关键字：新加坡，天气，考试

今天考MP2005 Fluid Dynamics 流体力学，昨天老老实实在图书馆坐了一天。(08:00 - 21:00)

最近是雨季，每天上午不管太阳再大、再毒，下午照样暴风骤雨。新加坡天气就这么有趣，每天都是上下午两个季节。来了这么多年好像今年的感觉最明显。

昨天一上午晴天，这是中午在图书馆用手机投拍的白云姐姐。

下午一直到两点都还是晴天，我还想莫非今天就不下雨了，结果，下午四点，悄悄的，雷响了。

昏天黑地一顿暴下，半个小时之后，雨却装作啥事都没发生过，走人了……

Keywords: taskbar, modification, windows, display

Display the name of your loved ones or any messege you want, right beside the time on your taksbar like this:

Step 1 - Go to Control Panal - Regional and Language Options

Step 2 - Click on the 'Customize' button. It doesn't matter what language have you chosen.

Step 3 -

Go to the tab named 'Time'.

At 'Time format' column, add 'tt' before the time notation. And change both 'AM symbol' and 'PM symbol' to the messege you want to display.

Step 4 - That's it, heh.

'Operation Bookworm' started days before the exams. Since then, Chief Commanders Adam Zhang and Gerald Huang have been working hard by themselves (due to lack of fund and poor human resource management) in the temporary headquarter - Hall 11 Study Room.

It's believed that 'Operation Bookworm' is going to last until the end of the exam period. Here are some insights of this operation.

- =  Logistic Department  = -

- =  Biodegradable Rifle Stand  = -
Fruitarians are gonna kill me for doing this, ouch!

And notice board too.

PIAH = fight in Hokkien (闽南语）

I seldom online, seldom talk to Daphne and almost stopped blogging for the last one week. All these must thank to the 3 exam papers I took on 15th, yesterday and this morning.

My brain has been tensioning for the last few days, whether studying or not. It's just the CPU is busy working, and you can hear the fan in your computer keep on running to release the heat generated in the CPU.

I got problem sleeping at night, toss and turn for 1 or 2 hours before I can fall asleep is normal now. I can't slow down my brain!

The only moment I feel good nowdays, is when I finish writing my exam paper and waiting for it to be collected. Well, I mean after I finish answering those questions I am able to solve.

How's the results? No one will know until end of Dec. But let's put it this way, for the last 3 papers, if all that I have solved are all correct, I will get 3 A. (dreaming and drooling) If not, passing still shouldn't be a problem.

The next 3 exams on 22nd, 27th and 30th would be more challenging. Not because those subjects are hard, in fact today's subject is the hardest among all, but I spent too much time revising these 3 subject and left the next 3 almost untouched.

So from today onwards, PIAH for the next 3.

13 more days to freedom!

Suddenly remembered what my grandpa (mom side) had been telling me what he was taught in Japanese school while they envaded China: - 　

In Japanese: 一生懸命 [ いっしょうけんめい ]

In Chinese: 一生拼命 [ yì shēng pīn mìng ]

meaning, fight through your life.

Here are some random photos that I had no time to upload.

Tribune Some school publication that was used to block the aircon pipe. It's so cold in library!

After the bloosom (taken after yesterday's exam on my way back to hall)

Keywords: parcel, uk, royal mail, ebay, paypal, mobile phone, charger, adapter

I saw a parcel in my mail box just now, but I never bring my keys, so the Hall Officer kindly opened the mail box for me.

Here it is!

1st Class Royal Mail from London. What's inside?

It's the charger for my Sharp 802sh, the phone Daphne is currently using. She somehow managed to left the charger on a cab, and it's not possible to get a replacement in Singapore.

Luckily there's something called Ebay, so after a search I Ebay-ed the charger from UK here. The price of the charger is surpricingly low at only £0.29. I was almost wondering whether it was a scam. But the 99.8% positive feedback of the seller cleared my doubts.

Postage to Singapore is £2.99, so added up the total cost for a phone charger all the way from UK £4.28, which is only S$13.07. The charger is made in China, but who cares? As far as it does the job, I'm satisfied.

And it only took 3 days for the postage to reach Singpore, including last weekend.

For those who always purchase products locally, do consider alternative methods like Ebay. All payments are done through PayPal using credit card, simple and easy.

