Bon Voyage, Jenerale..

I know i said i won't talk about my day today because i was so pissed(at bastards in general because of some stuff I heard even though I know it was/is a rumour) but here goes anyway.

So, I went to bed at like 11 last nite but i just couldn't fucking sleep and i lay in my bed tossing and turning, with my fucking eyes refusing to close. Long story short, I woke up an hour late for my class all the way in Jurong. I stay in simei. For any foreigners reading this blog[or if you're just plain stupid(no comparisons intended... i think...)], it's like going from one end of my little Island called Singapore, to the other end. Granted our MRT(Mass Rapid Transit - Our Train System) now takes 50 minutes instead of 1 hour like last time, for us islanders, that's like trvaelling from Perth, Australia to, well, Melbourne, Australia.. haha... Quite simply put, it's fucking long.

Anyway, I was standing(as usual) in my little corner of the MRT, and this group of Malay boys, "discreetly" point out my shoes and my hair(my hair was a flop basically, it's what you get when you've got long hair and you're trying to make it stand up with anything less strong than cement). Me, trying to be cool and all, decide to fold my arms but my self-confidence, dented by something so trivial, forces me to habitually hunch, making my arms cross lower on my chest than usual, making it look like I've got big boobies and my arms are under 'em.

That's when i noticed a hole in my shoe. My damn dog apparently decided to test his canines(no pun intended) on my canvas shoes. This may not be so much of a big deal to anybody else, in all honesty, it wouldn't have been for me either save for one thing. They're the only pair I've got. My mom gave 50 smackers to buy a new pair(i know, pretty stingy considering i only have one pair of shoes) but i kind of used it up with dying my hair.... :p

Then about halfway to my destination, in pops this older chinese educated man carrying a plastic bag. About five stops from where he got on, he looks at me for a minute or two and started tsking away. Not at me mind you, but "for" me so to speak. Bloody fucktard was trying to irritate me. Kanina. I tried my best to be calm, knowing that i would shouting my fucking brains outs but then i realised that i would've looked like an idiot, what with my floppy hair and shoes with holes and all... Besides, he could've claimed that he had an illness that made him do that... He certainly looked like an ass already....

As I was about to reach my stop, I moved from my corner and gave him a good look. The fucker was smiling to himself, looking at me. Then i walked towards him and he immediately "shutteth up". The fucker must've tot i was coming for him.. bwahaha... I actually wanted to say "piss off" as i passed by him but there were children around. Ah, if only but for the children.... :P

Anyway, went for the lesson from 9 - 5 at the Informatics Training Centre where me and my new friends discussed just how dangerous Windoze is and how theoretically, Linux is so secure that it would take physical access or a DOS to take it down. We also discussed how even more flawed IIS(Windows Web Server) is compared to anything, and how, basically, Apache(Best, most stable, most common, multi-platform, open-source webserver) is so damn secure(You need to configure it properly if you're going to add any other modules though) that it too would only succumb to a DOS. Unless of course the dumb Admin decided to open up the server just so it would be easier for him to maintain.

Well, when on the way back to the train station, one my new friends discussed with me how the PPCDL cost at max around $280++. Then he silently added that the boat rentals were a different matter.. haha...

...bla bla bla.. I got on the train and this group of girls got on somewhere in Clementi. Quite basically, they brushed up against me repeatedly. One of them even put her head almsot as if to lean on my shoulder. In fact, somewhere around Raffles, all of them moved away save for that one girl.

note: I Ain't making this stuff up.. It's completely true... No joke...

I, quite plainly, wasn't interested. (I know, I know, I should get off my high horse. bla bla bla). This girl, it would seem from the corner of my eye, was a plain vanilla, minus a kempt-ness about her.
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Esshshshsesehesheshseesh
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Besides, I still have my eye on that goddess from my church.

LSS, they got down somewhere Tanah Merah(i think....) and i was left with extra space where i could put my body without making "contact".

Damn, my standard of writing is worse... Sheesh... I guess cuz there's nothing really interesting to write about. Sigh....

Oh well, my musings and my procrastinated 'articles' shall follow... sooner or later....








i think....

