Monday, July 27, 2009 @ 11:04 PM
CCTs! and iPhones!
Maths CCT and Chem OBA.

Maths CCT was just wrong. After mugging all that Geometrical Proofs, staring at Worksheet 1 and 2 for hours, just trying to understand a stupid theorem, what comes out in the CCT? One five mark question. After completing the earlier part of the paper (which I must admit was quite ok), I had around 8 mins left for the last question. I stared at it for five whole minutes, before deciding to check the rest of my answers instead. When I came back - no time left. Why do they even set question more than 50 % of the class can't even solve? I know that because after the CCT, my class went into a rage. Everyone became really pissed, and started telling (or shouting to) each other how they hadn't managed to complete the last question.
EDIT:
Yay! Apparently, part b of the last question has been cancelled (since it cannot be solved), so now the paper is upon 27. Is that a good thing? ._.
Chem OBA, on the other side, was quite ok. It was quite sneaky though, they put a tedious balancing equation just before the last question, so a lot of people got stuck on the balancing equation question, and didn't have time to finish the last question. ):

Sigh. Tests, tests, tests.

On a slightly lighter note, did you know the iPhone was first conceptualized in 1983? (: And it looked like this..



Interesting how a concept can go so far into creating/innovating a product that is now one of the most sold in the world.

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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 @ 7:46 PM
life goes on.
First time I've gone for CCA for a looooong looooong time.

PM went quite well, I guess. Did a bit of orienteering at first (without maps and compasses -.-), then did survival for quite long to get ready for camp (only to find out it wasn't important??!! they should've told us beforehand what's necessary and what's not, seeing that there's already a lack of time..)

After that was footdrill! How fun. For once, we're the ones standing in front, rather than under the watchful eyes of our seniors. We're the ones, spotting the mistakes, and flicking hands (a way to check whether arms are locked). After a while in the Junior Block, we went to Raffles Square and did some more footdrill. Under the hot sun. (:
Shark's not that bad at footdrill. Better than I thought!

LOL saw Sean, Yang Terng, Lawrence and Raphael during PM. Raphael was following us around the survival part >.<

Ahh. I hope Shark does well in camp.
I'm really really really really really really sorry I can't go for camp. ): Sorry Joshua, and the rest of Shark.


02 aside, I got into the IT internship! :D
It's from the 1st to 12th of June with Amdon Consulting Group, and I'll be experiencing about two weeks in the life of a game designer! (: So exciting.

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Saturday, April 25, 2009 @ 8:34 PM
DESKtop
This is the product of what happens when you get seriously bored at home from not going to school for a long long time. ._.

Anyway, here's the final product! Looks kinda nice. Has a minimalistic/elegant feel to it.

For a bigger picture, drag the screenshot to your url bar thing..

Theming on Macs is super hard.. Anyway, comment on my tagboard! (:

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Wednesday, April 8, 2009 @ 9:08 PM
NIC + Skating

NIC WAS FUNNNNN! RI InfoComm Club completely owned the NIC (National InfoComm Competition).. Managed to beat HCI for first place (:
Congratulations to everyone who took part in the various competitions.
Oh and by the way.. It was held at Marina Barrage. So had to go there once again.

BUT IS WAS FUN. Raveen, as usual, was grabbing as much food as he could.. -.- And as usual, he caused trouble! (: (By throwing a tennis ball into the fountain/water area place at the Marina Barrage. The security guard, however, found it amusing..) And then there was this band performance.. They were really good, but I didn't manage to catch their name. ):
And at the end of everything, the shuttle bus took us to City Hall instead of Marina Bay.. :D How nice.
The famous place where the tennis ball ended up.. [bottom left]

But anyway, NIC aside, today was my first skating lesson for CCA. Skating is quite fun, I guess. And I finally managed to move around without falling down! Not bad for a first lesson, eh? :D
Stinky equipment FTL ):

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Sunday, March 8, 2009 @ 5:14 PM
Facebook = the new SPAM?
Receiving a lot of spam from Facebook lately...


