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ALYC: GUY FAWKES BLAST 2 Sunday 6th November

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 07:17:12 +0000

Yo Sandsailors

Ohope was a no go last weekend, so we have decided to give it another go on the west coast at Ngarunui beach Raglan. Bring your best rocket ships. You are guaranteed to have a blast!

Clem.

OBSS

FORECAST FOR THIS WEEKEND.

Looks like a safe bet for sun and sailing. Low tide is at 1:50pm so racing can start at 12:15pm.

Name of road is Riria Kerepoa Memorial Drive. Which is Wainui Road Raglan.

All classes welcome

All blokarts welcome

WAIKATO TIMES WILL BE THERE TO DO A STORY ON LAND YACHT RACING (SO WE NEED AS MANY PEOPLE AND SAILORS THERE)

Any questions contact : Andrew Broadbent after hours on 07 8506058.

ALYC: Guy Fawkes Blast Oct 29th and 30th

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 05:27:28 +0000

OHOPE BEACH SAND SAILORS

Presents

2011

GUY FAWKES BLAST

Oct 29th & 30th

Venue: Top 10 .

Harbour Road,

Ohope.

www.ohopebeach.co.nz

PROGRAM

Sat 29th Oct

Start time…..1.00pm.

Briefing on beach outside camp.

Low tide…. 3.30pm

Racing till we run out of beach

OBSS Racing and Sailing Rules.

All Classes catered for.

Sun 30th Oct

Challenge

Start time 2.00pm

Followed by social sailing till we run out of puff.

All Classes

ALYC: Sept 11 sailing cancelled

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:03:49 +0000

bad weather wrong wind direction

ALYC: 28th August sailing cancelled

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:48:51 +0000

Due to bad wind direction

ALYC: Sailing 14 August CANCELLED

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 20:53:22 +0000

Large swell and 40 Knot winds

ALYC: Sailing 14 August Kaiotahi

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:59:31 +0000

1pm start Kaiotahi Beach Meet 1km South of the Surf Club

ALYC: Sailing July 31 CANCELLED

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 23:31:33 +0000

But no wind sorry folks. Sailing is cancelled.

ALYC: 31 July Sailing Muriwai

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:00:23 +0000

Meet 1pm at the stream – it’s going to be fine weather and a big tide

ALYC: Calender 2011 First Sailing Day

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 08:36:47 +0000

17/7/2011 Sunday 2pm start, meeting 1 Km south of the Surf life saving club Kaiotahi beach

ALYC: 2011 Calender

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 08:39:48 +0000

Coming soon – now we just need the weather to behave!!!

ALYC: GUY FAWKES Blast Postponed – Due to bad wind direction

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 06:42:11 +0000

Will advise the alternative date shortly

ALYC: 2010 Calender

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 06:49:28 +0000

Updated

ALYC: 2010 GUY FAWKES BLAST Nov 6th & 7th

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 06:17:03 +0000

OHOPE BEACH SAND SAILORS

Presents

2010

GUY FAWKES BLAST

Nov 6th & 7th

Venue: Ohope Beach Top 10 Holiday Park.

Harbour Road,

Ohope.

www.ohopebeach.co.nz

PROGRAM

Sat 6th Nov

Class’s NZLYA M,5,3.

Start time…..10.30am.

Briefing on beach outside camp.

Low tide…. 1.30pm

Racing till 4.00pm

OBSS Racing and Sailing Rules.

Sat Nite

5.00pm BBQ cook-up at camp

Results & Prizegiving.

Sun 7th Nov

Ohope Beach Challenge

Start time 1.00pm

Followed by

Social sailing till we run out of puff.

All Classes

OBSS; Class 3, Class5 and Mini Trophies

are up for grabs.

Bring your best rocket ships!

Greetings Landsailors,

This year’s GuyFawkes Blast is back at the Ohope Beach Holiday Park . The BEST place stay and sail in the bay! Love that beach!

Ohope Beach is shaped like a hockey stick, allowing a coarse to be set with both tacking and a long reach leg on every lap with lots of terrain to negotiate along the way.

This year’s format will be circuit racing on Saturday and the Ohope Beach Challenge on Sunday; a one hour long coarse race on with all the fleet sailing together (wind and safety permitting).

All trophy’s (class3, 5 & mini) are up for grabs (if we can find them). Please return our trophy’s if you have one!

Social sailors; please do not sail into the designated race areas!

Steer well clear of pedestrian traffic and fishermen. The Ohope Beach and harbour entrance is a favourate fishing spot for the locals. They have right of way all the time!

OBSS sailing Rules as usual. Helmet and footwear are compulsory for all pilots and passengers at all times.

See you at Ohope.

Clem Kinnaird NZ701

OBSS President.

Cathy: chillin out

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 06:30:55 +0000

chillin out with ace and waiting for the chicken to be roasted. yum!

Ace: today is..

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:30:53 +0000

today is a wonderful day for fish ooohh yeaah!

AOTD: Article of the Day: Clouds

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:28:17 +0000

A cloud is a visible mass of condensation droplets or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body. The branch of meteorology that studies clouds is nephology.

On Earth, the condensing substance is water vapor, which forms small droplets of water (typically 0.01 mm of ice crystals) that, when surrounded with billions of other droplets or crystals, are visible as clouds. Clouds reflect all visible wavelengths of light equally and are usually white, but they can appear grey or even black if they are so thick or dense that sunlight cannot pass through.

