Yesterday my dad walked back home and handed me an Olympus bag. He had gotten a tradein for our old Olympus with this brand new one! It is an average camera, priced at $400. The u 710 model that has 7.1 mega pixs, 3x optical zoom, anti-shake and brightcapture technology with All weather function. In addition, the lens is a 6.5 - 19.5mm, making it very wide angle. I have tested it out and the pictures were in good resolution(3072X2304) and the colours' richness was real-looking enough. No manual mode though. The only things you can change manually is the ISO, flash(duh) and focus (one point or smart point). 6.5 - 19.5mm would lead me to think that its macro focusing abilities are very good though it didn't turn out very well. I tested the Close up and Super closeup mode and the max it can focus up till is around 10cm away from the object. Not very optimum.
Sleek plastic design that looks like brushed metal from far with some chrome finishings and logo plate. The screen size is average, 2.5 inches across diagonally. Easy to use and weighs around the same as my handphone. Flash isn't so strong so I would prefer to tweak up the ISO and WB rather than flash the room.
Outdoor shots shouldn't be a problem. So folks, don't buy this camera as this isn't one with the best compromise between functionality and pricing and also because I already have it. Get one with manual focus.
I have finally managed to find a great pastime: watching commercials. No, seriously. Go and search Youtube, Metacafe or other video sites for 'commericial'. It will keep you entertained for a long time. I was for 2 hours yesterday. PSP going great. I am now able to play NES(eg.mario), Genesis(eg. Sonic), Neogeo(eg. Metal slug), homebrew(red alert) and normal PSP games. This piece of technology is a real steal, only 500 smackers for such a versatile portable gaming console. Thats around $150 more than my old and beat up iPod Nano.
Adding more stuff later if there are any happenings (I doubt). 2nd week going.
Camera!
[b]Zzz[/b]
Didn't join the online community for a couple of days. Not that anyone missed. Previously I was crawling Google, Torrent and IRC for Kim Jung Hoon's past albums for my sister's birthday present. Minimal cost, maximum value. Bet no one can get any of those in Singapore. It took me two damned days to pluck out the 7 albums files from Korean forums and IRC search engines. But at the very least it still served its purpose as a distraction and it was something for me to do. Rested for two days as I really felt that I didn't want to see the google banner in my life ever again. I hardcore-d a series of books. Fearless by Francine pascal Book 1 - 5 and Chiho's Artemis Fowl The Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer. Hardly your dark corporate conglomerate/political novel or How to Hypnotize People self-help but children fiction usually have shaky facts that can be challenged, (eg. the redudancy of liquid metal present in a hand identity biometrics system, or the paradoxes of time travel even with magic involved) and that's fun.
Only started sleeping at 3am this morning after finishing the book. So now dynamic ip address 202.156.8.11 is finally back after all that crazy book reading. And after exhausting my week's worth of reading material into 2 days, I am once more left idling without anything to do.
List of possible activities
1. Search for LuA player so as to play red alert homebrew on PSP
2. More emulators for PSP
3. Lunch
4. MSN
5. Crashing Google and Yahoo
Now which should I do first? Number 5?
In My dreams.
Holidays! or should I say holidays....
Aren't humans weird creatures? We are forever unable to be satisfied. When we under the stress of examinations and stuff, didn't we wish that the holidays were already there? Then we would start procrastinating and list down all the things we wish we are able to do. And now when finally all the bad mugging is over we start complaining we have nothing to do in the holidays. I am like just staring at the screen and thinking of Hmm what should I do. Option 1. Sleep 2. Stare at the ceiling 3. Watch Pokemon on Kidscentral 4. Play psp 5. Eat 6. Sleep
All of which are so pathetic. Really have nothing to do! You know the feeling, where you feel like doing something, but not too strenous and not too simple at the same time. Wa lao, anything also cannot. Want to watch tv, dont want to lift the remote. Want to sleep, wasting myself away. Die la...
Now only 1/8 of our holidays have passed by, so better start thinking of what to do! Going to church chalet only on the 20th and maybe other countries in December. Some people are so lucky, holidays first week immediately get to go overseas. Sian I want to go China buy cheap stuff eg 1. watch, software, bag, shoes. Malaysia products too lousy in quality. Chinamen are the best! With Audis and BMWscosting only S30k power...
The only good thing to look forward to currently is my damnit cheap 80Gb SATA harddisk! Only for $130! Yeah, finally able to throw the slow and failing IDE 40gb of mine.
In reply to Xiaotian, I shall describe him as a: Amiable, engaging and (very)smartass kind of person, one who talk lots of crap. And also about Sometings especially. XT you know what I mean la.. Smiles alot and also likes posing infront of mirrors. Great in the 3Cs, a very standard boy 1. Car 2. Cam 3. Com, although his priorties somewhat differ from mine. now enter special stream tamade. In contrast with me, if you take his sacred handphone away, it is akin to skinning him alive then dipping him in boiling oil. Oh and the numbers stored in his SIM card are rather valuable too. Likewise, I also felt that Sec 2 has been a very enjoyable year. It is the very last year we can enjoy ourselves. Hope everyone does the best in whatever you all do next year and onwards!
Results!
Update! Average for mid-year + end of year = 69.9
Class position : 13/39
Though this score is rather disappointing, but it has already met my expectations, so I should be satisfied. The only thing that im pissed off about now is mr ZHU XIAO TIAN!!!
