DJ Intenze @work again

Yes, folks. DJ Intenze is back for more evil music ripping and mixing.

I will be working on two mix albums. One of them will be crafted strictly for sport with my iPod Shuffle and another work with be my typical DJ Intenze series.

As for the name of my sport tracks, i was thinking about using the name "velozity".

While the soon herald Vol 21 will be called "evoluzikon"

The theme for velozity will be target toward progressive music for good 40 minutes, idea right?

The Wayward Cloud

Hee..a lil erotic musical movie about a woman in love with a guy who happened to be a Pawn actor. Geez, the picture look kinda cutee right? Hahaha :D

Director Tsai Ming-Liang's interview
Read the review here

Wahh water cool Bra, i like !!!

Can't seen to take my eye off it, a water filled bra to cool ya boob!! Who that genius who came out the idea of cooling the tits.. On the contrary, i would like to get my hand wets as well..haha :D

Sorry no activity lately...but i give u pic to see, Ok?

Happy Birthday to Minsun

It her Birthday today, 20th August. Let wish her a happy birthday and a happy working experience in EMC.

G'luck.

Great articles to read & think

Yet another interesting articles refer from sweet sweet like me.

Management lesson thru Starwars Ep III

Who Makes a Better Entrepreneur - Young Punk or Old Fart?

Entrepreneurship in Singapore: Do we need more Cha Kway Teow Sellers?

Weak Woman or Egoistic Man? A Look Why Woman had a Bad Past

Chicken and egg issue with Directorship

Quite a nice article written for stating what dictate people to choose over directorship. With the dilution of value people to making contribution to private sector, what Gov did was encourage people to take directorship on reputable companies...

Now how you define reputable companies? Is'nt it encouraging people not to take so much risks in sitting directorship for small shops? Then how to groom future MNC if small companies are not given resources to bring business?

And with the civil service diluting value resources from private sector...i afraid the days of another Creative will be a far fetch vision.

Here

MMORPG, what impact do they have on mankind

The Korean is probably one of the biggest MMOPRPG breeding group as scurry of korean are eager to seek an alter ego life.

There is an interesting article about the latest Bliazzard's game called World of Warcraft World and how people spend their life inside the WOW.

Go read it.
MMORPG Farming
MMOnymous

Gunner won 2:1 over Newcastle

Hee...Gunner had won 2:1 with Henry and Van Presie's goal in the late half to take the game away from the Maggie.

Well done, Gunner.

DJ Intenze Vol 20: Revolukion completed

Every evolution is an revolution; the most anticipated Vol 20 from DJ Intenze has finally gone to the press.

The tracks are as follow;

1. Trafik: Midas
2. The Cure: Lullaby
3. Trafik: Your Light
4. Tribes Of Krom: Seq Substance
5. BT: Somambulist [Edited]
6. Clint Mansell: PI_r^2
7. LTJ Bukem: Horizons
8. Fluke: Atom Bomb
9. Joff Roach: Analisis
10. Sven Vath: My Name Is Barbarella [Deep Dish remix]
    
11. Bent: Execrise 4
12. Hipp-2 & Tony Present Soul Interactive: Da Warrior
13. DJ Emjay & Asouter: Transatlantik
14. Thievery Corporation: Supreme Illusion [Featuring Gunjan]
15. Solar Plexus: Solar Plexus [Dj Forth]
16. Delerium: Duende [Bleak Desolution Mix]

Available in both CD and mp3 rated @variable 192-224kbps using LAME 3.97

Revolution, the Matrix's way or Gladiator's way

Connecting The Dots ............

Found this @Linda Chia's blog [i dunno her lar, but she pretty leh]

Strangely, today is sunday and i am in a writting mood. Partly because of the recent fiascos had led my mind to think what i am going to do than sitting around like a rabbit waiting to be slaughtered by future risks.

