our first anniversary. :) we went ahead with it after all, haha. i guess the feeling is kinda different from celebrating it in advance... there are the certain feelings associated with the day itself.

a simple dinner at sushi tei raffles place; with our favourite spicy miso soup and ebi don. ordered the same thing previously too.

well no pics cos the lighting was too dim and my hp cam is horrible. haha.

time passes so fast! sigh goodness...


oh, im not going to go home after 9 from now on. someone told me abt stuff at bishan mrt. (bishan used to be a... you know what) and im freaked out. shao, thanks to your good friend. >.<


anw, happy for the A level-ers over your amazing grades.. (thou it's been a while since they've gotten their grades, but it's been awhile since ive contacted you guys anyway hahah) esp kane and jo! :D

ok rachel shall go daydream now, goodnite! :)

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today i had a complimentary hair cut from kim robinsons under the sp staff and student promo. fortunately tmr is the last day of the promo and i managed to get an appointment.. previously they were fully booked from the start of it.

anw the one i went to is at millenia walk. i managed to find it without my dear's help because he was very late.. haha. the ambience is nice. contrary to popular belief, even thou it was 'complimentary', they didnt let any trainee cut my hair. it was a trained stylist. and he looked like jay chou! hahah. before he started on my hair, he blew his hair using the hairdryer for a whie and styled his hair first. hahaha. when i smsed dear that my stylist look like jay chou, (my fav singer) he went: 'jay chou very ugly. his singing is good but he is ugly.' -.-"" hahahaa. someone jealous XD.

im letting my hair grow longer, since he layered it for me and it feels much lighter now, i wont feel so irritated by 'alot of hair' if i let it grow. haha.

then went to buy his water bottle and buy headphone from jaben, but jaben didnt hv the color he wanted in stock, so i think we'll be coming back next time.

happy 1 year anniversary to us! :) celebrated in advance cos of itp. haha.

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boy came over today after work for a dinner of stingray and lots more. then watched slumdog millionaire from dvd.

it's an awesome show. i learnt alot from it. :)

glad i have a nice supervisor. :)

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ahhh the google talk was just awesome!! the head of google in singapore came to give us a talk on how google can help smes. he covered adwords, website optimiser and some others. and he can really talk! the way he says things; it's straight to the point and clear. also, his real life case studies are so interesting!

oh; he also gave each sme a $50 adwords coupon to use for their adwords advertising campaign!! how cool is that!! i got one for my mum for her real estate business also. :D all the smes there were listening so intently.. i think it's like the most interesting workshop ive went to in my company so far. XD

anw, we had the talk at security lab. FINALLY I have the chance to enter the lab and see what it looks like!! haha. XD what ah boy said was all true! from the inside, you can see the outside so clearly; as if it's glass. haha. but from the outside, previously all i could see was BLACK glass! couldnt see in at all! then.. all the times i met boy outside the lab, ppl could see us.. *cough cough*

and.... dennis wong came also. he's such a cute ol' dude. hahahhaha. XD

it's events like these which make itp-ing here all worthwhile! XD

oh, the speaker was super funny! when my supervisor asked him for his facebook account so that we can add him into our facebook group, he was like: "actually you can google my name. my facebook profile appears at the top of the search list." OWNED!! hahhaha.

next wk is canon, then dlink. events like these are so fun! :D i get to be the counter registration girl... hahahaha. XD

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today at work, the wireless mighty mouse went a lil too close to the edge of the table and dropped to the floor. and guess what. IT WENT DEAD. just one small fall!! any normal mouse would have survived it. but sheesh.

mighty mac mouse aint so mighty after all eh. and it costs abt 70 bux.

remember the video and hype about an iphone being able to withstand a truck running over it? im seriously beginning to feel that it was part of apple's way of creating hype and dispel the rumours that apple's products cannot withstand shocks.

my supervisor also told me that iphones are also susceptible to spoiling when dropping, and that many of the people at the apple service centres go there to repair their phone cos of battery/whatever part spoiling just after dropping.

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How to survive in a recession

Many companies are being affected by the economic downturn. hence, i'm here to introduce you some highly effective ways to deal with decreasing profits.

