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Tuesday, April 29, 2014
[So little and yet so much of it...]
^^^ by Locksley @ 9:59 PM.
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Sunday, April 27, 2014
[Giggity!]
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Saturday, April 26, 2014
[Do you remember?]
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[Pasar malam!]
^^^ by Locksley @ 9:15 PM.
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[Rain...]
^^^ by Locksley @ 6:45 PM.
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Friday, April 25, 2014
[Seagate Central...]
I've been thinking of getting a NAS for the longest time. I did my research, but all the products available were all a bit too "enterprise" for my liking. I didn't really need any fancy features. I just needed something I could use as a network drive, with password protection.
I chanced upon the Seagate Central recently, and thought that it matched my requirements very closely. WD also has something similar. In fact, they had multiple models. In the end, I decided to go with Seagate because I had a better experience with them with regard to traditional 3.5" hard-disks.
However, I did a double-take when I read the reviews on Amazon. To say the reviews were mixed would be an understatement. Usually, if a product is good, you will see most of the users giving it a 5-star rating, while a small percentage would give it ratings across the other four categories. On the other hand, if it was a shit product, most of the ratings would be near the bottom.
With the Seagate Central, reviews were spread quite evenly across all five categories. I don't usually see something like that. Reading the reviews, in fact, made me feel as if I was reading reviews for two different products - a very good NAS, and a shit NAS.
In any event, I decided to take a chance, and so far, I am not disappointed. I didn't encounter any of the slow transfer speeds mentioned by the reviewers on Amazon. I managed to get 80MB/s downloads and 40MB/s uploads, on a gigabit network environment. The remote access feature works. To be fair, I turned off DLNA, social, iTunes, and one other service which I cannot remember the name of right now. There's a chance that with these services on, transfer speeds would suck, but it really doesn't matter to me as I have no intentions of using them.
I am thinking of buying another one. This time from Amazon, as it's about $80 cheaper than the retail shops. This is an awesome product for me. I'm accessing it via WiFi now, so it's not an ideal setup (the gigabit network I mentioned earlier was for testing only). I can't wait to hook it up at my new place and enjoy having my data all in one place. I plan to build micro-ATX and NUC systems, running on SSDs, all mapped to the NAS via a gigabit network.
I can't wait!
^^^ by Locksley @ 7:59 PM.
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Thursday, April 24, 2014
[Visa status, my ass...]
I listed my resume on several job listing websites some time back, when I was looking for a job. I've gotten a job since then, but I've left my resume details listed. I figured there's no harm in doing so. There is a chance that a recruiter may see my resume and contact me for a better position.
This means I've been receiving emails from recruiters on a regular basis. It's not too hard to figure out what they are doing, in some cases. They simply mass-email all the people who turns up in a search they did, and hope that enough of them respond. I know this, because the serious ones will call you and basically conduct a preliminary phone interview first, before sending you the JD.
Nevertheless, I look at the emails they send from time to time. Unless I can tell from the subject that it's not something I would be interested in, I usually will open the email and take a look.
One of the things I've noticed recently is that recruiters are now asking for visa status. This never happened before in the past. In fact, if they bothered to look through my resume, they would know this doesn't apply to me. Another indicator that they are just mass-emailing people.
Singapore has changed. It's no longer a Singapore for Singaporeans. I know of no other country in the world that has such a liberal attitude towards allowing foreigners to work in their country. The way they are giving out citizenship these days, is like how credit card promoters give out application forms.
I hope enough Singaporeans will do the right thing come 2016. We need to take back Singapore. Singapore should belong to her citizens. And not be a place where economic refugees leech off of.
And certainly not a place where foreign nationals think it is okay to walk around thinking they own the country.
^^^ by Locksley @ 8:35 PM.
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Monday, April 21, 2014
[Green...]
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Sunday, April 20, 2014
[Change...]
Human beings, by default, don't like change. I am no different. Why are we like this? Maybe it's an evolutionary thing. A fear of the unknown? Perhaps deep down, nobody likes surprises. After all, not all surprises are pleasant.
I have always been a fan of routines. I think most of us have them. For me, they help to ensure I don't forget anything important. I pick up the items to bring with me every morning when I leave home for work, in the same order. That way, I know I wouldn't have forgotten anything. I do something similar when I'm done for the day at work.
Lately, I've discovered that my routines are changing. Out of necessity sometimes. My life is changing. I used to have a lot of time for myself. After getting married earlier this year, I am now waiting for my flat to be ready. And it will be ready soon, too. We will need to renovate the flat, buy our furniture and appliances, and subsequently move in and live our own lives.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that since last year, from the time we started planning for our wedding, things in my life have been changing. The life I knew, the life I was comfortable with, is slowly evolving. Before the end of the year, that life that I knew will be gone.
Sometimes I just feel that too many things are happening too quickly, all at once, in quick succession. I'm not saying I don't want to change, that I want to remain where I currently am. It's just hard, sometimes, to leave behind the things you're familiar with. The support structure that's served you well over the years. The things you're familiar with, the things that you've grown accustomed to.
Nobody likes change. Yet change is the only constant.
^^^ by Locksley @ 7:20 PM.
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Sunday, April 06, 2014
[Lazy Sunday...]
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