BPST AGM

Posted by HELiX

Comments(0) 4:34 PM 9 September 2006

Muggers

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Comments(0) 1:46 PM 9 September 2006

Dual Monitors!

Posted by HELiX

Well, it happens that my family has 2 spare LCD monitors, one spare 15-inch and a 17-inch.

So… the 15-inch has been converted into a TV just right in front of my computer (ie. behind me), and my bro took the 17 inch and now he adapted his previous 17-inch monitor and the additional one to create dual displays! Now, he can play a game in one screen, while use the other screen to chat and surf the web at the same time, and there are soooo many other possibilities!

Forgive the messy table and yep, apparently he requires 2 printers -___-

I WANT IT!!! It’s sooo intimidating! Buuuuut, my computer table has no space! Bleh T___T

Comments(0) 2:00 PM 9 September 2006

OHH NOESS!!! ZOMG GEOG PRELIMS… ahh, what the heck.

Posted by HELiX

Two consecutive nights of stargazing definitely isn’t good for you (including one overnight without sleep), especially if your prelims are less than 2 days away.

If not for the fact that I was the only sec 4 who turned up for the overnight stargazing (which wasn’t a good sign in any case, if you haven’t realised).

And if not for the fact the papers on Monday are the extremely-extremely-EXTREMELY-loathed-and-dreaded-by-every-single-student subject called Geography. Yup, Geography. The Most Mugged Subject in teh World.

And if not for the fact that the impact of Geography on your brain is petrifyingly incredible.

And if not for the fact that the 3 hours of sleep I just had to make up for the entire night’s is causing my eyes to burn by looking at the LCD screen.

And if not for the fact that I’m blogging right now instead of mugging.

Things would have been better. But the problem remains: it isn’t.

…

Stargazing was… interesting. 11 chars.

To make the short story long, or 11 characters into an essay…

‘Not too sure the whether was it having a Teacher’s meeting lasting ’till 11pm; or that we didn’t stargaze at all, despite the sky clearing up after 4am; or that I was featured in Picture Identification of the mock competition; or that playing frisbee at 6am in the pre-dawn darkness probably wasn’t a great idea; or that having a sharing session which members multiplied exponentially; but it was really interesting all the same.

But at any rate, most interesting was irrefutably having an astrologer approaching Edrei, or was it Weili, or was it the other way round, or was it… Ahh, just play around with the possible permutations and you’ll get the rough idea. But well, Edrei and Weili decided to be the self-proclaimed, self-defined Nice Guys that they were, and soon enough, they had I-see-it-in-the-movement-of-the-stars-and-planets-but-yet-I-can’t-spell-the-word-uncle-correctly ‘Unken Ronnie’ telling them stuffs about communicating with the stars, about the date being 9/9, and a few other stuffs that might suspiciously eventually lead to the prediction of a catastrophe. Exaggerations are fun.

But STILLLLLLL, it’s a ASTROLOGER. Forgive me for my ignorance, but I simply can’t find anything right about an astrologer lurking around in the neighbourhood at 1am in the blardy morning.

Unfortunately, I got tempted to listen in, in miserable hopes of eventually hearing from him on how the world’s gonna end, or what does the position of Jupiter say about my forecasted results of my prelims, so I would know whether I should bother to study or not. =P

But seriously, I tried to get the conversation over with by telling that Unken Ronnie that we gotta return to school, but Weili refused to move and even gave away information about Mdm Yu. Thankfully, Hannah stepped in and dragged us away from the highly immersive conversation.

And Unken Ronnie decided to offer Weili to take a picture with him, and despite the fascinating ordeal Weili just had with him, Weili actually bothered to stand there to ponder over it -__-

So, I had to drag everyone away, and unknowningly to me, Unken Ronnie followed us back right into the school. So while everyone entered the Language Lab with Hannah looking for Mdm Yu, I shouted over the length of the carpark something along the lines of “SIR!! YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED IN THE SCHOOL!!! I’M SORRY BUT YOU HAVE TO LEAVE.” Not that it did anything significant as soon enough, we were talking face-to-face about his request to see Mdm Yu at 1am in the morning to congratulate her about the school having an ASTROLOGY club.

