Timmy!

Eye of The Dragon

2010-04-27T20:27:00.000+08:00

Of tweeter and what not

2009-08-12T06:48:00.003+08:00

Apparently, running tweeter is SO much easier than a blog.

The pass week was.. hectic...

Engin 0 week u can check here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2031043&id=1402608827&l=225640d071

My junior

2009-07-03T02:45:00.002+08:00

I was out a while ago and I had the opportunity to meet this interesting guy. Tall and slender with a boyish look to him. From his appearance, you wouldn't know much about his background. He's currently working at some travel bag/luggage retail store at Tun Jugah. He's making around RM1k a month. So far so good? Pleasant guy working after SPM at such a high paying part time job? No, not really.

The thing is, he's been working since Form 4. Having been to Form 4 for only two weeks, he's a High School dropout in a family of 5 living on the first floor of a shophouse. What I admire though is how content he is. He's content and relaxed talking to a group of 6 current and prospective University students. So what do u think about what he has in store for him a decade down the line? Branch manager? Supervisor? How about salary? Would a graduate fare better than a non graduate? I'm just worried about both him and I, a non graduate and a graduate getting a dead end job.

What got me thinking was, how different life would be if i were born into a different family? If I were born to a lower class family(no offense, I'm not judging), will I work harder in school to be the scholar of the family or would I go out at try my best in society earlier? Or if I were born into this ultra rich family, will I just be this playboy type or would I be humble, honest and hardworking, not being known as the son of this rich man, but someone worthy of his own?

Seeing my friend, it makes me thankful that I'm in a OK family with the freedom in my pursuit of happiness and I hope that, he too, is pursuing his own path.

Solo..

2009-07-02T00:59:00.002+08:00

I know, blogging isn't my thing. Yet, as I'm not going to be seeing much of my friends anymore, I'd figure this would be the one and only way to ~~brag~~ let then know whether I'm alive or not.

So, what is there it update?

I'm one of the few ex-Six Formers left in Kuching. I'll be leaving to NUS, SG this 27, so anyone want to send me off ;) ~~~~pls pls pls do so.~~ The only other person who's leaving after me is Matt, on the 28th~~~

Will be at KL this 10th to 16th and Penang from 16th to 20th wif Danny and Kenny.

Short recap:

April-June:Work as typist at RHB bank, gained 5kg.

Holidays was spent at:

Sabah

Damai

Matang Family Park

Lundu

Sematan

After this, hopefully I'll be able to post about my trip to KL~

Till then...

Just in:

2009-04-25T13:09:00.003+08:00

Shades of Grey

2009-03-26T00:15:00.002+08:00

generations unfold
father to son
mother to daughter
where one leaves off
the other follows
destined to repeat each others mistakes
each others triumphs
but how do we see the world if not through their lenses
the same fears
the same desires
do we see them as an example to follow
or as a warning of what to avoid
choosing to live as they have
simply because it is what we know
or, driven to create our own identity
and what happens when if find them to be a disappointment?
can we replace them?
our mothers
our fathers
or will destiny find a way to drive us back
back to the familiar comforts of home

God?

2009-03-09T23:54:00.003+08:00

I had this harddisk failure last week when I came back to Kuching, my first thought was crap, I didn't back up. I cursed my luck and as I took the now-decommissioned Harddisk for a test run at my friend's pc, the only thing I could think of at that time was to pray... Well, if god doesn't answer prayers, then I must be really lucky.

I recently upgraded to vista, and enabled auto system backup to another functioning drive. The prob is, I never actually let it run before. The schedule was 2am every Sunday but my computer is never on at that time. I left Kuching on Friday and that's when everything started to fit together.

First, I forgot to turn off the PC before i left.
Second, my father did not turn off the PC till past Sunday, enabling it to Backup for it's FIRST and FINAL time on the 3rd of March.

Now guess wad, I was saved from my FIRST HD failure from my FIRST backup. :D
Accursed Western Digital Sata drive.

And this my friend, is a miracle, to a geek. >.<

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

2009-01-13T02:57:00.002+08:00

Avaxx or Zitron available at rm1300 give or take. Really cheap for what you're getting.

3.2" Resistive(no Multi Touch) Touchscreen Display
A-gps
Standard Audio Jack with Tv-out
3.2mpx autofocus still camera with vga quality video recording
8gb MicroSD

You can't get Nokia's Comes With Music service though. Instead, you get 1000 downloads from www.bimbit.com which has an embarrassingly lousy library.

Get more info here.

Mine's coming tonight. Hopefully.

Long time coming

2009-01-07T21:29:00.003+08:00

It's been like what, 1 month and 4 days since stpm ended? I've been so tired AND lazy to blog about what's been going on, given the fact that my readership is in the single digit. But, getting an email regarding my printer from Mark, a high school friend who LITERALLY didn't contact me and vice versa for more than 2 years, made me realize how fast things have changed.

But first, what happened in 1 month:
Trip to Damai
Class BBQ
gate-crash Paul Sia's dinner at pizza junction
UGS gathering at Sam's
Various outings wif Mo, SK, Yun
Christmas Caroling Downtown
Kuala Lumpur
Zhuhai
Macao
Various outings (CC, yamcas & dinners) before and after vacation wif Danny, Kenny, Lau, Welson, Daniel, etc... lazy list all
Outing wif Hansley
Copal Job Interview - Waiting reply =.=

Missed:
Christmas countdown,
Mo's farewell,
New Year Countdown ( Danny )

I think i'm still missing a few more things, but whatever. I'll use this as a checklist when i actually feel like updating. For now, only can pray i get the Copal Job. 1k+ a month... how i wish...

多一天！

2008-12-03T00:04:00.002+08:00

Just one more day and it'll be finally over!

PA was kinda easy and blessed.. haha.. most of what i read came out and most of what i didn't read didn't come out. XD~ happy.

my 3/4 day checklist after stpm:
badminton - new shoe :P
PC fair - get mouse, 8gb thumbdrive, etc
church youth - birthday event
cut hair - dye? dark brown
Basketball
lunch wif darrel
Damai on sunday

SUI!

Day 4 : Mathes 2

2008-11-27T19:32:00.002+08:00

Baseball bats and basketball~ XD~

Mathes 2 was the worst crap ever! WTF. To quote Rita:

"It's like it's not on the same standards as ours."

I did a stupid mistake. I didn't study enough. Sure regret...

Day : Physics 2

2008-11-26T20:47:00.002+08:00

Wow. It felt so long since the last posts, and yet, it's only the THIRD day into the exam. Physics for me was, well, as expected, 50/50 I guess. 20 marks gone for essay I guess. What I didn't expect though was how well prepared other people were. @.@ Seems like I'm the most unprepared of the loot.

Day 2: Maths 1

2008-11-19T17:51:00.004+08:00

=.="
maximum possible, 80/100 I left 20 marks blank...
Some questions too complicated la... not straight forward.
Was sick yesterday night and this morning some more.. Luckily recovered by 12 noon.
Didn't study at all, not that it'll make a difference anyways, I lost marks not because I didn't study, but just that I couldn't do the questions.
Never came across them before.
The rest I attempted though, I believe all if not most of them are correct.

Day 1:Pengajian Am 2, Chemistry

2008-11-18T22:29:00.003+08:00

Woke up at 6 (kinda used to it, attended morning prayer at 5am the week before)

PA2 8=11:
Annoying
Table to Text transfer didn't come out.
No.8 for Line Graph, i heard the data is screwed. Thank God I didn't even attempted it. I just hope the title for No.7 starts with Malaysia:
Non of the spotted question for essay came out.... /.\
Did some eko-penlancongan crap and Jerebu thingy for essay.

Lunch:fast Food at aroma.

Chem 2 - 4.30:
wtf... Calculations is my best part in Chemistry and I believe only TWO calculations questions came out.
Organic also few. Fortunately Inorganic oso few la...
I simply put mendelevium...
WTH is alumina? dehydrating agent?
And my answer sheet hole punched at the right.... =.="
I didn't leave anything blank tho. XD
Hope Essay is find Kp, not Kc.
Target 50/100 i happy liaw.

Off to MATHS. BB.

Ps. Class t-shirt undersized and itchy... grammatically incorrect.

What's wrong?

2008-10-20T22:24:00.000+08:00

Biology Fail

[WTB] New Nokia N95 8gb

2008-09-29T22:34:00.000+08:00

preferably CSL

Miss

2008-09-03T22:58:00.002+08:00

I do miss having club meetings weekly.... That's the only chance i have to meet most of the people i do meet at such meetings..... haiz.....

I'll be sure to join Clubs and Societies in Uni. XD

Pride

2008-08-31T22:47:00.002+08:00

No, not gay pride. Pride as a Malaysian. Proud to be who you are, wherever you come from. For 51 years, Malaysia has made it this far. Dirty and ugly? Perhaps. But we DID come this far, and we should be thankful of it. We're Malaysians and there nothing we can do to change that, no matter how hard we try.

Just like everything else, don't mourn or complain over the past, look ahead and prepare. This are heating up lately. Opposition datelines, world economy, STPM >.>.

Good Luck everyone.

Happy Merdeka.

Godspeed.

Climacool

2008-08-29T18:40:00.001+08:00

I love Climacool.

Enough said.

Meetoto

2008-08-26T16:38:00.001+08:00

check this out
http://meetoto.goplayplay.com
Funny way to waste time. Go register and watch ppl make fun of themselves as they sing. XD

At the End

2008-08-25T19:59:00.001+08:00

Greetings to all! First of all, I would like to congratulate the incoming Committee for their effort and hardwork organizing the 20th Joint Installation Dinner for the Interact Clubs of S.M.K. St. Joseph, S.M.K. St. Mary, S.M.K. St. Thomas, S.M.K. Green Road, and Lodge International School. We’ve been together for 20 years now!

