Why do you always have to reveal my creations when I didn’t announce it =x

Just kidding. Thanks whoever “helloo” is for taking the time and effort to try out every link to find that, anyways, since it’s been revealed, yes, the pics are at http://photo.yandao.com/step2.php

You can view your friends there, for now. Searching will commence shortly, though.

Also, Indian friends - I apologize that your pics are unviewable for some.. It’s due to the way RP’s servers handle.. slashes inside names (i.e, D/O and S/O), and I can’t really work around that. Sorry.

That said, go find out who will be sleeping/snoring/drooling beside you ok?

PS: Add me at kelvin [at] yandao.com on MSN

OH YES. IF YOU OWE THE SCHOOL MONEY, BE IT LIBRARY, LEO OR IT HELPDESK OR WHICHEVER. YOU CANNOT LOGIN TO LEO/NOR SEE THE PICS! MUST PAY YOUR SCHOOL FEES FIRST! - there are some of you owing 20 cents.. library book fine!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoTqRQ29Od8

Did you know that Hitler used to reside in an ERP-ridden district in Singapore?

Well, watch that, and NOW YOU KNOW!

Presentation’s finally over, and we’re all probably heaving sighs of relief (and for those who’re still awaiting presentation - good luck!). For those who’re remotely interested, my project’s fully working and functional - and located at http://statusbug.com - StatusBug. Of course, thanks should go to my two other team members for making it amazingly great, too - Jessie and Jun Hong.

Yes yes, you can go mess with that site, link up your accounts and all, and well, honestly, I’m going to publish (launch) it

WAIT WAIT WAIT. Back to the topic of this post - Jessica Alba in an Indian Saree. I tell you, ever since Good Luck Chuck, her movies are getting better and better. She’s the kind of A-grade actress which doesn’t mind doing a comedy flick or something even if it doesn’t get to the cinemas. Amazing, eh?

Still, here’s a screenshot of her in an Indian Saree, together with Mike Myers (the Austin Powers guy) dancing to a super catchy Indian tune. I LIKE!

Okay - now it’s your turn! Guess what movie this is in! It’s something thats going to be out in September 10th or so, but.. Bwahaha, it’s a great flick!

Can someone please enlighten me why JC students uniform are much more provocative than the assumed “short shirts” mentioned below, and also.. What’s wrong with barebacks and exposed midriffs?

Come on, our fellow students only get to flaunt their figures once. Once in this lifetime. =X

Okay, I’m not saying anything much, but.. Isn’t this exactly what happens in a workplace? Would there be enforcement in a real-world work environment? One of the school’s goals is to simulate a working environment.. but that is getting increasingly.. difficult.

Oh wait… I’m sure there aren’t any staff which……. Uhm, nevermind

We all love caps, from, erm, france!

It’s 4.44am (damn, evil number. hah!) - and I’ve been up for the whole night trying to clear my apparently endless workload. Perhaps fortune tellers *are* right - sometimes… about the kind of work-ridden life that one tends to adapt to.. BLAH!

That said, I’ve probably around 2 invoices, 2 contracts and 1 quotation, and well, 2 projects on-hand which probably all require my immediate attention.. and guess what - I haven’t laid a single keystroke on them in these like, 5 hours.

What happened 5 hours ago? The last I remembered… I was still typing sensible, words - commands, inside some text processor to actually be manifested into scripts for projects. Strange - but.. what was I doing in this stretch?

Ah, yes, of course. Someone flicked the light switch in my bedroom cum workstation. The lights went off, and I remember vaguely having loads of thoughts drifting at random to various possible scenarios - pseudo-scenarios - I’d like to call them; Scenarios that could possibly occur with respect to reality. If you’d ever watch that show by Nicholas Cage when he had the power to actually *see* the future in multiple perspectives, you’d know what I mean - everything just keeps replaying in so many possibilities that it’s difficult to stay out of a trance.

Then the creative, arty side sinks in.

By default, I’m a technical guru - the dirtier codes becomes, the more I like the code. Hah! Somehow, with the lights dimmed (or yellowed - I’ve came to notice) or even turned off, something will just kick into me - and I’ll drop *ALL* tasks at hand, including Instant Messaging, to drop around, and mess with design stuff - such as interactive portfolios, design galleries, design inspirations and all that stuff.

In one way or another, I can’t control it, unless someone physically nudges me out of this state of appreciation for.. what - beautiful multimedia? In that state, I automagically ignore everything else which going on, except looking and and interacting at/with digital art.

Sheesh. The light does change people.

(and that’s why I’ve been unproductively.. unproductive for the past few work-nights. GRR. It’s hitting me in the face now.)

Finally, after some sheer, dumb luck, and 8 hours of trying - I came across some example which really wasn’t supposed to work - an example for some windows WAMP server, but nevertheless, it worked with a cPanel installation.

