Today was the start of the Formula 1 season with the race at Melbourne.
It was an exciting race. Massa started from the back of the grid and picked his way up to 6th. He was originally slated for 16th(Gearbox problems so he DNFed the Q2) but Ferarri pulled another good strategy out of thin air which saw them replacing his engine and filling him up to the brim which penalised him to 22nd but game him extreme "stamina".
Kimi raced relatively unapposed with a superbly fast car and finished first. Kimi later sported a grin at the podium.
Alonso and Hamilton raced each other for 2nd and 3rd but Alonso used his experience in Formula 1 to put himself in a position to regain 2nd (which Hamilton had stole in the early stages of the race) in the final quarter of the race.
Webber made a daring late-game move (which he would have won had Wurz seen him coming) which saw his car vaulting over Alexander Wurz's Williams at turn 3. The car narrowly missed Wurz's hands and helmet. Both drivers were DNFed.
Super Aguri did quite well in qualifying and at the end of the race, Takuma Sato placed 12th.
Alber's crashed his Spyker in turn 3 and later said that 'his ear plug was hurting his ear and so he missed the braking point'.
And oh yea... Spyker are headed for arbritation over the alleged fact that the Red Bull, Toro Rosso and Super Aguri cars are all the same car, last year’s Honda RA106.
Got my damn dates mixed up again and found myself in a situation where I could watch the 5 latest episodes in one shot! WOOHOO!!!!
This is about the best time in TV Land. All the shows either come out of their hiatuses or new and good ones start. Stargate came out of their hiatus at about the same time as well.
And.. oh yeah... Formula 1 is about to start next week!!! WOOHOO!!!!!
So, like, I'm on the media again. This time it's on Teenage Magazine and the SP Website (just a scan of the Teenage Magazine article).
Click on the image to see a bigger version of it with words that are legible.
A good photo that shows the WHOLE team.
Anywayz, sorry for not blogging regularly. Been tied up with a lot of projects recently. In any case, you guys should check out www.fusionstream.org. I've got my personal site up and running (still needs some fact correction though). I've got a good webhost hosting it now, it's no longer on my Broadband connection (Singnet recently proxied our IPs. Damn fuckers).
The characters involved included the characters from Prison Break as well as the characters from a fictional clinic from one of my previous dreams.
Well anyway, I was with T-Bag on the MRT. Somehow or other, it surfaced that I had either left his son behind or I had killed him during the prison escape.
Without so much as an "aiyee", he pulled out a cleaver and tried to chop me at the neck. I managed to stop his hand but as I was just a kid(I'm my real age in the dream), the cleaver got closer and closer to my head. Suddenly, the knife moved fast and cut part of the left of my skull taking a tiny piece of brain with it.
T-Bag was shocked and so was I. Literally. I fell to the floor and was unable to speak coherently nor move. T-Bag was apologetic and when we alighted at Simei MRT, he carried me towards a fictional clinic that had originated from one of my previous dreams.
Halfway to the clinic though, he put me down because all of a sudden, I could walk, albeit I had to shake "it" off.
As in my previous dream, the staff at the clinic asked ME patient information questions slowly and without urgency (I was able to talk by now). Again, as in the previous dream, there were no doctors in the clinic whereas there were like 4-7 Nurses/Receptionists.
It surfaced that T-Bag did not pick up my brain nor my skull to bring to the clinic because "It had touched the dirty MRT floor". Fug!
The cute receptionists were there again. One of them was having a problem with her computer so I took a look at it. I took a quick look at the hardware and then try a reboot. Everything seemed fined and I told here that. That's when she told me that she wanted to put her hard drive inside but I told her it was impossible because all 8 IDE cables(4 from RAID) had been used by 6 HDDs and 2 DVD/CD-Roms. From what this computer looked like, it looked like my P3 1Ghz Computer. wtf?!
As I was putting the casing back on, I knicked her black stockings just a little. Had a look at the tear and ended up staring at her legs. She noticed me and I looked away sheepishly and mumbled a sorry while the rest of the receptionists there had a good laugh.
**I now recognise her as Mellisa from Whose Line Is It Anyway, the one who's skirt was lifted by Wayne when he carried her to the stage. She isn't exactly pretty. Stupid sub-conscious
Then all of a sudden, I was in a room(in the back of the clinic) with T-Bag, Manche(the fat guy), C-Note, and some other dark dude (Up till now, everyone except T-Bag had been Asian).
Only T-Bag, C-Note and me were talking. What we were talking about I forget(was some plan) but I distinctly remember telling C-Note to remove some chain/bracelet from his pliers because the public would immediate recognise that being from prison (I'm just as WTF?! as you). He was hesitant at first because his daughter had gave it to him (I know it contradicts here. Blame my brain) but eventually he removed it and stuffed it in his pocket.
