Tuesday, February 28, 2006  

[Paying attention to details...]

I took a Marketing module last semester. One of the examples we looked at was how Coca Cola managed it's marketing campaigns and how they sold their products. It was mentioned in the textbook/notes that their first diet coke was actually called Tab Cola. It was used as an example of a product which has reached maturity and no new marketing/advertising campaigns were created for it. However, Coca Cola still manufactures it because there is small, loyal following for Tab Cola.

I've never seen a can of Tab Cola in my life. I remember when Diet Coke was introduced in Singapore. It was a long time ago, and there was a pretty massive advertising campaign to introduce people to the product. Hence, I always thought Diet Coke was the first "diet" cola.

TaB Cola
I was watching an old episode of That 70s Show earlier and I spotted them using Tab Cola in one of their scenes! Talk about paying attention to small details (the producers, not me).

Pretty cool when something you learn in school allows you to appreciate something outside of it. Just like that episode of Veronica Mars I talked about a while back.

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[Ramly Burger]

Ramly Burger
There's a mini-bazaar going on in school for the last couple of days. I was surprised to see that among the stalls, 2 of them were selling Ramly Burgers (which are illegal in Singapore).

I've never tried one before, so I decided to. My friend told me it's not the authentic version, just some people stealing the receipe and using the "Ramly" name. I still gave it a try anyway.

Didn't taste very good. I guess my friend was right.

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Monday, February 27, 2006  

[House Wanted]

I saw this pasted on the wall at the lift landing on my way home today.

Gimme a free house!
So, if anyone of you out there has a free, spare house lying around, give him a call. Better yet, give me a call. I could use a house too.

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[For you, Smudge...]

Manchester United beat Wigan 4-0 about 20 minutes ago to win the Carling Cup in a game which they mostly dominated. Credit to Wigan for getting this far. As far as I'm concerned, they're already heros.

Alan Smith, after breaking his foot against Liverpool in the FA Cup on the 18th.
It was a nice touch at the end when everyone put on a shirt that said "For you, Smudge". Smudge is Alan Smith's nickname.

While I'm glad United won the Cup, it was a bittersweet moment. Take Wigan...Reaching the finals of the Carling Cup was a major achievement in itself for them. After enjoying a fairytale start to the season, they've fallen 9th in the league table (as of right now). United, on the other hand, have repeatedly "thrown" away the chance to win the Carling Cup on several occasions. Now it was all they were fighting for.
Wigan: Major accomplishment, even though they lost.
Man United: Because there's nothing else.
The ball is round...May United's time come again.

I couldn't end this entry without saying how sorry I felt for Michael Pollitt. At his age, this was probably one of his last chances to take part in the finals of a major tournament. He lasted all of 3-minutes before sustaining an injury and was substituted in the 14th minute.

That's it for me tonight. I have a mid-term today (it's after midnight), and I only started studying yesterday. No, it's not because I was bumming around. I just have an insane workload this semester. Say a little prayer for me. Yeah, the countdown's over, semester has restarted. I can't think of anything else to countdown to at the moment, so the ticker shall stay as it is.

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Saturday, February 25, 2006  

[The things people say...]

One of my favourite sections of the local newspaper is the Forum page, where readers write in with their views, 2-cents worth, and sometimes just plain nonsense. I shall comment on 2 letters published today. Names of the letter-writers left out on purpose.

First letter:
Sex video: What's wrong with youths?

What disturbs me in 'Student in sex video: 'We didn't intend to be porn stars' (ST, Feb 24) is the remark by the female student: 'I have done nothing wrong... Everyone does it.'

I've followed the articles about youths these days. They are more exposed to technology and the new age. The problem lies not in the tools of technology but the very basic value system of today's youths.

I am disturbed to know that the value system in youths has not improved. I am not sure if we should blame society, parents, schools or peer pressure for making youths what they are today.

They think in a very different way that's influenced by many factors. I wonder if the youths are equipped to handle the many problems of today's world.

