The Rising Sun

25th Feb 2011

2011-02-25T12:40:00.000+08:00

It's been a long time since i used blogger to write about stuffs.

Lets talk about some stuffs that i want to do next time.

1) Pro-gamming in DotA(X)
Guess that is hardly possible, not much time for serious gaming already. Missed those days where i trained with inL and other clans.
Just wanna play normal slack games.

2) After studying in LMGT, i guess i won't want to work in the Logistics sector, its boring.
My dream is to be a Marksmen in Army. Precision shooting and flying a plane is what I want :)
Lets see how, in army then think, there are a long time there to think and plan on what I want to do next time.

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Planing for future events.
1) Clique outing after attachment/ or during attachment if everyone is okay with the timing.
-Most probably a outdoor adventure/ or outdoor fun outing.

2) Gym workout during the weekends of attachment with Leon.
-Got to train for Nafa and NS.

3) BB outing during the holidays
-Strengthen bonds between squad leaders and squad members

4)Do something for sister birthday. on-going.
Maybe go out on a holiday or something.

That will be all for now.

Back from a long while

2010-11-10T08:47:00.000+08:00

Heh heh. not really coming back to post daily or something.
Just wanted to update on some stuffs.'
UPDATES
1: WBL~
Yes, my team got in 2nd place ^^ woohoooo~ in the Junior League of course.
proud of you guys ^^ hahahahah~ Will be looking forward to the future WBLs.

2: End of dotA gameplays.
i wont be going back to play dotA anymore in the near future. probably gonna play with the boys during their term break.

3: Start of Starcraft II and BlackShot.
Yup. i will try to play both games and also finish up my tutorials! hahah!
Im quite a noob in SCII, only a gold rank in 1v1 match plays.
well~ will be focusing more on 1v1 now. cuz i want to up rank to platinum ! :D rank 14 in gold now.
so yeah, will take just a bit more ^^.
Protoss is my main now, just wanna try out the various tech switches and gameplays of the protoss.
Terran is still lovable, but yeah, just wanna try out other stuffs~
As for Zerg... oh no~ i dun have the apm to control that race efficiently and effectively yet, though i won a few matchups against noobs.

OH yea, Blackshot.. hehe i just started that game, just a sergeant rank~
KD is 1.3 to 1k currently. so yea, will be working to balance that well :D

4: Start of school term!
OH NO! hahaha. its a pretty short term, but the work is not shortened at all! HOHO!
nevermind~ lets enjoy the term ba~

FUTURE EVENTS

1: Kendrick de birthday :D
hooh, still need to buy a present for him :P
well~ yeahhh~
2:Christmas~
Excited nia~
i want presents :D and also
looking forward to what new stuffs are gonna come up in MOUSEHUNT during the christmas season~
Halloween was great ~ 2 new shadow traps~ oh well~
3: New year~ a brand new year! :D
lets set our new year resolutions now!

OKok~
That will be all for now. im bored:X hehehhe

HAHAHA

2010-10-10T22:24:00.002+08:00

From Howimetyourmother. *Wait 3 days before calling a girl* Jesus started the wait 3 days thing, he waited 3 days to come back to life. it was perfect, if he only waited one day, then a lot of people wouldnt heard that he died. they be like hey Jesus, what up? Jesus will be like What up, i died yesterday. then they be, err. you look pretty alive to me dude,

Then Jesus will have to explain how he was resurrected and how it was a miracle. then the dude will be like, okkayy whatever you say bro..
Then he cant come back on a saturday! everybody is busy, doing chores, trimming their beards. HE waited the exact number of days...3.

PLUS its Sunday! everyone is in church already. they be going like "no... Jesus is dead.." then BAMMM! Jesus burst through the back door and run up the aisles and everyone is totally psyched. and fyi, that is when Jesus invented the high 5. ~ true story :)

2010-10-10T15:47:00.000+08:00

Oh yeah. hahahas.
been watching tons of Starcraft II replays +commentary by
no other than HuskyStarcraft.
man he is an AWEsome commentator in SC II replays
and people love him for that yeah?

Well, SCII lovers,
head down to Youtube.com
and search for HuskyStarcraft channel and u will find a lot of AWEsome replays!
by people like TheLittleOne, Huk, Artoskis, Nada, Onewayman. and more! :D
so yup, enjoy !

The other thing i would like to update is my WBL!
got 2nd in the quarter finals and
yeah, gonna play against real strong player like Roy.
hopefully we can win his team and proceed to get
1st or 2nd for the game.

Bunch of stuffs

2010-10-04T21:06:00.000+08:00

OH yeah,
been eating quite a lot mans!!
Sakura, Carls, and etc etc. and gosh -.- MACMACMAC!!!!
hahahahahas!!
heng got excercise abit lahs can.
if not become one fat bitch die liaos :{

hohohos. i realised something
in Step up 2 and Step up 3.
they seemed to have a racist agenda in common.
you know~

After watching step up 2 and step up 3, it would appear to me that the show might be pointing out some racial "norms". the 2nd movie shows "Andie"-the female lead, falling out with her leader,(a black dude) and then she form her own crew and own. and the 3rd movie is totally the same, cept that her "black" leader jump to another crew and then the female lead form her own and own. LOL. wth?!

And ya know, the ending is always the white girl gets with the white guy~

see~ how racist can they be?

but still, i wont disagree with that.

Mixture between races is one thing i cant adapt to.

interracial sexual activities? oh no~ that is totally wrong to me.

ah well whatever!

Oh yeah, and again, League is coming and yeah~

wonder if we are gonna own the rest of the junior division.

Train hard and hopefully we can have enough mo qi to

OWNNN :D

heh heh~

Randoms

2010-10-04T21:00:00.002+08:00

Races and pieces

2010-09-27T15:53:00.000+08:00

I must admit the porshe races are pretty amazing! :D
heheheh!
then there is this charity event where ferrari cars are out.
wow! so many of them! :D aizai mans!!!

ohoh ya! and one more, Michael Schumacher car cock up in the middle of the race, then he throw his steering wheel out LOL!!! my chalet, Shell company(Ferrari) there happy like siao !

