See the fireworks!

Man... all of us sounds like shit on this video!
Place-My house
Time-Very late at night
Activity-DESTRUCTION of all plant life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fgibr1dnqU

newsworthy

It's Official

What do you do with your computer when nothing is running?

Don't know about you guys, but I don't really like to waste my computer processing power when it's doing nothing. I've been running this software for abt 4 - 5 years? It's called BOINC. Before this it was called SETI@Home.

You can basically select what do you want the software to run from various organizations. It's all profit-free, or so they say. You can run stuff like proteins research, physics, or even chess game probabilities. Check it out.

BOINC

And here's the wikipedia entry

BOINC Wiki

For those who run it, when you want to use processor intensive stuff. like. BF2142! or, WoW. okay. maybe not WoW. just shutdown the prog.

Happy Lunar New Year!

Happy Lunar New Year to everyone!!

And here's something quite interesting to read.

Gaia Theory

lobang if u interested

hey fellas..

just some info, my mum works in a u.s. semiconductor firm in singapore and she was telling me that they are looking for engineers (all sorts: electronic, chemical etc) to hire..

if you're interested you can email me (my email has changed btw wai-chung.kan@student.curtin.edu.au) or visit micron.

cheers

take off your rainbow shades

now that mark's back on the island. what's next?

since he saw the dmz in korea. why not try hawaii and visit the battleship uss arizona. the largest battleship of her time.

the memorial is built right above the blown wreckage of the ship. visitors take a little ferry out to the site and view the displays in the white structure, while the arizona lays right below them.

a little creepy if you ask me, all them bodies still in the ships hull. with oil leaking by the droplets over the years.

lest we forget.

year of the fox

seems like we're a little behind time

but yeah, if not happy new year
then it's happy lunar new year

goin back to indo on sat, the 17th. so no chow time with you guys.

i'll be with ma dawgs at back on the 23rd.

Gun kata

gentlemen... this.. is gun kata. enjoy. :)

"Woah."

wow. i just watched this movie "equilibrium" on tv and it was goooooood.

...it was like gattaca on guns...

it brought me back to the day i watch the matrix for the very first time as a wide-eyed 16-year old:

"woah."

seriously dudes, if u haven't watched this or even heard about this movie (released in 2002) u should watch it.

the main protagonist is like 'the one' in the first matrix.. minus all the philosophical mumbo jumbo .. plus u don't have to wait until 5/6th into the movie to get a taste of his neo-like moves.

remember the good old days when we watched flicks like 'the big hit' (1998) or 'face-off' and we were like "wah lieauuuuuuuuuuwww, how the -- did he do that!??!?" ... or remember the silence as our eyes were glued to the projection screen just after neo and trinity demolished the office lift lobby?? .. this movie is like that.



















the coolest thing about 'equilibrium' is the gun-fight/fighting scenes... okay okay, so it screams of a matrix rip-off.. but u have to see this to appreciate it for urself...

in the movie, the main character is one of the elite force (known as the Clerics) who practice a form of martial arts called 'gun kata'.... a technique involving all the fighting moves u see in the matrix (sans bullet time) ... plus guns ... in close combat.

gun kata is described in the movie itself as such:

"Through analysis of thousands of recorded gunfights, the Cleric has determined that the geometric distribution of antagonists in any gun battle is a statistically-predictable element. The Gun Kata treats the gun as a total weapon, each fluid position representing a maximum kill zone, inflicting maximum damage on the maximum number of opponents, while keeping the defender clear of the statistically-traditional trajectories of return fire. By the rote mastery of this art, your firing efficiency will rise by no less than 120%. The difference of a 63% increased lethal proficiency makes the master of the Gun Katas an adversary not to be taken lightly."

drool.










aiyah... cannot describe la. go. watch.

interesting to take note

http://torrentfreak.com/ip-harvesting-filesharers-guilty-until-proven-innocent/

The Manifold Faces of Vista

huddle up

here's a shot that i dug up

i was made by the other instructors to pose for pictures back in bmtc. all those staged garang shots were we were all macho and all.

i wasn't really in the sprit of things, thus the lousy camo and the mood face.

but it's a barrel of laughs when we look back.

the 38th parallel

our globe traveller mark tay is heading to the land of kim chee, korea. south korea that is.

departing on monday, wanna wish him a safe journey and bring back lots of pictures and
memories.

here's a shot of the korean dmz. that's where both the commi north meets the free south. the
blue building runs through the 2 countries. the microphone cord inside the room serves as
the true boundry.