At that moment, Rong’en apparated on my right and Sir Ronnie gave up hope on me and decided to ask Rong’en instead. And stupid it was, but Rong’en replied, “Sure, sure, sure…” Despite my futile attempts at pinching him, he apparently didn’t find anything strange about having a guy interpreting the Astro team as an Astrology Club, and wanting to see a teacher at 1am in the morning. Eventually Rong’en went beyond stupid to… something else, and I decided to cut in and tell Unken Ronnie off. Wasn’t too fruitless this time, as Ronnie did consider leaving the school premises, but not without collecting Rong’en’s name (both English and Chinese), contact number and email address first, and telling me that I have a very ‘negative’ attitude in comparison to Rong’en ‘positive’ attitude, and that I spoilt his mood. Seemingly, he got Rong’en’s attention with a simple claim that he could actually offer to provide finances to the club (that being the ASTROLOGY club). Oh, and he added that I didn’t ‘know what is friendship’ and said something to Rong’en like “Jesus said that we are all brothers” before leaving.

Back in the AVA, Rong’en was trying to telling me not to feel bad… Maybe I guess he thought I was affected by the ‘negative’ attitude statement? But hell, I wasn’t. I mean, why would I find it (as Weird Al would put it) conceivable or at the very least a bit likely that the relative position of the planets and the stars could have a special deep significant or meaning that exclusively applies to only me. But gotta admit, with my prelims less than 2 days away, getting such comments from an astrologer isn’t too encouraging. Eh, lol.

All was well until slightly after ten, twenty minutes later, Unken Ronnie gave Rong’en a call on his handphone and told him to meet at the gate. Rong’en decided to get Mdm Yu to go instead, telling Ronnie that Rong’en won’t be seeing him and he’d be better off getting lost. And so she did, spending a good 10 mins there before turning around and laughing on her way across the carpark. She said that Unken Ronnie talked about christianity with her, and wanted to see Rong’en badly, insisting that she pass a bowl of longan seeds to Rong’en at the very least. Stupid as it is, but the longan seeds looked seriously dumb and humorous, and I find it hard to comprehend where he could possibly get all that longan seeds in such a short period of time. I mean, ya gotta buy the longan, peel it, then eat it, uhh… Along with the longan seeds, there was a dragon with a chain kinda thingy, supposedly linked to Unken Ronnie leaving words to Rong’en about his nick longantree having an apparent resemblance to dragon’s eyes in chinese, something like that…

We-ell… that was that, after Mdm Yu called the police. And after the mock competition, we had a sharing session outside the foyer and a police van came around to enquire about us staying up in the school premises at 4am, and he seemingly found my reply of a stargazing session weird. After checking that everything was alright, he headed off. Quite a nice guy I must say, but he could have arrived muuuuch earlier.

Then we had a short frisbee game at the volleyball court, whereby the darkness proved to be more of a challenge than anything else, although the outnumbered seniors still pwn the juniors once again. =D

And so the stargazing concluded, and a bunch of us decided to have breakfast at Lot 1. Gradually, one-by-one everyone left leaving me, Hazel, Hannah and Jiale. And I took out my geography to study while eavesdropping on girls’ talk, which had and always will be a fascinating insight =X

So happened that I left my notes lying all over the table, and omggottaph34rtehhazel as she decided to practise her 1337 drawing on my notes. Well, at least she was nice enough to warn me before that given any surface and a pencil, that would happen. Soon enough, Jiale and Hannah joined in, and so now my geog notes are spammed with stuffs from hearts to unicorns to bunny to cows to crabs to telescopes to Paul Twohill to sharks to flowers to DNA to dragons to… yeah, you get the idea.

Jiale left after one piece of my notes on Population Pyramid got screwed, but Hazel and Hannah carried on with other notes of mine. And this time, they decided to profile me -__-”‘

After repeated threats to draw me uglier and stuffs…

Hazel’s!

EDIT: 4 mins late! But what the heck…

Hannah’s!

Comments(0) 12:08 PM 9 September 2006

Key Counter

Posted by HELiX

Got really bored and decided to blog about this.

Well, I got this Key Counter stuff, which — well, obviously — counts the number of keystrokes on your keyboard and mouseclicks in a day.

So far, for today (actually yesterday, since it’s past 12am)

18869 Keystrokes

6175 Left Mouseclicks
219 Right Mouseclicks

Hmm…

Comments(0) 4:35 PM 9 September 2006

Stuffs.

