I have decided to go for the ntu tmc exchange program. I will be spending my time in hk from 9-16 June. I think I agreed because of a pretty face. Kidding. If only life is so simple...
I hope she's going too. Can't get her out of my mind.
Last night, I googled people's names out of boredom. Most names were pretty common. My name, as usual, brings up what used to be yauhing.com. It's now redblossomtea.com or something like that, selling expensive tea in the US. Her name was the most unique. It brought up results that consisted mainly of various blogs, all of which seems to mention her name in full, or almost full. One of them was a newsletter from her country, which mentioned her in the article of Singapore-sponsored scholarships for students there. And it had her photo from back in '05. Kind of scary because it made it sound so prestigious. Perhaps it truly is that prestigious, and that possibility just worsens things for me.
And that I am going on a 1-week-date with her makes things difficult for me. Hopefully it's just a temporary thing just like those before.
And it looks like I will be needing a visa this time, so that I can visit Zhu Hai during the trip. One of the tmc members invited everyone to visit his hometown and he promised to treat us seafood there. That might be one of the major reasons for my agreement to join this program. :D
I fear many things. I fear me when I lack sleep. I fear my door opening when it is a bad time for that to happen. I fear helplessness. Fear is normal.
So I fear the possible global recession. The USD just keeps dropping! Oil prices keep rising! If this goes on, it had better be resolved by the time I graduate.
Another tragedy strikes. The Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Mosul has been found dead. Shot in the head, at least that was a small mercy. But how can they kill religious people like that? Do they compare their own radical clerics with clerics of other religions? How can they, when these radical madmen incite violence directly from their own mouths? I cannot make myself use the words "their counterparts" when comparing these people with the others.
Of course, Christianity used to be like this too. Islam has always had such men. As long as there have been religions, there have been people who kill in the name of their religions or deities. Sad, but if I look at it from another angle, I see that it makes religious communities no less susceptible to the more primal natures of humanity than anyone else.
Civilization requires self-control. To have people who want to be truly themselves is to have uncivilized people. To say that we don't need to act like someone who isn't what we are, is to say we don't need civilization.
Rapists are sometimes described as showing their true colours. So are various other types of criminals.
See?
To be truly yourself, you do what you really want to do, regardless of social norms. And if everyone be themselves, the social norms would be chaos. Where there is chaos, civilization is absent. Therefore to say that you are a civilized person, you cannot be your true self.
And that is how I see the American culture. The entertainment industry is a reflection of their people, because if the people didn't like what they see, they wouldn't have supported it. And in all Hollywood movies, they send the message that people should do what they want to do. And in their movies in general, scenes depicting sex and violence are increasing, both of which are not the hallmarks of civilization.
American culture erodes their own civilization. They may be rich and powerful, but they look barbaric to other people. There is a certain limit to everything, how direct you should be, how much time you should invest in negotiating peace. All that culminates to how civilized you are. The US are toeing the line, if they haven't passed it already.
And on the other extreme, there is the Netherlands. One of the most civilized country in the world, if not the most civilized, it has already accepted euthanasia as a legal medical service. Instead of looking at matters through eyes tainted by fear and bigotry, they managed to see things objectively, and demonstrates what it truly means to be a secular state.
Friday, 14 March 2008
Rant 103 / Indecision
Now I am considering going to Hong Kong on that Toastmasters Club exchange program. Ya, I have been invited to go along with the rest of the girls (and some guys). A total of nine slots. Should I go?
Positive:
Fooooooooooooooood. Foooooooooooooooooooood. Fooooooooooooooooood.
And the hot (scholar) girls going with me.
And I will visit the universities in Hong Kong.
Learning experience.
Negative:
Since everyone knows I am from HK, I can assume they will see me as their guide during the times when we are not visiting any clubs. My command of Cantonese is bad. I may sound exactly like a Hongkonger, but my vocabulary is severely stunted due to my lack of use.
And I don't know HK all that well anyway.
And some of the girls are scholars.
I will need to secretly do some research on HK before I go.
Decision at the moment: My heart says yes. My mind says no. And my mind says my heart has a history of going for rash decisions.
Positive:
Fooooooooooooooood. Foooooooooooooooooooood. Fooooooooooooooooood.
And the hot (scholar) girls going with me.
And I will visit the universities in Hong Kong.
Learning experience.
Negative:
Since everyone knows I am from HK, I can assume they will see me as their guide during the times when we are not visiting any clubs. My command of Cantonese is bad. I may sound exactly like a Hongkonger, but my vocabulary is severely stunted due to my lack of use.
