Sleepyland: Milestones and Changelog

Blog was taken down for about 5 days.

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:35:55 GMT

Could not access my blog at the Infocomm Club camp on Wed, 12 March 2008 when I wanted to show the guys some funny videos on Youtube... Lucky there was Google cache...

Thought it was normal downtime to maintain the servers but then waited a while and it was still down. Emailed their support there was no reply till Sunday. Emailed them again and got a reply and told me that they took down my blog becoz of some violation of their code of conduct.... And it was severe and so they never inform me.

Took them another day to tell me that it was all becoz of a gay porn blog link which I posted on 28 March 2005 which was meant to be funny....

Took them long enuf to find the problem... its 2008 now... And they did not tell me the year so I had to comb thru the years....

Updated 4.30pm Fri March 21 2008 - Good Friday

Decided to add the link to the old post : http://fengrun.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!C96F84BF5691D705!549.entry

And was browsing thru my old posts and found more broken links but found this video in the archives of the original site and also on Youtube.

Old post : http://fengrun.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!C96F84BF5691D705!556.entry

Archive : http://postarchives.entensity.net/032805/media.php?media=halftime.wmv

Worst halftime show ever

LOL and stars are actually dead pixels according to xkcd : http://xkcd.com/395/

One Album Added

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:36:34 GMT

Added album for Dinner at Amos House

Search. Horoscope and Friends Modules Added

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:20:43 GMT

Added Horoscope and Friends modules.

Trying out the Search modules but it does not look to be working well...

3 Albums Added

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:03:32 GMT

Add three albums :

144 SQN COC 25th Batch
Ng BB Wedding
25th Batch First Gathering Since ORD

Guestbook Added

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:56:37 GMT

Guestbook added to the blog and moved the weather module. Also move two modules to the top.

18 Photo Albums Added

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:41:34 GMT

Added these albums some time back. Around Sat/Sunday? Took me a few days. The files have been sitting on my desktop for quite a while. Finally had time to open a changelog entry.

9 Sept 2007 - BMT Gathering
29 May 2007 - RI Infocomm Club June Camp
1 May 2007 - East Coast Park with 24th Batch
31 March 2007 - Meeting Chris, Junyi and Beow for my birthday
25 March 2007 - My Birthday Gathering
17 March 2007 - Lunch with Juniors
9 March 2007 - Squadron Anniversary at Sentosa
24 Feb 2007 - 1-5 Piss Up 1
20 Feb 2007 - KTV with 24th Batch
24 August 2007 - Visiting Mrs Tan at RI
24 August 2007 - Noodles at Old Hong Kong Cafe
19 August 2007 - Mos Burger with Zhong Xuan and Darius
19 August 2007 - 1-5 Piss Up 2
4 August 2007 - TCC with Roger and Tok
27 July 2007 - Vivo With Xinyan and Kenneth
29 Jun 2007 - Lamborghini Sighting
24 Jun 2007 - Lunch with Beow
23 Jun 2007 - Movie with Batchmates

Changelog - 1st week of Sept - Photo Albums

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:30:40 GMT

My last local leave in RSAF and added new albums :

Old Hong Kong Cafe
Macdonalds with Darius and Zhong Xuan
02 September 2007 - Dinner with Roger
18 August 2007 at Vivo

Last few days of work and first ground run

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:35:47 GMT

Monday was the flying to TAB for talon and they did a com wash and I ask Master Beng Lee to let me sit behind in the t bird to see how he do the engine ground run. It was damn fun trying the flight controls. My first time and I will not forget it.

Tues was at SQCP helping WOIC with the guard duty procedures folder. Was gonna go paint the SBJ line when it rained so I helped with the Best Practice thing about red carpet flight simulator.

Wed was supposed to be OIL but not enuf ppl so controller ask me to work but encik ong was nice to let me go back earlier.

New Features

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:02:28 GMT

Spaces has lots of new features and dont have time to try all of them out.

Changed the name of "My Music" list and moved the title to the top to span all columns.

http://thespacecraft.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!8AA773FE0A12B9E3!34470.trak

Showering Thoughts

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:10:01 GMT

Was taking a shower just now and remembered why i added this blog.

Its because my memories are precious to me.

Dreams are easy to forget.

And I dont want my thoughts to be lost and be just a passing moment in my brain. They might be rubbish to others or just worth 5 cents but I believe in its latent value.

Gonna go for OS now and protect the rainy skies lol.

This entry was typed just before I went for AM OS today but Spaces was "down" when I was gonna uploaded?

Major CNY Revamp 2007

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:55:11 GMT

BTW I love Mine Shine Milk Tea.

Updated Theme
Tried to add Sponsored Links but BrightAds say my content is not relevant...
Response thru email was kinda fast. Did they do an auto scan?
Updated Profile
Shifted lots of modules around.
Added Weather and Updated Spaces gadgets
Added a Blog List
Removed some modules

Lost track of most of my major revamp changes becoz Windows screwed up on me while I was doing the revamp...

Albums Added

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 04:45:32 GMT

Photo Album of Eating Dinner with 24th Batch Added

Photo Album of To Tekong and Back Added (5.44pm)

Christmas 2006 Album

Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:27:27 GMT

Christmas 2006 Album Added

17000 hits

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 19:01:26 GMT

BTW NFS Carbon is great but I still feel Most Wanted was the best. I love cop chases. Its a lot harder to unlock stuff this time... Cross is still in this one.

I am getting into Darius territory now and his crew is all the three Boss i defeated... Its definitely getting harder and the sweet unlocks like the Corvette and Lambo are coming!

