B&W

Had fever and cough on wednesday, fever went allll the way up to 38.3. Went to see doc, he gave me 7 days mc and wrote there 'influenza-like symptoms'. I can't go out even if I have recovered and I am now. argh. I am so wasting my life away at home, when I am healthy, alive and kicking. I can't imagine how I'm gonna keep up in schoolwork, it's four days absent from school. Plus can't go to church too cos sunday is still within the 7 days. Will return to sanity on tues, the next FPS meeting. (GREAT. pure luck.)

The 'constructive, self-help-book-lover' me tells me to make a timetable for

the days spent at home. The procrastinator in me tells me that today will be wasted, since it's 3.10pm now, the day's gonna end soon and I should start tommorrow. (am I the only weird one that thinks like this?)

ql bought this book at $5(!) at the Times books warehouse sale. (It's extended till 31st July, at amk industrial park.) She bought quite a few, all $5 or $6. Anyway, this Lottery by Patricia Wood is the book I'm currently reading. It has a nice font, easy on the eyes and plain language. The main character is a guy (Perry) with an IQ of 66. A mentally-disabled has an IQ of 65. So, technically, Perry is not 'retarded'. He's just slower and lucky. (Because his middle name starts with L, so his 'gram' says he's lucky.) This book is somehow alike to off centre n curious incident, because this Perry is being discriminated and talks about 'fast' and 'slow'. Perry is 'slow' and thus is laggin behind in the rat race. Why is it that all the books I read is about seems to revolve around the mentally ill or disabled?

ps. got this signature from www.mylivesignature.com!

Went for Angie & Bryan's wedding on 19th July

The view from the restaurant

nice, huh?

The party favours? The whatever-you-call-it is a pair of silver chopsticks.

A 10 seconds facial to rejuvenate the tired, book-contaminated pores. Let's just hope that the manufacturer values quality over appearances. Did the 'better-than-SKII' facial yesterday before DISC. xueying took the pic and just realised that she told shi hwee that she'll strip her of her council badge... Funny thing is, that's what I always say to her, except it's to strip her of her tie!

Read 'Then She Found Me' by Elinor Lipman. (It was later made into a movie, or was it the other way round?) This is the first book I read & took seriously after Jodi Picoult's change of heart. Now reading 'The infinite wisdom of Harriet Rose' by something Janey.

weiming when we were eating at kfc on sun.

Random photo taken during Life Game camp, the fingers are to remind you that I'm inside. It's sad to see my lonnggg hair - it's gone now. (a few inches of it.)

overdue!

Thumbdrives are definitely out. If you think a 2 GB thumbdrive retailing at $10 is a steal, you need to check your eyes. (pronto) Look at that picture, it's a 1 TB external hard disk at $139. & TB is a good solid 1000 gigabytes. It can store up to approximately 4 768 372 photos if 1 photo is around 2 mb. (I don't trust this number. You should, if you trust my math.)

Who uses so much storage? It's just a mad race to get the largest storage capacity, whether you need it or not. Owning a Seagate Raptor 1TB hard disk is glorious but not when you only used 0.2% of the storage capacity. It just brands you as an airhead, contributing to the global warming since you probably chucked your boxful of thumbdrives down the rubbish chute. All that for a 3.5 inch (8.5cm) plastic rectangular object. Whether it's cheap or not, buy what you friggin' need.

Anyway, the first of this was introduced by Hitachi in January 7, 2007. That was two years ago and I was probably living in a place void of IT news. I didn't even need a thumbdrive two years ago, much less an external hard disk.

Oh and if you think TB's not big enough, check out PB (petabyte). It's 1000 TB per PB. Google processes about 20 petabytes of data per day and Facebook has just over 1.5 petabyte of users' photos stored, translating into roughly 10 billion photos. That's b-i-g.

And, if you think about it, the web browser, the games, even your own desktop littered with files isn't real. At all. It's all virtual. (Is it correct?) The internet seems like another world, very much like the rabbit hole Alice went into. Nothing in it is solid, isn't it? How did we (okay, maybe not me included.) created such an illusion, something so misleading? I'm not sure whether this is a misconception or not and would gladly accept any corrections.

Hello, books & tests, goodbye late mornings.

School started (so noot finally!) & things sure did get back on track pretty fast. No more homeroom system, finally the normal system. Classes were more mundane but better than lugging a 2 tonne bag around with gravity acting on it in full force. (OH MAN. physics) And physics, as usual was a wild game of catch-no-ball. Gonna have tests soon, like in this week. urgh.

read carefully!

*photo credits to jana.

Overdue - again!

It was a glorious day, I know.

check out those leaves!

macroo.

they got lotss of rabbits. & 1 guinea pig!

the dog is cute but it kept barking, okay.

Hah. it's true colours.

looks cute here.

lovely! tis is one cute & nice dog.

cat & joh

we're supposed to look bored.

candid!

lovely dog, again.

lunch was spaghetti.

ngiam's spaghetti man.

ngiam

us!