Ace: mock pesto with a kick

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:35:25 +0000

i really love pesto, although normally it is made with basil and pinenuts in olive oil with salt and pepper and garlic, i will be using parsly, almonds and uncooked garlic, more like a herb aioli sauce thing.

parsly grows like mad usually and almonds are cheaper to get then pinenuts.

alright lets begin.

this stuff is very easy to adjust if your not sure if you will need more of any of the ingredients you can just add it later

first we will need some

Oil, as much as you need to make it a paste or to your liking

i used rice bran oil because its what i had sitting around but i would strongly encourage a nice smooth olive oil for this because you use abit of it.

Garlic, a couple of cloves

now some people dont really enjoy the spicy taste of uncooked garlic but its not that bad really its not. and its much much easier then giving them a quick roast or a fry. using too much is pretty intense.

alternatively you can chop a couple of garlic heads in half, poor on some oil and put in the oven until soft and sweet it removes the spicyness.

the best way to get other people to not be offended by your garlic breath is to make them have some garlic too!

Pepper, to taste

gotta have pepper

Salt, to taste

gotta have salt

Parsly, quite abit of this. perhaps a handful or two

the parsly makes the main ingredient. a warning to happy people, this stuff sticks between your teeth

Almonds

not quite as much oil as pinenuts and pretty dry, i would probably use hazel nuts if i had them sitting around.

put everything in a blender, i have one of those stick blender things, very useful btw.

blend it to the consistency you prefer adding more of anything you think it needs more of. dont be afraid to taste!! will keep in the fridge for a couple of days.

great with pasta, meat and salads.

Ace: you know what really pisses me off…

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 06:40:45 +0000

i hate bloody lcd monitors which say no signal and then i gotta switch the cable from dvi to rgb and back again. grrrr. its just too stupid to work.

AOTD: Article of the Day: V1 Rocket

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:24:36 +0000

The Fieseler Fi 103, better known as the V-1 ‘Buzz Bomb’, (German: Vergeltungswaffe 1, retaliation weapon), also colloquially known in Britain as the ‘Doodlebug’, was an early pulse-jet-powered example of what would later be called a cruise missile. The V-1 was developed at Peenemünde Airfield by the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War.

AOTD: Article of the Day: Acetone

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:20:03 +0000

In chemistry, propanone (also known as acetone, dimethyl ketone, 2-propanone, propan-2-one and beta-ketopropane) is the simplest representative of the ketones.

Propanone is a colourless mobile flammable liquid with melting point at -95.4 °C and boiling point at 56.53 °C. It has a relative density of 0.819 (at 0 °C). It is readily soluble in water, ethanol, ether, etc., and itself serves as an important solvent. The most familiar household use of propanone is as the active ingredient in nail polish remover. Propanone is also used to make plastic, fibers, drugs, and other chemicals.

AOTD: Article of the Day: Coca-Cola

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 22:18:15 +0000

Coca-Cola (also known as Coke, Coke being a trademark of the Coca-Cola Company after it was discovered many people called it by that particular name) is a popular carbonated cola soft drink sold in stores, restaurants and vending machines in more than 140 countries. It is produced by the Coca-Cola Company, which is also occasionally referred to as Coca-Cola or Coke. It is one of the world’s most recognizable and widely sold commercial brands. Coke’s major rival is Pepsi.

Originally intended as a patent medicine when it was invented in the late 19th century, Coca-Cola was bought out by shrewd businessman Asa Griggs Candler, whose aggressive marketing tactics led Coke to its dominance of the world soft drink market throughout the 20th century. Although faced with urban legends of perverse side-effects on the health of consumers and accusations of monopolistic practices, Coca-Cola has remained a popular soft drink well into the first decade of the 21st century.

Ace: ohms law

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 22:06:22 +0000

ohms law. it is the law. it is the corner stone for working with electronics.

it deals with voltage (V), current (I (which you would hopefully be familier with as amperes or A)) and resistance (R)

but oh noes it is math, damn it XS. but dont worry it is very simple just use this triangle.

current = volts / resistance

and if im going to be lazy i think ill just redirect you to wikipedia

Ace: what i would do with an iphone

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 01:03:55 +0000

if i had an iphone i would use it to buy stock on the share market

if i had an iphone i would use it to develop applications and when i bored of that

i would run it over with a bulldozer mwahahaha

but that is only if i won the lotto with my lucky numbers 13 and 11 and got rich quick

Ace: Top 10 Reasons I Like Mac OSX

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:57:54 +0000

Number 10: Its not Microsoft.

Number 9: Nice looking stock Wallpapers

Number 8: Comes with Python in the terminal

Number 7: Stable as a rock

Number 6: Secure, Not many viruses in the wild

Number 5: Easy to use, connection sharing ftw

Number 4: The dashboard, great for quick access to a calculator

Number 3: Expose all your windows to your mouse

Number 2: ooh Shiny

and the number one reason i like using Mac OSX is

who doesnt like using a product which sounds like Oh Yes Sex when you say its name.