F1

2010-09-27T15:47:00.000+08:00

hahahahaha!!!!
have been working these 3 days for the F1 Grand Prix!
met new friends there, and had lots of fun messing around man!

Oh Yeahs~
worked there as a kitchen assistance!
oh well, its just replenishing the food, also to garnish and prepare the food too and also
doing carving at the station in our chalet( its actually a big room for each companies to enjoy dinner and then go out and there is this stand for them to view the F1.

Ahhhhh~~ actually we quite slack le, eating Häagen-Dazs® ice cream ^^
oh yea, u did not hear that from me :P
cuz we are not allowed to.
hahahas
first day, we are carving a super big salmon, baked in salt crumbs.
cool sia the fish!
then next day jiu carve lamb ribs
last day~
prime ribs! super big!!

hohohos~
then the servers side got one very funny epic moment.
we chatting ma then a guy opening the champagne bottle,
then the cork POP out so fast so furious that it hit the celling and then hit the table. LOL
and there is this mark on the celling hahahahahas!
then then
wallace and hallie playing LOl! then
hallie have one toothpick in her hands, then it poke
wallace's nipple LOL!!!!!!!!!!
OMFG! hahahas!!! so funny and epic lah can.

had a fun time! oh yeah, pictures....
shall post them next!

Past events

2010-09-23T22:35:00.000+08:00

OH well~
basketballing, swimming and cca-ing.
not to mention nights of dotA-ing and morning Starcraft II play.
lazy to say on each.
lets pick SC II.
really love that game :D
hehhhh~
got into bronze league...
well, cant blame my luck, as i fought really great opponents
in the qualifier rounds.
so yeah, still, pretty fortunate that im in the bronze league
whereby opponents are strong, but not those imbal strong those kind.
still meet some really good players.
my strategy is a 3 barracks continuous harassment mainly against the zerg and protoss.
i am a terran player of course.
1 base hardcore draining of minerals and harassments.
Waiting for the bliz-con to end so that i can post amazing video
on those pro players.
due to the patch update, its not really relevant to post
videos of SC II pro players up.
you still can search them in YOUTUBE though.
just type in
---David Kim-
or
---TheLittleOne---
---Check---
and many more which you can slowly browse through the
rich contents in YOUTUBE.
Enjoy! :D

BEST SC II VIDEO

2010-09-19T12:28:00.001+08:00

Videos!

2010-09-19T12:24:00.005+08:00

Starcraft II

2010-09-19T12:23:00.000+08:00

Remaked 6times in a row.

2010-09-08T18:50:00.000+08:00

I cant believe it,
while playing with Kain, mel, jr and one other kain's fren,
we remake the game 6 times in a row -.-''
due to suay-ness.
still, confirm win de game.,
idk i play for what. waste time.
if so easy win jiu dun play le.
F> Strong players to play against!!!!!!

LOL!!! WIN! (Y)

2010-09-08T15:25:00.002+08:00

A post that i have read from a website.

2010-09-08T11:59:00.001+08:00

Scientists are finding that, after all, love really is down to a chemical addiction between people

OVER the course of history it has been artists, poets and playwrights who have made the greatest progress in humanity's understanding of love. Romance has seemed as inexplicable as the beauty of a rainbow. But these days scientists are challenging that notion, and they have rather a lot to say about how and why people love each other.

Is this useful? The scientists think so. For a start, understanding the neurochemical pathways that regulate social attachments may help to deal with defects in people's ability to form relationships. All relationships, whether they are those of parents with their children, spouses with their partners, or workers with their colleagues, rely on an ability to create and maintain social ties. Defects can be disabling, and become apparent as disorders such as autism and schizophrenia — and, indeed, as the serious depression that can result from rejection in love. Research is also shedding light on some of the more extreme forms of sexual behaviour. And, controversially, some utopian fringe groups see such work as the doorway to a future where love is guaranteed because it will be provided chemically, or even genetically engineered from conception.

The scientific tale of love begins innocently enough, with voles. The prairie vole is a sociable creature, one of the only 3% of mammal species that appear to form monogamous relationships. Mating between prairie voles is a tremendous 24-hour effort. After this, they bond for life. They prefer to spend time with each other, groom each other for hours on end and nest together. They avoid meeting other potential mates. The male becomes an aggressive guard of the female. And when their pups are born, they become affectionate and attentive parents. However, another vole, a close relative called the montane vole, has no interest in partnership beyond one-night-stand sex. What is intriguing is that these vast differences in behaviour are the result of a mere handful of genes. The two vole species are more than 99% alike, genetically.

Why do voles fall in love?

The details of what is going on — the vole story, as it were — is a fascinating one. When prairie voles have sex, two hormones called oxytocin and vasopressin are released. If the release of these hormones is blocked, prairie-voles' sex becomes a fleeting affair, like that normally enjoyed by their rakish montane cousins. Conversely, if prairie voles are given an injection of the hormones, but prevented from having sex, they will still form a preference for their chosen partner. In other words, researchers can make prairie voles fall in love — or whatever the vole equivalent of this is — with an injection.
A clue to what is happening — and how these results might bear on the human condition — was found when this magic juice was given to the montane vole: it made no difference. It turns out that the faithful prairie vole has receptors for oxytocin and vasopressin in brain regions associated with reward and reinforcement, whereas the montane vole does not. The question is, do humans (another species in the 3% of allegedly monogamous mammals) have brains similar to prairie voles?

To answer that question you need to dig a little deeper. As Larry Young, a researcher into social attachment at Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia, explains, the brain has a reward system designed to make voles (and people and other animals) do what they ought to. Without it, they might forget to eat, drink and have sex — with disastrous results. That animals continue to do these things is because they make them feel good. And they feel good because of the release of a chemical called dopamine into the brain. Sure enough, when a female prairie vole mates, there is a 50% increase in the level of dopamine in the reward centre of her brain.

