Saturday, February 28, 2004
i'm sucha dork
after seemingly years of troubleshooting, i chanced upon the source of my problem. somehow my directX got messed up and so the display had some problems. after dl'ing the latest directX, all my troubles seem so far away! i scroll with ease now! woo hoo finally can get some sleep.
paN!cker lost it at 3:44 am
Friday, February 27, 2004
*light bulb* !!
i think i realised what happened. i hope. think it's some cool new virus or something :( keep getting this msg from my friends
"http://www.jokeworld.biz/index.html :)) LOL"
hope u guys dont get a virus just by reading that sentence!! i can understand why the cool smiles :)) now. man, my com is destined for doom :T owell, better get antivirus updates or sth and check out the norton webby for latest news. my com still functions properly, nothing lags except probably games(i dont know i dont play much games anymore, only gb which lagged for no reason) and the browsers. scrolling thru webpages gives me a headache! hah! i also dont send or receive mysterious bytes so hopefully nothing major is up.
u guys out there stay safe cyber-wise! = ]
in the player: la marseillaise (french national anthem)
paN!cker lost it at 10:49 pm
i can only wonder
wth is wrong with my com! mebbe i kicked it too much and it's not happy. i started to suspect when gunbound was UBER laggy yesterday and terrible to play. and now i realise even when i surf the web and scroll up or down my pages jerk!! argh, bad bad bad. i cannot for the life of me figure what's wrong.
anyway, my mother and granny are .... in a higher place now, and probably smiling down on us IF they could see us. yup, that's right! u guessed it. they're airborne. lol. even as i type, they hop from cloud to cloud, to a place that is far closer to where brian and winson. it's an 8 hr flight, so they should make it in time to catch the morning sun, suffer jet-lag and have a great day =) hope they have fun there man!! weeeeeee
paN!cker lost it at 9:12 pm
cringe
me mum's flyin to down under with me granny and her friend and her friend's granny tomorrow.. uh today. they'll be gone for -two- weeks! man that's a long time to not have mum around. i think i will miss her :) usually if we're apart it's -me- who's gone for like ncc camps and whatnot, so i don't really have time to feel lonely. but this time it's kinda different. she's goin away and i'll be left here interacting with my maid, who's going back end march i think. urgh, it's tough because she's been here since i was 5 =) if there was an award for longest-serving maid for one employer i'm pretty sure she stands a heck of a chance.
man, gotta get my act together for tha bigshow next week w/o mum's nagging, haha. mon - fri barrage of common tests eeeeek. i'm painfully mid-way thru revision for my first test, which is like uhhhhhhh open-book. that doesn't say much about my progress does it =P
highs : uhmm i deleted gunbound from ma com!
low lows : unfortunately, that didn't last for a whole day when my friend was like going "hey wanna gb" on icq and i was like ".........i uninstalled it" then i went ahead and REINSTALLED it and played with him for a while.
highs again!: i deleted gunbound haha. i'm a schmuck. and i won't touch it till the tests are over! if i do then uhm, i don't kno, slap me lol.
ok tmr i -gotta- stop soaping around and get some work done! ok so target = finish revision for 2 modules -at least- tmr. i'm beat. bleh.
in the player: standfast - car crashes
paN!cker lost it at 2:20 am
Thursday, February 26, 2004
school of rock
wow i just watched school of rock, ok i'm slow, yadayadayada, and the show may be rather stupid maybe, but wow it rocked! :) i just love it! such an inspiring show about living it up and doing watcha really wanna do in life! the thing that wakes you up every morning, and gets you leaping out of bed raring to go!
but when you get back down to earth, reality bites. we think many times it's crazy to even think those dreams. and sometimes, well ok, they are, BUT in spite of all, it's always heartening to be reminded that dreams can be realised, they do come true, and you should never let go of it. you never know, really, do you, when one day it all comes together. =)
paN!cker lost it at 12:08 am
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
ad of the week
courtesy of morgan, we have a winning ad at which u can laugh yourself silly here.
paN!cker lost it at 1:55 am
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
discipline week day 2
aight, stay calm. discipline week kicks off quite sluggishly with the blog's owner dilly dallying and wasting time on assorted health exercises like
1. swimming ...
2. playing unfulfilling soccer
AND just downright disappointing activities like
3. fillin the gaps with bouts of gunbound.
boo :( i whipped out the Microsoft.NET cd that came free with the web services seminar and thanks to it i'm now officially more confused about a language i'm supposed to be learning, ASP.NET. the technical terms they use drive me crazy!
i should rectify the abovementioned problems by:
1. checking MeL(mobile e-learning, learnin' on the fly!) to sort out test dates/times/venues/topics and noting them down dutifully
toggling between
2. doin the dreamweaver/VBscript tutorials
3. actually revising for the tests.
and finally
4. making daymned shure my next post contains bits of more uplifting & positive news.
paN!cker lost it at 3:58 pm
Monday, February 23, 2004
ARGH!
