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2011-02-15T03:01:00.000+08:00

Whooooooooahh

2011-02-09T20:59:00.000+08:00

I just got a mic.

A mic.

MIC

And ftr, SGD$120 spent. But man. A CONDENSER MIC.
For those who don't know what I'm talking about, check it man.

Oh and I got this mic.

Yes. Hence, an extremely sensitive microphone. So sensitive, I can simply tilt my head away from it instead of using a pop filter, and it picks up everything at a level of more than -10dB.

But disadvantages always exist. Example: it picks up the extremely disgusting sound of me licking my lips when they are too dry, drinking water, and well...breathing. When I first tried recording, I had to spend a great deal of time removing the sound of my 'wetting my lips' between lines. (I use Ardour btw)

And. My computer fan. Its quite soft actually, I'm surprised the mic picked up. Its noise floor is so low it can actually pick that up! And yes, I consider this room rather quiet. When I'm not typing at least.

Of course this raises the question why I got a mic. For those who don't actually know (I doubt anyone who doesn't know reads this blog), I like to sing. So _IF_ I ever record something not embarrassing, I might just post it. Stayed tuned!

Greenday

2010-05-25T18:47:00.001+08:00

Nostalgia

Its been a while...

2010-02-22T16:43:00.000+08:00

Since my previous post. And really, most of the time I just couldn't be bothered to type a blog post. Its long, its troublesome, its...and you run out of words. Ok whatever.

I suppose I still blog once in a while...I need a place to rant. To post my opinions on the world, post my opinions of everyone around me (without pointing out any names), and sometimes, just because I'm feeling shit.

You know. Sometimes I wonder, if I were to isolate myself from social life for a couple of months...how stuff will turn out. If I were to completely cut off myself from all my friends. Be as cold as I can. It didn't seem like a very appealing idea at first; not at all. I've always treasured my friends, since I never had more than a few anyway. (Yes, cool reason isn't it. Fuck that.)

However, due to recent events, I'm starting to reconsider this. I mean, there is no one I could confide in anyway. There is no one to really talk to. So why bother? Is it just a waste of time?

Depending on my mood, I might just start the experiment. Start building The Wall. It would be pretty obvious when I start methinks.

OMGOMGOMG

2010-01-21T19:47:00.001+08:00

80 words

Speedtest

Yay!

2010-01-21T00:45:00.001+08:00

77 words

Typingtest

Vim vs Emacs

2009-12-17T01:29:00.000+08:00

Firefox vs Chrome
Openoffice vs Koffice
Slashdot vs Digg
Vuze vs uTorrent
Ubuntu vs Fedora
Gnome vs KDE
Blogger vs Wordpress
Audio Technica vs Grado
Equatorial vs Alt-Az
Missionary vs Cowgirl

Fuck.

The world would be a better place if people learn to keep their personal preferences to themselves.

Another improvement!

2009-11-04T22:07:00.001+08:00

74 words

Speed test

Thought it all just started...

2009-11-03T23:27:00.006+08:00

Yeah. Classes gonna get swapped around again. You know, this is quite a bad time...I really feel like I've only get to know all the people in my class. But oh well, that's not in my control...

Anyway, I suppose the least I can do is at least to write a "tribute" kinda thing to our class right? A bit of stuff about everyone (whom I sorta know)...I'll try to keep all my comments positive!

Oh and before that, I shall describe myself in win terms!

Firstly, paper automatically become compressed when they enter my bag:

I also happen to be a:

And of course:

I facepalm a lot

(In no particular order...)

Rion You
LOL@U!!!
Anyway, well...nice computer? Haha. Dunno, somehow, I don't have much to say to guys whom I know I'd probably keep in touch with. Oh and thanks for getting me into audiophile stuff (I think we got each other in =.=)...I suppose SR80s are the point of no return.

Daryl Tan
Hmm...thanks for the replays. And stuff. Also, I NEED MOAR REPLAYS!
Oh and I wanna play another 4v4 in the future!

Theodore Lee
See you again =.= IN HOSTEL

Russell Foo
You must be glad I spelt your name with double "l"s! Anyway, thanks for making sure I'm not the bottom of the food chain in supcom :D Also, for paying me for building your comp. By the way, live long and prosper! (I hope you get it)

Kausik
Thanks for randomly giving me chips in poker. Oh and thanks for making class interesting lol. AND AND AND no thanks for bringing my calc to SJPO and resetting it =.=

Rajagopal Ramprasath
LOL MADE OF ~~WIN~~ LOSE! By the way, you lost the game.
And you owe me 10 dollars. But you know what, I hope you are still in my class next year. For someone to own. Think on the bright side. At least I don't own you as badly as Reuben and Han Siang and Kendrick.

Tseng Liang Jun
I don't understand why you are patriotic =.=
I'm not anti-Taiwan, but I've never seen anyone as patriotic as you. And that is probably why people make fun of you and Taiwan you know. (Just a bit of advice) Anyway, you can be a nice guy when you are not being too snobbish, so try not to be. And try not to retaliate. Then everyone will like you like thay like Ram.

Guo Tai Yu
Thanks for keeping me from going insane from boredom when I was surrounded by girls (hint: during classes, girls are typically boring)
Sexism aside, thanks for reminding me to hand in Chinese HW even though it didn't quite work out, and thanks for coaching me for Table Tennis.

Sabrina Tang (I spelt correctly...?)
Same as first point above :D

Reuben
Thanks for reminding me that there exists people out there with decent music taste. And for introducing me to COB. And for 1m starter fund lol. And half-hour rule.

Zawadul
You know what, you can be quite nice. When you are not using volume advantage to block people in basketball. lol.

Ms. Wu
Thanks for being such an awesome mentor :D
And for bio classes that are less boring than most!

alright...exams are fucking close now

2009-10-13T23:20:00.001+08:00

well...shit.

Exams round the fucking corner. Fuck.

You know what? I haven't started revising yet. Goddamnit.

Then again, do i care? Probably not. I should probably stop pretending to give a shit about exams. I dont see the importance of exams. I mean, its a test of your mugging skills. Which is fucked up too. Anyway...i an bored. Shall spam music.bye monarch.

I'm that bored haha.

2009-10-08T20:24:00.001+08:00

69 words

Speed test

I suppose I'm prone to underestimating people

2009-09-29T22:39:00.001+08:00

Well.

As far as I know, my blog as been compromised.

No big matter. BUT, it raised my attention. Is it quite as delicate as I think it is?
I was always under the impression that...you know...things are not quite as crazy as they suddenly seem to me.

I think...I think need more security. Yes. And as the (self-proclaimed) geek, I WILL FUCKING GET IT.

Stupid idiots.

By the way, a ripoff from shaun, I found something cool.

http://www.translationparty.com/#4513888

Its different. And cooler.

I am spamming posts for no reason

2009-09-21T11:58:00.003+08:00

Alexi Laiho's strange sense of humor

Alice Cooper is AWESOME.

I wonder...

2009-09-21T01:33:00.001+08:00

I wonder what is it like to be loved.

What does it feel to have someone care for you?

What does it feel to have someone you can confide in regardless of the situation?

I've not felt such things for a while.

I'm becoming comfortably numb. I've pretty much given up hope on relationships haha.

Maybe I am just that selfish. I can't imagine dedicating half my life to care for someone.

Maybe I'm destined to stay single. Then again, I'm a man of science. Fuck destiny, I don't believe the universe is deterministic.

Pic related.

Like Freddie Mercury said, it would be probably better to have "Good Company" than a "Limited/Ltd Company"

Sigh...as of now there is one girl I like. And it so happens we rarely get a chance to talk to each other, that she is in another school. Man, my luck is bad. I won't even bother with NUS High girls, since if I like someone, there would be rumors, everyone would tease me, and piss me off; not to mention girls are outnumbered 2:1 or something, and that many more qualified guys exist. Well, at least I know I'm the at the "Top of the World" (Yes, yet another song reference!)

Well...

Sometimes I need some time all alone.

It is probably my fault. I lie to everyone, try to keep everything in balance. Sometimes, like now, I take a breather, and suddenly realize how fragile the world around me is. I can err just once, and everything would come crashing down. Everyone would suddenly realize they don't know me.

And just for that, I couldn't start a relationship. Too much dedication, too delicate a balance needed. The closer someone is to me, the more lies between us...

If only I can turn back now.

Demonoid extended maintenance

2009-09-21T01:08:00.000+08:00

Fuck. My torrents are fucking slow without the tracker. CAN DEMONOID COME UP NAOOOOOOO!

Life is short...

2009-09-19T18:17:00.000+08:00

Life is far too short.

