Sunday, December 31, 2006

A hopefully happy new year

Woohoo...the new year approaches...yea, this year isn't exactly the best. Laziness is ruining me. Nth much for this year, the only thing probably to be remembered is how many lessons i pon-ed, which i never needed to resort to during sec sch.

Apart from those torture, i've found happiness in electronic gadgets. Comparing from the previous to this yr, i've definitely became more techo-saavy and exercising less. I never got my balance right. Last time was too much of bball, too alittle study. This time is too lil exercise, too much food, too lil study. So it seems that this time is worse. Sadly, I think i've lost interest in bball, i duno why. Maybe i've gotta hear some FRUCK sounds before i get motivated again, but for now, if you ask me to play bball, you'll hear a totally different answer from the previous years.

So this coming new year, there are a few targets i wish to meet.

  1. I don't wanna become a geek @ home. I'll need some pull factors to pull me outta my home, and current i duno what izzit but hopefully i'll find it.

  2. Healthy lifestyle program

    Yes, i know, and please dun remind me again that i failed last year. After 2mths, i succumbed to my mum's offer to a McSpicy Burger and from then, I was back to eating, and this year i'm back to how i was during sec 1?

    So yes, I'll be trying to keep my weight down again. It's seriously a waste of food when you have so much food on your table and you dun eat it. Hopefully, it'll last till i serve my nation this time.

    And yes again, it'll be cereal or no breakfast, and i'll be in school in the afternoon, so means its no lunch. I know its very possible to eat during break in SP, cuz i've been doing it with no sweat. But the challenge is to maintain eating just enough for dinner. Cuz even though i reached home usually @ 3pm or 4pm, I'm capable of eating excessive amounts.

    Eg. I straightaway grab a large packet of Ruffles potato chips after taking off my shoes and socks after returning home.

    After finishing Ruffles, if there's still time before dinner and i'm bored, i'll take the whole plastic bag of swee heng bread (about 3-4 bread). Believe it or not, i'll down it before the day ends. Then i'm sure i'll get a drink (Eg. Milo). After that, makan dinner.

    After dinner i'll rest awhile and i'm sure before 8.30pm is up, i'll grab the next item on the list, practically anything on the table. Sometimes its biscuits, sometimes its twisties.

    And btw, when i open up a bag of tidbits or a carton of biscuits, u'll find nothing after i get my hands on it.

    I think its most likely boredom or just for fun. Its become such a habit to take something in after i walk out of my room.

    I think i've exceeded 80kg now. I couldnt believe it when my auntie showed me a photo of me taken during sec 3 (with my moustache hair) to show me how much i gained. =.=''', so bloody demoralising. So the target would be like sec 3. My closest to a healthy lifestyle.


  3. BASS LESSONS.

    Yes, i want it so much. I just casually told my dad today afternoon, maybe he would think i'm joking. But i'll make sure he gets my message. Dad needs time too, cuz taking up a new instrument is expensive. You've need enough money for the bass + lessons + amp for a start. I'm ok to do the upgrading myself. Yup, i want it very much, but i've been thinking for how long this excitement will last. I don't wanna find myself playing it for only a year. I'm sure my sponsor would aso wun wan to see me playing for only a short amount of time.
    Maybe lessons @ yahama, since its the only music school to offer bass lessons. Plus bass lessons would give me another reason to escape home to enjoy the outside world. It helps deduct geek pts. But veri little since its only once a week.

    Bass? My dad doesn't know what to buy, and so, i'll have to do alil research to find wad's good and budget. Maybe i'll aim to play get my music theory and basics right, and get some riffs played. I'm more concerned with the basics, cuz bad habits suck. And no, if pple in church are looking to find me to play during worship this coming yr, i'm sorry, i've gotta turn you down, cuz i dun wanna find myself playing w/o knowing wad i'm playing.

    Its better to immerse yourself in learning music den to makan like cr4zy.

  4. Give myself a reason to like attending lessons

    It had been a really tough year to like school. Maybe my adaptability suck or smth. But i'll try smth to motivate me to go to school more often. It has never been like that all my life, kindergarten, pri sch, sec sch. The most i'll skip two days in a year cuz i'm sick or smth. Oh yes, although its been a boring year, i've never fallen sick this whole year.


    Before i continue, lemme countdown first. LOL...9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1...Happy new year...~!@#$%^&*()_...LOL...Relax la, pple in bangkok crying lei...

  5. Maintaining and Improving my relationship with my relatives and family

    Maybe its the number of times i've been meeting them, i get all anti-social with some of my relatives. My mum? i've always been communicating v well with her, sometimes shouting even, but its still a form of communication. My sister? No problems with communication too. They are the most communicat-able at home.

    My dad? Maybe i and him spend veri lil time together, but i've always have some problem with asking him to get something for me. But shouldn't a son be comfortable to ask his dad to buy smth for him? Never for me, ever since birth maybe. Most of frenz know that i've even saved for my gameboy during pri 3 when i've only $1 as allowance. Could only afford a gameboy pocket. But he's always been providing for my sch fees and stuff. (Duh!).