wah so pissed man i went white last night when for no rhyme or reason 80% of my blog code just disappeared. i thought, hoped, it was some blogger screwup. nothing a lil sleep could not shake off! so i slept. and this morning, hmm nothing changed. so i'm llike redoing it again. yay! sorry for the downtime :T
paN!cker lost it at 9:42 am
renewed
today, as with most sundays, i was challenged to put into practice what i learn at church, but oh how hard it is to turn from our human nature! how often, well almost always, i tend to feel moved and convicted by the message that God has in store for us on Sundays, before going back and forgetting about it till the next Sunday, then feel guilty and all before happily repeating the cycle again haha.
anyway today we learnt about meekness, which is an interesting term. meekness aint weakness, it's not being a pushover, but it's about being humble and gentle, and not easily provoked. and it's just one of the many traits of our God! the example given in cell today was pretty apt. what if yer in school carrying your food and drinks and some ah-beng comes merrily along, bumps intentionally, or unintentionally into you, spilling your qool drink all over da place. u look at him in shock, expecting prolly nothing less than an apology, but he gives you that "wat u wan !?!? wan to fight izzit!? come la back gate! 1v1 u and me baby!" kinda look. well what would you do?
personally, i can think of many things i would like to do to that sucka. for starters, mebbe compacting him with a sledgehammer before slicing pieces of him up into lil cubes, cooking him up and selling each lil cube for 50 cents each. we could even get a kebab business going.
erm ok but uber-grossness aside, seriously what would u do? many would think taking the game to him is the right thing to do. well, he's obviously in the wrong, and many pple would "settle" the matter there and then, creating an impromptu betting session for the kool bystanders who can't wait to earn a buck off this duel. but how much courage would it take to walk away from this? actually ok for this circumstance, it wouldn't take a lotta courage. i mean like he's mean, he trashes pple easily. better stay out of his way! =P what if this ah beng was some real wimp whom u know u could beat to a pulp if u wanted to? would u step away from it? that's God's counter-culture for us all i guess. it's radical and goes against what the world believes in =) i love it, and yet being human, find it hard to adhere to. everyone has a limit, and if i walked away and that imbecile kept coming back at me for more i'd prolly just take the easy way out and karate chop him or something, before chuckling and walking away. :)
but God is awesome and powerful and if we can keep praying and seeking him daily i know his strength will be able to keep us goin = ) i'll try my best to have a meek weak, uhh i mean WEEK ahead hehehe. :)
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after service, diana's and emily's and ma cell headed down to IKEA to eat some swedish meatballs, only to discover the queue was twice the size of the amount of people actually dining inside. (ok ok i exaggerate, but just to put things in perspecktive) the group then went to BK instead, bleh all the way to IKEA to eat at Murder King. a few of us rallied together and headed for the HOTDOGS! section and munched happily till we were satisfied before heading back to BK. then we discovered the -whole- gang had been waiting for us before ordering! sheeeesh we felt so guilty haha, somehow -all- of us who went for hotdogs(me, my cuz, jason, savache, su lene too but she didnt eat) were uncontaktable for some reason. savache had 5 missed calls! my phone conveniently switched itself off, my cuz and jason were runnin on low batt. great so we made da gang wait for nothing!
the guilt faded quickly and me, my cuz, and savache (aka THE wei chin) scooted off to Ginza to shoot pple. only that we didn't take the 197 that edwin said would get us there and took 33 thanks to savache's recommendation. so we ended up getting close to ginza but not ginza itself! argh we dropped at the kent ridge terminal and took 189 to finally arrive at ginza. after much hassling with lousy coms we settled down to frag some peeps. my cuz is good! hehe he held the aztec bridge well man just stood there with his scoped arctic and picked off naive blokes tryin to come across haha =) i just tried to cover whereva savache and my cuz weren't, and we did quite well :) dunno why i like cs after all these years, it's the most unrealistic warfare u can come across, what with pple rushing with sniper rifles and all. but it packs an adrenaline rush and hopefully when i enlist and suddenly have loads of time on my hands i can try join some klan and go for glory! for now, lan will do = )
after that, we left and lo and behold guess who i met on the overhead bridge outside ginza?!?! YUP, it was
SHASHI KUMAR GOPAL KRISHNAN!! my vs and ncc friend last time wooo hooo so surprised i was at a lost for words lol. we exchanged numbers and i gotta make sure we catch up SUMDAY! what's even better tho, is the news he brought. he worships at city harvest now, like wowowowowowowowowowowow it's amazing how God works and i can't thank Him enough. really happy God touched his life and he's now a believer.
armed with that kool news, i went home and played soccer with the dudes downstairs at the court. i think my dribbling really sucks haha, and shooting is worse. but i had fun.
-and-, i think i've wasted enough time here, i'm off to do a report that's due tmr 12PM!!! other than that, it's study week yay no school sigh need to study. ciao for now foLks!
in the player: jars of clay - the edge of water
paN!cker lost it at 12:04 am
Sunday, February 22, 2004
magic
magic's the best dog in the world. he smells like a million bucks, or mebbe two, doesn't poo all over the place, doesn't drool, has the most adoring look a dog could have, and uh, smells like a million bucks :o)
unfortunately, he's breaking up slowly and losing mass :T argh, but other than that he's perfect.