And I don't know HK all that well anyway.
And some of the girls are scholars.
I will need to secretly do some research on HK before I go.
Decision at the moment: My heart says yes. My mind says no. And my mind says my heart has a history of going for rash decisions.
Thursday, 13 March 2008
Rant 102 / I Needed To Shit Halfway Through The Blog So I Lost My Momentum And Decided To End This Rant Even Though It Is So Short
Tonight's speech was disappointing! My speech itself was terrific. Everyone said my speech was good, during and after the meeting. But the main problem with my presentation of the speech was... huge, to say the least.
All my bad habits appeared. I did not use my left hand again! But worse still, I was tugging my shirt with my left hand unconsciously, which is a distracting and pointless action. And the most glaring mistake of all was my walking to and fro continuously throughout my speech. It distracted the audience from what I was saying.
My speech was also unclear on the purpose. I did state the purpose at the end, but I was not as clear in the beginning. I started off by saying that everyone will die, and most, in pain due to disease. Then I stated my stand which is that everyone should be given a choice of whether we should die painfully but naturally, or be euthanized. The next part of my speech was on how to kill ourselves without pain and suffering, and yet can also be easily done by anyone. The final part was to compare this method with jumping off a building and breathing carbon monoxide, and end with a short conclusion.
It was only at the conclusion that I specifically said," The aim of my speech is..." and so everyone was somewhat confused until then.
In the end, I didn't win the ribbon (AGAIN!!!). At least I got pwned by a gorgeous young lady whose command of spoken English is one of the best I have ever heard.
And after the meeting, she shook hands with me saying she "really liked" my speech a lot. Well, she wasn't the only one to do that, but that was the first time I have ever shaken hands with her! I have been so shy I haven't initiated conversations with her before.
Beautiful girls make me nervous. Hope she didn't see that. But then, so what if she did?
And when I say I got pwned by her, I really did get pwned by her. I was the one who counted the votes, and she had almost twice as many votes as I got (10v6).
I think I shall reuse this speech for my next project in June. The theme of my next project is How To Say It. This means I will need to change the flow of the whole speech and use different tones and stuff to make it dramatic. Shouldn't be too difficult with a speech about death.
All my bad habits appeared. I did not use my left hand again! But worse still, I was tugging my shirt with my left hand unconsciously, which is a distracting and pointless action. And the most glaring mistake of all was my walking to and fro continuously throughout my speech. It distracted the audience from what I was saying.
My speech was also unclear on the purpose. I did state the purpose at the end, but I was not as clear in the beginning. I started off by saying that everyone will die, and most, in pain due to disease. Then I stated my stand which is that everyone should be given a choice of whether we should die painfully but naturally, or be euthanized. The next part of my speech was on how to kill ourselves without pain and suffering, and yet can also be easily done by anyone. The final part was to compare this method with jumping off a building and breathing carbon monoxide, and end with a short conclusion.
It was only at the conclusion that I specifically said," The aim of my speech is..." and so everyone was somewhat confused until then.
In the end, I didn't win the ribbon (AGAIN!!!). At least I got pwned by a gorgeous young lady whose command of spoken English is one of the best I have ever heard.
And after the meeting, she shook hands with me saying she "really liked" my speech a lot. Well, she wasn't the only one to do that, but that was the first time I have ever shaken hands with her! I have been so shy I haven't initiated conversations with her before.
Beautiful girls make me nervous. Hope she didn't see that. But then, so what if she did?
And when I say I got pwned by her, I really did get pwned by her. I was the one who counted the votes, and she had almost twice as many votes as I got (10v6).
I think I shall reuse this speech for my next project in June. The theme of my next project is How To Say It. This means I will need to change the flow of the whole speech and use different tones and stuff to make it dramatic. Shouldn't be too difficult with a speech about death.
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
Rant 101 / If I Do Not Receive US$1,000,000,000 By Tonight, I Shall Destroy... CAMBODIA!!!
Now I am feeling the worry. The same gnawing worry that is the accumulation of all the unfinished homework I have so far. I guess I have been too lazy. I have reverted to my original self. I cannot blame anything and anyone but myself for not watching out for the attempts of Temptation to subvert me.
It is late. Not too late, yet. But how can I bring back the momentum?