So I just finished finally setting up everything at home right. I've got the Web Service up, Mail Server UP, DNS Server up(the thing that converts URLs to IPs), and I've got my own personal DHCP. The fucking thing is this. I can't set up my DNS on Fedora Core(a linux distro). I don't know how to set up my DHCP on Fedora either. And my freaking mail server cannot be accessed from a remote computer to do admin work. It works fine otherwise though.

Right now, everything that doesn't work is being run on Windows Server 2003, and that just doesn't sit well with me. If you don't already know, I went for a Certified Ethical Hacker Course and am going to take the test pretty soon, and my tots of how flawed Microsoft Windows is, became further compounded by the seemingly endless vulnerabilities it exhibited. You'd think those guys from Redmond, having so much "experience" in the field would've learnt to make their stuff better. Nevertheless, that aside, the thing that's unacceptable to me is the sheer "slack-i-ness" they show.

When the buffer overflow exploit appeared a while back(it affected many systems, including Linux, and your everyday routers), a patch for linux came out in 2 hours, though some would argue that it came out in 1 hour. Windows, on the other hand, took oh-so-long to come up with crap basically, the blocked the exploit in that version of windows, but subsequent versions of Windoze are still left unpatched till this day. Yes, even your Windows XP is still vulnerable. All the Redmond guys did after that was disable the tool that can execute the exploit(a tool provided with windows). Meaning to say, all i have to do is create my own program and i can cause your computer to crash. It's like taking out the bullet from a gun and handing it to me. They may think it's safe but all i have to do is get my own, loaded gun. It's that simple.

The only solution it would seem, is to have a firewall, or to run a *nix machine(Linux, Unix, BSD, Solaris, etc....)

I'm not saying that Linux isn't vulnerable. Some would say that it's because it's the least used so it's not that targeted. The fact is, that's complete bullshit. Linux is indeed still more secure that Windoze. Granted it may appear untouchable at the moment. THAT is because it's not targeted. But coming up with crap like IT WILL BE VULNERABLE SOONER OR LATER is complete Bull.

Recently, Firefox had some flaws discovered and there was a big hoo haa. So to those detractors of Open Source software, I say: Fuck you! Look at how long they took. Or rather how fast they were in coming up with a patch?

There was a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that i found out about a year back. You know how long Microsoft took to fix it? 1 fucking year!!! That exploit was some serious shit. I can get you to go to any website i want and i can make you see watever URL I want you to see in your address bar. Now the guy who discovered this exploit said he sent an email to Microsoft to detail the problem. To the best of my knowledge, they didn't even reply. The fucking this is, i wonder if anyone else had discovered that exploit before him. That would make it even longer for the time Microsawft took to make a fucking patch. This exploit is applicable from Win98 till WinXP SP1. It's fixed in SP2. To think of the possibilities, i can make it look like hotmail.com, URL and all, and you won't be able to tell the fucking difference.

People forget just how many problems internet explorer gives them. And it's all because some wisecrack up at Redmond decided to slap the words Windoze Explorer and IE.

I actually wanted to talk about my day today but i decided to write this instead because i got pissed when i heard some rumours that Microsawft may be buying over Red Hat Linux. In my opinion, it's a conflict of interest really. They have always been a monopoly, and they still are. And while it probably is just a rumour, it just about wants to make me break my $999 Windoze Installation CD, which costs 20cents to physically make.

The point is moot...

Well, yesterday was a pretty laid back day. Swore to myself that I'd clean up my messy room by 3 O'clock. Then pushed it back till 7 pm. Then all the way until 1am, but by then I was fast asleep liao.... Wahaha...

What was I doing you might ask? PLAYING ROLLERCOASTER TYCOON, while listening to Michelle Branch's Breathe and Moby's Matrix Theme Song playing in the background over and over again!!! haha...

I keep saying I'd do so many things but the fact of the matter is, I'm a big fat procrastinator. Well, maybe not big. Not fat too.. Maybe just a little horizontally challenged.

Just discovered a blog so hilarious that you'll want to curl up in a ball and laugh the day away. Kennysia.com, intriduced to me by Weili who undoubtedly got it from XiaXue's blog! :-)

And it looks like I may not be going to Japan after all, if we can, my family's gonna sell the tickets and go somewhere else. Probably Tioman... one word. Fishing!!

Too bad it probably means I'll miss the F1 race....

So long and goodbye.

Why I Blog, REALLY!!! and some other stuff i managed to squeeze in...