Times goes by, another year has past, I’m honored to be the President of the Interact Club of S.M.K. St Thomas for the Term 2007/2008. Above all, I would like to extend my utmost thanks and gratitude to all of those who have served together with me throughout my presidency. Thanks to my Board of Directors for their committed hard work. Together, we have gained lots of memorable experiences and accomplishments during the past year. Through it all, we, as Interactors, besides having fun, have gained valuable lessons and skills that will prove useful to us in our future endeavours.

Thanks also to our teacher advisor, Ms. Sim bee Yong and Mdm. Nur Jamilah for their guidance and support throughout the year. On behalf of the Interact Club of S.M.K. St. Thomas, I would like to record my sincere thanks to our Sponsoring Rotary Club, the Rotary Club of Kuching, and Rotarian Advisor PP. Chan Woon Peng and PP. Arif Arabi in particular for their undivided support, advice, guidance and encouragement during the last Rotary Year.

Although we have limited members, under the Interact Motto, “Service Before Self”, we had succesfully carried out many projects from community service to fund-raising to interschool games. During this short time spent together, our club as been through thick and thin as a team and many valuable friendships have been forged.

Last but not least, I would like to congratulate the incoming Board of Directors for being deservingly elected. I Wish all of you all the best and may you serve the club with pride and dedication! To the outgoing Board of Directors, I wish you all good luck in the upcoming public examinations and your future undertakings.

God bless.

Service Before Self,

Timothy Tay Xyian Xiet
President of Interact Club of SMK St Thomas
Year 2007/2008

1 year Validity

2008-08-24T12:06:00.003+08:00

Seeing that some people don't know of this (notably Andrew Danny),After Maxis launched its Hotlink 365, DiGi has responded with its Reload Once, Stay Connected for ONE Year offer for a limited time period between 23rd July - 31st August 2008.

DiGi’s offer is simple and gives more value to its customers as it only requires a RM100 usable reload. This means every single sen spent for validity is actual credit or talk time that subscribers can use.

Over

2008-08-24T11:28:00.000+08:00

Our group got 3rd place last night..... out of Six..... zzzz..... mid point

Le Friday

2008-08-23T00:29:00.004+08:00

10am, breakfast with mom at Tabuan Laru, went downtown Sekama, went to badminton world check out shirt.

12pm, talk to Daniel, watch Blade Trinity.

2pm-4pm, Badminton @ winner court

5-7pm, Sleep

7.30pm, go church rehearsal

9.30pm, Kuching fest wif Alex, Mo, Yun, Teck Chaw, HJ, Pei Jie, etc.
[edit]11.00pm, Almost went to Laser Tag Battle Station, but follow driver, went home instead.

Height

2008-08-22T11:39:00.002+08:00

The No.1 problem if you're taller then the rest of your family:

All the f***ing mirrors in the house, only shows your stomach when you see through them.

The Reply

2008-08-21T13:42:00.005+08:00

I am sure many of us have experiences where a friend of ours will only seek our companionship when they are down and out. When their happiness graph is on its way up, they tend to forget about us. I just spoke to someone like that not too long ago and this person is quite pissed at the situation.

It’s not a very nice feeling isn’t it? Friends who only talk to us when they are sad and when they are in a jolly mood, they just ditch us. I am sure you must be harbouring a tad bit of being betrayed kind of feeling. Am I right?

I have read somewhere though that when someone in down, the very first person that comes to that victim’s mind is often an important person. That is to say, if your friend comes seeking comfort and emotional support from you when he or she is down, it actually means you’re important to him or her.

Think about it, when you are drowned in sorrow, the very first person you want to speak to… is it someone you want to betray and abuse? Or is it someone whom you long for? I think it’s more of the latter?

Why then so many of us feel used and betrayed because your friend tend to forget about you when they on the high?

Zewt

Life needs rain to foster. The Sun alone wouldn't do much good alone, would it? What carries rain clouds, other then wind alone? And when the sun is bright, you look forward to the rain to soothe. You may find the sun or stars all-mighty, but they are only there half the time, while rain can always be found any time of the day or night. Take Care, God Bless, Always with you.

August

2008-08-09T13:33:00.002+08:00

Things to look out for this month:
-Beijing 2008 Olympics 08.08.08
-Kuching Fest 1 August to 24th something
-Love Guru, Babylon A.D., STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS, WALL-E
-National Day
-Interact District 3310 Installation
-STPM Mock one =.="

STPM, Smk St Thomas Kuching 1st Mock 2008

2008-08-05T22:18:00.003+08:00

Tomorrow, 6th August 2008 is the first paper of the first mock exam. PA Paper 2. T.T

Wish me luck.

ps. Taking this opportunity as a excuse to update my long dead blog.

Sorry if I piss anyone during this coming 1 and a 1/2 weeks. Kiss and make up later, ok?

can recognise?

2008-06-21T01:18:00.000+08:00

Malaysian Artistes For Unity

2008-05-16T12:31:00.000+08:00

vote!

2008-03-03T20:06:00.001+08:00

According to the 100% accurate kennysia.com Who-To-Vote-This-Election Decision Generator™, I am voting for...

DEMOCRATIC ACTION PARTY!

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My Cny 08'

2008-02-10T22:18:00.000+08:00

Monday:bbq@kenny's

Thursday: Relatives, Kenny's house, Exora, Sean, Chung An, etc etc.

Friday: Send Parents to airport, Wen Qi, Nicole, Sam, Jylene.

Saturday Night: Kevin, Wong, Garrick, Pick up cousin from Airport, Soho (didnt sleep till the next night)

Sunday: Haircut, ??? at Jln Song, Near Swee Kak's, Gary, The Boulevard Carpark, The Spring, Open Air, Richmond's Place

Life so far:

2008-01-14T20:20:00.000+08:00

Busy doing lots of homework and revisions. This to prepare asap: valentines day sales by Interact club 14 February. Coming VERY soon. Meeting tomorrow.

Things to catch up:
Physics, Volume one.
A few issues with far-away friends.

Interact stuff:
World vision, donation drive, Valentines Day Sale, etc

Going to KL again this March.

ID yourself

2008-01-12T11:52:00.000+08:00

This is the list of what the two digit number in your IC stands for:

 Malaysia States Code
23,21,22,23,24,01: Johor
27,26,25,02: Kedah
   29,28,03: Kelantan
      30,04: Malacca
   59,31,05: Negeri Sembilan
   33,32,06: Pahang
   35,34,07: Penang
39,38,37,36,08: Perak
      40,09: Perlis
44,43,42,41,10: Selangor
   46,45,11: Terengganu
49,48,47,12: Sabah
53,52,51,50,13: Sarawak
57,56,55,54,14: Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur
      58,15: Federal Territory of Labuan
         16: Federal Territory of Cyberjaya & Putrajaya

The most commonly used numbers are the last one. Eg.13 for Sarawak. I've never seen the other numbers come into use before.

Other Countries Code

               66: Singapore
              60: Brunei
              71: United Kingdom,
              91: United States,
              86: The Netherlands
              77: Saudi Arabia

Odd number in the last digit usually indicates the card holder being male, and even numbers for female.

wad master?

2008-01-09T00:12:00.000+08:00

WHAT MAJOR IS RIGHT FOR YOU?
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You scored as Physics/Engineering/Computer

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It is possible that the best major for you is your 2nd, 3rd, or even 5th listed category, so be sure to consider ALL majors in your OTHER high scoring categories (below). You may score high in a category you didnt think you would--it is possible that a great major for you is something you once dismissed as not for you. The right major for you will be something 1) you love and enjoy and 2) are really great at it.

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Physics/Engineering/Computer

94%

Biology/Chemistry/Geology

75%

HR/BusinessManagement

75%

Psychology/Sociology

75%

Religion/Theology

75%

Mathematics/Statistics

69%

Accounting/Finance/Marketing

63%

English/Journalism/Comm

63%

Education/Counseling

63%

Nursing/AthleticTraining/Health

44%

PoliticalScience/Philosophy

44%

History/Anthropology/LiberalArts

38%

Visual&PerformingArts

31%

French/Spanish/OtherLanguage

25%

Back and Forth

2008-01-07T19:23:00.000+08:00

me:Hei, Andrew quite tall already, almost at my eye level.

Ced:Yeameh? That mean he same height as Sam!

me:??? If like that, both of them quite similar lor.

Ced:How come?

me:I donno la. The only difference is one's short and the other's flat.

Ced:No, both's flat.

Me:O.o..... Are you saying Sam's flat? Coz i meant, Sam's short and Andrew's flat.

Ced:T.T

Me:Zzzzz....

My Personality

2008-01-06T12:12:00.000+08:00

Copied from a bulletein in Friendster, usually I don't pay much attention to stuff like that but I thought this was worth going through! :D

OCTOBER=HOTTIE
Trustworthy and
loyal. Very passionate
and dangerous. Wild at times. Knows how to
have fun. Sexy and mysterious. Everyone is drawn
towards your inner and outer beauty and
independent personality. Playful, but
secretive.
Very emotional and temperamental sometimes. Meets new
people easily and very social in a group.
Fearless and independent. Can hold their own. Stands
out in a crowd. Essentially very smart. Usually,
you ever begin a relationship with someone from
this month, hold on to them because their one of a
kind.

TRUE?

Short recap on trip to KL

2008-01-05T14:31:00.000+08:00

A fast summary before I forgot. Was at Kl on the 24th to 31st Dec 2007, and a Christmas gathering at Nic's on the 23rd.

24-arrived in the evening. Ate and slept
25-Went to meet Ah Wing, Zhen, Pong, Darren @ Times Square, Watched AVP2 at Imax, Later go around Bukit Bintang wif Wooi Chang, Khai Lerk n Tian An (shopping, eating)
26-Trip to Ikea, The curve and Ikano Power Centre
27-Day Trip to Melaka
28-.... forgot....
29-Went to KLCC wif family then to midvalley using KTM wif Pong and bro
30-Went to Pavilion, bought Donuts, Visited Epicentre
31-Walked around Times Square, Lowyat etc, before going home.

Memorable End

2008-01-01T13:26:00.000+08:00

Okay, lets see. Recap of the last 24 hours.