Similarly, when a male rat has sex it feels good to him because of the dopamine. He learns that sex is enjoyable, and seeks out more of it based on how it happened the first time. But, in contrast to the prairie vole, at no time do rats learn to associate sex with a particular female. Rats are not monogamous.

This is where the vasopressin and oxytocin come in. They are involved in parts of the brain that help to pick out the salient features used to identify individuals. If the gene for oxytocin is knocked out of a mouse before birth, that mouse will become a social amnesiac and have no memory of the other mice it meets. The same is true if the vasopressin gene is knocked out.

The salient feature in this case is odour. Rats, mice and voles recognise each other by smell. Christie Fowler and her colleagues at Florida State University have found that exposure to the opposite sex generates new nerve cells in the brains of prairie voles — in particular in areas important to olfactory memory. Could it be that prairie voles form an olfactory “image” of their partners — the rodent equivalent of remembering a personality — and this becomes linked with pleasure?

Dr Young and his colleagues suggest this idea in an article published last month in the Journal of Comparative Neurology. They argue that prairie voles become addicted to each other through a process of sexual imprinting mediated by odour. Furthermore, they suggest that the reward mechanism involved in this addiction has probably evolved in a similar way in other monogamous animals, humans included, to regulate pair-bonding in them as well.

You might as well face it...

Sex stimulates the release of vasopressin and oxytocin in people, as well as voles, though the role of these hormones in the human brain is not yet well understood. But while it is unlikely that people have a mental, smell-based map of their partners in the way that voles do, there are strong hints that the hormone pair have something to reveal about the nature of human love: among those of Man's fellow primates that have been studied, monogamous marmosets have higher levels of vasopressin bound in the reward centres of their brains than do non-monogamous rhesus macaques.
Other approaches are also shedding light on the question. In 2000, Andreas Bartels and Semir Zeki of University College, London, located the areas of the brain activated by romantic love. They took students who said they were madly in love, put them into a brain scanner, and looked at their patterns of brain activity.

The results were surprising. For a start, a relatively small area of the human brain is active in love, compared with that involved in, say, ordinary friendship. “It is fascinating to reflect”, the pair conclude, “that the face that launched a thousand ships should have done so through such a limited expanse of cortex.” The second surprise was that the brain areas active in love are different from the areas activated in other emotional states, such as fear and anger. Parts of the brain that are love-bitten include the one responsible for gut feelings, and the ones which generate the euphoria induced by drugs such as cocaine. So the brains of people deeply in love do not look like those of people experiencing strong emotions, but instead like those of people snorting coke. Love, in other words, uses the neural mechanisms that are activated during the process of addiction. “We are literally addicted to love,” Dr Young observes. Like the prairie voles.

It seems possible, then, that animals which form strong social bonds do so because of the location of their receptors for vasopressin and oxytocin. Evolution acts on the distribution of these receptors to generate social or non-social versions of a vole. The more receptors located in regions associated with reward, the more rewarding social interactions become. Social groups, and society itself, rely ultimately on these receptors. But for evolution to be able to act, there must be individual variation between mice, and between men. And this has interesting implications.

Last year, Steven Phelps, who works at Emory with Dr Young, found great diversity in the distribution of vasopressin receptors between individual prairie voles. He suggests that this variation contributes to individual differences in social behaviour — in other words, some voles will be more faithful than others. Meanwhile, Dr Young says that he and his colleagues have found a lot of variation in the vasopressin-receptor gene in humans. “We may be able to do things like look at their gene sequence, look at their promoter sequence, to genotype people and correlate that with their fidelity,” he muses.

It has already proved possible to tinker with this genetic inheritance, with startling results. Scientists can increase the expression of the relevant receptors in prairie voles, and thus strengthen the animals' ability to attach to partners. And in 1999, Dr Young led a team that took the prairie-vole receptor gene and inserted it into an ordinary (and therefore promiscuous) mouse. The transgenic mouse thus created was much more sociable to its mate.

Love, love me do

Scanning the brains of people in love is also helping to refine science's grasp of love's various forms. Helen Fisher, a researcher at Rutgers University, and the author of a new book on love*, suggests it comes in three flavours: lust, romantic love and long-term attachment. There is some overlap but, in essence, these are separate phenomena, with their own emotional and motivational systems, and accompanying chemicals. These systems have evolved to enable, respectively, mating, pair-bonding and parenting.
Lust, of course, involves a craving for sex. Jim Pfaus, a psychologist at Concordia University, in Montreal, says the aftermath of lustful sex is similar to the state induced by taking opiates. A heady mix of chemical changes occurs, including increases in the levels of serotonin, oxytocin, vasopressin and endogenous opioids (the body's natural equivalent of heroin). “This may serve many functions, to relax the body, induce pleasure and satiety, and perhaps induce bonding to the very features that one has just experienced all this with”, says Dr Pfaus.

Then there is attraction, or the state of being in love (what is sometimes known as romantic or obsessive love). This is a refinement of mere lust that allows people to home in on a particular mate. This state is characterised by feelings of exhilaration, and intrusive, obsessive thoughts about the object of one's affection. Some researchers suggest this mental state might share neurochemical characteristics with the manic phase of manic depression. Dr Fisher's work, however, suggests that the actual behavioural patterns of those in love — such as attempting to evoke reciprocal responses in one's loved one — resemble obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).

That raises the question of whether it is possible to “treat” this romantic state clinically, as can be done with OCD. The parents of any love-besotted teenager might want to know the answer to that. Dr Fisher suggests it might, indeed, be possible to inhibit feelings of romantic love, but only at its early stages. OCD is characterised by low levels of a chemical called serotonin. Drugs such as Prozac work by keeping serotonin hanging around in the brain for longer than normal, so they might stave off romantic feelings. (This also means that people taking anti-depressants may be jeopardising their ability to fall in love.) But once romantic love begins in earnest, it is one of the strongest drives on Earth. Dr Fisher says it seems to be more powerful than hunger. A little serotonin would be unlikely to stifle it.

