Typing Maniac

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I lost my Lion City SIM card... (T__T)

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Moo is into a new game over facebook sometime ago. It's call Typing Maniac. Obviously it's about how fast you can type. Moo will diligently played almost every night. I swear sometimes I can see smoke coming out from the keyboard. Anyway when she started playing, she moaned and moaned she is always stuck at caveman.

Stuck at caveman

Of course being the good roommate that I am, I have to perli her cause come on, we type almost every second in the office, not to count the smses and yahoo chat and what not. How can she be at caveman level. So one day Moo said, " Nah you play lar...". Ok I am up to the challenge, how hard is it anyway. After playing one round my level is .....

I am a dinosaur

Damn.....

Wide angle

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Please can I have some butter......

Should have posted it long ago. Somehow taking pictures out of the Blue Prince is harder then I thought (due to my technical incompetency). Anyway, taken outside my house, standing at the same place, no zooming, no special effects. This is as raw as it goes.

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Taken with Black Princess.

Taken by Blue Prince.

Don't look at the picture quality lar, of course the Blue Prince is better in terms of clarity, contrast, colour etc etc... BUT look at the amount of things it can capture. Compare the borders. That is the difference between a 26mm wide angle and a normal camera. Of course you can do so much better with a pro or even a semi pro but that's for another day.

Butter and weird shoes

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I got craving for butter.......



Damn..... I am in trouble. I got craving for butter when I woke up this morning. I can feel my waistline expand just thinking about it. The SCS butter sitting in my fridge ain't helping either. The minute I look at it, I feel like putting that butter between my bread instead of the cheese and ham that I took out. Maybe cause I was hungry.. but it's 6.15pm now AND I STILL CRAVE FOR BUTTER. When I was lean and young many many years ago, I use to eat butter whole and never grew fat. It's NICE. Whole as in those small cubes that they serve with the bread and the mushroom soup in western restaurants. Not the whole slab of butter that you find in the frozen section next to the cheese and garlic spread lor.. so kill that alarm look.

Anyway, my lai lai forward this rare and special shoes photos for viewing pleasure. I click it open in an attempt to divert my butter craving. The minute I see this pair of shoes I feel like giving it as a present to someone in my house...yeah dunno how to write the 'dead' word.

You think will I be killed if I give it?

But seriously this people are real creative one lor. I also buh tahan see this pair of slippers lor. I don't mind if someone give it to me as a Christmas present. I probably died cause laugh too much while wearing it.

A pair of dead fish next to the bed...

And last but not least, a pair of 2 in 1, you know like those trousers that you can unzip and it becomes a skirt. Remembered it used to be quite hot back when I was young. Though I seldom wore skirt, I think I bought one cause it was cool. I could use a pair for vacation. It totally don't take up luggage space lor cause you are wearing both at your feet... but hm.. how does it feel wearing a pair of slippers inside my sport shoes?

You want casual or formal?

Anyway after I viewed all the pictures, I still got my butter craving. Maybe tonight I will give in to temptation and eat one.

Show and Tell

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I graduated from Pre-Advance loooo...

Yesterday is our last class cum Graduation ceremony. But I will write it on another blog. Before graduation, there was the Show and Tell a.k.a public speaking that I mentioned here. I really can't remember any Show and Tell that I did in my class when I was young and green. Anyway adult Show and Tell (sounds sleazy ha ha) is really another level altogether. I decided to research Internet on interesting facts about fruits. As I was researching I thought I must be the most hardworking student for once but I was sooooo wrong. What did the rest do for show and tell?

a. The Vietnamese printed out colour pictures of Vietnam and stuff, stick on the board and proceed talk about Vietnam. It was like watching NGEO.
b. The Scuba Diving dude, bought his laptop and showed us his diving pictures and videos. So this one like watching Animal Planet.
c. The guy who perli me, bought his manga book and proceed to read a chapter with all the sound effects in. Yes he is an irritating fly at times but HE IS DAMN GOOD. He can mimic all sort of sounds, it was like listening Redifussion.
d. His friend, presented a Graduation Trip proposal (like that also can call Show and Tell?). I think it was quite lame but teacher said ok. Apparently now we are all going Bowling next month as Graduation Trip.
e. His other friend, talk about his work at the hospital. He wanted to be a Doctor some day (somehow when he said that, his friends brain him with rubber..? er? Guy joke, don't understand). Currently he is doing part time there.

