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www.pandora.com - the best thing since sliced bread. and then some. basically it takes in the name of an artist you like and then plays you back other music from artists that have the same musical qualities as the artist you like, from this musical database called the MUSIC GENOME PROJECT, which classifies songs according to the "genes" they have, like "melodic phrasing", "minor key tonalities", For eg i fed in m2m, my fav most underrated band and got back music from delta goodrem, aimee mann and meredith brooks(i feel vinicated) . I tried britney spears and got back trash from jump5 , christina aguilera, janet jackson and myra(?). So yea this site gets my two thumbs up, way up! Sadly it only has english artists inside. Oh and you have to input a valid US zip code for it to work (search online).

this has no relavance whatsoever...but i couldn't resist....sayumi and charmy 4ever! (charmy is the one whose back is towards us) 

finally someone gets it right(not me though) 

cursing bcos i can't use the k750i part2 

cursing bcos i can't use the k750i properly 

bluetooth jacking 101 for dummies (really.) 

holding a thermometer and rapping 

er what is joel doing? 

group shot 

cooking with mum 

rolranie ouy liwl eb iin my rdames niteot

Just got my first real break in 2 weeks after having church camp and chirstmas parties over the last 2 weekend...got somepics to post..

looked at the crowd at orchard over the weekend and at tampines...makes you wonder where all the singaporeans hide the rest of the year...

new com just came in...anybody wants to name it? Only condition- must be female. Japanese and english names are acceptable as long as i can add a -chan to it...(bad eg. jennifer-chan).
Specs: 256 mb ram imnetgrated video and sound running windows xp. oh and it has 3 hard drives, one 40 gb internal, one 80 gb internal and one 40 gb external.

Official Sudokulist :)

Ok i have a new online addiction: Sudoku!http://www.mousebreaker.com/games/sudoku/play.php

Its this brutal japanese puzzler thats eats your brain cells for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The thing is on easy difficulty it starts off quite simple enough but as the difficulty ramps up you have to use your own logic to solve through the puzzles...and sudoku forces you to develop your own techniques as you go along. You literally learn how to fill in the blanks yourself. As the difficulty ramps up the numbers they give you get lesser and lesser, they get more similar and the areas for guesswork gets bigger and bigger. I started off having to use a lot of guesswork cos i would reach a point where there were 2 possible numbers and i'll just follow the path of one of the numbers until it eventually falls apart but those situations are getting lesser and lesser :)

Its supposedly quite popular worldwide but hey i'm still a n00bie..

i just tried out this new bittorrent client called µtorrent and man this thing is wacked out! it is only 100+kb in size but it is a full feature client in the same vein as azureus and bitcomet. Unfortunately singapore users should currently still stick with bitcomet beacuse of two important features - nat transversal and packet encryption. i'm not sure about other service providers but starhub has this transparent proxy on the server site which messes up the connections to certain trackers. nat transversal punches this hole through and allows two people behind firewalls and proxies to connect to each other. packet encryption disguises bittorrent traffic and allows it to bypass some (not all) university filters.

my download speed on bitcomet is currently 4x as high as those i get on µtorrent but once µtorrent adds these features its gonna be my default client. my sis is always complaining that my downloads are slowing her msn and internet surfing, which is quite true but while using µtorrent i didn't notice any slowdown. average memory usage by bitcomet can reach as high as 15mb but µtorrent only reached 5mb which is a lot considering i only have 96 mb of ram...

Army boys's nights out

Friday - Half day at Big Splash, followed by Sitex. As usual skipped all the big corporate stores, headed to the backlanes, found nothing there, then wandered around looking for stuff for my hands to fondle. Found the ipod nano, played around with it and tossed it aside. Definitely not worth $438. The creative zen vision was much better but at $799, in the immortal words of Neo: Whoa. Pass! Also tried out the creative x-fi demo. The much vaunted Crystallizer technology which restores mp3s to original studio recordings sounds like just a very powerful Dynamic Bass Boost but much clearer, but the one that takes the prize must be the headphone 3d surround technology. Imagine - 7.1 surround sound with just a pair of headphones. Might be looking to get one soundcard next year in place of 5.1 speakers. Just one minor caveat though sometimes i can't tell whether the sound is going behind me or in front of me...

Saturday - just got back from shopping in johore with army buddies yesterday, wah was quite fun 6 ppl went in 5 ppl came out w/ 5 pairs of shoes (and one stuck at immigration claiming his lost passport)

other things i bought - a nightmare before christmas hp pouch, a belt and lotsa and lotsa of chewing gum! enuff to last me abt 5 days i think and those durian cake thingys. Would have spent more but didn't bri8ng much money in... also ate at sushi king. Oh and william and i tailgated this cute girl in a dress like rabid fanboys...but she was really cute and feminine!


