Philip Khor

6:16pm Earthquake strike near Padang, indonesia

6:24pm @AidanLegend gets news of it

6:32pm CNN Breaking gets it

6:47pm Singapore gets it (friend lah)

Then the next 3-5 minutes, a plethora of commentary from almost everywhere.

I got few indonesian friends who come from Padang… hope their families are doing alright.

Its all happening on Twitter!!! Before any news breaks!

Come join the revolution. http://twitter.com/philipkhor

Prepare for the after-shocks.

5 things.

1. At 6am, I woke up and checked The Internetz for my usual morning fix. Alas, my site was down. Called up Easynet Interactive and they gently informed me of the downtime at the Jaring IDC (Internet Data Center) at Bukit Jalil (Yang Wei’s torrent must be sucking all teh bandwidth). The staff was patient, and sounded abit tired (down since 3am apparently). At 8:45am, it came back on and I was informed via twitter! @myeasynet

I wonder if TM’s Datacenter goes down, how long does it take for a response? Good job, Jaring. Now I know your niche (or.. perhaps your core competency~)

2. Florentina 2 – 0 Liverpool at Italy. 6-1 over the weekend, now cocking up in a routine tapau-ing session. Props to anyone who beats Liverpool. Nuff said.

3. My team mates from Industry 1, Team B, selling sports and luxury cars. Everyone played their roles, from the master strategist, to the contingency analyst guy as well as the lady bringing us vital information and different perspective. Well disciplined, textbook bravery, executed flawlessly.

4. The SS15 night watch gang, headed by Robert. Nightly watches 9pm to midnight, gangs of volunteers walk around my housing area showing presence. Crime rate reduced, people feel more secure. Theives now have to look deeper into USJ area for makan, and… LCD TVs.

5. American TV! Gotta love the TV series from the other side of the world. New seasons of Family Guy, Cleveland, South Park, Simpsons, all pushed out at the same time. Wooot…

Now its your turn. Find 5 things you feel that credit is deserved.

Like every great dreamer, I have a dream. I dream of awsm things I wanna accomplish. I dream of revolution beyond a fanatical revolutionist wildest dreams. I dream of landing a dream job at Cupertino, CA, USA. Problem is, it just won’t happen.

Time and time again, I am left disappointed with the inability to accomplish what I set out to do. Over the week-long Raya break, I had time to rethink my strategy.

At 11am, I had teochew porridge, very cheng-cheng-tei (not sinful food) and walked around my area. On the way back around the Market in SS15, I got caught in a thunderstorm. Unperturbed I strived on under the pouring torrential rain. Ahhh.. what a refreshing experience that was.

As the Beemer splashed it fat tyres on the puddle as it rolled by, I was overcomed with an unexplainable joyful feeling… to the sounds of Mika – We are Golden! Its a feeling of “nothing’s gonna stop us.. now~” and “teenage dreams in a teenage circus!~ Running around again.” know what I’m saying?

Its difficult to get my thoughts collected. Its a by-product of being uber creative and being a dreamer. I’m gonna write a book which showcases everything i have experienced throughout my life.

And of course I’ll fix up the October 2009 Phailed MIX asap :)

Thought of the day:

Blame the internet. During the telephone and penpal letters days, couples have lots of time to think about each other. They have time to reflect on how good a man you are, and think of the awesome things we would like to do when we see each other again. Then came the internet. And lower costs of mobile phone services.

Huffington Post:

Another quote from lowyat.net forums

Forget about the upgrade & just buy a new pc.
Its difficult to ask the fat wife to go mariefrance. Just et a new young girlfriend.

:D hahahahaha :D

In other news, I’m entering Period 5 out of 9 of my Marketing StratSIM game. We as a firm produce luxury and sports cars in a virtual world, seemingly filled with enthusiastic buyers.

Our starting point was the best in terms of financial muscle, but unit sales were the lowest. We’re not worried, that’s how it should be.

