Memory and Speed

Bought a 8GB Memory Stick Micro (M2) Card few days ago during PC Fair for RM109.



It was all good until a few days later (literally a few minutes ago..), I found out the existence of this.



A 8GB Ultra High Speed Memory Stick Micro Card and its compatible with my toy! Ultra High Speed? That kinda data transfer speed exists? To add salt to the wound, I also found out that my toy is compatible with this.



A 16GB?! Man, and I thought I've already max'ed the available storage options. I was expecting it to be incompatible with my toy.

If that wasn't enough, to top it all up..



Was really thinking of a one time investment, but I really should have done more research. 4 years ago though, a 2GB Memory Stick Pro Duo (High Speed) costs about as much my previous toy, the W800i. That was like bout RM1799 back then. So I previously felt great having the thought of maximizing the storage for my C905. Sigh.

The Projected State of Achievement

This is a goal. It's gonna be mine someday. Just wait.



Lol.. there's nothing wrong with dreaming, right?

For now I'll just have to settle down with this :(

Prodigal Expenditures

Right, just came back from KL not too long ago. Had fun the last 2 days, watched 2 movies and had a darn fine cuisine with Kim. Those haven't visited Bavarian Bierhaus @ The Curve should really get themselves tasting some of their exquisite German food. Price is not for the faint of heart. Fast and Furious 4 is not bad really, good plot and all, despite the fact that it's not all bout the rides anymore. 12 Rounds is plausible as well. Bought a pair of Nike training gloves for quite an awesome deal.

Drove to Setapak later on to teach Chua some stuffs before his papers (but most of the time ending up talkin' cock really..) Went PC Fair today with him and his gal. Been awhile since I really went for a shopping spree with him, despite the fact I'm the obvious 'lightbulb' :P They don't give a shit anyway. PC Fair this time around has lesser stuffs available, doesn't find the fair all too interesting. Bought a couple of stuffs after a few hours of surveying and eye-cleansing (y'know what I mean :D).



Which is actually sad to notice that I've been spending quite a lot this month :( Truly a profligate. I guess that's it for now, going for a late supper with Chen Hau. G'nite folks.

Resurrection

Immaaaa bekz.

So it has been quite awhile since I've last posted a single thing. I hardly believe the last post was about me learning driving. Been 3 years since then.

Went on and changed the layout :P and I've noticed Andrew's blog got taken over by some chick or something like that. Will update all the links soon.

Alright, so a few updates. I've sorta completed Advanced Diploma, and proceeding for a degree conversion program in Sheffield early June. Uncertain on whether to proceed with a postgraduate degree or not, it's a great dilemma.

Got myself a new toy recently :D for those really curious on what it does, click on it. Supposed to get myself a Nokia 5800XM, but the toy's 8.1 MP is just too hard to resist.


Image stolen from http://yeekit.blogspot.com/

An overall great gadget to have. Do expect decent pictures from now onwards :D

Would be looking forward to publish a new entry every now and then, but for now I just have to start studying some of the Engineering Council papers I'd be taking this coming May. I've been procrastinating for waaaaaay too long :/ Later.

Drivin'

So.. havin my semester break again, marks the end of my fourth semester. Did an 'okay' for the papers. Went sunway lagoon soon the day after the exam ended, pics uploaded at friendster :P Anyways, back to my borin' lifestyle in Klang (yum cha sessions, cyber-cafes, any sorta pc games etc...).. except! i finally get to learn drivin, for my 'P' license (got my L last two sem breaks). So i went few hours of trainin during last few weeks, and after 8 hours of lessons, today i finally went to the main driving centre somewhere in Kapar for what i assume would the last practice for those 3 stuffs (hill, 3-pointer, reverse/parallel parking) apart from driving at the highway. So i suppose i got the hang of it after almost 2 hours of 'intense' training (dude, the wheather was blazin' hot!) and im scheduled for a full highway lesson 8.30am tomorrow *sigh*. So back to the lessons i had today, during the hill or what you peeps might know as 'bukit', i saw something which somehow amuses me (being nub and all..) this damn lorry was doing the hill thing as well. So i went :woot: :lmfao: .. i didnt knew such thing could climb such slope. And so i took out my phone, and snapped the moment the damn lorry "reversed" backwards :lol: :lol: :P out of the driver's noob'ness.



oh yup, the instructor then told me the pra-ujian [QTI], (don't ask me what on earth it stands for) would be on next tuesday, and i was like "oh boleh-boleh" and then he went "Ujian JPJ pada Isnin dua minggu akan datang".. in disbelief, i asked like a fool.. "16 haribulan ker?" After he nodded his head, the horror strucked my sorry ass. That's the date my fifth semester's gonna start. Fated? I dont know, but im very sure i cant miss the first day out of all days during a semester. Ill figure somethin out..somehow. Damn it.

