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HAH! OESTROGEN INVASION!
Yours truly has been invited to make the Sexiest Blog on the Net even Sexier. Fear the pink!

Enough oom-pah-pah! Hello everyone! It’s good to be in the company of three very sexy, very talented up-and-coming Star Bloggers who have generously given me a share of their limelight. Three weeks and five gazillion reminders to BLOG DAMMIT later, I’ve decided it’s about time I did. :)

So Horng demanded of me what business I have blogging on exclusively NAQ i.e. male (right guys? right?) territory? Exclusive until now, that is.

Hmph.
“Cannot issit now?”
“Haha, Joanne’s typical ‘cannot issit?’”

Whaaatever. Cannot issit?

Okay okay first post! What shall I talk about? twiddles thumbs in glee

I always have a lot to rubbish about—ask the ones who use their free off-peak minutes to call me at night when I am most mentally alert, but since this is my inaugural post I will naturally choose to leave everyone with a positive first impression and be exceedingly dignified and philosophical. (Did I hear someone say bullshit?)

WHY TRUE DEATH?

Indeed, why true death?
As opposed to a false death?

Apparently there is a killer new show on local TV these days called Dead Man Weds. Wednesdays, ITV, 10pm, and repeated on Mondays on ITV2. Ha, proof of a false death.

Oops, you can’t see the whole thing. Well, click on what there is of the picture, then you can. They cropped the bottom picture in the picture (picture in the picture?). The headline on that paper is ‘Pensioners Make Lovely Rugs’. Hahahaha. Oh, just click on it and you’ll see.

Notice I said apparently, o observant one. I have not a TV, nor do I intend to get one, though I was sorely tempted when they were showing Anatomy for Beginners, and still am since they’re showing Desperate Housewives, but I a) will be broke after Paris and b) will not give in to the TV Licensing people. Bully me with all the threatening letters in black envelopes (literally ‘blackmail’) you want. Get none and I won’t get done. LOSERS! I’ll watch my TV secondhand from now onwards—through the TV Guide!

This brings me to…

TAUNTING

I used to taunt my little…okay, maybe not so little, snigger...brother all the time for being fat. You will have heard me referring to him as a ‘walking balloon’, ‘human cannonball’ or ‘tub of lard’ on more than one occasion. Well, I don’t lie. He fits all those descriptions to a T. I never use the word fat on anyone else I personally know. Swear.

So one typical taunting day, when the sky was blue, and the birds were singing, and the brother was doing his usual thing, being fat…

Yan: bows head and chants, as if in prayer mumblemumblemumblemumblemumblemumblemumble
Me: What? Piece of fat?
Yan: loudermumblemumblemumblemumblemumblemumblemumble
Me: shuts up and strains to listen
Yan: sticksandstonesmaybreakmybonesbutwordswillneverhurtme.
sticksandstonesmaybreakmybonesbutwordswillneverhurtme.

_

almost guilty

I wonder where the hell he learnt that. Everything he learns is from TV. Look, it has to be, he spends 10 hours a day in front of it. That’s why he’s so fat hey! The things they show on TV these days.

Speaking of TVs,

MICHAEL JACKSON

The security guard next to me zoomed in on a particular image on the CCTV and asked me to look.

(points at image of all the staff in the ward standing in a circle, gaping at the wall-mounted TV set spellbound)

SG: smirk I wonder what they’re watching.

I bet it was coverage of the MJ trial.

As I zipped past the water cooler, around which nurse A and nurse B were huddled in animated gossip, on my way to deliver a name list to the ward…

Nurse A: sticks out a hand to stop me DID MICHAEL JACKSON DO IT?
Me: Wha..?
Nurse A: DID OJ SIMPSON KILL HIS WIFE?
Me: Well I think—Nurse A: DID MIKE TYSON RAPE HER?
Me: ...
Nurse B: Ah reckon you can’t call dat rape. If she was in de position without her knickers on, and de court knew dat, she can’t claim de was rape! Innit?
Nurse A: Yeah! Egg-sackly! conspiratorial whisper you know what I think happened? I think she came onto him, yeah, and they slept together, and the next morning he—
Nurse B: He just left her in bed!
Nurse A: That’s it! He must have gone, “I’ll call you in the morning”, AND HE DIDN’T! slaps table
Me: listens in mute and amused amazement until SG pops his head in and asks if I will please hurry up with that name list because the head nurse just paged him for it?

Oh yay! Time to go home. More blogging next week and happy CNY!

Back to school for me… Its the first day and before I even stepped into the damn building i have a deadline to hand in! I was like BOLLOCKS! Walked into Tutorial and was expected to have a lab manual, a tutorial sheet and a lab exercise… Which no one had of course… why you ask? Because my dear friends… UK efficiency is such that they send this VITAL piece of information to your UNI CS account on FRIDAY and the only place we can get these notes etc. is the resource centre…open when? Mondays till Fridays. Lovely. So it was IMPOSSIBLE to get notes which we NEEDED for the tutorial on Monday morning. I love UK….