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bringing myself back down to earth, i attended some really rushed-through kinda seminar on Web Services today(compulsory yea) and it's super uber influence on how business processes will be revolutionized and how IT geeks will end up not needing to tend to their precious servers and will likely end up at the customer service side of things because applications can talk to applications and human interaction is reduced and the world becomes a nicer place. ok so i added the last part in but hmm, interesting how IT just leaves u feeling lost. today's IT operations can be so complex that the end-user can't even begin to imagine what kinda processing goes on with just a simple *click* which can bring any info or results to his fingertips. BUT, as i said the seminar was kinda rushed-through at the last part cos the speakers didnt have enough time to cover their slides as well as they would have liked and i ended up not catching anything significant at all.
glad that was over, i headed home then went out later with me mum to catch 'The Odd Couple', you know, the one with adrian pang and all? wow it rawked man, laughed my socks off. clever, witty, tongue-in-cheek, but i thought adrian and ramesh would change roles midway but they didnt. i re-read the "Cast & Synopsis" part and found these kooool words "*actors will switch roles after the second week of the run". ARGH! so we finally got it, and consoled ourselves that if they had indeed switched roles halfway it would have shown the extent of their ability but prolly wouldn't do anything for the confused audience. good stuff, i haven't watched a play for so long!
after that, dad picked us up and we went for a -very- scrumptious dinner at some Jap restaurant at Taka. i felt stuffed at the end but it was worth it!
paN!cker lost it at 12:24 am
Friday, February 20, 2004
it's a school day, and i gotta buck up!
well, well, must've been a bad day for our MIS tutor, our class "made" her day today, especially our group which made too much noise and gabrielle's "answering back". =( dunno what got into her buuuuuut, it wasn't so bad at the end, she managed to get a look at our answers and critique it, and even laughed at one of our points about "things ya dont buy online". well, we put wigs, and she was tickled. mebbe she just did it to ease the tension ehhh but it's all good i like it when that happens. otherwise we'd all just go home with long faces, haha well ok not really, but ..
unlike T06, our class must seem like trash man... hehehe, its gotta be. we don't really prepare for tutorials(that's why we do em on the spot in class), make lotsa noise(well ok it's just our group -_-), and skip lectures. well, next week is discipline week, because my mum's goin away and i gotta make myself study AND do vbscript AND the dreamweaver tutorials! i really should uninstall gunbound. it creeps in like a thief and steals your time, and before you can say "booyahkasha" it's test week and you're like " @^%Y& @ ?!?!??!!$^&^% !??" it's happened so many times i cannot count them.
oh and walking back home by the side gate today i noticed like 3 smushed oranges on the road. eeeeeeeeewww. the first was half torn apart, then the second was smashed, and the third was like smushed good. have a good rest of the week folks! = ]
paN!cker lost it at 5:28 pm
Thursday, February 19, 2004
driving and striving
Reluctantly crouched at the starting line
Engines pumping and thumping in time
The green light flashes, the flags go up
Churning and burning they yearn for the cup
They deftly manouevre and muscle for rank
Fuels burning fast on an empty tank
Reckless and wild, they pour through the turns
Their prowess is potent and secretly stern
As they speed through the finish, the flags go down
The fans get up and they get out of town
The arena is empty except for one man
Still driving and striving as fast as he can
The sun has gone down and the moon has come up
Not long ago somebody left with the cup
But he's driving and striving and hugging the turns
And thinking of someone for who he still burns
He's going the distance
He's going for speed
She's all alone, all alone, all alone in a time of need
Because he's racing and pacing and plotting the course
He's fighting and biting and riding on his horse
He's going the distance
No trophies, no flowers, no flashbulbs, no lime
He's haunted by something he cannot define
Bowel shaking earthquakes of doubt and remorse
Assail him and bail him with monster truck force
In his mind he's still driving, still making the grade
She's hoping in time that her memories will fade
'Cause he's racing and pacing and plotting the course
He's fighting and biting and riding on his horse
The sun has gone down and the moon has come up
Not long ago somebody left with the cup
But he's striving and driving and hugging the turns
And thinking of someone for who he still burns
cake - the distance
paN!cker lost it at 12:02 am
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
z0nkEd
totally zonked man, wot a fulfilling day it was! i dare say the most work i've done for a very long time! =P no prizes for guessing on what! but i must say i'm quite pleased with myself, i'm not such a hopeless case at HTML after all! copy/paste works wonders.
anyway yay today(or rather, yesterday), 17 feb 2004, i own a fully functional blog! aight hmm, i'll check in later, laters folks! :)
paN!cker lost it at 12:15 am
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
ya i think it is. hmm, -now-, it's on =]
paN!cker lost it at 3:33 pm
is this it?
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