Apparently, i was born a with good aptitude in computer, despite not bore out in a computer school during my younger day, the first computer i touched was in Pri Six when i attended a CC class in basic computing. The computer then was a Commodore computer [those little box with casette tape on the front as storage]. I did not pay much attention then as i was engrossed in the monochrome game than anything else. Then in Poly 1st year [89], i got my 1st computer which is a Intel 8088 processor with an additional Math Co-processor [8087] called Turbo XT [assembled in SG] First it came without a hard disk and later did managed to lobby enough money from parent to add a 20Mb hard disk [Seagate]. I did the installation myself and its work great for the next 4 yrs until i graduation.

It was after army that Henry, my platton made brought me back to the IBM computer world by helping me to assemble a Intel Pentium 66 processor. It did not last long more than 6 months that i had it upgraded to a Pentium 133 and later Pentium 200 MMX. From then onwards i was getting as good as my buddy Henry Toh [work in IBM Mainframe] and even outpace him in term of proficiency. So slowly i got my a flurry of processors and garner enough knowledge to switch from Equipment Engineer @National Semiconductor to a System Engineer for Matrix Communication in yrs 2000. It was a painful move but rewarding as i suffered humilation and appreciation in the later stage. The semi-conc's life was good and i was very popular within the compound as i was very well known to mess with a computer [Reader dun ask me for PC help...after reading this]. But the parting was painful when i left the plant after 7 yrs service. Colleagues all were sad..but offered good wishes.

Then in Matrix, i knew Ken and Ming [office upstair] were now running Red Dot Asia who are currently busy with their RED DOT Design Award hosted in Singapore @Maxwell road in Nov 05 [wish them luck] After gotten sick in Matrix, i left with a vacation and return to work for a local distributor who does storage and also undertook a major change in life by returning to school only to graduate with a 1st class honor at University of Central England in 05. So right now, i figuring my next move in life..and Steve Jobs's speech definitely strike a similar chord.



Stanford Report, June 14, 2005

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me – I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades.

Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Remembering Ian Curtis, Joy Division

A quickie post, since i was'nt much of a New Order fan. Leocadia will weep and die for Ian Curtis.
Hee hee.

[Leo: Wei wei...i will always remember Ian Curtis..sob sob]

Apparently, a new movie is in the making to remember Ian Curtis who founded Joy Division who later the group created New Order after his death.

The movie is called CONTROL

Jude Law is rumored to be taking his role as Ian Curtis with Anton Chobijn on the director's seat.

Taken some snips some from www.littlefish.blogspot.com

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Election day? Arcadia?

Well, it appear to me that General election day may happen this year. Drawing from my bone, the election MUST carry on this year.

With the oil price potentially going up to pass USD$70 per barrel at any time soon with the height of possible Iran conflict, and coupled with a bleak 5 years economical slowdown starting from next year 2006, they will seize the moment before the votes get diluted with more "unforeseenable" events unearthing.

Let's wager a bet that this will happen in Nov 05. Anyone?

PAP in serious analysis - paralysis mode

Day of infamy ~ Singapore Katong Laksa style

Indeed it was a day of infamy for all Singaporean that the Presidential Election had gone ahead with the re-appointment of Ah Beh Neh to another six years in the office drawing SG$2.3Million annually under the endorsement of the PE that he is the ONLY qualified candidate for presidency. Here his winning speeche's in Katong Laksa ways...

Pres: Thank you, Singaporean...looks like i will have another six years to shake people's hand and smile alot. In additional, i will show you how to stay young at 81 years old. U know? U know? i am so fit that i can out-last any fellow Singaporeans without dropping dead in a jogging session. That's longivity lesson for you, my fellow Singaporeans. And i also would like to enforce what benefits can a lifetime employment means to you....Hiak hiak [giggling] So people dun complain that you are supposed to work till 70s to payoff your housing loan because i believed in leading by examples, so listen up. Quit whinning and think how to stay employ in the face of growing Foreign talent employment.

