Attack of the exam munchies

With exams come another round of the munchies to help tide over the stress=)

Here's some of my favourites this time round, all Japanese snacks - inspired by the newly opened Tampines 1.

1. Glico Cheeza (Camembert)

2. Bourbon's Petit Ebi

And my favourite of the lot...

3. Meiji Copan (Maple flavour)!


Enjoy!

Automator.. and mugging

You know those irritating '%20' stuff you get when you download files online? Well, I get it all the time at my university's eLearning portal, and when I wanted to study them before my test last week, files with names such as 'Module%206%20Middleware%20Technology%20Part%203' just wasn't going to make things any easier.

So I came up with a simple workflow in Apple's Automator and just felt like sharing. Consider this a super simple introduction to Automator=)

(For those who don't want to bother about doing it yourself, download the workflow at http://www.easy-share.com/1903953677/MagiClean%20.zip, and install in Library/Workflows/Applications/Finder)

Fire up Automator and you should see something like this:
From the Actions library on the top left, go to Library > Files & Folders, then drag out 'Get specified Finder items' to the right-hand pane.
Then scroll down and drag out 'Rename Finder items' below the previous action and fill in the options as shown below: Note: Under 'Replace', I typed in a space so you can't really see it here. You can also replace it with anything you prefer i.e. underscore, dash, etc

Finally, and most importantly, go to 'File > Save As Plug-in...' and save it as a plugin for Finder:
Quit Automator and you're done!

So any time you want to magically transform your filename, select all your files that you want to clean up, Right-click > More > Automator > MagiClean%20

And your filenames are now loads more readable!=)

Do experiment further with Automator and you'll see how useful it can be!

Japan! and the start of school

Highlight of my winter hols'08: Japan!! *my first overseas trip with carol!! (excl. cruise la)

The planned itinerary: Tokyo > Kobe > Osaka
The actual itinerary: Tokyo > Kobe, Kyoto, Osaka, Itami, wherever else I forgot the name of

Moral of the trip (at least, the one I learnt: the Japanese can really walk. I mean, imagine walking hundreds of metres for every transfer in the train station. I'm pretty used to our local MRT - you know, simple and relatively little walking, with escalators and lifts abound plus travelators at Dhoby Ghaut - so the lack of such life savers (lifts were renamed 'magic boxes' while we were there) was physically gruelling for poor, weak, me. Not to mention that we had luggages and what-not to carry around on upon reaching Tokyo (picture me carrying my luggage up a never-ending flight of stairs).

That aside, we really did lots of walking but went as many places as we could in Tokyo. And with the help of Carol's Japanese friends (now mine too), we visited lots of places (and ate lots too=p) around the Kobe & Osaka area. And how can I forget the trip to Arima Onsenn - a popular hot spring in Kobe! Especially after two gruelling days of snowboarding (okay, I was slacking on the second day, but still=p), the relaxing atmosphere was absolutely wonderful. There were the usual hot pools, as well as saunas, a bedrock (the ones you see in korean dramas), and an outdoor hotspring too! =) The amazing thing was, we actually bathed for 6 full hours!! Honestly, they can really bathe too. Lol.

Of course, I celebrated my 20th birthday there as well!! Carol and Eri celebrated with me at Eri's house, with a really pretty and yummy cake specially made for me by Eri! Again, I'm waiting for a very special present from my darling best friend, which I'm sure I'll get on the 30th Jan. Right? =D

All in all, it was a great trip and some of the things that happened were pretty funny now that I think about it. Cheers to another Carol & CP production!=)

For pictures of our trip, visit my facebook photo albums:
Japan 08 - 1
Japan 08 - 2
Japan 08 - 3

And of course, school's started! A lot of things have suddenly come up, which I gotta think through, but it looks like a lot will be happening this sem!

Till the next post~=)