tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116580522011-04-22T03:15:04.313+08:00into the oblivion...justanotherbytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05458315198731465517noreply@blogger.comBlogger291100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11658052.post-1119273097791752312005-06-20T20:44:00.000+08:002005-06-20T21:11:37.796+08:00

My dad's birthday coincidentally falls near Father's Day. We are not used to celebrate father's day or mother's day, just recently that since I stay in Singapore that it seems that these days are celebrated quite openly. In Indonesia, mother's day falls on a different date, if I recall correctly, it's on 22nd December. AFAIK, there's no father's day back there.Anyway, happy father's day, dad. And

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After the online news and geek sites were flooded with rumors of Apple planning to switch to Intel's processor, currently the internet is now buzzing with the aftermath of the ol' Steve's keynote confirming the rumor in this year's WWDC. It's just too bad that I am not there this year, it will be refreshing to see him live again. But, this year's WWDC focus is not really related to the field of

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Another 2 weeks just passed. Lotsa happenings.First, had NKF medical check and declared as an obese person. Blah! Have to cut down meal intake and monitor the diet. Not bad, I guess my waist line is a little bit smaller by 5 mm. No late night munchies after 8.Gave another presentation to a potential client from US. Delivered fast and furious. Not sure if he caught the idea. Some automation tools

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It's been quite sometime since the last entry. I guess I still have a little bit humanity left before fully join the Dark side. I hope I won't totally abandon this.Another long weekend with Monday a holiday to replace Vesak day that falls today. Saturday spent by lazing around at home, cooked simple meal for lunch and had dinner at Bukit Batok East hawker center, which we thought was good as it

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It's a crap life. Too much thing to do...The last few days (can be considered weeks) were very packed and my mind was occupied with lotsa stuff. Starting from work, giving demo of product, attending FYP student's presentation, finding new place for stay (my tenancy is ending next month), and recently entertaining my parents (this one is not a complain though ;))Probably this blog will be updated

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The title of 'Financial Adviser' is cool, isn't it? If you're yet to know what the language for commoners is (probably you've just arrived on a time machine), it is also well known as insurance agent. Yes, the sometimes irritating insurance agents.L just had a dinner session with one of them. Gosh, really didn't know what response to be given to them if you are really not interested. If you tell

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Today's Today published 2 letters from its readers that are unhappy about MOE's explanation on heavy subsudies for future foreign talents studying in Singapore universities.Before I voice out my own opinion as one of the foreign ex-students (now maybe considered as a foreign hopefully-with-talent), firstly I would like to apologize if it will offend some fellow Singaporeans. I acknowledge and

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Woo hoo! I have just received a so-called 'new' gadget from my boss this morning. It's the Sharp Zaurus SL-A300, a compact Linux-based PDA.It's a rare gadget here as it was only available in Japan. Not a really new toy, but at least I can play (correction: hack, heh heh) around with it. Managed to 'hack' the language support to English as it only came with Japanese language and install some

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Yup, that's the baby girl, the Bundle of Joy, as said by her mum. Quite a number of colleagues from both the husband and wife were there in Hougang to share the joy the baby brings.The hosts didn't wait for us to starve, so they quickly ushered us to the void deck (unfortunately, our number was too many to be accomodated in-door) for our dinner. The spread was indeed more than enough for us, and

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Have you been in a situation whereby your IMs' buddy lists have grown enormously throughout the years but yet you're only talking/chatting only to a frequent few, small number, buddies only? Once in a blue moon, a couple of them (the seldom talk or 'invisible' ones) would pop a message, and quite expectedly they were looking for help. Not that I am complaining that people are looking for me just

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The net is currently hustling and bustling with the news of official release of the new Mac OS Tiger (10.4) on April 29, 2005. As a developer that has already played with the pre-released versions of Tiger since last year, the announcement is both a relieve and concern.It's a relieve that finally we can start cleaning up our application codes and freeze the development based on 'the one' (instead

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In Indonesia, whatever ridiculous thing that you can think of, it can happen. Kompas, one of the major news provider in Jakarta reported that Tim Pembela Demokrasi Indonesia (Indonesian Democracy Defender Team) and 23 DPC members of PDI-P (Indonesian Democratic Party - Struggle) have submitted a legal proceeding against Megawati, PDI-P's main council and Gunawan Wirosarojo, the chairman of the

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Have just returned from visiting a colleague who had just lost his father. A leader of my teams to be exact. Although he said that it is quite expected as his father was having an incurable throat cancer (when they found out about the cancer, it was too late as the cancer already in a terminal state), still, I believe nothing can really express the feeling of losing a fatherly figure.The process

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Last Friday when I was on my way to home to the bus stop outside my office, I met a colleague. His a special colleague, or like what is stated in some of the posters in MRT stations or bus stops: these-abled person. Indeed he is quite special, as he is having a desease called osteogenesis imperfecta or in english, brittle bones, and has to be bound to wheelchair. Despite his condition, he managed

