One month off

Lalalala~ Blog die one month. I won't be home for one month luu. Won't access to Blogger for one also luu. So you all can don't need visit me one month luu. Nights! I need to pack my bag ==

SRWare Iron

When Google Chrome was first launch, everyone set their eyes on it and very quickly Google Chrome gained a reputation of being arguably light, fast, and simple.

I tried out Google Chrome few years back but didn’t like it. That was mainly because Google Chrome does not warn me when I close my browser with multiple tabs. I also hated the Blue default theme provided by Google Chrome and to change the theme was a great hassle. Simplicity is beauty? Nope, not for me. I’m a guy who likes to have a full control over my programs; that is why I like Mozilla Firefox.

But the Google Chrome today appears with a transparent sleek title bar in my Windows 7, and changing theme was much easier today.

Well, I’m still using Mozilla Firefox today. But I find that my Firefox takes up a lot of RAM space. There’s even one time where my Firefox occupied 1GB of my RAM! Okay, I have to admit that probably I’ve open too many tabs. When I say too many I mean…yeah, easily over 30 tabs. I have 18 tabs on my Firefox right now. Hehe.

Probably the fact that I save my tabs every time I close my Firefox also contributed in the increasing initial load of the RAM occupation. I also realized that whenever I get into a page that loads flash or java, the RAM usage of Firefox will continue to build up. Even after I close those pages, Firefox usage barely decrease.

So I’ve been using Opera since I heard many good compliments about Opera 10 being light, fast, and secure, yet with many functionalities. Honestly, I like Opera. It looked great, and I like its scroll function that will slow down when you stop scrolling instead of stopping immediately. In some really minor things, Opera is better. I also like the voice feature in Opera where you can make Opera read a passage by highlighting it, right-clicking it, then click Speak. So I use Opera only when I need to do a research that would end up opening more than 10 tabs at any one time, when I want my web browser to read something to me, when I want to dual login a forum or something, when Firefox doesn’t work properly with a particular page, or when I simply want to test if a page is works fine with Opera.

Recently, I’ve been using SRWare Iron to load flash pages [because Opera is causing me some problems]. I bet 99% of those who visit this blog do not know what the heck SRWare Iron is. Okay, my fault. Probably I need to introduce you to Chromium first. Once again, I bet 98% of you who visit this blog do not know what the heck Chromium is (slightly better than SRWare Iron).

So this is Chromium. Yes, I know it looks like Chrome’s logo, just that it’s blue in color. In fact, the looks of the web browser is 99% similar. You must know that Chrome was actually developed from Chromium. Chromium is an open-source browser project.

Well, there are other two companies around, that I know of, also develop web browsers from Chromium. One of which [I mention earlier] is SRWare. The web browser they developed is called SRWare Iron, seemingly more secured than Chrome, if not the most secured web browser. They even did a comparison list here to show its difference from Chrome. I used it and I liked it. But to completely move over to SRWare Iron... Hmm… Not now. Hahaha. And, the other company that developed a web browser from Chromium is CodeWeavers. They call their browser CrossOver Chromium. They developed it for both Mac and Linux but they don’t recommend using CrossOver Chromium as the main browser claiming that they did this only for fun and that the open-source Chromium is better.

You can download Chromium here, although I recommend SRWare Iron better. Hehe. Especially those who are concerned about Google Chrome’s lengthy terms, I would recommend SRWare Iron. Even for those who are using Google Chrome, I also recommend that you try out SRWare Iron at least.

Tun Hussien Onn Library Survey 2009

Click the most bottom right button to enlarge. PowerPoint presentation taken from here that was linked at Tun Hussien Onn Library website.

Maybe some of us participated in the survey done by Tun Hussien Onn Library in Sunway University College. Oh, they actually gave heed to it and did a very good analysis, in my humble opinion. I like the part they compare the percentage of satisfaction versus the percentage of importance. Haha.

Sad to say, there isn't any corrective actions taken to improve the internet speed and connectivity. Anyway, it's not like I'm so often being in THOL these days. And yea, I don't think I can get bored with Monash University (Malaysia)'s high internet speed and...ahem...BIG library. Hehe.

