Smartphone Tracker 1.35.0.0 beta

Good news for smartphone owners. This programme does what its name suggests, which is to track down smartphones.

Now, don’t try to be creative here (though you can be =P ). It’s used to track down your own smartphone in the instance of theft. And here’s the catch, it’s free of charge.

Smartphone Tracker 1.35.0.0 beta is developed by Yaniv Nahum. It allows you to locate your phone via GPS coordinates, useful if your phone gets lost or stolen, and for locating missing family members.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

Basically, SmartPhone Tracker is configured to listen for a certain text message (set by you). When it receives that text message, the program will wake up, activate the phone’s GPS and obtain a lock. Once it has GPS satellites locked, it will send an email or/and text message with a link to Google Maps with the mobile phone’s location and exact GPS coordinates. If there is no GPS reception for 5 minute, SmartPhoneTracker will send the approximate Cell Tower location.

KEY FEATURES OF THIS TRACKING PROGRAMME

• Remote operation by SMS code.
• Send location by SMS/Email.
• Background Mode.
• Google, Yahoo and WindowsLive Maps format support.
• SIM replacement detection and notification.
• Remote image capture.
• Cell tower location.
• Map view.

REQUIREMENTS

• Windows Mobile 5/6 (Important! Only for smartphones which run on Windows Mobile OS.)
• .NET Compact framework 2.0 (I also don’t know what the hell is this. Just ignore it anyway.)
• GPS receiver (If you watch those James Bond’s movies or Prison Break series, you will know this. If you don’t know anything about this, heed my advice, watch more TV for God’s sake!!!)
• Internet connection for email notifications, cell tower location and map view

Hit here to download Smartphone Tracker 1.35.0.0 beta

This is a .cab file (577kb in size), so you should know what to do with it, right? In case you are blur, check out my previous post on Manila 2D. I had a lengthy explanation there.

From Me : As usual, please report if any link is broken.

Disclaimer : This post is written for the convenience of the public and not for business purposes. Smartphone Tracker 1.35.0.0 beta may not work on all devices since the operating systems are different. It is set up for Windows Mobile 5/6 devices only. Before installing, please find out if you have a Windows Mobile 5/6 device first. Try it at your own risk. The author is not in any way held responsible for your dissatisfaction, loss of time or damage to property due to the installation and usage of Smartphone Tracker 1.35.0.0 beta. The author stands to be corrected if there are errors in this post. The author apologises, beforehand, to any party/parties on Earth who feels/feel offended by this post.

Manila 2D, anyone?

For the folks out there who are using Windows Mobile 6.1 based smartphone, here’s something nice for you people to try.

Recently, I have installed a new interface in my phone. It has many names. Some call it Manila 2D; some call it TouchFlo 2D. Whatever it is, here’s the promise. It certainly looks, feels and functions better than the typical HTC Home (for those who use HTC phones). In fact, it covers all ranges of smartphones like Samsung Omnia or Dopod as long as they are WM-based. If you have just bought a new HTC PDA phone, rest assured that it will not void your warranty because this Manila 2D (M2D) which I am referring to is just a shell interface.

Of course, there are various M2D ROM’s available for download, but please be reminded that all those require changing of the phone’s original ROM which practically means you can kiss bye bye to the warranty. As cowardly as I am (and for God’s sake don’t deny, I am sure you are too ), I will not do that if my phone is just a few months old.

Here’s a display comparison to cement my argument.

Before :

HTC Home

After :

M2D/TouchFlo 2D

Am I tempting you now?

WHY AM I WRITING THIS POST?

Actually, there are instructions and fixes for the M2D installation if you look at here and here. However, I need to sieve through dozens of forum pages to fix some minor bugs in M2D. Trust me, it is a perfect recipe for migraine, especially when you are searching for the fixes you want around 3 o’clock in the morning. So, the objective of the post here is simply to guide you through the installation process and bugs fixing in the clearest way possible based on my personal experience and information from the forum threads. As I am using HTC TyTn II/Kaiser, I will provide the guidelines for installation of M2D on HTC phones only. For non HTC phones, please see here.

WHAT IS MANILA 2D?

