Happy Chinese New Year!!!

Today I feel so good! The wheather is fine. The temperature is warm. And the most important thing is that this is the first day of Chinese New Year!!! Although there is not much celebration over here in Japan, I went out with some malaysian friends and had a dinner... then went to karaoke with them last night to celebrate the great event. :)

Once again, 新年快楽!

Oh ya, I made some wallpapers for the Linux operating system. Download and use them freely if you like. It comes in blue initially, the red one is here for the festive season. Enjoy!

Hi, there

Another post from the lab.

Recently I have been keeping to a very healthy schedule, waking up at 09:30 and sleeping at around 01:00, until last night. Last night, I worked on my research until 4 in the morning. Although I woke up at 11:00 today, I feel good. Not that I want to say that I feel good because I have had 7 hours of sleep, what I want to tell is that sometimes it is good to break out from a routine. Of course in order to break the routine, you will first have to have a routine.

We always hear people complaining that they are tired of routine work. And we feel good when we can get out of it. So, what I would like to suggest here is, why don't we purposely get ourselves a routine and then delibrately break it? Then we might feel good.

Alright, enough non-sense.

Just read a comparison by CNET between the AMD's dual-core chips and Intel's dual-core chips. I have gained some interest in Intel's since Apple's new iMac and the coming MacBook Pro are using its Core Duo chips, but this article has reminded me about the truth. Go to look for yourself, AMD is certainly the winner. However, there must be a reason why Apple has chosen Intel's. And I think I know the answer. You see. AMD's chips, although powerful, has a bad reputation on energy consumption and heat problems. After experiencing the consequences of these weaknesses with Power PC, I think Apple has made the right choice. However, I think if I am going to buy a desktop, AMD is the sure way to go. On the notebook side, stick with Intel.

Just some thoughts.

You can read the review here.

Oh, ya. Before I forgot.

Happy Chinese New Year!

Watched 2 movies today...

It is 1:56 in the morning and I should be sleeping now since tomorrow is Monday. But obviously I am not. I was very tired and sleepy just now but now I feel a little refreshed after brushing my teeth and washing my face. The effects won't hang around long I suppose. So this might be a short post.

I watched 2 DVDs in a row today. They are "Batman Begins" and "National Treasures" and I think they are fun to watch. Although not really good but good enough to kill some free time. Before I forget, I would like to mark down two sentences that I like from "Batman Begins":

"Why do we fall? To learn how to pick ourselves up." - Thomas Wayne

"It is not what underneath you, but what you do that defines you." - Rachel

Perhaps not exactly what they are in the movie but I think this is pretty close.

Now I am going to sleep. Good night.

Just to update...

Haven't updated this blog properly for quite a long time. Just drop by to update you about my life and those things/events that interested me recently.

First of all, I am currently working on the evaluation of the system I have built for my final year project. Then I will have to write my thesis(or report) based on it. There is only one month left and I am still not very sure about how well I can do. But I will try my best :) Fight fight!

Apple always catches me in surprise. They just announced their new Intel Mac recently. Although we all have known and expected that they were going to move on to the Intel platform but I didn't expect they could build the product so quickly. But I love surprises :D Instead of telling people that there will be something nice and ask them to wait, I think it is better to first make the thing. And let's get back to the new Intel Macs. There are currently two products announced, iMac and MacBook Pro(only available in February, though). You can watch the clip of the keynote here. I would like to have a MacBook Pro but it is just too pricy for me at the moment. Let's see if they are going to have a cheaper notebook line like the iBook now.

The Theory on the Quality of a House

The quality of a house is decided by the ones living in it; not by the house itself.

Happy New Year!!!

First, I would like to wish everybody a Happy New Year!!! I have a feeling that this new year will be a better year for all mankind :D And I think this will be a year full of change for me. First of all, I will graduate(hopefully) in March and continue on Master Degree in April. And then last morning my landlord told me that they are going to tear down the building that I am now living and build a new one. So, I have to temporarily move to another building. But since changes always give birth to new things, I am going to face these changes positively :)

And since this is new year, I would like to make new year resolutions:

1. Be more focused and concentrated.


2. Do thing one at a time.


3. Be a smarter consumer.


4. Stop worrying too much.


5. Be more self-motivated.


6. Be nice to the others.

By the way, I went on a snow board trip from 26th December to 30th December 2005. Although we couldn't play much on the day we arrived because of the heavy snow, we managed to enjoy ourselves on the second and the third day. Like usual, I will post the photos on my static website when I have the time.