Japan GT @ Nissan Show Room

Went there for a look-see of the big hype that i missed during the weekend. I was lucky enough to be the first to register. Me and Jen had the whole place to ourselves till the big crowds arrived, and some left before the drivers and race queens came. The fools....

Oh well my gain their loss....


Man i wish exams were always this exciting, after brunch returned to uni to prepare for my papers.

Thought of the moment:
"Life is at a peak, hope i don't start tumbling down"

IF YOU LOVE SOMEONE, SET HER FREE..
IF SHE COMES BACK, SHE'S YOURS,
IF SHE DOESN'T, SHE NEVER WAS...

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The New Versions... ... ... ... ... .

Pessimist:

If you love someone,
Set her free ... .
If she ever comes back, she's yours,
If she doesn't, as expected, she never was.

Shakespeare:

If you love someone,
Set her free ... .
If she ever comes back, she's yours,
If she doesn't, here's the poison,
suicide yourself for her.

Optimist:

If you love someone,
Set her free ... .
Don't worry, she will come back.

Suspicious:

If you love someone,
Set her free ... .
If she ever comes back, ask her why.

Impatient:

If you love someone,
Set her free ... .
If she doesn't comes back within some time forget her.

Patient:

IF you love someone,
Set her free ... .
If she doesn't come back, continue to wait until she comes back

Playful:

If you love someone,
Set her free ... .
*If she comes back,
and if you love her still, set her free again,
repeat*

C Programmer:

if(you-love(m_she)=="TRUE")
{
m_she.free();
if(m_she == "NULL")
m_she new CShe;
}

Animal-Rights Activist:

If you love someone,
Set her free,
In fact, all living creatures deserve to be free!!

Lawyers:

If you love someone,
Set her free,
Clause 1a of Paragraph 13a-1 in the second
amendment of the Matrimonial Freedom Act clearly
states that... .

Bill Gates:

If you love someone,
Set her free,
If she comes back, I think we can charge her for re-installation fees but
tell her that she's also going to get an upgrade.

Biologist:

If you love someone,
Set her free,
She'll evolve.

Statisticians:

If you love someone,
Set her free,
If she loves you, the probability of her coming back is high
If she doesn't, the Weibull distribution and your relation was improbable anyway.

Schwarzenegger's fans:

If you love someone,
Set her free,
SHE'LL BE BACK!

Salesman:

If you love someone,
Set her free ... .
If she ever comes back, deal!
If she doesn't, so what! "NEXT".

Insurance agent:

If you love someone,
Show her the plan ... .
If she ever comes back, sign her up,
If she doesn't, keep follow up with her and never give up!

Physician:

If you love someone,
set her free ... .
If she ever comes back, it's the law of gravity,
If she doesn't, either there's friction higher than the force
or the angle of collision between two objects
did not synchronize at the right angle.

Flirter:

If you love someone,
Set her free,
If she comes back.....
show her your new gurlfren

Mathematician:

If you love someone,
Set her free ... .
If she ever comes back, 1 + 1 = 2 (peanuts!),
If she doesn't, Y = 2X - log(0.46Y^2 [cos (52/34X)) x 5Y^(-0.5)c],
where c is the infinite constant of no turning point.

Nowadays' style:

If You Love Someone,
Set it free,
If It Comes Back, It is Yours
If It Doesn't, Hunt It Down and Kill It... !!!
OR PERHAPS REPORT TO IMMIGRATION THAT SHE/HE IS AN
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT,,,,,,, (hehe)

The real thing is:

If you love someone,
WHY IN THE FIRST PLACE SET HER FREE,
you CARELESS IDIOT!!!(Dumb ass!!)

Thanks to Stephanie Wang for the original Friendster bulletin post

William And Jeets Robot

courtesy of cyborgname.com

The Oracle Penguin

A new beginning

Yeap i've been actually free enough to bring some colour to my blog. I'm currently in the midst of my exams with a 16 day break between papers. This sucks.

Anyways, looking forward to the end of this sem. Would like to continue with my hurried schedule of fitness, research and hanging out but not until i'm done with 2 more papers(ARGHHHHH!!!!!!)

Hope you like this new change. Blogger rocks!!!

Thought of the moment:
"I hate exams"

When you know things are not going your way....