Right now I am in the hall, typing this with full knowledge that my roomie did not keep all his girlfriend's stuff in his cupboard. He really should keep his personal life to himself... This afternoon when I returned to the room I found traces of beige-coloured powder on my desk. I cannot detect any smell from the powder, but didn't bother to taste it. It is likely she was applying facial powder on my desk.
Watched Infernal Affairs. It is almost exactly the same as its Hollywood ripoff. Damn good movie, and its ending is not as violent as the Hollywood version. Plus it presents a moral dilemma that Hollywood never puts in its movies.
I signed up as the Sergeant-At-Arms again for the meeting on the coming Thurs, but now I realize they expect me keep up with the ancient forgotten tradition of doing a warm-up with the audience before the meeting officially starts. Heck, I'm just going to do a One Line Story.
I guess Avencast is really just a decent game. I'm at level 25 and I have all but one spell in Soul Magic. This signals that the end of the game is approaching. This is seriously short.
The game's good in that it has some pretty nice spells, generic but interesting plot and decent graphics.
The game's bad because of its music, short plot, limited spells and general lack of anything impressive.
Overall, its something I play to entertain myself while better games like Starcraft 2 are being honed to perfection.
Before the buffet, I wanted to eat only until I was full, but the food simply was too hard to resist. Turns out the big orange globes of roe in the sushis are salmon roe. The tiny ones are probably flying fish roe. Foooooooood.....
Finally found a game that I cannot play. Assassin's Creed looks like such a promising game, but my graphics card was struggling to cope with the first scene in the tutorial. What a waste. And my bro isn't even going touch, with his addiction to Perfect World sucking him to the MMORPG 16 hours a day.
Maybe I should initiate a trip to Canada. My aunt is offering to drive me to Niagara Falls if I ever decide to go there. But haven't heard of much that I can do if I go, other than appreciating the scenery, which I admit I'm poor at. Hmm...
The spider guarding my door is multiplying! I let it live in its own web on my door frame to stop the ants from entering, and now I see 2 little similar spiders in the web! If they aren't simply male spiders trying to mate, this may be bad. I may need to bring insecticide after all...
The netting above my door is coated with dust. This is to allow heat to stay within the room at night, and to stop sunlight from entering during the morning when I am hibernating.
Bah! Who am I kidding? I'm just too lazy to clean it.
I need to buy a new pair of shoes and some bak kwah. New shoes because my present pair has smooth soles at the center of the shoes. Bak kwah because they make great midnight snacks. LOL!
Maybe I should choose to go for MAE, and specialize in Manufacturing, so that I can join one of my uncles' company, which deals in factory machinery. Or maybe not.
Why do people want to choose their course based on which friends they have in the courses? One guy told me he wants to join MAE because he has a friend in 3rd year there. I was thinking, what kind of logic is that? Of course if I had said that, he would have quickly denied it and made up some other reasons.
I was thinking of the markets for my choices, since I have no interest in any of the courses. Or perhaps I do have some interest in magnetic levitation applied in public transportations, which should fall under Electrical Engineering, but should I go for a career in research, knowing fully well that I don't exactly have the best grades out there?
Or should I go for Civil? Civil Engineering is good wherever there is growth, because where growth is, constructions of buildings follow. The job possibilities may include more "dirty" jobs, or jobs that involves much sun, sewers or etc, but if the pay is good and I don't mind, what, then, is the problem?
Mechanical Engineering may turn out to be the best choice too. But with my plans to go overseas in the future, Aerospace may not be my cup of tea. Maybe something in Design... Who knows?
Doing my 3rd project speech on Thursday, but haven't written a script or rehearsed. LOL! But that would be the same as my previous speech, for which I merely wrote a summary in point form and didn't rehearse.
At this rate, I may get my Competent Communicator by the end of next year. And maybe Advance Communicator Bronze or Silver by my final year. Muahahahaha!
It is late. Not too late, yet. But how can I bring back the momentum?
Right now I am in the hall, typing this with full knowledge that my roomie did not keep all his girlfriend's stuff in his cupboard. He really should keep his personal life to himself... This afternoon when I returned to the room I found traces of beige-coloured powder on my desk. I cannot detect any smell from the powder, but didn't bother to taste it. It is likely she was applying facial powder on my desk.
Watched Infernal Affairs. It is almost exactly the same as its Hollywood ripoff. Damn good movie, and its ending is not as violent as the Hollywood version. Plus it presents a moral dilemma that Hollywood never puts in its movies.
I signed up as the Sergeant-At-Arms again for the meeting on the coming Thurs, but now I realize they expect me keep up with the ancient forgotten tradition of doing a warm-up with the audience before the meeting officially starts. Heck, I'm just going to do a One Line Story.