MUFY Graduation Night 2009

To clear confusion, this is MUFY July 2009 graduation is for those MUFY July 2008 intakes (assuming everyone finish in two semester).

Okay, I’m super late again. It’s like a 5 months ago thing. But then, I have to keep my promise to post these pictures up as one of my lecturer allow me to take a photo with her with the condition of posting them in my blog. So… Yeah.

Okay, this is table 23, the last table. Yes I know you can’t see the table number that’s why I’ve to tell you the table number. As a well-known for procrastination fellow, a few of my friends and I managed to fill up a table by ourselves and submit the list with the money to Mr Chan Chee Ken during the exam periods and sealed ourselves a table.

Well, we actually had this “gang principle”—one go, all go; one don’t want go, all don’t go. That explained why we suddenly have too many people in the end and I was like…err, sorry ah, I think no space already. Actually I believe if they were desperate enough, they can get for themselves a table 24. Hahaha.

Well, I can’t possibly take photo with all the lecturers who taught me. Hmm… I left out about 3 lecturers actually.

This is Ms. Wong Foong Wei, my Mathematics Part A lecturer. Yeahhh, she’s slimmer than me! Haha. She’s a very capable lecturer that anyone who intends to take Mathematics Part A should consider her. Haha.

This is Ms, Saraswathy. It seems that I’m the only one who called her like that. She taught me Chemistry Part A and you’d never wanna challenge her. Hahaha. Curious? Go try lah. Hahaha.

And this is Ms. Angela Soyza. She’s a good English teacher, both in teaching and guiding. But if you don’t follow her instruction and don’t give her what she wanted from you, be sure you’ll get a big ZERO. Hahaha. You deserve it, you get it, in both positive and negative sense. Anyhow, I would recommend you to consider her if you’re to take English Part B.

Back then Mr. Chan Chee Ken was the only Physics Part B lecturer. A very funny lecturer that doesn’t laugh at his own joke. When he starts to write, be sure you pen is in your hand. He would write and write until you would die copying. Okay, I didn’t die copying. I borrowed Phaik Joo’s notes to photocopy! Wakakakaka.

Ms. Jessvin Kaur, my Chemistry Part B lecturer who also is my favorite lecturer. Haha. Like I’ve mentioned before some time ago, I really respect her for her knowledge. Picking her for your Chemistry Part B lecturer should not be an exception. Haha.

And lastly…
Huh? Who is that? Cannot see lah.

Okay, now we can see that’s Ms. Tan Hui Shi. Sounds like “who’s she” right? Hahaha. You know what? After You Liang took the previous picture, she complained that it was too small and not good. She even said something like even drawing graphs we need the graphs to be at least 50% of the graph paper. So when we take pictures, we need to take the subject at least 50% of the whole photo. == So swt you know. Faint.com. Oh I forgot, she’s my Advance Mathematics lecturer for both Part A & B.

Okay, for the rest of the post, I will post some of my favorite photos.

That’s Alwin Loo trying to pose like his cow, Enoch Loh trying to pose like his don’t-know-what, and me trying to pose like my bear. Haha.

Guys camwhore. Haha.

You Liang and I

Me digging the nose of that statue. Hahahaha. I feel so naughty. Haha.

Bang!

I don’t know why I like gunshots poses ==

I also don’t know why I like this picture in the elevator ==

Okay that’s about it. You might wanna read what You Liang says 5 months ago.


*_{First time posted so many photos of myself =S}

All photos courtesy of You Liang.

Cold weather

Ahh! What a cold weather. It’s been two days my exhaust fan rested. The natural aircond is so nice. Finally Petaling Jaya can experience the room temperature of 27 degree Celsius in the noon. Hahaha.

Have some instant noodles for breakfast would cause no harm.

It’s really tasty. With the cold weather, it tastes perfect. Haha. Okay, I’ve to admit I don’t know what cold is and I don’t know what perfect is. Hahaha.