Wonderful though it is, romantic love is unstable — not a good basis for child-rearing. But the final stage of love, long-term attachment, allows parents to co-operate in raising children. This state, says Dr Fisher, is characterised by feelings of calm, security, social comfort and emotional union.

Because they are independent, these three systems can work simultaneously — with dangerous results. As Dr Fisher explains, “you can feel deep attachment for a long-term spouse, while you feel romantic love for someone else, while you feel the sex drive in situations unrelated to either partner.” This independence means it is possible to love more than one person at a time, a situation that leads to jealousy, adultery and divorce — though also to the possibilities of promiscuity and polygamy, with the likelihood of extra children, and thus a bigger stake in the genetic future, that those behaviours bring. As Dr Fisher observes, “We were not built to be happy but to reproduce.”

The stages of love vary somewhat between the sexes. Lust, for example, is aroused more easily in men by visual stimuli than is the case for women. This is probably why visual pornography is more popular with men. And although both men and women express romantic love with the same intensity, and are attracted to partners who are dependable, kind, healthy, smart and educated, there are some notable differences in their choices. Men are more attracted to youth and beauty, while women are more attracted to money, education and position. When an older, ugly man is seen walking down the road arm-in-arm with a young and beautiful woman, most people assume the man is rich or powerful.

These foolish things

Of course, love is about more than just genes. Cultural and social factors, and learning, play big roles. Who and how a person has loved in the past are important determinants of his (or her) capacity to fall in love at any given moment in the future. This is because animals — people included — learn from their sexual and social experiences. Arousal comes naturally. But long-term success in mating requires a change from being naive about this state to knowing the precise factors that lead from arousal to the rewards of sex, love and attachment. For some humans, this may involve flowers, chocolate and sweet words. But these things are learnt.
If humans become conditioned by their experiences, this may be the reason why some people tend to date the same “type” of partner over and over again. Researchers think humans develop a “love map” as they grow up—a blueprint that contains the many things that they have learnt are attractive. This inner scorecard is something that people use to rate the suitability of mates. Yet the idea that humans are actually born with a particular type of “soul mate” wired into their desires is wrong. Research on the choices of partner made by identical twins suggests that the development of love maps takes time, and has a strong random component.

Work on rats is leading researchers such as Dr Pfaus to wonder whether the template of features found attractive by an individual is formed during a critical period of sexual-behaviour development. He says that even in animals that are not supposed to pair-bond, such as rats, these features may get fixed with the experience of sexual reward. Rats can be conditioned to prefer particular types of partner — for example by pairing sexual reward with some kind of cue, such as lemon-scented members of the opposite sex. This work may help the understanding of unusual sexual preferences. Human fetishes, for example, develop early, and are almost impossible to change. The fetishist connects objects such as feet, shoes, stuffed toys and even balloons, that have a visual association with childhood sexual experiences, to sexual gratification.

So love, in all its glory, is just, it seems, a chemical state with genetic roots and environmental influences. But all this work leads to other questions. If scientists can make a more sociable mouse, might it be possible to create a more sociable human? And what about a more loving one? A few people even think that “paradise-engineering”, dedicated to abolishing the “biological substrates of human suffering”, is rather a good idea.

As time goes by

Progress in predicting the outcome of relationships, and information about the genetic roots of fidelity, might also make proposing marriage more like a job application — with associated medical, genetic and psychological checks. If it were reliable enough, would insurers cover you for divorce? And as brain scanners become cheaper and more widely available, they might go from being research tools to something that anyone could use to find out how well they were loved. Will the future bring answers to questions such as: Does your partner really love you? Is your husband lusting after the au pair?
And then there are drugs. Despite Dr Fisher's reservations, might they also help people to fall in love, or perhaps fix broken relationships? Probably not. Dr Pfaus says that drugs may enhance portions of the “love experience” but fall short of doing the whole job because of their specificity. And if a couple fall out of love, drugs are unlikely to help either. Dr Fisher does not believe that the brain could overlook distaste for someone — even if a couple in trouble could inject themselves with huge amounts of dopamine.

However, she does think that administering serotonin can help someone get over a bad love affair faster. She also suggests it is possible to trick the brain into feeling romantic love in a long-term relationship by doing novel things with your partner. Any arousing activity drives up the level of dopamine and can therefore trigger feelings of romance as a side effect. This is why holidays can rekindle passion. Romantics, of course, have always known that love is a special sort of chemistry. Scientists are now beginning to show how true this is.

* “Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love”, by Helen Fisher. Henry Holt and Company, New York.

2010-09-07T18:45:00.001+08:00

oh no i love this song much!

Now all the churchies peeps and some other etc.

2010-09-06T21:06:00.000+08:00

Spamming of old photos!!!

2010-09-06T20:53:00.000+08:00

keep watching! its never ending!

2010-09-06T20:50:00.000+08:00

2010-09-06T20:35:00.000+08:00

Notice the previous posts,
theses are just a minor part of what iphone 4 is bringing out.
and of course, there will be idiots like myself
who criticize iphone 4 for its weakness and bla bla.
BUT BUT!
i have never used the phone before.
therefore, i never experience it first hand.
and experiences may differ from person to person.
yeah,
for those who are interested in iphone 4,
i say, go for it.
go for the experience!
and enjoy the phone for what it can do!
i am sure you can overlook its problem
and adapt to it.
unless you are telling me that
you are so !@#!%!@# that you cant adapt to problems.
i must say ur life is very messed up now.
hehh :D
gonna read up DT!

IPHONE 4 REVIEW

2010-09-06T20:29:00.002+08:00

Scratch-proof?: The glass in the back is ultra-resistant. It is comparable in hardness to Sapphire, which is so hard that it's practically impossible to scratch it. After months of use, the back of the phone should look a whole lot better than the plastic body of the 3GS. This should help the device retain a high resale value. Now this (almost) scratch-proof surface comes with one weakness: it is brittle. Yes, if you drop it (a couple of times), it will probably crack... so don't.

