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Sunday, May 31, 2009
[Holes in the ground...]
Upgrading works has been going on around my estate for a while. It started with the lifts, then they built shelters from block-to-block and now they are doing something to the car-parks.
One of the other things they're doing is re-laying the concrete at some of the void decks. A special non-slip surface will be laid, which would be good during rainy days.
What I don't understand is what are they doing to the old ground:
What's the purpose of making so many little holes in them? I honestly can't think of any reason to do so. If they want to dig up the old ground, then dig it up. What's the point of making all these holes?
^^^ by Locksley @ 6:40 PM.
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
[TNA vs WWE...]
I know how TNA can attract more viewers. Fire Mike Tenay and Don West.
They are the world's most pathetic commentators. Both of them don't have the voices for it and with Don West turning heel (as ridiculous as that sounds), their banter is now unbearable. It's like having two 5-year old kids fighting over who's Dad was tougher.
^^^ by Locksley @ 8:50 PM.
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
[Fuck paper, rock beats everything!]
Of course, right after I posted the entry below, I get the following food-for-thought from my sister:
I prefer this one, though:
^^^ by Locksley @ 10:19 PM.
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[Are you happy?]
I just noticed that several people on my MSN have the word "happy" in their display names or personal messages. Stay happy, be happy, always happy, etc.
I wonder how many of them are really happy.
^^^ by Locksley @ 9:54 PM.
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[Brightness vs Contrast]
Does anyone know what brightness and contrast on the monitor really does? I've been fiddling with the controls and I can't seem to get them right. Reading the information on some websites about this issue makes me want to....stop reading.
I think I've figured it out now. Now to wait till Thursday when I'll be sitting in front of the monitor in the day and see how everything looks with the light coming in from the window.
^^^ by Locksley @ 8:44 PM.
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[World's best actor....]
It's been more than a year since I started working at my current workplace. For one year, I kept most of my opinions to myself and learnt as much as I could about the organisation, its process, systems, as well as the people around me.
Ah, the people.
For one year, I observed. There are not as many people here where I am as compared to our other office, so it's not too complicated and things are not too difficult to figure out.
But I'm done playing dumb. It's time to mind-fuck some of the people there, and to do it with a smile on my face. Acting cute. Drawing lines. Thinking that you're more important than you really are. I can't stand these fuckers.
Time to be the best actor in the world. And no, I don't mean that lame video today...
I don't know how I do it. Pretending everything is okay and carrying on like that. World's best actor. Seriously. When I'm ready to punch a real hole in the fake wall. To be so close to something I want, but will (probably) never be able to get.
Possibly starting the game at stage one. Again. Fuck.
^^^ by Locksley @ 8:02 PM.
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
[New monitor!]
I made a spur-of-the-moment decision to head down to SLS today. I had other plans, but they were cancelled last night. I've been meaning to get a new monitor (I was originally on a 17" 4:3 LCD) and I wanted to do it before I upgraded my rig. If there were any dead or bright pixel problems, I wanted them sorted out before dealing with setting up a new rig.
Long, boring story short, I bought a new 22" monitor today. A Viewsonic VX2262WM. I wanted a 16:10 panel, which meant that my choices were limited. I don't like 16:9 panels. While they may be "true HD", I feel that the panels are too "short" for use as a computer monitor since I sit so close to it. It was either a Viewsonic or a LG, because Samsung's dead/bright pixel policy sucks and I still have a bad impression of Philips monitors due to my experience in Poly. LG panels were insanely expensive for the same range, and I can't really spot the difference in the images they were showing on the display units.
This was my goal since day one - To get a bigger, wide-screen LCD monitor. And it took me a while to get here. Had to get rid of my aquarium (sniff) and change my table. Sounds simple, but it took a lot of planning and effort, especially for my table.
Final piece of the puzzle - to upgrade my rig. I am considering skipping the upgrade. The on-board VGA-out to my previous LCD was absolute shit, but the DVI-out to my new monitor is great. So now I really don't have any reason to do an upgrade (I'm not much of a gamer anyway). Might as well save the money for something else.
^^^ by Locksley @ 8:30 PM.
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Saturday, May 23, 2009
[Owen Hart]
May 7, 1965 - May 23, 1999.
It's been 10 years.
^^^ by Locksley @ 8:50 PM.
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Friday, May 22, 2009
[The importance of being Alert...]
I read an article about online privacy some time back. One of the tips in the article was to create a Google Alert with your name so you'd know whenever your name comes up on a new webpage crawled by Google.
I thought it was an interesting idea, so I did it. I create several alerts, including my email addresses.
Over time, I realise that there are lots of people in Singapore who share the same name as me. I thought that my (real) name is quite unique, because it does not contain the common words that people use for names. Although I know that a student in NUS' law faculty and NTU's student union president (in the past) have the same name as me.
With Google Alerts, I am "discovering" new people with the same name as me. One of them just graduated and will be starting work on July 1st. The rest are mostly quite young. A kid complained about someone with the same name stealing his comic book (or some shit like that, I didn't read the whole thing because the kid doesn't know what punctuation marks are for). There's a metal factory in China with my name on it. This guy in Malaysia has the most BORING life and he's not afraid to share it with the world.