AS FOR ME..... I talk about Fruits lor, what else. Probably I sound like IQ TV cause I put in some quizzes for them to guess. See if you know this facts?

Loosely translated back to English....
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Everyone has eaten fruits before. We have learned in school and our mum has taught us about fruits since we are kids. Example, apple is good for health, Orange has a lot of Vit C, tomato is a fruit... BUT, how much do we really know about fruits, let's find out.

What is the heaviest fruit in the world? (Durian, Jackfruit, Watermelon) -shade below question with cursor for answer.
(Answer: Jackfruit)
It can weigh up to 36kg.

Orange come from China but China is not the no. 1 producer of orange. Which country is the no. 1 producer of oranges? (Korea, New Zealand, Brazil)
(Answer : Brazil)

Watermelon has as much water content as a cabbage. Watermelow has 92% and Cabbage has 90%. Where does watermelon come from? (China, Africa, Middle East)
(Answer: Africa)

The tomato that we thought is a vege is actually a fruit. There are actually 2 other type of such fruit that we thought were vege but was in fact a fruit. Can you guess?
(Answer: Pumpkin, Cucumber)

There are also other things that we thought were fruits but in fact was not a fruit at all. Can you guess which one (Strawberry, Kiwi, Celery).
Answer : Strawberry
It actually a type of Flower and belongs to the Rose family.

There is another one that we thought is a fruit but in fact is something else. Can you guess
(Apple, Pear, Banana)
Answer: banana
It is actually a herb. It is the biggest herb in the world even though it grows like a tree.
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The guys in class actually enjoyed this quiz. Hope you do too. If got time I will blog this back up in Japanense.

Enough time or not...

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Ah... lazy Friday....

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When it comes to Friday, urgent things don't seem that urgent anymore. Somehow Friday comes with enlightenment that no matter how fast you work there are always more work and you can never get ahead of work. So why bother right.

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Though work wise is kinda relax and slow, but this weekend is going to be a jam packed for me. The other day Nite mentioned to Super Chu Chai that 'I am drowning in courses," That is LIKE SO TRUE.... at least it feels like it now.

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Dunno what happen to Violin Teacher, suddenly very strict. Actually nothing wrong with being strict but she said, I don't have an even tone over my 4 strings, so gave 5 pieces of practise scores (Etudes) that need to bow across all strings. This week going back home, lost Friday lost Saturday which is the bulk of my practise hours. Die.... Anyway I thought I could catch up on lost time this coming Sunday.

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Then, yesterday Japanese Sensei informed that next Monday will be the last class for Pre-Advance. We will be moving to Advance next Thursday onwards. Good news, no exam. Not so good news, need to to public speaking for 5 minutes, topic of my choice and prepare a poem. Theme of poem, something got to do with love. (Why.........)Before you go all impressed over me, need to clarify, the poem is a 'Haiku' (yeah it sound a bit like vulgar words) a.k.a the shortest poem type in Japanese literature. It consist of 3 lines; 5 suku kata, 7 suku kata, 5 suku kata. So it's not that hard to write, but they key thing here is creativity and the ability to sound bunga bunga bahasa even when you are scolding people. Remind me to show you guys, the poem that the guys in my class did. I did ask teacher if I can do a poem on the weather or not, she said NO... Die faster.. suddenly the Sunday window looked smaller.