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Yes, protecting your precious source code. Some of you Java programmers should know that your compiled Java binaries can be de-compiled very easily by a free Java decompiler. Some other programming languages might have this 'extra features' as well. It can be quite irritating to have your lines of codes and algorithms that are the fruit of your hard labours and the cause of your baldness to be

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Those of you who were students before, do you remember when you received your marked essay back then in school? Some might have lotsa corrections, red crosses, comments, or even compliments from your teachers. Teachers personally mark each and every papers or assignments. Can you imagine that a computer software will soon replace that? CNET News.com has an article on a computer program developed

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Remember the transparent screen trend recently? MacMerc has posted an article on how to create your own transparent screen. You only need a graphic editing software (Adobe PS is featured), a computer (preferably laptop, easier to move for the effect. You'd better have big muscle if you're using a desktop) and creativity for the background. Oh, and a camera of course.Nope, I'm not joining the hype

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BBC News has an article on the jargons commonly used by computer geeks especially those that are related to recent trends of information security related issues. As quoted from Sun Tzu's Art of War: 故曰：知彼知己，百戰不殆；不知彼而知己，一勝一負；不知彼，不知己，每戰必敗 (So it is said that if you know others and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know others but know yourself, you win one

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Here is another one reason why bloggers should use Macs:I have just read from theory.isthereason about a JavaScript by Matt from Oddio.com called "Technorati Tags bookmarklet". With this script you can add Technorati tags to your site just by entering the tag and paste it to the entry. The html code is automatically created based on the input tag. You can put the bookmarklet to your bookmark bar

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The very first time I was shouted at in an up market Japanese restaurant a few years ago, my reaction was to raise my eyebrows and checked whether there was something wrong with my attire. Apparently (or luckily, as I only wore a pair of jeans and polo tees) the yelling was not for the attire, it was the infamous "irashimase" or "Welcome!" in Japanese yelled out in full power and sincerity. I was

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Somehow these couple of days I do not have the time to update this blog. Work has been very very exhausting lately, yet on the positive side, it is challenging (I have to look at the bright side of life, don't I?). Wednesday, had to present and demo some of the stuffs I tinkered (sorry, no details here as they are top secret and covered in NDA. Well, I'm not suppose to give too much detail about

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This should be the first entry about tips and tricks of using Mac for better blogging.If you are using Safari (or other Cocoa based browsers), you are able to do word auto complete when you are typing your entry. You just need to type first few letters of the word and then press [alt/option] + [esc] or [fn] + [F5].Below is what it looks like when I was creating this entry:This feature is really

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No, it's not the Quake computer game, but this one is the real tremor that caused millions of lifes suffered. Another earth quake with a magnitude of 8.7 Richter scale has hit west of Sumatra island late Monday. And it seems not a 'just another' one kind of stuff.Major Indonesian printed newspaper Kompas reported that the earthquake measured 8.2 Richter scale (revised to 8.7 later on) has hit

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Ocha in his blog wrote about Terri Schiavo, a proposed euthanasia patient in a very good analogy: If Its Light Is Dim, Should You Blow The Candle Out?Excerpt:Each of us has a candle of life. It first catches fire when life is infused into us, and burns throughout our life to bring brightness to the world, till the day comes when the light has to go off forever.The question is: if its light is dim

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Allan Hoffman of The Star Ledger posted an article debunking the myth that switching from PC to Mac is as easy as what had been advertised.Excerpt:"Windows users have typically gotten accustomed to a particular way of saving documents, navigating files and otherwise accomplishing a vast number of tasks, from listening to music to preparing presentations. Often, they have been performing those

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I have one thing to say and remind: Never... ever... take over anybody else's job especially the half-cooked one.There is this project that were handed over from an ex colleague (which actually the job is being done by an undergraduate student). It was suppose to be completed last December, but yet until now we only see a little bit of functionality. It is still very far from what we initially

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Near noon, I and L went to give the fruit offering to the golden boy. After that... Yup, Orchard Road. The crowd was not so bad, at least we were not suffocated in one of the underpass there. We had lunch at the Takashimaya basement. If you go there occasionally, probably you'd be bored as me (although I don't think I go to Orchard more often than once every two months). I had ToriQ lunch box, L

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The action for the day started with lunch preparation. Menu of the day were: brocolli-prawn-with-oyster-sauce and butter-fried-sotong a.k.a cumi goreng mentega.While my dear fianceé did not have any problem with the brocolli, da stoopid sotongs decided to revolt the chef (which is me) by playing bubbles inside the cooking oil and caused a slight burn on my hand. Nevermind about this one, the skin

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Been pondering with this question for quite sometime. Fueled by the fact that more and more people jumping into blogging (well, now I'm one of them) and chatter on the net that Blogger is a good place to start blogging with (It's free, dohhh, the sucker of me said); here it is, the usually sealed mind of mine, being dropped into the pensieve in bits and bytes of the online web.

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