made of honour!.. and parental controls

I just figured out what has been bugging my macbook! Just the day before, my macbook's been making a lot of noise - hard disk spinning at high speed + fans @ >6k rpm - it was pretty irritating cos of the noise and got me pretty worried for a while.. what if my hard disk dies on me during WWDC??? Furthermore, I surfed through mac forums and googled in depth - most recommended repairing disk permissions, which I did to no avail. Another suggested resetting the SMC, but I didn't really want to try that unless I had no other choice.

But all's well that ends well! I finally checked out iStat's 'processes' section (I had it turned off initially) and realised it was parental controls! I'd just enabled that the day before for a 'Strictly Work' user account - just trying it out since I could use it to block facebook.com and the like to prevent myself from wasting time online and concentrate on my work instead. But, on seeing that it took up 90%-100% (!!!) of my processing power, I promptly deleted that user account, disabled parental controls, and immediately restarted my macbook.

Voila! Problem solved and I'm happy again=)

Alright due to complaints from carol that I've been talking too much about techie stuff lately, I shall stop that geek talk for today!

Met up with carol and watched 'Made of Honour'!

Patrick Dempsey!! Totally our eye candy throughout the movie! Apart from that, conversation's pretty funny and it's really touching too! I won't deny that the eye candy made a (big) difference too=p Wahahaha=)

And after hearing that Iron Man's nice from carol, I'm starting to regret not watching!=x Oh well, no worries I guess, I'll get to watch it somehow heh=D

apple triumphs!

Okay so I've twittered about this already. (in case you haven't seen it: Engadget Awards)

Basically, here's the summary taken from The Apple Blog:

iPhone won Best Gadget, Best Smartphone, and Most Anticipated Gadget (3G) for the editors and the readers.
The iMac won Best Desktop for both readers and editors.
MacBook Pro won Laptop of the Year for readers while the Dell XPS M1330 won out for the editors.
iPod Touch won for Portable Media Device of the Year for both editors and readers.
The Apple thin keyboard won Peripheral of the Year for readers.

Funny thing was this line right at the end of the Engadget Awards post:

*As you may recall, while not really gadgets released in 2007, both Vista and the Foleo were included by popular demand as nominees for worst gadget of the year.

An Ideal Apple Inventory for myself

Was just thinking (while doing my TWC research heh) and this would probably be my ideal set of Apple stuff I'd love to own - inclusive of imagined products. LOL

• 24" 4GHz iMac
• 15" MacBook Pro
• MacBook MultiTouch tablet
• 3G iPhone
• 1TB Time Capsule
• Final Cut Studio
• .Mac

good enough for you

How true's the above comic? hmmmm.

Had a video shooting session yesterday in school for Meta08! and it went surprisingly well and took an even more surprising 4 hours only! not bad for a first time filming and a one take video.

Just to be a little random here, i love SIS! hahaha sorry for the random patriotism but i love the people around me, all the friends I've made so far. Our first year's over and while we're all apprehensive about the 'horror' module next term (SE!) I'm sure it'll add to our memories of SIS - times we see ourselves helping each other out during crucial periods.

and I can't wait for my June San Francisco trip to Apple WWDC08!! not to mention travelling around the area for a while after that=P

and of course, the short break with carol!! wahaha. (watch out carol! I've got.. plans=D nah just kidding)

Cheerio~

eclectism

I've updated my blog design! It's a pretty simple layout and all but I sort of wanted to have two 'themes' i.e. brighter/richer colours on this left hand side, and pastel colours on the right sidebar. I'm certainly not keeping to the usual colour conventions of sticking to just a few colours, but this is my blog anyway, and I'd have more themes if it weren't so jarring to the eyes.

alright, I'm going off to meet carol now!! to catch harold & kumar=DD hope it's nice. and I'm so going to have my salty popcorn that I missed the other time.

I still wish I've got less to do. bleargh

NOT my new blog design!

my summer term just started this week! oh well. there're so many things to do!

hopefully can finish my design asap.

oh bleargh.

btw did i mention it? I'm going to San Francisco!!! for the third time!!!!!! how cool is that?=DD Not only that, but I'll be there for the Apple WWDC 2008 under the Student Scholarship Program! yayy!! scholarship covers conference entrance ticket of US$1,595 plus a travel allowance of US$500. not that much, but I don't care!! I'm going to WWDC and I'll see Steve Jobs!! albeit probably not face-to-face, but it'll be great either way!!

wheeee~