Also hor, i would like to give my loser, Andrew Kuan a pat of consolation who had given me a good fight for the past two weeks and thoroughly entertained me with his antics. I always yearn for a challenge for my position, but i alway no horse run and won swee swee. Let's me amplify something about this presidency election why i won.

I won because i have massive supports of [Everyone] and i will deliver my mandate for another six years by visiting more countries as Singapore idol ops, salah..it's Singapore icon. Sorries lah, slip of tongue. Thank you thank you..i love u Singapore!! eeee har [scream like Sharon Au]

Those who had awaken will have wondered how this fisaco could have evolve in the 1st place when Andrew Kuan decided to contest the presidency election without informing his boss. That's is what happen when you do things behind your boss's back.

He has served five terms as a Town Councillor and Chairman (Finance Committee) of Pasir Ris/Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Councils.

Not surprisingly, soon the PM spoke of the importance of running the President office which requires integrity during the NDP ceremonial speech, JTC and Hyflux began sounding their displeasure against Andrew for his contribution. And JTC's claims in my opinion is absurd, if you think he is so fuck up as a CFO in your organisation, why is he in office for 3 years and drawing bonuses like everyone did? And it was rumored that JTC's appraisal do not have "unsatifactory" tick box. Alright, If he is so fuck up as an individual, he should be booted out after a year service if found "unsatifactorily", so who is equally fuck up as well as sitting on his job? Sorry Mr JTC, your claims is flaky in my opinion as well.

Hyflux fired their horse's back cannon by claiming he was'nt honest about his ambition during his interview, geez it was highly known that everyone harbour their own ambition when working for an organisation whether to progress further to next frog heap or contribute further, its take two to clap. And these two clown organisations were indeed doing a bad PR job for themselves actually.

So what up doc? [Bug Bunny's slang] indeed i hope this fiasco had lead all to realise how politically stone age we were and to coincide grainy with our PM's speech made last at the National Day ceremonial, it all begins to sound pretty rhetoric

Here PM NDP's speech in a full monty fashion.

So take heart Singaporean, it's indeed a major step backward to a better society. To sum it, we are uniquely Singapore... haha

A good thread about our political scene is discussed here.

P.s Watch out for Hock Kee House incident, it going to add fuel to some public anger. Let's watch how BCA, SLA or LTA mitigate the issues...juicy manz.

Dog Shit Girl....dun mess with korean..kidding :P

Apparently i had run on a rare news that law can be taken at your own hands, of course cyberly i would mean. Especially true for South Korea where majority of the citizen were pretty net savvy thank to the Korean government building the world most vast fibre channel backbone that we envy so much. So so much so, that last week a 25 yrs guy died of heart failure when he played close to 50hrs of online game almost nonstop with occasional toilet break and nap in a makeshift bed.

The Korean were civil lots as compared to PRC-ian that we were getting so acustomed now, so when the girl's puppy shit inside the train and her refusal to clean the shit. It created such a huge public outrage that her photo was taken and posted on the blogs for identification, of course the netizen ruse against her inconsideration began a witch hunt to hunt her down, finally with the public outrage acting on her, she quitted her University and issue a public apology.

Interesting is'nt it? Read more here

OLED technology

OLED as it called Organic Light Emitting Diode is stouted as one of the possible replacement for LCD Technology in powering display likes TV and Monitor. Advantages of OLED is low power requirement and good light emitting quality as against LCD as we knew. Due to it cost factor, big chunk of their usage is restricted to small display in MP3 player.

And if you wish to know more about OLED technology, click here for some technology enlightenment.

I sense anger, i sense displeasure...i can feel it in my bone

It was reported at lunch time today @CPF building, there were four people protesting for greater public fund transparency, so much that the riot police fully armed were activated.

Come on manz, it was just 4 persons with a sign board and a T shirt how much threat can they pose? Huh? Activating riot police again is waste of tax payer's $$, again i could see the populace getting unhappy with the existing situation. And our displeasure were fuelled by the refusal to display National Day Flag at our flats.