My uncle came to pass me a DVD writer. Gonna try it out....

16000 hits milestone

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:48:11 GMT

Happened on 8/23/2006

9:25:41 pm

Page Title was Sleepyland: May 2006

I wonder how the person found it. No referring address and what so interesting in May?

Spaces Goes Live

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:57:35 GMT

Changed the theme of this Space. Added a Friends module.

Now that its Windows Live Spaces. Most of the changes are ok for me but I still wish there are more themes and more customization for the fonts. They need better themes too...

Looks like Google Toolbar spell check dont work here anymore...

Still lots of loading, css scripts, js scripts problems. Performance needs to improve.

BTW did night flying last night and the FUCKING STUPID taxi driver could not scan my mastercard in and lost my fee... No receipt so i cant claim and that idiot had the cheek to take every single cent out of my pocket. That asshole... Damn pissed off. Should have just taken 51...

Not all air force guys are pilots. Damnit...

Gonna change my nick : Fengrun - [:: 72% for AWT ::] Work on Saturday again sucks

15000 milestone

Tue, 16 May 2006 16:11:47 GMT

Reading the freaking title. 15053 to be exact... stupid guard duty....

12000 Hits Milestone

Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:38:05 GMT

12000 hits... Hmm

Saw a yellow RX-8 on the way home on the bus.. WAS thinking about NFSMW. Ferrari soon? Think they can really improve on NFS if it was not so tied to the console... Physics?

BTW Base Orientation was on Wed and Thurs and was pretty ok. Interesting to see a fire engine with 800 horsepower. See the runway and Thai C130 taking off. And the Paya Lebar runway is damn near to my NYP IAP attachment place. See De Fei and Roger put out fire.

BTW IT Show at Suntec. Hmm and Singnet 3500 kbps plan is now $47 with no stupid free gift

Lots of classmates play F.E.A.R.

And tmw got CF meeting with the students... And go cousin school for fun fair. St Nicks... JT should be going with me.

Messaged a lot of my BMT friends last night. Shyam, Nick and Khim Hui said something about chalet.

Movies Category Added

Sun, 05 Feb 2006 07:25:39 GMT

Added a Movie category for all the movies i watched.

Photo Album Updates

Sat, 21 Jan 2006 01:24:33 GMT

New Photos Added :

Before BMT
Christmas of 2005
New Year 2006

BMT album coming soon!

11062 page views

Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:26:28 GMT

Already at 11062 page views... most are RSS hits though

BTW NASA needs your help to find stardust. Cool I posted about the Aerogel thing just days before.

Stardust@Home

Updated Profile and Added Photo

Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:32:01 GMT

Updated my MSN profile and added pic.

MASSIVE Photo Album Update

Wed, 07 Sep 2005 07:04:22 GMT

Just did a MASSIVE updates to the Photo Album and add LOTS of stuff. Spent the past 3 hours sorting my photos.

Did not have time to edit all of them so dun complain about quality.

Added stuff from 2004 Pri Sch gatherings and even NYP Class Sentosa Trip.
Teacher's Day 2004 and 2005 added.
Main editing done on Photo Hunt Album
Some album has collages.
RJ Chorale Album is incomplete.

I am so tired now...

This is probably going to be my last few entries before i disappear for NS...

Its 7.10am now as i type this entry in notepad and Spaces is f--king down again... Did i upload too much? BTW the whole of Spaces is inaccessible.... Haiz uploading my RCS album half way. Missing the collage.... And the Apple Pie album not uploaded yet...

Haiz really tired now. Wake up and upload later...

Finally entry uploaded to Spaces @ 3.03pm.

Changelog 24 August 2005

Tue, 23 Aug 2005 20:28:25 GMT

Just now added Ben (RCS Junior) to my list of Blogs. And also changed the descriptions format.

Changelog 20 August 2005

Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:42:47 GMT

Added Normal Days Category

Changelog 19 August 2005

Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:58:27 GMT

Added more sites to Techie site list and descriptions.
Add Categories to the UI
Added Firefox to things about me.

Going to add more Photos soon

Change of Theme

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:55:07 GMT

Change of Theme to cute puppies!

8000 milestone

Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:33:38 GMT

Wow my blog finally hit 8000 hits!

7000 milestone

Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:45:23 GMT

Woot reached 7000 hits today. 7005 now...

And Blogger.sg is coming up and my attachment is over!!!!

Changelog 27 June 2005

Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:04:48 GMT

Changed theme to this greenisg bamboo theme. LOL also can use when i go NS.

BTW change of nick from : Fengrun - [:: Apple Switching to Intel chips ::]

Used this for too long liao.

And personal message too. I hope ppl saw it... : Got new hp. new number. ask me

And finally some guy called Otterman left a comment on my entry about the big moths.

He works at NUS and is a mac user and blogger and loves nature and my bro knows him! Otterman.

10 entries in one day

Sun, 05 Jun 2005 15:13:34 GMT

Think this is a record for me. 10 entries in one day including this one.

6112 hits now. Not so much RSS hits anymore.

Watch Waterboys just now and it was pretty cool. Wonder how long they train for it and whether they still perform now. must have formed lots of friendships. Like sec sch class. so many of us. Will we ever meet again?

LOL and i am listening to FMA Brothers now as i type this. Miss all my friends since kindergarten. think i remember this good friend of mine. boy called "ah lok" ?

And my neighbour at the end of my level. dont come to his grandma anymore? Unit to the left when i face the com.

Haha and its the Thai trans play volleyball next week.

Nvr use emoticon for a long time in a post!