Children Camp 2009

I know I’m like so outdated to blog about the children camp like more than one week already. Haha. But that being outdated shouldn’t stop me from blogging right? Haha. Well, more than many things happened and there were so many events that I couldn’t even keep up to each of them. Of course, I won’t talk about all of them lest this post become as long as the previous post. Hahaha. But then I want to talk about the game I was in charge of—treasure hunt.

We played a total of 4 games and each game is accompanied with a character and a story. When I say character I mean genuine, fine, bold, honest, etc. The character for my game was diligent. Leon was in charge in the story telling. He told the children the story about the little lost sheep and how the shepherd was diligent in searching for that sheep, while the never say never Dawrayn did the faithful translation.

I know that treasure hunt has always been the same old game that doesn’t need cooperation and is so boring and not fun. So I decided to make this treasure hunt different and interesting. I also tried my best to make the game involve spectators. Haha.

So I prepared a list of things:
10 dried leaves
10 one ringgit notes
8 ten sen coins
6 rubber bands
4 empty cans
4 pairs of socks
3 stones
3 caps
3 transparent plastic bags
3 sweet wrappers
3 straws
3 blue pens
3 name cards
3 right leg shoes
3 sheets of newspaper
2 packs of pocket tissue
2 hair clips
2 morning revival books
2 left leg slippers
2 erasers
2 jackets
2 key chains
2 pencils
2 red pens
2 five sen coins
2 watches
2 bottles
2 receipts
1 red plastic bag
1 hat
1 sen coin
1 orange plastic bag
1 ball
1 sticker
1 pair of gloves
1 black pen
1 orange highlighter
1 green color pencil
1 belt
1 tie
1 yellow plastic bag
1 hair band
1 sheet of A4 size paper
1 umbrella
1 key
1 magazine
1 student card
1 yellow highlighter
1 bible
1 comb
1 passport size photo
1 badge
1 file
1 mirror
1 satay stick
1 torchlight
1 cloth
1 marble
1 ice cream stick
1 bookmark
1 safety pin
1 marker pen
1 calendar
1 exercise book
1 towel
1 ruler
1 button

Sorry ah, this list made my post look so long. Haha. Well, you can see some really impossible things to find like one sen coin when no one is even using it already. Or even silly thing like gloves. Who will ever bring gloves to a park? And when I put button in there, I don’t mean that the children should rip of the button from their shirt. Hahaha. In fact, I purposely make the list so long and many things difficult to find so that none of the groups can finish finding everything in 15 minutes. Hahaha.

Yeah, that’s me giving the instructions.

Oh yea, I’m so evil that I even spread the things. For example I put blue pens up in the list, and then red pens later in the list. This is also to delay the children. Hahaha. I was even more evil that I asked for four pairs of socks and 3 right leg shoes at the top of the list. BWAHAHAHA! Only the smart ones would keep their shoes on until the last minute. Some poor kids really took off their socks and shoes so early in the game and had to suffer hopping or barefooted. Hahaha.

Hohoho! The purple team fell for it! Their socks! Haha.
You know, it was so funny that the adult spectators became the victims. All the men had to take off their belts. Haha. Some even sacrifice their car keys. Oh yes!

Thomas semi-barefoot! He was victimized!

My, my, you couldn’t believe what sort of things the children found like green color pencil, bookmark, marker pen, orange highlighter, jackets… ==
This is my favorite team—Blue.

So tidy and neat. Unlike some other teams…

See this pink team? So messy. Simply put things wan. Hahaha.

Oh, I shall end my post with a picture of my favorite again.

Hmm… I find the girl very cute. Haha.

Silly Machine

Well, I thought that the video was self-explanatory. But I found out that it hardly explained the hardships we’ve gone through. So I decided to write another blog post to compliment my previous post.

Definitely building that silly machine is not easy and it’s very time consuming. We have a maximum time of 30 days to build our silly machines, including one week of holidays. But the general rule for all students is that we procrastinate until the last few days. I dare proudly say that a minimum of 80% of us built our silly machines the last week itself, and that means few days before our lab [because our lab sessions are on Wednesday and Thursday].

