Pagerank 2!!!

I changed my blog URL several months ago, and that causes my pagerank to plummet as the URL is new.

After I neglected my blog for 3 months, it appears that the pagerank had updated and now I have a pagerank of 2. This could be the source of motivation I need to continue my blog.

I am going to have my IELTS test next week Thursday and Saturday.

Seems like some universities need IELTS for their courses.

RMIT flatly rejected my application.
La Trobe has yet to reply the situation.
QUT only has a February intake, which I does not prefer.
Lastly is Swinburne. This university is the first to reply and they had given me an offer to Masters of Biotechnology. This university would be my last choice.

Hope that La Trobe would reply me soon with a positive feedback.
I should just pray to everything till then!

WiFi Card ruined?

During a storm, I decided to shut down my laptop and the wireless modem so that they would be safe after some time.

After the storm, I switched on my laptop and the wireless modem but I could not connect to the internet. I tested the internet connection with a desktop connecting directly to the modem and found no fault with the modem. I restarted my laptop several times but it does not solve the problem. Tried reinstalling the driver of the wireless card does not work too.

I unplugged my laptop from my usual spot and placed it close to the desktop to try instructions from troubleshooting sites (Note that the desktop is close to the wireless modem). Weirdly the internet of my laptop works again! Then I bring my laptop back to the usual spot, and once again the internet does not work. Only then I  found out that the range of my wireless card somehow has been affected by the storm! 
The internet works only when my laptop is within 5 meters from the wireless modem!

I think the culprit of the damage is the storm, which somehow affected the electric current, partially fried my wireless card, reducing the range of the wifi to melee range!

Hope that Dell would send their technician to diagnose or replace the wireless card of my laptop so that I could surf freely.

Reasoning?

In my life there are so much events which I had encountered. But this kind of event is the first.

Day 1:

1800 hours - I planned a DOTA session at 0700 hours with 3 other people at 6p.m. They all agreed initially.

2200 hours - Received sms from 2 person, saying that they have things coming up, hence unable to join us. I sms to notice the last person that those 2 people has backed out from the plan, but the plan still goes on.


Day 2:

0000 hours - Slept now.

0600 hours - Woke up early to avoid traffic congestion and parking congestion.

0700 hours - Reached the destination.

0830 hours - Received sms from the last guy which I am waiting, saying that he slept late. And he doesn't seem bothered by it.

0900 hours - Due to low morality and lack of sleep, headache surfaced and mood is greatly disrupted. The late comer which seemingly joking on his sms with the "hahahaha" saw my face and got angry.

1100 hours - I HAVE to say that I am WRONG to show that face to him.


Lesson learned. Never plan any events, especially with peoples who you shouldn't trust on their timing and their words.

Imagine that I am having a birthday party in a buffet restaurant coming up next month.
(Imagination starts)
After paid for reservation and costs.

Calls coming in:
"I got plans that I forgot, Can't attend! Bye!"
"I have report /assignments due!"
"I forgot the date!"
"I have a date with Him!"

The worse possible excuse I am imagining is:
"Ops! I overslept! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

People might find this funny, but when you are the one exposed to this event, you won't.

First they came...

I have been browsing history about WWII this past weeks.
Here I share a poem I encountered.
This poem is cited from Wikipedia:
First They came...


First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me."

attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)

Nike Warehouse + Youthsays = "@#$%" ?

Been at the Nike Warehouse at 30th April, according to Youthsays, members are allowed to enter at 9.00a.m. or 9.30a.m., though they never did what they promised, not to mention me and my friends arrived half an hour earlier. We stood there like fools for 1 and a half hours, searching for shade under the hot climate, not to mention those heat waves these days.

Here I am going to say:" NICE JOB! YOUTHSAYS MANAGER!"

To hell with that.Figure 1. A chair on the gate, signaling that there are people inside doing their job but taking their own sweet time.

Figure 2. Well, it seems that they are prepared, once again taking their own sweet time briefing at the last minute.

Figure 3. Stressed by stander.

Figure 4. People waiting at 9.18 a.m., 18 minutes late after the promised special opening time.

Figure 5. Stressed blogger taking photo.

Figure 6. Warehouse finally opened, but there are not much choice here, even the store downstairs which sells several brands sell nicer Nike compared to this warehouse sales.

Assignment piled!