AOTD: Article of the Day: Daft Punk

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:15:16 +0000

Daft Punk is an electronic music duo consisting of French musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (born February 8, 1974) and Thomas Bangalter (born January 3, 1975).^[1]

AOTD: Article of the Day: Cheese

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:09:32 +0000

Cheese is a solid food made from the milk of cows, goats, sheep and other mammals. Cheese is made by coagulating milk. This is accomplished by first acidification with a bacterial culture and then employing an enzyme, rennet (or rennet substitutes) to coagulate the milk to “curds and whey.”^[1] The precise bacteria and processing of the curds play a role in defining the texture and flavor of most cheeses. Some cheeses also feature molds, either on the outer rind or throughout.

There are hundreds of types of cheese produced all over the world.

Ace: 7 segment display

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:46:12 +0000

lately i have been playing with a common cathode (8 anodes, 2 ground) 7 segment display which i got from surplustronics.co.nz which by the way have very good prices for gear.

a 7 segment display is generally a figure 8 with a full stop like you see on those digital alarm clocks and most of them light up red but other colours such as green and blue are available too.

with 10 pins. the two main types are common cathode and common anode, one having 2 ground and the other having 2 power. then the other pins go from either of those commons through a segment which is basically a LED (light emitting diode) to its own pin.

here (http://thelearningpit.com/lp/doc/7seg/7seg.html) is a useful site which helped me find out which pin lit up which segment.

generally good to use a resistor for each LED, and since these are diodes and diodes as they are only allow power to flow in one direction so if you wire these backwards they wont light up.

anyhow i am using 1k ohm resistors as it is pretty safe with 5 volts. but a couple of hundred ohms should be alright. here is a website that can calculator resistor values. http://led.linear1.org/1led.wiz i will talk about ohms law tomorrow.

AOTD: Article of the Day: Youtube

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:47:39 +0000

YouTube is a social Web site that allows users to upload, view, and share video clips. It was founded in February 2005 by three early employees of PayPal.

AOTD: Article of the Day: Marmite

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:45:03 +0000

Marmite is a rich source of the vitamin B complex; vitamin B12 is not naturally found in yeast extract, but is added to Marmite during manufacture.

Advertised variously as “The Growing Up Spread” and “My Mate, Marmite”, Marmite tends to be an acquired taste, with no middle ground. It is the food item most commonly missed and imported by British expatriates in other countries. People tend to love it or hate it.

Ace: where is my taco

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:46:07 +0000

i heard last year that tacobell was coming to nz. this would be great

more alternative to the big 3, burgers, pizza and chicken. which is always a great thing

and looking at the tacobell website they have some nice stuff which you just know is gonna be tasty.

mm burritos !

Ace: arduino and shift registers

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:29:22 +0000

here is a good website to help you out.

http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/ShiftOut

its dealing with 595 ICs. its very simple and great, perfect for running 7 segment displays which have 8 pins.

while the register only uses 3 or so on the arduino better then 8 . also you can link multiple chips together.

i will talk about 7 segment displays in a couple of days.

AOTD: Article of the Day: Greensleeves

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:41:29 +0000

”Greensleeves” is a traditional English folk song and tune, a ground of the form called a romanesca.

AOTD: Article of the Day: Silver

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:37:52 +0000

Silver is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Ag (from the traditional abbreviation from the Latin Argentum) and atomic number 47. A soft white lustrous transition metal, silver has the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal and occurs in minerals and in free form.

Cathy: Inception

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:06:04 +0000

Finally! I’ve found a movie that always fulfill the hunger and desire of my fantasy — Inception. I ♥ dreams and dreaming. I ♥ the weird stuff going all around in my head. About few years ago, I constantly had dreams going round and round in my head when I went to bed at night. It was great. I often noted them down through blog posts etc. I sometimes drew what I saw in the dream, if I still remembered them. I guess it was one of the best way for me to escape the reality for a little while. Mmmmm~ sweet sweet escapism ♥

During the first few minutes of the movie, I was like OH MY GOD! I couldn’t believe what I saw. Isn’t it what I always desire for? A dream to escape the reality. A dream for me to enjoy a glorious moment etc. Of course, it won’t be real, at least for now. I hope I can live long enough to witness the moment it has become reality and cheap enough for a normal resident like me to enjoy it

Back to the movie, I really like some of the characters in the movie. For instance, I never thought that I actually like Leonardo DiCaprio. Ever since Titanic (sorry to say that I don’t really like that movie, I fast forwarded it while I watched it for the sake’s of watching a famous movie), I didn’t think that there was gonna be one day that I will like him. But after Shutter Island and Inception (well I want to watch Blood Diamond but didn’t have a chance), I think he is not bad at all.

Second, I was happy to see Cillian Murphy because I just watched Peacock the other night. He has a very nice skull lol. He did very well in Peacock. I want to watch this movie again

Third, I am very attracted to Joseph Gordon-Levitt‘s character and his look in the movie. Smart and cool with sense of humors. Mmmmm~ sexy ♥

Fourth, Tom Hardy‘s character in this movie is gorgeous. The way he has a little bit of beard that is not even a beard. I like his not-so-clean-shave. It must be a bit ticklish while kissing

Overall, the movie is great. Though I heard some of the people didn’t like it because they couldn’t understand it, I guess. The others dislike the ending of the movie as it didn’t really specify whether he had really gone back to the reality. For me, I think it is brilliant. I won’t mind to watch it again. ♥ the concept of the story. 4 and a half stars for the movie

Cathy: True Beauty

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:35:15 +0000

Ace: lol online bastards

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:34:58 +0000

so true heh.