I guess Avencast is really just a decent game. I'm at level 25 and I have all but one spell in Soul Magic. This signals that the end of the game is approaching. This is seriously short.
The game's good in that it has some pretty nice spells, generic but interesting plot and decent graphics.
The game's bad because of its music, short plot, limited spells and general lack of anything impressive.
Overall, its something I play to entertain myself while better games like Starcraft 2 are being honed to perfection.
Before the buffet, I wanted to eat only until I was full, but the food simply was too hard to resist. Turns out the big orange globes of roe in the sushis are salmon roe. The tiny ones are probably flying fish roe. Foooooooood.....
Finally found a game that I cannot play. Assassin's Creed looks like such a promising game, but my graphics card was struggling to cope with the first scene in the tutorial. What a waste. And my bro isn't even going touch, with his addiction to Perfect World sucking him to the MMORPG 16 hours a day.
Maybe I should initiate a trip to Canada. My aunt is offering to drive me to Niagara Falls if I ever decide to go there. But haven't heard of much that I can do if I go, other than appreciating the scenery, which I admit I'm poor at. Hmm...
The spider guarding my door is multiplying! I let it live in its own web on my door frame to stop the ants from entering, and now I see 2 little similar spiders in the web! If they aren't simply male spiders trying to mate, this may be bad. I may need to bring insecticide after all...
The netting above my door is coated with dust. This is to allow heat to stay within the room at night, and to stop sunlight from entering during the morning when I am hibernating.
Bah! Who am I kidding? I'm just too lazy to clean it.
I need to buy a new pair of shoes and some bak kwah. New shoes because my present pair has smooth soles at the center of the shoes. Bak kwah because they make great midnight snacks. LOL!
Maybe I should choose to go for MAE, and specialize in Manufacturing, so that I can join one of my uncles' company, which deals in factory machinery. Or maybe not.
Why do people want to choose their course based on which friends they have in the courses? One guy told me he wants to join MAE because he has a friend in 3rd year there. I was thinking, what kind of logic is that? Of course if I had said that, he would have quickly denied it and made up some other reasons.
I was thinking of the markets for my choices, since I have no interest in any of the courses. Or perhaps I do have some interest in magnetic levitation applied in public transportations, which should fall under Electrical Engineering, but should I go for a career in research, knowing fully well that I don't exactly have the best grades out there?
Or should I go for Civil? Civil Engineering is good wherever there is growth, because where growth is, constructions of buildings follow. The job possibilities may include more "dirty" jobs, or jobs that involves much sun, sewers or etc, but if the pay is good and I don't mind, what, then, is the problem?
Mechanical Engineering may turn out to be the best choice too. But with my plans to go overseas in the future, Aerospace may not be my cup of tea. Maybe something in Design... Who knows?
Doing my 3rd project speech on Thursday, but haven't written a script or rehearsed. LOL! But that would be the same as my previous speech, for which I merely wrote a summary in point form and didn't rehearse.
At this rate, I may get my Competent Communicator by the end of next year. And maybe Advance Communicator Bronze or Silver by my final year. Muahahahaha!
Sunday, 9 March 2008
Rant 100 / ONE HUNDRED!!!
I'm not anywhere in the film. I'm the cameraman.
Still using the bot for freerice.com. Donating 100k grains a night. I feel generous.
Found this game called Avencast. So far I've played through the first chapter, and found it quite nice. Not impressive, but still interesting. In this action RPG, the player plays as a mage, but can choose between a ranged magic specialist, a melee magic specialist or a mix of both. There is also summoning magic, but so far I don't think it affects the game much. Kind of like a minor help, nothing more.
I prefer The Witcher to Avencast, because The Witcher is more exciting and the momentum goes at full speed from the start. And because the Witcher is cooler.
A new player begins as an apprentice who takes the tests that qualifies him to take the final exam. The story really begins after he has passed the exam. In fact, right after he exits the cave, the first chapter ends and the demons appear.
The combat system is quite innovative, taking what used to be the specialty of fighting games and incorporating it into an RPG. Instead of having to press shortcut keys that are quite far from the WASD direction keys to activate a spell, in Avencast, a player can press Forward Backward Forward and right click to activate it. One defensive spell that creates a shell around the player for a second only require Backward and right click.
