I would kill for this hairstyle.























yeh.

Vocal trance isn't that bad. Most people can't differentiate trance and techno.

If what you've heard goes something that goes above 140 tempo, "aiyaiyai im a little butterfly, "the night of fire, come over over me". That's techno. Techno is usually senseless. Meaningless. It's rather upbeat though. And it's associated with para para paradise.


Here's an example of techno (subclassified as eurobeat). Note the background music.





And these two are of the trance genre(vocal trance). I've included the lyrics. (I don't have any hard trance. I don't listen to them. Rather repetitive and gives me a headache.)


Got up early, found something's missing
my only name.
No one else sees but I got stuck,
and soon forever came.
Stopped pushing on for just a second,
then nothing's changed.
Who am I this time, where's my name
I guess it crept away.

No one's calling for me at the door.
And unpredictable won't bother anymore.
And silently gets harder to ignore.
Look straight ahead, there's nothing left to see.
What's done is done, this life has got it's hold on me.
Just let it go, what now can never be.

I forgot that I might see,
So many beautful things.
I forgot that I might need,
to find out what life could bring.

Take this happy ending away, it's all the same.
God won't waste this simplicity on possibility.
Get me up, wake me up, dreams are filling
this trace of blame.
Frozen still I thought I could stop,
now who's gonna wait.

No one's calling for me at the door.
and unpredictable won't bother anymore.
and silently gets harder to ignore.
look straight ahead, there's nothing left to see.
what's done is done, this life has got it's hold on me.
just let it go, what now can never be.

so many beautiful things...
so many beautiful things...

Now what do I do
can I change my mind
did I think things through

It was once my life
it was my life at one time



I was lost
And I'm still lost
But I feel so much better

You can travel the world
But you can't run away
From the person you are in your heart
You can be who you want to be
Make us believe in you
Keep all your light in the dark
If you're searchin for truth
You must look in the mirror
And make sense of what you can see
Just be
Just be

They say learning to love yourself
Is the first step
That you take when you want to be real
Flying on planes to exotic locations
Won't teach you
How you really feel
Face up to the fact
That you are who you are
Nothing can change that belief
Just be
Just be

'cause now I know
It's not so far
To where I go
The hardest part
Is inside me
I need
To just be
Just be

Just be
Just be
Just be

'cause now I know
It's not so far
To were I go
The hardest part
Is inside me
I need
To just be
Just be

Three guys die and end up at the gates of heaven, talking to Saint Peter.

"So," Peter asks the first guy, "how many times did you cheat on your wife?"

"None. I had a perfect marriage."

"Great," says Peter. "You get to cruise around heaven in a Viper."

"And you, how many times did you cheat on your wife?"

"Only twice, I think," says the second guy.

"Okay. You get to cruise around heaven heaven in a Cadillac."

"And you, how many times did you cheat on your wife?"

"12 times. Maybe 13," says the third guy.

"Okay," says Peter. "You get a rusty Ford."

Later that day, the guy in the Cadillac sees the guy in the Viper crying. "What's wrong?"

"I just saw my wife."

"And?"

"She was riding a skateboard."

The gayest cut ever. I used a knife to open the packet, but I didn't get cut by the knife. I got cut by the noodle. The dry, hard, sharp noodles.



I'm done with my computer. Formatted. Restored the bare minimum data.

Wondering if I should install my games.


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aaaaaah fuck. i've lost some of my songs. wasn't a complete backup. im going to cry. it's really hard to get vocal trance in the right mix and all. you can't even buy them locally.

Hello and this is a guide on assembling your Snille chair.

1)Get the base ready and knock the stoppers in


2)Push in the wheels


3)Flip it over


4)Fit the base on


5)Stick it in


6)It should look like this.


7)Make sure it's this side up and in this direction


8)Push it in. You should hear sound of the metal snapping in.


8i)Be careful, or you'll risk getting your nails turning blue-black in a couple of days(like mine).


9)Have a seat =)

i said i was going to sleep an hour ago. here's a flying merc. 

getting chased by police car. it's 6am already. time to sleep 

and here's my ride. 

:D 

Not a wonderful mtv, but this is one way of getting the music across.



