Geekiness at its best

Here are some quotes that only geeks can understand:

1. To err is human... to really foul up requires the
   root password.

2. Computers are not intelligent.  They only think
   they are.

3. How much net work could a network work, if a network
   could net work?

4. One picture is worth 128K words.

5. The gates in my computer are AND, OR and NOT; they
   are not Bill.

6. "Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!"
                               -- Bill Gates, 1981
   "Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM."
                               -- Bill Gates, 1996
   "Nobody will ever need Windows 95."
                               -- logical conclusion

7. You have moved the mouse. NT must be restarted for
   the changes to take effect.

8. UNIX is user friendly. It's just selective about
   who its friends are.

9. The *REAL* Y2K is the year 2048.

10. Favorite MS-DOS error message: "Drive C: not ready,
    close door."

11. Get a life?  Well, once I nearly found one, but the
    link was broken.

12. A bus station is where a bus stops, a train station
    is where a train stops. I have a work station...

13. If you are good, you will be assigned all the work.
    If you are real good, you will get out of it.

14. If you are smart enough to know that you're not smart
    enough to be an Engineer, then you're in Business.

15. Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.

16. In order to get a loan you must first prove you don't
    need it.

17. A real friend isn't someone you use once and then throw away.
    A real friend is someone you can use over and over again.

18. I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.

19. For every complex problem, there is a solution that is
    simple, neat, and wrong.

20. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

21. Did you know that 7/5 people don't know how to use fractions?

22. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

23. Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.

24. If it wasn't for C, we'd be using BASI, PASAL and OBOL.
    

25. My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right!

Here are just 25 geeky quotes, and if you understand most of them, then congratulations!
YOU ARE A GEEK!

Memories

Quote of the day:

"Bliss is to be able to forget without remembering, and to remember without forgetting."

Suddenly just pop up in my head. Sounds rather logical considering my current situation. This would be really get if I am able to do it. Wahahaha

6 months

It's been 6 months since I started a new relationship with the all too familiar solitude once again. It's a familiar yet oddly weird sensation. 6 months is a long long time for a person to live in a depressed state of mind, having many memories to haunt his everyday life.

Memories can be a good thing and it can also be painful. Like scars, it serves as a reminder that things really had occurred in the past and tries to prevent the same course of action that may cause the same thing to happen.

For me, I had 6 months to think about what had happened, how have I reacted and what the future holds for me. Frankly speaking, I've been acting like an idiot for the past 6 months, hence my nick on MSN. Being my first really really really bad experience, it serves as a extremely important lesson on life. My rosy image of the reality has been shattered to reveal a cold, heartless world. This is the world that I'm prepared to step into after my graduation. So at least I get a taste of it now, which is better than going out to kena wack left, right and center.

So to all my friends and so called friend, a big thank you for making me stronger and more prepared. I promise that I will pay you all back for what you have done for me and to me.

Sleepless in Jurong West

I know I promised that I won't be blogging in the near future but what the hell! Heh! Tomorrow is my first paper, the beginning of the end! My last academic examination!

However, with examinations, comes one of my greatest fear. Insomnia before a paper. Especially the first paper. I predict that I will most probably lose sleep tonight, which I think won't really affect me much. I have loss so much sleep during exam times that I used to it already. 4 more nights of insomnia should be tolerable in this stage. The worst thing about insomnia before a paper is the feeling of helplessness. You can't study and you don't know what else to do in the long wait for the breaking of dawn. Basically, it is really boring, you can trust me on that. Anyway, I shall stop here as I really got no mood to blog ah.

Wish me luck!

Where got time~?

Apologies for not updating the blog these few days. Been damn busy keeping up with the different games. Exams and new gaming consoles never do mix well. Everytime I try to study I will think of playing, and when I play, I feel guilty. So what should I do? No time le, no time le.

Speaking of which, I remember someone telling me that there is always time, it all depends on how you utilise it. Well, I waste it! Being a guy with extremely low self-discipline, I tend to 'nua' around and let the time slip by while I do some totally non essential stuff, like updating my blog right now. The only time I can focus on studies is in school, which I'll be going early in the morning tomorrow!

Most probably I won't blog in the next few days, so don't hold your breathe waiting, okay? At if got people would WANT to wait for it. Hah! 11 more days and I can say goodbye to this crazy four years. Time for me to wake up from a dream that had gone terribly bad~

Feeling the blues

Feeling the blues, exam blues to be exact. Different people have different ways of handling stress. Some are super hyped-up, others just gets the blues, like me. These will be the last exams that I will be taking, but why am I so damn indifferent about it? Where have the fire gone?

