Guess wat... I'll be ditching this blogdrive account and shift my blog to voonseng.blogspot.com

I just prefer the neater looking template... so, that's why...

I'll be keeping this blog running for awhile before I close this down entirely... or maybe I'll just put a link here, and leave this blog page to rot... or watever is best...

currently, there's nothing much there... just a short post... I'll keep it up and running, and even flying after my exam tomorrow.... wish me luck...

that's all for now...

Visit my new blog HERE.

Take care!

Read this film review about the movie 'Batman Begins' from The Michigan Daily(Summer Weekly), page 9, dated June 20, 2005. Found this amazing paragraph which I just have to share it here...

Dark Knighted by Evan McGarvey(Daily Arts Editor)...

"For those of us who were denied the singular pleasure of Batman comics by our parents, here's an unjustly quick primer: Gotham City is America's largest metropolis with a beyond-seedy underbelly. Nice, old money, philanthropic Wayne family goes to opera. Mom and Dad are killed by a mugger. Son watches parents die, spends formative years on a spiritual quest in Europe and Asia complete with martial arts training and general trust-fund spending. Boy returns to Gotham, puts on big, black rubber suit, redirects newfound thirst for vengeance and decides the only way to clean up his fair city is to catch the criminals that the corrupt city police are too lazy to catch.

Phew. Thirty-plus years of America's greatest comic book in a single paragraph."

Really concise... wonderful summary... funny...

yet to watch the movie... might go and catch it when i've the moolah... still waiting for the allowance from my sponsor...(2 months overdue...)
no wonder i'm losing weight...(my fren pohyi with really great 'maternal instinct' said that I lost weight...)

actually... i'm wondering why i'm losing weight(if I'm really am)... i spend like $25 on groceries a week... that's a lot..(quite a lot) considering i do eat out once in a while(read whenever i feel like it, which is quite often...twice or thrice a week)

so, basically, if i wakes up before 10, i will have cereals for breakfast...(honey bunches of oats(either honey roasted, or with almonds... good stuffs)..., then i'll have sandwiches for lunch... for dinner... normally, it's normally noodles(with frozen vege), or chicken(with frozen vege), or frozen entree(counter registers 6 now... the 5th being a really horrible Beef Straganoff and the 6th is a quite-good White Meat Chicken with Pasta)...

the frozen mixed vege is really simple and delicious... all i need to do is
1)pour them into a bowl
2)add a tablespoon of water
3)add some salt, pepper and garlic powder(this is the secret ingredient)
4)microwave it for 3 minutes
5)let it sits for 2 minutes or slightly longer before consuming... yummy...

so... i was too lazy to cook tonight... so, i went out to grab a BTB(big ten burritos...) really delicious... and i got a Chicken DELUXE burrito... which is quite huge... cost me $6... but it is really worth the money... i wonder how ppl can finish the $8 GRAND burritos... the normal $4 is also not small...

fyi... if u dunno wat a burrito is, (it is like meat, and rice, and beans and cheese wrapped in a tortillas...)

2 more days to my Econs exam... Econs 401(Intermediate Microeconomic theory...)
been studying quite a bit for the exam... spent like 6 hours going thru those notes and homeworks... did practice exams today... went to the review session too... will do 2 more practice exams tmr... and prepare my cheat sheet...(legal cheat sheet... a letter-size paper... both sides... wondering what i should write on it...)

Pistons games again tonight... at 9pm later...(in 22 minutes to be exact)... Sunday night lost was really a bad lost... couldn't believe it... well... a lost is a lost... a painful lost is still a lost... hopefully, Pistons can go the distance, go against all odds and win the Finals...

til then... adios... haha... take care...

hey peeps... interesting... go check out face analyzer - THE ONLY AUTOMATED FACE READER IN THE WORLD(as claimed by them)

http://www.faceanalyzer.com/

this is the photo i used for the face analyzer... and below are the results...



46% Middle Eastern
7% Eastern European
10% South East Asian
37% Chinese

the analyzer also says that i'm a Charmer:
Personality Profile:

You have social courage and as a consequence are open and extroverted. You are seen as a well known person who is liked and is involved in many social events. You feel confident about your position in social situations and will not hesitate to say what you believe. You do not like too much responsibility, but you do not mind being in the social center. You must know everything that is going on in your greater social circle and spend a lot of time talking to others to find out the latest gossip. You tend to be friendly, but can be criticizing when you see others as thinking of themselves too much.

You prefer to work in challenging people oriented jobs where you can compete against others and rise in the ranks. Others usually like you but can sometimes be intimidated by your outspoken comments and criticisms although they do not show it.
People tend to feel comfortable around you and respect your opinion. You can use this social weight to get things done for you but usually opt not to call in favours people owe you.

-More fun-loving than Alpha Charmer
Expected Occupations: Sales representative, Teacher, Aesthetician, Hair Stylist, Artist, Actor, Social Worker, Manager

got these ADULT jokes from a forwarded mail from my fren...
a number of them are quite good... most of them have been in circulation for quite some time...