Create a Google Alert using your name. You'll be surprised.
M1's network is down. Great. My phone is getting warm. Probably trying to search for a network to connect to that isn't there.
I have the fan aimed at my while I'm typing this and I'm still sweating. Global warming is killing me.
And the polar bears. Let's not forget the polar bears. Cause that's what's important. The polar bears.
I went for my final after-Lasik review today. As things stand, my left eye is at 6/6 while my right eye is at 6/7.5. My right eye will probably never do better than that, seeing how that's my lazy eye. My vision is still slowly improving and I hope it continues to get better. According to the doctor, my eyes' recovery rate was already faster than expected, but I still have trouble reading words/numbers at a distance. Still a little blurry.
I took some pictures since I was out and about today. They make up the rest of this post.
Street buskers. Sometimes, I wonder whether do they expect us to pay them for their efforts, or do they want us to pay them to stop. Some of these people...They don't produce music. Just noise.
Name one possible reading "emergency". Cocksters.
Saw these belts on sale in Toys 'R Us. Too bad they were all kid sizes. Otherwise, I would have bought this....
Real adult replicas cost US$370-US$430, depending on whether is it real or simulated leather. I want one. This one.
^^^ by Locksley @ 8:16 PM.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
[Fucktards...]
After nine years and eighteen seasons of Survivor, I don't know why some contestants just don't get it. Whether is it during the game or after they got voted out, they talk about honesty, being honest, not lying, and integrity.
Have you not watched the show before applying to be on it? This is Survivor. People lie. Get over it.
The bus I take every morning to go to work has an express version. It has an additional "E" at the end and operates only in the mornings. A total of two or three trips every morning, in one direction. It doesn't stop at every stop and takes to the Expressway for a short distance.
Every once in a while, someone would board the bus not knowing that the express version did not stop at their stop. When the bus passed by their stop, they would press the bell like there's no tomorrow until the bus driver tells him/her that the bus doesn't stop along this particular stretch.
I always laugh in my head when something like this happens. These people deserve to miss their stops. The bus number has an additional "E" at the end. Has it ever occurred to you that the route of this bus may be DIFFERENT?
People usually have a routine and leave home around the same time every morning. After a while, most people know about the express service and how it has a slightly different route and doesn't stop at every stop. So such incidents are few and far between.
This week, they started the same express service in the evenings. In the opposite direction. I got on the express service this evening and it was hilarious. If you take the bus at the same time every day, sooner or later, you'll recognise the people on the bus (which I do for the morning express service). I don't recognise most of the people on the evening express service, and I'm guessing most of them had no idea with regard to the nature of this service.
Along the way, tons of people pressed the bell like mental patients but the bus did not stop. One joker pressed the bell constantly while the bus was on the Expressway. I looked around but couldn't see who it was, but com'on, the bus is on the Expressway...What good would pressing the bell do? The bus can't stop and there are no bus-stops. Whoever it was, fucktard-of-the-year winner in my book.
When the bus finally left the Expressway and came to its first stop, half the people on the bus alighted. You got punk'd, bitches! Hilarious.
^^^ by Locksley @ 9:28 PM.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
[Getting the facts straight...]
They lost someone 14 months ago. Now they found him. Actually, we lost him, and they found him. So what's there to crow about? Apparently, the guy who can't sing "choked back tears" when talking about it. Man, this joker deserves an award of some sort...Best over-reaction of the year, perhaps? I don't know. This is Singapore, over-reacting is what we're good at.
The other day they said he was caught without a fight, while he was sleeping. Now the villagers say no, they surrounded the place and he didn't want to come out until they knocked down the door. Get your story straight. The guy's still over there. If I were you, I would ease up on all the "possible" theories. As far as I'm concerned, you're just making shit up.
Then again, that's your main job, isn't it? Making shit up.
Slammed the taxi door on my finger today. Don't know how that happened. I tried to run through what happened in my brain but I just can't see how it happened. I bled. It was painful. Ow. (JF: No, not when I was with you. When I went back later in the afternoon.)
I almost lost it at work today. It doesn't take much to set me off. A bit of stress and a bit of unhappiness and boom! Fireworks. I've been there a little over a year...I wonder what would happen if I really lost it one day? Would he give me a little more respect? I've been acting a little dumb so far....Maybe losing it would change his view of me? I've always been a bit of a trouble-maker. I wonder for how long can I hold it back.
He's so full of shit sometimes.
^^^ by Locksley @ 8:29 PM.
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Sunday, May 10, 2009
[Cool again...]
After a storm earlier, it's finally cool again. I can't remember when's the last time we had such cool weather. The last few weeks had been really hot. On a few weekends, I actually wished that I was back in the office.
Let's hope this cool weather lasts.
^^^ by Locksley @ 10:44 AM.
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Saturday, May 09, 2009
[Nature's designs...]
I've always been fascinated by how things turn out in nature. Everything seems to have been designed for a specific purpose and reason. Nothing is there...Just because. There's always a reason as to why a plant or an animal has a particular trait. Whether is it for purposes of survival, reproduction, etc.
