My Life and Times

Procrastinating

2010-10-19T03:28:00.004+08:00

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. When will I really focus on studying after so many tomorrows? Oh when there's an exam tomorrow.

Procrastinators -- The leaders of tomorrow.
Procrastinators UNITE... tomorrow.

lol...

The cactus

2010-10-06T21:47:00.004+08:00

This story has to be traced back to a rainy day in the year 1997. A teacher gave a "bulb" of cactus as a hallux (thumb toe) to a few of her Standard One students. There was this one boy, who, is writing this passage now, was a recipient.

He started by planting the cactus in a small plastic vase. He took care of the plant pretty well (well, you can leave a cactus without much care for days and it won't die on you anyway). The cactus kept growing normally and it got a new home when it had the size of a child's fist.

Eventually, the cactus started budding more little cacti. Those little cacti repeated and continued the process of growth and budding like the old cactus experienced. At that time the irresponsible boy who started this had already succumbed to the games that made him what is him today. And so his loving mother took over the "custody" of the cacti.

Over time, the cacti grew so much that the boy couldn't recognize it. The once considerable big pot that housed the cacti couldn't support them anymore. It was too late to shift them into a bigger pot or the open land outside the house, but perhaps it might be a blessing in disguise as otherwise a land overgrown with cacti would be expected.

And now, it seems that this boy has a new hobby. The 'girls' he brought back (bought) seem to enjoy their time at the garden of the house managed by the mother. There is this girl named Azunyan who seems to like the cacti a lot.

Tickle tickle~ nya~! ♥

Will this place completely become their playground and live happily ever after? Well, who knows?

A-Level vs STPM

2010-08-17T15:34:00.006+08:00

It is known that A-Level students will take both AS- and A2-Level exams for 3 or 4 subjects to finish their course, assuming no drop-outs in between. Hence,

A-Level = AS-Level exam + A2-Level exam

I was told that both exams are independent to each other (i.e. AS = AS and A2 = A2, and hence AS-Level = AS topics and A2-Level = A2 topics). But the truth is that A2-Level actually still requires us to remember the AS topics (i.e. A2-Level = AS and A2 topics). Assuming a quarter of the AS topics are interrelated with A2 topics,

A-Level = AS topics + (1/4 AS topics + A2 topics)
= 5/4 AS topics + A2 topics

Students have to study more on AS topics as normal humans tend to forget things. And then the error (careless mistakes by students, marking mistakes by examiners, errors in machines scanning OMR sheets, LUCK, etc) is given by:

Δ A-Level = 5/4(Δ AS topics) + Δ A2 topics, Δ A-Level > 0 (1)

On the other hand, it is known that Form 6 students will take only STPM. Hence,

Form 6 = STPM, and similarly
Δ Form 6 = Δ STPM

Assuming both courses are of similar course structures, STPM = AS + A2.

Form 6 = AS topics + A2 topics, and
Δ Form 6 = Δ AS topics + Δ A2 topics, Δ Form 6 > 0 (2)

Comparing equations (1) and (2), Δ A-Level > Δ Form 6.

Taking all fees that are involved into account, P for A-Level >> P for Form 6. I (my dad) am paying more to study A-Level which has higher uncertainty than STPM.

Conclusion: I dah kena con :(

(You may not take this seriously as I just simply bullshitted everything)

Dead

2010-08-03T01:16:00.003+08:00

Well.. A dead blog sure is dead.. don't know what more to do with it now.

Too few incentive to make this blog a decent place.

FINALLY

2010-03-18T22:14:00.005+08:00

I was able to place an order for Nendoroid Ritsu from Hobby Search just after I came back from college yesterday, misusing my dad's credit card in the process. The only sad part is that HS does not have any discounts in shipping costs like Amiami does for this whole month. For my failure in English reading I've misunderstood HS's SAL Commemorative Sale as the discount in shipping costs for the very same reason.

And so I chose EMS to ship my ordered item due to the misunderstanding. The shipping cost is at least 40% of the price of the figurine I've ordered (1380yen for shipping, 3238yen for the nendo, you do the math). Oh great.. but then, it's a lot better than SAL Small Packet because it allows you to track your shipment and insured up to 20000yen. The best is, of course, you can receive your goods hell lot faster than SAL, mostly within one week for Asian countries.

Well, not to fret much but if I wasn't asleep when Amiami restocked, I could have saved a lot in shipping cost since Amiami has 50% discount on international shipping. I could as well get her for under RM160.. But looking at the good side, securing my order from them is way lot better than buying from eBay sellers (scalpers). They can simply sell at at least 5000yen, exclusive of shipping..

Anyways HS has shipped my Ritsu today, so I'll most probably receive her latest by April Fool's day. If everything goes smoothly, my K-ON! band will be completed by the end of June, when Mugi and Azunyan have been released. My collection's gotta get more lively that time ^^

Update: I think she can even reach me by next Wednesday at this rate ^^ Just pray that nothing spoils my joy, e.g. item hold by custom (for you-know-what reason), the box got shitted out by some stupid custom officer or postman (for unknown reasons).

AGAIN

2010-03-15T15:51:00.007+08:00

Today got back home, paid a visit to Hobby Search, saw Nendoroid Tainaka Ritsu on restock! I immediately put it on my cart and attempted to checkout, but I have no credit card. I phoned my dad for that, he said he will check on the legitimacy of the site, and then Ritsu got sold out at the very moment I hang up the phone. MISSED THE CHANCE TO GET HER AGAIN! ARGH!! EMO!

Update: Yet another restock at Amiami some hours after HS, but I still missed it. I suddenly found myself fallen asleep just well before the order was opened for about half hour before it ran out of stock again.

These 2 close calls killed my week. It's always like this, camping at these sites hoping for a restock, and when they do I just couldn't make it for whatever stupid reasons, be it I'm having class, pending permission from my dad, or the stupidest of all: fell asleep. Maybe I should just stop collecting these things and use the money saved for proper meals everyday.

*bangs my head on the wall repeatedly*

Beggar?

2010-01-26T21:52:00.003+08:00

Back from a deep "evening nap", I was greeted by this fellow in Garena, asking me to create a clan for him.

Below is the full chat log between us. Hwey being me and that 6th-|rDota being the beggar, from my point of view.

[21:42:31]6th-|rDota Say:
hye
[21:42:34]6th-|rDota Say:
Hwey
[21:42:41]6th-|rDota Say:
u there?
[21:42:44]6th-|rDota Say:
pls answer me
[21:42:47]Hwey Say:
?
[21:42:51]6th-|rDota Say:
can u cr8 clan?
[21:42:56]Hwey Say:
nop
[21:42:58]6th-|rDota Say:
y?
[21:43:3]Hwey Say:
i tot nid money?
[21:43:7]6th-|rDota Say:
no la
[21:43:10]6th-|rDota Say:
no nid money
[21:43:13]6th-|rDota Say:
u lvl 25
[21:43:14]6th-|rDota Say:
can
[21:43:17]Hwey Say:
n i don bother bout clans anyway
[21:43:21]6th-|rDota Say:
z
[21:43:23]6th-|rDota Say:
giv me can?
[21:43:36]6th-|rDota Say:
hwey
[21:43:37]Hwey Say:
giv wat
[21:43:37]6th-|rDota Say:
can?
[21:43:39]6th-|rDota Say:
clan
[21:43:40]6th-|rDota Say:
u cr8
[21:43:42]6th-|rDota Say:
n giv me
[21:43:45]Hwey Say:
no
[21:43:48]6th-|rDota Say:
y?
[21:43:59]6th-|rDota Say:
y cant?
[21:44:0]Hwey Say:
since u say lv25 only can cre8
[21:44:5]6th-|rDota Say:
yup
[21:44:8]6th-|rDota Say:
25 n up
[21:44:9]Hwey Say:
i so hard only up until lv25
[21:44:10]6th-|rDota Say:
can cr8
[21:44:13]6th-|rDota Say:
z
[21:44:18]6th-|rDota Say:
u say bored
[21:44:20]6th-|rDota Say:
clan
[21:44:23]6th-|rDota Say:
so giv me
[21:44:26]6th-|rDota Say:
or u cr8
[21:44:28]Hwey Say:
minds can always change
[21:44:32]6th-|rDota Say:
?
[21:44:37]6th-|rDota Say:
can pls
[21:44:48]6th-|rDota Say:
u cr8 or giv me..?
[21:44:52]Hwey Say:
i can say don care now but future i might say i wanna use it for myself
[21:44:59]6th-|rDota Say:
y?
[21:45:4]6th-|rDota Say:
pls la
[21:45:11]6th-|rDota Say:
u be clan lord
[21:45:14]6th-|rDota Say:
n i be captain
[21:45:16]6th-|rDota Say:
can?
[21:45:23]Hwey Say:
sry no
[21:45:26]6th-|rDota Say:
z
[21:45:30]6th-|rDota Say:
zzzzzz
[21:45:33]6th-|rDota Say:
y cannot
[21:45:45]6th-|rDota Say:
u selfish........
*left room*

Ok, what's the meaning of all these? This fellow forced me to give him a clan, which I don't want to, and said me selfish for that? First, who on earth are you to force me to give you my clan-creating power? I don't wanna create a clan for myself then I should give it to you?

Second, I appreciate your persistence in wanting to be in a clan so badly. Perhaps you can be a successful salesman in the future for your "thick skin-ness", but not for your "u selfish........" when I go against your will. Remember, you're the beggar to me now. If you're the so-called kind one, can you get yourself to lv25 and then create a clan and offer me into it? I highly doubt that.

It took so much effort to get to lv25, and you expect me to just give my ability to you just like that? Talk before thinking. Did you know that sentence can offend me so much and made me felt so guilty? Fcuken low-life, go get a life dude. This world is neither revolving around you nor me. Don't go around criticizing others when they don't follow your will.

ComicFiesta 2009 @ Sunway Pyramid

2010-01-13T22:29:00.003+08:00

1 month late post. Got derailed from my blogging passion already. Anyway this will be a short post about Comic Fiesta 2009, which I went the day after I came back from Genting Highlands.

I got to know about this event 1 week prior to the date when Bill Goh told me about it, inviting pro Jhun together as well. We were reluctant to go at first due to the RM15 entrance fee, but we still went at last. Thanks to Bill for driving us there :)

As this was my first time attending this kind of event, I wasn't really used to the surroundings. It's so much different from PIKOM PC Fairs (obviously), as there were so many normal camera users, DSLR-wielding photographers with intensive flashes (which includes me, except that I'm a complete noob), and of course, the cosplayers. Too bad that I'm still myself: not that daring to ask for permissions to take their photographs. I could only take the advantage when the cosplayers were stopped by other photographers =/

Still, my pictures sucked as I set the wrong white balance. Anyway, if you would like to look at some pictures taken, you can visit my CF album at Facebook, though the excess warm colours had been edited out from these pictures.

One of the things I liked the most in that event was the MCees, dayumm they were just so humourous that made me burst in laughters (and of course everyone else in the event).

Actually, there was a motive for me to go CF 2009. If you hadn't know, the poison by Bill suddenly attacked me and so I got this new hobby of collecting Nendoroids. I'd ordered 4 nendos online at The Figure Mall and since they had a booth there I had to go there to collect my items. Besides I also arrange a meet up with a Lowyat.Net forummer for my Haruhi Suzumiya keychain gashapon sets as well. That was the biggest spending to date, with a total expenditure of RM615 (not including F&B) that day.

We returned home after collecting my items. I will make a mini review of my Nendoroid collection IF I had the time and passion to do it ;)

Lastly, it's new year now. But I'm not happy, because at the 8th day of new year I got a stupid jackpot summon. Not kind of a good way to start a new year eh?

Genting trip 17-18/12/09

2009-12-21T01:54:00.010+08:00

There were lots of happenings these few days that I'm unable to blog about them all at once. Hence I'm going to start out with the Genting trip with my friends at 17/12/09, which was a 2D1N trip.

Actually, going to Genting is nothing special anymore, especially when I have even been there before just 4 months ago. Like last year when I went there, that place was filled with dense mist/cloud that leaves our visibility close to zero, except that this time I was going there with a healthy body.

Worst things first, besides having a dense fog, it suddenly rained so heavily that the ride, which is Pirate Ship, we had queued up for nearly half hour needs to be closed. Damn, it should be our turn already if not because of the stupid rain! In the end, we had only played 4 rides for the evening and continued our Pirate Ship ride at night. Heck, that ticket was sure expensive for just 5 rides.

JoJo!! XD

Well, the outdoor theme park will mostly probably be closed earlier with that kind of bad weather. My friends decided to go Motion Master to watch some 4D action thing. I wasn't that interested but well, I had to follow the crowd. Soon, it proves me wrong for the decision. It should be an enjoyable ride, but the lining for about 1 hour in a hot and poorly ventilated underground maze. Well, who could have thought of that?

The mist was so dense that even flash couldn't do any good.

After that, we went for some archery. This was my first time playing archery and so I suck big. Only 3 or 4 arrows hit the target and they were just at the outer ring of the target! But that was clearly a better experience than the one mentioned just now.

Lastly we just rested in our rooms by playing cards. That was day 1.

Day 2, I guess I did fell asleep at 4am and woke 2 hours later. I went to the Oldtown Kopitiam there to have some food with my friends whom already woke that time.
It was still a misty morning, just like last year's situation. That didn't bother us anymore, as my room's group decided to play at the arcade. While it's expensive to play there, it didn't stop me from bumping into this situation.

Another picture for Windows' epic failures?

The last and the highlight of the trip: the buffet breakfast with Alvin. The food has nothing to be talked here as it was just normal food that we can eat anytime, anywhere. What's ridiculous here is that my friends at room phoned Alvin to pack some food for them.

Leaving him without choice, he started the "project", that is, to pack food, obviously, and to smuggle the food out.

At this point I was like: wtf?

He succeeded. We'd reached our room.

Everyone had their share. But I wonder if they know what had been done to their food in the process. Shortly after that we packed our bags, checked out, and went back to our good, comfortable home respectively.

Well, that's all. i hope that we won't be going Genting for another gathering (if this can be called as gathering at all) again. I've gotten bored thoroughly to this place.

Next up, Comic Fiesta @ Sunway Pyramid the very next day. Stay tuned!

当我们考试失败时，并不是我们的错...

2009-12-08T23:50:00.006+08:00

Got an email recently, quite an old one actually. I always had something to say about this email, since I've got it now, yeah.. The email's in Mandarin and so I'll try my best to translate it sentence by sentence into proper English. There goes:

其实，当我们考试失败时，并不是我们的错...
(Actually, it's not our fault when we failed in our exams...)

因为一年只有365天...
(Because there are only 365 days in a year...)

针对一个学生对一年的理论:
(Considering a student's arguments towards "a year":)

星期天~一年的星期天有52天。你也知道，星期天是让我们休息的。所以，还剩下313天...
(Sunday~There are 52 Sundays in a year. You know, Sundays are for us to rest. Hence, 313 days left...)

夏日假期~这50天的假期是非常炎热的，大家都会因为闷热而无心向学。剩下263天...
(Summer holidays~These 50 days of holidays are very hot, everyone won't have the mood to study due to the heat. 263 days left...)

每日的睡眠~8个小时让我们睡觉，去掉了50天。剩下141天...
(Sleep time~8 hours a day, used up 50 days. 141 days left...)

娱乐~每日抽出1个小时的时间让我们玩耍（为了身心健康）。用掉了一年里的15天，剩下126天...
(Entertainment~1 hour per day to have fun (For our physical and mental health). Used up 15 days in the year, 126 days left...)

饮食~2个小时让我们吃零食，喝饮料和每日三餐（咀嚼和吞食）。30天又过去了，剩下96天...
(F&B~2 hours for snacks, drinks and 3 meals per day (chewing and ingestion). 30 days passed, 96 days left...)

谈吐~1小时让我们和亲朋戚友说话（人也是一种爱交际的动物）。又减掉了15天，还剩下81天...
(Talking~1 hour to talk with friends and family (Human is a social animal). 15 days deducted, 81 days left...)

考试~一年最少也有35天。所以，还剩下46天...
(Exams~At least 35 days per year. Hence, 46 days left...)

特别节日（example:情人节）~大概也有40天，剩下6天...
(Special occasions (Example: Valentine's day)~Around 40 days, 6 days left...)

病痛（MC）~你偶尔也会生病，对不对？最少也MC三天。还剩下3天...
(Illness~You will get sick somehow. MC at least 3 days. 3 days left...)