Was at Lowyat Plaza for an hour hunting for my Macbook acrylic cover which I saw at EpiCentre@Pavilion the day before but didn't have enough cash. To no avail. Settled on 50 pieces of BenQ DVD-R's at rm48. Haha. Wanna lighten the load on my hard drive. Damn cheap these days.
Then I walked back to my apartment, arriving at around 4.30pm. Gotta pack. Leaving soon. Spotted my father's friend who's supposed to send us to the airport. Sneaked past him. Didn't expect him so soon. My guess is that he don't want to be caught in the roadblock around Imbi and Hangtuah. Concerts going on all over the place with technical rehearsals audible the whole day. I think I saw Nicholas Teo outside BB plaza.

So packed, packed and packed. A few new t-shirts, a jacket, a portable hard disk, and other minor stuff. Plane leaving at 9.30 wor. Actually booked 7 pm flight. AirAsia delayed it... zzzz After packing, went downstairs and loaded all the stuff into friend's Unser. Left for Sepang I think. Halfway, stop for satay at some semi-rural place along the highway. Looks like a peaceful place. Everyone so carefree. The satay was, unbelievably nice. It's not even popular or what, we were the only people there at the time. But the satay was just the texture I dreamed of. Haha. Slightly crispy(charcoal burnt) on the outside and tender and juicy on the inside. Both beef and chicken.

Ok, lepas makan, continue and reach LCCT at 7+ I think. First thing I spotted was airasia's self check-in kiosk. Hrm. Look interesting with it's huge touchscreen(my fetish). Too bad it didn't work out for me. So I dumped my bags with my parents and made my way to Coffee Bean with a Black Forest in mind. As I walked by, I saw this guy who looked extremely familiar. I thought he looked like Alex, a former school mate whom I've know for like, 2 weeks. I kept staring at him as I walked and he stared back. Not certain, I looked away and continued walking, my hand smsing, "When's Alex going back to Kuching?" to Teck Chaw and Momo.

Here's what i got:

Haha.y u find him?he came back on Nov.sadly! Juz now 5pm i ady sent him to airport.now he shud be sitting in KL taxi.haha.
-mo

I saw him at the departure hall le..

Waited for my coffee while pondering. He looks different. Longer hair perhaps?

Walked back and he was still there. He looked at me as i approached. T.T what are the odds. So we like stood there and catch up for like half and hour. He's waiting for his bus to Langkawi, some trip his family won. Too bad though, he has to return to Johor the next day, apparently, the he must be at Langkawi for the holiday to be legit(free). His course breaks (TOESL) is the same as public school.

Was talking when my phone rang, counter open liaw. Had to send my bag as luggage though I wanted to carry it on board ( overweight 10kg of 7kg allowed). Had a lot of liquids in the bag too. Shampoo, wax, clay, deodorant, sprays, etc.

Then go into terminal, fired up the macbook, turned on Skype and MSN ( cant connect). Sms Kenny to on Skype, Kenny called, I answered, we turn on video, we look at each other for a while, Kenny left, and two girls or something appeared instead. [Kenny was at Sam's] Decided to hang up when all i saw was an empty room.

Board the plane, got ushered by the stewardess to sit beside the emergency exit. Damn, the seat cannot recline there one. I've got a bad feeling when I sat next to he emergency exit. Then again, it might be nothing. The journey was uneventful apart for some slight turbulence. One hour and forty minutes later, the fasten seat belts sign was lit and the captain announced that we will be arriving shortly. But, after 10 minutes, I felt that my ear was pressurizing, instinctively, I felt that I was rising again. The first thought to come to my mind was, 'I'm going to Bintulu.'

Then the dreaded announcement, "There seem to be no improvement in the weather at Kuching, so we've decided to fly back to Klia LCC T as other airports have been closed at this hour. Once there, our ground crew will attend to you. Once again, sorry for the inconvinience caused. Thank you."

It's getting long, let's run through, return to LCCT at 1.30AM. Sien betul. Got off, went to Mc D, bought a Mc Deluxe. Halfway through the queue, Mc D closed the front entrance. So much for 24 hour service huh. left a gap for me to leave at the side.

Then went make to waiting gate. Went out the gate to air strip. Walked on big circle (idiots) to the arrival hall to board the bus. Quick ride, -they made me sit on the rail thingy- to a hotel at Nilai. Arrive and check in at around 3am. Watch National Geo for a while on tv. Slept. Woke up at 6. 6.30, bus to airport. 7am am flight departure. arrive around 10.

And there you have it, how I spent my new year's eve.

Now, who says something memorable is something you enjoy?

Ninja Turtles

2007-12-16T23:46:00.000+08:00

ewth

2007-11-29T00:39:00.000+08:00

Watch it and guess what's wrong.

Christmas Gathering.

2007-11-27T22:47:00.000+08:00

Here's a bit of ad:

I know i have like a total of like HALF readers, BUT I still want to give this a try. Anyone interested, either call Claire (contact in poster) or Aaron (also in poster) or leave a comment here. Don't forget to mention me!

The way commercials should be

2007-11-27T21:37:00.000+08:00

Presenting

2007-11-24T00:41:00.000+08:00

Once you've seen that, read this.

Living in The Dark

2007-11-21T16:36:00.000+08:00

Great animation,
Touching story.

I kena Tagged.

2007-10-24T15:36:00.000+08:00

Wandkey @ Wen Qi
Vivian @ Bibian
Andrew
Nicole

There they are. Those three asses who tagged me. TAGGED ME. And reminded me about it day after day. WTF. (Wah, That's Fierce!)

So now what? Scold them? Spam them? Hack into their Blogger account? Maybe later.

Right now, I happy enough I got a happy mention over at Andrew's (weird though), and being assosiated in a love triangle over at Qi's and Babian's. So, I'll reply the tag. Yes. Reply. The fucking tag. Yes.

LIST OUT THE TOP 5 PRESENTS YOU WISH FOR in no particular order:

-Andrew

-Cedric
-Daniel

-Vivian
-Wen Qi

LIST OUT THE TOP 5 Physical PRESENTS YOU WISH FOR in no particular order:

-iPhone, n95, n82, n83
-2009 Chevrolet Camaro
-iMac
-10mbps Broadband Connection
-Vacation
-Cedric's brains

THE PERSON WHO TAGG-ED YOU IS
Wen Qi

YOUR 5 IMPRESSIONS OF HIM/HER
1. Tall
2. Smart
3. Rich
4. Likes Cute Boys and Sweaty Men
5. Boh Su Cho for taggin me

MOST MEMORABLE THINGS HE/SHE HAS DONE FOR YOU
Smsed me when I was in NS. Ced didn't. HUH!

THE MOST MEMORABLE WORDS HE/SHE HAS SAID TO YOU
So Hai.

IF HE/SHE BECOMES YOUR LOVER , YOU WILL
Become her lover. In return.

IF HE/SHE BECOMES YOUR LOVER , THEY HAVE TO IMPROVE ON WILL BE
Her current location.

IF HE/SHE BECOME YOUR ENEMY , YOU WILL
Love her till she changes.

IF HE/SHE BECOME YOUR ENEMY , THE REASON WILL BE
Because she mistreats Andrew.

THE PERSON WHO TAGG-ED YOU IS
Vivian Kon/Bibian/Babian

YOUR 5 IMPRESSIONS OF HIM/HER
1. Nice Eyes
2. Unavailable
3. Does not love me
4. Cute
5. Quiet

MOST MEMORABLE THINGS HE/SHE HAS DONE FOR YOU
nothing

THE MOST MEMORABLE WORDS HE/SHE HAS SAID TO YOU
I don't love you

IF HE/SHE BECOMES YOUR LOVER , YOU WILL
Die because of her other lover.

IF HE/SHE BECOMES YOUR LOVER , THEY HAVE TO IMPROVE ON WILL BE
Beating Sam at Badminton

IF HE/SHE BECOME YOUR ENEMY , YOU WILL
kiss her

IF HE/SHE BECOME YOUR ENEMY , THE REASON WILL BE
Because she mistreats Cedric.

THE PERSON WHO TAGG-ED YOU IS
Andrew

YOUR 5 IMPRESSIONS OF HIM/HER
1. Short
2. Rude
3. Skinny
4. Honest
5. Suai

MOST MEMORABLE THINGS HE/SHE HAS DONE FOR YOU
Supported me when Daniel Tan was teasing me.

THE MOST MEMORABLE WORDS HE/SHE HAS SAID TO YOU
Cibai

IF HE/SHE BECOMES YOUR LOVER , YOU WILL
Move in with him

IF HE/SHE BECOMES YOUR LOVER , THEY HAVE TO IMPROVE ON WILL BE
Height

IF HE/SHE BECOME YOUR ENEMY , YOU WILL
Blame Sam

IF HE/SHE BECOME YOUR ENEMY , THE REASON WILL BE
Sam

PASS THIS QUIZ TO 1O PEOPLE THAT YOUS WISH TO KNOW HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT YOU

1. Tze Rong
2. Wen Qi
3. Chai Teck Chaw (Special Mention) (You better reply this tag!)
4. Kenny
5. Paul
6. Nicole
7. Cedric
8. Andrew Liong
9. Vivian
10. Sam

1. WHO IS NO.7 HAVING RELATIONSHIP WITH ?
Me

2. WHO IS NO.9 HAVING RELATIONSHIP WITH ?
Me

3. IF NO.9 nd NO10 ARE TOGETHER , WILL IT BE A GOOD THING ?
Disgusting

4. WHAT ABOUT NO1 nd NO5 ?
Cool!

5. WHAT IS NO3 STUDYING ?
Form 6! With me.

6. WHEN IS THE LAST TIME YOUS CHATT-ED WITH NO6 ?
Last Sunday. About being prom queen candidate. And how his prom king is spooky. Nerdy.

