Hermitage Round Two.

Gonna start studying once again. 2 weeks to A levels!

Time to camp at grandma's house again. Till then. Ta ta.

Ah btw, before I go. Lemme end it off with some things I spotted and an email from my cousin.

Pictures:

Mmm.. I wonder how babies taste like with bread =P

Saw this on the bus, while approaching bedok interchange.

Woah, so many birds.. Either crow or mynah.

Can't tell.. Beak colour too far to see.

Reminds me of that resident evil scene with all the infected birds.

Awesome.

Let Un be the arithmetic progression of the number of stripes,

with u1(a) = 2 and common difference (d) = 1.

Email:

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Somewhere in here is one that describes your life....

ROMANCE MATHEMATICS Smart man + smart woman = romance Smart man + dumb woman = affair Dumb man + smart woman = marriage Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy ______________________________ OFFICE ARITHMETIC Smart boss + smart employee = profit Smart boss + dumb employee = production Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime _____________________________ SHOPPING MATH A man will pay $20 for a $10 item he needs. A woman will pay $10 for a $20 item that she doesn't need. _____________________________ GENERAL EQUATIONS & STATISTICS A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband. A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife. A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. _____________________________ HAPPINESS To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all. ______________________________ LONGEVITY Married men live longer than single men do, but married men are a lot more willing to die. ______________________________   PROPENSITY TO CHANGE A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't. A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does. _____________________________   DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE A woman has the last word in any argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. _____________________________   HOW TO STOP PEOPLE FROM BUGGING YOU ABOUT GETTING MARRIED Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, 'You're next.' They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals. --------------------------------------------------

The Big Bang Theory

Mervyn introduced me to this show yesterday in CR219 during a free period. Lol its so hilarious.. MUST WATCH if you take science (especially physics) haha..

Oh btw, here's the link to the whole list:

http://so.youku.com/search_video/q_big%20bang%20theory

Mervyn said currently its screening Season 2, Episode 3 or smth. Season 1 has 17 episodes. Have fun watching! The theme song is quite catchy so I decided to find it on YouTube.. and tada!

Oh by the way, this is what happened today, during our LAST physics lecture:

[Yes, our dear lecturer is SINGING as a farewell gift. LOL]

Physics department is the winnah!

Funny SMS from sis

Got this SMS from my sis..

Character for character, even those typos and stuff

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Juz 4 laugh. L0L

Dear Prime Minister, We d citizens of Spore urge u 2 PLS MIND UR OWN BUSINESS. We DO NOT NEED ur help. Everytime u mention HELP, we hv 2run 4 cover!! Help d poor? RAISE GST!! Help d Traffic? Up ERP!! Help passenger Service? RAISE MRT/Bus Fare!! Help us get Taxi? RAISE taxi Fare!! Help usget good Government? RAISE Minister/Civil servant Salary!!and now electricity bill up 20%!! Everytime U want 2 HELP, We all PAY 4 IT!! TQ & Tolong Lah,PLS we'll HELP OURSELVES

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Lol.. ok let me translate it clearer for those who don't understand...

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Just for Laugh. LOL

Dear Prime Minister,

We the citizens of Singapore urge you to PLEASE MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.

We DO NOT NEED your help.

Everytime you mention "HELP", we have to run for cover!!

Help the poor? RAISE GST!!
Help the traffic? Up ERP!!

Help passenger service? RAISE MRT/Bus Fare!!

Help us get Taxi? RAISE taxi Fare!!

Help us get good Government? RAISE Minister/Civil servant Salary!!

...and now electricity bill up 20%!!

Everytime you want to "HELP", we all have to PAY FOR IT!!
Thanks and i beg you, PLEASE we'll HELP OURSELVES

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Though not very coherent, still quite funny.. Haha

Game Review: Fantastic Contraption

Alright. Time to introduce a new game. Haven't been doing so for quite some time..

Free Online Game @ MoFunZone.com - Fantastic Contraption

Overview

The game concept is an edited version of all the so-called famous games like "Magic Pen" and so forth, whereby you create some design of your machine to bring an object from one location to the goal location. So.. its not really an original game concept.

At first when Ying Xiao and Ryan introduced me to this game in computer lab, I was a bit reluctant to try out since its not original. I was thinking "bleh, probably another edited rip-off version by noob game makers", so I continued to dota with the rest. When I reached home, I was quite bored.. So I just went ahead and try it out.

The first thing that greets you is the neat artistic design of the user interface. Unlike most other free online games, whereby the games have very very very shitty artistic appeal, this one on the other hand was quite attractive. In a way, it was quite cute. While playing, a constant music plays on the background looping over and over again. Reminds me of playing pacman loooong ago.. lol.

In this game, there's a total of 21 levels, and oh look at the joke they put there. Lol.

"Play with no Ads or Pop-ups!" <-- This wins HAHA

In-Game Tutorial

This is one of the clearest in-game tutorial I've seen in all the games on MoFunZone. I took screenshots of all the important parts. Have a look. You'll find yourself nodding with me haha..

Simplicity is the best policy isn't it? =)

Sharing of ideas

Need fresh ideas? Bored of your own work? Have a look at other people's!

In Fantastic Contraption, you can share your work and have a look at how other's solve the same puzzle as you! But definitely in a different way. There's no 2 same way of solving a problem, even in the real world as we speak.

