Dead.... its dead....

Sorry for the long absence, not that many of you guys & gals will miss me or what. I've not been blogging for such a long time mainly because my laptop is dead, and without it, there is simply no motivation, inspiration and aspiration to blog. Anyway, sent my laptop to service already and hopefully it will be back in action soon. I'll be looking forward to boring you guys soon!

Table for 5, please!

No more monkey business anymore, okay? Time to do some proper talking cock this year, got it? It's the end of another cycle for me and my fellow monkey friends, meaning we are going on 25 already. Arghh!! Mid twenties soon!

Anyway, just had a nice long reunion dinner with my family that lasted around .... 30 minutes. We took our own sweet time, talked alot, but still finished up pretty soon. I wonder why. Anyway, for the half hour meal, there was tonnes of dishes to do. Luckily, I was able to sneak away to upload the pictures taken prior to the dinner and start blogging.

Table for 5~!

Now that I finished having my dinner, time to relax abit, kick back and enjoy my red wine. Hmmm, red wine after a steamboat dinner, what a strange combination.

Anyway, I wish you all a very happy lunar new year (新年快乐), congratulations for making a fortune (恭喜发财), year year got fish (年年有余）and ten thousand things go according to your wishes! (万事如意） Last but not least, talk lots of cock and comment on my blog! Hahaha!

Desperate? Who? Me?

Just finished watching "Desperate Housewives" on Channel 5 and I must say it's one of the best comedy I have watched, right up there with "Sex and the City" and "Friends" (first few seasons only). Not only is this show humourous, it also brings out some meaningful issues to relationships and family as a whole. Therefore, I highly recommend this show to all you guys out there free enough to watch it. Oh, did I mention there are nice babes on the show as well? ;P

Been taking a break from my daily blogging for the past 2 days due to lack of interesting topics to share with you people. Anyway, for the past 2 days, life is, well, been quite ordinary for me. Splurged on clothes, which I seldom do, played tennis with my brother and his friends, which I never do. I can say that I tried some new stuff lately, which is quite a refreshing break from my monotonous lifestyle.

Oh, I've been helping a friend with a problem as well. You see, this friend of mine is having a really really really bad time at work (and I mean really really really bad) and really thinks about quitting the job. However, the job market lately is "rumoured" to be quite bad so quitting is not a very good option right now. So now my friend is kind of stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea. Hope that some enlightened/superior/celestial being out there can have ideal solution (if it exists) for my friend. This makes me wonder as well as I'll be out of school and out of job in 2.5 months time. What kind of a job will I land up with and will I be able to take the pressure of the job? In other words, when the going gets tough, will I get going or will I start moaning?

For now, I can gallantly say that I will be able to take the pressure, but who really knows, right? Right now, I can't even manage my FYP well, not to say a proper job. Oh "some enlightened/superior/celestial being out there", please grant my wish and give me a job that pays well, gives low stress and have short working hours. I promise to be nice and blog regularly. ;)

Nothing is gonna stop me!

As the title says, nothing is going to stop me from blogging! Not even when my Window XP crashes. Not even when I forgot to backup my FYP before it crashes. And definitely not even after I wasted hours trying to recover my system. I'm a hard core blogger~!

And for those concerned folks out there, system has been restored (no thanks to Mr Gates) and I managed to back up a copy of my FYP before I wiped my C: clean. Doesn't seem to make the system faster after formatting but I got to do it anyway. An advice to you all, back up your important stuff in as many location as possible. You never know when will the next crash occur.

Went to a career talk today again, and felt mightly inferior there. Most people there are "eligible for Ph.D" calibre while I'm a "second lower class honours hopeful" calibre. How to fight with them? Feeling abit demoralised after that but hopefully it will drive me to perform better this semester. Like it will really happen.

Almost....almost...

Today my economics tutor spewed words of wisdom again~ The topic today was on the game theory for economics. For those who don't know about it, go read a book. Anyway, one of the most important contributor to the game theory was John Nash. Those who watched "A Beautiful Mind" by Russell Crowe should know who Nash was. John Nash was a genius who came up with loads of theorem and ideas that form the modern day game theory, however, there was a slight catch. He had a screw loose some where up there.