Keywords: Singapore, GST, rise

By Lee Foong Ming, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 13 November 2006 1832 hrs

SINGAPORE: The Goods and Services Tax will be increased to 7 percent, from the current 5 percent. This was announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in Parliament on Monday.

Mr Lee said more details would be given in next year's Budget Speech which has been scheduled for 15 February.

The Prime Minister made the announcement when responding to the issues raised by MPs over 4 days of debate - among them the widening income gap in Singapore as a result of globalisation.

Stressing that globalisation was here to stay, and Singaporeans would have to deal with its impact, Mr Lee said this was something that could strain the country's social compact, and this was why it was essential that there would be a whole set of measures to tilt playing field in favour of the lower income group.

Adding that the GST increase would help finance enhanced social safety nets to help this group, Mr Lee said it was better to raise the GST when the economy was doing well. - CNA /dt

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/241058/1/.html

I believe this is an action to boost overseas shopping trips and this coming X'mas sale?

Buy before the GST rise, BUY BUY BUY!!!

Keywords: new name, adam

Notice to all, from now onwards, please call me Adam, Adam Zhang or Zhang Chaoyi.

After a steamboat session with Daphne and Justin last night this morning, which started at 00:20 at Geylang. We finally got my English name fixed.

Adam

I have been using 'GriGri' as my ID or display name online for quite some time. GriGri is in fact a climbing device produced by a French company Petzl. However people always mispronounce it as 'GiGi' or 'GirGir', which sounds very much like a girl's name.

Later I 'created' another name for myself, 'Schermon'. It has the similar pronouncation of the Chinese term '摄魔' (She4 Mo2) which means something related to photography but I don't know how to traslate its exact meaning. the 'Sch' in 'Schermon' gave it some 'German factor'. I even have a Visa Card with the name 'Schermon Zhang'!

However, 'Schermon' didn't manage to win any votes from my friends. Daphne just don't like it, and Justin said it sounds like '什么' (Shen2 Me4), which means 'What' in Chinese, and people will end up calling '什么张' ('What Zhang')...

So after what we started a whole new round of selection.

I don't want a common English name like Jason, Daniel or Mike. That would increase the possibility of my name being called but actually someone else is wanted. It also causes confusion to others, Like when we are talking about Justin, people will ask 'Which Justin', because there are so many out there. (No offence)

After passing enough names through our minds, we stopped at Adam. First of all, it's not a wierd name. Secondly, not many people are called Adam, none of my friends at least. It is a simple word that I don't think anyone will mispronounce or misspell, and also it starts with letter A. Means that I won't be always at the end of the name lists like before, when my surname starts with Z.

So here's my new name, Adam.

Please also take note that my MSN has hence changed. Refer to my MSN display name for the new address.

 Keywords: windows live mail, register, registration, account, hack, bug, free

Windows Live Mail account ***@live.com is not open for public registration yet. However, now there is a hack trick which allows you to do so.

Step 1 - Go to this usual Hotmail registration page: http://get.live.com/getlive/overview

Step 2 - Click either "Get it Free" button on the page. (Something like , but no one ask you to click here. Go to the registration page you idiot.)

Step 3 - Wait for the page which requires your details to be loaded. You may realize there's only '@hotmail.com' available for registration.

Step 4 - Here comes to the important part. Copy & paste the following script into your address bar, and press Enter. (and don't ask me where is the Enter button on the browser, it's on your keyboard!)

javascript: var p = 'live.'; var ds = new Array('com', 'cn', 'fr', 'it', 'nl'); for (var i = 0; i < ds.length; i ++){document.getElementById('idomain').options[i] = new Option(p + ds[i], p + ds[i])} alert('domains added');

Step 5 - Arh! Here comes @live.com.

Follow the registration steps, make sure you fill in the correct post code.

Step 6 - Click 'I accept', it's all yours!

What are you waiting for? Go grab your account before it's taken.