I discussed this with my buddy and we came up with the analysis that either the fire is getting weaker with the age, or we are so worn out at the end of the journey that we simply don't have the drive to feel the way we felt during the first year. Anyway, by hook or by crook, we will just have to scrape through this ordeal. Other things can wait. So my strategy will be as follows:

1. Make notes from my lecture notes
2. Try to study as I make notes
3. Abandon note taking as I realise that I won't have enough time to finish
4. Study like mad and start to pray hard
5. Cursing and swearing why didn't I study hard during the semester
6. Promising that next time I will start earlier **Will be skipping this step cos there WILL NOT be a next time in the near future**
7. Start to take my Chicken Essence cum Kopi-O concoction
8. Pray harder

These faithful strategy have yet to fail me and so I have strong *gulps* belief that they will work for the one last time. I hope so anyway~

And there was light~

Meant to make this entry earlier, but I've been busy with chores with my brother. So what is the light that I'm talking about? The light at the end of the tunnel of course! For my fellow schoolers that have endured over 16 years of studying, punctuated only by 2.5 years of national service, it is about to end. At last we are going to get the thing that we had set out to obtain amost 2 decades ago. That lousy piece of paper that set us back almost 20 grand.

Sometimes I really wonder, is it worth it? But for now, with the schedule for the convocation out, it is like we have finally reached the last stretch of our long journey. My friend (I won't tell other people your name one, 老大！） actually told me that he is not interested in attending his own convocation ceremony and I was frankly quite shocked. Why have we been working so long and hard for? Is it really just for that paper, or is the convocation ceremony part of the final objective?

Frankly speaking, the convocation ceremony is very important to me as I enter NTU as a black horse. I wasn't even sure that I would be able to get into a polytechnic when I was in secondary school. But here I am, doing my last semester in one of the top three universities in Singapore. In case you didn't catch it, there are only 3 Unis locally. Anyway, it is like a fairy tale story for me because if you went back in time and told the primary school me that I would go into a local U and graduate, I will just look and you and laugh until I pissed in my shorts. For me to reach my current achievement, I can only thank one person. My closer friends would know who that person is, and seriously, I wouldn't be here without her. So a big Thank You to her and wish her the best in whatever she does.

Passing of a good man

As you all know, Pope John Paul II passed away on Sunday morning. Being half a Catholic (baptised but never confirmed), I felt that its quite a loss. He is like this celebrity grandfather figure that I didn't know. For one thing, he is almost the same age as my grandpa and both are ardent Catholics. During the memorial mass, we were told to rejoice for him as he will be going to his place in heaven, but its like really difficult to rejoice loh.

It brought back memories of my grandfather's funeral where the Father told us the same thing that time. It was really quite emotional as I loved my grandpa very much and the thought of it brought mist to my eyes. *sniff sniff* Back to the Pope, I'm sure that he is a nice guy that both Catholics and non-Catholics liked, and I really hope that he went to a place where he can find peace and rest well. 26 years sure is a long time to stay in the same job. He deserves a good rest after a job well done, and I'm sure that his successor will have a very very hard time trying to fill in his shoes.

With this, as a half-Catholic, I sincerely pray that my grandpa and the Pope can become good buddies up in heaven, and help me reserve a place (hopefully) when I decide to take my well deserved break.

The sky is falling down!

Okay, maybe I was overexaggerating abit. It's really the ceiling is falling down. I was on my way to shower when I heard a loud crash at the door of my bathroom. When I went to investigate, a piece of the ceilling actually came crashing on the floor. It's not the paint fragments but a moderately sized piece of ceiling that actually exposed the steel rods in the structure. As I mentioned, I was on my way to shower, so I was damn lucky not to get caught in the structural collaspe. Okay, I'm being exaggerated again. It's my dilly-dally nature that saved me from this catastrophe, and I think that I will carry on this practice of taking my time to pick my "inner beauties" before a shower. ;P

Going to fix up the ceiling with my dad sometime this week as he said that HDB people most probably will ignore this kind of thing. Anyway, before I help my dad, I need to go help my brother with 'you-know-what" now so until next time!

The day my modem went dead..... again.

MaxOnline sent a letter stating that my MOL1500 connection will be upgraded to 2000MBPS with effect on the 1st of April. The only thing I had to do was to off my modem and restart it on the 1st of April. I did it exactly as I was told, but the modem just went dead on me. I am starting to think that it's an elaborate April's Fool prank. And so with no modem giving me internet connection, I have no choice but to lug my laptop around the house, scanning for any wireless LAN signals around. Fortunately, I found one and here I am. Is it unethical to hijack other people's signal? Well, I find it more unethical if you expected me to survive without internet access. Lets face it, how many of you out there can honest tell me that you don't need internet access to live normally? That you won't show signs of withdrawal symptoms after a day without the internet. Hah! I doubt many of you can take it. Me neither.

So its more signal piracy for me~ And I think my brother is in need for some challenge again, I mean assistance. So I think I'll just stop here then.

X marks the Box

Today, my brother brought home a XBox from the MaxOnline offer. What a time to get a new game console back home, with just a week away from my final exams. I'm quite confident of my iron will and determination of steel to hold myself steady in the face of temptation. I will not succumb to the XBox and waste my time playing.

By the way this post will be cut short due to some technical difficulties with my brother's XBox. Errm... I mean computer. I need to provide some opponent...., I mean assistance to my brother. ;P