    I've always got a problem communicating with my dad's youngest sister (2nd auntie) and her family. I duno why aso. Mayb its the truth that i'll turn all cold and boring if i dun sped time with pple.

    Church friends? I've always been a block of wood. I talked veri lil, as if i'm some retard. I dun even noe whether i can regard them as friends, cuz i'm never talking to them volunteerily for the last 17 yrs. No common topics to start with.

    I really wanna change to be more sociable, but wun it be weird if some lol guy didnt really talked to you for the past 17 yrs and suddenly he talks like!@#$%^&*()_+. Weird weird one lei.


  6. Huat AR!!! Fortune rolling rolling come.

    Finances had been quite stable. No overspending. No CNY during 2006 for me cuz of my grandpa's death during 13/4/2005 6:30pm. There's no overspending, but there's aso no increase in my funds. Yea, i wanna be wad i used to be, a giver as well as someone who could control his funds. Last time i could buy supper for my family at my own expense. 4 fillet o fish burgers. But since sec 3, didnt buy liaoz.

    Actually for me, its not the huat factor la, its how i use my money. Its a bomb this year considering the number of days i worked this year - 0 days. I managed to save enuff money to get my speakers, soundcard, headphones, mouse, keyboard = $600+++. And i still got my 1.3k reserved for the upcoming ps3.

    On the item list this year, its more challenging:

    1. Razer mouse ($60-$100)
    2. Logitech G15 Keyboard ($105)
    3. Supper frequently for family
    4. Bass upgrading (If my dad agrees for me to play bass that is)
    5. Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB HDD.
    6. PSP
    7. Increase PS3 reserve by $200 to $1500.

    Which means, u won't be seeing me eating @ sp for the whole of 2007. Its a 60cent qin chow for me.

  7. Other aims

    -Bringing torrenting to a whole new lvl.
    -Get a part time job w/o getting fired for slacking.
    -Eliminate laziness.

And's that's all for the year 2006.

Off to save the world.
Mr. J0sA1Ac Cheong

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Nongggggggg Nonggggggg ago

Things havent been going smoothly like this whole year. Even now i feel like crap. Nothing to look forward to. Boring Boring Boring Boring. Life is full of downs lol?

By the way ar, 4e1 pple why no outing? I damn bored man. SP frenz? Don't even need or feel like asking. Firstly, the people near me won't wanna go out. And the few that wants to go out are like staying so far away in the east. That's why I always feel fajarians are the best. I'm totally getting the opposite experience of what poly students should get la, wtf. If there're students that just finished their O's and need a reason to not go poly, i'm the living testimony. Just cant blend with them well enough to goof ard.

It had been really boring after the last update.

Didn't turn up for school on tuesday(12/12/06), wednesday(13/12/06) and friday(15/12/06).

So i shall talk about some few days which some interesting stuff happened like...

11/12/06 - Monday
Came to school today cuz i'm alil worried about my ISE attendance, cuz Mr Liew may be a lil more sensitive to attendance. Class ended with WCD, which i can never follow what the heck Ms Kim is doing. Totally lost after the html chapter. CSS was cr4zy enuff, then now Javascript, wth? WCD ended half an hour earlier cuz Ms Kim wasn't feeling well. So after class i stayed back awhile to play Warhammer 40k with fabian on sch comp lo.

After that sean called me to look for them (IDEA project group) @ fc4. So ok lo. I was on my way to fc4. Then got this unknown caller called my hp. And wth? It's the Annie Sung - IDEA Lecturer. I roughly had an idea of what she wanna talk to me about. It is attendance. But i was part wrong, cuz she said she wanted to pass me some crap donation card. =.=''' So she came down from office and passed me the card. Then she talked to me about my poor attendance and my punctuality.

Annie Sung: Joel, what happened to you ar? Seldom see you around in school nowadays lei, and you always late for my lessons. Can you tell me why is that so?
J0sA1Ac: Err, haf mei? (trying to kay siao awhile)
Annie Sung: Haf. The other lecturers also told me about your poor attendance. Always late, always nv come. What happened Joel?
J0sA1Ac: (So I came clean with her lo.) Sian lor. Don't feel like coming.
Annie Sung: Why? Izzit of the travelling time? Or very hard to make friends? But cannot be wad, last semester your attendance was quite good wad.
J0sA1Ac: Travelling lo, and modules boring + cant really catch up. Almost all modules i sian liaoz
(Actually, a big part was the friends la, but i didnt tell her, later make trouble)
Annie Sung: Where you stay?
J0sA1Ac: Bt Panjang.
Annie Sung: Aiya, so near.
J0sA1Ac: Lol, 45-60 minutes lei cher.
Annie Sung: Aiya, go work lo, earn money to buy a car (I was like, are you serious or am i supposed to laugh? But apparently she was seriously.)
J0sA1Ac: Wa cher, car lei, if i despo till want car you should have seen me touching the subaru car liaoz lo. (Wow, that was like a few months ago ever since i cracked a joke. I never had the habit of cracking jokes ever since i stepped into SP.)
Annie Sung: *Laughed* True ar. But do you know i actually had students who worked until they got a car?