(check out some new links from the links master, the one from whom all links come...)

Sian leh.. so boring man... Woke up this morning to a stuffy room cuz my idiot brother turned off the AC without opening the windows and doors.

Tonight there's gonna be some racing! woohoo!!! F1... and my webserver's up.. and running on fedora core... finally... I won't bore you with the details though... or should I? muahaha...

And I'd just like to confirm, that in my religion, putting up your first finger and your last finger as if to make a "rock on" sign does indeed have a relation to the occult. It's not rock-on actually, just a sign that certain "rockers" use to show where their beliefs lie. Then the rest of the world so stupidly follows and assumes that it means "rock-on". It's so straightforward that it's related to paganism and yet peopel refuse to believe. Oh well... The blind will forever be...

Why i blog, REALLY!
Although the title may look similar to a popular(at least i think it is) tv programme on Channel News Asia, I still use it cuz it's the only suitable title.

The reason why i BLOG is simple. I find it very, very, (one more time)very corny to have to lug around a big hardback journal and pass it to my friends to ask them to read.

A situation like this would follow.

Me: Hey bro. Just wrote a new journal entry.
Fren: Yea. Kewl. Me too. Here's mine. Oh and btw, don't mind the typos.
Me: K dog. I'll pass you my book later k? After James, Jeremy and John have finished reading and posting their comments. Which reminds me, I need a new tagboard-notebook.

Fuck that man. One of the other reasons for an online blog is so that it's precisely that. Online. Viewable to any who wants to view it, not withstanding the stupid javascript scripts that people try to use. Many people can disable it from the beginners, who just turn off javascript scripting, to the advanced who actually view the page source to find out the password.

Then there's those annoying javascripts that resize your window. When you're like me(or even when not) and you use firefox with tons of tabs open, that darn script seriously locks up your system for a few. You would think that someone who can script would know how to check if the user's window is already maximised.

Then there are those that would argue "but when you put something on public domain then you have to take responsibility." This argument is bullshit. Tell me a way where I can selectively choose who can view my blog and I'll take it. A PeerGuardian for the blogspot servers perhaps?
I'll perhaps even block off the Gahmen from viewing this blog. And those fucking lawyers..

Perhaps I'll even get me a good lawyer(an oxymoron, I know :p) to help fuck those fuckers back to where they fucked from. I'll...... whoa.. timeout.. Why am I getting so worked up over something that hasn't even happened yet? phew!

All I can say, if I ever get sued because of "comments/personal thoughts" made in this blog, the person suing me sure as hell is hot ain't gonna be in a very happy mood when I'm done with him.

Hi Ho Silver!!!

John Doe. Doe-a-Deer. Dear Sir. Sir Reynolds. Reynolds Hamburg.

Think it's time for a template change. This one is so boring.

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Waking up hard
Article by FusionStream, the Amiable Fart. :p
Have u ever woke up stiff? Do you know what it's like?
No, i don't mean stiff down there. Those are called Morning Glorys'.(What? I saw a documentary okay?)

What I mean is waking up with stiff muscles, especially so when you wake up or sleep in a cold environment. Or how about getting headaches after sleeping and/or waking up in a hot room?

I do, and i find it damn irritating.
Ever wake up with a hangover and then u get dizzy? I get it all the time. Well, not really. But it sounds more interesting that way right? haha..

Well, that's all actually.. haha.. Not really an article.
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I thought I might just point out a good book that i read recently. It's more of a "literary comedy" than it is a guidebook(what it's actually supposed to be).

That book is entitled "KEEP OUT Of The Reach Of PARENTS(A teenager's guide to bringing them up)" and is by John Farman. Really cool british humour and funny yet very true proverbs can be found throughout the book. British Humour: Sarcasm and Wit at it's best. Brilliant.


Lately, Ive been receiving emails from a certain, Gaylord Burland. Spam of course, but still pretty funny ain'it. A certain spammer's been watching Meet The Fockers. Haven't you little spammer? Haven't you.. goo goo ga ga.... wahaha..


