I’m genuinely puzzelled. Take a look at the following example.

Intel Core i7 3.4GHz
16GB RAM
Custom Rig with “aircon” coolers
SSD
ASUS + AMD
Windows Rating 7.7
Idle Temp: 40 Celcius
Load Temp: 50 Celcius
Environment: Presumably normal room

versus the following

Intel Xeon 2x Quad Core 2.4GHz
8GB RAM
Mac Pro Enclosure
ATI 5870
Windows Rating 7.9
Idle Temp: 36 Celcius
Load Temp: 45 Celcius
Environment: Normal room near fish tank w/o aircon

I’m genuinely confused. Have these folks been living under a rock?
OWNED.

3 years is a long time. A freaking long time to be exact. And with summers pretty much occupied as well, that’s like doing NDP2010 everyday for 3 years straight. Not that it’s not a good thing though.

But there’s a lot of factors to take into consideration. Too much research to be done. Too many insecurities and risks that have to be taken. And I’m lost in a decision that I can’t make right now. There’s just too many “what ifs”.

But I know, amidst all the considerations and factors, there’s just one thing that can definitely set my mind straight.

So how would it turn out? I have no clue.

So is he dead or not?
Is he in Los Angeles or Korea?

Make up your minds people.

Though for one, the report was seen on a “Yahoo! 7″ website, but indicates a “pastehtml.com” URL instead. On top of that, the source was from CNN.

And I seriously doubt Obama will say, “First it’s Natt Dogg, then it’s Jackie Chan.”

SEriously folks.. I SERIOUSLY doubt he’s dead.

I might not be the most ingenius tech person alive. But I don’t think it takes a genius to figure this out.

ThunderBolt is rated at 10Gbps. Said to be the fastest external I/O connectivity available.

SATA is only rated 3Gbps, at most 6Gbps (which btw, is usually never reached).

So which genius figured out that connecting external hard drives via ThunderBolt is like the best thing ever? You’ll still only get 3Gbps no? Unless you RAID it of course.

Soo…. What’s the big hype about this new 10Gbps ThunderBolt thing that is said to be able to transfer a HD movie file in 30secs.

Or am I missing a whole big chunk of information here. Hmm….

So many thoughts and reflections right about now. Most of which would require time to pen down, which I’m sorely lacking sleep, much less pen down thoughts.

And there are those thoughts that are best kept private.

Overall, might have been reading too much into a single brief moment, just maybe. Or if it was really true, then how? Sigh.

It’s that time of the year again.

About time I did some updates. But what’s an update without a couple of photos right. So, I’ll take the effort to post them. LOL.

Ehhh, just came back from Msia about 24hrs ago. And of all routes that could get flooded, the exact route that I was taking to Kuantan was the one that got reported in the papers. The one that passes through the towns of Labis, Chaah and Segamat. Flooded, blocked roads, no electricity etc etc.

Thankfully, when we were travelling just a day after the reported flood, it had already subsided so that traffic could get through. However, traveling through Segamat town was like traveling on a mission trip. Not that I have any experience as yet, but seems like it. Everyone is clearing up flood waters, damaged furniture. Pizza Hut was seen doing a massive clean up, so was KFC and McDonalds. See, big corporations like this have funding to do that. So that when they’re finally cleaned up 2 days later, they’re the only eateries open in town. Which is, sad to say, true. Before that, the WHOLE of Segamat was practically a ghost town.

Of course, there’s always the local food if you can find one that’s open.

Nasi Lemak with Rendang Chicken. Which is, DIFFERENT in every town. From Yong Peng, to Segamat, to Kuantan, all have different taste, looks, and color.

And then there’s some of their interesting signage and english. There’s always the famous 3 letter number plates that can mean all sorts of things. But there’s more to that… Like, on a menu…

Stop what? Pass GO get $2000?

And for all 370KM of the route, survived with just one cuppa.