Ace: TI Launchpad

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:28:50 +0000

I ordered two of these, they are only like 7 dollars new zealand each, with free delivery.

since i cant justify buying an arduino for 50 dollars, this could possibly substitute part of what i want to use an arduino for.

More Information

Ace: whoah

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:24:21 +0000

just running memtest on a computer, then looked at the l1 cache which has 11852MB/s next to it.
this is a 8 year old machine, wish i had storage that would run that fast. lol. mm coffee

Ace: Addiction

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:57:24 +0000

I am now very aware that i am addicted to fast food and to a greater extent: meat.
Now its normal to eat meat but i have serious cravings for steak and roast meats or
fried chicken etc, there is nothing wrong with green leafy veg and peas and stuff but
meat is just much more appealing, i hate carbs unless its unhealhy ones such as crisps or
extruded cheese chips. dont really like sweet stuff and dont like potato etc, beans are alright.
missing the point here perhaps, apprently cheese is addictive but id say the fat content is too
oh and salt, but i should try not to have too much of that. mm salt.

Ace: dell mini 9 & wwlan gps

Mon, 24 May 2010 21:41:34 +0000

recently i embarked on getting the gps in my dell mini 9 going on ubuntu 10.04.
my mini 9 is the model with the vodafone mobile broadband card inside.
this card works out of the box on the latest ubuntu for internet via networkmanager,
but as its very expensive here i have not done extensive testing of that but it does work, really.

note: i could only get this to work with a simcard inside, grab a 2degrees card if you live in new zealand they are cheap.
software you will need: wvdial, gpsd, something like tangogps if youd like to view the output in a graphical manner.
somebody also said loading the garmin_gps module i think its called helped i believe gpsd picked it up as that after the module was loaded

here is the guide i used Howto: Ubuntu 8.10, Dell 5530, 3G/WWan and GPS
so anyway after you install wvdial, you create /etc/wvdial.conf, like so ‘sudo nano /etc/wvdial.conf’, you can paste barrys script in there but here is the important part
[Dialer gps]
Modem = /dev/ttyACM2
Init1 = AT*E2GPSCTL=1,2,1
Init2 = AT*E2GPSNPD

my gps would not work with /dev/ttyACM2 but instead /dev/ttyACM1, so try that if you dont get any response
AT*E2GPSCTL sets the settings for what data you want, the first one is send NMEA, 0=no 1=yes, the second is delay, faster could impact your performance but would also make the gps work better for use
1-5 should be ok, the third is if its in digital mode, and you could set this to 0 it may work better
init 2, starts up the gps, to start the gps use ‘wvdial gps’ which will send the commands to the card, i personally got
data coming into the terminal window so i had to open a new tab/window and run gpsd /dev/ttyACMx (x is either 1 or 2 whatever works),
then open tangogps. googlemaps will take kml files btw very useful.

here are some links
Barry John Williams’ Blog: Howto: Ubuntu 8.10, Dell 5530, 3G/WWan and GPS
Ubuntu
tangoGPS
Ericsson F3507g Mobile Broadband Module – more useful info on this card

sorry for the jumbled mess! hope it helped.

Ace: ouch! laser tattoo

Mon, 24 May 2010 21:14:23 +0000

oh man, this looks painful. on that site there is a link for finger nail calendar though which looks interesting.
im gonna go check out trademe for a c02 laser.

Ace: im looking for

Mon, 10 May 2010 04:55:07 +0000

im looking for small business ideas so i dont have to work at sanitarium anymore.

Cathy

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:06:03 +0000

Ace: move away from wordpress

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:40:44 +0000

since its mostly just me and sometimes cathy using this website, i will be looking at removing blogs and probably even getting rid of planet for another sort of content management. perhaps wiki.
although we could be using twitter feeds most people are using facebook now.

i will most likely be putting status updates on twitter
have a shared blog for me and cathy for longer articles with photos. although i want another website for this. maybe a better domain name instead of h3.
and a wiki for content storage
simple image gallery for photos and art

why not flickr? slow, dont have an unlimited internet plan, not quite what i like.
deviantart? harder to use, adverts. they pretty much made themselves bad for me when jark left.

Ace: ubuntu on dell mini 9 not suspending

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:24:36 +0000

im using rc of the ubuntu 10.04, if i close the lid or suspend while a sd card is in the card reader it wont suspend and if the lid is opened everything is locked up. removing sd card fixes issue. googling tells me making a script to unmount the card could work.

Ace: think about that energy drink

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 06:59:57 +0000

Taurine, or 2-aminoethanesulfonic acid, is an organic acid. It is a major constituent of bile and can be found in the lower intestine and, in small amounts, in the tissues of many animals, including humans

Cathy: Waiting to be freed

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:32:07 +0000

Been feeling really down lately. Thinkin’ back as my childhood, my teenage-hood, and my on-going young-adult-hood, I feel sorry for myself.

Maybe I was born with this sad trait. I can’t seem to be happy, for some reasons. It seems like, a lot of clouds above me, blocking my sunshine all the time. Yes, I had some happy times, but sadly, I can’t recall them most of the time, only sad thoughts coming in, yes most of the time.

