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Maybe it’s time for a change to this page, and to revisit writing all over again.. We shall see..????

After being disturbed by one of the wisdom tooth that has caused myself pretty much agony for a while. Today is the day where i would remove the root of the problem and other underlying pain that would come by my way in the near future.

It started off with a pain in the jaw which i though initially, where by i went to a Polyclinic and they referred me to the National Dental Centre. After one session of consultant, the dentists informed that it was due to the wisdom tooth problem, and it would be best if i could remove all 4 of them.

Since i’m currently serving my National Service, i would not have to pay a single cent for the whole surgery, which could easily amount up to 900bucks for a simple day surgery.

It’s interesting that for such a surgery, i even had to wear the patient’s robes. Somehow it feels weird as there are no buttons and its very easily exposed.

These are the remains of my 4 wisdom teeth. There’s the 2 big ones and the rest are the other 2 which are the debris of the other 2 teeth. Pretty disgusting to know about what they did to it to remove them.

But well, now it’s where the difficult part begins. No hot steamy food, no hard food for the time being. Until then, i have 8days of Hospitalization Leave to spend.

A well deserved break definitely!

So what’s a prime number.

A positive integer that’s only divisible by 1 and itself.

That it is, the first thing i learnt in Secondary One. Later i realised they’re are good for tortures as well.

It would be quite a torture itself to ask someone to list the first 100 prime numbers in ascending series. Let’s try..

2..3..5..7..11..13..17..19..23..29..31..37..41..43..brain dead

There is something that was created by George Woltmon, who made use of prime numbers to conduct the stress tests. This particular software “Prime95″ was written to test how well can your computer system work when it is put onto a 100% workload, to calculate as many prime numbers, bigger and bigger. Due to the fact that the bigger the number grows, it will be more difficult to determine if the particular number is a prime number.

More readings can be obtained @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime95

On August 23rd, a UCLA computer in the GIMPS PrimeNet network discovered the 45th known Mersenne prime, 2^43,112,609-1, a mammoth 12,978,189 digit number! The prime number qualifies for the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s $100,000 award for discovery of the first 10 million digit prime number.

[extracted from http://www.mersenne.org/]

So, i tried this software on my new PC, just to test my maximum temperature my PC will hit when put all my 4 Cores at their maximum. Here are the results.

It reads a Maximum Temperature of 60degrees, from the idling temperature of 47degrees. Pretty decent work done by my 14cm CPU Fan and the other peripheral fans.

Anyway to sidetrack a little, i finally played the Red Alert 3 that i have gotten recently. The graphics is love.

First time i could proudly put the video settings of the game, details and resolution to “Ultra High” mode. Details such as water ripples, shadows and wind direction can be easily spotted and clearly seen running without hiccups.

For the past 2 to 3 months or so, I’ve been searching the web, the forums to get extra cheap deals to build my next PC. Not really a PC, but not really a Mac as well because it it doesnt have the brand of Apple. It’s a Hackintosh!

For those who aren’t so sure.. A Hackintosh is..

A computer built to run Apple Mac OS X is also known as a Hackintosh, which is a recycled term originally denoting the modified Lisa 2/10 running Mac System, or Macintosh.

Well, let’s not delve into the very technical parts of it. In layman terms, it’s having Apple Mac’s Operating System on a PC, which natively only can be used on Apple’s Computers.

“The internet is for porn”, other than porn as quoted by Monster Trekkie in AvenueQ, it’s a good place for good deals. Almost every part of the build was gotten off eBays and forums. It’s seriously a place for great deals.

The humble specs are as follows.. some of them are bought off the shelves though.

• Gigabyte P35-DS3R Motherboard
• Core 2 Quad Q9450 Processor
• 4GB Kingston Ram
• XFX XXX 8800GT 512MB GPU
• PC Power and Cooling Silencer 500W PSU
• SIlverstone Casing
• LG 19″inch TV
• Scythe Zipang PSU Cooler (a really BIG one)
• Many other fans and coolers..

The build will looks something like this..

Imagine squeezing all these nonsense into one small casing.

The massive 14cm Scythe Heatsink Fan..

Zalman cooling GPU

Delta fans, and the 2 HDD fans at the back.

Thanks to Felix, with his help i managed to put all these parts together. Not a easy feat considering the constrain space in the Silverstone Casing and the amount of components we are trying to squeeze inside the unit.

After the hardware aspects, here comes the software part of the Hackintosh, equally challenging or more i should say.

After extensive reading on www.insanelymac.com i managed to acquire some basic knowledge on installing MAC on a PC using distro genius like kalyway and leo4all created, which makes installation so much simpler and direct. But it’s not as simple as installing other OS’s like XP or Ubuntu. The installation is more complex as the drivers are not so compatible and easily available.

After 3 days of installing and reinstalling, formatting and testing, 3 days of research and trying, I have successfully installed a OSx86 Leopard onto the PC which i have built. It is also dual boot with Windows XP SP3 so that i can play my games that require Windows platform. The sense of achievement is almost unbelievable.

