14 July 2006 - Bordom, piano practise cum crazy ramblings.
As I was stoning at home before my piano teacher came over for yet another 2+ to 3 hour lesson, I was reminded the times my roomie and I would converse about our laptops' conversation whenever we both were out of the room, which goes something like this:
Kev's: "Sigh, you're lucky to have such a nice owner."
Jack's: "Hahaha, I think so too"
Kev's: "My master is a slave driver man. So much on putting my processor power to the lowest required when he uses it to the MAX, for over 8 hours a day."
Jack: "Yup yup. Poor thing. I love my master. He uses me for only a few hours and only for school work. Microsoft word and all. Not intensive. I'm resting most of the time."
Kev's: "He's gaming and gaming! And for at least 4 hours!!! And he set my processing power to the minimum to make the most out of it!"
Jack's: "Poor thing."
Kev's: "Yea man. How I envy you."
Jack's: "How I pity you"
[And then, on yet another occasion, when Jackson got interested with some genome/protein program that permutates all the possible structures for chemicals. It works at the background.]
Kev's: "I'm resting now"
Jack's: "I've been working 3 days NON-STOP and at maximum processing power!!!"
Kev's: "Ya ya... I'm glad I am resting now"Jack's: "But I'm still working!!!"Kev's: "Ya, I know, I know. Somehow my master doesn't seem all too bad now."
Jack's: "Someone... stop me..."
Conclusion: Man, I'm gonna miss my roomie.
10 July 2006 - Bordom, piano practise cum crazy ramblings.
Today is a nice calm day. Nothing interesting happed. In fact, there's nothing interesting to be happened. Piano practising for hours ain't all that interesting. Receiving an SMS which read "PRACTISE PRACTISE!!" from my piano teacher ain't interesting too. Man... I thank the Lord that I didn't tread on the path of becoming a music student. I'd probably be looong viewing the pearly gates due to boredom a loooong time ago before this blog came about (saluting my 2 piano teachers in my life, Audrey and Jillyn for going WAY BEYOND grade 8). But then again, it wasn't that long before this blog was created. Whatever... that's another topic for another day, if that day for such a topic ever comes. And should that day come, that day was probably like today. Even if it wasn't, it probably was worse than today. Hey, this seems to be endless. Better end it now before it never ends. But then, how is it possible not for a post to end before it's posted... ... ... w - h - a - t - e - v - e - r!!! =\
09 July 2006 - Terrapin Experiment
Objective:
To determine the various types of food the red-eared terrapin (aka red-eared slider) species consumes.
Theory:
If a terrapin eats something, it's probably edible to it (duh?). The exception is that 1x FAT terrapin, as it chomps almost anything, including a piece of iron. Use the other two terrapins as a confirmation.
Experimental apparatus:
1x Plastic container, with water
2x pebbles
2x normal terrapin
1x FAT, glutton terrapin
1x set of different food samples
Experimental set up:
Place the pebbles, 2x normal terrapins and 1x FAT terrapin into the plastic container. Place a sample each time and record which terrapin bites at/eats the samples.
Tabulation of results:
Description: Terrapin 1 - small, 2 - medium, 3 - FAT.
(Food sample: Terrapin 1 2 3)
-----------------------------
Cheese.................Y Y Y
Dried red dates........Y Y Y
Metal key..............N N Y
Live ants..............Y Y Y
Big ants...............Y Y N
Terrapin foodstick.....Y Y Y
Dried shrimp...........Y Y Y
Peanuts................N N N
Bee hoon...............N N N
Paper..................N N N
Toothpick..............N N N
Mosquito...............Y Y Y
Toilet flies...........Y Y Y
Banana.................Y Y Y
Celery.................Y N N
Bread..................N N N
Terrapin poo...........N N Y
Veggie leaves..........Y Y Y
Raw rice...............N N N
Apple..................N N N
Bee....................N N N
Hair...................N N Y
Observations:
- It seemed that terrapins would smell their food to determine its edibility, before chomping.
- The FAT terrapin ws terrified by the big ant, as compared to the other two terrapin.
