The new version of shwup is out!
Shwup is a Java based application which allows you to let the world (fellow shwuppers) see your pictures! You don't need to worry about them keeping your pictures too as it never gets saved to their harddisks. Also, it will react with any music you are playing (somewhat like a visualiser).
New features this month consists of an anonymous chat feature and bluetooth, just to name a few.
Check it out at www.shwup.com
Requires Java5 and above.
Send to your friends! <_<
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Friday, March 23, 2007
Gah!
Grrr! Never going to use gmail's java app. Was typing up a nice long
entry and it crashed Snooks! Urgh! Precious words! Gone! Sigh... Shall
attempt to garner the strength to write them again... Soon. Grrr!
entry and it crashed Snooks! Urgh! Precious words! Gone! Sigh... Shall
attempt to garner the strength to write them again... Soon. Grrr!
Mobile!
Since i apparently only feel like bloging when i'm away from my pc,
guess will do it via Snooks then. Character limitations though.
Stay tuned for part 2! And tonnes of small posts :-P
guess will do it via Snooks then. Character limitations though.
Stay tuned for part 2! And tonnes of small posts :-P
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
I hath returned! (Part 1)
Back!
Been away for pretty long huh ^^; Been busy and lazy to blog =p
It's been a great week, flying so far away, heh. UA sucks though, food is sucky, service is meh .. inflight entertainment tends to 0. Good things I brought tenshi otherwise would have fainted.
But first things first I guess, time to start blogging about the trip! <_<
Kudos to G and Hogy who woke up early(!!) (in Hogy's case) to come see me off. Sorry didn't have much time to entertain, the stupid security check took so long. Then the flight was delayed for half an hour! Due to some electrical fault. Was so worried that it'll cascade down and cause me to miss my 2 other flights, but thankfully, everything went fine ^^
The 2nd leg of the flight was on a 747, and it has 0 inflight entertainment. Well unless you consider the mass projection screen playing Happy Feet blocked by fitty billion heads to be entertainment. Good thing I brought tenshi. Should have brought The Book, but didn't thanks to Someone :^)
Landed @ LA after the super long flight. Hate long flights zzz. Knees always feel so sore after. Asked the information counter for Terminal 6, and was hauling ass there. The internal flights are pretty cool, kinda friendly. If there's anything to say about American/Western education, it's making people more friendly and outspoken. After 1 hrish of flying, finally landed .. 3rd plane of the day -_-; and went to sortie (out!). Came down the escalator and saw him <_<
Tuscon is an interesting place .. it's like Tatooine <_<.>_> Was fun sitting in a convertible too, too bad it's too hot most of the time, and there's no relief from trees nor clouds! Poor skin ;_;
(Sidenote: Pretty disjointed entry, don't have my thoughts well organised now =p)
Dang have to do work now!
Gah! Part II inc <_<
Been away for pretty long huh ^^; Been busy and lazy to blog =p
It's been a great week, flying so far away, heh. UA sucks though, food is sucky, service is meh .. inflight entertainment tends to 0. Good things I brought tenshi otherwise would have fainted.
But first things first I guess, time to start blogging about the trip! <_<
Kudos to G and Hogy who woke up early(!!) (in Hogy's case) to come see me off. Sorry didn't have much time to entertain, the stupid security check took so long. Then the flight was delayed for half an hour! Due to some electrical fault. Was so worried that it'll cascade down and cause me to miss my 2 other flights, but thankfully, everything went fine ^^
The 2nd leg of the flight was on a 747, and it has 0 inflight entertainment. Well unless you consider the mass projection screen playing Happy Feet blocked by fitty billion heads to be entertainment. Good thing I brought tenshi. Should have brought The Book, but didn't thanks to Someone :^)
Landed @ LA after the super long flight. Hate long flights zzz. Knees always feel so sore after. Asked the information counter for Terminal 6, and was hauling ass there. The internal flights are pretty cool, kinda friendly. If there's anything to say about American/Western education, it's making people more friendly and outspoken. After 1 hrish of flying, finally landed .. 3rd plane of the day -_-; and went to sortie (out!). Came down the escalator and saw him <_<
Tuscon is an interesting place .. it's like Tatooine <_<.>_> Was fun sitting in a convertible too, too bad it's too hot most of the time, and there's no relief from trees nor clouds! Poor skin ;_;
(Sidenote: Pretty disjointed entry, don't have my thoughts well organised now =p)
Dang have to do work now!
Gah! Part II inc <_<
Friday, March 09, 2007
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
^_^
Yes yes .. it's been years since I last posted.. Can't be helped, have been super busy with lotsa work since the last post. The project's been ramped up and there's lots of things to be done as we're making a release every week.
Even had to cater to a custom order during the CNY period. They wanted to demo our app to the HP dudes @ USA and the Vista laptop the VP was bringing didn't have the proper audio interfaces. Therefore there was a snap decision to create a WMP plugin to interface with the app, just like how the OSX's one is handled.
And of course who has to do it?
Yours truly of course, since the OSX's one is mine .. heh.
Windows COM programming totally sucks. For some reason the constructor and destructor (FinalConstruct and FinalRelease) were being called more than once, even though the template's tooltips said it was a one time initialisation. Damn COM objects! Damn C++! Anyways finally managed to whip out in record time a WMP plugin .. from 0 COM knowledge. Not too bad huh /flex
During that period, I learnt how sucky Vista is.
First was WMP11. To install a plugin in WMP9 and 10, you could just go to Options and go to the plugins tab and click add. But for WMP11? No..... even though the plugin page says you can add plugins, there's no add button. The help file's stupid too. Just says you need to be an admin to add plugins, but doesn't tell you how.
After some research, managed to find out how to install a BLOODY plugin. It's back to the usual "regsvr32" crap. Way to go for a "GUI" based OS. But that's not all... When I tried to register my plugin, it gave me an obscure error 0x008..something or other. Some googling told me that it was a permissions problem, that I needed to be admin to do the operation.
So I peeked at my User account. Sure thing, I was admin. OK, so I realised I needed sudo. Well.. okay, that's fair. *nix + OSX work that way too, even if you are logged as admin, you'll still have to sudo if you need to do some special stuff. The problem now was... how the heck do I sudo in Vista? Naturally "sudo" didn't work. -_-
Finally managed to get it to work. How? Open Explorer, go to Windows\system32, look for cmd, right click and choose run as admin. WTF? That's so stupid. In any *nix system, all you need to do is type "sudo". In OSX, all you need to do is type "sudo". Why isn't there a way to easily switch to super user mode in Vista? Why must I navigate all the way to system32, right click and choose run as admin? The entire session is now admin. If I forgot and left it and went to the toilet, some malicious dude could do evil stuff to the OS. Vista is so.. freaking.. dumb.
Oh .. WMP11 is dumb too. How do you add plugins to iTunes? Simply copy the file to the plugins directory and restart. Voila! How do you add plugins to Winamp? Simply copy the files to the directory and restart (could be wrong there.. rusty!). Why in the 9 freaking hells do I have to be SUPER USER and run a COMMAND LINE PROMPT to add in a simple plugin? WMP9 > WMP11 there. And at least update your UI and your freaking help files to reflect that.
Pbbt.
Also, whoever who thought up the stupid user authentication thing ought to be shot. Twice. No. Fitty billion times. This ad from Apple most accurately sums it all up.
To copy a file (that is, my dll plugin) to a "protected" place like C:\program files\windows media player, I have to authenticate. Again, fair enough. I have to do that on a *nix/OSX box too. However, the BIG BIG BIG problem is that it's modal.
Process: Click file -> Drag file to explorer pointing to protected folder -> Dialogue box appears telling me I have to yada yada yada give confirmation -> Click ok -> Screen flashes (the first time it happened I went oO? Comp crash?) -> Annoying modal box appears asking me to confirm. During this period I can do NOTHING until I continue/cancel.
Problem? Yeah. Totally. For OSX, which I use the most often besides XP, a (ONE) dialogue box appears, and I just enter my password and I'm done. If I'm doing other stuff or another application wants my attention, I can just leave that dialogue box there until I want to deal with it.
Vista is so super secure. I can't copy a file from a network drive to a protected place. When I do that action, a dialogue box appears telling me that I have to give confirmation, which I click ok (or continue. w/e), then this box appears telling me that I can't do that .. blah blah. Look. If I want to copy a file. COPY it! Or just say no on the outset. What's the point of popping up that dumb dialogue box if you're going to stop me later anyways? 1 more click for me.
Replacing a file in protected folders.
To replace a file, I have to go through 3 dialogues. 1: Do you want to replace? Copy? Cancel? Copy and rename the original file? (At least I think that's what it is. Kinda remember that there was a 4th option). THEN it pops up the dialogue again, then tat modal thing.
-_-
The worse part here (what? You mean there's worse parts to all that clicking on continue?) is the copy/replace/cancel option. In OSX, it's a simple Continue or Cancel. This one has an ultra big dialog box with pretty icons and lotsa text telling you what will happen if you Replace, what will happen if you copy .. etc etc. Dude. I don't need that information. Provide a ? or tooltips if you want. Don't make it appear all the time.
