1 down 2 to go
By arzhou | April 25, 2008
HR2002 done! Now left EG2401 and CN4203 to go! This semester really does feel much better after all the projects were handed in and all that is left are the exams. Having all my exams spaced out with 5 days in between does not help me get into any kind of studying mood….. not good
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Drinking Liquid Gold - Arweiser =p
By arzhou | April 21, 2008
Nothing beats drinking a nice pint of liquid gold on a lazy Sunday afternoon just chilling.
Beer 301 - My 3rd attempt at brewing
Ahhhhhh… beer + swedish meatballs = good or beer + chicken wings or beer alone!!
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My Precious Laptop
By arzhou | April 20, 2008
Sometimes when studying alone in NUS, I find it a real challenge not to go toilet, not because I am scared of any “ghost” or anything, I just happen to have my laptop with me all the time, to check email etc. Going to the toilet would mean the laptop would be left alone on the bench, ripe for someone to steal it. Once I even dashed all the way to Macdonalds just to buy lunch and dashed back, cos of my laptop.
Sure you can ask people around to look after it, but most of the time, they will just agree and go back into their own study world, not much confidence there (there are some who really do watch, but they are rare).
This is not because my laptop is worth alot, heck after all that its been through, i value it at 20% of the original price. More importantly is that there are lots of information on it. Not the Edison Chen kind, but more of all my work, my reports, resumes, databases etc etc etc
Such information is a real pain to replace, its like losing your handphone and needing to find everyone’s contact number again, only its 10 times the trouble and pain! So in the end, I usually just carry it around with me.
Anyway I was REALLY lucky to get a copy of BAK2u’s upgraded version Verey I for Windows, which is an antitheft software for laptops. Finally i do not have to worry about my laptop when i buy my usual 20 pieces of nuggets from NUS macdonalds. If anything happens at least i know that i have a chance of getting it back!
Check it out @ http://www.BAK2u.com/vereypc.php
Me and my laptop
me!
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Why 2008 is going to be a bad year for me
By arzhou | April 9, 2008
Was at this restaurant on saturday having lunch, so while waiting for the food to arrive, I picked up this book on astrology and luck for 2008. Flipped to prediction for people born in the year of the pig(or boar) and started reading:
Summary of what the book said: (I simplified it into really plain English)
Luck: You have no luck for 2008 and 2009 only 2010 will you luck return
Love life: You will have no luck in love at all this year, too bad
Health: You will be in poor health this year, be prepared to invest in good health care
Wealth: Poor health will suck away your wealth… duh… be prudent
Studies: Your poor health will cause you to be distracted from your studies… so mug harder
WONDERFUL book….. I am gonna hide under my bed, someone tell me when 2010 arrives alright? I am not gonna do anything until then.
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Spending my birthday with 5 girls!
By arzhou | April 8, 2008
It pretty much sucks if your birthday fell on the same month when all projects and deadlines are due. Everyone including yourself would be too busy to care about it. Actually I sort of forgot about my own birthday in the mad rush to finish design 2, polymer engineering etc etc etc
Well turns out aside from the many pingsters and friends who remembered, my good friends and fellow project-mates (for many projects) did remember as well. So we took a break from doing Heat Exchanger networks and other stuff and headed down to this nice place along pasir panjang road called Bistro 103. Been there before, really good food especially the escargot. Had a wonderful time and really made me forget about all the crappy deadlines i had ahead of me (ok… forgetting is not that good a thing but heck la).
Just wanted to thank Sipei, Val, Cherry, Shenzhi, Jingwen and Yinshuo(the only other guy present) especially Cherry and Shenzhi (bet it was mainly Cherry) for baking that lovely chocolate overdose cake!
p.s: oh and I wanted to thank Val’s car for getting us to Bistro 10…heh
The Cake!
Friends….
After dinner we tried to pile up in the car….
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Ping.sg outing @ Taj Samudra + Desserts at The Dome
By arzhou | April 6, 2008
Been quite sometime since I last met up with fellow pingsters for an outing as I was rather busy this semester.
This weekend it just seemed like a pretty good chance as I had the Sunday afternoon free. Morning was a Bukit Timah Hill climb in which SOMEONE overslept and no showed(shall not mention who).
It was a really good chance to meet up with the newer pingsters whom I did not get a chance to really interact with on the shoutbox or ping.sg forums since I rarely pop by ping for an extended period of time . We met up at Farrer Park MRT before heading down to Taj Samudra in little india. It was this place that served Indian food buffet at about$10.50++ (Total was $12.75 pax)
Those who were present for lunch (besides me) were Daphne, Champagne, Uray, Ironicgamer, Chillycraps and our super early arrival champion Jzin. Malique and Rinaz arrived much later after I had finished 2 rounds of buffet. Overall the food was alright, I liked the fact it was pretty cheap, just that we were pretty unlucky that the area we sat in had a SPOILT aircon so everyone was sort of feeling the heat (both curry and temperature).