- The terrapins became more agile and aggressive when it came to shrimp.
- The FAT terrapin seemed to be trying to swallow the sample 'hair' but to no avail. The same goes for the sample 'metal key' where it can't be chewed'.
Experimental errors:
- Apparently both normal terrapins had more food sense with regards to the metal key as compared to the FAT terrapin.
- The FAT terrapin is also very timid, as compared to the other two terrapins, which may result in certain experimental errors.
- The FAT terrapin was so eager to chomp anything, the other two had no chance to eat sample 'Terrapin poo'. Thus, this may lead to a certain inaccuracy in the report.
- As the FAT terrapin had problems swallowing hair, it was pulled out of its mouth. Similar with the 'metal key'
Conclusion:
- Luckily terrapins do not have teeth. Otherwise, the FAT terrapin would have been "bo gay".
- Terrapins love shrimp, shrimp and more shrimp.
- Terrapin do not eat hair, as much as they do not eat a metal key.
07 July 2006 - Birds of a crappy feather crap together???
Hmmm, thinking back, it seemed to me that crappy people are always in my life. In fact, there are quite a BIG number of them...
Since pri school...
- Best buddy (no escaping from this list in any way)
- Some others what I would like to name but have totally NO idea what their names are anymore. Oh, there's one by the name of Charles Hartono or something like that.
Since sec. school...
- Yuri Thian
- Melissa Siow
- Timothy Yip (somewhat crappy, under the influence of the follow up team then, aka Watchlight)
Since JC...
- Nicolez Phua
- Goh Kai Wei aka Kiwi
- Jackson Lum (I sincerely apologise that he's in this list - seemed I ruined him to such a state that he's listed)
- Dharsh aka the Rock
- Matthea Seow
Since army...
- Fu Zhi Kang (how could I possible forget my crazy buddy)
- Edmund Chen (yet another crazy buddy. Sigh... we're crazy)
- Adrian Chua (somehow he got dragged into this list by the above two crazy people, other than me)
- Melvin Chan (somewhat crappy. He needs the mood for it I think. Talked lots of nonsense to him)
- Kelvin Lim
Till uni...
- Anthony Chia
- Wei Ling (a lab partner who comes up with the most amazing lab results, other than me)
- Yuan Sheng (yet another lab partner who comes up with the most amazing lab results)
Side note: It seemed we usually have more to write about in the experimental errors section than others, cause we're just at least 20-50% off from the average readings of everyone quite often. But then again, it does answer to the MOE's call to creativity thinking.
- Audrey
- Wei Ting
- Shannon
- Joel Cheah (somewhat crappy, when Shannon's around it seems)
Oh, if anyone felt that I missed you out in the list... please let me know. Cause I've got so many crappy friends, I just can't remember everyone =) Hmmm, come to think about it, my life's full of crappy people. Lalala, long live crappiness =) Head count... 20 still in contact with. Ooo...
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06 July 2006 - A potato's (aka kantang) handbook
Usage: In circumstances when you have no idea what on earth I'm talking about. It's probably when I use my translation from chinese to english (under super ultra lame conditions), where the chinese language, being more expressive by nature, fits the sentence better. (But whether the translation does justice to the expression is yet another topic altogether, really - so leave it for another day, another time)
[most commonly used]
走火入魔 - walk fire enter monster
杀人放火 - kill people put fire
江山易改，本性难移 - mountain easy to change, character hard to move
人山人海 - people mountain people sea
此地无银三百两 - this floor no silver 300 taels
游山玩水 - swim mountain play water
上梁不正下梁歪 - up pillar not correct down pillar crooked
鱼片米粉 - fish slice rice powder
[least commonly used]
If only languages were word-for-word convertible... there would be no stress in translations. Wow... a language independent program. How interesting. I could even sell a program to timbuktu and get an appraisal! Aha, then I wouldn't get C6s for my examinations for the past tortoise years of my life (think a donkey is slower and more lasting than a donkey on land). But then, a fantasy remains a fantasy =) Arrrgh, it doesn't matter...
