Life nowadays is so boring.

I want school to start, yet I don't want the holidays to end.

Sec 3 next year. New classes. New teachers. We even have new pants... *lol*

Sigh.

Anyway, nowadays I've been messing around with my PSP a lot. I recently (in fact, just now) downloaded PSP Custom Firmware 5.0 M33 and its working great. Also dled Tekken Dark Resurrection and Street Fighter Alpha Max (Had to delete DJ Max Portable 2. Will find a better version which is less glitchy...).

I also managed to fix my mother's com! Yay... After weeks and weeks of failed attempts. At first I thought that the problem lied in the graphics card as every single graphics card linked to a graphics driver. But later, after some research, I decided to use the SFC.EXE tool. Worked really great and after a restart it didn't BSoD anymore. Thanks, BleepingComputer! 

Up next, a new record! I managed to reach 352 kbps on my Macbook on the 2Wire wireless lan (Mio Plan) set up at my house through the almighty Apple server (was downloading the Mac OS Development Took Kit). Image below.

I also found a random yet amusing image of  Micro$oft Windows BSoD Edition from Uncyclopedia. They even have a whole article about it. Make sure you read it. (:

It's 1.30 already.. I'd better go and sleep now.

And the title is extremely random. It's a combination of all the topics mentioned in the post, if you didn't realize.

Sitting in front of the class, for a change. Feels funny. Haha.

Anyway, been playing a lot of DoTA nowadays... Playing v6.56 AI and non AI, both. Current favourite heroes include Zeus Lord of Olympia, Dwarven Sniper (both range) and Juggernaut for melee.

A screenshot;

Dwarven Sniper owning the Frozen Throne with the help of his helpful creeps...

Next up, the introduction of 'themes' in Google's very own browser, Gmail!

In my opinion, this is an excellent step taken by the Gmail Team. The themes look awesome!

Here's a preview of all of the themes currently included in the Themes tab under Settings (which is on the top right of Gmail). 

My current one is the one all the way at the bottom right... (Although I find the bottom left one interesting!)

At first, I didn't see the Themes tab in my Settings until I click here (I think Gmail only activated in a few accounts), so make sure you the click the link above to get the themes working. Have fun customizing your Gmail!

*And for those who still use other services like Y*h00 Mail or H*tmail, it's time for change.

A change for the better. Change to Gmail!

Anyway, moving on, we got the course options back today. Got my first choice! (Though I think the majority probably got their first choice.)

(See post below for my subject combination.)

Now I need to learn more C++. Sigh.

I guess there's nothing much that I can rant about now. Trying to complete (more of rush) SDMA due to our dear friend Hubert running away to New Zealand... Well I wouldn't blame him if he had told us earlier...

Is this my longest post? I'll see after posting...

PS. I FINALLY GOT CS3 ON MY MAC! WOOHOOOOO!

Anyway, today, I went with Gao to Edmund's house to work on our ThinkQuest project. (The Northlight School one.)

And by now, you should have realised that I like to use links.

The link obsession aside, I managed to get CS 1.6 working on my Macbook! Yay! (Thanks to CrossOver Games, which I downloaded for free on Free CrossOver Day.)

And then I was randomly doing random stuff while waiting for Gao to set up a server...

That aside, tomorrow and day after tomorrow will be spent teaching all the foreign scholars (IT skills like Flash, Photoshop, Programming and so on) who've gotten into RI for Sec 3 2009 (our next year classmates). This is kind of a good idea... We get to meet our batchmates/classmates for next year early, interact with the scholars and at the same time brush up our own skills...

Course options release in 4 days time.

By the way my top chosen subject combination is Physics-Chemistry-Geography-Computer Elective Programme.

Sigh. The stupid server just can't start up...

Yayyyy can't wait for it to come out.

New features will include stuff like a four player multiplayer mode as well as an "evolution map" to upgrade the abilities of the Patapons. 

Head over here to watch the Patapon 2 trailer.

And guess what, I was randomly wondering if there was a flash game for Patapon... And apparently there is! It looks really good, quite fun to play, but of course glitches here and there.

You can go here to play the game.

Have fun playing!

I thought our second batch hike (actually the first, not counting the one last year as we were broken up into groups) went great. Our batch showed great enthusiasm and willingness to push ourselves beyond our limits and were able to complete 36.5 km on 9 hours (with stops and lunch breaks). We left at 10 am and reached back ant roughly 7 pm. 

Route

Changi Beach Park  à Loyang Ave  à Tampines Ave 7  à Tampines Ave 9  à Tampines Ave 10 à Tampines Road  à  Kovan MRT Station  à  Upper Serangoon Road  à  Hougang Ave 2  à Yio Chu Kang Road  à Upper Thomson Road  à Bishan Fire Station  à RI

Total Distance: 36.5 km

Checkpoints:

1. Hitachi Chemical Asia-Pacific (Loyang Way)
   (3.48km from Changi Beach Park) (4.485km to next)
2. Sun Plaza Park
   (2.92km to next)
3. Golden Padoga Buddist Temple
   (3.548km to next)
4. Lorong Baling
   (2.963km to next)
5. Fortune Park (Tampines Road)
   (2.925km to next)
6. Bowen Secondary School (Yio Chu Kang Road)
   (3.083km to next)
7. Chatsworth International School  (Kindergarten)(Jalan Kayu)
    (4.83km to next)
8. Saint Thomas Orthodox Syrian Church (Old Yio Kang Road)
   (3.488 to next)
9. Thomson Plaza (Soo Chow Garden Road)
   (2.625km to RI)

This was out hike route. Looks short on the map. xD

Anyway, here are the hike pictures;

But anyway, I couldn't help not posting about this one. It looks reaaaaaaally good.

It's by a Lifehacker user by the name of 'Kaelri'. And don't ask me why he has three clocks. Haha. It has a nice KDE look to it. It's all done for free by the way, you don't have to buy anything. Other than XP, of course.

The instructions to get to this can be found here.

Have fun customizing.

By the way, Irvin recommends SlanXP (a theme for XP). Don't ask me why, though. I find it quite plain. 

Hike log is killing me. Someone help me.

Weird.
Sorry.. Nowadays I have no time to post. );