I haven’t realized how little the fixed line phone at home is used until I saw the phone bill… (click on thumbnail for full view)

which was less than $1.

Wikipedia is not spared from vandals either.

The article of the day…

has been vandalised…

and again…

Well, they’ve reverted the article to the original un-vandalised form.

Decided to switch things a little and name this “The Aftermath” instead.

It’s finally done. As Frodo said when he reached Mount Doom: “It’s done!” Since they have bid their farewells to PW, I ought to do so too.

It has been a difficult eight months to work with. And I’m glad it’s over. I don’t have to worry about the results, for a few months at least. If you want to find out what I’ve been through, you might want to read the whole series of entries on that.

Anyway, we were told to rate how our group mates and ourselves fared relatively for the project – how cooperative and contributing we were. I gave a certain someone a 2 and 1 respectively. Apparently, he has some huge ego and gave himself a 5 for both. How interesting. If there were a “zero” I would have given him a zero for contribution. I bet Miss Lim will have a huge laugh when she sees what he has rated for himself.

Sadly, I’m not done with him. There’s still an economics project. But all’s well – we can live without him.

Tags: a-levels, Woes of PW

Prepare to be bombarded by a fanboy’s scream rant.

I want this and this!!!

Gosh, ever since I first heard the soundtrack in The Two Towers (yes I didn’t watch Fellowship of the Ring first), I’ve fallen in love with the soundtrack. And now, Howard Shore is releasing it in complete recordings!

</fanboy rant>

Tags: Lord of the Rings

The BIG day is tomorrow. The Oral Presentation.

And why has it to be TODAY, when Ngee Ann Polytehnic students managed to program something that can do the same thing that what we proposed!? Well, I hope the assessors realize that we came up with this plan ages ago.

Hopefully this is the last post in the “Woes of PW” series. After that, there are two more planned posts: “The Woes of PW – Epilogue” detailing THE END of everything and “The Woes of PW – Aftermath” when I get the results next year.

Good luck to everyone.

Tags: a-levels, Woes of PW

I’ve created a long overdue image gallery.

Enjoy! I’ll post some photos when I feel like it.

Having a sore throat – a symptom of fever, at least for me. I can feel the onset of a cold.

I can feel the onset of a fever.

Why must it be 3 days before oral presentation?

I was bored.

So I took a look at the stats Google Analytics collected and thought you might find them interesting. (The stats do not include my browsing; click on the thumbnails for full view)

General Stats:

Browser
Some people (*hints to Mr. NXL*) just don’t want to switch browsers and make my life easier.

Resolution
The blog should be viewable in 800 x 600 and above. Though I recommend 1024 x 768. I use 1280 x 1024 myself.

I’m sure some of us are sick and tired of that default Windows XP theme (dubbed “Luna”) whether in its blue, olive or silver incarnation.

For those of you who do not know, Microsoft has somewhat released several other themes, “official ones” (not those add-ons and stuff), that look pretty good too. You might wanna check them out.

Royale Blue Theme

This is a pretty cool theme which I’ve been using forever. You can grab it here.

Royale Noir Theme

Kinda purplish and all, not my type. Grab it here.

Zune Theme

Apparently designed for whatever Zune player Microsoft is coming up. I think I’ll be using this for a while. More info here.
In other news, I’ve just reached a “milestone” of 1000 SPAM.

I’ve always been skeptical about how Reporters Without Borders rank Singapore in terms of press freedom, thinking that it was necessary to do so. I was proven wrong.

Remember the Mr Brown incident? And here comes another: The Real Picture behind Today’s personnel changes.

A Google search of the Vel Chua incident led me to this.

The problem here is not just about the reporting freedom; there is also a very obvious problem of elitism. For the first time, I was brought out into the reality of things. I am at a loss of words.