*...And it went on and on....the whole talk ended 1 hr*

After that went on to fc4 for project discussion. Den went home.



Oh yes, my life is currently boring. But there are also things that keep me going. To entertain myself at home i've got the whole season 2 and part of season 3 of Mythbusters to watch. Its really nice. Informative and yet interesting.


Mythbusters


So. You're minding your own business, filling up your gas tank, when your cell phone rings. Hmmm. Should you answer it? Because you've heard you shouldn't use cell phones near gas stations since they can produce small sparks that can ignite big fires.

But wait. Could that actually be true?

Sounds like a job for MythBusters!

It's a tough job separating truth from urban legend, but the MythBusters are here to serve. Each week special-effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman take on three myths and use modern-day science to show you what's real and what's fiction.

My Rating - 8.6/10.0
Status - Available (Tag me if you want them)



Besides the Mythbusters, I've aso some stuff for pure entertainment, I've got Survivor Season 13. Very nice too. I still think the Survivor legend is Terry from the last season, he was pure ownage. But for the last two seasons, people who won most challenges didnt win the million dollars, weird?


Survivor: Cook Islands

Won't tell you the winner, since channel 5 havent screen finish. If you wanna know just msn me. Really good season. Ended with 14 episodes.

My Rating: 9.0/10.0
Status: Available (Tag me if you want a copy.)


Felt interested in learning flash always so that i could use it in my projects and so i got myself some materials for self-learning.

Good stuff. Its a dvd/video where they teach you how to use flash. Very useful, just the right stuff if you didnt like reading books. There are aso materials where they let you practice along with the guy.

My Rating - 9.5/10.0
Status - Available
(Tag me if you want a copy.)

I'm getting a few more stuff but my harddisk exploding. So i'm gonna format my harddisk very soon. Here are a list of stuff i have, if you need em, tag me or msn me.

Software
FRAPS Registered 2.8.1
Macromedia Studio 8
PerfectDisk v8.0.30 Professional.Edition (Defrag software)
StyleXp
BitDefender
IconWorkshop
Likno Web Button Maker
NOD32 Antivirus
Office Professional 2003
Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0.8
Adobe Photoshop CS2
Delphi 7 Enterprise

Games
Crazy Taxi 3
Splinter Cell Double Agent
Rainbow 6 Vegas
Rayman Raving Rabbids
Star Wars: Empire At War (Includes Forces of Corruption Expansion)
The Sims 2 (Includes Glamour Life, Night Life, Pets)
Warhammer: Mark Of Chaos
Gothic 3
LOTR Battle for Middle-Earth: Rise of Witch King Expansion Only
Marvel Ultimate Alliance
Medieval Total War
Neverwinter Nights 2
Need for Speed: Carbon
Phantasy Star Universe.
Top Spin2
Warhammer 40k (Includes Winter Assault, Dawn of War, Dark Crusade)
Battlefield 2142
Civilization IV (Includes Warlords)
Half-Life 2 (Includes Episode One)
Roller Coaster Tycoon 3
Rome Total War. (Includes Alexander)
Titan Quest

Movies
Barnyard
Chicken Little
Deathnote
Final Fantasy VII Advent Children
Ice Age
Flushed Away (Not DVD quality)
Little Man
Mission Impossible 3
Monster House
Superman Returns
Talladega Nights
The Ant Bully
The Matrix Trilogy (Original, Reloaded, Revolutions)
World Trade Center
You Me Dupree

TV series

Lost S03
Prison Break S01
Prison Break S02
Mythbusters S02
Mythbuster S03 (Not complete)
Survivor S13



Long list i know. But its better i let you guys know since i'm clearing stuff. Lol.

Something not to take seriously, just for laughs.



That's all for today lo.

Off to save the world.
Mr. J0sA1Ac Cheong

Friday, December 8, 2006

zZz...mixed like rojak

today sux la. firstly its cuz today got gems, but nigel and i purposely 1hr late lol, cuz nigel + i + ben + jon played bigtwo/daidi/dalaoer @ fc4 after lunch. today's hand damn good, duno why aso. and today i ATE @ SP, wth? Cuz very bored la, so eat lo. The most less money only ma. Nothing much to save for also. After gems came home lo. Saw Salman from pri.sch on the lrt with his skateboard. Didnt say hi, cuz the lrt train damn packed. First time i saw him ever since i left pri.sch sia. He's taller liaoz (of cuz la, feihua, who wun grow taller from pri sch onwards?). Face didnt changed much, that's y i can recognize him. Lol just got the letter by mindef, to register for some ns thing. I get so late sia.

today the singnet people came to upgrade my internet connection to 5Mbps. Sux la, i lost my admin rights to the router. zZz. Router back to where it was, my parents' room. Which means i don't have the ethernet cable, which means i'll have slower speeds. Which means my dls will be slower. Which means.....

