The piano solo you hear in the background is Reuben Kee's Back Home. In light of the recent dragonboat accident, you can show your support for Reuben by embedding his music in your blog. Here's the link for the song: http://www.ridzuan.info/tianhong/BackHomePianoSolo-ReubenKee.mp3
As you can hear, this is a very beautiful song so do consider adding it in your blogs!

do also visit my friend Tian Hong's blog to find out more about Reuben and express your condolences.

Just added a tagboard cos i felt the need to add more pink stuff to my blog haha. I like Cbox alot cos I can customize the colours! =) Used to have a Cbox account when I made a tagboard for my blog shop...wasted a few minutes trying to figure out the username and password to no avail. In the end just signed up for a new account lol. I wonder if the tagboard will be used much though...

On a side note, I think i'm gonna fail electronics! oh noooo...halfway through the electronics paper...I already wrote all I could and tried everything I could remember ( which wasn't much becos somehow everything I memorize seemed to have leaked out of my head), so I spent some time trying to calculate the grade point average. Argh..hope moderation helps me to pass...even though it might be a terrible pass, I don't wanna retake! I dunno why I always mix up all my rules and formulae and stuff during exams, especially for physics-related subjects. I guess this means I don't understand my concepts well. lol see I actually know the reason why. Cos really, some things I don't understand but just memorise. This is obviously not working. must be smarter next sem. Well off to study now.

It was just a matter of time since Hotmail increased their limit to 5 GB for Gmail to follow suit. But I wonder how many of us actually need that much space? Hmmm well I guess some people do use their email accounts as storage accounts for pictures and such, or don't bother to delete old mail after they are no longer of use, or even can't be bothered to delete junk mail (I know my brother is one of those people. I can't believe he has 500+ junk mail! I've been bugging him to delete them ever since i noticed it.)

Personally, I don't like leaving unnecessary mail in my inbox, even if I do have lots and lots of space and never have to delete another mail again. Before the increase from 2GB to 5GB, i was only using 1% of my max storage size allowed in Gmail. Now it's 0%. Not that i'm complaining about having lots of space. This is in fact a great improvement over the few MB Hotmail was providing some time in the not so distant past. That was the reason I switched to Gmail at the time, because we can't run away from junk mail, and it was causing my inbox to be full everyday. Oh and it doesn't hurt to have more space to keep those chain mails with pretty pictures =). Though Yahoo now has unlimited storage space, I prefer the layout of Gmail. And besides, i'm more used to Gmail now, though I do have a Yahoo account for other purposes.

I don't think i'll ever use up all 5GB of space, but i better not speak too soon. Having more space makes me lazier too. I've been wanting to download and save all my 'A' level project work stuff from my Gmail but haven done so yet! =p After all, there's space to keep it in Gmail...

Xiao Zhu's new album 舞所不在 (Show your dance) is out! I wanna get it! Not really sure if it's in stores yet though cos it was only released today and seems like Sembawang's website didn't say anything about it. Might make a trip there to check out this weekend.

He sang afew of his new songs on 娱乐百分百(100% entertainment) today and they are really nice! There's a very cute mv of one of his new songs on this page.

Xiao Zhu is coming to Singapore for concert on 1 dec...too bad the tickets are sooo expensive...I wonder if all his concerts eventually come out on DVD? I really hope so.

I joined PayPerPost sometime back, though at that time my blog wasn't 3 months old yet so I couldn't submit it for approval. Now, it has finally been approved! Before PPP i actually joined another sponsored posts company but they had very little opportunities and the few they had did not interest me, nor would I think my readers. That's when I decided to join PPP as it is very popular and thus I reasoned there would be more opportunities available. And I was right! Rest assured I won't litter my blog with sponsored posts just for the sake of it. I will only blog about things that genuinely interest me, or I think would be of interest to others.

For those who don't already know, PPP offers you sponsored posts where you blog about a certain website, service or product, give your opinions about it, and get paid. All you need to join is a blog at least 3 months old and the ability to write and give opinions I guess. Oh and they have a rating system too where the advertisers rate your post on them. You are more likely to be offered higher paying posts if you give insightful views or opinions since your rating would be better, so don't rush through the post and do a lousy job!

PPP is a great place for me to make money to fund some of those expensive textbooks we need in school. =p Especially since we only use the textbook for one semester, and selling it off the next semester will also result in quite heavy losses =(.

Oh and all sponsored posts will be declared so if you feel offended by them for some reason, you can simply skip them. But who knows, you might actually read something interesting. In fact, I once wrote a post about a website similar to Singapore's tatarah, though it was way before Singapore came up with the concept, so I appeared to be knowledgeable about tatarah though till now I have not even visited the website!

