So we were talking about google and how they hire people

[2:18:23 AM] Qing Wei Sum: I think they analyse data until kee siao liao
[2:18:37 AM] Qing Wei Sum: maybe next time they start telling us patterns of shitting in toilet
[2:18:52 AM] Gibson G: maybe they just data mine can find their candidates liao
[2:19:00 AM] Gibson G: then approach them matrix style
[2:19:16 AM] Qing Wei Sum: that's true
[2:19:24 AM] Qing Wei Sum: so maybe we should start posting more intelligent stuff on google+
[2:19:29 AM] Gibson G: scary sia nxt time really like those movie corporation
[2:19:35 AM] Gibson G: what shit we do also got score
[2:19:55 AM] Gibson G: then u have a guy with perfectscore and damn obedient
[2:20:07 AM] Gibson G: then u got another guy who is talented but break all the rules
[2:20:38 AM] Gibson G: soon the rule breaker join the resistance against the corporation
[2:20:53 AM] Gibson G: and the perfect guy one day encouter with the talented guy
[2:21:23 AM] Gibson G: then somehow find out how the corporation is bullshit and end up joining the resistance also
[2:21:24 AM] Gibson G: gg
[2:21:36 AM] Qing Wei Sum: lol not bad sia good movie script
[2:22:05 AM] Gibson G: oh must appeal to girls
[2:22:18 AM] Gibson G: so two guys must be damn handsum
[2:22:21 AM] Qing Wei Sum: so make the rule breaker a female
[2:22:44 AM] Gibson G: then the reason why the perfect guy turn to resistance is because he fell in love with a girl
[2:22:54 AM] Gibson G: turn out the girl is part of resistance
[2:24:13 AM] Qing Wei Sum: can just make the rule breaker a female, then the perfect guy fall in love with the rule breaker
[2:24:41 AM] Qing Wei Sum: or can make a separate girl which both the rule breaker and the perfect guy fell in love with
[2:24:49 AM] Gibson G: hahah
[2:24:49 AM] Qing Wei Sum: so now they have to fight each other liao
[2:24:56 AM] Gibson G: separate girl
[2:25:01 AM] Gibson G: then both like her
[2:25:05 AM] Gibson G: but girl in resistance
[2:25:36 AM] Gibson G: so perfect guy join resistance to try to persuade her to corporation. but mind still with corporation
[2:25:54 AM] Gibson G: so he is sort of spy
[2:26:39 AM] Gibson G: at the end when he about to activate a nuke to the resistance base then he realise the girl is truly happy being free
[2:26:52 AM] Gibson G: and the corporation also ordered him to kill everyone
[2:27:00 AM] Gibson G: so end up he didnt nuke
[2:27:02 AM] Gibson G: gg
[2:27:13 AM] Qing Wei Sum: gg
[2:27:42 AM] Gibson G: then in the end the girl chose the bad boy
[2:27:46 AM] Gibson G: cos all girls do that
[2:27:55 AM] Gibson G: then the perfect guy suicided
[2:28:26 AM] Qing Wei Sum: suicide will sound like a rushed ending
[2:28:28 AM] Gibson G: not bad v realistic
[2:28:31 AM] Gibson G: haha
[2:28:38 AM] Qing Wei Sum: maybe should create a third race
[2:28:40 AM] Gibson G: oh this is part 1
[2:28:48 AM] Gibson G: end up the dead body in the casket
[2:28:52 AM] Qing Wei Sum: some evil corporation
[2:28:57 AM] Gibson G: then retrieved by the corporation
[2:29:15 AM] Gibson G: then corporation manage to revive him and erased all memories
[2:29:22 AM] Gibson G: gg then 2nd movie
[2:29:26 AM] Gibson G: we should do this

nothing is forever

so long nv blog already.

let me attempt a post in a same style that I would have made 2 years ago:
im ponning sch today.
in return i promise to finish my assignment by tomorrow!

hi qw, xoxo

haven pack yet!

hvn been blogging enough..

so my ippt got silver, and im slacking again. lol.. i know this lifestyle is quite unhealthy.. but unless there is a pathway in front of my door, i find it quite troublesome to go out for a jog :/

i will keep this blog alive for my duration of korea though, or probably fb, so do keep a lookout!

P.S.: im totally loving the game World of Tanks! guess the passion is in my blood as a tankee lol

ippt training plan

Bedok Town Park

I don't know if you can see this.. basically this is the park behind where I live. The line in the middle is the starting point.