Ranjan's anti-Xiaxue now, an ideology that I've held for far longer than anyone else I believe. In a nutshell, the greater majority of her posts are blatant, biased opinions written in full knowledge that the medium thru distribution is no longer a public blog with people wanting to see her thoughts, but a public forum and newsgroup of sorts. Confused?
Dumbed-down version: She knows people read her blog and is purposely posting stuff the way she does.
Now couldn't she be sued for that? I do admit though, that I wouldn't. Isn't that stupid? Suing people on what they say in their blogs. I've got an upcoming blog on that topic btw. I think the only time a blog should be used in any court is when someone has posted criminally incriminating posts, and by criminally I mean admitting to a crime for example.
Most people act on a person's actions. I however, can see straight thru people. I've said it before but I still play the game for the sake of keeping up appearances. This frustrates me greatly.


It would also seem that a number of ppl I know are having their comments and tag-boards on their blogs being fucked up by some assholes who register names with false accounts.... Think Straight-Talker. An asshole who decided to be an ass to, apparently, anyone he met after <secret datetime>. One word. Fuckedyfuckityfickufuckyfuckers.


Quote of the day week blogpost: I don't wear briefs, I don't wear boxers. The only thing that will accomodate me is a pair of three quarter pants. (Original)


I'm Fedora Core 3 powered. Firefox driven. Thunderbird enhanced.


Coming blog posts:
-My thought on freedom of speech.
-Why I blog, REALLY.
-Biased reporting.
-Youthful defiance
-The best times of my life and why it also HAS to be(not has been) the worst, of sorts.
-My Webhosting services.


FusionStream, out.

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Kewl and funny link. English translated into l33+ after receving a warning letter from LucasFilm.
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Columbia! We're not known just for coffee!!

An idea just popped into my head..

Could Comrade Trevor be behaving oh-so-asininely because i didn't want to sell him back his lures? He wanted me to sell back to him the fishing lures that he sold me. Isn't that stupid? I said i liked them but he kept on pestering me. After a while he gave up, but i always had a sneaking suspicion that he wasn't being all too forthcoming. Stupid right? He needed the money so he sells me stuff, on loan, and expects me to sell back to him at the same price, or even cheaper perhaps...

But wait a minute, he pissed on some other people too. People like Ken. Odd eh? Funny people in this world.

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Today I woke up pretty early. Like, 10 am. haha.. That's what you get when you sleep at 3am almost every night..

-Played a little of car tycoon with a little help from my friendly trainer, Myth. :p
-Played a little or RollerCoaster Tycoon too.
-Then I played Apache Air Assault.
-Then I played KBounce.

Wahaha.. In fact, there's only one thing missing from my oh-so-fun itinerary. Work. So here goes.. haha

-I "worked" on my Visual C++ Skills
-I "worked" on my OO C++ Skill
-I "worked" on my two servers that ran Mandrake Linux and "Windows 2003 & Windows 2000"
-I "worked" on installing Gentoo Linux on the older AMD K6-2 Server
-I "worked" on installing Fedora Core on the "newer" Pentium 3 Server
-I "worked" on my programs.
-I "worked" on my PHP Code Skills
-I "worked" my ass off, trying to do 20 sit-ups in the morning. *moans in agony and anguish*
-I "worked" my finger muscles, typing so much crap for people to read.. Wahaha
-I "worked" on my Help File compendium that I'm writing(typing).

Whoa. Quite frankly, i did more work than play. Man.. this sucks... wahaha..

FEDORA CORE ROX!!!!!

Start the truck up Johnny!!!

I was supposed to go boat fishing with Ken.

But he cancelled again...

And it looks like I'll be going to Japan during the school term instead of during the last week of the holidays.

I choose for my General Elective Module, SOHO, Small Office Home Office, a subject that really intrigues me.... Hopefully, we'll learn how to set up DNS Servers and stuff..

So sian..

Comrade Trevor sent me an email with some bullshit crap, asking me for "help" with things I supposedly "helped" him with before. Like real I helped him before... So obvious he's testing to see if I know it's him.. For those skeptics, he never replied again so there u have even more evidence.
Dumbass prick...

And what's this about ppl getting into trouble with their blogs..? stupid pissheads...
It's blogger.com, not blogger.com.SG.

I'm getting better with my programming. I can now add PHP and VC++ to my list of languages.