Some are quite interesting, some of which are ideas which you would never have thought of, and of course, some are just plain brute force -.-"

Oh yeah, there's also a certain bug with the wheels which I noticed after looking at some people's contraptions.. Sure it looks nice, but it spoils the fun doesnt it =P

Let's have a look at 3 of the many different solutions shared for this particular puzzle:

Map Name: Full-up

Oh by the way, I took these videos using Snagit. Like I said, the sound quality of it is like shit, but the video quality is quite good. So I just took the video without the sound input.

If you're interested in using Snagit, download Snagit5 (the newer versions require you to buy it after 30 days. Snagit5 doesn't. Hehe)

Video Solution 1:

OMG IMBA

Video Solution 2:

Another nice one

Video Solution 3:

Brute force -.-"

SozoS's Ratings:

Graphics: 8/10 (simple and slick)

Sound Effects: 2/10 (nice initially but its so repetitive that it gets on your nerves after a while)

Gameplay: 8/10 (Uses your brain out instead of mindless clicking. My kind of game)
Replayability: 6/10 (Watching other people's contraptions can be quite entertaining!)

Overall Rating: 6/10

Related Websites:

MoFunZone's Game Link:

http://www.mofunzone.com/online_games/fantastic_contraption.shtml#

Great. Everything Inversed.

Let's have an evaluation of what happened for my birthday shall I?

I got 2 cakes.

One of which was bought by my lovely (maybe not.. haha) class of CG24/07 and I got ganged and cake spread all over my face and jacket.

The other was a slice of cake (I had to repeatedly tell my dad NOT to buy cakes, but he still did) which my family gave me.

I got 0 SMS-es regarding the self-improvement plan I devised.

And I just realised less than 5 people, aside from my class and clan, knows that I exist and that my birthday is on 4th October.

Okay. I guess I'm a nobody and everything I wished for to happened is inversed. What a screwed birthday, and I spent the whole afternoon teaching my sister History for her exam on Monday. Guess what? Today she came back and told me she slept through the History exam. Oh nice. I wasted another part of my life -.-"

Today was an eventful day. I wonder how shameful can people get. I guess some people just don't know shame. I know that person is generally disliked by people in school, but to stoop so low? Sheesh. You ought to slap yourself. No wait, that's too easy. You ought to hang yourself on a flagpole upside down with cuts all over your body and glucose poured all over your cuts. That way, you can't move and you'll die from pain and the itch from ants crawling all over your cuts.

Oh! Children's Day is here!

YAY Children's Day is here! But first, let me put in what happened the past 2 days.. Was too lazy heh.

Monday - 29/9

 I went to watch a movie with Justin, Wen Quan, Wendy, Bing Xu, Sin Chin and Wei Cheng.. Apparently BX won 2 free tickets to "Black Swindler" so we just went and split it, so everyone get $1 off lol..

The plot was quite good.. too bad they didn't explain a lot of things. And what's with the flooding of Japanese names without helping viewers match the names to their faces?! At the very end of the movie, we're all like "what? who is who?".. I still can't figure out without the name of the main character. Is it "Kurosaki" or "Kurosagi"? God damn it. But seriously, the starting few minutes was damn good, for me at least. The concept of the movie was nice, but the development was shit -.-"

Tuesday - 30/9

Yesterday, I went dinner at Jack's Place (which Jack? I'm not sure myself either) with my family.

On the way, I saw this nice gradient on the blue taxi. See for yourself:

The way the bottom part of the Comfort Taxi gets brighten up by the Mercedes Taxi behind is nice... Maybe my phone camera sucks (its only 2 Mega-pixels), but it was really nice =)

Mmm... Dinner. I ate something from everyone's plate lol.. Everyone can't finish, except my dad. So in all, I ate like 2+ portions =\

After that, I ordered a Chocolate Mousse, I thought it'll be nice.. Bleh, its not even soft to bite. I guess I'll just refrain from eating any kind of cake except from Secret Recipe XD

Alright! Done. Now let's get back to today's theme - Children's Day!

Oh yes, I can still remember the first year in Secondary school where everyone misses Children's Day celebration (and of course the half day) very very sorely.

"You all are youth now, no more Children's Day," said a teacher (I can't remember who lol). And you see our whole class whining and "sian-ing" lol.. But still, year after year, throughout my 4 years in DHS, our teachers always bought us sweets and gifts on Children's Day. I guess we're still kids in their eyes, but not in the eyes of the school system huh. In J1, it seriously ended. End of childhood so to speak. No one even mentioned about Children's Day. Goodness. But for me, Children's Day still remained happy for me haha.. Children's Day always reminds me of something.. my birthday is coming soon. Lol..

No cakes please (i've been eating enough of cakes recently lol), well unless the wishes actually come true.. If so, then I wish my sis will be more sensible, my dad will be more reasonable and responsible, and my mum be more happy.. Then again.. Hey! I'm still single. I don't mind a gf as a bday gift haha.. jk jk

If possible, I hope on my birthday, instead of presents and gifts or whatever, everyone comes up to me and tell me 1 strength that I have, 1 weakness that I have and how i can overcome my weakness.

I'm not a person good with words and expressing myself. So erm.. On my birthday, confess anything to me, whether you think I've been a jerk or you hate me or what you like about me or whatever, just be frank. I won't take it personally.

Thanks. If ya read this, please pass it around.. No cakes, unless the wishes actually comes true. Haha =P