My Customary Once A Year Post

As above. Yup. =) Gonna graduate soon. Hopefully.

My Welcome

Ohai, reading through this blog again has been a really really interesting experience. I love how the Internet has made all these "memories" last forever. I'm still not going to update the blog regulary though. Maybe when I have more free time... Haha

My Results

Praise God from whom, all blessings flow~~~

Man haven't seen these kinds of marks since uhm primary school LOL!

My University

I just realised that I've never posted my university yet. And I'm sure you're dying to know what it looks like right? :D

My Inner Trek

Yep I was excited when I saw this poster. Heck I was excited when I learned that there was going to be a new Trek movie. That really tickled my geek-bone, me being a sci-fi fan and all. Basically I can sum this movie up in 1 sentence: I came, I saw, I got disillusioned.

Here are my top 5 reasons of why the movie was disappointing (to me at least):

5. Where were the frickin' phasers? I mean come on! What set Star Trek apart was that they used frickin' phasers instead of the rest of the sci-fi universe which used laser blasters. Its supposed to be one continuous stream of gloom and doom coming out of the ship not (as the movie portrayed it) discrete beams of light which look more at home in Star Wars than in Star Trek.

4. Whats up with the shields? Did we suddenly have shield technology and then render it totally useless by not referring to them? In most of the battle scenes it starts off with "raise the shields" and then the enemy ships weapons proceed to blast the hell out of the ships. I mean granted the enemies from the future and has like "advanced weaponry" but then at least give the reference somewhere for crying out loud. Something along the lines of "our shields are ineffective against their weapons" would suffice but noooooo. Its "shields up" and then "ship obliterated"

3. What happened to the iconic photon torpedoes? In almost every Star Trek movie/episode the Federation Ships always always use those torpedoes to save their asses. I mean true the enterprise usually gets destroyed just before the final sequence but hey at least they torpedoed the heck out of the enemy right? Mission complete right? But what happens here? Nothing! No photon torpedoes. The ending sequence really looks like a scene from Star Wars. Laser blasts? Really? Come on!

2. Uhm were federation star ships really that weak? I mean for goodness sake, they didn't even put up a decent fight! And what the heck, the romulan "mining vessel" has like this mad "drill" that they use to drill into the planets surface right? How come they don't use it to like cut ships in half or something? I mean that would've made a really mad scene!

1. Uhura and.... Spock?! Nuff' said.

My Germs

"Ich kann kein Deutsch sprechen aber English" which translates to "I can't speak German only English". Lol its fun having international friends :)

My [How to setup your mac for Streamyx] Post

Alright since I already went through all the trouble of helping my mum set up her Streamyx on her computer I thought I might as well post it up. Hey who knows, it might help some hapless sap some day (or maybe even myself... LOL).

Anyway, step 1 involves you going into System Preferences. If you can't do that, please return your Mac and swear never to touch technology again. I'm serious.

Step 2: Go to Network

Step 3: Click on the + button

Step 4: Click on PPPoE, Choose Ethernet, and Enter the Service Name (can be anything)

Step 5: Enter your details

And thats it really. You can basically use these instructions for any PPPoE connection not necessarily just for Streamyx. Share and enjoy.

My Sixth Sense

Holy crap! Talk about pervasive information services. Man these guys at MIT are like freaking smart man. I'd suggest you go through the whole video plus the explanation but if you can't be bothered (cbb) then just skip over to about the 3:10 mark where the demo begins.

[Via Gizmodo via TED]

My Absence

No I'm not dead yet. In the mean time see "My Updates" to see what I'm doing at the moment.

My Orientation

No, it has no bearing on my sexual preferences though if you're curious I am very much Heterosexual (that means I'm straight if you didn't get it). Anyhoo, today I had my university's "Compulsory International Students Orientation" which though entertaining was quite a waste of time. Me being the *ahem* ordered/forward-thinking person that I am had already done all that needed to be done, so my going there was just to be entertained. The real issues that I had wanted dealt with (namely clashing class schedules and classes not being offered) I was told would only be open for discussion on Monday which means I have to go back there on Monday just to settle it. (Geez, I thought I had left all this red tape back in Malaysia, but I guess its there where ever you go)

Lets see so what happened today, we had a very nice aboriginal dance by some of the aborigine's that were surprisingly enough from that general area and who's tribe had lived there for ages and eons, so we were told. Then we had 2 sessions of mind-bogglingly boring "lectures" which offered up as much information as a telephone directory when all you know is the person's first name. Then at last, we had "Crocodile Man". Now he wasn't really called Crocodile Man, but for the life of me I can't remember what he was called and that seemed like an apt name seeing as it is Oz after all. Lol.

Picture's after the jump

[Facebook album]

Ps: I'm so lazy to reupload photos as it seems uploading counts towards this whole ridiculous cap system that Oz seems to have for their internet. So please click the link and go see the pictures and my other album entitled "My First Fishing Trip" or something like that.