I've got a million and one things to do. Ambitions, goals, fantasies of the non-sexual type (or maybe even otherwise), you name it. And yet, I can't imagine being able to do all that in less than a hundred years, while having to dedicate most of my time to maintaining a steady income.

Actually, it is probably impossible.

I don't want to sound cliche, but I'm really not saying this because I'm afraid of death. I'm not. It's not that I don't want to die, it's just that I want to live longer and do moar things.

Maybe that is why the human race is failing so badly. Few would do things for future generations to complete, simply because they cannot see its completion. Isn't it. Would you do something when you don't know if it would ever be complete, when you don't know if it will even be continued after your death? Not if it is your job and gives you a steady income I suppose.

Maybe I'm just selfish, but I don't fancy contributing to mankind. I don't give a shit, frankly. I am a born explorer. I am just curious about everything, nothing more, nothing less. I don't have grand aspirations (I want to save the world! NOT). I don't want to be a hero. I just want to know.

Perhaps what I am searching for can be summed up in one number: 42

Even the supercomputer does not have the interpretation, however. If I am part of the experiment, would I ever know the answer?

I don't need immortality. When I find outthe answer, I would die willingly, but only if I do. I don't aim to pass anything down to anyone. I just want the answer.

Google is evil

2009-09-05T14:07:00.000+08:00

I know I might just get flamed for this. And of course, its quite stupid to post this on Blogger, but heck.

Anyway. GOOGLE IS FUCKING EVIL. Seriously. Look at what they are doing. They are trying to monopolize the world, or at least the entire IT industry. Why do I say that?

Firstly, Google is challenging Apple and Microsoft simultaneously. Google is coming up with chrome OS. It is fair competition, is it not? NO. Google would most likely release it free, and stuff. Then, people would be LOCKED ONTO THEIR CLOUD SYSTEM, AND IT WOULD NO LONGER BE FREE.

Secondly, Google is trying to drive many open source competitiors out of the scene. They are trying hard to bring down Mozilla, right now. They are trying to appear Open Source friendly, by releasing Android. However, it is part of their cloud computing scheme, and obviously they know how there are many open source linux based alternatives to Andriod that they can help develop instead, saving themselves quite a bit of capital as well.

Thirdly, their cloud system means the death of computers as you know it. What would hardware become? You computer would become a empty shell. Your computational power would be "rented" to you. Your graphics card would not be a permanent investment. (Not that it is now, but 300 a year is not quite as expensive as broadband is now). Instead, it would be like broadband, 100 dollars a month, to rip you off. Difference is, they have no competitors, so they can price their services as high as they like. Like to play crysis? Pay 200 dollars a month. COD4? Maybe only 100.

Lastly, it means all your data would belong to Google. Your life would be on Google's servers. And of course, so would be your software. You like having to pay a monthly subscription fee for your SINGLE PLAYER FPS GAMES? YOU DO? I know you don't. Seriously. Google will kill your life. You must kill Google.

Teh Internetz

2009-08-29T12:02:00.002+08:00

I've been thinking a lot about useless crap recently. And well, that just made me come up with a interesting observation: The Internet is evolving like many old civilizations of ye olde times.

Alright. So. Some "Analogies".

Outlaws-Anonymous
Vigilantes-Whistleblowers
Lawbringers/Police-Well...police.
Innocents-Random people browsing youtube
Raids-Website and online game raids (Remember Youtube porn day and Habbo Hotel Negro Afro Day)
Burglars-Torrenters

Well.

That's about it...I'll stop before I violate Internet Rule #1

SJPO

2009-08-20T21:14:00.001+08:00

WAS SCARY

Actually quite doable. I just forgot a lot of formulas. Still. Hoping for silver haha.

Astro Trip + Sports Meet

2009-08-18T20:13:00.003+08:00

Pungai trip was fucking awesome!

I haven't seen such skies for a while. It is about as good as China actually...but with more clouds. But in china I didn't have a scope.

Man. You can point the Dob anywhere in the sky and see over 30 stars. Seriously what the fuck. And we had the 80mm Apo...it was epic. DAMN EPIC. Saw M22 through that. It resolved better in the apo than the Newtonian! Seriously what the hell. And it was the first time I saw that kind of detail on Jupiter outside of the observatory...man. That was a good purchase.

And I got to see how everyone behaves with 48 hours sleep deprivation (at least those that are enthu about astronomy), and people got to see me sleepy to the point I'm essentially a drunkard.
Theodore (Year 4 one) acts retardedly. Just plain retarded, even more than he normally is, and tries to flirt. I can't blame him, his evolutionary fitness is probably quite below average.
Rion uses every swear word in the book, and when he runs out, he says weird stuff like "What the Idiot?"
Naomi stones on a chair.
Eugenia starts singing (WTF?!?!)
I laugh at what everyone says and find everything funny. Uh...and behave funnily.

Yep. Fun times :D

And yesterday was...a rush. Adrenaline rush, man. I never sprinted this fast in my fucking life, and no, I'm not implying I spend my life fucking. Maybe I spend my life fucking other people's lives up, but not fucking around. I don't want AIDS. And yes, digressed again.

Anyway, my main event was Boys B division 1500m run. Damn it I was out of form, if nor I could have been first. Anyway, it was not bad, I got 3rd. Which means a medal. Haha. Oh well. That was the first time I've gotten a adrenaline rush except when I was almost late for my date a year back (and thus had to sprint for my evolutionary fitness)...and this is far more glorious.

Photos? No. Dnt bring a camera even.

Anyway. KTHXBAI.

TOMORROW IS SJPO SPECIAL ROUND OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG NEED TO REVISE MUST GET GOLD!!!

SR80s!

2009-08-12T22:22:00.001+08:00

Let the pics do the talking today...haha.

Philosophy

2009-08-08T14:03:00.002+08:00

Sometimes I wonder why the hell everything is the way it is. Well, firstly, it is perfect proof how evolution does not create perfect organisms. You can see it all around. Would retards exist if evolution creates perfection? No. Would I have myopia? No. Would I be learning English and Chinese because every fucking adult thinks it is not enough to be able to talk and write resumes? NO!

Isn't it fucked up.

Well. Life IS fucked up.

Sure, I used to be emo and everything, used to be suicidal and stuff...that's behind me. I mean, if my life is fucked up, so is everyone else's. That means you get to see people EPIC FAIL and you can LOLCATS at them. I know, I know, that's not how you use lolcats, but I can't get enough of memes. Yep, another reason to live.

As you live on, you get stripped of your sanity, and slowly begin realizing how wonderful life is (even though it isn't). Then, one day BOOM! you die. Weird isn't it. You get tortured so much that you find torture pleasing, then they take it from you.

Of course, if I don't exist, things might be better. I would not be fucking my results up left right and center, I wouldn't feel bored and of course, I wouldn't need to waste time shutting down my brain in a attempt to avoid it overheating. (otherwise known as sleeping).

And don't forget the most important reason I live for. I EAT DELICIOUS CAKE NOM NOM

Maybe I've gotten to the "losing my sanity" stage.

Astro trip

2009-08-08T10:35:00.002+08:00

Man.

Astro trip coming up. Awesome shit.

Fridays are murder.

2009-08-01T14:40:00.002+08:00

Shit.

Fridays are fucking tiring. Seriously. You know, many people complain about the tiniest bit of shit...complain about how they hate PE, how PE is fucking tiring. They haven't seen my Fridays. I have PE...duh. But that's just the start. Bad start huh? You don't say.

Then there is Table Tennis. Thats the real killer. I tell you what, as well as I can run, the most tired part of me would be my legs. PE is...usual. Frisbee, floorball, whatever. Involves running. Table tennis, contrary to what might be expected, is far worse. You've all seen people play table tennis before. That half-squat position kills your thighs. You can imagine. Half-squatting for 2 hours.

After that, there is Astro. I'd be standing most of the time, yeah, unless there's a lecture. If there is stargazing...you know, Year 1s are short. They are so short even I can call them midgets. yes. So I cater every telescope to their height...and I'm not short enough to just bend down to look, while I'm not tall enough to just squat down. Fucked up ain't it?

But you know what? I'm probably just complaining. What can I do about this? Nothing. I love Astro, and I don't quite love Table Tennis, but it is still rather awesome...and obviously I cannot change my freaking timetable. Goddammit. Every Friday, the first thing I do is not shower. I lie on my bed for 10 mins, then get up and shower. I'm not sleepy. I'll be wide awake, and as alert as I normally am. But yea, I am tired.

Guess you can't blame me for sitting down whenever I can during astro despite being the president. Hey, I can talk! That's good enough right?