Odd.
When you cancel a delete on a file, you'd expect it to be a no-op right? The OS just stays silent if you click cancel. However, for some gay mysterious reason, that's not the case for Vista.
Deleting a file in a protected folder.
Click delete -> Click continue -> Click cancel on annoying modal box -> A file progress window appears (for you XP users, it's somewhat like that window that appears when you copy many files, a little icon and a progress bar with a cancel button). The first time it happened, I was going wtf? Didn't I click cancel? Well yeah apparently it's a "cancel" action. Apparently, the file is ... sent to the recycle bin when I clicked on delete (or something like that), so when I click cancel at the last step, it needs to restore it.
It's not extremely stable too. The business edition test machine I was using died 2 times while I was testing. The first time it died silently. I just left it to idle while I did stuff on my Mac. Turned back, and it was dead. Not the normal kind of dead, it was massive graphics corruption kind of dead. Think of copying the picture of 1 window and pasting it everywhere on the screen. (Actually kinda worse but it's the closest I can think of). And it was doing NOTHING.
Bah.
Vista is so gay. Of course, one may argue that I was doing "power user" stuff, copying files from protected places, etc. But it's just showing how annoying it is. I've done this on XP, done this on OSX, nothing at all. I don't need an OS to keep asking me dumb questions on annoyingly big dialogue boxes.
Pretty sure I'm not going to get a Vista. If I were to get one, it's purely for games. WTB more OSX games! Thinking of switching to the OSX platform. Would be great if I could get it running on Resurrection though, seems to be alot of hoops to jump through though. Shimatta!
Even had to cater to a custom order during the CNY period. They wanted to demo our app to the HP dudes @ USA and the Vista laptop the VP was bringing didn't have the proper audio interfaces. Therefore there was a snap decision to create a WMP plugin to interface with the app, just like how the OSX's one is handled.
And of course who has to do it?
Yours truly of course, since the OSX's one is mine .. heh.
Windows COM programming totally sucks. For some reason the constructor and destructor (FinalConstruct and FinalRelease) were being called more than once, even though the template's tooltips said it was a one time initialisation. Damn COM objects! Damn C++! Anyways finally managed to whip out in record time a WMP plugin .. from 0 COM knowledge. Not too bad huh /flex
During that period, I learnt how sucky Vista is.
First was WMP11. To install a plugin in WMP9 and 10, you could just go to Options and go to the plugins tab and click add. But for WMP11? No..... even though the plugin page says you can add plugins, there's no add button. The help file's stupid too. Just says you need to be an admin to add plugins, but doesn't tell you how.
After some research, managed to find out how to install a BLOODY plugin. It's back to the usual "regsvr32" crap. Way to go for a "GUI" based OS. But that's not all... When I tried to register my plugin, it gave me an obscure error 0x008..something or other. Some googling told me that it was a permissions problem, that I needed to be admin to do the operation.
So I peeked at my User account. Sure thing, I was admin. OK, so I realised I needed sudo. Well.. okay, that's fair. *nix + OSX work that way too, even if you are logged as admin, you'll still have to sudo if you need to do some special stuff. The problem now was... how the heck do I sudo in Vista? Naturally "sudo" didn't work. -_-
Finally managed to get it to work. How? Open Explorer, go to Windows\system32, look for cmd, right click and choose run as admin. WTF? That's so stupid. In any *nix system, all you need to do is type "sudo". In OSX, all you need to do is type "sudo". Why isn't there a way to easily switch to super user mode in Vista? Why must I navigate all the way to system32, right click and choose run as admin? The entire session is now admin. If I forgot and left it and went to the toilet, some malicious dude could do evil stuff to the OS. Vista is so.. freaking.. dumb.
Oh .. WMP11 is dumb too. How do you add plugins to iTunes? Simply copy the file to the plugins directory and restart. Voila! How do you add plugins to Winamp? Simply copy the files to the directory and restart (could be wrong there.. rusty!). Why in the 9 freaking hells do I have to be SUPER USER and run a COMMAND LINE PROMPT to add in a simple plugin? WMP9 > WMP11 there. And at least update your UI and your freaking help files to reflect that.
Pbbt.
Also, whoever who thought up the stupid user authentication thing ought to be shot. Twice. No. Fitty billion times. This ad from Apple most accurately sums it all up.
To copy a file (that is, my dll plugin) to a "protected" place like C:\program files\windows media player, I have to authenticate. Again, fair enough. I have to do that on a *nix/OSX box too. However, the BIG BIG BIG problem is that it's modal.
Process: Click file -> Drag file to explorer pointing to protected folder -> Dialogue box appears telling me I have to yada yada yada give confirmation -> Click ok -> Screen flashes (the first time it happened I went oO? Comp crash?) -> Annoying modal box appears asking me to confirm. During this period I can do NOTHING until I continue/cancel.
Problem? Yeah. Totally. For OSX, which I use the most often besides XP, a (ONE) dialogue box appears, and I just enter my password and I'm done. If I'm doing other stuff or another application wants my attention, I can just leave that dialogue box there until I want to deal with it.
Vista is so super secure. I can't copy a file from a network drive to a protected place. When I do that action, a dialogue box appears telling me that I have to give confirmation, which I click ok (or continue. w/e), then this box appears telling me that I can't do that .. blah blah. Look. If I want to copy a file. COPY it! Or just say no on the outset. What's the point of popping up that dumb dialogue box if you're going to stop me later anyways? 1 more click for me.
Replacing a file in protected folders.
To replace a file, I have to go through 3 dialogues. 1: Do you want to replace? Copy? Cancel? Copy and rename the original file? (At least I think that's what it is. Kinda remember that there was a 4th option). THEN it pops up the dialogue again, then tat modal thing.
-_-
The worse part here (what? You mean there's worse parts to all that clicking on continue?) is the copy/replace/cancel option. In OSX, it's a simple Continue or Cancel. This one has an ultra big dialog box with pretty icons and lotsa text telling you what will happen if you Replace, what will happen if you copy .. etc etc. Dude. I don't need that information. Provide a ? or tooltips if you want. Don't make it appear all the time.
Odd.
When you cancel a delete on a file, you'd expect it to be a no-op right? The OS just stays silent if you click cancel. However, for some gay mysterious reason, that's not the case for Vista.
Deleting a file in a protected folder.
Click delete -> Click continue -> Click cancel on annoying modal box -> A file progress window appears (for you XP users, it's somewhat like that window that appears when you copy many files, a little icon and a progress bar with a cancel button). The first time it happened, I was going wtf? Didn't I click cancel? Well yeah apparently it's a "cancel" action. Apparently, the file is ... sent to the recycle bin when I clicked on delete (or something like that), so when I click cancel at the last step, it needs to restore it.
It's not extremely stable too. The business edition test machine I was using died 2 times while I was testing. The first time it died silently. I just left it to idle while I did stuff on my Mac. Turned back, and it was dead. Not the normal kind of dead, it was massive graphics corruption kind of dead. Think of copying the picture of 1 window and pasting it everywhere on the screen. (Actually kinda worse but it's the closest I can think of). And it was doing NOTHING.
Bah.
Vista is so gay. Of course, one may argue that I was doing "power user" stuff, copying files from protected places, etc. But it's just showing how annoying it is. I've done this on XP, done this on OSX, nothing at all. I don't need an OS to keep asking me dumb questions on annoyingly big dialogue boxes.
Pretty sure I'm not going to get a Vista. If I were to get one, it's purely for games. WTB more OSX games! Thinking of switching to the OSX platform. Would be great if I could get it running on Resurrection though, seems to be alot of hoops to jump through though. Shimatta!
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
And to continue ...
And I was planning to do other stuff on that weekend!
Hairdressers ... spring cleaning ............
T_T
gone.
SIGH.
At least I guess .. I spring cleaned Resurrection..? ........... EXCEPT FOR THAT @($*&@( DOUBLE BOOTING PROBLEM.
And the hdd problem, I'm too scared to even plug in my WD to wipe it clean. Was thinking of just taking out all my drives, plug it in, and use the XP installation disk to delete my partitions, can't even secure erase it from Norton.. SIGH
Hairdressers ... spring cleaning ............
T_T
gone.
SIGH.
At least I guess .. I spring cleaned Resurrection..? ........... EXCEPT FOR THAT @($*&@( DOUBLE BOOTING PROBLEM.
And the hdd problem, I'm too scared to even plug in my WD to wipe it clean. Was thinking of just taking out all my drives, plug it in, and use the XP installation disk to delete my partitions, can't even secure erase it from Norton.. SIGH
Ayam Alife!
Been a long while since I posted .. Have been busy with work and stuff. Had a traumatic weekend when I went home .. Flipped on Resurrection, and she couldn't boot! Gah! She couldn't even hit bios. Kept rebooting. :S
Started pulling stuff out and trying to boot. Finally pulled out the mobo and tried to boot... no dice. *severely traumatised*
Decided to bring in the mobo the next day to RMA... SIGH.
Met R and went down to SLS to RMA the mobo, he went to the office while I went to SLS. Then when I got there, the dude said actually mobo must/should RMA at the distributor, otherwise dunno when they will fix (duh?) But good thing the distributor was coming down in the afternoon so he could bring another one for me to change.
