For those of you who choose to stubbornly trudge on with the bloated, antiquated, sluggish beast that is Internet Explorer for your forays in cyberspace, let me first say that i pity you.

Truly, I do pity you.

However, for those of you stuck with it, for whatever reason, here's some news that you might want to hear.

There has been news of a security breach of Microsoft's vaunted IE, which could, I quote

"Users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer are being urged by experts to switch to a rival until a serious security flaw has been fixed.

The flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer could allow criminals to take control of people's computers and steal their passwords, internet experts say."

You can tell I quoted it because it's in between those two squiggly lines.

Full article can be found here.

Fortunately (for you), there is a solution.

To prevent any further loss in market share, Microsoft had to be quick to release a security patch, which I recommend you download, post haste, lest you are a masochist, and enjoy living with the knowledge that sooner or later, someone will steal something from you.

Again I quote

"Security experts advised users to stay off Internet Explorer due to a serious security exploit in all versions of IE, and a third-party developer even pushed out an unofficial temporary fix, but you can now go grab the official patch straight from the source. The patches are available in several different downloads depending on what version of IE you're using and what OS you're running, and not all of the downloads are pointing to existing pages yet, but they should hopefully all be rolled out sometime today.

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-078 - Critical [Microsoft]"

via Lifehacker.com

Or, you could save yourself some hair-pulling, and switch to any number of popular free alternatives to IE, such as Firefox 3, Google Chrome, or even Opera 9 (soon to be 10).

It's really simple really, not only is IE inherently unstable, with many holes for hackers to slip through, there are also a lot, and I mean a lot, like literally 70% or more of all computers surfing the Internet use IE. It's just economics, by cracking IE once, hackers gain access to the secrets of a greater percentage of the web browsing community.

It's the same analogy why Mac users don't "have" virus problems, it's simply not worth it to write a virus that targets such a small subset of the community.

What are you waiting for. Go update now!

And also contemplate the switch to a free OS, such as Ubuntu, which means you pay less money on the OS, and more money to souping up your hardware.

That's all for now.

just got back from watching the premiere of hellboy 2.

i wonder how long i can keep your attention here, because i have a lot to say, and you might probably get bored.

spoilers ahead. turn back now if you can't take it....





all right. you're still here.

hellboy 2 was summer fare, nothing more, nothing less.
predictable, saccharine sweet, action packed,
and as is usually the case, a plot shot full of holes.

for instance,
why does the bad guy, who severely wounds the hero, leave without finishing the job?

or why, when the hero is perched on a precarious ledge, not try to kill the hero?

is there a bad guy code of ethics or something?

and i know this is a comic book adaptation, but do the characters all have to be two dimensional?
even the so called hero, hellboy is about as expressive as a plank of wood.
no emotion whatsoever.

his lady love, pregnant but refusing to accept it.
so much potential, yet all wasted

the fish.
he is a pain to watch.
at least he has an excuse for being inexpressive.

it's as if the producers just wanted something to move the movie along till they got to the action scenes, which by modern standards barely pass the mustard.

i'm tired.
go watch for yourself.

etc etc.....
wow, i think i doubled my iq since the last time i took the test.

details here



now on to more serious matters.
i got to work early this morning.
as in 15 minutes before class started, and i can assure you this will be an isolated incident; i;m never early.

well anyway, while marking books (because i'm too lazy to mark books at home nowadays) the power suddenly went out.
no lights, no fan etc....

tnb screwed up again.
no electricity for over an hour to the whole of ss2.......
the last time we had a national power outage, they sacked the ceo, who will they sack now for a local power outage?

and puay chai definitely has a very weird chain of command.
ask the security guard why there is no power
"go ask the co-curriculum teacher,"

ask the aforementioned teacher
"go ask the electrician, but wait arh, he went buy chee cheong fun,"

i don't know whether to laugh or cry or slap them.....

and the kids are still just as annoying as they were the last time i posted
still crybabies the lot of them.....
thank god no nosebleeds today.

and i had to spend half an hour watching a parent trying (and failing quite spectacularly) to discipline her kid, who has summarily refused to do her homework for the past 2 months.
this is actually a very embarrassing but necessary part of a teacher's job.
watching the kid getting screwed but trying your best not to smile as you recall how you were the one who used to get screwed, and still do i might add.

alright, thats all for now

go to our new class blog
http://pm12.co.nr

ok?
kthxbye

The events and characters depicted in this post are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–adjective

1.	clothes that are normally associated with homosexuals, usually in loud ostentatious colours.