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Friday, March 6, 2009 @ 10:08 PM
Rock Legends!
Rock Legends is one of the most addictive games on Facebook. Period.
Go check it out!
Me in Rock Legends! :D

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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 @ 12:57 AM
Fedora FTW
Finally done with setting up Fedora dual boot on my Macbook (with all the drivers and stuff). Had a biiigg problem with the lousy Intel GMA950 in my laptop... -.- Anyway, I've just found out that Fedora is a great OS. The graphics engine in the OS is really really powerful. Compiz is just an example of its great potential. From the experience I've had with Fedora 10 so far, F10 has a really smooth and easy to use interface, with animations/effects that will appeal to anyone easily. (Although the setting up may not be that simple for everyone.)


Wobbly windows, one of the really fun to use effects...


Cube! :P


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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 @ 9:20 PM
Falling Poles
The internet speed (on LAN) in school is officially the fastest I've ever seen.
Here's the proof;


And yeah, I'm setting up MacOSX+Fedora dual boot on my Macbook. :P

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As for school today, nothing really significant happened other than the fact that today was the day that I have ever seen three 3-2-1 flagpoles fall down in a row.

A 3-2-1 flagpole is a flagpole, which is made up of 3 five metre spars, 2 three metre spars and 1 two metre spar and tied up together using tripod lashing. So the total height of a 3-2-1 flagpole is around 6-7 metres. It looks like this;



So, during CCA today the Sec 3 batch was taking the 3-2-1 flag decor test, in which you have to erect a flagpole, peg it down by the sides firmly and let it stand in twenty minutes, in groups of four. 

As for my group, the first time we took an excellent time of 30 to 40 minutes - a total phailiur. 
Our next try, we failed again, though we had improved our timing quite significantly - 28 minutes.

The next try, however, is of great interest. We were just about to hit our time limit of twenty minutes and complete it on time, and just as we were tightening the side guylines (support ropes), the whole flagpole gave way. So, you can imagine how horrific the scene would be, with everyone shouting to clear the area, and people running away from the flagpole, and eventually the 6/7 metre flagpole slamming onto the floor. This is dangerous. People can get seriously injured.

Of course there were consequences, which came in the form of many many many push-ups and crunches and stuff and long lectures by seniors, but I guess they are right. Safety is a big thing.

And what's better (or rather, not), it happened thrice. Once for each group. I have no idea what went wrong - lack of skill, lack of knowledge, lack of manpower or just plain lack of common sense...

What I do know is, that the next time I do flag decor, I'm wearing a helmet or something. o.o

Oh and this is probably the worst time to say this, but take a look at this video;
  
                    
LOL at the gripping powder -.-

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Monday, January 19, 2009 @ 12:40 AM
Photos Galore
I have this new found interest of organizing my photos. iPhoto '08 makes it so easy! (And fun, of course)


Can't wait for iPhoto '09 which has loads of cool features like face detection and Facebook synchronization... Can Apple get any better? :D

On another note, after hours (almost days) of staring at my laptop sorting hundreds of photos, I'm finally done with the OBS video!



Hope you like it. o.o
Made with iMovie HD.
(Oh and sorry for the baaaad quality. Will be updating with better quality version soon...)

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Sunday, December 28, 2008 @ 2:19 PM
IPArepo!
Recently, I came across an excellent website where you can download almost every single application there is in AppStore (and for free). This is possible by downloading the cracked versions of these applications, which are in the '.ipa' file format. According to iPhone Download Blog, .ipa files are;
.ipa stands for iPhone/iPod Touch Application. This extension developped by Apple is used for applications on iPhone and iPod Touch devices, downloaded from the iTunes App Store.
Yeah, so the website I was talking about is http://iparepo.com.
The website is really great, you can sort all the applications according to date and name, search the applications, and even subscribe to a RSS feed so that you are updated with the latest cracked applications. And it looks nice too! Here's a screenshot of the website.



And when you click on one of the applications, you will see this;



Here, you can download the application, see a description, go to iTunes to see it's 'official' page, and so on...

If I'm not wrong, this website is only open for everyone until a limited period of time, after which it will become a paid service, so go and download your apps quickly!

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Monday, December 22, 2008 @ 9:52 PM
*ALMOST* Dead
Hehe. You thought wrong. 

That aside, this blog isn't dead yet.

Not much to post during the hols anyway. 