So went back to the office and did some work, closed some bugs, added some bug notes while waiting.
Finally at long last, I got my new mobo and went home to hook her up. Before I encased her into Resurrection's metal shell, I tested her to make sure that she could boot. You know, the good ol' insert the screw driver in a specific locations. Hooked her up and lugged the heavy metal casing back. Powered her on and lo Windows finally started.
All was fine and dandy until she started crashing really badly.
It would be like *chat on msn* *hear some ... dropping sound* and Resurrection will chug to a halt. She was even starting to hang at chkdsk -_-;; at that point, I was reaching @($&*@*(!! state. WTF was happening?!? Then errors like "unknown hard error" started popping up.
....
Severely traumatised, I formed several conclusions
1: Most obvious, hdd xX
2: The new mobo has a new revision of the ACHI driver, it could be that.
So I decided to reinstall windows.
...
Windows setup takes like a few gazillion years to load -_-. Upon startup, it loads like fitty billion drivers which you've never EVER seen before. QLogic? Nani? SCSI? Just load the ones I need lah, the rest just load on demand! <_<
At first I decided to be lazy and do a repair, after grinding through a yellow progress bar which purports to be "checking your disk", it ended with a "Setup has repair errors in your disk, press F3 to restart" message. Which I dutifully did (not that you have much of a choice)
After getting into setup .. again .. zzz... I tried to repair again, it went through the yellow progress bar, and ended with a "Setup has detected that your drive is corrupted and blah, Setup cannot continue" -_-
So I decided (was just banging my head against a wall) to reinstall windows clean
After grinding through setup again (more times than mentioned!), I finally reached the install windows screen. Selected that I want - install windows in c, delete current windows... It did the Yellow Progress Bar (AGAIN!) and deleted my windows :O zomg! .. Then it *gasp* started to install windows .........
However ...... at driver.cab, it suddenly bailed on me with this message "Setup cannot copy driver.cab from the cd.. make sure blah blah file there blah" .. I was fainting. Don't tell me my CD died too!? .. I tried both Xps that I had but no dice, finally had no choice but to reboot ....
.. And grind through setup .. again.
This time it couldn't even detect my primary disk -_-
Went through setup ......... again.
Detected C. D and E (which were separate partitions on the same physical disk) were listed as UNKNOWN.
Nonetheless, tried to install windows into C. At 97% of the Yellow Progress Bar, it bailed on me again. This time it was d3d8.dll which couldn't be found.
After some teeth gnashing (this time it's pretty apparent that it's not media fault)..
Went through setup ......... yet again.
This time it managed to detect all my partitions, and installed ......
It even managed to boot into the GUI part of the installation! Zomg!
... Tried to install East Asian language, halfway through the grinding .. it died.
I've nv seen Setup @ GUI side bail so spectacularly before, but it did. I finally did the wise thing and gave up.
Went and got a new harddisk, a Hitachi Deathstar 500GB the next day. Installed everything fine.
However, something odd happened when I plugged in my old primary disk (which is a WD 320GB) to save my data. My ACHI bios couldn't detect my Deathstar! :O But it managed to detect my WD fine. .. -_- After clearing CMOS, it finally detected both drives and booted. Once in windows, I quickly arranged for my sweet sweet data to escape into the Ark. (Maybe I should rename one of my partitions that). It was a painful journey, imagine the torrential rain, pouring down into the waterlogged muddy land, with your data, gray with mud, struggling to make it across. The ones who had gone over screaming for their companions to get to safety. After several breakages in connection (which brought down the file transfer but not windows, thankfully), the pertinent data managed to get Saved. Finally. The rest had to be jettisoned.
You'd think all would be well at this point, but strangely .. it seems that after this, the mobo's starting to have difficulty in detecting my Deathstar -_-, my 250 Hitachi is still reliably detected -_-.
At this point I decided (not very wisely) to flash the bios of my mobo, to hopefully fix this "bug". This is my first and last time flashing a gigabyte board. The windows flashing application is extremely poorly written. There's some threading issues around. When it's making the ftp connection to download the new bios, the gui hangs.. -_-; When it's doing the MOST IMPORTANT job (the sole reason for its existence!), the GUI hung. You know how traumatic that is!? Updating the bios of your mobo's one of the most :S things to do, pull the plug, windows hang .. and it's dead.
So finally, thankfully, the application didn't die, and I rebooted. Instead of a friendly bios screen, this screen appeared.
Scanning BIOS from Harddisk . . .
Nani?! The power button started winking at me at this point. After sitting around for a moment waiting for THINGS to happen, I decided to just restart the damn thing. When she restarted (fingers crossed!) she went into the Dual Bios (which gigabyte always trumpets about) selection screen and said "Updating bios" ... .... .. and completed.
Hurrah?
Well.
I booted into windows, the second before the Welcome screen was to appear, Resurrection did a hard reset. THEN windows booted up perfectly. -_-
Seriously!?
Neither did the flash fix my "can't detect Deathstar 500" problem too.
So now I have 2 problems, unreliable detection of Primary Deathstar and 2 boots to get into windows.
Just (hopefully) fixed the first problem. My mobo has 2 raid/IDE controllers, the ICH8R and the Gigabyte one. Previously I've been using the ICH8R, so now I've plugged both my drives to the Gigabyte controller (note to self, when I reinstall windows I'll have to plug them back to ICH8R, cos that's the one I have drivers for.. I could try getting the gigabyte ones I guess ..... sigh)
So far so good. Detection's much faster on the Gigabyte controller than ICH8R.
However, my windows still has the double booting problem -_- Not sure how to fix it. Not really keen to reinstall windows.
On the bright side, at least it's ... automated.............?
GAH!
/wail T_T
Started pulling stuff out and trying to boot. Finally pulled out the mobo and tried to boot... no dice. *severely traumatised*
Decided to bring in the mobo the next day to RMA... SIGH.
Met R and went down to SLS to RMA the mobo, he went to the office while I went to SLS. Then when I got there, the dude said actually mobo must/should RMA at the distributor, otherwise dunno when they will fix (duh?) But good thing the distributor was coming down in the afternoon so he could bring another one for me to change.
So went back to the office and did some work, closed some bugs, added some bug notes while waiting.
Finally at long last, I got my new mobo and went home to hook her up. Before I encased her into Resurrection's metal shell, I tested her to make sure that she could boot. You know, the good ol' insert the screw driver in a specific locations. Hooked her up and lugged the heavy metal casing back. Powered her on and lo Windows finally started.
All was fine and dandy until she started crashing really badly.
It would be like *chat on msn* *hear some ... dropping sound* and Resurrection will chug to a halt. She was even starting to hang at chkdsk -_-;; at that point, I was reaching @($&*@*(!! state. WTF was happening?!? Then errors like "unknown hard error" started popping up.
....
Severely traumatised, I formed several conclusions
1: Most obvious, hdd xX
2: The new mobo has a new revision of the ACHI driver, it could be that.
So I decided to reinstall windows.
...
Windows setup takes like a few gazillion years to load -_-. Upon startup, it loads like fitty billion drivers which you've never EVER seen before. QLogic? Nani? SCSI? Just load the ones I need lah, the rest just load on demand! <_<
At first I decided to be lazy and do a repair, after grinding through a yellow progress bar which purports to be "checking your disk", it ended with a "Setup has repair errors in your disk, press F3 to restart" message. Which I dutifully did (not that you have much of a choice)
After getting into setup .. again .. zzz... I tried to repair again, it went through the yellow progress bar, and ended with a "Setup has detected that your drive is corrupted and blah, Setup cannot continue" -_-
So I decided (was just banging my head against a wall) to reinstall windows clean
After grinding through setup again (more times than mentioned!), I finally reached the install windows screen. Selected that I want - install windows in c, delete current windows... It did the Yellow Progress Bar (AGAIN!) and deleted my windows :O zomg! .. Then it *gasp* started to install windows .........
However ...... at driver.cab, it suddenly bailed on me with this message "Setup cannot copy driver.cab from the cd.. make sure blah blah file there blah" .. I was fainting. Don't tell me my CD died too!? .. I tried both Xps that I had but no dice, finally had no choice but to reboot ....
.. And grind through setup .. again.
This time it couldn't even detect my primary disk -_-
Went through setup ......... again.
Detected C. D and E (which were separate partitions on the same physical disk) were listed as UNKNOWN.
Nonetheless, tried to install windows into C. At 97% of the Yellow Progress Bar, it bailed on me again. This time it was d3d8.dll which couldn't be found.
After some teeth gnashing (this time it's pretty apparent that it's not media fault)..
Went through setup ......... yet again.
This time it managed to detect all my partitions, and installed ......
It even managed to boot into the GUI part of the installation! Zomg!
... Tried to install East Asian language, halfway through the grinding .. it died.
I've nv seen Setup @ GUI side bail so spectacularly before, but it did. I finally did the wise thing and gave up.
Went and got a new harddisk, a Hitachi Deathstar 500GB the next day. Installed everything fine.