Take a listen.

stones are getting colder
leaves are turning brown
paintings lose their color
Kings lay down their crowns

nights are getting longer
soldiers lost their faith
dreamers have stopped dreaming
heaven no longer waits

earth has stopped revolving
moon has lost it glow
seasons have stopped turning
rivers no longer flow



sometimes the one thing you are looking for
will be the one thing you can't see.
why worry?


I can't waste my time waiting for a sign.
I can live all day all by myself.

I can sing my song living on my own.
I can live all night all by myself.

I thought I could screw up MyHeritage Face Recognition Beta with a picture with many faces. Surprisingly they can analyse multiple faces at one go.



Just match the results and the faces with the colored borders.
What wasn't expected was that my worst 'portrait' turned out matching ayumi hamasaki.






Maybe that's easy given that it's orderly. So I decided to use our class photo.


I'm wondering why is it that, though cherie wasn't blocked at all, it wasn't recognized as a face by the computer.
Don't kill me. D:


Just for the sake of it, here goes.. in the order given by the computer:
kader - oscar wilde
sf - mark wahlberg
elle - jang nara
adr - florence griffith joyner
char - jang nara
vid - ernest hemingway
mel - henry mancini
ash - grace jones
xy - jean reno
mark - lu xun (in case you are wondering who-tf is this, it's some great hero in history of china)
jevon - park chan-woo
cass - song hye-kyo
lp - dalai lama (omfg, yes it's a pic of the monk)
cal - mick jagger
ahmad - asaph hall
wj - chloe sevigny


I think it's really fucked up haha. I drew a random picture and I got a 68% match with elizabeth taylor.

SWAT4 is a damn waste of money. Sigh. Not only does the game suck, the aiming is kinda screwed up, the gameplay is boring. Basically you order four officers around with commands like, "mirror under door", "open, bang and clear", "fall in". You use Insert, Home, Pageup to get visuals from your officers and snipers(as seen in the 'box' on the top right hand corner). The other half of the time you will be restraining suspects and HOSTAGES. Collecting pieces of 'evidence' and reporting status. It's kinda like counterstrike condition zero in the sense that you can customize your team - the weapons rather. They do have interesting weapons though. Non-lethal mainly. Flash bang. CS grenade that makes you cough and tear. Grenade that has rubber bits flying when it explodes. Pepper spray. Taser. You tend to fail mission if you click wrongly. Instead of right clicking (to order your men around), you hit middle, and you would be yelling, "POLICE! GET DOWN!", hence alerting suspects - a shootout often kills everyone. 

It's been damn long and I'm stll not started on my 'work' yet. I don't see how I'm going to change later in life.


Oh change me, holy god of BMT.



I really do need to get on with my 'work'.



Hold on, I'm going to take a piss and find a drink.


12:44AM
i'm going to.. pull out the modem. and try to do some work.


3:13AM
A quote from OCS FAQ-

Enjoyment:
There is the cadet mess - and there are happy hours for cadets depending on the training program. And there are social nites too - usually at the end of each term. There will be at least one such nite when all will be required to bring a partner to the occasion. When one goes into the mess, all hair are let down! U can eat drink and be merry even with your instructors! And the canteen below the cadet mess (which opens in the evening) is always a hot fav. From time to time you get nights off too.





I'll try to be a clerk or something. And still, I'm not started with my 'work' yet.


4:20AM
Yea, haven't touch the 'work' yet, but here's something that cracked me up. hahaha.






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The other date my wife was having some work done at the Ford dealer.

A woman came in and asked for a seven-hundred-ten.

They all looked at each other, and the mechanic asked, "What is a seven-hundred-ten?" She replied, "You know, the little piece in the middle of the engine.

I lost it and need a new one. It had always been there."

The mechanic gave the woman a piece of paper and a pen and asked her to draw what the piece looked like.

She drew a circle and in the middle of it wrote 710. He then took her over to another car which had the bonnet up and asked, "Is there a 710 on this car?" She pointed and said, "Of course, it's right there."
















4:43AM
SWAT4

fuck. i wanna play this game. going NS soon. don't think it's like halflife.

i can clear most episodes of halflife in a days time each.




5:12AM
almost six.

i didn't touch on my 'work'.


sigh. going to .. nap and not sleep.


8.30AM
i'm awake!




"Just so you know, I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine. If that ever happens, pull it."

help karebu. pull the plug (computer).


11:11AM
had breakfast, still clicking around. I wrote a line and stopped again. sigh. now I feel like going back to sleep..

