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Sunday, November 08, 2009
HP Restore: Nong Shim Supper
[ZOMBiE CyGiG] ranted at 11:13 PM --- Post#8395454570060509291

01 x Nong Shim Seafood Instant Noodles
05 x Grey Prawns
03 x LeLe Dumplings
03 x Pork Ball
01 x Extra Large Egg

Prawn heads and tails pre-boiled in soup base of noodles for extra flavour.

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Saturday, November 07, 2009
MP Restore: Ginseng Soup!
[ZOMBiE CyGiG] ranted at 6:33 PM --- Post#2547061625620537185

Brewed for over 8 hours with fresh chicken and ginseng. Super strong flavour and savoury aroma mean that I'm going to stay up all night to complete my projects.

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Sunday, November 01, 2009
Home - Video Art
[ZOMBiE CyGiG] ranted at 1:24 AM --- Post#3698954479174613093

A school project on Moving Images and Sound. Students are to develop a video clip of 2min or less on the application of the appropriate use of sound on motion pictures, using consumer video and sound recording gadgets like hand phones, web cams, music players and compact cameras.

This artwork is inspired the novel, After Dark, by Haruki Murakami, where he mentioned that Japan during night time is a totally different world. There will be strange happenings, events and sediments going on that will never be observable during the day. I extended the authors idea and applied it to my own context my own home at night. In this video, I showed how several happenings at home can actually be more than superficial, which will trigger deeper thoughts and vivid imagination. Furthermore, some of the basic requirement for a place to be called home may also be sometimes distorted and abused.

Camera: Panasonic Lumix FS15
Sound Recording: PC with $4 Sim Lim Square Microphone
White Balance: Self Printed Grey Card
Filter: Various common household objects; in-camera colour filters
Lighting: Household mini-florescence bulb

Video Software: iMovie
Audio Software: Audacity

No stock videos/images/sounds were used.

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Saturday, October 31, 2009
Starry Starry Wars
[ZOMBiE CyGiG] ranted at 11:46 PM --- Post#4990431977185644734

My Adobe Illustrator project for school. Headshot with an ace. The requirement is to incorporate yourself into one famous painting.

This artwork is inspired by the movie series, Star Wars, in which the setting took place in the future depicting the use of very advanced technologies in battles. Coincidentally, Van Gogh’s painting, The Starry Night, seems be a suitable setting for a scene in Star Wars, as the picture is dark and showed swirls of stars and a huge Whirlpool Galaxy in the middle, both could be used to suggest “outer space”. Therefore, I drew myself as a possible character (a Jedi) in Star Wars, dual welding light sabers (a fictional weapon in Star Wars) in a defensive stance in the foreground.

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SongTank
[ZOMBiE CyGiG] ranted at 9:47 PM --- Post#6423608251493278087

And I tot with my cable done, I ought to promote my own music player. Fuck school work. Hobby comes first!

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SilverMax Ultra ZCE
[ZOMBiE CyGiG] ranted at 6:45 PM --- Post#3240979736406089704

TADA! I finally fulfilled my wish of usng Paillics plus for my SilverMAX Ultra to zheng up the aesthetics. Instead of a silicone tube, a heat shrunk one is used as the jacket. I chose one that is just slightly bigger than the cable. The result a jacket that is easy to sleeve in and has much much more flexibility, great for portables. Instead of wrapping the outside of the plug with another heat shrink tube, I upped the thickness of the cable coming out of the plugs with HST inside. This will prevent the problem of seeing the insides of the plugs if bent too much, as well as preserve the nice outlook of the plugs. I know that they aint well cut, but i will work on it next time.

For those who dunno, this shit is made using 99.99% pure silver. Much more precious than those sterling silver girls used for jewellery. And the outcome is nice looks + same old nice sound. This cable is same as SilverMax Ultra, just that this was made with more aesthetic sense in mind. I will NOT be selling it, thus, it shall be name under my label: SilverMax Ultra ZOMBiE CYGIG Edition (ZCE).