2.	behaviour characterized by excessive femininity, overtly garish.

3.	of or relating to anything within a 10 meter radius of Sammuellywankyou.

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[Origin: 2003–08; <>lala, equiv. to cockles]

—Related forms

la·la·ish·ly, adverb

la·la·ish·ness, noun

—Synonyms gay, lesbo, clams, gay.

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.




i call your attention to this definition because of a very momentous occasion in my life

i had a haircut

it was not done out of choice.. i can tell you that
if my hair grew any longer i would have stopped looking like a lala chai
and start looking like a lala mui...

as you can see
decidely lala.....

anyway
this is a picture i took 2 weeks ago in bentong, pahang.

this building was supposed to be a hawker center, built at the cost of a few million ringgit and tearing down the children's playground on the land which it was built on.

no one wanted to move in
so they "renovated" it to become a car park.
however, long story short, roof too low, ramps too steep, not built in accordance with safety standards, leaky roof etc...
it is still unoccupied now.

the newspaper says it's going to be torn down soon, hopefully to rebuild the children's playground.
but i doubt it.

i have so much more to write about
but i just can't keep my eyes open...
nights people

i dare you
google it.

how many of you actually understand the meaning of the word nimiety?
i bet you probably are in the minority

it comes from the latin word nimius, meaning excessive

and i have something to say concerning the state of our society in relation to this word
(obviously this sentence is superfluous but i just put it in anyway to stay in theme of being excessive and just to rile you up)

still reading?
good

i attended the resorts world berhad and genting group berhad's annual general meeting today.

to clarify things
i am not a shareholder (poor man i am)

but i will still tell you how i got in

you see (still reading, patient bloke aren't you)
we live in a culture of excesses

and man (and women in particular) is a greedy animal

knowing that at agm's there will be a nimiety of food, hordes of old ladies
(the majority of which own less than 100 shares which is deemed so small an amount that on the annual report it is written as "insignificant")
descended on crowne plaza (where the agm was held) to exercise their "rights" as shareholders to collect the goodie bags full of food.

naturally they are too busy with other "pressing" business to actually stay and attend the agm.
thus, with the liberal application of my manly charm, i was able to inveigle a tag from her declaring me as
a shareholder of both resorts world and genting bhd, allowing me to "legally" attend the meeting.

now is a very good time to question my morals, but let's just gloss it over k? thx

before we continue i must state that i am here to present a satirized account of the agm.
on the whole it went very smoothly, except for a few minor hitches.
and i am only going to touch on the hitches

you're still here? amazing!

anyway, the agm was a literal circus
i've never seen so many people trying to make a fool of themselves and succeeding so marvelously.
malaysia boleh indeed

the first grouse raised was why the food was doled out in goodie bags instead of the usual buffet style lunch.
and i agree with the proposer, a mr. chew
with goodie bags handed out in an orderly fashion, there was absolutely no opportunity for me to see old men and women jostle and kick like children fresh out of kindergarten in the mad rush to grab food.
sigh... you can't always get what you want

next, another mr. chew (a different one) complained why genting did not pay for the parking in crowne plaza, which was 8 ringgit.
well, it's actually simple economics

genting group has a shareholder base in excess of 35000 people
over 16000 of those hold less than 100 shares

genting's dividend payout for 2007 was something to the tune of 4.03 sen per 10 sen share
if you owned 100 shares, you'd get 40 sen in dividend
if you came to the agm, genting would have to front 8 ringgit, which is a heck of a lot bigger than the dividend they paid you.

duh

this was only 5 minutes into the meeting, which incidentally started 15 minutes late because of the mad rush outside to register for the meeting and collect goodie bags
i might add that the hall was most definitely not filled to capacity
and the amount of goodie bags given out was assuredly greater than the number of people sitting in the hall

i'm surprised the chairman, tan sri lim kok thay did not just break down and cry like a little girl.
i know i would.

