Tech Speak: Internet/Forum Argument Techniques

http://www.cracked.com/funny-3809-internet-argument-techniques/

This article contains many commonly seen techniques that people use for arguing on forums. It's very interesting. Worth your 5mins to read.

Ramblings: Break Down

Oh baby no no, I don't want you to break down. Yeah baby no no...

Okay, technically not my baby. But its still something precious to me, precious because without it, I can't read my mails, watch my videos, blog my blog, tweet my tweets etc. Being 6.5 years old is quite an age for a computer. Having roasted the motherboard once, fried the ram a few times, did a few HDD upgrades, shown a few BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death), formatted a million times, its still up and running. Oh and out of 6 usb ports, only 2 are working now (and one short circuits the entire computer if you accidentally plug something in).

Lately though, it has slowed down a lot and even I cannot find out the reason why. Bear with it my dear computer, 3 more months and I will have a new latop. Then away you go.

Event: Weight Gain

I make a big hoo hah everytime. I just gained one kg.

Victory is on its way. Before you know it, I'll be 55kg again. Oops, I didn't mean to say out my desired weight (thereby implying that I am way below 55kg). Girls, and maybe some guys, please don't take offence.

Brain Storm: Rationalising

I used to be a relationship-problem-confidant cum love guru cum advisor. No, don't give me that awed, surprised look, I swear I'll punch you in the face.

When I told my friend who has a girlfriend of 3 years that, he was surprised at first (no I nearly punched him but I didn't). But he admitted that its possible for that to happen, because I am a very analytical and rational person. Usually people only come to me when they have problems with their relationship. And in the midst of all that lovey dovey, stupid, blinding, whatever mysterious powers love have, what someone needs is a calm, rational, partial person to analyse the situation and tell them in the face that he/she sucks and his/her girlfriend/boyfriend sucks even harder and he/she should just dump his/her girlfriend/boyfriend. And it works most of the time. When a person is hurt, confused, the person usually seeks out an opinion of the mind, not the heart. And I can give them that. And my friend agrees wholeheartedly. I am someone who breaks down the story into logical parts and make quick work of any confusing part. (furthermore, I tend to understand more of a fickle female's thinking)

However as time passes, people grow up, and they start to think "hey, this guy has never been in a relationship before, he wouldn't understand". I started to realise that I am facing this problem increasingly and more friends start saying "you wouldn't know" or "you don't understand de lah" to me. And all I can say is "yeah, I don't", simply because I don't. Then there goes my status as a top notch love consultant.

But my friend do agree that, in times of need, a rational mindset is required to let a confused heart know what is truly good for him/her, in the long run, and help them make that important decision (oh I don't always give the break-or-not advices, more of a general course of action one should take kind of thing). Bless my talent.

Brain Storm: Camwhorified

It's scary how some people change. I remember how my closest friends all detest the camera. They shy from it, avoid getting in the path of a lens direction, struggle to get out of the neoprint machine.

Alas humans change. And it's scary. This friend of mine, he likes to take photos more than me now. And I'll have you know that I have a reputation as a camwhore, though most of the time I'm the cameraman. It's age I tell you. When you realise that you're getting old and photos are the only way for you to remember what you forgot, and when you're dying, photos are the best thing to go into your coffin with you, then people start to like taking photos. Too late, my friends. I had a 8 years head start.

I'll have more photos in my coffin then you'll ever have.

"what? you say that nowadays photos come in digital form and it'll all be in a thumbdrive when they're burning it with our coffin so theoretically eveyone only has one thing in their coffin, no more no less? darn it, i thought i'll win this time"

Ramblings:

http://www.onemanga.com/Historys_Strongest_Disciple_Kenichi/380/

I think I'm just getting old. I read last week's chapter for History's Strongest Discipline Kenichi and I felt so touched. Oh the emotions that come with ageing. People who don't usually read it won't get it anyway.

Tech Speak: What's Good For Your Computer And What's Not

http://lifehacker.com/5520447/windows-maintenance-tips-the-good-bad-and-useless

This lifehacker article shows what good certain tips for your computer actually do to you. For example, reinstalling Windows actually don't do you any good. Not having Windows 7 Ultimate and Administrator Rights can actually be a good thing as well. Read all about it.