3 assignments piled into 1 week!!

Nice job, unit coordinators!
Listed on the laboratory manual "This week's practical was cancelled so that students could focus on their assignments.", dated at 29 April 2009, but the assignment was due at 27 April. Once again, nice job! Unit coordinators!

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Today is the 19th of the month.
1901 is having a promotion, selling cheap hot dogs today.
Went to queue up for more than an hour.
Just before my turn, the stock has been finished.

I wonder is it my luck, it is a bad choice to send me to do this kinda things when it involves luck, as I have none. Didn't seems to have "lucky" things happening in my life though.

I got irritated when I found out that there are no more hot dogs for sale. I then rallied up some people, and drove straight to Mc Donalds.

Never falter to cheap promotions which saves you only about MYR2 (Less than 1 pound or 1 USD) when it involves waiting in line for more than an hour. I rather have my dignity.

1 thing I can't understand is that they did not set up a limit for a person to buy.
People in front of the line are buying in 20s. |=|_|(|<1|\|6 1901 peoples doesn't know to set up a limit.


Lesson: Choose dignity over cheap promotions.

Shit Happens

What will happen if you're not at home, while one of your stuffs got spoiled and need repair, while not consulting you?

Part of the item will go *poof*.



Lesson to all:
Don't act on your own if the stuffs you attempting to repair is not yours. If problem arises, you will be the one the owner blames.

By the way, I am the co-owner/maintainer of the stuff which was partly *poof*ed.

Damn you!! Sabotager!!

Things you don't want to encounter in a restaurant 1

Here are something that you doesn't want to ingest while you are eating clams.

Notice there are legs sticking out from the meat of the clam on the right side.

The extracted crab from the @#$% clam. Its eyes could be seen, LoL.


Size comparison using a SD card.

70% of the ordered clam dish was infested by those @#$% crabs, some of the clams even has 2 crabs in it..
Wonder how is the quality control of the restaurant does.

Ball!!

At Saturday Monash has held a ball. I had to fetch Joe at KTM, and he made me wait for a very very long time. When he reaches, tons of excuses poured in (as expected). We then met up with Yeet because they had planned to style their hair at a saloon. they extimated the price of hair styling is about MYR 15. when we reaches, we found out that a person is about MYR28. I backed off, and let them do their thing.

When they are finished, we went back to the car park to change to formal wear. at that time, i styled my own hair with Gatsby moving rubber myself.. Without mirror!!

Here s the end product:


Too bad as time passes, the moving rubber does not hold the hair very much, and it ended as another style as time moves on.

As my tablemates met, all of the dudes are wearing formal wears and the girls looks gorgeous. one of the girls has (temperory)tatoo just for the ball, LoL.
1 of the patrons on my table went off due to an emergency stuff, where he had to go to Singapore. 2 of the other patrons are performers, leaving the 7 peoples per table.

Going into the ball, once again I found out that my table was situated next to the speaker. all patrons on my table had their ears blasted till near deaf. Though as time goes on, our ear adapted to the situation and we don't care much about it later on since we are walking all over to find targets for pictures, though its not very fruitful.

I left there at 11.55pm. got stuck by the Merdeka jam on the road. Tons of irresponsible motorcyclist ignoring my car and drove without taking cautious, taking up the whole road. I stucked at the junction for about 10 minutes. The police are doing nothing. They vanished after the gathering is off.

After passing through the suffering junction, everything went well and I reached home safe and sound.

KingMax MicroSD is shit

As the title says, KingMax MicrosSD is shit. Its been the 5th time it was corrupted since I get it. every time when I remove it from my PC, I use the safely remove feature. And even on my Nokia phone, I use "remove memory card" before I remove it from my phone.

But guess what? It is shitted again. KingMax is bringing in its own grave though. Gotta find the Nokia dealer to ask them about this crap since original phone gives a Nokia brand micro SD with a lower capacity and for this 4 Gb micro SD, I had to pay more for it. Lets see who;s at fault here.. Nokia dealer or Kingmax cheapskate.

Eat outside = Stress increase?

I wonder is this my luck or not, most of the time when I dine in a restaurant, there will be kids running around/staring at you while you eat/making lots of loud, annoying comments/ or just plain crying.