My workshop/room.

Messy work table with tools.

The smell of soldering fume definitely lifted my spirit and killed some depression. Me lub lub soldering!

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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Koped
[ZOMBiE CyGiG] ranted at 10:26 AM --- Post#1936824439388602581

Nice one, I just broke the record of not sleeping properly for like six days, I am like seriously starting to believe my mom that LASALLE is training immortal rather than artists.

There had been a series of issues going on, but thankfully, I was not the victim like what I would used to be.

The following text had been BlogLocked. Select all, copy and paste into BlogLock and decrypt with the correct password.

I owned for Illustrator and Photog, but fucked up my Video and Sound workshop, it is so ironic that my work was selected for exhibition buy I only scored a mere C. I was told that I did not have enough experimentation, I only showed the final work. But another Illustrator graded my illustrator work and she said I showed my experimentation and trying out of different methods in my work - which i purposely did for my Video and Sound as well. I guess I made the wrong assumption.

Selected video + mere C grade + need to come back tml to set up my own exhibition = Epic Fucked Up.

I continued to experiment with the idea of "JC on LASALLE", exploiting skills that LASALLE do not teach (but taught in JC) and apply them to smart work in LASALLE. I guess at some points, definitions and instructions aint really empathized in LASALLE so as not to impede the creative process, but it is undeniable that if you follow the steps it would be like 9999x easier. Thus last minute work would be highly possible.

Oh ya, thanks to WK's recommendation for the A4 Tech G7 mouse, truely value for money. I shall put up some studio pics and review IF I HAVE THE TIME.

Hmmm...my Hackintosh shall go into deep sleep after today. Fucking OS.

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Saturday, October 17, 2009
MJC Farewell Assembly 2009 (Math Dept Video)
[ZOMBiE CyGiG] ranted at 11:51 PM --- Post#4463452097827709524

Only if AJC teachers are half that creative....

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Monday, October 12, 2009
What I mean by good make up skills
[ZOMBiE CyGiG] ranted at 1:47 AM --- Post#4843632665436684424

As the title suggest, this is good make up. Use of natural colour to enhance your face, and not some complementary and saturated colours to attempt to change your face.

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Saturday, October 10, 2009
I Ought To Post
[ZOMBiE CyGiG] ranted at 11:54 AM --- Post#4100488238786948710

Hi, all
It has been quite a long time since I posted something proper. Sorry, but I had been lazy and covering things up with pictures and videos, but I do believe in original user created content, so even of the issues projected in those pics and vids were something discussed about umpteen times across the net, I still hope that the interest level is maintained through my self acquired media that portray these experiences in my own angle.

Busy in School
Ok to start off first, I had been super fucking busy at school. Those who know me well enough will know what my definition of "busy" means "lazy to do work, then last minute chiong". Ok, I think I'm having some concentration problem here, but I simply CANNOT just put myself into a period of time where I can concentrate to work. So much for being a geek, watching anime, tweaking PCs, running Hackintosh, surfing VRZ drew my attention off from work. The truth is, the former events are 10000x more interesting than the latter.

I believe that we can produce art through cheating and shortcuts, Im not saying to produce sloppy work that no one likes, but you can make good looking artworks using minimal effort. Alot of times, we see those famous artist as spending lots of time planning and executing the process of creating the artwork, and most of the time they are inspired by some chim ideology in life.

I had been to the National Art Museum and saw this blank sheet of paper hung up as a piece of artwork. I dint manage to take a photo and take note of the artist though. Do you really think this artist spent a great deal of time doing his artwork?

Most prolly he was like "ok....I need some cash and I'm feeling lazy today...hmm...what should I do... *picks a piece of paper from thrash bin* aha! This is my artwork! What should the theme be.....ooo I shall call it "The Paper of Life", meaning no matter how pure and white you want your paper (as to life) to be, it will always have some impurities on it - No one is perfect! Sounds Great!"

