First mobile post on desire!
Simply put, desire is the best phone that I have ever used. It hasi got every thing that I want packaged in a cool looking interface. If I really have to.come up with a downside, I guess that’d be it’s short battery life.
Guess my Gyu Kaku pics can wait.
Went fishing with Ray today. I meant I went to watch him and his friends fish. I have a phobia near large bodies of water so fishing isn’t really the ideal hobby for me, but it sure is a great opportunity to take some nice pictures and videos.
Left my place early in the morning and got myself nicely roasted under the scorching sun at Kranji. If you thought fishing is just something that only requires you to sit and wait for the fish to bite the bait. You haven’t seen real fishing actions yet. It is definitely as vigorous and as exciting as many outdoor sports. The prey can really put up a fight.
Check out Ray’s fight. The lag in between was caused by the shutter, I took 2 pictures while shooting the video. Guess that wasn’t such a bright idea.
Went to Sungei Buloh after the fishing trip since it was near by. Brought my 40D along so that Ray can take shoot some photos. We managed to capture some nice shots using the macro lens (yes it is not that useless after all) on 5DMkII and the telephoto lens on 40D. Both Ray and I were pleased with the outcome.
All in all it was a great Sunday!
Jogged today and processed some photos.
Just haven’t found a nice place to capture the “AMK” feeling.
Maybe the night scene will do better?
I should do the overdue write up for Ippudo. The pictures that I saw on HungryGoWhere did no justice to the actual ramen. Not that it was great though.
This is probably the biggest perk that I have enjoyed as an Accenture employee. A licensed copy of Windows 7 Ultimate N thanks to the MSDN subscription I got.
I must say that things didn’t go as planned during the installation. I had to do a clean install because the 64 bit installer wouldn’t boot from Vista 32 bits. Then I realized I downloaded the N version instead of the regular version. Meaning that all forms of media support was stripped from the install. There was no Media Player 12, no support for MP3s and everything else. That made me quite upset as I have spent more than 3 hours downloading the ISO from MSDN.
Any way things got on really smoothly after I downloaded and installed the
As expected, Windows 7 64 bit is running along smoothly. The naysayer warned me about the potential software issues which I have yet to encounter any. Besides the additional hassle of downloading and installing certain 32 bit programs (like the JRE). Everything is working along pretty well. The driver coverage is pretty extensive as well, besides the graphics card driver (I am running ATI cross-fire) there is nothing that I have to install to make things work, even the USB wireless dongle worked without its native drivers.
Will share more as the days go by. And if time allows.
As you can see I have finally received my Google Wave Developer account.
I have taken the stock web page implementation and added it to the sidebar. It is ugly but functional.
Scroll to the right and move your cursor to the timestamp, you should be able to see the options there. Right now there is a conflict with my blog’s CSS theme. But it will still work if you ignore the color discrepancies .
GW is currently restricted to users with a sandbox account. So if you reply or enter a message there you will appear as me. So bear with it for the time being.
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It’s been a while since I’ve been to any place that offers real food. Thanks to the hectic work schedule that I have, 14 hours a day, 5 days a week and 9 to 5 on Saturdays.
Therefore the painful experience I have at Botejyu (Liang Court) only made my life worse. The business model of serving people frozen food and making them pay much more than the its cost is sure to fail one of these days. Before I get sued I think I should retract that statment. I don’t know if Botejyu serves frozen food or not. It’s just that their Tofu Burger set tasted like some Japanese TV Dinner set gone wrong.
My head is hurting from all the conflicting and stupid (for the lack of a better term) views that people have regarding the recent AWARE leadership shuffle.
AWARE stands for “Association of Women for Action & Research”. It is a non profit organization that advocates “Gender equality for all”. From the name and its mission statement, I think it is clear that it is a feminist organization to all of us. I am all for feminism, in the sense that I believe that men and women should have the same fundamental rights, like the right to vote, the right to employment and such. However the first thing that makes my head hurt is the way that women define equality. The equality seems to only apply to those rights that benefit them. I have yet to come across any feminist demanding the privilege to serve in the army along the men. But let’s reserve that for another post, if I have the time.