6000 milestone

Sat, 04 Jun 2005 05:23:41 GMT

Yup this Space has hit 6000. Think it was last night but i was too tired to post.

Category Changelog

Sat, 28 May 2005 11:11:19 GMT

Changelog : Added "Important Events in Life" category

Changelog

Tue, 24 May 2005 15:59:55 GMT

Added TV Show category after watching Alias

Got Nokia 6680 HP

Mon, 23 May 2005 15:23:44 GMT

Finally got my new HP. Cam is not very good. But can watch TV on it!!! Actually on CNA.

But this is satellite TV!!! : http://www.telecomskorea.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1953&Itemid=2

Wow fashion hp with crystals : http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000277044253/

Wow Koreans!!! Hnadphone cleaner machine : http://www.slashphone.com/70/1944.html

MP3 hp with power amp!!! : http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news_9622.html

Star Wars Episode III

Mon, 23 May 2005 06:38:13 GMT

Watched it last night and it was not as great as i wished but still a pretty good show. Feels very sad that the jedi got wiped out thru backstab.

Wish Yoda could win. Count Dooku and Griveous fight was too easy. Light saber battles were not as fun and the angles and cutting was weird... the big space battle in front was a bit long... R2 is damn funny.

Its quite a sad show. The birth of the "breathing"

The show is a little too packed. Feels empty in between and too fast.

The special effects are good but Padme was quite "girly" not the strong queen.

Anakin is always so confused.

Tech stuff of the day

Sat, 21 May 2005 18:56:35 GMT

Venice Core available from Cybermind! LOL spelling mistake of "Vernice" on HWZ...

Windows XP 64 bit too! at CM

Linksys NSLU2 : Interesting hacking a network drive : http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Sections-article122.php

http://www.nslu2-linux.org/

LOL and Neowin guy ask if "Jedi's Swords" can exist? LOL here See the replies.

5 Entries in less than 1 hour!!! Milestone!!!!

Future of Longhorn. Crazy specs and some BS

Sat, 21 May 2005 18:51:20 GMT

Read this : http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=136813

Mirrored here :

There has been a lot of new info released about the way Longhorn works and handles graphics.

Longhorn uses the Windows Graphics Foundation, or WGF. WGF 1.0 will use DirectX 9.0c as it's primary interface, but Longhorn will also have the Next-Gen 3D API build in. You can see it as DirectX 10, but it's called WFG 2.0.

One of the important features of WGF is the Longhorn Display Driver Model (LDDM). It is possible with LDDM to install a new graphics driver without even rebooting your system. LDDM will ship in two stages. The first, called basic, supports current generation graphics hardware: shader model 2.0 and 3.0 capable hardware. The second stage of LDDM, "advanced," will support hardware features that ship ar the same time or after Longhorn is released, but will work with the new features in WGF 2.0. Because of the competitive way of graphics hardware development, we'll probably see advanced LDDM capable hardware before Longhorn is released. The current Windows XP driver model is still supported, but will be frozen going forward.

Advantages of Longhorn above XP:
- run more than 15 graphical applications at the same time instead of 2
- complete control manager to optimize system resources
- every window in Longhorn will be a 3D surface (when opening My Computer you're actually watching an interactive 3D texture)
- applications can be bigger than graphic card memory currently allows
- split your monitor into four pieces and play games at the same time while listening to music with Winamp, watching a movie with Media Player and posting BS on Guru3d.com
- Longhorn uses DirectX to show the Windows Desktop
- you are able to rotate your windows in a 3D way, so you can push it to the background, put it upside down or squeeze it in a corner
- Longhorn supports up to 160 windows open at the same time
- four different graphic modes for Longhorn (2GB/256MB/128MB/64MB textures)
- new motherboard BIOS'es will be integrated into Longhorn itself
- some of the BIOS settings can be changed within Windows and you won't even have to reboot to apply the new settings
- with XP, users got a lot of freedom to configure and tweak their system but Microsoft says that with Longhorn the 'more advanced' users will get the freedom to customize and tweak even more features of Windows that wasn't possible in XP

Now some very important info about gaming on Longhorn:
- there will be NO graphical difference between an ATI or nVidia card anymore, the only difference will be speed
- WGF 2.0 allows GPU processing without CPU intervention
- The Xbox 360 uses some of the technology Longhorn will use to handle games on the PC

If you want to play a game Longhorn will disable every component of your computer that isn't needed by the graphical interface and unloads the Windows Desktop (it's like running a game in MSDOS).

While it's true that the graphics technology for Longhorn is very advanced, it's also true that Microsoft is trying to have a wide array of hardware specifications. By the time Longhorn actually ships, almost every new PC should be able to support the user interface and Windows Graphics Foundation.

That doesn't mean users will need GeForce 6800 Ultras or comparable cards. As we've seen, the user interface will support four qualities, the most basic should even run on most of today's hardware. If you want the full Longhorn experience, you'll want a heavy system and graphics hardware, and lots of memory.

Windows Longhorn will probably be released in the second half of 2006.

Recommendations:
- Don't think of buying a computer today and use it to run Longhorn next year
- Memory is the most important component for future computing (graphics and system memory)

After reading this you probably are peeing in your pants, but don't worry, you still have 16 months before you need an upgrade!