Speaking of languages, I'm pretty interested in Latin, Spanish and French right now.
Really cool languages, the former being a highly complex language, not to mention cryptic :p, and the rest being pretty cool street languages, so to speak... :p

Maybe I'll learn German too... and perhaps a bit of Japanese(with extra care to preserve my accent though[I'm proud of my neutral and occasionally slurred method of speech]).

Car tycoon is a very interesting game but it's a bit confusing especially since the tutorials ain't that good... Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 is also quite nice except that it's mission based, something I'm not too fond off especially if that's the only option..

I can't wait for Stargate - The Alliance to come out. Pretty cool game based on the hit SCI-Fi TV Program, Stargate-SG1 and all her million-dollar sister franchises like Stargate-Atlantis, etc...

Oh well, my writing ain't that interesting. If I've got nothing to talk about, I can't write well...
Don't believe me, read Neil Humphrey's articles. Incredible funny satirical pieces but always based on something. And one or two stories from his second book where the subject was rather vague, wasn't too nice.

:p

I know what I'll do... I'll read the newspaper and find things to lament on... :p

Which reminds me, I wanna talk about Penn & Teller, Bullshit, the TV Programme. It's incredibly biased but it's rather funny... Sort of akin to Dan Brown's the Da Vinci Code. It's all full of crap and baseless lies, but the first parts were a bit interesting..

Remind me to talk about it... :p

FusionStream, out.

BJ... BJ... BJT

Pretty interesting day again today.

Fished at a new spot along BJT. Had 2 rods, on separate occasions, nearly pulled into the sea. The first was my stiff 9 footer. I swear it was a Ray. I swear it... tap. tap. pull. (where pull was literally tipping my stiff rod over.) As i had just only set up, the drag was not set as i was looking for a bell first. The only thing is, the bugger pulled for 2 seconds then apparently let go. In light of a previous similar situation, i decided to wait and see if it would bite again. In my confusion, i failed to notice the line was already slacked. And so it was for 5 minutes till i noticed my mistake.

sidenote: I didn't, and will never use a bell with that reel again. (The reel has a clicker.)

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Right before the second incident, i noticed three chiobu-s on bikes riding along the jetty. (To any foreigners reading this blog, ChioBu is a Hokkien word[at least i think it's Hokkien{Hokkien's a Chinese dialect}] for gorgeous/beautiful women. In Singapore, such women are very rare so when we say ChioBu, we really mean: "cute, pretty little thing", something of which we have quite a number.) Anywayz, i'm trying to get up to get a better look up when i overhear her conversation with her friends. It went something like this.

Girl 1(Prettiest of them all): I was here the other day with some friends. Our hair actually stood up. You know? The static and all. It was going to rain somemore...
Girls 2&3: (mumbles in acknowledgement)

I'm not quite sure if that's the Exact order of the conversation but only despite the numerous factual errors, these three things overshadowed everything else. Rain. Static. And the fact that we were outdoors. Let's jsut forget about rain and assume she was talking gibberish about that one because she was mesmerised by my hunkiness, my suaveness, my charm, my chivalry, my.... darn.. day dreaming again.. Anyway, with just the other two facts. Static and outdoors. If there's so much static outdoors that it can cause ur hair to stand, that's some serious shit. It's akin to casually talking about someone raping you, while cycling down a jetty in a park. That's something you should talk about in a newspaper.

Anywayz, I didn't laugh to loudly and I didn't laugh at all when we saw them again at another location because i don't want to make her feel stupid, etc... You get what i mean.. I continue....
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The second was with my jigs and a light rod. Having given up on ever catching that elusive, presumed, ray, and the pointlessness of getting Tambans(White Herrings. i think it's that.) as bait for a fish i apparently wasn't going to catch, I set my feathered jigs all the way to the bottom of the otherside of the jetty, where there appeared to be no baitfish. An hour goes by, and me and a friend are sitting around this fishing rod, talking, when suddenly, out of the blue, my rod tip made a full U-Turn. We turned to each other, literally with mouths wide open, but when we stood up, the line snapped. Upon further inspection, the line was cut, very cleanly, along a place of no weakness, meaning, not along a knot or anything. I swear it was a cuda or a small ray. I swear sia....

Dansen, my friend, tried using his own jigs. But nothing happened. So we gave up and left for the "nearby" hawker centre, leaving the fishes to themselves, while i enjoyed a nice "tumbler" of sweet, sweet, Bandung. (Rose syrup mixed with carnation milk, and some water.)