关键字：怡雯，鸡精，考试

怡雯最近已经经济很紧张了，昨晚却还给我带来了夜宵和一大盒鸡精，好感动啊。

看来她比我还重视这次考试。压力……

自己拍的照片，还不错吧，呵呵~

关键字：Dell，戴尔，笔记本电脑，XPS，M1210

今天在图书馆复习到一半，又不由自主地飘到了Dell网站意淫设计我的未来电脑。

Dell XPS M1210

“个人化”之后的配置请听我细细道来~ 来~ 来~~~

Base System
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7200 2GHz, 4MB Cache, 667MHz FSB (+ S$ 116.95)
Core 2 Duo终于取代了中间产品Core Duo，好兴奋啊。
下一个选项：
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7400 2.16GHz, 4MB Cache, 667MHz FSB (+ S$ 517.65)
你愿意多花三百五十块让你的CPU提高0.16GHz吗？对我来说边际成本(MC)已经超过了边际效益(MB)，我不愿意。

Operating System
Windows XP Professional (+ S$ 99.75)
比 XP Home 多花100块，感觉还是值得的。

Hardware Maintenance
3-year XPS Premier Service with 3 year Complete Cover (+ S$ 357)
质量再好的品牌，过了保修只要一坏，你的小朋友（借用对岸朋友的说法）就保不住了。

Displays
12.1" Wide Screen XGA display with TrueLife (1280x800 res.)
下一个选项：
12.1" Wide Screen XGA display with TrueLife (1280x800 res.) & 1.3MP Web Cam (+ S$ 111.30)
虽然在屏幕上整合了摄像头是不错的设计，但很多人反映M1210上这个摄像头的效果很差，而且个人认为影响了外观，这样就不值得多花一百多块了。（文章开头的照片并未包含摄像头）

Memory
2048MB (2 x 1024MB) 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (+ S$ 333.90)
虽然比原配的 2 x 512MB 533MHz DDR2 贵了三百块，但为了以后的软件和运行速度着想，为了独立显卡可能从内存中吃掉的192MB着想，还是选择了这个。
下一个选择：
4096MB (2 x 2048MB) 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (+ S$ 1867.95)
…… 天价，完全不予考虑。
* 顺便征求一下大家的意见，依照Dell这个价格，按照笔记本电脑三年的使用寿命，是现在一次到位把内存升级到 2GB 好还是以后根据需要选购第三方内存升级划算？

Hard Drives
80GB SATA 7200RPM Performance Hard Drive (+ S$ 105.00)
原配硬盘为60GB 5400RPM，7.2k的转速可以提高电脑瓶颈的性能，虽然功耗会大一些，还是有必要的。
下一个选项：
100GB SATA 7200RPM Performance Hard Drive (+ S$ 199.50)
多花100块只增加20GB的硬盘容量，MC > MB，否决。

Optical Drive
Internal 24x Max DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive
下一个选项：
Internal 8x DVD+/-RW Combination Drive with dual layer write capabilities (+ S$ 58.80)
多花60块升级到DVD刻录是一个不错的选择，但我已经拥有一个外置DVD刻录机，而且需要刻盘的机会应该比较少而且比较集中，所以就没必要花双份钱了。

Battery
9-cell 85Whr Lithium Ion Primary Battery (+ S$ 84.00)
电池我还是有一些犹豫不决。原配电池是6芯，按照现在的配置肯定是很短命的了。但9芯的电池会在电脑后面突出来一块，影响美观。是否应该各配一块？6芯、9芯电池的价格分别是 S$99.75 和 S$183.75。

Sound Solution
Integrated Sound Blaster Audigy ADVANCED HD Audio Software (+ S$ 16.80)
据说利用M1210的两个耳机孔和MIC孔（对，M1210有两个耳机孔），在看DVD的时候连接外置音箱会有5.1音效哦。看来为了这个也要配一套5.1音箱了……

Bluetooth Module
Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth Module (+ S$ 36.75)
内置蓝牙，肯定要的，就是有点贵。

Video Solution
256MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 Turbo Cache (+ S$ 117.60)
这个是本机的重点，虽然增加功耗，而且会吃掉最多192MB的内存，但效果肯定不一般……

据说M1210底板上还有一个SIM卡插槽，支持3G上网，只不过尚未在新加坡的Dell网站找到类似信息，购买之前需要查证。

结算价格：S$ 3194.10，和基本配置的 S$ 1849 差了不少哎。

还是那句话，现在不买，哈哈。而且还是有点放不下 Thinkpad X60s。

Qustion Of The Day:

Unlike girls, why guys (like me myself) are so interested in high tech gadgets?