Well, some people skipped lectures, some skipped meals, and some even compromised their sleep to get the silly machine working. Okay, I’m not trying to scare anyone who is going to do the silly machine next semester. Hmm… Practically speaking, you’ll be doing almost all your projects the last few days because you don’t just do Physics projects alone since you have so many other things to do like Mathematics tutorial questions, Dynamic tutorial questions, Physics tutorial questions, Materials lab report, what more Profession’s presentation and Chemistry lab report which by itself is enough to choke you. Life’s in university is like that: you do what comes first. If you have Maths tutorial tomorrow, you do it tonight. If you have Materials’ lab tomorrow, you finish your report tonight; unless you’re the super organized and very clever to use time people then I nothing to say la. The fact is there. If I can finish a report overnight, it’s already very good and efficient. But if you can finish it much earlier… Hmm… Probably I should consider stopping blogging. Hahaha.

Okay, back to the where I left out. Building the silly machine was fun, honest fun. But it’s quite silly when you think of it this way: you build your silly machine for so many silly days and all you have to do is just to run your silly machine for the silly lab demonstrator to just SEE for like less than one silly minute… ==

Okay, let’s put that aside. We actually started our silly discussion like two weeks earlier before our actually day. As usual, we had silly quarrels and weren’t productive. Wait a minute. Everyone who quarreled at least once in group projects raise up your hands. See? It’s quite common. Hahaha. But then, the day ended with the decision to use Enoch’s mike stand. Oh my… Back then I didn’t know how tall a mike stand was until Enoch actually brought it and extended it… Probably our silly machine can compete in the tallest silly machine competition. Hahaha.

Besides that, we actually brought some different types of silly balls and manila card [which turned out to be our ramps] and also the silly rotating fan of Chew’s which I think was the most unique feature of our silly machine that no other silly machine has. Somehow, for some silly reason, we unconsciously chose the silly ping pong ball to be the rolling object, manila cards to be our ramps, and the eye catching colorful Rubik’s cube to be the sliding object, and also the fan to be our rotating object. Back then we were short-sighted. Will tell you why later.

And of course, we did play in Monash (Malaysia). We were like silly kids playing with our rotating fan. I actually didn’t know that silly fan can fly as high as 2 stories and hit the ceiling and stayed there for like 2 seconds before dropping down and almost landed on some other place that we might lose the fan. Hahaha.

Our final design was actually our first design even though we had some other ideas in between. Enoch brought his silly mike stand and it was amazingly tall, taller than you tipping toes and stretching your hands up straight. That’s why even the tall Enoch had to stand on the chair when he releases the fan. And by the way, we shortened the silly mike stand so that the silly Enoch could reach it. Hahaha.

Our first day of building it wasn’t that productive actually, but at least all of us were satisfied. We just managed to build three to four silly ramps after cracking our heads and decided to stick the silly ramps to the silly mike stand using silly pencils. We never thought of the way to stick the silly ramps onto the silly mike stand. Enoch was like, “Why you didn’t tell me you need pencils? My house got a lot of pencils.” And we were like == while Chew was sacrificing his pens to stick the silly ramps. Haha. We also built a roulette table like thing and initially thought that we can actually let the ball spin in that roulette table (the blue manila card you see in the video) for at least five seconds. It also wasn’t too bad to stick the silly fan thingy at the top of the silly mike stand with the clip there after all.

And that evening Enoch had a real big trouble transporting the silly mike stand back home. We were like just in the initial phase of our construction and it’s already difficult to transport, what more to transport a completed silly machine? Okay, my bad to choose the silly mike stand because it’s can’t dismantle and rebuild easily.

Transporting that silly mike stand was a serious problem to us. Enoch then suggested that we go to his house to build our silly machine after promising us with many pencils, balloons and much other rubbish. I drove Chew down to Enoch’s house and we did a slight progress by sticking more silly pencils and ramps onto the silly mike stand and even added threads to make it more balanced. Hmm… I did mention balloons just now. Yea, we had this thought of bursting balloons. After trying to poke inflated balloons with a needle we were so for bursting the silly balloon. Chew fooled around by performing a magic trick of putting his phone into the balloon. Haha. Won’t upload the video here, go ask him do. Haha. After helping Enoch to load the silly machine in his BIG Proton Perdana, Chew and I then head back to Monash with my _small Iswara and then back to home.