Sian boh!!

Wei Zhen has started to blog again... I think an MBB is in order... muahahaha

I'm really looking forward to today's F1 race, the Spanish Grand Prix. Although Michael Schumacher's car ain't the best at the moment, he's the only driver that can make a bad car look as if it's good.

The world today seems to run on gossip, lies and misfortune. I'm so sick of it liao... Regardless, the world still spins.


Tmr I'll be fishing at BJT. We'll see if my luck will hold. Ken got a 3kg Queenfish on his BC reel the other day. Must have been exciting for him.

I'll probably be cutting down on my fishing trips quite a bit. The fishing ain't exactly as relaxing as it once was, even for me.

I'm so bored. I need something to write about...

Quote:
If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them? - anonWeb

OMG They Killed Kenny!!!

My results for this semester.

JAVA - A
(Why no distinction? Did anybody get distinction?)

Character Dev - A

DIGITAL AUDIO - B
(My last project pulled me down cuz it was full of crap.. haha...)

Film Appreciation - B+
(Was debarred from the exam so... not too bad acherly.)

MATHEMATICS - C
(Stupid YG... haha...)

STSC(Storyboarding & Scriptwriting) - D
(Let's leave it at I didn't pass up the final project...)

DVID(Digital Video) - D+
(Cuz of all the late assignments.. haha..)

Quantum Physics

Well, so far it's been a boring day today. With the exception of the arse(the one you know as Straight-Talker[ST]) posting completely errant comments. Comments that were so far from the truth that astronomers may mistake it for the 10th planet in this solar system. (Didn't he say he wasn't going to post anymore btw?)

Well, i can find solace in the fact that obviously he can't read because despite my showing evidence against his baseless lies, he continues to post them. In all honesty, he's as stupid as they come, which i guess is why he deserves to be in well, let's not demean the rest of them just because of him.

I mean, c'mon. He kept on repeating the same things over and over again. He said he was from my church. When asked what church was that, he avoided the answer. Haha. So obvious lor...

Haha..

One day, once i get my own server up, I'll finally have the leeway to block people by IP addresses and then he'll be gone. Which brings me to another point.

As society progresses, as a discovery channel program noted, people become more ego-maniacal, as shown oh-so-gracefully by ST. We get more and more engaged in the tangible aspects of life as well as the social aspects.

Is it then that we become less civil? Surely we should be more civil. The age of the internet further promotes this lifestyle. Faceless names. Facades pulled over our eyes, like a thick blanket. We do things we once dared not do. But even so, we do not do it as ourselves, but rather as the persona that we create.

Therefore we should ask ourselves this question. Was it really better off in the old days? When things didn't complicate so many things? If so, some may argue that this is merely a phase which we MUST pass to go to yet another phase where things will become simpler again. Not following? I'm talking robots and/or intelligent computer systems. - Wanna sleep? Clap your hands twice and out comes ur bed, complete with it's own cooling system. Wanna eat? Clap three times and you've got food. But will this truly make things better?

What if instead of using all that extra time we have gained to do things we never thought we could do, to laze around? After all, we've got everything provided for us.

If this is the price we must pay just to have a chance at maybe, just maybe, having an even simpler life than before, is it truly worth it? Not in the long term, but rather with the immediate repercussions caused.

"The IT market drives it's own economy" they say. So too shall the economy of all technology related markets. But where do the majority of consumers come from? The IT Industry itself?

If we are to continue to live in this stage, would it not be dangerous as we could turn against one another at any moment. The world is a big place. Instead of being a busybody and instigating anger when you're not even part of the equation, why not be silent and keep your thoughts to yourself if it doesn't affect you?

I know it may not be the most deep things you've ever heard, but this is what I'm thinking.

FusionStream, out.

The question of choice.

There once was a man named Joe. (not real name)
Who loved to talk about hoes.
One day he met me on fis-hing trip.
At the time, I didn't know he had a lip.

And so one day I knew.
And i saw thru him, right thru.
Now he talks, like he's got,
for a brain, two tiny rocks.


Why is it that everyone loves to provoke people? Why?

I'll tell you why. It's because we live in a world of shitheads. And i ain't saying I ain't one either. But I will say this. I ain't the more hardcore ones. Look at the comments this guy straight-talk has posted? Entirely non-sensical.

