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Greetings twenty ten

ruikun — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:36:30 +0000

Instead of sprouting any new year greeting anyone who reads this a happy new year. Let me share the conversations I had to get through over the passing of the new year.

“Random conversation at the staircase”

Mum: What are you doing alone in your room all the time ?

Me: Nothing

Mum: You sure ?

“Over dinner”

Mum: What is going on in you room, I keep hearing explosions and other loud sounds

Me: I’m playing a computer game

Mum: Oh

Me: Don’t worry, I finished playing it already.

Mum: Oh

Me: If you hear them again, its a completely new game.

Mum: You have a very sad life

Me: I know.

“At work”

(Background: I told my Dad to take my car in the morning, leaving me car-less)

Dad: So how did you get to office today?

Me: I walked

Dad: Why

Me: I didn’t know what bus to take

… later in the day

Mum, Dad: You know you can take 17x, x2 bus to office right?

Me: I know, but I wouldn’t

Mum: Why?

Me: Stressful, you need to watch which bus stop to stop, did you take everything bla bla bla

Mum: You know that majority of people take public transport to work right?

Me: Yeah, but they seldom have public transport phobia

Mum: There isn’t such a phobia

Me: I know, I invented it.

Well, its a new year, but the same family I have to live with.

twitter, summarize your life

ruikun — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:10:48 +0000

I came across this video, and I find myself pondering the information overload we face everyday.

Twitter, and its 160 character limits, makes us summarize our blabber doesn’t it. Just how much information can be successfully broad casted in a single tweet?

I hope you find the following video as entertaining as I did. (Apologies for the crude suggestions in it.)

“Twatif? - “The Office”"

sunday’s folly

ruikun — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:05:09 +0000

It was another atypical sunday. I was minding my own business when my mum asked me to go shop for an mp3 player/recorder. I’ve always procastinated, beacuse I knew there was not going to be a good end to it. I was later proven to be pretty right.

Anyway she started off with telling me what she wants in an mp3 player, and whether I have any recommendations and la da la da. Then as she got into the car, she handed me a brochure and said “I want this one”. So… what was the earlier lunch conversation all about. On the way back home, she conveniently mentioned “so, you’re going to teach me how to use it right?”

Nightmare.

A little past 9, she asked me how to use the mp3 player.

The following conversation(s) took place.

Conversation 1:

Me: So when you press the play/pause button, it will pause the playback

Mum: Wait, start again, I’m confused

Me: Ok, you press the play/pause big button over there, it will pause the playback

*Mum presses the big play/pause button, the playback started.

Mum: No leh, it is still playing

Me: When the music is playing, the big play/pause button will pause the playback, when the music ended, the big play/pause button will play the clip again.

Mum: Huh, so when is when?

Me: The recording you made is 4 seconds long, so just now when we were conversing, 4 seconds have passed, so pressing the big button will play the clip again.

Mum: So, you mean I can only make my decision in those 4 seconds

Me: Something like that.

Mum: You must be kidding ! 4 seconds isn’t enough!

Me: … …

Conversation 2:

*Mum writes down what I said word for word.

Me: Erh, you don’t have to write down everything, you have to play with the device.

Mum: Yeah, but then I won’t know what is what!

Me: You’re recreating the manual (*Points to the manual on the bed)

Mum: Its not in chinese

*Me flips the manual over

Me: It is …

Well, I hope the night is over and restful.

Good Night

flipping another page

ruikun — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:49:16 +0000

I’ve been asking quite a number of people. “How do you blog”. I tried to find a statistical insight to a blogging strategy. Nicole has also politely reminded me how dead my blog is. Truth is that, I wanted to have a reason to blog.

In the end, I couldn’t really figure out any. But perhaps this is a good enough reason to blog. “To find a reason to blog”.

I was talking to a friend last night. It kind of reminded me of the following picture.

No matter the difference in power, you cannot prevent anybody from struggling against the inevitable. Even if you are in the palm of his hands.

And yes, do not annoy any girl ever, no matter how harmless they look, they bite.

Tired, 4am already. Zzzzz

DIVIDER (dec.09)

ruikun — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:29:48 +0000

The only reason why there this post exist is to serve as a divider between my older erratic posts and the new enhanced nonsensical posts to come.

December 2009

October 2009

P.S. Its not that I want to segregate my past from the present. But I’ve changed ever since I came back, and it just does not feel the same anymore.

under a rainy night

ruikun — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:46:36 +0000

There is always a myriad of thoughts, and ideas that can’t wait to burst out of my mind. But, there is always something stopping me from penning them down. Perhaps it’s because I can’t find the right words to describe how I feel, or perhaps is that I’m too confused to rationalize it.

But there is one thing, I can be sure of, is that these thoughts do still remains.

I shall list these topics down, and tackle them as the opportunities present themselves.

1. Succeeding through losing

2. Skins of an Angel, Bones of a Devil

3. How stupid is stupid ?

And yes, I have to tell myself not to procrastinate so much, I’m wasting life.

Test from iphone

ruikun — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:23:45 +0000

This is a test post from my wordpress on iPhone

rebuilding stormelement

ruikun — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:57:22 +0000

04-10-09 Update: Well, most of the blog is ready, but the gallery is not. I need to find the time to setup another server which has the GD library I need for gallery2 to work properly. But its not a priority, so lets see how long that would take.

Well, I guess its time for me to rebuilt this website, for a long period of time I was hesistant to do it. I guess I’m hesistant no more.

Anyway this website will take some time to rebuild, I’m already preoccupied with my work already. This shall be my hobby.

bored of exams.

ruikun — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:05:09 +0000

less then 2 weeks to exam, and i have not seriously studied yet. do i feel anxious, scared, irritated ? no i feel bored, and bordem isn’t a acceptable reaction to this.

a week recollection

ruikun — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:51:57 +0000

work-in-progress

i seriously think something is wrong with my parents already. its like as if i have reached a mating age, and they keep hoping i would smuggle a girl home. (recall: my dad always imagine there is a girl in my room every other night).

i was coming back from the cfp at suntec, and my dad was accompanying me. on the way back to office he said.

daddy: why do you keep talking so much

son: nah, just excited to talk to you

daddy: you got dumped right ? no girl talk to you anymore.

son: … …

mummy: wah, save so much money

son: yeah, a man must save money for the future

mummy:you trying to save for your wedding arh.

son: … …