For the past two days, I had ran segments(loops) A and B. So it's 3km each time.

The first day was bad. Halfway through A (theres a chinup bar there where I always did my chinups whenever i run pass it for the first time) I already 'panchek'. Walked about 30% of A.

When I reached back the starting position, I started jogging again.. this time its also quite bad. I think I walked like 40% of B..

The revenge:

I went down to jog today.. this time I managed to jog the entirety of 3km!! Quite happy although its only 3km.. but of course I cant compare this achievement to what I was able to do 2 years ago.

So to show my determination to do well for my IPeePeeT this coming IseeT, I'm doing a little training schedule for myself.

The idea is to improve my stamina, then my speed.

Trainings to complete before IPeePeeT in 1 month's time:

A+B x2 - 6km endurance

A interval + B interval - 3km. (speed at second half of A, speed at second half of B)

A+B x2 - 6km recovery

A interval + B interval - 3km

A interval + B interval + A interval - 4.2km

A+B x3 - 9km endurance

A interval + B interval + B recovery - 4.8km

A+B - 3km speed

A+B - 3km speed(timed)

A+B x2 - 6km recovery

+probably 2.4km timed runs

There are about 4 weeks before IseeT.. so obviously I can't be slacking and I have to run at least twice a week!

Wish me luck :D

when it's 3am, go to sleep

I was actually on my bed at 2am, but then i realised that i was quite sticky, so i decided to take a bath.

While waiting for my hair to dry, i was thinking maybe to post an new entry on how emo i was.. but my laptop lagged like 15mins due to a java update.

So in the end all i could do was a long overdued overhaul of my blog (although i didnt do much, since this is a standard template from blogger, lol).

Well, i shall leave my emoness to next time! Im actually tired now, as opposed to what i was 2 hours ago..

the games that we play

http://ski.ihoc.net/

who remember playing this game? :)

i just found out that the 80 dollar per month medicine i took last time costs 24 dollars at UHC. fml..

things to do like right now,
internship cv,
24/2/2011 F grade in effect

i won the first sc2 game on my bdae.. but my bdae means, im already 23 omfggg so old alr!!

23 years old, and rabbit year! i think im really affiliated with the number 23..

2011~

as i looked through my previous year's entry, i realised i should put up a picture of fireworks.. but i hesitated because i didnt manage to take a nice one. well i have a video though.. but i lazy to upload la..

resolution for 2010

1. BE HAPPY

2. Meet more new friends!

3. Continue to improve on my guitar skills!

4. Finally find someone i like who likes me also (hopefully)

5. Stay healthy

Legend: Fulfilled, somewhat fulfilled, obviously not fulfilled

I think last year i was smart to make simple and little wishes. LOL. anw here's a summary of the wishes.

1. Last year was obviously happy for obvious reasons. At least i can say for me, i have found something that i really wanted. see point 4.

2. Well if we take things literally, then ya, i have met new friends.. but i have also made new friends in 2010!

3. I wasn't that good to begin with. But i think playing for one year makes me at least a slight bit better ba..

4. If you look at my last year's post, actually i made a secret wish about it.. (well.. not so secret.. you just have to highlight the part at point 4 to see what i wished for. google definitely knows about it though. lol)

5. I dont think i was very healthy at the start of year 2010. But well, i stayed almost the same..(actually i haven't exercised for long) haha but i still look the same though. myth confirmed.

2010 is definitely better than the last 5 years or so. There are things that i have finally let go, and things that I have come to accept, and things that i'd come to embrace.

2010 was a year of improvement. I was glad i had the courage to let go. When we have our hands full, we wouldnt have space for anything else.

Resolution for 2011

1. BE HAPPY

2. Meet more new friends!

3. Continue to improve on my guitar skills!

4.

5. Stay healthy

6. Survive South Korea

7. IPPT GOLD! ($400!!) - this was actually a 2009 resolution

8. I wish that everyone who matters to me find their own happiness, be it to be from anything.

9. Though I have to admit i might have less time for people who had been with me through my darkest times all these years, I hope that our friendship will only become stronger!

Happy New Year!

Gibson

Things to do this super short holiday

1. learn hangeul
2. piano+guitar
3. starcraft
4. module planning >.<

5. clean up/throw away JC stuff

6. get my fitness back

7. sep matters, recommendation letter
8

Edited:

The year is ending, but this year is very different. Things got going, and of course life is turning from great to fantastic.

Sometimes it's not things that are holding us down. It may be us holding on to them too hard.