Feels good: The body of the iPhone 4 is very thin, much thinner than the iPhone 3GS, which was already considered to be very slim. At first, it's a little weird because despite the smaller volume, the weight stays the same. The iPhone 4 feels incredibly dense and solid. I got used to it after a few hours. The good news is that even with a case on, it should stay very compact.

New hardware platform: The iPhone 4 comes with Apple's A4 processor, as found on the iPad and it also packs 512MB of memory, which is twice as much as the iPhone 3GS. The additional memory is probably most useful to accommodate the new multi-task capabilities of the iPhone 4, but it might also bring some added performance to the system. The A4 processor should also be faster than its predecessor (the phone does feel faster) but speed was usually not a real issue on the 3GS, so the difference is not eye-popping.

Bumper: To alleviate shocks when the phone gets dropped, Apple has invented the "bumper", a plastic piece that goes all around the phone. It comes in different colors (orange, blue, pink, green, white, black). I have played with the black bumper, and I sure wish that I won't have to use it. It is probably efficient at what its doing, but it hides the steel band, which is one of the best feature of the phone, I think. Also, the metals feels much better than the Bumper's plastic.

High-resolution: The Retina display is one of the major improvements of the iPhone 4 design. With 960x640 pixels, it has a higher resolution than competitors (800x480) which is great because higher resolution directly impacts the usability of every text-based application (web, email, eBooks...), and the quality of video playback (details...). In practical terms, the Retina Display brings a slightly better user experience than 800x480 displays, especially when there is small text involved. The jump forward from the iPhone 3GS is simply gigantic, also because the 3GS was a little bit short in pixels.

Wireless reception & "death grip": Given the recent antenna problems that we've covered all too often, this is a sticky point. To make things clear: the iPhone 4 has *two issues* in regards to reception:

1/When the user grabs the phone, the human body effectively connects the two antennas (wifi & 3G), which impacts the reception quality (a.k.a "death grip"). For iPhone 4s already in the wild, this can by avoided only by using a case/bumper, applying a non-conductive material or by holding it differently... (scream now). How could Apple not realize what was going on? Maybe because the company tests its products with a case... Still, this seems silly that it wasn't caught during the design process.

2/The method used to display the reception "bars" has been "completely wrong" according to Apple itself. Problem #2 compounds with problem #1 because it makes the signal reduction even more dramatic, but at least, there's a software fix coming for #2. Update 7/16/2010: This has been fixed by iOS 4.0.1

Woahhh.... bad day.

2010-09-06T17:23:00.000+08:00

okay. today was okay i suppose...
hmmms -.-'''''''''''
so i asked JR to pei me dotA this morning.
oh well, so easy play. all the stupid noob pubs.

then i prepare go KFC study as usual.
hahahas my only place where i can study.
then i cannot find my notes!!!!!!!!!
SHIT!!! my study guide!!!!
GONE!
panic to the max!
i was like, ah dun care lahs.
i just skip the theory parts
and then study and practice on those
working types questions.
i was ordering at KFC
then when i take away the tray
my phone nearly drop out of my tray
and my drinks drop too!!!
WTF! but its all in the tray.
lucky bo spill a lot nehhhh.
just a bit bit.
but still, so suay!!!
and then when im at my table,
i drop my spoon!!!
LOL!!
then dun care la, just leave the mash potato.
then study study for 2hours plus.
then go home luh.

weeeweeee ^^
yanyou sibei nice!
he gave me his guidelines and also the answers to it!
WAHH NICE MANN :D
owe u one buddy!
so i just have to read jiu hao le~
hope i can do exceptionally well for tml's paper! :D
HUAT AH!
okok~

yst was lame -.-''
jr, me, junkai and eugene go play pub dotA game.
then got this malaysian team, challenged us,
then we play against them.
like. SO EASY?!
lol.... too easy le muhahahaha!
i still remember the 70minute game.
from lose like dogs liddat,
we turn over the game and won them>.>
miracle do happen. hahahhaa

just random dream i had

2010-09-05T11:45:00.000+08:00

So there was this kingdom in a land far far away.
The people lived there outcast the birds,
as they beliefs are that birds are "dirty" creatures.
Not all the people in the kingdom believe that,
A family which goes by the name McPherson
Was kind enough to throw bread and crumbs out of the kingdom for the birds

And among the birds,
there is this one particular bird, it is unique
as it is coated in green while the other,
lets say ordinary birds are coated in yellow.
The green bird was a proud bird
it does not like to share with its companions

One day a small piece of bread was thrown out of the castle
and the green bird was the first one to see it.
it swooped down and grab the bread.
The other birds flew to the green bird and asked
"Can you share a piece of your bread for my son? for he is sick and hungry"
The green bird ignored the group and flew away.

There comes the drought
and food was scarce
the people in the kingdom has little to eat
so did the birds
as days go by, the McPherson family stop supplying food for the birds.
The birds starved for days...

Alas! a bread was thrown out of the castle by the king!
the other birds quickly swoop down and distributed the bread
when the green bird came,
the community did not want to share their bread to that selfish creature.
the green bird pleaded and begged for food

At last, the leader of the group agreed to spare food to the green bird
The green bird weep in tears and apologise
for its wrongful doings and
turn over a new leaf.
--------------------
The end

OWNED

2010-09-04T19:01:00.001+08:00

AHHHH!!!
The 179 bus driver pang seh me!!!]
stranding me there by the interchange!

Awesome dotA match play.

2010-09-01T11:45:00.000+08:00

match play.

My team of :

Laceseeker: Medusa

InL|YourLies: Windrunner(me)

and there is Vengeful Spirit, Bloodseeker and Rouge knight

those 3 are toots that dun appreciate the game and spoil the game.

we had a interesting match with 3 clan people from QS and of course 2 pubs.

the host is QS^INT.KENroky,

friends are, QS^INT.___

and xsw4vz

and the pubs are french32

and oohsoohsoohs.

Laning:

Top(Sentinel): BeastMaster, Keeper of the Light.