What really ticks me off is that AWARE really seem to have been infiltrated. No, I am not talking about the all-Christian, all-Chinese new executive community. I am talking about the previous pro homosexual one. In an organization called “Association of Women for Action & Research” I fail to see the place of a “Male Chapter”. Especially when the leader of the Male Chapter is keen (and I quote) to “deconstruct male gender & male heterosexual hegemony“. So the male homosexuals are now considered women? WTF?
I can list serveral more examples of how AWARE has gone gay, all the materials and references are provided by the ex-exco of AWARE. It is clear that AWARE does have a pro homosexual agenda. We shall just respect a secular organization’s right to be as gay loving as they wish. After all this is a supposedly free country that still criminalizes sodomy.
Having said the above, I fully understand why the ex-exco bunch of Christians are concerned. By definitions Christians are supposed to be against homosexuals, after all Sodom and Gomorrah were nuked by God for a reason. But by making the showdown public, in a secular country where the number of secular people far outnumber the number of religious faithfuls, this is a battle that they cannot win. Sure enough they were ousted on 2nd of May.
My view has always been that I will respect your fucking rights if you respect my right to view your fucking right as wrong. You have the right to screw with whoever you want (get it? fucking right.) , but I have the right to make a moral judgment on that. Homosexuality is not normal. It is also considered as a sin. Do it if you want.
Now allow my rant to continue. This is directed at the self proclaiming hypocritical Christians who say that they should be against the change of leadership in AWARE. Please fuck off ok? Staying neutral is not the same as going against. I see a bunch of people saying that we shall not judge but they keep forgetting that it doesn’t mean we should just remain oblivious, it just means that we shouldn’t become overtly judgmental. However we should always be ready to stand for what we believe and point out what is wrong. See http://www.biblebelievers.com/jmelton/Judging.html
Any way, as my past experiences show, people don’t like to be wrong. If you manage to prove that they are, they will just deny it. Eventually it just evolve into a huge verbal sparring with no real meaning. I am just glad that I can bitch about it here and forget the next day.
Well, BitNami is basically a pre packaged stack for the interesting web applications out there that you want to run.
It includes the HTTP, Database, and other relevant software libraries that you need to run a self hosted web application. Saving you the pain of installing the various components.
Well… I am not convinced at how reliable this thing is, despite its claims of not interfering with your existing software configuration. I’ve been trying to install this “Tracks” web app for the past 2 hours and it doesn’t seem to play well at all. Kept dying at the Starting MySQL part of the installation process.
Maybe your luck will be better huh?
Update:
I figured out the problem. My old installation of MySQL 5.1 wasn’t completed successfully. I had to reinstall it using an anonymous account on the local machine. BitNami’s Track Stack then installed without a hitch. I guess some junk was left inside the registry when I was installing the stand alone version.
雖然是窮人不過情人節的時候就算沒有情人也要好好地對待自己. 於是去了一趟摩斯漢堡奢侈了一下. 點了兩個米漢堡慰勞自己再次沒有成功把到年輕妹妹的辛勞.
不要說我沒有警告你, 新加坡的摩斯漢堡員工感覺在作漢堡的時候完全忽略了色香味的色. 不知道的人看到漢堡的賣相可能會直接駡人.
沒錯, 這就是摩斯漢堡(新加坡)目前的特別菜單. 黑螞蟻肉蛋漢堡. 親子井米漢堡(我知道有錯字). 中間那一層看起來類似謎樣乳白色液體的其實就是蛋汁還有雞肉的混合體. 黑色一根根看起來很令人反胃的其實是海苔.
