Well people, I have shifted over to my new blog - http://james.amourchaleur.com/
So from now on, please change your bookmarks/link to that link. Thanks alot!
There won't be a tag/chat box there. You can always leave a comment there.
Please note that the design/outlook is very simple. Please bear with it. It will take some time to improve on it. (It may take ages..haha)
Sunday, December 06, 2009
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
end of my exams!!
yeah! today is my last day of my exams!! yippeee!! and what a way to end it with a super easy paper... almost half of the cohort left the examination hall before me.. I leave the examination hall around 40mins earlier - meaning i spent 1hr20mins inside.. Where i know many spent only around an hour before they left the hall....
but hack care liao.. enjoy.. oh ya, i have some plans to do this month of holidays.. first thing is for my IPPT which is realllll soon - 9th dec.. haha.. other than that, i plan to do up my blog ( setting it up somewhere else, will post the details once everything is done, which i don't know when..haha)
also, i plan to read up and learn about C language and how to do CSS... will find online tutorials ba...
anyway, to those who are still mugging for exams.. jia you!!
but hack care liao.. enjoy.. oh ya, i have some plans to do this month of holidays.. first thing is for my IPPT which is realllll soon - 9th dec.. haha.. other than that, i plan to do up my blog ( setting it up somewhere else, will post the details once everything is done, which i don't know when..haha)
also, i plan to read up and learn about C language and how to do CSS... will find online tutorials ba...
anyway, to those who are still mugging for exams.. jia you!!
Saturday, November 14, 2009
5 days to my first exam paper in NTU
Today is the 14 Nov le, my first paper is on 19th Nov. left 5 more days to do all my last minute revisions for my papers. I'm having 2 papers on 19th. Maths Module ( Core) and Principle of Economics ( Elective) . first paper : 1-3pm, second paper 5-730pm... after tat i think i will be brain tired le.. haha
Well, to all those mugging for exams. Good luck and jia you!!
Well, to all those mugging for exams. Good luck and jia you!!
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
random rant
This blog is a random rant of the recent facebook game I am playing - MouseHunt - It's sooooo addictive...hahaha..
It's a game where u can only click and sound a hunter's horn every 15mins - in order to catch a mouse using a cheese, trap & base.
You will be tempted to always another 15mins longer to horn one more time. Before you realised it, an hour has past.. hahah
The following table is an analysis(online tool) of my catch rate for the past 12hours:
Very bad lei - Failed to attract mouse for 45%.
Only caught around 40% of the time.
It's a game where u can only click and sound a hunter's horn every 15mins - in order to catch a mouse using a cheese, trap & base.
You will be tempted to always another 15mins longer to horn one more time. Before you realised it, an hour has past.. hahah
The following table is an analysis(online tool) of my catch rate for the past 12hours:
| Hunt outcome | Cheese usage | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Failed to attract | 24 (45.28%) | Went stale | 4 (12.12%) | ||
| Did attract but failed to catch | 8 (15.09%) | Bait pcs stolen | 8 (24.24%) | ||
| Extra pcs stolen | 0 (0%) | ||||
| Did attract and did catch | 21 (39.62%) | Fruitful hunt | 21 (63.64%) | ||
| Number of hunts | 53 (100%) | Cheese used | 33 (100%) | ||
Very bad lei - Failed to attract mouse for 45%.
Only caught around 40% of the time.
Friday, November 06, 2009
finally
finally, after hours of downloading my student copy for windows7... i wasted around 5hours because I downloaded the wrong version. I downloaded the 64-bit Windows7. So, I spent another 5hours in downloading the 32-bit Windows 7.
You must be wondering why I can get a copy of Windows 7. Its a collaboration between NTU's School of Computing and MSDN - Microsoft Development Network. You can know more by searching MSDNAA ( MSDN Academic Alliance).
Well, I shall comment about the new OS.. It took around 40mins to install. But I felt could be faster because it backup-ed all my system files in Vista, which I already did before hand. After installing, I had to download quite a number of software, Anti-virus.
List of softwares now on my Windows7
AVG Free9.0
CCleaner
Spybot - Search & Destroy
Adobe Photoshop Elements
DestroyTwitter
Eclipse
Firefox 3.5 ( wanted to try 3.6beta but certain plug-ins not for 3.6beta yet)
MSN messenger
Skype
And I went to check the Windows Experience Index - my score was 5.4! I felt this is a significant improvement from Vista. Based on my memory, my score in Vista was below 4.0
Yes, Windows7 is still Windows. There are still lots of security issues and driver compatibility issues. I spent close to 2 hours in searching online and find the correct drivers for those which Windows7 don't recgonise.
But finally its done. And well, the task bar has improved. Only problem is that its difficult to differentiate the icons that are pinned to task bar from the icons that are currently running. And all those Aero stuff - I feel it's just extra stuff, only adds on to the "feel good" factor.
