Job hunting again

I know I know I should be concentrating on my studies now since its just 5 more months to complete.. BUT THEN, I can handle it. I've only got 9 hours lecture per WEEK, and max 8 hours of studio booking (depends on me). As for the rest of the time, I'll probably be doing all these at home/I'll be out/online/watching tv/doing nothing! LAMER!

So the job hunting resumes.. My mindset for the whole job hunting is: Ada ada tak ada tak ada which means got got don't have don't have la. =) Learnt from dad when he spoke to some malays while booking for the buggy in Awana. So far I've got only 1 interview which I think that was supposed to be successful but all because of my study time and they can't put me into any training slot. Well, thats ok though. I guess I just want experience. My current work permit doesn't allow me to work more than 20 hours per week anyways, won't distract me.

Let's do abit of maths here..
One week: 24 x 7 = 168 hours
Sleeping time: 8 x 7 = 56 hours
Bathing, cooking, eating: 3 x 7 = 21 hours
Miscellaneous eg online etc: 3 x 7 = 21 hours
Usable time: 70 hours

9 + 8 + (5 x 1) + 20 = 42 hours
[Lecture + Studio + Travel + Working]

Still got plenty of hours left.. Don't know why am I calculating this..
Whatever it is, Life's short, just do it!
Think before you do, but don't take too long!
You either grow white hair like me! Or you'll never get to do what you want!

Go analyze your face

Found out this site from Eugene.. Thanks! Simply upload a photo and get your face analyzed @ here!

1st attempt..


I ain't Korean/Japanese. So I tried once more.

2nd attempt..


Almost there..

3rd attempt..


Got the answer I want, at last!

4th attempt..


I'll see what/who else can I be..

Final attempt..


Yay.. see.. I'm a chinese..

You Can Get It If You Really Want

I was watching Hitch the other day and this song from Jimmy Cliff evoked my old memories. I was sorta forced to attend a 4-days Personal Development Leadership (PDL) course back in Form 3. That was my first motivation course in my life and that 4 days felt like years. I even thought of running away but I have no guts at that time. Back then, I too think rationally. I understand the consequences it takes for me to do that. Besides, my younger bro was there too. I stayed anyway, DUH..

Maybe that course make a huge difference if my life. I don't know. At least not until I found out recently. Was that the reason I was so confident in everything? Did the 4 days turned me into a better person? How all these related to my current behaviour, as in strong & tough inside? Whatever it might be, I'm sure it benefits me. This is just one of the songs they played. The lyrics goes out here..

You can get it if you really want,
You can get it if you really want,
You can get it if you really want,
but you must try, try and try,
try and try, you´ll succeed at last.

Persecution you must bear,
win or lose, you got to get your share,
You´ve got your mind set on a dream,
you can get it, though hard it may seem, now.

[Refrain]

I know it - listen
Rome was not built in a day,
Opposition will come your way,
but the harder the battle you see,
it´s the sweeter the victory, now.

[Refrain]

Simple & more meaningful than thousand words.

On the last day of the course, each of us have to go up the stage and SPEAK. Be it about the course or your own feeling, you must thank your parents and give them a hug. Well at that time, I do felt it was embarrass to hug my parents in the public, but given a choice now, I would love to because I think there's nothing to be embarrass. It's a way to show that you care.

I'm On Schedule

I was watching this series - LOST for the past few days last week. 25 episodes in a row, damn my eyes were tired. This is one of the reason I like to download stuff, you had it all in your pc to watch, instead of being an idiot waiting for each episodes infront of the TV..

I'm off again this week. But I went in for studio today. According to MY timetable, I'm suppose to get familiar with 4 different studios before I can do the major recording. I can't wait to have all these done so that I can have my holiday. I'll be completing my course 2 months earlier than the rest which is I have to hand in everything by December 19. I spoke to Chris again today, I was somehow bugging him to tell me which software to use for one of the assignments. The problem is he hasn't decide yet and he was saying I don't know with a really I-dont-know look.. But he promised to let us know by next Monday.. GOOD..