Bah aside from that… Alls good… Im back to my beloved Linux, Fedora Distro to be exact. You should try it… UNIX based systems are lovely. Faster… More stable… and has a cute penguin as a mascot. I might just post a guide to installing and DUAL BOOTING a machine… Hmm when i have less work i.e. Never. But seriously folks… Linux has been the best OS i have ever used… Thats before i actually get to use OSX =p

SPEAKING of OS X… I have considered getting myself a 15in Powerbook G4… or wait until G5 comes out… Wonder how im going to raise money for that =)

I’m headed to London this friday to meet up with the NAQ guys (sans Ram n Sahril) as i have detailed in the previous post. Cant wait for that… Heading to Lings place for Dinner with Jenn as well… looking forward to seeing everyone again. Not looking forward though to the insane prices London has… Oh well…

Anyway just to let you guys know… Future large posts from me include articles titled:
No, You are NOT a clubber, National Service, Service to who? Blogging, alternate reality? and Do you really need it? 500 Hits a day!

Sounds good no? When i actually get my butt in motion and decide to write them, you can flame me accordingly.

Digressing… This is a typical conversation between my mother and I….

Mother: wei how ru. hws d wther dere?
Me: er.. Fine.. weathers cold but bearable, hows things back home?
Mother: k gng 2 fujian nxt wk, hp nt cold coz dun hv pu skin
Me: ?????? okkk…. How long you going for? Whats the occasion
Mother: ya
(5 mins later)
Mother: gng 2 vst rels
Me: ????????? I didnt know we had relatives there
Mother: ya
(5 more mins)
Mother: k gtg now, c u
Me: ok.. miss you guys… take care and send regards to Bill etc etc etc…
Mother: k…
Juliet has signed out

TIAO! My mother is the queen of abbreviations. She is even better SMSing… how many times i have gotten a “k…” reply from her… Its absolutely infuriating trying to work out what she is saying. SMS i understand.. but MSN? with a full size keyboard? LOL… Anyway enough boring insight into my personal life.. Most of you are here for the eXeem review, Port Forwarding tutorial, terlampau thing, Undang rembau, or just bots from some stupid gambling refferal site…

Adieu till next time.
Luc

EDIT: After i posted it… Just so happens, Apple came out with the BRAND NEW POWERBOOK G4’s Faster Processor… 8x superdrive… Faster and Larger HDD and DUAL ACTION TOUCHPAD (tiaoooo)

With the exams finally over, I look very forward to catching up with what I didn’t get to watch in the past week or two. First and foremost will be Desperate Housewives! LOL. Don’t think I have to go on about this series – Jasmine + Jillian will agree that it’s absolutely addictive (and not for Teri Hatcher’s inability to wear a bra properly). It airs on Sunday night in the States and on Sunday nights here too on E4 at 10pm. But who needs domestic telly when you’ve got #btefnet?

23 Grandale finished the weekend off with a scruptious roast chicken courtesy of moi (yum yum eh Jasmine?) and stir fried vegi. Opened a bottle of pseudo-champagne thanks to Luc’s pastor and topped it all off with two apple flavoured ice-cold shisha whilst watching Real Madrid win away at Numancia for the first time ever 2 goals to 1. Ah, such bliss is a bachelor’s home!

Yes, beta accounts are on a first come first serve basis, go get one now.

edit : Download is 2.4 GB. You could use the official installer thingy, or… you could find the torrent and use BT. Leave a message in comments if you can’t find it.

edit : Account creation has ended, so if you were lucky you will have an account to play with, and if you were really smart, you would have registered more than one account so you could get your friends to join you in losing touch with real world.

I have done what was thought to be le impossible! On the eve of my Employment Law paper, I decided to tinker around the database a bit and thus have COMBINED and merged the old posts with the new! Yup, that means a plethora of posts to read and see dating all the back to March 16 2003. Man, it’s soon to be td.com’s 3rd birthday then. Can’t believe it’s been that long. But let the “memory lane”esq post wait till then shall we?

Anyway, in merging the two databases (way back when td.com was powered by b2 and later Wordpress 0.72 – we never did go up to 1.0!) we’ve lost the catagories of the old posts. Which is kinda OK really considering there were only 2 – the blog posts themselves and the photoblog if you don’t count the pseudo author pages. So if you see photos interspersed between the posts in the archives, they were originally photoblogs. Who knows, we might actually explore that option again once my exams are over.

And when Lucas actually buys a cattle prod.

Also, good news to google and other search engine wanderers who have intermittently searched for amongst others:

• Pramugara yang terlampau


• Bittorrent + University ports: Here and Here


• adat perpatih


• how to fix computer


• nip tuck torrents

And now… Exeem.