05 July 2006 - Blog phobia =\
Firstly, HI AMANDA! This blog has got nothing to do about blasting you, so please don't hate me, sue me, hit me or blast me in your blog... whatever. Just a recounting of a particular event. That's all. Nothing more, really. Anyway, here it goes...
This is a loooonger reply to the posting on my tag board by Joel =) Before I recount what exactly caused the phobia, let mua tell a story: Once upon a time yet not so long ago, there was a lunch meeting after NTU cell and we went to the fish slice rice powder stall area to eat. Somehow, the conversation led to computer, programming topics and somehow it ended with our dear Amanda's exclamation of "AHA!!!!!... (Note: Not enough space to place exclamation marks and yet still have space for a blog entry) The next time I need help with computers I know who to find". Oh well, that led to a 4 over hour nightmare with Html and Java...
Firstly, I looked at a Html tutorial only once in my lifetime in secondary school. Secondly, I never did Java for the internet. And somehow, as of now, I think I generally understand most of the coding enough to edit a blog skin. Wh? Find out more in the few next paragraphs, a ROUGH reiteration of what happened...
Note: [std procedure] refers to making certain changes, saving it, and republishing the post, and verifying it's ok FIRST by viewing it on my own screen.
[After two initial hours of reading the template coding for the first time, understanding it somewhat and doing some editions with some help from internet sources for certain text formatting, creation of an archive list, formatting of archive size, position, creation of background text, insertion of comment made possible, formatting the link's positioning and sizing, edition of font and font size of blog post and their respective headings... + can't remember what else + >1 hour on programming a simple encryption algorithm cum program to code certain text, and now over msn...]
[std procedure]
Me: "So how is it?"
Amanda: "Erm, the words are still too big"
Me: "Okie, changing the font size of the posts"
[std procedure]
Me: "Check it out =)"
Amanda: "Sorry the words are still too big"
Me:"Erm, ok. Will change it."
[std procedure]
Me:"How is it?"
Amanda: "Hmmm, still too big leh"
Well, loop the above conversation some 2-3 times
Me (Giving up... about to...): "OK, forget it. Let's go on to the next item. What else is wrong?"
Amanda: "The words "my walk with God" is too far apart leh
"Me: "OK, will change it's size"
[std procedure]
Me: "Is the sizing ok"
Amanda: "Still to far apart leh"
Me: "But the only way is to make it smaller"
Amanda: "OK la, no choice make it smaller"
[std procedure]
Me: "Check it out. How is it now?"
Amanda: "Now too small leh. Can move everything up a bit"
Also, loop the above conversation some 2-4 times
Well, it goes on and on and on and on until finally, some computer programming instincts about OS resolution, compatability and what not kicks in...
Me: "Can send me a snapshot of your screen?"
The ONLY problem with my template coding editiing was that it looked crapped when your viewing font is at largest. Don't get what I mean? Simply in this window, goto View-> Text Size -> Largest. In fact, that original blog template and many other stuff looks crap when viewing size is at maximum.
So Joel... although I've already created a tag board account for her, and having prepared all the coding, I'm not all too excited about playing with it yet. Hee... moreover, she's NEVER online at the usual times ever since she posted the comment about wanting a tag board. So, I'm still waiting for her to be online. Having discussions like the above could easily produce a nice burning smell from me pockets you know. And back to Amanda - I didn't blast you right? So... relax, okie? Relax, chill... Listen to "Kim Waters - From the heart" to cool...
Lessons learnt: Confirm certain environment conditions on the user's platform/computer before working anything out, unless it's standard.
03 July 2006 - I have a FAT terrapin!
Hmmm, it seems that for the usual terrapin dimensions, the length to width ration is about 8:7. For my greediest terrapin, it's dimension is 9:8. No wonder it looked somewhat bloated to me. But then, it's a food saver cum environmental cleaner, cause it eats scraps all day long and when it discharges whatever that was processed in its stomach, then turns around and... well... it goes back into its stomach. The other 2 terrapins that I have seemed to have more brains not to touch that kinda stuff. Wonder if that tasted quirky to it.
Q: Why did my fat terrapin cross the road?