Everything was alright just now though I almost slammed the folder on the console because I knew something was wrong but I don't know what. Thank God I sort it out later by reading the manual.. First time I think manual is useful..

I kept biting the right side of my mouth for few times at the same spot.
FEW BITES >= 1 HARD BITE
It hurts a little now as I can taste my own blood while I was chewing chewing gum. It's always like that..

Speed & Freedom

I dreamt last night. This dream was unusual. I was smiling all the way till I woke up. I think I was with my primary school classmates. We went to a casino/theme park. It wasn't genting but the weirdest thing was the location. I used to stay at 11th floor in my previous apartment and this theme park is way down the basement of the apartment's building. WTF? I don't know..

When we reached the top floor of the casino, 3rd floor. There comes the theme park. Here's the highlights.. There wasn't fencing in between the casino and the theme park door. And I don't feel it was 3rd floor, it was definitely much higher, as if you were on top of the sky. I WAS FLYING. I was flying in between clouds which supposed to be a pool. The surrounding was all white. All clouds. So, I was flying in a swimming-pool-like sky with white clouds.

I was hesitating when I was about to jump because I know it was high. I thought I might fall if the sky is for real.. I jumped anyway! And I was flying!! All I can feel at that moment was Fast & Free. I wish this dream will be stored in my dream bank. Anytime I'm under stress, just recall the memory and dream. Never feel better than this!

HP

After a long night yesterday, trying to recover deleted files, I DID IT. I managed to get back almost 100% of it! I won't do anything funny with the PC anymore.. And sorry to myself for saying I'm stupid..

I will no longer go back to the city for groceries. Partly because my place is in between city and Victoria Gardens which is here..





Empty garden behind..

I prefer to shop here more. Besides, I've got the whole Victoria St for chinese groceries on the way home. I felt like being in Vietnam whenever I walk along this street.

The happiest thing that happened today was this book..



I wanted to get the adult version but have to pre-order it. I ended up with this because my previous 5 books were this kiddy version.. It's the content that matters, not the cover..

Why ME?

I was busy looking for crack yesterday and I gave up this afternoon because I finally accept the fact that I was just solely backside itchy. The price to pay for this itchiness is: PRICELESS

I'm not sure what I should be feeling now because I've tried every possible way. Here's how it happened. I usually save all my pictures under My Documents\My Pictures. And I had backup in D:\Backup\My Pictures. C is the system drive and D is my data drive. So in order to blardee install the software I was searching the whole damn yesterday, I had to clear some space because my C drive is running out of space. I chose to empty the "My Pictures folder because it took up about 3Gb. I cut and paste in the backup folder in D drive. This drive was running out of space too. The transfer actually stopped half way. While I was busy clearing up some space, I forgot to resume the transfer. And now it left 1.4Gb. Fark..

I didn't realised until few hours later. Within that few hours, I've defragmented my C drive, uninstalling and reinstalling the software for i-dont-know-how-many-times. The chances of getting your data back is only when you don't write anything onto that drive! I even use the system restore point before I thought of recovery software.. I've tried all sorts of recovery software, hoping for miracle but to no avail. Not even 10% of those pics recover! I'd rather it be gone than having pieces from here and there!

Thanks to my greediness, stupidity and carelessness..

How to Un-dongle?

I wasn't very productive today. Initially I wanted to get myself familiar with this software that I'll be using for 3 of my assignments but I ended up searching for its crack the whole day. I had the full version already, just that I want the latest instead..

I don't have problems searching for cracks all these while but this software is getting on my nerves. Finished 2Gb then I realised it needs dongle!!