I hope I get to go out of the Academy soon. I am halfway through Part 2 but I am still within the school. If the whole game is within the compounds of the Academy, it is going to give me a very poor impression of the game. Much poorer than the one I am having now due to its crappy music.
Ed may look like a moron, but I respect him for the fact that he dares to ask. He was just asking me for help because he lacks an activation code for his copy of Office 07. Apparently he had to enter it before he uses it 22 more times. I don't remember having this problem, and was going to give him my cd-key when I found out my copy of Office has been corrupted, probably due to environmental influences like heat or sunlight, or I'm just unlucky. So thanks to him, I realized this before I actually need to install it, and I am looking for a new copy. And of course, in the end I couldn't help him.
Who knows what I can rant about? I have nothing to rant about.
Girls like guys who don't keep staring at their tits. I prefer to stare at their tits if they, indeed, do have a nice pair. I am not a likable guy. But in the long term, I'd prefer that my partner doesn't have a large pair. In the long term.
Time for some NATURAL SELECTION. Or maybe Infernal Affairs 2. Hmm...
Wednesday, 5 March 2008
Rant 099 / Magic Moments
I have found yet another bot for the www.freerice.com charity website. In case you didn't know, this website features a word game that allows you to donate 20 grains of rice for each correct answer. Basically, it helps you improve your English vocabulary while you help it donate rice to the poor.
This is how the game works: they give you a word, and you click on the correct definition. If you are right, they donate 20 grains of rice to the poor. If not, you learn a new word.
And this is how the donation system works: they have several companies placing their ads on the website. These companies, while earning revenue from people who are attracted by the ads, also pays for the rice. In short, they are the donators, and you are the one telling them how much to donate.
As you may know, a big sack of rice, at 10kg, contains millions of grains of rice. According to this website's count, they donate about a hundred millions of grains per day. That's like a hundred of bags of rice a day!
I have tried playing this game on my own at first, and managed to donate a thousand grains before getting totally sick of it. So I checked wikipedia on it, and found that there are bots for playing this game.
So now I have a Java-based bot playing this game for me, which makes a correct answer (99% of the time) every 2 seconds. That is an average rate of 10grains/s. I have set the limit to 1m grains, and at this moment I have 5 of them opened. 10 grains/s, for 1m, is going to take a hundred thousand seconds. That is 27.8 hours. According to the calculator, this means I will donate four million, three hundred and twenty thousand grains by in 24 hours.
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9 HOURS LATER
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Ok, the 5 bots with 10k grain limit that I didn't mention are closed. The other 5 1m-limit bots are still running. All of them have donated over 20k grains each. So far, that adds up to over 150k grains. I feel my conscience is clearing.
LOL
I suddenly want to read '1984' by George Orwell. Go wiki for this for more details. I should go order it on acmabooks.com, but I need to go back home to ask my mum for her credit card. And they're offering 23% discounts for purchases exceeding $50! That's 5% more than usual.
The NTU-NIE Speech Contest was interesting, even though I didn't listen to any speeches. My job was to guard the doors to make sure no one enters while any speech is in progress. But I get to see how things are set up, how they organizes the whole event and what protocols are needed for Toastmasters competition.
In this competition, the participants are not from any Toastmasters club, yet I heard that the speeches were impressive. This shows that Toastmasters are not the best speakers out there, but the people most willing to learn the techniques required to be the best. It is true that some people are just natural speakers.
Somehow I haven't found any motivation to want to find edc's scandal pics, but somehow the news have found their way into the forums I sometimes visit. According to one, there are over 400 pictures out there. If so, I think he had to send his Mac for repair back then because his hard disk was damaged by the pure hotness of the photos.
6th March. Today is the first time I've ever met a DTM!! A Distinguished Toastmaster, a Toastmaster who has completed all training manuals and has attained the highest rank in the club. According to the introduction given by the Toastmaster of the Evening (aka MC), he has also completed the advanced manuals more than once. Man...
After watching another needlessly violent Flash on newgrounds.com, I fell in love with yet another classic - Magic Moments by Perry Como. That guy used this song for his ending credits. It's magical indeed. Sometimes, you just never know what you can find in the trash.
Still using the bots to donate rice. Gonna open them every time I leave my laptop on overnight.
I don't pity Edison Chen, no matter if he was really beaten up by some kids, or if he attempted suicide. It is not that he deserves it, but that in life shit happens. I mean, if you're going to do something wrong, at least cover it up properly. Leaving it in your computer when you send it for repair with no means of security but the bullshit that comes with every OS is just asking for it. Hmm... I believe I should not say anymore. Whatever I said or will say has probably been said by someone far more qualified than I am.
