Speedtest (Bandwidth Tester)

I've been complaining forever about the erratic download speeds that my ISP (hint, it's green in colour) has been providing & while I was at Aeon's home (yes, that is his chosen name), he showed me a cool website where I can do a little bandwidth test to see how it compares with his speeds (which by the way seem so much faster & stable than mine. His ISP is red in colour in case you are wondering which colour camp he belongs to.

His upload & download speeds are almost half mine so what really is going on? I should be enjoying twice the experience he is getting.

Oh well.

What is your bandwidth?

Crap, I didn't realize the name of my ISP is shown.

Ja neh!!!

What does Yuri stand for?

Raymond equal mighty protector? hmmm.. how abt Yuri? hahaha.. im sure my christian name cant be found in the baby book one becos my name is self created. hahaha.. i will determine what my own name mean. hehehe.. btw, yuri is not my christian name hor hahaha..

What does Raymond mean?

Raymond - Mighty Protector

Do you think this is true?

What does your name mean?

Ja neh!!!

Definition for Junkie

J	Joyous
U	Unagreeable
N	Natural
K	Kitnish
I	Insured
E	Exhausting

Created by Crazyprofile.com

Since Junkie's blog is inactive now, i will help this boy to inject something into his dormant blog.. :)

新年快樂- 2008!

Happy Chinese New Year my dear bear!!! Gong Xi Fai Da Cai!

Return to Kallang McDonald's

Finally could find some time to bring out the Mac PowerBook for a little outdoor exercise. Drove to Kallang Mac (kmac, for short) vie the KPE but realised no matter which exit I took (ECP City or ECP Changi Aiport), I am unable to get to the Fort Road exit without having to make a detour of some sort. Looks like I have to stick to the ECP if I am coming here from Tampines. Nevertheless, I reach here in good time as traffic was relatively light & without event.

Lots of good memories where made here. From preparing for my examinations in the final semester to meeting a long lost friend I knew since junior college days. How time flies. It has been over a year since I have graduate but yet I do not see myself as having a significant change in myself. Nevertheless, when things have hit rock bottom, there is only one way to go. Up.

Many people here at this dinner hour. Many people also eyeing the electrical power sockets which are oh-so-important to juicing up my lappy. Didn't manage to get a prime area seat but have to settle for the fringes for now, constantly eyeing the area to see if there is any seats being vacated so I can swoop in & claim my terrority. Not much juice left. Stewpig me bought a 17 inch model when I should have just bough the smallest model with the longest battery life. Now that the MacBook Air has been launched with a reported life of 5 hours of wireless productivity (which I assume as meaning the notebook can be used surfing the net for 5 hours), it means more time on the move than being connected by an umbilical cord to the wall.

At around $3000 for the basic model & $5000++ for the model with the faster processor & a Solid State Drive, it is a hefty price to pay for exceptional form & factor.

Ja neh!!!

Inchz

Chota Face Yuri

Recently my face alway look chota becos of my bear lor..alway make me angry..hmph... i tink it resemble this (see the pic) boiling red hot and frowning... not dat i want to behave lik this lor but but.. hope u understand where im coming from... :(

欠扁问答题

谁比较稽查?

面包 or 咖啡

猜一猜...

等我有空再为你解答 ..哈哈, 有没有 气死你??

Update on 23 Oct- Answer is bread! becoz breadTALK and kopiTIAM.. hahahha

Yuri's Mr Bean

Woo hoo, this is drawn by Yuri.. Nice? pretty? cute? haha..drawing was never easy for me.. but i manage to draw something out.. for some reason, i was not born with the talent for drawing which is unlike my 2 bros. sigh.. this is the best i can do laio..hope u all like it.. :p

Mr Bean (1st attempt)

Mr Bean

Someone promise to draw me this cartoon one lor.. but someone forget all abt it leh.. how ah someone? no excuse laio because i have found the picture for you to draw since i cant get the poster hahaha.. will touch point wif u soon.. :p

Yuri love this drink.. its a substitute for her bubbling.. hehe

update on 1 Sept 07 - happy teacher day to all teachers! i still haven got my mr bean drawn leh.. Junkie bluff me..sobsob

Heart Shaped Bread

Someone make a heart shaped bread for Junkie! hahahaha but that someone is not me.. that someone is not a female either.. it's the uncle at airfield coffeeshop at changi village! uncle has declared his love for junkie. oh no, how to accept him? junkie junkie.. how how? :p

For dunno what reason, im unable to transfer the picture in my HP to babymac via bluetooth today. Thus, i cant post the picture of the love shaped bread here now.. shall post it soon for your viewing.. stay tuned!