Top(Scourge): Windrunner, Rouge Knight

Middle(Sentinel): Queen of Pain

Middle(Scourge): Medusa

Bottom(Sentinel): Venomancer, Lion

Bottom(Scourge): Bloodseeker, Vengeful Spirit

Game duration: 57minutes.

Scourge Won

as host left the game.

Game synopsis:

Early game:

Bottom scourge are heavily feeding to the sentinel.

Top scourge is pressured, still, farming is possible.

Middle: Peaceful farming~

There is not a lot of ganking around as there are 2 leavers who left during the end of the early game.

The host and his clan mate kp a lot. guess its their egoistic behavior.

doesnt matter. now i know QS clan have 2 bull-shitters.

During mid game, Venomancer was switched over and we turn the tables around.

We enjoyed ganking and the host

well.... whine about veno plspls come back bla bla bla~

still, we let veno over as it is his decision.

we suffered heavy losses as bloodseeker is a perfect noob that did not

have a basic understanding on how to approach a battlefield.

and have no mastery on creep spawns and timing.

still, farming is possible and

i have a Hex :D

still, its called Guinsoo Scepter.

Medusa is fattening up as he has a linken sphere and is farming out a EOS(eye of skardi)

the bloodseeker... lets say he whole day nc and farmed out a lothar edge and is prep his SNY(sange and yasha)

soon our mid rax was destoryed,

giving us a heavy disadvantage to our game.

still, we managed to kill the sentinel heroes.

btw, the host(QOP) is a joke, he brought radiance and a second sacred relic.

our guess is he is making a Divine Rapier.

and we are correct.

he made 2 to be accurate.

i will touch on to the on the Late game section

so it is Late game time~

the bloodseeker left due to our constant pressure and blabla.

so yeah, i got his SNY and lothar edge.

and god am i fat.

i farm out a MKB(monkey king bar)

so me and medusa did a lot of ganking as

their team is diverse in a sense that

at most only 2 will push one lane.

so we wrap them up quickly.

after killing qop at the beginning of LATEGAME,

she "disappeared"

she went to farm.

so we killed lion, and beastmaster in mid.

and yeah we are pushing.

but, u know, i am always the "go nc catch people first then go push in type"

And YES!

QOP was there, i lothared in, and gave a beautiful stun.

follow up by a hex,

oh well, that was not needed as the qop..

OH YES the items. u got to see this.

she sold her threads and RAdiance.

for 2 !!

NOT 1!

BUT 2 DIVINE RAPIER!

hahahhaha!

soon after qop died.

lion came and we killed it in like 3 shots.

the qop was fussing and cursing bla bla.

and she left.

i wish she have the courtesy to say "GG wp"

before leaving.

thats what i have learnt from the Korean players from Starcraft II

and also some good WCG games replay.

What a morning!

ok, should be going down and study for the day~

NO MORE OLD BEN

2010-08-30T18:52:00.002+08:00

BENJAMIN TAN KANG JIE will be nice, and i wont suan people, and i wont say vulgarities! that is a on going process, not a statement of current facts.

2010-08-27T20:50:00.001+08:00

2010-08-27T12:15:00.000+08:00

Nothing is ever enough to satisfy one's hunger

2010-08-26T15:48:00.002+08:00

There are some examples to this.
Lets take a look at some phrases or sentences that people use all the time.

"I do not want to go home! i want to play more!"
"I wanna be a billionaire.... so frigging bad~"
"Yeah baby give it to me, oh yea, more! More! MORE!"
"oh, she have a boyfriend already. then, damn another reject me"- Credits to someone.
"Next game/team, faster!"
"Is that all you have?"
"I don't have enough..."
"After a few days of steamboat, U WANT ANOTHER STEAMBOAT?!"... - no wonder u are obese* -.-
*note here that i no longer use the term "Fat" because it always understate the meaning. the proper term should be "obese" of course, pronunciation also plays a part. listen, "Fat" sounds like "Flat" and "Obese" sounds like O-beast. Therefore, the latter brings forth a greater emphasize to what i meant.

anyways,
we have our needs/wants
and we want them fulfilled,
yet, none of all of them can be satisfied completely.
we have to give up some things along the way.
yes, that is true.
So peeps, start thinking about things that are irrelevant to your future
and its time to throw them out.
Focus on the dreams and things that you want to achieve.
Eliminate any useless stuffs or people that may get into your way.

That is all,
Good day

2010-08-23T22:29:00.001+08:00

PPS

2010-08-23T20:13:00.001+08:00

hahahas! im using PPS!
:DD
and i am going to use the most out of it ~
oh well, going to work soon soon
that means very little time for cca >.>'

2010-08-22T23:40:00.001+08:00

Dont let your bo liao ness override your senses

2010-08-22T23:34:00.000+08:00

ahhh
i shall admit that foolish mistake i made a week ago
LOL!
sia mi lan >.>'
its been only a year and i slided abit away from
"Not gonna have a temporary relationship before NS"
yeah, you heard me preached about how r/s are not handled properly
and sometimes, its just the timing wrong only lah :D
so yeah. i choose to wait after NS, when i got stable income and more time to burn, and also maturity ^^
another thing, i know i know, how teenage girls (x=13~16)
are so ever *Temptacious* - derived from temptation and delicious.
they are like lollipops.
you just wanna unwrap them asap and they wont last very long
as you suck the goodness out of them.
lets think twice before stepping into any bo liao relationship ba.
mostly seasonal relationships.
i am tired of theses stuffs.
cant wait to move on to adulthood!

2010-08-22T00:27:00.001+08:00

Lazy post much

2010-08-21T19:40:00.000+08:00

Skipped BB
Went to clark quay and applied for job
Ate at some chinese place
Then find KOII
Brought chocolate milk tea
and went home
Prepare dotA
poor pubs.

You do remember those days

2010-08-20T23:47:00.000+08:00

Oh well~
Looking back at the secondary school photos and the memories of the times we had~
i can say i really missed those fun times!!!!
all the simple things and mess we've done~
bla bla~
how i wish i can become a kid again :D

Blow away

2010-08-20T16:41:00.002+08:00

You taken away everything that i can do without~

Day out with the boys and felicia.

