BookINBookOUT flyers for Vivace 2010

BookINBookOUT.com is now one of the official sponsors for SMU Vivace 2010, joining the likes of Mentos, Singapore Flyer, Swensen, Cathay, Nescafe, etc.

Because BookINBookOUT is an official sponsor, I get to drop nice nice flyers into the 1700 Vivace 2010 goody bags. But because I am running on a super tight budget and since 99% of flyers get thrown away anyway, I don’t see the reason for doing nice fanciful printing and literally throwing my money away. So I decided to go black and white on regular A4 copy paper.

Here’s a little preview.

So what did I sponsor Vivace? Secret

After a very long hiatus…

I have decided to start blogging seriously again.

Stay tuned for more of my random nonsense.

In the other news, SgShoppin.com is finally 95% feature complete. BookINBookOUT.com is seeing an explosive growth, and Weikiat.NET has been re-designed. BookINBookOUT.com blog has also shifted over back to Weikiat.NET

Sunday

This Sunday don’t feel like a Sunday.

For the past 2 years, Sundays are enjoyable in the earlier part of the days and then I’ll be filled with sadness when it was time to book in to the army camp.

This Sunday did not feel enjoyable at all. Its a day of filling up portholes at the KJE track, leaving the off road track without even playing on it, going to school to study econs and realising that the SMU is flooded with people studying econs even on a weekend.

Get a life, people.

Then I was thinking, does certificates show your academic abilities or your intelligence? I doubt so. I think certificates show your lack of ability to have a life, and that people holding them are comfortable with spending more time on work than on themselves. I think this is precisely the reason why certificates are so important. It shows to your future employers how much more willing you are in committing your short life to work for the company rather than enjoying yourself, compared to those without any.

I would like a work at a place where talents are valued more than certificates, but then, I ask myself, what talents do I have?

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I’m quietly working on a new self-appointed project which would probably be ready for a soft launch later this week. There are still many tiny kinks here and there to be worked out, and 30% of the code were still unwritten. For this project, like with any internet-related ventures, its the exposure that counts. I need traffic for it. And I need them without spending a single cents on advertising. Mammoth task ahead.\\

Hope that I will be successful in this project, and earn to buy a second hand DSLR (there is no need for one, but which person who is interested in photography don’t want to get one?) Nikon D80 at around SGD800.

At this stage though, its still a fat hope. As fat as my tummy.

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Someone from law whom I know hasn’t been online recently. The last I heard from her was that there was lots of reading to do. Well… one less fun person to talk to online:(

Weikiat.NET appeared on newspaper again!

One could get addicted to this, but it is dedicate business. You don’t want to be misquoted, and it takes quite a few revision for me and the journalist to settle on the final quotation. I thank the journalist for allowing the opportunity to go over the quotations with him.

Click on the image to enlarge.

Are magic so interesting?

My career goal when I was young was to be a magician. I gave magic shows using my bed as a stage on multiple occasions when I was much younger to other kids around my age during events when there are many guests visiting my house, i.e. house warming, chinese new year, birthday parties etc.

My interest in magic was pretty much forgotten as the need for academic excellence weights me down and occupied the bulk of my mind.

Recently, me and Zombie went for a Magic show in which local self-proclaimed renowned magicians tried to perform 15 “Grand Illusions” in 5 minutes in an attempt to get into world record.

Although the tricks performed aren’t fantastic (was very obvious to me how more than half of them more performed), this kinda rekindled my interest in magic again.

I spent 3 days watching David Copperfield, Penn and Teller, and also “Magic’s Greatest Secret Revealed”.

I know I will never be a magician due to my lack of dexterity and impatience towards repetitive trainings, but I love magic as brain teasers trying to figure out how the tricks work.

Fun stuff.

I, Dyslexia

I am more and more convinced that I have a certain form of Dyslexia, due to my inability to handle the intracity of grammar and spelling. I was also unable to pronounce properly most of the multi-syllabus words. This only applies for the English Language though.

Due to this, I was afraid of speaking English in the public or to the public. When ordering food in a restaurant or food outlet that I have never been to before, I did not know how to pronounce half the items on the menu. A “Whopper” is a “wooopar”, and a “Spicy fries” is a “Spicy Pries”. My tongue knot itself against most words, almost like a tongue twister. Buying movie tickets is also another problem. When shopping for items, I was afraid to speak to the sales staff in English. My girlfriend would almost always end up as the one doing the ordering/talking. What a miserable coward I am.

Strange enough, I was able to write. I seem to understand how sentences are constructed. Perhaps this is due to my many years of programming experiences. Many people believe that programmers who are strong with programming languages are also strong in mathematics and communicative languages. Perhaps this is why I have gotten an A2 in General Paper for A Levels, an extraordinary feat that those who know me would not believe.

While in Army serving as a Regimental and Disciplinary clerk, I had to communicate with many other military personnels (some of whom with IMBA ranks) on a very regular basis. I even had to give instructions to those with ranks more superior than mine and make various plans and arrangements to make things happen. Conduct to briefing by myself to all CSM in my unit. check. Organise large scale talks for an entire company. Check. Plan and execute Urine Screening Exercise. Check. Send people into Detention Barracks with all the necessary arrangements and parties involved informed. Check.

The standard of spoken English in Army is atrocious. I shall not go into the details, but this was a good thing as it enabled me to feel more at ease while dishing out my equally atrocious spoken English. After 1 year plus of serving as a R&D Clerk, I have grown pretty comfortable with speaking out despite my dyslexia, and I thought that this would be enough “training” for me to speak out in the real world.

I was wrong. After ORD, I was still hiding in my shell. And I knew I was in trouble as the start of my University life was just around the corner.

Zombie, despite his loud and obnoxious demeanor that somehow managed to put many people who knew him off, was able to communicate perfectly well to strangers (sales assistance, customer services, etc). I was both surprised and impressed by this. Could he hold the key to freeing me from my shell?

After going out with him for a couple of times, I begin to see how I could be less self conscious in the public and speak out more. I do not know exactly how to describe this, but I feel like it has worked. while in SMU I was able to communicate with the seniors without shying away. I found myself taking the initiative to speak to the staff to buy movie tickets and order food from a restaurant that I have never been to before. I even joked with a sales assistant while buying clothes! That is a OMGWTF change.

What this change means for my future life as a student in SMU where speaking out is very crucial is still too early to be determined. But I am no longer that ashamed and self conscious of my Dyslexia.

There are still parts of the shells left to be broken. With practice and determination, I am confident that they can be broken fast, and with relative ease.

Onward.

PC Show 2009 Hoots

I guess this is the first IT exhibition that I spent the most in, in terms of both time and money.

I visited PC Show on Friday night after work with zombie to buy 2 MicroSD cards for my sister and her friends, and 2 1GB ram for dear’s notebook.

Then i visited PC show again on Saturday so that dear can get her $84 Buffalo external DVD-RAM writer. I also hooted a 750GB internal HDD.

Then on Sunday, I went to PC show again to hoot the EEE PC S101H Champagne Gold.

Whee, I have installed Windows 7 on my S101h with no lag and aero theme on, I will be getting 2GB RAM soon from SLS to upgrade:)

The S101H is certainly a looker. Super pretty.

Blog migration done…

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