Something to ponder over.. ;p

Women and men

Women are like apples on trees.
The best ones are at the top of the tree.
Most men don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt.

Instead, they just get the rotten apples from the ground that aren't as good, but easy.......
So the apples at the top think something is wrong with them, when in reality, they're amazing. They just have to wait for the right man to come
along, the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree.

Share this with other women who are good apples,
even those who have already been picked!

And remember.................. Men are like a fine wine.
They start out as grapes, and it's up to women to stomp the shit out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with.

Update

Right, been awhile since I posted anything. Been busy lately, although it's actually my semester break right now. I'm somehow in charge of welcoming the new freshmen into my course during the mass call. Preparing an orientation booklet ain't easy, making a new society t-shirt is another matter. To add up the spice, not many of the committee members are that committed anyway. Throughout the last semester, which is the third.. was hardly in any mood to post anything. I had to sit for 3 maths paper one shot, all because of my ignorance on that particular subject during my first two semesters..making me fail the first two maths papers =/ So somehow i could cope up with those, HOPEFULLY i could pass all of em before going into the second year.. *fingers crossed*. Nothing much i guess, had a few hangouts with old friends, bought a new bag(woohoo), an external harddisk during the last PC fair, few *ehempiratedehem* softwares(Autodesk AutoCAD 2007, Visual Studio 2005). Added and updated a few links on this page today, so check 'em out =P I'll have to make an early return to the college the day after tomorrow, gotta attend some kinda early rehersals for the orientation day, which falls on 22nd. I seriously gotta take a break after all of these.. >=)

Error #31

PC broke down yesterday, freakin operating system failed to load o.O repairing the OS doesn't work, so the only freakin solution? reformatting the damn harddisk =( thus, my collections of anime, games, installation files and all sort of documents went -blank- So some of you might say, doesn't matter, he could always redownload everything back.. but that's the problem now, I couldnt. Freakin streamyx's doing something to the ports that are used by torrents, from what I've read from lowyat.net and I'm not even sure if my firewall is the real culprit. I already forwarded the ports, but nothing.. NOTHING seems to work, at all! I even tried different BT clients.. same shit. So I eventually gave up, everything's downloading at 1-5kb/s now, damnit. Dattebayo released a speedsub of Bleach Epi. 70 earlier today, which I normally could download at speeds above 50kb/s at least, is going at mere 9kb/s, which Im already pretty much grateful. /rant

Error #29

The Last Episode of Doraemon

Dedicated to all the fans of Doraemon, including myself (I just seriously missed it ya know?) - As you know, Doraemon is an inspirational story with no ending, but
this small story is about the "last episode" of the famous cartoon.
Someone made this story and uploaded it to his homepage, and it is now widely spread all around Japan through the internet. Here it goes;

One day, a very normal day, Nobita came back from school and went upstairs of his house. Doraemon was there sleeping, just like the other normal day. "Hey, Doraemon, please wake up, let’s play!” but Doraemon does not wake up.

Nobita thought that Doraemon is tired, so he went out to play with Shizuka-chan and other folks. After few hours, he returned to his home, but Doraemon was still sleeping. Nobita felt something strange, and tried to wake him up. But there was no reply. He became to feel afraid, and tried to wake him up, but whatever he does, Doraemon did not wake up. Nobita knew exactly that something was different. This never happened before. He began crying, but though he screamed or cried, the famous fat-cat-robot did not make a single move at all.
He came up to one idea, and jumped into his desk -the time machine- and went to the future to meet Dorami-chan, Doraemon's sister. He begged her for help, and forced her to go with him back to 1998.

After a short trip again back to 1998 by the time machine, Dorami-chan looked all over his brother Doraemon to see what was wrong with him.
After few minutes, she said "the battery is out"
Nobita was relieved, and said, "battery? so he is not broken right? Please replace or recharge his battery, and put him back like before"
But Dorami-chan shook her head and said, "Nobita-san, should I really do that?"
Nobita said "what? What do you mean?"
Dorami-chan replied; "His main battery is here, close to his pocket. And it ran out. But originally, he had a back-up battery in his ears, but as you know, his ears were eaten by a rat very many years ago, so he does not have a back-up battery now"
"So what do you mean?"
"I mean, if I replace his battery, every memory of you will be eternally lost from his brain program"
"WHAT?????"
"Shall I do that?"