It is actually a new user interface which is developed by HTC for their new generation of phones. On the more powerful (also expensive) phones equipped with 3D drivers, such as the Diamond or Touch Pro, it is called TouchFlo 3D (TouchFlo 3D users please click here). On the other hand, for phones that lacked such drivers, such as the Jade or the Opal, it is called TouchFlo 2D or Manila 2D (M2D). Thanks to some very smart guys over at XDA who found a way to extract or reverse engineer this interface from the Opal and the Jade, the rest of us can have cool looking phones as well. There is one drawback, however. This interface does not work in landscape mode because it was ripped from phones that do not have slide out keyboards. You have to navigate to where you want to go and then switch to landscape mode. Like HTC Home and other interfaces, this is just a shell interface and can be removed at any time, just like any other programme.

THINGS TO PREPARE/BE TAKEN NOTE OF BEFORE INSTALLATION

• A Windows Mobile 6.1 based smartphone (Kindly click here for non HTC phones. But still, read on.)
• At least 30-40 megabytes of free space in the device (not the storage card). Transfer your multimedia files such as songs, pictures and videos to your storage card if it is necessary. I did that to create more space in my device.
• Learn how to install and uninstall .cab and .zip files into and out of your device. Here’s how to do it. Simply synchronise your device with your PC. Then, copy and pass the .cab or .zip file into the phone. It does not matter whether you copy it into the device memory or storage card as the phone will prompt you the destination for installation later. However, you must ALWAYS REMEMBER to install all the files (except for M2D Customiser which I will explain to you later) into the device, NOT THE STORAGE CARD. Or else, the M2D might not be able to work. Am I making sense here? Well, leave me a message if you need further clarification . Now, different from .cab files, .zip files are not immediately installable. What do I mean by that? For .zip files, you must first unzip/extract it to a particular location. After that, run the installer (usually in .cab format) from the unzipped/extracted content. For this job, you will need an unzip or extractor programme (click here or here to download if your device does not already have one). If there arise the need to uninstall a particular programme (hopefully not), go to Start>Settings>System(tab)>Remove Programs and remove it. Oh yeah, and after finished using the installers, you can just delete them as they are just, well, installers. It’s totally up to you. Wow… this is one lengthy explanation. So, it’s got to be crucial, isn’t it? (For more information about .cab files installation procedures, click here.)
• HTC Home V.2.1 (download link) – It helps for overall function , to have the latest version of HTC Home installed. To be sure, just install and run this anyhow.
• Manila 2d build 1.20.19131530.00 (download link) – Obviously, this is the main ingredient. Here’s a patch for older or non HTC devices (click here).
• Update for version 20 (download link) – This file has all tried and trued fixes for M2D. There’s an update to version 21 now, it seems. But, I say we should learn how to cook instant noodles before baking a cake. Never mind me… I was just crapping. Just let me have my fun in my own way, will ya? Typing all these is a strenous and tedious thing to do. @@ I am sure reading this is also one. =)
• Manila 2D Customiser (download link) – This is of great assistance should you want to change the M2D theme.
• .tsk files to make the top and bottom bars of the screen (click here for blue bars and click here for black bars) – This is basically to match the M2D theme which you apply because M2D will not change the look of the top and bottom bars.
• For any phone (Niki, Polaris, Touch) which has Cube by default, please read this before installing.

HOW TO INSTALL?

1. Soft reset your phone, it is always a good idea to soft reset your phone before installing any new apps. Some programmes do not fully install if other programmes are running in the background. A soft reset kills all other running programmes.
2. Install HTC Home v.2.1.
3. Install the Manila 2d build 1.20.19131530.00 .cab onto your device, not your storage card (REMEMBER).
4. Soft reset your phone. When it re-boots your phone should look like the one I showed above. (Without the top and bottom bar though. We will come to that later.)
5. Go to Start>Settings>Today>Items>untick TouchFLO (that’s how you disable TouchFLO).
6. Unzip/extract the content of Update Version 20 files into your pc.
7. Install the 9 files according to the number assigned. Leave “m2d test 0.12.5.1″ file as the last file to be installed. PLEASE TAKE NOTE that : (1) Before installing “02 AudioManager_2_0_18193326_0″, uninstall the previous Audio Manager. Soft reset the device and then only install “02 AudioManager_2_0_18193326_0″. (2) Soft reset the device before and after installing “02 AudioManager_2_0_18193326_0″ and “04 Album_2_5_18202622_0″.
8. Install M2D Customiser into the storage card (advisable) as the themes might take quite a hefty space in the device memory.
9. Copy and paste the .tsk files into the \Windows directory of your device. You might need to enable the viewing of hidden files to reveal the \Windows folder. Again, for noobs, in your PC, go to Tools>Folder Options>View (tab)>Show hidden files and folders>Apply>Ok.
10. To access and switch between blue and black bars, go to Start>Settings>Personal>Today>Appearance (tab). You will now see in the left-hand box on that page the names of all the .tsk files which you have just loaded into the \Windows directory of your phone. Now you select the one you want to try, click “OK” at the top-right of the screen, and in a second or two, the top-bar and bottom-bar will change. If you like, keep it. If not, try another. I would recommend you to choose the “Wm 6.1 Blue” as the default M2D theme is blue in colour (see above).
11. Now, enable the TouchFLO. (In case you are amnesic or don’t know what the hell am I talking about, go to Start>Setting>Today>Items>tick TouchFLO.)
12. Try out every tab in the interface. Check whether all of them are working fine or not.