For those who are interested, the mod_rewrite code for this is:

Options +FollowSymLinks
Options -Indexes
DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|resources|images|css|js|robots\.txt|favicon\.ico)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L,QSA]

For those of you who doesn’t know what this is, well, you don’t need to know

Apparently, there is a particular store selling crappy products such as crappy unwanted air refresheners and crappy cosmetics which will probably cause your skin to rot like crappy Char Kway Teow and/or Rojak without Cucumber and/or Mee Pok Tah Mai Hiam and/or Sugar Cane Juice without Ice.

This store is clearly riding on the “Yandao” and the “Yandao.com” branding and I seriously consider this infringement in accordance to local and Southeast Asian Intellectual Property and/or Branding regulations and laws.

I hereby denounce this particular store based on the above grounds.

(Once again, don’t buy crap.)

PS: I am serious about turning this into a lawsuit. Solicitors please feel free to drop me a message at hot_wired13 [at] hotmail.com via MSN - or alternatively you can obtain my contact number through this domain name’s WHOIS records.

Regards,

Kelvin

Well, if you don’t know what’s BORAT, then don’t bother watching the YouTube video below. Hehehe.

Watch it till the last part, heh.

(Wait ar, how many times did I use the word “specific” there?)

And the catchline is always the same - hardball sales tactic, with everyone else signing up too, and it all seems too convincing and too good to be true. Deep inside you, you DO know it’s too good to be true, but being the sucker that you are, you either:

a) Succumb to your “good” friend’s persuasion (damn, you really suck, don’t you?

b) Play dumb - but then again, this is hardball sales, so they will pressure you to decide before “Sunday” - because that’s when the first payment comes, and you will lose, say $300 payout if you don’t decide before than. Oh, and lookie - tomorrow’s Sunday!

Okay, this applies to every other investment scheme too, and everything else which seems too good to be true.

Now, Kelvin, being the extremely good, kind, and well, benevolent person he is, has thought long and hard on how to counter such pressure sales tactic - or rather, “good lobang tactic”. And here’s how it’s actually done - allow me to demonstrate:

“Good” Friend: Eh Kelvin bro, long time no see, how’s life? How’s study? [insert usual crap here]

Kelvin (Me): Orh, okay lor. Things are going the way it should be. [Inside heart: "KNNNB! Another one of those investment / self-improvement crap Friend-turn-salesperson"

Friend: I recently made alot of money leh! You know now I can afford my expensive Gucci/Hugo Boss/Armani Exchange suit. I make $500/day sia!

Me: [Inside heart: "Wah, if you so rich, still need to talk to me?"] Wow, so impressive! How did you do it?

Friend: I invest in the [specific] China Wireless project lah! You know I started that time I put in $3000 and I get back $300 per week! That’s like 10% man! Within 10 weeks I get back my full $3000!

Me: So cool! Tell me about it! [Inside heart: "STFU bitch, I know where this is going"]

Friend: Basically, I got 3 packages, Bronze Package, Silver Package and Gold Package

Me: Uh huh, and then?

Friend: If you don’t belief me, can start SMALL, real small! No harm trying, right?

Me: [Inside heart: "You 3rd Rate salespeople suck, really."] - Ya! I want to start small! How much?

Friend: Not much lah, $3000 can already! You can take back in ten weeks! In fact, tomorrow already got first payout of $300!

Me: Wah! So cool! On lah! I want! Steady man, $3000 no problem. I want your Gold Package, $10000 since you are my longtime buddy and I trust you alot!

[At this point, you have to make a decision, or act blur, in which they will try to pressure you into buying their crappy product/investment. I would personally whack them back flat-flat.]

Friend: Okay, you got the cash with you now?
Me: Got got, it’s in the bank, I can go get it now! You come with me okay?

[Friend's heart beams with joy, knowing thinking he will get like 60% commission and he's gonna be so bloody rich after today]

Me: [pauses] But then, it’s in my US Dollar account, which is currently trading Forex markets - I’m buying GBPUSD now, and to withdraw around $10000 and to make sure I don’t lose any positions, I will need $3000 cash to pay the broker fee first.

Me: Since you one day earn $500, and you now got Gucci stuff, can help me out right? Otherwise I lose money leh bro! Can lah, you help me take out $3000, I next week pull out $10000 for you!

[Friend shuts up and remains speechless for ten minutes, in which I decide that I have another engagement and tells him that we'll talk again soon.]

PWNED! Er, I mean, hahahaha. Sucker.

Honestly, please tell your folks not to fall for these crap investments. And feel free to use my apparently powderful technique above…

Okay, seriously, that place is on par with Holland Village - if you want to be seen - looking casually good - doing er, studying.. or “waiting” for someone who doesn’t really exist - by equally great looking people, try these two Starbucks branch.

No, and I was there to meet my clients. There wasn’t anything social about it. Hehehe! Great innocent coffee place, too.

You know anywhere else?