A dongle (pronounced DONG-uhl) is a mechanism for ensuring that only authorized users can copy or use specific software applications, especially very expensive programs. Common mechanisms include a hardware key that plugs into a parallel or serial port on a computer and that a software application accesses for verification before continuing to run; special key diskettes accessed in a similar manner; and registration numbers that are loaded into some form of ROM (read-only memory) at the factory or during system setup.

First and for most, sorry to those working as software developer or programmer or whatever you call it. It wasn't my intention to "steal" it but I ain't paying few thousands bucks for a software. It's too expensive and there's no way I can afford it, or put it this way, I would consider to buy if they reduce the price to 75% less.

Guess the only thing I can do now is "STICK TO WHAT I HAVE". Backside itchy..

Wax.. What a title..

Went Victoria Gardens yesterday night. Watched House of Wax. For those who haven't watch, it's fucking gross. So damn regretted after that. I could have just download it and have a choice of delete it and not watching it. Why do these people has to come up with these kind of movie? It's almost similiar to Texas chainsaw massacre and Wrong Turn.

Some psychopath hiding in some secluded town, waiting for its prey. The only difference is they waxed you instead of chopping you into pieces. I laughed when Paris Hilton got killed. I think she'll act much better in "those" movies..

Dinner time now, will be watching "Bewitched"! Fresh from BT..

I'm back!

Thank God the internet connection came back this morning. Wonder what took them so long. This is gonna be a lenghty post as I've got so much to tell!

Ok. Let's talk about my studies. I have informed Chris my lecturer about me taking the whole January and February off, which means I'll need to complete the course by end of December. His response was "As long as you can finish all your projects by then, go ahead". Haha.. isn't that great? Infact I think this is the best time to get myself disciplined. I was being a slacker for sometime. It's time to get my arse off the chair and start doing something! So.. I've booked my studio time for the whole month and will start booking for August next week. I'm being a little kiasu, but be safe than sorry. You'll cry for free slots if you have to go in during midnight. Besides, I've booked my ticket to go home. Tentatively it's scheduled on the 23/12 but I was thinking to change it somewhere earlier.

Ladies and gentlemen, I now proudly present pictures taken by my new mobile phone - K750i.









Not too bad huh?



Yes this is a mini aquarium. We went to get 2 gold fish this Monday. Since I can't have any pets in the apartment, fish is fine with me! They're so cute.. I fed them almost 3 times a day, not knowing if they had enough food or not. I might overfed them but better be full than hungry, right? I heard that they will get constipation if they ate too much, but they shit every now and then. Funny thing is they both eat each other's shit.. spit it out or swallow it sometimes..

Yellow...

I'm still waiting for my internet connection to be relocate. Till then, I'll using DIAL UP. It has been ages since I last use a modem to dial up. I didn't even have a modem in my pc, I just happened to found this antique modem from the store room. Haha..

Life has been great and as normal as before, the only difference would be I'm blogging from a different apartment, facing east. I had a floorplan for this current apartment by requesting it from the agent. I need it to sort out some of the fengshui elements such as study table facing where and sleep towards what direction etc etc.

Today went to meet up with the previous landlord to sign the bond claim form and collect letters from the currnet tenants of the old place.

I was thinking to upgrade my phone to k750i.. anyone? any comments? I know it sounds dumb to change from k700i, but you see.. k750i has got memory slot expansion and 2MP camera... HOW?

Hello

It has been a week since I last logged on. One word to summarise everything - B.U.S.Y.

29/6/05 (Wed) - Went for the interview. It was great but I could have done it better. Then Watched "War of the world" in crown.

30/6/05 (Thurs) - Packing for the whole damn day. Didn't even sleep the whole night.

1/7/05 (Fri) - The removalist came at 7am. I've officially moved

2/7/05 (Sat) - Unpacking

3/7/05 (Sun) - Unpacking

And now here I am again.. Just try to jot down a few words since I won't be online for the next 10 days or so. Have to wait for the blardee ADSL to reconnect. Sigh, for the time being.. bear with me! Life without internet is killing me..

Time to get back to class, ciaoz!