Long and short, I want wired connection, wireless too unstable.

But i'll give u readers my word. I'll negotiate with my parents' and return the router to where it is destined to be. My room. Pwahhaha. SHOW

4/12/2006
Boring, boring, boring, boring, boring. The end.

5/12/2006
Boring again. Today got pck, and that's the only thing that's interesting. Today didnt go to school for IDEA, boring la, plus i thought got nothing to do, but actually my group got re-presentation. Paiseh ar, my IDEA group. Came for the hardcore 3hrs of DBMS, but as usual playing bigtwo/daidi/dalaoer in class with the "four big sky king" (chinese), louis, fabian, me and [yuh shyang or jon or cr]. But me fabian and louis sure play one la. LOL. I know its bad to not listen in class la, but u noe u noe XD. Yesterday saw a job (link to job details) @ forums@vr-zone i would like to try to apply for. Some promoting job @ sls la. I no promoting exp, but nowadays jobs usually are promo jobs ma. So must learn lo. Somemore @ sls, hope its easy lo. Called that guy today, he says interview tml @ 6.30pm lo.

6/12/2006
Wednesday is as usual lol one la. Morning got CRS presentation, as again as usual, my presentation part confirm suck la, can aso say its retarded la. Cuz i duno why i got problem with explaining stuff to a class. Cant talk much. Got any tips on how to improve on oral presentations drop it in the tagboard, cuz i really suck in it. And i dun wanna be a liability to my group when it comes to presentations. After school went home rest awhile then went with junwei/sexy for the interview. We took a taxi there since we duno how to go, LOL. Then it started to rain. zZz...Didn't know the exact venue, so i called the guy again. The guy says his office is one the terrace. Den i lol. In my mind = "scammer sia".

The guy give us form write write then he come in talk talk lo. Lol sia, he says, "We're aiming for high sales on weekends, let's say about 20 units per weekend?" My jaw hit the ground sia. Tio shock. So much la. Its not pencil or pen lei. Its LCD Monitors or Laptops leiz. Hey, people who had promoter jobs b4, how's your business usually, and how you get your business? (post them @ the tagboard) Most likely i'll work @ sls during the 3 weeks hols (starting from 17 dec) and the 2mths hols (from feb 11). HUAT AR! Hope so la. Hope people got sudden crave for electronics. IT is the 'it' thing now.

Basic $5/hr. Working from 11.30pm to 7.30pm lo. Commission? Almost like dun haf la. $6 for each laptop. $10 for each laptop during weekend. If i really can sell 20 units per weekend then say. So if you ever come to sls, don't come find me unless u plan to buy stuff from me. LOL, no la, up 2 u la, jk.

7/12/2006
Thursday? at first decide to skip WCD only, but in the end i skipped the day. LOL. Thursday = guitar class, omg. Took a taxi down to International Plaza, the taxi fare is cr4zy, i tin its $17++ that day. Everything was so normal until after guitar class. I chased the last 700, and the flag down the bus and stood at the door but!? the bus driver bochap me. WTF!? Ok, nvm. Den the 970 came, The bus bo chap me again. WTF? That moment i hot sia. LOL. But i very fast cool down one la lol. Nvm lo, wait for the next 970. From 7.30pm wait till 8.05pm sia. zZz.

Boarded the 970 lo. Den i'll do the first thing when i enter 970 A.K.A Bus of Surprises. Check the environment of the bus. And most of the time it'll be dirty with crawling cockroaches. This time aso dirty. zZz. And again, I thought of a few stuff.

I thought of how Larry Graham plays funky music so funky that makes my head bob like cr4zy, and also why music is so influential. Dun know who's Larry Graham? Lai lai lai, lemme show you.



Larry Graham


Retro bass player. He's from the 1970s la, so be understanding. The music not very pop la. But i like, so share with you guys lo. 70% u'll bob your head.

I like almost all music la, but i mean who will like music as lol as death metal? Its cr4zy man. LOL, even if i don't listen to the lyrics, let's just say i just listen to the music, also lol la. So boring. Its loud, yes. But wth? Louder = Better? Credits to paul for introducing to me Cannibal Corpse.



Cannibal Corpse


Wow rite? LMAO. The lyrics is totally lol la. wanna know the lyrics go google it. By the way, don't bother turning up the volume to know what they are singing, instead, accept it, its impossible to listen to what their singing. If you guys like that kind of music, I respect your choice, just that i've gotta say u've got a unique taste =D. The only thing i find cool is the headbanging. LOL. Use hair to draw a circle, WOW! Tell me how's the music in the tagboard also.



