A Pleasant Dream

In my dream I bought a tube of nutripet. I was thinking about licking a bit of it (it's delicious!) and looked at the label which read:
for dogs and cats,
and humans who want to eat it.

I then went to visit my dog. And I hugged him because I missed him so much. He looks and feels the same. In this dream there's no smell though: In my other dreams of him where there's smell he smells the same in the dream. This time around as I hugged him, I tried to elicit a look of empathy from him, and twice he gave me the look that shows that he understands. It greatly comforts me. In real life though, he's the most unfeeling dog.

As I left the kennel, I sternly told him to stay, reflecting my insecurities about him escaping and getting into trouble (him fighting and me punished). Everything I did in the dream is typically what I might have done in real life (this is not one of those dreams where I'm in space or I can fly). Once outside his kennel, I turned his feed bowl in. I noticed that all the other feed bowls were already turned in except for his. I guess the others knew that I wanted to do it by myself. =) Seeing that the construction of the gate is not secure enough, I decided to clip the leash on the gate, but dang. Someone clipped the leash so high up that I couldn't reach it normally.

Then I woke up. I pressed a button on my handphone to see the wallpaper. Yeah, it's him alright.

Use the Correct Tool(s) for the Job

Yet another "aha moment" I got. My moments of insights are as usual, mostly super obvious. But I feel that even though there are many things (1) which we say we know, we don't usually do enough (not all, because we are only human) things in a way that shows we know them (1). In fact many times we do silly things that are appear contrary to the knowledge we purport the have. Okay, I admit, maybe I'm the only silly person here. Perhaps I shouldn't have used the word "we". Nonetheless, I like to re-iterate such maxims followed by a personal anecdote.

There probably exists correct tools for each job. If you use the wrong tool, you run the risk of damaging the things you're working on. For example, if you use a larger-sized wrench, you risk rounding the nut. It may also be less efficient, taking up more effort (time, strength), and even produce inferior results compared to using the correct tools.

So what happened was that my house was repainted last November iirc, and my chin-up bar was taken down. I saw my dad de-rusting the bar using autosol and I took over the job from him, as I felt that I had more experience in using autosol (from my NPCC days). Sure, I think did a decent job but it was too much effort (and painful fingers) just to de-rust a small area, so I set it aside.

One fine day I went to Daiso and saw this "sanding sponge" and I bought one for "de-rusting metal". So just now I used it and it was almost effortless. Using it, I took probably less than 2 minutes to de-rust the entire bar using just a little strength, as compared (using autosol) to taking 30 minutes to de-rust < 10% of the bar using much more strength. Haha, and hoorah for Daiso.



This sounds witty but I guess it's just plain nonsense:
“All of life’s problems can be solved with two things—duct tape and WD40. If it moves and it shouldn’t, you need duct tape. And if it doesn’t move and it should, you need WD40.”—Unknown

Clothes for fat people in Singapore

I used to be an avid forumer and a very helpful one at that. So I took this photo and posted in a few threads where bigger-sized forumers were asking where can they get clothes. Now that I've quit foruming regularly, I'm posting it here, hoping that those who need it can find it, and also delete the photo. Sorry I'm a tad too lazy to digitize the text.


Source: Urban, Straits Times

The pedant in me: Speaking good English != Writing good English

Let me first qualify my post by saying that I do not speak nor write perfect English.

Of all places I found this at an exhibition at the Central Public Library (Bugis). On top of that, there were "Speak good English, yes I can" (can't remember the exact words) flag banners (sorry, no pic) outside the library adding to the irony. Or maybe the banners were literal (see post title).

The pedant in me: Where are the figures?

Where are figures 1 and 2? I thought that when one puts "figure 1" it means that there exists a figure labelled 1? Or are we to infer that the figures are implicitly labelled? I am more inclined to believe that this is the result of copypasta without checking what one typed/pasted, and the editor not catching this error.


Source: Straits Times

The pedant in me: RM60,000 == SG81,000?!

Such a glaring mistake, simply unacceptable coming from the national broadsheet. Since the source is Malaysian, I suppose it's the news people in Straits Times who added the currency conversion thing.


Source: Straits Times

sad day for me but i'm happy for my friend..

it's a sad day..

woke up with a painful right foot.. i must have kicked the wall while sleeping.. 'tis the second time it has happened to me.. probably too stressed..

just before noon, as i was walking down the stairs making my way to the computer lab @ the basement, i saw her and i think she saw me too but i got just couldn't recognise her from a distance.. as i walked closer i didn't bother to look her way as i don't like to look at people.. when i passed her i suddenly got a feeling that it's her so i stopped and did a double-take.. it was her indeed and now she must think that i ignored her on purpose..

trying to use wikidpad more extensively to manage my life.. will be installing on my desktop soon.. hope to fully migrate to my desktop asap..

i might change blogs yet again.. just don't like windows live spaces.. too much ajax's overkill n makes it feel laggy..

not all was bad though.. when i reached home i wanted to send some useful past year paper to my schoolmates so i opened msn and i saw my good friend's msn nick.. he's going to intern @ mountain view in 2 months' time to work on iGoogle.. i'm really happy for him.. i consider him as one of my best friends..