Overall our Team B has a good plan, when our Marketing Plans get drawn up this week, it will be exciting, especially predicting the contingency, and the inevitable downturn we’re gonna face.. like.. our Chief Technical Director fired, our Creative Engineering team getting hijacked, or one of our billion dollar R&D centre and factor burns down. EXCITING indeed.

=)

Do not pray for easy lives.
Pray to be stronger men.
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers.
Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Then the doing of
your work shall be no miracle.
But you shall be a miracle. Every
day you shall wonder at yourself,
at the richness of life which has
come to you by the grace of God.

Phillips Brook

Vid 1 | Vid 2

Back in 2006 when I first landed in Subang Jaya, I was a computer addict. I crave for the latest shit, but at the same time, was too poor to afford anything.

Now, 4 years later, I’m still poor, but not so much of an addict already.

There was this benchmark program called 3DMark 2006, which rates your computer against the industry standards. I tried those benchmarks on my cheapo rig, and got a paltry 3-5 FPS, and it looked like 8-bit porn.

Now its changed. I got a half-decent setup, and it looks not too shabby.

Anyone wanna compare ah? @yangwei @markjun

While walking home from breakfast, I held a sweet wrapper and aimed it towards a dustbin. I told myself, “aim high, aim far”. I launched it, and whoops! Forgot to factor in the wind! Phailed.

I just did a fresh install of Win XP.

It took 60 minutes to do a complete format of my 300GB partition. Some say its better, and gives protection to the disk to be error free. Lets see how it goes.

T- 0:00 Formatting Complete
T- 0:01 Copy basic files
T- 3:12 Restart computer
T- 4:00 Approx. 39 minute screen
T- 9:25 Approx. 33 minutes. Finished installing devices
T- 10:05 Approx 30 minutes. Done installing network
T- 11:25 Approx 24 minutes. Copying files
T- 12:08 Approx 22 minutes. Completing install
T- 13:45 Approx 18 minutes. Installed start menu items
T- 15:15 Approx 9 minutes. Registering components
T- 16:50 Approx 1 minute. Saving settings
T- 17:50 First boot screen appear, windows logo + Please wait
T- 18:55 Desktop appear

Just for reference, its now T-45 minutes and my graphic driver is on the way. I think it’ll be another 1 hour before its really usable. Its funny to note that in Windows 7, Microsoft really asks its users to prepare at least 20-24 hours for a complete upgrade from Vista!!!!!

I just watched the whole 2 hours show (torrents easily search-able). I’d like to point out one event that struck me.

i’m not sure who it was, but this guy carrying an axe, worked up the crowd and led the crowd in a prayer to the Devil. Most people held hands together, doing the devil sign, mumbling along, while others really thought it was funny.

I’m not here to condemn him. I’m looking at it from another angle.

Isn’t this how most Christians who bring their friends to “house parties” or Evangelical events in disguise treat the non believer friends? Say it however you want, but in most cases, this little “bait” or seed as they call it makes people wanna go to church for the wrong reasons. How awkward is it when the pastor say “with all eyes closed, those who said the prayer (sinner’s prayer) please raise your hand and our wolves will hound on you!”

Just like dishonest salesman, I, in the strongest sense, disapprove of suckering non-believers to church. I respect your beliefs, and just hope we would respect each others beliefs as well.

Also, check out Rodney Stark’s “One True God”.

Here’s a clip from the text coverage of Apple’s Music Event:

11:15AM – Norah’s done, big applause. Steve’s on stage, applauding. “That’s what we have for you today, thanks for coming and we’ll see you soon!” Hint?

1. Mac geeks are an over-analytic bunch. What? a new iPod touch cam a week later just becuz it was the biggest disappointment today?

2. “see you soon”. If you’ve talked to me lately over the phone, I usually end my calls with “see you soon”. looks like Steve is stealing my line!

Argh~

Ok, hope dad is in a generous mood tomorrow. Mustn’t keep my hopes too high. [touch]