Ladies hostel caught Fire. It took 1 hour to bring the
fire under control and another 3 hours to bring the
firemen under control.

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Wife: If I sleep with your best friend what will be
the first thought to come in your mind?

Husband: that you are a lesbian.

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Why did they stop printing Pamela Anderson stamps
in the U.S ???

Because the people started licking the wrong side!

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Girl to hungry boyfriend: If my right leg was
afternoon meal & left leg evening meal what would you
prefer?
Boyfriend: Eating between meals !!!!

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Nobody is ever satisfied, Poor men wish they were
rich, Rich men wish they were handsome, Bachelors
wish they were married &
Married men wish they were Dead!

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How do you teach a girl maths? Add a bed, subtract
her clothes, divide her legs, enter your square root,
leave your solution and
hope she doesn't multiply!

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Lady : "I want a good vibrator"

Salesman: "Ma'am ! you may select one from our range
that is displayed on that wall"

Lady : "O.K. I'll take that red one"

Salesman: "Sorry, that's our fire-extinguisher"

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A divorced Couple were contesting for possession of
the child. The mother said: "I gave birth to him -
he's mine"

The father said: "I put a coin in the pepsi machine
and a can comes out - the pepsi belongs to me! not
to the machine !!"

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A girl says to her boyfriend, "One kiss and I'll be
yours forever."

The guy says 'thanks for the warning'

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A Husband Was Asked: "Do you talk to your wife
after sex?"

He replied: "Depends, If I Can find a Phone"

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Definition of a Gynecologist: Someone who looks for
problems where others look for pleasure!!!

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Man to wife on wedding night- "Are you sure I'm the
first man you are sleeping with?'

"Of course honey, I stayed awake with all the
others!'

This is another more detailed explanation about distributed computing... since our friend CrushedGuava dun really understand what i'm trying to say. So, I'll try my best to give it another shot.

So... let us go back to basic... so... basically, ur computer(processor) can do a lot of iteration of calculation every second... and if u are doing nothing with ur computer, or u are just performing simple task such as listening to mp3, typing an assignment, instant messaging, or even watching a movie, there's still a lot of unused cycles... in other words, ur cpu is not fully utilized.

So... instead of wasting it on useless flying windows or 3d-pipe or other screensavers, why not those power on performing calculations such as looking for Mersenne Prime, or folding protein.

Just to let u know, by combining thousands(actually millions) or personal computers' unused computing power, it can actually outperform the most powerful supercomputer... It's really THAT powerful...

So, do u want to be a part of such great contributions to science???

Go check out folding@home... and join the folding@Malaysia team...

first thing first... happy 20th birthday to Putt, Shi Zhou(June 16th) and Shing Yee(June 17th)...
To Shi Zhou and Shing Yee: still remember how we celebrated u guys' birthday at Papa Chop Mama Grills last year... some of last years memories:



and



and



Looking forward to meet u guys again... whenever that may be... take care guys...

Hopefully we can meet up for u guys' 21st birthday... Most probably(99%), I'll be going back home next year for 2 or 4 months...

Well, well... Just attended the last lecture for this short 8-week Spring semester... It's really crazy to know that how fast time flies...

awhile ago... i was still in Singapore, taking A-levels.
awhile ago... i was at INTEC, taking a preparatory course.
awhile ago... i was waiting eagerly to go to the States.
awhile ago... i started my freshman year at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
awhile ago... i completed 3 semester(2 and a half, considering the Spring semester is a short one).

everything is just so fast...so real... or so surreal??

anyway... all in all... it's really great time i'm having here in the States.

so, what are my summer plans??? seems like my travelling plans are going down the drain... NO Tampa, Florida... NO Seattle??... maybe i'll keep my travelling plans on a lower budget... most probably I will visit other Universities... and I'll take some classes to kill the time...

another totally unrelated to above thing...:

quite disappointed with the number of spoonfeeders in the forum www.recom.org these days...
many of them are so-called cream of the crop of the country, being awarded prestigious scholarship to pursue their degree overseas... however, it's so disappointing to see most of them to be so dependent on others... Guess what, they can be so shameless to ask question like What's SAT? What's C++ Programming? HELLO people... there's something call google... open up ur mind and open up ur eyes...

I wonder if the interviewers were to know these qualities of these 'top students' before, they definitely wouldn't get their respective scholarships.

I do starting to question the capability of those interviewers... and question the quality of so-called top students in Malaysia...

Hey peeps...

actually, i've been using my laptops (the previous one(dead) and the new one) to run programs computing stuffs for a better tomorrow... no joke... it's a 'sacred' task to dedicate your otherwise unused and idle computing power to do stuffs like computing the next largest Mersenne Prime with GIMPS, or to find a factor witjh Seventeen Or Bust, or to folding protein with Folding@Home...

