Please go away if you are not Nakamura Kumiko.

Never give out your password or credit card number in an instant message conversation.

JingTao uses Pidgin says:

two hydrogen atoms walk into a bar.

|| Andrew || says:

and then?

|| Andrew || says:

it goes boom?

JingTao uses Pidgin says:

one says "oh no! i lost an electron!"

JingTao uses Pidgin says:

the other says "are you sure?"

JingTao uses Pidgin says:

the first says "i'm positive."

|| Andrew || says:

(xD)

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

its not "byebye! take care!" time yet?

|| Andrew || says:

nope

|| Andrew || says:

because my mom is not back yet

|| Andrew || says:

she cooks

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

whadyall usually eat?

|| Andrew || says:

hmm... depends

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

what style in general?

|| Andrew || says:

Rice + something

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

you're pretty chinese in terms of eating.

|| Andrew || says:

I know

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

stir fry is a classic.

|| Andrew || says:

okay, nice^^

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

(wt...)

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

you have the queerest of ways to answer back plain statements.

|| Andrew || says:

I know, sjablonen

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

aja?

|| Andrew || says:

standard sentences?

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

that increases Andrew's androidness by 6%.

|| Andrew || says:

I know

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

(there it goes again)

|| Andrew || says:

bleep bleep

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

lesson of the day: to please a Russian by correctly pronouncing his name is not an easy job.

|| Andrew || says:

Lol (xD) what did you then say?

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

he wrote Shuxrillat Karshiev... i said "shooks-reel-late car-shee-ave"

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

he gave me a sort of look after that...

|| Andrew || says:

I think you say shuxreelat carsheev

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

he corrected to something like "shookrrrilla kar-shi-ef"

|| Andrew || says:

okay, that sounds more Russian (xD)

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

weird fella he is, but does provide good company, and sadly he's returning next month.

|| Andrew || says:

Okay, oh well, at least he provides good company, I have known enough people that jsut sit there

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

i have just known someone who types replies based on a list of predefined outcomes.

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

tell me, have you been talking to books and a LCD screen all day long?

|| Andrew || says:

who could that be(

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

i have not the singlest idea, but i'm pretty sure he plots graphs of probablilty distribution and has a few chat algorithms memorised.

|| Andrew || says:

*bleep bleep*

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

i must have befriended a spam bot.

|| Andrew || says:

"2/3 of the men are not happy with..."

|| Andrew || says:

leave it

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

with WHAT!

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

i want to know.

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

curiosity begins to eat away the soul...

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

then i will be dead.

|| Andrew || says:

curiosity is usually what helps make women more curious and what drives them mad

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

i thought they said curiosity kills.

|| Andrew || says:

that too, that is why it is so handy to con people

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

unfinished sentences...

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

i almost died in front of the piano when i learnt the Unfinished Symphony.

|| Andrew || says:

how come, you were that curious?

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

it ended with a supertonic chord! what do you think!

|| Andrew || says:

mysteries should stay mysteries

|| Andrew || says:

I mean I once read this book that ended with the character dead, but they never found out if he was guilty or not

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

speaking of "this book that ended with the character dead."

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

the book about the american karate kid in japan - it was the lamest ending i ever read.

|| Andrew || says:

what happened?

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

no wonder it was priced at 1/4 of a usual book's price.

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

he died in a sword fight.

|| Andrew || says:

a practice sword fight? or a real fight?

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

a real one.

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

with possibly the lamest enemy a novelist could ever come up with.

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

there were just some parts with funny jenglish, other than that it was actually quite dull...

|| Andrew || says:

And it started so good

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

oh no it did not.

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

the first 60 pages was filled with horrible sudden flashbacks and character enunciation.

|| Andrew || says:

o...

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

oh what the crap am i typing.. i am typing like someone who has a language mixup when he has only been speaking one.

|| Andrew || says:

*bleep bleep*

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

你的华语学到怎样了？

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

oh c'mon, this android has got to have an automatic language recogniser module built in.

|| Andrew || says:

*bleep* bleep* error?

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

...

|| Andrew || says:

err0r 404 page nog found

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

how's the chinese lessons coming along.

|| Andrew || says:

they're fine, but they have finished for this year

|| Andrew || says:

so I can't learn anymore

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

o.

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

is there like a list of phrases they taught or something?

|| Andrew || says:

yes

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

send it to me one day please?

|| Andrew || says:

well, at first she sent it by mail

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

uh huh....

|| Andrew || says:

but now she doesnt'

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

arent there like handouts from the class?

|| Andrew || says:

yes

|| Andrew || says:

but I must scan these and I have some kind of fight with the new scanner

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

i havent been in a scanner battle before...

|| Andrew || says:

I have!

|| Andrew || says:

many times!

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

i forecast pixels running about madly crying for help from the enemy captain.