Extreme minimum requirements:
1.6 GHz processor
512 MB memory
64 MB videocard
7200 RPM HD 16 MB cache

For the full experience:
4 GHz processor
3 GB memory
1 GB videocard with WFG 2.0 support
15000 RPM HD 1 GB flash memory

Update 1: LONGHORN CHANGES PC INTO CONSOLE
Dean Lester, the General Manager of Windows Graphics and Gaming says Microsoft is making the gaming-functionality of Windows Longhorn the same as a modern game-console, but wants to keep the advantages of PC gaming like high-end graphics and sound hardware, online communities, community support and downloadable content.

Update 2: COMPUTERS WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS
Microsoft is working together with nVidia, ATI, AMD and Intel to develop pre-configured computers with different levels, low, mid and high range hardware-configurations for different sales prices. PC's with a certain configuration of CPU, videocard and memory will be split in different levels. Because of this, choosing a PC for gaming gets a lot easier, because fast computers will get a higher level. The system requirements on game-packages will have a level requirement, so you can see if the level of your computer is high enough to handle a game.

Update 3: EASY TO USE
With Longhorn Microsoft wants to eliminate the long installation procedures that PC games have. Installing and playing a game should be as easy as with a console. They too are developing a special driver manager, so you won't have any problems with different drivers. This means no problems with flickering textures, stuttering and crashing anymore, because the drivers will be fully controled by the graphics interface and because of this system nVidia and ATI can develop and test their drivers for problems within a few seconds. Updating drivers and BIOS'es will get a lot easier because Windows Update will get a special feature that automatically checks if your hardware is up to date and automatically updates your drivers, BIOS'es, the Longhorn graphics interface and even updates for the most important feature of Longhorn, WFG 2.0.

Update 4: FUTURE GRAPHICS
Microsoft is going to implement Pixel and Vertex Shader 4.0 support into the new graphics interface, so in the near future after Longhorn is released there doesn't have to be another newer version of WFG to be released. Epic has announced that their Unreal 3 Engine will support future pixel and vertex shader versions that are going to be implemented when the Unreal 3 Engine is near completion.

Update 5: SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS AND RESOURCE USAGE
Longhorn uses a lot of memory, but it uses it for a very good reason. Longhorn actually doesn't even have loading times when you're using Explorer, Internet Explorer or any other Windows component. The big amount of memory thats being used isn't just for the textures but it contains every important file thats needed by Windows when running an application. When you start a game, the Longhorn graphics interface immediately unloads everything out of the memory that isn't needed by your 'game hardware' (video and sound card) such as the 3D Windows Desktop. Users are able to change the way Longhorn reacts when you boot up a game or 3D application. WFG is fully customizable to your own needs. For example, you can keep the Windows Desktop loaded and play a game at the same time, or if you have a fast system run both in split screen. To do all this fast loading and unloading you need to have fast memory and ofcourse a fast harddisk. But here's the problem. The harddisks we use today are far too slow (12000 RPM is still too slow) and will be a huge bottleneck when loading huge amounts of files into the memory. That's why Microsoft and Samsung are working on a new Hybrid hard drive that will use 1 GB flash memory as a buffer. They want to take part of the load of the spinning drive and to lower loading times and boot times drastically. Longhorn will fully support this technology. Microsoft and Samsung are still working on a way to unload files very fast from the harddisks flash memory. Next year Microsoft will start a huge marketing campaign for new hardware they are developing and they will give an update on the development of the Hybrid harddisk. When using a Hybrid harddisk in a mid-range computer of today (2 GHz, 1 GB RAM) you will have boot-times of about 5-10 seconds. Imagine how fast it goes in 2006.

Update 6: ICONS
In Longhorn icons will be completely changed. Documents don't have a icon anymore that shows the file-type, but it shows the first page of the document. Folder-icons will show you the inside files by using 3D technology. You'll see the files coming forward in a slideshow while you're watching the folder.

Update 7: STABILITY
Longhorn will be the most stable OS ever. Microsoft admitted that it had problems with stability with Windows ME and XP (without SP), but they really are making work of making Longhorn unbelievably stable. Microsoft even has made three special teams that researched Longhorn and future technologies for two years. After Longhorn is released, Microsoft doesn't even have to release any updates to make Longhorn stable, because Longhorn manages itself automatically and disables processes that can make your computer unstable and are unneeded by the applications you're running.

Update 8: SECURITY
Longhorn will have a better internet security. Instead of using very advanced ways to protect your computer, they're using somewhat primitive ways to keep users away from your harddisk. For example, Longhorn is able to completely halt every type of data transfer from your computer to any hardware component and is able to pause your internet connection when there is happening something suspicious. Microsoft is developing software together with Symantec (Norton Antivirus) to detect virusses the moment they reach your harddisk. Longhorn will be able to quarantine certain parts of the harddisk and make sure a virus gets automatically removed (using Norton Antivirus).

Update 9: HARDWARE FOR LONGHORN
Hardware especially made for Longhorn. Before Longhorn will be released in 2006, Microsoft will start the biggest marketing campaign ever, not just for the most advanced piece of software ever developed by more than 80.000 people (not only Microsoft), but also for the hardware that will be developed especially for Longhorn. As you've read before, there will be special harddrives, but there will be special videocards that will have to work constantly at 100%, extra fast memory and new processors to support the new multi-application technology Longhorn uses. For Longhorn Hyperthreading is a old technology. Longhorn will take advantage of it, but compared to the new technologies of the processors that are being developed it doesn't really help at all. There also will be newer soundcards to support the incredibly high sound quality that is possible when Longhorn is released. All hardware manufacturers are doing their best to get their new hardware finished before Longhorn is released. Microsoft promised that the prices won't go trough the roof.