Cheers and hope next year would be fabulous as well! With SEP coming before i know it.

And soon i have to dig out my 2010 resolution and start making a new one!

:)

happy 6th birthday blog!

haha seriously though, i dun remember the date, and i had always relied on qw's blog's bdae to remind me.

anw blog, may you have many years to go, lol.

It's getting too hot in here.

Today my wife was too hot, but it turned off automatically at several points of my starcraft mania. I checked her(GPU) temperature and was shocked to see an idle 90+ degrees Celsius and peak 105+ degrees Celsius!

I couldnt stand it after several times of auto shut down(my 4850 card has a auto shut down temperature of 110 degree celsius), so i went to service her. took out the heatsink and fan compartment(i swore i took out more than 15 screws) and gave it a thorough clean. Shocked but relieved to see theres a super thick layer of dust choking the fins, blocking airflow from the fan. I was relieved because i think that that is surely the problem.

after assembling everything and played starcraft again, checked the temperatures and they went down to 56 degree celsius idle and 68 degree celsius busy! omfgfg. ok back to playing.

thank you for coming into my life

life is strange. it could have gone any other way, but it had to be this way. i have to be thankful for all the other ways that didnt work out for my life to be this way, right now, at this very moment, with you :)

i hope this stays forever,


even though forever is always too much to ask for.

我要的东西不多，但因为我曾经想要的都得不到，我学会了少期望什么。但是可能因为你而破例，心不碎，隔着一边也没用。我的心会碎吗？

mozart

listen to this when you are tired of songs with overly reused themes and chords!

i love stats

Depending on the context, an independent variable is also known as a "predictor variable," "regressor," "controlled variable," "manipulated variable," "explanatory variable," "exposure variable," and/or "input variable."

A dependent variable is also known as a "response variable," "regressand," "measured variable," "observed variable," "responding variable," "explained variable," "outcome variable," "experimental variable," and/or "output variable."

Source: wikipedia

the only permanent thing in life is change

before:
whole night of 28th july was spent trying to install win 7 itself, where there was always a stuck in the installation after numerous tries. I was too tired and went to sleep with a disabled PC.

Woke up on 30th july feeling energised again, I tried to install win 7 again, getting the same result (stuck at 0% of Expanding windows files).

Found a completely unburned sector(s) on the install disk and became very suspicious. I went on to plug back my old HDD, did a little google, and burned a brand new disk using the Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool. Viola, disk looks perfectly burned now. Even made a bootable USB drive just in case.

10.30am~ish. Elated to see % get past 0... 1..2..3...90..91....99.....100!!!

11am~ish.

there are still much more to be done -- installing important progs and migrating my whole hdd over

[continued]

migrating software i used. dled norton ghost 15 and acronis, but in the end this simple program is all i need.

successfully migrated my most recent HDD. went on to migrate the HDD i had before that (used back in the JC days).

failed many times. went on to do chkdsk several times. realised that chkdsk can actually be done in windows! (provided the drive is not in use of course)

my last try before totally giving up..

success!!

tada!!

(yes you are not mistaken, thats the d2 icon - back in those days where there were no daemon tools, i copied the whole d2 disk to my hdd to act as a play disk/install disk)

Shutdown and removed the ancient HDD.

End product:

Oh my thats like one whole day spent. But definitely worth it. Now i have 3 generations of hard disks in a single hard disk!

Now~ to slowly fill the 2 very empty bars that i have. haha!

- the end -

my last post... before i go for my first ICT

haha. kinda having a little weird feeling now. i guess its a combination of not having anything to do now and a little bit of anxiety for wad may come for ICT. reminds me of the first day of NS.

difference is that i dont have to carry a sdfgdakjhgdds big bag all across the island.

Beacons

It's funny how we would want to share our thoughts yet keep the innermost ones out of everyone's reach. It's such an irony that this archaic blog of mine was named The Sanctuary because in the end most of the time it is actually a 100m range for my rant bullets.

Things around us move on, people too. So what if i remain unchanged, feelings and dedication and all. Would I stay relevant?

I envy practical people. They make decisions and move on. Maybe i dislike them for their trend. Or maybe im just jealous.

I think im just irrelevant in this society.

Outdated values.




People call me pessimistic, but i trust my judgement.
We are losing time all the while,
and we dont have much to dither with false hopes and expectations.

We are aging.
I thought i can just waste my life away doing nothing, but where exactly is this feeling of anxiety coming from?

My future is dim. And there are no lighthouses for me.
No harbour to dock,
I sail away to my distant memories.