Few things that have happened recently;
  • The C/C++ NOI training course [makes you want to forget that you ever coded]
  • MY MIO STOPPED WORKING (And it managed to start working again once the router got replaced today. At least it was replaced by a white shiny mio box. :P)
  • I cleared up 30 GB of space on my laptop. 30 GB. Wow.
  • Can't think of anything more, will put more once I remember.

And also, featuring,  1o Things I Would Do If I Were Lesmana;
  1. Quite Maple.
  2. If Point Number 1 has failed, stop using up so many Mana Potions.
  3. Rent out portions of my house to homeless people.
  4. Donate my pocket money to people with no pocket money.
  5. Invest the money that I have left after donating in something more useful than A-Cash Cards.
  6. Start a turnip plantation in Singapore.
  7. Let others invest in my turnip plantation.
  8. Try to be wiser in general.
  9. Stop paying people to tag along with me wherever I go
  10. And last but not least, try to be less of a Lesmana.
And there you are, the 10 things I would do if I were Lesmana. Put yours on your blog and support the Change Lesmana For The Better Movement (CLFTBM)].

Other than that, I have me eyes set on the Griffin Simplifi, which is an iPhone/iPod Dock, USB Hub, Memory Card Reader all in one. Pity there's no speaker. 

Features 
  • Charge/sync hub for iPhone and iPod
  • Reads and writes the most popular digital media cards, including Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, SD, SDHC, xD and CF (CompactFlash).
  • 2-port powered USB hub, using included AC adapter A simple, versatile way to de-clutter your desktop

Looks sweet.

Nothing much to post about, I guess. Hoping to set up the triple booting on my Macbook soon.

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Wednesday, November 26, 2008 @ 11:35 PM
High Speed BSoD on PSP
There's nothing to post about.
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.

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Friday, November 21, 2008 @ 6:20 PM
Ranting on and on and... on?
Woohoo! Foreign Scholars teaching programme is finally over!
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!

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Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 2:31 AM
Customize Your Own "Enigma" Desktop
I usually don't post about computer customization much. (I just started the blog...)
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.

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Monday, November 3, 2008 @ 10:59 PM
Connecting.. ... Fever
Guess what. Randomness strikes again. 


Count how many? And as an added bonus, see Naishad's lagginess. And you don't get to see him online often as well. (Click to enlarge)

Northlight School CIP project is starting tomorrow. Here's to wishing everyone involved congratulations on accomplishing all the lesson plans successfully, and hoping that the project will be a successful one. ICC FTW. 

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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 @ 10:49 AM
New Macbook!
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG. 
Ok. 
Enough of that.
New Macbook and Macbook Pros! And they look delicio0us. Lol.

Anyway, as for EOYs, 
Geog was quite good. Hope I get 4.0. 

History was ok except for the 1st part of the 1st question! (The picture one.) And luckily I studied for that essay question.

Maths was somewhere between easy and hard. The difficulty level ranged greatly from question to question. I think they should have kept it constant throughout. 

1 more exam.

1 more lap to freedom.

Science. Ohno. That's all I can say. 

On a side note, I was watching the Presidential Debates on YouTube. 

Obama FTW

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Saturday, October 11, 2008 @ 2:45 PM
All Your Base Are Belong To Us (AYBABTU)
Sorry for the late post. Too busy trying to understand A-T-C-G.

English is over. Finally. I think I screwed up my comprehension, but I guess the lit essay went well. Geog, History and Maths in a row! 

Geog next. Notes will be out in about 4 hours (by Irvin, of course! :P) But that's not to say I haven't started studying Geog (only a bit though). 

AND I just realised! The RA website says that they only see the end of year results for the second window entry ( at first I thought they look at the overall results), so I still have a chance! My aim is to apply for one RA (I still don't know which one, probably the one I did best in for EOYs). So I'm still hoping for the best... and mugging hard...

Oh and by the way, the new MSN beta looks sweet! (click on the pic to make it bigger) Haha, sorry Irvin!

And, on yet another random note, look what I found!

In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's you !!
CATS: How are you gentlemen !!
CATS: All your base are belong to us.
CATS: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
CATS: You have no chance to survive make your time.
CATS: Ha ha ha ha ....
Operator: Captain !! *
Captain: Take off every 'ZIG'!!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'ZIG'.
Captain: For great justice.

An example of great  Engrish. 

All Your Base Are Belong To Us (AYBABTU),
CATS


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