Update 10: MULTIPLE INTERNET CONNECTIONS
Longhorn supports a new technology that has been developed. With this technology you're able to use multiple internet connections (max 4) at the same time. For example: You have an DSL internet connection with a download speed of 100Kb/sec and a cable inter net connection of 80 Kb/sec. And you're downloading a file from a different user who has an upload speed of 140 Kb/sec. When you're using those two internet connections, the DSL connection starts to download 100KB/sec and the left 40 Kb/sec gets downloaded by the cable connection. This means you'll always be downloading at top speed, as long as you can afford multiple internet connections. Because of this you're able to play up to four different games at the same time online with just one internet connection.

Update 11: COPY PROTECTION
Microsoft has teamed up with Disney and a lot of music labels to improve copy protection for movies, music and software using digital rights management functionality in Longhorn. Microsoft said they will use heavy copy protection schemes, so users won't be able to copy digital media. This may scare of a lot of consumers, but Microsoft doesn't worry about that, because eventually everyone will go Longhorn (their words). This means no Warez anymore. Damn, now I even have to pay money to play games and watch movies.

Update 12: LONGHORN AND THE XBOX 360
Microsoft has announced that the Xbox 360 controller will work on Windows Longhorn too. They did this because they want Longhorn to be an upgraded version of the Xbox 360. The Xbox 360 and Longhorn both will use a new technology that makes games run at the fastest speed possible. Because Microsoft is the 'leader' of the Xbox and Windows, they made it possible to connect your Xbox to your PC and download special content and updates for your games, without having to subscribe anything. The Xbox 360 uses the new multiple internet connections technology seen in Update 10. Downloading files can take some time, but thats not a problem anymore, because now you can play a game offline or online and download certain files at the same time! This is one of the advantages over the PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Revolution. The XBox 360 has a lot more advantages, but the reason for all of that is the company thats behind the Xbox, Microsoft, the most powerful software company in the world. They made sure Sony and Nintendo couldn't make use of these new Windows technologies. So if you want compatibility between your console and your PC you'll have to buy a Xbox 360. It looks like Microsoft again has found a way to eliminate the competition.

This is freaking crazy!!! The specs and the changes to the current PC architecture and BIOS!!! It just cant happen. Microsoft needs to take small steps! Either this was a early plan or Microsoft is trying to do TOO MUCH.... No wonder some tech journalist say its spiraling out of control....

Freaky Day of Coincidences

Sat, 21 May 2005 18:44:05 GMT

This day is Freaking freaky. Something is in the stars tonight. Decided to go look for bro downstairs and let him have the food but he is not downstairs. Saw my 20th floor neighbour light on and wanted to look and just as i walked past the lift on the left facing it. Got out of order at lvl 3 and someone i think is in it becoz the bell rang. JUST AS I WALKED PAST THIS HAPPENED

Then took steps upstairs and just as i reached 19 and walked past. Saw the other lift come up and my 20th floor neighbour father came back!!! and he told me they probably asleep. When walking up the stairs from 19 -20 saw a giant moth.

Then went back and on th 19 floor, i saw a giant moth again which i did not notice before!

Reminds me of the RI tennis court flood light and the insects swarming on it.

BTW called the lift service and hope they rescue someone if there is anyone in it...

So many things happen around me today. Met jinsheng, some long lost and i thouht would nvr see again.

All becoz i picked up $2 on friday back home? and gave one dollar to the beggar at the river bridge?

Hmm checked the horoscope sites but nothing about big stuff happening today... Its kinda between last night and today....

WEIRDNESS.... Coincidence? LOL had to google for this word....

LOL hope its not bro trapped in the lift.

Helping People. Taiwan People

Sat, 21 May 2005 18:21:48 GMT

Wow just had ne hell of a evening... Went to father to settle shirt at first and went to City Hall Hang Ten and they did not have the colours. So father went to PS and got the other coulours but they are all pretty ugly... one for $19 and but 3 for $10 each...

BTW called JT to join me for dinner though he was not very enthu... and Chris took a LONG time to decide not to come.... Add at ffod court with JT. Some braised beef and JT some jap food. LOL i like to food window shop. But shops in PS close rather early. Before 10 close liao... cant even buy drink and the taiwan chicken cutlet finish liao

BTW when i was waiting for JT at Starhub shop. This guy called me. turned out that he was the 4I guy who sits beside me. Beside Yong Kai. He is a medic now and is bigger size. Was talking with JT a lot about army stuff and he got into uni engineering but he wanted med.

BTW i can use my prepaid number on my current plan.... what stupid shit is that...

After eating went to JT to Xbox shop and play Jedi Episode 3 and we played versus and i beat him more. LOL it was fun and 1 hour only $3.

He went home and i decided to walk back and along the way home.... came the crazy part. WAs walking near the dried food centre and met this couple with baby. Turned out they are taiwan tourist and wanted to find a place still open at 11.30++ to eat. Thought and eventually deicded on the place acorss bras brasah. Called father to confirm its still open. Decided to bring them there becoz its far and they had a baby. That guy is 58 i think and still looking strong. Wow. BTW he incvited me to eat. And he ordered lots of stuff and told me lots of things about all the chinese becoming one country. Lots of chin thing and my chinese is bad....

They are pretty strong ppl. Wife and Husband. Turns out he is Professor Wu. civil engineering i think. "Tu Mu" Told me about school and health care policy in taiwan and taxi fare. Told them maybe my father can bring them around and then they going to Malaysia. LOL the night life there is more interesting and much bigger and 3 times or more less expensive. LOL

Very interesting experience. He even figured out a way to call me. International.

Home now and tired and he told me to pack some food.