When it comes to completing school work, I focus on the requirement, get it all met, the actual work nice or not, dun care. Because that is how the LASALLE system works:
- Incomplete but ultra nice work = very little marks
- Completed but lousy work = average marks.
- Completed work with some signs of effort = average high marks
- Completed work with super nice artwork = high marks

I will spend min. effort to hit #2 or #3. In a way, its not very fair, cos I had seen students with fucking nice work but he dun have time to label and sort them out in his sketchbook and failed. But hey, Im a life hacker, I'm suppose to be exploiting this loophole!

Technical Specifications
Probably it is a geek's instinct to adhere and fulfil technical specifications,and it's also a way for developers to cheat. A produce can meet all specification, but has horrible flaws in them. An audio player can meet the requirement to playback FLAC but there could be a limitation that only a very old version and low compression level of FLAC is hardware supported. The player can have "bass boost" but when upping the bass, it produces lots of clippings.

BTW, for common users, most of the time "Bass Boost" = "COME DISTORT MY BOTTOM TILL IT CRACKS!". If you see an audio player featuring "Controlled Bass Boost", tell me, I may buy it. Oh ya, did you know that, more than half the time, the more visually/artistic appealing the headphone, the lousier it sounds? I had seen a lot of funkily designed headphone in school from skullcandy or the low end audio technica and I um chio and kiss my TripleFi.

Bullshitting in school definitely works, and I think blogging helped me to express my true feelings very easily - something LASALLE values. Thus when it comes to modules like Grey Matter, I could write my reflection with no problem. Just write what I feel la! Broken ang moh nebermind coz they look at ideas and not English. Of course your ang moh must be good enough to be read la! Some ppl attempted to bullshit, but epic fail la... Can tell they aint hitting any point. When you bullshit, you still must meet the technical specifications!

But when then again, my laziness is pulling me down. Haiz.

English or Singlish?
I see that my classmates are always speaking very good English. For me ish VR/Net-language + Singlish + Mandarin. Singapore sucked enough, and to me, the multi racial culture, food and Singlish are the three aspects that I'm proud of as a Singaporean. I hate standard English, so mafan, inflexible and inexpressive, Singlish FTW!

My international friends get confused between race, religion and nationality, some of them lived in countries with one dominant race and few religion and foreign talents. They were confused by Singaporean Chinese, Indonesian Chinese and China Chinese. They thought there is only one race in Indonesia and Malaysia. One even asked me if my friend, who is a Chinese Buddhist from Msia, will celebrate Hari Raya cos she though everyone from Msia is a Muslim Malay. Some though all Indians in school come from India, but actually those are the Singaporean Indians.

Happy Belated BD to KTK
Oh ya, happy belated birthday to KTK! I await your laksa! I miss those days we all go Bugis to hunt for food, sit down and talk cock about audio, machines, flash light, DIYs, hackings etc... Sian ah....

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Sunday, October 04, 2009
Mac OSX on my Compaq V3000 Laptop
[ZOMBiE CyGiG] ranted at 12:05 AM --- Post#2030486938665066445

After some tedious research and try outs, I managed to get Mac OSX on my V3000 laptop. The reason for doing is is because one of my projects strictly requires iMovie. I am never a fan of Mac, rather, I am a geek who prefers to program, mod and customise PCs. In fact, I hate mac due to their misleading marketing. Thank you OSx86 team for iAtkos 7.

Sorry for the poor filming, I could not get a better video due to time and hardware limitation.

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Saturday, September 26, 2009
Bye Bye Power Rangers
[ZOMBiE CyGiG] ranted at 12:42 AM --- Post#7323658403357490498

My display cabinet with Power Rangers.

These got to go, selling them to a collector for $85.

White Ranger.

Dino Megazord Tank Mode.