7. DOES NO4 WORK ?
Yes, he's lawyer, personal trainer and boyfriend of two who runs a lose all you can sweat shop.

8. DOES NO8 HAVE ANY COUSIN IN HIS/HER OWN SCHOOL ?
Donno. Maybe Wo ng . Hi o ng . Fo o

9. WILL YOU WOO NO8 ?
Absolutely

10. HOW ABOUT NO5 ?
I don't see a future in that

11. DOES NO2 HAVE ANY SIBLINGS ?
Yes. A big sister (relatively) and brother.

12. HOW DID YOU GET TO KNOW NO3 AND NO4 ?
In St Thomas.

13. WHERE DOES NO1 LIVE AT ?
Penang?

14. HOW YOUS GET TO KNOW NO.2 ?
Online.

15. IS NO5 SEXIEST PERSON IN THE WORLD ?
His abs are.

DONE. Here you go. I wan go sleep edi.

Judo

2007-09-24T19:50:00.000+08:00

Konichiwa Kawaii Hawaii

2007-08-10T23:34:00.001+08:00

Today, during the most interesting MUET lesson YET, Japanese Youth Exchange students came over to my class, L6s4. Here's a peek:

OK, no, wrong picture.

Still not japanese, but close.

not so cute....

Nothing much to say about them. I don't deny that they're cute. But then, we all do have something for the mysterious no? So, are they cute in the eyes of Japanese? Like how some caucasians find some 'undesireable' chinese cute. Bleh.

The japanese were in our class for less then an hour. Time really flies when you're looking at them. Just kidding.

Anyways, the usual rant:
Lunch

Then iscf

Then hang out abit

That's it then, end of the day.
But before i forget:

St Thomas 5s1 2006

2007-07-23T22:58:00.001+08:00

Here's a basic rollout of my idea for this post, I compile a name list of everyone in St Thomas's 5s1 for 2006, and will slowly complete it with emails, blog adress and such.

Abang Fazli
Adriel Junu
Aidan Wayne
Amirul Fikri
Awad Salihin
Bryan Navaratnam
Byondi Ruma
Cedric Chin
Calvin Nasod
Gary Ng
Goldon Molling
Ismaily Ismail
Jonathan Tan
Kenny Hansen
Kenny Voon
Kevin Tan Wei Lung
Lau Chun Leong
Liaw Kai Meng
Phang Jit Loong

Additionals
Danny Chung
Thian Choon Young
Carlucci
Gary Nigel
Garrick
Tang
Sockalingam
Wong Hor Chun
Kenny Teo
Lau King Ming
Wilson Lo

*will continue later*

Deathly Hallows

2007-07-22T14:56:00.001+08:00

This sucks.... Not a single copy of the presumably last Harry Potter book on sale anywhere in Kuching. No, not because it was such a hit, not because it was sold out, and not because we Kuchingnites can't afford it, but just because Bookstore chains management at Peninsular got pissed that they got short changed. (Namely Popular and Times, sorry, no MPH here)[via]
Btw, this is just so wrong:
wtf.... First, i personally thinks he looks terrible for the Harry Potter role, and now this?
ew...
[more]

Edit:

I can’t vouch for the validity of any of these Harry Potter excerpts so if the structure of any of these sentances are untrue, please let everyone know.

This is what happens when every instance of “wand” is replaced with “wang” in the Harry Potter series.

“Oh, move over,” Hermione snarled. She grabbed Harry’s wang, tapped the lock, and whispered, ‘Alohomora!”

Then, with a sigh, he raised his wang and prodded the silvery substance with its tip.
***
"Why aren't you supposed to do magic?" asked Harry.
"Oh, well -- I was at Hogwarts meself but I -- er -- got expelled, ter tell yeh the truth. In me third year. They snapped me wang in half an' everything
***
A magic wang... this was what Harry had been really looking forward to.
***
He bent down and pulled his wang out of the troll's nose. It was covered in what looked like lumpy gray glue.
***
"Yes," Harry said, gripping his wang very tightly, and moving into the middle of the deserted classroom. He tried to keep his mind on flying, but something else kept intruding.... Any second now, he might hear his mother again... but he shouldn't think that, or he would hear her again, and he didn't want to... or did he?
***
Something silver-white, something enormous, erupted from the end of his wang
***
'Get - off - me!' Harry gasped. For a few seconds they struggled, Harry pulling at his uncles sausage-like fingers with his left hand, his right maintaining a firm grip on his raised wang.

Bruises

2007-07-15T23:05:00.000+08:00

Thanks to my friend, Andrew,

I have;and:

Exam Fever Prelude

2007-07-12T17:43:00.000+08:00

My monthly test is coming soon. This 23rd.My feelings of Lower Six so far:
1 part Enjoyment (Financial Leniency)
1 part Boredom (Same School, Same City)
1 part Relief (Familiarity)
1 part Hopeful (Interact)
2 part Fun (LOTS of new and varied Lower Sixers in school)
2 part Thanks (VERY good Maths and Chemistry Teacher)
3 part Pissed Off (PA; Some lame Malay guy, Physics; Teacher Sucks/Blur case, MUET; Jennifer with pronunciation problems)
and out of sheer boredom:
1 part Cedric (for whatever reasons)
Back to Exams,
Tay's Exam Taking Tips 101:
1.Sleep a lot, 12 hours a day, give or take -I got back from school at 1.30 today. Ate. Bathed. Slept at 2- Form six is very taxing on my stamina
2.Distract yourself a lot: TV, Music, Judo, Interact, Games, Chatting etc. (Keeps you sane in a Pre-U environment)
3.TRY to do revision/homework/assignments: Life's too short for this things but you still have to do them. (I haven't even started on my MUET scrapbook... DIE...

Oh ya, a lot of friends are leaving Form Six lately. Some to Swinburne, some to Curtin, some on donno wad scholarships. The only anomaly is Jylene. She a classmate from St Mary's who went all the way to Taylors Shah Alam, only to end up in St Thomas. Talk about a wrong detour.

Really need to settle down on a Interact Year PlaN this Saturday with Nicole. Any ideas?

Hello, Meet PC

2007-07-11T17:31:00.000+08:00

Eh, sorry, wrong picture...

It's this one:

PC's are so huge compared to Macs.

A miracle?

2007-06-22T19:13:00.000+08:00

Just earlier this week, I somehow asked Ced whether God exist and that maybe I needed a miracle to just convince me. He said, why don't you ask him yourself? That's exactly what I did later that day and maybe I've got His answer:

Yes, a round rainbow, around the sun.

Earlier today, at 12, just after school, I looked up into the sky, and I saw this. Even earlier, I saw a jetstream. Coincidence? Prayer answered?

Photos accredited to Sheng Han

Life's boring, Nah, Just Frustrating

2007-06-14T20:33:00.001+08:00

For me, I hate uncertainty. WHY? Because, you are at the risk of things not working out for you! That's why. I can take things when they don't work out, but i can't be on the tip of the fence, no thank you!

SO what's bothering me? Interact. Would i be the president? I want to be a somebody (more then ever) during my time in Form 6. So, I guess this administrative role would be the best place to prove my worth. Interview was a breeze though, familiar faces all over. BUT I'm not sure if that's a good thing, because they know the good, AND the bad... Sigh. That aside, I would like to give doing Interact meetings with Keynote. That would really make meetings a LOT more interesting than the usuals i faced when i was in Form 1-5.

I'm also stuck in between a decision in a friendship. I made a bad call when i lied about a certain fact about myself, and now i'm uncertain -again- what would happened if i told the truth. Scary stuff, I'm sure.

Amusing stuff? Last Tuesday wad St Thomas's drama, 'There Comes A Time...". OK show. Low budget wad. Salute Cedric though. Less than a month preparation, amazing debut. Quote Borat: GREAT SUCCESS! Gotta write a damn report on the drama now though. Here's the cover for my report:

Selain itu, I'm also not sure if i'll be able to handle F6. Why can't Form Six just start of really hard? That would save me alot of decision making you know? Currently, it's SO easy, i'm having doubts. Is it a trick? Futhermore, I have a MIA pengajian am teacher and a blur-case Physics teacher. Of all the tales of ex-sixformers, is this too good to be true? A repetition of what i'd already know?

One more thing....

I've still to finish 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' by Cedric Chin.

No, it's not written by Cedric Chin. But borrowed from him.
Another thing:
The next big thing after Windows Vista will only arrive on October! WTF! You know what I'm talking about? It's Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard! All the cool features... *drools* go see yourself on http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/
Things to become of me: a Judoka, First Aider, Interactor, Student, Reporter and Designer.

Ok, that's all. Hope you have an amazing week in front of you.

Safer...... surfing?

2007-03-21T15:18:00.000+08:00

After 2 months

2007-03-11T12:05:00.000+08:00

I'm back, everyone! After two months away from Kuching, I'm finally home!

You won't believe how emotional it was. Shed a significant amount of tears last night. Departed from my camp (Geo Kosmo, Kuala Kubu, Selangor) at 4am last night. Arrived at Kuching slightly before twelve.

Experience: Unforgettable. Met new friends, met new enemies, lived through bad food, lived through junk food and lived through tons of instant noodles (permanent staple of a National Serviceman). Totally did not feel like going back home.

Will blog more later. For now, i'm signing off with this:

Haka Performance Cammo

i'm 36% unmalaysian.

2006-08-25T11:39:00.000+08:00

Congratulations tay, you are 36% not Malaysian.

That means you're as Malaysian as...

Michelle Yeoh!

How Un-Malaysian Are You?

ns, etc

2006-08-20T21:11:00.000+08:00

Once, i was chatting with my friend when i was waiting for my ride from PIKOM (PC FAIR) and i ask her how was NS since she went for it this year (Jan-May). I've met up with her during chinese new year when she came back for 3 day's leave. Supprisingly, i showed no interest in asking her how's ns. I just noticed that she's darker. Must be because of the fact that i wasn't a ns-men to be back then. Here's what she said.:
Then, I wanted to know what necessity to bring;
Guess what she said;
Sayang fren pula..... must be hinting i don show enuf sayangness.... :(
But i hear and read from other ppl's experiences, those 3 months ppl bonded with they fellow trainees untill it was like family and wish at the end of it, they NS wouldn't end and they won't have to say goodbye. Sadly, not a lot of trainees ever see each other after training anymore....