I still want to read 1984.
This is how the game works: they give you a word, and you click on the correct definition. If you are right, they donate 20 grains of rice to the poor. If not, you learn a new word.
And this is how the donation system works: they have several companies placing their ads on the website. These companies, while earning revenue from people who are attracted by the ads, also pays for the rice. In short, they are the donators, and you are the one telling them how much to donate.
As you may know, a big sack of rice, at 10kg, contains millions of grains of rice. According to this website's count, they donate about a hundred millions of grains per day. That's like a hundred of bags of rice a day!
I have tried playing this game on my own at first, and managed to donate a thousand grains before getting totally sick of it. So I checked wikipedia on it, and found that there are bots for playing this game.
So now I have a Java-based bot playing this game for me, which makes a correct answer (99% of the time) every 2 seconds. That is an average rate of 10grains/s. I have set the limit to 1m grains, and at this moment I have 5 of them opened. 10 grains/s, for 1m, is going to take a hundred thousand seconds. That is 27.8 hours. According to the calculator, this means I will donate four million, three hundred and twenty thousand grains by in 24 hours.
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9 HOURS LATER
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Ok, the 5 bots with 10k grain limit that I didn't mention are closed. The other 5 1m-limit bots are still running. All of them have donated over 20k grains each. So far, that adds up to over 150k grains. I feel my conscience is clearing.
LOL
I suddenly want to read '1984' by George Orwell. Go wiki for this for more details. I should go order it on acmabooks.com, but I need to go back home to ask my mum for her credit card. And they're offering 23% discounts for purchases exceeding $50! That's 5% more than usual.
The NTU-NIE Speech Contest was interesting, even though I didn't listen to any speeches. My job was to guard the doors to make sure no one enters while any speech is in progress. But I get to see how things are set up, how they organizes the whole event and what protocols are needed for Toastmasters competition.
In this competition, the participants are not from any Toastmasters club, yet I heard that the speeches were impressive. This shows that Toastmasters are not the best speakers out there, but the people most willing to learn the techniques required to be the best. It is true that some people are just natural speakers.
Somehow I haven't found any motivation to want to find edc's scandal pics, but somehow the news have found their way into the forums I sometimes visit. According to one, there are over 400 pictures out there. If so, I think he had to send his Mac for repair back then because his hard disk was damaged by the pure hotness of the photos.
6th March. Today is the first time I've ever met a DTM!! A Distinguished Toastmaster, a Toastmaster who has completed all training manuals and has attained the highest rank in the club. According to the introduction given by the Toastmaster of the Evening (aka MC), he has also completed the advanced manuals more than once. Man...
After watching another needlessly violent Flash on newgrounds.com, I fell in love with yet another classic - Magic Moments by Perry Como. That guy used this song for his ending credits. It's magical indeed. Sometimes, you just never know what you can find in the trash.
Still using the bots to donate rice. Gonna open them every time I leave my laptop on overnight.
I don't pity Edison Chen, no matter if he was really beaten up by some kids, or if he attempted suicide. It is not that he deserves it, but that in life shit happens. I mean, if you're going to do something wrong, at least cover it up properly. Leaving it in your computer when you send it for repair with no means of security but the bullshit that comes with every OS is just asking for it. Hmm... I believe I should not say anymore. Whatever I said or will say has probably been said by someone far more qualified than I am.
I still want to read 1984.
Saturday, 1 March 2008
Rant 098 / Microsoft Got Pwned By The EU LOL! 899 Million Euros Is No Joke, Not When The Exchange Rate Just Hit A Record High!
I really have no idea what to type now. Why am I blogging?
All of a sudden, my screen turns blurry. What's happening? Something wrong with my LCD monitor? Problems with my graphics card?
I googled for an answer, but found none.
I worry.
It has only been a year since I bought this, and I want this laptop to last till I graduate. I am already taking utmost care to maintain its present state, except for its appearance. I don't mind it getting dusty, other than in the filters.
But I want its software and hardware to last!
But 1 yr and the screen goes blurry for a few second all of a sudden?
NO!
Something is terribly wrong! There are another 3 years to go, my precioussssss!
So I mulled over it.
And bit my lips.
Chewed on my finger nails.
Licked my toe nails.
Finally, an answer was found.
The plug was not firmly pressed into the socket...
lol
I was looking at this game named Fly For Fun, and was interested in it. A free-to-play MMORPG, it was also kind of cute and stuff. I was bored, and downloaded the client.
