As probably most who have flown it would agree, Singapore Airlines is comparatively much goodness. First thing that hits you when you walk in are the bright blue/purple seats (well, i guess the outfits of the stewardesses are quite catching, but that’s fairly familiar for me).. then there’s the matching flannel blankets, the many channels on the personal tv set, the bendy sides of the headrest, the icecream bars they offer you after meals, the decent airline food, the purple socks on flights, and the nice stewardesses.
if you manage a first class/”raffles” class seat, you get what look either like big cushy armchairs, or a-bit-overly-dramatic cushy thrones. i’ll give my verdict on those when i get to try them one day.
for now, i’m lucky i’m still small enough to bunch up and curl into my economy seat at the window, and climb over passengers sitting next to me by stepping on their armrests, so they don’t have to get up when i have to visit the restroom.
Singapore Airport is also nice, and the rest of the city is similar as far as my memory serves, but it’s certainly grown up in the past 15 years.
Predixis MusicMatch. — correction: Predixis MusicMagic
I don’t know when this hit winamp’s featurelist, but it is a beautiful beautiful wonderful feature. yes, i wish it did its magic by somehow analyzing each individual trac and gleanning the beat, mood, style, feeling to interpolate that into automatic educated playlists, so that it wouldn’t need to know the music in order to match them. however, its library of knowledge is really quite impressive, and its matching ability is even more impressive. it’s my new very good friend. i still listen to my music by loading all the thousands and then hitting “shuffle” and “repeat”, but then once a song hits that fits my mood, i run musicmatch on it, enqueue those, and let it continue on shuffle as it cycles through those mood-fitting songs before continuing on its random path.
i haven’t tried the standalone program… just discovered it as a feature in winamp a month or so ago. *happy*
Update 2008: MusicIP Mixer
{ 6:26 PM } Having watched Crash: why do people have to be so self-oppressive, and then take out their problems on others, perpetuating the cycle? why are consequences based more on result, rather than intent? how come context is so secret and hidden and under-acknowledged? it’s everything. context is everything. people are not all created equal, they are not all raised and treated equally — and nor should they be. the only thing that should be remotely enforced to be equal, is decency; decency and compassion and respect/interest. butterfly effect. everything matters.
{ 6:46 PM } i stayed home sick today. started as a scratch in my throat a few days ago, and has gotten progressively worse. it’s more uncomfortable than anything else, with varying symptoms and varying intensities thorughout the day. particularly bad on the train rides home, where i guess the dry air closes my throat up and tickles it, inducing a feeling of constriction and necessary large coughing. last night was miserable, as was the waking up several times in the night, and being thoroughly clogged up in the morning. i was advised a cough drop called Cold-eeze, which I am assured will murder my cold in just 3-4 days. but to be safe, i’ve also added a pack of Luden’s assorted berry and a pack of Robitussin Honey/tea-flavored cough drops, and a pack of Day & Night Sinus Therapy from EckeRxd. And stayed in bed much and using many tissues and drinking much water. Drastic improvement from this morning: I can breathe out of both nostrils now.
Brother’s done with exams and classes for this term. Happy him.
Parents visited grandmother these past few days.
I want to eat ice cream, but dun think it’ll make my thorat happy.
Back to Crash: First of all, it was a good movie. Good actors, good segments, good weaving, very good. Second of all, I really shouldn’t watch movies like that by myself. I still want to know what the evolutionary/intelligent reason is for emotional crying. Just don’t make much sense to me. I need a fun, funny, upbeat, cool sci-fi/action/adventure/fantasy movie. Except that pretty much all good, remotely serious/realistic films draw upon humanity and human courage / spirit / cruelty / selfishness / strength / conviction / generosity / simplicity / greatness. I have yet to come up with even a basic explanation for what any of that has to do with tear ducts, but nonetheless..
i haven’t been writing here: partly because i don’t really have time to be writing, mostly because i feel guilty that if i have time to be writing here, then i have time to be tending to at least one or something of the multitude of items currently on my backburner.