As to check a really huge number... 2^7digit number - 1(which is millions of digits long number) to be a prime or not, it takes a relatively fast computer(with high clock speed) about a month(if u let ur computer to run 24 7...

so, uptil now, afer running the GIMPS' Prime95 for like almost a year... i'm the top 10000 producer... does it really matter?? haha... nvm...

anyway, as it takes way too long to complete a number, i've decided to contribute in another way... Folding Protein... so... fold and fold... well... at least it only takes me(more like my laptop) 2 days to produce a work unit...(wonder how significant, or insignificant that is)

at least i can see 'much' progress.... watever it means... but really... ppl perceive that by keep going, moving, walking or doing watever u were doing as progressing... just like when ppl cannot decide on wat to eat or wat to do at a shopping mall... they will keep walking and walking until some genius come up with a brilliant idea which is normally back to the first idea suggested by someone else... (i'm digressing here... but, think about it... Does this happen to ur fren and u too?)


anyway... so, currently, I'm running the Folding@Home application... under the team Folding@Malaysia... u might wanna check it out... Just google for it...

got this from Wolverinemalaya.com

quite funny... so here it goes:

Dear All,

Dress Code

It is advised that you come to work dressed accordingly to your salary. If we see you wearing Prada shoes and carrying a Gucci bag, we assume you are doing well financially and therefore do not need a raise. If you dress poorly, you need to learn to manage your money better, so that you may buy nicer clothes, and therefore do not need a raise. If you dress just right, you are right where you need to be and therefore do not need a raise.

Sick Days

We will no longer accept a doctor's statement as proof of sickness. If you are able to go to the doctor, you are able to come to work.

Personal Days

Each employee will receive 104 personal days a year. They are called Saturday and Sunday.

Toilet Use

Entirely too much time is being spent in the toilet. There is now a strict three-minute time limit in the stalls. At the end of the three minutes, an alarm will sound, the toilet paper roll will retract, the stall door will open and a picture will be taken. After your second offense, your picture will be posted on the company bulletin board under the "Chronic Offenders category". Anyone caught smiling in the picture will be sectioned under the company's mental health policy!

Lunch Break

Skinny people get 30 minutes for lunch as they need to eat more, so that they can look healthy.. Normal size people get 15 minutes for lunch to get a balanced meal to maintain their average figure. Fat people get 5 minutes for lunch, because that's all the time needed to drink a slim fast.

Thank you for your loyalty to our company. We are here to provide a positive employment experience. Therefore, all questions, comments, concerns, complaints, frustrations, irritations, aggravations, insinuations, legations, accusations, contemplations, consternation and input should be directed elsewhere.

Happy Working!

The Management"

It's been crazy hot out there...Seems like we didn't have Spring... The weather just turned from Winter to Summer...

yesterday... went to Kroger's to do groceries again... well... I think I goes to Kroger's about 3 times a week... well, i have to go and get some milk... and got some frozen entree(i bought 3 entrees, all from 3 different brands... i think i will be able to try all the available brand on the market by the end of August...) I'm keeping count how many frozen entree i've taken... so far, my counter reads 4... 1 chicken fingers, 1 salisbury steak, 1 chicken pot pie and 1 more salisbury steak....:P

played some soccer with my Carrie(housemate), well just kicking the ball around for about 30 minutes...(i guess) under the hot sun...
and went for a run about 6pm... it's still eff-ing hot...

oh yar... i cooked today(Friday)... scalloped potatoes and baked BBQ sauce marinated chicken...
here's the potatoes...



and here's the chicken...



the heat caught me and i kinda had a heat stroke... well... i felt light-headed and all, i assumed that it's because of the heat... I just couldn't stand the heat...
luckily my apartment has AC...

today... did nothing much... did some leisure reading(finished up the book 4 blind mice by James Patterson, and started on the new book... Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, by ZZ Packer... watched a movie... Mathilda... my housemate, Lei said that the book was really good...

and watched another movie...Be Cool...starring John Travolta, and Uma Thurman...

went to run about 5.15pm... came back about 50 minutes later... it's been hot out... and raining too... but it's relatively colder than yesterday...

watched some baseball... and then channel surf.. and saw that Sci-Fi was showing Resident Evil... and watched the show again...(it's like my 4th time watching the movie..)

bored...

that's all about it... peace out...

The Keys to Your Heart

You are attracted to those who have a split personality - cold as ice on the outside but hot as fire in the heart.

In love, you feel the most alive when everything is uncertain, one moment heaven... the next moment hell.

You'd like to your lover to think you are loyal and faithful... that you'll never change.

You would be forced to break up with someone who was insecure and in constant need of reassurance.

Your ideal relationship is lasting. You want a relationship that looks to the future... one you can grow with.

Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment.

You think of marriage as something precious. You'll treasure marriage and treat it as sacred.

In this moment, you think of love as something you thirst for. You'll do anything for love, but you won't fall for it easily.

I don't think so... maybe that's true... But i don't think so at the moment...