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So, I just bought a new computer, have many stuffs to install, and most of all, some buggers are bugging me to Maple and DotA. That leaves me with little time, and considering that I still have to watch my MiTu, LOST, Greys Anatomy and flzt, I am practically left with no time.

[miin] gave me a topic to blog on. About the IKEA thingy which I don't know anything about it so I can't really blog on it. Its still about the global warming topic and I am sure all of you would have already known the outcome if I blogged.

And so, I am going in on 13th Sept 2008. (See that red dot there? Its a full stop. Means its the end. End as in really end and we can all stop talking about it.)

The 1 useless information to ask

Imagine you want to know something, this something happens to all guys in Singapore. You go around asking.

You asked A, A gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked B, B gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked C, C gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked D, D gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked E, E gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked F, F gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked G, G gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked H, H gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked I, I gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked J, J gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked K, K gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked L, L gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked M, M gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked N, N gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked A, A gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked O, O gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked P, P gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked Q, Q gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked R, R gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked S, S gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked T, T gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked U, U gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked V, V gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked W, W gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked X, X gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked Y, Y gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked A, A gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked Z, Z gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked AA, AA gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked AB, AB gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked AC, AC gave you his 'unique' answer.
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You asked ZZZ, ZZZ gave you his 'unique' answer.

Now, what was A's answer again? If you noticed, you asked A three times. (scroll up)

I don't see why people go around asking for enlistment dates. You ask, make a comparison with your date, have a 5 minute chat about it, and everything's gone. And gone as in really it doesn't even affect your any bit of 2 years in the army. NO. Typical Singaporeans.

Not trying to say that this question shouldn't be ask at all, but, if you are someone that haven't been talking to me for months/years/decades (I wanted to go into centuries, but guess I am not that old.), there really don't exist the need to ask. So what if you find someone with the same enlistment date as you? If you haven't been talking to him/her (that was a joke), I guess you 2 wouldn't be close in camp too.

So, if you want to ask, remember it. If you want to forget and ask again, you better don't ask at all.

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Hello

This is to tell you guys that this blog is still alive, just that I haven't came across anything interesting to update on lately. I was Mapling.

Saw the TV ad to ask you keep your power bills? Yes, another "global warming" thingy from the government, to make it look as though all that developments don't contribute to what we are "forced" to do now.

Anyway, I may just update some interesting things from the web I saw here, have a good laugh:



THIS *BANG BANG* IS MY DOOR

Earth Hour

Did you use any electricity on 29 March 2008, 8-9pm? That is the Earth Hour, in which you are not supposed to use electricity in bid to reduce energy consumption of the whole world. Yes, of course, the global warming thing again.

It was a worldwide event, but how many of you who is actually reading this knew anything about the Earth Hour? Or actually did "your part" (of stupidity) for this event? Similar to the concert on 07/07/07 (Such a failure that I forgot the name of the event), it gives a feeling (at least to me) that the money spent on the event, do not justify with the amount of effort that was shown in "saving" the Earth.

Yes we can see the significant difference of the energy saved from over 2007 to 2008 (Yea right, just for THAT ONE hour. You were thinking of the whole year?), but did this event actually save that much energy? No. Rough gauge of only about 60% of reported figures. Why? You schedule what you want to do on that particular hour on a different timing. Which still uses electricity, duh!

But how many people whom joined this event actually know what they were doing? Before I say anything else, watch this:



Funny eah? People don't think about what they do. That hour, is 0.011415525% of a year. So you think it makes a difference? Let me tell you what makes a difference: the government that is going to massively revamp Jurong in the next 10 year.

On one hand they tell us to save the Earth, on the other hand they "save" the Earth by drilling holes on it. Funny.

Searching the web

Inspired by [anonymous], I want to teach you people out there how to search the web.

First of all, don't think that you can just go to any kind of search websites, type in anything you like, and expect to find anything you want. That, is wrong. Take for example, you go to Technorati, search for "How does *something* work? What is the theory behind it?", and expect to find information suitable for you school project/assignment. Absurd.

Now, you may be asking what on WWW (Earth) is Technorati. Technorati is a blog search. So, don't expect to find serious stuffs there. This brings me to my first point. Using the right search website. Generally, sites like Yahoo! or Google can do the job. But there are cases where you need to extend your search to other sites like Technorati (for searching the web for one of your friend's secret blog) or Baidu, 百度 (for Chinese stuffs). Now, the misconception of Baidu is that people thinks that its only for songs. Much people did not notice that there is a web search feature on Baidu, I don't see how they can miss that.

Take this situation, someone comes to you on MSN and asks you for a particular Mandarin song. He goes: "Hey! Do you have *something in han4 yu3 pin1 ying1 which he don't even bother to give you which sound it is* by *again some hypy*? I can't find it on Baidu!" And one thing I am going to tell you is to fuck off. Second point: Never on WWW, you can 'survive' on only one search site. Please extend your search to other websites, Baidu is not the monopoly, in fact, none of the sites is a monopoly. Try SoGua or 6621, just to name a few. So, make sure you are 80% confident that you've search each and every possible web pages on WWW before going to someone else. It is just irritating to have someone asking you to find things which you can find it within one minute.

Thirdly, your search. Refer to the first example, "How does *something* work? What is the theory behind it?" I'm sorry, but sad to say, search engines are not humans. Don't go to them and ask it (him) a question and expects it to find you something you want. Search with keywords. It is hard to master, but all I can say is, imagine yourself as a writer of a certain length of text that is on your topic. Think about what special words you would be using in your text, and search for them. Now when I said 'special', I mean words that can reflect directly on the topic of the text. Don't go searching for 'he', 'and', 'or', 'if'. Go die.

Fourth, it doesn't matter how many search engines you use, it will never be enough. Try using Ctrl+F on pages that you think its worth your search. You may just miss something important on a one million worded page. If you want to find song files or other things that may contain an extension, but could only find streaming versions of it, work your way around them. The link to the files you want is hidden in the page. You can retrieve these files by looking at the source code of the page. Works wonders. Nope, don't expect me to spoon feed you on this method, go find out yourself.

Now, stop bugging people to find things for you. You want it, find it yourself.