Well, back to topic, she went to the pic fair too.
Yalor, i left at 1, she let me know at 3PM....
OMG!!!! -_-.... so mensiasoikan diri..... i DID read that pikom in kuching and kl simultaneously....
=_+

Home Sweet Home

2006-08-20T20:54:00.000+08:00

You are so beautiful, cute, and dangerous!

2006-08-14T16:48:00.001+08:00

Wira Wirawati Negara

2006-08-07T20:06:00.000+08:00

http://www.lagenda.name.my/download/wira_wirawati_negara.mp3

HAHAHAHA, notice the beginning part sounds squeaky. Imagine the male vocalist as being short and tiny, like a rat.

Reasons to avoid NS:

2006-07-24T18:13:00.000+08:00

-bullied

-raped

-molested

-bad food

-fatique

-no connection for 3 months

-posibility to get hiv aids

-1% to be put in coma

-ghost-no phone

-may have ur phone stolen

-return home black and unrecognizable by ur parents

-no privacy

-no contact wif gf

Of Hinokio and Yellow Cherry.

2006-07-22T21:18:00.000+08:00

Recently, I had the pleasure to watch a 2005 Japanese movie titled, Hinokio. It’s about a boy(Saturo) who suffered the death of his mother and his leg injury during and accident. In depression, he retreated in his room for months. Finally, Saturo’s father made an android(Hinokio) remote controlled by Saturo himself to interface with the world outside his room.

Using that robot ‘tool’, Satoru is able to make progress by taking his first cautious, fearful steps out into the outside world… steps taken from within his ‘digital cocoon’. Still, he does go to school, find fellowship and through an encounter with a girl, is able to reconnect and feel once again the sensation of warm human touch.

Satoru eventually seeks to directly experience the world and activates the robot’s sensation mode, exposing himself to mortal threat. The girl Jun, risks all by taking action in an attempt to rescue him. This movie is not just about humans considering each other with warm affections; it is a movie that, through the conduct of humans finding love, asks the very question “What is it to be alive?”

Worth watching one way or another!

In another note, a hidden gem I unearth soon after watching that movie was the song, Yellow Cherry. Yes, it’s also Jap, but I hope you’ll give it a listen and then pass judgment. The only way I could get this song is through limewire and I had to make sure I was searching for audio files. If not, I get all sorts of ‘cherry’ as results.

Program Latihan Khidmat Negara(PLKN)_National Service(NS), Here I come!

2006-07-22T21:07:00.000+08:00

Here I am now, sitting here writing about my admission into PLKN for 2007. I remember just last night I was inform by a friend of mine that the list is out but she has problems logging in the site: www.khidmatnegara.gov.my

Apparently, the website can't handle the huge flood of 16/17 year olds like me checking their status, IN? or OUT? Trying for 10 minutes, I finally gave in and planned to try the next day. Hm… how do I put it…. Just like my body’s biological clock is programmed automatically, I woke up at 4am this morning and went online. To my surprise I made it in! As a complement, I checked my friend’s and also every ELS member as I have their IC on records. Found out quite a lot made it in:

Nicholas
Liaw
Tay(me)
Kenny
Danny
Paul
Adriel
Mark

What do I feel I wonder? Being congratulated by “Tahniah, anda telah dipilih menyertai Program Latihan Khidmat Negara”, I have a batch of mixed emotions. From the start, when I heard of NS, I’ve never liked it nor dread it. My standing is that if I’m chosen, I’ll go willingly and put is as a blessing and challenge. I would come back home slimmer, stronger and even tan! If not chosen, then I’ll just take A levels or STPM?

Definitely I’m going to take my sweet December getting tougher for NS. I’d rather suffer first at the comfort of my home before hitting camp able to take things easier. I hope that I’m that 10-20 percent of trainees who get posted to Peninsular. :P If not, Miri would be fine.

Well, anyway, if any of you reading this got chosen, I wish you a great and happy 3 months.

For those not chosen, the best of luck in your future endeavors.

Ju-on kuching

2006-07-02T11:39:00.000+08:00

Sarawak's own horror movie filming location.

Friends

2006-06-14T23:20:00.000+08:00

Here's my English homework:P

In this time and age, the friends in our lives are getting more and more important to us. Generally, friends are people we come across in our lives and got the chance to know us better. If you are wondering where we can find new friends, the answer is simple; Everywhere! Anyone at any place can be our friends. In our modern world, we make friends regardless of race or religion.

The reason all of us need friends is so that we can share our problems with them. Due to that, friends become a place where we can put our trust and that makes life more interesting than keeping everything to ourselves. Besides sharing our problems, we can also share work with our friends so that the work can be finished more easily and sooner. For a true friend, he or she will never complain if we keep asking them to help us, but we must always remember to give a helping hand if they ever ask for our help later.

Without a doubt, friends indeed are special people who can help us in many ways. However, being around friends can also cause peer pressure. Because of peer pressure, we often force ourselves to do what our friends do, even though we know it is bad. As a result, we will get influenced to do harmful things such as smoking and abusing drugs if we mix with the wrong crowd. Besides that, there are also some friends who befriend us just to take advantage of us. When given the chance, these type of friends will betray us just to achieve their own goals. One disadvantage of having too many friends is that we would not have enough time or chance to treat all our friends equally and as a result, some may feel left out and will be offended.

Throughout the course of our lives, we will come across many types of friends. Some of them may be good, loyal and trustworthy, while others may be ill-purposed and desire to hurt you. Also, some of our friends might also be materialistic, greedy, or self-centered. These types of friends usually do not value friendship and do not care about other people. So, as an advice, all of us should choose our friends wisely because they can influence us to do things which can either be good or bad.

To conclude, I would like to use the saying that ‘No Man is an Island’ to show that we cannot live alone and that we need friends in our lives.

Tay, 4e1

Here’s my Malay Language Oral Exam Script ;D

2006-06-14T23:07:00.000+08:00

So, here it is, my Malay language oral script for those of u reading BM, enjoy (if u do, that is).

Salam mesra membuka kata,Bagi memulakan bicara saga,Salam sejahtera madah bermula,Kepada hadirin pendengar bicara

Selamat pagi saya ucapkan kepada Cikgu Mancina. Berdirinya saya di sini pada pagi yang mulia ini bagi menyampaikan syarahan yang bertajuk "Faktor-faktor dan Langkah-langkah membendung Vandalisme”.

Sebelum mengemukakan hujah-hujah, izinkan saya mengupas maksud perkataan `vandalisme'. Vandalisme boleh didefinisikan sebagai perbuatan ataupun perlakuan merosakkan, memusnahkan, mengotorkan benda-benda serta peralatan yang bukan kepunyaan sendiri yang seterusnya telah menggugat kesejahteraan hidup orang lain.

Sejak kebelakangan ini, isu vandalisme telah menjadi topik yang hangat diperbincangkan. Perbuatan vandalisme ini biasanya dilakukan oleh golongan remaja ataupun generasi muda dalam lingkungan usia 13 tahun hingga 24 tahun. Mereka yang tidak bertimbang rasa ini bertindak merosakkan telefon awam serta tandas awam yang telah disediakan oleh pihak kerajaan, melukis serta menulis perkara yang bukan-bukan di dinding sesebuah bangunan dan sebagainya. Bagi remaja yang masih bersekolah pula, mereka akan bertindak merosakkan kerusi, meja, papan hitam dan lain-lain yang merupakan kepunyaan sekolah serta barang keperluan seseorang pelajar. Hal ini seterusnya telah merosakkan keindahan sesebuah tempat. Secara tidak langsung, nama serta imej Negara kita Malaysia akan terjejas. Oleh itu, marilah kita merenung sejenak memerihalkan faktor-faktor berlakunya vandalisme dan Langkah-langkah yang wajib diambil untuk membendung masalah ini daripada berleluasa.

Antara faktor berlakunya vandalisme adalah kurangnya penekanan pendidikan moral serta agama sama ada di sekolah ataupun di rumah. Hal ini penting kerana tanpa pendidikan tersebut, seseorang tidak akan mengetahui nilai-nilai murni yang sepatutnya diamalkan oleh seseorang individu. Mereka tidak akan tahu kepentingan berbuat baik serta mungkin berhadapan dengan kesukaran dalam membezakan betul salah sesuatu perbuatan. Hal ini mungkin berlaku akibat daripada sikap pelajar yang menganggap pendidikan moral tidak berguna serta tidak mendatangkan sebarang manfaat. Guru-guru yang tidak menekankan kepentingan dan kebaikan pendidikan moral di sekolah juga menyebabkan kegagalan mewujudkan generasi muda yang soleh dan solehah. Ibu bapa yang rakus ataupun serakah mengejar kekayaan dan kewangan telah menyisihkan pendidikan yang penting ini. Oleh itu, seseorang itu tidak mendapat pendidikan moral dan agama yang secukupnya lalu bertindak vandalisme kerana tiada pengajaran yang menentang perbuatan itu. Apabila mereka dewasa nanti, mereka juga telah mempraktikkan perbuatan itu dalam kehidupan seharian. Dengan ini, telah jelas menunjukkan bahawa kurangnya pendidikan moral dan agama merupakan salah satu faktor berlakunya vandalisme.

