DIY kit

Feeling frustrated of your sexuality?
Think you are a man in a woman's body?
No money for sex change?

Fret not...We in the DIY kit company have come up with our very own Do-It-Yourself Sex Change (DIY SC) kit. Patented in 1972 and perfected by 2009, the DIY SC kit solves your problems in 5 simple and easily comprehended steps.

We in the DIY company are leaders in the industry and are always in the forefront of research and development. Our large research team, mainly comprising of cheap foreign talents who perform their task as guinea pigs, ensures that the production cost of our prducts are kept cheap. Experiments are safely carried out on our foreign volunteers who we pay minimal wage so that we can randomly inject them with harmful toxic chemicals. We also hire a lot of locals so that people do not boycott our products as well as to maintain the suitable foreigner to local ratio. We also pride ourselves at the large number of locals elderly which we hire as cleaners to ensure that they are given a job to survive rather than to work as a rag and bone man.

The DIY sex change kit comes in many series and many designs in order to suit the needs of our clientele. Its safe and uses mainly natural chemicals with the very little industrial chemicals(1% crude bitumen and 0.23% diorgano polysiloxane). Like all innocent and beneficial injections which stings like an ant's bite, the procedure doesn't hurt a bit, it just hurts like shark's bite.

Lets hear what our satisfied customers have to say.
"3 months ago, I bought the DIY F-M SC black anaconda series. I am extremely surprised and elated over the results. I used to have to sit in order to pee, now I can pee standing. In addition, my enomous shlong is twice the size of my husband's weenie which immensely boost my self esteem. Now I am a proud she-male who can life my head high"
Sally "Shaft" Golphbomph

Thats one for the DIY, zero for the alternative.
Now lets hear how the DIY kit changed a person's life.

"Ever since I was young, I was confused over my gender...my father used to make me play rugby...my favourite toy was a barbie...An aglet is a small plastic sheath found on each tip of a shoelace...I like fashion week...(another 20 pages of his childhood story)."
Because of the time limit, we will skip to the most important part of his/she/its comment.
"Thank you DIY kit for changing my life"
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Well, convince now, aren't you?
If you are looking at this ad, you are likely cash strapped, the DIY SC comes at a merely 5 easy payments of $995.95. Call in the next 45 seconds and we will throw in a pair of DIY prosthetic limb just for you.

Running too slow in class?
Cannot catch the bus?
Legs too skinny?
Lost your hand when your dad cut it off with a light saber?

Look no further. You are looking at our state of the art DIY prostheic limbs. Powered by a 24W/48W power source, our DIY prosthetic limbs pack 150 horse power, runs at 1500 rounds per minute and has 18 degrees of movement. With such a strength, you can even win the current reigning arm wrestling champion.

You can even upgrade and modify your prostheic limbs with blue LED lights or even change it to be powered by our DIY mini V8 engine, which packs a mean 350 horse power. Since its DIY, designing and modifying is free and easy and the sky's the limit and up to your imagination.

Busy the whole day and have no time to recharge?
Diesel prices too high?
Or just wanting to protect the environment and conserve energy?

No problem. Just carry along our DIY prosthetic limb solar panel. You can wear it like a cap or carry it like an umbrella. Its light and easy to use.

Let listen to what users have to say about this product.

"When my dad cut my hand off in Star Wars episode 5, I was so sad. Finally I found my father and the first thing he does is to cut off my hand. Then I realise Leia was my sister and I almost commited incest. She loved my friend Hans, who got carbonised, serve that bastard right. I was at the bottom of my life, how can I be a jedi if I only had one hand? Well, at least I was better off than Dooku, who lost both hands and had minimal screen time. I was approached by the DIY company and they gave me a new hope in life, a new hand. What will I do without my robotic hand? Good Work DIY company."
Luke Skywalker

So what are you waiting for?
Call now and get your DIY kit.
Our customer service officers are ever-ready to listen to your call

Call 1800-this-is-a-joke. Don't lose out in life. get DIY today.

Disclaimer
All the instructions and modifications are all provided in the instruction manual. Please ensure that you have a mentally saint partner helping you with the construction of the DIY kits. Children under the age of 18 are to seek parental approval before attempting body modification. The DIY company will not be responsible for any deaths, mutation, trauma or anything to do with the user after the product has changed hands. There will be no money back guarentee for damaged goods, failed operations and not following the proper instructions. An addition charge of $20 will be included for delivery and $2500 for medical supervision by an intern doctor. Results will vary.