After i reached home about 9.30pm?, I lol sian. So i did some stuff for this post. Den @ 10pm watched prison break on channel 5.

That's all for today lo.

Off to save the world,
Mr. J0sA1Ac Cheong


Saturday, December 2, 2006

Two days in one

today i immersed myself in my world of music the whole day. Tried NFS with my new speakers cuz that's the only game i have in my computer for now. Uninstalled the other games. Its very cinema-ish. Big sounds, big bass. Shook my room's window grilles at volume level 1 (max lvl 4). Power huh? yet to try full blast, that one must wait my sister and dad not at home.

1/12/2006
This day sucked for the morning till 2. After gems' quiz i went down to SITEX with jeremy, qc and junwei. Jeremy went for fun, cuz his house was quite near expo. Qc went to see mp3 players and mayb he showgirls there (sadly i think only weekends got). When i got in, i quickly went for the list of stuff gin loen wanted. first i went to look for cybermind's linksys booth.
  1. Linksys WRT350N Router
  2. Linksys Wireless N Adapter
  3. Seagate External HDD 3.5' 320gb
first i went to look for cybermind's linksys booth. first time i walked past i didnt get a chance to squeeze in to get the stuff, so walk one big round and walk back there. This time it was more empty and so i talked to the part time sales man lo. As expected, cant get discounts, so i got some free gifts, like a wireless mouse, an umbrella and a pouch. Didnt want the mineral water, LOL. The total price of the 2 linksys products was $289 + $76 = $365. Near the linksys got razer stuff by cybermind, damn tempted to buy, razer diamondback only $49, but didnt wanna overspend. Then after that got a call from Qc, saying he was leaving liaoz, so he left lo. Not sure whether he got hoot anything.

After that i got the external harddisk from seagate. No gifts at all, but got lucky draw. Got a chance to win some Maxtor thing, forgot what's the exact prize. After that went to check whether sitex got feature my altec lansing speakers. But don't have the ones i want, so i decided to make a trip to funan after sitex.

Took mrt from expo to city hall. Reached funan, first shop for me is always South East Asia Computer pte.ltd, cuz i always take the escalator up and also cuz it has a huge variety of stuff, not the cheapest also. Junwei accompanied me also, i made sure he did. Needed his help to help me take stuff. When i and junwei went there, we took our time looking @ all the stuff there. Including comparing the prices with the ones in SITEX. I got a shock when i found out Gin's Linksys products was about $70 more ex @ SITEX. After that talked to a sales man, one of the longest talks i had with a salesman. I SPEAKED IN CHINESE BTW, very smoothly. I maintained my chinese standards i hope, with the help of my sec sch frenz. Saw both the Altec Lansing FX6021 and MX5021 @ SEA Comp. FX6021 @ $269, MX5021 @ $219. Went to other stores to check prices. Check liao then went to Challenger compare sound quality between the two sets of speakers. In the end, I personally preferred the MX5021, sexy also prefer it. To me, its cause its clearer than the FX6021. In the end, went to CH Comp. to buy my speakers @ $210, the cheapest in Funan. Asked about the Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX's price, CH Comp. sold it @ $999.

Linksys WRT350N Router Prices
SITEX - $289 (I got it)
SEA Comp - $214
Forgot Name 1 - $205

Altec Lansing MX5021
SEA Comp - $219
CH Comp - $210 (I got it)
Forgot Name 2 - $210
Sim Lim's Shop - $230+

After that went home, wanted to take taxi actually, but queue too long. So take mrt lo. Sexy helped me with the speakers until segar station lo. Wah kaoz, tell you hor, i promise i won't want my weight to exceed 100kg man. The weight (Gin's stuff on one hand + speakers on one hand by the rafia string) i carried was like adding weight to me till i was exceeding 100kg. Stopped a few times to rest my hands/fingers. Was sweating like cr4zy. FINALLY reached home. WOO..and one step nearer to gettin power sounds. Fixed my speakers after dinner. Reorganised my home's wiring before i fixed my speakers. THANKS ALOT junwei. Great to have you help me with the weight.

And Viola, its done. Hook up everything and started enjoying. And now for pictures and reviews. No cheesy smiles this time.



Seagate 320GB External Hard Disk


Nice buy by Gin. I like the price, but not the shape and design of it. $199 for it @ SITEX. Quite fat, comparing it to my current 200gb external. Design not very nice. But seagate's good stuff.



Linksys Wireless-N Adapter


Definitely one of the best in the market now. N's the newest. Price wise, i'm not very sure. Didnt compare it to Funan's. $76 @ SITEX. Another quality buy from Gin, rich boy.



Linksys Wireless-N Router


lol...quality stuff, but paid a higher price than required. Scammed/Cheated/whatever @ SITEX. Bought @ $289, cheapest in funan @ $205. Again, definitely one of the best for home users. New product. Personally, i will not buy such a expensive router and adapter. Too ex for quality. Quality buy by Gin again, rich boy.



