Roof of the world Part I

Ku-ku-ku... wake up lor... ku-ku-ku... wake up lor... oh yeah, that is my alarm clock. You must be thinking its so cheena but I just recycle whatever things I can find in my place. Must save moolah leh, time is bad you know. Oh, did I mention that my alarm is in mandarin.

I tried. I wanted to. I kept telling myself. I kept looking at the clock. In the end, I still go to bed after the PM become AM. I even turn down all invitations to go out but still... sigh.

The trip does not seems to start on the good side. Thinking that I may be able to grab some quick nap while on the plane. In the end, the brat child behind me keep making a din and kicking into my seat. The parents seem to be unable to calm down the adolescent, instead trigger the older brother into a crying spree.

Chengdu, the misty city it is. It look so misty that it almost look like an extreme case of bad hazy PSI of like 200 at least. And the brownish tint to it does not seems to make it look healthier. They seems have stores of unusual stuffs at the airport. In fact it almost look like a wet market to me, except the floor is dry. Their fruits look big and fresh, so got ourselves some crunchy peaches. Yeah, its crunchy, like rockmelon. Kool!

Quarrel seems like one of chengdu's citizens past time. Every now and then you can see them launching into it, irregardless who is involved. Queuing seems like a remote idea to them. They will just choose where they want to stand. Even at the custom, they can just be cutting you and walk through the checking point.

The flight from Chengdu to Xian is short and inside the plane seriously sound like a wet market, that is noisy. Its like everyone trying to outdo each other in volume. Smoking inside Chengdu airport seems acceptable and its goddamn warm. Xian airport has designated smoking room, machiam army style yellow box.

Xian holding area seems to be a general area for certain flights. You have to keep monitoring for you flight to see if they are asking you to board. That is also when I learn that there is flight to Jiuzhaigou. Maybe that will beat the idea of 8 hours bus journey up.

We got on a mini bus to send us to our plane for our transfer flight to Xining. All of us are taken aback. Its the smallest commercial plane I have taken! A plane for 32 passengers only! Wow. No wonder it cost 3 times the price of the flight from Chengdu to Xian.

When I got off the plane at Xining airport, I know I will like the temperature! Soooo cooling though some of the girls are already putting on their jacket. The area that we pass by in Xining seems like new development and most buildings take on reddish brown colour.

Dinner is quite good and seems like a treat from the guide, I think. At least we just leave after we are done eating. And the hotel is much better than expected. But I guess this is to exchange for no bathing condition for some days.

Its going to be another long day tomorrow. Make me wonder if holiday is suppose to be so tiring.......

Roof of the world

Travelling to see the world is something that I have waited to do. Trying to make it a point to travel. In fact those dream places that I wanted to go includes the really super ulu country that is surrounded by the mountains, the root of the world, and even the journey of the silk road from China to Rome.

Its like having a dream come true when I'm finally going to visit the root of the world. It is just so tiring when you have to keep waiting for people, and then they start to pull out due to all sort of reasons.

Time wait for no man, so I wait for time no more.

I look. I search. I found. I contact. I decide. I pay. And off I go.

In fact, its actually a very short trip. Consider the fact that, if I am to put it in local terms, its like after visiting Orchard Road, I have visit Sillypore. What to do. Time and moolah is the same deciding factor. Too bad god dun like me. First he flunk my driving test. Then he dun let me win the 5 million toto. -shrug-

So I'm actually going to just a teeny weeny part of the root of the world. And I will need to transit at another city before I can head over to the root of the world. And it seems like that city is having some problems with the pigs. Or rather its the province. Or was it the state? Nevermind, I cannot tell the difference anyway. I wonder if I can rent some riffles and then shoot on sight on any pig found roaming the street. Or maybe I could spear it like how Garion did. Or them.

Am so looking forward to the trip, then just 2 two ago, receive an email with the subject of change in itinerary plans. No shit. Damn. I wonder what is going to happened before I open up the email. Suppose to fly over in the morning, then take a transiting flight at the late evening, so that would give us ample time to do some grocery shopping and a visit to the fruit farms. Damn. Now no more grocery shopping and fruit farms. The transit flight has been change to morning and we cannot afford to wait for the next day. This will screw up everything. The setback of fixed schedule. Damn. So we have to now take a transit flight over to one city, before another transit flight again to the designated city. Its like taking SMRT train from Pasir Ris to City Hall, change to the North bound train to Dhoby Ghaut, then change again to the NE Line to Punggol. Damn. What a way to spend the 1st day.