SOME TABS MIGHT NOT BE FUNCTIONING WELL, BUT HEY, HERE ARE THE FIXES FOR IT!

• Weather Fix : (Download and Instructions link)
• Album Searcher Fix : (Download link) – In case of an error stating that “albumsearcher.exe” is missing or not signed, extract this zip file and copy the albumsearcher.exe file into \windows directory of your device.
• Music Tab/Audio Manager Fix – (1) This is truly annoying. When you navigate to the music tab widget, a non-clickable audio manager is launched and everything freezes. There’s no particular fix for this. But, if this happens to you, try this : In your device, go to Application Data>HTC>Audio Manager>delete all files in the Audio Manager. Yeah, ALL of them!!! This should reset the Audio Manager which would most probably correct the problem. It works for me. Hope the same goes to you. (2) And for those who have problems with album art, move all your music files into \Storage Card\My Documents\My Music
• Battery Meter Fix : (Download link) – If your battery meter goes funny or slow to bring up the “Power” option, this is the fix for you.

WHAT ABOUT THE THEMES?

Themes come in two forms, .cab and .zip files. If your chosen theme is a .cab file, just install the .cab like you would do with any other .cab file. If it is a .zip file that contains a m2dct file, you need to install a theme manager. Again, we are fortunate that the smart guys over at XDA have developed a great theme and customization manager for M2D, called “M2DC”, which stands for Manilla 2D Customiser. (If you really follow the installation steps given by me, you would already have this programme in your device.) It consolidates about 100 controllable factors for modifying themes such as background images, tab systems, icon systems and font colours (You name it, M2DC has it ).

WHERE TO FIND MY DESIRED THEME?

Easy, pansy… Here, here, here and here.

AND HOW TO SWITCH THE THEME?

1. Find and download the theme which you want into your phone.
2. Launch M2DC.
3. If you think that you might want to go back to the default theme at some point, you will need to backup these files because every new theme overwrites the files of the previous theme. At the bottom of the M2DC screen, navigate to the ” Restore ” tab. Press back up M2D theme, this will backup the default theme.
4. Next, go back to the ” Themes ” tab to get your new theme. Press add.
5. Then, navigate to where you downloaded your theme, highlight it and press OK.
6. Your theme will then appear in the settings box. Press ” Apply theme ” and the theme will start to load.
7. It brings you to a theme option screen. Just press ok and your theme will install itself. It automatically restarts TouchFlo.
8. Your desired new theme will now appear on your screen. Simple, isn’t it?

Credits go to : denco7 for introducing me to M2D, herg62123 for packaging this Manila 2d build 1.20.19131530.00 (Bravo! Great job indeed!!!), twolf, KidnamedAlbert, The ChampJT, jdume for the wonderful themes compilation and other geniuses involved in packaging and fixing M2D so that it’s available to everybody.

Message from me : Please report if there is any broken link. I will post up a new link or upload the file needed.

Disclaimer : This post is written to summarise and clarify the installation procedures of Manila 2d build 1.20.19131530.00 for the convenience of the public and not for business purposes. Manila 2d build 1.20.19131530.00 may not work on all devices since the screen sizes are different. It is set up for qvga devices only. Before installing, please find out if you have a qvga device first. Try it at your own risk. The author is not in any way held responsible for your dissatisfaction, loss of time or damage to property due to the installation and usage of Manila 2d build 1.20.19131530.00. The author stands to be corrected if there are errors in this post. The author apologises, beforehand, to any party/parties on Earth who feels/feel offended by this post.

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Finally, Semester 2 is officially over.