My sneaking skillz improved

2009-08-01T06:24:00.003+08:00

Look. My parents are asleep now.

Haha. I managed to sneak my laptop, its power cable, and my specs (Duh) into the living room when my dad is sleeping in my room

My FTW.

I'm not insolent. I've just got insomnia. Hmm.

I need moar fucking moneh

2009-07-26T16:51:00.006+08:00

I need more money. Really.

Lots to buy, little to spend.

1) Astronomy

I NEED A TELESCOPE!I NEED A TELESCOPE!I NEED A TELESCOPE!I NEED A TELESCOPE!I NEED A TELESCOPE!I NEED A TELESCOPE!I NEED A TELESCOPE!I NEED A TELESCOPE!I NEED A TELESCOPE!I NEED A TELESCOPE!I NEED A TELESCOPE!I NEED A TELESCOPE!I NEED A TELESCOPE!I NEED A TELESCOPE!I NEED A TELESCOPE!I NEED A TELESCOPE!I NEED A TELESCOPE!

GET THE POINT? Or the many points?

Yes. I need a telescope. Have my eyes set on this baby. Man its just awesome. Firstly, it looks damn sexy. Its like getting a girlfriend; you'd want it to look good. Even if she gets 2 for CAP, smokes, and speaks Engrish, at least you can boast about it. Yes, its that important. Sometimes first impressions ARE the only thing that matters. You just show them your scope, and then "WHOOPS! Forgot to bring eyepiece" and run off.

But thats not all. Its airline-portable! I can bring it onto the plane, cuz I'm too damn scared to ship a fully multi-coated doublet lens in a regular foam padded case. I've seen how luggage is handled. Its quite scary.

Then of course, its optics are top-notch. I know people would like "WTFWTFWTF YOU NEED MORE APERTURE!!!" By people, I mean Shaun. Yes thats you, don't look around. But you know what? Sometimes you don't! Ha. There is no point in getting big aperture in Singapore, and even though there might be a point or two, or many, when I randomly fly to China, um...if I get a 10" Dob, I can't even bring it onto the plane. I don't have my private jet either, thank you very much. I would like one though, despite the fact I'll be letting it RUST IN PEACE cuz I can't afford the fuel. On second thought, I'll sell it, and I won't need MOAR FUCKING MONEH.

Then again, I digress.

2) Headphones

Yes. I'm not saying my current PortaPros suck. They are about as good as it gets for the price. That's the problem, however. "For the price..." It just fucking means I need to pay like $175 for a majopr jump in quality, to the Grado SR-80i. I auditioned them. Slutgarden sounds amazing. Bohemian Rhapsody is even more crazy than usual. And the guitarist just goes crazy in Comfortably Numb's solo. Yes, its a pair of headphones optimized for Rock. Not the best bass, not the best vocals, but guitar is FUCKING EPIC. I'm serious. And, its about the best you can get for the price, only rivaled by the Alessandro MS-1, which has a more neutral, thus boring, sound.

3) Hardware

CORE I7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!1111111!!!!11111!!!!1!11
I need Core i7. Then I can boast to all the geeks that are not worth boasting to simply cuz they have no social life anyway. Nah. I won't waste moneh on boasting. Problem is that in Luxrender, my renders still take a day or two. Well, at least the renderer can pause right? Wrong. Its damn annoying anyway. I need to wait for a render to finish before I know how good it is. And just for me to do a preview render takes an hour or two. Fuck.

4) Headphone amps

I'm a purist when it comes to DIY audio. In other words, I go around reading design papers, I read the factors needed be taken into account when designing headphone amplifiers, but I refuse to use other people's designs. I take a generic opamp topology, add this, add that, do this, do that, optimize, facepalm, ???, Profit. Sadly sometimes I die before Profit. Well, I had a two day headache cuz someone called me when I'm soldering, and caused me to burn a hole in my anti-static bag while not looking. And its a waste of a good bag, it cost me $3.40 to order a component that came with one.

Anyhow, my purist approach simply means I needs loads and loads of components to experiment. Components are not expensive o their own. But when you get loads and loads, you die. I'm gonna order a few nice jellybean Opamps during hols (jellybeans are generic components with lousy quality but you can grab a fistful of and throw at people. At least I define it as that.). That's gotta save me a lot. From $3~$10 opamps to WHAM! 50¢! But for prototyping, I'll be burning plenty and inhaling lots of toxic silicon smoke, so even if you don't consider hospital fees, which would (hopefully) covered by insurance, it'll still cost me a hundred or so. Not a lot, but significant.

5) High Voltage!

Ok. I admit. I have a fetish for high voltage. That's why I'm going to build a 20kV CW generator and use it to power a 100kV marx bank. Just imagine. That'd be epic. Its about as good as I can get with mediocre experience and lack or grounding for a Tesla Coil.

But boy, capacitors aren't cheap.

But that's k. I'm making my own. They'll be huge, but they'll be good. only problem is they'd take ages to make. And then I'd need to buy my safety gear. Which will cost another hundred or so. I'll be doing it in the hostel btw, so that if I faint there is still a small chance I'll get CPR or someone will notice and call the ambulance. Haha. I don't want to die yet, I haven't gotten a observatory and a pair of Grado PS1000i and a Mclaren. Then I can die.

Digressed again.

Longest post in a long while! Don't say TL;DR k?

FUCKING HELL

2009-07-21T23:06:00.002+08:00

Whoever caused the admins to block school email, I'm fucking pissed. This week CCA start and I have to recieve fucking emails, and now everything is blocked. So is internet. Damn it man.

Bitches.
Yes.

At least the school observatory is fixed. Yay.

Headphone Amp

2009-06-26T00:41:00.003+08:00

Pretty much done with my headphone amp...

It sounds great!
Of course, pics.

Oh Man...holidays ending...

2009-06-20T21:21:00.002+08:00

Fuck.

Hols are almost over. Doesn't that absolutely suck? Aww man. You know I hope they close the schools due to H1N1. I have so much left to school, barely scratched the surface. Really. I just ordered my headphone amp parts...havent soldered yet. Maybe they will come on Monday. I'm quite hyped.

Argh. You know I need to take a break from this hectic life of mine. As I type this blog post, I am rendering in the background, I am waiting for people to come on so I can play Supreme Commander on hamachi, I am (obviously) typing this blog post, and I'm planning to repair the white Vixen telescope we have at school. And I've got to worry about next sem's CCA program, I've got stuff I've yet to plan, emails I've yet to send.

You may ask why I'm blogging. Cuz I'm fucking tired of all that. I am tired of everything. Wanted...a change. Wanted to swear a bit (lot). Yes. Very few ppl actually read my fucking blog, but those who do probably won't like my blog. Fuck yeah. My blog should begin with [Rant] and end with [/Rant]. Seriously.

Those who what I'm talking about know might want to navigate a bit. Just a hint.

Trip to my hometown: Reflections

2009-06-08T09:42:00.003+08:00

Ahh...man. You know, I gotta agree with Shaun that Wake Me Up When September Ends makes one nostalgic (yes I do remember blog posts from 2 years ago)

Well. This was one nostalgic trip, and at many times, I found myself close to tears. Really. Anyone saw me cry before? No. I don't like to cry. I think its a display of weakness. Yet, many times during the trip, I had tears welling up in my eyes. Probably the first time I ever got that kind of feeling in a long long while.

The place changed a lot. My grandparents got older, and they are very dear to me. Really, I don't know what I'll do if one day I receive news they are gone. I trust them more than my parents. Or rather, I don't fucking trust my parents. The house I was so familiar with has been re-renovated. Should that be re-re-renovated. Or just renovated. (God I hate prefixes) Anyway, the only piece of furniture that didn't change was a bookshelf. And in that bookshelf was the book that started my interest in Astronomy. Yes, unbelievable isn't it? I got interested in astronomy when I was three and a half years old. Now I think about it, that book was boring. Yet, 2 pages caught my attention.
Really. Its that simple.Now, I'm president of the Astronomy Club, I look back and think of the silly questions I was asking, its pretty funny. Yet, when I think of those times, inevitably there a tiny bit of nostalgia.

Another place that did not change was the playground. I had really vivid memories there. There, I biked (on a tricycle), I saw my first stick insect, my cousin taught me how to hold two giant ants at the thorax and make them bite each other (to death, yeah).

All these memories coming back to you, its a incredible feeling. Gotta go back again some winter. That would mean more nostalgia...winter was fun. I can't remember how many damn times I got hit in the face by snowballs.