Just thinking about it is making me really tired and sleepy.

Yeah, think I should really turn in tonight, before the PM turn into AM. Dun wish to miss my flight. What a boring friday night its going to be.

C-R-A-C-K-E-D

WAHAHAH! I just love those hackers. The last time windows pull the stunt on the validation of XP on fresh installation, the break the code within 24 hours of the launch. And now, this.

MICROSOFT'S bid to refuse access to updated versions of Windows has been foiled by hackers.

The Vole had demanded that those who wanted Windows updates, other than security improvements, had to download an Active X program that sniffed their operating system to see if their OS had been pirated.

It took about 24 hours for hackers to come up with a solution involving IE script, the hackers claim.

They would.

I remember someone mentioning, that M$ should spend more time on beefing up their security vulnerabilities than on this useless junks. Oh well. -shrug-

historical dildo found!!!!

This is no shit! As I always believe, sex trade is the longest surviving trade! And this is hardcore. I wonder if they are going to dig up historic porn?

Read more here

German scientists are tickled pink after unearthing one of the world's oldest sculpted phalluses - 20cm of polished siltstone lovingly created around 28,000 years ago.

Now i wonder, how it get so well polished?

Fat man walking

My inspiration !!!

This guy is fabulous!

Spammer beaten to death

How we all simply hate spams that has arrived in our mailbox. We dun need the cheap viagra, neither do we want the free porn access(actually its worth considering if not for the spam). And now, someone took action, and its is some form of action. I wonder if there will be people rejoicing at the news.

Original article can be found here.

Known spammer Vardan Kushnir has been found dead in his Moscow apartment, having apparently been beaten to death about the head.

The case is being treated as murder though no motive has yet been established, according to reports citing the public prosecutions office of Moscow's central district.

As such it is too early to say whether the attack was related to Kushnir's spamming activities but in the past his operation has been subject to a number of revenge attacks - though nothing so serious as the apparent attack which has now left him dead.

Kushnir ran the Center for American English in Moscow and a history of spamming activities had previously raised the ire of many web users.

What is chio

Was having an online conversation with an old friend H a while back, then another friend's name popped up in the conversation. So I got to update him on the current situation of that friend, which I was briefed by another really really nosey tigress who got no life is so free to be always snooping around the local blogsphere for some really hot gossips just a day before the conversation popped up. What coincidence. I swear I did not mention his name first. I swear.

That friend, as was advised, has change a new girlfriend wife fiancee. And the girl was some 3rd party, and this I heard just as well. And they are getting married soon. Wow. That is fast. I wonder how would the ex that it down. Oh well, I guess even if she cannot take it, also have to swallow hard. Afterall, the couple is going to get married couple of months down the road.

As almost always a peanut conversation between guys, its almost an instinct to ask the new girl chio anot? Well, I have not met nor see her before, so I was just thinking of a nice comment. Beside, I also heard from sources grapevine that she is was quite a hotie. So I just told H that I heard she is more chio but still cmi. H seem to have a hard time grasping with the concept of more chio but cannot make it. Its just mathematics in the end.

Let's assume that the scale is from 1 to 10. And your average will probably be around 5. If the ex is rated as a 2, and the current one rated at 4, would that make the current one more chio but still cannot make it? Well, its all that simple, isn't it? But of course H protested, saying that chio should only exist for those rated 8 and above. That of course is very true. But how many 8 can you come across in your life, and not to say the nines and the perfect 10. So maybe its slipped of tongue. But I have just updated my comment to H. I will need to drop off the more chio and still stick to the cannot make it.

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. That I have to totally agree. For I was told to have, firstly high standard, then it becomes weird standard, and of late, it has morphed into picky standard.

Shrug.

Why am I sponsoring the wedding?

Wedding, the ceremony that celebrate the beginning of the marriage of two person. For the chinese, it is a common practice to have a wedding dinner to inform everyone your suffering joy. And most often as always, it is also customary to give a gift to the wedding couple, its significant been your congratulation and blessing to their joyous tie-ing.

I had once got into an argument with someone on the wedding gift. First of all, if you serious about wanting me to be there, then does it matter how much I give you in the little gift called the Red Packet or angpow or hongbao. Of course I am happy for the couple, unless and of course that someone snatch away the other someone whom I actually bed, then its a different story.