Sometimes don't you think life sucks when you see some babe kissing an ugly guy on an escalator, whose zits look as though they are gonna shoot some stuff.


Probably rinsing her mouth out and cursing at home. And smiling the next time they meet up.


My, the things people can do.




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Right.

For the love of god cats computer games being lazy(?) yourself cars, can you get on with your essays?

This is what I call HONGKANG/HONG4GAN3(ought-to-be-fucked) traffic light. (Refer to diagram below)

1)The light is green.
2)Some pedestrian is at the side. (This means the light can turn amber/red any moment because she might have pressed the button.)
3)You are NOT allowed to stop in the yellow box (and this yellow box is super fucking long. Twice the length of normal yellow boxes for bus bays.

Cool.

1)So you decide to slow down as you anticipate the light turning from green to amber/red soon. But if you were to stop BEFORE the yellow box (the red box at the bottom) while the light is STILL GREEN, you get penalized.

If heng, you will get 2 points. "(42)Unnecessary stopping."

You may even fail under penal codes

"(48)Remain in the junction and cause obstruction."

"(63)Improper action causing accident / near accident" if it so happens that there's traffic behind you.

2)Okay. So you decide to chiong. You reach the position marked by the red box in the yellow box. The light turns amber. You chiong. You get penalized for chionging amber.

8 points. "(61)Proceed on amber light / flickering green light".

3)Maybe you decide to stop after attempting to chiong since it's amber. You may fail for stopping in yellow box.

(40)Fail to give way to vehicle with right of way (if there's bus in bus bay and wants to move out. hosay.

(46)Fail to stop at stop-line

(48)Remain in junction and cause obstruction

(??)Failure to obey traffic signals/general mistake/???????

4)You decided to be a hero. You decide to chiong but your car is too slow. You see amber you still chiong. You cross traffic light when it turns red. You get immediate failure.

(62)Proceed on red light signal.

 




Fuck sia. If not fuck then what?
Anyway I went for option (2). Heng it's only a trial run. 8 demerit points. out of a max of 18 you can get.
Driving safely is hard. Driving is not.

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I'm not sure if I should book a test now. It seems like there's no hurry since not everyone is eligible to book for tests anyway. Only those who have cleared all lessons.

 

See, so many free slots.

I thought of things I should not have thought of.
I've done things I should not have done.
I've ate things I should not have eaten.
I've said things I should not have said.

Lately, I've been all by myself.
Ate by myself.
Went home by myself.
Slept by myself.
Went jogging by myself.
Sweat by myself.
Played by myself.
Listened to music by myself.
Surf the internet by myself.
Went shopping by myself.
Like whatever I like.
Went wherever I like.
Got whatever I like.
Come and go by myself.
No responsibilities.
Weightless.

I'm not too sure if I'm happier by myself or with someone.
I know for sure I can't solve this by myself.

Ate with someone.
Went shopping with someone.
Shared the same towel with someone.
Crossed the road with someone.
Stopped with someone.
Went home with someone.
Went to the toilet together with someone.
Watched TV with someone.
Napped with someone.
Thought about the future with someone.
Chatted with someone.
Thought of what happened with someone.


Am I happy by myself.
Or with someone.

Remember this? I tried doing it in honda civic exi today. I can't. My foot is too long. I think this technique is good for people with shoe size 9. When I do this, my right heel will strike the side of the car. If I shift my toes up(on the brake), I will depress too much accelerator and I'll be in a weirdass position in the seat. I'll find a longer accelerator pedal next time. 


i have large feet. hence i'll genna the side of the car.(as marked by the vertical black line running south) sigh. 

Better today.

09.Turn steering whilst vehicle is stationary
2 points
18.Delay in moving off
2 points
19.Moving off in wrong gear
2 points
20.Insufficient acceleration X3
6 points
29.Speed too slow (for the road)
2 points
30.Change lane abruptly
8 points
39.Fail to use appropriate gear
4 points
49.Fail to check blind spot
4 points
50.Take too long in checking blind spot/mirror
2 points
52.Fail to check mirror before (slowing down)
2 points
52.Fail to check mirror before (turning)
2 points
53.Fail to check mirror before changing lane / overtaking
2 points
54.Fail to look out for traffic (junction)
4 points
59.Fail to signal / Give wrong signal (on circuit) X2
4 points
60.Fail to cancel signal (on road)
4 points

50 points
Buffer: 28 points.
Final score:
Number of Immediate failures: 0
Number of Demerit Points: 50-28=> 22

headache. depressed for no reason.




