First Amongst Equals

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

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!)

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

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.