Written by Noti, Bo Liao Yuri @ 7.27pm

Anyway

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies.
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you.
Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight.
Create anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, will often be forgotten.
Do good anyway.

Give the best you have, and it will never be enough.
Give your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.

One Cute Pig!!!

Oh dear, i cant help but to post picture of Zhu Mei into Junkie's blog. Wanna know why i decide to post Zhu mei photo here? the answer is very simple.. it is because he alway say im a pig so i shall *haunt* him in his blog! muhahaha...sound so scary hor... Anyway, this is my zhu mei..hmmm, i wonder if this entry is going to make Junkie's blog look childish as his entries has alway been very professional.. hmm..oh well, nvm.. keke..becos of the way i write blog, im special in my own way isnt it? :p
*puke* junkie sure puke when he read this.. muahahhaa...

Spot the pig

Let us play a little game. Can you spot a pig in this picture? Take a good look & try not to miss out any clue that might lead us to the location of this confused thing. Or is there a pig in the picture in the first place? Hmmm.

Ja neh!!!

GST Offset Package

Have you received a nice white letter from the local government telling ou to acknowledge that you want the extra money that they are giving you to make up for increasing the Goods & Services Tax from 5 percentage points to 7 percentage points?

A lot of people think that the increase from 5% to 7% is only 2%. That is what certain Men in White want you to believe. Percentage points is different from percentage. If you are slightly mathematically, you would have already gotten what I am trying to say.

2/5 = 0.4 which translates into an increase of 40%!!! Does your salary increase by 40% every few years? I am pissed, because some people's salary do increase with a range of 17% to 33%. Sigh. When was the last time your pay increment is in double digits? Was there even such a time? We are talking about the employed here, those who have a job & report to work. Not the self-employed, the business owners & the investors.

A very simple explanation. Imagine your child weighs 5kg now. Next year he / she weighs 7kg. So it is an increase of 2kg. However, if you express your answer in percentage, it is an increase in weight of 40%. Get it?

So if money is given to you, just take it!!! However, do spend wisely & not squander it meaninglessly.

I have already acknowledge, what about you?

Ja neh!!!

Deal or no deal

Parallels Desktop for Mac

One of my latest cravings & it is not for food or something that runs on petrol & has four tires. Basically it is something made up of millions of billions (okie, maybe this is stretching it too far) of 1s & 0s. That is right, it is a software for having two Operating Systems (namely OS X & Windows XP / Vista) on the same computer. It is called Parallels Desktop for Mac & it shows windows or applications from both OS on the same screen without having to reboot to swtich between the two systems. Pretty cool in my opinion but there are some limitations to this software at this moment. I do hope they iron out the bugs & make it as seamless as possible both in user interface & graphics interface.

Wonder how much the software costs as I could not find it on the official apple website. Anyway I believe this is how the packaging looks like, so if anybody has seen it, please drop me an sms or a comment or whatever to let me know so I can sort out the finances. The next step would be for them (the nice software people working on parallels) to fully support Windows Vista or else it would make little monetary sense or otherwise to fork out good money for outdated original software. It had better be worth the price to get original software or else I will be the relentless advocate of pirated software no matter what the cost.

Here is a great article for you to find out more about this amazing application.

Check out the above video for the visually inclined.

Ja neh!!!

Death Note

Finally got myself a copy of the Death Note. No, a Death God or Shinigami did not drop it or give it to me as a birthday present. I spent good money to get it from Comic Connection, which unfortunately the outlet I visited (Compan Point, Sengkang) only had 1 copy. Or else I would have gotten a few more to give it to deserving individuals.

It is an excellent replica of the Death Note as depicted in the anime, & comes complete with all the rules mentioned as the plot develops & also the names of people whom Yagami Light or other people like Misa wrote inside while using this Death Note to accomplish their motive.

Obviously it does not work as I have written my own name on the front page so that people will know that I am the owner. I am still very much well & alive although there will definitely be things I wish had turned out better & the way I want them to be.

I will be using it as my personal note book & jot down pointers which I think will be useful to share around. So if anybody of you see me carrying this around, please do not be alarmed & think I will write your name inside. However, do not try to piss me off deliberately in hope that I would take this book & write your name in it. Death Notes do not kill people but my warth will.

Hahahaha, no lah, I is very nice one lah...

Ja neh!!!