Wedding dinner used to be a sign for the wedding couple and their parents to inform people whom they want to inform about their joyous tie-ing. If the family want it to be grand and have it as some really posh place, then so be it. However, how come the bundle of this grandness has been throw to the invited guests? If the gift is a little too small, the couple are very likely to grumble, though might not be directly in your face. If its too big, my wallet is not too happy about it, and neither will I.

So that will lead us to the question of The guest is actually sponsoring your wedding dinner? Do you not think so? If this not so, then do not make any noise about the gift, and saying things like it cannot cover my cost of the table. What farking cost? Are you making moolah out of me for your wedding? And if I really am one of the sponsors, do the couple should think about finding a convenient place to host their wedding? And not have it at some ulu-er than the forsaken western part of Sillypore? A friend once told me, wedding dinner are not for couple nor the family. Its for the invited guest. How very true that statement is.

Sadly, I have yet to learn to just put newspaper into the gift or a really small token.

My poor wallet.

Puss in boots

Pets can be such a darling when you need the extra comfortable and attention and companion. They can be such demon when they ain't in the mood.

But kid me not. Used to have this little pussy whom I got someone dump it at my place because her mother refuse to let her keep the pussy in her house. Ok, actually it got nothing to do with the her. Just a favour. Was told to keep it for a few days until another friend's friend's friend or was it friend's friend going to keep it.

No. It never happened.

I ended up with a pet at my place. When my mom found out, she was a little hysterical. She cannot believe the fact that I am keeping a pet at home. The first thing she told me was you are very free ah? you got nothing to do ah? then I pass you my little creatures at home to look after.

Then my colleague found about that pussy. They started naming him after me. Oh please, that is not my cat. It belongs to another friend. I gotta stress it to them. Somehow, just because its a her, I'm ended with more questions like who is her and are you dating her. Good thing I didn't tell my mom that else I might end up with more explaining.

Well, probably its a kitten. So it plays a lot. Or rather a little too many. Its such a darling just to see them play itself tired till it doze off on the spot. Its a priceless sight. My only regret, never told a photo of that. Its such a darling then, and when its asleep. When its up and playing, it demand so much attention that I had to think of ways to keep its attention off me. I can't do my work! It just yearn for so much attention. And when the mood is no good, we fought and not once I won the fight. Its damn good, like its mother.

I guess the pussy take after its mother. Such a feline. Such picky pussy. Only eat a certain food. Refuse to eat those canned fish without jelly. Refuse even to eat biscuit, actually it only ate that after I only leave it with biscuit for the entire day. I feel bad about it. The last thing I heard, its mother even buy a Jacuzzi for it.

When I went back to reservist, I gotta find someone to look after it. Actually was thinking of sending it to the pet hotel but thought better of it. Should just save some moolah. So send it off to my mom. Well, she did nagged, as usual, like all mom did. Then after that, she just accept the pussy. The pussy scared the hell of my mom when it climbed out of the window and walked along the parapets. After that, my mom kept it within boundary and some she could see it. But I think my mom did a little revenge for me though, bathing it everyday. That pussy must have hated it so much!

It did not last long at my place. After months of having to rush home after work to feed it, before I can go out, I toyed with the idea of passing on this pussy to another friend who kept a few pussy at home. After some painful discussion with the mother, just had to give the pussy away. None of us were free enough to look after it. It yearns more attention than expected. And damn, it bit the hand that fed it.

Something I learnt about that pussy that I had used to had

• it bites the hands that feed it
• it can become sure a darling when they are hungry or want to play
• totally ignore you when it is not in the mood for anything
• pretty much toilet-trained, i think its instinct
• simply hate to bath
• chain with a pendant round their neck is a bad bad idea, and removing the stuck pendant from its tooth means having to fight its claw
• there is a trick to feeding it pills for its medication
• it attack anything that moves
• it has a mental psychology of a canine

The last thing I heard about that pussy, it was cuckolded. Sweet.

Just another way to get rid of spywares

I am more than a little shocked to read this news ! That people are throw away PC and getting new ones to get rid of spywares!!! What a great matter! I must say, its even better than doing a format of the whole system. You get new an upgrade of the overall system! Wow!

An abstract of the article :

SAN FRANCISCO, July 15 - Add personal computers to the list of throwaways in the disposable society.

