48 minutes

Watching 向日葵的约定 - a Singaporean production through and through.

I hesitated to watch it, perhaps because of the strangely unbelievable plot: A sweet 19-year old intellectually-disabled girl falls in love with a introverted and aspiring young artist.

The brutal truth is that there can be no relationship between two such people in the world, other than a platonic one. The kindest man will bestow upon his intellectually-disabled counterpart respect and extend a hand of friendship. Anything beyond just does not happen.

The main characters are fresh, good-looking and better actors than the usual crop from Mediacorp, while the casting of other characters like Wenyuan's dad and Mr. Ken is a nice touch to the edges of the story. I enjoyed this short production, although The Will could be a better watch. As an audience used to drama and soap operas, I was expecting a less subtle ending to both films.

A tab abuser is you!

Mervyn has kindly provided me with a guide to undervolting:

The "Undervolting" Guide

It should be useful for those with heat issues on your notebooks. Because notebook manufacturers would not want you to toy about and overclock your machines (and you would be crazy to want to overclock your notebook anyway) the CPU multipliers come locked and you would not be able to adjust voltage supplied and/or physical clock frequency. As a result you would also not be able to reduce the voltage supplied via the BIOS. According to the guide standard VCORE factory settings of CPUs are sometimes too high, so you might want to reduce them to lower your CPU temperature. Doing so will increase not only your battery life on the go, but also the life of your hardware components in the long run.

*Remember: Water is the number one killer of notebooks; heat is the second.

*Statistics all doctored by me and me alone.

As a comparison with my Acer, below is a screenshot of Orthos CPU Loader running and the measurement of my sister's Toshiba Portege:

All this while running the computer smoothly. I have been complaining about this machine since forever. It was very sluggish! But after running Orthos for more than 20 minutes it is apparent that the system lives up to its Centrino Duo 2 label; the maximum temperature hovers around 44 deg celsius.

This is thegatheroffood

After two years of inactivity, dhsnpccncos0607 sprang into action once again! What can I say, it was a whale of a time. At first it was decided on seoul garden, but the price was too steep, so we changed to another buffet-style eatery, which had roughly the same price, and extra charges for ice cream! Being mindful of my distended stomach I had to watch what I eat, but still we managed to stay there for 3 hours?

And uh, gift exchange! I got stuffs from jolene while huiling got my stuffs. And we spent the night being a bunch of rowdy kids (qiwen would be greatly displeased). Greg flaunted his charm when getting two ladies to take a photo with; winky charmed a hot woman too. And jumping jacks in the middle of an open area for a forfeit? I would be just too shy. :]

okay let's bake cake tmr. Tmr I will get my MioTV setup box. Not very keen though.

Edit: I got a very nice dream by sleeping on the sofa, in return for a spltting headache and a sore skull. A pity the pain is real and the dream will never come true.

明天是冬至。

(ballie things)

我无味的生活

让我觉得应该出去走走。待在家里只会令我胡思乱想。我心里好像堆满了好多话想要跟别人说，就像现在想把整个部落格都填满密密麻麻的字。其实都是一些不关紧要的话，我真正想做的只不过是与友人（有空的人？）共享一些美好的回忆罢了。近日有些预料中的事情发生了，例如有位友人恋爱了。虽然她大概不会游览我的博客，但是我还是要很诚恳地祝福她永远幸福；不论是现在，或是将来。

这样也是好的。

凉风习习，夜空低垂，似乎要大雨倾盆。

Because I have nothing to blog about, let me show you how hot my Acer can get:

The person I was

If i told you things i did before

told you how i used to be

would you go along with someone like me

if you knew my story word for word

had all of my history

would you go along with someone like me

- Young Folks

Lyrics seem good, and I liked the whistling part, but the tune is plain 'ol rubbish.

And,

usually when things has gone this far

people tend to disappear

So many people have disappeared. And it is all my fault.

Dimensions

A copy of Linux Ubuntu 9.10

就连一张平凡的光碟都会有两面，何况是人？只是光碟的一面是用不着的。球就不一样了，一个光滑的表面，不论什么角度，任人如何踢，都能腾空飞翔，翱翔于天际。古人说：画虎画皮难画骨，知人知面不知心。有时候很渴望自己是一颗球，不管别人怎样踢，你都还是一个表面。有时却希望，别人是一颗球，不喜欢什么就当面说出来，就好像球踢不好就会歪掉、踢不进龙门一样。装作没事后来又唠叨的人会让人心里很不是味道。

He does everything you do, he is your alternative shadow

A suave little dude

They say clothes make the man.

But the man in the mirror who looks back at me, is one haggard fellow. The faint beginning of eye circles paints a bleak look under the tired pupils. Stray hairs gather at the bottom of thick sideburns, and at the top edge of the eyebrows, skewed in multiple directions. The small nose does not have the handsomeness of one with a high bridge, nor the cuteness of a button nose. Below it is a mouth that cannot smile. A lower lip that is longer than the upper lip tries to position itself such that the malocclusion is unobservable.

The round shoulders are a sign of defeat, and a habitual slouch crawls onto the back when he walks. The slouch is apparent even when viewed from the front. I reeled in horror at the sight of the man in the reflective panels at the train station just now. The man in the mirror - he reeked of insecurities.

~

Happy birthday linwei :))

The sultry fellow

Right now I am enjoying a certain amount of solitude, segregated from the remains of 6c35, hidden in my small corner on the Mac, talking to weijie online and reading beautiful photoblogs. I thought this photoblog that was only recently introduced to me is extraordinary in its own way; some of the posts fill in the gaps in our lives, perhaps providing us with answers, and sometimes springing questions upon us when we least expect it.

Have you ever wished that someone else stood in your shoes? Have you missed out someone who has always been around you since forever, loving and loyal, but never seemed to exist truly on his or her own because this person has spent too much time on you? Explore the ideas, concepts here:

I Wrote This For You

The numerous paths of life, all have a common destination.

Went to run today; quite a failed run.

Went to enjoy the sun a bit, which ended up with a stroll from paya lebar to suntec, and a rather delicious lunch/dinner. Going to a class 'chalet' later on.

The above vaguely sums up the kind of meandering life that I lead.

I should use twitter instead of blogger if this continues.

Updates..

Went to play Left 4 Dead 2 yesterday; was easily the noobest guy around, dying the most number of times and always requiring assistance. In the end we switched to easy mode and even then only one guy survived the campaign.

Wanted to go out today, but ended up configuring the mac, spending hours figuring out why the FAT32 partition wouldn't work, why XP couldn't install, turning to NTFS in the end, installing XP after assuming that it should be SP2, and then getting wireless to work. Not leading a very fulfilling or meaningful life, you would say, but enriching enough. And going out with friend tmr.

And that's about all. My life of fingertip exercises.

Edit: The 9400M coupled with the P8400 2.26 GHz (not to mention the DDR3-1067 RAM) can handle Left 4 Dead (not 2) at a combination of high and medium settings, if you can tolerate the occasional screen freeze, that is. The frame rate is acceptable for average gamers, but it should run better if you turn down the eye candy to a hybrid of medium and low settings.

And eh, after using snow leopard for a couple of days, I have to say that I love the interface, and even more so the effort Apple put into manufacturing their products. But deep down I am still a windows user, having used it for the rest of my life minus 2 days minus the days I did not know what a computer is. I might switch in the future, but not turn into a fanboy who advertises for Apple for free.