Xiao P moves again

Xiao P has upgraded once again from the AB Cage to the AB Deluxe Bungalow. He must be very happy. At least I hope so.

He was a bit nervous at first. First he missed his house which I have no choice but to give him back for a while. Anyway he was also not used to the tube system for getting up and down... for a day anyway. Now he is happy with all the things he have. In fact he is now very fast to get to what he wants now. From the running wheel to his bathroom and the food tray. In fact he loves the artic also... Well anyway for those few days before the earthquake anyway. Did he knew it was coming and was climbing to "higher" grounds?

Owe $ Return $ or Else 2 : The Last Name

Yes, finally its time for the answer. Let me say that this is my answer. There is no way to be 100% sure until you catch that guy/gal.

First a few clues. Got the name from the telephone book. Thats the last place anyone will need to look to threaten people for money. You never know who you might hit (Like me).

Next, there is a stupid mistake. Phone number. Ah long will never want to be contact. They will contact you... Sound like one of those job I did where the customer will say, "Don't call us, we'll call you.". :P

Given the 2 facts, there is one clear answer. I am not the victim, but the tool. The victim is the guy/gal with the phone number. Let's look at the real story.

Guy A hates Gal B cos she was bitching around with other guys or watever. So Guy A grab the phone book and wrote tons of message threating people for money with Gal B number. Guy A expects the people to call and harass her, report to police and watever that gets Gal B into trouble.

Sound like a possible answer? OK, maybe except the bitching around part. But anyway, I believe that was what happended.

The day there was no internet...

It finally happened. The most horrifying movie of the year turns reality. The Internet was down for the whole of asia for like 2 days now... 6 submarine pipes where broken during the 7.2 scale earthquake in Taiwan.

2 death. 32 injured. MILLIONS of people crippled by the internet.

Haiz. What can I say. There was a time when Xmas is about giving present and enjoying turkeys. Now its about disaster and internet problems. I wont be surprised if Bin F-cking Laden will come out and claim that he caused the Internet failure (or even the earthquake itself)... Funny... but I find it hard to laugh.

The Internet has became so a part of our life that we cant live without it anymore... I can only hope that everything get fixed soon. But FAT hope that is. According to Starhub (you know what SingNet has not even made an annoucement about this yet...) has claim that this will take like 3 weeks to fix. 3 WEEKS!!!

Its time for a long vacation I say. Somewhere cold and no need for Internet perhaps. Syberia? Hehe :P Or maybe its finally the right time to down all my servers and perform the OS upgrade they had long due to perform. Maybe with a compliment AV scan and defrag. Now will be the good time.

Hell, I should spend less time on the Internet. This is clearly an addiction. I should not evne be writting on this blog now. I am going for a cup of coffee and a slow walk in the rain.

HD Regenerator vs Spinrite

It's time again to bring out a old tools. Spinrite. I am not sure how many of you have heard of this. Back in those days, this tool was one of its kind. You basically use this to non-destructively rewrite your whole HDD. Why you want to do that is clearly explained at http://www.spinrite.com

Now, Spinrite has many mode. The fastest is the test mode which I ran against my other HDD. HDD Regenrator sure saved my HDD. Fact of life. But Spinrite ran at like 100x the speed. It took like 30 minutes to complete where HDD Regenrator took 16 hours. OK, not 100x, but you get the idea.

However, do keep in mind the test level is probably different. And leaving this to run over the night 7 hours and 7 minutes has no difference. I say, both these tools are great things to keep and run at as good periodical testing. Audits should include a question that check if the HDD is periodically tested :) Rather than waiting for it to go bad sector and fail on you. You agree?

Owe $ Return $ or Else...

This is fairly common to see on walls and lifts...
We all know what this is about...
But what if you received one of these in your mail box addressed to you?
Strange right? It say :

Owe $ Return $ or Else you will see...
9xxxxxxx

He even left you a handphone number...
OK, I know he gotten the address from the phonebook. How I know, I am not going to tell, but this is so. So what do you think is actually going on? Make a guess.
Hint : I did NOT owe any money. So lets not guess along this wrong direction.

Chaos vs Order

When is there a time when Chaos is better? Think harder...

In Singapore, there is too much order if you ask me. Everything must queue. So Singaporean can easily win any contest as far as queuing is concerned. There are people who queue for like 1 week just for a place in school, queue overnight for Hello Kitties, queue for flats that hasn't been released yet... And you ask whose fault is it? My question is WHY they let these people queue?