On a recent Sunday morning when Lew Tucker's Dell desktop computer was overrun by spyware and adware - stealth software that delivers intrusive advertising messages and even gathers data from the user's machine - he did not simply get rid of the offending programs. He threw out the whole computer.

Mr. Tucker, an Internet industry executive who holds a Ph.D. in computer science, decided that rather than take the time to remove the offending software, he would spend $400 on a new machine.

He is not alone in his surrender in the face of growing legions of digital pests, not only adware and spyware but computer viruses and other Internet-borne infections as well. Many PC owners are simply replacing embattled machines rather than fixing them.

"I was spending time every week trying to keep the machine free of viruses and worms," said Mr. Tucker, a vice president of Salesforce.com, a Web services firm based here. "I was losing the battle. It was cheaper and faster to go to the store and buy a low-end PC."

In the face of a constant stream of pop-up ads, malfunctioning programs and performance slowed to a crawl or a crash - the hallmarks of spyware and adware - throwing out a computer "is a rational response," said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project, a Washington-based research group that studies the Internet's social impact.

While no figures are available on the ranks of those jettisoning their PC's, the scourge of unwanted software is widely felt. This month the Pew group published a study in which 43 percent of the 2,001 adult Internet users polled said they had been confronted with spyware or adware, collectively known as malware. Forty-eight percent said they had stopped visiting Web sites that might deposit unwanted programs on their PC's.

Moreover, 68 percent said they had had computer trouble in the last year consistent with the problems caused by spyware or adware, though 60 percent of those were unsure of the problems' origins. Twenty percent of those who tried to fix the problem said it had not been solved; among those who spent money seeking a remedy, the average outlay was $129.

By comparison, it is possible to buy a new computer, including a monitor, for less than $500, though more powerful systems can cost considerably more.

Ok. I think that Mr Tucker is probably earning peanuts, so can probably to do this. Anyone got such people to redirect to me? I always can find some spaces in my place for a spare system. I hate seeing a good system gone to waste.

Flower talks about you too

Early morning, a colleague send me an email that reveal your personality and life based on which flower belongs to you. Of course, as always, its on your birthday, even to the precise date. And this is what I get:

玫瑰(York & Lancaster Rose)
(Oh yeah, I always thought 玫瑰 is rose, never know there its called this whatever york thingy)

花語：溫暖 花占卜：您博愛的精神、善良的心，溫暖了周圍的人，如果您在理性上可以再進一步，那就更加完美了。您有很多追求者，但對待愛情千萬不要博愛，要小心選擇結婚對象。
(Now, that is funny. How come I have no idea that I have a lot of 追求者 around me? Or does it actually means I have to 追很多者? Ok I think this is referring to another local female singer who is kind of wildly popular during the height of her career. I do have a couple of friends so in love with her)

花箴言：擇偶要小心，千萬不要引發一場玫瑰戰爭啊
(Yeah right. Thank you for enforcing my mind on avoidance of marriage)

NKF 新民谣

Got this on my mobile, so thought maybe can put it up here for some sharing. Anyway, I think the saga is about done and well, no point shooting that fellow anymore. He had gone down in flames. Just let him disappear from the scene is enough. If maybe 500 years ago, he might probably be drag out to the street and be humiliated. Or even have his head chopped. Or put inside the pig basket (进 笼猪) and be drown.

杜莱现在真老兰、
游手好闲做无兰、
样子装到很下兰、
被人赶走干那兰、
失势之后就兰兰、
现在不敢再怪兰、
名字已改叫杜兰。
Ok, no english translation this time. Its tough doing the translation and all the humor will be

How ah?

I dun really frequently read a lot of blog. Only a handful of them are read on a regular basis. And I decided to check in on this Agagooga, whom post is always so amazing long and brain-frying at times. And found this header picture is interesting. That babe got a message on her t-shirt that reads as follow :

if you c4n r34d this, r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d

No shit! I can read this! No shit! Sighz. Can I attribute it to this?

S1gh. N07 3n71r3 m4 f4ul7 w4h!

Desperate with a D

Housewives are ladies who got married, settled down, stay at home and be a sow have child(ren) and look after them. Then again, we do have our taitais (clever ladies who manage to snatch rich hubbies , highly likely from the diamond bachelor list, who will provide them with good credit card(s) that never seems to run out of credits). So why become desperate? If you choose to be a housewife, then you have no right to complain. If its the hubby that demand ask you to do it, then you have an option. Dun tell me no options. In rockson language, I called it the cb cheow (the female reproduction factory being itchy).