Posted by HELiX

With half of the holidays torture week whatchamaycallit up, and I’m supposed to have finish half of my mugging by now, but where do I stand?

…frankly speaking, somewhere near the starting line.

…

Now that was a disturbingly depressing thought.

BUT ANYWAYS..

Excluding the Croc Hunter series concluding with ‘Crikey! It’s a sting… Uhh…’, this week’s been without much significant events. Shan’t blog ’bout that ‘cos it’s a you-know-i-know-everybody-knows kinda thing.

And on a happier note, there’s a 90% chance of UT2004 being included in Season 2 of GXLeague 2006.. w00ts! Although I’m inclined to join, buuuuut… O LEVELS!!! ARGHH. But still! I think I’m gonna give in to temptation and join, and in the worst case scenario, drop out of the league midway through or not turn up for the matches that are too close to the O Levels. Blah.

There’ll be a partial lunar eclipse on Friday morning, though you may consider it Thursday night.

So, me and couple of friends will be videotaping the eclipse at my house, feel free to join, altho slightly over 12 hours later I’ll have to attend another stargazing -__-

Penumbral Eclipse Begins:
00:42:23 Singapore Local Time

Partial Eclipse Begins:
02:05:03 Singapore Local Time

Greatest Eclipse:
02:51:21 Singapore Local Time

Partial Eclipse Ends:
03:37:41 Singapore Local Time

Penumbral Eclipse Ends:
05:00:20 Singapore Local Time

Altho this might create some trouble… I think it’s something worth mentioning. And please people, use your knowledge sensibly and don’t create another friendster-like case of 2004 in the school again.

With all the obscene mugging by the sec 4s, some of us get impressively bored and I’m not too sure whether I could name, but the owner of found an incredible useful trick to play with BPGHS URLs.

1

And just some modifications, with a similar gist.

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Comments(0) 3:42 PM 9 September 2006

Photoshoppin’

Posted by HELiX

Got bored, as in, not of studying (’cos I haven’t even started), but you know, just — er — bored.

And so enters Adobe Photoshop CS2.

‘Looked through my past few years’ of vacation pictures and some others, and decided to stitch up all those countless panoramic shots I had. Spent hours to search through 10~20GB of pictures, and found a decent bunch of ‘em.

And so here they are, from Hong Kong to Beijing to — well — Singapore, some panoramic shots which I never bothered to get off my butt and stitch ‘em up ’till now. lol.

All peektures copyrighted to me =)

WARNING: 56Kers KEEP OUT; LOTSA PEEKTURES

Tian An Men Square (literally, Gate of Heavenly Peace)
Beijing, China
Nov-Dec 2004

Eh, views from my family’s house in HK
Pan Long Wan, Hong Kong

Harbourfront, Avenue of Stars
Hong Kong

Some place in Hong Kong…

Some beach in Hong Kong, and if I remembered correctly, Jackie Chan’s house is somewhere in that panorama, high up in the hills slightly left of the middle.

Great Wall of China
Beijing, China
Nov-Dec 2004

And Singapore’s harbourfront.

Sheare’s Bridge
Singapore
2006

And while searching through the 10~20GB of vacation pictures I had, I came across a few interesting ones, which tells quite a bit of the English skillz the fellas from HK, China and Taiwan have.

And proclaiming that the landscape is gory doesn’t really attract tourists.

Just to end off this blog entry, I learned this trick somewhere online, whereby a certain negative tone of an image, when recorded by your eye from prolonged staring, stays on when the image is changed and it overlays the new image.

Okay I don’t really understand myself either, but simply look at the images below, stare at the dot for 20~30 seconds. Then, without moving your eyes, move the mouse over the image. The image will look like it’s in colour until you move or blink your eyes. =D

Images, from top to bottom respectively: (scrolldown pls. any text below the rollover images gets screwed up, so hafta put ‘em here)

Tian An Men Square
Beijing, China
2004

Great Wall of China
Beijing, China
2004

Window of the World
Shenzhen, China
2005

PS. @#$% rollovers using cascading style sheets (CSS) took me over an hour to comprehend =___=

Comments(0) 7:25 AM 9 September 2006