Bored Bored Bored: October 2009

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Thumbs up to Windows 7 from...Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds, the creator of GNU/Linux is giving a thumbs up to the newly launched Windows 7. The store was just across the street from Japan Linux Symposium.

But of course, it's a gag. And Linus DID NOT buy Windows 7 from there.

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Why I Skipped Class (Re-post)

This post is to promote the book “Why I Skipped Class”.

Side note : TNN restored my last post but unable to save this post. So I have to post it again, excluding the comments.

When I saw the thread title “Why I Skipped Class” in LYN Literary Lounge(by the way, this section is like the least entertained), I quickly click on it and read it. With a free ebook to download(though only the 1st section), I read it from 1 end to the other with great interest. I can relate it to me as how I really hate going to school only to sleep on it. If I can opt not going to school, I will. But alas, the missing attendance was going to eat my overall marks in my high school. And now I’m in uni, not having at least 80% attendance rate will not garner me a place in the exam hall

The book also touched the issue of whether being in the last class means that you are intellectually inferior. In my opinion, if you got a brain that can stored a lot of memory, you’re getting a place in the first class for sure. The education system only rewards those who can memorizes the best, like the god-damn Bio and Chinese lessons. We even have to memorize the formula for the mathematics and physics(That’s for the UEC exam). For Pete’s sake, I thought the most important thing is how you USE it, not how you MEMORIZE it?

Anyway, the book is an eye-opener. You can go to the site here to get the ebook and read more about it.

Out of the topic, I got a damn feeling that some one ate my last post “Magic : The Harvesting”. You are testing my patience…TNN…

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Magic the Harvesting~

Ok. It's Magic the Gathering. Why do I say the Harvesting then? Story is as below...

Missing the morning SAD tutorial because of traffic jam, I went to APIIT, passing the foyer and caught a glimpse of Magic something. I though it's another 1 of those stupid magic tricks when I saw hand moving around in the TV they have set up. So I went to the syndicate room to meet up with my friends. And I saw a deck of card on the table. Curiously, I ask where it came from. As soon as I heard it , I ran back downstairs to get my hands on the cards. And hell! They are selling a 40/60 deck cards for RM 10 (Normal Price : RM 35). And there I was thinking which 1 I should get my hands on after I gotten 2 booster pack. I went for the "cannon fodder" deck, or "Nuts and Bolts".

And I even get a lesson on how to play the cards! It was confusing at first, but basic things like mana, health and attack slowly remind me of Warcraft TCG, which I read before. Now I kinda got a grip on how to play it, but I still have to practice though. And the harvesting begins...

I gather a few of my friends to get them register so I can get more booster pack(Thanks Tiny, Matthew and Xeleon). Funny thing is, the guys there doesn't even remember me at all. So I register for the SECOND time and got another TWO booster pack. I went there the 3rd time and the guys still doesn't remember me, but I decided to call it off. It's kinda bad doing that for the 3rd time. Seeing so many card but without the mana card, I bought "Domain" Deck so I have more mana card.

So...in the end I got 10 booster pack, 2 60-cards deck. Not bad not bad, RM 20 for 270 cards.

Got this keychain from answering some survey by Utar students. It was unexpected as they didn't say they will give me the keychain. After I got the keychain, my friends beside me complained "Why didn't I answer the survey too? I want the gift leh". Hahaha~ Guess they want a honest opinion~