Is queuing better? Suppose all is by ballot. Just lock in your tickets and picked by random. There will be no queue. As long as you lock in before the end of period. Will this be a better system? Everyone is equal. It does not matter if you queue first or come at the last minute. It does not matter if you heard about it and started queuing 1 week ago... Will this be better. Less crowds. Less people crowding in small places waiting for a disaster to happen. Well, I know you will think of terrorist, but even a stampede could at killed many.

If you do agree random picking is better. Then you have agreed with me that this is a time when chaos is better than order. In Chaos everyone is the same. There is no someone is "more" equal than others.

Chaos Cultist :
"We are Chaos and Chaos is strong!"

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist

Yes, finally gotten by MCTS for SQL2005. To be dead honest, its probably a close one. I got a fright when I found out there was simulation questions. Its like practical, they give you the real SQL2005 interface with parts disabled and ask you to implement some things...

Phews... I suppose I probably screw a few up. But still managed to get a near perfect score... :)
This must be a sign that I should study harder and not take luck for granted.

Now, I am waiting for my new gen welcome kit from Microsoft... Need to print new name cards too. :P

Dominoco HDD down with bad sectors

My poor computer Dominoco has been struck down by bad sector that resides in a critical application zone. Hai.. What a series of unfortunate events. I had been debugging it whole night and was not able to even copy out the file. Now I have to do bad sector recovery...

I remember the good old Spinrite which I kept somewhere... But was not able to find it... Then I realized I also bought this piece of software sometime back called HDD regenerator. Better give it a shot.

Was start since last night 12am.... Going... 50% this morning at 7am... I estimated it compleleted by now... Lets hope so.

另一首歌, 另一首傷心的故事

Performed by : 梁文福，潘盈

(A)
我總是忘記怎樣地不去想起你
我總是懷疑你依然相信我的心情
每一次傷的是你
每一次刺痛的是我的心
我緊擁著你 卻經已失去我自己

(B)
一條漫長路經已走到這裡 (不能停止的想你念你)
走下去我就不再是我自己 (望著你就忘了我自己)
然而望著你的背影
究竟我有勇氣幾許
回頭去走那無盡無止的記憶

Repeat (A)

(C)
一條漫長路經已走到這裡 (不能停止的想你念你)
走下去我就不再是我自己 (望著你就忘了我自己)
然而思念不是當年
沒有一絲牽掛的你
寂寞也不是最初的我自己

Repeat (B)

Repeat (C)

Repeat (A)
每一次傷的是你
每一次刺痛的是我的心
我緊擁著你 卻經已失去我自己
Another Sweet Song
Another Heartbreaking Story

Meaning of Fuck

Great question. Nobody understand the real answer because nobody f*cking want to talk about it!

Here is the f*cking answer btw :

1. The universally recognized "F word"
2. N. Implying complete and utter confusion
3. N. a really stupid person
4. V. To procreate
5. adj. Can be used to modify any word for more passion
6. Int. Expresses disgust
7. Int. Expresses complete suprise and joy
8. adv. Can be used to make a command more urgent

Example :
1. I do not accept the "F word" as your name
2. What in the fuck?
3. You stupid fuck!
4. I suggest we go fuck in your mothers bed while eating crackers and petting a cat name mittens!
5. This fucking guy was so fucking weird. He asked me if I was fucking insane.
6. Aw, FUCK!!
7. Holy fuck! You guys rock!
8. Just fucking jump before I fucking kick you in the balls!

Actually we all uses FUCK as in VERY... Example : He is fucking rich. She is fucking poor. She is beauti-fucking-ful. Well that last example is a way to instead fuck into the middle of a adj to enhance the effect.

Well, hope you dun fucking faint on me after reading this.

绝世雄才 ("楚汉骄雄"主题曲)

绝世雄才 ("楚汉骄雄"主题曲)
作曲/编曲:无量光
填词:郑国江
演唱:郑少秋

雄才绝世天生有几
狂情傲态万年稀
力拔山独有吞山川豪气
天亦疑忌

凌云大志冲天飞
良才善制造时机
群雄逢变天楚汉骄雄斗
成败看捕捉先机

用两手天将塌下都撑起
用斗心一生霸业没法比
雄才能绝世功高可霸天
天命难欺

无言独对乌江水
成王败寇悟前非
未问人与天因我只问责
高风歌赞千世纪

人逢绝处总得转机
豪杰亦有被人欺
人如逢困境不短英雄气
荣辱贵贱担得起

用两手天将塌下都撑起
用爱心一生爱人如爱己
常怀人共说分担喜与悲
天地无欺

无言独对乌江水
成王败寇悟前非
未问人与天因我只问责
千秋功过平常事
力拔山勇哉不过一出戏
无限壮烈千古悲

A Test of Fate

It has been like this 3rd or 4th time I encountered this situation. What situation you may ask… Imagine this :

Sitting there on the bus and a girl on the oppo seat facing you, crying her out.