My five-year-old son is able to argue with me issues I find difficult. He said exactly the same thing: 'I have done nothing wrong. Everyone does it.'

I tell him that even if the whole world is rude, he does not have to be. As a Christian, I refer to the Ten Commandments and prick the conscience, mine and his, and explore what is right and wrong.

I tell him that when he does something, he has to think of the consequences and learn about responsibility. I believe I have an important role to equip him for the challenges ahead.

As the book 'Parenting with Love and Logic' by Foster Cline and Jim Fay puts it: 'Children who grow in responsibility also grow in self-esteem - a prerequisite for achievement in the real world. As self-esteem and self-confidence grow, children are better able to make it once the parental ties are cut.

'Let's love them enough to allow them to learn the necessary and crucial skill of responsible thinking and living.'
Nothing's wrong with youths. You, on the other hand, have way too much time on your hands. Just because you're a religious person doesn't mean everyone has to be. Everyone has a right to live their lives the way they see fit, and they can do without holier-than-thou people like you passing judgment on them.
Who pays for service via Malaysian network?

I am a StarHub subscriber and I have a problem faced by all mobile phone owners.

When I was in Pulau Ubin or Changi Village, I had to answer incoming calls and SMS. When I switched on my phone, I noticed 'DIGI' or 'CELCOM' which meant that I was using signals from the Malaysian service provider.

Though I am in Singapore, I am compelled to use the Malaysian service. In such a case, who pays for the service provided by DIGI and CELCOM? If it's me, do I pay the local or overseas rates?

I hope StarHub can enlighten me. How can I avoid using the Malaysian service when I'm in Singapore?
Your problem is NOT faced by all modile phone owners. Only by those dumb enough not to read the manual. Turn off auto network selection, and you're done. Dumbass....

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Friday, February 24, 2006  

[I'm making a list, and I'm checking it twice...]

[I don't know why I suddenly thought of writing this. It's not like anyone pissed me off recently.]

What do you do when someone pisses you off?

I'm not going to lie. I get ticked off very easily. Ok, maybe not really ticked off, but I do get annoyed at the little things. When Amber said (after the second season of Survivor) that she tends to be easily irritated but had to keep her feelings to herself and put a smile on her face, I could totally identify with that because that's what I do as well.

I guess many people would probably feel the same way at one time or another. The difference is how you deal with it. Some people laugh it off and don't take things to heart. I wish I could be like that, but I can't. I have a list. Not an actual "list", per se. I forgive, but I never forget. Which was ironic because for one of my modules last semester regarding effective management, that's what the lecturer said as well, but in a different context. I read one of David Beckham's books...I can't remember the title. It's the one with his face on the red cover. In it, he also mentioned he had a list of people who did him wrong (at that time, Simone was at the top of the list, no doubt).

It's extremely satisfying to learn that people who are on my list got what they deserved. Couple of years ago, I learnt that one of the mofos on my list got her's. That felt great. To the people on my list (no, they probably don't know it): Somehow, somewhere down the line, if our paths cross again and I'm in a position of power/influence, I'm gonna screw you over.

So, what about you? Do you have a list?

On to more regular stuff....Went to school today to try out my CS3266 project. It worked, although there were some minor kinks which I was able to iron out. That's a relief. This means I can continue coding at home and then exporting it over to the school's servers.

School restarts again on Monday. I need to prepare for a presentation, 2 mid-terms and write a 1500-word term paper. All this, before Monday. Lovely.

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Thursday, February 23, 2006  

[Creative Zen Nano Plus Review]

I've been playing with my new MP3 player for a couple of days now, and I think I'll do a short review of it.