However, something odd happened when I plugged in my old primary disk (which is a WD 320GB) to save my data. My ACHI bios couldn't detect my Deathstar! :O But it managed to detect my WD fine. .. -_- After clearing CMOS, it finally detected both drives and booted. Once in windows, I quickly arranged for my sweet sweet data to escape into the Ark. (Maybe I should rename one of my partitions that). It was a painful journey, imagine the torrential rain, pouring down into the waterlogged muddy land, with your data, gray with mud, struggling to make it across. The ones who had gone over screaming for their companions to get to safety. After several breakages in connection (which brought down the file transfer but not windows, thankfully), the pertinent data managed to get Saved. Finally. The rest had to be jettisoned.
You'd think all would be well at this point, but strangely .. it seems that after this, the mobo's starting to have difficulty in detecting my Deathstar -_-, my 250 Hitachi is still reliably detected -_-.
At this point I decided (not very wisely) to flash the bios of my mobo, to hopefully fix this "bug". This is my first and last time flashing a gigabyte board. The windows flashing application is extremely poorly written. There's some threading issues around. When it's making the ftp connection to download the new bios, the gui hangs.. -_-; When it's doing the MOST IMPORTANT job (the sole reason for its existence!), the GUI hung. You know how traumatic that is!? Updating the bios of your mobo's one of the most :S things to do, pull the plug, windows hang .. and it's dead.
So finally, thankfully, the application didn't die, and I rebooted. Instead of a friendly bios screen, this screen appeared.
Scanning BIOS from Harddisk . . .
Nani?! The power button started winking at me at this point. After sitting around for a moment waiting for THINGS to happen, I decided to just restart the damn thing. When she restarted (fingers crossed!) she went into the Dual Bios (which gigabyte always trumpets about) selection screen and said "Updating bios" ... .... .. and completed.
Hurrah?
Well.
I booted into windows, the second before the Welcome screen was to appear, Resurrection did a hard reset. THEN windows booted up perfectly. -_-
Seriously!?
Neither did the flash fix my "can't detect Deathstar 500" problem too.
So now I have 2 problems, unreliable detection of Primary Deathstar and 2 boots to get into windows.
Just (hopefully) fixed the first problem. My mobo has 2 raid/IDE controllers, the ICH8R and the Gigabyte one. Previously I've been using the ICH8R, so now I've plugged both my drives to the Gigabyte controller (note to self, when I reinstall windows I'll have to plug them back to ICH8R, cos that's the one I have drivers for.. I could try getting the gigabyte ones I guess ..... sigh)
So far so good. Detection's much faster on the Gigabyte controller than ICH8R.
However, my windows still has the double booting problem -_- Not sure how to fix it. Not really keen to reinstall windows.
On the bright side, at least it's ... automated.............?
GAH!
/wail T_T
Friday, January 26, 2007
It's official
I take 10 mins to get from my work place to cathay. Was thinking of
taking a bus but am glad that i decided to walk instead. Typing this
on snooks whilst i wait.
Saw my earlier post for a sec before i left. Lol such a long ass one.
It may sound extreme, but i didnt temper my words, nor did i write
everything which should have been said. Tend to forget stuff. Heh.
Where do i wander off to now, holding in my arms all i've lost and
loved. Dunno why it strikes a chord in me. Damn reach word limit liao.
Bah
taking a bus but am glad that i decided to walk instead. Typing this
on snooks whilst i wait.
Saw my earlier post for a sec before i left. Lol such a long ass one.
It may sound extreme, but i didnt temper my words, nor did i write
everything which should have been said. Tend to forget stuff. Heh.
Where do i wander off to now, holding in my arms all i've lost and
loved. Dunno why it strikes a chord in me. Damn reach word limit liao.
Bah
Where do I wander off to now
May be a little late to be posting this, since it's already nearing the end of January, but mm it's been simmering in my mind for a long time, so better late than never?
~Reflection~
All in all it has been an interesting year, lost and gained, lost and loved, more wanderings and ponderings.
I suppose after half a year in muvee, I think I can say that it's a good decision muving on. Why? Met more "grown" up people, my old place had 2 categories, the Boss Units (BU) and Peon Units (PU), and all the PUs were of my level, around my age, similar experiences. The BUs were nice but they were hardly around, and we only talked much on official capacities. Hardly would I think of meeting them after office hours for muvee outings or dinner etc etc.
Pretty mysterious given that they are all around my age.
Then there's processes, the processes here are better.
And then there's BUs, my BU is a nice guy. Need anything? Go buy and let me sign. Need off? No need to give leave form first, you sms me and poof first, come back then let me sign. He's a good guy ^^;
TL R is also not too bad, introduced drinks! and other funky stuff. Pool buddy too heh.
Also at least bonus is not too bad <_<
And now they changed 13th mth to contractual means every year will def get 13mth bonus! Woot.
Of course, not to say the old place is bad, if I had stayed, would have had more power and influence. heh ^^
Also, coming here has given me a new perspective on things. It's been a little difficult to reconcile them with the present configuration though, still need to mull through alot of stuff.... Damn I thought of alot to write during my lunch @ Macs earlier but now dunno how to start, heh.
Gah after toilet break and other misc stuff, lagi worse, dunno how to start. hmmz
Hmm Lets start off like this. I'm challenging myself on the preconceived notions of right and wrong. Things one should do, and things one shouldn't do. (eww sounds tacky). I have a friend who started dating a french dude. Her parents went ballistic. Can't you get an SG dude?! He's FRENCH! He's bad! He'll definitely want to have sex with you and blah. Things were bad and in the end she struck out on her own, living in another uncle's spare flat. (great to have relatives sometimes).
Had a talk with her sometime back and what she said was she learnt something new (well SBU (super BU) 1 told her.
If they can't handle the truth, don't tell them the truth.
And, one answers only to oneself. Naturally it's not saying you do whatever you want, but do it within limits. Like if you feel it should be done, it's what you really want, go ahead and do it. Life experiences are for yourself to learn. If you've done everything in your power to let the people who are worried for you to be at ease, and they still try to make things difficult for you, that's too bad. You can't be responsible for what they feel even after you lay your cards on the table. What's important is what you feel.
Hmm seems odd to be written out like that. Not the best structuring.
Like the friend with that guy. Her parents go He's bad and such, but they haven't even met him. They just assumed he was bad. She however, wants to experience it for herself (he seems pretty good, working in accenture and stuff). I have trust in her that she won't pick up some bad egg. If it fails, she will at least walk away of having the lost and loved experience (lolz so tacky).
Aiyah dunno how to say it lah. But you know what I mean. If you don't then ..
I came to this theory earlier at lunch. For those who are getting squashed by their elders. NO! Can't do this! It's BAD! Cos I KNOW! Is it really true? Have they experienced the same exact situation with the same conditions? Guess it's easier to put it this way.
It's like hiring an applications programmer to program a game. Sure, a game IS an application on the surface, but deep down the model is pretty different. Most applications are event driven, they don't need to extremely performance oriented ie you don't need to squeeze out every single ounce of processing power. A variable which ranges from 1 - 128 you declare as an integer in an application is fine, but it will have to be declared as a byte in a game. The application programmer can provide insights and maybe some experience to the budding programmer, but the best person to solve the problems would be the budding programmer himself, for he'll learn from his mistakes. Besides, he's the one in the hot seat.
Damn I sound fragmented.
Like for example, buying a car. She(tm) says no don't buy car, blah blah. Buy one with your hubby blah blah. But seriously, the choice is mine and my own. Wouldn't it be good to learn about how to maintain a car? The responsibilities of loans and money handling? The different activities you'd do with a car? Naturally I wouldn't be buying a car now, simply doing a survey and some future planning. So overreactions like that are silly. I KNOW it'll be a burden on finances, it's a slow bleed now, with a car it'd be a hemorrhage. So definitely I'll be smart enough to decide whether I want to take on the responsibility of getting one.
Tsk.
I was questioned on the issue of leaving (vague alert!) the unit. What I felt about it if X left. At that time (and now) my response was if X thinks it's right, thinks leaving will give X more opportunities, a better life, sure. For I cannot provide the same level of care X would get if X left, nor can I guarantee it. However I was informed that this was not the "correct" answer. (well at least that's what I inferred), and the proper answer was NO! But I cannot say NO fairly. As mentioned earlier, if I cannot guarantee it, who am I to stop you from taking steps to achieve what YOU want, to make YOU happy?
Well now apparently, the one who provided the correct answer has some experience now and is apparently singing a different tune. Oh well, don't care. I still stand by what I think.
Then there's another issue, about how good a guy is when he has "plans". We'll date for X years, if ok after that then get married. Is that how it should be? It sounds so bloody mechanical. Yet it was lauded. I'm still of two minds about it. Naturally it's good to have that eventual goal in mind, but ... to state it out so flatly? Hmm
I wasspying peering at this chick's blog a few days ago, her bf proposed to her. Aww so sweet. He had his friends over to help sing song/say stuff/can't remember though. If I were the gf I'd have been -_-. Why did you have to involve friends? Are you afraid I'd say no? Then looked at the pictures of the flat and everything
Is that all it is? Maybe not ready to settle down, but somehow feel that's not the life for me. It feels so .. typical. Of course, I'm unique, just like everyone else, but I've always been atypical, I've done my fair share of odd things, gone the odd path, will probably keep doing it though. Heh.
