Philoprogenitoveness

This semester I took a liberal arts subject "Introduction to Short Stories". It is the only non-technical subject in my course of study this semester. It was fun studying it.

Just recently we studied "The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry. This story is about irony mostly. But this is not what I wanted to highlight today. It is about philoprogenitoveness, the longest word in the story.

Wow. This must be the longest English word you have seen right? If you can't find it in the dictionary, please look under 'philoprogenitive'. It basically means the love of parent for their children.

My parents protrays philoprogenitiveness. They love me a lot. But I guess I did not love them enough. Recently, there is a small havoc happening in my house. Mostly because I wasn't doing what a student supposed to do. Well, it is not that I did not study, but I guess it wasn't enough.

I am studying a very technical subject in TAR College now, currently in my final year, namely Microelectronics. But I am not only JUST a technical person. I enjoy performing arts as well, currently in Kwang Tong Dance Troupe learning modern contemporary.

My dad recently did not, well for a long time, believe that I am studying, especially after my industrial training. But seriously, my industrial training was not five-star. Perhaps two-star, or even one. The company I joined did not motivate me to study, but worse, it has promoted the degree of lackadaisical in me.

To be honest, I have been blur in this semester I am taking for at least 7 weeks. Blindly going to and fro from college until mid-semester test came upon. Was I motivated to study? Mmm, maybe a little. I wasn't shocked when I got my first mid-term test result. I failed. I even got a lower mark then the worst in my class. What is happening to me?

Dancing is part of art. Maybe not as grand as architecture (mind you, architecture is the mother of art), but still it is a form of art. Why I like it so much? It is because it satisfies me quickly.

Since human is hedonistic, erm, maybe too stereotyping. Uh-hem. Since I am hedonistic, I love dance a lot. I tends to persue pleasure, be it food or games or whatever it is.

For the sake of my dance, I sacrificed my Sunday morning, which I have always slept through since young, to attend the class.

But things has changed. Hopefully to the better.

Home - Chris Daughtry

I have been looking for this song for sometimes. Used to love this song when this is played on the radio. For the first time I found this song, I watched the video and sang along. Tears were in my eye.

Chris Daughtry Lyrics Videos

Now I remembered. It was featured in American Idol. Aw. Love this song so much!

I'm staring out into the night
And trying to hide the pain
I'm going to the place where love
and feeling good don't ever cost a thing,
And the pain you feel's a different kind of pain

I'm going home to the place where I belong
where your love has always been enough for me
I'm running from you know I think you got me all wrong
I don't regret this life I chose for me
But these places and these faces are getting old
So I'm going home

The miles are getting longer it seems
The closer I get to you.... babe
I've not always been the best man and friend for you
But your love remains true and I don't know why
You always seem to give me another try

I'm going home
To the place where I belong
Where your love has always been good enough for me
I'm running from you know I think you got me all wrong
I don't regret this life I chose for me
But these places and these faces are getting old

Be careful what you wish for
cause you just might get it all
you just might get it all and then some you dont want
be careful what you wish for cause you just might get it all
You just might get it all

I'm going home to the place where I belong
Where your love has always been enough for me
And I'm running from.. you know I think you got me all wrong
I don't regret this life I chose for me'
But these places and these faces are getting old
But these places and these faces are getting old
I'm going home

I'm going home.

Lyrics from http://www.lyricsyoulove.com/c/chris_daughtry/home/

Funny toes, shocked young couple

I moving towards the long escalator moving down to the ground floor from the LRT platform in KL Sentral. I felt someone pushing me from behind when I was just about to step on the escalator. A girl slipped through my back and stood next to me on the platform of the escalator. She was in a hurry, and rushed down the escalator.

I noticed her toes. She was wearing those slipper-like sandal with a tiny high-heel. Perhaps it was genes, her second and middle toes was sticked together at the lower segment, then branch out the two toes at the upper segment. So it was like it is forming a 'Y'. Interesting. She then rushed down the escalator and was gone for good.

I was on my way to the KTM after I pay my water bills, I saw a security guard escorting a young couple. He was ushering them to the guards room or the management room. I guess they were caught smooching in public. Naughty young couple. Hope they are fine.

Journal of the Day

Rain was almost ending when my class finished at 4pm. Drizzling a little here and there. I packed all my books in my backpack, getting ready to go home. I put on my sweater, covering a book which I borrowed from the library, and walked towards the LRT station.