Any more blue pills? Neo?

And i sense that Election day is coming soon with more perks being thrown out to sweeten the ground. Starting with in-camp training was reduced to 10 yrs training cycle as against 13 yrs cycle. Oh well, let's see how many perks can they curl...

Salute the 4 gladiators!!


:)

Free game for download and play

Ever want to play a game which is free?

Well, apparently 1UP.com had listed all sort of games that you can download and play.

I hope u folks found your fun.

Good Grace that the National day is over.

Still no rejuvenated love for the monopolistic party..but i am glad that their well oiled propoganda thru mass media is finally over for good. No more self-inflated ego, no more self praise and enough of them. hahaha :D

Legalised Thievery

Blue or Red Pill?

Yippee upgraded my internal network router

Finally, i got a new broadband wireless router after deciding between a Dlink DI-724+ and Linksys WRT-54GS. Settled for the Linksys router as it allowed to be hacked and install with 3rd party firmware to boost networking features.

:D

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

Yes, Johhny Depp is back with Tim Burton in the new movie called Charlie and the chocolate factory. Thinking of a possible boring weekend, why not stroll to the nearest theatre and give yourself a visual chocolate treat.

The movie depicts Willy Wonka was was deprived of candy from his dentist father had a talent for making candies and chocolate. Soon he turn famous and due to industries spies stealing his recipe, Willy Wonka decided to close his factory down and laid off all the workers. After many years aparts, he decided to only allow 5 lucky winner to visit the chocolate factory for a day if anyone found the Golden Ticket...that's where the fun being..............with Charile gaining his last five entry into the chocolate factory when he found the Golden Ticket few minutes before the day comes.

2046 - Wong Kar Wai

2046

He was a writer. He thought he wrote about the future but it really was the past. In his novel, a mysterious train left for 2046 every once in a while. Everyone who went there had the same intention.....to recapture their lost memories. It was said that in 2046, nothing ever changed. Nobody knew for sure if it was true, because nobody who went there had ever come back- except for one. He was there. He chose to leave. He wanted to change --Taken from IMDB

It a long time since Wong Kar Wai released a new movie. I believed many people out there love some of his previous work likes Chungking Express and etc...

The casting of the 2046 remain the usual suspect.

• Tony Leung
• Gong Li
• Takyuka Kimura
• Carina Lau
• Faye Wong
• Zhang Zi Yi
• ThongChai McIntyre
• Chen Chang
  

Robin...this sure raise your hormone's level, just dun PCC hor

Prove that Jesus Christ did not exist

Interesting read on the concoction of the bible and the mystery surrounding Jesus. Does he really existed for a genuine reason or he was just a figment of imagination made to control human.

Can you handle the truth?

We shall find out..who's right and wrong. Meanwhile this finding remains controversial.

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Feel free to pop in and recommend your kawan..Okie?
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The horror of Hiroshima & Nagasaki Atom bombing film footage that would change the world feel about nuclear warfare-- 60 years anniversary

Despite US had prohibited on many publication and film footages on the atom bomb aftermath on the two cities, it was apparently that one footage film was kept hidden it the ceiling by the japanese fliming crews hoping that one day, it will show the world the horror of nuclear warfare.

Lt. Daniel McGovern who had taken charge in various footage filming and documentation at two cities felt that bombing footages to be publicised and educate the masses on the horror of nuclear aftermath. So he had those crew organised the kept himself within distance to those 15,000 feet of 19 film footages and hoping one day he will be able to tell the story. And in tandem with Heb Sussan, he lobbied with politicians, TV network to show the footages to the public were meted with failures, in facts the film footages, themselves were too much horror as Dan McGovern claimed. The politicians felt that they will not hesitate to use A bomb at any possible crisis to end a crisis, which eventually leads to the the Cuban Crisis and the Vietnam war that nuclear weapon was almost a consideration. Imagine the public outrage and support by publicising the footage? There it goes under the rug...for at least 25 years

Until recently, Chicago Daily News war correspondent George Weller wrote the article and finally published to the world.