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Anyway why do all these things come together at one go one? Do I have something on my forehead that said, " Challenges please come this way" or something. Of all days to give me the difficult things to do, both teacher have to choose the weekend I go back to pile me with tough things... now it seems I have to carve some time out on Saturday to do my homework. I don't need dramas like 24 if all this 'excitement' keep coming your way.

The black Princess

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I dunno why they like to confuse me when they cannot convince me...

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This is an update of post from here. My old camera, the Black Princess. Currently discontinued. Although it's now obsolete, but it still have a high place in our family being the ONLY camera that we have. Me and sisters use to juggle the usage of it between us being me the most frequent user.

Thanks to Cubie who found this picture for me.

When I first bought it, jamban baru and all, I use it to snap everything around me that doesn't move and 1/2 of the things that move. Back then, almost everyone has a camera and whenever the food was served, it must be blessed with a few snap shots before we can eat. I loved taking food pictures. But after awhile the novelty wore off cause, I like to eat the food more than snapshot it. Besides I like to eat and I eat frequently. If I got the habit of snapping every food I consume, I will have more food pictures than any other pictures. Nowadays I get a kick out of watching the Canon IXUS series in action. It has this powerful red blinking light than shines on the everything that it focuses, it looked like it was scanning the food for poison or something before snapping a picture.

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Note the Black Prince has this slope at its right side. It's an ergonomically designed to fit to the curve of your hand when you take photo or the curve of your pockets when you pocket it. Nowadays trouser pockets are squarish at the base but last time they used to sew pockets that taper to the end like a con so the camera would have fit perfectly!

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But I guess this version is not very popular nor the design very main stream as it was discontinued shortly and you don't really see this model frequently. In fact I never seen another soul besides me who used this camera. Cool huh! What can I say, I like weird stuff.

The Blue Prince

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Ah... my new camera...

The last camera that I bought was back in year....... 2004, I think. It was the micro 'miu' camera, 3 mega pixel. It was the state of the art camera, cute compact the source of many jealousies... ok the last part I add myself one. 4 years have past since then and my camera also obsolete already(model discontinued) and even the battery also very hard to find. Want to google online for the picture also cannot find already. The screen filter was very scratched too. I can go on and on and on but the conclusion is, it's time to change.

Got IT Fair over the weekend so me and the Ayamses went to the IT Fair to look over the models. I have only 2 in mind, Olympus or Canon. No doubt Canon got the nicest pictures. They are in the printing business after all. Olympus while cannot beat Canon in terms of image sharpness, beats Canon in terms of features and price. Nowadays, the only thing an Olympus camera cannot do is probably walk on water. Despite the numerous features that it claims to possess I am only interested in one, which is the wide angle lens. In this sense O and C had the same 28mm wide angle lens to offer but C is costing about SGD568.00 add in a better optical zoom which I don't really need. Anyway no guesses which one I bought.

The miu tough... Specs here

Only regret is the freebies don't have the big tripod. I was told it was part of the offer during the last quarter's IT fair. My timing ler, this time don't have. The SLRs, Compact Camera and Semi Pros are quite affordable too. Since I am quite lacking in skills, no point buying technical camera cause there are certain standards to be met when you carry this kind of cameras.

Anyway the crowds that turn up.... HUGE! They are so slow moving along the City Link it's like the chocolate in the chocolate fondue. I think the chocolate actually flow faster. It literally took me one hour to walk from the Convention Center to the City Hall MRT station and back. NO JOKE. I was generally in a bad mood as I can't tolerate crowds too much. Got limit before the face start turning black. But when one wants a bargain one has to sacrifice something. Anyway, Moo thinks it's pricey. Didn't ask her threshold of good bargain though. Don't tend to dwell on stuff once the decision is made. Expensive or cheap, done is done.

Anyway will post up the difference between the photos a wide angle camera made vs a normal one soon..... um... um.. Monday class, Tuesday class, Wed badminton, Thur class.. Friday going back hometown... looks like soon is gonna be next week. But I still blog more frequent than some..