2nd Day in China

2009-06-01T15:02:00.002+08:00

Oh man. I'm getting bored out of my mind here. You know, before coming, I thought there's no way I could be bored with internet access and a laptop. How wrong was I. I couldn't access maple, even with a proxy. (Btw, I don't maple much, but its the only game that runs smoothly on my laptop. No Fallout 3, no Mirror's edge...gahhhh) Maybe maple is behind the Great Firewall. Hmmm...dammit

The English where I live improved. It improved from non-existent to broken. Wow.

Sky here is awesome though. Could see damn lot of stars huh.

Any suggestions on what I should do? Spam me about it.

Why isn't there anyone whom I can confide in.

2009-05-11T15:21:00.003+08:00

Huh...isn't it?

LOL!

2009-05-11T15:21:00.001+08:00

68 words

Speed test

LOL!!!

2009-04-13T20:28:00.000+08:00

64 words

Speed test

My typing speed like doubled...

2009-04-10T17:40:00.001+08:00

60 words

Typing Test

LOL!!!

I am becoming more geek by the day

Moon

2009-04-05T21:42:00.003+08:00

Astro club got a awesome new telescope. Plus a awesome eyepiece, I took this awesome photo.

Going crazy

2009-04-01T23:37:00.000+08:00

CRAZY

Dreamy day...

2009-04-01T20:59:00.005+08:00

I was slacking in the canteen. Listening to music. Nodding slowly to the rhythm (no headbanging, it was Queen), I slowly thought about everything that has happened to me lately. It feels almost like a dream. Everything that was supposed to happed backfired, and everything that was not supposed to happen happened. How did I become president of Astro? How did I not get individual 1st for NYP? How did I break up? How did I not...
This is confusing. Sickening. I feel like I've been bleeding...being sucked dry. Literally and figuratively. Sometimes I wonder why am I alive. What is the point of it all. What am I doing here? I am aiming to get gold in SSEF and Physics Olympiad...but why? If I get into an Ivy League school (highly unlikely)...what good will it give me? I am working. I am working to get into a good university, to be good results...I am working to get more work. That's the point of life huh. You work to get more work.
This is stupid.
Life is but a dream. And a monotonous one, for most people. I remember the old advertisement showing one's boring life as a movie. That's right. If your life is boring, why are you living it? One only has maybe 80, 90 years or so. Why waste it?
I think I am wasting my life away. But I'm not saying I'm going to kill myself or anything. That is even more retarded. I won't even be giving myself a chance to waste...
There are just too many things waiting for me. I can't leave now.
Maybe that's the motivation to live for most people.

What a Stupid Day.

2009-03-30T21:41:00.002+08:00

Today was utterly stupid. Just cuz I wore CCA leader badge for the first time. First, everyone demoralized me by like "You are CCA Leader? Oh My God! What are you?"...and when I reply I as president of astro, they like "Oh My God! President? Astro so short of people issit!"
Ah. Damn you all. Stupid retards.
Well, that's not all. Then they lke "Woa. President Seh. Next year I join make me VP k?". Remind me next year is Yr 5. Remind me that lots of Year 5s join. I am not gonna have 10 VPs for goodness sake. Heck, I'll make sure no newcomers become VP! And who is VP is not my personal decision anyway.
Then people like "CCA Leader nia...I mentor rep leh". That's the most fucked up. DUDE. MENTOR REP SUCKS. Really. You take care for 20+ ppl, don't really need to plan anything except eating lunch outside...hmmm. Great. And mentor reps have the least privileges anyway. They don't have free access to Dry Lab huh. No going up to the observatory whenever you feel like it and have an excuse huh.

Anyway.
If you are trying to tell me something about me being president of Astro, GTFO. Get the fuck out. Unless you are congratulating me, or you are in EXCO and need to tell me something. Thanks a million.

The SHow Must Go On

2009-03-20T18:16:00.003+08:00

The Show Must Go On.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Awesome song.

Its quite emo. But unlike most emo songs it has substance. And it not the "Oh my god, I'm gonna die ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" kinda emo. Its sorta gives you hope. Hmmm...I dunno what I'm talking about. Just listen to it. Yeah

Its by Queen btw. Not Pink Floyd. The Pink Floyd one is nt bad, but gets owned by queen.

Student Leader

2009-03-03T20:56:00.003+08:00

Nothing Glorious. Is it glorious to have people come to you and like "Woah, Astro President Seh" with that extra touch of sarcasm? No. Obviously not. But it indeed is fun.

I am myself, see.

Simply put, I am probably the most defiant CCA leader you've ever seen. I always loved a bit of spice. A bit of excitement. I would try to be as independent a President as have been. Unlike many who are essentially doing what the teacher-in-charge feels is right. C'mon, if you've got the power, you've gotta USE it, huh?

Haha.
I do openly fight back.

Holidays are coming to an end.

2008-12-27T16:29:00.002+08:00

Well. Probably my last post for the year. Yeah. ANyway...uh...I am like bored. As always.

I really want a computer upgrade.

My Wishlist:
Core i7 940
Asus P6T Deluxe
Corsair Dominator DDR3-1600 8-8-8-24 3 x 2GB kit
Cooler Master High-Airflow 932
Corsair TX-750

Yep.

Why so serious.

2008-12-24T18:29:00.002+08:00

As we all can see, I just watched The Dark Knight. I know its old. But what the fuck. I don't go to the damned cinema. Anyway, it was an awesome movie. Sorta awesome. Iron Man owned it. Especially the nude scene at the start. You know, Stark having a one-night-stand. But The Dark Knight is awesome as well. First of all, this is not like superman, where ppl with retarded super-powers are immune to like everything, or almost. Iron Man's suit got blown to bits, And Batman? Uhhh... at least he blacks out from a car crash. Which is a little retarded, but you know he is human inside. Yeah. Or so the movie goes.

Mmmm.

Starting my coilgun when school reopens. Turns out me and Theodore are too lazy to even go get the capacitors. Anyway. Christmas eve, and I'm hoping for a telescope next sem. During June Holidays. That WILL make my day. Oh man. Imagine what I can see, can do, can take picts of. Imagine a new self-made wallpaper every few weeks, and NOT FUCKING RENDERED! But heck, yeah. I still do CG. Fucking awesome.

Well. I don't know if I should be sorry or what, but I'm gonna stop being myself next semester. I'm gonna try to be Shawn. Or someone. Well, I'm gonna try to get like 3.8 or more for CAP. Yeah. I don't know WHY THE FUCK I wanna do this. But its like this voice inside me. Really. I'm going mad. But fuck that, 3.8 is 3.8 and I'm getting that. AT LEAST. Aiming for 4.1.

I'm serious. Or maybe I'm not.

After all, why so serious?

SPORE

2008-12-18T15:49:00.000+08:00

Yeah. Guess what! SPORE runs perfectly in wine. Except that the mouse shadow looks screwed, but who gives a damn! Its just the mouse, and the only diff is the mouse shadow is like...opaque? WOW. Huge diff dude.
Yeah. Like I said Wine 1.00 was a huge step. Like loads of features. Windows is become obsolete...one feature at a time. Now, at version 1.1.10, Wine can run a majority of Windows Apps (I think). And you know, it has reached a stage where you can randomly dl a prog from the Internet, and just expect Wine to work. Of course, not all games and large apps (Photoshop, Office...etc.) works. But heck! Photoshop CS2 is perfect and CS3 is almost perfect now. Microsoft Office...just won't work. I mean, its Microsoft. Who knows whether it checks the registry for Wine stuff. Genuine advantage does that already.
Well, as usual. I am bored. When am I not? I can even be bored before exams. Hell...I was watching Iron Man. I'm a bit (or rather, a lot) behind the times, I know. I mean that's like ages ago. But...what the fuck. Its not bad. And I torrent the most during hols (I think that explains).
Of course.
I update almost exclusively during hols too.

COre i7

2008-12-15T21:03:00.000+08:00

Ok. So Core i7 is not bad. So...should I try to get it? Dunno. I just did a 4 hr render...Yeah. So much for quad core. I need 4 Xeon 7400s. Like 36 fucking cores man. Wtf. Heck, even 10 Intel Atom 330s (The dual core versions) would be awesome for a render farm. Anyway, I need better processors. Oh Ehm Gee. I wonder when OpenCL would be out for Nvidia cards. Or when Intel has many low power cores (128?) around one power general computing core, as indicated on their roadmap. Urrrrgh. FASTER RENDER SPEEDS.

And. Yeah. Fucking hell. I just returned from Australia. Good? Bad? Dunno. I loved the UWA research program, actually. And the food there was awesome. I mean the regular hostel food. If only we have that kind of food in our canteen. That would be like awesome. Its like a daily buffet there man. And it was a great experience putting my physics and maths knowledge into...well...use.