I know I am slow in catching up on some of the best drama around. Hey, you gotta forgive me on that. I have life outside of the box, be it my PC or my TV. Actually my TV is just a decoration in the living room. The number of times I actually turn it on in a year is easily countable on two one two one, let x be less than 10. Not to mention that I have not seen a single local production since Channel U was created, when it was still under then MediaWorks. And I have never look back since.

Finally decided not to go out on a friday night and stay at home to spend some time with those desperate housewives. One that has won 2 Golden Globe and 7 other awards, with 21 nominations. Afterall, they have been lying among tons of discs for a long while. So I must see for myself what is so desperate about those housewives. In fact, they are very ordinary people like you and me, except those housewives seriously look delicious. If my neighbours' wives are the likes of Teri Hatcher or Eva Longoria, I would have long settled down and start a family. And might just give my mother what she wants.

Looking at the opening credits, the music, the style, one would have never expect the desperate housewives to be somewhat a dark comedy. But I can see the reasons why it is good. The suspenses. The plot within plot. The crazy yet so much like you and me. A neighbour we all hate like Mrs McClusky. A mother-in-law that we wish will might may could pray to do without. A hotie gardener, actually I think I can do without, not especially so when I have a really hot wife like Eva Longoria. A delicious looking nanny that excite one's hubby. Ok, I think that sound like a bad for most housewives. Hotie wife in red lingeres sure look very delicious, like Marcia Cross. And brats that simply drives you nut. That is one hell of a good reason why I am still against the idea of kids. I think Eva Longoria makes a good point on why no kids is a good idea.

However, as I watch it, I can only tell myself one day. Does all your neighbours have such dark secrets? That almost everyone is related to another one by some really dark secrets. So you better watch your back next time, should you have neighbours that wanted to kill you. I'm almost done with the serial, if not for the fact that I'm missing episode 22. Damn. I wonder now if I should start on Lost. That look great too.

The man with the golden tap

Now coming to a theatre near you.

The new Ian Fleming movie.

The one and only one.

The movie tells a story of how one tap brings about the downfall of a humble and TOP CEO

Bad. You people are bad! Bad BAd BAD!

WAHAHAHHAAAAA......

Ops.....

pm_mastercard

Another one of those collectible.

But Precious Moments lehhhhh.

Pretty sure bound to attract the ladies!!

Really beautiful tits

Yeah, this is old news probably.

Agagooga post this link in his blog in 2003. Came across it today while searching for some very old stuffs online. I think those tits are seriously beautiful. One of God's creation.

NKF vs SPH super bengster super chor lor complaint letter

People send I just read and share nia. This is so funny!

Beware, language used can be very very vulgar. Please leave if you think you will be offended.

KNNBCCB!!! I just read the newspaper that the boss of the National Kidneys

Foundation earn $25,000 one month, and last 3 year got 10 to 12 months

bonus!!!

Yao jiu ling ling your chao chee bye lah!

This mean that one year, his salary is 500k to 600k, ok?

I do not hate charity organisation, I think people must help other poor and

sick people. But fuck lah, you mean when on the tv the people who earn

$1000 a month donate and the number on the NKF tv show jump $100,000 to

$200,000 to $300,000..... when reach $600,000 of donation, is only cover

this CEO salary?

No wonder Zoe Tay have to do so many cheebye stunt!!!

12 fucking months bonus is a lot ok? Some people don't even smell 1 month

bonus but he charity boss get 12 months? Lan cheow, ok?!!!

And his one month salary 25k (not yet count the bonus) is more than many of

my friends earn in one cheebye year!!! And my friends donates to his

charity ok?

Wah, sue the Singapore newspaper for their article, then now kena the whole

world know your top secret salary. It is like score own goal, man. Want to

sue the Singapore newspaper not so easy, ok? Singapore newspaper is the

most kuai lan and richest and powerfulest company in the world, and their

reporters is bullet-proof one, you also dare to fuck. See lah? Now kena

fuck back.

You ask all the opposition party people who ever try to sue Singapore

newspaper before to show you their backside hole. You will see that their

holes is very big and now they fart no sound already, because their

backside kena fuck by Singapore kuai lan newspaper.