There’s another few more things add in the collection of my sad thoughts lately. One day, when someone called me “auntie” (as people will call the middle age woman), ding! here comes another sad thought! Yes, I look at myself, I am not a young adult, not physically not mentally. Good for mentally? I don’t know but it is sure bad for physically lol. I mean, hello?! What am I doing here? I’m 23, I am supposed to enjoy my life when I am young, look at all of the people who are same age as me, going party, traveling with friends and family, enjoying meals with friends, or just very simple, having a really great and happy conversation with a group of friends. But hey look at me, when do i get to enjoy the feeling of surrounding with a group of friends? I don’t even go out more than 10 times in 6 months, just to hang out with friends. Never been to real parties, never have a wonder birthday celebration. Nothing.

Wait, there was once a few friends did bring in cakes for me. You know what I told her when she asked “are you happy?” I was a dumbass and told her *shrug* “Every year is like that…” She was very unhappy. Of course I only realized that later on. I wasn’t being a bitch telling her I didn’t appreciate it, I really did. But I wasn’t happy. I was not happy at all during my teenage-hood. 20% came from my boyfriend, 20% from school, 10% from family, and 50% from myself. It was one of the worst time ever. I even thought of jumping off from my auntie’s apartment and thought of what should I write in my final note for the family, or should I cut myself to death, stab through my heart would be a great idea. I was so stupid enough I sometimes put a knife next to my pillow, just to make me felt better. Of course, sometimes I broke out and cried, and I always lied that it was because of the stress from school.

When I finally graduated from high school, I was glad. I didn’t like my high school life. My best friend was stolen by others and left me alone. Depressed from getting up so early in the morning and going back home so late at night. I don’t like my life to be just restricted like that. Of course, I didn’t dare to tell my classmates that I am sooooooooo happy to get outta there, because I still want to be part of the class, even though I know they don’t really care about me at all.

Then it comes to my boyfriend. What can I say about that? Well, not sure if I made the right choice. All I could say that it was very very tough time for me. I didn’t know why I still wanted to be with a guy who lied to me, cheated on me many times, and discriminated me with other people online. But of course, luckily he has changed. But sometimes I still think he loves himself more than he loves me. He booked tickets for me to fly over there again. Yes, I am so glad and appreciate that. However, sometimes I think why he’s so ignorant? He wants me to be there, and that’s it, without really care how would I feel, whether I am happy or not, or whether my family is ok with that. I’m really stressed from being away from home, leaving many things undone over here. And I am also very sad that my parents being really sad for me to leave home. I know they feel the pressure as well, financial, family, etc. It breaks my heart to see my mom trying so hard to bring the family together. It also breaks my heart to see my dad being in his 50 and still have to work very hard everyday to support the family. They are the one who raised me up. How could I just leave just like that? I will not be enjoying my time at all when I am there with my boyfriend. So I am thinking, if he really loves me, wouldn’t he want me to be happy and enjoy the time with him without any worries etc? But he never get my points, all he thinks about is just us being together and not thinking about the others. I could do that, but I won’t be happy. So does it mean he just wants us to be together, even I won’t be happy? Besides, I’ve found myself getting really tired and upset about his life-style. I really concern about his health and he just doesn’t want to listen to me. So again, I question, does he love me, or just loving himself?

Another thing is that I wonder why my remaining good friends don’t feel like giving me a birthday celebration or even trying to plan surprises as they do to other friend in the group. I am not saying oh you must give me back a present because I gave you one on yours. I am just wondering, why?! Never seen them going on planning how to celebrate with me on my birthday, while we always have to plan surprises for the rest of them. This year, I only received short birthday wishes from them, which is great, cause at least people remember. I thought they might celebrate with me after, but apparently not. Again, I am so easy to be ignore, ain’t I? But oh well, my birthday is not anything special for me anymore, after all these years. I already accept that everyday is just the same day for me. People only run into me when they need my advices, after that “prooof” gone just like that. Again, I am used to it. But honestly, sometimes when I think about it, it really hurts.

Lastly, I don’t feel like eating lately. It started like a week ago when I always want to throw up after a meal. The after-taste of the meal really makes me sick. Even after I have brushed my teeth. It is so disgusting. There was a few times that I almost threw up immediately after having my meal, in restaurants. I hate this feeling.

So, I am thinking, when will I be freed? I am really looking forward till the time comes. It may not be there when I am six feet under, but I am still hoping for better.

Ace: ubuntu 10.04: horrible metacity button arrangement

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:43:58 +0000

why oh why do you want to copy osx and have buttons on the left side. and im not too approving of the theme either.
anyway anyway here is how you change the buttons from the left side back to the right side in ubuntu 10.04

open Terminal from the applications menu
type in ‘gconf-editor’ (with no ‘ )
click the ‘apps’ drop down box
scroll down to metacity, open that
click general.
on the right side, double click button_layout
there will be a description down the bottom.
menu does the same as right clicking the title bar, i dont use this so im going to leave it out
the : colon is used to seperate the left and right sides like so leftside:rightside
im using
:minimize,maximize,close

Ace: Ubuntu 10.04 UNR Beta 1

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:32:32 +0000

ive put the beta version of the latest version of ubuntu on my dell mini 9 netbook, as usual i found that osx is just not for me in way of productivity.
anyway this laptop has a broadcom wireless card and this is apprently does not work out of the box anymore, when i booted the live installer system it brought up the restricted driver thing but i didnt worry about it at the time and installed. when i went into the application for the restricted drivers there was nothing in there after alittle bit of searching online seems like you gotta check for new packages aka synaptic reload/sudo apt-get update, then when i checked again it had two drivers for wireless, i picked the STA one. so wireless is up.
network manager has support for the mobile broadband card which is great though its far too expensive to use with vodafone.
the facebook intergration thing is interesting. i dont know if i like how chat is on the panel though.
couple of crashes but thats usual for beta etc. check it out.