2010-08-19T21:11:00.000+08:00

see that boonsiang emo

i know. pathetic.

again right?!

lets sing some really metal songs!

sleepyhead.

LOL
nuff said

Sentosa and Kbox!

2010-08-19T21:09:00.000+08:00

weee huuuuuuuuuuu~
ok. rubbish a lot. anyways,
boonsiang and I woke up early to prepare food and stuffs for sentosa later :D
ok. the weather a bit suck suck. cuz rain for 5min then bo liaos.
and its not that sunny </3
anyways, we played volleyball for awhile and craps.
anyohhow only. hahahas!
i zai ok. use leg to play :D
then we headed to Koufu and ate there :D cuz its raining.
after eating, the rain stopped and we headed back to the beach and set our ground sheet.
bs zh and jr played cards and
i was with felicia playing water and splashing around macham we sec1 only lahs -.-'
kids mans! hahahas!
so yeah, we walked on the beach and craps along the way bla bla~
then the bridge at palawan there de. damn scaryy cann..
cuz its drizzling and we just cross the bridge and see the big big biggg ships.
then go back that time -.-' wa laos!
i feel that the bridge is really falling la!!!!
cuz it look slanted and looked like its gonna fall!!!
damn i can swim but i hate the fishes in the water!!! ><'''
give me the creeps!
so we headed back and the guys came over to the waters and chatted
they didnt bring clothes to chg and
yeah. boonsiang accidently splashed water onto jr!
LOL EPIC MOMENTS of splashing!!!
hahahas!!!
lucky bs got bring a set of clothes to change into.
so we went to change after that and soon headed to chinatown for KBOXXX!!! :D
had fun there and yupyup~
skip the details~
boonsiang emoing` so sad D:
watever the case anyways.
lets not talk about emo stuffs here.

our so called last song was "朋友“
damn nice song. hahas! really sung out with our hearts out loud and really its a precious moment for all of us.
sad jes and eil cannot make it.
so after kbox the guys wanna go home, so they went off early.
so i walked around with felicia and we are complaining about china town being old and stuffs~
blehhh!
we went to KOII and brought bubbletea!! :D
heheheh!
the pearls super nice ^^ Thumbs up!
in the train me and felicia were having some serious talk!
hmms! yupyup
anyways
Felicia if you are reading this,
cheer up! you are still someone i look up to.
cuz you are damn mature and stuffs.
and also wise :DD
even though sometimes, i feel that i have more wisdom than you....~
:P
hohoho! lets hope our clique can last forever and
you better work on being responsible abt ur decisions hor!
all the best in your studies and examinations!
ACE ALL THE POLY EXAMS!
HUAT AH!

YES!! MY FAVOURITE PIANO SONG NOW PLAYED FROM A GUITAR

2010-08-19T00:48:00.003+08:00

I should move on. its over anyway

2010-08-18T20:42:00.000+08:00

pretty self explanatory.
whats done cannot be undone.
since she made her decision,
i shall not pursue any further and make this more complicated than it should be.
lets not think about it.

Joycelyn Ting

2010-08-18T18:44:00.000+08:00

Wow!
i was shopping for tommorrow's event de stuffs at ntuc and a "***" shop. censored because of the gift ah~
cannot anyhow reveal first :D
okok~
then we went to this *** shop and tell the sales girl what we wanted.
then she asked me, " you are benjamin ah?"
then i was like " erm ya? "
lol. then i know, she is from the same primary school and class as me ~ cool cool!
but i dun really remember her.
laughs, good good.
i think so far i only rmb people from my p5-6.
damn fail i know.
okok~
i think thats pretty much le.
im tired. i dun wanna think

coincidental?

2010-08-18T12:49:00.001+08:00

its my second time listening to perfect by hedley when i just turn on my radio. its niceeee (:

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This is Nice :D

2010-08-18T11:31:00.004+08:00

Ahhh~ Another Justin.B demotive

2010-08-18T11:31:00.000+08:00

2010-08-17T23:06:00.000+08:00

hahahahhaas~
raining so no bball today.
oh well~
leon came over to dotA at my place~
wooo! ownage lah can!
hahahas!
then we watch what some chinese movie by jack neo.
lmao. laughing the whole time can.
gg.blogspot.com!!!
gone case la~
hoho.
ate hokkien mee downstairs and
talked about life and etc.
damnzxc
its been so many years of friendship
and we all grew up.
loads more of responsibilities and stress.
well~ hope our clique can last till longlong! :D
huat ah!
hehhh~
at night jr jio me dotA~
not bad
win and lose. ><'
nvms~ haahas! can improve de!
oh well~
lets hope tommorrow will be a good day!~

you know im still thinking about you....

oh no

2010-08-16T20:46:00.002+08:00

i know i sucked as a player.
i find no opportunity to ask the question....
damnzxc.
if waiting helps,
i dont mind waiting

Ong Bak 3

2010-08-16T18:02:00.001+08:00

Awesomeeee!!!
hahahs!
lots of fighting and action!

Self Reflection

2010-08-16T16:41:00.001+08:00

Maybe i want to try.
Know it may be foolish
And also by default against my personality
I don't know.
Love is blind

I just don't want to step into another hole again.
Even if i do
I will bounce back again
Because life does not ends there

Here goes
Lets go Ben
Do what your heart says
Satisfy it
And not to what your dick says
ITS FUCKING USELESS.

not entirely but its useless in a happy relationship
sorry yeah Mr AWEsome
you will have your chance next time :D

Day out with leon

2010-08-16T16:05:00.002+08:00

hoho. we went to school and ate there- our sec sch i meant.
afterwards joey saw me and came over to poke me!!!
gg like everyone knows my weakness
. then we go bb room to take groundsheet for thurs event.
we soon headed to jp to shop for food stuffs in ntuc.
haha. feast feastty!!
we go arcade then and saw huijay!
played initial D and basketball!
so fun. bs winme sia?!! shocked!!!
haha. hj cannot win me bball (:
soon ended the day. hoho tml play bball with the guys, hope it dun rain!!