If there’s one thing I like about Starbucks, is their standardization of having their employees understand basic English at every single store. You can be some English dude, walk into a Starbucks in the middle of Chengdu, speak your own accent, and they’ll understand what drink you want.

Of course their English sounds funny, from China to Msia etc, but at least, they get your order right.

Oh come on, don’t say I’m an ass for speaking English when I know well to speak either in Mandarin in China or Malay in Malaysia. I mean seriously, how would you say Grande Caramel Macchiato in anything other than English? So heck, one English, all English. Give them a bit of practice anyway why don’t you.

This is what happens when you procrastinate.

You promise yourself and your readers that you’ll update more often, in fact, update everyday where possible. You set yourself a 30-day challenge in an attempt to force yourself to blog more everyday.

Unfortunately, due to “ah gong’s” great idea of NS, and coming home late on weekends, plus sleepless nights during projects, plus always having the “I’ll get that photo out soon, just got to find the right one”, you find nothing being typed.

In fact, I find myself thinking, it’s nearly coming to the end of January! And I’m still deep over my head with blog debts. And not a single character typed out. So, guilty.

Frankly, and honestly, I have no idea how to update everyday. There’s just so much work to be done every time I come home from camp due to the backlog from the time wasted in camp. And if I do want to blog something really nice, I might take a couple of hours sometimes.

Of course in the process, I’ve since lost a lot of readers, some who never came back because they won’t know when I’ll next write. The only successful entry so far was the Child’s Eye 3D movie review. Ranked No.1 on Google’s Search Engine Results, I’ve gotten every reader who was looking for a review of the movie. Hope I did some justice to that film. Then again, it’s an asian one, and no one wrote a review about it so to speak. So that was a big hit for a while.

After that, the whole read-o-meter dipped like a crashing economy, probably even worse.

But no doubt, it’s not like I’m gonna abandon blogging at all. It’s just that many other social networking platforms seem to have taken over blogging as “the thing” to keep track of your friend’s lives. I definitely tweet and Facebook more than I blog. You’ve probably seen many blogs so obsolete, or even deleted for that matter. Though some resurface time and again, then poof they go again.

Anyhow, I’ll see what I can do, that’s if I manage to come back home more often, and when I’m in camp, try to get an iNet computer that’s not being hogged by Facebook-game crazy folks. They talk about games EVERYWHERE. It’s kinda freaky.

The necessity of a university education because the society “requires” you to have one.

Then again, it’s tough to succeed in Singapore because of the nature of the society here. Conservative, restricted, naive.

Why is the filming industry so protective and small? Cause there’re no opportunities for people to stand out? Or because people just don’t have the guts? Case in point, Jack Neo. He’s the only dude with the balls to make  a feature-length film, publicly that is. Too much of these arty farty stuff in SG. And what’s the point, to have many thousands of weird awards that you’ve never heard of before and to live on kopitiam food.

It’s a completely different lifestyle.

Have been doing a lot of research lately. On photography, geotagging, hard drive management, upgrading systems etc etc.

All of which, requires $$$. Which is currently in limited supply.

Off to do more research, you just gotta love Google.

If anyone is reading this at all, will appreciate opinions on the following.

1) Western Digital vs Seagate HDDs

2) Feasible to carry 3.5″ when going out to do editing at say, a hotel or external location?

3) WD Cavier Green vs Samsung EcoGreen

4) WD Green vs Blue vs Black. (Biggest confusion is whether the speed is that much of a difference.)

Most of it, do take $$ into consideration as well.

Just a tiny update.

Was in Sichuan, China for 10 days for a holiday. Tons of photos, though now I realize it’s not as much as I would like to have. But then again, hard disk space is a constraint too. Anyhow.

Came back, and in less than 24hrs developed a high fever, vomitting, giddyness, went to KTPH and immediately put on a drip. How fantastic right?

Took another couple of days to recuperate. Now am still trying to find my appetite back to eat a normal sized meal in SG.

Xmas is coming. Praying for good health.