Suprisingly td.com ranks pretty high on those searches. I’ll eventually put up a page where the most popular posts in terms of searched stuff will get put. At least we’ll be doing some service to the ‘net other than posting random Level 5 Flash Games.

The URLs to the archives have NOT CHANGED (I changed them when I started the new blog) so the old posts remain as they were. I did not restore the comments though as most of them were either wanting to sell v14gRa and other penile enhancing drug or trying to get you to play Texas Holdem Poker at the sleazy 888 casino. We hate spam. So we killed all comments. Bah! So much for posterity…

So take a browse down memory lane! Most photos and pictures are there as we’ve not deleted any of the image directories. But if links are broken, please post a report in the comments. And PLEASE REFRAIN from referencing homosexual viagra laden texas holdem playing casinos. Your comment will most likely be chewed up by the spamminators that police the site.

EDIT: Comments for old posts are now closed. Comments for the newer threads are open though. However, commenting on posts older than 21 days will be put in the moderator queue. Comments are also subject to Kitten’s Spam Comment plugin and spamminator algorithms herein.

Yes, you saw the title right, they are offering 8Mb now in the UK. And you know what’s the best thing about it, it only costs 40 quid a month (compared to TW’s 4Mb at 50quid/month), download allowance of 500GB a month, and uploads up to 400Kbps. Heck, they’ll throw in a free wifi-router if you order now.

For more details and list of available areas

It was about time I supported my favourite browser.

Opera, the Forgotten Browser

( link to article on Wired )

I’ve been surfing the net for 4 hours straight, don’t think my brain can handle any more, and my list of bookmarks is getting to the point where you just dump them into a folder and forget about them… Right, quick take on the 4 hours of wasted life.

– You can buy GBA SP now for about 50 quid. ( I hope I win the auction. ) – You can buy a Nintendo DS now for about 140 quid. – They might reduce the price to 100 quid when the DS is released here in March. – You can buy a PSP now for about 300 quid. It only costs 180 quid to pre-order it on amazon.co.uk. – Some flash kits for the GBA work for the DS, but only GBA ROMs will work. – Cheapest flash kit for the GBA I found was about 45 quid. – There is a modchip for the Gamecube, called Viper GC, which enables you to play er… ‘backed up’ games burnt on a mini DVD-R. – Cheapest Viper GC I found was about 45 quid, but you do need a soldering iron and other stuff. – You can buy 10 mini DVD-Rs for about 7 quid. – Another way is to stream the game using the boardband adapter with Phantasy Star Online, aka the PSO hack. – There is a PS2 emulator, but with very limited functionality. – There is a memory card exploit for the PS2 which allows you to load games onto the HDD. – There is a froogle.co.uk. – GiTS 2nd Gig 17 and 18 are out, so is Xenosaga 03. – Just found out that lik-sang has a shipping centre in Europe, and they sell the DS for a 100 quid, PSP for 200 quid. ( If someone can tell me how this stupid VAT and import duties work, that’ll be great. ) – I take a very long time to write a post. – I need to sleep.

edit :£99 Nintendo DS on 11th March confirmed.

Random flash game.

Disclaimer : Downloading copyrighted material is illegal. I will not be held responsible for any shit you might get into as a result of using the aforementioned program.

Before suprnova died, work was started on Exeem, and from what I know, it is a decentralised version of BT. If you want the gory technical details you can try google or try file sharing sites like slyck or zeropaid.

Taken from Exeem.com privacy page
The odd thing is several websites mentioned that Exeem contain Cydoor, which is some sort of adware. I’ve tried using both Exeem 0.2 and Exeem Lite 0.18, and both seem to work fine(without ads). Anyway, here’s the review.

Installation : I obviously opted NOT to install the IE toolbar addon. Exeem requires a port to be open for remote connections, default is 6881. Also a good idea to limit your upload speed to 50% – 75% of your total upload bandwidth.

Usage: Both versions worked fine. Used the ‘new files’ tab to get a file, somehow it wasn’t surprising to find that more than half the files listed were porn. Downloaded a ~10MB file with very good speeds (>50 kBps). And the best thing is I did not have put up with any ads, which I found rather odd. There was this blank space beside the tabs, that is probably where the ads should have popped up, might be the HOSTS file I was using. I don’t have a personal firewall installed so I couldn’t really check. Anyway, did a full adaware scan and it didn’t turn up anything. So it’s all good.

The program lists only about 25,000 users on the network with about 6 TB shared. That is very small compared to other networks like edonkey or fasttrack. But the app is fairly new, and it’s still in beta, and it should be picking up steam in the coming weeks as word spreads. We’ll see how it does then.

So, the big question is, should you use it ? I say no, well… not yet anyway. The program is still in its infant stages, meaning they will have bugs to sort out, plus availibility of files is pretty bad, unless you’re looking for some random porn to satisfy yourself. For now it’s best to stick with whatever p2p app you’re using to get the files you want.

I feel good now. =)