Brain Storm: It's Good To Be Young 年轻真好!

On Sunday I met up with Zuli and Jason. Gosh the effects you get when you meet 2 people who are so much younger than you are tremendous. This is especially so when the people around you are energetic. I remember when I was in Taiwan with my 6 other friends, 5 of them will always walk briskly in front, chatting loudly, joking around. Yinning and I will be walking behind slowly, telling each how how nice it is to be young (since we're both the first to turn 21 and our birthdays are way earlier than the rest). We would think to ourselves, "oh gosh where can we find such energy now that we're so old". 

And so when my friends started camwhoring wildly on Sunday like they are some young kids, naturally I had to follow and I started to feel young again. Gosh, how I wish I was 20 again. Don't you feel that your energy is sapped out of you as you become older and you just can't get high (w/o having to resort to drugs and sex) anymore?

btw, these photos are taken at the newly opened Circle Line Esplanade. it's so cool!

Tech Speak: I Am A Conformist

Obviously that is NOT my iPhone.

Tech Speak: Google Defines Conformist

I love how Google defines "conformist" on its dictionary page.

Tech Speak: Zune Development OpenZDK

Praise Moore for such a miracle. I thought it will never happen. But these developers finally came up with a development kit that goes beyond the #$%^& XNA kit provided by Microsoft to develop apps and games for the Zune. XNA didn't allow the prowess of the Tegra to be tapped into, so there was no 3D, no wireless connectivity and no DRM support. It was extremely retarded.

Now I just have to wait for people to develop apps for me. (since its based on C++ language and I'm supposed to learn it either way, i should learn it now and try to create one). I think techiewen jr. (the name of my Zune HD 32gb) must be very excited as well!

P.S. Chi Weng says my Zune's name is a fag name compared to his Ipod Classic's Nora (or whatever shit), now that's the gay shit one.

Tech Speak: Lean, Mean Piece Of Metallic Earpiece

http://gizmodo.com/5517845/sleek-audios-aluminum-and-carbon-fiber-sa7-headphones-will-last-for-years

These pair of  earphones looks disgustingly delicious and tempting and powerful and lean and solid and gives me the "oh i just want it!" feeling.

US $400. Additional 100 bucks for wireless option. So it'll be about 750 sing dollars. Okay, it'll be my next target.

Ramblings: Oh Gosh Urbanathlon Is So Overrated

http://myrunningaddiction.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/review-mh-urbanathlon-si2010/

So this guy went to the Urbanathlon organised by Men's Health and wrote a review about it. I just had to blog about this cause I was quite tempted to join it until I read about the last few obstacles (it's a race where there's 8 obstacles which you have to clear). The last 2 obstacles involved jumping into some water pool (which makes you wet) and leopard crawling across some mud area. I swore I will never leopard crawl again. NEVER.

I quote.

Finally, I crossed the finishing line. Not the best timing for a 12.5km run but this is exceptional due to the obstacles that we had to go through. Medals were given as soon as we crossed the finishing line. Everyone of the finisher was Tired, Thirsty and Covered in mud from head to toe but still we were all smiling as we had just accomplish something simply unique that only 1,500 men in Singapore had a chance to experience.

For your freaking information, the entire nation of men goes through this shit. Though only about 1.6km is covered in this other shit, due to the weight we carry and the difficulty of some other obstacles, its 10 times worse. Okay, maybe hundred times worse. We call that shit Standard Obstacle Course. Okay maybe this chap hasn't gone through army yet (which I actually doubt so) or he's just a pussy unfortunate person who was excused from SOC.

Interest(ing): Carbo Loading

This is an article I found on sgrunners.com about carbo loading. It's an issue which I have always wanted to know about since I started running a lot. Now I see that I have not been doing very correctly but still if Stanchart mention something about carbo loading for the entire week, I think there might be different versions of carbo loading. I shall find out more. For now, this will suffice. 

Carbo Loading for Marathon?

Posted on26 November 2007.