Altec Lansing MX5021

As you can see, its not small, imagine yourself carrying that in one hand by the rafia string. Compared to a standard one-dollar coin.


Large speakers, larger subwoofer, huge sounds. At the background of this pic is my tv tuned to chn 8's 9pm show. LOL.

All i can say is that its really good for the cost. Very solid set of speakers. As bassy as you want. As i said, it shooked my room's window grilles with only volume lvl 1. Certified by THX. Of cuz, no surround effects that i can get from my razer barracuda headphones, but the solid cinema-ish sounds compensates. OWNAGE. Played warcraft with it. Impressive. I liked it when the guy says ownage, or stuff like killing spree! Bassy, echoish.

All my songs that i dun like suddenly so nice. Testing with Victor Wooten's Music, Casino Royale's theme song, and blahblahblah etc. MX5021 + Creative's Studio = POWERPACKED ACTION! Want test come my house.

My Rating - 9.2/10



And that's all for today lo.

Off to save the world,
Mr. J0sA1Ac Cheong


Thursday, November 30, 2006

so fast its friday tml. too tired to do up a long post with crap. mayb tml. going to service my razer headphone tml + go SITEX see speakers after GEMS, mayb buying lo. today super boring la, zZz...today morning saw jayne at the lrt station, but she's on the other side. Didnt talked much cuz she's on the phone plus in the morning i dun like to talk. As usual, i'm late for school again. VERY VERY boring. WCD nowadays cr4zy-ly hard for me. Javascript sux. Couldnt keep up with the pace, so i diverted from the class, looking into forums and went into surfing the net. Den gin smsed me ask me help him hoot some stuff from SITEX. I'm ok with it la, but i need him to gimme exact models, cuz the money we're dealing is power.

Btw gin, if u wanna go SITEX with me tml, i'll be going there late also, cuz i'll go down to Ban Leong Tech. first to service my headphones.

I officially lost my first thumbdrive on Monday. Sux la, my practicals all in there.

Tuesday I went for my IDEA presentation, the product my group came out with was rejected, so gotta revamp lo. Felt so sian during tuesday so i went home after IDEA lesson, didnt attend DBMS and NETF. Decided to fix my soundcard lo. And its officially the first time i opened up my own comp and fix stuff into it myself. My dad always does it for me. Spent 1 hr cautiously fixing the soundcard and console into my PC cuz my comp's ex to me. It worked. The result's very satisfying, anyone wanna test can come my house test, but gimme a call first.

Wednesday was a long day, with the SMIT security awareness event. I, Louis, Cr, Paul and many more were manning the games booth. At first like no business one, but then suddenly one by one come lo. Den suddenly got two chabor take about 10-20 pieces of word search crap from us. LOL, take for whole lecture hall, do during lecture wtf? The reward's a CD-RW, which is quite lame to me, but its just a small prize for a small little game. Plus we gave "hints", actually err, more like we gaf the answers. Got a copy of Norton Antivirus 2007, which is again lame to me. So anyone wants that unopened copy of Norton Antivirus, i'm willing to sell at $30.

Monday, November 27, 2006

A week without early dismissal

today i've gotta stay back for the SMIT security awareness crap, zZz...and i stayed back for 2 hrs+ for only less than 15mins of briefing. den tml class until 4pm, zZz...den wed got the security awareness thing, zZz...at least until 5pm. den thursday worse, school + guitar lesson. Come home 9pm+ liaoz. den friday got gems. Whole week without an early dismissal sia, how to get my soundcard into my comp? I scared i spoil my card, so trying to get Junwei to come my house, but always late dismissal, sian. I think i gonna take leave/pon on thursday liaoz. Tues cant pon, cuz got IDEA presentation. Wed got security awareness. Fri got gems. Gems if pon somemore dun need take exam liaoz. zZz...SITEX IT show coming liaoz, i wanna put in my card before i get my 2.1 speakers leiz. But now seems like its not possible liaoz. i'll post more information about the speakers i'm looking for.

today after school raining like crap AGAIN. My mum is right again, and i'm wrong again. Next time i'll make sure i put the umbrella into my bag liaoz. Then i rang the doorbell, and my mum with the LOL face open the door and taunt me, "see la, bu ting lao ren yan". Just now just got a new game (means of getting it not important), and it sux. If you intended to get this game, DON'T.


Top Spin 2

Firstly, the graphics sux. Details very blurr. Then, the gameplay is pure crap. Taking up 3 gb for such a low quality game is total BS. Keys not user friendly. Say NO to this game like how you'll say no to drugs.