The next day we continue building at about afternoon. By then, we knew very clearly that we’ve no choice but to leave our silly machine in the project lab if we were to continue building as our construction is getting bigger and bigger by the hour, almost bigger than Enoch’s Perdana. Hahaha. My sister had to use the car at about 6pm. I had no choice but to leave the project lab at around 6pm (Yes, I dragged a bit).

Actually we didn’t build much on that day because we became wiser and start thinking how is the silly ping pong ball going to trigger the silly sliding Rubik’s cube. It was like wanting an ant to move an elephant. == That was the time we actually set up the balloon as an obstacle to prevent the silly Rubik’s cube from sliding, and the silly ping pong ball is going to burst the balloon with a needle. But we can’t possibly stick the silly needle onto the ping pong ball, while relying on the silly ping pong ball to burst the balloon is almost equivalent to pushing a needle into a sheet of aluminum. We tried to poke the silly eraser with the needle onto the paper (ramps) so give it a higher momentum to burst the balloon.

But it couldn’t help much and we were much stressed that time and blamed the silly balloon for being too high quality and blamed the silly needle for being too blunt and even blamed the silly ping pong ball for being too light. Now you see why building silly ramps with manila card that purely catered for ping pong ball is a bad idea; you can’t possibly trigger another motion. We tried to replace the silly ping pong ball with golf ball, rubber ball, “cushion ball”, bouncing ball, small marble, big marble, and everything you can think of. None of the ball is as light as our silly ping pong ball and it would either skip track if not destroying our ramps. Both Chew and Enoch was at the brink to give up balloon bursting as it was too troublesome. But I was still very stubborn and wanted the creativity marks very badly. So we agreed that Enoch buy low quality balloons that night, while I think of a smart way to burst the balloon or we’ll do away the balloon part.

I woke up late, as usual, while the silly Enoch waited in front of the door of the project lab fearing that some silly monsters would destroy our silly machine. As soon as the project lab is open, Enoch went in and guarded our silly machine while idling until Chew came at about 9:15am. Well, I came like…almost approaching 11am. We didn’t discuss what time to reach the project lab what. Haha. By the time I reach, all the silly ramps were well built and the rolling of the ball was almost foolproof.

Enoch’s balloon this time was really, really low quality. By just holding it and playing with it…suddenly BOOM! Whaaaatt?! Don’t tell me my fingernails like needle ahh. I brought some arguably sharper needle and our first run was a great silly success. But soon after, failure starts to creep in as we had more runs. Undoubtedly, the hole in which the needle rested in became bigger and the needle starts to slip when the ping pong ball pushes the silly needle instead of the balloon bursting.

But Chew’s bulb lighted that we fit two or three needles onto the paper (ramp) on the same eraser with an X shape to ensure that the needle does not slip. But you know, after testing that thing for so many times…we had some problems that we can’t explain. But we carry on building our subsequent silly motions—sliding, oscillating, and falling through air.

The falling through air was also a serious problem. Our silly eraser is not sure to fall, and even if it falls, it might not switch off the silly alarm clock! Perhaps the eraser is too light, or it didn’t fall straight down. Chew took up the burden and went home to brainstorm on that part while Enoch and I work on our Materials report that’s due on the day after our Physics lab. Our silly machine slept another day in the project lab, with especially a lot of balloon pieces around it. Hehe.

I slept in stress that night, knowing that every single motion (except rotation) is faulty (if you see the long video you know what I mean). Balloon bursting, two complete cycle oscillation, falling through air… That’s like more than half of the function of our silly machine! But thank God Chew fixed the falling through air part and reduced the amount of stress I was sleeping in. Haha.

On the day itself, we set up our silly machine and continue to burst more balloons. Enoch brought like 10 packs of balloons and that’s about a minimum of 100 balloons in total. We convinced ourselves on that day itself that everything was fine and that the only thing that wasn’t fine is the balloon bursting part.