盛大典礼~嗯...(example:结婚 / party)最少最少也有2天。结果，还剩下1天...
(Big ceremonies~Erm...(Example: marriage/party) At least 2 days. 1 day left...)

最后的一天:生日~你怎么可能在那天温习功课 / 补习！
(Last day: Birthday~How can you revise/go tuition at that day?!)

剩下: 0 ！！学生怎能顺利通过考试！就算通过考试，也不一定是一个活泼开朗的孩子了...
(Left: 0!! Students won't pass the exam! Even if they pass, they won't be active and happy children...)

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AFAIK, these days can't be calculated like that, as they are not necessarily independent to each other. Like, there are Sundays in the "summer holidays" as well, which makes it overlap each other already, try to recall the Venn diagram learned in Sets in our Maths. In fact, some calculations were terribly wrong as well.

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Anyway, Maths aside, from my point of view:

Sunday: no comment. 52 days.

Summer holidays: It should be mid-year and year-end holidays n M'sia. Taking my A-Level course as reference, what about I give it 8 weeks = 56 days? Or 9 weeks for gov'ment schools = 63 days. How about average approx. 60 days?

Sleep time: I sleep 4 hours during school days and 12 during holidays. Average it for 8 hours as well. 122 days.

Entertainment: 1 hour? Nah, I sit in front of my computer for at least 10 hours regardless of school days or holidays. 152 days.

F&B: Okay I follow. 30 days.

Talking: Sorry, all talking is done through internet. 0 day.

Exams: You take exams for a whole day? Max 10 days for me.

Special occasions: Sorry, no Valentine's, no Christmas. Maybe CNY, 5 days.

Illness: Sorry, no MC for me. Classes skipped due to illness = 0. 0 day.

Big ceremonies: Again, 0. Ok la count 1 day la.

Last day: Birthday: Birthday? When is my birthday? 0 day.

Total: 432 days.

Why? As I said, there was calculation errors in the original one, it won't take you long to find out which. By the way, if the "overlapping" days were to be deducted it should be well less than 365 days.

Now then, Maths aside again, I even have "debt days" in a year to study in my case. With entertainment (computer) being the most "time-consuming" thing to do (and the least useful in studying), why am I able to pass my exams with flying colours?

Well, yeah, maybe he's right. I'm a material to be an excellent introvert after all. That explains all.

(Due to the huge unrealistic errors and uncertainties, this post should not be viewed seriously)

Holiday?

2009-11-25T23:00:00.002+08:00

Yet again I've not been updating regularly, mainly due to me messing up my time. Well, the long hated Moral Education classes has finally ended last week and this marks the beginning of my true holidays for 5~6 weeks before going into my third semester.

I've been sleeping from 4am to 1pm for almost everyday since the first day of holiday, of course there are deviations. This computer is my best companion now that I put my display name in MSN as 月光宅男(moonlight Otaku), as opposed to a Jay Chou song, 阳光宅男(sunshine Otaku). lol. I once changed it to 依陌(emo)宅男 due to some unhappy things in Moral class, but since it's past so I won't give it a damn anymore. I'm partially impressed that I'm in a position where I won't fail my Moral course even if I fail my finals ;) .

Anyway I just came back from Connaught night market with pro Jhun them gang. Didn't buy anything there but I had some food and snacks that I've never tried before. It's the most crowded night market I've ever been to, which spoiled some of my mood to enjoy it, but since there are so many eye candies (aka beautiful girls/leng lui) there it's worth it to spend my time there. I hope the next time I go there will still be more of them there. ^^

Finally, my long said photography blog might not be coming since I'm a phail as in finding nice spots to photograph and even lack the basic skills to do some show-offs. I don't think I will be able to maintain the blog properly as you can see what happened to this blog now. Well I'll try my best, it's my interest after all.

I'm back!

2009-11-02T20:13:00.003+08:00

Didn't realise that one month has passed. Sorry for not updating.

Nothing to post actually as this semester was pretty hectic (and I'm still busy playing games), it has finally ended anyway. Just finished my finals today, I think I did pretty bad overall because of that stupid sudden sore throat and fever before finals started. Although my fever subsided in just one day, I think it's always enough to kill my brain cells.

Besides, after every sore throat it will be converted to itchy throat (coughing) and this time, it was associated with flu for no reason. For the whole finals I have been sniffing a lot which distracted me a lot as well because there's just so much nasal mucus, the glands just won't stop producing it. It's still the same now, so annoying, but luckily it's not A(H1N1), I suppose?

Anyway, I should enjoy this stupid one week holiday for now, stupid INTI's going to make us go back for the useless crap Moral Studies class next week (Assignments, presentations, MY NIGHTMARE). What's the fucking point of calling this semester the "short semester" huh? Tell me, seriously, I really don't get the fucking rational behind!

Big spendings

2009-10-04T00:17:00.005+08:00

Few days ago suddenly I had the urge to spend my dad's hard earn cash (I'm such a 败家仔). Spent RM304 on a Edifier M3400 2.1 speaker and Steelseries Qck Limited Edition Starcraft 2 Kerrigan vs Zeratul mouse pad.

Look at the epic artwork. So nicely done

Licensed Blizzard Product

My OCZ Behemoth on the pad

Messy arrangement, because my desk is too small..

The audio system costs RM205. I'm quite satisfied with the sound quality, it was better than my broken Sonic Gear EVO 3, mainly due to the big difference in price lol. I've never thought of buying such an expensive audio system, and well, we tend to think that more expensive items are always better, don't you agree?

But for that RM99 mouse pad, I'm quite disappointed. It didn't actually work well with my OCZ Behemoth as my double laser mouse is quite accurate in tracking already. After using the pad my pointer on the screen actually keeps on skidding for some odd reasons, but I observe no problems with my other cheap optical mouse, and its tracking has dramatically improved. Perhaps it's just my OCZ mouse doesn't need anymore aid to improve its tracking.

Okay, now I couldn't use it to make my wrist feel more comfortable. Now I can only put it aside as a very nice decoration until I'm going to downgrade my OCZ Behemoth to other gaming laser mouse (not double laser anymore lol), which is stupid anyway.

Today...

2009-09-24T21:05:00.003+08:00

...I went to class as usual. It was more or less like yesterday, and it's like a new unfamiliar place to me. As it's still holiday now, I can't get happier because SS15 is so empty that I can park my car just outside of campus. I took this picture at 8am, something that you can only see at 7am on normal working days.
Sounds cool, but why can't I just stay at home instead of coming to class when others are still in their holidays? Boring.

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...I had my breakfast at McDonalds before going for class. Their breakfast special set, which consists of a Sausage McMuffin and a cup of coffee/tea, sold at RM4.20 (inc. 5% tax) per set, is really a bargain(although still more expensive compared to other foods around). Well, nothing special here, but this time I chose coffee as opposed to my usual choice of tea.

So what? It's just a cup of normal coffee anyone can drink anywhere. Strangely, drinking a cup of coffee at early morning do bring some strange side effects to me. Everyone knows coffee can make one energetic, perhaps in my case, I got over supply of energy with that cup of coffee, coupled with my long term sleep deprivation, it actually agitated me for the whole day.

I couldn't concentrate in class because my mind was like disturbed. It's like many things were revolving in my mind but not able to sort them out. Eventually, as I said, I got agitated. I hit the fire door instead of pushing to open it. And then I felt like punching the walls. It was Maths class back then, my lecturer gave us work to do, and my handwriting was 'powerful', the noise of my pencil knocking on my paper and table could be clearly heard if it wasn't because of the chatters that covered them up.

This sudden urge of aggression always comes when I drink coffee too early. I can remember during one of my SPM days when I drank a cup of coffee for a boost as I didn't actually sleep that night for revision. In the end, the similar situation occurred. Well, I suppose I shouldn't drink coffee in the morning?

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...I finally got my hands on Prototype. Damn it's a freaking cool game. Graphics was not half bad, though the settings were a little bit retarded. Controls and moves can be mastered quite easily. It removed my aggression anyway. Got to go have some fun first before actually studying for 2 damned tests. Zz

INTI poem

2009-09-20T01:29:00.003+08:00

Recently I receive an email from Jojo (XD) on poems for 3 universities/colleges. One of them being INTI. I know these poems have been online for quite some time now and I have read it before. But since I'm a student in ICSJ now I have to say something.

But first there's the INTI poem in case you've never read it before:

At first I love INTI
But INTI loves my money
I ask money from daddy
But daddy asks mummy
Mummy goes to INTI
And find out why INTI's so greedy
The lift always mati
And the guards look like monkey
That's why I started to hate INTI

INTI don't love me
What for I love INTI
All they need is money
Nothing but money, money and money

The lecturers teach like bugs bunny
No wonder they're so lousy
And their faces look so funny
Like Talos the mummy

Futhermore, more more money flows to INTI
But they never plant more trees
All because they want to save money
Make all students feel hot to mati

First I entered INTI I got no kaki
Later I found someone likes to play tai tee
Then I started don't want to study
Here we can find a lot of kaki judi
That's why we must blame INTI

Since I entered INTI I cant see any leng lui lili sexy

Even the lecturers are more pretty
I always want to date them for tea
But I always kejar they always lari

Dr. Lim from SOLLA always lan si
People said his pucuk already mati
Even Viagra also tak boleh jadi
That's why loh people say he is 'cc'

He likes to tell jokes to everybody
But his joke never funny
Sometimes people thinks that his crazy
Dr. Lim so pity

INTI's toilets really smelly
No water no api
Even you haven't pee
You want to lari
Always complain they also say soli soli

Tan yew sing always said his INTI got quality
Instead everyone knows they are lousy
INTI motive just to earn more money
So that they can pay lecturers salary
And INTI share in KLSE can naik lagi
Waterfish like us always press by INTI
Just to tipu more more money

That is all the story about INTI
Which loves money
But after all I still come to INTI
To contribute money

(u r not in INTI?
u r very lucky
coz INTI cant bluff ur money
just cabut n jangan kembali~!!)

Student of INTI
noway to lari
already jadi SuiYee (waterfish)
plz tell everybody
jangan kena tipu lagi
=============================================

I've done some searchings and realised that there is another new poem to counter the previous one:

Izzit you too sien adi with INTI?
Maybe coz you never ever study
Always shake leg and "wah pei si" (digging nose)
24/7 at CC play DOTA or L4D

U say ask money from daddy
daddy ask you ask mommy
at last work so hard to support you already
WHAT U DID?? Yaya write sohai stuff about INTI
you nothing better to do ar really?!

You say INTI lift always mati
you KING KONG ar kenot walk, too heavy?
if INTI guard look like monkey
you look like more like "yat pek si" (a piece o shit)

and so you say "INTI don't love me" (right!)
coz you really "mou yok yi" (cureless)
so no matter how u mati-mati
your results FOREVER E E E!
All they need is money (yes)
Well, thanks to you idiots pay money but never study

The lecturers teach like bugs bunny
Sumore you say they so lousy
MAYBE its because u never ever listen properly
sit behind there talk cock story!

U complain complain INTI no tree
All because they want to save money
YOU LEH? throw rubbish sana-sini
Sit in room play game tak pernah mandi
You don't feel hot oso smelly until mati!

Told you already u only know how to waste money
Parents give u money but you play tai tee
Own self say don't want to study, Blame INTI.
Of coz la you forever kaki judi
Coz you got no life, no job, no money.
WHOLE COLLEGE LIFE WASTED IN INTI!

Since u entered INTI you can't see any leng lui lili sexy
You very lengzhai ar that girls want to see?
Look at ur face oso all want to barf and flee
No wonder you no luck, forever "ta fei ji" (jerking off)

FIRST you say lecturer like bugs bunny
THEN you say u want to date them for tea
U really 1500% gila babi
Hopeless, useless, something problem with your psychology!

Dr. Lim from SOLLA always lan si?
You jealous ar coz he got money drive Benz-si
How you all know his pucuk mati already?
You gay tards got actually see??
I think its YOUR small koochi size that you should worry
Yucks, yerr, bluek, petoooi.... YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE......

Tan Yew Sing always said his INTI got quality
You know but then you don't agree
So its either your parents or you yourself gila babi
You think like that, then WHAT THE F**K you doing in INTI???

INTI motive just to earn more money
OF COZ LAR U THINK BUSINESS IS CHARITY??
IF THEY DON'T PAY LECTURERS, WHO GOING TO TEACH YOU ABC?
you're not a waterfish larh, YOU'RE A BIG DUMB WUSSY!

INTI SHARE IN KLSE can naik lagi
now sumore partner with Laureate group of university
too bad you're no longer here to see
better off without you monkeys here in this community
good that you cabut lari,
I BEG YOU PLEASEEE JANGAN KEMBALI!

students of INTI noway to lari
Coz here too happening with clubs and society
already pay money might as well happy happy.
No need to write stupid things about INTI

If you so good write poems better go be an MC
Don't mess with PROUD INTI students like me
So far come all the way,wa ipoh mali
We all know at the end we still love INTI!

To the fellow who disgraced us all from INTI,
Lets see you beat this rhyme at any angle or degree.
For those of you who agree with me.
God bless you, forward this,
its your call now, I'M OUTTEY!!

Source: http://baiangelz.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2059B685A5F72003!1347.entry?sa=934561231

Zzz. Speechless. I don't know what made the original author to write negatively about INTI, and I understand why the other author was trying to defend INTI from this attack. However, I'd rather devote my time studying or at least doing something useful other than writing these poems.

Well, this is business anyway.

Just a quick filler

2009-09-14T00:35:00.003+08:00

Suddenly I've just realised something. All my Student IDs end with the number 4:

When I was in Chong Hwa Independent High School, it was 04064.

When I transferred to SMJK Yu Hua Kajang, it was 21244.

Now in ICSJ, my Student ID is J09005574.

Epic fours. Get one more ID that ends with 4 and I can be Fantastic Four already. Coincidence or what?

No wonder I kept thinking of dying when I was studying. Sad.

GG?

2009-09-11T22:38:00.002+08:00

Currently in the third week of second semester, 33.3% of the semester has passed. It was really a freaking tedious and total-non-stop-study semester, which highly surpassed the physical and mental preparations I've been making.

The first thing is of course the timetable arrangement that I've complained before. That kind of stupid arrangement actually decreased our free time to study by a large fraction, ESPECIALLY IF THE STUDENT IS TAKING 4 SUBJECTS. If I live at the hostel then it wouldn't be a problem, but everyday I have to waste at least one and a half hour travelling to and forth ICSJ everyday, still not including time wasted in traffic jams yet. Although the early traffic jams will end after Hari Raya, it doesn't change the fact that I have to waste the time on transportation.

The second and the most important thing is the course structure. Combined together with the first problem, I really have a hard time coping with my studies. I have less time to digest so many things in such a short period of time, moreover those topics are really hard, which was also my worst topics since SPM! In maths, there are AP, GP, vectors, and soon differentiation. In chemistry, there are electrochemistry and equilibrium, both in A2 syllabus, which is freaking tough. Without understanding anything, the first test for both subjects will be on Hari Raya week. How am I going to fail, eh?

Talking about Hari Raya week, every students should be enjoying a one week holiday for that occasion, but not for us A-Level students. We will only have 2 days of holiday. I have to suffer in the tests while everyone else are enjoying their break. Bloody hell, that's just damn unfair. I know we're in a rush, but that just won't do us any good.

Oh by the way, where's the time to be allocated to co-curriculum activities?

Man, I'm just too pissed with everything. Say me don't appreciate what I have now, I will let you know why it's hard for me to appreciate it given the situations. Humans are like this anyway, they will only appreciate a thing when they don't own it anymore. If I'm studying in Form 6 now, I will say colleges rock, and vice versa.

So why am I still posting something here anyway? Am I not contradicting myself for having insufficient time to study? Well, it depends on the attitude of a person to study anyway. I suck big in this.

On an unrelated matter,

Baby born in Australia at 9.09am on 09/09/09

SYDNEY: Dhara and Sudish Patel would have no difficulty in remembering the date and time of birth of their daughter who was born in the

Australian city of Canberra at 9.09am.on the ninth day of the ninth month of 2009.

The new parents said the delivery time of their baby girl was a surprise.

"Her due date was Sep 12," the baby's mother was quoted as saying by ABC News.

She said the number nine would become part of her baby's life.

"We think it will be her lucky number," she said.