The firmware of the Nano Plus out of the box was 1.00.02. After using it for a few days, I noticed some problems with it.
  1. The sound quality isn't very good. Kelly Clarkson did not sound like herself. There were some tones the player could not reproduce. It was not due to the earphones, because I tried using my Panasonic earphones with the same results. Compared to my old Panasonic, the sound quality of the Nano Plus was pretty horrible.
  2. Once again, there's a problem with the shuffle play function. When you first start playing, the first few songs would be random, then you'd get a chunk of tracks which are always the same, in the same order. After this chunk, the tracks would be random again. This really pissed me off. This means I need to manually skip a huge chunk of tracks everytime I turn it on.
So I went to Creative's website this morning to see if I could update the firmware. As it turns out, they put their software and firmware updates in different sections of their site. Good thing I managed to find both. Anyhow, I updated the firmware to 1.10.03 (what a huge leap!). It was easy, Creative's software/drivers are usually very well-written, easy to use and you can't go wrong.

Now the Nano Plus boots up faster, the sound quality has vastly improved, and most important of all, the shuffle play function now works like it should. The only thing is that it takes longer to switch from MP3 to FM and vice versa, but it doesn't matter that much to me.

I guess I probably need to use it a couple of days more to know if there are still any kinks in the firmware. But after testing it for 10 minutes, I give it a 8/10, compared to a 4/10 I'd have given last night.

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Monday, February 20, 2006  

[New toys...]

I bought a new MP3-player today. This makes it the 4th MP3-player I've bought. My first 3 MP3-players were all MP3-CD players, and all of them were from Panasonic. The first one I bought was a pretty basic player. I realised after a while that I needed a wired remote...Cause it's really hard to skip to the next track when you're walking around on the street and the discman was in your backpack.

I sold my first player to my section-mate when I was in the Army (actually I bought all my earlier 3 players when I was in the Army). I went to buy a similar model from Panasonic, this one with a wired remote. After a while, I got sick of listening to my MP3s and wanted to listen to FM radio. So I passed my second player to my sister while I bought yet another Panasonic MP3 discman. This one was perfect (or so I thought). Played MP3, had a wired remote, and provided FM reception.

As it turns out, there's a very big problem with Panasonic's random/shuffle play algorithm. Folks with programming background would know about Math.random (or it's variant in whatever language you're familiar with). Panasonic's Math.random could only generate a few numbers. I've got over 100 tracks on my CD, but the discman could only play a selected few. The final straw came when I realised that out of the 124 tracks on my CD, tracks above 70 were never ever played.

Creative Zen Nano Plus
I've been scouting around for a flash-memory MP3-player for a while, but decided to buy the Creative Zen Nano Plus yesterday. That's the green one on the left, with my Panasonic (3rd player) on the right. I wanted a flash-memory MP3-player because I'm not comfortable with taking a hard-disk based player around. Say what you want, but the hard disk will stop spinning one day. There are no moving parts in a flash-memory player, so the chances of failure are lower.

Reasons why I bought a Creative Zen instead of an iPod:
  1. The Zen uses a regular AAA battery. The iPod uses a non-user serviceable battery.
  2. The iPod doesn't have FM reception.
  3. The iPod's freaking expensive!
  4. The iPod scratches easily.
  5. The boss of Creative is from Singapore, and he attended the same polytechnic as me.
On a different note, I turned 24 today. Was extremely surprised to receive a birthday greeting on my cellphone from Captain Eric, my platoon commander when I was in the Army and my course commander when I went to School of Armour. He's probably a Major by now. My ex-girlfriend also remembered, which was nice.

Besides my new MP3-player, I almost had a new pair of contact lens as well. I went to pick them up, and when I put them on I couldn't see clearly. The optician did an eye test and it seems that they've undercorrected my lens. They're going to send for another pair. In the 15 minutes I wore them, I already felt that they're much more comfortable than my old pair. Hopefully, the new lens would be comfortable, and not make my eyes tired and bloodshot like before.

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Sunday, February 19, 2006  

[One man down...]

Manchester United crashed out of the FA Cup a little while ago, losing 1-0 to Liverpool at Anfield. In truth, I felt that both teams did not play well, although Liverpool was the better team. It was a match United did not deserve to win. Their passing was sloppy and it didn't "flow" very well.

Alan Smith
Alan Smith suffered a pretty horrific injury during the match. I read on Soccernet just before writing this and it was reported that he dislocated his ankle and broke his leg.