Halfway to the train station, it rained again. I sighed, but I was lucky because I was underneath of the high-raised railway track. I reached for the foldable umbrella in my backpack, extended it, sheltered myself in the rain.

It was only a few minutes more walk to the station. When I reached the station, I saw two girls trying to run over to a bus stop not far away from the station. After I walk past them, I suddenly thought of helping them. Then I thought, should I help them? How? I did not know what to do, so I just continue my steps.

It took me sometime to reach home. The journey home is tiring, especially with all the books I borrowed. Three of them to be exact. I dosed off on the train to Kepong, as always, provided if I get a seat.

When I reach Kepong KTM station, the rain have not stop yet. I took out my umbrella again, stuffed the book I was holding all the way into my backpack, and walked home with the backpack in front of me. Reason: to avoid rain wetting my backpack, and it require much less energy to carry it.

Same thing happened again. There was this two girls stopped at a shelter and they were deciding whether to run through the rain to their car. I thought, this is the time, I shall try to offer help. They were reluctant to accept my help. Perhaps they are afraid of me. Sweat. I am not scary, am I?

Oh well, I just walked home after that. No turning back. Hope those girls are not sick for not accepting my offer to help.

Neways, I have got a test on DSP tomorrow. Digital Signal Processing. 9am. So damn early. Btw, my classes are 9am everyday. To some extends, it sucks. I am going to study for DSP now. Wish me luck! *hugz*

PS: Umbrella in Britain is known as Brolly. I just found that out. Haha.. Thanks Gor!

Men, women and sex

"很多男生會想要跟喜歡的人有性關係,其實那都不是真愛... 基本上一個男人遇到自己最愛的女人,是想要保護她,永遠跟他在一起而不會去想性.... 但是愛最後會有性,那是完美的靈肉合一,是很單純的快樂,是一種至高無上的幸福感."

Here is something my primary school crush wrote. This is kinda what she thinks about men, and sex. I guess this is kinda true huh? Don't you agree with it? I heard, men thinks about sex every 20 minutes. Whether true or not, men still do thinks about sex. Relationship wise, it will only occur when the inner-self wanted to have a relationship rather than having sex. What am i TALKING? Haha... Anyhow, guys, don't just do sex itself. The longer you do that, the emptier you will feel.

千里之外 藏着 北极星的眼泪

在千里之外，藏着北极星的眼泪…… 千里之外 - 周杰伦，费玉清 屋簷如悬崖 风铃如沧海 我等燕归来 时间被安排 演一场意外 妳悄然走开 故事在城外 浓雾散不开 看不清对白 妳听不出来 风声不存在 是我在感慨 梦醒来 是谁在窗台 把结局打开 那薄如蝉翼的未来 经不起谁来拆 我送妳离开 千里之外 妳无声黑白 沉默年代 或许不该 太遥远的相爱 我送妳离开 天涯之外 妳是否还在 琴声何来 生死难猜 用一生 去等待 闻泪声入林 寻梨花白 只得一行 青苔 天在山之外 雨落花台 我两鬢斑白 闻泪声入林 寻梨花白 只得一行 青苔 天在山之外 雨落花台 我等妳来 一身琉璃白 透明著尘埃 妳无瑕的爱 妳从雨中来 诗化了悲哀 我淋湿现在 芙蓉水面採 船行影犹在 妳却不回来 被岁月覆盖 妳说的花开 过去成空白 梦醒来 是谁在窗台 把结局打开 那薄如蝉翼的未来 经不起谁来拆 我送妳离开 千里之外 妳无声黑白 沉默年代 或许不该 太遥远的相爱 我送妳离开 天涯之外 妳是否还在 琴声何来 生死难猜 用一生 去等待

