Monday, January 28, 2013

Have you ever been on a bus? Yes? Good.
Have you ever have to alight from the bus? Yes? Good.
Have you ever waited for someone else to press the bell instead of pressing it yourself? Yes? Fuck you.

Sometimes I don't get it. Why will the entire bus just wait for a single person to press the bell? Are you that lazy to simply press that fucking button? Are you losing out on something?! I see a whole bunch of people looking all anxious and nervous on their seats, thinking that no one might press the bell, and that they wouldn't press it until the last second possible.

I mean, it's alright to be a little lazy and wait for someone to press the bell instead. But when I see a bus full of people that are obviously alighting on the same stop, and that no one presses the bell until the bus is like 20 meters away from the stop, it gets on my nerves.

What about me? I'm obviously texting or doing something on my phone. Or I'll usually press the bell.

I don't know man, why are people so anal? 

Labels: annoyed, life, random, rant, stupid

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Thursday, December 27, 2012

I was supposed to write something else, but then my internet decided to fail on me today. It's not like I am not connected to the internet, I am. However, it seems to me that there are simply some servers/websites that I couldn't access properly. (12PM 28/12/12 GMT+8)

Websites like Facebook, Twitter and MSN is totally down for me. Google works intermittently. Other websites are just a hit and miss thing. I'm pretty darn sure someone tripped over some wires over at Starhub and caused this weird ass problem. However, as I am very generous, I decided to give them a day of grace before contacting them about it. Hopefully everything will be up and smooth when I wake up tomorrow, else I would have to go through the horrible experience of listening to, "Your call is very important to us, please wait while we connect you to a trained professional." over and over again.

Oh what sweet lord decided to screw with my internet? I'm writing this post only through tethering my phone.

The funny thing is that I could still torrent relatively well, going as high as 1MB/s. So I know that I am connected, I have checked everything I could and I'm 99.99% sure that the fault is not on my network.

Thing is, even without internet, I still have a decently good home network. I have been testing some stuffs around. I still have my massive media collection which doesn't require internet to enjoy. So it wasn't unbearable. And I finally got around to the offline task of tidying up my table.

Of course, the books lying on my table totally slipped my mind. I should probably get around reading them. Being "offline" for a day is certainly interesting. Can you imagine using your computer without the internet?

On a random note, I am positive that I could host a Counter Strike 1.6 servers and play with my friends as I am still connected to Singapore after all. Oh, the weird perspective you get when you study networking too much. Meh.

Life is just boring without the internet.

EDIT:
So everything magically restored as of 12AM 29/12/12. Don't know what went wrong, but at least I have my internet back and I don't have to make that dreadful call after all.

Labels: annoyed, FML, life, rant

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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

I have been thinking about this for awhile now, but I have friends who take life way too seriously. Not just one or two, but almost all of them.

How did I come to such a conclusion?

When there's alcohol involved, there is usually one person who gets drunk, or out of control. Then there'll be this one person who is really experienced and good at taking care of that drunk person. A couple who are way too tipsy to give a shit, and the rest who have inner panic about what they're supposed to do. I belong to the very rare few who just sits outside of all the chaos and get amused by the situation.

Though I'm not a frequent drinker, I've been through and heard of enough situations to understand that most people get very anal when one of their friends gets drunk. It usually goes something like,


I understand each of those feelings, as I've went through them myself. But why get all pissy about it? Sure, it is not a pleasant experience, but he/she is your friend after all, surely it wouldn't kill to just help him out? Here, let me give you an example to relate to.

Let's say you are playing sports (soccer) and your friend somehow fucked himself over and got injured. You would rush over and help him without hesitation nor any feelings of angst.

Compare that to the drunkard situation. In both scenarios, everyone sets out to have fun. But unfortunately, something bad happens and one of them fucks up. Why would you get so anal over the drunk one? Well, one plausible theory is that all the drinking fucked your thinking up.