When I was watching the match, I didn't know what had happened. All I saw was him trying to block Riise's free-kick and he doubled over and never got up. The next scene I remember was some of his team-mates holding him by his arms and helping him sit down. Many of them were gesturing wildly for the stretcher. At this point, all we saw was his back. Martin Tyler (who was doing commentary, without Andy Gray, thank heavens) didn't know what happened neither, but he did comment on Van Nistelrooy, who took a look at Smith and moved away because he couldn't stand the sight of whatever he saw.

We then saw a replay of what happened. It was clear from the replay that something happened to Smith's left leg, but it wasn't very clear as the angle was wrong and Smith blocked his own leg from view as he went down.

Next shot we had of Smith was him lying on his back. I thought at that time maybe he broke his nose or something, but his face was clean. My sister remarked right then that his lips were white/grey. Was he going into shock? I don't know. The medics secured his leg and he was carried off to a standing ovation. A nice gesture from the Liverpool fans. On his way out, Smith actually reached out to grab an oxygen mask.

I'm pretty shaken up by the whole thing (and I saw Sid breaking his leg in WCW, which was many times more graphic). Alan Smith is currently my favourite United player. He hasn't done well in recent times, after being switched to midfield. But when he first arrived, he was an instant hero, scoring 4 goals in 8 matches, many of which came late and secured the 3 points for United.

Here's to a speedy recovery for Alan Smith.

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Friday, February 17, 2006  

[Taking a break...]

The semester break has began for me...I won't have lessons until the 27th. The official term break is actually from the 19th to 23rd, but I have no classes on Fridays, so I won't be going to school till the 27th.

I really need this break. Need the time to relax a bit, and catch up on my work. Especially for CS3266...I'm way behind. Need to take the 2nd dose of my Hep B vaccination on the 21st too. That's $80. Ouch...

Estan: You're heading back to Australia soon right? Have a safe trip.

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Thursday, February 16, 2006  

[Wireless intercom...]

...with wires.

Wireless intercom, with wires.
I saw this intercom yesterday, but didn't get a chance to take a picture till today. It says wireless intercom, but there's a wire on the top and it runs all the way to the inside of one of the canteen stalls.

Wireless intercom, indeed.

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Wednesday, February 15, 2006  

[How to get a PhD....]

How to get a PhD?
I was walking along a corridor when I saw this on the notice board. I just laughed when I saw this...If only it was this easy.

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[Businessman shot dead...]

From Channelnewsasia.com:

A 41-year-old businessman was shot dead early Wednesday morning in his flat in Serangoon.

When police arrived at about 7.10am at Block 223, Serangoon Avenue 4, they found the man lying face down and bleeding on the floor of the study room.

Police say a man, armed with a gun, had entered the flat at about 6.55am.

The victim's wife, teenage daughter and the maid were tied up and the house was ransacked.

A few shots were heard and the man then ran out of the flat.

A manhunt is currently ongoing for the suspect who is believed to be a Chinese man in his late 30s to 40s.

He has been described as being plump and about 1.7 metres tall, and was last seen wearing a black round necked T-shirt, black pants and black shoes.

He also had a black cap and appeared to be blind in his right eye.

Police add that he had fled the house carrying a blue denim handbag believed to contain cash and jewellery taken from the flat.

The police have advised members of the public not to approach the suspect as he may be dangerous. - CNA/ir
This is a big deal in Singapore. We can't buy/carry firearms and such incidents are rare. Whenever something like this happens, it usually results in a manhunt and it's "big news" locally.

I don't know if this is a good time to make jokes...But I'm in school right now, and I'm wearing a black round-necked Reebok t-shirt, black cargo pants and black basketball shoes. I read somewhere once that if you can't read the biggest letter on the eye-test chart without glasses in America, you're considered legally blind. In that case, I'm blind in my right eye too.

Gee whiz....What're the odds?

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Tuesday, February 14, 2006  

[Girls and boys...]