Which is why I don't understand...Why are insects attracted to light?
It's "flying ant" season again. Lots of them flying around the lights at night. They get attracted to the light, fly around it, eventually entering the fixture cover. They can't get out, so they die in there under the intense heat of the light. I removed the fixture cover a few months ago and cleaned out all the dead bodies. As I look up now, I can see lots more, and one still alive, crawling around in there. It's only a matter of time before it dies and joins those who got there before it.
Why did nature design these attracted-to-lights insects this way? They are attracted to something that means certain death. I've never tried it, but if I lit a candle and turned off all the lights, maybe the insects will be attracted by that as well (moth to a flame?). If they get close enough, they will get burnt alive.
Was nature taking a nap when these insects were made?
^^^ by Locksley @ 7:54 PM.
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[New SyncToy!]
I've been using SyncToy 1.4 for my data backup for a long time. What I liked about this software is that it's lightweight, simple, and does exactly what I wanted it to do. Other file/folder synchronization software on the market are just too complicated. All I want, is for folder A to be the same as folder B. I don't need the bells and whistles.
But there is one problem with SyncToy 1.4. If you delete a folder (with files), upon running the software, it recognises that the files are gone and will delete them for you. However, it does not delete the folder. So while changes in file/data are reflected, the folder structure is not. Some people don't mind, but it drives me crazy.
Microsoft released a new version of SyncToy last year. I didn't realise it until recently. I know they had a new beta version, but I wasn't about to install a beta Microsoft product on my system. Now it's final, so I tried it this morning. Compared to version 1.4, version 2.0 is almost completely the same, although they removed two types of sync actions (which I don't use anyway so it doesn't matter to me), they've made improvements in other areas. Folder deletes are recognised at last, and they've tweaked their folder-id structure such that after synchronizing, the folder sizes of the two folders are the same. It was different in the past because an additional SyncToy file was created and that file had a different file-size for the same folder pair.
It was a 3.5/5 star software in the past. Now it's a 5/5 star software in my book.
For those of you getting by without a proper data backup process, get another hard disk (they are dirt cheap these days), and install SyncToy 2.0. Run it every once in a while and your files would be safe in the event of a hard disk crash.
^^^ by Locksley @ 11:58 AM.
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009
[One year...]
One year ago today, I started work at my current place of employment. One year gone. Plenty has changed. Lessons were learnt. Emotions were felt. For instance, I nearly stabbed myself in the head with a pen today. I deserve an Oscar for going up to the person who caused my near-suicide with a smile moments later. Fucking bitch. You're in your thirties with two children. Stop acting cute.
I hate lizards. I just do. They look all slimy and have their eyes poking out of their heads. Gross. I once stepped on a lizard when I was a kid. Imagine the mess. Another time, I was using the computer and my leg was next to the wall and a lizard climbed up my leg. Thinking about it is making my hair stand.
As I was composing the above section of this entry, I spotted a lizard on my TV.
Small little fella, isn't he?
And up he goes. At this point, I decided that enough is enough. I had my sister bring in a roll of newspaper and after much "get ready" time, I whacked it a few times.
Splat!
The tail was still moving.
Now that's taken care of. I just need to convince myself that there isn't any lizard juice all over my TV and table. Nope, no lizard juice at all.
^^^ by Locksley @ 8:28 PM.
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Sunday, May 03, 2009
[Stupid people...]
This woman was in front of me in the express queue at NTUC. Express queue is for people with eight items or less.
It's a good thing the cashiers did not allow her to pay, and instead, directed her to the regular queues. Good riddance. I'm so sick of such people. The last time I encountered this, the cashier allowed the shopper to pay but told her not to queue at the express queue the next time she has so many items.
Earlier while we were getting our items, we came across this toddler sitting in the middle of the aisle, playing with a toy. What kind of parent would allow their child to sit in the middle of the aisle like that? How would people walk? I was very tempted to kick the toddler (yes, I'm going to hell) just to teach the parents a lesson.
These people should not be allowed to reproduce.
^^^ by Locksley @ 7:42 PM.
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Saturday, May 02, 2009
[Are we safe?]
I was at the MRT station yesterday waiting for someone. It gave me time to people-watch. I saw a few groups of NS recruits out together. How do I know? Their hair. Or the lack thereof. It screams "chao recruits" from a mile away.
Then there's this woman who tried to scan her EZ-link card without taking it out from her handbag. After countless attempts resulted in a flashing red light, she gave up, reached into her handbag, took out the card, and slammed it with authority on the card reader. What a douche, taking out her anger on a machine when the reason behind it not working correctly was her own stupidity.
Then, there's the "security officer" who was supposed to check commuters' bags. I've never seen one that looked remotely qualified for the task. They certainly do not look physically fit and the whole time I was there, he did nothing except to help trigger the motion sensor in one of the gates which did not close after a commuter has passed through it. And don't get me started on those who patrol the MRT platforms, holding a walkie-talkie. They try to look all serious, but com'on, if something were to go down, what could they do? They would probably shit in their pants.
^^^ by Locksley @ 11:26 AM.
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