PutChar

I've got a miniproject due next monday...It involves sending 3 letters via a serial port to another PC(server). The server will take in the 3 letters, jumble it up and send it back to me.
I would have to then make a program that will display the letters as a bit-map using each letter itself as pixels.

Sounds bad, right?
Well, there is this program called PutChar,which is used to print the characters in AL at (BH,BL) on the screen. For non-engineering students, AL, BH, BL are registers. I've been trying to figure out last night what it does, but to no avail.

So I went to sleep clueless about the usage of PutChar...then...

I woke up in the morning with the Pucca song ringing in the head.
Why did Pucca had to sound like PutChar...
Pointer point to the wrong folder...crap...
Exit: MOV AH, 4Ch ; Interrupt function number for exit
INT 21h
If you don't know what is the Pucca song, then view the video below. It like a really short video...37 seconds.



Well, the song stop ringing in my head already...until I started to write this entry!!!
ARGH...get the song out of my head...its still stuck in there.
Anyway, if note the lyrics they say "ninja eat noodles", well thats quite true.
in fact, they actually eat ramen, like in Naruto.

So recently I climbed a mountain and ventured in the lands less travelled to find a guru and asked him a question..."what is the secret to finding inner peace?"

Curious for the answer?
Watch the video below

Can help my friend with a survey?

For those who help me the other time to do the survey, thanks a lot.
This time got another friend, my secondary school friend called Daryl See Zhi Xiang (I think that was his chinese name).
Its a guy...so well, I'm not trying to hard to promote it.

To those people who were my secondary school friends and know daryl as friend, feel free to not help him...IF YOUR CONSCIENCE ALLOWS IT.
If you got time then just try to help him out.
He's a cool friend so help him out...ARGH!!!
The link is just below.
http://www.esurveyspro.com/Survey.aspx?id=886b9ede-6d55-44e2-9d20-e2b0617e7701
Here is the facebook group.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=314955126823&ref=mf

Yeah thanks for polling, after 1 month, the conclusion is a unanimous vote that everybody would like the special ability of manipulating time.
Too bad guys no anime character in the universe is likely to possess such a power because it will likely screw up the entire story line. I mean he could like go back in time and reverse everything. If psycho kinetic was bad ass, suddenly comes an person who can reverse all these things. Its so badass it will break the fourth wall as predicted in the prophecy told in Yugioh Abridged. Dang you ForKids!!!

Anyway, I was counting my Ang Pow money and realise...
DANG!!! Income this year isn't a lot.
So just a poll...How much did you guys get?
At least I would get a feel of the market rate this year.
Thanks a lot...please poll.

Making lead balls

You know you suck at soldering when all you do is make tons of little lead balls.
Yeah, I'm pretty bad at it. I just completed a wire just now.
But nevertheless, soldering is one of the most GAR!!!! things a man can do.
I believe you must be wondering now...what the hell is GAR!!!!?
Well, I believe the definition is best explained by urban dictionary.

GAR
A term used towards male characters and individuals who are so overwhelmingly manly that your own masculinity is absolutely *buried*, leaving you naught but a whimpering, swooning girl-child before them.

I've got this friend who is damn PRO in soldering. His craftmanship is level 100 AKA GAR!!!

Anyway, for noobs in soldering, here is a cool video.



Yeah, get a good soldering iron, which is sharp. My buddy's iron was pretty blunt which made it harder to solder properly.

Please comment on your opinions on soldering. Aiyoh...so busy...maybe cannot blog in the next few days...ARGH...

Happy New Year and Line of the day 15/02/10

Happy New Year guys, Wish you all the best in your studies and good health.

Line of the day to start out the new lunar year!!!

"Positive will is the first step to triumph over adversity"
Fairy Tail chapter 172

Index of the underdog 2 : t = 1.5 months

Good morning ladies and gentlemen,
This is a follow-up from the last time I posted the index of the underdog.
refer to link below for the original post.
http://allengineerswearjeans.blogspot.com/2010/01/index-of-underdog.html
I wanted to post this entry at the start of the month, but due to work commitments, I didn't have the time.

