Thursday, November 15, 2007

Right, left brainer or no brainer?

The Test:
The Spinning Lady Test


Urgh...

this woman is turning clockwise from which ever way I looked at it - left, right, above and bottom.

Still clockwise. Period.

The anatomy of my single cell structure (yeah... thaz right... admitedly so.) devoids me of the ability to see a deferring result.

Although I did stare at the reflection of the monitor in the mirror long enough to realize that the reflection of the spinning lady is also turning clockwise in the mirror.

This ain't making sense...

Clockwise on the screen, and clockwise in the mirror.


How did that happen?








Saturday, November 03, 2007

Confession of a shopaholic

悲傷的採購 from the HK indie band My Little Airport

订了一季又到下季
为何人大了就要成为 工作的奴隶
最爱作的不可发挥

我的感觉逐渐流逝...

从前曾話过要如何 欣赏世界的美丽,
现在只懂得放假去消费。

如果继续这样 我还是我吗?
我还喜欢我吗?
或者我应该死去吧... 总好过变得更差...

如果繼續這樣 你还愿意吗? 和我奏着结他?

日子不应该这样吧 而现实就是这样可怕。


Listen to song
(Workable :p)

Sometimes... it does make sense.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Facebook? It's all about self-branding.

Just got the new issue of Times magazine, and they have this witty article about all these online friend-based websites:

You Are Not My Friend
Yes, we're on Facebook. But I don't care about your cat. And stop poking me.

Anyway... juz wanna highlight the gist of the whole blether...

Old people are always worrying that our blogging and personal websites and MySpace profiles are taking away our privacy, but they clearly don't understand the word privacy.

We're not sharing things we don't want other people to know. We're showing you our best posed, retouched photos. We're listing the Pynchon books we want you to think we've read all the way through. We're allowing other people to write whatever they want about us on our walls, unless we don't like it, in which case we just erase it.

If we had that much privacy in real life, the bathrooms at that Minnesota airport would be empty.

Haha... how does that work out for you?

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Revisiting Don Mclean

Tied up with reality these days.

Too much stuff to handle, and it's getting pretty much out of hand.

It's always great to listen to Mclean in times like this.

He has such a calm and composed voice, and maybe... maybe I can slow down and rethink about what I should do by just hearing his voice.

Then I saw this online rendition of Mclean's Castles in the Air... it's soooo beautiful, I just got to share it...

A soulful rendition of Castles in the Air


Just love this song.

Arent you tired of castles in the air?

Thursday, August 16, 2007

That thing about Relativity

Everything's about relativity.

My laptop has been driving me nuts for a long time because it moves like a snail.

But I've changed my mind, it's just a sloth.

The real winner is the PC that I've wrestled with at I-S Magazine.

Sticky note on How to get an I-S's PC working?
by a predecessor that owns His Cyberness
















Touch your forehead and fart 3X. It might work.

Ever since then, I've learnt to appreciate my laptop.

It's fast....

...

relatively speaking.

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Exam time. Yeah.. I mean it's almost over, and I've pretended that it was over for some time now.

Have been tubing quite a bit lately...

Catching up on Discovery's A Haunting there.

The series claims to have true accounts of witnesses who have encountered the paranormal.

It's great to watch even though some of it might not be true. Haa.. But HEY, I do believe in a world beyond this one.

Never a fan of horror films. I hate paying to freak myself out.

But THIS ONE is really good. They have witnesses who talked, and the the dramatization is great.

Anyway, interested parties please proceed on to A Haunting in Connecticut for a wonderful episode of the series.

N.. OMG... did you realize?

We are very near holidays! (or is already there for some lucky idiots)

Hohoho.

Saturday, April 07, 2007

Verbatim from past issues of Time Magazine...

"Starbucks must move out of the imperial palace immediately, and it can no longer allowed to taint China's national culture."
~ Legislator's call for closure of Starbucks at the Forbidden City

Al... right.. still... I think the renting out of plastic flowers at Tiananmen Square for offering to Chairman Mao (and taking them back again to rent out to others) is more of a taint than Starbucks.

"[Old] traffic signals leave half the population invisible."
~ Police chief's take on the newly-installed "traffic lights that flash up alternate male and female figures" in Fuenlabrada, South of Madrid.

Cute. Bet the accident rate of women in the area will reduce. Sure.

ARGH. Yeah. Hate the world today.

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Some older photos....

"Older" as in this year... and one or two months ago.


(Gosh.. look at the pace of young people today?!)



Jazz Concert at The Arts House at the Old Parliament





Regarding the photo below:
Top: No idea where that was taken...
Bottom: Audience at the Jazz Concert





....


Erm... and one more thing...


Maybe it happens to everyone....

Just that... I don't quite like myself today.


要反省(o下)。

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Found some photos lying around...

Apparently, if I don't blog them soon.. is as good as they have never been around.

Comics strip: Do you love me?

A: I love you!
B: I love myself more.















A: Do you love me?
B: Do you love yourself?



A: I love myself.
B: I love you.
The technical peculiarity of this website perturbs me.

Sometimes.. it works. Sometimes... it doesn't.

