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喜气洋溢的五月～

这个五月不一样，因为很多同学结婚。其中就包含了小学，中学和大学的同学。大家一起在五月各个不同的时间地点举行婚礼。而我非常之荣幸的被邀请当他们的御用摄影师。。而我那尘封已久的相机也终于有机会出去玩。。ok的啦。。其实我真的是业余的。。所以如果拍到效果不好大家不要太介意，小弟真的已经很尽力的拍了。。哈哈。。

拉开首炮的就是佩佩啦，严格来说我们是中学同学，虽然不同班不过都有见过面。哈哈，上次看到她是在秀玲的婚礼，由于那时姐妹们都穿得像月饼的包装所以这次看到妳认真打扮还真的是不习惯（开玩笑的啦，不要太介意:P）。虽然认识不久但是我真的认为她是个很不错的人；所以ah soh你记得好好对她啊。虽然我搞不太懂她家里的监视系统的分布和涵盖范围（好像讲到太夸张，其实没有那么恐怖啦，不要想太多她不是恐怖分子。。。）；不过我知道她很谦虚，随和又没有架子。

再来就是我的小学同学玉凤的婚礼啦，这个婚礼特别用心。需要把姐妹和家人统统空运到槟城，当然还包括把我运去。。哈哈。。破费了啦！还有我就是搞不懂不知道她去哪里找到这么好的骏马 （她老公）；真的是很难找的咯！而且最重要的就是他很爱她，能包容和体谅她。看到他们这么开心的步入人生的另一个阶段，我真的是开心得不得了。而这个婚礼有一定的挑战性，因为要在很短的时间内把当天的图片幻灯片赶在晚宴前完成。这个对我绝对不是问题，问题是我竟然在完成了这个幻灯片后有突然有一股想哭的感觉。其实我不知道来宾们看了会不会有一样的感觉，而我自己也不知道为什么我会有这种感觉（可能是被她当天一直开着的水龙头的双眼影响到？？）说真的我很荣幸能够参与这很感人真挚的婚礼。一首我以为是CD播放的Ave Maria；（听到我差点皮肤发麻，好听到不行，简直和sarah brightman差不多嘛！）徐徐步入教堂接受神，家人，亲友和朋友的祝福。。。真不知道要用什么形容词（不好意思，我的华语太差。。）。。。。当年像男生到不行的她。。。终于成功嫁出去了！以刘谦的口头禅来说，我们参加这个婚礼简直就是“见证奇迹的时刻”！！！（哇哈哈。。开玩笑的啦 :P）不过话说回来，虽然大家真的都很少见面不过还是有一定的默契。（其实我想写：虽然大家真的都很少见面不过在心中都有一定的位置。可是我怕你老公会把我列入黑名单里头。。开玩笑的啦。。我相信ah jon不是这种人咯。。）

 

最后就是我的大学同学，诗人剑波啦。这个人怎么说呢。。我还记得第一次见到他是上实验课，一般来说像我这样普通的学生，如果和另一个普通的学生合作，会用实验课的2个小时来完成整个实验。可是剑波刚好每次都是坐在我旁边和另外一个人“搭档”。根据我的观察，几乎每次他都是一个人花一个小时多一点就完成实验就可以跑路了。（所以我很懊恼为什么我不是跟他一组。。酱我就不用做了嘛！）尽管如此，我还是一直很有兴趣他到底值怎样做到的，过后认识他以后才发现原来他已经算正常，还有更恐怖的。。哈哈。还有就是他们夫妇俩特别选了在南大的云南园注册！这个可真的是很有意义（当然这样大家就不用到很远的地方观礼了嘛）。。。我个人认为在自强不息；力求上进和牌坊之间注册，意义非凡。可能是我想太多，不过每每在云南园看到自强不息；力求上进这八个大字就莫名的很热血；想干一番大事业。所以我觉得这个跟本就是超好的！在这八个大字前发誓为另一半付出一辈子的爱；个人认为超赞！所以热一点也没关系的，我流汗不多。但是详细问了他们一下，原来他们不知道nanyang executive center有个专门为校友而设的注册小礼堂，全冷气的说。。不过不用紧啦，我还是比较喜欢在云南园。因为有很热血的大字！

All you need to know about renewing passport at Malaysia High Commission of Singapore

Disclaimer : all info correct as of 22nd April 2010, please verify them if necessary.

Location & Contact Details :
http://www.kln.gov.my/web/sgp_singapore/home
As of end of March 2010, they will only receive new passport application from Monday to Thursday (220 per day) and all passport will be ready for collection on Friday.

Things to prepare:
1. 2 blue background color photos (3.5cm x 5cm, passport size)
2. Original Malaysian IC and 1 photocopy of it (front and back)
3. Original SPR IC/student pass/employment pass etc. and 1 photocopy of it(front and back)
4. Completed IM42 form (can be collected at guard house for free or download online from IMI website. Please print this form in one sheet of paper as they don’t accept 2 sheet of papers.)
5. Cash SGD128 (subjected to change)
6. Your current passport (well, do I need to mention this?)

How to go (Map) :  
Take bus no. 32 from Redhill MRT station(or bus no 14 / 65 from orchard MRT) and alight at the bus stop opposite valley pt condo.(You can press the bell after you saw the Esso petrol station on your left hand side for bus no. 32) then walk along Jervios road (the road in between Esso and SPC petrol station) to reach Malaysia High Commission of Singapore.