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

there is a reason why USB is called universal serial bus.

|| Andrew || says:

I imagine " a scanner on one side and Andrew on the other with a pokeball"

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

oh crap how did pokemons come into the picture now?

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

we must be in a digital fairytale storybook.

|| Andrew || says:

indeed, on on da Interweb everything is possible

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

*knocks android's head to smoothen out typing erraticness*

|| Andrew || says:

the only way for me to type a bit better is if I don't have this Dutch book in front of me

|| Andrew || says:

*Oh no! Dutch book enters the pokemon battle!*

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

which pokemon did he choose?

|| Andrew || says:

*Dutch book summons Shakespeare*

|| Andrew || says:

*Shakespeare uses "What is the difference between a Shakerean sonnet and a Petrarcic sonnet?"

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

HEY WAIT A SECOND MR FAIRYTALE WRITER!! THIS ISN'T POKEMIN

|| Andrew || says:

really not O_O?

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

NO!! Where is even Pikachu?

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

(actually i am beginning to have doubts on the Dutch book's effects on Mr Li)

|| Andrew || says:

Pikachu is dead, he is not part, I mean this is real life you know

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

Shakespeare is dead, ferchrissake.

|| Andrew || says:

WTFOMGBBQ

|| Andrew || says:

for cereal!?

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

no, what's fer real is that Mr Li Yung Fong has seemed to begun typing proper english.

|| Andrew || says:

Ik kan ook Nederlands typen, maar dan versta jij er geen hout van

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

乱讲。你以为我一定要用英文字母与你沟通吗？

|| Andrew || says:

*starts up babelfish*

|| Andrew || says:

nah, you can use Chinese if you want to

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

Dan walaupun anda mempunyai kuasa Babelfish, namun kamu tidak akan berupaya memahami teks Bahasa Melayu.

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

Saya telah menjadi juara dalam memakai bahasa yang tidak boleh difahami!

|| Andrew || says:

looks up a "Malay-translator"

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

Thou shall fail, your persistence is futile.

|| Andrew || says:

shush, I am at word 3

|| Andrew || says:

okay, Andrew gives up

|| Andrew || says:

*goes back to replying some posts at interpals*

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

oops, must execute emergency "bring andew back!" plan.

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

trying to spam andrew's wall.

|| Andrew || says:

oh noes!

|| Andrew || says:

it will take longer then!

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

oh no it won't! equipped with my interpalsspammerbot it will fire chunks of hard text at 1000wps (words per second)

|| Andrew || says:

oh noes! not spam, where is P-Bot from Newgrounds?

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

P-Bot reads not Bahasa Melayu.

|| Andrew || says:

nah, but he eliminates spam

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

perhaps not from someone wearing a pink shirt in his dp.

|| Andrew || says:

that is not P-Bot

|| Andrew || says:

that is Gay-Bot

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

I beg your pardon! Pink is not the colour of gay.

|| Andrew || says:

http://p-bot.newgrounds.com/

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

i - know - i just - saw

|| Andrew || says:

nope, it is lightish red

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

he's supposed to rescue John Connor, so stop summoning him or we wong have Terminator 4 next year

nakamura_kumiko has been added to the conversation.

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

SEE! You made him bring along ms Trang.

|| Andrew || says:

oh no, you got reinforcement

|| Andrew || says:

let me check for some reinforcement

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

YES I DO! WHATCHA GONNA DO ABOUT IT?

|| Andrew || says:

*Andrew summons Shakespeare!*

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

Shakespeare's literary devices are futile against Trang's multipseudonymism. He is confused.

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

Shakespeare misfires! Turn over!

|| Andrew || says:

then I will summon the homo universalis Leonardo da Vinci!

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

"Leonardo da Vinci" is not found in the peoples list - effect zero.

|| Andrew || says:

bummer

|| Andrew || says:

time for dinner

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

AAAAAAAAAGH!~

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

NO

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

INTERRUPTIONS

|| Andrew || says:

just when this battle of times was getting interesting...

|| Andrew || says:

anyway

|| Andrew || says:

take care!

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

no!

|| Andrew || says:

both of you!

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

no!

|| Andrew || says:

byebye!

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

nono!

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

schlafen gehen... auf wiederlesen.......

|| Andrew || says:

oh yeah, nakamura, excuse our strange behaviour

|| Andrew || says:

wiederlesen!

nakamura_kumiko says:

it s ok

nakamura_kumiko says:

bye

|| Andrew || says:

byebye

JingTao is irritated. He is using Windows Messenger. says:

byebyebye

|| Andrew || has left the conversation.

Certificate of Coma

This is to certify that this blog has entered a state of coma. No new content shall be readily available within an undefined timeframe extending into the future from the time of writing of this post.