I promised this poor fellow —>  =.= that I am going to blog about something interesting if I manage to pass my EOS (End of Semester) 2. And yeah, I managed to pull through this time! =) All hands in the air alright… going to dance till we drop dead! So, what to do for the remaining holidays? Redang island, Genting highlands or just day-dreaming all day long? (Zhi Wei, it’s your turn to throw the dice.) All seem to be good options to me as these are what medical students cannot afford (or simply have no time) to do or go to during normal days. If you ask me, Semester 2 felt relatively short if compared to Semester 1, except for, of course, the study leave week which had tormented every ME208 student. *covers head… refuse to recall the pre-EOS madness*

For a brief intro, here it is… the tonnes of notes which one MUST finish reading, but MIGHT still fail the examination even after reading these. *sigh* Medical students’ major dilemma… at least it is for me.

The Mountain I Climbed

For a better view,

Nightmare

Medicine is an overpriced course… even the resit for EOS costs RM1,000. Hell of a 4-digits bomb you say. If you save the 5 med years of tuition fees, you should be able to own a couple of this…

Brmmm....

Oh… And my Sem 2 was also greeted by the return of Chai Ei from Japan. We (Chai Ei, Peng Seng, Han Loong, Gim Hui and I) had a fun day out despite my Summative 2 examination drawing near at that time. You can check out the photos in my Facebook.

Here comes the interesting part. *All Smiles * I had spent the last two nights downloading, installing and tweaking the shell interface of my hp. Thanks to denco7, now my HTC TyTn II looks cool and classy, yet smooth. Here’s a snapshot of the sample appearance of my current TouchFlo interface.

Looks delicious, isn't it?

If you guys out there who own a smart phone and wish to change the default less-appealing interface to something like this, do let me know. =) I will be happy to explain the long and tedious procedures and processes, if and only if I still do remember how. The first night, it took me till 4am to search and figure out the system files and fixes. Now, this is interesting right, Miss =.=?

I would like to squeeze out more words for this post, but dinner (Bah Kut Teh) is frantically pleading me to savour it. So, perhaps some other time?

p/s : I feel so peaceful right now.

The Charm of Dusk

Laziness

“Laziness is always looking for a friend. It found me once and has been around since then. Why… Why was I chosen?”

-posted by zmlee on May 16, 2009-

Of Ageing

“The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children…“

-Agatha Christie-

Me : Considering my parents have not treated or pampered me badly, I disagree with the first part, but nod in agreement with the second part. God knows how many parents’ lives out there who have been ruined by their own flesh-and-blood, financially and psychologically.

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years…“

-Abraham Lincoln-

Me : It’s not how many years I will be studying & practising medicine, but how will I study & practise medicine until the day should I fail in exam(touch wood), my license revoked (touch wood), die (touch wood) or retiree (pat shoulder). I certainly hope retirement will be the end point of my journey in medicine. So, yes… I do agree. I don’t know why. But since the start of Pathology lectures, we are having these kinds of meaningful quotes in the notes. Guess the Pathologists, themselves, are rather melancholic too. Yes… They need to be melancholic to see wrong in the right even if there is none.

Okay… Consider this post as the first dose of fungicide to clear the Trichophyton, Aspergillus or whatever fungi which have been colonising zmlee™. Oh heck, Air Topic due date is just around the corner and Summative One’s closing up at full speed. Curse the flu virus. Come one, adaptive immune system… double your working time and recruit more elite soldiers to fight the infection. I will pay you the bonus for extra hours after I pass my EOS 2. Deal?

Tagged by Felicia… Again

1. Do you have secrets? yes
2. Would you fall in love with a girl/ boy younger than you? yes
3. Do you enjoy going to college? yes
4. What would you do with a billion dollars? open a medical university
5. Will you fall in love with your best friend? don’t think so…
6. Which is more blessed, loving someone, or being loved by someone? Both
7. List 5 recently watched movies – The Spirit (sucks!), Bangkok Dangerous, The Prestige, Eagle’s Eye, Quarantine
8. If the person you secretly liked is already attached, what would you do? do nothing
9. List 5 favourite TV shows. No time for that
10. You have any regrets? Well well, who doesn’t?
11. How would you see yourself in 10 years time? open a crab (crap) house
12. Who are the most important people to you? this is an error… most important can only be one person, not a group of people. And, this is a shallow-minded question. Everything in this world works in synergy, mind you. You cannot ignorantly say that this or that person matters the most.
13. What kind of person do you think the person who tagged you is? I am not supposed to say bad things about my simulated patient. WELL, she is conscious, cooperative and a Chinese with normal body-build.
14. Would you rather be single and rich, or married but poor? I would rather be rich and happy.
15. What is your favourite colour? Depends on the circumstance.
16. Would you give all in a relationship? It depends..
17. First five words that popped into your mind right now. How to write this report?
18. What are the top five places on your “to-go”list? Travelling is just so tiring. I prefer sleeping.
19. Name three things you would like to do, but would not be able to? Pay a visit to heaven and return safely in one piece.
20. 7 people I have tagged are “NO ONE”. This tag is just so sickeningly boring.