Installation done, and I opened the game. Realized I have forgotten that these games need an account registered at the main website. So I clicked on the 'Registration' button.
"Sorry. We are unable to provided service to customers in your region."
Fuckers. My region isn't even in the ban list. So I googled, and saw that I'm not the only puzzled one.
So another game deleted from my laptop.
Now I see this Ragecraft, which is a private server of WoW. I can't find out how many players are online on average. I need to log in to see that. Maybe next time...
I have finally got all 25 episodes of CODE GEASS SEASON ONE! Now to keep them till the June Vacation starts...
NTU Toastmasters Club (TMC) is having an exchange program to Hong Kong during the June vacation. Secondhand information states that subsidies will hit $500, which basically means free tickets. Another fellow member from a part of China near Hong Kong announced that if he goes, he will treat the rest a meal of seafood in his hometown. However, since there are only 2-3 slots, he will go only if no one else applies.
But that is quite impossible since more than six people approached the organiser to ask about this... And this means I won't be involved too since I have the same reason for not going as the other guy - we must let the rest have a chance to visit Hong Kong.
Dang! There goes the free trip to good dim sum and free seafood...
It seems like right now Natural Selection is the most popular Half Life 1 mod out there. One reason would be that it's really better than the rest. Another would be that those guys behind this mod are really slow in producing a Half Life 2 version of this mod...
I wanted to try out this mod named Zombie Panic, due to my sudden interest in zombie stuff, but there are only 2 servers! And these 2 are usually empty, because they have produced a Half Life: Source version of the mod!
This sucks.
Just found out this afternoon that there's a Ulu Pandan Toastmasters Club here in Ulu Pandan Community Club. According to this flier some guy stuffed into my gate, Richard Sng is having a course there, and the course costs a whopping $120 per person for( I presume) non-members.
Richard Sng! The most sought-after Language Evaluator in Singapore! Wonder what the price is for members.
Some guys make finding a girlfriend sound like some kind of hunt. Like a girlfriend is something you can get if you work hard for it, similar to a degree and honours.
That's bullshit.
I heard this from one guy during one of my chapter meetings, who was commenting on love to another guy who just lost his girlfriend. And it so happened that I spoke on how gaming can be a career choice in the future, and conveyed my passion for gaming during the speech. So he likened love for a girl to my passion for e-gaming, that it cannot be explained, that there is no reason, and that it just is.
I agree with him completely. The fact that I haven't found the right girl proves to me that it is something I cannot work for until I find it, and not that I have to work for it to find it.
The first condition for the right girl would probably be that she is someone I can talk to. Most girls I know are interested in things I couldn't care less for, and it is hard to maintain a long conversation like this. And if I can't talk to her, then I wouldn't know her well enough to confirm that she is suitable. Doubt will offset whatever feelings I have for her.
That is something I have experienced several times before.
I understand if everyone I meet are not interested in computer games. I mean, I'm not in the right club after all, nor the right course. But no one I meet reads the same books as I do either. Well, there is this one gorgeous Filipino girl who seems to have read the Wheel of Time, but she's definitely not the right one.
My mother, on the other hand, believes that love can be cultivated, and that love is not the essential condition when looking for a wife. I kind of agree there, especially since she's a great example, but who on earth still understands this? We are all so Westernised and filled with expectations of marrying with true love! If I want to do that, I'll have to wait till I'm 30-40 before finding someone matured enough to see that and still be of suitable age. Actually, this is merely a guess, but I seriously don't expect any girl in Singapore to see the logic in marrying without love.
I personally don't mind staying single, since I haven't been attached before and thus not understand what the fuss is about. I don't need anyone to talk to, and definitely don't need to hear anyone talk about their troubles. What I need is some silence in my mind. Kind of like the crazy guy in Silence of the Lambs. When I graduate, I don't mind a job that entails much travelling. I like living in hotels lol!
Oh shit! It's 5am! I'm still quite wide awake! Oh shit! School starts in 2 days! Oh shit! Good night! Or should I say good morning?
All of a sudden, my screen turns blurry. What's happening? Something wrong with my LCD monitor? Problems with my graphics card?
I googled for an answer, but found none.
I worry.
It has only been a year since I bought this, and I want this laptop to last till I graduate. I am already taking utmost care to maintain its present state, except for its appearance. I don't mind it getting dusty, other than in the filters.
But I want its software and hardware to last!