Anyway, I got myself a new awesome book. "Six Easy Pieces". By Richard Feynmann. I'm gonna try to get two more books...A Brief History of time and Six Not-So-Easy Pieces. A Brief History of time is by that paralyzed awesome dude called Stephen Hawking, and I think we can the author of that other book. And I'm debating between 3 things. A cheap ($700+) telescope and a $100 webcam for astrophotography, a sub-professional grade camera ($600) and some hardware upgrades, and just pure hardware upgrades. Mmm...any suggestions?

And of course, I'm emo as ever. And MCR owns. I seemed to have digressed a lot from my title as well.

The REAL holidays

2008-11-22T21:15:00.004+08:00

Yep. The real holidays just started. Started with the end of OBS, didn't it?
Anyway, yeah. OBS is kinda ok. Well, not that bad. The kayaking was sorta fun, actually. And, the trekking...pretty boring amd tiring and all, but I guess I lived. In fact, kayaking was fun! And the rock wall was nt bad too...well, most, including me and Theo even, reached the top. Mmm. We also lived in tents. That part was quite sucky. But on the bright side, we get awesome amounts of food. Some even brought lots home. The main food when you cook yourself was canned food and instant noodles...yum. The canteen food...is OK. Except for the breakfast where everyone emptied into Theo's plate...and he ate 3 whole plates.

Then there's holidays. Its really...I don't know. I feel it is fun, and is a disaster at the same time. Or at least going to be. Well, Its gonna be fun. Why? I'm making a Gaussian Gun/Projectile Launcher. Or try to. Well, might always fail. Then. Something more fun. Gonna make a oxyhydrogen torch.

Well, that's about it.

I need a new blogskin.

Old songs

2008-11-10T17:02:00.002+08:00

Ok. I'm re-begining to listen to my old bands. Spam LP, spam greenday, spam Eminem, spam Nickelback, spam Staind. Beautiful music.

I'm back.

2008-09-20T15:19:00.001+08:00

Back. Yes. I am. I'm alive, I'm on the net, I'm emo as ever, and I'm back.

And I'll be posting more.

New Bands

2008-07-28T22:32:00.002+08:00

All new bands this year. And I won't bother with any shit people say like "It is retarded" or "It is emo" or "It is satanic" or "It is random". It is my music taste.

Ok, ranked in order, best to worst (my new bands only)

1. Aiden
2. Paramore
3. Radiohead
4. Lostprophets
5. Megadeth
6. Mindless Self Indulgence

Audacious

2008-07-13T14:30:00.004+08:00

Lol. Audacious owned. Better than Winamp on looks...and I'm tired of so-called library management. Shit man. Awesome music player, without a library. Just a pain 90s Playlist system I'm addicted to.

Anyway, I'm up too my knees...no wait. Um...chest...neck...chocking *cough* ...with homework. Urgh. Astro lecture lecture made me push all my hw back to one Sunday. I was like thinking "OK, I'll do my chem, and check my bag for crap". Then I...checked. It was...horrible. Chem (duh), math tut, Bio prac, Chinese shit...OMG. GG.

Fuck that. But at least it was worth it. Astro lecture was damn fun. The largest lecture I ever gave. Or...the 2nd anyway. The people were awesome. I couldn't imagine a NUS High sudent taking notes like them. But I guess that's what defines us, right? I had to literally pause at every slide fo them to take notes. I also wrote down half of what I said, to slow myself down for them, and to let them copy, because they were like struggling to catch every word I said. I guess they are the ideal NUS High student. But we all know, the Ideal Gas is a hypothetical "thing", so...yea.

Anyway, gtg nao. Need to chiong maths.

HAX

2008-07-08T14:06:00.001+08:00

288 words

Speedtest

Feeling Emo?

2008-07-07T20:50:00.001+08:00

If yes, this is for you. LOL. Damn funny.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=manly_suicide

New comp

2008-05-25T09:13:00.004+08:00

Sorta. I love the quad core. OWNS. I can render with 6x the speed of my Pentium 4 due to increases in memory speed too. Its really cool when you see that in idle you don't see any process using 0% of your cpu.

Well, Screenshots.

I overclocked so much that my screen was on fire. HAHA.

Then, I decided it water-cool it. But water leaked into my screen.

Na. I used air cooling, and my CPU idles at 30 degrees.

Stop that damn SMSing

2008-05-13T08:48:00.003+08:00

http://www.physorg.com/news129793047.html

Check out the calculations here. Apparently, SMSing is more expensive than transmitting data to a satellite. Wow. Lets all turn too MSN...wait. Google Chat. Microsoft still has a special place in my heart. Negatively.

Anyway. Holidays gonna suck. My dad refused to let me go for this stupid Astro trip. Urgh. I wanted to do some astrophotography...and I haven't touched a telescope for more than a month. Can't stand this. Damn it. Luckily I won't be lonely home with my superb computer ( or the superb computer I'm gonna build ). But...well...I screwed up this sem. Fucking exams. Fucking made me screw up maths. If I didn't my calculations state my min CAP would be 3.2. Now its a fucking 3.02. Fuck that.

I would need a Core 2 Quad to cheer me up. No really.

Seriously

2008-05-11T19:50:00.000+08:00

Bug 9178 in Wine:  "hello world" dos program hangs

I Am Not Joking

When I drink beer 10 years in the future, I will take advice from them

2008-05-08T19:33:00.000+08:00

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=854&num=1

LOL.

What's the use

2008-05-07T08:43:00.001+08:00

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-ext4/?ca=dgr-lnxw01LinuxFSext4&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GR

Scroll down, look for "nanosecond timestamp". Well, that means your file's "Last Modified" date will be accurate to the nanosecond. I really lol'ed.

Security Vulnerabilities

2008-05-06T10:00:00.002+08:00

Many things can be easily compared. As far as I know, however, security Vulnerabilities is 100% not one of them. Now look. How does Microsoft spot security vulnerabilities? They wait for exploits to come up. That means by the time they patch a vulnerability, it has already some damage. What about Linux?

Look.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_slammer_worm

Kudos to Microsoft for making their servers have to restart after patching. This won't happen in Linux unless you actually upgrade the kernel.

So how are vulnerabilities spotted in Linux? Actually, its hard for them to slip with thousands of pairs of eyes, and more, looking. So now we know why Microsoft's argument of security is seriously flawed.

Look. Laugh.

2008-05-05T21:01:00.002+08:00

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/linux/server-security.mspx

Note that Microsoft even though has less vulnerabilities, has twice the unfixed vulnerabilities. What could vulnerabilities do if they are patched in days? And Ubuntu has a new security Update every 2 weeks or so.

SPAMMMMMMM

2008-05-05T12:03:00.001+08:00

Spam ping on 207.46.107.109

Ask Douglas to know how if u don't.

I think Doug knows the "whois" command and will use it.

I was compiling something

2008-05-05T09:54:00.002+08:00

It was checking for libraries, then...

checking for ZInitialize in -lzephyr... yes
checking for me pot o' gold... no <---what is this?
checking for gethostid... yes
checking for lrand48... yes

Open-source developers have a cool sense of humor.

MCR's new album

2008-04-26T12:54:00.000+08:00

I got this be4 Ying Wei (I think)

Gimp 2.5

2008-04-21T20:05:00.001+08:00

Compiling. Updates/pics will come later.

Great thing abt Linux is you spend hours compiling and fail at last mo' Na. Jkin. Never failed before after dependency check which takes 10~100 secs.

Virus!

2008-03-24T04:21:00.001+08:00

Lol in Linux. Picked up by ClamAV. In Wine LOL.

I was bored

2008-03-24T02:17:00.002+08:00

Made a temporary storage space my mounting my RAM as a disk, and used it to test my hard drive speed (RAM owns HDD in speed).

USB drive read speed:976kb/s
USB drive write speed:2.5mb/s (strange how this is faster, huh?)
SATA 5400k RPM Drive read speed: 35~45mb/s(too fast, I was only using a 160 mb file so couldn't really see)
SATA 5400k RPM Drive write speed:25~35 mb/s

Anyway, I hope the following will happen to th IT industry in chronological order.
1. Intel buys Nvidia.
2. Intel makes AMD close down.
3. Intel steps up partnership with Apple and support Linux more actively (they do, look at lesswatts.org).
4. Intel teams up with Google to help open-source.
5. Intel stops supporting Windows.
6. Microsoft closes down.