Source: http://www.hotklix.com/link/sports/cricket/Baby-born-in-Australia-at-909am-on-090909-Rest-of-Wor

It was 09/09/09 2 days ago. Why is the number 9 so special? It's because 9(九) has the same pronunciation as 久 in Chinese and Cantonese, which resembles long-lasting. That explains why so many Chinese couples decided to register or get married at that date, in the hope that their marriage will last forever, apparently.

Now this news was interesting. The baby was not only born on this date, but also at 9.09am. Five 9s. By assuming healthcare levels are increasing with time, perhaps the baby are able to live up to 99 yrs 9 months 9 hrs 9 mins lol.

Final Destination 4

2009-09-05T18:21:00.011+08:00

“ What if, our presence here was the plan from the beginning? ”
-- Nick

Finally got the time to update. I went to the Premiere Screening of Final Destination 4 as planned 4 days ago, with Yong Xian. Going there gave me a headache first as I don't quite know the route there, to be more precise, at the Kerinchi Link, hell it really has lots of diverging roads and it got to my nerves. Malaysian roadsigns are useless too. I've managed to get through it with some help from YX, so I'll skip this part.

Just be lucky because it's the fasting month for the Muslims so the probability of getting caught in a traffic jam in Federal Highway after 7pm is close to zero (at least for the part of highway that I've travelled). I guess that's the reason of why 1 Utama was so empty (but full of bloggers), not to mention it's 8pm+ of a weekday.

This time the tickets were cool. It was colour-printed on hard paper. In addition we were also given 2 slides of postcards, which is useless to me, as I was hoping that they would give me the "I Love Nuffnang" badge instead.

(Top: the postcard. Bottom: the back of the ticket)

As always, the other bloggers mingle around with each other and had photo sessions, but not me. I don't know how did they know each other, while I was always being left out, perhaps they've known each other in real life. Ah whatever. It's destined.

Now about the movie itself. I never watched any of the Final Destination series before so this was my first one. Well it was gross, with more gruesome ways of dying. I never expected that some of the explicit gore scenes were actually shown on the screen instead of being censored. One phenomenon I've noticed that the crowd actually cheered when someone dies.. @@

The only downside I felt about this movie is that it's length was a little too short. We was expecting that the movie would end around 11.30pm, but we already reached home at that time, as the movie ended almost 1 hour earlier...

Here's some scenes from the movie:

I know this movie has already been in cinemas for 2 days already, it's also showed in selected 3D cinemas in case you didn't know. That should add up some intense you can't experience from the usual cinemas. Overall Final Destination 4 is worth to watch if you "enjoy" the gore. FD fans are definitely not going to miss the show. Go ahead and watch it this weekend holidays to find out how can you cheat death ;)

Once again, a very big THANKS to Nuffnang for the free movie tickets!

Hey wait, did I just say cheat death? Referring to the quote I've put at the very beginning, do you think anyone can actually cheat death?? Ah whatever, just go watch the movie and find it out yourself! ;D

New semester, new challenge

2009-08-28T22:43:00.007+08:00

Just another day spent at the college, the first week of second semester is over already. Too fast, too furious. It was a pleasant week at college, as we, the A-Level students, are the only ones that has begun classes 1 week earlier than those of other courses. It feels like the whole college were only occupied by us.

“ That made me enjoyed the serenity in ICSJ -- less noise, less people, more books to borrow, more computers to use. ”

I used this opportunity to borrow 2 bloody thick and heavy books about programming (C++ and Java) from the library. I don't know why I did so as the second semester is going to be a hectic semester for us, a total of 9 weeks before finals, now 8 more to go. Where do I get the time to learn programming now? Oh well, as long as I'm interested..

“ Anyway, if I were to comment about our timetable for this semester, I would only give one word: SUCKS! ”

Not because of the freaking long classes, I've gotten used to it, but then again, it's the classes for Friday. I'd always hoped that classes can end before 1pm on Friday, but instead our class ends at 5pm now. Bloody hell, freaking class ends at 5pm because there's a 3 hour gap from 12pm-3pm for the Malay prayers time. Oh good lord, is there not any day that I can return home earlier? I hate to deal with traffic jams, like today, it was so terribly jammed from LDP Sunway toll plaza until Bukit Jalil Highway. Abnormal enough as I never had such a nightmare during first semester where there were 2 days when class ends at 5pm. Wasted my valuable 1 hour staring at the car in front while crawling.

Back to the point, we were told by our Economics lecturer that our first test will be 2 weeks from now. That's just 'awesome'! I can expect that more and more tests will fall around that time period. Let's see how well I can cope in my studies in such a short period of time. Speaking of this, the results of my first semester finals is phail, with Economics and Malaysian Studies getting B. I won't bother about M'sian Studies results because our coursework marks sucks big time. Anyway I pass it as long as I didn't fail. It's over. But Economics, I've freaking studied it for 1 week before the finals, sacrificing and risking other subjects, yet not so desirable results. It's really THAT hard to score in Economics eh?

Well, it's my path, my challenge to overcome, since the day I've taken A-Level. 4 subjects are really a pain in the back if one doesn't use time wisely.

“ Thinking back of SPM days when we used to take 11 subjects, that's nothing compared to these 4 subjects eh? I suppose. ”

But I'm still myself, one who lacks motivation and self-discipline to study progressively, instead of doing unnecessary things at the wrongest time, e.g. trying to pack programming knowledge into my already-full-memory mind. That's just digging my own grave.

Using this chance, I would like to wish Malaysia happy 52th anniversary of independence. May our country continue advancing and development in the correct direction (although I remain skeptical about this). For those who want to attend the celebration, remember to wear high-quality masks and be hygienic to reduce the chance of infecting swine flu. For me, I'll just sleep until someone or something blows me to kingdom come. Heck, I'm LAZY.

In an unrelated matter, I'm going to the Premiere Screening of Final Destination: Rest in Pieces in 1 Utama next Tuesday night! My sacrifice wasn't in vain after all ^^. Wish me that I'm not going to rest in either peace or pieces during the journey.

NUFFNANG ROCKS!

I Don’t Want to Rest in Pieces like Final Destination

2009-08-19T02:28:00.008+08:00

Nuffnang is giving free tickets to Premiere Screenings again! This time they are giving free tickets to watch Final Destination: Rest in Pieces. Oh my god, when I heard about this, immediately I told myself that I must get the free tickets in order to not rest in pieces.

First of all, I have always been having accurate premonitions. I had one right away after getting to know about this event. I can foresee that, without the free tickets, I can't watch the movie in cinemas as I'm flat broke. Without the fixed seats in cinemas, I could rest in pieces if I were to watch it in front of my computer some day later. Why? The following scenes were in my premonition:

Freaked out by the unexpected

According to Newton's Third Law: To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. And ZOMG I've lost balance from my reaction!

And then, bang my neck on the hard solid wooden table below and SPLAT!

Moving closer to have a look at my body:

I certainly don't want to die like that, I still have a long way to go. Heck, I haven't even reach 1/6 of the human lifespan! I still want to:

date a girl,
do the you-know-what thing,
be a father, and
be the President (of the house).

These free tickets ought to make me learn the way to cheat death earlier than the others. Therefore, my life is in your hands, Nuffnang! :o

*Sorry for the quality of the pictures, I could only make it with my really obsolete 1.3MP webcam..

First Amongst Equals

2009-08-19T00:06:00.007+08:00

As everyone knows, or in case you don't know, the title of this post is New INTI's motto. I've just become part of it. What?? How dare the author of this blog claim himself to be the first amongst equals, with crappy results of his? Well, maybe not in studies, but in watching Orphan.

After having this new kind of experience, it's hard for me to not brag a little about it. So first of all, due to the bad timing, I had to watch the movie with my dad. Things never go according to my wishes anyway. Whatever, that's the last resort if I wasn't going to waste the tickets.

Just a glance of the tickets, don't bother the quality because the info is now useless anyway.

I was a tad too late to line up to collect my tickets because the last exclusive Orphan merchandise had just been given out to a few other bloggers just in front of me. Sad. Whatever, I didn't put much hope to get these stuffs and just wanted to get the tickets ASAP. Again, inedible grapes are sour.

By the way, to my observation, out of the 100 pairs tonight, I can approximately estimate that 95% of the pairs were BF-GF pairs, the remaining pairs were like of the same sex: boy-boy or girl-girl, which I assume that they are close friends. I'm the most special one, the only 1% that was paired up with my dad. Besides I think we are the pair that has the largest age difference. Congratz to me. Zz. It's tough to see other intimate couples enjoying a thrilling movie together, while I felt so lonely even my dad was beside me. Zz

I'll just skip the story. This movie is rated 18PL so it's unavoidable that there will be some censored scenes due to you-know-what-reason. Orphan is a thriller revolving about the life of this not-so-little girl named Esther (Xian please don't misunderstand ^^) and her new family. Well, to cut it short, she's a nightmare to the family. I think I didn't spoil this movie as these 2 sentences didn't mean anything lol. So to find out what's wrong with her, remember to catch this movie in cinemas at 20 August.

As a conclusion, although it wasn't an enjoyable movie session for me, it's past. What I enjoyed was that I am one of the first Malaysians to be able to watch this movie even before it's been released! Finally I'm a first! No one can admit first even if I admitted second, ahah. For those who were unable to or didn't want to go with me, your loss. Such a rare chance for me to bring someone to a free movie session, think me cheap because I only invite people for a movie when I didn't need to pay anything. Whatever.

Nevertheless, I hereby thank Nuffnang the invitation to this Premiere Screening. You've broaden my eyesights with these kind of events and I'm looking forward to other events held by you all in the future. ^^ (provided that if I can still remain creative and most importantly, being lucky.) Ciaoz

omg

2009-08-17T16:56:00.004+08:00

You know, I can actually win something by posting some stories in the Nuffnang blog. Evening just now, I received an email from Nuffnang saying that I was invited to the premier screening of Orphan at GSC Midvalley 9pm tomorrow. Want to know what I actually wrote? Here's the link. My post is the 8th from the last if the total post still remains at 146. You'll see my name anyway.

But the problem is, who on earth will be going to this event with me? I know, girls are afraid to go out with a boy that late, I understand, whatever. Boys are obviously not interested to go out with another boy that late, I, too, understand, whatever. This means, I'm mostly going on a solo mission, wasting the other ticket. Or, forfeit both tickets altogether and give the chance to other Nuffnangers, which won't happen because it was such a rare scene for me to actually win something and I'm not best known for my generosity.

Everything is in bad timing. My Form 6 friends only start to have their exams when I'm having a holiday now. When they are having their holiday I'm suffering again. Or else I won't be having a headache now for not having a partner to go with me. Sucks.

Well, this is the downside for not having much friends. Having good things that I wanted to share but no one can share it. Sad.

Anyway, I still have half a day to decide. For now I'll just have to know the returning route first or else I'll be sleeping inside my car beside the road. I had just forgotten about the threat of H1N1. Wish me luck.

*Do let me know before midnight today if you are serious to go with me.

Cleaning (again!)

2009-08-16T02:39:00.004+08:00

Alright, I think I'm going to end threads about cleaning once and for all. Today (I mean yesterday), out of boredom, I decided to clean up my most "beloved" one: my computer. That's right, I've cleaned everything from the monitor to the CPU, but not that thoroughly until cleaning every piece of hardware inside, which I will only do to dead machines. The thing I've gotten rid of is, of course, dusts that accumulated since the last time I've posted about cleaning my computer.

Except for this time, I've put the keyboard as the hardware that required thorough cleaning. Well, I think I've not cleaned it for more than a year already. Why would I want to clean it anyway? Keyboards just look perfectly normal on the outside, but let's not look at it that superficially. If you'd paid attention to the spaces between the keys and the "bank" of the keyboard, you can see that there are so many small debris apart from dusts, from hairs, to food and even dead bugs.

Because of the dirtiness of my keyboard I had wasted more than an hour to remove most of the debris and hell I didn't even completely clean it due to apparatus limitation. Anyway I'm going to cover the basic steps of cleaning your keyboard in this post in case you don't know how to do it.

First things first, you have to pick each and every keys out, using your own hand (if the keys are easy enough to be removed), or the better choice, a flat-head screwdriver. As you can see, if you positioned your screwdriver like this your keys will be easily picked without using much force. If you have to pick them forcefully, that means something is wrong, but it depends on your keyboard. Keyboards having different kinds of key contacts might need a different way to pick the keys, so you have to know your keyboard well. I'll not be liable for any damages done to your keyboard ==

After picking your keys, you, of course, start cleaning up the inside of your keyboard.

Partially cleaned...

It should be an easy job if you had a dedicated keyboard vacuum, but if you already have it this post is meaningless to you anyway. By the way, if you don't have a keyboard vacuum, I assume that you are rational enough to not use a conventional vacuum cleaner that you use on the floor to clean your keyboard, right? You can use a wet cloth, or like me, use a combination of wet cloth and this "bug" here to maximize the cleaning effect.

Talking of this bug, it operates with 2 AA size cells and is very useful to suck up dust and small debris on hard surfaces such as tables and in this case, the keyboard. Of course it didn't manage to suck up everything so I have to use the screwdriver to move the dirt a bit before sucking them up. With these removed it will be a lot easier for you to wipe the internals with a wet cloth (actually, not that easy too due to the "porous" surface).
Cleaning the bug is pretty easy, just open the cover below and wipe off all the dusts and debris trapped on the filter with a cloth or just your finger. Done.

Finally, when you're satisfied, just simply reinstall the keys according to their arrangement and there you go, a cleaner keyboard that looks more refreshing, without any strategic improvements. Well actually, it might keep pests or insects away from your keyboard lol if you always eat in front of your computer. Who knows if they do make their nest inside it? Especially if you have those high quality gaming keyboard that easily cost a few hundred bucks, you won't be that generous to share your keyboard with them, will you? ;)

Godspeed.

Semester break

2009-08-15T00:10:00.003+08:00

Yeah man, after 3 months of non-stop studying (I mean going to college la), it's the end of my first semester already. And I can enjoy 1 WEEK of holidays before continuing to suffer even more, because the second semester is a short semester and I think we will have to have classes until 4 or 5pm everyday. Zz.

It sucks. But I think it's not as suck as my finals. Honestly, I performed badly, luck was not with me. I had to rely on my TRUE SKILLS in answering the questions, that's why, I wrote loads of crap and didn't have enough time for almost every paper for some reasons. Don't know if I still can retain the scholarship or not..*sigh*

Anyway, what should I do for this whole week of holiday? Play? Sleep? Study for second semester?? I have no idea. I got thoroughly bored with every game by now, which includes Facebook. But even if I don't play I will still waste my time on the internet, which means sleep deprivation still occurs. And what the hell study for second semester? I'm that lazy. OH YES! My Rubik's Cube! Finally got the time to master it after buying it for nearly a month =="

Again I have to say, time flies eh? This semester just passed in a blink of eye. At the starting of college days when I didn't have any friends until now when I STILL didn't make any true good friends but still troubled by something undesirable.

Well, what's past has past, I have to look and advance forward. Prepare for the challenges in the future, in the meantime, more coffees to be spammed at a later date.

Lost

2009-08-06T18:30:00.005+08:00

Why? Why am I viewed as a 'special' one when I'm an introvert? Is being special a sin? Do I like being 'special' at the first place?

I always thought that I can focus on revising for my semester finals after my Malaysian Studies' presentation, and I can relieve my mental burden since asking me to go out presenting in front of the class is a nightmare to me. I gave my best, but the harder I try the worse off I am. Anyway, the presentation is now history and our "group" got 8/10. I don't know if I caused the deduction of 2 marks or not, but that's not my main concern and also not what I am going to talk about in this post.

So reflecting back to the questions at the opening, obviously I'm troubled by my introversion again. It will be a long post, not interested then leave ba.

Today, I felt uneasy since the moment I wake up, predicting something bad would happen to me. And yeah, on my journey to ICSJ, I made a lot of mistakes which could be fatal, but I still reached there safe and sound, but there was no parking near college premise. Eventually, I found one 'nice' spot just around the corner of Starbucks Coffee, so I parked there without hesitation due to my perfunctory observations of other cars parking there without any aftermaths. Paid the parking fees, and off to class.