I also read this NKF fucker use the charity money fly first class

aeroplane. You are charity company boss, have to fly where for fuck? Other

country want to donate to you issit? And even if fly, cannot fly by economy

ah? Your backside sitting that first class seat is paid by working people's

donation, ok?

I think if continue like this, all those NKF charity tv show stunt also not

enough. I think have to call the Zoe Tay and the Fiona Xie and the other

TCS star to take off their clothes and suck cock on tv!!! Then maybe can

collect enough money for the kidney patients plus this fucker salary and

his first class tickets.

And maybe first prize is win a car, a condom house, and one fuck from Fann

Wong! Hahahahahaha!!!!

Consolation prize can be those not so famous star like Sharon Au and Ann

Kok suck your kok!! Hahahahahaha!!!

Yes, boy boy, papa not making a lot of money, but never mind, we have to

donate help those poor kidney patient, children patient and cancer patient,

and also make sure the NKF boss get his 12 month bonus.

Fuck your mothecheebye lah!!!

Updates:
Found the fellow who wrote this post. Damn solid. Damn chor lor. Damn good.

A petition

Only receive this notification after I have written my little article on charity.

If you think you want to do the right thing for the right people, click here.

More updates on the war is available over here .

And I am still curious, how long can it last. What will be the outcome. Will we get a settlement out of court result? This is going to really fun. And organisation that uses public fund to fund itself, shouldn't all their operations be made transparent to the public? You want the public to give you moolah and yet you dowan the public to know how you use the moolah? Like that I also wanna setup such organisation leh. Can someone direct me how?

Where does the hearts go now

charity

Provision of help or relief to the poor; almsgiving.

Something given to help the needy; alms.

An institution, organization, or fund established to help the needy.

Benevolence or generosity toward others or toward humanity.

nonprofit

Not seeking or producing a profit or profits: a nonprofit organization.

Someone once told me that 施比受有福 (to give is better/rewarding/fortunate than to receive). That is when I casually mention about having so many people going around selling tissues. Initially it all start out with5 packets for a dollar, and had degenerate into 3 packets for a dollar. I have nothing against them. In fact, I do buy from them whenever I could, even when I got several packets of such tissues lying around on my desk. I admire those folks that dowan to sit at home and wait for moolah to drop from the sky but comes out and try to sell some decent stuffs to feed themselves. But I just dun like the fact that people bring some handicap folks around, trying to gain some sympathy votes. I'm pretty sure most of us can easily afford that dollar whom the old folks might be waiting to feed their empty stomach.

I am not exactly that keen anymore on those "ask-around-for-donation" when I found out that the "minimum $10" donation drive do not exactly give your $10 to the whatever charity organisation that you think you are giving. A certain percentage goes to the person asking for donation, another percentage to the person or organisation that organise the drive, and what is exactly left to go to the charity? Is that what charity is all about now? Volunteers are a time of the past?

I still remember the day when I was asked given the tin can and told to collection donation on a particular saturday. I think they called it the Flag day back then. Do they still call it that now? On the whole, I think its a good thing to do. You give the kids a break from the books. Got a good excuse to go out to downtown and hangs around there with your friends. Have some friendly competition on who can fill up the tin first. And allow the kids to build up some good karma for their kinded hearted act. Someone mention about getting paid a dollar for the activity but the teacher told advise them to put the dollar into the can. I almost go ballistic on that. WHAT ONE DOLLAR? HOW COME I NEVER GOT MY OWN ONE DOLLAR?

And now the latest war on NKF vs SPH. That is an interesting war. The non-profit organisation that dun look non-profitable to me. The charitable organisation that dun look so charitable to me. Why would a non-profit charitable organisation neeed to pay its CEO 12 month bonus? For successfully con dupe dig convinence more moolah from the public? And the the first class flying trip? The rumoured gold-plated tap? The high paying salaries? Heard from my grapevine that part-timers are paid like 12 bucks an hour. That sure seems like good moolah to me. In this case, the 受 (received) is enjoying the good moolah.

Apple vs Creative

Original article here.

Paul H. writes "Apple is giving away an iPod Mini and a 50-song gift card to whomever purchases every 100,000th song on iTunes, until they reach 500 million downloads. The person who downloads the 500 millionth song wins 10 free iPods, a gold 10,000-song gift card, and 10 additional 50-song gift cards for the iPods. To top it off, the winner gets 4 first row Coldplay tickets with back-stage passes."