I thought about what L said when he saw the utube vid about that guy. When the hosts asked him why he wanted to get married, the reasons were "I'm not getting any younger... she's a nice girl.." L was saying Why isn't the answer "Because I love her .. etc etc" (paiseh can't remember word for word). Maybe he's shy .. but hmmm
Reading sgbrides forum has given some perspective too, there are those who marry for the sake of marrying. Why in the past me and my gf were talking about stuff like this too .. Hopefully the guy can make $$, look ok, treat me super good, then ok liao. But is this it? Would a guy with lesser $, tiao jian do? Someone you care about deeply? Hmm
What's really important at the end of the day? To say, I've lived in a condo! I've 3 mercs, 2 bmws? Thought of this resume hogy and I found on the backpacker's lodge comp @ KL some time back. That dude is a certified backpacker, he travels around the world, applying for short stint jobs to tide him through for his next hop.
At the end, he might be a poor churchmouse but he'd have travelled widely. Sure, you with the condo and stuff would probably have done the same, but your vision of would probably be that of resorts, golfing clubs while his would be closer, more to the grass roots. In the end, which is what you want?
Huh apologies for sounding fragmented, multitasking as I type heh. Didn't come out exactly the way I want it though.
I've also been faulted for the choice of career. Hey, if you listened to me like that chick in some random neighbour's house who listened to her sis and did accounting, you'd be indispensable and earning lots of money. It's like hallo? Am I interested in accounting? Who the hell cares if YOU have been an accountant before. Yes, they are important, yes some of them earn lots of money, but that's THEM. I'm ME. And .. why not you be a teacher! Like your sis, stable .. blah blah. See above answer *roll eyes* Gah Makes me angry. What a fking idiot.
Guess the final message for the day is this: Let me (general term) choose to do what I want. Provide the red flags when necessary but experience cannot be taught, it must be earned. And, I cannot be responsible for how you feel. If I've fulfilled my responsibility of furnishing as many details as possible and you still cannot accept it, do not hold me responsible for what you feel. I cannot control what you feel.
~Reflection~
All in all it has been an interesting year, lost and gained, lost and loved, more wanderings and ponderings.
I suppose after half a year in muvee, I think I can say that it's a good decision muving on. Why? Met more "grown" up people, my old place had 2 categories, the Boss Units (BU) and Peon Units (PU), and all the PUs were of my level, around my age, similar experiences. The BUs were nice but they were hardly around, and we only talked much on official capacities. Hardly would I think of meeting them after office hours for muvee outings or dinner etc etc.
Pretty mysterious given that they are all around my age.
Then there's processes, the processes here are better.
And then there's BUs, my BU is a nice guy. Need anything? Go buy and let me sign. Need off? No need to give leave form first, you sms me and poof first, come back then let me sign. He's a good guy ^^;
TL R is also not too bad, introduced drinks! and other funky stuff. Pool buddy too heh.
Also at least bonus is not too bad <_<
And now they changed 13th mth to contractual means every year will def get 13mth bonus! Woot.
Of course, not to say the old place is bad, if I had stayed, would have had more power and influence. heh ^^
Also, coming here has given me a new perspective on things. It's been a little difficult to reconcile them with the present configuration though, still need to mull through alot of stuff.... Damn I thought of alot to write during my lunch @ Macs earlier but now dunno how to start, heh.
Gah after toilet break and other misc stuff, lagi worse, dunno how to start. hmmz
Hmm Lets start off like this. I'm challenging myself on the preconceived notions of right and wrong. Things one should do, and things one shouldn't do. (eww sounds tacky). I have a friend who started dating a french dude. Her parents went ballistic. Can't you get an SG dude?! He's FRENCH! He's bad! He'll definitely want to have sex with you and blah. Things were bad and in the end she struck out on her own, living in another uncle's spare flat. (great to have relatives sometimes).
Had a talk with her sometime back and what she said was she learnt something new (well SBU (super BU) 1 told her.
If they can't handle the truth, don't tell them the truth.
And, one answers only to oneself. Naturally it's not saying you do whatever you want, but do it within limits. Like if you feel it should be done, it's what you really want, go ahead and do it. Life experiences are for yourself to learn. If you've done everything in your power to let the people who are worried for you to be at ease, and they still try to make things difficult for you, that's too bad. You can't be responsible for what they feel even after you lay your cards on the table. What's important is what you feel.
Hmm seems odd to be written out like that. Not the best structuring.
Like the friend with that guy. Her parents go He's bad and such, but they haven't even met him. They just assumed he was bad. She however, wants to experience it for herself (he seems pretty good, working in accenture and stuff). I have trust in her that she won't pick up some bad egg. If it fails, she will at least walk away of having the lost and loved experience (lolz so tacky).
Aiyah dunno how to say it lah. But you know what I mean. If you don't then ..
I came to this theory earlier at lunch. For those who are getting squashed by their elders. NO! Can't do this! It's BAD! Cos I KNOW! Is it really true? Have they experienced the same exact situation with the same conditions? Guess it's easier to put it this way.
It's like hiring an applications programmer to program a game. Sure, a game IS an application on the surface, but deep down the model is pretty different. Most applications are event driven, they don't need to extremely performance oriented ie you don't need to squeeze out every single ounce of processing power. A variable which ranges from 1 - 128 you declare as an integer in an application is fine, but it will have to be declared as a byte in a game. The application programmer can provide insights and maybe some experience to the budding programmer, but the best person to solve the problems would be the budding programmer himself, for he'll learn from his mistakes. Besides, he's the one in the hot seat.
Damn I sound fragmented.
Like for example, buying a car. She(tm) says no don't buy car, blah blah. Buy one with your hubby blah blah. But seriously, the choice is mine and my own. Wouldn't it be good to learn about how to maintain a car? The responsibilities of loans and money handling? The different activities you'd do with a car? Naturally I wouldn't be buying a car now, simply doing a survey and some future planning. So overreactions like that are silly. I KNOW it'll be a burden on finances, it's a slow bleed now, with a car it'd be a hemorrhage. So definitely I'll be smart enough to decide whether I want to take on the responsibility of getting one.
Tsk.
I was questioned on the issue of leaving (vague alert!) the unit. What I felt about it if X left. At that time (and now) my response was if X thinks it's right, thinks leaving will give X more opportunities, a better life, sure. For I cannot provide the same level of care X would get if X left, nor can I guarantee it. However I was informed that this was not the "correct" answer. (well at least that's what I inferred), and the proper answer was NO! But I cannot say NO fairly. As mentioned earlier, if I cannot guarantee it, who am I to stop you from taking steps to achieve what YOU want, to make YOU happy?
Well now apparently, the one who provided the correct answer has some experience now and is apparently singing a different tune. Oh well, don't care. I still stand by what I think.
Then there's another issue, about how good a guy is when he has "plans". We'll date for X years, if ok after that then get married. Is that how it should be? It sounds so bloody mechanical. Yet it was lauded. I'm still of two minds about it. Naturally it's good to have that eventual goal in mind, but ... to state it out so flatly? Hmm
I was
Is that all it is? Maybe not ready to settle down, but somehow feel that's not the life for me. It feels so .. typical. Of course, I'm unique, just like everyone else, but I've always been atypical, I've done my fair share of odd things, gone the odd path, will probably keep doing it though. Heh.
I thought about what L said when he saw the utube vid about that guy. When the hosts asked him why he wanted to get married, the reasons were "I'm not getting any younger... she's a nice girl.." L was saying Why isn't the answer "Because I love her .. etc etc" (paiseh can't remember word for word). Maybe he's shy .. but hmmm
Reading sgbrides forum has given some perspective too, there are those who marry for the sake of marrying. Why in the past me and my gf were talking about stuff like this too .. Hopefully the guy can make $$, look ok, treat me super good, then ok liao. But is this it? Would a guy with lesser $, tiao jian do? Someone you care about deeply? Hmm
What's really important at the end of the day? To say, I've lived in a condo! I've 3 mercs, 2 bmws? Thought of this resume hogy and I found on the backpacker's lodge comp @ KL some time back. That dude is a certified backpacker, he travels around the world, applying for short stint jobs to tide him through for his next hop.
At the end, he might be a poor churchmouse but he'd have travelled widely. Sure, you with the condo and stuff would probably have done the same, but your vision of
Huh apologies for sounding fragmented, multitasking as I type heh. Didn't come out exactly the way I want it though.
I've also been faulted for the choice of career. Hey, if you listened to me like that chick in some random neighbour's house who listened to her sis and did accounting, you'd be indispensable and earning lots of money. It's like hallo? Am I interested in accounting? Who the hell cares if YOU have been an accountant before. Yes, they are important, yes some of them earn lots of money, but that's THEM. I'm ME. And .. why not you be a teacher! Like your sis, stable .. blah blah. See above answer *roll eyes* Gah Makes me angry. What a fking idiot.