Right, there were actually no classes and attendance was bad as people tend to stay at house to study for their finals or do what ever they want. Cut the crap short, I spent nearly half day at the library alone until breaks' over and I have to go M'sian Studies class. The same situation: <25% attendance, no class. I still went in anyway because I just know I won't study if I went back home earlier. It was a big mistake.
Some classmates from another section came in after me, they chatted with the lecturer. All of a sudden, they started finding profiles of other students in eCAMPUS and criticizing or talking whatever shit. Not everyone was 'chosen', but to my surprise, I was in the list. Of course, they turned down their voice when they were discussing about me, but no one knows that I'm good in eavesdropping (now I've compromised my specialty).

I think they were actually thinking that I'm deaf because I'm an idiot in communicative skills. But they were trying to discuss me when I was in less than 3 metres away from them, besides I'm sensitive to my name. I heard them mention me, so I continue looking my book lo, but paying attention to them. They lmao-ed when they saw my profile (I know, I wasn't prepared when the picture was taken). Then talks started, 'lan si', 'ji bai'(自闭 in Cantonese, a.k.a. autism. And yeah, I'm sensitive) was among the descriptions I can hear.

Most interestingly, they actually discussed which group of person do I talk to. Hell, is it that fucking important? I will only initiate a talk with people who have common interest(s) between us. I was labelled autistic for this. I will clarify this once and for all (who am I clarifying to? None of them has my contact!), introversion is not autism goddamnit. If I were to be an autistic person, none of you will actually know my presence because I will just sit at the most corner of the class instead of at the middle rows(although lonely). You can talk to me and I will reply you if I know how to, but of course not talking to me just to ask things from me every time.

Anyone knows how long was the time for me to have my closest friends currently? It took at least a year for EACH of them, yet still the bond was eroding.

5pm, class ended, went back to my car, and found out that I was summoned by PDRM for improper parking. So many cars around and only me hit the jackpot. So these were the bad things that was going to happen to me eh? Ok, I've hit my toll. I'm physically exhausted from sleep deprivation from the pressure of presentation and these mental blow. I drove very carefully back home to post this meaningless rant.

Why did all these events crush me at the same time? Now, I'm so heavily suppressed in the valley of darkness. Now, I have no more intention to study. Now, I've not only lost my aim to live, but could also lose my will to live anytime.
And don't worry, I strongly disagree with the captions.

An epic (win/fail?) day

2009-07-29T18:22:00.003+08:00

Hmm..how should I start first? Ok. My life's easier after I started driving to ICSJ since 3 weeks ago. By that I meant that it successfully saved my travelling time by almost half of taking KTM. Yeah, I have more time to spend on my compu...I mean studies.

Everything went fine until today. It was a raining morning today, so it's expected for traffic jams will occur everywhere especially Jalan Kewajipan. And some serious shit happened to my car when I was on that congested road. Well, actually I don't know what the heck caused this thing to happen this suddenly? I was driving fine for the whole journey until I felt that the engine is jerky and found out that it was overheating fast.

That's just so great. I'm at the middle of a congested road. I can't stop my engine there, neither can I drive the car aside. The temperature meter hit the red danger zone and smoke started to gush out of the bonnet of the car. The white smoke got thicker and thicker, then the engine was K.I.A. straight. OMGness. Luckily there were also 2 people that had their car broken down before me stopped at the side and they helped me to push my car aside. At least I didn't feel alone that time. And then they identified that there's leakage on my car's radiator. Zz. They have my gratitudes. Now I know radiator coolant liquids are green in colour.

The question still haunts me. Why it got overheated so suddenly??! Karma?? Tell you the truth, I was listening to the radio reporting the "road updates"(sorry, can't recall the actual term, or it is?). When I heard that a car caught a fire, I lol-ed. "It must be some smokers driving and something went terribly wrong," I thought. Just now, I was at the verge of getting my car to catch a fire. Karma eh? Believe it or not?

Anyway, it was the Scholarship Presentation Ceremony today so I had to wear formally to college. Yeah, long sleeves, even after I flipped it up, it's still terribly hot. I'm not exaggerating. It's a congested road = many cars = waste gases + heat. The rain didn't feel cool. Plus I had to stay in my car until 10am, with a door open of course, then the Sun rises high enough to shine directly at me. Damn, I was supposed to be happy attending the ceremony, but then everything was spoiled.

Then the mechanics finally arrived at 10am. The radiator really got owned and to prevent further damage to the engine my car had to be towed. So one of the mechanics sent me to ICSJ. Luckily my class starts at 10am today so I was just late for a few ten minutes.

This stupid incident made my dad had to take a half-day leave to be with the car, and of course, to bring me to the workshop. Everything seems fine now, but suffering from that mortal wound, the 13-year-old engine performed much less powerful now. Anyways, my semester final exam will be starting next Saturday(wtf?). I hope this kind of shit thing won't happen for that time being.

The only regret I had was not taking photos of my broken Wira. The scene where the thick smoke gush out from the bonnet was just simply epic, rare as well. Haiz, no change la, too nervous already. And I sure will be scolded by others if they see that I still have mood doing this when my car's blocking the traffic. Anyway, it's good to have a photo like that as memory, even if it taste bitter. @@

Modern Warfare 2 is coming!

2009-07-18T19:30:00.008+08:00

Nice to know that my most favourite FPS game is coming back. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will be released worldwide on 10th of November this year in all 3 major gaming platforms: MS Windows PC, Xbox 360, and PS3.

It will be the direct sequel to the previous Modern Warfare game and it utilizes a newer game engine compared to the prequel in which the AI is claimed to be more "dynamic" than it used to be. The graphics, to me, is somewhat identical to the previous game, but the current me won't give a damn about it as I wouldn't want my aging 8800GTS to spoil my fun in this game with jerky framerates.

Anyway, enough talk and take a look at this video gameplay. If you would like to, watch it in HD quality with full-screen (if your connection is superior enough, of course)

Not bad a preview I suppose. New weapons, new gadgets, new environment, new enemies...And look who's back. Nice to see an old friend who used to fight with us coming back...err mistake, we were him in the prequel. The then Sergeant has been promoted to a Captain! Gratz mate.

This time, they are going to bundle a night vision goggles(NVG) with the game in the "Prestige Edition" package:

Sounds cool right? But I don't think it's worth it. The package would cost us a bomb here @ USD150 (approx. RM500 to us), and according to people the NVG is just some low quality toy-grade NVG they can get from toy shops such as Toys"R"US. Yeah...an actual NVG could cost up to a million. But of course, that is just some limited edition item which doesn't have much practical use anyway, and collectors would most likely get their hands on one of those. I would if I had the money too..(and, if this piece of "military gear" is legal in Malaysia).

Anyway, I'm looking forward to get my hands on the game as soon as it is released. Kick ass game yo! I will be on my 2 months long semester break when it is released, gonna have some serious gaming sessions by then ^^. But for now, REVISE YOUR GODDAMN MATHS AND CHEMISTRY VINCENT.

Rojak post

2009-07-04T21:18:00.002+08:00

It's the time of the week I can finally update my blog (and of course, if I want to).
A picture I took a few months back when I was still on the long holiday. I was driving back then, when I stopped behind this Mitsubishi Lancer. You don't need to be a genius to figure what car was that actually. I was driving the same car too.

What's so proud of replacing Proton Wira's name with Mitsubishi Lancer? Every Tom, Dick and Harry on the road will still see it as a Wira. And it's not even modded, be it externally or internally. I remember that I overtook this Lancer as soon as I got a clear road. Yay, my 13 years old won a Lancer, Zzz. What's the point? I don't hate light car modders, but a "mod" as small as this by changing the branding and name is too much for me, come on man, at least make it look more like the real Lancer Evolution (Wiralution) la.

First tests for every subjects in my A-Level course are now history. I got desirable results, and I have difficulty understanding a lot of things that will be included in the second tests. This gives a graph identical to alternating current, the alternating results graph. I'm pretty sure that I'm going to do badly in the second tests, which most probably will be starting after around 2 to 3 weeks, since mid-August will be our semester final exam. Omgg, time flies!

The last thing to cover in this post, will be my Malaysian Studies class trip to the Malaysian Parliament Building this Tuesday. Ok, honestly, it was boring. There were no intense argues between the 2 parties(BN & Opposition) like I hoped. The big shots were also not present in the Dewan Rakyat(House of Representatives). All I noticed was some MPs sleeping, talking to the phone, and even Youtube-ing. LOL wth. That's so enjoying.
The picture of the Parliament building I took before heading back to the bus. I was in a rush that I don't have the time to wait for the girls to move out of the view so that I can get a clear shot and I screwed the picture with my finger. Zz

Because of this trip, I could only reach home at 9pm, very much thanks to the train delay from KTM. FYI I went to the station at 6.40pm. Luckily KL Central wasn't crowded with people using Seremban route.

The opportunity cost of visiting the Parliament, will of course be the time spent with my computer. After having my dinner and bathing, I could only online for merely 2 hours before I went to bed due to tiredness. However, the opportunity cost of not visiting the Parliament is very much bigger:

These 2 girls are 2 of my female classmates. We took it at class, obviously. Too bad the other 2 didn't take a picture with me and I missed my class group photo. Zz. Anyway, I use how much money also can't buy these 2 pictures nia. The trip to Parliament was well worth it for I getting these 2 pictures, I would have foregone these priceless pictures if I wasn't going. =D

Is it globally? Or just Malaysians?

2009-06-27T11:02:00.002+08:00

Half a semester has gone, I have started to enjoy college life. But for the time period, I have been suffering more from travelling back home with KTM. The magnitude of suffering is greater than that of enjoying. In a nutshell, I'm pissed.

I wonder how do they operate this company? In Economics, the goal of firms are assumed to be maximizing their profit. Well in this case, yeah I agree with it 100%. They are trying to maximize their profit without taking the consumers' feelings into consideration. Taking the Pelabuhan Klang-Sentul route as example, there isn't any close substitutes like LRT to KTM. There are buses, but that would be a little bit troublesome. Anyway, that is not my main concern as this posts wasn't meant to criticize much about KTM, but the passengers.

I always observe 3 kinds of phenomenon while I was waiting for and riding the train, especially Tuesdays and Thursdays, due to classes of these 2 days end relatively late @ 5pm. By the time I reached there it will always be so damn crowded. And of course, with the so-called "Q-System" implemented by KTMB, passengers will have to listen to broadcasts and then line up on one of the coloured(red, blue, green) lines according to the broadcast. It failed. Why? Well, do you ever think that typical Malaysians will give a damn about this? From my observations this far, a portion of the passengers has colour-blindness(no offence). For example, when we are asked to queue up on the green line, I can always see that there are surely some people that queue up on different coloured lines(excluding late-comers, since the frequency of useful broadcasts is only as high as the frequency of the train). Well, I wouldn't be mad at them, because they have health problem what..I never knew that there are so many people in Malaysia have colour-blindness, I felt sorry for them.

And then there are the "smart" ones, in even larger quantities or just the same as colour-blinded people. Ever heard of the story of "The Emperor's New Clothes" or something similar? These "smart" people are able to see "lines" invisible to the "stupid" ones, e.g. me. So in other words, they just line up where ever they see fit a.k.a. cut queue. I'm sure that annoyed the "stupid" ones that lined up properly on the respective lines.

And when the train finally arrives, some bastards behind will just keep on pushing and pushing...well I shouldn't call them bastards, because I would've become an "induced bastard" in this situation and pushing others in order to prevent me from being completely sandwiched. Even if the train is really full, they will still try to squeeze in no matter what. "Who cares? I pushing ma, you pain not me" might be one of their mentalities, or, they are perverted. A tip for all of you, try to get as inside as possible(nowhere near the doors), the doors are the worst ever place to be near with following the above situation given.

There are those so-called polices and a few KTMB personnels supervising the passengers' movement, i.e. call boarding passenger to let disembarking passengers out first. But most of the time they just call passengers to pack up the train until the maximum point. What's the point man? I was expecting that their presence was to prevent queue-cutters.

Little do I know that if the company set up those stacking steel queue bars(I don't know how to describe it lol, imagine those bars that you line up with when you're in a theme park) instead of employing this "Q-System", everything would have been more organized. Anyone seconded on this?

Anyway, I'm most probably going to drive to ICSJ as soon as I got familiar on the way back. So, I can most probably kiss(my @$$, it should be kick) KTM goodbye. But by then, you might see me complaining about traffic jams. Looks like studying there wasn't a nice choice at the first place after all.

Being introvert = mentally ill?

2009-06-14T11:29:00.002+08:00

Finally there's this serious matter that came across my mind about myself. Am I born to be an introvert or was I forced by myself to be an introvert? I've always thought that I fully understand myself, but it seems like that's not the case now.

After six weeks in the new environment, I think I still haven't talk more than 100 sentences, be it short or long. Let alone making (true) friends. I envied those who said that they made dozens of friends in just 3 days. To me, to be able to make 5 friends in a year is already a great achievement. Other than classes, I would spend 99% of my time alone at either the cafeteria or the library. That's what made myself felt very different from the others, that I deserved to be isolated. And then I started to relate myself with all kinds of mental illness because I've yet to see other people as pathetic as me. It was painful.

I was always told that time will change everything. Yes it did. But for me it's more to a destructive change rather than a constructive one. The only place I can talk well in is the Internet. But then my mom said that my addiction towards computer is the cause of my present state. That made me even more miserable.

Recently I Googled about introversion to find if it's really a kind of mental illness or something. I was given informations that introversion is just a kind of personality. For mental illness, that would be autism, but I know I'm not that kind of person that locks myself in my room and won't face or talk to everyone. I'm just an introvert among many other introverts that I haven't met before that lives in an extroverted world. Instead of changing my personality, I could adapt to this world slowly. No point changing myself to lose my own self, for now.

Although introverts are usually misunderstood, we tend to make less friends when we don't reply much to others when they talk to us. When I say don't know, I mean it, not because I'm too kiasu to teach. Humans are social animals regardless of their personality, and everyone would like to have some friends as their companion. It's just that the way introverts make and define friends differently from extroverts. Just because introverts have their own set of rules, they should not always be labelled differently. Being introverted has its advantages too, though it differs with each individual:

10) Work Well With Others, Especially In One-to-One Relationships
9) Maintain Long-Term Friendships
8) Flexible
7) Independent
6) Strong Ability To Concentrate
5) Self-Reflective
4) Responsible
3) Creative, Out-of-the-Box thinking
2) Analytical Skills That Integrate Complexity
1) Studious and Smart

Source: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/top-10-advantages-of-introvert.html

For any other introverts out there (I just know there aren't any introverts here because I know who are my readers), visit these extra links and you might find it useful. Extroverts ignore these unless you would like to know more about introverts.
The Introvert's Personality Traits
What Introversion is NOT

So, don't worry, be happy. I shouldn't be worrying about my introverted problem now, but my 3 tests starting tomorrow. Holy cow I picked the wrongest time to do these. Bloody hell.

(A somehow hanging post, because I was interrupted by my sleep yesterday night. It was supposed to be posted yesterday, now my thoughts got lost.)

Time flies

2009-05-30T16:23:00.005+08:00

Sorry for not updating for the past few weeks (although I don't know if there's anyone reading this), everything's gotten pretty tight since college life started. There wasn't anything interesting happened since then and so I allocated very few time into blogging.

Say, I can't believe that we have reached the end of May. It's been 4 weeks (take it as a month) since I've studied in ICSJ, now there will be 10 weeks left before the end of first semester. For some reason, I'm complaining that time passed slowly in class, but then ironically, looking back at it, 4 weeks have gone in a blink of eye. And until now I'm still not able to pick up the pace to study..fail.

The beginning of A-Level is basically reviewing what we have learnt during Form 4 and 5, but in a more detailed manner, such as electron arrangements in Chemistry, calculating uncertainties in Physics, for Pure Maths & Stats...they are still around the same as Add Maths until now. So theoretically, I should not have any problems with these subjects for now, except Economics in which I have to start from scratch, but that's not the case though. For 5 bloody months, my brain had been rusting until everything learnt in Form 4 and 5 had been wiped out almost completely. That's the cruelty of the reality.

It's really a pain in the neck for studying that far away and not living in their hostel. Everyday my dad & I have to leave home as soon as 6.30am so that we will not get caught in traffic jams that will give both of us problems. Travelling back home after class using KTM is a more painful experience. I have to walk around 20 minutes from ICSJ to the Subang Jaya KTM station. Global warming has taken the toll on me. The heat and sunshine is a killer, expect me to get tanned after graduating.