Excuse me but what is Apple thinking now?

First I was laughing at the stupid idea of Creative doing such a giveaway contest where 10, you heard me, and its 10, Zen Micro for the grand winner. What the fark would anyone want 10 Zen Micro, or now its 10 iPodssssss????? I wonder what is mrsbrown going to say this time.

Ok, the signature is missing for Apple.

Maybe it has something to related to the X. The X that is 10 in Roman numeric form. Maybe.

Faaaantastic

In 1961, they were created on the printed media. He who could stretch like rubber, flexible to his imagination. He who can set himself on fire and be really really hot. He who is so heavy and strength that challenge anything. She who can turn herself invisble, and looks really delicious in lingerie. They are a family of super-powered hero. They are the new silver screen F4. In 2005, they are recreated on the silver screen with the new advance CGI available for the cinematography.

The first thing a colleague told me when I told her that I'm keen to watch it, she told me that her little friends ( 小朋友) at home are very keen as well. However, the review say its a letdown. My first comment to that statement is that review are written by people. One of my ex-bosses favourite phrase is One man's meat may be another man's poison. True. My view does not means its your view. You may hate the thing but I might like it. There are a 101 factors to it. Try studying this module called movie101. You will learn to discount something, and gives it some leeway. You don't expect to cram everything that happened in the last 40 years to be squeezed into a 2 hours 1.5 hours show, do you?

Too many trilogies out there might just wear out the novelties. And I don't seem to wait one year just to see and learn about how the four fellas learn how to use their power. And to forget that things in 1961 is different from things in 2005. Basically, I will say the movie is entertaining. Remember the key word is entertaining. A couple of cheap, actually not so cheap since tickets are getting expensive by the year, laughters here and there. And of course, you get to see the very delicious-looking Jessica Alba. Chris Evans might be hunki-licious to the babes but that is none of my concern. My eyes are not on him.

But kill the guy please, if a guy like the one in this F4 production that can choose to let a delicious-looking Jessica Alba walk out on him, thinking he still dun understand, unless explain in quantum physics. Actually, love and relationship can be simpler than ABC or more complexity than the quantum physics. As with the usual silver screen lomantika jerkies (hey, what's an american movie without a male lead, handsome or not, that will ended up with some seriously delicious-looking babe). Guy used to have the girl. Guy lose girl to long time rivals. Guy meet girl again. Girl still love guy. Guy got back girl again. Rival not happy about it. And well, I dun have to spelll out the rest.

But I'm still curious, what happens to a metal when you suddenly cool it rapidly when it is heated to extreme high temperature? Anyone?

True Surround

Technology moves very fast, not at linear progress but rather exponential increment. But somehow, I just feel that this piece of technology truly lack in design. Imagine wearing this crown and walk around.

More details here.

Fishes are friends, not food II

As with my previous fishes are friends, not food activities, I went for another such activity over the weekend. And this time round, its another whole new experiences. To live-on-board and dive. Basically, you eat, shit, sleep, dive, do whatever you want from the boat. No seeing of land until you are about to get off the boat.

As always, such activities always started out on a friday night. So as usual, had to cross the custom to get to our hostile and always giving us water trouble but shopping is cheap friendly northern neighbour. I was a little surprised to see no one at the Second Link. It was almost like a ghost town. Not a single visitor in sight! Based on past experiences like this and that, there was always a certain amount of crowds at the custom. Wow, for a moment, I was thinking if something big was happening somewhere that was luring the crowds away. Oh well, on the bright side, we got in fast. No more wasting time of queuing, with grandnanny tunnelling through the queue.

Was a little excited since its a first time experiencing the style of living onboard a boat. Had tried sleeping on the train for the night to get to my destination. Had tried staying awake the entire night at the airport playing daidi (big2) to save moolah on accommodation. I must say, its nothing big deal at the end of it, provided you dun turn yourself into the merlion.

So once we got onboard, most of the people got into their beds and started preparing to sleep. Same here. Based on previous fishes are friends, not food activities, I learnt that a lack of sleep will affect my dive, especially so for a novice diver like me who just started out. Not too bad, I thought when I could drift off and sleep though inbetween the hours, I seems to have regain certain conscious on my environment. Waking up in the morning with no nauseating feel seems like a good sign to me. Boy was I wrong. ½ hour later, nauseating feel hit me like a wave that was building up it force. As advised from a friend to get some motion pill, you know, just in case. But been the lazy me, I just decided to go get some sour stuffs. I heard, I think, I thought, they would help me.

