I still consider you my friend

Just that I won't trust you anymore. And I hope that after reading and realising what I've said, everyone else will stop trusting you too. Which is fair, since you don't trust anybody anyway.

Do not onto others what you do not want others to do unto yourself.

PS: To all you other readers out there, if you don't understand what's going on, don't worry. You will understand once it happens to you.

PSS: To all those who asked.. what about the friendship? Let me put it this way.. I gave him my absolute trust and friendship, and yet all he did was to wear a mask, pretended to be my best friend, while instigating things to go against me behind my back. So what makes of this friendship? This friendship didn't exist at all, it only existed in my head. It was what he wanted me to believe. He doesn't even consider me his best friend.

But I still consider him my friend, because this friendship did exist once, before everything happened. Maybe about 3 years back. But I guess it's long gone.

D:

I used to think the iPhone was an elitist piece of Apple fanboy-ism. Now it's as common as Nokia 3210s during its heyday. What the heck happened. D:

Betrayal..?

I really wonder how I can be the one that betrayed you, when you were the one who took her away from me. And not only that, you failed to take care of her, failed to keep her in control, blaming the reasons on everyone else but yourself. I was trying to get back with her, to correct the wrongs, but it was too late for me to do anything. And this, to you is betrayal? So when you took her away, when you fail to give her happiness, you didn't betray me? And I didn't even bring it up. I took it like a good friend, that maybe things just weren't meant to be. I didn't blame you. I never did. Now you turn around and blame me instead, on the pretext that I backstabbed you? When it was you who did so to me?

And what about the band. Every single band I have, you tell me it won't make it. Is it your so called intuition, or that you just don't want me to succeed? You destroyed TEG, what we have built up for so long. You planted hate and discord among us so we would fight and destroy ourselves slowly. Made us stop doing covers knowing that we like to do covers. Made us do originals that we can never do. Made us irritated with a sloppy drummer that actually isn't sloppy at all. There's also a reason why we stopped gigging. Cos you hate to gig.

And then when Jason left, you told the rest of the band that TEG is no more, without my consent or knowledge. True that I grew sick and tired of the band, but as we all can see, it was all your doing. And deep inside, no matter what you do, I've always wanted to give the band a chance. I never wanted the band to split.

And what about my new band? That won't make it too? Once again you are trying to plant hate and sow discord among us, telling me how bad gene is, how bad rico is. Trying to influence me to dislike or hate them. Leaving the band and then telling me the band won't make it.

Telling my girlfriend that I betrayed you, trying to paint an ugly picture of me. You try to destroy my bands, and that's not enough, and you have to try to destroy my relationship as well. As though destroying my previous relationship and previous band wasn't enough, you have to try to destroy every subsequent one.

And yet I'm the one who betrayed you.

Random musings..

In order to be successful in what you do, you got to love what you do. If you do something for the sake of being successful or money, then you will never be, because there is no love. If you do what you do just because you love it, without giving a care about the world, life will reward you will success and money. Which is quite ironic.

But this is why crafty businessmen are the richest people in the world, cos their love in life is to fuck with people and earn their money. And as though that is not enough, life rewards them with success and even more money because they did what they love. Nice.

Laziest Mac user of the century

And that's me. Look what I got for my iMac:

So. WTF is this? It is a media center program called XBMC, which originated from the Xbox, and now it's available for almost every single platform. Even the Apple TV. Basically what it does is it categorizes all your movies and TV shows, automatically. Even Anime. Yes, it's AUTOMATIC. So I just put the files at the right places, and it will detect them, and download the cover art, plot synopsis, and episode summaries, and put them sort them nicely, as above. So all I need to do is fire it up, arm myself with the remote, and pig out. Wonderful.

And to top it all up, I installed Quicksilver on my iMac again. Spotlight is just too friggin slow. Yes, I'm the laziest fucking Mac user ever.

Something very funny happened recently..

One day, somebody said..

I'm sorry, I can't be perfect..

.. and all he could do was..

Runaway, runaway..

.. and all I have to say, is this.

See who gives a fuck.

:)

WTFU

http://sanxp.ath.cx:81/~san/wtfu.mp3

http://sanxp.ath.cx:81/~san/wtfu-vanilla.mp3

Betty, finish the damn song, and Fi, you know what to do ;)

Oh ya Betty, I think I made your warwick into a warmonster. LOL. Hope you like the effect.

Shit.

The new Macbook Pros actually look kinda nice D:

And the screens are super thin!

Aww aren't they sweet..

The new MacBook on the left, and the new MacBook Pro on the right. I actually don't mind the new MB design, but I detest the new MBP design, even when they are similar. Maybe because I'm more tolerant to change and fresh designs on the hip and trendy low end model, but not on the more professional, expensive model. I'm keeping my old MBP. Forever.

The new Macbook Pro

Look here for more details.

I can't say I like the new design, but it looks like it will grow on me, like the aluminum iMacs. Carrying glass around is kinda shady though, won't that be heavy? Hmm.

Terminal elbow grease, again!