Lots to catch up with…

Hello fellow readers,

Get ready your reading glasses as there’s just so much for us to catch up with.

It has been quite some time since I last updated my blog… To be more exact, the previous post was written when I was having my Raya break in Terengganu. I certainly owe the readers Christmas and New Year wishes. Better be late than never. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

As pathetic as a medical student’s life can be, I didn’t even have the chance to share and cherish the joy of christmas as one can find more misery than joy during his or her study break. Yeah, you got me right. On the 25th of December 2008, I was preparing for my Summative One examination which fell on the 31st of December. What I can say is that it was not an experience which you will want to remember. Come on….reading 120 sets of lecture notes just to sit for a 50 objective questions paper that lasted for, say, 1 hour and 15 minutes? Haha, c’est la vie! Now, how can I possibly not appreciate holidays when the not-holidays days were so horrible? In fact, I have come to a self-realisation that it is a sin for denying the value of one’s holiday.

Back to the Christmas day…Johnson, Siew Lynn, Hong Guan and I went to Sri Petaling to have our lunch. We had Bah Kut Teh for lunch. Ever got yourself indulged in compulsive eating disorder? Well, I did. I had actually ordered a packet of Char Kueh Teow as an add-on. *grin* Here comes the devil’s whisper echoing in my ears,” A hungry man is an angry man.” The study leave week painfully crawled by and there came the doomsday. Seriously cracked my head to answer the tricky questions and after the feedback session, I knew I would survive for yet another day. In the exam hall , I couldn’t help but recall a comical joke about GTO (Great Teacher Onizuka) that a friend told me. The funny part is that Onizuka went to sit for an exam despite having a gunshot at his head hours ago. Here’s the catch, he managed to answer all the questions correctly! Rather impressive, isn’t it?

After the exam, Si Han and I joined the Sunway gang for the new year countdown. Ordered Carlsberg for some game, but I guess Chun How and Precelia finished most of it. *evil grin* Nothing much happened after that…basically it was just eating, watching movies and fooling around. Then yesterday, the 7th of January, was my COP day and also the first time of me using Windrunner in Dota and owned the game. Thank you Chor Yang for introducing this new hero to me! Hehe!

For the COP, we went to SMK Bandar Utama to give talks to the students. Chor Yang and I were in-charged of educating the Form 3 students about stress. It was a success! And to my surprise, in the feedback form, a student wrote,”I can see that the guy in purple shirt has a very good sense of humour.” FYI, I WAS THE GUY IN PURPLE SHIRT! Haha. Will show you pictures as evidence later. And thanks to Jun Yi’s mum, Madam Chia, for treating us with lunch.

All in all, the first post-exam week has been wonderful. Since the end of exam, I have been sleeping barely 4 hours per day. Can feel that my liver and kidneys are failing. Vowed to sleep early when I get home. That’s all for now…

My flight is arriving and FYI again, this entire post is produced purely on my new HTC PDA phone. It’s amazing to know what you can do with technology nowadays. Darn, just remember that I still need to finish my COP report before the Chinese New Year. Zhi Wei ar, faster send me the materials.

P/S: There is also addition of a special one in my life, Adeline!!! Oh, and happy birthday to Agnes who will be celebrating her birthday on the 9^th of January and bon voyage to my fellow friend, Chor Yang. All the best to you in Monash Uni, and you can always come back to IMU to complete your “Kill” list! Hope to see you as “The Shadow” again in the orientation for Sem 1 juniors this year. You are definitely to be missed by the lecturers and friends in IMU.

Preparing the materials...