Nay.

The morning water wasn't that bad. But to be on the safe side, I skipped breakfast and had some of those sour stuffs to help to cull the nauseating shit. Sighz. Oh boy. Seems like it was not as effective as I thought it would be. By the time I hit the water, I was on my way to become the merlion. But maybe on the bright side, I threw up before I started descending into the depth of the open sea. I can't imagine how it will be like to be throwing up when you are already diving down. Food rushing to get out of your mouth, water and fishes rushing to get into your mouth. I love sashimi but not exactly that fresh and raw. It might turn out to be a very bad experience which I care not to experience.

But still, only the 1st dive got the incident. After that, probably gotten used to the slight rocking, so no more merlion incident. It would be such a waste to throw up all the food. Afterall, I love fish, dead or alive. Your fish can't get any fresher than hunting them directly from the sea, and cooking them just hours later. But we do have an accident though. The leader got attacked by trigger fish when he went hunting for our meal. I missed seeing a shark. Damn. Seeing a shark live in front of you should be a fair experiences, provided I dun have any open wound. Next time I should have just open my eyes bigger, or maybe see if i can bring magnifying glass down.

I guess no more such activities for a while since I will probably be going on a trip to this place that I have been so dying to go. High high up there.

Now I can only pray that high altitude sickness do not occur.

Pray.

What a week

I have always like to keep myself busy. Being busy is a good way of passing your time. Being busy prevents you from idling too much, leaving you wondering what to do to kill your time. Being busy let you feel like you are alive and kicking.

But since last friday, the week had not been a good week. First a colleague approached me when I'm in a middle of doing another server to help her with some urgent work. Just when I thought that the problem was solved after I wrote an application to solve her specific problem, then realized that data given was not consistent, so have to make adjustment for it. So left office with a slight sour taste since the urgent work took me longer than I expected to finish.

Then later in the night, I got tramatized at my regular salsa club. Tramatized because 3 drunken were hogging me. They were me because one of them tell the other one that I'm a salsa instructor, wanting me to teach them salsa. I kept telling them that I'm no instructor but drunkens will not take no for an answers. They won't even let me dance in peace and I'm stupid enough to give them my mobile number.

Saturday was errrm...... fine, since I get to catch Initial D in the evening. Then head on down later, after midnight, to my regular salsa club. No idea why I went down since i ended up sitting and not moving a single limb stoning away before decided to go home and watched the Initial D anime. Sunday was spent stoning away and watching the Initial D anime before receiving a call from my good friend to go out for dinner. Had Shanghainese steamboat at where-the-ah-gua-show-used-to-be. The food is the same except it comes with I-think-its-peanut paste and I-suspect-its-oliver-oil with garlic for dips. Not worth the moolah if you ask me.

The week then started with urgent work upgraded to very urgent work and having the top management breathing down my boss's neck on the status of the work. So rest of the week was spent working on it. And today, just when everything seemed to be going smoothly, something went seriously wrong with the raw data. No farking shit!

Just before lunch, my boss comes to me and informed that I have to come back tomorrow for run my processing. I looked at him with eyes wide opened, saying I'm out of town tonight already!! Going for my fishes are friends, not food activities. He looked at me and give me a no shit look. So within the next few hours, I had to prepare my application for my colleagues to run it. Now I hope the raw data format is not changed else my application might just halt processing it. The goddamn raw data came from third party who can only work on it tomorrow. Now I gotta leave the office with worries. Nabei!

My boss told me that he will call me if they got problems. Oh fark. I'm ok with the calling but that is if the call can reach me in the open sea. And I dun think there is a mobile that works undersea. This very urgent work had involved from 2 persons to 4 now, and worst I'm at the first stage of processing. If mine halts, no one else might be able to continue. Godspeed to me. Godspeed to my boss. Godspeed to my colleagues.

And this very weekend, I have to decide if I want to join a group to go a place that I have been dying to go, several thousands miles above the sea level. I only know about it this morning, informed of the details in the late afternoon and decide by Monday. And travel at the end of the month. Nabei!!!

Abit too busy liao leh!!

Typing your blog entry on the van using your mobile is a bad bad bad idea.