Tekanan dan pengaruh rakan sebaya juga merupakan salah satu faktor berlakunya vandalisme. Hal ini demikian kerana sejajar dengan pawana globalisasi di Negara kita, Malaysia, pendidikan telah pun semakin dipentingkan serta dititikberatkan. Keadaan ini seterusnya telah menyebabkan ibu bapa mewajibkan anak masing-masing agar lulus peperiksaan dengan keputusan yang cemerlang agar dapat berkhidmat serta menyumbang kepada Negara pada masa hadapan. Oleh itu, seseorang pelajar akan mengalami banyak tekanan hidup untuk belajar dengan bersungguh-sungguh agar tidak mengecewakan harapan ibu bapa masing-masing. Terdapat kemungkinan bahawa individu tersebut akan bertindak melakukan perbuatan vandalisme untuk melampiaskan beban yang dihadapi. Mereka mungkin beranggapan bahawa perbuatan itu amat menyeronokkan dan juga dapat membalas dendam kepada pihak sekolah yang mewajibkan peperiksaan dijalankan. Selain itu, bagi generasi muda pula, ada di antara mereka yang mungkin jatuh di bawah tekanan pengaruh rakan sebaya untuk melakukan perbuatan vandalisme. Hal ini berlaku kerana mereka tidak berpendirian teguh dan lama-kelamaan telah pun mengikuti ataupun mencontohi perbuatan rakan mereka yang tidak senonoh itu. Mereka mungkin juga berhadapan dengan tekanan dalam kerja dan bertindak melakukan vandalisme sebagai satu wadah melepaskan tekanan. Dengan ini; memang tidak dapat disangkal bahawa tekanan dan pengaruh rakan sebaya merupakan faktor berlakunya vandalisme.

Pemaparan isu tanpa disusuli tiada pemantauan tidak gunanya. Salah satu langkah yang perlu diambil untuk membendung masalah ini adalah dengan menekankan pendidikan moral dan agama sejak di bangku sekolah lagi. Bak kata pepatah, melentur buluh biarlah dari rebungnya. Perkara ini amat penting sekali agar apabila mereka dewasa nanti, mereka akan mempraktikkan nilai-nilai murni yang telah diajar sejak kecil lagi dalam kehidupan seharian. Pihak sekolah juga harus bertindak menghukum sesiapa sahaja yang telah ditangkap melakukan perbuatan vandalisme dengan harapan bahawa peristiwa pisang berbuah dua kali dapat dicegah ataupun tidak akan mengulangi perbuatan mereka itu. Ibu bapa juga harus mengajar anak masing-masing serta bertindak mendidik mereka apabila mereka ditangkap merosakkan barang-barang kepunyaan orang lain. Pihak ibu bapa sepatutnya mengamalkan budaya sayang anak tangan-tangankan. Berkat kerjasama dari pihak sekolah dan ibu bapa, langkah ini dapat diibaratkan sebagai serampang dua mata.

Langkah kaunseling dapat diibaratkan sebagai sudah terang lagi bersuluh. Sesi kaunseling ini penting agar pelajar-pelajar yang menghadapi tekanan dalam pelajaran ataupun daripada rakan-rakan yang memaksa mereka melakukan perbuatan vandalisme ini berpeluang meluahkan serta menyatakan perasaan dan tekanan yang dihadapi masing-masing. Dengan ini, mereka akan berpeluang mendapat nasihat daripada seseorang yang berpengalaman yang seterusnya mungkin dapat menyelesaikan masalah yang harus diharungi oleh pelajar tersebut. Seterusnya,bagi pelajar yang melakukan vandalisme,mereka juga mungkin menyedari kesalahan sendiri dan bertindak mengubah sikap mereka yang salah itu selepas melibatkan diri serta menghadiri sesi kaunseling. Dengan ini, memang dapat dibuktikan bahawa sesi kaunseling merupakan salah satu langkah yang wajib diambil.

Tampaknya masa berlalu begitu pantas dan masa tidak mengizinkan saya untuk berhujah dengan panjang lebar lagi. Sebelum saya mengundur diri, saya ingin menyeru kepada semua pelajar agar tidak melakukan perbuatan vandalisme kerana perbuatan itu bukan sahaja merosakkan pemandangan tetapi juga akan menjejaskan nama baik diri serta keluarga. Selain itu, saya juga ingin menekankan kepentingan seseorang pelajar yang melakukan vandalisme ini agar bertaubat serta menjadi individu yang berketerampilan beriltizam dan pragmatik agar visi 2020 akan dapat dilahirkan dengan jayakan.

Sekian, terima kasih.

Long time no see, long time no read ;)

2006-06-14T17:18:00.000+08:00

I’d like to apologize first of all for large time span between this and my last post. It’s been depressing for me lately and I’m really just having a lack of anything at all to blog about. Add in an extremely laggy
www.blogger.com and u get me, an extremely pissed of blogger who wants what he wants FAST!

Well, anyways, I’d like to start anew especially with the help of the new Microsoft word 2007, which I’m using rite now to publish my posts straight from home :D.

Sigh, SO much to talk about and so little time to write it down in words, till next time! Anyway, prepare to hear from me soon as I try to ramp up my blogging productivity. See ya!

SMK ST THOMAS SPORTS DAY 2006

2006-03-29T22:32:00.000+08:00

Hockey puke

2006-03-11T19:14:00.000+08:00

RiverSide

2006-03-02T19:35:00.000+08:00

That's what it look's like in a riverside suite.

Hopefully Mine (soon)

2006-02-26T22:39:00.000+08:00

My (current) dream phone for now... :D

Not good news....

2006-02-22T21:58:00.000+08:00

My bahasa Melayu is only 56.... :( damn......

Oh well, I'll have to make up for myself in Physic by getting 98 then.

Clinic

2006-02-22T18:06:00.000+08:00

????!@?@???@!??@??

Alternative NARUTO Clinic?!?!?!?!

To cure NARUTO addicts??????

'Engrish' and Morals

2006-02-21T17:16:00.000+08:00

Second day of the tiring exam and now i'm through the English and Moral Papers. No comment about the Enlish one as it's a bit on the so-so side, not to hard and not too easy. Don't know what'll my results be, though!

Moral on the other hand, is an entirely new thing to me. I've never sat for this type of paper before. Most of it is like personal opinion with minimal use of the moral values. I found myself in a jam when i saw the essay question, so i asked kenny, this one how many values needed? But he act out his "boh hiew lang(don't care bout people)" face.... gosh... :(.. the problem is, on the top of the paper is written that the essay question is worth 20 marks, but below, is 10 marks. If it's 20, i need to write 4 values but if it's 10 marks, i only need to write 2....

1st day exam

2006-02-20T20:31:00.000+08:00

Today's the first exam i ever had for this year. Malay and History! Malay was like, huh!!! WTF!! The teacher lied! No literature at all!!! I wasted one whole night studying that, Mancina, ya know?!?!?! The Malay grammar was complete hell. The moment i saw the first page for the grammar, my entire jaw droped~ I can't answer these!

Luckily, i was back up and running during History Exam. During that exam, i just told myself, "I can do it!!!!" And what did you know? I am more confident I did better in my subjective paper than the objective one..... wierd?

Holy ****

2006-02-18T14:07:00.000+08:00

The first word that came out: preaching! Gish!

Why do you have pay to eat some cheap food(obviously) and be preached by god knows who is brian young! All that for just RM35!!@!@! I just dont like it when people sort of 'advertise their religion like that, you know? Very annoying. Just let them come to you! I've should have known when i read; evangelistic (a mouth full)

New Phone, New Chain

2006-02-13T22:28:00.000+08:00

This afternoon, after I came back from school, I found out that my uncle and all of his friends bought a pricey give for a couple who just had a child. Amazingly, it cost all of them Rm 1000!!!So, lets see, the chain is 16.67 grammes while the plate is 3.03g. Haiz, i wish i had one, then my whole damn neck would feel like it's worth thousands! (Rm1000, to be exact!)

Oh ya, btw, one of my friend on the other hand, bought a gift for himself; a SonyEricsson w550i, RM 1300, Ori.

Now, who says the economy is bad?

Mission:Not Impossible

2006-02-13T22:24:00.000+08:00

Guess what? Just overnight, Thomian Online is on top!!!!

I'm on TOP

2006-02-12T16:16:00.000+08:00

Hello everyone! Just like to tell you that if u search my name on google, "timothy tay" the first and topmost hit is this site! hehe... it seems like i'm the most linked to site for that search term :D. I'm going to briefly describe how Google works. The more your site is linked by other sites, the higher you will be on the results page for the particular search term. So what it means is, if you are higher on the list, more sites are talking about you! So, to show you the power of linking sites, I'm am doing a test today by linking a site and lets see if i can push it to the top of google :P.
Thomian Online

As you can see, the real site i'm targeting for, http://thomian.f2o.org/ is not listed, instead, an old "not updated in decades site is. So, hopefully it can change...:D

CNY recap

2006-02-01T22:11:00.000+08:00

Unluckily for me, I've lately been out of ideas for a post in my blog when compared to Kenny
Sia AND Kenny Voon.... And after almost a complete month, what would be better than writing about what I went through this CHINESE NEW YEAR? It's quite nice to take this quiet CNY night to do something about this blog... Even more so when the night time is quite literally a 'no visiting time'.
~~Except when a few of the more nosy relatives come......~~

Sigh.... Cuzi....

Well, back to the story, on the eve of new year, I had this sort of 'steamboat' dinner at my grandmother's house. This year was a bit more silent than last year because my auntie was late cause she wanted to visit her husband's family for the dinner. Well, I wouldn't blame her since she's always with us more on all the previous CNY eve. Not much activities on the eve and after dinner, we just sat there and some were talking while others were watching television. Then, close to midnight, we all went back home, end of story. (eve story that is!)

My uncle's
neighbor is rich enough to have a swimming pool behind his house.

Then, on 1st day, I basically went around Kuching to visit all my 'closer' relatives but half way, I got a phone call by Goldon, aka the DRIVER, asking if he could go to my house.... When he called the first time, I said no because, u know what? I'm at my great grandmother's house for crying out loud! I suggested coming the next day which he agreed to. Now, that was around noon, 12pm! Then the persistent brat called again at 2! What to do, just to entertain him, I asked him to come at 3 so that I can go back and prepare to accept his 'drag queen' band. Went back home, had a quick bath and brought out the ps2 and pulled out the pc because, frankly I have no idea how to entertain these guys. At 3.30(yah, late, as usual) Goldon arrived, I was also surprised to see 3 of my old classmates who are all girls. Goldon also brought along a guy who I did not know, and still DO NOT know.( I completely have a hard time remembering his name, if I remember correctly it starts with a G and rhymes with GOLDON. Gelding perhaps?) So, anyway, with the 3 girls in the house, they talked about who's with who these days. (For those still not following, we talked about whose going out on a relationship with who).