Why I REALLY love Linux

2008-03-16T09:21:00.002+08:00

Because Its Fun!
I mean seriously. Most people would be skeptical, like "Oh it can never me any more fun than my latest RTS game haha noobz" or something. But its really fun. Using the Terminal is fun. Customizing is fun, and also brings a lot of satisfaction. And you can do whatever you want, like you can run a snapshotted VM and "sudo rm -rf". That is the geek (my) idea of fun. So next time when you ask me "what is good about Linux", the reasons I tell you are quite superficial.

Most won't understand, huh?

Vista is way too damn fucking pro

2008-03-12T16:08:00.000+08:00

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_workstation_perf&num=1

CLimate simulation

2008-03-12T11:25:00.002+08:00

You know those noobs who need super computers for simulating climates? This dood did that with a normal super-oced computer, and a literal simulation of Polar climate. I wonder what his core temps are.

Intel GMA cards

2008-03-12T09:19:00.002+08:00

I think they have HUGE potential. They are the most advanced and programmable cards around. The only problem is that Intel uses low-end chips so that they'll be cheap (classic of "Integrated" cards). I really hope Intel would starting giving their cards more muscle, or starting a new line of cards.

Linux source code is interesting.

2008-03-11T19:31:00.002+08:00

/* master list of VME vectors -- don't fuck with this */
/* Ugly, ugly fucker. */
/* If you fuck with this, update ret_from_syscall code too. */
/* that damn thing is defined and expands to itself. */
/* it'll make it a damn sight harder to find which chip we want from */
/* Oh geese, some other nitwit got a damn watchdog reset. */
@my_arg: its mine damnit
/* More PROM shit. Probably has to do with VME RMW cycles??? */

These are the HEADER FILES. I can't imagine the full linux code...will be damn cool.

OMGBUG

2008-03-11T19:17:00.004+08:00

There is a serious bug in the english language. We need all to be careful of buffer overflow.

Spread the message. Upgrade to Esperanto, or at least to English v4.3.63 instead of outdated v4.3.21

It is dangerous and is a security vulnerability.

[quote]
The recursive acronym "GNU's Not Unix" harbors a stack overflow bug that
can cause the English language to crash and may allow arbitrary linguistic
commands to be executed, according to a message posted on gnu.acronym.bug
this morning. All sites running GNU software are urged to apply a
temporary patch which changes the expansion of the acronym to "GNU Needs
Users", until a permanent patch is avaliable. GNU project founder Richard
M. Stallman is currently hunting the error in the acronym he created over
a decade ago.

"Linguistic bugs are notoriously difficult to track down," Stallman told
segfault.org via email. "The capacity of the stack depends on the memory
of the person reading the buggy text. In addition, there is not yet any
English interface to gdb, which means searching manually through coredumps
to find the problem."

Most people experience the stack overflow at around 600 expansions of the
acronym. In practice, few people have cause to carry the expansion this
far, so the main concern lies with the security risk posed by the bug.
Although no exploit has yet been discovered, a malicious user could
theoretically embed commands into the same section of text as the acronym
expansion, allowing them to change the syntax of the language, redefine
words, and create new figures of speech with arbitrary meanings.

Many on the net saw the bug as a chance to reopen old holy wars. "The
stack problems that are endemic in the computer industry today are a
direct result of the widespread adoption of English as the language of
choice," said one Dothead. "English is a fine tool for low-level
descriptions and expository writing, but it offers too many
inconsistencies and is far too unstable to use in production environments.
It's time to move to languages like Esperanto that feature built-in stack
protection." When it was pointed out that he had written his comment in
English, the poster went into an incoherent rant, finishing with "La cina
industrio, kun fama milijara tradicio, pli kaj pli largskale produktas
ankau komputilon! Sed kiel aspekta la cina komputil-merkato el la vidpunko
de la aplikanto? Mi provos respondi al tiu demando lau personaj spertoj en
la plej granda cina urbo, Sanhajo!"

FUD Week magazine was quick to cash in on the incident, as well. "It is
clear that freeware cannot be relied upon to keep the English language
secure," says an online editorial. "We suggest that these `computer
hippies` get their acts together before attempting hippopotamus nap delta
foley snurk tin possibility."

Meanwhile, an anxious public waits for the restoration of the GNU acronym.
Until the bug is fixed, we urge you to download the temporary patch from
your nearest mirror site and keep in mind that this process of continuous
revision is what has made both free software and human language into
forces to be reckoned with.

Jake Berendes contributed to this report.
[/quote]

Don't we love windows

2008-03-08T23:16:00.000+08:00

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, in 1981

ReactOS

2008-03-06T18:25:00.004+08:00

They are so successful at cloning windows, they even got their most famous feature!

This is visualized, on my own comp. Caused by...firefox. Wow.

OMG

2008-03-03T19:11:00.002+08:00

Wine is 62% complete implementing Windows API.

Windows is slowly becoming obsolete. Wine has a new version every 3-4 weeks. MWAHAHAHAHAH.

OPEN SOURCE IS TAKING OVER.

Look at how much they can do from release 0.9.55 to 0.9.56. I mean...what the fuck

http://www.winehq.org/?announce=0.9.56

Yea

2008-03-02T15:17:00.003+08:00

Its funny how when people compare OSes, they compare Windows XP, Ubuntu Gutsy, and Mac OSX Leopard. Then they say Windows beat the other two hands down. Let me ask you. How many years ago was windows XP released. I mean...seriously. It is released on 25th October 2001, if my memory did not fail me. Eight years on, guys. You run OSes designed for 7-yr-old computers, and tell us "Oh, it runs faster than your latest OS on your latest hardware! Haha! Noob!"

What the fuck.

I could EASILY make my Ubuntu system beat Windows XP. With 100% no doubt. Get XFCE, disable gdm. DONE! I still can have compositing (transparent window borders), maybe simpler than Compiz, but there. Windows XP takes 6 minutes to start (including startup programs like MSN/ Norton). Ubuntu, using the "laggy" Gnome interface, "laggy" Firefox, "laggy" Nautilus browser, takes...2 minutes. Yea. Windows lags noticeably with 10 windows. I have 12 windows in Ubuntu right now, including 1 Virtual Machine. Really. A emulated computer taking up a few hundred megs of RAM. And lag-wise? None at all. Oh and for those wondering how I do that on a 5-year-old Intel 845 card, I turn compiz fucking off. Desktop switching is slower, as they don't hold all the desktops in vram, but everything else speeds up.

Also, power consumption.

I read a review, that concluded Ubuntu consumes a lot more power than MS Vista. (laptops, that is). That is even from one of the sites I trusted, and still trust, a lot. That dood was a linux noob, tho. Ubuntu disabled spinning down of HDDs (by default, you always can re-enable it), or rather, only spinning the drive when used. That is because drives have a "spin-cycle" of 300,000, or after you stop it and start it again for that number of times, your drive is ready to be backed up, and threw down the chute. That equates to your laptop drive dying within 6 years of using Vista if u use it more than 8 hours a day. I AM NOT JOKING. I enabled it on my laptop though. I don't use my laptop 8 hours a day. And I don't think it would not die due to some other hardware failing before 6 years. After all, which of my computers had done that. If you really want pro power consumption from ubuntu, or any (GNU/)Linux distro for that matter, go to LessWatts.org . One of Intel's pro ideas. A bunch of guides to optimize your laptop.

Well, thats about it. Power. I'm gonna try making Ubuntu run 50% longer than Vista on my laptop when I get it back. I'll see what those who says Linux wastes power say.

Fuck

2008-03-01T10:23:00.002+08:00

Seriously. Check your sources.

Choose your OS

2008-02-25T20:17:00.004+08:00

Now we understand freedom of choice.

Ubuntu Hardy is more conducive than ever for emulation. Now I'm gonna make a fork bomb for Windows Server. And crash it.

How much more rip-offish can Windows and their fans be.

2008-02-21T20:50:00.001+08:00

http://www.cairoshell.com/

Anyway the talk about emotional first aid sucked. You would think you just go up to a emo dude who is your friend and say "Lets talk about suicide". Wow. Interesting huh. But let's just digress again.

Installed Ubuntu Hardy command line version! OMG ITS PRO. Even though it has no interface and all I have is a terminal. But I'm gonna install the interface over the weekends. Hope for the best for me.

Price counts even if its free

2008-02-19T20:31:00.002+08:00

http://blog.anamazingmind.com/2008/02/why-linux-doesnt-spread-curse-of-being.html

Really a genius. I'll advertise Linux by saying "It costs almost 1k USD, but I cracked it and got it free. I can send you a copy too if you want!" Might just work, dammit.