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北极星的眼泪 - 张栋梁 像斷了線 消失人海裡面 我的眼終於失去 你的臉 再等一會 奢望流星會出現 願 如果真的實現 愛能不能永遠 明天 或許來不及變 但曾經走過的昨天 越來越遠 北極星的眼淚 說不出的想念 原來我們活在 兩個世界 北極星的眼淚 你哭紅的雙眼 被淋濕的諾言 淹沒在心裡面 我抬頭看著 愛不見 再等一會 奢望流星會出現 願 如果真的實現 愛能不能永遠 明天 或許來不及變 但曾經走過的昨天 越來越遠 北極星的眼淚 說不出的想念 原來我們活在 兩個世界 北極星的眼淚 你哭紅的雙眼 被淋濕的諾言 淹沒在心裡面 我抬頭看著 愛不見 當對的人 等不到對的時間 就在放開雙手的瞬間 愛撕成兩邊 北極星的眼淚 說不出的想念 原來我們活在 兩個世界 北極星的眼淚 你哭紅的雙眼 被淋濕的諾言 淹沒在心裡面 我抬頭看著 愛不見 整個宇宙都 流眼淚

The Sad Song - Emil

Bar Brawl

I read this interesting article from The Sun on either the 9th or 10th, August 2006. Here you go.

A woman patron beats up a staff of Rising Sun Anger Release Bar in eastern Chinse City of Nanjing, The new bar lets customers an unusual outlet for their anger and frustration - by allowing them to use the workers as punching bags. In addition to getting a drink, one can also pay money to smash glasses, shout and scream.

Wow. This is so cool! I wonder how would Malaysians react to this kinda bars. One thing I am afraid will be the workers are punched dead. Hahaha. And BTW, I think you might have heard of the HK's 'Bus Uncle' incident where it happened on a bus. This unnamed uncle was talking on the phone loud in a bus, and this young guy sitting behind him can't stand his volume talking on the phone thus pat on his shoulder. The uncle got furious about it and had an arguement with the young guy and it was recorded by a student using SE W800i (Hey! Thats my phone! keke!). The whole clip was about 5 mins long and it was posted on YouTube and it was so popular in HK until it was reported as news. It has been diagnosed as HKies are in stress. Well, I think all people living on earth now are stressful! Unless those real calm and serene guy, like those practising Buddhism or other related spiritual teachings. Until recently there is a lot of clips shown on YouTube shot in Malaysia showing people in stress. So, I guess a bar like this would help reducing this kind of problems. Hehe.

'Rich' and 'Poor'

I'm sure you might have read this in some forwarded mail, but I would like to repost it here.

One day, the father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the express purpose of showing him how poor people live. They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family. On their return from their trip, the father asked his son, "How was the trip?" "It was great, Dad." "Did you see how poor people live?" the father asked. "Oh yeah," said the son. "So, tell me, what did you learn from the trip?" asked the father. The son answered: "I saw that we have one dog and they had four. We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no end. We have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the stars at night. Our patio reaches to the front yard and they have the whole horizon. We have a small piece of land to live on and they have fields that go beyond our sight. We have servants who serve us, but they serve others. We buy our food, but they grow theirs. We have walls around our property to protect us, they have friends to protect them." The boy's father was speechless. Then his son added, "Thanks Dad for showing me how poor we are."

Isn't perspective a wonderful thing? Makes you wonder what would happen if we all gave thanks for everything we have, instead of worrying about what we don't have. Appreciate every single thing you have, especially your friends! Pass this on to friends and acquaintances and help them refresh their perspective and appreciation.

"Life is too short and friends are too few."

Source: Forwarded Mail.

My Beautiful Sister

My sister is getting more and more beautiful. She was getting ready for her dance competition. Was trying on clothes for her competition. I was around her room and she asked me some questions. As she came out of her room, I looked at her. So beautiful. In my eyes, she has never been this beautiful. She starts to have mesmerising touch in her. I was kind of a bad brother. Yes as I recall back. I did not treat her that well. Was still a sister, but I kept bulling her. As all brothers will. Until I met Joshikun, he had a sister of my sister age as well! I could tell, he care for his sister a lot. Then I start to think. I thought, my sister deserves the same as well, after so long I have been ignorant to her. Started treating her good since last year. Our relationship improved. We talked more, we shared more. But I still feels something is lacking. She is not that femenine. Until today, the mesmerising feeling, I can tell, she is getting beautiful. Her hair was dry jz now, I offered to wash her hair. Yup, I did. Washed her hair like how saloon does, then I applied conditioner. We chatted a lot as well. Hehe... She looks great after that! I can't wait for tomorrow where she is dressed for the competition. Hope I can see her in the competition. PS: Dont think I'm dying k? Tmr I have test and i might miss her show. =p