Here's what you do if you have no gun. Pretend to have one.




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erh. These are my mistakess.

Parking
09.Turn steering wheel while vehicle is stationary.
2 points.
10.Require additional reverse movement
2 points.
12.Fail to confirm safety X2
8 points.

Moving Off
18.Delay in moving offX2
4 points.
19.Move off in wrong gear
2 points.
20.Insufficient acceleration
4 points.

Forward Driving
29.Speed too slow (for traffic condition)
2 points.
30.Change lane abruptly
4 points.
31.Change lane without due care[IMMEDIATE FAILURE]
fail.
39.Fail to use appropriate gear X2
4 points.
41.Cause other vehicle to slow or take evasive action
8 points.

Junction
45.Wide turn
2 points.

Saftey check
49.Fail to check blind spot X3
12 points.
50.Take too long in checking blind spot/mirror
2 points.
52.Fail to check mirror before moving off
2 points.
53.Fail to check mirror before changing lane / overtaking X2
4 points.

Traffic Signal
61.Proceed on Amber Light / Flickering Green Light
8 points.

General
63.Improper action causing accident/near accident. [IMMEDIATE FAILURE]
fail.

68 points.
(I'm not counting the errors in buffer zone. If you count them you can minus 18 points. That would be 50 points actually.)

Note that, to pass you can only have a max of 18 points and no errors leading to immediate failure.


machiam some fighting game. genna combo whacked.
You get whacked in this order.
53.Fail to check mirror before changing lane / overtaking
-->You get hit for 2 damage.-->which leads to
49.Fail to check blind spot
-->You get hit for 4 damage.-->which leads to
30.Change lane abruptly
-->You get hit for 4 damage.-->which leads to
41.Cause other vehicle to slow or take evasive action
-->You get hit for 8 damage.-->which leads to
63.Improper action causing accident/near accident. [IMMEDIATE FAILURE]
-->You have been killed.-->which leads to
31.Change lane without due care[IMMEDIATE FAILURE]
-->You have been resurrected and killed again.

I'm too lazy to save all my posts as drafts. Sigh. But I do believe that real diaries aren't meant to be shared. And hence a good majority of the 'posts' are saved as drafts. 

 

I'm feeling more and more paranoid about computers. It's so strange, when you know it inside out, but you have no idea how to create it. How do I create an operating system? How do I write such a software? How do I link up internet and everything? Sure, I can manipulate the system, use tools (written by other programmers), but it feels strange still.

It's like being F1 racer that has no idea how to tune his car, how to manufacture parts, how to smith the pistons and all he knows is driving the vehicle.

Or perhaps I should redirect my paranoia elsewhere. Afterall, I'm a human and I have no idea how my brain control my cells and how my blood move around and how I feel and how I think.



The irony of it all.

Au version:






Sg version:

so much trouble to get msn on a mobile phone. i've tried several applications, but they are still damn sucky. either they don't load the contact list properly, or that they cannot allow you to talk to many people at one time. or perhaps they don't show you as (mobile) or simply loads too slowly.

also, i heard mp3 players are not allowed. super turned off. i'm not allowed to bring my pda in to read ebooks. i don't want to; it would probably get stolen and there are always issues with power supply and the such.

maybe i should just live life normally. and be thankful that i can blog from my phone. (i recalled OBS. we weren't even allowed phones. 5 days and when you got home, using the computer felt so weird. typewritten fonts never looked so weird before.)



three days since i've stopped working. i'm doing what i always do every holiday. every year. surf around. click around. sleep. do nothing. too lazy to do things, but rather happy being stuck in the realm of thought.



3 weeks to NS. i had plans to finish up my applications since ages ago. didn't touch them. i planned to revise O levels stuff. plans plans. always thinking and not doing. that's karebu for you.


one thing that's done for sure today: making new specs.


i'm going to go laze on the bed.

Not again.

I'm tired, but I can't sleep.