Fashion-wise, I think girls get away with more stuff than guys. They can wear whatever type of clothes they want, and no one bats an eye.

A girl wearing her sweater back to front.
Take this girl for example. She wore her cardigan back to front (buttons on her back), and it didn't seem strange.

Imagine a guy wearing a windbreaker backwards. How many stares would he get?

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[Screw the topic...]

I've been feeling out of sorts lately. Lots of things on my mind, couldn't sleep last night. Got up today in a cranky mood. Got pissed at every single thing.

I guess the main issue on my mind right now is my "disagreement" with one of my project mates. I talked about her in some of my earlier posts. We're going to sit down tomorrow to clear the air, sort things out. All of us, not just me and her. While the 2 other guys were also not entirely happy with her, I'm really the one she's pissed with right now. I don't know how useful tomorrow's discussion would be...I don't see her changing her ways, and I won't bow down to a holier-than-thou, I'm-always-right-you're-always-wrong, trans-op-go-wrong candidate.

Way behind time for my e-commerce project. I should be halfway done by now, and I haven't even created all the sample data in my database. Excellent.

Have a presentation later. I'm usually not nervous about presentations. I seldom rehearse neither, just get up there, look at my points on the slides and wing it. I'm nervous today because the lecturer's kinda nuts. Hope she likes my answer.

Disappointed by how last night went. I guess what's not meant to be, is not meant to be.

I better be going...The bus ride to Business School can be a real bitch at noon.

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Saturday, February 11, 2006  

[Boo!]

[This is really part 2 of the whole youtube.com copyright issue. For the 1st part, check out what I wrote 2 posts ago.]

I checked my youtube.com account earlier, and all but 2 of the wrestling videos I uploaded have been "rejected". I guess it was bound to happen. Those videos were popular, got about 100 hits each every day, and were linked to by a ton of other sites. Not wanting any further trouble, I deleted them all.

Too bad. I think lots of people enjoyed those videos. They were quite heavily bookmarked and received quite a fair bit of comments.

I'm not sure how the copyright process works on youtube.com, so I don't know if it was indeed someone from WWE who saw them and requested their removal or just some random guy who decided to "flag" the videos. Either way, I think it's dumb. In a way, this is free publicity for WWE, and most of the stuff I put up was pretty old. How would they eat into their current profit margin, I'd never know.

Whatever.

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[A bad stretch...]

There hasn't been a lot of cheerful stuff on this blog lately. Reason being there's very little to be cheerful about in my life right now.

I'm in the middle of a pretty bad stretch. Let's see...School-work wise, I have a rather tough workload this semester. But all in all, I can still manage it. I haven't really fallen very far behind in any of my modules, so that's a good thing.

The main thing that's causing me grief is this idiot of a group member in one of my project groups. She's a very difficult person to work with (much harder than the bitch from Engineering last semester). We are supposed to submit a case study report every week, and while the 3 of us guys can always agree on matters/points of the case, she always has some hare-brained idea and would go off and quote some stupid website or book which we do not have access to.

We had a discussion on Thursday. She was there, but being unprepared (she had to study for a quiz for another module), she did not partake very much in the discussion. While the 3 of us had come to conclusions for all our points, she was busy surfing the Internet on her laptop to try and find information to support her views. And last night she called for a meeting on MSN to discuss basically what we already did on Thursday. We had to go over it all again just for her sake. That took 2 hours. What a waste of time....

And for some god-forsaken reason, she seems to have an issue with my work. We're currently working on the 2nd case study, and the 2 of us butted-heads during our 1st. It seems to have carried over, maybe she's just doing it out of spite, I don't know. Fuck. I probably don't make much sense here...Guess you have to be there.

She wanted to discuss something with me *again* today, with regards to the points I used for my part. I have a ton of other things to do, and still have to put time aside for her. She's doing a good job of irritating and pissing me off.