LOST

"Thump~~~~~~~~~" That's what you will hear when 8TV runs LOST's commercials. It feels, scary, empty and... LOST... That's what I feel nowadays. Not only just watching Lost. And dang it cause they still have not finish by season 2. Why do I say I feel LOST? Well, I haven't been doing too well in my AdvDip year. Losing out among my coursemates... Didn't really do my tutorials... Skipping all the tutorials and having the stupid procastinating nature is killing me softly. Lost as in, I do not know, how to get myself into working mode & mood. Aih... Help please? Assignment will due in few days time, exam will due in few weeks time... Will I have enough time to study? I guess I'd better stop all online activity and finish my maths tutorials for tomorrow... T.T

Been busy

An-nyo!! There has been a long time since I have ever blogged. Well, not too long, a few weeks thou. Haha. Lets see what to update. Got my new laptop. An Acer Aspire 5540 series. It has a 2 brains at the solving speed of 1.6GHz (well, this is kinda low-end nowadays), a 14.1" WXGA CrystalBrite LCD screen, an Intel Graphic Media Accelerator 950, a 60GB HDD of unknown brand, a DVD/CD-RW combo, 1GB DDR2 RAM, and of course it comes with WiFi accessibility. It is always good to have a computer. I guess I'll just focus on the bad points. The 'CrystalBrite' technology does not amase me that well. It gives a glossy finish on the LCD screen and makes it looks like a mirror when it is showing dark images, for example, in movies. The screen is extreamly reflective and it kinda gives an eyesore if you were to use it for a long time. Hoping to get a screen protector without glossy feeling on it. It still worth with the myr 3k. Was very busy with my assignments back then, especially during world cup season. I have to pass up 5 assignments in 7 days, each day with 1 day in break in between, where I stayed up till 5am in the morning just to finish the assignment. Thanks to my procastinating nature. Managed to pass them up, but as always, if I could have put more effort in DOING my assignment rather than doing SOMETHING esle... I could have flared better. Got addicted in watching 'Lost'. I am at season 2 now. Damn syok watching it. I just found something unbelievable on the net. Wikipedia has an article on the whole story including the casts, and a synopsis on every episode, plus all the spoilers, with additional untold details. Still same old messy table where I place my laptop on it. Now come with a table fan just to blow on my laptop to keep it cool, a 15" LG Studioworks 500G as an additional monitor which my cousin have not claim it back, and whole lot of messy items around it. How am I going to study in these place?! It is so not a study environment. I NEED TO CHANGE! So, it's sales time now rite? I shall shop for furniture soon. Hmm, should I do it before or after my exam? Hmm... big question XD