Sometimes... it's so slow.. I feel like smashing the screen. (Er hem... right... gotta keep my composure.)
....
Anyway...

Can't get this song out of my head these days....


.. Lalaaaa



Sunday, February 25, 2007

"Looking back on how it was
In years gone by,
and the good times that I had,
Makes today seem rather sad,
so much have changed."

The first Carpenter song I knew. Most probably when I was nine or ten.

Erm...

Why do I feel that way now?

Thursday, February 22, 2007

The Resurrection of Final Fantasy III




I do admit I am close to an otaku. That's my part time job.

Anyway, FFIII has been remade into a 3D Nintendo DS Lite game!!!

The introduction is gorgeous. It's so... FFX, X-2, XII-graphics.

PLEASE check it out, get a DS and WiFi with me.

Laa~

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Chinese New Year is over.

Watched Just Follow Law today.

Surprise. Surprise.

I admit I have never been a fan of Singapore production. Have been doing "avoidance learning" on local films - as in avoiding them so as not to learn.

But it's not so bad. Is full of Singapore flavour.

Talking about movies, there's two MUST WATCH if you are a fan of war films:

Letters from Iwo Jima

Synopsis:
Academy Award nominee Ken Watanabe (“The Last Samurai,” “Memoirs of a Geisha,” “Batman Begins”) stars as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, the American-educated general who courageously led the Japanese resistance to the massive American onslaught of the island of Iwo Jima.

Flags of our Fathers

Synopsis:
In February, 1945, one of the fiercest battles of the Pacific theater of World War II occurs on the tiny island of Iwo Jima. Thousands of Marines attack the stronghold maintained by thousands of Japanese, and the slaughter on both sides is horrific. Early in the battle, an American flag is raised atop the high point, Mount Suribachi, and a photograph of the raising becomes an American cause celebre. As a powerful inspiration to war-sick Americans, the photo becomes a symbol of the Allied cause.

The three surviving flag raisers, Rene Gagnon, John Bradley, and Ira Hayes, are whisked back to civilization to help raise funds for the war effort. But the accolades for heroism heaped upon the three men are at odds with their own personal realizations that thousands of real heroes lie dead on Iwo Jima, and that their own contributions to the fight are only symbolic and not deserving of the singling out they are experiencing. Each of the three must come to terms with the honors, exploitation, and grief that they face simply for being in a photograph.


By the way, both films are directed by Clint Eastwood.

Thought that it would be interesting to see how he portray the Japanese perspective and American perspective.

Right... I know I shouldn't impose my own interest on others. But I am a big fan of historical films.

Er hem... and being kinda subtle about it...


BAND OF BROTHERS!
SCHINDLER LIST!
PIANIST!
PATRIOT! (Er. is that historical?)

Alright.

Subtlety in check.

Saturday, February 17, 2007

Whatz this thing about making resolutions?

I mean how many times do you need to do something similar in one year?

New Year Resolution? Chinese New Year Resolution? Birthday Wish?

Envisaging about the future... positively.

It's not something bad, just that do you really follow through? Does it matter?


Anyway, back to some current issues - CHINESE NEW YEAR.

Didn't achieve much, or achieve a lot depending on how you look at it.

Well...

Below are the list of things that I did for today:
- Meeting challenges and dealing with obstacles (as in playing MARIO on NDS.)
- Explore new grounds (as in new games on NDS. Final Fantasy III to be precise.)
- DefeatED my nemesis (Won my brother in those who vs. who fighting games on PS3. Woohoo.)
- Living life to its fullest. (Eat, sleep, and doing nothing.)

Yawnz.

So... enjoy your holidays (while it last.)

Saturday, January 27, 2007

Lappie's spoilt. ARGH.

Meeting the various deadlines has become an insurrmountable task.

For the month of Feb:

2 Feb - Web critique
5 Feb - First take-home media research assignment
6 Feb - Writing for Comm Mgmt: White Paper
12 Feb - Transnational Info Producer: Term Paper Proposal
13 Feb - MID TERM: Writing for Comm Mgmt (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
15 Feb - Client Research Submission
27 Feb - Writing for Comm Mgmt: Policy Paper

W.T.H.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

There are two things I am good at.

One is talking crap.

Two is talking to myself.

Or simply, talking crap to myself.

There...

I did it again.

Yawnz.

I am deprived of sleep, and Eason's song keeps on playing in my head.

Eason Chan - 富士山下 (double click to enlarge)


Sigh.. gotta look on the bright side...

Er hem...

Well... such as...


what should I do for holidays?


La...

Monday, January 08, 2007

On 6th January...

Eason Chan Live in Singapore

Opening...











Post-concert syndrome...


Mmmm....









Woooo...











Eeek....

Bits from the past month...




































Havent been blogging.

So in brief whatever happen these past months:

- Exams (Ew)
- Gone to Bangkok (before the bombs)
- Went back to HK
- Back in SG (@&*#$!)
- Eason Live in Singapore (woohoo~)
- School's starting (OK... need to elaborate?)

Oh.. and I've just started using Msn space as well. But that's really besides the point.

HAPPY NEW YEAR guyz~