Anyway, after that, we left the room and I called out again, reminding them that "the thing" was on Thursday.
I went back to the helpdesk and again enquired where the surgeon was. This time, there were only 2 receptionists. Mellisa and some Chinese chick. They were painting each other's nails. I asked them where the surgeon was and the Chinese chick looked around and then mumbled a "er.. coming soon". Mellisa didn't even look up and was still painting the Chinese chick's nails. So I said "Are you sure? What kind of clinic is this! Why do I always have to wait!" (from my previous dream, remember). The Chinese chick was very dismissive and shooed me off with a "Erm, soon.. soon. ok.. bye bye bye..."
So I went to the toilets which were on the right side of the clinic which is where the non emergency patients were at (Was a pretty big clinic. This fictional clinic is located at the void deck of block 141 in Simei). The non-emergency side was like a bank in that the pharmacists/doctors all sat behind a glass panel with a hole cut in the middle. That was when a male receptionist came over and politely chided me for being "so impatient" and I began shouting out stuff about him being cocky and snobbish.
To make matters worst, the non-emergency side was working very efficiently and politely.
After that, I woke up because I had to do a big number 2. You know the kind that you get when you eat chilli late in the night and then go to sleep? Yea. That one. :)
I know it's very boring and anti-climaxic and I'm sorry for that. Promise to blog about something nicer soon. :-)
So I spent yesterday from around 4pm till this morning's 8.30am watching Prison Break on DVD!
I watched up till the latest Season 2 episode, the one where Kellerman/Kravecki shoots Mahone and helps the brothers.
I have to say though, if not for me being a sucker for mystery, the show has many many problems. Factual errors, In-Story Factual errors, Continuity errors.
One factual error is that from looking at Fox River, it IS NOT a Max Security Prison. Why? Go find out. Furthermore, there is absolutely no way security is that lax. Max Security Prison personnel never ever slack because their life depends on it and they are trained as such. In-Story Factual errors also appeared because some of the plots just didn't gel. You need to watch it to understand. The most obvious is continuity errors. Guns pointed point blank at heads suddenly appear far away in different camera angles, items in opposite hands, etc.
Still.. I can't wait for more.. lol
I enjoy intelligent conspiracy shows because it alerts people to the possiblity that this is happening. Politics is a dirty game. Politics across all forms(Democracy, Communism, etc) always has dirt. People should be aware that some of these guys are pretty good at disguising themselves.
Waiting for PY to give me the rest of the pics would give me enough time to grow a beard. So I'll just go ahead with this post using the pictures I have.
Only interested in the client. :(
It's a bit annoying that I got so stressed up to deliver a good speech and got next to no airtime. No check that, it's immensely frustrating. Daryl pushed me into making doing it even though he knew full well that I didn't want to (I even told him flat out no) but you know ole Daryl Lim, always needs to get his way.
Su Ling interviewing Daryl
I shall say no more about this in this long overdue "Draft Post" because I feel it best to bottle up my feelings.... and save them for your family one day.
Wei Li and Gary. (Khian Ping is camera shy)
In any case, it wasn't really a press conference and was more like a launch. It was, quite frankly, a waste of time because the exposure was next to none. If there's a next one, I'll be skipping it. Let the rest of the team members stress themselves up.
Anyway, here is a link to the video of the launch aired on the Chinese News.
Nothing much to say here. It's all in the previous post. Except for the fact that I think Su Ling's cute. heh. Although for some reason, her eyes are always half shut whe she's in a photo.
As mentioned in the previous post, I don't think my voice will be inside because the recording stopped and she only has that small part of my voice(see previous post) which is like worthless even though my voice is damn nice. ;p
Headed down to mediacorp for a radio interview for PICA(The board game project we created during FYP). Phui Yung's supervisor was in charge of the thing so she scheduled this (She's interned at MediaCorp).
Took a taxi cuz I was late and ended up tumpang-ing Weili and Gary who I saw on the side of the road.
Me, Wei Li, Gary
Camwhore!
Entered the MediaCorp gates a.l.a "The Sum Of All Fears" and headed down to RSI. We passed by the live 93.8 studio which was basically made of glass. This made me want to see the 987 studio where Muttons In The Morning was on especially after they pulled that stunt about having Beckham on the line. Neh neh la! lol
Tap N Go (or something)
We headed deep underground and entered the studio. It felt like a bunker and my ears began to ring from the sheer quiet.
♪ Nobody said it was easy... ♪
We were interviewed by this University Intern named Su Ling.
It was all in Mandarin so I was like "huh? yea. erm.. yea".
I only said a "Hi. My name is... and I do the..." and a "What I learnt was..." in English.
The thing is, I believe the rear part of the interview was not recorded. Particularly because the timecode had stopped and because Su Ling looked a bit shocked when at the end of the interview, she went to "stop" the recording.