Introduction

Muscle glycogen provides a key fuel for training and racing a marathon. The term “hitting the wall” is really referring to the overwhelming fatigue that an athlete experiences at a later part of an event when muscle glycogen stores are depleted. Hence, carbohydrate (CHO) loading can enhance endurance/marathon performance by allowing the competitor to run at their optimal pace for a longer period before fatiguing. 
Classic VS Modified
- The classic model (Ahlborg, Bergtrom & Brohult, 1967) follows a 7-day process which involves 3 to 4 days of depletion phase of hard training and low CHO intake follow by a 3 to 4 days loading phase.
- This is not practical as it can result in more fatigue and hence over training.
- Modified model only requires simply 3 days of high CHO intake while tapering for your event w/o any prior depletion of glycogen (Sherman, Costill & Fink, 1981).

Guidelines to a successful CHO-loading
- A CHO loading regime will involve 72 hours or CHO intake between 8 to 10g/kg body weight while keeping fat intake low (20 to 30g daily) and protein to 1g/kg body weight.
- Avoid high fiber product such as wholemeal or wholegrain as it is difficult to consume a large quantity of it to meet the demands of the loading.
- Athletes who struggle to meet the loading demands can utilize refined CHO such as soft drinks, jelly, pudding, candy etc. to supplement their intake.
- It is important for the athlete to know that CHO loading is likely to be associated with a weight gain of about 2kg. This needs to be viewed as positive reinforcement that they have significantly increase glycogen stores.

End of text references
- Ahlborg, G., Bergtrom, J., & Brohult. J. (1967). Human muscle glycogen content and capacity for prolonged exercise after different diets. Forsvarsmedicin, 3, 85-99.
- Sherman, W.M., Costill, D.L., & Fink, W.J. (1981). Effects of exercise-diet manipulation on muscle glycogenand its subsequent utilisation during performance
- International Journal of Sports Medicine, 2,114-118.

Rambling: I Help Because I Am Obliged To Help You, NOT

Obliged.

v.

1) To constrain by physical, legal, social or moral means.

This is the definition according to thefreedictionary.com.

Yeah you read that right. According to the definition, I am not obliged to help anyone. I am referring to the Singapore Kindness Movement's strong urge to Singaporeans to lend a helping hand to people around you when kindness is needed. From ever since I remember, I always open doors for people, even if they don't really need it, I always give up my seats for the needy. But I have never feel bounded by some physical, legal, social or moral reason to help them. I just... help them, you know?

Herein lies the big problem, with me. I don't smile. Okay, actually I do. But when I smile, other people say I am not smiling. When I don't smile, people tell me that I look like they owe me a lot of money and I have a knife in my hand and I am eyeing them a message which goes something like "you better f***ing pay me my money now or i'll chop off your limps and burn your house down." So sometimes I have to tell myself to smile "hard", which then makes me look like a retard. Anyhow, the point is, whenever I open the door for someone, and the other party says thanks, I either ignore (because I think its lame to thank such a small gesture), or I say no problem and smile. Yes, smile, which looks like me looking at them as if they owe me a lot of money and I have a knife in my hand and I am eyeing them a message which goes something like "you better f***ing pay me my money now or i'll chop off your limps and burn your house down," EXCEPT that I also said no problem. This doesn't bother except when I saw the appreciative smile of the other party coming off their faces when they saw my expression.

DO NOT discriminate me. I am born like that! I did not want this face of mine. So please do not think I am obliged to help you due to some physical, legal, social or moral grounds. I am not obliged to help you. Go judge the other guy who slammed the door in your face please.

Event: Happy Birthday

Ok so like its been a month and its about time I actually post something about my 21st birthday. I think I might have forgotten what I wanted to say here already...

Being 21 is overrated. I didn't feel any difference on the day I turned 21. Okay maybe except a tinge of sadness cause compared to everyone else turning 21 this year, I have an awfully few number of well wishes. But oh well its okay, that's because I didn't put my birth date on Facebook. In any case, the birthday song that my girlfriends sang for me at 10am in the morning through phone was the best. They said they love me so much. HUR HUR. Too bad, it was Liyue and Yinning, LOL.

