I'm back!

If anyone was wondering about the lack of posts, it was due to my motherboard dying on me.

What happened was that the CPU fan was clogged with dust and would not turn. This caused the fan to short out, which in turn led to the motherboard getting shorted out. I only realised this when my computer kept turning off by itself. Oh well.

But sadly, this has set my back quite a bit (285) and thus my hopes of getting a Nintendo DS lite has to be put on hold till I get my next pay packet.

What was infuriating was the way the repair shop tried to cheat me of my money. They wanted to charge $150 for installing a 80gb (which cost $85, meaning they wanted to charge an additional $65!!). When I asked them why did it cost so much, they said it was because of configuration issues. Er what configuration? The most that was needed would be formatting the harddisk. Probing further got me to "We'll do backup of your data for you just in case anythign happens!"

Well, my data is on my old harddisk. In what way would it be in danger?

They also wanted to charge an additional $30 for configuring my software due to the new motherboard! OMG!

So what happened was that I told them I'll do the config myself. And guess what?

When I got my comp back, Windows was pretty much configured for the new motherboard although the onboard LAN was not turned on. A simple turning it on and resetting my static IP address was enough to get it up and running. They actually configured it for me when they had to test if the new motherboard was working I guess.

And the harddisk was also formatted already. So yah, I think they thought that I had no idea what was happening and tried to leech me of my hard earned cash. Bleh~!

Joke time: (In reference to my title :P)

Arnold, Sylvester and Bruce Willis were asked to act in a movie showcasing classic composers. They were given a choice on which composer they would play.

Bruce thought about it and said, "I've always admired Chopin, so I'll play Chopin!"

Sylvester also thought about it and said, "Hmmm, I like listening to Beethovon, so I guess I want Beethovon."

Now everybody looked at Arnie, wondering who he would choose.

At which Arnie said, "I'll be Bach!"

New kit is out!

It's growing on me. Going to get meself one ASAP. ALONSO 14 on the back. Wee~!

Roberto Carlosssssss!!!!!!

Why is he even called a defender?

Science comics!

More from where that came from!

Feel good short film

Cool concept really.

Quotable quotes!

Shamelessly ripped from Sandman:

Delirium: What is the name for the precise moment when you 've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago?


Answer (highlight to see) : Mercy

OMFG! I love Sandman!

True Friendship

Are you tired of all those sissy "friendship" poems that always sound
good, but never actually come close to reality? Well, here is a series
of promises that really speaks to true friendship:

(1) When you are sad - I will help get you drunk and plot revenge
against the son of a bitch who made you sad.

(2) When you are blue - I will try to dislodge whatever is choking you.

(3) When you smile - I will smile, knowing you finally got laid.

(4) When you are scared - I will rag on you about it every chance I get.

(5) When you are worried - I will tell you horrible stories about how
much worse it could be and to quit whining.

(6) When you are confused - I will use small words.

(7) When you are sick - I will stay the hell away from you until you are
well again. I don't want whatever you have!

(8) When you fall - I will point and laugh at your clumsy ass.

This is my oath to you my friend, I pledge it till the end. Why, you may ask?
Because you are my friend.

Remember: A good friend will help you move. A really good friend will
help you move a body. Let me know if I ever need to bring a shovel.

Shamelessly ripped from here

Who needs enemies when you have friends?

Cool Goldberg machine Nintendo style

From www.joystiq.com

sidenote: anyone looking to get a Nintendo DS lite? Then we can have multiplayer!

More Zidane goodness

Wee~!

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh, hear my prayer.



Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.



Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.



Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sleeve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.



Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.



Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.



Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.



Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.



Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.



Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.



Pronunciation -- think of Psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.



Finally, which rhymes with enough --
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is just give up!

More Zidane

As seen by various people

I'll still like to throw by support behind Zizou. I'm not saying what he did was right, but the magical moments that he has given us all over the years are just too much.

Allez, Allez, Zizou!

Thank you very much!

I watched "Thankyou for Smoking" the other day and after some thinking, realised some stuff.

*SPOILERS*

For a show that is about smoking, there is a distinct lack of people smoking in the show itself. The only 2 people I could distinctly remember smoking was the soldier in the old flim and Captain, the boss of the Big Tobacco. And guess what? The soldier was shot while Captain died of a heart attack.

Sublimal messaging? Hmmm..

Well at least the main character lived because he smoked, but not once in the whole movie did I recall him smoking.

*SPOILERS*

EDIT:

According to IMDB:

From IMDB trivia:

No one is shown smoking a cigarette throughout the entire movie.

As such, I recall slightly better that the soldier did not smoke, he took one out but was shot before he could take a puff and Captain did not smoke, but was drinking quite a bit.

Ronaldo, Figo and Lampard

...are at the pearly gates of heaven, when St. Peter opens the gate. He turns to Figo and asks "Why do you deserve eternal happiness in Heaven my son?"

Figo replies "I am an artist; I inspire young people to be great footballers, and in turn take them away from a life of crime." St. Peter nods, impressed.

He turns to Ronaldo and asks the same question. Ronaldo retorts "When I play football I treat everyone as an equal, I see no ethnic or racial divides. The boy from Rio is the same as the superstar from Madrid."

Once again St. Peter is impressed, and nods. Next he turns to Lampard, and says......

"I suppose you are looking for your ball back?"

Commencement

Kudos to Jiahui for this idea. Should try to sell it at the commencement alongside the people trying to sell the photos and other stuff.

Anyway, I've reached another stage in my life. Commencement. The begining of a new era. The result of countless years of studies (maths issn't my strong point). Some people feel overwhelmed. Strangely, I kind of feel devoid of emotion. It doesn't really seem to matter to me. It's just a degree. Ping any random IP address on the Internet and you'll get a reply from a graduate's IP address.

Made some mistakes during university life, but they're all lessons in life and I do feel richer for it. The ups and downs, the highs and lows, the bitching and moaning, the joys and laughter. It is a period in life that I will always remember. Thanks to all those who supported me and gave me strength, I want to dedicate this t-shirt to everyone who helped me survive university!


You never cared, so don't act like I mean anything to you now.

For everyone out there

Ode to the Nice Guys

Ode to the Nice Girls

A nice guys Lament

Question

Were wastepaper bins made to fit the normal plastic bags or were plastic bags made that size to fit the wastepaper bins?

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