Lest anyone think that this rant has anything to do with those schoolboy crushes, when the boy who likes the girl picks on her and/or vice versa, I would like to state for the record that she's fugly. Subby can probably testify to this (actually he said she looked like a trans-op gone wrong). And during our lecture, I heard very clearly someone behind me asking his friend, "Hey, is that person male or female?" I'm pretty sure they're talking about the same girl.

Yeah, I realised that saying all this probably made me look very small. I don't give a shit. It's my blog, and I can say whatever I want.

One last thing. She has more hair above her lip than I do.

Whoever said girls were sugar and spice and everything nice?

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Friday, February 10, 2006  

[Oh well...]

I've uploaded a whole bunch of videos to youtube.com, and among the most popular/viewed (of those uploaded by me) was John Cena free-styling on Edge & Lita on the January 23rd edition of RAW. It was viewed 2,637 times and had about 20 people bookmarking it. It was also used by several people on their sites.

I uploaded the video on January 26th, and I received an email today from youtube.com saying that my video violated their terms and condition. While I can still see the video on the "My Videos" list, it can no longer load and cannot be played.

Too bad.

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Thursday, February 09, 2006  

[Just in case...]

2 locks on 1 locker.
I was with some friends today, and one of them saw this locker as we were walking along a corridor. I don't know what the owner kept inside, but whatever it was, it must be pretty valuable.

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Wednesday, February 08, 2006  

[For a very special audience only...]

[This post requires some networking background/knowledge to understand. If not, it probably won't make much sense to you.]

If you've ever taken any networking courses or read any networking book, you'd most likely have come across subnetting. The reasons why the host portion cannot have all 1's or all 0's are obvious and easy to understand.

However, why does this rule apply to the subnet portion? Most (if not all) textbooks also say that all 1's and all 0's cannot be used for the subnet portion, but after thinking long and hard, I realised there's really no reason why it cannot be done. If implemented correctly, the networking devices should not confused the all 1's and all 0's subnets for network address or broadcast addresses, since you cannot have all 1's and 0's for the host portion.

Did some digging around online, found this site that taught subnetting. Nothing new about the information presented, except the last bit at the bottom of the page.
"Historically, subnets composed of all ones or all zeros were reserved. Therefore the minimum number of subnet bits allowed was two, which allotted for two usable subnets (01 and 10 in binary, subnets 1 and 2 in decimal) and two reserved subnet addresses (00 and 11 in binary, subnets 0 and 3 in decimal). However, RFC 1878 abolished this practice because the reserved subnets were generally not being used for any special purpose and was considered wasteful. Thus the minimum number of subnet bits is now one, allowing for two usable subnets (0 and 1 in binary, and decimal). This info can be helpful for students preparing for the MCSE 70-216 exam."
Mystery solved.

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Monday, February 06, 2006  

[What the f....]

I was done with my work for the day, and was about to go catch the Chelsea vs Liverpool match when something caught my eye.

I took out one of my guppies this afternoon because she looked like she was about to give birth, or was in the process of doing so. Until now, there are no fries, only lots of fish droppings in the birthing tank.

Anyway, that's not the point...I've been wrong before. What shocked me was that one side of my guppy turned black.

Female guppy.
This is the right side, everything's fine. The picture below is shot from the front of the guppy, and you can see half of it is black.

Shot from the front.
The right side. Yikes!

Dark patch on the guppy.
Close-up of the black patch.

Close-up of the dark patch.
Anyone who's ever kept guppies before would know that this is not normal. I've never encountered this in my 2 years of keeping/rearing guppies. Anyone have experience with this and know what's wrong? Leave a comment. Thanks.

EDIT: Gallas scored a goal and Chelsea's leading 1-0 now. He scored the goal while I was typing, and I managed to stumble out to the living room (I don't have cable TV in my room) just in time to catch the replay. Poor Liverpool defending I must say...

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Saturday, February 04, 2006  

[Memoirs of a Geisha]


I can't decide whether this little skit was more disturbing or more funny . Thanks YQ.

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Friday, February 03, 2006  

[I don't play well with others...]