The view from the top of the Freedom House pavilion. The large concrete building is in North
Korea. The buildings painted in United Nations blue straddle the border between the two
countries.

The exact border is the raised concrete strip that runs between the blue buildings at the
midpoint, visible in this picture. The half of the buildings in the foreground is South
Korea, the back half is inside North Korea. The border cuts the buildings into two equal
parts, and it is here where Korean delegations from both sides of the border conduct
negotiations

the war's not over, it's currently at a cease fire truce. they're still war yeah. so war can
erupt at any time. but no action for the past 50 years that is.

safe trip mark, kiss kim il's ring for me yeah!

saturday huck, disc in!

saturday, again is around the corner

for the past weeks. some of us have made the effort to hit siloso beach for games of frisbee.
we managed to play a game with some kids from melinia institute, there were about 2 barker boys, they graduated like last year, class of 2006, damn man, we're so old. they called themselves m.i., vs us, l.i.t., long island tea.

final score, a close 6 - 7, with lit winning.

kudos to mark tay for comin down, batter late than never, can't say the same for barnie though. body check!

this is what you missed.

come la.

saturday, 3pm siloso beach. when you see flyin discs, you're at the right spot

go deep!

4 seconds is a life time!

watched any given sunday at marks studio.

set to the back drop of an american football league with fictious team names and no nfl. about 5 games are played in the film for your testosterone pleasure.

when you have to carry out a play that will determine if you win of lose, it can be pretty nerve wercking. but when you have 4 seconds on the clock left to do that. it can feel like a lifetime, or not. every action thus has to be focused.

what's it like to be at the line of scrumage? must feel pretty intense. the picture shows a game between the denver broncos on left taking on the new england patriots, the denver centre is waiting to pass the ball to the quarter back after the quater back calls the snap count.

also included is the lay out for a play. where each player should position himself.

an intense game distances count, down to the inches. but there are lots of stoppages to this game and everyone has a different part to play. roles are not so interchangable but rather specialised. these are the drawbacks i find in this game. lack of fluidity.

what's your favourite position?

inbound 6

as the caption below mentions.

this is an all out attack. see how messy the armada is

especially like the plane at the foreground of the shot by the sdf-1's leg, bit to the right, (not left as the caption states).

it's all overloaded with bombs. so much so that it's kinda tilted to it's side it's the vf-1e, valkarine (valkarines by the way have something to do with some norse myth, true?) imagine you're using all your power just to keep that baby in the air, or space that is.

also, the left background near the sdf-1 leg, notice the cat's eye, the macross/robotech version of the awac. that too looks nice with a dish over its head.

both these planes are slow flyin one's. don't expect a-wing capability.

A vs A 2

who we? we3!

we3!

what do you get when you cross terminator and the incredible journey. you get we3. we3 tells the story of 3 pet animals, a dawg, cat and rabbit. these guys have been given high end military hardware wired into their systems. it's so advanced, that they can "talk". with limited vocabulary though.

the dawg's the "tank" equiped with surface to air, the cat's the "stealth fighter", all hush and slick, the rabbit's the "mine layer" of the group, it "shits" mines to shake off it's trail.
it's 3 issues. the art's great and price by now has gone up. ding says it's 15 bucks each. that's 45 bucks in total for the 3 issues. day light sia.

so some snaps to oggle, enjoy and dream.

fright of the intruder

the a6 intruder, the pride of the united states navy. all weather carrier based sub sonic
bomber.

this baby has the ability to deliver it's max pay load of about 18000kg to it's target, spot
on at low visibility and rough weather. it was described that the vietnam war could have
been won if it was a stormy night every night, that meant the intruder was able to deliver
it's bombs and anti aircraft would have a hard time shooting or even finding it.

the body shape of the intruder makes it unique and also it's seating configeration of pilot
and bombardier/navigator being side by side. instead of the f-4 or f-14's one behind the
other configeration. kinda feels like being in a car with a navigator. the bombing range of the intruder still exceeds the cabilities of the navy's existing birds. only the sub sonic speed of the intruder makes it open to anti air attacks.

what's your choice of hardware?

Ang Mos have way too much time on their hands!