Anyway, I'm listening to Straylight run. I don't care what you noobs will say about female vocals. I know half the world is against them. Dunno why. I don't give a FUCK. As long as I like it, I will listen to it.

Ubuntu Hardy

2008-02-08T14:22:00.000+08:00

Ubuntu Hardy Alpha4 has been out for abit more than a week. I can't wait for the final version.
Looks X-tremely promising. In other words, Xorg will be more stable when it comes to OpenGL apps. For me, that equates to Blender. OH EHM GEE. Blender will probably run without glitches with Compiz enabled. That sort of stability with such advanced desktop effects has only be achieved on Leopard, and Ubuntu is quick to catch up. Yay. It would be a LTS (long-term-support) release, so it would be extremely stable.
Oh and there would be a much more unified virtualization solution. A VM manager which supports qemu, kqemu, kvm and XEN. Virtualbox and the more commercial VM software have their own managers, so they are not part of the mix.
Lastly, and the proest, is PulseAudio. I think Ubuntu is aiming to be as good as a Mac, but with the power of open-source. Look at it this way. Compiz for desktop effects. Increased OpenGL stability. Unified virtualization. PulseAudio ( similar philosophy to Apple's CoreAudio). OMG. This is freakin pro. I always thought Mac would be the perfect OS if it is Open Source. Look at Ubuntu. Look at Open Source.
Blender has most of the features of Maya, which costs 12k USD more.
Gimp already owns Photoshop in many aspects.
Greycstoration for noise reduction owns Noise Ninja, which is the BEST, the Benchmark for comparing noise reduction programs.
Firefox is almost dominating.
Linux already dominated the server markets.
Open Office has 3D effects for presentations now, and is revamping its GUI for 3.0 release.
Now Ubuntu is here to own your arse. And the best part of Open Source is that almost no one leeches. Its like Web 2.0 where everyone contributes. I have made tutorials. I have given feedback. I have made bug reports. I have even modified certain aspects of the code.
Would Apple listen to your feedback?
Would Adobe look at your bug reports?
Would Microsoft allow you to theme their OS?
NO.
Microsoft is the OS for conservative people. Apple is dominating the luxury computing and computer graphics market. Linux is the geeky OS. Or should I say, used to be.
Wake up.
Linux is no longer just for geeks.
Linux desktops require little troubleshooting by the end user. It is much better than Windows/Mac, in that you cannot troubleshoot if you screw up. Well, I do troubleshoot. But that is because I screw around a lot. I screw around in ways not possible with proprietary OSes.
Linux used to need extensive troubleshooting and configuring just to get sound. No more.
Now Ubuntu even comes with a OEM install option. How good is that. Btw, OEM install is the kind of install manufacturers do, so that you get to enter your config and settings on first startup. (All new computers have it).

Oh yea, and not to forget Ubuntu policy kit, similar to Mac where you "Click the lock to unlock settings". New feature. Screenshots? Plenty.

Policy Kit
Miss desktop sharing in iChat?

And lets not miss out Compiz. These are my own screenshots.

And I'm looking for someone to test VNC (Remote desktop) with. Who has Ubuntu here?

Chinese New Year

2008-02-06T16:13:00.000+08:00

This year's Chinese New Year felt different. All the material objects, everything was in their right places. We had decorations all over. But it just felt different. Something was lacking. The mood of Chinese New Year just isn't there.

Well, I know this SUCKS.

Homework based festival? Fuck it! I can't believe this. I'm actually mugging projects during Chinese New Year.

Well, it just feels like a particularly quiet festival this year.

Happy new year.

Bio Practical

2008-02-02T14:57:00.000+08:00

It was fucking cool.

I mean, just look at Ram and Kausik. They were damn brave. Seriously. Not being sarcastic.

I went to astro with two holes opened on my fingers. Cool huh. But in fact it didn't hurt AT ALL. I don't know what was wrong with Kausik or Ram. Anyway, I did a presentation on the t-shirt design thing. It was almost a failure. Would have been one if we said that it was our final design. And worse yet, I am expecting a flooded inbox. Damn.

Or maybe not.

But I'm finally in the club committee! OH EM GEE! Well, I was subotaged by the previous webmaster committee's head. And also, we didn't have any other candidate, so nothing to be proud of. But I think I need loads of new webmasters. I wouldn't want to manage the astronomy website myself. I wouldn't be able to, even, with the plans for next year.

Oh well.

I'll have to revise for chemistry too.

What a busy Febuary.

Confessions

2008-01-30T18:34:00.001+08:00

Search on.

Headache

2008-01-29T18:39:00.000+08:00

I have a splitting headache.

I think there are too many fucking things I'm bottling up inside myself. Fuck it. Anyway, so you have depression if u feel like shit for 3 months?

Sometimes I think Shaun has a weird way of thinking. Don't you? I think you should embrace the present, not resist it. You know what I mean.

Anyway, 3 computers down in the computer lab. 37 more to go. Or is it?

Another emo day.

Gotta grab some Panadol.

Windows XP?

2008-01-27T14:07:00.000+08:00

http://sourceforge.net/projects/lxp/

NO. I AM NOT CRAZY. I just want to secure my post in the computer lab so that I can launch further attacks to the rest of the computers. Lol. I know its scary. Isn't it? Anyway, congratulate me. I got a new watch. Yay. However I am feeling guilty about the weekend. Nop, I didn't rape or kill anyone. I just thing I should have studied harder/more. Yea. dammit. But hell man. Who gives a fuck. One test is not gonna prevent me from getting 3.5 for CAP. And who knows, it might just be easy. OR moderated. Anyway today is one of the more emo days. Lol. I guess I only post when I'm felling emo, so...its an indication on its own. I Dl-ed a few themes for my ubuntu. Looks awesome now. No more default ubuntu-studio them. Yay. And its slightly more blue now. Dark blue. Anyway I'm fucking impressed by the LXP project. even though I don't approve of it.

We in astro did a diagnostic on Friday. Was quite hard, even by my/Douglas's standards. I should have learnt from doug. I guessed 6 questions, and got all fucking wrong. And you get deducted points for wrong. Damn it. If I left them blank like douglas we would get same. But I got 12+3/4, and he got 14. To make up for it, I just (almost) memorized the "Telescopes" section of a Astronomy text from the school library. I suck at telescopes, so...would help me. There is probably gonna be another diagnostic. Yay. I'll try to get at least 90%. This must be the reason I didn't get into finals for NYP Astro Competition. Fuck it. Point deduction. I might try customizing the LXP project files for Royale theme.

Anyway, I found a pro signature on gnome-look.org

"Software is like Sex. Its better when its free"

How can anyone even argue against this?

Right...

2008-01-22T21:19:00.000+08:00

"There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't."

Isn't it so true? I just realised how much of Ubuntu's potential I was wasting. Not profiling read-ahead (preloading of certain libraries and programs during) for my own computer, not checking whether I need all the out-of-the-box services, not choosing a i686 kernel...I shaved 14 seconds off my boot. Heh.
I'm listening to Animals by Nickelback. The lyrics sound slightly Eminem-ish. Except that Eminem would just kill the people instead of avoiding. Reuben style. And Thanks for your sites, Douglas. Lagged my firefox. Lol. I was testing my own firewall. DLed a few software that owns. Created 150 intrusions on localhost. All blocked, loser. Haha. My Firewall is pro. And open source.
Now my song changed. Guilty conscience.

Lol. I got too much skill.
"What, she tripped, fell, landed on his dick?"

I am screwed

2008-01-15T10:52:00.000+08:00

I cannot believe how unlucky I am this week. Must be one of unluckiest weeks of my life. Fuck. I actually missed a math lesson. I can't believe it man. Pure Shit Gayness. I hate this. And a bunch of other stuff went wrong too, that I am not willing to disclose to most people. And don't pester me for it as I know Dylan will. Ok? And Shaun, its NOT what your think. Luckily. And last of all, I did nothing that will get me arrested. Luckily too.

YO

2008-01-13T03:00:00.000+08:00

I love staying up.

Hey

2008-01-12T23:10:00.000+08:00

Um...hi. Finally shaun got the true meaning of being unique. Heh. You all suck if u don't. Well. I want comissions. Dunno what made me say this. Doing my first commission is making me addicted to them. now i need more. A lot more. First and foremost, they are damn fun. And train my speed in Blendering. Ahh...i feel emo... I think Shaun knows the 3rd reason now. He is facing a similar problem. Yea. I just gave up on shaun's supposedly hidden link. Whatever. Dun care.