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Tetris maniac!

2010-08-16T12:47:00.000+08:00

wooo!
FOCUS!
hahas. that is what i've been doing just now.
erms yeah. something related to focusing

Im playing tetris friends on facebook!
45mins of continuous tetris gameplay!
each round you must clear 40 lines before your Artificial Intelligence (AI)
clears theirs.
each round is like 2mins-3mins.
so yeah. u can imagine how many rounds i played.
Focus power !!! :DD
hahahas!
ok i need to take a break.

Chatty Wassup!

2010-08-16T11:16:00.002+08:00

*.ah_rÖnG!.〝 Mr. Somebody says:
*........................................
*i only know dota f3
Benjamin is blogging again @ http://iamnotasingaporeracist.blogspot.com/ says:
*i dunno how to dota
*teach me D:
*.ah_rÖnG!.〝 Mr. Somebody says:
*i know this game only
*idk how to play 2
Benjamin is blogging again @ http://iamnotasingaporeracist.blogspot.com/ says:
*i hear my fren say
*u pick one hero
*then u go melt the frozen throne
*if u another side de
*u must burn the tree
*that is the cause of global warming is caused by dota
*everyday ppl burn trees and melt the ice
*no wonder global warming
*.ah_rÖnG!.〝 Mr. Somebody says:
*= =

Back to school

2010-08-16T11:14:00.000+08:00

YOYO!
Later going back to our secondary school to take some ground sheets
for some events :DD
hoho. i hope the food at BLSS is edible :D

Later~

stomache!!!

2010-08-15T20:08:00.001+08:00

the title speaks for me :(

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Who to bless?

2010-08-15T18:56:00.000+08:00

Let me share with you guys a story that i heard some time ago....

Once upon a time
There lived 2 farmers who shared a piece of land equally with each other
The farm prospers as there is enough rain for the crops
And they live a good life

However, in the month of September drought struck the land
The drought lasted for months
The crops are withering
As the soil dries up

As the days goes by
The two farmers reap nothing
They both prayed to God
Asking for a miracle

The next day
Farmer Pan went to his farm and planted seeds
Farmer Jon laughed at Pan
Saying "Dont be a fool, plant when there is rain! You are wasting your seeds!"

Farmer Pan faithfully plants his seeds
While Farmer Jon lays at home waiting for the miracle
Several days passed by
All hopes seem lost in the horrific drought

On this faithful day
Rain fell joyously onto Farmer Pan's land
but not Farmer Jon's land
Jon cursed the Lord on this occurrence

Farmer Pan prospers even more...

The end :D

Let me tell you the morale or the story.
You see, when things don't go exactly the way you wanted
or that your plans are failing
or you are stuck with a problem
You simply gave up and wait for a miracle.
That is not the way people!
Stand up and push in!
Never give up
and you will succeed in your endeavors!
Will you be Farmer Pan? or Farmer Jon?
The choice is up to you!

Awesome show!

2010-08-15T15:51:00.000+08:00

You know :D this really cool show i've been watching.
its called White Collar :D

Plot : A white collar criminal agrees to help the FBI catch other white collar criminals using his expertise as an art and securities thief, counterfeiter and racketeer
.

Cast

(Series Cast Summary - 7 of 17)

Matthew Bomer	...	Neal Caffrey (24 episodes, 2009-2010)
Tim DeKay	...	Peter Burke / ... (24 episodes, 2009-2010)
Willie Garson	...	Mozzie / ... (24 episodes, 2009-2010)
Tiffani Thiessen	...	Elizabeth Burke (24 episodes, 2009-2010)
Sharif Atkins	...	Jones / ... (19 episodes, 2009-2010)
Natalie Morales	...	Lauren Cruz (13 episodes, 2009-2010)
Marsha Thomason	...	Diana Barrigan (10 episodes, 2010)

Picture Speaks a thousand "LOL"

2010-08-15T13:21:00.001+08:00

who is ready for some KUNGFU ACTION?

I guess it will never be your turn

DIE! i meant MELT!

Searching Life

2010-08-14T21:02:00.001+08:00

I grow weary of the things happening
I saw your smile at the distance
What meant to be will be a memory of time
That i have this chance to say
You are the one

Distance is nothing
We are close
Yet the distance between us is so huge
The bridge that brings us together
Now separates us like water and oil
So near yet so far

Death signs a new page
Of what is about to decay
Fading away
Withering in the shadow
Beneath all these
Rise a beautiful soul
That shines through ages

I have become of something that i did not want in the first place
This is my end and my beginning

Written by
Benjamin Tan

RAIN

2010-08-14T19:16:00.001+08:00

screw it. its raining. no bball

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AWESOME!

2010-08-14T19:13:00.001+08:00

trying blog on phone

2010-08-14T19:07:00.001+08:00

laughs. lets try this

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UNBELIEVABLE!

2010-08-14T18:46:00.003+08:00

2010-08-14T18:42:00.001+08:00

Will eventually be a memory of time

2010-08-14T18:31:00.000+08:00

Carina

oppps the middle finger

i just love the scenery of green places

You did not smile as you used to...

2010-08-14T18:25:00.000+08:00

OH! :D
blah blah.
today met Carina at pioneer mall's Kou fu !
laughs, she played that rolling ball game and sucked at it! ROFLMAO!
after that we went in koufu and tried the japanese stall food!
>.> dang the rice is hard. anyways, the chicken is great! fish isnt that bad~
laughs. then we hang out awhile and got bubbletea!
the grape was too sweet. ><
afterwards we hang out at the playground till 5plus and then go home liao.
lazy post muchs. haha.
just wanna go Vivo and slack! seriously that place rocks heaven man!
That will be all for today. going down for basketball soon :D

2010-08-14T18:03:00.001+08:00

HAHAHAHA NEW BLOG!