From front : Zhi Wei, Agnes, Shu Ling, Jun Yi and Me (Chor Yang was the one who took this photo)

From left : Zhi Wei, Jun Yi, Shu Ling, Agnes, Zhao Ming, Chor Yang (The background are our self-made posters)

Putting up the posters

The self-made posters

Our Lunch

Being Tagged by Felicia

MYSELF
[01] Name: Lee Zhao Ming
[02] Nickname: Zhao Ming
[03] Married: Nope
[04] Zodiac Sign: Scorpio
[05] Gender: Male
[06] Age: Turning 20 this saturday.
[07] High School: SMK Chung Hwa Wei Sin, Kuala Terengganu
[08] College: INTEC
[09] Height: 175cm or so… can’t remember and lazy to check. Maybe I can put it in a relative manner, shorter than Si Han and taller than Johnson.
[10] Weight: Should be around 68kg
[11] Do you like yourself: Yes but I ain’t narcissist
[12] Piercings: No!
[13] Right or left: Right. Just kidding, neither la! Don’t make me lose my faith in humanity.
[14] Are you a freak : Define freak…
[15] Hair: Short
[16] Skin: I would say well-tanned. Hehehe…
[17] Allergic: Answering these questions,
[18] What are you doing now: Isn’t it obvious?
[19] What will you do 1 hour later: Sleep… Oh no, just woke up. Game then.
[20] What will you do 10 years later: Terrorising the streets with a rugged white coat and broken stethoscope?
FAMILY
[21] Live with mother/father/parents: Nada. Studying in Bukit Jalil now.
[22] Siblings (included you): 2
[23] Eldest: Me
[24] Youngest: Lee Yi Xian
[25] Love/hate your family: Love of course.
MY ONE AND ONLY
[26] You found your another half: Still soul-searching
[27] If yes, who is he/she: Try guessing…
[28] If no, who you want he/she to be: Give me a name and I will tell you.
[29] Time(s) you in relationship: “swt. What kind of question is this?” I have to agree with you, Felicopter. One by the way.
[30] Ever woo boy/girl(0-100000): Sure
[31] Anyone woo you before(0-100000): Depends on the number of blind girls out there.
[32] Did anything wrong to your other half: Nope.
[33] What was/were the wrong you had done: -
[34] Ever argue with your other half: Yes.
[35] You with your other half since: Pre-historic.
[36] Are you straight/Lesbo: Why there’s no option for gay here? DON’t misunderstand me. I am just raising my voice for the gays out there. I am normal.
[37] Reasons you love your other half: Love is not “1+1=2″.
[38] You and your other half in which stage: -
[39] You woo he/she or he/she woo you: -
[40] Ever think of marry he/she: -
FRIENDS
[41] Your first best friend: Ming Zhao
[42] Your first enemy: Should be the nurse trying to pull me out from my mother’s womb. I gave a good fight though.
[43] The friend you love the most: You.
[44] The enemy you hate the most (1only): Make love, not war.
[45] Your most beautiful girl friend: Haha… I still want to age gracefully and die a good death.
[46] Your most handsome guy friend: Refer to [45].
[47] The kind of girl you hate the most: Bitch. Especially the German shepherd type.
[48] The kind of boy you hate the most: Girlish?
[49] You fall in love with your close friend before: No.
[50] Your best friend is your ex-lover: Haha… Guess not.
[51] If your friend backstabbing you: I frontstab them.
[52] If your friend betray you: I banish them from my life.
[53] If your friend woo your lover: Good taste.
[54] If your friend fall in love with you: Refer to [53]
[55] If you fall in love with your best friend: Never.
STUDIES
[56] Are you a good student: Is laziness a criterion here?
[57] You always done your homeworks/assignments: Yeah… So that I can get done with it and do some other more exciting stuffs.
[58] The teacher/tutor you love the most: P. Kumar. Love his accent. Never fail to enthrall me.
[59] Always late to school/college: Not really. So that makes me a good student? One point for Zhao Ming.
[60] Your class: IMU has no class. Ahahaha… Read between the lines.
[61] You love your seniors: Haha… Love can be nurtured through ragging as they believe. I prove them wrong.
[62] Senior who you love the most: Refer to [61]
[63] Your classmates good/bad: As I said, I am classless.
[64] Excellent result classmate: Refer to [63]
65] Laziest classmate: That’s it… I am not taking things personally, but I ain’t going to answer this question.
PEOPLE
[66] Smart people: People who have lost their faith in humanity.
[67] Stupid people: People who think ways of turning a monitor into a mirror.
[68] Good looking people: People like me.
[69] Ugly people: People who are not like me.
[70] Funny people: We are living in a funny world. That makes all of us funny.
[71] Cute people: Chihuahua? I like to use dogs in my metaphors… so I guess I will honour them with some humanity.
[72] Bad people: According to Hiro Nakamura, it’s “bad ass”. So, take a peep at it when you are bathing.
[73] Honest people: People who are not your patient, tell you the date they have sex and are worried that they will end up being pregnant. Imagine this… a leaked condom and failed Postinor-2. Haha… Someone is gesturing her fist now.
[74] Acting people: People who tell you that they didn’t have sex and ended up being pregnant. It’s really miraculous. Praise the God.
[75] You are what kind of people: Homo sapien
PREFER
[76] Lip or eyes: Lip
[77] Hugs or kisses: Both (largely depends on who of course)
[78] Shorter or taller: Intermediate
[79] hesitant or spontaneous: Intermediate
[80] Nice stomach or nice arms: zzzzZZZ Is this meant for guys? How about nice anal sphincter?
[81] Listener or talker: Both
[82] Romantic or rich: Romantic
[83] Good husband or Good Father: Now, I am sure it’s not meant for me.
FUTURE
[84] Age to get married: I don’t know. 20? 
[85] Numbers of kid(s): Refer to [87].
[86] Career: Refer to [20]
[87] Salary: Enough to turn a bear market bull.
[88] Retirement age: As soon as I get my Dr.
[89] Properties value: Refer to [87].
[90] Wishes: Wish that [84], [87] and [89] come true.
TAGGED
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[92] …
[93] …
[94] …
[95] …
[96] …
[97] …
[98] …
[99] …
[100]… speechless. 100 questions X 10 people = 1000 questions. What’s this? Binary fission of amoeba? Sorry, but the tag ends here.