Guess the final message for the day is this: Let me (general term) choose to do what I want. Provide the red flags when necessary but experience cannot be taught, it must be earned. And, I cannot be responsible for how you feel. If I've fulfilled my responsibility of furnishing as many details as possible and you still cannot accept it, do not hold me responsible for what you feel. I cannot control what you feel.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Ponder
Been a long time since I updated <_< heh. Have been busy about stuff @ work and @ wow. The race is on to hit 70 and I'm half way there .. should hit 70 in a few weeks time, then it's back to gear farming, rep grinding.. etc.. But I also have to level Sef up to 70 too, been having withdrawal syndromes about him.
Still feeling abit meh these few days, been thinking about some stuff. An analogy I've gotten from my readings around is this ..
From sgbrides: Hubby wants IT everyday, wife says no! So after some time hubby turns to pr0n and mayhaps chat up chicks on the net.
...
Hmm.. odd analogy, but the basic basic basic thing is in it. Nothing to do about ITs! It's more of asking until become 8-) then /form new party. Yeah I suppose that's it. Of course I tried the putting myself in others shoes thing, but there's no ways about it. It's just ... meh. Not something I'd say.
Kinda same (well samish different) with a recent party we had at the office, the nub organiser (who incidentally came from the same sec school as me) organised a treasure hunt for the "in crowd" of muvoids. Well, I believe the ones involved definitely had fun, but there wasn't anything for the "!in" crowd to do. Which is kinda a failure imo. I've always had the "leave no one behind" mentality, so it didn't quite jell well.
But come to think of it .. do ppl know? Do they appreciate? Leave no one behind .. but does the person care in the first place? Probably not worth the effort, cos when you think of things that way, you'd like people to think of you in that way too, but that's not a fair burden to place on people. It's back to the expectations part. So well, screw it. You do your thing. I'll join party if it benefits me.
So it's kinda a quandary.. On one hand, you want to treat ppl fairly, but once you do it, you expect to be treated the same way, even though it's not a fair onus to place on others (I think ..). So best is just adopt the same protocol as others adopt towards you I guess
Hmmmmmmmm
Pretty vague post .. but I get like that sometimes ^^;
Still feeling abit meh these few days, been thinking about some stuff. An analogy I've gotten from my readings around is this ..
From sgbrides: Hubby wants IT everyday, wife says no! So after some time hubby turns to pr0n and mayhaps chat up chicks on the net.
...
Hmm.. odd analogy, but the basic basic basic thing is in it. Nothing to do about ITs! It's more of asking until become 8-) then /form new party. Yeah I suppose that's it. Of course I tried the putting myself in others shoes thing, but there's no ways about it. It's just ... meh. Not something I'd say.
Kinda same (well samish different) with a recent party we had at the office, the nub organiser (who incidentally came from the same sec school as me) organised a treasure hunt for the "in crowd" of muvoids. Well, I believe the ones involved definitely had fun, but there wasn't anything for the "!in" crowd to do. Which is kinda a failure imo. I've always had the "leave no one behind" mentality, so it didn't quite jell well.
But come to think of it .. do ppl know? Do they appreciate? Leave no one behind .. but does the person care in the first place? Probably not worth the effort, cos when you think of things that way, you'd like people to think of you in that way too, but that's not a fair burden to place on people. It's back to the expectations part. So well, screw it. You do your thing. I'll join party if it benefits me.
So it's kinda a quandary.. On one hand, you want to treat ppl fairly, but once you do it, you expect to be treated the same way, even though it's not a fair onus to place on others (I think ..). So best is just adopt the same protocol as others adopt towards you I guess
Hmmmmmmmm
Pretty vague post .. but I get like that sometimes ^^;
Friday, January 19, 2007
It's HERE!
Yeah! TBC is finally out .. popped by on 16th to Suntec to pick it up .. Was envisioning long queues, many people, hawt events, was wondering hey! will there be some cute guy standing beside me in the queue waiting to get BC? Haha
So .. when I finally got there and took the escalator down, I peered down and saw ... no queue. Peered at the people milling about ... There was nothing 'grand' about it, just 1 stage with a board saying "ONYXIA CHALLENGE!" -_-; So I popped by, collected my BC, walked around abit .. "ONYXIA CHALLENGE" is apparently some corrupted memory - bingo game where you cover your little card wtih 16 spells/abilities with stickers, and when Glenn Ong (who probably doesn't know what Onyxia is) announces the spell/ability (ie GO: CORRUPTION!), you're supposed to scratch out that square .. first one who gets 5 correct is supposed to scream "ONYXIA DOWN!" and get a prize .. doh.
I went home.
Installed BC, had dinner, bathed, blah, and logged in .. wasn't much of a trouble.. heh. Although the last 2 days I played, the server had to be restarted for some issues .. I wonder how Bliz tech support goes.. DAMNIT! We have a problem! .. Soln? Restart server! Keep restarting till it works!
Sidenote, been abit wishy washy and hmm weirdly wired these few days.. Dunno what's come over me. <_< Weird. And no .. it's not The Kurse ..
So .. when I finally got there and took the escalator down, I peered down and saw ... no queue. Peered at the people milling about ... There was nothing 'grand' about it, just 1 stage with a board saying "ONYXIA CHALLENGE!" -_-; So I popped by, collected my BC, walked around abit .. "ONYXIA CHALLENGE" is apparently some corrupted memory - bingo game where you cover your little card wtih 16 spells/abilities with stickers, and when Glenn Ong (who probably doesn't know what Onyxia is) announces the spell/ability (ie GO: CORRUPTION!), you're supposed to scratch out that square .. first one who gets 5 correct is supposed to scream "ONYXIA DOWN!" and get a prize .. doh.
I went home.
Installed BC, had dinner, bathed, blah, and logged in .. wasn't much of a trouble.. heh. Although the last 2 days I played, the server had to be restarted for some issues .. I wonder how Bliz tech support goes.. DAMNIT! We have a problem! .. Soln? Restart server! Keep restarting till it works!
Sidenote, been abit wishy washy and hmm weirdly wired these few days.. Dunno what's come over me. <_< Weird. And no .. it's not The Kurse ..
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Well .. I did it
Yep, after all the procrastination, the mulling over ... finally took the plunge so to speak and did it.
Was a little unsure afterwards .. after all, this is the first concrete step taken, and boy does it feel weird. Lotsa scenarios crop up, things that may or may not happen ... All the little itty voices saying "Zomg it's WRONG!"
But there's one tiny voice that says .. go go! <_< It'll be fine! Kitto ok!
1 sole flame in the teeming darkness.
Well, we'll see what happens. There is always fear of the unknown.
In other news ......
Realised that I can't write anymore .. or rather, no more stamina <_<. Was filling out some equipment loan forms yesterday for R and The Hand™ felt a bit tired and the pen felt foreign ... Gah, what happened to stamina!? What happened to The Hand™ which could write reams and reams for compositions?! Wth! ;_;
In other other news ....
Finally got my first(!) credit card ever. The DBS Mastercard doesn't count! It's a debit! It's a Capitaland card by DBS, got it cos felt that since work so near bugs junc and go there quite often, will be able to get some discounts ... Anyways now already forgot the offers, need to go read em up again.
In other other news....
Where's my precious!? My dearest 天使.. ;_; We've drifted so far .. I wonder why ... Don't leave me here like that <_< Don't withdraw from my life like that T_T
Was a little unsure afterwards .. after all, this is the first concrete step taken, and boy does it feel weird. Lotsa scenarios crop up, things that may or may not happen ... All the little itty voices saying "Zomg it's WRONG!"
But there's one tiny voice that says .. go go! <_< It'll be fine! Kitto ok!
1 sole flame in the teeming darkness.
Well, we'll see what happens. There is always fear of the unknown.
In other news ......
Realised that I can't write anymore .. or rather, no more stamina <_<. Was filling out some equipment loan forms yesterday for R and The Hand™ felt a bit tired and the pen felt foreign ... Gah, what happened to stamina!? What happened to The Hand™ which could write reams and reams for compositions?! Wth! ;_;
In other other news ....
Finally got my first(!) credit card ever. The DBS Mastercard doesn't count! It's a debit! It's a Capitaland card by DBS, got it cos felt that since work so near bugs junc and go there quite often, will be able to get some discounts ... Anyways now already forgot the offers, need to go read em up again.
In other other news....
Where's my precious!? My dearest 天使.. ;_; We've drifted so far .. I wonder why ... Don't leave me here like that <_< Don't withdraw from my life like that T_T
Monday, January 08, 2007
Lovetoy!
You tease me,
oh please me,
i want you to be my lovetoy,
come near me, don't fear me,
i just can't get enough of you boy.
It's a Neu Ear!
Haven't posted for a while, was blog surfing my fellow denizen's blogs before I felt the pang of bloghood. Well, time to make an entry!
Have been busy last week with the Ad-venture. Rented a TT for 2 days to refamiliarise myself withrunning down civilians driving. It wasn't too bad ..
Car 2 days: 110$
Fuel: 40$
Cashcardo: 17$
Fine!?: 20$
Yeah coupon fine :S Forgot about the overnight parking thing starting at 1030 so I didn't put enough coupons to cover that one. Appealing though, see how it goes. Heh, but all in all it wasn't that expensive for the Ad-venture.