*the following case study uses jaben, a headphone company, as our role model.

1. Save on the signboard.
















yea that's jaben's signboard. we only managed to find their shop after walking around adelphi THRICE. walked around lvl 4 once, couldnt find it, went down to lvl 2 to see the directory. 04-16. ok, went to 04-16. it was ASUS service centre. -.-" saw their glass headphone showcase along the way; 04-12. and finally found jaben. and we were wondering why on earth we couldnt find their signboard. LOL.

2. Diversify

We should all learn from jaben. they are the pros at diversifying the nature of their business. this is their showcase along the corridors.















if you look carefully, they are promoting something other than headphones. let's take a closer look..
















is that a pig?






















you're not wrong. they're selling BACON SALT together with their earphones!!!


jh and i were laughing like crazy. bacon salt with earphones. *Buy 1 earphone get 2 bacon salt free!*

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since results came out yet again, i have been facing the same concerns from my friends over again.. how are you going to go uni, maybe you shouldnt have chosen DBA since yr interest is in IT, change diploma course, etc. even my supervisor told me he wonders why i went to dba.

and then hearing jh's stories abt his course abt nus, hitb, d*o, sysscan etc, sometimes im just left thinking... what if i had chosen his course in the first place.. maybe then i wont be in this hole now.

but then if i had gone to his course, maybe things would be different for him. maybe i would have dragged him down, since his situations are already perfect.

it's like watching a cartoon whereby some guy turns back time and makes a different decision from the first one, thinking that things would turn out better. but in the end, it is not so, cos different problems then occur.

but there's rli nothing for me to do now except hope that i go thru my last year in one piece and not repeat module.

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i finally managed to answer my secret google qn which was keeping me from accessing my google account. the lessons i learnt from this is:

1. NEVER make hotmail your password recovery email account. hotmail to gmail and gmail to hotmail has problems. i couldnt even receive the recovery email from gmail in my hotmail account

2. never use free domains. co.cc just introduced an expiry date on your domain unless you pay a 'donation' amount

3. Always have two gmail accounts and give your other account access to yr blogger blog. just in case you cant access one, you can use the other account to access.

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finally it's friday, so the boy and me went to suntec to check out the stuff at IT show. it was SO SUPER CROWDED, we were wondering where is recession. lol. anw, one super good deal we saw was a sony 40" tv which is selling at 1799. and guess what. freebies are: play station 3, psp, home theatre system, and free delivery and installation. jh was like: if i had the money i sure go and buy alr. haha. the freebies are really crazy. u can sell those freebies and get back the cost of yr 40" tv. haha.

anw, i was hving kind of a bad day, so he treated me to candy floss. and you wouldnt believe how big it is. it ooks like a big cloud. haha. and it's only $1.50.. we were quite surprised why suntec would sell it rather cheaply, since outside sells 1/5 of that size at $1. lol. everywhere we walked, people were looking at us. hahaha. and one guy got so stunned he actually shouted 'WHOA' as we walked by him. wahahha.

thanks for everything dear. :)

these few days have been so tired after work. i reach home at abt 7.30 and after eating and everything, i use the com for about 1 hour till 11, then go to sleep. have been sleeping around 11pm everyday already. it's almost as if work is the only life i have during the weekdays, cos once i get back i kun alr. lol.

slept 12 hours today... what a luxury.. haha. :)

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finally excellence award is over!! went pretty well. and the budget on the food was cut down by alot.. not as good as last year.. considering that sp is recession-proof, im wondering why the food budget got cut down. boohoo.

anw, i banged my head at my office today. freaking pain!! my office ppl will know why. they have random pillars all over the place as a design. sooner or later sure will hit a pillar somewhere de. haha.

tmr is mmit competition. break from a day of work! XD

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i sort of think that studying is less tiring as compared to working.. firstly, not everyday we need to reach school at 9. whereas everyday we need to reach work at 9am. im really lacking in sleep.. and yet still need to urge myself to do websites. i need to exercise so that i dont become so lethargic so that i dont need so much sleep. but where's the motivation.. haha. i think im gg to the gym with my colleague during lunch break! XD

anw, excellence is tmr! good food! haha. XD i didnt know tt sp principal is coming also. haha.

i got so many things to do. i dont want to be so bz. =(

it's going to be our last year in sp soon.. oh my goodness.