AMD1

Proud to say that I am in AMD1!!! Not Advance Micro Devices, but Advance Diploma in Microelectronics in Computer Communication Year 1. (If you read my previous post, I am a AMD user, and proud to be one) Advance year. What should I say about it. This is already the forth week and ten more weeks to go for exam, and I am stuck in the middle of nowhere. The subjects I am having this semester is: ASIC (Application-specific Intergrated Circuit) Design I >> Ms Ng Swee Chin, Mr Ang Boon Kiat Electricity & Magnetism >> Mr Chong Nyok Kian Advance Engineering Maths III >> Mr Wong KY, Mr Teo Internet Programming >> Ms Lee PS Pendidikan Moral >> Ms Gan Siew Cu Let me talk about them one by one. ASIC Design This subject teaches us how to use a hierachical approach to design an application-specific integrated circuit. For example, our mobile phone. We devide them into subsystems and then we partition them again into smaller subsystems until we can represent them in circuits, or any other conceptual methods such as K-map, Truth Tables, State Diagrams etc. > I think Ms Ng really did a good job in teaching us digital logics and how this ASIC functions. She teaches better than any other lecturers. I will attend all her classes. Her classes are not to be missed. For Mr Ang, he is just a practical tutor, as ever playful. Electricity and Magnetism This is a hardcore physics subject. Totally theory. Includes a lot of vectors, and all previous basic physics equations, which I have forgotten all of them. > Mr Chong does a much better job than Mr Lim LS, where he show us the picture of physics. But he is damn slow in teaching. Puts me to sleep. Lullaby rating: So-so. Advance Engineering Maths III I liked maths actually. But I dislike integration and trigonometry, especially when they are combined together. The topics this semesters are all integrations and trigonometries. Come along with vectors, matrices etc. > Mr Wong KY teaches vectors for now, will be teaching matrices as well. Note: all includes with integration. He has the deepest voice among all lecturers who had taught us and no doubt his lulluby rating is Excellent! > Mr Teo however teaches Fourier Series which relates with periods and again contains a lot of integrations, sines and cosines. Do you know what's the worst part? By-parts integration. His voice is damn deep as well, but he can't fight with Mr Wong. Lulluby Rating: Good. Internet Programming Talks about ASP.net. A new server-side technology which works on Microsoft .NET framework. We are learning it using C# programming language. Good lesson plans, good lesson materials. Good job to Computer Science Division. > No comment on Ms Lee. Nice lecturer. Typical. But something amazing about the lab. One of the lab we go to has a internal forum and file sharing network! I was so surprised! It is done by the lab assistants in the lab. Damn cool! I'll bring my portable HDD and download all of them! Hehe. Btw, it is lab D103. Pendidikan Moral Yesh, I still need to attend Moral Education. It talks about all the theories rather than the moral values and teaches us to evaluate different situations with different moral theories and point of view. My assignment is about war, and I am so blur about it. > Ms Gan has a very strong and high-pitched voice. She differs from other lecturer, thats why I don't really sleep in her class. Haha. Lulluby Rating: Bad. There is just one small little thing which I don't really like. Today is the 2nd time a lecturer ask me whether did I watch too much football thats why I am so blur and slept in class. FIFA World Cup huh... Aih. The reason is because I was sleep deprived, and their class is slow and boring. Btw, I am the course representative now, and I would have to really discipline myself so that I do not embarassed my course AMD1. Introducing my fellow coursemates. Goh Kee Ming as Assistant Course Rept, Lee Li Khim as Tresurer, Lum Chan Fai as Photostat Manager, and Ng Tian Soo as Sports Representative. Thats all, 5 person in a course. Cool huh? My plan now, is to really got to complete all my tutorials and assignments on time and not to rush like what I did last time...

The refurbished KTM

I was on my way home from college on Monday as usual, taking KTM to Kepong from the KL Sentral Station. In a short wait, the train arrived. It was the oldest model of train KTMB is still using to commute the passanger. To my surprise, it was refurbished. The old model which looks like a long distance passanger train was modified and it looked so COOL! They removed two rows of seats closest to the door and removed the barrier as well! A quite futuristic look I must say. This model of train used to be the most dreaded model of train especially during rush hours because it will be damn full of people and those standing near the door will be stuffed dead coz too much people, heat, stuffiness and suffocation. Good news to all those commuters who take KTM during rush hour. And WELL DONE to KTMB. But then when I was taking the KTM on Tuesday, 20.06.2006 (Yes, the special date. Whoa! So many special dates this year. Congratz to PJ coz recognised as a CITY!) the old model train was not furbished. I guess maybe they have not implement this concept on all the train. Seriously when I got on the refurbished train, it feels like a new train where I can smell the scent of new and/or renovated thingies. it was a great time on the train. Another thing I discovered was, there was a lot of announcement today. And this I must really say that the announcer of KTM is much better than announcer of the Star LRT. I can't even make out any word from the announcer especially on the Star LRT cabin! I always liked the voice of the KL Sentral announcer. His voice is good. Crisp and clear. Good command of Bahasa Melayu and English. But then, the announcement today occurs because there was a delay on certain train, if I am not mistaken it was the train to Seremban and I saw there was a huge crowd of people waiting to get on the train. Poor people. KTMB, you really need to pay attention on your operations as there are more commuters everyday because of the fuel price. Improve your services and make a great difference to our lives! Btw, there is a new destination added by KTMB. Kepong Sentral! Not sure what is the use anyway. Try it dudez.

Getting on track - the Theatre

Hey peeps.. Just a few words here before I go off to bed. And especially Jennie, I will have to write the post later. I am now working as a crew of a children theatre show for 1 week, which is from 20th May till 28th May. Okay, 1 week plus. I will be working from morning till late night for 1 whole week. Well, just want to express my happiness towards this job my friend Kino has introed me. This is because I have always wanted to get into this line. Although it is quite tough being in this kinda position, but I am happy, because I am contributing to the performing arts. I have met lots of great people who has quite some fame in Malaysia's Performing Art line, they are usually more known in the Chinese areas ^^;; Here by I attach with its brouchers. Here it is! Come see yea!!! It is really nice!!! It will surely reminds you back to your childhood. ^^ Hope to see you there! I'll feedback about the getting on track part after I'm free from the show. Stay surfing and stay LUCKY!!