This is Going to be a Long Journey…

On the same day last month, I had just arrived at KL from KT and moved into a whole new study environment.

This is where I am staying…

Vista Komanwel

Mine is at the corner lot of 18th floor… and from the balcony, we can see a panaromic golf course view.

Golf Course

Johnson got the unit from his senior. It’s a long story. Writing it all here will, seriously, bore all of you to death. So, don’t bother asking.

Anyhow, I had had quite an interesting (yet scary) conversation with one of the previous tenants, Dan. Below is our conversation :

Me : So Dan, how was your two and a half years here in IMU? (In a casual tone)

Dan : Hold on. Let me clean up my things first and I will share with you a couple of things.

(After 5 minutes or so…)

Dan : Come come… Let’s have a chat at the balcony.

(For your info, Dan is an Indian from Penang. He did an extra one year of BMed Sc here in IMU and is going to University of Queensland after this. I followed him to the balcony which faces the golf course. He took out a cigarette and started smoking.)

Dan : (Puff…) IMU is really a nice place to study, but the stress can really have its way on one. Before I came to IMU, I was a vegetarian.

Me : What…?

Dan : Yea.. pure vegetarian. One night, when I was in Semester Four preparing for exam, the stress was too much that I consciously walked to a 7-11 store and bought a packet of cigarettes. I have started smoking since. Smoking helps me in terms of relieving myself of the enormous stress before exam. You do know that most Indians in IMU are severe alcoholics, don’t you?

Me : Yes… I had seen dozens of bottles of liqour scattering on the table of the living room the last time I came here.

Dan : Drinking and smoking are ways of helping ourselves with stress, but I will have to admit that it’s not the most brilliant way of all. Well, you are going to start your orientation tomorrow…let me see. The batch which is going to orientate you is M207. Hmm… Don’t worry, they are alright. During my time, we were ragged severely. Were you from a Chinese school?

Me : Yeap.

Dan : In that case, you will have many friends here. Anyway, (there he goes…back to the stress issue again) the stress here in IMU was just unimaginable. Before this, I had never seen guys hugging around each other and cry simply because of too much stress. Just do not commit yourself to last-minute studies or you will suffer a lot during the exam period. I remember, once, I was slacked behind. When the exam came, I did not sleep for 3 nights, puffing off cigarettes while studying and managed to get an “A”. I can tell you right now, it’s not a good experience.

