Retributions can be so right sometimes. Just the other day, I saw a guy on a relaxer chair in the Mountainous Region II on a side ground from the mob. Immediately I knew I could kill him somehow. The black goats can kick up damage from their hind legs so i hit them and went to that guy. The victim had strong avoidability and it took several kicks to get him down the map. He got kicked left right. Then u know what happened to him after that..


Then i went to do the Giant Centipede quest and got pwned by its 800-dmg blows. Died before I even saw its blood. Then I got respawned at the map outside. I jumped off with a fraction hp left and received the falling tombstone again cos the livestocks were sprawling around below....

I am so into trading and investment books, more correctly the stockmarket and forex. I read Gary Smith's How I Trade For A Living, and he quoted Rick Pitino, "Dreams are what we want to end up and goals are how we get there. Our long-term success is the result of the small victories we accumulate along the way. " This 3rd-party phrase was one of the best thing I took away from his year 2000 book.

76mins into Man U vs Liverpool match and the Reds are leading 1-0 with a surprise header from West Brown. It looks like it's gonna stay this way to the end. A pity Man U had to grab 3 points on the account of my fav liverpool. Wtf Ronaldo scores at 79min ! Good grief. OMG ! 81st min goes to Nani for GOAL NO 3 ?!?!?!

I do hope these 3 points(painful for liverpool and me) could get Man U to the BPL podium. Thrash those Blues!

The last 2 days was fun for me because i did high jump! and hurdles!
I did well as the competing field was weak. Results can be found in "My Track and Field" on the right column.

My 400mH timing was 2 secs off that one I ran in sec 4. So going NS never really build me up in track timings. This surprise win was exciting. I was in lane 3 followed by a tall guy in lane 4 and another one in lane 5. As the inner lane i'm starting behind them. When I pushed off the line I quickly realise I was too fast for those 2 guys because I caught up with them on my middle-dist spikes. So I deliberately followed behind them through the hurdles and I watched one of them crashing off after hurdling over and once the outer guy just braked and embraced the hurdle with both hands at the 200m mark. I was not going very fast since that experience in sec 4. Then I cruised through the first 200m too fast and was panting pathetically at 300m.
At 300m, the outer guy crashed once again and it was me and the guy on my right to hit the finish mark. The whole last 100m straight stretch I was chasing him. I noticed he was struggling real bad in the last couple hurdles. He got past the last hurdle first. Once I glided past the final one, I sprinted with all the energy in the best form I can manage and pipped him by 0.05 sec.
Ahh... I remembered I lost to my dear Yuk Long tracker mate during Tanglin Sec's 400mH with an even smaller margin.

Reflections:
Should've worked on 400m rounds and hurdling form. Mr Tham was the specialist in this event. He ran for S'pore in SEA GAMES as well. I saw him demo the hurdle run-through and he was just like taking a simple jump over a tiny drain.

For the high jump, I've got full of excuses hahaha...Just too drained out to do the strengthening workout after camp work. Got a silver nevertheless. I'd go for Wings Club after ORD :)

Ingredients: Jed Senthil, Jian Chao, Llwelyn, Costa
Recipe: Add stamina, team spirit and teamwork
Result : Shocking champions at the Amazing Race '08 !
Time Stamp: 7 March 2008
-Journey-
We started off at 9am from Army Museum. Took bus to Boon Lay MRT and arrived at Harbourfront station. Rushed up to the tip of Mt Faber and received our task sheet. We were team 3 to reach. Disappointing.

Goodness. Changi Chapel and Museum next. I've never been there before in my life. Cab-ed there! It was very peaceful there as it served as a remembrance of the heartland soldiers who defended Changi from the Japanese during WWII. And you know what happened to them. The tasks were straightforward and we were team 1 to reach and finish. Stunning. Clue to our next stop was found in the poem, "Changi We Remember You". They bold out the alphabets for CHINATOWN Buddhist Tooth Relic Temple.

Team 1 to reach again! yay !Cab-ed again! But the station master skipped the road block and tasks and told us the next checkpoint. Bukit Timah Hill. You know what's coming, huh. We settled down in Macdonalds' and had lunch. There's a $5 per head claim possible for meals. $10 per head for transport.

Swiftly we marched to Dover MRT station and had a real tough time catching an available cab. Almost all cabs were hired or busy until we got 1 20mins later. It was fairly short travelling time to the foot of the hill. Still team 1 reaching this 4th and checkpoint. DETOUR ! We decided to do the straightforward quest of ascending the hill for a simple task of taking photo with the welcome rock.