My Tweets For The Day

• Just finished my laundry for the week. Hanging it out in the sun was like trying to play dodgeball. Had to dodge the sun beams! *
• Interesting. A quintet for church. 1 pianist, 1 organist, 1 violinist and 2 clarinet-ist(?) *

My Freezing Goodness

And you thought you were a pro overclocker?! Think again, a team from AMD pushed the new Phenom II Quad core processor to a blistering 6.5Ghz! The best part, they managed to benchmark it. Check out the video after the break.

[Via Engadget]

My... Right

There's no more fun in being right anymore. I always thought that truth in itself would be a delightful thing. That people sought after truth. That truth in its purest and most concrete form would banish all lies. Why then does it seem that now, the more truthful you become, the more the lies seem to shout louder?

As Christians we are told to "speak the truth in love" but then it seems that nowadays, truth is only chiefly concerned with hurting someone, or tearing them down, or only spoken when it affects you directly. Is that the way things are supposed to be? On the flipside though, why does it seem that people these days are so afraid to change? To accept constructive criticism?

I guess a lot of it has to do with my previous thought. They are so used to the fact that truth is used as a weapon that they assume that everything people say which is true about them is going to be used sooner or later to attack them. Sigh. I. Don't. Know. Anymore.

So where does that leave us then? How are we to reach a generation of people who have so twisted ideas about truth, honesty, about friendship? I always thought being a true friend meant that you genuinely cared for that person and would be willing to "rock the boat" so to speak, when you see your friend spiralling out of control, or you see him/her doing something which might be detrimental down the line.

On a side note, I am really excited about Windows 7. I have been playing around with the Beta quite a bit (in-fact I installed it on my sister's laptop and its now her primary OS and things seem ok. At this point in time, its even better than Vista. Though I still prefer Mac OS X (no danger in me uhm "backsliding" :P) but still I'm glad that PC users will finally have a good alternative or at least I hope nothing goes seriously wrong with it from now till its released.

My Departure

Well I am still waiting for my visa to be approved but as it is, I already have bought my ticket and by faith I will be leaving soon. Just to let it out there, I'll be leaving on the 2nd of February and my flight is at 1:15pm.

I will be sad to leave everything I know and love, but at the same time I am excited and looking forward to stepping onto the soil of another country (which I hear is absolutely fantastic by the way). Hopefully, I will update my blog more often then as well being around the people that I know that much, I don't really see a point in posting things that people already know LOL.

My Palm P(t)RE(e)

I have never been as excited -nor will I be as disappointed if it doesn't work- for a smartphone/mobile phone than this. Ladies and gentlemen, meet The Palm Pre (It rhymes with Tree if you didn't know that already :P).

Check out the whole in-depth impressions of it after the jump.

[Via Engadget]

My My...

WINDOWS FAIL!


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My World 2

Another quote of the frickin' day! For *SOME* of the *WIDESPREAD* issues (allegedly) with Macs that you see on Mac forums....

Looks around emergency room: "Oh my God! Everyone's sick. We're doomed!"

Priceless!

My Welcome, and Goodbye

Well 2008 has officially passed and as we usher in the new year, I would like to spend some time to reflect on the year that was 2008.

2008 was a good year for me. Well mostly, that is. It was a year of great changes and new experiences. It was a year where I learnt a lot of things. Not only academically but also life-lessons, what it means to be an adult, and not forgetting spiritual lessons as well.

2008 was the year that I finished my tertiary education. Where I graduated to move on to the next phase of my life. It was also the year when I learnt the intricacies of human relationships and I'm still quite perplexed with it but hey, life goes on. You live, and you learn. It was a year of ups and downs. Of really being able to see God's hand moving and guiding me along the path in which I should take. It was a year of rekindling old friendships, of forging new ones. Of learning how important family is and how at the end of it all, family is really all you have.

And so now that 2009 is here, and the horizons are open to me once more. I can't help but wonder what lies ahead of me. As I push ahead to whatever it is I'm supposed to do, I can only hope and pray that the Lord will continue to guide and provide me strength to go through the year 2009.

Here's to a great 2009! :)

My ChucK

Look at what I've discovered by accident. And its perfect for me too. Now I will be able to fuse both my love for programming/computers with my love for music. Its a new concept if you will. A new programming language called ChucK. Made by this guy called Ge Wang who, like me, was also fascinated and passionate about both Computer Science and Music.

According to the website at chuck.cs.princeton.edu, ChucK is a strongly-typed, strongly-timed, concurrent audio and multimedia programming language. It is compiled into virtual instructions, which is immediately run in the ChucK Virtual Machine.

It also features on-the-fly programming which means you can manipulate code and see the effects immediately without shutting down or restarting or recompiling. Very nice concept.

Here's a video demo of what might be. Its still under active development and many of the tools are in alpha or pre-alpha phase (Read: Not ready for human consumption... Yet...)

My [Ye Olde Ads] Post

This is just so wrong at so many different levels but it just proves how much Microsoft tried to sell Windows in their early days. Steve Ballmer, still hate him.