Going back to the topic, the index has seen a 10% rise from its base point at 100 to 110.67. STI, on the other hand, has pulled back from 2,855.68 to 2,758.90 due to sovereign wealth funds and debt problems in Europe. Prices and values for this entry are taken at the closing of 12th Feb 2010.

The Index of the Underdog(IOU) is a weighted index and the main driver of the index is not based on whose price increased the most, rather its based on whose market capitalisation increase the most relative to the total market cap.

From now on lets just call it IOU for short.

Observations
The top performer comes from New Wave Hldings increasing a whopping 33.3%. BoomZ man.
However, its interesting to note that its really just a penny stock and the 33.3% come from the fact that it increased a meer half cent(not even a cent).

The main driver for this round comes from MacarthurCook Industrial REIT. Despite some bad news coming following it in the November last year, surprising its price rose 16%. If you guys want to know about what happened in Nov, go to the link below.
http://thefinance.sg/2009/11/22/i-bought-macarthurcook-industrial-reit-on-18-nov-a-bet-gone-wrong/
Maybe investors want to find a safe place to park their money?

Just to note some changes in the IOU
1) 2 out of the 10 companies did not change in price
2) 7 out of the 10 companies increased in price
3) 1 suffered a drop in its price
4) lowerest % drop - 4.76%
5) highest % increase -33.3%
6) lowerest % increase - 2.77%

Opinions
It is intersting to note that IOU is based on 10 extremely undervalued companies, hence price doesn't fall too low. People might now want to get it, but at least they do not want to sell it. It seems rather in line with chapter 20 of intelligent investor(margin of safety).

I know many people will flame me for this. Just a thought, maybe because its so undervalued, it can only see an upside? We see the index rosed 10% while STI fell. Did we really beat the market? The numbers seem to prove so.

On top of being undervalued, these companies are also small cap. With the current consolidation tagged along with the immense amount of uncertainty, I guess investors wouldn't want to risk their capital on small companies which may face the risk of poor business or bankruptcy(worst case senario). This explains why despite one and half months, we still see that the prices of 2 companies remain stagnant and some of the rest increasing by small quantities.

With regards to the second opinion, I would say that prices did not increase from an absolute amount, but only percentage wise. I guess this is the good part of buying penny stocks, a small increase in absolute amount will translate to large percentage increases.

Conclusion
I don't its fair to draw any conclusion at this point. Its only been 1.5 months and I guess it should be considered short run. In the short run, anything can happen. This time we beat the market.
Maybe buying severely undervalued stocks in a good strategy after all.

I will follow up with the index again, stay tuned.

Line of the day(11/2/2010)

Over lunch a few days ago, my friends and I were talking about modules where the lecturers were so lazy and teach very slow that they eventually exclude the content from the syllabus(not common though...).
One of my friend then said that the alternative is that they would request us to do self study for the remaining chapters that they are unable to teach which would be terrible.
Then another friend said that when the prof says that most foreigner will suddenly feel very happy because the local kid most probably haven't learnt it yet, but foreign sudents would most likely covered the material.

Then I was thinking about how to make a one-liner for the phenomenon. Then I recalled yugioh the abridged series episode 19.
So here is the line of the day.

"Whenever an ah tiong smiles, a local gets PWNED"

Disclaimer: The post is just a joke. I am not a xenophobe. I am chinese so I'm not a racist. I don't dislike ah tiongs, I just call use that term because it makes the one liner funny. I think chinese girls are cute, especially the way they speak english.
I was seating beside a mainland chinese girl today in class...OMG, she is so beautiful...then she was wearing short...like short shorts(AKA Shorts^2) and she had nice long legs. She chose to seat beside me, you know...she could have sat beside other people, but she chose me...so happy!!! Then she smile at me...so pretty, so happy. She is my goddess...then she talk to me...OMG...happiness^100...PRC girl 10/10...score!!!

I know what are you thinking now..."aren't you a little over reacting?"
Well, yes I am...its because a friend of mine placed this thought in my head and its now growing and growing and growing and growing and I can't get it out so I am vomiting it here on my blog.
Well, then you wonder what is this EVIL thought my friend put in my head...
Well, he just kept on saying, "hey how come she choose to seat beside you. I think she like you. Ask her out. Ask her out". he just kept repeating that.
So to my friend who placed the thought in my head...please don't do it again. I cannot focus on my EE2005 assignment due tomorrow.