Haiz. Wasted.

We shall see whther he contacts me later "today"

182nd Founder's Day

Fri, 20 May 2005 14:54:03 GMT

Went back to NYP to collect logbook but found out that it was a wasted trip... I am from ECC and LO is from school of IT... Damn dumb big organisations..... Was a bit late.. Should have informed him... Brett

The Food Junction was still closed and i wanted to visit jap food auntie... Looks like the new freshies are still having orientation

Went back to RI for Founder's Day and met lots off ppl... Beow tripod is too weak and unbalanced and cant find good spot... Cam sucks... and i dun wanna get too close on the field becoz dun waana be guai lan...

Ate some at Atrium. Mrs Tan ask me to eat. She has lots of visitors. Students love her. LOL Students make her vomit blood. Saw Nathan too and she is having a boy soon. Was supposed to find Hadi and go eat with him... but i cant find him and only saw him when i wanna go home and he ate already and going back to school to prepare for some stuff tmw.. so late.

Saw Andre and some indian guy from my batch. their bro graduating.

The sec 4s who are J1s now sang the batch song and cheered. The Raffles Award guy can stand very straight and still. LOL and the NCC no. 1 guys are funny....

Beow had to go some to RJ and cover some concert again... Hmm did not see Kenneth and Tong Hin receive prize this year.

I hope Tiong Hwee hets well.

WAs on bus 13 to Bishan when this teacher who i dunno name came and sat behind me. She see me very often in RI and asked if i am going back again. LOL and told me Bob Koh is a educator himself. Same level as students and teachers. though he was not from RI. Wong is a policy maker. Wong was at the VIP are. his son graduate

BB was playing pipes. Jon saw me on top taking pics and called me. CD in paper package sucks... Pocket PC? Haiz RCS is pretty screwed.

Saw Nick in scouts marhcing and desmond and hadi was in front of red cross. Saw geoff too and Arnie is too short to find.

And this scout guy called Chen Zhen who played table soccer. He took a while to recognise me... Dao guy...

Eddison got Service for RCS and tiong got some RV and CEC. Someone near me commented about his hair and hadi told him off. That he is sick.

J8 comic shop has some Inuyasha posters and Naruto weapon toy. Throwing darts

Went J8 to eat Taiwan Oyster Mee sua and it was not bad. Weird Chilli and shellfish always taste weird to me. Saw a junior who was Qizhao classmate at Delifrance in AJC now. In Debates and wanna be lawyer. Had clam chowder from LJS and was wondering if i should buy drink from 7/11 and nothing interested me.

Chih hung wants ideas for dinner on sun and Chris too damn busy this weekend.. lots of work

Ppl are nicer when u nvr see them a long time

BTW remembered during my pri sch chalet that we discussed trents at that time about Tamagochi, Baby G watches, paper soccer and ways teacher punish us. lol the faint tract of ink. Saw some jap watching with some tamagochi like toy and remembered about this.

Console GPU and Liquid metal cooling! George Lucas and Steven Spielberg

Thu, 19 May 2005 19:09:00 GMT

Lots of articles about the console GPUs. Very interesting. http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=Nzcx

http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2423

And lots of new "leaked" info on G70 and R520. they say R520 being demoed in silicon at ATI.

G70 is weird...

Sapphire is using liquid metal cooling. Wow Mercury? Cool for the next gen cards : http://www.vr-zone.com.sg/?i=2214

Unreal 3 video but i dunno the language and too sleepy now : http://www.hardwareoc.hu/index.php/p/news/cid/7/y/8222.html

Stephen Spielberg working with George Lucas on Next Indiana Jones ? : http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/05/18/news_6125622.html

F.E.A.R. trailer is scary and Chris is still awake now becoz his friend ask him to burn Sims 2 and he cant find the file... Always delete unimportant things....

Cyberfair 2005 Results Out

Thu, 19 May 2005 16:52:08 GMT

Wow six entries in about 2 hours +.... i am extreme....

CF 2005 report roundup. Standard drops further and RCS still cant get platinum.... There are so many kiddy elementary schools winning platinum and RCS lost ot them!!! WTF!!! shame on u.... u think Gold very good liao....

CF is lowering the standard of RCS to little kids...

LOL RGS got Silver and they made a website on SAF!!! WTF!!! gal sch... so ironic. http://www.rgs.edu.sg/student/cyberfair2005/main.html

And the category they entered was "Business and Community Organizations" WTFFF!!!! LOL crabs... the website is not bad... but flash navigation is a BAD idea.

Victoria got Gold For attractions : http://itclub.vs.moe.edu.sg/cyberfair2005/

Design is ok but content stinks. but at least they bothered to frame their pics.

SCGS got silver but the website is gone.... : http://www.scgs.edu.sg/cyberfair2005

ACS(i) got Silver for Culture and Arts.... I cant skip the intro... dumbness.... : http://www.acnova.com/~cyberfair/ Purposeless design. whats ac nova? and intro has not proper title... Reminds me...

RI CF 2005 website : http://www.azureflux.com/cyberfair/ Its hosted on Azureflux.... the sch really sucks... They made some changes to the right side as i said its too empty. Final design is not bad but the banner sucks and the content is too unpersonal... lousy pics with no ppl...

And the whole of SG did not get a platinum and look at what defeated RCS!!! : http://teachit.acreekps.vic.edu.au/cyberfair2005/index.htm

By Primary school kids in Australia! From down Under!!! WTF mate! the website is full of drawings and freaky flash. 420 students? WTF the whole school?