so i’ll make this quasi short lest i wreck in my guilt.
tons of stuff has happened/is happening. we moved successfully. more on that later. now a second move is taking place. more on that later. Baby Blue Bytes, the definitely-well-loved but unfortunately-unwarrantied Toshiba Satellite 5205-s703 is dead on the operating table. when i have a bit of money and time, i shall see about resurrecting the dead. meanwhile, please welcome Danium, the Satellite M40. Dani is joined by:
- Sylvia, the 1600×1200 pixel replacement of BBB’s gorgeous 15” UXGA screen,
- Benny the hub and Benny’s identical twin,
- Hallow the 300 GB multimedia-storage unit (to counterpart Casey, the existing Maxtor One-touch),
- and last but not least (however the smallest package) we have Baby Brain, which was surgically removed from BBB and now lives in a very efficient little Bytecc external case and does its job surprisingly happily.
I have discovered Newegg, and I am pleased.
Also thoroughly broke.
okay, the rest pending.
i now have my new Sony MDR-Q66 headphones. retractable! cool! happy!
hope they don’t break.
Textdrive’s hosting for life offer is back as VC3.. This time around, the hefty percentage goes to Katrina relief, instead of open-source projects as usual. Read more on Dean’s post to the forum.
(via ubernostrum)
this is me testing RMail.
Qua-pack!
(i dunno.)
i’m hoping this may be useful for Textpattern in the vein of email subscriptions to articles (and comments) via their rss feeds.
long-awaited news: Textpattern 4.0 is a go (with a weblog that i swear wasn’t there a couple days ago…)
and Rob’s newest Textpattern plugin, rss_admin_db_manager v4.0 is out in the world, and is looking so very beautiful and works so very beautifully. i’ve gotten to play with it and it’s very very happy.
Apple’s Mighty Mouse that i saw in the Apple store today… really is making me consider, again, converting to an Apple…
oh, btw, Bluey’s “spine” pretty thoroughly broke today, so it can no longer hold up it’s beautiful 15” UXGA screen on its own. it folds almost all the way back (i’m certain if it continues to do so, the remaining holding plastic will also break and the monitor will be completely broken from the computer, which is really no good in laptop world), and otherwise would slam shut if leaning foward.. it can’t hold itself up at all. so sad. just happened kind of randomly today. it’s been weak for like a year now… after a certain angle, the monitor would just fall backwards. but it could still hold itself mostly up at the time. not anymore. :-/
i’ll have to figure something to deal with this tomorrow. quite urgent.
I finished Catcher in the Rye the other day… third time I’ve tried to read it. I know it popularly makes me a lacking person somehow, but I just really found the book uninteresting for myself. I mean… I can see what the general appeal must have been to land it as such a remarkable, notable, classroom-essential, teenage-student’s-favorite book.. but… well, maybe timing didn’t work out properly for me to read it and better identify with it.. “well clearly you’ve never been a typical American teenager.” well, .. maybe. or maybe Holden Caulfield just isn’t anything more than what he is to me. Does it matter if I don’t like him?
I liked his little sister.
For that matter, I don’t like Harry Potter or Clark Kent much either. might all of those not be so different?
But I love that this book (and character) means so, so much to so many people. I love that.
- Mozilla Firefox 1.0.5 is out
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going to be trying the Calendar extension for Thunderbird- (standalone available as Sunbird). it’s no iCal, but such option not avail on Windows. *edit: going to standalone Sunbird 0.2 app instead of calendar extension, since that’s where they’re going to be focusing. more ideal for me anyway.. the current sunbird lacking features that only avail for calendar extension will likely be avail in sunbird soonish.
- upgraded various Thunderbird extensions and added a few more to collection, and will also do the same for Firefox
- Flickr Importr (thanks Angad)—far better than Flickr uploadr. now they just need to make more of the Flickr organizr tools available offline… adding multiple photos to Groups, for instance, is hellish.
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