Initially, I thought I wouldn't know how to go anywhere, but managed to drive around a couple of places.
Upon collecting the TT on Wed, drove down the TPE with Bvo. Car handles okay, but sadly doesn't have enough power. Definitely not one of my NFS cars. It also had the tendency to veer to the left -_-;
After reaching Yishunish, we thought it would be time to U turn and get to NTU to pick up GPB for lunch, aftergetting lost being momentarily misplaced for a bit, we managed to trundle to NTU to meet GPB. Sadly, although Bvo spent quite a number of years stuck in NTU, she seems to be a wee bit .. unnavigationist about the place. I blame the pasta.
Had lunch at Jurong Point after picking up GPB (not supposed to ferry pets, but there you go) and walked around for a bit. Sigh really miss the old days ofbumming around being a uni student. Can sit around at odd hours in odd places (well not odd but odd for that time) and talk/bum around. After that, drove GPB back to NTU and drove Bvo back to her kampong then set off for Bukit Merah.
Why the roundabout way? Could have gone straight from NTU to Bukit Merah then Bvo's Kampong.
Answer? Cos Bvo is shy 8-) Can't even store her somewhere while I go ex coy @ Bukit Merah to say hi to the expeons there. So had to travel all the way back to the East, and travel back to the Central. Psst!
Showed them shwup and they were rather impressed but it, but think have to do abit more marketing to get them to spread it round, heh. Had some technical problems running it initially, first was non updated drivers for the embedded Intel graphics drivers (PC), and next was the Mac Mini's user wasn't admin. Yeah yeah, writing to root is horrible, going to have to fix that soon.
Left around 6 to pick up R from the office. Got abitlost momentarily misplaced for a moment when I missed the turn to AYE. It was a bloody long queue anyways. Instead I headed on straight, and trusting in the Force, found myself beside SGH and going towards Funan via Chinatown. Back in familiar territory, I had no problems navigating to Bugs and scooped up R (who was playing pool when I got there -_-) and drove back.
However, on the way back we decided to make a detour to East Coast Park for abit, R said he knew of a nice spot, and despite the rain, I made the turn and we went there. Sadly it was raining pretty heavily when we reached so we could only sit in the car for abit while waiting. It's the far sorta end of ECP, off a narrow road, near the beach. I stopped behind this Nissan March looking vehicle and both of us started munching on the titbits R bought when we made a short stopover.
In the car, R told me he saw a couple stop at his terrace house last time in the wee hours to engage in .. activities. He chased them off with his room light, but they travelled a few houses down and reengaged. He then took out his bike, cycled sloooooowwwly towards the car and stopped at the driver's side until the girl noticed and looked up (from her erm .. ministrations to the guy). Then he cycled off nonchalantly. Tee hee.
So finally the rain stopped and we hopped out and went to the beach and stood at the breakwater. Nice place, *scribbles notes* more places to bring someone too! ^^;
When we headed back to the car, I noticed the car in front of mine had moving people inside it (well I knew there were people inside already). Walking nearer to it, we could see that it was a couple in the hot grip of passion. Apparently the chick was sitting on the guy (driver)'s lap and they were kissing. Naturally I paused for a bit while passing by them toogle observe scientifically.
People these days! Tsk tsk!
Sent R home and went back for munchies. Nice parking if I may say so myself.
On Thurs, woke up early and drove to R's place to pick him up. He so buay paiseh, wed night msg me: So when are you picking me up? Doh!
Anyways, drove him to the office, waited for him to 'check in' and headed to Funan for breakfast.
Immortal Dialogue while reversing into parking lot:
Me: Still rusty at parking ah me.
Me: *peering into mirrors and reversing* I have a hard time being straight
R: *gag*
Me: Ack!
.. -_-
Doh! <_<; Naturally I meant I had a hard time straightening the car when parking (A).
After having breakfast, shipped R back to the office and called up GPB but he was busy >:E Tried calling H but he had some nubby meeting at RP so couldn't go there for lunch, so decided to go back up to TPE and explore abit, but while driving up, saw the exit for Changi Village and decided to head there instead.
Spent nearly an hour at Changi Beach. Walked up and down it. No one for kilometres! Well kinda. Unfortunately the beach was quite dirty <_< Quite an interesting place though. Called up R and arranged to meet him for lunch. Drove back down to office (lolz) and picked him up.
Me: So go where?
R: Go orchard loh
Me: Okay ah, how to go you know right?
R: Ya ya go lah.
*Drive*
*at orchard boulevard*
Me: Oei where are we going huh?
R: eat pasta la
Me: Okay lah, where huh.
R: Orchard Hotel there, you turn there ...
..
R: Maybe we should go Great World.
Me: Huh? GW? .. ..
*reach GW*
R: Maybe we should have gone to xxxxx
Me: -_-
Anyways, after lunch, shopped around abit before shipping R back to office (doh). Left .67$ in my cashcard. Heh, good thing the orchard cbd wasn't up, otherwise $$ liao. Cashcards should be allowed to go into -ve man, after all, we have that 2$ deposit! >:E
Both R and I agreed (and most likely other people too) that cashcards are an abomination. There's hardly any real usage for them. All its uses are all artificial. We could have used our contactless ezlink cards to pay fines, go cbd areas etc. Still have to mess with this nubby cashcard thing which is totally useless.
Anyways, afterwards drove back home and parked and took a nap. Went back to the office ( DOH!) cos the CEO was buying drinks @ Brewerks and definitely cannot miss that! Got yet another place to bring someone to liao.
All in all this Ad-venture wasn't too bad, not that expensive and it proves a point. Hehe. Maybe do it biannually or as a on need basis. But got car is sibei shiok ;_; Wtb car! <_<;
So anyways it's back to work again .. no PH until Feb CNY.. Sigh!
Finally sent The Email. Waiting for response.....
Have been busy last week with the Ad-venture. Rented a TT for 2 days to refamiliarise myself with
Car 2 days: 110$
Fuel: 40$
Cashcardo: 17$
Fine!?: 20$
Yeah coupon fine :S Forgot about the overnight parking thing starting at 1030 so I didn't put enough coupons to cover that one. Appealing though, see how it goes. Heh, but all in all it wasn't that expensive for the Ad-venture.
Initially, I thought I wouldn't know how to go anywhere, but managed to drive around a couple of places.
Upon collecting the TT on Wed, drove down the TPE with Bvo. Car handles okay, but sadly doesn't have enough power. Definitely not one of my NFS cars. It also had the tendency to veer to the left -_-;
After reaching Yishunish, we thought it would be time to U turn and get to NTU to pick up GPB for lunch, after
Had lunch at Jurong Point after picking up GPB (not supposed to ferry pets, but there you go) and walked around for a bit. Sigh really miss the old days of
Why the roundabout way? Could have gone straight from NTU to Bukit Merah then Bvo's Kampong.
Answer? Cos Bvo is shy 8-) Can't even store her somewhere while I go ex coy @ Bukit Merah to say hi to the expeons there. So had to travel all the way back to the East, and travel back to the Central. Psst!
Showed them shwup and they were rather impressed but it, but think have to do abit more marketing to get them to spread it round, heh. Had some technical problems running it initially, first was non updated drivers for the embedded Intel graphics drivers (PC), and next was the Mac Mini's user wasn't admin. Yeah yeah, writing to root is horrible, going to have to fix that soon.
Left around 6 to pick up R from the office. Got abit
However, on the way back we decided to make a detour to East Coast Park for abit, R said he knew of a nice spot, and despite the rain, I made the turn and we went there. Sadly it was raining pretty heavily when we reached so we could only sit in the car for abit while waiting. It's the far sorta end of ECP, off a narrow road, near the beach. I stopped behind this Nissan March looking vehicle and both of us started munching on the titbits R bought when we made a short stopover.
In the car, R told me he saw a couple stop at his terrace house last time in the wee hours to engage in .. activities. He chased them off with his room light, but they travelled a few houses down and reengaged. He then took out his bike, cycled sloooooowwwly towards the car and stopped at the driver's side until the girl noticed and looked up (from her erm .. ministrations to the guy). Then he cycled off nonchalantly. Tee hee.
So finally the rain stopped and we hopped out and went to the beach and stood at the breakwater. Nice place, *scribbles notes* more places to bring someone too! ^^;
When we headed back to the car, I noticed the car in front of mine had moving people inside it (well I knew there were people inside already). Walking nearer to it, we could see that it was a couple in the hot grip of passion. Apparently the chick was sitting on the guy (driver)'s lap and they were kissing. Naturally I paused for a bit while passing by them to
People these days! Tsk tsk!
Sent R home and went back for munchies. Nice parking if I may say so myself.
On Thurs, woke up early and drove to R's place to pick him up. He so buay paiseh, wed night msg me: So when are you picking me up? Doh!
Anyways, drove him to the office, waited for him to 'check in' and headed to Funan for breakfast.
Immortal Dialogue while reversing into parking lot:
Me: Still rusty at parking ah me.
Me: *peering into mirrors and reversing* I have a hard time being straight
R: *gag*
Me: Ack!