Read on the rest
How the government prevent those footages from being going public

And do not miss this article as well.
The myth of Hiroshima bombing

Manz...Good threads not to plunge into HDB 's traps

For the soon to be awaken.

Read on my Kawans...

Loving someone soOOOoooo imperfect

Really hope i got ink to craft such a nice story, nevertheless...read on.

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They have been married for two years. He loves literature and often posts his work on the net, but nobody ever reads them. He is also into photography and he handles their wedding photos. He loves her very much. Likewise with her. She has a quick temper and always bullies him. He is a gentleman and always gives in to her.

Today, she's being willful again.

Her: "Why can't you be the photographer for my friend's wedding? She promised she'd pay."

Him: "I don't have time that day."

Her: "Humph!"

Him: "Huh?"

Her: "Don't have time? Write less of those novels, and you will have all the time you need."

Him: "I... someone will definitely recognize my work some day."

Her: "Humph! I don't care, you'll have to do it for her!"

Him: "No."

Her: "Just this once?"

Him: "No."

Negotiation's broken. So, she gave the final warning: "Give me a Yes within three days, or else..."

First day, she "withheld" the kitchen, bathroom, computer, refrigerator, television, hi-fi... Except the double bed, to show her "benevolence".

Of course, she has to sleep on it too. He didn't mind, as he still has some cash in his pockets.

Second day, she conducted a raid and removed everything from his pockets and warned, "Seek any external help, and you bear the consequences."

He's nervous now. That night, on the bed, he begs for mercy, hoping that she'll end this state. She doesn't give a damn. No way am I giving in, whatever he says. Until he agrees.

Third day, night. On the bed. He's lying on the bed, looking to one side. She's lying on the bed, looking to the other side.

Him: "We need to talk."

Her: "Unless it's about the wedding, forget it."

Him: "It's something very important."

She remains silent.

Him: "Let's get a divorce."

She did not believe her ears.

Him: "I got to know a girl."

She's totally angry, and wanted to hit him. But she held it down, wanting to let him finish. But her eyes already felt wet. He took a photo out from his chest. Probably from his undershirt pocket, that's the only place she didn't go through yesterday. How careless.

Him: "She's a nice girl."

Her tears fell.

Him: "She has a good personality too."

She's heartbroken because he puts a photo of some other girl close to his heart.

Him: "She says that she'll support me fully in my pursue for literature after we got married."

She's very jealous because she said the same thing in the past.

Him: "She loves me truly."

She wishes to sit up and scream at him "Don't I?"

Him: "So, I think she won't force me to do something that I don't want to do."

She's thinking, but the rage won't subside.

Him: "Want to take a look at the photo I took for her?"

Her: "...!"

He brings the photo before her eyes. She's in a total rage, hits his hand away and leaves a burning slap on his face.

He sighs. She cries.

He puts the photo back to his pocket. She pulls her hand back under the blanket.

He turns off the light, and sleeps. She turns on the light, and sits up. He's asleep. She lost sleep. She regrets treating him the way she treated him.

She cried again, and thought about a lot of things. She wants to wake him up. She wants to have a intimate talk with him. She doesn't want to push him anymore. She stares at his chest. She wants to see how the girl looks.

She slips the photo out. She wanted to cry and she wanted to laugh.

It's a nicely taken photo. A photo he took for her. She bends down, and kissed him on his cheek.

He smiled. He was just pretending to be asleep.

"You learn to love, not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."

Who say Singapore got no homeless?

I hate to show such pictures...but i guessed it tell alots of stories.

