I was fixing computers like eating meals. Yea, alot will just say “Reformat lah, then reinstall Windows”. Well it’s alot easier if an actual window in my room is broken.

It’s easy to install Windows. It’s so easy that almost anyone who understand English can do it, thanks to Bill Gates. But it’s not so easy to recover your data from it, while you can’t even log onto Windows. That’s bad enough and when it gets worse, you find yourself dealing with BAD SECTORS.

Bad sectors is everyone’s nightmare. It’s is so hard to recover your data from it, impossible at times. While working my hard ass recovering it, this is what I enjoy my laptop with:

A 40″ Sony plasma LCD TV!! Wahaha.. this is my new working environment, my processing power with a large plasma. Big lerhh! =P

By the way, it belongs to Kelvin, haha. Thanks to him though, if not I can’t work with my laptop without an external display.

After 12 hours…..

Judging from the speed it’s running, I approximate it’s gonna take another more than 48 hours to repair. Verdict? I strongly discourage the usage of Seagate hard drives.

Eureka Tower, the world’s tallest residential building.

It took us 40seconds from bottom to top. Up on the deck of level 88, there are these “telescopes” which will make you dizzy and clueless of what you’re actually looking at. Without the caption, I seriously do not know that I’m actually looking at the hockey stadium. Maybe it’ll be clearer in the day. Seriously, why the heck they make it so ugly??

9/06/2008 Algorithms & Data Structures (Hard)
16/06/2008 Analysis & Design of Algorithms (damn Hard) Yay! Over already!
20/06/2008 Software Engineering: Architecture & Design (Moderate)

Now that my exams are over, I’m clueless of what to do. I have to meet up with the migration agent to know what I can do next, but the appointment is only till tomorrow. So can I fly like a bird now? I hope so..

wow…. haha

I was so happy to sign it off when this package arrived at my door around 3 months ago. After so long I’ve waited, finally I owned my personal digital camera. For a fan of photography, Canon finally designed a chunk of titanium which has the features I’ve always wanted, at least in a compact camera.

Enough said of how I feel, I’ll show you the pictures taken from the Canon Digital IXUS 960IS.

The leaf is taken at macro mode, with a center weighted average setting.

and this too. Love this photo alot, no idea why, maybe it’s the mesmerising colour.

The color accent mode ain’t bad too. The camera allows you to select the desired color and walah! I decided to choose brown.

The above is taken with manual mode and all other settings by default, flash did not fire under daylight. Compare it with below:

With a switch to foliage mode, the 960IS changes to a preset configuration and fired the flash. Sweet, green looks greener now.

Holding it with a tripod on my desk, I took this picture without zooming in aiming at my Me to you bear.

Again, I took the picture at the same angle at the maximum optical 3.7x zoom.

I went beyond the optical zoom lens limit and zoomed in with the digital 9.3x zoom. I’m really amazed with Image Stabilizer (IS) by Canon, you have to use it for yourself to believe.

Lastly, and the most I can go, is 15x digital zoom. Reading the bear’s foot is not a problem at all.

This is the strong point for the IXUS series, the amazing IS makes zooming up to 15x pausible, even without a tripod.

Despite all the manual settings, the auto mode is almost perfect. This is a night shot taken at the highest point of Melbourne. Fantastic isn’t it? The crazy fast DIG!C III image processing on this 960IS really stunned me. I couldn’t capture a picture as magnificent as the above even with manual settings, perhaps maybe it’s me who lack of photography skills.

The night shot of this camera is adequately acceptable. As all other reviews pointed out, any ISO setting higher than 400 will have noticable noise. Unless you’re trying to capture a bullet shooting at you, don’t think you’ll ever use it though. =)