Nobita closed his eyes. He cried, but after few minutes, he stopped crying, and quietly told Dorami-chan;

"Dorami-chan, thanks for coming here. I will take care of the rest. You have to go back to your future time now"

Dorami-chan could not decide what to do, but anyway she hugged Nobita quietly, and she went back home. After she went back, Nobita carried Doraemon and placed him into the shelf.



.........TIME FLIES..........


Year 2010, Nobita grew up. Since that day, he changed. He studied hard, did not cry anymore and he lived without Doraemon. He told Shizuka and other folks that Doraemon had to go back to his future, and could not meet him anymore. Shizuka was impressed to Nobita's mysterious appearance which became completely different from 10years ago. They fell in love, and married. Nobita became a scientist. He made a laboratory in his room, and was studying hard with his job all day. He told Shizuka not to come into the room, as it is very dangerous inside. But one day, he called Shizuka and told her to come in to his room. It was the first time for her to enter his husband's room. The moment she went in, she lost her words ......There was her friend Doraemon, who she used to play in her childhood days. Doraemon was not moving. It seemed as he was sleeping.

"Look, Shizuka, I will plug in from now"

Nobita turned on the main switch on Doraemon. Doraemon quietly, very quietly started to open his eyes. It was the moment the inventor of Doraemon became clear. It was Nobita. He studied hard and hard jus t to meet and talk with his old friend again. Going back and forth of time, Nobita was the one who made Doraemon. He discovered all the programs and architecture of Doraemon-type-robot. Nobita and Shizuka were crying gently. Doraemon opened his eyes. He looked around, and finally said, "Nobita-kun, did you finish your homework?"

There were the same white clouds in the sky like the times they used to spend together.

Error #28

Jerry is the manager of a restaurant. He is always in a good mood. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would always reply: "If I were any better, I would be twins!"

Many of the waiters at this restaurant quit their jobs when he changed jobs, so they could follow him around from restaurant to restaurant.

Why? Because Jerry was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was always there, telling him/she how to look on the positive side of the situation.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him: "I don't get it! No one can be a positive person all of the time. how do you do it?"

Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up & say to myself, I have two choices today. I can choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. I always choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be victim or learn from it. Everytime, someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life."

"But it's not always that easy, " I protested.

"Yes, it is." Jerry said.

"Life is all about chooices. When you cut away all the junk every situation is a choice you choose how you react situations, you choose how people will affect your mood, you choose to be in a good mood or bad mood.It's your choice how you live your life."

Several years later, I heard that Jerry accidentally did something he never supposed to do in the restaurant business. He left the back door of his restaurant open and then he was robbed by three armed man. While Jerry trying to open the safe box, his hand shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination.

The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found quickly and rushed to hospital. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body.

I saw Jerry about six months after the accident.

When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Want to see my scars?"

I declined to see this wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place.

"The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door," Jerry replied.

"Then, after they shot me as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices, I could choose to live or could choose to die. I choose to live."

"Weren't you scared?" I asked

Jerry continued, "The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the expression on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'He's a dead man'/ I knew I needed to take action."

"What did you do?" I asked

"Well, there was a nurse shouting question at me," said Jerry.

"She ask if I was allergic to anything."

"Yes, to bullets," I replied.

over their laughter, I told them:"I'm choosing to live. Please operate on me asif I'm alive, not dead."

Jerry lived thanks to the skills of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude.

I learned from him that every day, youhave the choice to either enjoy your life or to hate it.

the only thing that is truly yours~ that no one can control of that, everything else in life becomes much easier.

Error #27

Final exam's in a few days time..im left dumbfounded with no mood to study. I've got so many challenges to get over with..heart's just in turmoil. Screw it. You don't know me, period.

Error #26

Again, I woke up "early" hahaha :) this week and next week's full of mid term "tests"..it's definetely gonna effect coursework, thus.. i must study! ..after i finish this materials science tutorial obviously..so i shall end this here, would update again tonight. P.S. So sorry for any grammatical errors, my english is rotting day by day :|

Error #26

Handed an assignment today, been busy with that for days o_O one burden less,..but anyway, received another assignment today for Engineering Science II. It was a group based one, 10 students per group, 10 questions to answer. Just somehow I've got a random feeling that I'll have to do all of them alone, as routine goes...unless I could form a group of those hardworking ones. Time to seek group members folks, wish me luck. Ill definetely need some of those. Slept only two hours yesterday, so it's time to go. The fact of being sick and suffering lack of sleep at the same time is not a good thing at all, see you sailors around. Signing out fer now.