Yes, something on my system screwed up, again! I couldn't move my ~/Pictures folder over to my newly created partition for backing up. Finder kept complaining that there was a problem with the file, but question was: which file? Finder's really smart for not telling me, so after some digging around, I realised some duplicate files iPhoto created were somehow corrupted. Those I rotated, cropped, resized, whatever. So I went looking for them, with this.

cd ~/Pictures/iPhoto\ Library/

find . -name *_2.JPG

A few idiots showed up, but the modified files are fine, just those that are lingering in the originals folder, where they shouldn't be anyway. So,

find ./Originals/ -name *_2.JPG

Lesser idiots showed up, and there were everywhere, and I didn't want to delete them by hand. So,

find ./Originals/ -name *_2.JPG -exec mv {} ~/Desktop/ \;

Just in case I needed them later. Now, everything goes over. Finally. Apple needs to get their act together.

One year

It has been a year since the last gig. Can't help but to realise that nothing has been done since the last year, even with all the talks and resolutions, besides finally recording a 2 year old song properly. Oh well.

Just a random thought.

Leopard permission problems (what's new?)

Ok, just found out about this while fiddling with a new.. er.. hdd of mine (yeah it was supposed to be secret but wtf). Anyway a little background: I was thinking of coming up with a way to organise my stuff inside, and I decided to follow *exactly* how macs lay out their stuff. Basically, there is a Users folder in root, and then my shortname folder in it, which is my home folder, and all the other jazz inside the home folder. I will then create symlinks from within my home folder to point into folders in that folder, just as though they were at the same place all along.

For example, ~/Music, which is essentially /Users/san/Music, or more accurately, /Volumes/san/Users/san/Music, will point to /Volumes/san\ Storage/Users/san/Music instead. All these can be done with ln -s

Very simple right? Yes, till I hit a problem after creating a symlink pointing to the home folder on my new drive; accessing this symlink stalled my whole mac. Finder stalled, Safari stalled, every fucking thing stalled, I even had an error that Finder.app did not exist while trying to open a folder from my Dock. Great. This symlink I created, whatever I tried to call it, when pointing to /Volumes/san\ Storage/Users/san, would just lock up. I cannot find a better explanation of this fuckup better than a stupid permission problem went bad.

I checked the Get Info of the 2 home folders and compared them and I found this slight discrepency: there's a group called (unknown). Not only on my new drive, even on my old one, and every damn fucking file and folder in my home folder.

So I checked it up. Lo and behold, yet-another-mac-permissions-fuckup. Everyone who upgrades from Tiger, or migrates a Tiger user account, will get this problem. That practically means all of my dear Mac friends reading this, except for the lucky **** who bought Macs that came with Leopard. Yes you Geoff, and you too bee.

Why did this happen? Basically, Tiger got it all wrong: when you create a user acount, say 'ass', you will be also assigned to a group, called 'ass'. This isn't the convention in the Unix and Linux and BSD worlds, it doesn't even make sense, so Leopard fixed it. Now, all (new) accounts are under the group 'staff'. But guess what, they forgot to convert the old Tiger users over. There is no such group called 'ass', or 'san' or whatever you decided to name your account. So it shows up as, you guessed it, (unknown). So they sorta fixed the problem, which wasn't really a problem, and created a new one. What new problems? Reportedly, Spotlight is semi borked with this permission problem, and you get a performance hit because of that. (Jem, I guess this was our problem all along) Also, your Finder might crash when you try to delete the (unknown) user group, or it might just crash for no particular reason, like me accessing the damn symlink I created. It's also plain UGLY. Macs are meant to be preetee.

So. Fix? Or no fix? A brilliant way would be to create a new account and manually copy all your shit over. That would be something I won't want to do, and I guess neither do you. Another way, is to do it by nipping the problem at the bud, and fixing the rest with some smart terminal fiddling. Which I did, and my Mac still runs, so I guess it's safe.

Instructions are detailed here but I'll summarise for you. First, go into your System Preferences, click on Account, and authorise yourself. Right click on your own account, and click the only option there, Advanced Options. Here you will find your poison: Group ID will be exactly the same as User ID, 501. Change Group ID to 20. Click Ok.

While you are at it, it is probably a good idea to temporarily disable Spotlight on your whole HDD, using the Spotlight preference and putting your drive in the ignore list.

Now, open terminal, and type this: ln -aln Documents It can be any folder for that matter I just used Documents as an example. You should see a bunch of drwx------ number 501 501 number date myFolder there. The 2nd 501 is what we are interested in, and if it's something else like 502, just take note of it. The 1st 501 is correct and we are not touching it.

Next, run the command

cd

and then followed by

sudo find . -group 501 -exec chgrp 20 {} \;

Basically, cd jumps to your home directory, and the command will find everything within your home directory, and change all group 501s to group 20. If the number you got just now is some other number just replace 501 with it. Don't do anything and wait. Once it's done, restart your computer and run permissions checking just in case. If ACL turns up for Finder and some other passwd shit, it's a 10.5.5 problem, download the 10.5.5 combo updater and reupdate your Mac.

You can double check your folders now, the (unknown) should now be 'Staff'. Re-enable your spotlight and everything should work as per normal. My iMac seems zippier now, but I don't know if that's because my spotlight indexing was still ignoring my main drive.