:(

If you think ya job sucks

Well, 29th July was a very interesting day in facts for Cisco, at the annual Black HAT conference, one of the speaker from ISS's Mike Lynn, a senior security researcher who had reversed engineered Cisco's IOS code in seeking a possible security exploit had made big discovery that could possibly hurt the internet. Yes, because internet is a series of network connecting each others and many of these interconnect are made by Cisco's routers. So an exploit found on the IOS operating system on the router can be equally damaging as well if all hackers all over the world exploits on the memory heap of the Cisco router to seize control. [Mess with the best, die like the rest ;Hacker] Imagine cyber warfare in 21st century.

Mike Lynn had the support of his management to proceed with the reverse engineering of IOS. Mike decided to bring this to light to the recent Black Hat 2005's audience in the understanding of a possible exploit and work to eliminate the bugs, obviously Cisco did not seemed fit to allow him to educate the mass. Thus in cahoot with ISS, [in facts ISS had sold their employee out for fear of Cisco] hoping to prevent Mike from presenting the article. Feeling morally obligated for the mass to understand the problem than to sweep in under the rug, he coolly tendered his resignation and presented the Cisco's exploit in subtle detail. With immediate effect, Cisco using bully tactic issued court summon on Mike Lynn. Fortunately the case was mitigated having Lynn barring himself from presenting it and retrieve all research documents.

Cisco had done themselve a PR disaster and of course god knew how many security exploits were swept under the rug from ISS if they were to sucumber to big boy's pressure so easily.

Wired did a interview with Mike Lynn, which bring this Cisco PR's disaster onto the surface.

Battlefield 2's battle fatigue

Manz..on the training battlefield for the past two days, my shooting and awareness skill improve quite alot while playing against the BOTs [AI] in the Single Player Option.

Now my finger is a little numb.....

Be right back with some content.

A Great Leap Forward

In 23 July 1958, it was day of Mao Ze Dong initiation of the Great Leap Forward to galavanise its Socialism idealogy on the pleasant, it was a disaster impact to China's growth with last from 1958 to 1961 which in turn lead to the great Cultural revolution in 1966-1976 [really pulled China backward] when Mao decided that their socialism idealogy failure was due to cultural fundamentalism... [:p ] as a low layer subset which unable them to propel the way Mao wish to be.

Guardian's John Gittings is reviewing the new book from Jung Chang and Jon Halliday on Mao: The Unknown Story, a new Bio of Mao Ze Dong and his social damage to China.

And i found this link via The Paper Tiger and The Horse's Mouth who committed themselves on writting about China.

And it's all started because i was role-playing as a PLA Soldier in Battlefield 2.

In respond to Darling's comment..

Darling said she was sleeping the whole day on Sat, that's had me spawned into certain thought..

Recently, Genting Highland's management had just offended a group of Chinese tourist by having their hotel room's key chains on the back drawn with a picture of a pig. Obviously the chinese group was incested and felt insulted, thus they file a class action against the management.

To think, it's was an amazing turn of fortune for Asia, in the late 80s, and early 90s many neighbourhood countries were interested in drawing Singaporean to their countries, as the strong Sing$ were significantly advantages against Ringgit, Baht and Rupiah, every Singaporean flocks to those lands for shopping. Of course the kia-su mentality start to spread likes germs and soon we labelled as flock of birds as they were "Cheaping" [Chirp] their ways in every goods they sighted. {i used "affordable" nowaday to differentiate myself from ugly Singaporean and PRC} And guessed what? PRC-ian now took the top bird role as Singapore's economy remains stagant as years past. Not only they were chirping away, but they also brought in their hawkish attitude as well, thus retailers in SG will soon learn how to appreciate local shoppers when PRC shopper grew in greater numbers.

With Chinese economy continue to surge on, we will continue to see influx of them coming in, and i am pretty sure our heavenly scholar Mini-Stars will not want to miss the chance, henchforth the Casino is being devined and concocted into a reality.