Then suddenly, Goldon came to me and say, "Did you talk to a girl these past few days?".
I said "yah, why?" I can see that he was on the phone at the same time too.
"So you gossiped about someone, eh?"
"Who?"
"You caused someone to break up."
"who?"
"why do you talk about people like that?"
"WHO?!?!?!"
"Jos (not real name)"
"Who the hell is that!?!?!"
Goldon went quiet at walked away from me all the while whispering into the phone. After that, he walked back and said, "Jos is in the same club with you! AJK somemore!"
Then it hit me, the ever so serious girl from the club is on the phone with Goldon. I was like, 50% not sure who's JOS so I dished out a photo which
I took during a club meeting to let Goldon show me who the hell is the damned Jos who scolded me for no apparent reason. According to her, I made her and her boyfriend to breakup not soon before. She was like accusing me on one stupid reason - I TALKED TO A GIRL! I donno about
~~that bitch~~ her, but what do you guys think? Is talking to a girl, a sin?
So, i said, "What did i say?"
"I donno, what did YOU say?" that Goldon was talking crap with the fake smile of his. Do people ever accuse you of doing something but don't even tell you what they're accusing you of?

JOS
~~aka siaw cha bo~~

"What i say?"
"What did YOU say?" says GOLDON.
"Who you talking to?"
"JOS, why?"
"What she got against me?"
"Say sorry"
"For what?"
"For talking about her!"
"About what?"
"You know, about her!"
Man, Goldon can be annoying.
Then a second blow hit me, why was Goldon so into this girl, JOS? Why does HE care so much that
HE'll get mad at me and accuse me of gossiping about HER? Was she his GF?
I snatched the cellphone that he was waving for some reason (tempting me to take it) and said, "What are u scolding me about?"
JoS said, "huh?"
"You accusing me of something, right?"
"what?"
"Who's on the line?"
"Jos, who are u..?.... TAY IZZIT! You no good la, bla bla, talk about people, etc etc."(I seriously forgot what she said after that because i was like holding the phone further from me so that the terrifying vampire-like voice won't get a hold of me.
"Can you tell me what did i say first?"
"Don lie la. Don't act dumb la. I know one." - Jos. Gesh, another dumb girl never going to the point.
"What??"
"Say sorry."
"Why?"
"Say sorry." I was getting annoyed so in the end i said......................................................................
"Sorry." I basically said sorry for something i did not do just to stop the damn girl from nagging.

Then the phone was snatched away by Goldon. (For more about this, including more 'private info, contact me)

On the 2nd day of CNY, I was hoping to tag along with Goldon to Cikgu Lee's house and then to Mabel's house, I was not expecting to pay aidan and paul a visit. It all started at 10pm when i dropped by Goldon's house. It was exactly the same as the last time i went there except the fact that they were some new year decor and..... the dog was more aggressive than before. My theory was that last few day's firecrackers must've shocked the poor dog. Later, we went to pick up Aidan, we didn't go into his house YET, btw. Then, it was off to Paul's house where we spent about half and hour there. Then, Aidan was off to visit one of his friends nearby while we went to Wilfred's house. But thanks to Goldon's perfect common sense, he did the most dreaded mistake of Chinese New Year, HE DIDN'T CALL FIRST. So, we were presented with an empty house with Wilfred at I DON'T KNOW WHOSE house. Even Aidan called his friend he was going to visit!

So, it was back to Paul's house. There, we're supposed to wait for Aidan for another half an hour before he came back. But i thought of hitting the redial button to ring Aidan up. And FYI, Aidan has no mobile phone..... Anyway, after hitting redial, this guy called Norman picked up. Not the St Thomas Norman, I might add. This guy acts like he knows aidan while actually doesn't. We found out when Aidan appear later. Why the number changed for the redial, we don't know. That aside, we (me, Paul, Aidan, Goldon) went straight to Cikgu Lee's house straight away. On our arrival, we weren't actually sure that we were at the right house. We were about to call her when we heard an unmistakable laughther. The sort of fast-pace, high-pitch sound that we are so familiar with. Then, a little boy - under 10 y.o., little, but extremely confident shouted to us.
"Hei, come in la!" he said.

Miss Lee's fish pond.

Inside, the whole house was extremely crowded. It wasn't that the house was small (it's quite big), it the fact that quite a lot of people was in there, give or take 20 i guess. Wah, all her relatives were there. From what i heard, a lot was from Singapore... pity me, only could watch as the flash out their expensive phones :(.... Got N90, O2, etc... Then, Miss Lee brought as to the back of her house to see her cats and dogs, and i do mean that in a very plural way. There were lots of it!!! After the pet viewing, we chatted long and wide about our studies, what we did on cny, bla bla. Then Miss Lee pull her neice and said that she should take Aidan as her role model. Immediately, Aidan's face went read. Hehe.... Either the girl was too pretty or Aidan's nose expanded another foot.

On the way.......

Next, we were off to Aidan's house, with a huge pole on top. The house is actually quite big, and Aidan was planning a buffet that night. (which
I was not invited to, sadly :(. But I was ~~happy~~
~~delighted~~ surprised to find out that all the food couldn't
be finished that night and Aidan had to eat the same dish for a few days,
serve him right) That aside, the moment u step into Aidan's house, you'll be treated with this:
~~Huh! I know la, you very smart, but don't have to rub it in people's face!~~
As you can see, Aidan ~~has a very thick face~~ is very excellent in academics and that's why Miss Lee choose him to be her niece's role model. Then, i saw his little brother for the first time. All i can say is that he is VERY ~~naughty~~ energetic! He's running around the house and diving here and there! Here's a glimpse:
On the right of the picture, u can see their damn huge hi'fi.

Wayne's little bro..

I must have spent more than half an hour at Aidan's house before Goldon suggested to leave to visit Mabels house. I actually planned to visit her house to but seeing that i didn't have enough time, i ompted out and asked Goldon to send me home first. Took a quick bath.

Then, I rushed to Sam's house with is like extremely hard to find. You'll have a hard time trying to distinguish the front of the house from the rear. It's like some kind of
Lillian Too said that the house must face the other way than the houses next door. And the only thing on the gate is the label, '2B'. Well, when i entered, i was greeted by her mother( i think, with a bunch of people i didn't know. I was like, "Omg, wrong house!" But her mother said, "Looking for Samantha izzit? She's at the back."

Making my way through, i saw a bunch of familiar faces which i'm not in the mood to list right now. They we're all playing Narutimate Hero 2 on the ps2 and I seem to be the last person to arrive. It looks like i was the only one having trouble finding the house. :P So, i joined in the game and was at first completely beaten to shreads. Later, i picked up the pace and was finally able to beat Sam AND Ling CONTINUESLY! yeah, hurrah for me! Halfway through, Sam's mom came in and reminded us to eat. What we had was mainly spagetti, potatoes and something else i cant remember. We had trouble opening Ling's 0% alcohol sparking cocktail (nice name for a grape juice, hor?). In the end, Sam's father said, "Sam, go get the plyer!."

After dinner, we continued to play and i was the second last person to leave at 8pm while Ling left at 10pm
~~being drunk with Sam, and doing something together..~~.

Narutimate Hero 3

The Third day, i basically made no plans but was invited to Stef's house around noon. I then went there and was surprised to find out that she was chosen for NS and that she was a tad bit darker. Also they was my friend and his neighbour. We then went to visit my cousin, they don't know that he's my cousin (thought was just friends). We made plans to watch a movie at the nick of time but arrive at star to find out that..... ticket were all sold out except those at the very front. With the fear of having a stiff neck after watching FEARLESS, we decide to watch it the next day.

Finally, I went out to watch 'fearless' today. Paul informed me that this was JET LI's last kungfu movie ever! I'm not sure whether it's true or not. The movie was around 7pm and one my friend was in charge of booking the damned tickets. Actually, I should have known that a phone call to star was practically useless. Soon enough, I got wind that Timothy(not me) could even get the useless excuse for employee to answer his calls! He took his own initiative to go all the way to but the tickets at 3 this afternoon. So, most of us arrive at 5.30pm today. Played some games at the arcade on the ground floor before going up to watch FEARLESS. wOw, the queue was like HUGE. Imagine how many seats there were in a cineplex and that all the seats were taken, and all the seats represents one movie goer and all the movie goers were RIGHT outside the entrance waiting for the last movie to finish before their's start. So, it was like I took 2 minutes just to move 2 metres through the crowd just to get to the washroom from the ticket booth.

Jam Packed

A.D. Laboratories Sdn. Bhd.

2006-01-04T19:38:00.000+08:00

I got my blood test back lo.... so happy wor.... full three page report, no problem. Only got 2....

One: the platelets a bit little, 148 nia, normal is 150 and above.
Two:TOTAL Colesterol is 218, normal is 200 and below. But heart attack risk is still low, coz my HDL ratio is very low, 3.8. Normal is below 5.0. Average ppl get 4.5. Safe is 4.0. Perfect is 3.0.

Btw, i also found out that my blood type is O :(... aiyo... what a surprise... i owes tot my blood is A type one... now O so sad ah.... A type at least can terima A and O blood. Now O only can terima one type. At least not O negative la, so not dat mah huan.

What's up with my pc.

2006-01-04T16:51:00.000+08:00

That pic u just saw is a fresh shot of my pc (Personal Computer FYI) tat i took during the graphic card insident a month back. I got the pc roughly in 2003 which means this computer is damn old.....And that would be my dvd burner(top) and average cd-rom (bottom).
That's a Canon pixma ip8500 8 colour printer.
Last but not least, my acer 17in lcd monitor.