Cathy: Being a dick

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:21:49 +0000

Ace: tax rate on interest to raise

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:27:49 +0000

today i logged into kiwi bank and saw that they had a statement about the tax rate for interest thats the interest you get from the savings accounts etc. checked the ird website same thing. what are the chances that income tax will stay the same or raise too

Cathy: Dedicated to my boyfriend

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:35:48 +0000

I heart you

Cathy: Yes, I am very super easily offended

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:08:44 +0000

Cathy: LOL

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:28:40 +0000

Cathy: update

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:56:23 +0000

Nothing much to update really. There’s things happened but I don’t really feel like talking about them. Express my feeling at the moment with the following song, perhaps?

The Wedding Game 大喜事

我们的爱

手交给你一生交给你
在你眼里看见我自己
直到白头谁都不会离弃
永恒看得见幸福在心底
牵你的手相伴一世纪
我会永远承诺保护–你
直到我们连波纹-都老去
也会让你开心不哭泣

我们的爱没有四季每一分钟都二十五度C
我们的爱今天不渝天涯海角也都会有痕迹
我们的爱心有默契不管是谁会先停止呼吸
Ave Maria

手交给你一生交给你
在你眼里看见我自己
直到白头谁都不会离弃
也会让你开心不哭泣

我们的爱没有四季每一分钟都二十五度C
我们的爱今天不渝天涯海角也都会有痕迹
我们的爱心有默契不管是谁会先停止呼吸
Ave Maria

让我看仔细
永远不要忘记
所有好心情坏脾气苦与乐都珍惜

我们的爱没有四季每一分钟都二十五度C
我们的爱今天不渝天涯海角也都会有痕迹
我们的爱心有默契不管是谁会先停止呼吸
Ave Maria
AveMaria

Ace: munchos now skof

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:03:16 +0000

i always liked munchos they were one of my favorite chips. except the price. they where like 3 dollars each the last time i saw the brand.
so i was thinking perhaps they were not selling well so they relaunched skof
now they have 2 for 3 or 2 for 4 or deals like that.
people always like to buy cheaper foods. this is just how things work. anyway i forgot whatever my point was.

Ace: saturday

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:53:12 +0000

im painting and doing work on the house this weekend. also buying some plants mostly trees.

Ace: ELECTRIC SHEEP

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:19:35 +0000

electric sheep is an opensource crossplatform screen saver that looks really good. thats right kids. linux/mac/windows.
now i dont lightly say it looks good. i mean some of the renders are amazing and great to stare at. i think it may have been azimov that
wrote a book about those damned electric sheep. something something anyway its about your computer dreaming and i think its creating new frames too. anyway check it out.
Electric Sheep Homepage (http://community.electricsheep.org/)

Ace: lol and nz with nice shiny new laws

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:08:44 +0000

Mobile: Phone and Text Bans On Drivers Shown Ineffective
Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday January 29, @06:30PM
from the can’t-ban-idiocy dept.

this is from slashdot

http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/01/29/2054214/Phone-and-Text-Bans-On-Drivers-Shown-Ineffective?art_pos=8

communications
shmG writes to share that according to a recent study on the impact of laws banning the use of cell phones during driving, there appears to be no reduction in accidents as a result.
“The HLDI compared collisions of 100 insured vehicles per year in New York, Washington D.C., Connecticut, and California — all states with currently enacted roadway text bans. Despite those laws, monthly fluctuations in crash rates didn’t change after bans were enacted, [although] there were less people using devices while driving. An earlier study conducted by the HLDI reported that cellphone use was directly linked to four-fold increases in crash injuries. Also independent studies done by universities have shown correlation between driving while using a phone and crashes.”

Ace: mm youtube.

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:04:04 +0000

i have had free youtube usage for the last 2 months. ive watched alot of stargate and all of red drawf. here is nena.

Ace: theme

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:59:57 +0000

changed h3 theme. havent blogged lately. cant thing of anything to say. wish my gf would cook for me

Cathy: 3 Little Piggy

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:39:17 +0000

Cathy: Christmas ‘09 & New Year ‘10

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:54:11 +0000

The last 2 weeks were incredible! I get to meet my boyfriend again after 6 months of separation. Man, I miss him so much!

Before going to pick him up from the airport, I told my friend “hey, I am pretty nervous. After all, I haven’t seen him for 6 months!” Indeed, I was pretty nervous, sweaty palms etc lol. Anyway, I was standing there for almost an hour before I saw him walking out from the Arrival Hall. My heart was pumping very fast. Yes, I miss him lol.

Since then, we had out little trip to Port Dickson again, the nearest beach. Unforgettable memory lol. Walking for a few km under the hot weather to reach to another hotel, private pool, watching National Geographic Channel & BBC, lots of room services, heaps of hot showers and disappointed for no buffet (still ). It was awesome Then lots of trips to Cold Storage to hunt for food, Jusco for desks, rearrange the room, left over KFC, and heaps of complaining for not getting the light in my room done lol. Then we had our romantic night at Mandarin Oriental Hotel that next to KLCC on 30th December 2009. Despite I was feeling unwell, I love that night so much.