Prior to this declaration of idleness, several ideas emerged in the brains of the writer but sadly, did not manage to plunge into the blogosphere:

• BN's latest slogans and tactics
• My new friend
• SEA Forensics 2008 @ ISKL
• My Original Oratory
• Shayne Ward and his squealing
• HighStreet5
  

With much gratification, we sincerely thank you for your support all along and dire spirit in hope of a new, meaningful post. We hope to see you again in the near future.

We hope you will find similarly entertaining content in the following suggested alternatives:

• peako.blogspot.com
• etc
  

breathe, blog, breathe!

BREATHE!!!

*does blog CPR*

I'm, so, sorry!!!

Staying back for 4 days a week!!

School website overhaul!!!

School magazine leftover work!!!

Class notice board!!!

ISKL Forensics!!!

Chemistry reports crunching down on shoulders!!!

Photography club to save!!!

Getting used to writing > 5000 words per day again!!!


So you see, I'm very busy leh. Sorry ah...

Hiroki Yamazaki, Part 1

Monday, Mr Ganes called. He told me that the Japanese girl which I was supposed to host, Yumi Matsuda, was very shy when she found out that she is going to be hosted by a guy, so adjustments were made. Jin Shuen who took 2 boys had to switch with me and Hoong Min for 2 girls. My new guest will be Hiroki.

The day to meet him finally arrived. Saturday afternoon, mom drove me to Bukit Bintang where their hotel is. The Jap group was already there. Hoong Min, me and Alanna were trying to figure out which of them were ours, until blur me noticed that they had stickers with their names on their shirt. I spotted mine. I called out to Alanna. Her jaw dropped. When I pointed out Hiro among the 3 boys to Maxine, she screamed.

"JingTao ah, you so lucky leh!!"

Even Hoong Min had to omg. I guess, I am quite fortunate to be randomly assigned to what the girls call hottie.

When Mr Ganes called for me and Hiro, we ran into each other and shook hands. Perhaps it was because of all the hype, I was a little excited and I ran off without him to chatter with Alanna. I think that was a very bad first impression for him. I am a bad host. I run away from my foreign guest and leave him confused in the crowd.

The lady from Japan who organised the trip was busy giving out her name card to everyone. She then stepped up to deliver her speech in her broken, croaky voice. Oh yea, you can choose to not go to see the firefries and keep your host with you on Sunday night. Just the news I needed.

I unknowingly offered to carry Hiro's luggage (boy, was it heavy) and without a thought he said yes. With the heavy load we walked to Low Yat Plaza and stopped by to pickup dad's O₂ before going to the car. Once again, I abandoned him aside to do some other business. I think this could have been why he didn't dare talk a lot to me at first. I am a very inhospitable host.

In the car, dad's Frank Mills CD was interfering us. I switched it off and asked him if he wanted to join the fireflies excursion on Sunday night. He didn't seem to understand "five thirty" as time, so I asked for pen and paper to write down 5:30 pm. I should have known better to equip myself with communication necessities. At first he said yes, but I managed to persuade him to not follow the excursion as we could have dinner at home. Besides, we would have more time to tour the city rather than returning to the hotel at 5.30PM to catch the bus, then later returning home at 11PM.

When we got home, I didn't know what to do with him after putting down his luggage. First we sat down and stared at a rough map of KL for about 30 minutes. Then mom suggested I serve him a piece of her tiramisu. I took out some playing cards to suggest some ice-breaking indoor activities - as it was raining. We played both our variations of Speed, until Hiro admitted he was bored when I asked whether he was. Clearly he is so polite that he doesn't dare ask me to stop the game. I introduced him to congkak later on, which he did manage to grasp the concept and strategy quite soon in the game.

For our first meal, we went for Japanese food. Throughout the entire day, I realise that when he eats he shows his most natural behavior. Obviously it is because he was presented with something of familiarity to him. It was only that night I learn that when you eat tempura, you dip it into the cold soup.

We managed to bring him to Petaling street before the stalls were closed. Hiro had his eyes on a couple of wallets, and he sure did take a long time studying each one of them before deciding on buying the first wallet he picked. We also bought for him some dried meat, chicken floss and dodol. When dad asked him to smell an unopened durian he showed some interest, but when he smelled a wrapped piece of the flesh he immediately changed his mind. Our night in the city ended with some supper at a mamak stall near our house. Sadly, roti tisu was sold out and the dough was being kneaded. As Hiro was getting tired, we just went with some naan, chapati and tandoori - all of which he returned positive feedback.

Before diving into bed, Hiro got all of us to come down to the living room and partake in his little prize-giving ceremony. The gifts he brought from home were pretty exotic: a set of 2 teacups, a vase, unagi pie, origami paper, paper beach balls and some magnets. We somehow managed to stay up a little bit more to show each other our photographs. Lights off was at 1:30 AM.