Sunday - Accompanied Jr to sitex to close the deal with the guy who wants to buy the starhub laptop that comes with the maxonline bundle. He wants to sell the laptop to get an ipod nano, and at the same time pass me samurai champloo. So there we were waiting in line when Jr hits a snag - he doesn't noe whether he has a cable point at home or not. And hes gonna shift to a new house in a few months time which means he might not have a cable point there. After jumping out of the queue and jumping back in, pestering many flustered salegirls to check his cable signal and finally reaching the counter...the salegirl tells him that soem ppl in punggol have been waiting up till a month w/o any signal. And they couldn't cancel their contract. So Jr decided to pull out and deliver the bad news to the guy. Barely 10 mins later he gets a call from starhub customer relations that assures him that the new flat will have a cable point and an activated signal, at which we try to contact the guy again, only to find that he has confirmed with someone else already! After which, xian and tired(but not hungry, cos i make jr lend me money to get a burger) we make out way home and on the bus... jr pulls out the ipod nano skin which he bought in anticipation, and lo and behold the guy sitting next to us asks us whether we are looking for an ipod nano....

So bottom line- jr gets his ipod nano, i wasted my sunday morning, but hey - at least i get a burger and samurai champloo.

Merger with 3DSMB - Discuss.

B: Since its national-all-lazy-bloggers-make-a-post-week ginji-kun will now make a brief reappearance to discuss something thats close to our hearts. He will also attempt to justify the salary that hes drawing when konno and I have been doing all the work, falling in which he will be terminated....

G:!

B:errr...i meant job will be terminated. hehe sorry about that. Freudian slip.

G:!!!

G:ermmm...right. Ok lets get the ball rolling started shall we..

See olde friends again... GOOD
See Phua again....BAD
Have another section stationed at our camp ....GOOD.
Have that section do nothing except sit in our recreation room and play risk while we dismantle radiator............BAD
We get a bigger recreation room.....GOOD
With no tv, dvd player, projector AND which might be taken up by section ICs? .. VERY BAD
We get to stay out everyday!!!!! VERY GOOD
I live in Marine Parade ....BAD
Say bye bye to OPS Gong Gong and Robot.... GOOD
Say hello to "what do you think" Maj Socrates and Ah boon...BAD
No need to go down to Ayer Rajah for life activities ..... GOOD
Need to go down to Boon Lay for life activities .... STILL UNDECIDED. MIGHT BE BAD...

CONCLUSION: I don't noe! Give me some more time to see m'kay? Can I go now?

B:In the next edition: The-million-dollar-question....will he touch that layout? he'd better

Brief Report on Statement of Accounts (Consolidated) for the Third Quarter FY 2005

Apparetly they didn't consider their present situation "carefully" enough....because after paying back the mortgage loan, plus the sum that remains locked in my mother's cpf account... it has become somewhat apparent that the money my father can take out is pathetic, pitiful and not worth mentioning. Sorry to disappoint you Mr. Agent.

So now they are still holding out for 3 months to pass before they can put that lovely signature of theirs to the piece of paper that says "lease extended" and then hoodwink some sucker(because suckers are born every minute!) into renting that sad excuse of a stall. What dipshits.

I'm now convinced that the only way to for them to realise their sorry state of affairs is if i stop giving them bailout money(which they used to buy 20 packets of instant pasta and lots of cartons of brands essences of chicken among other useless items) and just leave them cold turkey for a while. It'll certainly be very ugly, but hey if they want to play this game i can certainly play along. I noticed that they have paid for the shops utilities bill this month but not the house utitlites...do they expect us to pay it this time around again? hmmm...

For those of your all who share warm, wonderful, caring and loving relationships, with your parents, well by all means please continue to do so. Just don't expect me to. I'm still trying to remember if i ever did.

-banchan

PORRRRRR liao lor...my passport expired like dunno how many months ago...my parents didn't even tell me when they sent a reminder to get a new passport dunno what they doing sia...hong gan cannot go overseas...

Gah this week was really one of those weeks where you wonder where it went too..

and as off today i have 0 days off and o days leave 0_o...and i didn't even take anyway during last week!! Which means i supposedly only have tues and thursday free..but i dun remember what i did! Oh gawd i'm too young to have alzheimer....

and its official i'm now so poor..that i can't go out because i can't afford the bus fare!

...and as a matter of personal emergency and at the expense of my own pride had to ask my mother for money and go through another one of her lectures just so that i could show face to my superior by attending his birthday celebration at marina square...at least i didn't have to buy him a present....

november 10 never looked so far away...

underconstruction

eh gonna fix this place up a bit since theres a long holiday (punctuated with a lot of one-shot workdays)...add an ord counter, hopefully add music to it...and more pictures definitely...

until then, accept to see a lot of misalinged elements, haven't got css positioning down pat yet...

sianz they postphoned the merger to like the end of the year...guess you won't be seeing me on weekdays for quite a while yet...