把上面的米飯撥開可以看到裏面比較像是蛋的淺黃色. 讓我稍微安心了一點. 雖然整體的樣子看起來讓人很懷疑摩斯漢堡員工的用心, 味道吃起來有很令人安心的日式親子井風格.
不多說馬上介紹第二個漢堡. 同樣也是米漢堡不過這個的外觀比較能讓人想象它的味道.
這個比較討喜的外觀讓人看了比較有食欲. 炸什錦蔬菜海鮮米漢堡裏面除了一些我吃不出來味道的不知名蔬菜以外, 還有乾貝以及蝦仁. 上面濃厚的醬料跟油膩的内餡真的是窮人的救星.
顔色看起來都差不多誰知道什麽是什麽. 右邊那個黑色的突出物到底是什麽我也忘記了. 反正這個漢堡不會難吃而且是我點餐率70%的好物.
這餐的評價:
窮人味覺指數 – 7/10
窮人價格指數 – 5 /10
評語: 不錯吃但是漢堡賣相不好而且價格不便宜, 一個漢堡台幣大概80塊左右. 只能偶爾吃一次不然要吃很久的泡麵.
如果哪一天我中了樂透頭獎, 或者是走偏門發財的話, 我一定把一箱箱的現金提去台新銀行然後大刺刺的叫經理出來說我要開貴賓戶.
隔天馬上關閉帳戶. 給他個下馬威. 等經理出來低聲下氣的求我不要這樣做的時候我會把我忍耐已久的佈不爽爆發在他身上. 台新銀行的服務真不是普通的爛.
當初我在台灣開戶口的時候有順便辦了一張金融卡. 我很明確的問小姐說這張卡能不能在國外使用, 因爲我會常居新加坡. 小姐說沒有問題, 只要機器上面有寫VISA就可以跨國提款.
結果當然是不行. 不管我怎麽按怎麽輸入就是沒有辦法提錢出來, 後來打電話去問才知道如果要在國外使用提款服務的話必須先在台新任何一家分行申請開啓這項服務. 我人都已經在新加坡了你才跟我說這個. 沒關係每個人都會犯錯所以我都會給別人一次機會.
所以我去年回去的時候就特地去了我家附近的分行辦理這項手續, 在櫃檯的時候我還特地問小姐這樣是否就可以了, 還有沒有什麽我必須注意的東西. 小姐當然是給我她們一貫的標準答案: “這樣就可以了.”
好啦, 現在我再次回到新加坡了. 卡片當然也還是提不出錢, 不然我也不會寫這篇文來洩恨. 這次打電話回去問答案就更妙了: “先生您必須使用4位數的磁條碼噢. 國外的提款機無法讀取晶片卡的6位數密碼.” 我想了一下說不知道我還記不記得我那4位數的密碼, 不過也就只有那幾個組合我應該能猜對. 結果小姐又補充了一句: “不過你的4位數條碼必須事先更改過才能使用哦, 而且要來我們的分行才能更改.” 也就是說不能有我第一次辦卡的時候得密碼. 到了這個時候我想說的只有一句話. 我操你媽個B.
當初你老爸我辦卡的時候不會他媽的先說清楚嗎？ 一定要等人到國外了才在那邊 “哈哈哈先生你好笨沒有事先來我們這邊申請跨國提款”. 等我悻悻然回來辦理的時候也不會順便提醒要更換密碼嗎？ 等我再次回來的時候才在那邊馬後砲說”哈哈哈先生你沒有更換你的密碼所以無法使用哦”. 而且最該死的就是什麽時代了更換個密碼還要去你們的雞八分行?” 你們管理階層腦袋裏面裝的都是大便嗎？ 這些東西不能在網路上或者電話裏開通嗎？ 馬的做了一堆防駭的保護卻完全忽略了客戶的需求還有方便. 我是小市民那也就算了, 我頂多也只能寫個部落格來叫囂. 那一天那個有錢人受到你們這種雞八毛待遇我看你們又要少一個客戶.
真是一群沒有學習能力的傢伙.