Chasing After Rainbows

Post that I had put up at the 1st blogger blog and 2nd blogger blog not relating to what they are supposed to be now before this blog (4th blogger blog) was made around September 2007 are being added here. The date, time and content (including html codes and images) remain the same/unchanged, though some links might have changed Spring is around the corner

Besides updating online content, I should be cleaning the stuff around the house during the holidays. I have stuff chucked to one corner and somehow forgot about it and have dust gathering on it. I also have worksheets accumulated since primary/elementary school but the ones from secondary/middle/high school are in a mess with probably useless junk stuffed in-between. The one I did in November 2006 was basically handling the obvious ones (as you can see from the pictures in that post) and maximize the space given by creatively using that space and arrange them neatly. I manage to finish it the following month, barely resembling from the image you saw. Since then, I have bought several books and magazines (like Newtype ), but they wern't enough to fill in the spaces. I have also bought some boxes from IKEA to accommodate more things like PC parts (PCI cards, mainboard, power, USB cables, CD drives, speakers). On top of that, stuff have accumulated and now looks messy. Right now th

I didn't take any photos at the event as I was busy with all the "behind the scenes" thing. Action speak louder than words, so I managed to get the video of one of the segments. I think some of my friends might have images. The links are on the side and contains "ITEBS/SC:". Changed layout and colours again. If you were here at least 3 or more hours ago, this blog would have looked different than what it is now.

The service pack for Vista is out since this morning. If you have Vista, you should upgrade to this instead of downgrading to XP. You may have to install updates that are listed as optional first before SP1 appears in the update list. Vista has been out for more than a year and is more stable than when it first came out. In fact, unless it came with Linux or Mac OS X, PCs made from January 2007 should come with Vista pre-installed. Windows XP has been considered outdated since Oct 2004, but it's predecessor has been delayed to end-2006 due to setbacks and the people behind it being busy with XP SP2 and Server 2003. I don't see why people are not switching, or worse, downgrade. The time difference between release of Windows 95 and XP is 6 years (98 and ME are somewhat like service packs of 95). But the time difference between release of Windows XP and Vista is 5 years originally as a minor upgrade of XP, which XP SP2 has taken over. Normally, minor OS updates are released every

TCPMP 0.72RC1 crash report ---------------------------- Access violation(c0000005) at 00000000 (:00000000) Read from 00000000 cpu dump: eax = 0037f950 ebx = 00000081 ecx = 00000001 edx = 00000001 esi = 00377c88 edi = 00b1a730 ebp = 00000000 esp = 03bafe58 eip = 00000000 flags = 00010202 stack dump: 03bafe58 00f159e2 (F:\tcpmp.win32.0.72RC1\mpeg4.plg:000059e2) 03bafe5c 0037f950 03bafe60 00000001 03bafe64 00000001 03bafe68 00000000 03bafe6c 00000002 03bafe70 00377c88 03bafe74 00000002 03bafe78 00000000 03bafe7c 00000000 03bafe80 00000000 03bafe84 00000001 03bafe88 00f13e68 (F:\tcpmp.win32.0.72RC1\mpeg4.plg:00003e68) 03bafe8c bfffffff 03bafe90 0c171054 03bafe94 0000026d 03bafe98 00377c88 03bafe9c 00377dac 03bafea0 0000026d 03bafea4 00f13b80 (F:\tcpmp.win32.0.72RC1\mpeg4.plg:00003b80) 03bafea8 00f13bb9 (F:\tcpmp.win32.0.72RC1\mpeg4.plg:00003bb9) 03bafeac 00000000 03bafeb0 0c171054 03bafeb4 00000000 03bafeb8 008f9f4c 03bafebc 00377c88 03bafec0 0037f950 03bafec4 008f9f20 03

Even though the holidays have just started, I am already facing a ton of stressful stuff to do this week. On top of that, it doesn't look like it would end until the first week of the new school term. By then, I wouldn't be in the right sate of mind. I already didn't have a proper break (including the cristmas season) since I started in that school and did not reveive much assistance due to "lack of manpower" or get paid well for it. If I go for the one next week, I think I'll go crazy. To show that I'm serious about it, I won't turn up for school-related activities starting next week and turn off my main handphone until the end of holidays. My pre-paid phone number at +**-***2****. (I won't be logging into any messenger service or properly check messenges sent via electronic means either.) A large hamster up close.

Even though I have been to camps since I was young (overseas trips are different), I never liked camping, though some are better than the rest. They all have some things in common: terrible food (or contains food that I don't like), away from my usual stuff and irregular bathing The first camp that I remember was back in 2000. It's located somewhere with thick vegetation (like a jungle) facing a wide river. The main building looks run-down and the area where we set up the tent is on concrete! (thankfully, it didn't rain during the stay) The instructors are too demanding, and obstacles too scary like ab-sailing or something like that; it's like rock wall, but it's flat and you start from a >3 story high structure. In 2002, there's another. For the 1st half, it's located in a decent location: near a large park next to a busy highway. The sleeping areas are like tree houses. For the 2nd half, it's on an island and the area is somewhat smillar to the camp