Part 2 coming soon...

no, it's not foul language you idiot.

:(){ :|:& };:

Listening to: ATB - Feel Alive
via FoxyTunes

What is that? Allow me to educate you.

That, my friend, is a simple line of command for UNIX operating systems that creates a forkbomb. What is a forkbomb? A forkbomb, is a program (or more specifically, a process)
which creates 2 other processes which in turn create another 2 processes each and so on so forth.

A diagram taken from Wikipedia should clear things up:

You could think of it as a biological cell, which constantly divides through binary fission. 1 becomes 2, 2 become 4, 4 become 8 etc.

Some people regard the above command as mathematical beauty, as such a command which doesn't seem to make any logical sense can actually crash one's computer. Why so? Processes which are running in the computer's memory, well, obviously take up memory. As more and more instances of the process are created, more memory is consumed. Forkbombs "replicate" at such a pace where it is quite impossible to terminate all the processes one by one before the system falls into a state of total lagginess. A reset would be necessary to clear the memory.

A reminder: the command mentioned here applies only for UNIX operating systems which use a shell/command prompt such as bash, like in Linux. Please do not try to fool others into crashing their computers by giving them this command to type - it simply doesn't work in Windows' command prompt.

You can read up more about forkbombs on Wiki.

Now to share with you a personal experience. There was one time when launching Internet Explorer would create a forkbomb, for me, at least. Once I double-clicked the blue e, one IE window would come up, then another, another, and another, until I had to push the reset button. I'm not trying to give the impression that IE is dangerous. I'm just telling you that it has failed for me before, and that was why I made the switch over to Firefox.

conversation with tarry on the day when the hybrid was born

I wanted to put this up here ages ago when my phone turned hybrid. Here it is now:

hello...

hello

whats up?

birth of the Cybershot-Walkman hybrid phone

...what the hell!?

oh yes

i'll show you in a minute

now tryina settle down things with this upgraded phone

...okay..

now...

to reput the Cybershot branding...

....wha?

i got a k550 Cybershot today...

i found these instructions on flashing it with w610 software, turning it into a hybrid

...!?

the k550 and w610 are twin phones.. meaning they share the same hardware but different firmware

this makes the hybrid conversion processs possible

therefore?

oh god.

oh yea.

oh god no.

oh yea baby.

a cybershot with...

wwww...

SAY IT!!

wwwwwwww....

SAY IT LOUD!!!

IN CAPS!!!

wwalkman capability?!

Walkman 2.0 to be precise.

good lord.

how much is the phone anyway?

i paid 660 for a 1GB M2

660...

the amount of models i could buy with 660...

There you have it - typical geekish talk.

Oh btw, there's this new mobile operator called Happy!

books! books! books!

Hmm, seems like I've never written reviews about books before. Pfft, there's always the first time for everything. A few months ago Mok lent me this book - A Nicer Way to Die by Sam Mills. Very exciting teenager's thriller - story is about 2 stepbrothers playing mind games with each other in a deserted house.

3 weeks ago I went to Kinokuniya and got The Boys Who Saved The World, Mills' second book. Yesternight I finished reading it (I am a slow reader, forgive me.)

Synopsis:

A group of boys who founded their own religion have kidnapped a girl, whom their leader accused as being a terrorist. Story continues with one of the boys, Jon telling the story from his perspective. Throughout the entire story, there are many questions regarding his faith, and also heart-pounding moments when Jon has to deal with his cold-blooded prophet, Jeremiah who seems to be going against their own rules of religion. Jon later on falls in love with the hostage.

Sadly, the ending of this book is worse than the previous one. The story is left dangling mid-air - leaving me ponder what happened to the villians in the end. Ironically, there are 20 odd blank pages at the end of the book, as though Mills wanted readers to pen down their own ending chapter. The book almost killed me with the dreadful ending, but no matter how, I managed to keep my sanity and will attempt to finish the other book I bought that day.

So is this worth a buy? Maybe not. Still, it was a very exciting book to read.

7/10

TMnut parody launches on my blog!

Enough of covering up. Let your inner rage out by sticking these goodies on your blogs, under your emails or in that teeny weeny box next to that conversation going on right now. Show that you care for Malaysia's South East Asia's NUMBER ONE Internet Service Provider.

For the environmentally-aware:

Smoking is already a bad thing, but losing hair from breaking connections is bad too:

If you want to sell your product, you must let your customers know your specialties:

Self-confidence is good, but if all else fails, then change your tagline:

P.S. Geeks reading this are unwelcome to post comments regarding JingTao's late adoption of this parody.

On the other hand, I can only pray and pray that Maxis Broadband may one day supersede dear TMnut. If only they could give unique IPs to everyone.

EDIT: Maxis does give unique IPs, but all their modems are firewalled by default. Sigh.