But 1 yr and the screen goes blurry for a few second all of a sudden?
NO!
Something is terribly wrong! There are another 3 years to go, my precioussssss!
So I mulled over it.
And bit my lips.
Chewed on my finger nails.
Licked my toe nails.
Finally, an answer was found.
The plug was not firmly pressed into the socket...
lol
I was looking at this game named Fly For Fun, and was interested in it. A free-to-play MMORPG, it was also kind of cute and stuff. I was bored, and downloaded the client.
Installation done, and I opened the game. Realized I have forgotten that these games need an account registered at the main website. So I clicked on the 'Registration' button.
"Sorry. We are unable to provided service to customers in your region."
Fuckers. My region isn't even in the ban list. So I googled, and saw that I'm not the only puzzled one.
So another game deleted from my laptop.
Now I see this Ragecraft, which is a private server of WoW. I can't find out how many players are online on average. I need to log in to see that. Maybe next time...
I have finally got all 25 episodes of CODE GEASS SEASON ONE! Now to keep them till the June Vacation starts...
NTU Toastmasters Club (TMC) is having an exchange program to Hong Kong during the June vacation. Secondhand information states that subsidies will hit $500, which basically means free tickets. Another fellow member from a part of China near Hong Kong announced that if he goes, he will treat the rest a meal of seafood in his hometown. However, since there are only 2-3 slots, he will go only if no one else applies.
But that is quite impossible since more than six people approached the organiser to ask about this... And this means I won't be involved too since I have the same reason for not going as the other guy - we must let the rest have a chance to visit Hong Kong.
Dang! There goes the free trip to good dim sum and free seafood...
It seems like right now Natural Selection is the most popular Half Life 1 mod out there. One reason would be that it's really better than the rest. Another would be that those guys behind this mod are really slow in producing a Half Life 2 version of this mod...
I wanted to try out this mod named Zombie Panic, due to my sudden interest in zombie stuff, but there are only 2 servers! And these 2 are usually empty, because they have produced a Half Life: Source version of the mod!
This sucks.
Just found out this afternoon that there's a Ulu Pandan Toastmasters Club here in Ulu Pandan Community Club. According to this flier some guy stuffed into my gate, Richard Sng is having a course there, and the course costs a whopping $120 per person for( I presume) non-members.
Richard Sng! The most sought-after Language Evaluator in Singapore! Wonder what the price is for members.
Some guys make finding a girlfriend sound like some kind of hunt. Like a girlfriend is something you can get if you work hard for it, similar to a degree and honours.
That's bullshit.
I heard this from one guy during one of my chapter meetings, who was commenting on love to another guy who just lost his girlfriend. And it so happened that I spoke on how gaming can be a career choice in the future, and conveyed my passion for gaming during the speech. So he likened love for a girl to my passion for e-gaming, that it cannot be explained, that there is no reason, and that it just is.
I agree with him completely. The fact that I haven't found the right girl proves to me that it is something I cannot work for until I find it, and not that I have to work for it to find it.
The first condition for the right girl would probably be that she is someone I can talk to. Most girls I know are interested in things I couldn't care less for, and it is hard to maintain a long conversation like this. And if I can't talk to her, then I wouldn't know her well enough to confirm that she is suitable. Doubt will offset whatever feelings I have for her.
That is something I have experienced several times before.
I understand if everyone I meet are not interested in computer games. I mean, I'm not in the right club after all, nor the right course. But no one I meet reads the same books as I do either. Well, there is this one gorgeous Filipino girl who seems to have read the Wheel of Time, but she's definitely not the right one.
My mother, on the other hand, believes that love can be cultivated, and that love is not the essential condition when looking for a wife. I kind of agree there, especially since she's a great example, but who on earth still understands this? We are all so Westernised and filled with expectations of marrying with true love! If I want to do that, I'll have to wait till I'm 30-40 before finding someone matured enough to see that and still be of suitable age. Actually, this is merely a guess, but I seriously don't expect any girl in Singapore to see the logic in marrying without love.
I personally don't mind staying single, since I haven't been attached before and thus not understand what the fuss is about. I don't need anyone to talk to, and definitely don't need to hear anyone talk about their troubles. What I need is some silence in my mind. Kind of like the crazy guy in Silence of the Lambs. When I graduate, I don't mind a job that entails much travelling. I like living in hotels lol!
Oh shit! It's 5am! I'm still quite wide awake! Oh shit! School starts in 2 days! Oh shit! Good night! Or should I say good morning?
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