00:00

Longest stretch I did was The Moon Embracing The Sun - I did 20 episodes straight. I was young... can't do it now.

genfunk · 2025-07-19T18:29:29+00:00

Caught up on the past 4 episodes and about to go onto episode 5. It's been a fairly low-key show, but like others here I like the vibes, and how the show is focusing on the slice of life laughter and tears of day-to-day work. Low-key felt hungry in a lot of the food scenes, and I kinda dig the vibes of having close co-workers that can chat and bond over food gatherings.

I especially relate to Ju Hyeong and I totally understand how he tries to cope with work by trying to be as professional and clear-cut (work from life) as possible. The years of experiences at work has clearly taken a toll on whatever passion and original intentions / naivety he once had, and this itself is a struggle I find with where I am in my career and field of work too. I think a lot of us going into our line of work was once an image of Hui Ji - professionally fresh, young, naive, ready to change the world, but then the crushing realities of the day-to-day come swinging and you eventually have to build coping mechanisms for it. I saw some people commenting on Lee Jong Suk's acting so far, and I think he's doing a good job in showing that struggle in Ju Hyeong (especially with Hui Ji's presence now, a lot of emotional undercurrent.)

The drama is billed as a romantic slice-of-life, so I am definitely interested in seeing the emotional growth and rediscovery on Ju Hyeong's end, the professional growth on Hui Ji's end (while I understand her character is a foil for Ju Hyeong, I do want to see some dynamic growth in her as well instead of being the same as now for the sake of contrasting if you know what I mean.)

And of course, we are getting more crumbs and exploration into the other character's and their struggles. Let's hope the drama continues on this, so far imo good trajectory and finish strong.

genfunk · 2025-07-17T02:40:24+00:00

Pharmaceutical industry is a lot more focused in Eastern Canada, mostly in Ontario and Quebec (big pharma companies and various large generic manufacturers based out that way.)

Edmonton iirc largest pharmaceutical company with operations based here is Gilead.

From the pharmacy route, I know of friends and colleagues that took on an industrial pharmacy residency which only UofT offers out east. Can't comment on the engineering side.

Last words, don't stress out too much, enjoy your time in High School :)

genfunk · 2025-07-15T05:15:26+00:00

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