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I'm moving there. WordPress is finally open to the public. I had been searching for an invite for the past few couple of weeks, and now that it's been released to the public, my search for an invite has stopped. Why I moved to WordPress? It has a password-protect feature, just like Livejournal but much better since you won't have to sign up to see the password-protected entry. I just have to give you the password for you to view it. ;-) Secondly, you can break your entries into parts, which makes reading very convenient and not an eye-sore, especially when the entry is long. There're also tags (categories) so your entries would be much more organized... than ever.

No more tagboards however. You can drop a comment though. I think comments are much better than leaving a tag. :) More word capacity too!

I planned to update the blog yesterday but I was tired.

I've been moody lately. Personal reasons, dont ask why. I bought two tubs of Swensen's Icecream and ate ONE entire tub within an hour. Pretty amazing huh? That's what I usually do when I'm unhappy or very moody. I eat. It makes me feel good, though I'm aware it's not healthy to eat too much. So I'm alright now. All happy and good! SEA Games has officially started. I'm going to make sure I watch them. I never get tired or bored watching sports competition. Well, aside from the boring football matches of course. Some time back, my sister and I watched a football match between Singapore and one other country I had forgot. One of the team player's name was PRECIOUS (which obviously means valuable and berharga in Malay). With that definition, we went on to the import-export business sector. lol. We kept arguing that PRECIOUS is an imported player who's well... precious to the Singapore team.

"Walao ridzwan! You racist sia!"

LOL. Whatever. *bursts out in laughter*

Haven't been a faithful blogger have I? I'm just hooked on a couple of stuffs online and offline. Been going out with my cousin time and again, because I felt like it and he's fun to be around with, and I go home quite late leaving me with no time to blog.

Tuition starts on December 4. *sighs* But I'll only be joining class in January. December is a time for me to relax. Peace out.

I read a news article a few days back in Sunday Straight Times about a man marrying a transgender man.



Jessie: Give our marriage a chance.

Why can't society be more open and be less adapted the conservative ways? Don't always follow the "book". Think for yourself for once.

Jessie was born as a male, but he was a woman in a male's body. She went through so many challenges to face up to her parents, and spent so much money on a reconstructive surgery to become a woman. They had a grand wedding, and if I remember correctly, it costs them RM1,000,000. And if you've read the article, the Malaysian goverment refused to recognize their union. I'm very dissapointed at this but I can understand the Malaysian's goverment stand due to religious reasons as well as social factors [such as, people not accepting other kind of sexuality and so on].

My opinion? Recognize their marriage! I admire this couple a lot. They got ridiculed time and again, but their marriage was never jeopardized by this. I doubt they read this, but I wish them a very happy marriage and all the best in getting the community to "give their marriage and Jessie Chung a chance."

If I can find the article in the Sunday Straights Time, I'll scan it in. It's a good read... well, to me anyway. *winks*

Never in my life have I fried an egg or cook something extremely delicious. The only things that I can cook are porridge and our favourite household instant noodle brand, Maggi. Damn straight! I'm not afraid to say that I'm a lousy cook. Even in F&N classes the last two years, I swear I get lousy grades for the cooking part. No joke. Even the teacher-in-charge had this kind of disgusted look on the face.

This morning, no one was at home. Nope, nobody. I woke up late. After bathing, I made my way to the kitchen and looked for food. Get this straight people - I'm a glutton and I'm very picky about my food. No food in the kitchen, nothing whatsoever. Only biscuits but that won't last me long. And so, being the very innovative, creative and silly me, I tried to fry an egg. The first attempt was embarassing. And so was the second attempt. Apparently, I didn't crack the egg properly, and the yolk was running down on my fingers and hands. Yuck! The third was pretty good. No dripping of the yolks or anything, but the worst part came in sooner than I expected. I didn't pay attention to the cooking stuffs, and well, you can guess what happened next. The egg went "black". Moral of the story? Geeks (me) don't really work well with Mrs. Kitchen.

Still hungry, still hungry! What to do?! Never mind. I'll call up McD. Got myself a nice, scrumptuous hotcakes. A rather boring, bland piece of breakfast but it'll last me till my parents get back.

Now if you've noticed the title, I wrote "Tech Day". Roughly around 11pm, I went online. Every month on the 24th, I will use up at least 6-8 hours to do a complete maintainance on my computer. First thing first, remove all unused programs and cleared the trash bin. Next thing I did was to scan for virus and spywares as well as trojans. I found about 15 spywares and a trojan with AVG antivirus. Then I did the second round of scan, only difference is that I used an online scanner (Housecall Trendmicro). Found two other trojans in my sister's PC account and removed it. Usually, for normal PC users, they'll end here. But I wanted to do this in one go and not waste any more of my time on other days. I pulled out all the plug-and-play item and defragged the computer. Plugged them back in and started to update all the drivers - drawing tablet, scanner, printer, sound and graphics. Then updated some softwares (browsers). Then I slotted in the new RAM I had bought recently and threw away one of the faulty RAMs. Still the same amount of RAM since I've used up all 5 RAM slots already. Next, I took out the case fan, used a compressed air can to blow away the dusts collected near the blades.

Time management for maintainance:
Spyware/Virus checks (x2) - 1 hour
Defragmentation - 4 hours
Driver Updates - 1h 30 minutes
Hardware Checks - 2h 30 minutes
Software Updates/Removal - 10 minutes.

Total Time Taken: 9 hours 10 minutes

Now my computer's performance is fantastic! hahaahaha! I'm going off now. Kal is on maintainance. :( *sighs* I want to play that stupid game! I'm so close to leveling up already and now they had to close it for a server maintainance. *lets out a big sigh*

Ah! Shit!