Back to my econs lesson. My tutor was saying something about geniuses and idiots only have a very slim line separating them. That alot geniuses had some marbles missing, one way or another. She then went on to tell us of a story of one of her ex-students who was exceptionally talented in academics. That guy managed to score As for papers that his peers can only struggle to pass. (I strongly suspect he is not human) And his answers for the exams impressed the examiners so much that they actually went to him to advise him to go to UK for top education rather than staying on here, burying his talent.

His reply to them was," I would love to go, but who will take care of my......laundry?!?" Seriously, this guy has something loose in his head, instead of worrying about his laundry, he should worry about his favorite TV shows first, right? What a strange fella.

Anyway, this brings us back to the point that genius are almost idiots. From this logic, then I can safely say that I am almost a genius, I'm also almost very rich and finally, I'm almost very good looking~ Ahh... Almost there.

Chronicles of the L-plate Warrior

The L-plate warrior is back again with yet another harrowing experience with the hazardous road. Today I went for my second driving lesson at Bukit Gombak. My instructor drove me to a big lorry park near the Bukit Batok Nature Reserve for some "Circuit training". Circuit training in this aspect means driving around in circles, nothing fancy. After 2 rounds, he stopped me and started to teach me the art of gear shifting. Halfway through the lesson, some mean people holding some mean electronic device came to the park and started giving tickets to the lorries parked there. The instructor, somehow intimidated by them, continued the lesson by starting from the top and keep an eye on their movement.

As these ticket giving punks came closer halfway through the lesson *again*, my instructor told me that he will drive me to another location to continue the lesson. So I changed seats with him and he drove all the way to the bus stop right outside the park. There, he told me to get into the driving seat again, which I did. There, he continued the story, I mean lesson, again by repeating the whole damn thing again. By then, it was pretty well drilled into my subconscious mind. After finishing the lesson, he looked back and decided that it was safe to go back and he spoke the 5 magic words. "Drive back to the carpark." I pretended no to hear anything, hoping that this is just my imagination when he said again, "Drive back to the carpark."

At that moment, sweat was beginning to form on my brow as I wanted to scream,"But I don't know how to f**king drive yet!". A simple "Ok" was all that I could manage. Then I started to do the routine start up procedure and just as the car pulled away, it stalled. DAMN! Must be too excited about being the menace of the road for the first time that I released my clutch too early. There goes my perfect record~ Anyway, its better that I stall here than stalling at a junction, right? My second attempt was much smoother, and voila, I was driving on the road! 10 seconds after I started driving on the road, he used another 3 magic words on me,"U-turn in front". Being the steady bom bee bee future-driver, I acknowledge him with another,"Uhhhh... Okay..." I was so surprised that I did not stall at the junction when I was performing the U-turn, I did not have time to gloat over it as some "Assshhh oooool" kept horning like there's no tomorrow. Can't he see I'm a L-plate warrior, that horny bastard! Anyway, having survived my first U-turn with causing a pile up, I drove along steadily along the road feeling quite happy.

Apparently the instructor did not like to see me happy as he used the 3 magic words again. U-turn again? Hmmmm, I thought, I survived the first one, so the second one should be a piece of cake as well. And a piece of cake it is, I managed my second U-turn quite professionally, having turned the steering wheel slightly hard and almost ripping it out. I swear I heard the heart of my instructor shatter as I turned the wheel too hard. "No need so hard, no need so hard", he said, in between sobs. Finally reached the car park safely to resume my circuit training after 10 minutes of dangerous manuveuring on the road. I was so relieved.

At the carpark, we did 30 minutes of circuit training before he decided to call it a day. Phew, I'm also getting tired after all those excitement earlier in the lesson and was looking forward to a leisurely lift to my pick up point, which was quite a distance from the carpark. I was about to undo my seatbelt when he used magic for the last time of the day. "Now you drive back to the pick up point, okay?", he said smilingly. I almost collapsed.

And this was all in a days work for the L-plate warrior. Stay tuned for the next exciting episode of the Chronicles of the L-plate warrior!

Oh and now that I'm driving on the road, plesae check with me whether I'm driving when you are planning to go Gombak area, okay? It's for your own safety sake!