KOPI O License

2005-12-31T23:19:00.000+08:00

I started today with a icy cold bath at 6.30 just after i woke up at 6. Then by 7, i got a driving instructor pick me up at my home. Surprisingly, he lives just one block away from me. Never know.... hm....

So, anyway, he picked up another 21 Iban boy/man and a St Theresian girl. I wonder why the boy started to learn to drive BOTH a motorcycle and a car at such a old age.... At 8, we arrived at the 'driving academy' and registered for the course. They forced us to surrender our IC until the day is over. We started the class at 9 and had a break before noon.
Here's where ppl get lunch. They sell cold malay dishes and warm soft drink which i had a hard time thinking whether it's edible or not but i still bought a room temperature coke. Now, with the coke in one hand, i walked around and saw this:
Not strange? Ya i agree. I always see kancils with the learning sign but never this:Nearby, you'll be able to find a pseodo toll booth where the instructor teach you how to go uphill with out falling back. ( Lau Nia)
An hour later, the lecture went on and lasted till 1 then another half hour break...... Honestly, why so much breaks? Everyone wanted to go back early but no... u have to waste time at the cheap canteen.... So, the 'show' lasted till 3pm... sgh.... So tired + bored.... Plus the whole 6 hour cannot talk one..... Haiya!!!

To remedy the boredom, i took a trip to the commercial area near jalan song towards tabuan jaya.... I had bbq chicken, mee, and dumplings. Soon after, like always, i walked around the food court which by now, is filled with china's cd/vcd/dvd seller. Today however, i saw this woman selling a whole collection of porn... :P That gal undoubtable has the best business. Its a wonder why the other 'hawkers' dont follow her tips?Hard shot, i did not want her to know i was taking that pic....

Dusty Dilemma

2005-12-29T11:17:00.000+08:00

Today, during the afternoon, after testing an installlation of windows xp professional corporate edition on my spare hardisk, my computer came up with a extremely low screen resolution plus low colour quality: 6 bit (32 bit normal). Though most would be panic'ing and not knowing what to do, my years of experimenting with computers has tought me that computers, provided it's made by reputable manufacturers, does not 'break down' easily.

At first, i thought the problem what software based, so i connected my old disk back on and booted into my previous xp home edition. But nada, no effect, same problem. Then i ran WINDOWS VISTA BETA build 5270 boot disk and to my supprise, that doesn't work too. So the only explaination is a hardware problem.

I pulled out my graphic card and connected the monitor back to the motherboard's onboard vga adapter. Luckily, that was able to get me a comprehensible resolution but still not fully functional. And to make matters worse, my network card desided to overheat on me so I wont be able to connect onto streamyx.

Then, at 10pm, i found out what's wrong: my graphic card's connector is covered with dust.
Just wiping it with a piece of tissue and the problem's is solved. That left me with only a minor dusting and in the end, i collected this:

Logitech G5

2005-12-28T23:02:00.000+08:00

I'm now playing with my logitech G5 mouse that i bought back during my trip to KL at the end of November 2005. I caused a pretty deep hole in my pocket, a rm250 hole, that is. Where in KL, you might ask? At lowyat plaza of course! Cheapest and largest IT store i know of. At Midvalley, the same mouse has a 300 ringgit price tag.

What i like most about it is that it is a laser mouse which is more sensitive compared to optical mice. Most obviously, the laser's blue tint can only be seen throught a camera and not the naked eye, when compared to the optical mouse's fully visible red glare.

It comes with weights although i'm still puzzled why they bundled weights at such odd variations: namely 4.5gram and 1.7gram. Must be logitech's prehistorical numbering scheme that we are in no position to challenge.

As for the padding, it's made of polytetrafluoroethylene a.k.a. non stick coating used on frying pans (TEFLON) which provides an ultra slick "smoothness". It can litterally slide over a glass table with ease.

In addition, the mouse has 3 default sensitivity level 6 after you install the nessesary drivers.

In my opinion, this is a great gaming mouse although i had to spend some time getting used to its responsiveness. Sometimes, i feel like the mouse is gonna slide right off my mouse pad and onto the floor.

Blood Sucker

2005-12-27T19:21:00.000+08:00

Today, i did a blood test near Pandungan Street. Just FYI, i'm not testing for AIDS or HIV har!!!!!!!!!!Anyway, i had to starve for 24 hours before my blood is drawn by the nurse here. But, i got curi makan abit last night.... hehe.... kolo mee satu! Then came the dreaded needle... Actually the needle is not that huge at all, its the tube of the syringe that's extra large. The moment the syringe pierced my skin is actually quite painless, the pain only starts when the nurse start go suck the blood out... ouch!
So, as u can see, they got 3 samples from me, the brown tube, the green tube and the red tube. Mine's the one facing the inside of the tray while the one on the edge of the tray belong to some old lady.
All in all, the test costed about Rm120 for the 'complete package'. A bunch of test to check for a bunch of problems.
And this is what i got in return:

For Symbian Phone Audiophiles

2005-12-26T23:41:00.000+08:00

The Symbian S60 and UIQ devices use a midi patchset by Beatnik which is built into the ROM. If you are slightly musical you will be able to tell that this is a highly compressed and reduced patchset.

[Patchset: A file containing samples of the 128 midi instruments and drums needed to play a .mid/midi file. Larger patchsets (for a PC) generally have multiple samples per instrument as a piano sounds different in one octave to another. Small patchsets (e.g. smartphone) can double up (e.g. a "steel guitar" might use the same as a "nylon guitar" to save space.]

This patchset is stored in read-only ROM memory at Z:\System\Data\Beatnik\ with the name "patches.hsb".

[.hsb files are Headspace Sound Banks.]

Although ROM cannot be deleted or replaced, the Symbian devices have a wonderful feature where if you put the same file in a directory on C: with the same filename and directory path it will load that file instead of the one in ROM.

Therefore, you can upgrade your Symbian device to have a larger (and better sounding) patchset for playing MIDI files by copying a compatible HSB file to C:\System\Data\Beatnik. (You have to create the Beatnik sub-directory first as it doesn't exist on C: by default).

The only place I've found to get patchsets free so far is from Sun Microsystems as they also use the exact same format for their Java patchsets.

The default patchset in your Symbian phone is about 100-170k (depending if UIQ or S60 etc).

Small replacement (480kb):
http://java.sun.com/products/java-me...ank-min.gm.zip
- okay, better than the built-in patchset esp. for piano etc

Midsize replacement (1.1mb):
http://java.sun.com/products/java-me...ank-mid.gm.zip
- sounds more like a PC

Large replacement (5mb):
http://java.sun.com/products/java-me...-deluxe.gm.zip
- haven't tried this, I don't think any phone would have enough memory to use this properly yet (my 7610 only has 5mb available memory out of 8mb total generally)

1. Download the zip file
2. Extract
3. Rename .gm file to patches.hsb
4. Copy to folder C:\System\Data\Beatnik

Notes:
- I've found you don't need to restart the device for changes to take effect after you've restarted the first time. e.g. to go back to normal, just rename patches.hsb in your C: drive to patches-tmp.hsb etc and you'll have the built-in patchset back.
- There is a considerable delay in opening midi files as it loads the new patchset into ram each time.
- This could impinge on copyrights of the patchsets but I don't see how... just don't hold me responsible!

Note: Does not work for 6630 and newer. 3230 works.

Soo Eee EVE

2005-12-21T21:16:00.000+08:00

on da 21st of Dec 2005:

Tomorrow ah, as u all chinese now ah, is the 'Tang Chek' ah! So today ah, must 'Soo Eee' to prepare for tomorrow. U all know what is the Eee? 'Soo' mean roll in Hokien while 'Eee' mean round.
Still donno? I show you: Nah, this is the Eee. Made from flour and water and some, colouring (sometimes red, like above).

This is da white colour type, meaning..... NO COLOURING la! haiya..... Don play play ah, this Eee hah, very important u know, must need it if wan good luck, u know? Not only dat, eat only no good luck, must also make it together then got luck. U make, u eat, get it? The taste however, is not really dat good la... Don get me wrong, can eat one, but not 'interesting' la... Sometimes, we also got put grounded peanut into it, then will it taste like heaven!!! :D

One more thing is today, when on the road at Sekama area, i saw this some say stupid sight. U see the photo ah, look at what the passenger is carrying. Can see? Actually is the 'mud flap' la. Those stupid 'gangsters' ah, only know how to show off big bike, when mud flap fall off, carry like dat... haiya :( actually, i kesian them oso la... earn money, never keep, spend all.... not like me, don spend at all....... COZ NO MONEY!!!!!!!!!

Along with the topic of motorist la, sometimes, u see them motorcycles 'sounding' fast one all over Kuching. These motorcycle got sound only, no CC one. If go US ah, sure the mat salleh all laugh like hell one. Ah Mo will say,"look at dat thing, broken oledi still wan to ride".

My School

2005-12-20T18:48:00.000+08:00

Hi again...

This time, let me talk about my school and as u can see on ur left, it's SMB St. Thomas, Kuching which is conviniently located at the the most trafic-jam-prone area of Kuching at 7am with school starting at 7.20am. Thankfully however, its the holidays now, since November, until December ends.

This on the other hand, is a "pseodo" aerial photograph that me and a few friends painstakingly climb a skyscraper in order to take. Apparantly, u can see that the school is quit large with the white building in the middle as a library (gish, large eh?). The red roofed building is a class block for secondary 1 - 3 students. Although that was the case, i'm in Form 4s1 this year(2005) and was placed at this block.

Welcome to timothytay89.blogspot.com!

2005-12-20T17:23:00.000+08:00

Hello everyone, my name is Timothy Tay and to be honest, this is not exactly my first post. To those new to this blog, i welcome u and hope dat this will be my best attempt yet on a blog.

A bit of background would be that i'm from Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, Asia(FYI). I'm currently 16 if i remember correctly and will be talking about my life during the course of these few months.

This blog is just to help myself remember my days and weeks more clearly as well as entertain a few readers along the way.

Enjoy.