Coldplay-Clocks

This is quite an old song but recently, i came across this video of a wonderful live performance of it. It's one of the most energetic performance i've seen. here:

increase in visits :)

The number of visits i get to my page has been increasing recently. According to stat counter, this is due to people searching for the error 8something in messenger. See, Ad? my idea of setting up a PC clinic is not too bad :P I seem to have gotten about 25 ppl who searched for that code and ended up here. To those, Welcome ppl!! Worry not and scroll down to find your solution and make yourselves happy!!

Also, NO SPAMMING my cbox. I love to have thankyou messages. And i know which country you are from the minute you end up here, together with the OS and browser you are using. muhahaha. So it’s okay if your english is screwed :D And i can remove messages from my cbox if i deem them to be spam/inappropriate. haha, i was about to remove the one by this Biel, but after some research, realised it’s a thank you msg from someone in Brazil, who ended up here after searching on tt error.

Shutterfly

A lot of picture-uploading services like flickr and photobucket have restrictions on the amount of pics you can upload. I recently found out that shutterfly doesn’t have any restrictions! In other words, you can upload as MANY pictures as you want!! haha, well, I' just signed up for an account and i’ve been keeping my eyes wide open for any catch. And yes, you know how wide my eyes can get :)

Which was good, cos i’ve managed to find a catch. Here: Although you can upload tons of pis to shutterfly, it does not allow you to download them, exactly as you’ve uploaded them. Yes, a download option is available once you’ve enabled and made up your share site, but do be prepared for your 1.15MB file to appear as a 373KB file, looking about the same till of course, you zoom in =)

Upon further research, here’s what i’ve found in their FAQ section:

Q: Can I download my pictures from Shutterfly?
A: Currently, we do not have high-resolution downloading available. However, we do have an Archive DVD service, in which you can order a DVD with high-resolution copies of your pictures.

Oh, and i need to add. The uploading of pics is a lot faster than other services i’ve tried.

Windows live messenger

Alrights ppl, pardon this post, it’s just a note.

I just fixed an error with my Windows Live Messenger. It basically stops you from signing in and tells you the the service is unavailable or something of that sort. Error code: 8e5e0158

The solution to this error is difficult to find, as googling it doesn’t help much. Upon trial and error and some lucky trial, i found that the solution to another error, error 80072ee6 works for this too!! You have to reregister a directory file.

Here’s the solution:

To reregister the Msxml3.dll file on your computer:

1. In Windows XP, click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then press ENTER.

   — or —

   In Windows Vista, click Start, click in the Start Search box, and then type command prompt. Under Programs, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator.

2. Type %windir%\system32\regsvr32 %windir%\system32\msxml3.dll, and then press ENTER.
3. When you receive the confirmation, click OK, and then close Command Prompt.
4. Wait a few minutes, (this is important folks, my comp needed ~1 minute) and then try to sign in again.

End of 1st windsurf training

Whoa just finished training-super tired. We ran till west coast, hung ourselves on the pull-up bars like monkeys, did  But the spirit of exercising lives on! I shall go and join my cluster mate to run 12km tonight :D YES. And i shall attend the training session on thursday too!

This is Yoga, reporting to you live from Mac lab @ USP building. This is unbelievable. A mac pro just transferred all the files from the dvd to my hard drive smoothly, without slowing down at all!! And it was all over in minutes!! I even stressed it by playing a video on the dvd while doing the transfer!! I heard some funny sounds but still, The transfer went on smoothly!! Guess the 3 fans inside did a great job in cooling the drive :P

Lesson learnt :I'm gonna bring my jacket to LT from tmr onwards. And.. i've to blog about the outing to escape theme park and put p sme pics on what's new about my room, apart from the new range of tidbits :) I spent a huge amount of time yesterday trying to copy japan trip pics from the DVD to my hard drive. The DVD kept getting heated up, slowing down the data transfer and causing my comp's explorer to run slowly :(
I was also wondering whether to go to the windsurfing trainings on mondays and thursdays. Well, It'ld be a 'motivation' for me to run exercise too. Its also good in a way that i'll be able to run before i sleep, and not after i wake up. I find that running in the morning makes me sleepy during lectures. I'll probably try out today's training. Here i come!