The beautiful wallpaper with the dock.

Expose; one of the software to easily choose the current window u are working with..

And this is the final product… Round of applause.. :D

It was almost the first time being alone for the whole event in the AV room. Normally, i would arrive only when the things are being setup properly, and all i have to do is to control them. But sad to say, i’m the only one covering the event today.

Well, in one way or another, it was a good learning point for me to not rely so much on others to do the setup, and really get down to earth and learn the operations of the startup of the system.

Luckily Boss was just a phone call away and there were some kind souls around for some assistance. Glad that the show when on well, though with a little glitches here and there.

Can’t really expect things to be that perfect with only 1 person in the room controlling EVERYTHING. From lightning to sound to slide shows, dvd players, cameras and mixer. So many knobs and buttons, how can i operate full swing with only 2 hands and 10 fingers. 

I ain’t a thousand hand buddha.

I’m still at the premature stage of playing with Photoshop, allow me to doodle some side works on my blog for experimental sake. I guess its more of such practices that can sharpen up my skills on this wonderful tool.

And thanks to Sayanee for imparting her skills on Photoshop to me, though i guess i won’t really make a good disciple. Hah!

I am glad that my leg is less sore now, able to walk faster now. Though the thought of climbing that flight of stairs, especially the downwards one still sends shivers to my thighs. Hopefully it will be better tomorrow, and that it will not restrict my movement and involvements in more upcoming gatherings and outings.

Stepping foot onto Sentosa once again equates to more tanning. However, sad to say the intensity of the Sun isn’t that great today especially with the light showers in the afternoon, so we had only mild tan.

But according to TDW and LJH, such sun intensity is great for more solid tanning. Just like the slow cooker, it takes time to produce a good bowl of soup/dish. Too much fire will cause it to get burnt(human skin as well) easily. So believe it or not.. I’m a little more tan now than this morning.

This is the scene of Coasters during the high tide and heavy rain, when they tried to salvage the situation by retrieving their tanning beds and chairs back . Apparently, it wasn’t very successful due to the strong wind and rain.

Dinner was what we were waiting for, after starving the whole day and so much activity going on. Pariss International Seafood Buffet @ Marina square, with AMKSS Band Teachers, conductors.. and guest Kenneth’s girlfriend.

Seriously, i think the food’s pretty decent, not very extraordinary, but alright. Unlike BT and DW, i don’t really like mussels, so there isn’t much expensive food for me to spam. Unless you want to include fish, which i think was the main animal of the day and abalone.

Something which might interest you guys, especially if you are a chocolate lover.

Esther, you looking at this? Jealous..? haha..

And they actually took a whole bowl of that chocolate from the fountain to the table. Easier access to the chocolate, haha.

There was this waitress, quite unfriendly one. She came to our table and collected the used plates. Apparently she didn’t see that there was still fish on one of the plates, maybe the fish camouflaged itself too nicely with the colour of the plate.

I think we posses some kind of eye power, when she removed the plate from the table. All of us didn’t make a noise, instead we locked our eyes on the plate as she took it away from our table. Within seconds, the waitress placed the plate back on the table.

Great isn’t it?

It’s so another day of shiokness, but right now i’m feeling so darn shag. After few days of hectic schedules i’m more or less burnt out.

 More events lining up for me, got to rest more to survive the fun.

Till then,

Have MORE FUN everyone!!

It seems that my life without studying is rather busy still.

My body seemed to be still under the fatigue of the studying of the alevels. i don’t really feel as energetic as before i don’t know why.

But anyway, i have been too tired to update the last few days, especially after the wedding dinners.

At least after 2 nights of wine and delicacy, i’m in a more refreshed state now.

Some picture from the wedding dinner.

My handsome brother trying to act cool..

I shall embark on the last paper for A Levels, and probably the last time i am going to wear the piece of brown cloth.

I shall keep my updates going soon, been rather busy these days. Especially after A’s, ironically.

It feels great to be back on the track, in the swimming pool and in the gym again. Now i can feel a little aches here and there which makes me feel great.

I think its more or less time to revert to my normal healthier lifestyles, exercise more and eating out less. Knowing that if i eat at home, the food would be like 937649 times healthier than outside stuffs. But sometimes its a little hard to keep the taste buds down yea also..

But looking at the dealings i have after 20th Nov, it seems that it is almost impossible to eat out less looking at the amount of dealings i have..

17Nov – Wedding Dinner

18 Nov – BBQ w WestWinds

18Nov- Wedding Dinner

21 Nov – AMKSS Alumni Band Dinner =x

26 Nov – Dinner with teachers

27 Nov – NYJCSB Band Dinner

and a couple of family gatherings at restaurants..

Hmm, somehow i am looking forward to these events.. haha. Well, with some exercises along the way i guess they wouldn’t add up to that much of carbo.

Any one interested for run or swim or any physical activities pls come look for me.

I got free lobang for swimming pools entry. Yes FREE.

How i wish Physics was over.