21st celebration is pain in the ass. It's like, everyone's doing it! What's the big deal? But if you don't do it, you'll be the odd one out, for the bad reason. So anyway it took me a long time to consider whether or not to hold a celebration bash thingy. First, its troublesome. It's expensive. The host have to entertain the guest, resulting in less quality time since you have to invite quite a number of people. Oh and you have to be careful when you're inviting people. You can't invite one big gang and leave a few people whom you don't like out, or there will be questioning. And boy, do I have to wonder this very strongly, some people don't understand how birthday parties are for the people who are turning 21 in question and thus they have every right to choose who they want to invite. Though I can choose to just ignore or "hide notifications" like in Facebook, it still can get quite annoying and upsetting. Oh and for some "groups" of friends, I just had to totally not invite cause its too much of a hassle to leave out people whom I am not too close with. Last but not least, you get blamed if you hold the bash in a place without aircon and without enough seats or food for your guest. Extremely troublesome, period.

But having it had its good sides too. I can totally imagine myself having a good time (though I also can imagine myself having a bad time). I havn't met a lot of my friends for a long time and it was a good way to meet them again. It was also a good way for some groups of my friends to treat it as a gathering. This bash also reminded me of what good friends I have. 

Where else do you get friends whom you can force to prepare your food?

Where else do you get friends whom you can force to help bring the food to the venue?

Where else do you get friends who help to get the present that you want?

Where else do you get friends who went to cut their hair just because you told them that you don't want to see their ugly crops of hair at your birthday bash (okay except Kay Siong, at least Shaun styled his hair properly)?

Where else do you get friends who cab from another ulu part of Singapore so that they can reach my party in time?

Where else do you get friends who helps you QC all the food until he gets a stomach ache?

Where else do you get friends who helps you start the fire, failed to do so, and get blamed (by me)?

Where else do you get friends who forces you to sing so as to make it memorable for you?

Where else do you get friends who tries to get your darling to kiss you during the photoshoot (but still fail)?

Where else do you get friends who drives to and fro different places which need them and your birthday bash?

Where else do you get friends who wore red because you told them to? (actually i was very surprised by how many people actually really turned up in red, but i was also unsurprised about who did not come in red)

Where else do you get a bunch of guys who are totally nuts about arts, and still came up with a perfect, memorable, sweet 21st birthday gift which will (probably) never rot?

Thanks, all (especially to the 3 boys who did so much, boys because they're all younger than me). It was memorable.

thanks to all those who contribution and the collector Danny for my ULTIMATE GIFT the Zune HD 32GB

thanks Joshua for the gift, nicely wrapped somemore

thanks Wilson, its a really nice gift!

thanks Shang Long and Shaun Yap! i know you're trying to make me pick up the good habit again. i will!

i pestered, and i hinted, and my army friends got me these earpiece. really nice, strong bass, extremely powerful tweeters. thanks guys.

the best gift. all my friends are told to write their well wishes for me on a slip of paper then the 3 boys helped me fold them into stars and the smart boys chose to put them into the most fitting container of them all, my favourite Starbucks! thanks Danny Leonard Edwin and everyone!

TechieEat: Saizeriya

My pals and I went for a "budgetless within our means" dinner the other way at Saizeriya in City Square Mall. I had suggested to go for a buffet dinner at some hotel which cost 70 bucks since its supposed to be budgetless but apparently it has to be within our means. Anyhow the food there was cheap, ranging from 5 bucks to 7 bucks a dish. There is a great variety of Italian food however one should take note that the portion is small. Thus we bought 8 dishes to share amongst ourselves. There's also free flow of drinks if you pay 2.50 bucks for a drinks bar. Its pretty worth it. The pizza was nice. What I personally really like was the pork for the Pork and Ham. The roast duck was not bad too and the spicy sausage could be more spicy. Service was only so so, with the waiter serving us having a expressionless face most of the time. But oh well its cheap so what can I ask for?

We totalled about $65 for our meal and there were 4 of us. So that's about 16 bucks for one. With 8 different dishes, there was enough variety but due to the small sizes, was just enough to fill our stomachs.  

Saizeriya - City Square Mall

Ambience - 3/5

Food - 3.5/5

Ramblings: VOTE FOR ME PLEASE

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=11952805&id=191921700135&ref=mf

Starbucks Singapore is currently holding a Vote For Your Favourite Starbucks Moment competition. The top ten entries have been selected and mine is one of them! Please do me a favour and vote for me!