Fun with abbreviations

After sounding so damn angry in the last post, I stopped and thought about it for a while. Did that guy really deserve my cursing and swear? ......... YUP, he did! Hahaha. Anyway, I'm still writing my paper and the number of abbreviations are really piling up. Some of them sounds kind of, well, suggestive. Hehehehe. Here I go:

I'm designing a generic system called the Wireless Heterogenous Information Provision System (WHIPS). Being a generic system, WHIPS can be used almost in any area. Recent security issues have create interests in Survelliance and Monitoring (SM) technology. Hence, it is highly possible for WHIPS to be utilised on SM purposes. Wireless Target Finding (WTF) is also a highly potential implementation for the WHIPS. The military will likely to find WTF useful for their operations. WHIPS is also in review for application in Fundamental Utility Networks (FUN) that could be used in institutions all around the world. However, WHIPS implementation for FUN will likely to be contested by the Precision Asynchronous Integrated Network (PAIN) as findings show that WHIPS is more applicable to PAIN than FUN. PAIN is usually implemented in the Asynchronous Sequencing Systems (ASS) which is a growing technology in mainframes. Therefore, PAIN in the ASS will likely to be the cutting edge technology featured in 2005, followed by the use of WHIPS for SM purposes. Last but not least will be WTF, which the military personnel would be using very often.

Hahaha, please don't stone me if its not funny. I'm simply too bored in library, freezing my ass off again. Anyway, its my ass, not the Asynchronous Sequencing Systems, okay? Anyway, none of the technology above are actual technologies, so don't go typing PAIN in the ASS in google. I'm not responsible if the results show your photo. ;P

What the smokes are you thinking?!

Normally, I won't blog so early in the day, but I'm quite pissed off by an inconsiderate smoker sitting in the neighbouring study bench. He don't even have the decency of walking to a relative less crowded area to smoke, but rather prefers to share his 'death smog' with the rest of the people at the study bench. He don't even puts out his finished cigarette when he's done with them and let them carry on producing pollution to the already polluted air. What an ASS. He's fat, totally inconsiderate S.O.B., coughing as he smoke, I don't really want to be mean or what, but I sincerely hope that he catches some sort of diease soon, maybe some mouth disorder that requires him to stick his cigs in his nostril everytime he needs to take a puff. Lets see how much he enjoys that?

No offense to all the smokers reading my blog. Some of my friends are smokers and all of them have the decency and consideration to go to a "smoking zone" to have their puff so as not to be a pain in the ass for the public. And I hope you smokers realise that while I have no prejudice against you all, please spare a thought for us too. We don't smoke because we don't want to, so stop giving us free, second-hand, cancer causing smoke, okay? But if you observe the general smoker's etiquette, then be my guest and smoke on.

As for the "Asssh...Oooh" (Those who watched Meet the Fockers should know) sitting behind me right now, get a diet and get a life soon. Someone get the fire extinguisher please?

** DISCLAIMER **
I'm not biased against smokers, just those who are so damned inconsiderate. So if you don't like what I have said despite this disclaimer, BITE ME. :P

Last day of a first month of a new year

Monday blues, oh monday blues~ Can't believe that I have been stretched to the max on the first day of the week. How am I going to survive the rest of the week? Okay, enough of complaining. Was going to post a nice picture of a girl busy gorging herself with food, but unfortunately she threatened me to cry, throw tantrums, crush my phone and even roll on the floor if I did not delete the photo. I almost didn't delete it as I really wanted to see a girl in her early 20's rolling on the floor of NTU's canteen A. Being the soft-hearted and sensitive guy I am, I finally deleted the photo, due to her incessant whining... But don't you guys worry, there will always be another chance~ ;P

Managed to complete 80% of my research paper in library today, and that really drained me out. But if I still have the energy to blog now, I should be able to try to finish up the paper later?

By the way, I would like to share 2 quotes that I heard on Class 95 FM this morning. For those who knows the level of crappiness of the quotes from the Morning Show, you have my personal assurance that these 2 quotes are actually quite decent. Here goes:

He who angers you, controls you.

Depression is anger without enthusiasm.

So how is it? Crappy or is it actually enlightening in a weird kind of way? My opinion of these quotes is that it's actually quite true.

The person who made you angry will actually have some kind of control of your life. You won't be able to work normally if you are angry. So don't be angry anymore, it only makes you age faster without any beneficial side effects. As for the depression quote, its actually quite true in a way that you usually feel depressed when something bad happens and you can't do anything about it, not even being angry helps.

Damned, I think I'm the guy who is crappy here tonight. Feeling off form, so forgive me for the boring post~ And to my friend who have trouble making the right decision, understand this: Nobody's perfect and everybody makes mistakes. We are just human. Well, I am.