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my goodness, im seriously crazily busy. excellence award is on wednesday, and we have a whole load of things to do to prepare for it. every other day i spend half my lunch hour meeting my club officer. lol.

today time passed so extremely fast. one sme came in the afternoon for a website maintenence training and POOF. it was 6pm and time to go home. hahaha.

think im gg to be a multi-tasking pro.. lol.

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first sat of itp

ahhh finally can have a good sleep.. on wednesday i had cramps, but so coincidentally, the company was having an internal event, so there was no work. :) i went back on thursday when i still had some cramps, but was totally drained out and sleepy cos the night before i hadnt slept a wink, thanks to cramps. so this week was quite a draining one for me..

oh yesterday i had quite an interesting day. boss brought me to kinder*and to check out their IT systems and how we can help to improve them. after that, we went marine parade shopping centre for lunch and buy some snacks for the office. quite a fun day. :)

this week has been mostly doing websites... im looking forward to next week and hope that we can set up the server and webhosting so that i can check out some CRM software for SME's CRM. can u believe that sp has their own server? they pay like 1k a month for it and its not being used now. my goodness.

anw jh is being wacky today..

Rachel says:

i got durian in my fridge

hehee

Junhao says:

booooooo

i order my 2 cat go ur house

social engineer u

and steal ur durian

go go mao mao and ke ke

Rachel says:

hahahahahahaha

Junhao says:

bring me back all the durian

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oh, this wednesday is excellence award.. time for good food again. hahahah. XD

im very happy that our club events are coming along on time.. within the first week of holidays and we've managed to get 90% of the things we need up and running. looking forward to an interesting year.

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ITP

all i can say is that, im really enjoying myself at itp. im itp-ing in school for a company which i worked for freelance. job scope consists of webdesign, graphic design, events and workshop coordination, newsletters, etc. all IT based, just my thing. haha.

tomorrow i have a day off becos sp is having some internal corporate event. woots. :)

but anw, im seriously grateful that i can itp in sp. because holidays are extremely important to plan club activities during the period, hence it is invaluable that i am able to meet my officer during lunch break. just very grateful that i have that flexibility, becos jh is having itp also. and especially when there are certain things you just cannot 'outsource' to your mcs to do, because of its importance.

anw, my workstation at itp is my FANTASY workstation. the imac has freaking 24" glossy widescreen liquid crystal display, as well as all software i can ever dream of. iwork, ilife, ms office for mac and full the adobe mac suite. i positively get shivers of high each time i even use the mac mouse. LOL. ok i shall stop here before i continue sounding like a total geek/idiot/mac fan.

oh guess what. they just brought in 2 more super computers for game design. they're over 10k. lol. quad core with hyperthreading, so effective each of them are oct core. (or eight cores)

i love the people working there too. there are only 2 perm staff and 2 itp guys, so it's a pretty cosy environment. not to mention that go*gle and ib* is coming in march, so i will be involved in the organising. oh, can you believe that you stand a chance to win a wii during one of their lucky draws just by attending their workshop?? hahaha. XD and goody bags and good food, haha.

anw, my first day of work... had a welcome buffet sponsored by one of the staff. XD i love my itp!! XD hope u guys and girls are enjoying your itp too!!

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applied for www.missducky.co.cc as my domain name, just in case i choose to move to wordpress or whatever, so that my friends dont need to relink me. will need to redirect this url to missducky.co.cc when that happens, but next time if i really choose to move.

anw, hv successfully installed office 07 in wine. after quite some time of figuring out why my powerpoint keeps crashing upon start up, etc. also had to upgrade wine to the latest version in order that it could be installed. sometimes things are not as straightfoward as i thought they would be.

unfortunately i still have to forgo windows live msger, live writer, and cs3, all which i need for my website creations. the ratings for those in wine are not good, hence i'll just spare myself of the trouble installing them.

