Hendy's Blog
When enemy becomes ally
What a surprise ending to today's episode of Prison Break. I never thought it would be possible, but I love it. The next episode will be interesting. (^_^)
Prison Break is one of the reason I love Thursday. The other reason being it's one more day to weekend. Woohoo...
On a side note, I've been feeling that time passes quickly these few weeks. For example, I felt that I haven't post for a long time. At least a month. But actually, it's only 10 days. Don't know what's happening here. Rapid aging? Quarter century age syndrome?
And I've been busy with creating a
Netvibes widget (can also be used for iGoogle and Apple Dashboard) to help me track my investment. I'll submit it to
Netvibes ecosystem this weekend. Those who stays in Singapore may find it useful. At least it's useful to me. Well, just wait for the announcement then.
Labels: personal, programming, tv
Damn HOT
What a f*cking damn hot 34 °C night since yesterday!!
Labels: personal
Borderline MENSA
Since university time, I felt I'm getting more stupid because my grades are falling down. My math underperformed badly since third year of high school. So I'm wondering, is something wrong with me? Has my intelligence somewhat went down? I wasn't able to absorb the lessons very well, I was lost most of the time.
Today I was reading
77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better when I found this:
Challenge yourself. People are often more intelligent than they realize. In a world that compartmentalizes and categorizes everything, not everyone is sure where they fit in. And genius can be found in many walks of life. If you honestly suspect that there's more to you than has been "allowed" to be let out, try an IQ test such as the one offered by MENSA. It's unlike the standardized IQ tests given in many schools. You know the kind — the ones which traumatize many young students into thinking they are stupid, simply because the tests don't really assess all student's knowledge and learning ability. And the ability to learn is far, far more important than what you already know.
Why not? But somehow there seems to be a problem with mensa.org site. So I ended up with
http://www.iqtest.dk/.
On my first try, I get 127. Not so bad, but I screwed up a bit towards the end. I miscalculated the time left, so 1 or 2 questions are not answered. Besides, there was quite some disturbance and I was not in shape (tired and sleepy). Not satisfied and believing that MENSA level (130) is within reach, I tried again.
Note: the last few questions are totally ass, especially the last one, can't see any pattern there.
This is the result:
Borderline MENSA. Not bad. So I have proven that nothing is wrong with me. It's just laziness induced by bad education, haha. But will I make it if I take a real MENSA test? A Mensa member surely looks nice on resume.
Labels: personal
AMK the new hub?
I pass through Ang Mo Kio when going to and back from work. I've met quite some people there.
First, there is an ex colleague from my previous company. I usually met him in the morning. Then I've also met some NTU classmates and another ex colleague.
Today I met an ex colleague from company and a NTU classmate.
Quite the meeting place isn't it? The new shopping mall's name is indeed appropriate: AMK Hub.
The new cinema there looks promising. Stadium seating, yeah! But how aI always think that the cinemas in Singapore suck. The seats are not comfortable. After a movie I normally end up with pain in my ass.
Weird stuff today. When walking home from bus stop, I get a back kick from a girl. I don't know what she was doing. She was walking with a guy and I was close behind her as we had just alighted from bus. She suddenly raised her leg behind like a ballet move and in the process kicked my hand. Then she laughed and said sorry and I just smiled a little. And she continued doing that. I didn't want to be caught staring at what she was doing so I walked on...
Labels: personal
Back to business
Al last I get my new PC. The model is Compaq Presario SR1960AP. I'm disappointed by the lack of front ports. So all the USB, audio out, etc are at the back. So much for modern age PC. Yo, this is year 2007, or at least the PC is made in 2006. Front ports are just so common and useful. Yet this is what I'm getting. I guess cheap is really cheap. Sigh, at least it's Windows Vista capable, with RAM upgrades, though.
And btw, the monitor, which is Compaq FP 1707, has some lousy speakers. Almost laptop quality. This is also the first time for me using 1280 x 1024 screen resolution. I'm impressed by the screen real estate. In fact I felt that the monitor is larger than 17". It's like being sucked in into the monitor. Really.
Well, looks like there are some game reviews to post too: Disgaea 2 - Cursed Memories, Fahrenheit, Prince of Persia - The Two Thrones, Tomb Raider Legend. I finished quite some games during my laptop's death and I'm pleased to announce that all these games are playable on my dying PS2.
Labels: game, personal, tech
27 is the lowest I've seen
27 degree is the lowest I get. I think it was 2 days ago. Weather madness. Now it's 28 degree. It used to be constantly 31 degree. Now it's 28. It's good, just don't rain so often please.
And my laptop is now dead. PS2 is half alive. I hope some shop in Sim Lim can fix it.
Labels: personal
28 degree
First time my thermo shows 28 degree. It's been raining all day long.
My socks were wet all day. Can't wait for the long weekend.
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Monday again soon and DBZ
The last few weekends are just too busy. Can't wait for another weekend. Waiting for a weekend in office is quite a torture.
I've been playing DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi 2. It's definitely better than its predecessor, especially the hand to hand fighting. I tried playing DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi this afternoon and I don't feel like playing it again. Budokai Tenkaichi 2 is way better. Too bad the same old problem, retrying a battle needs another loading, is still not fixed.
Labels: game, personal
Someone from the past
I think I saw someone I know from a few years ago this morning. I'm about 90% sure from the body posture and the gesture. But it's too far away to confirm. Anyway, since I'm always at the same place at that time, probably I'll see the person again.
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