.5+.5=1 & my timetable!

Nothing much has been happening these days, I should be getting all my textbooks for this sem by the end of this week. And.. great to know, one of the UBZ lessons is clashing with the eve of chinese new year and is therefore in the process of getting postponed. That means that I’ll be exchanging 1 filled weekend for 2 half filled weekends ;) Also, I’m going down to escape theme park this sat!! Yipee!! haha, and…I just got professional photographs of my japan trip.I was supposed to pay for and collect the dvd sometime last sem, but that never happened :P So,I’m now copying the pics from my fren’s copy. Anyway, i’m gonna start a new blog, just to post wonderful youtube videos that people should watch. That’ll come next week, i guess. And I’m hoping to get something to occupy my 3 month holidays. I’m pretty much okay with anything, internships, summer programs, but i wanna be certain about something. And preferably leave 2 weeks for myself, if it’s not an internship :D I have been eating a lot for the past few days. I went home today and found that i have gained at least 1kg. There r 2 reasons for this:

1.I need to get fatter, so that I can stay warm when i go over to The Netherlands next year. Right now, i think PGP is a pretty cold place. Don’t believe? I’ve been sleeping with my fan off-ed for this week. I’ve realised that this isn’t gonna work. No matter how much fats i get into myself it’s not gonna help me stay warm at 0deg celcius. So, the appropriate solution is to bring enough winter clothes, not eat more.

2. I’ll be going to my regular way of eating once the sem picks up. So, might as well get some food in now :P Ahh.. This may work :D

Anyway, Here’s my timetable, all made up!

missed tutorial :(

I was blogging in my private blog. but here’s the portion of it that everyone can read:

Just as i was doing up my timetable today, i found out that i'd missed the first 2007 tutorial today ;( It was supposed to be on next week, but was announced yesterday's evening that it had been brought forward to this week, since the tutor has a conference on. Oh wells, the wonderful thing about being in engin is that i can now go for another slot. And it'ld be better, cos i can join my fren next week, AFTER the LECTURER HAS COVERED tHE RELAVENT material and AFTER i've had enough time to look at the tutorial questions. yup. I only balloted and got it yesterday lor.. This is worse than USP lah.. at least in USP I’ll be INFORMED A WEEK earlier to prepare for tutorials. which brings me to another happy note: I got all my first priorities for tutorial groups! :) Have a great sem, everyone!!

First day @ school

First day of the sem.. Well, it went well. Woke up early, 620am and managed to do a run in the A1 route. This is something i used to do in JC. I remembered that even though i was living in Yishun at first, i used to wake up real early to catch the first or second bus to Nanyang JC, just to complete a few rounds on the track. Went to the lectures on time, although i would have liked to grab a little more than a donut. And yup, recalling my emotional stability and ‘coolness’ is way above last sem’s. So yup. A good start. =D

And i uploaded aud’s send off pics to facebook. Here’s a few of those pics.

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Hey ppl! watch this: it's hilarious!

For those not into computers and stuff, Steve Ballmer is the current CEO of Microsoft and yes, the host is carrying a macbook air.

Drinking party

Alrights, quick updates! Went to a drinking party @ jer’s last night. haha, i managed to retain my non-drinking policy and i was still included in the games and the ngiht was quite fun, i guess. I ended up having to drink fruit juices and raw limes instead. And i wasn’t allowed to go toilet too ;(

And yes! i found this rabbit (he has many rabbits) of jer’s that doesn’t struggle when ppl hold it!! haha, i think i kept traumatising the poor thing throughout the night la. I took some pics with it too. I need to get’em back from jer. I hope the pics in his cam are nicer, this one from my phone’s cam looks as if i’ve strangled the poor thing ;( Put urself in it’s shoes.