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for the second time in two days, i reformatted my laptop. that's cos i thought the trojan will only stay on c drive, also cos fahmi who works at service centre told me that sp students get it on c drive only. it's not his fault; i had also thought it would stay on C only. but anw, the trojan jumped to D drive and back to c drive again. LOL. installed xp again on c drive, and ubuntu on E drive, which i created. D is for my docs.

I am now an official linux convert.

seriously this trojan caused me ALOT of time and effort. heng i backup-ed my documents into an external hdd, (which i suspect has the trojan also), but i will only use it on ubuntu. and i have successfully saved my precious notes from the hdd. cos the trojan encrypted all my previous D drive files, which i had thought it would not touch. so super pissed at the trojan creator. this is the most destructive i have ever come across. AND guess what, i had scanned my D and hdd drives with avg, (after a lecture by the boy on the importance of antivirus) and AVG DID NOT DETECT IT.

if open source image editing software was as on par with those which run on ms, i dont think i'll ever touch ms' crap again. and unfortunately ms office has more features as compared to open office, which we really need for presentations and reports.

i already love ubuntu because i didnt have to load drivers and it could project to my screen, connect to internet and detect my mouse. unlike ms which has to 'install your new device' crap.

ok i shall now go and revel in my new found love for linux.

btw, for business students, try not to plug in your thumbdrives into the school computers and then transfer them into yr laptops, thou it's kinda hard to prevent. the school comps are laden with viruses and trojans.

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i think i'm the worst owner a laptop could ever have. in the past year alone i have reformatted my laptop about 4 times. lolx. each time i resolve to using antivirus, but it never stays for long. lol. eg comodo. it's paranoid and keeps notifying me of every single change that's being made to my comp, that i totally turn it off. and avg updates so regulary that i get sian-ed. lolx.

somehow i like the feel of a reformatted laptop. hahaha. cos i install alot of junk everytime.. lolx. i think it's a psychological thing to feel like your laptop is freshly installed and there's no more junk in there. one reformat is all it takes to clear every bit of virus, trojan or whatever not that may be lurking inside that your antivirus cannot find. lolx.

another thing i must stop doing is transferring my sd cards and thumbdrives from laptops and school computers to my comp. thou during project time it's very hard leh.. =/

anw i just reformatted my laptop, again. haha. it kena some ransomware thing. it's super smart la, this virus. it dives into my harddisk and encryps my precious documents. good thing it didnt manage to touch my d drive yet so i could backup my stuff. anw, it encrypts my docs and tells me to buy a decryptor from them, otherwise my info will be at risk.

i think i got it from an sd card transfer. horrible la.. affected my c drive summore leh. gave up scanning and just reformatted. haha.

some of you may be interested in what the crypting looks like..

















totally polluted my dropbox. can you image the damage it would cause if the virus sync-ed itself over dropbox with the people i share it with?? LOL. need to delete the polluted folders off le.

anw blaw is over.. as well as fm. im quite sure i can pass those two. those two are my most dreaded subjects so far, and im quite relieved. :)

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Happy Birthday my Dear Boy! :D

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Valentines day

went to esplanade library to study (on Valentines day, no less. haha) for a while. then andy and his gf came over and played with dear's ipod touch. while i was there studying, cos im.. kinda way behind time. haha. thanks to tuesday and wednesday thinking that i could study by staying at home and ended up setting up my webhost and domain. LOL.

went for dinner at marina square with all of them and then went fullerton, cos why? andy wanted to use the toilet there. LMAO.

yep so that was basically my valentines day. it felt like any other day when im out with him.. so i guess it's kinda true that when you're with the one you love, everyday is like valentine's day? haha.

im quite dead... very behind time. arghh!

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something is wrong with the free web host im using.. wordpress dashboard is like, white and some templates cannot view when uploaded. and i si3 bu4 gan1 yuan4 to give up solving it.. and im doing this when im supposed to be studying for exams. AHHH.

anw i got my first cheque from _. dear demands that i treat him to stingray after exams. bleah. >.<

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