After handing up our silly design of the silly machine to our very capable lab demonstrator, we had no turning back and were forced to burst a balloon because that was drawn in our design. We knew that very well and give our all to make the mini ping pong ball burst the elephant balloon. It was entirely unpredictable as to which “configuration” would the balloon burst and which would not. When we say that the balloon will definitely burst, it didn’t. But when we think that it’ll fail, it burst instead.

We have not much time left. Chew’s bulb lighted again. We then made the final part of the ramp with soft paper, and curled it up and stuck to the side of the ramp above it (just try to imagine it or you can analyze the videos I uploaded). So when the silly ping pong ball reaches the last ramp, the paper is supposed to detach from the ramp above and the silly needle with an eraser with it will swing down and burst the silly balloon. Finally, we got a reliable method to burst the balloon.

Ahh! I myself am tired writing such a long silly post. I will not go further or I’ll die together with you. Haha. You can make the rest of the story by watching my long video (see previous post). Hahaha.

And…I can’t miss this part… YES! YES! We did it! 19.5/20!! Woohoo! Oh indeed we got the highest mark after going through all the silly troubles and taking so many silly risks. Hahaha. Happy lah.

Hey, did you see that there were balloon pieces all over the place in the video? Hehe.

Rube Goldberg, Silly Machine

We had out physics project to build our Rube Goldberg, aka silly machine, at least 1 month ago. This project is very tough as the restrictions and limitations were too many. We had several problems abiding the 5-motions-only rule. Anyhow we managed to build that time consuming silly machine. Then, I didn’t have the time to make the video and exams were near at that time.

But after my exams, finally, the video I made is up. Sorry ya, no pictures or videos of how other groups did. Because we were like having so many problems with our own silly machine that we fix them until the last hour. By the time we finished most of the machines were dismantled. Hahaha.

Well, I spent more time doing the longer video and I found out it was 13 minutes long. I guess that you would die watching it if not die loading it. So I decided to make a less than 2 minutes video. The 2 minutes video is rather self-explanatory. Enjoy it!

*_{If the video is too loud, it is recommended that you adjust your speaker volume rather than adjusting the volume control here [for some reasons].}

Downloads:
Better quality short video
Long video
Better quality long video

Intact glasses

Actually I thought that studying until I automatically fall asleep was a good idea to help myself from the kopi effect. But when your glasses are like this...

Just pray hard that my glasses stay intact during these days. Hahaha. If it breaks, die.com man I tell you.

Just checked my Physics internal marks. Ohmymy, it's seriously bad. Serious seriously bad. Number 1, I had a poor, poor quiz mark and some of you know why. Number 2, I also had a poor, poor test mark just because of a kindergarten mistake. Number 3, we got a poor, poor mark for our mini project and I know why. ==

It was just too bad because i found out why we can't use reflection of flat surface in the evening of the day of submission. It's because we need a ray diagram like a curve mirror or a lens... Urgh! Well, that makes a lake flat. Urgh! Ah Chew is so gonna be furious when he know that we got a low mark for our mini project. Ahhhh.. Never mind. That means I have to get 100% for my finals, which is gonna be so impossible.

Long piak la me.

Woo. Yesterday Monash had free coffees. You can drink and refill and drink and refill and drink and refill shamelessly until the whole tank of coffee gets dried up. Hold on, that’s not all. They come back and refill the coffee every few hours. AND, there is even a heater-like thingy to help keep the coffee hot. Hahaha. Yesterday raining ma, drink drink some kopi also quite nais. Hahaha.

Look at this sei zai. Drink kopi with me, end up kena kopi effect with me also. ==

Really you know. Lay down on the bed at 12 midnight and 2am still awake. Sleep but cannot sleep. KOPI EFFECT! Never mind loh. Woke up and sms that sei zai. Manacai, that sei zai also same thing. He ah, study till 3am tim.

And me leh, show you what I did.

Well. I was trying so hard to staple my Physics notes. Erm.. Not exactly mine because I actually photocopied it. Hahaha. As you can see I used up so many staples and even my paper had many scars. Hahaha.

It’s not thin okay.

Well, of course I got study after that la. Until.. Hehehe..