He got a freaking 70.0!!!! WTH, TYCO shit la! 0.9 marks higher than me then 10 place in class. Special stream! I really have nothing to say to that guy. Tell me, how can such a dumb guy be so tyco?! May he burn in the hell of Special stream students. Wahahahaha.
Making a new blog template for this site. Black is getting kind of boring dont you think? It is time for a change!
Wireless adapter
Went to Jurong Point with XT to check out the prices of a Linksys wireless adapter (not PCI adapter hor). All thanks to my mother. She flung open my window and the wireless adapter thats taped on my window ledge dislodged and flew down 27 storeys. It still works, though the receiving isn't all that good without an antennae.
Only PCI network cards in PK com and Cyberactive but lucked out at Harvey Norman. There wasnt any stock the last time we went there before the exams. Bloddy $79 for one crap wireless adapter! Sian. Anyone knows whether the signal receiving parameters are stronger for PCI cards or external adapters??
EOYs OVER!
This message is long due:
EOYs are over!
I haven't been blogging cause of EOYs but now followed suit after Wang Jun and Chi Ho has done so. This exam really doesn't only mean that its the final one of the year. It marks the final paper, final time some of us will be in the same class, final time we can enjoy ourselves without serious consequences. That's why the thing of utmost importance now is to enjoy ourselves! Really, starting from next year, it would not be wise to slack anymore due to the preparation of O levels and also the advanced syllabus we are going to study. Sec one and sec two really has been enjoyable, but it is inevitable that some of us will have to part in sec three. Actually I kind of feel a little regretful, of not really trying harder. Do you think that everyone's paths in life would be different from their current one they are walking on, if they had done differently in the past. Our lives have already been determined ever since the day we left P4. The environment that you are in affects you, and that is why those that goes into EM3 are seldom likely to succeed. The paths that we are to walk on have already been paved half-way at this current education level. Future milestones are left with only JC and University. If we had worked that bit harder in P6, we might not have even met each other in Nanhua. If you went for that extra mile and put in a little more effort, who knows, you might be the President's Scholar 4 years later? Everything in this world revolves around cause and effect. The present always has a past, the consequences always come from an action. Likewise, the things we do when we are in Primary school actually runs down a long chain. The phrase: The future is in your hands, really is not overstated. That is why so many people who understand this concept are striving so hard to find the motivation to do the best they can. But, you think, surely all this is rather out-of-reach? Hard goal to strive for? Simply talk? Actually, there is already a perfect real-life living example of the outcome of this concept in front of you: Lim Zhen Yu.
It is really not easy to acheive what he has already done this year. Remember the time when Limzapz was only a small average quiet person who gets average marks? The person who was extremely upset because of his EOY english last year? This very same person has gotten 8th in level in the Midyear and still going on. Now you question the difficult goal which does not seem so difficult anymore. What, you only have to put in more effort? Easy lah. No shit. Now ask yourself, how many times have you made a mental note to allocate 30 min or 1 hour just to study a particular subject on a day? And then how many times have you pushed it back to the next day ? It is because that is unimportant at the moment. Rather, you would spend your time pia-ing Maple, CS, Dota, Kongkong. Even the most mundane of things you would do such as surfing the net for songs or chatting online would preside over the chore of doing your revision of the paper that is one month away. YOU know that the best time is to start already, but even so you would tell yourself that you would simply allocate a bigger timeslot tomorrow to compensate, and so on. This has happened to me many times. It is actually not a question of will, but rather, one that lies on the motivation. Now, for example, your parents agree to give you $10 weekly, or give you allow you to go out with your friends more frequently, if you study half an hour daily. Would you chat your time away and watch TV? Or would you study? I know I would choose the latter. Everyone just needs that right motivation. Because of this, I have decided to reward myself if I worked harder next year. Self-appreciation and rewarding is very important. You would be surprised at how you would feel. Under normal circumstances, I would feel bad, or even guilty, for splurging and indulging myself, but in this case, I would argue that the spending is self-reward and then actually feel good spending. All the matters is the right motivation.
And also, why am I sharing all these to help everyone? Of course it is for the benefit of everyone, but it is also for myself. If the standard of the people around me increase, it is natural for me to strive and keep up with their pace. Competition between peers pressurizes everyone to strive. Always remember the success case of Lim Zhen Yu, but it would help if you did not proclaim to be a loser so much in front of everyone.
Problems that I am facing now
Inability to read off Sandisk Memory Stick Pro Duo 2GB on my laptop's in-built smart card reader slot. Computer detected the card, but the removable drive icon dont appear on My Computer. Buying an external MS-USB converter cardreader did not help. Worse still, it informed me that my card had an I/O error. That means it would be caused by either a software problem or hardware problem. Software is out of the question as I have already reformatted my computer and also reinstalled the drivers for PCMCIA drives. The faulty hardware would either lie on my card reader or memory card. The memory card is fully functioning so the card reader would probably be the faulty one. But, if this was the case, why an external reader could not help? The input/output problem could be caused by a incompatibility with the cardreader due to the storage space of my MS. Maybe 2gb is too huge? Assistance from anyone accepted.
And finally a trashy poem
Man, Im dead
The exams are over
Still I did enjoy myself never
People said
its already Time for joy and celebration
but I still get that sinking feeling
that really is heart-wrenching
Whenever I start straying to recreation
because of the truth that will only gripe
till the day my misgivings assuage
when the confusion the results cage
and the time is ripe
I can never enjoy a day
until the results bade
my worrysome brain away