Time passed very fast as we were really enjoying it. 2 weeks came and left. I had to send my boyfriend back to the airport. Didn’t cry this time, well at least not in front of him. Sad, but I held it back. Thinking to see him again in 6 months is rather happy yet sad. Each separation is getting harder and harder. I cannot really take it anymore. When he told me “well, don’t leave again?” I burst into tears.

Now, I am very tired, hoping to graduate soon. I am very very happy that I pass that difficult subject which I though I was screwed. Still have 1 more subject and 1 graduation project to go. Must have to do well in current 2 subjects! I will do my best

p/s: I am so happy Bebe is coming with me!

Cathy

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:52:01 +0000

Just realized that I can’t really handle that much problems and stress as I used to be. Unsolved problems or matters just do the merry-go-round in my head and always feel like something stuck in my heart. Pretty stressful. Guess I am getting old now, used up all the energy already *cough cough* or I am stepping into the “Strawberry World” and soon to become a citizen of the Strawberry chick (草莓妹) lol.

I really should loosen up a bit. I don’t really want depression to visit me again lol. A lot of stuff to do lately. Many in a day, have to be multi tasks. I really hope that I could have some spare time for myself. The short break wasn’t enough to recharge myself from all the works, stress, and more stress. My day is not about my day anymore. It’s fill with house chores, picking sisters from here and there, some more house chores, then now university stuff, part time. Whoa! Where is MY TIME to read and really sit down and enjoy a task-free moment? I don’t even have much time to talk to my boyfriend since then. Busy!

After this post I have to start digging for information for my assignment that I MUST finish before next Tuesday *sigh*.

Well, part time coming this weekend. I am actually quite looking forward to it. After all, I always have been wanted to work at the front-counter to meet different customers etc. Heard that there’s gonna be 3 consulors there with me in the booth that day. Pretty much existing. Hopefully I won’t be too nervous and make myself a weirdo or lost my professional that day

Right. Back to Work!

Cathy: Random Stuff

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:38:54 +0000

Cheap = Low Quality?

As I washed the dishes earlier, and look at the water cleaner we have, I realized that some people really have the “dog eyes”. They are nice to the rich and bully the poor. I have deal with many people like that in my life by judging on me outlook and things I used. So what if I want to buy cheap things from the market? So what if I wear this really torn jeans and old flip flop? They are all nice as long as they are durable and pretty to me. I don’t care they are torn on me, so why do these people care? LOL!

Branded stuff not necessary to be better than the cheap no-brand-market stuff. You are just paying more because of the advertisement you and other people around the world see over and over again. So, it pretty much sounds like you are paying your $ for other people who buy or didn’t buy the product.

For me some of the no-brand products are more durable for the branded product. For instance, I used to buy a “tick” brand shoe which cost me heaps but it wore out and the bottom and front rubber came off after a while. On the other hand, I got this shoe that I bought from The Warehouse in New Zealand which stated “Made in China” (which also I believe that the “tick” company also outsourced their products there), hey hey hey, I have been wearing it for 2 years and I’m still wearing it, just as I bought the first day. Cool huh?

Geek Girl

So, I watched this dancing competition the other day and the girl team did really bad in the second round because they did not like their theme “Star Wars”. I was like “how could you not like it? ” (Of course, I meant the old one). Star Wars is classic! Then “Opps!” I realized I have been turned into a sorta science fiction maniac like my boyfriend lol. He made me watched all of the old Star Wars and Star Trek series and movies, plus the other science fiction series. Wow! I’m insane! At the end, I am brain washed and yeah I started to like science fiction stories. Some of them are actually quite good

Lastly…

And…

Wake me up before you go go by Wham

Ace: teeth

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:05:44 +0000

ive got this chip out of one of my teeth stuff is getting stuck there i should go to the dentist, my front teeth arent so flash but they are ok

taken with my camera and a mirror. not fun to get the correct focus i must have been trying 10 minutes.

Cathy: Who is to take the blame?

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:36:32 +0000

My car was hit until the driver seat door could not be opened. So this girl claimed that she was not paying attention on the road and said sorry.

After the negotiation, they decided to take me to this car shop where it’s her boyfriend relative car repair shop.

So,

1. I had to take my car to this place early in the morning. Deal with the car dealer on my own.

2. They said no more white colour door but dark red and green. Of course I don’t want it! It wasn’t my fault to got my car hit?! At the end, decided to take a more expensive white door.

3. Had to ask my autie to pick us up from the shop and send us home, and take us back again to the shop later in the evening.

4. Called to talk to this repair man and he bitched at me for kept asking him to hurry hurry while it was the other man asked me to call and ask around 3 or 4 pm (I called at 3.30 pm and only called one time).

5. He said things will be done around 6 to 7 pm but called back and said done at 4.40 pm. Hmmm.

6. Was humiliated by the repair man and blamed for coming late. Doh! Office finish time and autie had to rush from her place to our place then back to the shop!

7. Mocked me for not knowing how to drive in front of everybody.

I have had enough. It wasn’t my fault for this ok? I was a victim too! Wasted my whole day waiting for the car to get fixed and yelled at the repair man while the lady who hit my car just had to pay without showing up etc. So irresponsible! Oh, the “new” door is actually a second hand door which is worse than the one I had. Scratches here and there. Sigh.

