Youtube. I've been watching Ray William Johnson's vids recently and it might have been obvious. Currently exploring Youtube and I'm pretty amazed by one channel.
Mririan, better known as Magibon.
I'm amazed that she's getting views. No, seriously, all she does is stare into the camera for a couple of minutes every week, and she gets views. Around 100,000 views for the newer episodes, several million for her older ones.
I cannot emphasize enough how unique that is. A short Japanese greeting and then... minutes of staring. 100k people watch that every week.
How is her videos different from a single photo? Her fans can just use her photo as their wallpapers and save the bandwidth for other stuff. Watching her "shows" is no different from staring at a picture.
100k views. I'm having difficulty getting over that fact.
The Win98 version of 仙剑奇侠传had one major error when played on Vista - the ending cinematic did not play. So I defeated the last boss and... crashed back to windows. I don't know if this is an actual bug or if I was unlucky but I'm not about to replay the final boss fight just to see the ending.
Because there's always Youtube and Youku if I just want to watch that.
So I did. Didn't miss anything. The music never played throughout the game but I don't believe there was any outstanding music anyway.
Time to get the second game.
The second game had some viruses. Surprised me. The installer executable file (it came in a single file) was scanned by my NOD32 and found nothing. It was only during the installation when the progress bar was almost full when it screamed at me with those red flashing pop up messages that it's detecting viruses in the files associated with the installation.
So I let it quarantine everything. Also downloaded Spybot and Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware and scanned everything before playing the game. Had been lazy and putting off downloading these softwares but this shocked me into becoming slightly more diligent again.
Anyway the game was fine. All those suspicious files did not affect the game apparently.
As for the game itself, it's about this guy who grew up in the same village as the protagonist of the first game. In fact he appeared as a NPC little boy who had a pretty significant role in the early game. Unfortunately, he was found to be lacking in talent in sword-fighting when he grew older, preventing him from becoming the disciple of the first protagonist.
Gameplay was pretty similar to the first game. Huge mazes, lots of unnecessary loot (every RPG player loves loot, useful or not) and lots of very easy monster battles (aka grinding). This time, there's even music! Unfortunately, the cinematics lacked sound, likely due to compatibility issues. I sadden. It's kinda like reading the Singapore version of FHM. It's all about hot chicks except they're fully clothed.
Not that I'm saying it totally sucks but it's better than nothing for the guys. I mean, you'd have to be pretty horny to be able to fap to non-naked girls. And if they're that horny, they can't be far from being desperate enough to fuck anything that moves. Singaporeans should be grateful to FHM (and the internet) that the island doesn't have an interspecies relationship problem.
While it is rather absurd to turn a financial issue into a disciplinary one, I'm surprised the MOH is concerned at all that the prices for medical services in Singapore are high. I mean, it's been high all along and no one up there seemed to care, so what's the big deal now?
Like in the case of my father, when my mother told the hospital that we were broke, they suggested that they could stop the medication immediately and let him die at home without professional care. On one hand, I suppose that is the logical option when the patient's short on cash. On the other hand, I've always had the impression that people who work in hospitals should be nicer than that.
But reality is reality.
When you're broke, nobody cares if you die a painful death from cancer, alone at home.
And euthanasia still isn't legalised yet. :\
Work sucks. Work always sucks. If it doesn't suck your boss wouldn't have to pay you money to do it. You'd be there doing it pro bono instead.
So after a few accidents and miscalculations caused by late-night fatigue, I realised that it is possible to switch on the air conditioner for only a few hours each night, just long enough for me to fall asleep.
From what I've seen the body can tolerate a wider range of temperature when asleep. Therefore, it's possible to sleep with both the air-conditioner and fan on, but with the former set to switch off a few hours after.
A few factors should probably be taken into account including:
- whether you're a deep sleeper
- whether there is any other source of heat in the room other than the fan and you
- whether you're waking up close to noon or later
- whether you're using thick or thin blankets
Try it on nights when you can afford to lose a few hours of sleep. At worst, you'll just need to get up and either switch the air-conditioner back on or open the windows.
Personally I've done this several times when I somehow set the timer to switch off way too early. Found out about it only in the morning when I recalled when I went to bed and when it was supposed to switch off. Later I did it deliberately just to confirm.
Even though the fan was set to the lowest speed (because it's frickin cold even at that speed when the air-conditioner is on), I did not wake up during the night. Of course you can set the timer of your fan to switch on at a designated time but my fan lacks that function.
This also means that I can sleep without the air-conditioner at all, which is exactly what I've been doing on most nights. But sometimes, there are just nights when you keep thinking about stuff in bed, get worked up and hence feel warm. The heat then makes you toss and turn and prevent you from sleeping.
That's what this is for.
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