Yes, has been seeing this lately much. Another case was near my place in front of the mosque and another time on the MRT. I have no idea why I am meeting such sadness around me lately.

I really have no idea what is the RIGHT thing to do? Ask her what happened? Err… Might not be a great idea. And I NEVER carry a pack of tissue with me!! Well, it’s not that easy to pretend that this is not happening either. In fact, that’s what I did for the past few times. The latest one was with this mother and small girl. It’s after a phone call. I can only imagine it’s that they must have lost someone very dear. At times like this I really do not know how to handle it. Talk about DRP!

Suddenly I kinda feel that it’s a test from fate herself. I feel that this might continue to happen again and again until I can figured out what is the right thing to do and do it. Its really strange because everytime I did not do anything I felt something not right about it. This really kinda sound like a butterfly effect. IF you are reading this, give me a suggestion!

Bini and Ashley

Bini is a bear from the Cool Bear Factory and she is quite happy with her new clothes! Here is a photo of her and the run away pig, Ashley. Maybe I will get her a Xmas cloth this coming festival.

Xiao P and his new home

The first home was simply too small even for a hamster. Its more like a pet taxi to him. I finally had upgraded his home to something a bit more decent. Its a AB cage that comes with a house, a wheel, drinking bottle and a food tray. He is damn happy with it I can tell.

Another view here, but the toilet din't come with the cage, I bought it seperately. Xiao P is qutie happy with his new home!

Hasta La VISTA, Windows!

Ya, it must be mad to go into vista now! This is a follow up to the hardware (in)compatible post. NO sound works probably in Vista, except than those on boards one… What a satire right? And guess what? According to the latest DirectX 10 specs, there will not be EAX, A3D or whatever. Basically, DirectX drops the whole sound acceleration idea. What’s the reason behind this I can only guess. Does it has something to do with Xbox 360 and loust gaming PC… Emm

Anyway, I guess for soundcard its just the same like scanner. Lets wait and see...

The Executive Desktop

At a recent computer fair, you won a Executive Desktop in a lucky draw for buying some few hundred dollars of products. Now, how many of you actually have any idea what “The Executive Desktop” is?

1. Microsoft Executive Desktop Keyboard Suite
2. Some desktop computer system
3. Some sort of palm size electronic device

Well, I suppose that covers all right?
You will be very surprise my friend. To collect the item, you will have to go to another place somewhere in Macpherson. The catch is that when you collect it, so does you warranty starts. I am sure we remember Philips tried to pull this, times after times. Giving away electrical goods like coffee makers and stuff. But at least that quite worth it! Its your choice to take it or not.

Anyway, I was there to collect it. There is a list to sign and everyone practically got The Executive Desktop. I saw like 10 person listed with address, hp and whatever you want you name it… Then the office girl brought out The Executive Desktop…

The following item may be scary to some people, please do not proceed if you feel that you can stand the urge to find out what it is…


Hint : Its got nothing to do with computer...


Still want to see?


It not worth much...


Its not very useful either, you can't connect it to anything...


Damn, its not even worth collecting...


OK, here is it :

To tell or not to tell?

Just in the evening, J saw a strange package on the MRT and asked me what to do about it. I simply told her take a look what it is and then decide. If it’s a bomb, it’s probably better if you leave it there, anything else of value might as well take it. But seriously, we all saw the advertisement telling us that we should report anything suspicious. What most people did not know is that there is an alternative ending to the advertisement.

“There was no bomb found. The woman was charged for falsely reporting of a bomb and disruption public transport. She is sentence to 12 year imprisonment and … “

Well, what do you think of it? The biggest problem I find in this society is that it does not reward those we would stand up out the crowd. This has to be changed or else who would ever risk their neck for others. Its not that nobody realized there is a package there. Everyone saw it. But nobody is willing to take the risk of reporting it. The law here favors the punishment more than the reward so to speak.

Therefore, I still think although I did not mean it, what I advised is probably the right thing to do except I should add that if it’s a bomb, you should just leave it alone and leave the train ASAP. Bomb is after all not out business and we do not know if it’s a real bomb. Reporting it and proven a fake one will still end you up in jail. So what’s the point?

My 2 cents. To be honest, I saw a laptop left behind before and it was the biggest temptation I had faced. But I left it alone. Damn, must be mad I am not? I hate myself sometimes...