With this I learnt how to set the Users folder on my new drive to Root access only, and my own folder to be my access only. So nobody can delete the Users folder by accident without inputting a password, and only I can access my own stuff. Heh. This also probably means I'm restricting access to only my Macbook Pro and my iMac, and Macs in general that allow me to input a password to let me in. Oh my god, :O so damn troublesome! I can't let any Tom, Dick or Harry hack into my computer and steal my files! Damn I want a windows computer so I can be hacked D:

Sigh, Macs are so troublesome and lousy, we don't have .dlls for anyone (like your neighbourhood friendly virus) to hack openly, as everything on windows is permission 777. We need to know stuff about permissions and owners and groups, so god damn troublesome. Windows is so much better, I can just delete NTDLR and get away with it. :( I want my Vista PC..

DIY mee pok tah

Lol. I just made my own mee pok tah. So proud of myself.

Oil, black sauce, sambal chilli, instant meepok noodles (without using any ingredients inside), topped with fish balls and spring onion.

1st impressions, a bit too sweet, cos the black sauce I have at home is the red date one. But still shiok. Next time I will use the MSG and oil from the packet to boil the noodles in them, to simulate the MSG soup they use to cook the noodles in at the kopitiam. Heh. Maybe can serve as soup later too. And use more generic black sauce.

MY BLOG IS BORING

And I'm bored. Goes together really well.

ay-dee-oom!

One of the many reasons why I hate macs D: It's just too darned preetee.

Oh no!

Seems like I haven't blogged about my 1 year with bee bee either! Yes we've been busy but yea, we've been together for a year already, and many many more to come! Pictures will come up when we are free, but we are always so busy with each other we don't have time to show you guys all the fun we have! :P We'll do it soon, don't worry. Happy 1 year bee!

Why the iPhone 3G sucks

The iPhone 3G sucks. Really. The most hyped up phone you've always wanted is a pile of trash. And let me tell you why.

Glass screen. Like wtf. Where are my buttons. Where is my plastic screen. A plastic screen is so much better than glass. Plastic doesn't shatter. This is a step backwards in phone design!

3D games. Only now? Even my old Pentium 2 machine could play 3D games!  And it can't even play CS. What the hell.

3G. What the heck is that shit. 3.6mbps. Which phone only has 3.6mbps? This is so 10 years ago! Even my StarHub cable runs at 6mbps! That's nearly TWICE the speed! 3.6mbps is so damn SLOW!

Push email. This is absolutely retarded. Who the hell needs this? I don't want my phone to be informing me of every email I receive. Use internet explorer to log in to hotmail check email man. That's the way email should be. Push email is so uncool.

Battery life. The battery on the iPhone only has 1 day of battery life with heavy usage! 1 day! And with heavy usage meaning surfing on Safari, and watching YouTube. I mean that's just miserable! Which phone only has 1 day of battery with Safari and YouTube usage?

SMS conversations. What the fuck is this shit? I can't mass delete SMS! I can't even delete individual SMS! This is so damn backward! Having separate inbox and sent folders is so much better! Not being able to consistently go back and forth between inbox and sent totally kills the SMS experience! SMSing feels just like instant messaging now, and if I wanted to IM I can just use Windows Live! Messenger right? Why do I want to SMS?

GPS. Google maps is free. What the hell! I prefer Nokia N95's GPS, you got to pay! Things you pay for are ALWAYS better than things for free. And it has a plastic screen, buttons, and all the fantastic things a phone should have. Don't get the iPhone man. Be cool, buy the N95.

There are a million other things that I can't think off now. But whatever it is, just don't get an iPhone. Or a mac. Apple sucks. Like totally. Microsoft and Nokia is the way to go.

EDIT: Apparently some people just can't get the sarcasm. But, some of the things I posted above are actually what some people say of the iPhone, especially of the SMS feature. The purpose of this post is twofold: to show how stupid windows users are, and to dissuade potential stupid windows users to buy the iPhone. The Apple brand is diluted enough by these stupid windows users, and I would like to maintain my elite status of a Mac user. I don't want Apple to be the next hp or acer, although they seem to be tending towards that path.

Although I didn't expect it, this post has also shown it's third purpose: to reveal the stupid windows users who claim to be Mac converts, diluting the Apple brand, like the really clever boy who posted in my tagboard. Dude, if you can't contain your raging hormones and use your brain to think, you don't deserve to be a Mac user. :)

Blogger, and the internet, is a piece of shit.

Wow, blogger has a new RSS feed reader thingy! And guess what? IT DOESN'T WORK! Stupid shit. This is how it shows up in preview, making me all happy:

This is how it actually shows up on my blog:

That's a whole fucking world of difference can. Not to mention this feature fails half the time when I'm adding something, making me save after every entry, and even that doesn't work half the time too. Blogger, if you want to come up with something new, make sure it works first, please?

EDIT: Now it shows up properly, but if it doesn't please refer to my post to see how it should look like. Damn sad shit.

I must be dumb

Minima (the blog theme I use) has a stretch version. Now we can have the best of all worlds. Yay.