Another reason is because compared to PRC girls who I think are more friendly, sg girls though pretty and capable as they are don't smile a lot and emo a lot. They tend to be less friendly towards me. ARGH!!! Like after talking for a while, they go like wateva...so mean!!! But not all of them are like that...some quite nice to me...thats why I give them my autograph...

Caucasian girls also not bad, but they like caucasian guys...thats because they haven't met me yet.

Rest in peace my friend, we will always remember you

Today a friend of mine died.
This entry is dedicated to him.

He wasn't an ordinary friend,
He was like a brother.

Don't ask me how he died,
For I will tell you how he lived.

A brave adventurous soul in the seas of danger,
seeking the question of his existence.
To me my friend, it was redundant,
if not for you, I wouldn't be me.
If you weren't born,
the world would be the way it is.
You claimed you were a good for nothing your whole life,
but without you my life would be nothing.

Your persistence to fight this world,
To not give up in the face of crisis.
It inspired us, didn't you know?

The memories you left behind.
Goodbye to you, my trusted friend.
We've known each other since we're nine or ten.
Together we climbed hills or trees.
You tried to teach me right from wrong.
Too much wine and too much song,
wonder how I get along.

Goodbye my friend.
Goodbye my brother.
It was nice knowing you.
May you rest in piece...
Portgas D. Ace

Don't give up!!!

You are probably asking me...
"Aaron, I know you are awesome, but why are you doing up so late?"
My reply is likely,
"Well, its because I have to rush an essay due on tuesday."

Then you might most probably ask,
"Your awesomeness, why do awesome engineers need to write essays?"
My reply is likely,
"Well, its because the university wants us to have a balance all rounded education and not to produce robots which are only capable of speaking assembly language."

Damn you university level requirements AKA ULR(red baron references)

Well, this is the point where I spew a bunch of assembly language from my lab last week, but I'm too lazy to do so...

I know it hard for you guys in school, so much workload so little time, and so difficult exams.
But push on...there is always light at the end of the tunnel. It's okay as long as its not the light of an incoming train.
Did you know there is a hokkien saying "ai pia cia e ya!!!!" which translates to 爱拼才会赢. Yeah...must fight so can win!!!

here is a video I found youtube.



I know I should find the actual video from the actual singer, but how often you see a group of crazy people wearing bath robes and singing as if they were drunk.
You know you are screwed when someone feeds you too much alcohol and puts you cubical wearing a bath robe, forces you to sing a hokkien song and videos you.
Crap i think someone doped my plain water...feeling grogggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

No date on valentines? find fred.

Oh my god...fred's latest video!!!
This one is damn funny.


I always like fred's videos because its so crazy.
I'm actually quite busy so I'll stop commenting.
There are some post that I wish to do, but I'm currently short of time. I'll try to get it up by next week.
Peace out.

Don't misunderstand us...

If any of you hear a bunch of engineers or engineering students talking about semen and big ass, its likely a big misunderstand.

They are likely talking about siemen, which is the SI derived unit for electric conductance and the symbol is denoted by an S. Because of their lack of vocabulary, instead of saying capital 's', we often refer it as big 's'.

Anyway, to know more about siemen, go wikipedia.

Busy...and some tips on lecturers

I doubt I'll be posting any entries this week, I've got 1 lab reports, 1 assignment due this week and an essay due next week.

Anyway, have you guys encountered lecturers that like to ask question and then wait for a reply?
Then when no one replies, he picks a random guy to answer a question?
Well, its because most of the time its a rheotorical question and he just wants to hear his answer from another voice.

Some common answers are
1) yes
2) no
3) 1
4) 0
5) pi
6) infinity
7) some random directions
8) This work is often motivated by the hierarchy problem and is constrained by existing experimental data. It may involve work on supersymmetry, alternatives to the Higgs mechanism, extra spatial dimensions (such as the Randall-Sundrum models), Preon theory, combinations of these, or other ideas.

Okay, if you don't know, point 8 is a joke.

But if your prof ask you a question, its usually a common sense one, so take some time to think, its probably one of the first 7.