First go to the main page at http://www.facebook.com/StarbucksSingapore and become a fan. Then click on the link above to go to my photo and "like" the photo. Please do not like the link or the album, else I won't get the vote. Thanks a million people!
Edit*

Sorry people but the voting system changed due to some lame Facebook regulations. All previous votes have been disregarded. Please vote for my photo again by emailing your votes by the end of 18 April to marketing@starbucks.com.sg and state your chosen picture (contributor's name) in the email subject. Meaning email marketing@starbucks.com.sg with the subject "Lee Wen Qin". Please help me spread around as well. Thanks for the trouble!

P.S. Frankly, I don't really think that all the photos fit the criteria of so-called Favourite Starbucks Moment. My caption is "Love going to Starbucks to hang out with my friends. Great atmosphere plus I get to taste all my friends' wonderful Starbucks drinks!" Showing that I love to go Starbucks and my favourite moment is when I get the drinks for my friends and I get to taste all of their drinks. While everyone has a nice photo, I think one should take some time to consider the requirement before voting for anyone. 

Brain Storm: Why I Love Being The Head Of DB (after graduation)

Whenever I go back to Xinmin, I always notice one thing. The Head of DB 2005 is around. The Head of DB 2006 is around. The Head of DB 2007 is around. And so is the Head of DB 2008.

It has been 4 generations. The Excos of Xinmin chosen to become the Head of Disciplinary Board for 4 years  are always together, always going back to support the school. I started realising that no other committees are like this a while back. I must say I was lucky. I chose the right people to join DB and the right people wanted to join DB. I told them I'm glad to have dedicated and capable juniors like them. And they being my cheeky, cute juniors said "yeah! of course!". Lol.

I like to go back to Xinmin, and know that my successors have done a good job, and know that they still come back to school to help out, and know that they loved being the Head of DB and that we all share a bond, a kinship that only we know. As we grow up, the gap between us as seniors and juniors start to melt and we became more like close friends and buddies, though we only see each other a couple of times per year. It's a relationship I appreciate.

And I swear I have been trying hard to not talk to them like juniors anymore. Hah.

Brain Storm: Don't Be Evil

“Bullshit.” That’s what Steve Jobs of Apple think of Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” motto. But I think it’s brilliant. Google’s early employees came up with that and it is very much just an informal principle that Google follows. Google was smart to come up with this for many reasons. The motto is extremely broad and can cover many issues like Google’s approach to doing business and within Google’s rules for its employees. The motto is catchy. Despite not being in the Google’s official ten principles, many consumers know about it. It is high profile enough to make Steve Jobs call it bullshit. The motto being informal means Google cannot be attacked frontally for not following it and Google can twist its meaning when there is a need.

It’s amazing how Google is tackling the world by not being evil. The informal motto took roots and helped Google to rise to where it is. By keeping most of its services and products free, it managed to benefit many yet grow larger as a company by day. When I first heard of Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” motto, I was intrigued by how it really fits into all that Google is doing, despite the motto sounding totally delusional. I felt the idea was a wild dream and sounded like a perfectionist. Yet the idea of Google trying to be nice to me, and the fact that it really is doing so, made the concept of “Don’t Be Evil” like a dream come true for both Google and the consumers. The solution that Google came up with to target enterprise rather than consumers was a good one. Although I knew that such a solution probably only worked for an advertising company, the concept was attractive and showed that nothing is really impossible.

The idea of not being evil encountered many issues. In order to be nice to consumers the Google way, it is natural that copyright laws will soon be infringed, since Google’s goal is to organise all the information in the world. When the concept was challenged, Google started fighting against corporations. While one may think that it is evil to change laws and override rules through sheer force and influence, I think that as a consumer I do see it as a compromise that has to be made if the consumers are to benefit. With Google and its ideals, many old, outdated laws met revisions. The way Google tackled problems and insisting that it is the “good” party opened my mind. Out in the world, there is no real evil or good organisation, we only categorise them under helping the consumers or taking advantage of them. Therefore as long as the consumers speak, the corporations listen and we don’t feel cheated, I think we win, and that’s being not evil. Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” makes people want Google to be around, so much so that it is not far fetched to think that Google may take over the world soon, in a way, though that does sound evil.