About Jennie & DMI 05/06

She is my best-est friend in my 2 year diploma life. Hmm... This does not really start off a good story huh? Haha... Jennie, I know u are reading this. I shall recall back to last two years, when we first met. And it was in college of course. Jennie Ho Tze Hui, she was appointed to be DMI's course representative. Wise choice I shall say. And I could still remember the fellow coursemates were planning to appoint me to be the assistant, but they got the wrong name instead. Haha~ But I was still glad I wasn't appointed, that is only after awhile (you know what I mean). FYI, Tunku Abdul Rahman College is 3 semester based, where 1st and 2nd semester is 17 weeks, and 3rd semester is 10 weeks. When I was in my 1st year 1st and 2nd semester, I was a lil 'sombong', coz, erm, I find the subjects quite easy, thus, was hated by some people. Now, let me go by time chronology. *I shall continue again soon*

Stacking tasks

Friday, May 19, 2006 - 4:14am As usual, I'm geting ready to sleep after talking to my dear. I started to think, throughout this semester break, so called holiday, what have I done, did I do anything useful, did I do anything which will help me? Or shall I say, did I do anything I planned for myself for the semester break? Things started to come on my mind. My holiday is ending soon, in just a week plus. I shouldn't be fear of not being able to finish my 'duty'. But next week I planned to work at a stage performance... I quickly reviewed what I have not done in my task list. Bloggie > New layout 4 bloggie, photot album and etc. PC > organise music and files, editors etc. Learn dance steps Out of suddent I feel like blogging now... I have so much to write about! You must be wandring what I have been doing recently. I have been sleeping at 4am, waking up at 1pm, not doing any chores, sat in front of the PC like no one's business for past few weeks... Damn my life is messed up. I can feel myself getting weaker compared to those days... and again I want to remind myself, SLEEP AT 2AM AND WAKE UP AT 9AM for the rest of the holidays!!!

Computer Frenzy

Okie, frenzies again. Haha... As you might already know, please read previous entriez if you don't, I am on holz now. And again, BON VACANCES to mua! My computer was at a disasterous state, after it was struck by the damn lightning 3 months ago, which is still on now and causing havoc everywhere; I put them into random pieces when I got a new desktop. Mind you, my lappie got stuck too, and it needs f*ckin 1.3k to fix it. My new desktop spec: AMD Athlon(r) 64-bit 3200++ nVidia GeForce 6200 TurboCache(tm) (PCI-E) Samsung SyncMaster 793DF (17" Flat Screen) 1GB RAM DVD+CDRW Combo 200GB Western Digital (new) + 80GB WD (old) HP PSC 1410 All-in-One Automatic Voltage Regulator To all, please get an AVR if you don't have. It will lenghten the life of your PC, and acts as a powerful surge protector. It is only around 0.07k. When I try to install winXP to the new desktop, I made a simple mistake. The windows was installed in the 200GB drive, but then the drive letter is G:/. Know what is the mistake? It was because I have the old 80GB drive mounted when I was installing and the 80GB took C:/, D:/, and E:/ while my DVD+CDRW combo took F:/. So, I hv spent like, 2 months surviving with G:/ as the windows drive. I feel damn beh syok with this adi ler... Since it is my holz now, I shall rearrange all my things and make things right! Things I did for my desktop: Formatted winXP Installed new theme from CrystalXP.net Installed MSN Plus! Installed Avant Browser Installed J River Media Center Installed K-Lite Codec Pack That is for the winXP. I ventured in Linux too. Going open source.. XD Bought a DVD from Kent, SuSe Linux Enterprise Server v9. I tried to install it. It was useless. Searched the net for new distro (a jargon which means Linux dristibution) from http://www.linux.org/ Tried Gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org/), but then it was tough to install because it is command line based. I then try Mandriva 10.2 (http://www.mandriva.com/), surpricingly it has a really user friendly installation interface! I chose some packages I find interesting and installed. Using KDE, Gnome and IceWM if not mistaken. All installation went on quite well, just that, it could not detect my LAN and Sound driver!!! I was like, dang. I spent about 20 hours on this linux thingy, including getting the driver done. What I did to get the driver: Went to KDE > Harddrake and try to manually load the driver. Failed. Searched my motherboard manufacturer (Biostar) for linux driver Directed to chipset manufacturer (nVidia) Downloaded driver for nForce (motherboard chipset) Went in Linux and try to install Tried in KDE, was unable to do so. Tried in Gnome, the setup ran. But it didn't install, is says kernal source undetermined. Looked in uninstalled packages for kernal source, failed on 1st few attempt. Looked though the forums. Found nothing helpful. Try to locate kernal source again. Found. Try to install the driver. Done. (at this point, I was like, YESH!!!) Read the release note for the installation details. Followed and it worked fine. And I can finally online at Linux and listens to sounds. (KDE's system sounds are DAMN COOL!) The reason I wanna try Linux is that I wanna utilise my 64-bit processor, besides the fact that I'm a 1st time Linux user. As you know, or might not, winXP is 32-bit, except for winXP 64-bit. I was told you can't do many things in winXP 64-bit. I didn't install it. And I used Linux instead. I ran some game provided by Mandriva 10.2, some 3D game, and it was very laggy. I was surprised. I thought it will work better than 32-bit environment. I was wrong I guess. Or maybe I should try to downlaod some 3D 64-bit game for Linux. Doom3 is an example I found online, which is always used to test the performance. I will keep updating about the Linux and some computer things I found useful. Stay bookmarked. p/s: I have spent few night staying awake till 4/5am... to work on this, and you-know-what. I think I should start to get back to sleeping at 1/2am, soon...