But that's just a small portion of the suffering compared to the time wasted in waiting AND riding the train itself. After my timetable changed, it's more sucky compared to the old one as there are now 2 days that classes will end at 5pm. Heck I didn't even join any societies yet. 5pm onwards is a nightmare for public transportation commuters, as many people flock to these transportations. Usually, the Rawang-Seremban route train is always so packed that you have no space to stand and no air to breathe. If there are delays, then you really have to wait for the next 2 trains before you can actually board it. If there's a person with swine flu aboard, then GG. The average time used to travel from SJ back to Serdang is one & a half hour, that is, without major delays. Mostly I'll have a back-ache after disembarking, and there would be damn less free time for me everyday...So for those who got caught in the traffic jam in their own cars is actually nothing compared to this situation. Sadly, I'll have to endure this nightmare throughout the duration of the programme..Anyway, looking at the bright side, if you are packed by cute chicks in the train, that would be much worthy to "suffer" that =D. But so far, I just had only once :(

After a month there, I should have(again) made some friends there. But no much joy. Untalkative and dumb person like me will never make many friends in a new environment "without any existing friends" there together. I'm so successful in isolating myself. Though I do talk with my classmates but when they suddenly make fun of me or ask me something, I'll always respond in a retarded way. Retarded as in replying or giving a response after at least 2 seconds. Before I can do anything they've already moved on *sigh*. By the way, most people are using English now, what can be expected from me as a person who doesn't have any second language?

Just pray hard that every situation above really does improve with time. If it doesn't, I'll have to change myself. Time management's the only way to achieve it. Can anyone kill my addiction towards the internet? I'll be very grateful to you.

*Update(31/5): Made some modifications due to the fact that I posted this in a rush yesterday.

PILN results released soon

2009-05-07T20:17:00.010+08:00

For those who applied for the JPA's PILN Scholarship, including me, this is the time you've been waiting for. I've just visited eSILA and saw the announcement that the results will be released at 3pm tomorrow (8th May).

I know I wasn't going to get it, so forget it. But if I do get it for some reason, I'll give my loyal readers (which I highly doubt if there's any) a big treat for sure. Mark my words.

As I learnt from Economics, resource is scarce but human wants are unlimited, in this case, scholarships are scarce but applicants are near unlimited. I can't wish everyone to get this scholarship, sadly. Therefore, I can only wish my friends good luck in securing the best scholarship in our country. J/K la, just wish whoever that reads my blog good luck la. Of course, I'm not going to leave myself out, a small chance is still a chance. ;p

Time is scarce but my wants to play are still unlimited. So, ciao.

Update: fail, it's changed to 5pm now. Is it my mistake or what?

Update 2: they made an empty promise, given us false hope, reminds me of the fcuk TMNUT. The hell with it, MALAYSIA BOLEH!

Update 3: Rejected. Feel free to LC me.

...marked the beginning of my new life

2009-05-04T18:21:00.004+08:00

As expected I didn't have a good night sleep today, but enough for me to stay awake until now. Have to sleep very early form now on, or else I'm not going to make it on time after completing everything.

Well I've met 3 lecturers who will be teaching us Chemistry, Maths, and Physics until the end of our course. My class consists 9 students, but 1 was absent today, and according to my Chemistry lecturer that the students might increase throughout the week as late enrollment is still in progress.

Sadly, no one actually talked to me (no doubt) and I'm still not good in taking the initiative to talk (screw me). In such a small class, if I still fail to make friends with all of them, I can most probably vanish from this world. Ok don't say until that serious, let's say...eliminated.

Anyway, travelling with the inefficient KTM is no doubt a pain in the a...ok neck. It took me almost 2 hours to get back from Subang station to Serdang station. Walaueh, the delays were really pissing me, and I think everyone, off. The delays caused like 3 trains of passengers to be "canned" into a train. Everyone squeezed into the small pathetic train, and I was "sardine-d" on my way back just now, by a bunch of dudes, sad. I can't imagine if I have to rely on this KTM everyday if my dad doesn't send me to ICSJ's doorstep everyday. I sound spoilt, but I really were to take KTM to Subang everyday I will most probably receive enough warning letters to bar me from the final exams within a month.

Suddenly, I have the thoughts of going back SMJK Yu Hua to study Form 6. Heck, human is a living being of contradiction. Paired together with a pathetic guy like me, it will be doubly pathetic. Suddenly again, I remembered that I said "Life ends after SPM" as opposed to "Life starts after SPM" said by my English teacher from secondary school. Ahh..those nostalgic moments...Fine, no more regrets from now on. CHIONGZZ

The end of my holidays...

2009-05-03T15:30:00.003+08:00

My college life in INTI College Subang Jaya (ICSJ) starts tomorrow, have to get used to a new environment again. A lot of questions ran through my mind: What will happen tomorrow? Who will be my classmates? Will I dare to talk and make new friends? And most importantly, is the money spent on me worth it? It's just like back to those good old school days, I'm always feeling anxious + nervous. I'm still myself after all.

I think I won't be able to sleep tonight because it's always like this, and today I woke up late by the way..My classes starts at 8am everyday..assuming that transportation takes 1 & 1/2 hour, I have to depart by 6.30am everyday in order for me to not arrive late, which in turn means that I'll have to wake up at 5.30am..Hell, I wonder how long will I take to get used to this kind of hectic life again, since I've been sleeping from 2-3am to 12-2pm for the past few months. Man I'm pathetic.

Anyway, I hope I'll grow up soon as I'm advancing to another milestone of my life. But first, I'll have to strengthen up my communicative skills especially in English as everyone there seems to be so pro in English..wth. I'm certainly not going to be left behind. RAWRRr

Zzz

2009-04-27T16:05:00.003+08:00

As expected this Shitmyx connection was screwed up again since Saturday evening. Iam really speechless for their incompetence. Ranting further is futile. Just hope games in Facebooks won't fail me at the meantime.

Finally I applied to study A-Level at INTI Subang, took 4 subjects: Physics, Maths, Chemistry & Economics. This coming Thursday will be the orientation day, don't know what to do by then. But whatever, hope to meet someone there ;p

The course will commence at 4th May, I'll have to do lots of catch-ups as my brain has rusted for idling 4~5 months at home without thinking anything..or prepare to be smoked by my future classmates for forgetting even the basics of Maths.

That's it. I just make the most out of my time to enjoy before getting serious again.

Finally?

2009-04-24T22:12:00.005+08:00

Just to catch your attention. lol. Obvioulsy this figure strayed too far, I'm on a 1mbps line..unless this TMNUT capped my speed wrongly...huhuhu

Anyway here's another list of speedtests done just now:
So I guess the Hong Kong line has been restored completely?

Tests to the U.S. looked normal too. By the way I tried to test on New York and Chicago but their latency exceeded 1k and won't bother to start.

In Europe, the speed wasn't bad for Frankfurt. On the other hand, connection to London sucked big time, but that didn't cause much of a big fuss to me..

Finally I can see decent speeds to overseas that I should get after more than a half month. Youtube clips buffered slightly faster than before, though now I manage to watch some clips in High Quality before getting frustrated. I still have a hard time accessing Facebook...But the most important thing is of course my direct download speeds! Rapidshare downloads @ Teleglobe managed to maintain at around 100 kB/s, still not able to achieve maximum speed, but for now it's a lot better than 0 kB/s..Megaupload on the other hand is still screwed to the max, hovering at an average speed of 10 kB/s...

Can I finally stop the rant? I hope so, for now. No one knows if any shit happens again in the future. I better utilise it as much as I can for now, who knows if they fcuk the line up again tomorrow?

TMNUT did it again!

2009-04-18T20:37:00.005+08:00

The deadline of 17th April had passed, and TMNUT once again prove that they are a company of liars. I managed to run a few speedtests, even it's really making me suffer hard. Let's start with our beloved neighbouring country:
Decent speed, which I should have it anyway.

The so-called affected areas:
i) Hong Kong
Just above par with a 56K. o0o

ii) USA
The speed for both of these locations are just around the same with that of Hong Kong, which is typical.
This is an exception, tests done at LA are the fastest among all other USA locations I've tested. But still it didn't help me in any way.

To show that Screamyx is actually fcuked up in everywhere instead of just HK and USA, I've done a test to one of the European countries. My pick was Frankfurt, Germany.That's the coolest figure I got to see! Sub-56K speed and latency exceeding 1k. And the download test actually started 5 minutes after the completion of latency test. WTF? One can only find this kind of shit-like speeds in Malaysia. Again, MALAYSIA BOLEH(LEBIH LAMBAT DARIPADA KURA-KURA)!

Based on the figures, I've formed a conclusion. Screamyx may be the best ISP* in Malaysia ONLY, but the WORST ISP in the entire world! THE BIGGEST JOKE IN THE WORLD EVER. Even their Screamyx website cannot be accessed now. WTF, too scared to face us so you decided to bring down the server together? This one's a big PHAIL. GAGAL.

There's a Chinese speaking "打是疼, 骂是爱", which literally means "hitting and scolding you means loving you". I couldn't agree with it for this situation, as TMNUT Screamyx is just not worthy enough for me (and anyone else) to love it. Why spoil my health on this failed worthless company providing failed services? They are not going to improve anyway. So instead of scolding TMNUT, now I'm going to CURSE and SWEAR upon them, at least this shows my hatred against them. 屌你! o0o

Oh btw, alphabets is a good form to swear. It was an old song, but still nice to listen in this situation:

每天吃饱都要上来这里駡两句. LOL. Oh fcuk, TM..(buffering)..D..(buffering)..yo C..(buffering)..CB..(buffering) *yawns*.

What more can we do instead of swearing? Again, nothing. As I said before, monopolisation = disaster. Let me remind you on this:

WHERE MONOPOLISATION IS THE WAY TO GO!

*ISP = Intranet Service Provider**
**only applicable to Malaysian ISP, Screamyx precisely.

Screamyx kanasai la!

2009-04-14T09:00:00.003+08:00

A good picture says a thousand words. In this case, thousands of foul words from me to Tmnut Screamyx.

I could normally finish the downloads of this size within 1 hour, but now, more than 7 hours and still not finished. Look at the speed, it's actually slower than 56K (56K max speed @ 56/8 = 7KB/s). To rub salt on the wound, a 5-minute Youtube clip and cost me 15 minutes before completely buffered, speedtest.net won't bother to load, and most importantly, RS & MU d/l speed are now 0KB/s! WTF eh Mr.Nut, my dad pays you RM88 to give us speed crappier than 56K? You better not even cap my direct download speed after you "fixed" that stupid problem.

Look, they first promised us to fix the problem by 5th of April, before delaying to 9th of April. Now, it's 17th of April according to some forummers in Lowyat.net. WTF. KNNB eh Tmnut Screamyx, don't make false promises la. If you promised straight to fix it by 30th of April I also won't feel so mad, at least I wasn't cheated, as I hate being cheated A LOT. Also, if I'm going to get stuck with this crappy speed for half a month, or even longer (you know la, what if This Monkey NETwork company lies again?), will you give me a fcuking rebate to compensate the inconvenience caused due to your own incompetence? YOU WON'T! You money sucking company.

But what can we do to improve it? Nothing literally. This is what happens when a company monopolizes a certain sector and is backed by the gov'ment. There aren't any worthy competition for them to improve their service. Maxis BB? Celcom BB? iZZi? Or even the newcomer P1 Wimax? Nah. I've heard enough the negative sides of them, none of them can be better than this Shitmyx at the moment. Even P1 with their so-called Wiggy that can reach speed of 10mbps is not that good, click here to learn more.

This Screamyx finally made me look like an uneducated fag that goes over the place ranting here and there. I think this is what This Monkey NUT company wanted after all, they wanted us to look like monkeys when they themselves are a bunch of lazy monkeys. Well, yuck fou, if that's what you want!

I had enough. I'm not going to look like a kid due to this issue again, it's so tiring, and retarded, and who knows if they decide to sue me for ranting more here? I think I'll just bombard their unhelpful call centre when my limit's hit.

MALAYSIA BOLEH! I hope Malaysia can achieve ~~Wawasan 2020~~ Wawasan 20202.

One side note, PC Fair is getting worse by time, especially with the presence of Screamyx with huge booths. Not 1, but 2! The first one was located at the first hall we got to enter. I even hear the promoters shouting "STREAMYX, COMBO.. ... ..". WTH, spoil my mood to stay longer la. The second one was located at the exit, as always. Now this time they're tricky. It looks like they've played TD games and have mastered the basic of mazing. This time, we can't get to exit the hall straightaway. Instead, we have to pass through the whole row of ISP companies, with Screamyx being one of them. Yeah well..the hell with it. I'm out.

A day at Jusco..err..I mean half

2009-04-08T18:12:00.003+08:00

What's the best thing to do when TMNUT Screamyx failed you? Hang out with a bunch of friends! Yeah I've just returned from Aeon Cheras Selatan a.k.a. Jusco. It was a nice day to hang out as today is Wednesday, when movie tickets are cheaper! We watched 2 movies: Fast & Furious 4 and Shinjuku Incident.

Our group consisted of 5 friends. Coincidentally, we bumped onto 5 other friends of another group, which has exactly the same schedule with us as well. Looks like Wednesday is a good day to bump onto friends after all.

Our first movie to watch was Fast & Furious 4, and so we entered the cinema (duhz). Well, this movie wasn't as cool as I expected: Racing all the way long (noob thoughts). It does have some thrills though. But honestly, I watch the babes more than the cars as I know nothing about cars, obviously. Sad. Overall, the movie still has a nice storyline.

We had our lunch at McDonalds after the first movie session. I don't know why we always eat there everytime we go out. Perhaps they serve fast food which is the easiest to eat lol. We then visited Popular bookshop to read some books and waited time pass (earliest Shinjuku Incident session was at around 3pm, we had hours to waste). I bought my first English novel (excluding those novels forced to buy for school syllabus), Tom Clancy's Debt of Honour.
It just costed me RM13.40 after 10% discount. Wtf. It's so cheap for a mini dictionary-like-thick (and VERY old) book. Just hope that I can finish it by next year. lol

Finally the time to watch Shinjuku Incident arrived. We entered the cinema again (duhz), but for some reasons the cinema room didn't have any lights other than those beside the seats. It's a complete dark situation. It would be nice if there was a girl beside me. LOL j/k.

This movie interested me. It's the first time I see Jackie Chan acting is such violent movies. The movie is about the hard lifes of illegal Chinese immigrants to Japan during the 1990s. During their early days there, everything seemed happy because everyone was united. After 铁头 (Jackie Chan) accomplished some dirty works as ordered by some Yakuza leader, the illegal Chinese immigrants finally obtained status and power over the area, but things just started to get worse.

I won't spoil any further, I'm not good at narrating anyway, so you'll have to watch it to get a clear picture. This is not an action movie as acted by Jackie Chan usually, instead it's heavier on drama. This movie depicts the ugly side of human, where human is selfish, money-minded and do not care for their former comrades. Everything ended up in a conflict, which is another ugly thing as well. If there's a sentence like "all's well ends well", then "all's bad ends bad" is the only thing I can say now. lol

Imagine if the same thing happens in Malaysia in the future, when illegal immigrants from neighbouring countries flock into our country, forms a gang, and conflicted with local triads (if there's any), what will happen? Can I reckon that movies like "Kuala Lumpur Incident" or "Malaysia Incident" might come out by that time?

TMNUT Screamyx?

2009-04-07T14:18:00.004+08:00

I'm sure that a lot of you Tmnet Streamyx (I call it Tmnut Screamyx from now on) users have noticed that our internet speed deteriorated enormously for the past week. In fact this situation is normal since problems like this arises every month, or perhaps every week?

What makes me to blog about this problem anyway? It's so normal in this country that we Screamyx subscribers should have gotten used to it by now. But this thing matters me now because recently, I think I just earned myself the "heavy downloader" status, and this problem had just got me pissed off.

While torrents are as slow as always since they were throttled by Tmnut to "optimize bandwidth", direct downloads shouldn't be affected by it. I was able to download files from Rapidshare @ Teleglobe and Megaupload with at least 100kB/s, if not at full speed @ 180kB/s. That was before last week. Now, neither of them can barely even reach 10kB/s. WTF. I don't think there's anyone that won't get pissed to see this.

And I went to their website to look for their announcements.

31/03/2009
SERVICE INTERRUPTION

Dear Valued Customers,

Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) wishes to announce that there is a disruption of its Internet services due to circuit faults on the SMW3 between Tuas, Singapore and Penang linking Malaysia to Hong Kong and APCN2 near Chongming, China connecting Malaysia to the United States. As a result, customers using the Internet services may experience slow browsing while accessing websites hosted in the U.S. and Hong Kong.