When Google went against its “Don’t Be Evil” policy to go into the China market with censored search results, it argued that the real evil is to rob the Chinese of any chance of the Google goodness. While I agree with that, it also makes me think of how long this idealist concept can keep up with the world and the pace which Google is growing. Still, I would like to believe that it is possible. And thus my dream is to join Google one day, and continue its “Don’t Be Evil” legacy.

I hope I didn't write out of point...

Tech Speak: Improved Comment Collapsing for Google Buzz

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/improved-comment-collapsing-for-google.html

Well done Google. I knew you aren't that retarded. You have no idea how irritating it was to scroll through hundreds of comments with no way to collapse them. Thanks for restoring my faith, Buzz Team.

Google Buzz has improved quite a bit over the months. More of my friends are using it as well. Check it out if you havn't. Now if only they have a desktop app for it...

Brain Storm: The Little Decisions That Wrecks Your Life

Don't you just hate it when a small little detour you decided to make, or a small little action you decided to do, made a big negative impact on your life? While it may not seem all that big a deal to outsiders, but when we look at it comparatively to the other things that happen in our lives, it suddenly seems like the small little things are ridiculous.

Like last friday, I was supposed to attend my friend's 21st birthday. It starts at 5 and I was supposed to have tuition until 6pm. However my student cancelled the tuition and I decided that I have enough time to head back home first. On my way home, Angeline asked me when will I reach the party and said she can't stay long enough due to work. Thus, I can't pass to her the present that I owe her. Then when I reached home, I decided to put on my contacts (which I wouldn't have put on if I went straight), and that night, my left eye become red and quite painful. It's been 3 days and it's still like that. I was supposed to go home to put down my heavy bag so that I can have an easier time later on. But everything screwed up.

The impacts aren't that big? Now I have to meet up with Angeline another day, AND I may have to go see the doctor. Screw this.

Interest(ing): April's Fool Conclusion

Google forgive me, for I have missed out almost every single April's Fool jokes made by Google. I only saw it in a lifehacker article today. Nonetheless, I'll blog a few here, just for the fun of it.

1) Google Translate For Animals

Introducing Translate for Animals (beta): Bridging the gap between animals and humans

Making the world's information universally accessible is a key goal for Google. Language is one of our biggest challenges so we have targeted our efforts on removing language barriers between the species. We are excited to introduce Translate for Animals, an Android application which we hope will allow us to better understand our animal friends. We've always been a pet-friendly company at Google, and we hope that Translate for Animals encourages greater interaction and understanding between animal and human.

Translate for Animals is an application for Android phones that recognises and transcribes words and phrases that are common to a species, like cats for example. To develop Translate for Animals, we worked closely with many of the world's top language synthesis teams, and with leaders in the field of animal cognitive linguistics, including senior fellows at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

2) Vowel Outage at Gmail

If you logged into Gmail over the last hour (or visited the Gmail homepage), you probably noticed that something looked a bit off: all the vowels are missing. We realize this makes things difficult for all of you who rely on Gmail — whether at home or at work — and we’re incredibly sorry. We take morphological issues like this extremely seriously, so we want to let you all know what happened and what we're doing about it.

Brain Storm: Not Too Many Friends Please

I used to think that people with many friends are cool. Some people are just inherently popular everywhere they go, thus they have plenty of friends. I always wonder how great it would be if lots of people swarm towards me when I make an entrance, and how wonderful it'll feel to be well liked by many. I have never been a social animal. I don't like to meet new people nor make new friends. If there is no need to talk to strangers, I won't. Yet I want to be popular. But they say nothing comes without effort.

Then one day, I realised, it might not be well to be too popular. In the first place, I think everyone needs their own set of so-called "closest friends". These people should know most of what there is to know about you. And more than anything else, these people should genuinely care for you, and WANT to care for you. If not, no matter how superficially popular one is, he or she is truly lonely.

I looked around me, the people, and the things that happen. I suddenly do not want to have too many friends anymore. Having too many friends whom I am not very close with kind of defeat the purpose of having friends. If you have tons of friends, but none is willing to step forward and help you, or, go out of his way to tell you that you suck, and then still hang out with you, then isn't that very sad?

Isn't it sad if you don't have somebody to pour out your soul to?