Happie Holiday!

Bon Vacances! That is, erm, should be the french for HAPPIE HOLIDAY! After my finals on, erm, forgot when.. should be the end of april, I am considered a GRADUATE, from my diploma, thou. Spent the final karaoke session in diploma year with Jennie straight after our last paper. It was fun. I'll sure to miss you, Jennie. Few days after that, it was labour day. Don't ask. I was at home and did not go anywhere, practically. Went on shopping with my dear at night, in preparation to camerons! Been on camerons with my dear and another couple. It was nice. The weather is nice. Strawberry Park is nice. The suite we got is nice. The room is nice. The time spent together is nice. Enjoying like its our home, feels damn great! Just one thing. I didn't managed to load much strawberries, especially strawberry jam! And tea, etc... Lesson got from cameron trip: > Japanese Instant Bowl Noodle is DAMN NICE!!! > Remember to load lotsa strawberries if you like! > A really good place for photo people and green people (I'm both, but I don't do them that often) > Cheese-stuffed hotdog is DAMN NICE!!! > Mahjong is a very very interesting game! (Ah kong teached us how to play, basic ones thou) > Driving on hill needs auto gear 2, rather than D, to prevent brake burn, but uses more petrol > Rest areas on North South Highway is very hi class adi. > Balanced meal is VERY important. After this, I have like, 3 more weeks of holz to go... Want to spend it wisely! XD hopefully..

"Fun and Facts" competition - What is 'in' and 'out'?

"Hey Kent! It has been long! How are you? Oh, I heard you went for audition for the talent quest. Did you get in?" I said. "Hey, yup, it has been long. Wow, you do receives news don't you? Sad to say, I did not get IN." 'In' is used to describe a situation where you are selected for some events here, or most correctly refering to a position where you are doing or being in something. For example, "Aiks! But then I have heard your voice, it is quite good! I still remember last time when you perform on stage, and that time you were in a very cool outfit. With your guitars and voice, all of the audience immersed in you show! You were like a star!" As you can see, 'in' is also used to describe when you are being in a cool outfit, and got in the show. Kent replied humbly, "Naw, I ain't that good. They were a lot more talents out there and you have not seen it." 'Out' however is the opposite of 'in', where it means to look at a broader horizon, for example 'out there'. "Don't worry too much, I'm sure there is someone out there who will appreaciate your talent. By the way, do you want to hang out some other days? I would love to go out with you!" "Gee thanks! I need some time out as well." Kent answered with enthusiasm. 'Out' is also used to describe a situation where you want to enjoy the day and have fun at a mall or some places of interest by going out and hanging out. It is also used to describe a feeling of relaxation by having a time out.