I would prefer to go with the theory that everyone takes things way too seriously and don't know how to see the situation as it is. Just enjoy the sight of your friend spouting nonsense, puking all over himself, walking all funny and going all nuts. It is an embarrassment meant for your entertainment, why can't people see that it's funny?

I'm not saying that I love or want repetitions of such situations. I absolutely hate them. But when it happens, it happens, make the best of it, would you?


*I'm aware of the blatant vulgarities. I just go apeshit over people getting anal.

Labels: annoyed, drinking, drunk, people, rant, thinking, understanding people

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Saturday, December 08, 2012

It's amusing how I had two very unpleasant experience on a same day.

I had dinner with S at IKEA, and it was crowded as hell. We managed to find a seat where there's a woman sitting alone and we asked if the seats were empty. She said "yes go ahead." But since there were only two of us, we asked if she could help us look after our stuff while we order our food. Her reply was this, "Sure, but I shall not be held responsible for any missing items."



Seriously?
Of all the beautiful words in the human language, you choose those words?

Of course, we said, "Sure, so you don't mind looking after it?". And she repeated, yet again, "Yes, I do not mind, but I won't be held responsible for anything missing." I mean, yes sure. That is a legally sound statement, but all I hear is, "Sure, but don't blame me if anything is lost, or if I took something." It's not a virtue to judge people based on first impressions, but man, is she a bitch?! Of course, thanks to S we managed to find another seat, far away from that miserable low life.

Then comes late night gaming. Just a friend behaving like a spoiled brat. I am not fond of a one-sided argument, but I have to say this, "You reap what you sow."

Though this was an incredibly lousy way to end a nice Friday night, the good things that happened was that I got to catch up with my friend, I spammed BBC's Sherlock Holmes, had my childhood friend siding me and had a good night's sleep. I suppose the feeling of annoyance is not something that I could sever instantly, but it's something I should abstain from dwelling too deep into. And so I shall. Tomorrow is a big day, and I won't let anything spoil it.

Labels: annoyed, fuck it, life

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Saturday, September 01, 2012

That fucking last line.
That line that causes my wireless bridge to fail. Of course, that's probably because of the flaky firmware. The new WDR4300 is really giving my a headache. Even after the latest update if I stress the link too much for a long period of time, it will fuck up somehow.

So far it seems like my uTorrent is the one sending out way too much traffic. After limiting the halfopen TCP connections the link hasn't dropped since 2 hours ago.

I've Google-ed quite a bit and there seems to be a lot of people having the same issue. There doesn't seem to be a solution except for rebooting, and updating to a firmware that works well for them. So I'm just waiting patiently for the magic software that solves all my problems. I wanted to write a script that automatically reboots when it detects that stupid line. Of course, I'm no where smart enough to do that.

Oh, I'm trying to download One Piece. The encoder managed to compress all the files into 40~60mb. Sure, it's just web quality but since the alternative is to watch online, I guess this is alright. Thanks to that awesome compression, the total size is only 27.8GB. (on going)

Alright, and since I'm starting to do so much network-ish  stuff, I decided to monitor my bandwidth usage for my laptop. Not just the internet but the total up and down, including the local network. (mostly from my NAS)


6 days and 65GB has entered or leaved my computer. That's 65 billion 1s and 0s. Oh, and the 1GB is from 12am. It has been 18mins since. Thanks to the torrent of course.

Now, all I have to figure out is,
Why am I unable to access the router when I use a LAN pass-through to make it function like an AP? I have already point the DHCP server to the right place and all the settings are right, I am able to access the internet and such but not the device itself. It is extremely puzzling as I had the same problem with implementing WDS the other time. Hopefully I am able to figure it out sooner rather than later. Argh, here's the frustrated Lord signing off.

Labels: annoyed, geek, life, openwrt, random, rant, router

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Saturday, July 07, 2012

Haven't been posting for the past couple days, busy, tired, not in the mood.

Anyway, I just got pissed off and I need somewhere to rant. Doesn't make sense to rant to my friends about such a small matter but it's really a thorn in the flesh for me.