A: To look for food, as usual, as always, like it has always been, and will always be.
02 July 2006 - Computer clean up day
Internet surfing is like a box of cookies... you'll never know how many adwares and spywares you'll get. - When 76 such items were detected after scanning.
30 June 2006 - Loooong day + Piano saturation + Crankiness kicking in
Woohoo... yet another record in my life where I practiced about 4 hours straight of piano accompanied by 2 hours in church. I'm sooooo saturated with piano I'm just sick of it. Hmmm, then again, it's my hobby. So I can't really be sick of it. But then again, when a hobby becomes a commitment, you may become sick of it at times. But then again, how could you be sick of serving in a ministry that you dreamed of joining since you were a kiddo at 10? But yet again, you do feel sick of piano today. But then, it's a hobby, and you can't really be sick of it... ... ... (infinite loop) ... ... WHO CARES???!!! I'M NOT PLAYING THE PIANO ANYMORE FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS!!!!! (!!!x100^100^100)
Aha, this also reminds me of a lame segment of scary movie 4:
(when the 2 girls tresspassed 'the village' and were caught, standing before trial)
Man: "I fear that the presence of the outsiders will attract those of whom we do not speak"
Woman: "Have you talked about those of whom we do not speak, have you not spoken of that about which we do not talk?"
Man: "Do not speak of that of about which we talk of not speaking, about" ... ... ...
Check out the following site if you want some lame terrapin jokes. I was somehow reminded of it just now - don't ask me how. I don't know, really. As to how I came about knowing this site, it was when I was looking for signs of a sick terrapin. And somehow, through browsing, it caught my attention.
http://www.neoterrapin.com/humor/
Hmmm... think I better keep my crappiness in check. Happens most uncontrollably when I'm tired. My close friends would know that. End of post. Lalala =) Oh, time now, 3:06 a.m.
20 June 2006 - When I was lagging by one day
Well, the deadline for payment of review for results was on the 19th. On the 18th (in my mind), I was wondering if I should do the payment on the 19th, at NTU student services centre. Thinking here and there, I decided that I should do it on the 18th nonetheless, as I don't quite trust circumstances to be perfect. So, I took my own sweet time and all to travel 1 over hour to school, and reached the cashier at 4:55 for the payment. Horror of horrors!!! the cashier closed 10 minutes ago. ARRRGH!!! I was told to come back the next day.
So, I went back the next day, reaching the casher much earlier before their closing time. (Angelic music effect playing: "aaahhhhhh..."). Revelation of revelations. I was told that the supposed 19th was actually the day before. I'm after the deadline. At that moment, I was still feeling blur, and at the same time praying in my heart for the Lord to solve it. So I merely replied: "Erm, I came late yesterday so they asked me to come back today." [Miracle of miracles!] The lady looked at her colleague busy doing something, with that look of suspicion that it was her who told me that off-procedure instruction. Then I was asked to pay and put the form at level one. Went down to level one. The lady mentioned the same thing about the deadline. The fact that Tuesday being the 20th has yet to sink in, thus I replied using my previous statement about having to come the next day. [Miracle of miracles 2!] Got through. She accepted the form. Hmmm... praise God I managed to get my review.
Conclusion: In future, a wife less blur than I am is a must-have.
19 June 2006 - Summary of my life
For those who understand programming, it's something like this:
while (holidays_are_existant==true)
{ if (waking_time<"12:00")
{ breakfast();
play_piano();
play_games();
}
lunch();
play_piano();
play_games();
nap();
dinner();
play_piano();
while (time_of_day<"03:00")
{ play_games();
if (feelin_hungry==true) eat();
}
} //End of while loop.
06 June 2006 - 1 day after the release of results
Hmmm... in my course, if one were to throw a stone, you'll probably hit someone with a GPA of 4.5. Then another stone... 4.6. Then another... 4.8. And yet another... 4.4. By the time I hit someone with a GPA around mine, guess the whole place's bloody. Eeee... (Or would it be an 'Ouch!!!' from myself?)
[tEstIng]
testing 1, 2, 4... oops, 3