Well, I can only hope things gonna be better tomorrow!

Cathy: Alice is Dead

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:34:24 +0000

Found a game just now called “Alice is Dead”. Great scene, beautiful art, nice music. He really created a creepy scene with the aids of the song. Try it.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/511552

Cathy: Updates

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:56:50 +0000

Pictures speak louder than words!

Bun & Bebe

Bebe the Lion King!

CIMB bank sent me an Outlaw Octo

LOL Octo sucks Bun’s blood

Stuff

Hand-made Bag (I made it!)

Book that I bought for sister. Hope that she will read it someday…

Food

McDonald breakfast with sister on Saturday morning.

Penang Express Restaurant

That’s all for today

Ace: get down with the sickness

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:12:01 +0000

man i think i got some sorta long term flu thing going on. feel like shit.

heres some news.
Fedora Core 11 is out now!
and i will be upgrading to this when my net bill rolls over.
Snow Leopard not working on Atom
workaround: easy.

and here is some which i cant be bothered linking.
Water on the Moon – how did they miss that ?
9/11 “mastermind” gets fair trial in new york – Yeah Right!

and something cool: Cell Size and Scale

Ace: the hammer timeline

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:08:12 +0000

clip last weeks rove

Ace: get down with the sickness

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:54:32 +0000

man i think i got some sorta long term flu thing going on. feel like shit.

heres some news.
Fedora Core 11 is out now!
and i will be upgrading to this when my net bill rolls over.
Snow Leopard not working on Atom
workaround: easy.

and here is some which i cant be bothered linking.
Water on the Moon – how did they miss that ?
9/11 “mastermind” gets fair trial in new york – Yeah Right!

Ace: unsupported

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:44:28 +0000

looks like support for my ati graphics card has been dropped. and wont work in ubuntu 9.10 with the closed source drivers:
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series]

was trying the ati driver and didnt know why it gave a glitch screen but turns out the resolution was too high i really want to use resolutions for my tv. may have to look at getting a nvidia card. sigh

Ace: new modem and wireless

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:45:21 +0000

up and running again still some work to do but at least now i can connect to the internet.

Ace: dns nameservers

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:13:40 +0000

oh man i knew it was a dns problem i just couldnt remember where the numbers went.
so if your lan networking is going but you get:
ping: unknown host google.com
etc. then adding your isps dns nameservers to /etc/resolv.conf is a good bet. hurray!

for my orcon
/etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 60.234.1.1
nameserver 60.234.2.2

Ace: upgrading time of year

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:40:34 +0000

i’ll be upgrading my server today, the new mythtv looks promising, im also going to be hooking up that dish oh man im lazy. but well prime is now on freeview.
PRIME IS ON FREEVIEW

havent been able to install osx with dd, i had managed to get syslinux working but apprently thats only for old guides.
going to have to find a windows install or something to try its version of dd. sigh.

fedora core 12 is coming up. so my laptop will need to be upgraded too. fun fun.

i also need to get hold of a new router, cat5e and a crimper. having disconnections witht he ethernet, and only 1 port working, got 3 computers without internet because they dont have wireless.

Cathy: Port Dickson + Melacca

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:14:06 +0000

During 17th and 18th, we went to PD and Melacca for a holiday trip. Since it was a public holiday on Saturday, all of the hotel rooms were more expensive than usual. We finally got into a hotel called Astana Sunshine Beach Resort (something like that). RM 300 for public holidays, 1 seaview department, 2 rooms and 2 toilets. Sounds pretty good. The room was big but it smelled funny and pretty old. Some of the facilities in there were broken and only 2 local channels were shown on the television =______=; No activities in the hotel as well… except for BBQ. However, an extra RM 50 had to pay for it where they would provide tools for BBQ.

We visited the muzeum, ostrict park, and the night market in Port Dickson. I felt sorry for them as there were not many entertainment around PD. No cinemas, no proper boutiques, not even a proper stationary shop… I feel very lucky to stay in a big city Anyhow, I enjoyed playing in the sea with my sisters and then we played in the pool for a little while. Dinner was seafood of course. Yum yum!

I didn’t sleep well that night because the room was too old, really. And the crazy people at the BBQ had the music really loud until it rained around 2 am in the morning. No phone to call directly to the receptions or customer service centre otherwise I would ask them to tell them off. Sad.

We went to Melacca the next day. Pretty nice day actually, very very hot. A lot of tourists there. We had chicken rice balls for lunch and walked around the town. Took some pictures and all that.

So that’s it. A nice relaxing trip ended in a very hot day.

Ace: dilbert animations

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:39:20 +0000

until now i had never watched any dilbert because i prefer comics for the bandwidth but anyhow here is their youtube channel, good stuff. http://www.youtube.com/user/dilbert

Ace: fixed

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:35:48 +0000

i fixed my gfs old camera, a canon ixus 750, she was clumsy and dropped it. bad bad cathy. now to fix her n800 that she broke, sigh.

Ace: coffee

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:50:40 +0000

mm coffee is great, i usually buy civo because of its cheap price but this week it was 5$, so i decided to pickup a 1kg bag of beans for 20$, lucky i had a grinder. mm coffee.