So that meant that the only recording of my voice was the "Hi. My name is... and I do the...".
The last I heard, my voice was totally removed and Su Ling introduced me herself.
Apparently the only cafeteria at Mediacorp
Will update with broadcast timing or podcast link once I get more info.
Headed out to Brewerks for the PHP User Group meeting and as usual it was raining cats and dogs.
Starting to flood
Only 3 of us were there excluding a non-participant. I guess it was because of the rain.
An Indian national came down. He didn't know what PHP was and didn't seem interested in learning about PHP. Fulfilling the stereotype, he came only to sell his product and his services. He pointed the organiser to visit many websites on his laptop which was connected to the net and then proceeded to ask us if we were able to crack proprietary embedded software so that he could sell it, on behalf of us of course... repeatedly.
The 3rd guy, a business man familiar with the local software scene but not any good at programming came down about half an hour after the Indian national left apparently had to leave to go cook food for his roommates.
I'm becoming a cam whore.
This 3rd guy was really knowledgeable about handling an idea and with the organiser's practical experience in the field, the stage was set. There are loads of interesting things that we are hoping to start in the local PHP community.
From those few hours I learnt quite a few interesting things from the organiser(although in brief). I was going to implement them in FishingKaki the next day but my school (Singapore Poly) had other plans for my schedule so that unfortunately will come later.
Some of the things that we discussed included how PHP developers were in short supply. This actually shocked me because I thought that there would be a healthy supply of them. Now I'm trying to teach Sam some PHP but he doesn't seem interested. I also invited Chen Shan to join this user group and we'll see where this goes.
Beauty of the midnight train
Left the place very close to midnight and managed to take one of the last few trains.
I may be doing another template change(changing the actual look and feel) soon too. We'll see how it goes. Extremely busy with fishingkaki. Can't even maintain my other sites.
Went out with the guys to catch the fireworks and participate in the countdown. Didnt go to Vivocity because the tickets were sold out by the time we wanted to get them and also because we had to pay which sorta turned us off.
Your Truly
Simon, a person Roy had met while playing Dota online and who also turned out to be jinghao's friend, was with us too.
Roy and Simon
Weili
Weili said while walking down the escalator someone suddenly came and stood in front of him and stared at him and then proceeded to ask his friend if he was Cuteworm. lol.
Hao
Ended up going to eat at MOS at Plaza Singapura and then walked over to Cineleisure to check out what free gifts we could get from the countdown happening there.
One too many Party Poppers
Saw that the gifts were nothing so we took a bus down to the National Museum to go for that countdown instead.
We were early and after looking around, we decided to go play pool at Paradiz but the tables there were full. So we decided to go play at nearby LAN shop.
The Lan Shop with No Aircon
At about 11.45pm we hurriedly pulled ourselves away from the LAN shop to try and head back to the Museum for the countdown. We reached about 5 minutes early and stood by the side of the stage while some people began to dance.
Might actually try out the dancing at these things one of these days. For now, I just like the drinks. haha
Fireworks
Fireworks
Sound: Baloons popping
After the fireworks were done we headed out of the Museum to see if we could catch the fireworks at the Esplanade.
The fireworks at the Esplanade started just as we exited the museum so we watched it from there.
Fireworks over Esplanade
Fireworks over Esplanade
The guys are pretty docile... No shouting the countdown.. No handshakes.. quite sian acherly.. lol
I think we need some girls in our group to make it more lively and what not.
After catching the fireworks, we headed down to City Hall MRT to decide where to go. The guys wanted to go to KBOX but Simon wanted to go home so he left and we headed to Marina Square.
Exodus
Masses
It was fucking crowded along the streets as everybody was trying to get home on the MRT which was about to close in 45 minutes. I swear, if Singapore ever had to perform a mass evacuation, we'd be seriously screwed.
In fact, I saw volunteers "ushers" quarelling with the pedestrians.
Meet China
Hordes of people
We Walk Alone
There is only one day in the year where you can walk against the flow of traffic on the main road.
Evacuation
KBox was also crowded so we located a 7-11 in the building that was "bounced" by 2 bangla temp employees and bot some drinks and sat at the foyer, waiting for the jam to subside so we could take a bus to Weili's house.
Litter was strewn everywhere including the secluded areas which were notw devoid of people which eerily reminded me of "28 Days Later".
The bus service that night was seriously fucked up. Before the jam subsided, the entire bus lane was filled with buses - with duplicate services - but once the jam started to subside, the buses were few and far in between.
The best part was, while there was still a jam and even after it had subsided, WL's bus still had not come. About 1.5hrs had past before we saw roy's bus coming and we decided to go to his house instead.
Once we had boarded the bus, I saw my own service coming up behind. Faced with the prospect of a long train ride home the next morning (Roy lived much further away from me than WL), I alighted at the next bus stop and boarded my service home.
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