At least they showed the kids learnt something and did some stuff. I think some of my RCS juniors cant draw in flash like them. LOL and RCS probably has less imagination too. They probably learn to use flash too.

HAIZ CF is a kid competition. Stop lowering your standards to their level!!!

I see wordart on one of the sites... and some kiddy flash on another... ouch my eyes

More Revolution Pics

Wed, 18 May 2005 17:15:22 GMT

Some nice Nintendo Revolution Pics : http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/home_av/others/0,39037623,39092761p-1,00.htm

More Revolution pics from Gamespot : http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/05/17/screenindex_6125078.html

LOL these toys are fun! From Something Awful

Konfabulator 2.0 might be released soon.

I wanna try Fable. And F.E.A.R

And i just watched Happy Tree Friends and this time the army one is killing all the others in the cinema. LOL

So many fun games i wanna play this year... But will i have the time and freedom?... Stupid NS...

The Next Gen console Wars : PS 3 Preview and Revolution bits

Tue, 17 May 2005 11:16:03 GMT

Posted under Milestone becoz of major console war

Sony introduces the Playstation 3. Launching in 2006. Preview by Anand

His blog thoughts on it. The new controller scares him?

Found PS 3 pics in Cnetasia. Ya the controller a little scary...

I think its really ugly but really powerful too. The gfx looks better than Xbox 360. But things can change fast. They are disabling one SPE to improve yields. LOL mod? Two HD 1080p displays is interesting. Will next gen consoles be damn hot and consume lots of power? more than my pc?

Betanews on PS 3

Some info bits on Nintendo Revolution from Betanews. Looks like it will be really small but will it be powerful enough to match the other two? : http://www.betanews.com/article/Nintendo_Briefly_Details_its_Revolution/1116262257

Survivor 10 Palau

Mon, 16 May 2005 16:40:38 GMT

Tom won Survivor. The strong fireman. He was not a evil scheming liar but he was not nice either.

Cody the gay hairstylist adopted a baby and named it after janu. Were they very good friends? Janu hugs him with tears in his eyes.

Show details : http://www.realitytvnet.net/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=6541

Out of five votes read. 4 was for Tom.

The Survivor Auction for sick children : http://www.survivor-auction.com/

Biggest Pri Sch Class Gathering

Sun, 15 May 2005 16:10:34 GMT

Had some great fun.

Met lots of pri sch classmates that nvr saw for years. It has been 9 years since we left Hong Wen.

Went to MRT on Friday after work and met Kian Hai there. Walked around White Sands for a bit before meeting him becoz no one was there yet. Talked with Kian Hai and Sec sch com clubs. And then Licheng came. He went to draw money and said he changing vocation again.

Then met sirui at the MRT. Walked to Downtown east and at the bus interchange they told me about the bus stop for SAF.... They all cant wait for me to go in. I was the only guy at the gathering not in NS yet.... Walked past this purple Newater pipe and saw the river and swamp and some birds and tortoise.

Sirui was sick before he came and we had a bit of trouble to register for the chalet becoz yirong booked it and she was not coming...

Went in and it wa not bad and had a Xbox but it was not connected to the TV... but Licheng got it eventually. I think i still have a loud voice. BTW we found out we can play audio CDs on it and rip but its slow. And Licheng dun like loud music. Watched TV for most of the night. Watched "Wo Chai" and commented on the gals. LOL. Guy who slim from 130kg to 70kg. The glasses gal. Gals who can dance really well. Wu and Ah Ya singing LOL. It was continuing the roundup of 2004 from previous week.

Oh and today i watched some show saying that Mexico city is built on a drained lake and that when a earthquake happens it will get screwed though its not really near a fault line and the coast.

Had some experiment with Cup noodles and i went out for a short walk myself. LOL noodles with meat chunks. And we talked cock until 4am + at night. They told me all the bad things about NS and learning to use the light stick....

They all woke up quite early. sirui had to leave and come back later. I woke up abput 11am+ i think. Went to rent Xbox game. Got Guilty Gear and Top Spin, a tennis game for the gals. Turned out Top spin was damn popular and Guilty Gear was hard. Ate at the food court and they went back first to eat and play at same time.

Yongren came at about 3pm. He took wrong shuttle bus to Costa Sands and had to walk down. I walked up to meet him. Was worried that was happening... Junyi came a while later. I decided to go swimming. LOL pool was salty and i dont have googles. Lots of kids. Noisy and jumping. So cant see the glass thing and Junyi took a spy shot of me... BTW my arm hurts now becoz i nvr do warm up... Went to swim in it in my shorts. They went to buy the barbeue stuff. Came back from swimming and gals were there with the food. Evelyn, Jessica, Huifang, Hwee Zi and Yixin. Hwee Zi has her short haircut and talks a lot. They were playing cards and talking about JC. And talked with Evelyn and Jessica and pri sch memories.

Eventually we tried to start the fire but eventually some aunt just came over to help us. Cant stand watching us trying. Ppl started coming and we cooked food. LOL and Junyi was oustdie the whole time. Shuhan, Xiaomei came. Alan, Melvin. Samuel and Tze Hai. Qinyao too. Zheng Xun. And come other HW class wa next to us. Had lots of heaty food. Samuel was crazy telling me about NS and how he will take care of me... Si Rui too... Sam brought his guitar. Oh and Yesheng came too and forgot lots of name.

Most impt was that Chen Lao Shi came and it was really interesting to talk nicely to her and not be afraid. Lan and Hwee Zi talked to her a lot. Wa great seeing her so happy and looking healthy.