And i know the post-er too. How, you may ask? Let's just say I've been using computers for a long time and i know how to tell people apart.

Let me just define blog for you. weblog. Online diary.

NOT A COLUMN IN A NEWSPAPER.

I'm supposed to be writing about my daily life and my musings here. Instead, I've got to defend myself, turning this into a political blog. Is there no justice in this world?

Some people say democracy takes time. Well I say, if I have to put up with this while it "works itself out" then screw democracy and let's go back to anarchy. At least we could do something about what's happening.

The Singapore Government has done a fine job in educating people on using English. What they didn't teach them is how to talk sensibly, or even think sensibly for that matter. Have a look at that Straight-talk persona. Nice name. Bullish talk. But i ain't going to delete them. Cuz this is the internet. It's public domain. Everyone has their own personal space where they can set their own rules, and not be bound by any outside influence.

As someone once said,
"Even if i disagree with your opinion, I'll fight for your right to say it."
My take on that is,
"Free speech, but not till we endorse slander."

So far, since i began to realise just how dangerous "Selective-Censorship" is, i have tried my best to keep to that saying. It's been hard, and I've given in a little now and then. But now, I will stand firm to set an example. The internet is timeless. There is no need to force one's point across. Argue it out with factual points, not mindless banter that was so exquisitely displayed by the one you people see as straight-talk. I, however, can see that person's face.

I'm tired of always having to defend myself, not from intellectual people mind you, but from numbskulls who can't tell their left hand from their right. I dunnoe why, in that case, I always want to reply when i know they still wouldn't be able to understand as exhibited by their baseless and repetitive comments.

I've had more than my fairshare of backstabbers and provokers. I can vouch for that. Hell, I'll even give you the number. 18, "friends" through out my 18 years. And notice the word friends? It ain't acquaintances. If you wanna count acquaintances then let's make it 21.

If everytime I meet someone, I have to put up a facade or i have to waste my energy just to discern someone's heart, then i say screw that too and let me just become a hermit. I ain't kidding.

Lately, most of this animosity with justification based on, well, crap, has been coming from member(s) of a certain fishing forum. What is fishing? For pete's sake it's supposed to be relaxing, enjoyable. A night out with the guys just relaxing. Why has it turned into a political race? Why has it turned into a competition? Why can't we just stick to fishing? Why the bereaucracy? I try to separate my hobbies from my daily life. My hobby is supposed to "take me away from it all". Instead, I end up with all of it coming back, and then some.

If this is what i always have to put up with, then it's not worth it. I'm tired, depressed, and sick of life.

The Promise of Eternal Life. To which kind of Life does that refer to? Definitely not the one defined as my "life".

FusionStream, out.

Sacre'blu

I woke up, it was 7.
Waited till 11. etc.. haha...

One thing nags in my mind. Why on earth did Edmund post such a big banner on FK.com asking me and Ken to edit our forum. Surely he heard of the word PM. Anywayz, i dunnoe what's up. Maybe he just forgot or something.

Incidentally, i think it was Edmund last time who posted something about converting DVDs to VCDs. I volunteered my services for a low price. He said ok. We couldn't come to a agreeable meeting time and then he never called me back. What's up with that? My guess is he already had it done by someone else who did it for free. He at least could have told me. Ah well.. The world is full of different characters. Who knows. Maybe he just honestly forgot.

Only just.



On the tech-front.
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I'll be starting my own home webhost services probably this wednesday. Everything will be hosted from my home. I hope to get a 1Mbit connection. SimeiCNG.com. My personal websites. Parts of my blog. And my fishing forum that I just set up.
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I just finished creating a database system for my mom to use for our church stuff...
But one question still nags in my mind. When i finally make the switch to 64 bit machines, does it mean i have to port all my 32bit ones over?
Surely there is a better alternative?

And also, the dual core CPUs are here...

And speaking of dual core CPUs, here's Apple's take on their version of it. Have a laugh..
http://www.apple.com/powermac/performance/

On the fishing front, there hasn't been much action lately. The fishing's been real bad lately. At some location where there used to be fish, i didn't even get a single bite. Admittedly, it was during really low tides.

FusionStream, out.
(hastily written down - need to empty my sewage canals)