Julian (10:16 AM) :
jeets
randalsage (10:16 AM) :
hey... aiyo.. my day is damn bad man..
randalsage (10:16 AM) :
first i woke up late..
randalsage (10:17 AM) :
2nd i had students that pissed me off..
randalsage (10:17 AM) :
then my car lights , i forgot to switch off.. so battery died..
randalsage (10:17 AM) :
lucky got somebody to kick start the car with jumper cables...
randalsage (10:18 AM) :
but.... on the way back from kapar, there were 3 tolls... my car died on each one... engine revs dropped too low..
Julian (10:19 AM) :
shit
randalsage (10:19 AM) :
and now i'm damn stressed and it's only 10 in the morning.... the day can't get any worst....
Julian (10:19 AM) :
then how
Julian (10:19 AM) :
i bring you pc fair wan or not
randalsage (10:19 AM) :
i am not gonna use the kembara anymore...
randalsage (10:19 AM) :
dun wan..
randalsage (10:19 AM) :
nothing i haven't seen before..
randalsage (10:19 AM) :
i afraid something else bad will happen to me..

Thought of the moment:
"I think it's time to go back to sleep and pretend it never happened..... and later buy jumper cables"

Some of those days...

i gaze a round and all i see,
are computer parts and cds,
their reflective glare blinding me,

my view is blurred,
my brain feels burnt,
i think its time i leave...

Thought of the moment:
" My CPU fan is bitchload of a loud "

?Why Free Software usability tends to suck??

I find this article very helpful and i sympathize with the dillemma. I'll swallow my hurtful words next time i start bitching about GUI interfaces.

Unfortunately there isn't much time for me to convert over from my Mandrake KDE over to Fedora's Gnome, because my darling of a laptop, has finally died.

Farewell my dear Presario 700. May you now join your others in the Compaq hell that you came from hopefully to be resurrected in a better, faster, less hotter, less heavy model.

On another note, if any of you dude out there have a functional laptop out there that you don't use anymore. How about passing one along this way?

Cheers

"I suddenly feel a part of my soul is missing.."

The Lazerus Effect:
Volume 1 : The hardware

The Lazerus is a term which describes the raising of the dead. With the advent of faster games and steeper OS requirements, people have always had the notion that getting the latest OS with the latest hardware specs was the right or kiasu(chinese term for trying to be elite) thing to do. This of course is untrue from my point of view. My computers solely consists of hand-me-downs. To them, these machines are obsolete, "dead". These machines are still functioning and are performing well.

I'll approach this topic in clear steps from a bottom-up approach starting with the hardware. Make sure that each component of a system unit (the box). Use this term, yes it means the box, i hate it when people keeps on saying that their CPU's aren't working. At this point it would actually help to have spare components around or another computer around to verify your findings.

The mobo (motherboard) is the part of the "trinity" of main hardware that should work. The others are RAM and CPU. Usually it's hard to comeby with replacement components, depending on the age of the component.

Make sure that the power supply is working, then make sure that the PC speakers are plugged in to the mobo. If there are the signature beeps, those are actually good signs that your mobo is still functioning. Take note that if nothing happens and the power supply smells like burnt electronics (trust me you'll know it when you smell it) turn off the power.

Ample amount of RAM can compensate for the lack in processing power. Check that all the RAM slots are working. Then proceed with the PCI peripherals like sound cards and network cards.

Install the IDE devices and make sure that the data ribbons are properly connnected, otherwise your bios is not gonna see any devices. This is an issue with old hardware that don't have the data ribbons labelled.

Remember that your system may not be much and may feel dodgy considering that you got some parts for free or at dirt cheap prices. But the sum is greater than its parts. The end goal is a system that meets your computing requirements.

Next: OS choices, Windows or Linux?

PC Gemilang isn?t what its all hyped out to be.

Here is an attachment for a dell site for their dimension 2400. Going for USD 399(RM1516).

It has an Intel Celerom 2.4Ghz (400MHz FSB), 17 inch monitor , 40GB ATA/100 Hard drive, 128MB Shared DDR SDRAM at 333MHz (Performs at 266MHz for 400FSB systems). It comes with a 48x CD burner with Sonic RecordNow. It comes typical with a one year warranty from dell (which is better than what Pikom could offer) and also free delivery.

I think because of the big brand, and it?s reputation for good after sales service, it makes the purchase of PC Gemilang questionable. It also solves the problem of using the Win XP with Malay and the questionable sum offered by Microsoft for an upgrade to the English version. ?17 inch monitor? also another one. I guess it all depends on whether people are penny-wise or pound-foolish in terms of the whole package.

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/featured_desktop5?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs

Cheers