For one of my modules this semester, we have to submit a group report regarding a case study every week. That's a lot of work. We had our first discussion yesterday, and only 2 (out of 4) of us were prepared. I was one of those who came with my version of the answers. Of the 2 that came unprepared, one haven't even read the article, while the other did but had not attempted the questions yet.

If I haven't read the article when I came for the discussion, I'd probably have kept my mouth shut and not try to debate too much. As for the other person...Having to only look for two sources of information to backup our claims and to compile the 4-page report, I think she got a pretty good deal. Don't spoil it by calling my work "terrible" (just because I used a slightly different word to put across the same meaning). At least I did something...What did you bring to the table? Stop nit-picking my work. The person who does the compiling is expected to clean up a little here and there, so do your part and shut up.

What is it with me? Do I have some sort of alpha-male or Guy-X personality that just makes it hard for me to work with other people? Or is it just them? There are 7 more cases to go, I hope I don't end up almost killing someone.

On to some other stuff. This picture below was taken off this week's RAW. Look at the fan's sign. Even Lawler was laughing at it. You either get it or you don't.

Is that Martin Lawrence?
Watched the Rumble again with my sister earlier. We watched about half of the actual Rumble, and once again, she came up with some funny observations:

On Simon Dean getting his ass handed to him:
"He shouldn't have wore purple. No good comes from wearing purple. Just ask Tinky-Winky."
When Tatanka entered the Rumble:
"Oh my God! Is that Tatanka!? He still looks the same! [I told her that the last time he was on TV, he had a pot-belly. But he's lost most of it now.] Oh yeah, you're right. He looks fatter. I wonder why he doesn't do the (war)dance anymore. No wait! I know! It's because he'd jiggle too much!"
Sisters...Can't live with them, can't live without them. At least the laughter's making me live longer.

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Thursday, February 02, 2006  

[Royal Rumble 2006, part 1/3]

I saw the Royal Rumble a couple of days ago, but didn't have time to upload the screenshots until just now. I had a lot of problems trying to upload pictures onto Blogspot. If you've got a blog on Blogspot, do you encounter these problems?
  1. After clicking "DONE", your pictures don't show up in your Post Editor.
  2. The above problem tends to happen more if I upload multiple images. It happens less when I upload a single image, one at a time.
  3. Would the pictures you've upload successfully appear in the Post Editor (the code generated shows up) under "Edit HTML", but when you look at the "Compose" tab, all you see is one red "X"?
  4. It seems that you have have a maximum of 35 images per post. Beyond that, the image won't show up.
I've written to Blogspot about the problems, no reply till date. Not surprised.

Okay, on to the screenshots. I had to break the post into 2 more parts, because of the 35 images limit per post. I also changed the timestamp so that they'd display in the right order.

^^^ by Locksley @ 11:45 PM. 1 comments.
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[Royal Rumble 2006, part 2/3]

The best match of the entire PPV, the Cruiserweight Invitational. Gregory Helms won it.


This segment was funny as hell. Triple H asked Candice to "hold his ball", then after finding out he drew number 1, he got pissed and asked for his ball back and left. Haha!


Rey Mysterio, finding out he drew number 2. He blamed Eddie.


This is sick, Vince with the divas. As to why, read the end of part 3.


This is gay. No need to read anything.



Triple H's mad that he drew number 1....


While Rey's celebrating that he drew number 2. Nah, he's doing the Eddie-dance.



Chris Benoit and the returning RVD got some loud pops from the audience.



Carlito, hiding from RVD. He never fails to crack me up.


Randy Orton, the last man to enter the Rumble.


Shawn Michaels super-kicking Shelton Benjamin off the ring apron.



I caught the referee giving Rey a drink twice. The second time was over in a flash, but I got clear shots of the first time. Watch the referee on the left.











The final four...Rey Mysterio, RVD, Triple H and Randy Orton.


Rey knocking RVD off the corner, courtesy of Triple H.





Double 619!





Rey eliminates Triple H.


Orton tries to eliminate Rey...

^^^ by Locksley @ 11:35 PM. 0 comments.
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