In addition, customers using other IP services such as Virtual Private Network (VPN) and other critical business applications linked to the U.S. and Hong Kong may also experience some service degradation.

To alleviate the problem, some of the links have been rerouted to alternate routes to ease the congestion.

Restoration works on the affected cables are already in progress. However, during the restoration process, traffic to Northern America and Hong Kong may experience degradation. However, traffic to other countries will not be affected. TM expects complete recovery of its services by 5 April 2009 and will make further announcements on the progress of the restoration works.

TM wishes to assure its customers that it is undertaking all necessary measures to restore communications services for its customers as soon as possible.

Customers can call TM at 100 and select “Internet Services” or e-mail us at help@tm.com.my for any Internet related problems.

Thank You.

Source: http://www.streamyx.com.my/whats_new/whats_new.php?id=article_20090331

Ok now, what does "As a result, customers using the Internet services may experience slow browsing while accessing websites hosted in the U.S. and Hong Kong" and "However, traffic to other countries will not be affected" means? I can't recall browsing websites hosted in other countries especially European countries were fast. By the way, surfing websites hosted in U.S., H.K. and China were never fast prior to this incident as well!

And, they stated that the problem will be fixed by 5th of April which was 2 days ago, but they have yet to fix it by today. Anyway, I just found out from Lowyat.Net forums that it has been delayed until 8th of April, which is tomorrow. I don't know how real will it be, it's just like dealing with a conman, where the conman always make sweet promises to pay back the money to the victim but always gives some lame reasons to buy some time for him to 走佬 (run away). I hate these kind of empty promises, this is just cheating customers! I wonder how companies like this can exist in this world! Well, only Malaysia has it. MALAYSIA BOLEH!

Update: Just found out again from a fellow forummer that the link to H.K. has been fixed as indicated by speedtest, although the speed is still not that good. Now, let's hope that the link to U.S. can be fixed ASAP, to keep our mouths shut, for now.

Disastrous JPA interview

2009-04-01T16:55:00.004+08:00

I've done it again, there's no doubt that I'm VERY bad in communicative skills.

Today was a big day for me. I had to attend an interview held by JPA in PICC. This was the first formal interview I'd gone through so I wore long sleeve tee, a tie, a pair of slacks and a pair of leather shoes. And I combed a nerdy hair, which is an upgraded version of my usual messy hair.

I arrived half an hour earlier as my interview starts at 2pm. The feeling was never any better than taking my SPM result, in fact it's way worse. First, everyone has to go to a whiteboard to find their name and sign on it before going upstairs. There were many panels, and I was at Panel 8, which is the same panel with a schoolmate of mine.

And there you wait until about 1.45pm before the gate was opened so the interviewees can go in and wait outside their respective panel's room. Wait for your turn to be called to hand in your documents to the staffs, then you will be given a number tag and a piece of paper for you to write out the points during discussions. I was the first group to be interviewed. Together with me was a Chinese girl, a Malay girl and 2 Malay boys.

Finally we were called to enter the interviewer's room. There were 3 interviewers, which comprised of 2 Malay man and 1 Chinese woman. We greeted them and we were asked to introduce ourselves in BM in 2 minutes. Ok at least I prepared for this, but eventually I talked too much and was cut down by the interviewer and he just wanted to know what course did I chose, but wtf? I think I didn't talk for even 1 minute yet. Zzz

Fine, the intro section ends and things just got worse. The next section will the group discussion conducted in English. We were given 2 topics:
1) Consumption of junk food is growing among children. Discuss.
2) Which 3 country would you like to work in? Why?
I stuttered all the way long, my mind was messed and I can't voice out my opinions in an orderly manner. Besides, I was the last person to talk for both topics. So I was left with limited choice as most easy points were already voiced out by my group members.

The interview session was followed by another group discussion but this time it was conducted in BM. My body's own special pogative/nesitive feedback mechanism is working at it's best during this period. Why some unknown facts again? Act pro when I look pathetic? Allow me to explain. I call it pogative/nesitive because it's a great fusion of both positive feedback and negative feedback mechanism. The negative feedback mechanism causes my body to shiver like hell in an attempt to regain heat, whereas the positive feedback mechanism causes my body temperature to continue dropping when the surrounding temperature is already that cold. With this "revolutionary" feedback mechanism, my body shivers to lose heat, which further inhibits my already worse understanding and communicative skills. There's no cure to this symptom as of today. Period.

Back to the story. With my pogative/nesitive feedback mechanism it's almost impossible for me to talk any more, don't even say thinking. Besides, BM is my fatal spot. Expect me to be stunned right at the spot. Anyway, I did crap something out to make me look less a phail, just that the 2 Malay interviewers looked like they were going to fall asleep from my speech.

Then finally, it's the ending. They allowed us to ask some questions related to this scholarship. My group members obviously had many questions to ask, everyone of them. I tried so hard and finally I squeezed out a question. What a huge success. Yay!

And so it ended after that. We thanked our interviewers and walked out of the room. The whole process took 1 hour which was longer then we expected. My group members looked so happy, while I felt that I'm a phail. Whatever, I could only blame myself for being an introvert, idiot, n00b. It's too late to change anything. But looking at the bright side, future disappointment has been eliminated since I didn't have any hope of securing the scholarship from that point on.

Overall, the interviewers were good enough to not headshot me right at the spot, it's just me that shot myself in the leg. So friends, if you're going for an interview, your calmness will be the key to your success. Always equip yourselves with the current issues happening around the world, and of course, sharpen your mind and communicative skills. Sorry, I'm still too depressed to give any good advice here, and I think I'm not eligible to give as well.

To interviewees from my group, I'm perhaps the noobest person you'll see in your life. So, remember my n00b face, remember how phail I am during the interview, and call me n00b if you meet me by any chance.

Anyway, I hope those shortlisted candidates who will be having their interview for the next few days, good luck!

P.S.: I'm aware of what day is today, but given the situation now I just can't do it, so read the whole crap passage without feeling being cheated.

Kthxbye.

Earth Hour 2009

2009-03-28T16:00:00.003+08:00

Three days ago, I got to know that I was shortlisted for JPA scholarship interview. I chose Engineering(Germany), and my interview will be held at 2pm on 1st of April(APRIL FOOL!) at Putrajaya. Being a pessimistic person, I know it's hard for me to not think negatively towards the outcome of the interview. You and I both know why.

The interview takes the form of group discussion, in which I heard there will be some kind of debate between the interviewees (around 4-6 people per group?). Hence, with my blunt mind, I'm sure that I won't be able to catch up with other interviewees' conversation and points. Not forgetting that my communication skills are below average.

Anyway, I just found out that the marks are now allocated as below:
75% result
10% family background
10% cocurriculum
5% interview performance
Now I better hope that this is true!

By the way, Earth Hour will be held later today at 8.30pm. But I might not be able to be at home at this time since I have to attend the so-called "Academic Prize Award" ceremony at Ikhlas Jaya Tuition Centre, and I doubt that my tuition teacher will "celebrate" it to prevent some wolves from taking advantage.
I don't know what will happen when the time comes. Are we able to see the neighbourhood in darkness? Or will we be seeing the neighbourhood still in flashy lights? Well, to me, this is just an event in an attempt to save the Earth(?), if we, I mean the whole mankind, would like to save energy to save the Earth, we should be using less electricity everyday, on our own will. There's no need to wait for this day to shut off all your non-essential lights, when you lit your spotlights and flashy blinky ornaments just to show how majestic your house is everyday (no offence).

But still, it's still a good thing that we respond to this event, as long as it still reduces energy consumption, and shows that we have the heart to save the Earth! May God bless these kind-hearted people will be safe from darkness. (Think, who don't like to take advantage of everything in the darkness?)

For more info about Earth Hour, kindly visit these websites:
Earth Hour homepage
Wikipedia

DIY transplant surgery

2009-03-24T21:06:00.005+08:00

Ok lads, do you want to become a surgeon? Err, I mean a "computer surgeon". All you need is just some basic computer knowledge, so you can do it even if you're a layman! Sounds easy right? Great, let's move on.

I went to Low Yat Plaza today to buy a new DVD-RW drive to replace my LG GSA-H55N which died few weeks ago. I was unlucky perhaps, the H55N just lasted for 1 year+, just exceeding the 1 year warranty. Zzz.

Today, I was unlucky again. I was opting for the Pioneer S16FXB, but none of the shops I visited has the stock. Dumbstruck. Out of no choice I had to buy the inferior Pioneer DVR-217BK. (Well, my mom was with me, which made me felt lazy to survey any longer). Anyway here's the picture:

There's nothing special about the package, but it's bundled with a decent burning ROM software, Nero 8 Essentials. (Well again, I didn't bother to try it, so I didn't know how essential it is, obviously)

The "surgery" started as soon as I get home. Before I start, allow me to explain my title.
DIY (Do-It-Yourself): I don't think you need a group of "surgeons" to replace a broken DVD drive?
Transplant: An action of replacing a broken part with a functional one. In this case, the broken H55N is replaced by the new 217BK.
Surgery: Err, what's the reason? Transplant is a kind of surgery?
So, current or future doctors & surgeons (pro pro), please don't despise me and thinks that I'm trying to act pro with my title. ;p

I tend to talk too much cr@p, now back to the topic. I start by cleaning dusts stuck at the mesh material at the front of the casing to ensure optimum airflow. This action is irrevelant, but I know it will be left uncleaned for another half year if I don't clean it now, which might cause any of the hardwares to go haywire again.

Then, both side panels were removed. The device was disconnected from the motherboard, along with the IDE cable. I found a new SATA cable, and was made to spiral helix shape using a pencil, because it will be the same with IDE cables in terms of space occupation and appearance (BEING FLAT! LOL).

The final product

Next I installed the new 217BK on the 5.25" bay where the H55N used to be. Finally, SATA cable and power connector were connected. Side panels were then installed again. Surgery has finished, in less than 5 minutes!

Ignoring those wires, the SATA cable is still looking good IMO

I can finally do everything related with discs again. Hooray!

By the way, now I know why it's a surgery, because it's so identical to surgeries done by real professional surgeons!
1)Cleaning mesh material --> Surgeons disinfecting patients before beginning
2)Removing side panels --> Opening up the patients body with surgeon knife
3)Removing broken hardware --> Removing broken organs (example: kidney)
4)Installing functional hardware --> "Planting" in functional organs
5)Installing side panels --> Closing/sewing up the wound
Well, the CPU's a system after all, I bet there's nothing wrong with it ;)

Yong Xian's birthday

2009-03-21T22:24:00.004+08:00

As the title implies, today is my friend, Yong Xian's birthday. We celebrated his birthday at Aeon Cheras Selatan today morning.

Things didn't go as we have planned though. Our birthday boy didn't show up on time. I'll keep the reason to ourselves. We decided to have a karaoke session instead of watching movies.

We bought him a cake and ate it during the karaoke session. It was fun. It's been a long time since the last time I sing and as expected I can't live up the standard I used to be..Now my throat is sore enough to even talk properly. Failed.

I didn't prepare a present for him (sorry boss), we just used this chance to hang out together before some of my friends begin their college life. To continue the "celebration", we even went to a cyber cafe at Sungai Long, before finally going home.

Anyways, Happy Birthday Yong Xian bro. Wish you all the best in your studies and future. And of course, wish you good luck in your relationship with your gal. XD

SPM? What is that??

2009-03-12T21:33:00.011+08:00

Today is the day where we receive our SPM results. Today shall be a historical day in our lifetime.

I arrived school at around 11.30am. Well I have to say that our school is a bit slow as we have to wait until nearly 12pm before we can take our SPM result.

Anyway, when the time finally comes, the feeling and tension I was having is hard to be described. Although my face didn't show any expressions, my heart was pumping fast while lining up, the waiting is actually..exhilarating. When these feelings clash together, I felt that I was going to have a heart failure, seriously.

There goes the queue and it's finally my turn. My teacher searched for my slip, and said "Congratulations! Full straight A!" to me. WTF, I got nerved and thought I got 11A1, but no lar, I'm not that pro to get it. I could see it at my first glance through the slip that I got an A2 for my BM as it's at the top of the list. I failed, in terms of getting full straight A1..
Anyways, I can't get any prouder about myself for scoring this kind of result. Everything was out of my expectations, especially the 3 language subjects. Was luck on my side again?

Today, some unlucky ones might get scolded by their parents for not scoring the amount of As they required, I felt sorry for not being able to give any appropriate advice or help regarding this matter, just hope that they can get over it soon. On the other hand, those lucky ones might get something as their reward. Well, they get their rewards always anyway(I was referring to the rich ones).

For me, it's just the same. My parents didn't rant on or praise me. Never mind, I didn't study for that. I'm most probably not going to receive any rewards. Never mind, I know my family condition and won't ask for more. Without these kind of "motivations", what actually drove me to take this exam so seriously? My future? Or, is it because of you?

I don't know. What I know about now is that applying for scholarships for private colleges are easier than before. One A1 less, still ok la, more choice, but still not the most. Now I just have to consider about entering which college to further my studies.

Say, I have complicated feelings about my BM result. I hate it because it ruined my 11A1 dream. But, I have to love it because it saved lots of my money as I have made deals with many friends that I have to give them a big treat or buy them a laptop if I ever scored 11A1. It saved my money but I have to compromise my better valued scholarships, which means, my dad is the one going to suffer instead of me(my dad will be the victim for both situations actually. Zzz).

Cheers!

*Special Thanks*
My teachers for their teaching and guidance all these years.
My parents for creating me and spending money to educate me.
My friends for their help in my homework all these years.
Anyone who has ever despised me before.(?)

The judgement day has come

2009-03-11T16:26:00.003+08:00

This post should have been written earlier today, if not because of the sudden heavy thunder rain that poses a threat to my computer made up of delicate electronic components.

Say, I can't recall when is the last time the rain falls so heavily like just now. The sky is so dark when it should still be bright, small ice pieces falling from the sky, the thunder is strong and non-stop, the wind is blowing as if there's a typhoon happening here, and I mean it. Although I can't see roofs flying in the sky, but it is most certainly going to blow away stickman like me.

At first, I thought this heavy rain is going to save me from facing the SPM results I'm going to receive tomorrow. But obviously it didn't work as I'm still writing cr@p here. Hahaha...fail.

Anyway, I'm shifting back to the topic now. Every student that has taken their SPM 2008 should have already known that the results will be released tomorrow(duh). We will be going back to our school to take our results(duhz). Someone might scream with happiness, someone might cry, someone might even not bother to show any expressions.

Tomorrow will be the day for me to decide whether I should continue my studies with A-level or Form 6. Anyway, I hope to get as much As as I can, of course, preferably more than 10A1s, but that's not going to happen. I'm not going to pray for it because I never pray during the normal days. If I do it now it just looks like "临时抱佛脚" and usually it doesn't work.

In a nutshell, it's the result that matters. I have tried my best in the exam, even it's not good compared to myself during the trial exams, but it's over. As mentioned in Ah Gong's latest post with his pro philosophies, if you knows how to feel satisfied, you will be satisfied with everything no matter how good or bad the thing is. For now, I wish every SPM 2008 students will get their ideal results tomorrow. Wish me luck too! Hope I still can see all of you after tomorrow ;)

MGS3 ending

2009-03-07T08:54:00.004+08:00

Another post about games, hope no one's going to get bored. ><

Finally, we get to know that SPM 2008 results will be released on 12th of March, which is next Thursday. After the long waiting, I'm going to see how many subjects that I've failed in. Can't wait for that day to arrive as the waiting is killing me now.

To make the time "fly" faster, I've been concentrating on gaming(again), but not as excessive as last time, of course. Far Cry 2, the next-generation FPS PC game, is very tiring to play for long hours as compared to Maple Story. However, I've just finished this game recently, and I'm not feeling to keep on playing L4D or my ears will burst from gunfire. I came up with an idea: Youtube-ing.

If you're living in Malaysia I'm sure that you're familiar with this local telecommunications company called TMNUT, with their broadband serviced named SCREAMYX, offering "broadband" speeds as fast as a dial-up connection(for some people, or take it as an exaggeration. No offence!). Hooray!

Since it's that slow, buffering Youtube is a helluva task to carry out. A one-minute clip might take you more than 3 minutes before you can stream it smoothly. Given this situation, you can open the clip first, pause it, do something useful in your life while waiting for it to buffer completely, before watching it.

