samedi, août 18, 2007

google goes black, environment goes green


the title was an abstraction from an article from lianhe zaobao..
in tandem with the eco-friendly ideas to combat global warming, toby heap created the blackle, a google-powered search engine featuring a black background and almost everything in black. according to the founder, a screen which is pre-dominantly white requires more energy to display than a dark or black screen.. thus by adopting a black background, we can all help to reduce the energy usage, given our high power usage due to our long time in front of the pc, surfing the net or what not..
so let's do our little part in reducing the energy usage, because a little energy saved by everyone of us goes a long way.. cheers..
it's coming, tomorrow..
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mercredi, août 15, 2007

it's here!!
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samedi, août 11, 2007

back to school..

perhaps some may have known, i am back in school, no less than a year of hiatus from my university education in ntu..

i once commented that i had enough of education already, at least my computer engineering course made me think so.. the endless hours of programming and mugging for exams made me ponder what education is really about.. is it really about studying just to pass the exams? no wonder my good friend Gunn and Son hardly attend the lectures.. sometimes and most of the time, they are quite pointless.. haha..i only truly enjoy artificial intelligence and database management.. that's about it.. but, the course does has its benefits, if i can duely remember them..

things just all crossed at the same juncture at that particular time and i happened to be there and i jumped on the bandwagon.. had been thinking about it, peers had mentioned about it, newspapers were talking about it, SIM is promoting it.. so as a natural course of events, i registered for it: degree in translation and interpretation.. in english and mandarin, of course..

my affinity with languages, especially my mother tongue and my first language starts really really late, as late as 10 years ago.. i have no interest in languages whatsoever when i was a student.. studying them were worse than a chore, a punishment rather.. adjectives and prepositions aren't my close friends really, and it was a miracle that i actually passed them.. a sure tell-tale that god actually exists.. not that i have doubted its existence, just for exaggeration purposes..

my mandarin improved after my secondary education from my years of workshops in my tao centers, still far from good.. my english only because i read quite alot also during my poly years.. met french, fall in love with it, as far as to participate in a student exchange programme to france..

about the translation course, my motivation is that i wouldn't want to do programming for the rest of my life, nor to be in the it sector.. i am interested in literary works, about doing translation so that people from the east and the west are able to appreciate more works from both continents, and that there are so many works that are been poorly translated by untrained people.. which is really a pity in my own opinion..

there was a chinese saying that goes: its only when you start learning that you realize you have still so much to learn. that's my thought after two weeks of attending the lessons.. but not now, now i want to sleep..
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mardi, août 07, 2007

i live in singapura

in the spirit of our impeding national day celebration, here's a parody of our little red dot we call singapura..



in case you don't know of the words used in the clip, feel free to pm me.. cheers!
enjoy..

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lundi, août 06, 2007

some pictures taken over the weekend for my trip down to kl..







some pictures taken over the weekend for my trip down to kl..

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