So, the thing is, I fell sick today. 
Mum offered to cook porridge for dinner, which I gladly accepted. At 720PM, there was no sign of any cooking at all. My dad, seeing that I might be hungry, offered to go and buy dinner for me.

Then my mum started to annoy the fuck out of both of us. Saying that it doesn't take long for her to make porridge, it's a waste of money and shit.

OK. I get that it's your love that makes it over bearing, but you really need to know how long it takes for porridge to be cooked. The one I prefer when I'm sick, takes a long time, at least 30mins. Really, I haven't had much for the entire day, so I'm starving like a hobo.

You really think it's worth it to quarrel with me over "not waiting for you to cook the porridge"?



She started shouting at me because of that. I'm like. What the fuck?
Hello, I'm not in the best of mood over here?
My exact words to her was this.

You really think I don't want to eat your porridge?
You really think I PURPOSELY ask dad to buy dinner so that I won't have to eat your cooking?
You really think I rather die than eat your porridge?
You really think I'm just doing this for fun?
You really think I'm that kind of person?

Of course, having to do this pissed the shit out of me as I'm having a sore throat. My attitude throughout the entire time was, Dude, wtf, seriously?

Labels: annoyed, life, rant

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Wednesday, July 04, 2012

This happened couple of days back. 

I was supposed to meet up with my childhood friends for breakfast at 930AM. However, they only reached at 10. I was annoyed, more so than normal. 2 main reasons.

1. I'm grumpy in the morning.
2. I had a really bad running nose and didn't have tissue.

About point 2, I couldn't leave my seat as it was crowded but I need to clear my nose and what not, you get the idea. I ended up just getting up and getting some relief for my nose anyway. Well, I left earlier because someone asked me out but it's not like I really couldn't stay for the breakfast.

Later in the day, I reviewed my actions and thought, "dafuq? why was i so annoyed?"

Though I really didn't do anything wrong per say, but you know, I find it helpful to review my own feelings later on and decide whether it's justified or not. Okay, I did forgive them in the end, because I mean, we've been friends for so damn long.

But here's the main point.
I think I get annoyed more easily when it concerns people I expect more from. 

This is going to sound really crude but if you did something wrong or be annoying towards me, and I just let it go and forgive you easily, it's probably because I don't expect shit from you.

It just seems counter-intuitive to me, but it also makes sense that we expect more from people we care about. It's a really old-concept but I guess that some feelings applies to everyone.


p.s. I hate it when people are late.
p.p.s I'm really grumpy in the mornings.

Labels: annoyed, forgiving, late, life, thinking

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Sunday, February 05, 2012

So... that's the project I'm working on right now, but I can't seem to make the parts I want to work. Feeling quite anal so I took a photo of it.

And, it's taking with my Galaxy S2. I realized that I'm kind of hitting a bottleneck in what my compact can do, so it doesn't feel that amazing to me anymore. Hence, I needed to up the challenge. For the next few daily photos I shall do it using my phone.


In case you're wondering about how I did this shot, it's basically macro, and I used a LED torchlight to illuminate the subject. It probably wouldn't well well on humans.

But yeah I did get a rather satisfying shot, so well, I guess a little of my pent up anger against it is released. I still can't figure it out, and it's killing me.

Is there anyone out there who knows how to write the program for an ultrasonic range sensor (SRF05)? Oh, and it's for the microcontroller PIC18F4550.

Screw this shit!

Labels: annoyed, daily photo, geek, life, school

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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Just watched this yesterday.

It was funny as hell. But it certainly lived up to it's NC16 rating. With lots of boners and fapping. Oh the fapping. Also gay sex and lots of porn references. It makes that so much better.


OH NO YOU DIDN'T! Oh hell yeah I did.

I split the post due to spoilers. So don't read it unless you've watched it, or you don't plan to watch it.

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Labels: annoyed, awesome, movie, must watch, rant, sad, sigh, you're the apple of my eye

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