Suddenly I have the urge to watch MGS3 cutscenes to revise my understanding towards the story of the game. The best of all, it's the game's ending. I loved the ending the moment I watched it. This is one of the best endings, if not the best, for a game. Listening to the soundtrack while watching the movie just makes the ending feels so...dramatic. I havn't play MGS4 yet but in fact, I think MGS3 will be the best game in terms of storyline in the MGS series.

Here's the movie clip. You may watch it if you like it. Enjoy!

It's touching, well, at least for me, since I get touched rather easily. However, finished gameplay is recommended for the best experience ;p. Did you learn anything from this movie? Well let me share mine. I learnt that history can be altered by politics or some other factors. For example, The Boss should be remembered as a hero for her sacrifice but she was remembered as a war criminal in history instead due to the "special arrangements" made by the government.

I know this is fictional, but that doesn't eliminate the possibilities of this occurence in our world. I mean, imagine, what if the texts we read in our History textbooks aren't the actual events or facts but is altered instead? Who knows if we had been given false informations regarding history all these years without realising the truth? Well, only God knows..

Lastly, I would like to end my post with this famous Chinese idiom:

尽信书不如无书

It's March already!

2009-03-02T14:06:00.005+08:00

It wasn't 29th of February yesterday, because this year wasn't a leap year. It wasn't 30th of February today, because this date has never existed! God, I've completely forgotten about the date if I have not checked the calendar today!

Time flies, I've been living my idle dreaming days for like, 4 months? Good, that's 4 months of time wasted doing and gaining nothing, well, except for the "heightened" reflex from intensive gaming...In this 4 months, my brain is blank, everything learnt just to face my SPM has gone to nowhere. So how am I going to survive the high-level education?

And since it's March now, our SPM results are most probably going to be released at the second week of the month, as I read from the newspaper. I've yet to make up my mind about the course that I shall take. A-Level or Form 6? Each of them has their pros and cons. For the former choice, you study at colleges, which is a new environment, but you will have to pay a high tuition fee for it. While the latter is free, you still study in your boring secondary school, and are still bound to the good old school rules.

Still, my choice to take which course will fully depend on my SPM results. Good results = more scholarships, so that I have more choice to study in private institutions. As for the opposite, I will have to stay in my good old secondary school to study Form 6 and take STPM in the future.

I have no issues with both of them actually, since both of the Pre-U courses are widely recognised in the world, only if you obtained good results in either of them, of course. My dream is to study in Singapore universities, with grants and scholarships. That will postpone at least 7 years of time for me from joining the s2pid NS by the gov'ment.

A-Level/Form 6: 1 & 1/2 years. Engineering course: 4 years. Bond attached from grant(work in Singapore): 3 years. So, I will be 27 or 28 years old by the time I graduate from university and "detached" the bond. And by that time I might be able to get some disease that can help me skip NS! LOL. Hell, I won't curse myself to get diseases just to skip this programme. Just hope that this dream comes true and I can continue to work overseas until I'm 35 years old.

But wait a minute, I did say everything has it's pros and cons, didn't I? If this dream ever comes true, this means that I will have to be a single dude until I'm 35 years old before I can come back here to find a girlfriend. I don't think I can afford the high "maintenance fee" of Singapore girls le. ><"

(P.S.: Again, not criticising Malaysian girls for having low "maintenance fee", but I simply like Malaysian Chinese girls more ;P)

My day as a Witch Hunter

2009-02-24T10:40:00.011+08:00

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Fatal experiment. Inexperienced players please do not attempt this without using god mode or pro supervision. ;)
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PROBLEM STATEMENT
Does The Witch die from one shotgun shot?

AIM
To prove that one shotgun shell can kill The Witch.

HYPOTHESIS
A player can be the Witch Hunter with one shotgun shell.

MATERIALS
Shotgun shells

APPARATUS
Auto shotgun (Benelli M4 Super 90 semi-automatic shotgun)

SPECIMEN
A daring player, The Witch

PROCEDURE

1. The game is set to "Advanced" difficulty. The experiment is conducted in a "controlled" environment where every wandering infected has been cleared. sv_cheats 1 is enabled followed by z_spawn witch. A Witch is spawned in front of me, while my AI mates are having fun bashing the hand rails on the tower. Flashlights are turned off.
2. The player has to move very close to the Witch, the range where the shotgun pellets have not dispersed widely. The crosshair is aimed at her head.
3. The Witch shall be shot in the head or anywhere near it before she could slash you into pieces, as long as every pellet from the shotgun shell hits her. For the best effect, kill her before she is startled.
4. Repeat steps 1 to 3 for as many times as you like to get an accurate result. For a more challenging environment, change the game difficulty to "Expert".

RESULT
Poor Witch. Owned by 1 shotgun shell. My life decreased due to the ambush by her lover(probably), The Hunter, as soon as I killed her, while my AI mates finally stopped having fun and came to save me. Results was not altered in any way though.

CONCLUSION
The Witch can be killed with one shotgun shell while the player becomes the Witch Hunter, and completes the CROWND achievement. Hypothesis accepted. Period.

Hell yeah, that concludes the way of killing The Witch the easy but hard way, as well. I know you won't understand with just a few screenshots coupled with my noobish English, in addition to my cr@ppy experiment form. So I'm going to embed videos from Youtube so that anyone of you who would like to try this to have a clearer look at it.

If you would like to have a more "vulgar" version of video guide, here you go:

He didn't finish her quite the right way, but he got it as well. Never mind it, as I didn't post this video for this sole purpose. While watching this video, pay attention to the background speech. Seriously, I ROFL-ed when I heard that particular sentence.

Anyway, enjoy the killing and have fun beWitched ;)

A piece of advice: Practice makes perfect.

What I learned from Left 4 Dead

2009-02-18T14:45:00.010+08:00

Long post warning, 56K hostile ;)

I've been on Left 4 Dead for sometime now, and I've found out some thing that everybody should know regardless you play this game or not.

I didn't make this strip, obviously. Credits given to =Golden-Silver from deviantART. Here's the link to his post.

FYI this is the revamped version of his original creation. If you would like to have a look at his original creation, click here.

Hope you enjoy this cartoon strip and of course the game itself :D

By the way, am I destined to become a Hunter? I can say that I was athletic during my secondary school days especially at Form 4 and Form 5. Oh cool...

Vincent out.

Believe it or not??

2009-02-16T21:48:00.006+08:00

Two days have passed since Valentine's Day, have you received your desired Valentine's Day gift? Sure you did, I know you're not someone like me, who never held a girl's hand until now, failure.

Even if you didn't receive any gift, I'm sure you had an enjoyable day, right? But not for me. Besides spending the day lonely, I had to face a "chaotic" family environment. The word 'chaotic" is exaggerating here, but that's it. I was wondering why a seemingly peaceful day can turn out that disastrous.

Everything was fine until when my family went out to have a treat at around 8pm. My dad decided to have steak as our Valentine's Day dinner at Cowboy. As expected, this kind of restaurant will be crowded with customers at this time, at this kind of occasions. My mom blamed my dad and started to grumble.

Out of no choice, we must find another restaurant(duhz) before matters got worse. It was half hour gone when we went to a seemingly newly opened restaurant. We can finally have our meal at around 8.45pm. My mom's face changed rapidly. Our ears can finally rest.

Today, I suddenly had an urge to look at the calendar, and I found that Feb 12th is the day where people with Tiger zodiac will have conflicts with those who are Monkey. Just look at the illustration and read the words in Chinese for better understanding ;p

Besides, look at that 今日时辰吉凶 section, the 时辰 with 凶 includes 子,申&戌. From my searching, 戌 starts from 7pm until 9pm in our standard timing we use.

So, what do you think? That's such a coincidence for that day to turn out like that. My mom(tiger) quarreled with my dad(monkey) at 8pm(戌). Omg, everything is destined.

Now do you believe this kind of thing or not??

Moral of the story: Look at your calendar everyday especially the details to prevent unhappy matters that could ruin your day from happening. Seriously. It's true somehow.

Vincent out.

214...

2009-02-14T16:31:00.003+08:00

Yeah, time passes so fast, and it's Valentine's Day again, another lonely day for me. Normal la, who would like to go out with a dumb@$$ like me? Not to mention that I didn't even have a female friend with very good relationship. *sighz*

By the way, I'm not posting this to show and rant about how lonely I am as I'm sure that everyone of you are going to get pissed off from my blog and no one cares about my life anyway.

Just like to dedicate this song to all lovers and couples in the world:
梁静茹 (Fish Leong) -- 今天情人节 (Today is Valentine's Day [direct translate])

As for those lonely people like me out there, go and listen another song of Fish Leong called 分手快乐(Happy Breaking XD). There's a sentence in the lyrics that looked like this:

“其实爱对了人情人节每天都过”

when translated directly, means:

“If you loved the correct person, everyday would be Valentine's Day”

So...don't be sad if you're lonely this Valentine's Day, ok?

Oh before I forgot about this, if you're too busy or too shy to hand over your Valentine's gift to your loved ones yourself, remember to find DHL, which delivers anything like they claimed XD. Enjoy!

Lastly, I will still wish everyone to have a Happy Valentine's Day no matter you are single or paired.

Vincent out.

My baby is back!

2009-02-10T14:16:00.005+08:00

After months of waiting, finally my 8800GTS is back from RMA.

To let you all have an image of my problem when it got fried:

The craziest artefacts you could see! You judge the seriousness of the problem ;)

They have replaced a so-called new unit to me, but I doubted their claim as I still can see dusts on the fan @_@. And it takes 2 months just to replace a card? omg. Waiting for me to give up waiting and hope for me to buy a new card from them?

Anyway, this was one of the best cards Nvidia has to offer(3 years back), and I bought it in the wrongest time. The hell with it, I'm blatantly proud for owning this graphics card that costed more than RM1000. Here's some pics:(bear with my noob Nokia5300 1.3MP camera)

8800GTS in action

And there goes. All fired up. Enjoying L4D, probably the best multiplayer co-op game ever created in history. I'm not talking much now, gotta go have some fun after months of boring days ;)

Vincent out.

Happy Chinese New Year!

2009-02-01T22:59:00.006+08:00

Sorry for this late CNY post, I ate and slept until I can't think of anything to write. ^^

It's an ordinary CNY anyway. Went back hometown, ate reunion dinner, play computer, eat kinds of biscuits until I nearly got sore throat, sleep, finally came back home. There's one thing I hate the most during CNY, lose in gambling. Every year go back sure lose money, not excluding this year. I have lost about RM30 this year. Not much you say? Fine, what about saying that I've lost about 30% of my total wealth this year? That sounded more serious, right?

Since I've turned 18 this year, I didn't waste the opportunity to drink a few cans of beer at my hometown. I drank a total of 4 cans which comprise of 3 cans of Carlsberg and a can of Guinness. Seriously, Guinness tasted better(bitter) as one can of it contains 6.8% of alcohol compared to 5% in a can of Carlsberg. Either of them made me feel dizzy for some time, though. Gotta have some training soon. =D

I visited my friends' houses in Kajang the last 2 days. Visiting their houses made me feel myself inferior to them for some reason. I finally get to drive to Kajang alone as my parents had to go to Seremban to visit a relative of ours =D. I gained lots of driving experience on my day there since traffic there is enormous, many chances for me to get involved in an accident though.

Talking about CNY, for a "kid", there's nothing more important than getting "angpau"(red packets). I have yet to open my Angpaus, honestly, but I already have a figure of the total money I will get this year, which is way too insufficient to buy any computer hardware I like, not even a good quality gaming peripheral. Anyway, like one of my friend said:

“Angpau is just a meaning and blessing given by elders to younger generations, don't just care about the money you received.”

Yeah, he's right. Thanks to him I won't be so money-minded. The elders need to give Angpaus according to their financial situation after all.

By the way, I get to know that people whom zodiac sign is Horse will have a good "Peach blossom luck"(love luck/桃花运). Let's see how good my luck will run for this year =D.

Lastly, I'm sure that you are thoroughly bored with this whole passage of words by now. It's the 7th Lunar day today, which is 人日, everything is still not too late, so Vincent hereby wishes the whole Chinese race

*恭喜发财*

*新年快乐*

*身体健康*

*事事顺利*

*HAPPY CHINESE 牛 YEAR*

I'm a winner!

2009-01-22T16:30:00.004+08:00

Just bought my PC Gamer Malaysia January 2009 issue yesterday. Turned to this page accidentally straight after opening the magazine:
Yeah, Sekai is my nickname in Velocity Forum. I've sent this screenshot taken in COD2 to the editor of PCGM on early of November last year. I thought I have no more chance to win in this section when last month's issue came out with another person's screenshot. This marks the third time I've won something from PCGM.

I think you can see my screenshot above and the caption below it clearly as I've "magnified" it for a bit. Else, you can just buy a copy of this month's PCGM at your nearest bookstore to have a clear look on it. =D

Anyway, how am I going to claim my prize this time? It's just a 5000 MOLePoints card equivalent to RM50. I'm certainly not going through the hassle by riding KTM to go Subang Jaya just for that. Can anyone help me instead? XD

Vincent out.

Hail TV advertisements!

2009-01-21T09:55:00.004+08:00

I have been very free since my Mapling fever has subsided completely(Hooray). So to prevent getting infected by that fever before I get back my killer card, I have been honing my MGS 2 & 3 skills in terms of stealth, not killing like I used to. Ok I know both of them are godd@mn old games, even MGS 4 has been released for a while now. But hey, I'm not that fortunate to have a PS3 just to play that masterpiece.

I'm not in that kind of mood to play that much, however. I visited Youtube to find some clips that could cheer me up. Guess what have I found:

Caught your attention? You should, if you're a real man, else, I feel sorry for you. =X

I suppose this bra advertisement is from Taiwan. That's some nice ads that we ~~perverts~~ men would like to see on TV. Don't deny it, I know you(men) would, but sadly it's not going to happen in Malaysia. =( Anyway, I think I'm going for a train ride these few days and see what will happen to me if I do that. I hope that you won't see me at police stations or even newspaper headlines.

Here's another short but funny advertisement. Judging from the language spoken, this one should be from Hong Kong. Now that's creative, this clip advertises how Rejoice smoothens your hair, to an extent that the event above happens. Girls, use it with caution. *evil smile*

Do we have Rejoice advertisements here in Malaysia? Yes we do. But, the way they show how their shampoo smoothens your hair is boring. The idea of every hair shampoo advertisements here is the same, not just Rejoice. Basically, the models just swing their "computer-drawn" hair to show that their hair becomes *that* smooth after using the shampoo. It just lacks creativity IMO.

By the way, to avoid me being thought as a disloyal citizen of Malaysia for being too supportive on overseas TV advertisements, I have included an one-of-a-kind Malaysian TV ads as well.

Now this one's special. Proton emphasized the importance of buckling up your rear safety belt, so that we won't get smashed out of the car through the windshield like what happened to the "ghost" during an emergency brake. But for some reasons I never saw this advertisement on our TV beforehand. Banned perhaps? Anyway, nice try.

Vincent out.

PS: I'm not promoting nor critizising any brands or companies in my post. Don't sue me if I have insulted you by any means. =P

Approaching Chinese New Year..

2009-01-19T14:57:00.001+08:00

My Mapling fever have started to subside after 1 week. I admit, the fever did subside, but I didn't say that it has completely subsided so I'm still addicted to it, just not as serious as before. I had many stories that I would like to share but for some reasons the screen shots failed and are all corrupted. Zz.

I managed to collect another 1800 Rascal Snowpieces these few days to help Darren exchange an Ice Chair. Since he helped me so much, and he's busy with his college studies currently, so I should repay his kindness with the least I can manage to do. Now he sure does looks cool on that chair.

By the way, it's just a week before we, the Chinese, are going to celebrate Chinese New Year. Well yeah time flies. I have never thought that it's CNY next week, and never had the mood to celebrate it though. Nothing special, really. Every year, I just get to go back hometown in Johor, have Reunion Dinner, get Angpau, play computer, lose in gambling, sleep, and lastly come back to my home. This cycle bored the hell out of me, just take the journey to Johor, at least 4 hours will be wasted on highway. In addition, Angpaus I got never increases, but I think they decreases every year!