towards the end of the meeting
(the middle part is where all the serious people get up and make themselves heard, not much to satirize there)
a mr. leong got up to complain about the state of the police in genting unfairly apprehended him for "weird behaviour" (his own words, i swear)
he then complained about the singaporean staff at genting trying to sabotage genting's casino operations because they are singaporean and there exists some deep seated animosity between malaysia and singapore.
he then proceeded to submit a police report to each of the board members and demanded a written explanation while the chairman kept saying "this is not the place or time for this."

go figure.

wow, that was fun!

now which agm should i sneak into next?

p.s.
samuel, thought you were a shareholder, why were you not there?
chia, thought you were related to lim goh tong (daughter/granddaughter/granddaughter in-law/goddaughter, you keep changing your story so can't remember which)

i've been away for nigh a week now

and i can't say it's great to be back

see, the thing about holidays is that it drives home the point that you can only run away from your responsibilities for so much time before they all start catching up to you

enough

i had a great time and even the numerous minor faults could detract from what was overall a great trip.

now that i'm back
tis time to write about some stuff that's been nagging me for a long time



i'm still single
though it's not for a lack of trying

more work needs to be done

it could be due to the fact that i am nowhere near cool
i am a geek
and proud to be one

i obsess with stuff that has no bearing on reality, and i spend so much time on my hobbies that i even think i can get chummy with people who i know nothing about except what they write in their forum posts

for instance
richie profitt (a.k.a. polarbeargod on mtgsalvation forums) died sometime this month (june 9th i think, but i can't be sure) and i was actually sad to hear it
i live on the other side of the globe from him,
have never met him in person

yet i was still participating in the spamming of the forums over the next 2 weeks in a torrent of (digital) grief

i know i miss him
and not getting to read his posts or see his amazing artwork anymore is something that i still can't get to grips with

it's just kinda sad

but somehow it just goes to show how many geeks there are like me out there
who idolise geeks who are geekier than us

by the way, he died of diabetes

on june 29
starcitygames is hosting a richie profitt memorial tournament
details here

i should just quote some of the lines from the article

"Matter of fact, this is such a huge outpouring of love and support, what about the idea of holding a yearly tournament? Richie Proffitt ultimately lost his life due to a fight with Diabetes. Diabetes kills millions each year and while this year the funds we raise are going directly to Richie’s family, what if next year we raised money for the American Diabetes Association?

This would give Magic something akin to Child’s Play, the awesome yearly Christmas project run by the guys at Penny Arcade. While we certainly can’t match their scale, I believe we can definitely show the world that Magic players are not all math nerds who only worry about the next foil Mythic rare. Magic is a game of friends, good times, and fantastic experiences, and I try to show that every week. To allow us to do some good with our fun, that sounds like a win-win situation to me."

now you must excuse me

i have been sleep deprived for the past week

need a recharge of souls

took my muet speaking test yesterday

got some random topic like whether the health services in malaysia should be improved or not

now i just want to rant for a while so bear with me

doctors are the most maltreated class of humans on the face of the earth (don't give a damn about what happens beneath the surface)
especially doctors in the employ of the government

they work 36 hour shifts
get nuts for pay
and they see nuts everyday at work
its a wonder they don't crack (get it, nutcracker, oh never mind)

i think the government does this on purpose
if you want to treat the patient well, you can't just sympathize with the patient, you have to emphatize.
that's why the doctors are put through hell, so that no matter what the patient goes through, the doctor can understand perfectly what kind of pain it is.
this also helps to ease the pain of losing a patient,
if they die, they're obviously moving on to a better place compared to the living hell that is a government hospital....

only a fool will choose medicine as a career

apparently there are a lot of people in my class who chose to do medicine or a related field....
that explains a lot

today is the 13th of may

39 years ago, blood was shed

today, let us remember why such stupidity occurred in the first place so that we may avoid future "complications"

wars begin when ego overtakes logic
that is a truism that has held true over the course of human history

someone is always out there to prove he (or she, feminists.....) has the biggest penis
usually this involves a lot of killing and a lot of innocents get in the way

i'm not here to dwell on the past, but to propose that we just f@cking get along well in the future, is that okay?
i'm colour blind, and i hope you are too.
sincerely


but enough with the humdrum stuff
let's celebrate

one of my mates (there's ozzie slang for ya), adiel turned 19 today
and ms faizah, my chem lecturer gave birth to a wonderful baby boy
i would like to see photographic proof though (hint hint, wonder what the google groups are for?)