Vehicle transmissions

Status	Manual	Automatic
Starting engine	Turn key Release handbrake Indicate intention to move out	Depress brake. Turn key Release handbrake Indicate intention to move out
Moving off	Depress brake Release handbrake Depress clutch fully Engage first gear Depress accelerator, 1000-2000rpm Indicate intention to move out Release clutch to biting point When car moves off, release clutch More accelerator, maintain 1500rpm	Release brake 1 second delay Accelerate gently and gradually
Kick-up of gears	Make sure sufficient speed is reached. Gears: TWO-20km/h, THREE-30km/h, FOUR-40km/h, FIVE-60km/h Release accelerator Clutch in fully Shift gears fast and correctly without looking Not always applicable:(Shiftdown to gear TWO and accelerate slightly only if you are moving off from a slow speed i.e traffic light turns green just as the vehicle is about to come to a complete stop down on seeing red light.) Clutch out Accelerate and maintain speed Use correct gears at appropriate speeds	Accelerate gently and gradually Apply brake gently if need be
Kick-down of gears	Apply brake Clutch in Shiftdown gear Clutch out gradually but fast to prevent freewheeling More brake if necessary	Apply brake Otherwise, shift the lever to D3 or D2 or D1 to limit the highest gear the car can go.
Turning corners	Signal intention Shift gear down from FOUR to THREE As car approaches road markings( forming up arrows) shift gear from FOUR to THREE 10 metres to corner Shift gear down from THREE to TWO Check blindspot While turning, brake if needed, accelerate when the car is about to straighten.	Signal intention Check blindspot Use brake as necessary
Stopping	Use engine brake Shift down the gears accordingly, as above You are not allowed to use gear FOUR to stop Apply brake firmly and gradually Clutch in and brake more When car stops, shift gear back to gear ONE Do not release brake When moving off from slope, use half-clutch to prevent car from moving backwards and move from brake pedal to accelerator pedal quickly	Apply brake as necessary Do not release brake Car will not move backwards on slope
Emergency brake	Clutch in, brake in (slightly more brake) Pull handbrake	Brake in Pull handbrake
Circuit slope (Notes on footwork only)	Engage gear ONE Clutch in and brake at crest Pull handbrake Coordinate accelerator and clutch Accelerate to 2000-4000rpm Release clutch till biting point Release handbrake fully Move off	Brake at crest Pull handbrake Accelerate till car moves slightly Release handbrake and continue accelerating
S + crank course (Notes on footwork only)	Use half clutch intermittently. Use brake where necessary Take great care not to stall the engine	Brake when necessary
Parking (Notes on footwork only)	Engage reverse gear Use half-clutch and brake intermittently.	Shift lever to Reverse Use brake intermittently.
Stopping engine	Clutch in Brake Pull handbrake Shift gear to neutral Off engine	Brake gradually till car comes to standstill Pull handbrake Shift lever to Park Off engine

missed train. Next train comes only after 7 mins. 19 mins to get to yck mrt. 10 mins to walk to the car. 2.20pm. I ran out of woodlands mrt station. Ran to taxi stand. Took cab. Reached driving centre 5 minutes before start of lesson. 2.35pm.


my first and only lesson on ATV(automatic transmission vehicle)


Finally a change. No more gear lever. No clutch either.



Wow. ATV(automatic transmission vehicle) was kinda cool. Feels very 21st century. The whirring of the engine is much different. It has this static you feel when you walk through those sensors in store. No clutch. One hugeass brake pedal. Basically your left leg does nothing. Digital panel instead of analog ones you find in manual cars. Digital tripometer as well.

When you move the (??) from Parking to Drive, you need to step on brake. Other than that, all other transistions require a squeeze on the trigger of the (??). I call it (??) because it isn't exactly a gear stick. Haha.

The instructor was pretty nice and good. He says the engine will never stall unless the 'computer' is faulty.

Quite funny too, because, my fixed instructor kept scolding me whenever I 'drive fast'.

Fast is relative, really.

I had to stay at 40km/h and he said, "This is good". And for this ATV instructor, half the time he told me to drive faster. To speed up to 70km/h. "More power," he would always say. "The speed limit on this road is 70km/h. Faster faster."

That's like twice the speed you know.

And when I hit traffic junctions, my fixed instructor always tell me to shift down gear and prepare to stop. This instructor says, "If it's green and the lights are 30metres away, more power!"

The down side of ATV was that it's boring. I almost fell asleep at the wheels while waiting for the lights. Oh. On top of that, you can't rev your car at pedestrians. (rev means the car going vroom vroom but not moving.)