Interesting things that happened over lunch:
1) Somehow we were discussing that guys and girls shirt had buttons on different sides and daphne started checking her buttons. It really burned my poor innocent eyes, that imagery…. NTT would have to agree when she demonstrated it to him the whole incident on the MRT
2) As mentioned on CC’s blog, Daphne said she wanted ice and suddenly a delivery man walked in with this big bag of ice.
Photos are courtesy of CC and Rinaz!
After lunch we adjourned over to the Dome @ Park Mall (Not before walking all over Plaza Singapura trying to find somewhere to eat dessert, finally NTT just suggested it. This time round even more pingsters joined us. NTT, Wendy, Priss, Xizor, DK, Jean and Robert. The total number was pretty large for a ping.sg outing. As usual me and NTT kept talking about our Tiramisu throwdown which seems to be in the planning stage for over a year? The desserts at the Dome was alright, the brownies were actually good, but I was not satisfied with their tiramisu (mine is probably better heh). I liked the coffee, but that Coffee place at 6th avenue is probably the best I been to so far (pricey though)
Anyway it was great to meet up with the new faces on ping.sg, it is really a good sign that the community is growing and new members are joining the old birds (like old man xizor) for meetups. Pity I could not join for more regular meetups these days.
Other posts (so far)
p.s: Need photos from Jzin and Uray (thanks!)
p.s: Rinaz do get well from your sore throat!
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3rd Place in the Ping.sg April Fool’s game
By arzhou | April 4, 2008
The official PING.SG blog post on the results! The game was called “Whose Ping is it anyway” no prizes for guessing which show Uzyn watched.
Yup I got 3rd for the ping.sg April Fool’s game. It was a crazy game. For most of the day I was out of the top 10 as I was rushing from class to class and doing project, so I could only squeeze in 10-15 mins of play time each hour. So the early part of the day was dominated by Nicole, Mintea etc etc *cough* some ppl no need to work….*cough*
At night however it was a different ball game, the REAL gamers took over (ironic does not count cos he was at it the entire day)
At 2am, it was only 2 people going strong, me and Sheylara who is really the Queen of MMORPGs. Both of us were kept strong by our MMORPG background. For me this really reminded me of the good old days grinding to attain exhalted reputation with whatever faction in World of Warcraft, be it the Thorium brotherhood or hydroxian waterlords or orgrimmar. But I guess I was not strong enough, at 4am, I just concussed. I guess Sheylara was strong enough as she managed to achieve over 3000 points! She is really the Queen of MMORPGs, playing them for even longer then me, I remembered she was in the first generation of KA members (Clan from DAOC), I was 3rd and 4th gen member. /bow
Somehow as I was playing the game, I was reminded of this book, “BLINK” by Malcom Gadwell. Bascially it talks about making snap judgments, and this game is about snap judgements, you have 10 seconds to guess a blogger, immediately your instincts take over, sometimes i can guess its a post by nicole or daphne or hendri by the style, Keropokman is really obvious, Chillycraps is another. Its just the cumulative memory i have of reading all their blogs.
Well 3rd is not so bad, AT LEAST i have the highest accuracy percentage for anyone in the top 10! That means I never randomly guess at least most of the time!
Read the winner’s post on how she won : LINK
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easySafe - Your unique key to security
By arzhou | April 4, 2008
FAST easySafe is the only hardware cryptography product available in the market with unique features. It protects all sensitive information in your computer, external hard disk, USB flash drive, SD card and etc.
Although the design is compliant to FIPS 140-2 standard with PKI technology, FAST easySafe, as its name implies, is rather easy to deploy and use as compared to other sophiscated security products that require dedicated IT specialists for deployment and maintenance.
Visit us at the Newstead Anniversary Roadshow this weekend.
Fast And Safe Technology Pte Ltd (FAST)
Venue : Funan ITMall Atrium
Time : 11am to 8pm
Date : 3rd to 6th April 2008
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Many Thanks for the Bday Wishes
By arzhou | April 2, 2008
Did not expect anything cos I did not make mention of my B-day or anything, guess facebook had a part of play in this.
12.30 am Xizor messaged me saying Happy Bday! and told me to check the shoutbox, Tstar did the same via gtalk. Turns out when I went to the Ping.sg shoutbox, it was rather flooded with bday wishes. Thanks Xizor, Tstar, Paced, Dhope, Jean, Amanda, Jayden, Uzyn, Adam…. hope i did not miss out anyone.
Edit* Malique too!
Of course gotta thank those who sent their wishes via gtalk and facebook as well. Cheers all!
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This is NOT an April Fool’s blogpost: The Many Faces of Miccheng
By arzhou | April 1, 2008
Considering it IS April fools and I just thought it would be pointless to create some blogpost about how my blog is shutting down, how I got hacked, maybe a joke about my life…. too obvious la.
So…. why not do something normal on a day where blogpost are suppose to be not normal?
Anyway Miccheng won a nice creative webcam from Yebber. What makes it so interesting is that it can track your facial features and add unique stuff to yourself.
Here is normal Miccheng
Here are his many faces
See! No April fool’s joke!
p.s I decided to quit blogging after today. Period
p.s.s Check out this link of Creative Pwning some chap
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