In facts, many countries are now fighting for their visit to stimulate their economies. Will Singapore lose out? Time will tell, perhaps. On the contrary, we brought goods made in China and now we have to create a compelling tourist attraction for them to spend $$ here. Ironically, is'nt fortune is like a bullock wheel? What goes around come around.

Of course, it was not directly related to Darling's sleeping away in a weekend. But matter of fact, the "pig" was kinda came into mind and transformed into thoughts, train of thoughts...

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THEY felt insulted and humiliated. And they weren't going to take it sitting down.
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--GUANG MING DAILY

Well, the 344 China tourists did in a way - by staging a sit-in protest in the hotel lobby to demand an apology.

The cause of their anger: Cartoon sketches of pigs on the back of their room-key holders.

They claimed they had been insulted by the cafe staff of First World Hotel in Genting Highlands.

The hotel then issued an open apology. Mr Lee Tiam Kit, senior vice-president of resort operations of Resorts World Berhad, read out the apology to the tourists.

He also handed each of them a copy of the apology at a special function, reported Malaysian newspapers.

The apology came after both parties met for a discussion of more than an hour, in the presence of an official from the Chinese embassy.

The tourists said three workers in the hotel's cafe drew the sketches on their room-key holders, which they presented before breakfast yesterday.

They said they felt humiliated. The 15 groups of tourists, comprising adults and children, then gathered at the hotel lobby at about 8am. They also called the embassy.

One of the tourists, Ms Zhong Yan Zi, claimed that this was not the first time it happened.

'The same thing happened to my friends and I about five years ago. But because we were with a smaller group then, we left the matter alone,' she said.

About 40 policemen were called in to control the situation, which threatened to erupt. Three men were arrested after a scuffle. They were released an hour later.

During the standoff, the tourists issued four demands:

# That the hotel management apologise in writing to them;

# That the police commissioner apologise;

# That they were compensated for the disruption caused to their schedule;

# That the Malaysian media be notified and present during the public apology.

Resort World's senior vice-president of public relations and communications, Datuk Anthony Yeo, told reporters that the management would conduct an internal investigation immediately. If found guilty, the staff members would face stern action including dismissal.

He said: 'The management regrets (the incident) and we will make sure that this will never happen again.'

On top of the apology, each tourist also received compensation
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And One more Article about them.

Call it chutzpah or boorish behaviour, but China tourists are gaining a reputation for being loud, pushy and downright aggressive when they are aggrieved.

Just last week, 344 China tourists staged a six-hour sit-in at the First World Hotel in Genting Highlands, Malaysia.

They were protesting against the pig drawings that staff had sketched on their room key dockets. A scuffle broke out, the police were called in and three people were arrested.

The hotel claimed the pig drawings were made to distinguish non-halal diners from halal ones. But it apologised anyway and compensated the guests with cash of between RM50 and RM100 (US$13 and US$27).

Singapore retailer Kenny Koo has seen up close how formidable Chinese nationals can be when they are pressing for their "rights."

The branch manager at jewelery shop Forever Jewels in OG People's Park recounted an ugly incident when a group of China tourists changed their minds after buying a diamond pendant from him.

They wanted their money back but the shop does not give cash refunds. He said that the tourists shouted and kicked up a big row in the hope that he would cave in.

But he stood his ground. The customers were finally appeased when he let them choose other items in exchange.

....China tourists are now the second largest market for the Republic after Indonesia. The increased presence inevitably means retailers like Koo will have more anecdotes of bad behaviour to tell.

Hotel staff talk about having to shampoo the carpets in their rooms because China tourists spit on them. The guests also smoke in bed and burn holes in the blankets.

....For tour guide Sam Ling, 44, putting up with complaints from China tourists is an everyday affair. The worst are the tourists from small towns or rural villages, he said.

"They like to show who's boss. Good luck if you get some village chief from Guangdong, because he'd expect you to kowtow to him like he was back home."

From the Horse's Mouth