Every time this happens, I would always ask my brother:" do you have a sniper? Felt like shooting them.." LoL~

The venue does not affect the rate of encountering of these... I would term the event as: "stress increasing events (SiE)".
There are times where I went to a five star hotel to dine, where each person needs to pay about MYR90++. The SIE rate does not decline, and there are still annoying kids around. Here are a list of SiE yesterday on a 5 star hotel buffet:

1. Kids running around.
2. Kids using information card (those who they put in front of the food to inform what food they are) and tried to use it to scoop raw prawns (there are raw stuffs because its BBQ style for now).
3. Babies crying.
4. Kids playing with the chocolate machine (where you use it for dipping marsh mellows)
5. Kids not looking when they are walking.

There concludes my report on SiE, LoL~

The picture below expresses my fury.

Memory card corrupted

Once again my phone's microSDHC got corrupted, and all my photos and my vboy save games are gone...

The 1st week for this semester really is not good.

Quality blogging is hard..

Been blogging for almost a year..
But it seems that its kinda hard to keep up, as visitors to my site are kinda limited (30+ with linkreferral's help). Though linkreferral surfers might not be real readers but credit earners.

Guess that I will stop gaining credit for linkreferral, lets see how the daily visitors go, though it might reduce till about 5 visitors a day. Gaining credits use up lots of time.

Kinda hard to keep up stuffs recently, especially after the last result impact...

No luck?

About the previous post, Just after I finished reserving my place and posted for it, the price of the opportunity triple-folded, becoming more than 19USD per post. Since I took the post before the price was changed, the pay remains 5.50USD for me.. Sob!~~

Really no luck.
And semester 2 starts next week.. Double darn!

Corruption

I felt that the corruption has been growing over time, and soon enough things may be happening. It seems to me that they usually allocated their resource to a more "namely important issue" than things that they should really allocate it to.

For example, in organization ABC there are some issue encountered, but instead of facing the issue, they create a diversion by handling not-so-important issue, and broadcast about the handling of the alternative issue, alternating the people's mind.

Monash cafeteria.. My foot!

Monash cafeteria is one of the worse cafeterias that I had encountered in my life, even the cafeteria in my primary school could PWN it!

Monash cafeteria consists of several hawker stalls and a beverage seller. The hawkers are peoples came from random place which could afford the intense rent of the cafeteria, which is none of my business here.

One of the stall known as "Fresh Mixed Meals", it is one of the worse stall I had encounter in the cafeteria.

For a fried rice, a chicken (not drumstick), and 2 eggs, they charged me for MYR7.50. Damn that hawker, now that I had leant my lesson, I would spread the words of their @#$% pricing.

That guy stated to me that the chicken worth MYR3 when I am paying, normally a piece of chicken would costs at maximum, MYR2.

And their eggs, each of them costs MYR1! Just the eggs and chicken costs MYR5, means the crap salt spamming fried rice costs a freakin' MYR 2.50!

I had learned my lesson, and hope that other Monash students would read what had happened to me and avoid that crap store. Guess that in the new semester, they would target new intakes and rob their wallet daylight.

Another thing I noticed in Monash is that there are lots of place in Monash are cheaply constructed. Cracks could be noticed everywhere, and this buildings had only been a year. The air conditioner starts leaking randomly and while I was annoyingly eating my over-priced meal, the air conditioner directly on top of me leaked, and the water gets into my food (not to mention that it dripped on my head too).

Cracked walls

Maybe these are the sign that someone had been either cutting costs or somehow the money vanished in some place.

Things that makes you 感动！

Check this out!

A beggar donates his money to help the victims in China..
Its a very nice that someone could think of other before themselves.

By the way, the site is in Chinese.

Beggar donates RMB105

The bad side of the society..

There are people which misuses public facilities, such as toilets, phone booth, and now even the parkings.

There is a guy which sits there all the time at the PUBLIC parking lot, waiting people to come. When people come he would "direct" peoples into the slots and later he demand "payment" from the driver.

That guy misuses the public facilities and act that as if he own the lot, and he jot down people's car plate that does not "pay" him.

Here encloses the picture of that @#$ guy which I secretly took without him knowing, though its far and unfocused, LoL~

Notice the guy on the left back. Yes~ He's the one...

Oh and by the way, you can notice the guy on the right side, he is a traffic police though, but it seems that the @#$% guy is invisible for him.