If you plan to transfer your re-entry permit (REP) at ICA building personally, you can board bus no. 32 at the bus stop opposite valley pt condo too. However, you can actually transfer your REP to new passport via the online eServices from http://www.ica.gov.sg/

Some images for easier navigation :

Application Procedure :
1. Get a pass from the Guard house.

Things to take note : 
      a. they need one of your photo ID or credit card to exchange for a pass, please don’t give them your IC as you’ll need it later, give them your driving license etc. 
      b. Please don’t join the queue blindly as normally they’ll be two queues, one for getting pass at guard house another queuing to go in the high commission after you got your pass.

2. Queue at the side door and wait for security check to go in the high com.

3. Get all your forms ready and remember to stick your photos in the form, they will check before issue you a queue number. (special counter available for senior citizen and pregnant women)

4. After got your queue number, wait for your turn for submission of new passport application.

5. After submission, pay at the payment counter and they will tell you what time to go for collection on Friday. Voila, that’s it!

p/s : photocopy and self service photo taking available on the spot but it’s advisable get all your documents ready before you go to avoid long queue.


Things to take note for fill out the IM42 form:
Please fill out accordingly and take note of the following…

Page 1 : You only need to fill out your Singapore address in the “Alamat Semasa” section and remember to stick your photo and write your mobile number at the bottom part.

Page 2 : Remember to stick your photo and fill out current passport number. 

References :
http://tingwo.blogspot.com/2008/12/renew-passport-at-high-commission-of.html

As I had benefited a lot from others blog post so I think it’s good to write an updated version. Please feel free to copy and rewrite this post to a better one. Cheers!

say bye bye to tap input and say hello to gesture based text input from SlideIT , Swype , Shapewriter….

After I tried the gesture based data entry from SlideIT myself using my Windows Mobile(WM) phone yesterday. I’m quite convinced that tap typing input in mobile device(or smaller screen device) will soon be phased out. (well, at least for smart phone)

Initially, I really wanted to try Swype but it wasn’t available for every WM phone due to their business model(To my understanding , more incline to B-B instead of B-C). That’s completely alright for me so I try SlideIT which generally provide more or less the same thing.

Anyone who ever use WM will know that the basic input method provided from MS really leave a large room for developer to do something. Text input is generally a painful experience, so I’ll try to write as short as possible in my SMS. However, things change after I install slideIT. 

Simply put, it’s fast, it’s easy to learn, it’s cool. Using some sort of history term, you really can divide the “text input timeline” using BC and AD.

Some demo videos done by others from youtube:

SlideIT:

 

Swype:

 

Shapewriter:

All of these 3 input method are actually protected by some sort of “patent” thing but I’m not going to dig into that since it’s going to be a long debate. If you’re interested you can visit here instead.

Links to IEEE GOLD Webinar : A survival guide for scientific writing in the academic and professional environments

I find it quite useful by attending this webinar entitled “A survival guide for scientific writing in the academic and professional environments”

If you’re interested you also can take a recap on it from the following links:

Direct Link to this Webinar : https://admin.na5.acrobat.com/_a758482253/p41003999/

Q&A link : http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs_iportals/iportals/membership/gold/events/PostScripts_from_Survival_Skills_for_Scientific_Writing.pdf

Hope this helps. Cheers.

Let’s support EARTH HOUR!

 
Sorry for not updating for so long but this one is very urgent…haha! Let’s do our bits for mother earth!! hope you can join too !!
To Sign up :http://earthhour.wwf.sg/signup_ind.php

More info:
http://earthhour.wwf.sg/about.php
http://www.earthhour.org/Homepage.aspx

Of course you can do more by :

• Taking lesser lift and use staircase more often. If your office or home located at level 16, you can take the lift to level 12 and use the staircase to reach your destination.
• Eat lesser meat or convert to vegetarian
• If the above are too hard to do for you… then simply bring your own bag when go shopping
• Taking public transport
• please add on yourself and the list goes on

马来西亚民主吗？

引用龙应台的文章：《为台湾民主辩护——与华人世界对话》

“民主，就是手上有一本护照，随时可以出国，不怕政府刁难；民主就是养了孩子知道他们可以凭自己本事上大学，不需要有特权；民主就是发表了任何意见不怕有人秋后算账；民主就是权利被侵犯的时候可以理直气壮地讨回，不管你是什么阶级什么身份；民主就是，不必效忠任何党，不必讨好任何人，也可以堂堂正正地过日子；民主就是到处有书店，没有任何禁书而且读书人写书人到处都是；民主就是打开电视不必忍受主播道德凛然地说谎；民主就是不必为了保护孩子而训练他从小习惯谎言；民主就是享受各种自由而且知道那自由不会突然被拿走，因为它不是赐予的。

民主并非只是选举投票，它是生活方式，是思维方式，是你每天呼吸的空气、举手投足的修养，个人回转的空间。这，在小方格窗里是看不到的。所以如果你对小方格里的混乱失望，不要忘记，真正的民主在生活里，在方格以外的纵深和广度里。”

全文：http://www.zaobao.com/special/china/taiwan/pages6/taiwan150404.html

如果龙应台对民主的认知和定义无误，哪我想在我有生之年民主不会在马来西亚落实。