 

And the pics were supposed to have the potential to replace my current fb display pics. LOL. It’s sooo furry!! My shirt was all covered in it’s fur after the whole thing. I dun really mind :D And gab drove the 3 of us back to NUS. thanks, gab! hope ur hair grows back real soon! haha, the barber, whoever he went to must have had a big surprise la, and he goes around with a wig in his bag now.

philnote 3

this http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/live-from-the-macworld-2009-keynote/ is great la.. haha, the journalist or whoever types really fast!! he is typing is like, most of the exact words used! my gosh. This pic is great! :

more coming up! i am struggling to keep up my reading :P

G-max

There’s still 15 mins more for the keynote to start. I’ll blog about monday. I was bringing my cousin and his wife to NUs for dinner and to have a look around. My cousin had some conference at Insead and we decided to meet him up after some shopping and stuff. Then, we went on to clarke quay and sort of chilled out along the river, taking photos and all. And then, we headed for the bungee!! haha, as you all probably know, there are 2 options: The bungee swing (takes you 40m up in the air and let you do SHM) and the reverse bungee. We chose to go with the swing and i became the one to press the lever. here’s how it works. there is this cabin into which we all sit in and we will all be brought up to the height and given a signal that we are ready to drop. Then, one of us, pre-assigned, will have to press down a level near our seats to release the thing to let us drop. Once the signal was given, my cousin’s wife gave me the go-ahead. And i counted down load, 5-4-3-2-1 and pressed it down. We were literally free-falling for about 3 seconds la.. the acceleration was great!! But it only took about a minute to come to rest and i really really wanted to go again :P

Anyway, I signed up for PAssion card and so, got a free ticket to Escape theme park. It expires in march09. I’m thinking of going over during Jan. If anyone wants to join me, i’m willing to pay half your admission ticket ! haha, ed? i’ll go ask ard… Think i also wanna try the reverse bungee liao.

philnote 2

As usual, just before a keynote, Apple’s online store has temporatily closed.

haha, there’s still 40 mins left. haha, this live coverage has begun and looks quite interesting. think i’ll go with it: http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/live-from-the-macworld-2009-keynote/

Philnote

It’s just an hour away- The final macworld keynote by apple of our time! haha, It starts at 1am, s’pore time. It’s 1145pm now. i cant’ wait !!

Windsurfing!!

I went windsurfing on the sunday, the 4th. I had something on that morning and so had to go for the afternoon session. If not, i could have gone for both :( anyway, i came in ‘just in time’, the journey was long. I had to take a bus to Changi airport and take another bus from there. yes. There is no ‘opposite busstop’ for the PA water venture @ east coast. And there’s only one service :( I’m always amazed at how there are so few busses to east coast park even though it’s such a popular place for ppl to go and unwind.

Anyway, Windsurfing was great. I fell down a lot less frequently and i’ve started to feel the relationship between the direction of the wind and my travel. I went out really far but nope, not far enough to get towed back by the rescue boat on operation :P I’ll certainly try to go further and attract the rescue boat next time. There were a few times when i was really far off from the shore. But i’m really glad that i managed to get back myself !! Thanks to the wind that day!! Too bad i didn’t take much pics, although i think my camera was in my bag. btw, the 2h+ costed my 8 bucks, normal price is 16, i think.

On a sadder note, i found out that there’s some inter faculty competition at the end of january :( That means that all the sessions would be for the competitors to train. So, the next recre surf session will be on the first week of feb.

Blow wind, blow!!

Cyberia camp collage

I got down to doing a collage. Once again, like the one i did for my birthday, i’m not gonna reveal how i did this one :P haha, anyway, this looks a bit too similar to my birthday one, doesn’t it? as in, the background, style and all. I’ll try to work on it on the next occasion, when my collage-making instincts kicks in.

btw, my group name was intel 1. haha, probably the last school camp in my life… <3 awww… :P

More Cyberia camp pics

You Can-David Archuleta

here you all go: another good song that has been ringing in my ears for today;

Happy new year!

Yes, happy new year to everyone!

My Cyberia camp’s OG outing today got cancelled. Here:

the Assistant-OGL smsed everyone at abt 1:10am yesterday:

AGL: Tmr’s outing is canceled. Too little ppl:)

My reply: Alrights, haha, left you n me is it??

and i managed to fix my contacts-syncing problem. YaY!