To the final pit stop! We hurried to catch a bus to bukit batok interchange and boarded the train to Yio Chu Kang and cabbed to Amoy Quee Camp ! We reach there 2nd. In the race itself we team 15 were 3 pts behind team 7. Our Total Defence edged theirs by 1 pt so the crucial 2 pts difference would be fought for in the concluding presentation during dinner. Our presentation beat them by 5pts and so we pipped the other team by 3 pts ! WOooahHH!

Coming Up Next...

There will be posts of 2 totally different competitions that I took part in the past 3 weeks within my NS stint. Stay bookmarked at my blog for these juicy notes. See you this weekend !

Hello fellow bloggers and friends,

In this post you will learn how to use a crossover cable to share files and printer across 2 or more computers. From my humble contribution and time, here we go.

Qn. What is a crossover cable?
Ans : It is similar to the commonly used LAN cable (Standard Category 5 Ethernet Cable) in size and the cable head. The only difference is that the wiring colours in LAN and xover cable is slightly different in order. LAN cable allows you to connect your computer to the modem, connect to a ethernet server. A xover cable does more. On top of all that, it can let you transfer data from hardware to hardware ( i.e computer to computer) which LAN cable prohibits. It is most useful when you cannot afford or have a external hdd or large storage available to transfer your files to nearby systems.

Now I will show you how to go about setting up the xover cable.

1. Buy the xover cable from any computer or IT stores. Ask for help if you cannot find or identify the xover cable. As I have tried, it is impossible to screen the different wiring in both types of cable and differentiate which is the normal LAN and the xover cable.

2. Plug each end of the cables to each ethernet port on computers. For laptops, when you plug in there is usually a green light beside the port opening.

3. We will use comp A and B for easier explanation. You can name either computer the A or B.

i. Go to comp A and go to My Computer.
ii. Right click the drive you want to share. We will use C drive. Go Properties then the Sharing tab.
iii. Under 'networking sharing and security', tick both checkboxes and type in a new name for the sharing drive. Here we will call it Cshared. This name will be shown on comp B and other future computers. Wait a moment for it to finish establishing the shared drive.

4. From comp A, Run cmd and type ipconfig in the MS-dos command window. It will show you what is the ethernet adaptor Local Area Connection's ip address. Note that down. Mine was 169.254.182.184. Do not use the wireless ip address here because if you add that ip address in the following steps, you will be sharing your drive over the wireless network in your house(if you had a wireless router)

5. Hop over to your comp B.

i. Right click the My Computer desktop icon and click Map Network drive. If you don't have a desktop icon like me, go windows explorer and do the same thing.
ii. You will see within the Map Network Drive, there is Drive and Folder input boxes. Choose an alphabet you like to represent to shared drive on your comp B. We use S: to stand for shared drive.
iii. In the Folder input. Type \\ followed by ip address of comp A then \ followed by the shared drive name.

For this set-up, it will be \\169.254.182.184\Cshared
Then press Finish.

6. There will now be a new drive in your My Computer. Go check out what you've done! :)
i. If you fail to see it in your My Computer, fret not. Go to My Network Places. It will be there. Hualaaa!

7. If you wish to share in the other direction, simply switch the steps between comp A and B !

Free additional tip:
To split your applications properly, hold CTRL and click on the apps in the bottom taskbar you want to do so, right click and choose!

All these networking and stuff are just the tip of the iceberg in the things i learn in Army and can be used at home. Enjoy !

This post is inspired by melissa chan :)
i tot about linking up her new blogspot and saw her playing zanarkand on youtube! Impressive but badly filmed due to the poor quality of sound.

I'll post Blue Mind piece from Hana Yori Dango first. :)

If you like to snip movies and convert into mp3 or need a program to convert your video formats, here what i recommend. DVDVideoSoft Free Studio. It's totally free and has a simple user interface. It opens up a menu and you choose what program u want to use. If you don't have that software, it'll let u download the related software(same producer).

You can made videos into PSP mp4 format straight from a Youtube video u had your eyes on. A feature i like to use often.

Decent and sweet. Just what this internet needs.

With this frequency, we don't even need taxi-booking!

I was going home from camp this morning and i noticed loads of taxis passing by the bus stop. So i did a small test. I started my stopwatch and calculated how many taxis went past.
The result?
16 empty taxis in 2 and a half minutes!
That, my friend, equals to 1 taxi within 10 seconds !!!