Bridal groom shower

Today(29/10/06) is Khuen Foong & Jun Joy's bridal groom shower.

Are they matched??
Ya, i think so!!!
Bro. Khuen Foong also taught us some skill to successfully court a girlfriend. Why thanks dude!!
You rock.....


These are 4 pictures of them opening the presents we gave to them....
Happy marriage to you two!!!

iLike

Azhar Chougle recently invited me to join a service called iLike which is a music recommendation site. When I first heard its description, a brand new service to help you organize your music, share your music tastes, and discover new music through your friends., I thought it was pretty much a clone of last.fm and it pretty much is, though it does differ.

My first impressions of the site were missed. It looks very light and simple, and Web 2.0 because of that, but it also lacks a page title! A <title> would really benefit the site on search engines and just make it look slightly more professional.

iLike, as you may have guessed from its name, integrates with iTunes. If you download it, it plugs into iTunes and sends what you’re listening to, and allows you to discover new artists, create 1 click playlists and see what your friends are listening to. Remind anyone of last.fm? Last.fm still has many advantages, most importantly is that it supports other media players than iTunes. Personally, I detest iTunes and I’m a VLC and Winamp guy.

If you don’t wish to use iTunes, you can select artists you like from a list. However, the songs you play are not displayed on the site and your list isn’t automatically updated. An idea would be for them to create plug-ins for other media players or to simply use last.fm feeds.

iLike, much like last.fm, provides lists of people who have similar musical taste as you, as well as links to your friend’s profiles.

iLike, interestingly, allows you to preview copyrighted songs and songs from GarageBand. I like the way it supports unsigned artists by using GarageBand, and also how it allows you to download the full MP3 from GarageBand for free. This is a good way to attempt to share music free and legally, as well as promoting unsigned bands. The previewing function is somewhat like last.fm’s, though last.fm doesn’t integrate with GarageBand at all and plays songs from signed bands over its radio stations.

iLike’s design is very Web 2.0. It is very heavy on white and employs a lot of other light colours. This is much less heavy on the eyes than last.fm .

Overall, iLike seems a bit like last.fm clone. However, it lacks the support from the record industry last.fm has and only supports iTunes (it is targetting a much smaller audience than last.fm, though this isn’t a bad thing). Then again, iLike is still only in invite-only beta (if anyone wants an invite, please just comment) and it may well yet develop.

Bowling today(20/10/2006)

Today Cheok, Jaslene, Gabriel, Yaw Choong and I went to Parkson for bowling.......
maybe a small small reunion also......


And Jaslene scores......... GOAL!!!!

We arrived Parkson at about 10.20, played 1 game.....
I wasted my 1st bowl and got a zero for it......
Jaslene scored a strike few turns later, Cheok too, and me three.......
Then come Gabriel(i thought Joanne's coming).......
Next only come Yaw Choong who pitifully and enthusiastically took a bus here to Parkson......
We played for 4-5 games and went to Pizza Hut for lunch. Yummy!!!!
Wow, we ordered a 6 person meal while we have only 5.... Hehe, maybe too hungry.......
So after that we walked here and there, strolling the whole Parkson and finally we went to the toy department.....
I just feel like i went back to my early age, playing with toy cars, and more ABUSING barbie dolls.......wahaha
We are too cruel, can't even let go a 'naive' barbie doll....
After that, at around 2, we left Parkson, Gabe, Cheok and Jaslene went to the State's Library, and YC and I went straight to our tuition....

Divorce

Both my son and daughter-in-law are full-time university students, and they don't have time or money for anything other than school. I was with them in church when the minister gave a sermon on marriage.
''The three most common problems that can lead to divorce,'' he warned, ''involve money, children and sex.''
At that my son whispered to his wife, ''Then we should be OK. We don't have any of those.''

Susan Brunton

Life Is Like That

We brought our newborn son, Adam, to the paediatrician for his first checkup. As he finished, the doctor told us, ''You have a cute baby.'' Smiling, I said, ''I bet you say that to all new parents.''

''No, '' he replied, ''just to those whose babies really are good-looking.''

''So what do you say to the others?'' I asked.

''He looks just like you.''

Matt Slot

"I wish to be ten again"

A man asked his wife what she'd like for her birthday. ''I'd really love to be ten again,'' she replied wistfully.

On the morning of her birthday, he got up early, made her a big breakfast and then took her off to a local amusement park.

What a day! He put her on every ride: the runaway train; the pirates' galleon; the corkscrew roller coaster. Five hours later she staggered out of the amusement park.

Straight away, they went to a fast-food restaurant where the husband ordered his wife a burger with fries and a chocolate milkshake. Then it was off to the cinema to see the latest blockbuster, complete with popcorn and a soft drink.

Finally, the woman wobbled home with her husband and collapsed into bed, exhausted. He leaned over her with a big smile and asked, ''Well, darling, what was it like being ten again?''

She slowly opened her eyes, gazed up at him and replied, ''I meant my dress size, you idiot.''

Chain Email=Social Networking & Even MORE Spam?

I personally hate receiving chain emails (chain mails), but recently I’ve considered them to be something more than a waste of time: a form of involuntary social networking.

You can often see who forwarded the chainmail to who at least for a few steps back. You can see who the email was sent to at various points down the line, and you can see mutual contacts you have, and also you can see who your friends’ friends are, much like MySpace or Friendster, and in certain ways observe various aspects of the Six Degrees of Seperation (this is somewhat minimal, of course, as not everyone has an email address). Interestingly, one of the World’s first social networking sites, SixDegrees.com, was based on this concept.

A chainmail is a spammers dream. If a spammer was to get hold of a chainmail, it may have got sent to (and your email may contain) hundred of emails it was forwarded to prior to you receiving it. In many email clients, replying to an email automatically adds the sender to the address book. If you were to reply to a piece of spam and then to forward a chainmail to everyone in your address book, the spammer could receive hundreds of addresses.

The annoying thing about chainmail is that you don’t want to class it as spam, as it will stop good emails from your contacts reaching you, and you can’t opt-out. Its something we all have to live with, but by people forwarding chainmails they are circulating your email address potentially with 1000s of complete strangers. However, sometimes the entire history of the email isn’t sent (I guess it depends on your client).

We are talking about considerable amounts of people. A recent email I got, which only had 6 rounds of forwarding, contained a mere total of 35 email addresses. But consider an email is forwarded initially to 10 people, who each forward it to another 10 people and soforth. The second wave of people who receive it will have 21 emails in it, increasing by 10 each time. So the tenth wave would get 101 email addresses. Some chainmails are literally sent to 100s of people and then we are talking about extremely large amounts of people.

To put it simply, if you forward a chainmail, you are not only exposing your email, you are exposing that of your friends and your friends’ friends. And I’m sure not all of them would be happy about that. Also, if the email was to get onto a mailing list it may appear on an online archive where spambots would be very happy to find so many emails.

It is not just I who discourage chain mail, it is in breach of Yahoo!’s ToS and against the IETF’s Netiquette advice. I expect you would lose many friends if you reported them to their ISP, though.