But, I heard from my parents that we may be going hometown at the 2nd Lunar Day(年初二) instead of the usual CNY Eve(除夕). Okay that sounded a little overboard. Why on earth are we still going back like that? I would rather stay at home for the whole CNY. 2nd Lunar Day depart = night arrive, and then my cousins would most probably return home at 3rd Lunar Day = face my elders = nothing talk = play computer = LONELY. No difference in being lonely here or there. Plus, lesser Angpaus. Oh, I get it. We get lesser Angpaus so that they can give lesser Angpaus as well. Economic recession ma, I fully understand.

Ok I was just kidding about that Angpau part. They aren't stingy enough to do that just to save money. Perhaps my mom just wants to pray at our own home on CNY to bring us good luck, causing the delay.

Anyway, preparations to celebrate CNY is on the way. New clothes, decorations, are bought, I guess. That's not the main part la, by this time we should have been cleaning our houses already. Everyone knows we are not allowed to clean our houses during CNY, especially with brooms, to avoid our money being "swept" away.

Me, being a good boy, have actually started cleaning my house before I got that Mapling fever. Just take that fan cleaning as the starting point. I wouldn't post everything that I have done, or else there will be more crap posts in this blog.. Wndows wiped, ceiling fan cleaned, and any traces of dust in my room had been taken care of. I did say dust, but not the messy appearance of my desk.

My mom always said, messy desk = messy mind = bad for studies. Now perhaps that's the reason why I sucked at my studies all the time. Shall tidy them up soon before entering college or going Form 6, or else I'm going to fail in my life.

Vincent out.

Vincent is on a Mapling Spree!!

2009-01-16T18:48:00.005+08:00

Yeah, as the title emphasized, I have been Mapling for at least 12 hours per day for nearly a week now, thanks to my failed job application attempt. This is the reason why I have not blogged even I had some crap to post = =. The server is having an urgent check right now so I got the time to blog. XD

Anyway, for the past week, I have been gooing to sleep very late, but actually it's early in the morning already...Things worsen everyday when I slept at 2am and waked at 11am at starting until today I slept at 4am and waked at 1am!

12pm~4am, that's 16 full bloody hours(no la, of course got rest one..) spent on MapleSEA! Hell, I'm unstoppable and surely has gone out of my mind. Now I'm behaving and looked like a zombie... Besides, my whole body is going to "rust" and die off if this could continue for a month. I can't recall the date when I last had an exercise. I think you readers can have an idea of how rusted I am through this post as well.

On the other hand, this intense gaming has resulted in my characters levelling up real fast, with the help of Christmas quests of course. My Warrior raised from LV10 until LV24 purely with Christmas quest whereas my LV14 Mage is raised to currently LV33 Cleric through potion spamming and Christmas quest! I have dedicated myself into MapleSEA so much that I have collected over 5000 Rascal snowpieces for the past 3 days, and used them to exchange for 1 Ice Chair for my Cleric and Assassin respectively, and a Warm Muffler(usable for 1 year) for my Cleric. Now that's what I call an accomplishment.

By the way I would like to thank my sponsor, Der Yaw a.k.a. Darren for all your support in MapleSEA all these time, either financial-wise or levelling guideline. You helped a lot, seriously.

Now then, I think I'm becoming god-like. I mean I really will become god(or ghost) if I continue to damage my body like this. My eyes are starting to fail me now, I can hear the scream of my liver(11pm~3am being the time for liver to rest). The only way to stop me from being god-like, is getting my 8800GTS back! And then I can get tired from those graphics-intense games so that I will sleep earlier! But now when on earth can I get that piece of hardware back?! >=(

To cut the crap short, the server check is over now, and I'm going to continue my Maple fever. =X

Vincent out.

It's so hard to find a job, eh?

2009-01-13T18:33:00.002+08:00

Well, it's approaching 2 months since SPM ended. I had been planning to work while waiting for my SPM result to come out. It didn't turn out well as expected, a lazy bum like me couldn't forgive myself for not enjoying the long-waited holiday. Plus, my classmates had a trip to Genting Highlands on late December. So, I can't help myself to postpone my so-called plan.

The day after Christmas, I actually went to apply for a job position as a waiter at GreenBox Jusco. And of course, I wouldn't be here blogging if I have succeeded. My equation only for myself, in a nutshell:
Not prepared for an interview + God d@mn cold interview room + My inability to talk = FAIL.

Early of January, I went to Jusco again with my friends, trying my luck again. The result was still the same. Those shops with vacancy require us to be working at the 3rd Lunar Day. I wouldn't be a problem for me if my hometown is in KL, but no, it's in Johor! How am I supposed to come back at the 2nd day of CNY when I havn't finish collecting my angpau??

Yesterday, I tried my luck at The Mines/Capitaland or whatever you call it. There sure are a lot of vacancies, BUT, most of them are either only for females or full (full then why stick so many vacancy notice at your shop entrance??). WTF, did my face just pissed you off by giving me these reasons? Fine, I still managed to apply for a job in one of the computer shops there.

Today, I went to that shop again to attend an interview by the supervisor as he was on leave yesterday. I did better in this interview if compared to last time at GreenBox, BUT, I have shown my honesty (1st stupidity) by saying:"I'm not really good with computers, but you can't say that I'm not good with it either." Know my meaning of "inability to talk" now?

Anyway, he said he will give me an answer tomorrow as he will discuss with the higher-levels. Judging by my past experience, that means, I have 99% chance of failing to get the job for (1)my inability to talk just now, (2)my high expected salary (RM1000 nia, 2nd stupidity). The hell with it, at least I've tried to be myself. Using the equation earlier:
~~Not prepared for an interview + God d@mn cold interview room +~~ My inability to talk = 1/3 FAIL.

If I failed to get the job, which I most probably will, fine, I got myself the easiest job in the world: Full-time Mapler! By then I can earn at least 100K Mesos per day with my LV27 Mage, gaining experience at the mean time!

Vincent out.

Happy Birthday, Mom!

2009-01-12T21:25:00.004+08:00

This post is dedicated to my mom.

This day has come,

a special day for you and only for you,

but will never be the same day as last year,

the same goes to the future years.

You,

devoted yourself to our family for so many years,

without hoping anything from us in return;

what you get is what every woman trying to avoid:

aging.

You,

however,

will still be my mom,

the most beautiful mom in the world,

for the rest of my life.

I will not forget you,

even if you have forgotten me for any reason.

I'm still not good with words,

so,

I hereby wish you:

Happy Birthday, Mom!

w00t!

2009-01-10T22:01:00.010+08:00

I HAD SO MANY FERRARIS!!

Ok before you say that this is a show-off post, I had many Ferraris...

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From left to right: 575 GTC, FXX, 360 Challenge Stradale, 599 GTB Fiorano, 250 GTO,
430 Challenge, F40

Feel relieved now? Ok then. With my current financial condition there's no way I can have even one of the above, and of course I mean the real cars that we can drive on the road. This is just a prank post =D

Anyway, these toy Ferraris were given by my one of my cousin who is a car enthusiast. These cars were once sold at Shell petrol stations, and for sure he collected all of them. He gave me all of them last year (SPM trial exam period) when I went back to hometown to attend my other cousin's (his elder sister) wedding ceremony, since he said they were just collecting dust...

By the way, I got to play with them for a while when I was snapping their pix, their "engines" sure are strong. I pulled back the car like around 3 inch and let it go, it was out of my expectation that it can travel that fast and before I managed to stop it, the car crashed hard on the wall at the other side of my living hall. Zzz. That happened on the 599 GTB, but it's not a big deal.

This is the Ferrari F50, of a larger scale. This model has the most detail amongst all the cars above, obviously, and the other F40 that I will show later. This model was bought by my dad when he went to outstation, I think Australia, at least 10 years ago. The car is still in one-piece, just that some of the paint got worn out.

As for the other F40, it's luck wasn't that good. Remember that I said my driving license is just a decoration in my New Year's Eve post? There's a reason behind this. If, and I mean IF, I'm able to drive that F40, the result will be as the following image:Just look how a phail like me are going to "pwn" this poor car!

However, have you noticed there's something wrong in those model cars? Well hell yeah, every model, except the F50, has no side mirrors! Now how the heck am I not going to "pwn" them even if I can drive them?!

Until then, ciaoz.

It's boring, isn't it?

2009-01-07T21:45:00.001+08:00

Trying to find something related to computers to pass my time today, and I ended up disecting my computer which is already older than 10 years. I had been together with this computer since I was Standard One until 2004 when my dad bought a new one(this computer).

This old chap can be counted as a durable computer for working that long until recently, perhaps the VGA or motherboard failed. Upon opening the side cover:

Well yeah it's messy, considering that the casing is smaller than normal ATX factor(size), and dusty too since no one has ever cleaned the internal of the CPU.

Here's a gallery of very old computer hardwares that you might not have seen before if you didn't take ICT subject (The computer lab has some ancient hardware too).

These 2 sticks of SDRAM that adds up to provide a total of 160MB RAM for the computer, had a hard time by just running Windows XP..

The core of this computer, Intel Celeron (Socket 370) processor, codenamed Mendocino, which runs at 366MHz if my memory didn't fail me. I tried to remove the heatsink away from the processor but it's sticked so tightly, I suppose it's due to the thermal grease that had dried up for a long time. This processor was fit onto a processor card (or whatever it's called) first before the card is inserted into the slot at the motherboard itself.

This is the graphics card, RivaTNT 16MB AGP. Nothing much to say, but you definitely can't play any games, except Starcraft, with this.

This is the sound card in ISA.

No no, not that ISA. I mean the slot named ISA, which stands for Industry Standard Architecture. None of us will be able to see this slot in present motherboards anymore...

Don't look down on these ancient hardwares, I had spent my earlier gaming days with them. Starcraft, Worms, Red Alert, Half Life(laggy..) were the few games I had fun using this computer before I got a better computer. Now it brings back my memories, felt sad that it's broken now..haizz

Until then, ciaoz.

Fan-cleaning

2009-01-04T23:09:00.008+08:00

Finally, this post came out as promised in my last post.

Things started to get fishy a few months back when I started to sneeze violently straight after I woke up everyday. I was wondering, did I make any rivals that speak bad things about me? I had insomnia from this matter (well not really, it's SPM when it started, i guess).

Until that time approaching New Year, I saw this...

Bloody hell just look at that! I failed to expect the expected, it's my standing fan that I used everyday but never paid attention to it. So that's the reason to why I'm sneezing a lot. My dad even said that the fan has not been cleaned for 1 year! LOL

And so I decided to clean this fan at New Year's day. It was a hard + hard task. Considering my condition for not sleeping for the whole night, my hand was trembling badly during the whole process...and not to leave out that the fan isn't really that "cleaner-friendly".

To start it off, I had to unscrew 4 screws to remove the back cover of the fan, and it didn't look beautiful either. Anyway, cleaning that part was fairly easy.

One wipe across it...

and this was how the wiping cloth looked like!

Next I had to unscrew another 3 screws to remove the core of the fan which obviously is the spinning part that creates air flow to blow my @$$ when I am sleeping. It was covered with dust, which explains why device efficiency has lowered (in other words, smaller air flow with more sound produced). Fortunately I just need to clean it with water hose.

Before

After

Here comes the hardest part, the front cover.

I call it The Tower of Dusts

There are many obvious obstacles you can see from the pictures, and the spaces are not as shallow as the ones found at the back cover. I have used 1 hour+ just to wipe off those dusts that are easily wiped by the cloth, and another half hour for thorough cleaning...test of mental and physical fitness...more like a torture.
Nevertheless, I still managed to finish the task despite my bad condition. And the result:

Increased efficiency (larger air flow, lesser sound produced). Most importantly, I have started not to sneeze that much after I have cleaned that fan =D. Hooray!

Off-topic: I have turned 18 officially yesterday. Have to say I received a lot of greetings compared to my past birthdays, 3 from MSN, 3 from Friendster (strangers zz), another 3 by SMS (which included my good friend suffering in NS, and a female friend actually typed a birthday song in her SMS, you are the only one to give me a birthday song *touched*). Thanks to all of you.

All of you might think, "wtf you call 9 greetings a lot??", yeah it's true, the greetings I received in my past birthdays never exceed 5. To add up, my family didn't even remember my birthday since last year. Pathetic eh you say?

Anyway, I have made one and only one birthday wish, and I'm telling it out. Why you ask, because this is actually the wish of everyone who cares for their future! You dare to say "getting 11A1 in SPM" is not what you have wanted for your whole life??!!

Haha, ok la. Until then, ciaoz.

New Year's day

2009-01-02T23:51:00.007+08:00

Have been thinking of wanting to post this or not, just to add up another boring post. sighz

My New Year's day begins as soon as New Year's eve ends (duh). I was lying at my bed, listening to the exploding sound of fireworks far away, thinking what should I do for that day. Even it's a lonely day again but I guess it's good enough to able to "celebrate" New Year like that, imagine those less fortunate ones that don't even have a bed to lie, thinking about their future plans. Thanks God!

In the meantime, I had decided to spend the whole midnight watching anime, Shakugan no Shana Second.

Shana, my type of girl :D

But it didn't turn out as I expected though, as my computer is situated at the living room, in which will most probably wake my mom up and get myself grounded.

I had still watched it until about 5am before I decided to read my school magazine for the rest of the ~~midnight~~ day...This was the first time reading a book without feeling drowsy, I had actually read it for an hour without knowing the time if it isn't my dad's alarm clock rang...

New Year's day = ordinary day, I knew that my family won't go anywhere special, but it doesn't bother me now. I have took this opportunity to clean my fan later that day (this process is bloody time and energy wasting, and so the process will be covered in my future post as I don't intend to make this post too long).

I did say we didn't go anywhere special, didn't I? But I had still followed my parents to Jusco that night and barely managed to buy 1 T-shirt for CNY, congratulations...

By the way, that day marked that I have finally turned 18 (unofficially la..). I had chosen the most special way to start off this day, maybe. Perhaps, I should start to have mature thoughts from now on, and most ultimately, start a relationship with a girl XD (as if I could..).

Anyway, I'm looking forward towards tomorrow. Let's see what lies ahead of me tomorrow..

Until then, ciaoz.

My New Year's eve

2008-12-31T23:40:00.008+08:00

It's the last day of the year again, but for me, it's nothing more than an ordinary day spent alone in my house. In this joyful day, I was forced to "crawl" through this day with depression and sadness.

To be honest, I have never expected that I have to spend this whole day in front of my computer, staring at the monitor, without any aims. My parents have went out after a VERY simple dinner in our own house to attend some kind of meeting held by the charity organisation they took part in. Left with no choice, I had to stay at home looking after my sister.

One of my friends do hold a countdown party at his house. I wasn't actually invited by the him, I just got to know about this party through another friend, Ah Gong which was invited to attend this party. Sadly, I have to turn him down even though I would like to go enjoy while I still can. Well, like I have said earlier, I have to take care of my sister (I wouldn't like to care about her, she got my Dad's laptop to play with anyway). Anyway, my parents wouldn't let me to drive alone at night (my driving license is just for decoration, damn). Such a big let down..

It's hard for me to do nothing in days like this. But I guess I couldn't blame anyone for what I'm going through, can I? It's my destiny to be borned into this world, leading a lonely lifestyle. I wonder if there's how many chances like this remaining in my life..

Whatever, I'm looking forward towards next year because, well, a new challenge will be waiting for me perhaps?

By the way, Vincent wishes everyone

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009

GOODBYE 2008

May everyone has their wishes fulfilled, have a better living, and a peaceful yet disaster-free world in this new year of 2009.

(ps: sorry for not attaching any pics, as I have lost my Photoshop and I'm not in a mood of taking any pics...)

My first post

2008-12-30T17:14:00.005+08:00

Okay then, perhaps I shall give a brief introduction about myself.

I bet who comes here most probably knew who I am, don't you? Anyway, you can call me Vincent. I have a normal height, but definitely underweight, not physically attractive as well (sadface). Basically, I'm just a quiet person, bad with words perhaps...but for some reasons I chat too much in the internet...

I can say that I'm enthusiastic about computers and have seen games as my life. I've been dreaming of having the best computer hardwares in the market, but I don't have the financial power to pursue them..*sob*

By the way, this blog will act as my diary, but I would like to share infos with all of you as well, particularly IT related.

Hmm, I know it's kind of boring to talk about these things, but I have been bad in expressing myself since I was born, sorry ya. I hope all of you won't fall asleep while reading my posts ><". I'm still in the process of learning so please bear with me ya..

Nevertheless, I do hope that all of you that came to my blog will give me some support. Your support is my best motivation to do better :)

Until then, ciaoz