Error #25

Tao gave me a link to this today o_O



Tongue-eating bug found in fish
The bug inside the fish
A gross creature which gobbles up a fish's tongue and then replaces it with its own body has been found in Britain for the first time.

The bug - which has the scientific name cymothoa exigua - was discovered inside the mouth of a red snapper bought from a London fishmonger.

The 3.5cm creature had grabbed onto the fish's tongue and slowly ate away at it until only a stub was left.

It then latched onto the stub and became the fish's "replacement tongue".



Excited

Scientists are very excited by the find.

Dr Jim Brock of the Horniman Museum in south London told Metro newspaper: "I have not seen this species in all my 13 years at the museum so it's a remarkable find."


What the bug looks like

The bugs are usually found off the coast of California, so it's possible the fish was imported to the UK.

Freaked out

But don't be too freaked out - scientists say the creature does not pose any threat to humans and only attaches itself to fish tongues.

Error #24

Ouch, just woke up.. realised I couldn't make it to Muhsin's house ;p well, i'm sick too anyway, and sorta lazy o_o when I noticed a bunch of them couldn't make it as well. GHH's assignment was sorta abandoned last night, went and watch a korean movie, My Sassy Girl on my lappie, it was darn hilarious and good. It was an old movie i know, but still :P So.. yeah, I shouldnt hang out in the net too much anymore, gotta finish up this assignment before tomorrow, since they're prolly going for another movie after the last class tomorrow. So, yeah, signing out for now.

Error #23

Just got back from Engineering Science 2 lecture, it was a replacement for last Tuesday. Anyway, only a small bunch of them attended the lecture, DMT1 with the least attendance (home sick freaks), the rest occupied by mechatronics.. screwed. The lecture was about Nuclear Physics.., and as usual, i came in empty and went out slightly less empty.. rofl. Yesterday, an old friend, Muhsin messaged me out of the sudden, inviting me to his house for some sort of an open house thing. I wonder how he got my number anyway, but heck, I get to meet some primary dudes there tomorrow. So prolly ill just go back to klang just for the sake of it :P Time to do some revision and assignment..adios amigos!

Error #22

Long time no post again, yeah.. rofl. Anyway, got my results a few weeks ago.. my CGPA was only 2.8.. practically because i FAILED one subject, which was maths. It was my bad .. foundation was damn weak :P Got A's for Production Engineering, Engineering Drawing and Computer Studies.. got a C for Engineering Science (physics).. pretty much the foundation thing as well. So pretty much I sucked at both my core subjects, physics and maths. Backing up this sem, hopefully everything goes well :| New subjects to face this semester.. which includes maths 2 and engineering science 2 x_x really wonder how do i cope with both of them, seriously.. since both of the lecturers are evil.. real evil i tell ya.. ;p aight, im out to finish up my experimental techniques and materials testing assignment, more updates are all at friendster, new pictures and all.. ill keep this updated from time to time.. i hope :P hahah, signing out for now.