.. -_-
Doh! <_<; Naturally I meant I had a hard time straightening the car when parking (A).
After having breakfast, shipped R back to the office and called up GPB but he was busy >:E Tried calling H but he had some nubby meeting at RP so couldn't go there for lunch, so decided to go back up to TPE and explore abit, but while driving up, saw the exit for Changi Village and decided to head there instead.
Spent nearly an hour at Changi Beach. Walked up and down it. No one for kilometres! Well kinda. Unfortunately the beach was quite dirty <_< Quite an interesting place though. Called up R and arranged to meet him for lunch. Drove back down to office (lolz) and picked him up.
Me: So go where?
R: Go orchard loh
Me: Okay ah, how to go you know right?
R: Ya ya go lah.
*Drive*
*at orchard boulevard*
Me: Oei where are we going huh?
R:
Me: Okay lah, where huh.
R: Orchard Hotel there, you turn there ...
..
R: Maybe we should go Great World.
Me: Huh? GW? .. ..
*reach GW*
R: Maybe we should have gone to xxxxx
Me: -_-
Anyways, after lunch, shopped around abit before shipping R back to office (doh). Left .67$ in my cashcard. Heh, good thing the orchard cbd wasn't up, otherwise $$ liao. Cashcards should be allowed to go into -ve man, after all, we have that 2$ deposit! >:E
Both R and I agreed (and most likely other people too) that cashcards are an abomination. There's hardly any real usage for them. All its uses are all artificial. We could have used our contactless ezlink cards to pay fines, go cbd areas etc. Still have to mess with this nubby cashcard thing which is totally useless.
Anyways, afterwards drove back home and parked and took a nap. Went back to the office ( DOH!) cos the CEO was buying drinks @ Brewerks and definitely cannot miss that! Got yet another place to bring someone to liao.
All in all this Ad-venture wasn't too bad, not that expensive and it proves a point. Hehe. Maybe do it biannually or as a on need basis. But got car is sibei shiok ;_; Wtb car! <_<;
So anyways it's back to work again .. no PH until Feb CNY.. Sigh!
Finally sent The Email. Waiting for response.....
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Monday, January 01, 2007
Pelmont City .. or the City of Eternal Night
Finished NFS: Carbon today (well not everything is unlocked, but career is done!).
The final mission took many tries, and I still have a sore thumb from hammering on the accelerator. To defeat a boss, you have to run a canyon race with him. A canyon race is made of 2 parts, the 1st part has you behind the boss, and you'll have to keep within 100 metres of the boss as the both of you twist around the canyon. If you get too far away for > 10 seconds, you'll lose. If you manage to overtake for more than 10 seconds, you win. The closer you stick to the boss's car from start to the completion of the race, you'll get more points. Hmm odd sentence, but then again I'm partially distracted .. watching Family Guy =p
Anyway, in the 3rd case, once the first run finishes, the same race will take place, but with you this time in the lead, and the boss's car following you. If he gets more points than you did on the earlier run, you lose.
Naturally if you fall off the canyon you lose.
Anyways I did that for more than half an hour. Finally managed to defeat the boss. Phew.
Carbon is one of the best NFS games I've played so far. Much better than UG 1 and 2, heh. UG 2 sucked actually. So far my favourite NFS games are Porsche Unleashed and maybe NFS 2, heh. However one of my favourite racing games is still Mercedes Racing. Forgot the exact name =p but it featured only Mercs and had really nice tracks and challenges. Remember racing down the professional race tracks and nice scenic places. UG racing can get dull sometimes as the city scape flashes past you all the time =p
Hmm Come to think of it maybe I should dig up my Merc racing again, heh.
Anyhoo, what struck me since the days of UG, was that Pelmont City was creepy. I drive, and drive, and drive ... but I never see the light of day. Nor do I see any pedestrians around. There's nubby cars around like white Toyota Corollas, but no people walking around at all. Such a cold lonely city shrouded in eternal night!
Haiz, graphics card's still acting up. Sigh, dunno what's wrong with it, maybe I should just buy a new one, make it an Nvidia this time. No more @(*&$(@ ATI. Grrr. =\ Don't even feel like RMAing it .. sigh, but maybe I should. Sigh.
Bah, poor thumb <_< Need to recover after all that wild driving =p
Jacket potatoes tomorrow (hopefully!)!
In other news, have to email CTC within this week <_< Time is short.
This week should be exciting ^^
Inc TT! Soon!
The final mission took many tries, and I still have a sore thumb from hammering on the accelerator. To defeat a boss, you have to run a canyon race with him. A canyon race is made of 2 parts, the 1st part has you behind the boss, and you'll have to keep within 100 metres of the boss as the both of you twist around the canyon. If you get too far away for > 10 seconds, you'll lose. If you manage to overtake for more than 10 seconds, you win. The closer you stick to the boss's car from start to the completion of the race, you'll get more points. Hmm odd sentence, but then again I'm partially distracted .. watching Family Guy =p
Anyway, in the 3rd case, once the first run finishes, the same race will take place, but with you this time in the lead, and the boss's car following you. If he gets more points than you did on the earlier run, you lose.
Naturally if you fall off the canyon you lose.
Anyways I did that for more than half an hour. Finally managed to defeat the boss. Phew.
Carbon is one of the best NFS games I've played so far. Much better than UG 1 and 2, heh. UG 2 sucked actually. So far my favourite NFS games are Porsche Unleashed and maybe NFS 2, heh. However one of my favourite racing games is still Mercedes Racing. Forgot the exact name =p but it featured only Mercs and had really nice tracks and challenges. Remember racing down the professional race tracks and nice scenic places. UG racing can get dull sometimes as the city scape flashes past you all the time =p
Hmm Come to think of it maybe I should dig up my Merc racing again, heh.
Anyhoo, what struck me since the days of UG, was that Pelmont City was creepy. I drive, and drive, and drive ... but I never see the light of day. Nor do I see any pedestrians around. There's nubby cars around like white Toyota Corollas, but no people walking around at all. Such a cold lonely city shrouded in eternal night!
Haiz, graphics card's still acting up. Sigh, dunno what's wrong with it, maybe I should just buy a new one, make it an Nvidia this time. No more @(*&$(@ ATI. Grrr. =\ Don't even feel like RMAing it .. sigh, but maybe I should. Sigh.
Bah, poor thumb <_< Need to recover after all that wild driving =p
Jacket potatoes tomorrow (hopefully!)!
In other news, have to email CTC within this week <_< Time is short.
This week should be exciting ^^
Inc TT! Soon!
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Merry New Year!
I'm typing this as the New Year approaches ^^. This is the 60th post of this blog too! hehe
What do most people do on NY Eve? Hmm ... Partying? Going out with better halves? Sleeping at home? Well, what did I do? I spent 2ish hours (I think) overcloacking my ATI 1900. Sounds geeky huh. Finally got tired of the stupid crashes when I run graphic applications. Updating to newer ATI drivers didn't seem to help, so I decided to load up Omega again. Hopefully it'll be good.
So since it came with ATITray, I decided to overclock my chip, she's running at 570:639 MHz now (cpu:memory). Would have tried for a higher speed but the Resurrection kept crashing when I adjusted the memory speed. Well, this configuration so far seems pretty okay, temperature doesn't go too high, below 80 degs.
Overclocked Resurrection's cpu too. She's running at 1.90GHz now. Maybe should try to clock her abit more. Didn't run any benchmarks though, although the video portion looks good. Now I just need to play a few games and test the stability out.
Finished watching what Family Guy episodes I have, so I decided to drag out my Visionaries to watch. Such an old cartoon! Heh, everyone has colour coordination, blue cheetahs, green wyvern looking creatures ... Silly dialogue, heh.
Way to spend the New Year ^^
Where's my darling DA huh? Would love to feel his presence around, heh.
Sigh, I'm perpetually waiting ... When will this waiting end? ;_;
What do most people do on NY Eve? Hmm ... Partying? Going out with better halves? Sleeping at home? Well, what did I do? I spent 2ish hours (I think) overcloacking my ATI 1900. Sounds geeky huh. Finally got tired of the stupid crashes when I run graphic applications. Updating to newer ATI drivers didn't seem to help, so I decided to load up Omega again. Hopefully it'll be good.
So since it came with ATITray, I decided to overclock my chip, she's running at 570:639 MHz now (cpu:memory). Would have tried for a higher speed but the Resurrection kept crashing when I adjusted the memory speed. Well, this configuration so far seems pretty okay, temperature doesn't go too high, below 80 degs.
Overclocked Resurrection's cpu too. She's running at 1.90GHz now. Maybe should try to clock her abit more. Didn't run any benchmarks though, although the video portion looks good. Now I just need to play a few games and test the stability out.
Finished watching what Family Guy episodes I have, so I decided to drag out my Visionaries to watch. Such an old cartoon! Heh, everyone has colour coordination, blue cheetahs, green wyvern looking creatures ... Silly dialogue, heh.
Way to spend the New Year ^^
Where's my darling DA huh? Would love to feel his presence around, heh.
Sigh, I'm perpetually waiting ... When will this waiting end? ;_;
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