J0sA1Ac's Rating : 1/10


That's all for today's game reviews. Lazy to review on alot more. SITEX IT show's coming up this thursday 30 Nov - 3 Dec. I may go on thursday or saturday or friday, not sure yet. Most likely if saturday i'll be going with my dad. He's upgrading my broadband subscription to 5Mbps (not with the free lenovo comp. the comp's spec's lame aniway). Anyone wanna go gimme a holler. I going window shopping, and maybe also getting my 2.1 speakers. If you guys duno wad's a 2.1 speakers, it stands for 2 small speakers with 1 subwoofer. Got good soundcard also must hoot good speakers ma, LOL. So far i've got two choices in mind lo. Actually thought of hooting a razer diamondback mouse there since razer exhibiting there, BUT no money la, speaker more impt. If anyone of you wanna donate by all means. I'll create a extra sidebar header called donars.

One of my choices is the:


Altec Lansing MX5021

Good set of speakers, made my rounds around Funan, and the cheapest set cost $200 - $210. The size is damn big, size on the picture is deceiving. I thought it was small at first but,

SUBWOOFER
Width = 22cm
Length = 31cm
Height = 40cm

Each Satellite
Width = 13cm
Length = 6cm
Height = 26cm

Damn big rite? But be sure to have quality bass and sound quality.
Rating on CNET - 8.9/10
Probability of getting - 40%


Altec Lansing FX6021


This speakers looks to be better in blowing your house. Look at the number of holes on each satellite - 6. For speakers more holes = better lo. Compared to MX5021 this is better at producing big volumes. Plus the satellite base can be removed, which means can blutack the satellites on my wall. Saves more space. But the problem is that this set of speakers more ex by at least 70 bucks. Can kill man. Saw @ funan around $270. Hope SITEX will reduce price.

SUBWOOFER
Width = 21cm
Length = 20cm
Height = 40cm

Each Satellite (Without Base)
Width = 6cm
Length = 3cm
Height = 36cm

Rating on CNET - 9.4/10
Probability of getting - 60%


Another very long post. lol, lotta technical stuff on my blog huh. hope no one falls asleep. I NEED CASH! look at my this month's spending. OMG! Must Jomadan another few months liaoz, i think i won't get to taste SP's foodcourt's food for the rest of the 2yrs liaoz. And btw anione got job lobang tell me, i need to work during my 3 weeks hols this coming 17 Dec. If not i cant get my stuff liaoz, and of cuz if i cant get my stuff, no pictures of my toys and me for you readers.

That's all for today lo.

Off to save the world,
Mr. J0sA1Ac Cheong

Sunday, November 26, 2006

A different Sunday.

Woohoo...listening to pat metheny's "Always and Forever" while doing up this post. Today played for church, wasn't that good actually, in fact quite screwed up. Maybe too nong never touch my guitar liaoz, had been dreaming about bass the past few days. Today in church while sitting on my seat getting ready for worship, i looked across the room, omg? so little people. Sunday's the only time i can touch my dad's precious electric guitar, so also very song la. Lolz... got a call from karhock during sermon, so i stepped out and excitedly pick up the call lo.

Karhock GOT the X-Fi Fatal1ty for me. YES, for me. lol...But the bad part of the news is that Karhock could only get one unit, cuz its policy that promo items limited to 1 per person, which means Jonathan don't get it lo. Sad ar, Jon. And if Jon don't get I also sian. Cuz if Jon can get it at promo price too then that's means we can split the money to pay Karhock. And Karhock also sad if Jon don't get it, cuz if he managed to get 2 units, he'll receive $70 from me and Jon. Let's make it simpler to understand:

If Karhock gets two promo units, one for me and one for Jon,
Karhock will receive $70.
Jon and I will only have to pay karhock $35 each.

If Karhock gets one promo unit, one for me,
Karhock will receive $60.
I will have to pay karhock $60.

But anyway also earn la, cuz original price $400+. Just got the soundcard from Karhock just now @ 2.30pm i think. Then excitement fill the air liaoz. Now gotta think when i'm gonna install the soundcard into my comp, cuz i leave my comp on everyday like every second until i sleep. May need junwei A.K.A Sexy Boss to help me too.

And now some pics, quality not that good la, cuz use my sis' hp cam.




Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty, Razer Barracuda Headphones and I

The smile is cheesy i know, but i duno how to smile properly la. The highlight of this pic is the soundcard, my Razer Barracuda HP-1 which i bought almost 2 months ago, and my smile.


Highlight of the day!


The highlight of my day, Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty soundcard. Thanks karhock. Comes with a console and remote. Bought at promo price $219. The guy's face on the box is some cr4zy gamer who endorses for this product.



Mother side's brother's child, Lol guy, Stefan

Lol, nothing to do with today, just to introduce my baby cousin to you. He's some suicide bomber, the way he crawls is scary, always bang anywhere one. He's less than one yr old. Lol, that's y smile no teeth.

And that's all for today lo.

Off to save the world,
Mr. J0sA1Ac Cheong


Saturday, November 25, 2006

Today's saturday, a time to rest, a time to slack after the past few cr4zy days of cheong-ing projects. I hope the effort put in is worth it. This is first post of this blog, but i've got a few in friendster, and those are real web logs. LOL. Eh, boring la, duno what to type.

