Cambridge Journal Rocks!

Recently, I got the password from Athens and logged in to Cambridge Journals, the information collected in there is absolutely STUNNING! It will probably take a lifetime, perhaps a few to read them all. I found another site to surf now, and it will probably fill in the gaps of my lazy times.

Still, I got too used to clicking on the Manga tab instead of the articles that are useful. Anyway, go and read History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi, perhaps you'll get addicted to manga like me as well.

How about recent developments of the country? Highway concessionaire has to go public, that's a good thing, bad thing to Mr. Samy though (since he has always been using the Official Secret Act to prevent these from going out to public). And fuel prices goes down another 15 cents, it should go lower since the crude oil is now like $55 per barrel.

Oh well, time to sleep. I've recently learnt a bit of french, a very small bit that is.. Bonne nuit.

Exhaustion and Laziness

As the title says so, the day of badminton, basketball, and the day before of swimming and a bit of exercise at home, placed me in a state of forty winks in front of Federer's and Murray's match. The nap made me even lazier (as almost all naps do), and prevented me from even trying to touch my notes. And now, lets go to the main topic at the paragraph below.

ZZZZZZ...

.....Oh, I just remembered to do something, yes.. that is to remind the UOL External students to go check their accounts and get the Athens password, and also those who had PTPTN applications to submit their forms ASAP. And also finish... essayzzz....ZZZZZZ...

The Economy and Education

Look at the oil price, look at the recession in UK, look at China trying to save its skin with $586 billion, look at US trying to save its automobile sector dominated by Jap Cars now... the signs of global economic failure all spruced up like mushrooms. And of course, Singapore was hit by this too.. its dependence on trade alone, my goodness - made them one of the worst blow in its economy. (Malaysia though, you should know what state we are in and going to be in, with Mr. Najib up there to lead us in 2009, hope this isn't seditious) So is it right to do so that we go to Singapore to look for fortune? Wage there is almost double here, yet going there takes a wealth of consideration, family, friends, environment.. and of course, qualification.

Decisions like these change one's life, and yet a lot of students let their parents decide on things, and a lot of them didn't really care. Studying overseas = Large investment (millions for a medicine degree) = High return? Roads and bridges are laid down by their parents, some might follow, some might not. Some creates their roads by themselves, working and paying for their own education. Sometimes, life can be seen in both these extremes, but there are the roads that are built by different parties. Parents of course, gives out financial support, as we call it.. the FAMA scholarship. Some parents, let their children decide, and if they approve of it, then the child walks that road.. but sometimes parents might perhaps be micromanaging their kids education, wanting them to be this and that since they were born, and try to mold them into one.

It is of utmost difficulty to see a child grow to what he/she wants to be. Some of them never had goals, some of them are too ambitious, some of them are just lazy ( I think I am here), and some had all the determination and tenacity to go for their goals (I hope I am here, and others too). Are these some problems of Malaysian students? Or is it the fault of the Education of Malaysia? Or is it the fault of parents' improper upbringing? Because of these, is it our fault, the youth of Malaysia, that the country and economy is in such a state (not seditious right? I didn't say its in good or bad position) (compared to Singapore with no natural resources while we have so much, that Petronas could lease the land from Ananda Krishnan and build the twin towers) ? Have we been given too much since young, and too little when we grow older? Is it that the country do not have enough smart people? Or have they all went elsewhere like Singapore (with good pay) (A lot of friends in Australia)? These are the questions I post for today... I felt like I have a lot of things to do, yet I am not doing them.. Don't procrastinate like me please.

To the Readers of this Blog

I am new to blogging, please give me lots of opinions and stuffs that might help me in blogging (Maybe on other stuffs as well). And of course, add the blog on yours. Good day! ( I feel like I have a lot to talk, but maybe later.)

Resurrection of the Blog

It has been a while since I had wrote in a blog, I'd actually have no idea why people like to blog, but I guess I am starting to understand the feeling of sharing things with people. It might be a change in me that made me feel this way, or do we call this maturity?

I still do not think I am mature at all, many things in this world are left unlearned, and what I have learnt is just the tip of an iceberg. Still, what I need to learn now is the English law, which I am taking a degree on, of course.

Writing a blog of course, helps in this. Improving my English while doing this is a better way than just reading notes and stuffs. Now, now, what I have been writing is all about.. "I" or simply
"me".. I myself felt that I am just a little too selfish in things. Thus, we have to start thinking where we could make the "me" into "we"!

Things have started quite OK since the days of lectures and tutorials, and I was lucky that I do not feel regret in taking law itself. We as students should usually not regret in things, as one should have made the correct decision since the starting point itself. Regrets are not good things, yet it remind us of what we used to be and how immature we were. How much we could do in life would eventually become less and less when we grow into a more mature stage.

Well, since we have to appreciate the life of a college student now, lets go do something fun! Well, I do have something fun to share with people here! A game of World of Goo. Quite an original puzzle game, go and try it guys/gals! Use torrent to download it.. its only 60 Mb. Here's the link.

And also for those who are using torrent and experiencing bad speed. Read this below.

Might as well write a new post about this. My favourite bittorrent application is a specially configured version of Bitcomet 0.64. It seems to bypass Streamyx’s throttling, maxing out my connection every time. You don’t have to perform port forwarding either. It seems to work better without port forwarding. You can download it here

http://www.mediafire.com/?yq7wnlwnzpi

Don’t change any of the settings for it. Just change your default download folder.

Additional Instructions:

For vista:
And if you have not increased the number of max half open connections on vista yet, do it asap.

http://torrentfreak.com/optimize-vista-for-bittorrent-emule-p2ptv/

that link will show u how to do so on vista.the default half open connections on vista is only 2 ( default for xp is only 10). This means that your computer can only wait for 2 other connections.this slows down bittorrent a lot.

For windows xp:
follow this link to remove the limit on half open connections. i set mine to 500
http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=1497

hope this helps

PS. This seems to work best for people on windows xp. A Vista user reports tremendous increase in his bittorrent download speed by performing the TCP/IP patch.

PS: The above issue on BitComet are all copied from another blog, credit to http://konchy.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/bittorrent/

Oh well, I guess I have to stop here. Let's wait till I have some things to share with you guys/gals!