Isn't it sad if you don't have somebody to enslave when you need helpers?

Isn't it sad if you don't have somebody to sit and look at each other for a long time, without feeling awkward at all?

Isn't it sad if you don't have somebody whom you can call a friend with a smile and knowing that they think the same, with a smile?

Youtube: Lady Gaga's Telephone

I just realised that I FORGOT to post about Lady Gaga's Telephone music video. I deserved to be punished by Gaga. Okay that sort of brings in wrong ideas. Whatever.

I read up on Gaga's Bad Romance music video last time at http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=2737 and it sort of makes a lot of sense about how Gaga kind of relates to demon worshipping, and many inner meanings with the music industries and her fans. I was surprised to find out that Telephone may be a continuation of Paparazzi's music video since scene started with Gaga being in jail and in Paparazzi's music video, Gaga poisoned her boyfriend at the end of the video. Makes sense. The same website attempted to interpret Telephone as well. I'll say it makes sense to a certain extent but everyone should take it with a pinch of salt. http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=3423

Brain Storm: The Flow Of Time

I spoke to Leonard just now (ok, on msn i mean), for like, 3 hours plus. We talked about many things. Our topics jumped, literally so, from relationships, maturity, growing up etc. It ended with me saying "given 4 or 5 years ago, we couldn't have this conversation. this is a sign of maturity".

Time passes. It can never be "time passed" because time never stops flowing. It's been 7 to 8 years since I know my closest group of friend. I daresay we've watched each other grow up. Some of us got into relationships, some of us are still spouting vulgarities around (like me, ok i meant one of us). With that, we started talking about how it'll be like when we find the "one", and how we will act like. Funny isn't it. We've known each other for years. We had classes together, sat beside each other, went to camps together, slept on the same beds, talked through the night, shower-sang together but there's still so much to know, still so much to grow.

When years have gone by, from time to time, I like to look back. Looking at photos, reading chat logs and blogs, these things bring me back. I like to go from segment to segment, time frames which describe my own growth, my development in my heart, my soul and my personality. I wonder if my friends noticed my change in personality. I wonder if they saw that I have mellowed, from an angry kid, who used to flare up over little things, who used to be weak, seeking attention all the time, to someone who can stand the wind, who walk the rain alone, knowing that yet I am not lonely, convincing myself that there's more than just me. Or have I? Growth cannot be ascertained by oneself. How naive can I be, to try and tell myself that I have changed and have grown up? There can be no absolute terms. Mellowed I may have, but still the wind gets stronger, still the rain gets heavier. I wouldn't know, I couldn't. Maybe everything is based on a spectrum. Maybe everything is not the same as how you see it compared to others.

Maybe the spectrum is stretching till never ending. Maybe the flow of time is never forgiving.

Rambling: The Legend Lives Again

Okay so goes the legend that "techiewen does not look like someone who has a girlfriend".

It might just be a curse that will not be lifted in years. I have no idea why I heard the legend 3 times previously. But I just heard it again.

Dear Leonard said "it would be really interesting to see u in a relationship to be honest".

NOW, I have absolutely no idea why it would be interesting. Okay, so like, I am vulgar, extremist, and cranky. But there are times when I am nice too!

What's so interesting about me having a girlfriend?

Do my friends think I'll change 180 degrees when I get attached since I am usually "evilish, nonsensical and weird"? I have my romantic times as well...

This is illogical to me. Period.

Interest(ing): Top 10 Harmless Geek Pranks

http://lifehacker.com/373817/top-10-harmless-geek-pranks

Take from lifehacker.

Configuring your friend's computer to show the Blue Screen Of Death as a screensaver, making your office printer (HP) show the words (insert coin) etc. Fabulous. I'll try it on my friends next time.

Interest(ing): Starbuck's April's Fool Day Joke

http://www.starbucks.com/blog/10113/starbucks-listens-to-customer-request-for-more-sizes.aspx

Way cool. 2 new sizes. I would love to drink green tea latte's from the big one.

Remember I post about Starbuck's April's Fool Day joke last year? They invented a usb device that allows Starbucks to transfer coffee over the internet.
http://infinitelyme.blogspot.com/2009/04/senseless-stuff-aprils-fool-day.html