Error #21

Rather a dull weekend, basically it's, hanging out with a couple o' old friends for the past few days, downloading all those animes I've missed, and of course, chatting online. It's like going back to the life during the break between after the SPM examinations and college life. My break's gonna end pretty soon I guess, since I'll be going back to the hostel as early as next week to start organizing an event for the society. Oh yes, I almost forgot about Error #20 that I've left hanging, my bad :P
So here it goes. It was 21th of September, woke up as LATE as 7.00 a.m. to get ready (we were suppose to meet at the LRT station at 7.30 at least!) So I made everything that morning a little faster than usual, and got ready around 7.25, and it was already very late. Kelvin and Chua came to find me earlier but I was still getting ready so Chua went first to "escort" Doris to the LRT station :P So, took a cab to the Wangsa Maju LRT station, which I and Kelvin actually took the wrong cab! It was actually a cab booked for some dude going to the KLIA, (some small missunderstanding, I was pretty sleepy at that moment so, when he asked "Awak Wong?" and I was like "ya") it was pretty hilarious, both of us never realised what was going on until he reached the junction to the highway and I was like "stesen lrt wangsa maju" and he was like "tuuuut" and after charging us with only 2 bucks we reached the station a little earlier than Chua that went on earlier! Saw Kee Meng already waiting there, and all of them started to arrive one by one, Chin Tien and Saw Sim being the last to arrive. So, made our way to the Terminal Putra LRT station, (about 2 stations away from Wangsa Maju), a pretty short ride. Waited awhile for the bus, it seems the tickets we bought was dated for a ride on the following day (some mistakes made by the management), but fortunately there were sits for us in the bus that arrived pretty much an hour later. All of them were pretty quiet as we sat quite a distance from each other, busy chatting among themselves. I was busy listening to music all the way ;p It was about 9.15 or something when we reached at the cable car station. Took a ride up, headed straight to the theme park. The ticket we bought was some sorta combo thing, it was only RM25, which includes the bus and cable car rides, and an entrance to the outdoor theme park. It was about 1000 that time, on the dot. Went straight to the outdoor theme park, and started our fun with the..er..thing that spins you around while you're sitting..I can't recall what was it called ;p but it was pretty near to the theme park's entrance. We pretty much enjoyed that, next went to some kurap ghost house.. i really cant find any better word to describe it ;p it was like, you sit on a trolley on some kinda track, individually.. into a dark and winding tunnel.. with some mechanical "scary" noises.. it was all robotic o_O which pretty much took out most of the thrill. Chin Tien suggested us to play Bumper Boat after that, with some of the guys from Group A went off to take the Space Shot (which they they realised soon after that it was closed due to maintenance purposes, lmao). And so the bunch of us went and played the boat thing, it was fun :P Got ourselves abit wet, but it was all good =) We went for go-karting soon after, it was already about 11+, so queue was already kinda long. While waiting, some dude joked that I cant go for it because I dont have a driving license yet :P So finally it was our turn, and after a few minutes of rules and regulations "lecture" from some guy there, 8 of us including kelvin, chua, chin tien, dollis, saw sim, cyrus hui mei and myself jumped into the kart. chua was leading (his kart has an unfair advantage, all of us had underpowered karts) :P , followed by me and kelvin..and the rest. "Driving" for the first time was fun, hahah. After that we took on the Corkscrew, which freaked most of them out, Chua being a first timer took it pretty well.. rofl. Shao Liang, a big sized dude, was like some drunkard after the ride, hahah. Though I already experienced it before, Corkscrew never fails to impress everytime you ride it :P well.. for me atleast. Went on for the second ride, they were pretty much, "we want more". Someone suggested to sit at the last sits of the coaster.., saying it was the "best" spot to have in the entire ride, so I and Chua just dived in, not missing a chance.. but just as soon as we were about to took off.. drops of rain drizzled down. The ride was cancelled immediately, and there goes my chance o_o.. we looked for shelter, heading back into the first world plaza to have our lunch. I and a few dudes went for Burger King, and the rest McDonalds.. don't ask my why it was their choice ;p since it was pouring outside.. we shopped around, bought various stuffs :P we spent hours shopping, the rain isn't getting any thinner.. :( so, about 4 or 5pm we made our journey back home after a few more group shots. That was the end of the one day trip folks, signing out for now.

Error #20

HAHAH! I'm BACK! Home sweet home! Exams ended last Tuesday with Engineering Science, the killer subject. Went Genting the following day with a couple of coursemates, I shall talk more about this later since I'm about to take a shower now.. :x

Error #19

Cheese Pizza

Traditional and comforting. You focus on living a quality life. You're not easily impressed with novelty. Yet, you easily impress others.

What's Your Pizza Personality?

In a Past Life...

You Were: A Gentle Warrior. Where You Lived: Germany. How You Died: Natural causes.

Who Were You In a Past Life?

The Keys to Your Heart

You are attracted to those who have a split personality - cold as ice on the outside but hot as fire in the heart. In love, you feel the most alive when things are straight-forward, and you're told that you're loved. You'd like to your lover to think you are loyal and faithful... that you'll never change. You would be forced to break up with someone who was ruthless, cold-blooded, and sarcastic. Your ideal relationship is lasting. You want a relationship that looks to the future... one you can grow with. Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment. You think of marriage pessimistically. You don't think happy marriages exist anymore. In this moment, you think of love as something you thirst for. You'll do anything for love, but you won't fall for it easily.

What Are The Keys To Your Heart?

You Are 60% Weird

You're so weird, you think you're *totally* normal. Right? But you wig out even the biggest of circus freaks!

How Weird Are You?