I lost one of the summaries for the English programme! Shitshitshit! I don't know where I kept it. I was working on the summary about two nights ago, and I swear I had put it nicely on my study table. But when I woke up this morning, it was gone. I wanted to ask if anyone in my family had misplace it somewhere else, but no one was home when I woke up this morning. They all left me alone and went out shopping! hmph. So I had to ransack my bedroom and my study room. Still, I haven't found it yet. Damn, I'm screwed. I wrote so much for that summary! And now I have to write it again? Damnit lah!

Ooh yeah! I heard from a couple of my NP non-dragonboaters friends that there might be a dragonboat competition this weekend. I'm planning to catch a glimpse of them. I do know of a dragonboater from NP but I'm too afraid to confirm with him the rumour. *laughs* Been a long time since I last caught a dragonboat race. The last race I saw was last year. And boy! It was great fun seeing them row using all their muscles, shouting, beating the drum and of course, my favourite, watching them jeer at the other teams! Hehehehe. The cheerleader girls shouting cheers (obviously) and the thought of seeing these gorgeous girls is heavenly!

There're going to be a lot of movies released in December! One of them I'm going to see would be Chicken Little. Hahaha! December is the best time of the year. Discounted prices the entire season (christmas! hehehe), new movies and of course, a new year ahead.


You guys enjoying the holiday? Hope so. :P *grins*

I'm back from my hiatus off the Internet. Pretty cool huh?

For the past couple of days, LIFE has been extremely stressful. Even though it's the holidays and I had already quoted, "The holidays are a time to unbridle oneself from academic entanglements", one should always maintain a constant revision for their studies. Now, I'll talk about my LIFE first. I was down with a terrible fever for two days. I was bed-ridden and couldn't get up. It was pure hell. I was being tormented by hell guards. It's kind of like in Chinese Myth Shows. The dead spirits were being pulled down into hell, judged then thrown into a tub of water with blood, then a raging fire engulfed their only means of existence - spirit essence.

Anyway, back to my hiatus. For 2 days, I was sick and I finally relaspe back to my healthy self. I started on my holiday homework. About time huh? I've read three books for the English Programme and finished doing the reflections. One is Sold for Silver, second is Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time and lastly, my favourite literature book - Charlotte's Web. Love that book so much. I'm still writing the reflection for Charlotte's Web, still quite unsure about certain things in the story plot but whatever, I guess. Did self-revision for Maths and read up on Differentians and Its Techniques. WTF dude. I don't understand any of it. It's so freakin' difficult. The English used is very, very chim. Just yesterday, I started doing on my Chemistry TYS assignment. GOD, am I dumb or what? I don't know how to do any of the question. So I asked my neighbour to help me out, and I kinda understand one or two stuffs.

I'm not sure if we have homework for Physics. Do we? We've lots and lots of assignments for E/A Maths. HELP ME. I'm dying slowly and painfully. It's like I'm being pricked by millions of needles. Drama, drama! Gotta learn to live with it, Ridzwan. GET OVER IT.

Life has been good. My nephew's operation was a success. He's still in the hospital recuperating and would be discharged this Sunday. He complained that the food there is disgusting and I couldn't agree with him any better. Food in the hospital is the worst kind of food you'll ever want. Sure, it's the most healthiest and geekiest food stuff, but when taste is taken into consideration, the food sucks! And you pay so much money for a bowl of porridge that tastes so bland! Other than that? Nothing much happened really. I noticed there's been an increase in my counter hits. I guess all that signing up, affliations and linking works wonder. I'll be working very hard this holiday, revising my work, being a better person that I already am, and most importantly - to get rid of using vulgarities often. I've been intending to stop using vulgarities since the start of the year, but I'm easily clouted.

Oh, have I mentioned this? Once I was in the MRT going to City Hall, there was this one man beside me standing. He was holding on to the triangle thing, and GOD, the smell was HORRIBLE. O_O I'm not being racist whatsoever, but it certainly could have made me faint. O_O

I shall sign off now. I'm going to play a game, then at night, I'm going to shop with my family for some kitchen stuffs, followed by some clothes for my sister. Cya!

No wonder BSB is losing their popularity.

My third nephew was hospitalized yesterday night. I don't know what he's suffering from, but his Mother called our home yesterday to tell us about this and she said he has to go for an operation. I think I recall something about performing an operation to remove something near his liver. His operation is scheduled tomorrow morning. Our family will be dropping by the hospital tomorrow, so I won't be going for the extra lesson for Physics tomorrow.

This morning, a phone call woke me up. I abhor getting phone calls, especially on a Monday morning. So I shambled my way to the living room to pick up the phone call, only to realize that the person who called, dialed wrongly. Dumbass! I made my way to the kitchen as I dragged my heavy feets, still halfasleep. Anyway....

The holidays are a time to unbridle oneself from academic entanglement, so I don't see why I shouldn't do it too. Lately, I'm on a game hunt. Kal Online is getting boring by each day. Leveling is almost impossible for a high level in a game where the servers are always laggy and congested. Why I still choose to play Kal Online? Because the people are nice, although there are assasins lurking around in towns killing AFK shopowners. Majority of them do not speak in net lingo aka "u, ur, myne, dere". Hmm, most of my classmates are playing MapleStory, a game that I find absolutely ridiculous and dumb. Fine, the characters are cute and they deserve full marks for the artsy landscapes, but the people aren't very nice in my opinion. I quitted that game when I was level 45 (I think my account is gone by now... deleted it some time ago if I can recall) because it was impossible to level up any longer, and the server was congested with dumb idiots who speaks in net lingo and mass defame others irrationally (that I hate most).

Does anyone else have a game to recommend? Probably a MMORPG with little people, cute characters and nice users. =) And yes! I do have a thing for cute characters! I melt when I see one. *giggles*

I'll end here. Enjoy your holidays!!