I have finally given up on Nuffnang and taken their code off my blog. I've read alot on other's blogs about how nuffnang never gives them any adverts and how they are just advertising themselves, but I guess I was still hoping that I'll be lucky enough to get at least 1 advert. Hmm but maybe my blog traffic is too low also, only managing to get an average of more than 20 visitors in certain weeks. Maybe try them again if I get more traffic in the not so near future.

For now I'm just sticking with Advertlets. Signed up for Blog2u.sg too but i doubt i'll be getting adverts anytime soon. But no matter. I finally got 31 polls answered! yay! only 19 more to my goal of 50, do fill it in if you haven ya? ;p

After lunch today I went to the nearby minimart to get some Smarties (to make me smarter cos my first paper is tml) and when I was there, I heroically saved a few hundred eggs.=p

After I took Smarties from the shelf, I joined the queue at the cashier. At this point of time, a supplier was moving cartons of eggs into the little store, stacking them up just beside the cashier. So anyway he was busy pushing some cartons around and didn't notice the tall stack of eggs swaying dangerously. Luckily I was standing beside that tall stack (and had quick reaction) because the whole tower of eggs bent over and started falling. I managed to catch hold of the tower and push it back upright and was applauded for this heroic save. lol no la the egg supplier just thanked me profusely and the shop owner said he should give me some eggs to thank me haha.

Hmm actually I can't really understand why people just stack up eggs so dangerously. Ok if they were actually stacked properly I guess it's quite stable. But as long as one carton is out of line, the whole tower becomes shaky and unstable. Maybe that's the most space saving way of displaying eggs ba.

Finally managed to take some pictures of my Yorkshire Terrier puppy after having him for about 2 months! This is because he was too naughty before, don't wanna keep still and keep trying to bite or lick the camera. He's much more well-behaved now..=) His name is Rufie, he's about 6 months old now and I bought him a pink collar though he's a guy lol. And I give him pink towels to play with haha. Ok let's get on to the pics:

Just out of bath...wet and skinny looking.


Getting blown dry with a hair dryer...


Notice the hair dryer at the bottom left?


Yay! Dry, fluffy and shiny fur! Mmm smells nice too!



Hehe..looks cute with the hair tied up..smile for the camera! =)


lol i dunno why he has green eyes in the pics..i tot ppl usually get red eyes. maybe dogs are different...

I realise I have this weird, and possibly unhealthy, obsession over the way things are arranged on a page. For example, how things are arrange on my blog, and now facebook. I worry about whether this should be put on the left or right column and whether it looks better before or after a certain item in the column. At first it was only my blog, which has quite few elements to be moved about...but now, I have so many facebook applications and more still to come. I can spend hours just obsessing over the layout of things, in the process giving myself a huge headache.

It's really very senseless things like "I should put my (fluff)friends near the top so that ppl will pet it", "should I put my wall near the top or bottom? If it's near the top I can access my messages easily and ppl are more likely to write on the wall, but if it's near the bottom it won't push the other applications below it further down when more posts collect". And then there's deciding what should go into the left column...

Sometimes I really have to just force myself to stop shifting things around and just close the browser.

I finally succumbed to peer pressure and joined Facebook.Ok la not really lol. Just decided to try it out cos i've heard alot about the cool applications and such. Most of my time on facebook now spent added new applications so that my profile looks less empty..oh and (fluff)friends is really cute!=) But some applications such as the vampires and werewolves look abit scary so i don't wanna add them..

I didn't even know that so many of my friends had facebook.Hmm come to think of it I might have received some invitations before but since i had no interest in facebook then i rejected them all.

Argh..i should have waited till after exam to join facebook...starting to get addicted..must study must study

I watched this video before some time ago, but felt like watching it again recently cos itz really quite funny. too bad itz so short though...



translation:

Luke: Arghhhhh!! My hand!!
Darth: Luke, follow me to the dark side.

Luke: Wait long long ar!
Darth: Luke, I am your father.

Luke: It can't be true! It can't be true! My father is deaddddd!!
Darth: You just think about it, and you will know that it is true...

After searching for a long long time, I finally found a version of Super Puzzle Bobble that works on my phone! I got it from this forum which is translated from Spanish I think. At first I was searching for Super Puzzle Bobble for my hp model to no avail. Then I decided to look for one that fits my hp screen resolution instead...and tada! I found it. However, had to trouble my friend to transfer the file to her hp and infrared to mine cos I don't have the cable to connect my hp to com.

Though I can now play the game on my hp, the quality is really bad compared to on my friends' phones. It is very laggy, images not that clear, colours are quite dark, and not to mention the graphics are small. Oh well, I can't have everything.

Now that I have Super Puzzle Bobble on my hp, my friends have started to play tetris instead..arghhh seems like i'm a little behind time...