Dino Megazord Battle Mode.

Mega Tigerzord.

Red Dragon Thunderzord.

Sold part of my Power Rangers collection to a collector for $85. What is sold is shown above. Bye bye to them! They were my "friends" when I was young, when you grow up without human friends, you began to personify toys and objects around you... Probably that started my interest in gadgets. Somehow I was abit reluctant to let go, but they are practically useless and takes up quite a lot of space. Probably a collector could do more to them.

$85 altogehter for those sounds cheap, but I can justify. During those days, those toys were abused like fuck by me. I remember I used to have 雷神王 bots, and when I threw tantrum I will smash them onto the floor, and I remembered they ended up in the bins due to severe fracture and breakage. But Power Rangers could resist much more abuse by me without a total break down. By now, most of the bots have scratches and peeled stickers. My sis used to bite those accessories like swords and staffs and now they are filled with chew marks. Some small figurines and objects tt came with the set were gone too. Thus I self-justify the steep decrease in its price (not value).

If its in mint condition or at least 8/10 (now is about 6/10),I would have sold one set for $60 lor.

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Friday, September 25, 2009
DIY Grey Card
[ZOMBiE CyGiG] ranted at 11:06 AM --- Post#1671344037330847653

I printed out all shades of grey for my printer, and match it with a free grey card I got from purchasing a photography book. Though technically there colour aint totally the same, but practically it's useful enough for something that cost near to nothing.

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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Make Up
[ZOMBiE CyGiG] ranted at 6:48 PM --- Post#8860866810876615656

Just now, I was browsing through some Facebook photos when I came across this girl, whom I always commented on her make up. She used to look all right - average college girl, but after she went to University, she started all her "face painting lessons" and made an "artwork" out of her face. Wheee...I will always see saturated electric triadic colours - blue, yellow, red all over her face, machiam like colour mixing palette for glossy car paint. Its not just my view, some my my female friends agreed to my judgement as well.

I'm not sure about other guys, but I never like girls that make up, esp if she cannot do a good job. When I see a woman with make up, I will tend to play "Spot The Flaws" and try to see your pimples and freckles and dark circle underneath. Natural skin FTW, even if you aint pretty, I will appreciate you for being yourself naturally.

There is this statement I always used to describe girls that cannot make up properly, "Using Lipstick as Mascara", which I feel is not far away from reality. The truth is, if you have a face with all parts fighting for attention by using strong and heavy colourings insensitively, then you are going to look like some shit.

Generally, what I feel is:
If you are an ugly girl, and you dun make up, you look ugly.
If you are an ugly girl, and you have poor make up, you look fugly.
If you are an ugly girl and you have good make up, you may look chio, but once someone sees your true colour, that scene of your un-make-up face will stay forever.

If you are a chio bu, and you dun make up, you look chio.
If you are a chio bu, and you have poor make up, you look like a disgusting piece of bimbo.
If you are a chio bu and you have good make up, you look heavenly.

So, if you cant make up well, dun make up. Simple. You wun lose out more.

Going back to the photo of the girl whom I saw on FB, on certain photo, I could barely recognise her. Not that her made up had became worse, but the reverse is true. Her make up is much better now (though still far from perfect) and it has done its job to portray her as grown up woman instead of a woman-wannabe. Well, I guess some wannabes level up till professional levels at times. I can still see some awkwardness at certain angles, but its a definitely a great general improvement.

I always thought that mature girls are woman with confidence and pride, who dress up sensibly and appropriately, and not one that pours colour powder over her face, try to show assets that she dun really have, act high class with innocent and being fervently girlish.

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Monday, September 21, 2009
Cleaning my ATX Tower
[ZOMBiE CyGiG] ranted at 10:58 PM --- Post#820002935286978370

It's term break and i'm bored at home...thus started to take out my ATX casings and panels to clean them.
Im using CoolerMaster Elite 334.

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