GAston came too and wore a "I love(heart shape) Roxy girls" shirt. LOL and brought some rum. I tried a bit with coke. Not bad.

Most left at about 10+ nearing 11. Wanted to leave at first but suddenly there was Xiao Ao Jiang Hu and wanted to stay. And it started to rain crazy anyway and Junyi decided to cook butter on the fire. Tze Hai stayed at first but left to take cab after the show. LOL and they were watching Tian Long Ba Bu on TV during the barbecue and laughing a lot. Gals dun like flashy show. My Hash brown and lots of black food and ash and cancer too! Sirui will cure us.

Qinyao, Kian Hai, Gaston, Licheng, Junyi, Sirui and me stayed thru the "morning" We notice that we are all from all boy sch and all teh cat high guys were still here. they played lots of Top Spin. Kian beat Gaston. Oh and Yixin was playing against licheng earlier. Heard she caught it fast. I played Guilty Gear for a while and licheng cant stand my normal attacks. LOL I dont have talent for fighting games.

LOL and we took some funny pics in the night with "ghost heads" Qinyao had Pringles in his head. Junyi takes quite long to analyse pics. Licheng has a really nice cam though its old.

shit its 11.59am (as of typing) now and i am still not done. but close.

Oh and we took whole class photo just now and there was 4 cams and we were trying to fit all on the microwave. Someone left their Panasonic Lumix behind. nice screen. Everyone said Gaston is very different. LOL and what so special about Carl and Leica lens?

Gaston played Top Spin and i fell asleep. Woke up and he was still playing about 7pm. He nvr sleep. I had to leave and went with sirui and junyi. Forgot my fire starters and took the hash brown. They still had sasuage and Stingray for breakfast. LOL. sirui was hungry and we went white sands but could find nothing much and Macs and Ya kun too expensive for sirui. Rained damn heavy last night but i nvr knew becoz we were indoors. Yakun was flooded and i think white sands too becoz there were soil deposits all over the place. sirui is on some bond to MOH and Gaston said there was some big family argument next door about third party and telling ppl not to watch. LOL take pictues?

BTW took MRT with sirui and slept most of the way. He asked me for my plans of the future.... I REALLY hope i get a IT job. Junyi says i will know in 4/5/6 week of BMT and Samuel say i probably wont be his company in BMT.

Added @ 12.12am : just posted and forgot something. BTW the Spaces textarea always needs to reload... why?

BTW the Xiao Ao Jiang Hu song - Cang Hai Yi Sheng Xiao. Miss the old Chinese Kungfu movies.

http://us.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/pid-1003935398/code-c/section-books/

http://sodcctv.tripod.com/sodmovie.html

Huang Zhan is the composer i think. He was great. But is it his only good song?

Done @ 12.15am

5000 milestone

Sun, 15 May 2005 08:49:35 GMT

Just came back from my pri sch class chalet and it was the best ever. About 20+ turned up. I counted 19-21. LOL and my arms hunt now beoz i swim without warm up... Stupid me.

Came back home and slept from 9am to 4pm. Sirui went Vista to meet his friends. WOW

BTW checked Spaces and reached 5089 hits. Lots of RSS and even jap RSS???

Amazing Race. Show Log. U and Joyce

Wed, 11 May 2005 16:36:47 GMT

I consider this a milestone of mankind and my life. So for once (until now ), I will put this in my special milestone category

This is pasted from my notepad. Need to go sleep now. 12.33am

had this weird flashback about uchenna and Joyce of Amzing race... Dunno what i saw about them... Cant beleive them?

And Rob and Amber got stopped by the police for a check and he might have cost them their second million

U and J just lose a tyre. J lost her hair some episodes back and they are last for jamaica. they lost all their stuff. Ron and Kelly, Rob and amber are confident they will win.

Its raining as Ron and kelly leaves

J and C got delayed becoz no one gave them money at air port

And the golf thing was funny. They all sucked

Was reading neowin when i think i missed the part when Rob and Amber some how got on the first flight when it looked hopeless
R and A went the wrong way for the bridge jump.

Completely missed inuyasha and Shaman king.... Just saw some part when Ryu was fighting two gals shaman with same fire fox powers. One of them is claw, the other "little sister" uses slingshot. They gang up on Ryu and Yoh father appears with that monk staff weapon.

R and A is SUPER lucky with flights. they got on one 10am flight that was JUST closing. Thats crazy
And J and C is behind.
R and K took a wrong turn to the airport and is late. they are arguing again and Ron is a non gentleman redhead...
J and C just managed to convinced the pilot to open the airbridge and they made it on the flight!

Wow my flashback was right. Cool i have psychic powers. i had a 33.3% chance of getting it right anyway. I thought Rob and Amber was gonna win when they got on that plane back to USA. The show has some good video cutters....

I really love this season. the competition between Ron and Rob. But in the end, teamwork, love and kindness wins.

Last part of the game. Ron is far behind. U finds cigar shop first but needs money.
U and J had to beg damn long for money to pay the cab driver at the end. and it was crazy for me to wait!!! they are just at the door!! finally the driver sees they are trying to say that "its cool"

U and J wins the Amazing race and Rob and Amer second. Ron and Kelly Third.

Good ppl can win the race too and i hope they get their children.

Wonder if they are gonna pay the cab driver back? Ask for his address? Won they won without any money in the leg!

Changelog 1.3.1

Sat, 07 May 2005 05:28:50 GMT

For entries that cover a wide range of my interests i have decided to use the Hobbies category.

LOL and ppl are spaming the RCS group and Google shows a related text ad at the side for spam filtering.