I am in a crisis. I might die, or worse, feel suicidal. From the Big Book Of DesmonDeeNess. Hah. I am feeling Astronomical. I am using NASA night luanch theme and a rising sun wall paper. Ubuntu users will find it. I finally know why apple is good. I realized how much less convenient is Ubuntu compared to iTunes when it comes to album art. Dang. But as the Linux people would go, "There is a way to making everything work in Linux." The main advantage of linux there. I currently use Firestarter firewall. Been attacked once. Strange someone wants to pwn my desktop. I bet he wants to steal my full collection of non-torrented MCR.

If only my parents are more supportive. Now I am reduced to doing CG only in school and after 12am. Darn it. Its damn unfair. But I made a vow not to play comp games other than Nibbles. And handphone games, of course.

I hate the school comp. It actually has the infamous CMD_BUFFER=-22 bug. So i was forced to install XFCE. But XFCE is darn good for CG. Inbuilt gamma correction. Super-responsive. Impresses me.

Ok. I'm going on MSN now.

Yours emoess

Fuck

2007-12-27T12:37:00.001+08:00

Fuck this shit. Cool like nothing on earth.
Someone actually pasted a sticker.

M07202 Tribute thingy

2007-12-24T20:30:00.000+08:00

Uh...just dun want to be left out. lol. I'm installing Win98 as I write.
Y m07202 owns?
(Mmm...lets see...)
1. There is at least ONE computer dude other than me. Figure out.
2. I always forget to hand in forms and our mentor (eeeeeeee) or the class committee did not give a damn.
3. Pro music tastes.
4. I'm in it. (Don't forget my religion is egoism.)

Ok, the people.

Ada:
Good Morning.

OMGALALALALALALALA:
Ty for joing me in my enthu-ness in calculator programming. Yay.

Belinda:
Uh...Good Morning too.

Benjamin:
Ty for taking no-one's side when we compare music tastes and saying that everyone sucks and challenge yw+kausik+reuben to try to own you and put up a good show.

Chang Han:
I give up. And thanks for scratching your hair in such a cute way, and posing IQ-questions to people like Shaun who learned logic. (LOGIC OWNS)

Chong Wei:
Thanks for owning all the teachers. And thanks for your 1000-great-ideas-on-how-to-slack-through-fps.

Clayton:
Thanks for pretending to be mad at people for fun and making me laugh like shit.

Desmond:
Thanks your (and Mag's) laptops during projects. But you should try MCR or LP or Taking Back Sunday or Iron Maiden instead of Vivaldi.

Dylan:
Thanks for inviting me to mess up your rich-kid house during project :P. Also thanks for letting me and Herng Yi own you. And no thanks to owning me 7 times in a row in Gunbound.

Heidi:
Thanks for letting Dylan play with your plushies/stuffed toys/whatever the heck they are and making him cheerful so that I and Herng Yi can own him more.

Herng Yi:
TY FOR YOUR JOKES!!!! The corniness makes them dam funny. Also thanks for your water bottle. Its dam cool. And thanks for calculus discussions on a tabletop that according to Mdm Rohaida thinking that we are mathematically depressed.

Janice:
Ty for your guitar that actually managed to pass the physics project. lol.

Jue Hang:
Can you fucking stop being the most fucked person on earth? Fuck you man. And I'm sorry for making you lose a lot of your blood by cutting myself. But look on the bright side! When I cut myself, I don't lose blood. You do. Haha. NOOB.

Kausik:
Ty for your Mac. Without it I would have been stuck to windows for the 7 months I didn't have Ubuntu installed. And thanks for soloing FPS so that we won't get killed. Yay.

Magneline:
Thanks for owning me in every test, exam and assignment. I solemnly swear (that I'm up to no good) that I will own you in physics next year. Haha. And thanks for the day when you brought your laptop to play a game that I forgot the name of.

Niel:
Without you during mentoring sessions, I would have died of boredom.

Reuben:
I snipe Bill Gates you eat him, k?

Serene:
Thanks for not telling the (bang the doldrums) guy when I forget or don't want to do Chinese hw.

Shaun:
Ty for the (slight paranoid) SMSes when I'm feeling emo. And thanks for not returning me the Hullaballo CD for a whole holiday. And ty for the Iron Maiden album, and maming me buy albums. Cuz now I like buying albums. And thanks for the extended discussions about Blender. Lastly, thanks for not listening to my advice and running 20+ hr renders so that they crash.

Shriram:
Ty for making Herng Yi's water bottle magically disappear together with Reuben. Always nice and refreshing in the middle of a chemistry lesson.

Tiong Suan:
Thanks for your many failed attempts to own me.

Wen Xiang:
Ty for slacking the most in physics and IS.

Ying Wei:
Thanks for telling me about the ghosts that will never ever catch me. And of course, thank you for the venom. Bear in mind that this is not a fashion statement, but a (fucking) deathwish. Thanks for being the only guy interested in EMOOOOOOO bands other than me. emo=skillded. ANd thanks for owning me shitless in both gunbound and drift city. I will own you someday. I hope...

OSes

2007-12-24T13:58:00.000+08:00

Tell me about the OS, and I can install it. Haha. Server 2003 and Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) here.
Supported virtualized platforms?
x86 (most old computers)
x86-64 (core2duo and several AMD processors use this. 64-bit)
PPC (Yes, Shaun, it can emulate Macs too)
Solaris (If u REALLY REALLY want a server on your desktop, use this.)
A bunch other stuff even I don't recognize (4 more I think. Or is it 3?)
Eh, enough talk, what about a pict of the 2 OSes I promised? The best of Microsoft (which isn't all THAT good) and the latest stable build of ubuntu. the background is black cuz my wallpaper is mostly black, and I hid the ubuntu panels to make way for my virtual machines. Its all done in ubuntu. Yep. So 100% fully skilldedness

First insect, now embryotic rat

2007-12-24T13:10:00.000+08:00

Blue Gene supercomputer used to have the intelligence of a insect. Which isn't a lot. Now promoted to a mammal...is THIS the future of AI?

Vista pwnt

2007-12-22T21:35:00.000+08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVbf9tOGwno

Use this method to install Vista. I admit one shortcoming of this. ONLY WORKS WITH MICROSOFT OSes!!!!!!!!TRY AT YOUR OWN RISK, AND BE WARNED NOW TO TRY ON OSes OTHER THAN WINDOWS.

How about this

2007-12-20T22:42:00.000+08:00

Edited, improved, and 100% pro now.

I edited it from the ubuntu theme. I'll need to get the permissions of the ppl before putting it on the net, but a ss can't hurt. Can it?

My new login screen

2007-12-20T03:06:00.000+08:00

Took me 50mins to make. This is not my computer resolution, taken from a emulation of my computer

2007-12-19T19:40:00.000+08:00

Error Keyboard Failure Press F1 to continue or DEL to enter setup

saw this when I booted up my old laptop. Cool rite

When Bill Gates does something, he fucks up

2007-12-19T18:24:00.000+08:00

Windows had always been fucking insecure till Vista. Why? Because their normal users run as "root", which mean some fucker with a admin account can just go in and delete winlogon.exe and be unable to login after that. Yay. Mac and Linux always need"sudo"( or "gksudo" for a fancy graphical password prompt ) to do that ( Yes, Linux and mac Terminals work the same way. SO pro ). Now windows Vista requires you to "run as Administrator". What a fucking copy, done wrong. Gunbound, a bunch of programs, and almost all my games require it. Wow. I can't even imaging myself in ubuntu typing "sudo -v $sudoku" or "sudo sudoku". And also, recently there has been a One-Laptop-Per-Chile initiative to provide super-slow laptops for poor children. They planned to run Red Hat with a modified UI. And microsoft steps in, trying to force them to add more memory because Windows XP cannot run in 1GB HD. Wow. They have such a huge advantage because they were the 1st Major OS company that came up with something slightly
decent, and people don't want to switch. Now they are afraid to lose that upper hand. Eh...what the fuck man. All major OSes have a "standard". OpenGL, OpenAL...standards. (OpenAL is for accelerating audio) Microsoft alwats thing they are so good, and go by themselves.

Ubuntu vs Leopard

2007-12-17T13:37:00.000+08:00

me@my-laptop:~$ sudomodprobe "c(han)g"
[sudo] password for me:*******************************************
FATAL: Module shriramsdick not found.

HAHAHA GOT OWNED
Ubuntu or leopard?
There you go.>>>There>>>I mean HERE

Ripper,ripper, tell me how
What do I do to kill them all

Open source software can look good too

2007-12-16T04:58:00.000+08:00

Throw away the stereotyping.
Get a better dock than this, Shaun. I challenge you. this dock has 3D view (copy from leopard) but the curved view is most own.