so congratulations to the both of them!

and the baby too! happy 0th birthday

not working out well

especially the images.......

well bear with it for a while till i find some time to actually customize it
its horrible

there are 2 kinds of people in this world
1. those that get pissed,
2. and those that piss (or piss people off, depending on your point of view)

there are 2 kinds of posts
1. descriptive
2. and emotive

this is a type 2 post, by a type 2 person (who coincidentally, only plays type 2)

if you understood that last oblique reference, i would like to meet you. seriously

erm... what did i want to write about again?
getting old

oh ya
emotive posts

have you ever noticed that however hard you try to be nice, you somehow end up antagonizing everyone around you?
and if you try hard to make something work, it doesn't
but if you just let things flow, everything just falls into place?
happens to me all the time

so i've come to a startling conclusion

i'll try my hardest to piss people off......... and fail spectacularly at it
then i'll end up as the nicest guy in the whole f@#$ing world

there.
i cursed

sue me

f@#$ off

boy am i pissed (type 1, hmm?)

what was my point again?

watched iron man today with natasha, suk leng, melvin and koo

was it really that hard to get 5 people to get in a place at a specific time?
yes.... it was

you want to try and guess why?

guys can't and won't be punctual (won't put in names here)
if you tell them to come at 12, and give them a reminder call at 11:47, then they tell you they're on their way...............
translation: i just woke up, didn't consider how you would feel if i was late, and i will lie in any way necessary to keep you there patiently waiting for me to turn up at my convenience/pleasure.
apparently that's how guys think

i don't know how girls think
if i did, i would write a book
and be rich
and certainly not post it up on the internet.

back to the movie

awesome

what more needs to be said
it is definitely up there among the better comic book adaptations like arachnid man and chiroptera man


on with the ranting
how many of you have actually given consideration to the needs of the disabled?

do you park in lots reserved for the disabled?
do you sit in seats reserved for the disabled?
do you use toilets reserved for the disabled?

do you have a heart?

people who were not born disabled but who became ----how shall we put it ----incomplete, after an accident are the worst off.
imagine having to live in a sightless world that used to have colour
imagine not being able to get from point a to b without help.
independent perambulation is every human's birthright.

it wouldn't be so bad if you could never walk in the first place, but to have that taken away from you can be heartbreaking.

i've gone on long enough
or have i..........

not everyone can write
especially not someone who has the word hawtness as part of their staple vocabulary (you know who you are..... hehehe)

certainly it is not easy to come up with new material on a constant basis, how many times can i say i'm sick before you get sick of listening to me?
at least you're reading this for free you know?

imagine you're a sports writer.
how many times have you seen ronaldo score a goal (what, 30 or more this season) and how many times do you have to find a way to describe something so commonplace in different ways to make it seem like the most exciting thing in the world.

oh wow, he drove a fantastic shot from range, beating 10 defenders and the keeper and the keeper's dog, cat and parakeet only to be denied by the keeper's 486 year old grandmother. what a shot. wait, the referee is ruling the grandmother offside! hear the crowd roar! the dog, cat and parakeet are harassing the ref for what is obviously a biased judgement.

if that is how most matches played out maybe the sports commentators would have more content based reporting instead of frantically flipping a thesaurus to find the 101th synonym for amazing.

really, it isn't easy to write

oh, and if you take every 4th letter, and string them backwards in a moufang loop, and apply menger's fourth digraph relating edge-independent paths and vertex-independent paths
a secret message will appear magically.................

























































...............telling you that either you have a phd in advanced theoretical mathematics, or you have gone insane, or you have too much free time on your hands or all of the above

thats all for now.
go away....
go home...
nothing else to see here


are you still there? don't you have a life?

suffering from short term memory loss
was thinking of what to post, then started coughing
then went to take cough syrup
then forgot what it was i wanted to write

even my sentence structure is becoming whacked

i only remember it was something about matches
and a lot of burning

yea
a lot of burning

will try to come back to that idea

damned short term memory loss

yes
why do i have to be awake at this hour?
just to go to college?

dumb right?