The only problem which I can't fixed is that under My Computer - System properties. It stated that out of the 4.00GB RAM installed, only 2.96GB is usable. I read on forums, some said it might have got to do with the 32-bit/64-bit version. Some said this might be rectified in the BIOS, which I am not comfortable in adjusting. So I left this problem alone as even with 3GB, it felt like Vista's 4GB!
You must be wondering why I can get a copy of Windows 7. Its a collaboration between NTU's School of Computing and MSDN - Microsoft Development Network. You can know more by searching MSDNAA ( MSDN Academic Alliance).
Well, I shall comment about the new OS.. It took around 40mins to install. But I felt could be faster because it backup-ed all my system files in Vista, which I already did before hand. After installing, I had to download quite a number of software, Anti-virus.
List of softwares now on my Windows7
AVG Free9.0
CCleaner
Spybot - Search & Destroy
Adobe Photoshop Elements
DestroyTwitter
Eclipse
Firefox 3.5 ( wanted to try 3.6beta but certain plug-ins not for 3.6beta yet)
MSN messenger
Skype
And I went to check the Windows Experience Index - my score was 5.4! I felt this is a significant improvement from Vista. Based on my memory, my score in Vista was below 4.0
Yes, Windows7 is still Windows. There are still lots of security issues and driver compatibility issues. I spent close to 2 hours in searching online and find the correct drivers for those which Windows7 don't recgonise.
But finally its done. And well, the task bar has improved. Only problem is that its difficult to differentiate the icons that are pinned to task bar from the icons that are currently running. And all those Aero stuff - I feel it's just extra stuff, only adds on to the "feel good" factor.
The only problem which I can't fixed is that under My Computer - System properties. It stated that out of the 4.00GB RAM installed, only 2.96GB is usable. I read on forums, some said it might have got to do with the 32-bit/64-bit version. Some said this might be rectified in the BIOS, which I am not comfortable in adjusting. So I left this problem alone as even with 3GB, it felt like Vista's 4GB!
Sunday, November 01, 2009
food stalls and their food....
well, today i shall comment about food - one of my favourite past- time..haha..
There are always stalls that serve good food and/or good service... and if that happens, my family will usually frequent those stalls, take for example Clementi Blk 328 Claypot Chicken Rice, West Coast Fish Head Bee Hoon, Tanah Jurong Market's "Cai Fan/Zhou" , Bukit Batok Central Chicken Rice etc...
Usually, it's my dad who can appreciate good food.. he will like comment alot on the food, if he were to try new food... and his most important criteria is - value for money.. so the above stated stalls.. good food and sure value for money de! hahah
But I realised something, there were much more stalls that served good food in the past.. but after time, some of them - the quality and quantity startsto drop...the worst case is that when there are newspaper recommendations or certain particular stall appeared on tv for their food.. this could only mean that the price of the food will increase...
sometimes after time, the owner may just franchise or just sell their stall, because they don't want to work so hard as they have earned enough money..that's when the food quality/quantity drops and price increases... not to mention poor service due to **i*a staff... that very saddening, from a customer point of view...
but from the stall owner point of view - its good.. their hard work had paid off...working super long hours every day, preparation work for each day's work...
thats why when there are food recommendations on the newspaper or tv or any media for that matter.. what i'm afraid is that it eventually leads to dropping of the food's standard... so maybe when you see food recommendations, might want to try before it's too late....
There are always stalls that serve good food and/or good service... and if that happens, my family will usually frequent those stalls, take for example Clementi Blk 328 Claypot Chicken Rice, West Coast Fish Head Bee Hoon, Tanah Jurong Market's "Cai Fan/Zhou" , Bukit Batok Central Chicken Rice etc...
Usually, it's my dad who can appreciate good food.. he will like comment alot on the food, if he were to try new food... and his most important criteria is - value for money.. so the above stated stalls.. good food and sure value for money de! hahah
But I realised something, there were much more stalls that served good food in the past.. but after time, some of them - the quality and quantity startsto drop...the worst case is that when there are newspaper recommendations or certain particular stall appeared on tv for their food.. this could only mean that the price of the food will increase...
sometimes after time, the owner may just franchise or just sell their stall, because they don't want to work so hard as they have earned enough money..that's when the food quality/quantity drops and price increases... not to mention poor service due to **i*a staff... that very saddening, from a customer point of view...
but from the stall owner point of view - its good.. their hard work had paid off...working super long hours every day, preparation work for each day's work...
thats why when there are food recommendations on the newspaper or tv or any media for that matter.. what i'm afraid is that it eventually leads to dropping of the food's standard... so maybe when you see food recommendations, might want to try before it's too late....
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