Ok la, i'll set rules for this blog.

I will not,
  • talk about stuff that involves racism (In case i get caught and charged)
  • not use singlish
  • dicuss stuff related to p2p downloading. (eg. BTs)
I will,
  • try to update every week
  • try to keep it interesting

Hmm, after using the text editor here awhile, i think it sux. The font changing function is screwed, the text-style is screwed. Not user-friendly, wtf?

23 Nov 2006
Lol...This text editor is really bugged. Thursday is the most busiest day of my week, at least for now. Cuz every Thursday after school got guitar lesson @ International Plaza. That like from Dover to Tanjong Pagar or Bt.panjang to Tanjong Pagar lol? Last time always decide to come home after school before going out again to international plaza but since 3 weeks back I started to go straight from SP. But the lol part of this is that I must wait for at least 2 hours at international plaza before my lesson starts. School ends at 4.30 but my lesson starts @ 6.30. zZz...

Guitar lessons getting irritating and boring, cuz now all fingerstyle crap. And the stuff they teach so not soothing to the ears. The chords like anyhow anyhow one. But nevermind, wait another 4 months finish liaoz...wooohohoohoo...

This thursday i was lucky enuff to catch to the last 700 from international plaza back to bt.panjang. Then as usual on the bus, i'll either fall asleep on the bus or i'll think about stuff. I thought about alot of crap on this trip. About how i was gonna finish my wcd project when the submission is on the next day. But i and louis still got the work done. And then i also thought of the electric bass, I wanna learn after my lame guitar lessons @ international plaza finish. Most probably from someone private or else bo bian, go yamaha learn. Thought of some crappy stuff, like what will happen if my dad, my sis and I play as a family band.

My Dad - Electric Guitar
My Sis - Piano
Me - Bass lor...

Why not acoustic you may ask. its cuz i phobia after i go international plaza learn acoustic. X_X. Really cool right? BUT, my dad and sis won't think so far like me la. They got they're own likes. Although they play, but they play for church only. Never really put in effort to learn more advanced stuff also. So ar, who got lobang for private bass teacher tell me.

And ya ar, although forgot, jonathan during the afternoon in class told me about creative's warehouse sale. I excited, but at the same time sian, cuz the promotion for the thing I want only on Sunday (I'm in church)...zZz...impossible to skip church to line up for a product right? LOL...den when i went home, i suddenly thought of the warehouse sale and thought of a cr4zy idea, pay someone to help me line up. Then, i put an ad on msn lo. Wait for people to reply. Den Clifford came to ask, but he got work so cant help me. Then the uber, handsome, karhock A.K.A Karl came, and help me for the $50. Thanks Karhock, make sure you help me get it.

And what's the it?

Here it is :


Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty

Its a soundcard FYI. Cheaper by almost 1/2 on Sunday if you get it. The catch is that only the first 50 units is the promo price.

Original Price : $429
Warehouse Price : $399
Promo Price : $219



The Electric Bass


I probably didnt know wth is this instrument till about last year or so. Didnt really took notice of this instrument, cuz usually when i hear songs, i seldom take notice of the instruments. Until one day when my sister told me to take up playing bass cuz she liked the sound it produced. Only then did I really take notice of the bass. And from day onwards, in every song I heard, I heard the bass. And as time past, I began to want to learn it.

Even then, I usually heard bass as the icing on the cake in songs. And I thought it was that way, until, youtube helped me understand my mistake. It can be played solo, rhythmically like the electric guitar too.



Victor Wooten





First thought after watching him = omg? Second thought = power!? Really good music. Like this type of music, is this comtempo or what? What I know its not metal (I hate metal, to me its some musicians trying to prove that loud is good. Jimi Hendrix's music is the limit for me) , but if you like metal, by all means, its our choice. =) If you liked the guy/video I posted, try this.



And this is all for 23 Nov 2006.

24 Nov 2006
Today must present ISE project and hand up WCD assignment liaoz. Nothing much lo. I and louis kept cheong-ing WCD until about 4pm, just one hour before submission deadline. Jonathan asked me to help him ask karhock to help purchase another soundcard for him at the warehouse sale. Today actually meeting up with karhock @ fajar lrt station @ 5pm to give him the money to buy the soundcards at first, but i did wcd assignment till 4 and stayed in SP until about 5+, so sms-ed him to tell him I can only meet him about 7pm. Met him and gave him the money. I'm little worried that he can't get it after reading something on the vr-zone forums. Some people planning to queue for the promo @ 6am. And then when I went home after meeting karhock, I played a little NFS: Carbon, but cant win Darius again, so i quit playing for the day and continued to watch wonderful videos on youtube featuring Victor Wooten.

That's all for today, have a nice day.

Off to save the world,
Mr. J0sA1Ac Cheong