Me : Wow…

Dan : Try to make as many friends as possible here. They will act as your support system. In fact, you all need each other very much for the 2.5 years here. I learnt a lot of things here ,myself… love, friendship and so on. If you just keep to yourself only, you will find that in your years here, you don’t really do many things. And please make sure that you are here not because of your parents forcing you…, but it’s because you having the passion towards medicine. The passing grade for my batch was “B“, which is above 70 marks. Now, you can see why was I so stressed up. But for your batch, they lowered the passing grade to “C“. Anyway, it’s still the same as they have made the questions even tougher and difficult for students to score. They set the questions in such a way that 50% of it will be easy and another 50% will be really, really tough. So, most of the students will pass but only those who know their stuff really well can get an “A“. (think of it like a normal distribution shape) Besides that, the essay is also a factor which determines the band which a student belongs to. Once the lecturers read your piece, they will know which category are you in.

Me : So, what is the passing rate for each batch actually?

Dan : My batch came in 200++ and only 30 of us graduated. So, you have a better picture now, don’t you? Anyway, I am going to meet my girlfriend now. She is at Vista B. Will catch up with you later.

(And he left me in a state of shock…)

And see what I had found in the kitchen’s cabinet. Shisha!!! With a tray of charcoal. Anyone who wants a free puff can always come to Vista Komanwel ya.

Shisha

So much for the academic part. Let’s talk about something dirty…

HAHA. Hmm… something like my orientation I suppose?

Well, forgive me but I am not going to post any ice-breaker, telematch or treasure hunt photo here because I was simply fugly and smelly like the rest of ME208’s even though the seniors were repeatedly convincing us that the activities were very, very mild already if compared to the previous orientations. However, I was quite relieved that they didn’t play “I Am Sissy” this year simply because it’s banned. *grin*

(“I Am Sissy” is an idiotic activity where guys need to dress up like girls. What I mean here is they need to shave their legs, put on women lingerie and do some erotic pole dance live on stage. zzzzZZZ!!!)

Okay, let me give you a simple walkthrough for the activities held. For the ice-breaker, my group was forced to dip our face into a don’t-know-what-shit butter and soy source plate. Our hairs were coated in flour and butter. (Under the hot sun, I am confident that 200++ cakes can be produced from ME208’s hair.) Oh oh..and there were also the ferocious + deafening cheer fights. For the treasure hunt, we were forced, again, by the Indian gang to dip our shirts into a “garlic+paint” pail and wear them. It really stinked, but I guess it’s better than other groups which were destined for a “stinky fish+paint” pail. They really smelled like rotten sardins afterwards. Ah… and there’s one station where the station masters (SM) had a fetish for Crocs. Those wearing Crocs were told to take off their shoes and the SM had a really good time stuffing starch into their Crocs.

Crocs (Before)

Crocs (After)

The poor girls were instructed to coat their hairs with the starch from the pail, instead. Ewh~!

Huhu… and I got the chance to draw a uterus and ovari on Pram’s body. Sorry ya dude, you are the man. The Indians were the ones who were ragged quite seriously by the Indian seniors, themselves. Anyway, according to my OO’s (Orientation Officer), they will go clubbing together after that. @@ How irony…

Thank God that I didn’t go for the telematch thingie. Heard that people were forced to eat bitter-gout, banana and other types of vegetables/fruits, raw. Raw here also denotes that the “food” was unpeeled. I guess the seniors were simply over-stressed.

As usual, there was also dance and we were told to do all sorts of “funky” and ugly things during the signature hunt. Then, oh yeah… at the first orientation night,my group was busy discussing about the group flag and someone threw out a bad + idiotic idea. zzzZZZZ The idea was putting a boxer and panty on a raincoat to symbolise our group, “The Threesome“. “Threesome” as in a male, female and transvestite. (Hey… You. You. Stop laughing. The name is considered okay already ya. There were Sexless 69, Fourplay and many other group names which were not-too-decent to be disclosed here.)

So, Ric and I went to a night market… we braved ourselves and bought a boxer and panty from two different aunties who were selling undergarments. Luckily, I was not fluent in Cantonese and Ric had to do all the talk. ^^ But, sure enough, it was truly embarassing, perhaps the most embarassing moment in my life. Illustrations as below :

Boxer

Panty

BUT IN THE END, THEY DIDN’T PUT THESE TWO UNDERGARMENTS ON THE FLAG JUST BECAUSE THE BOXER WAS TOO BIG A SIZE. I was like… “what the hell?” …after all the sacrifices made by Ric and I…

In the market, I was deeply struck by a scene whereby someone dropped her money and identity card on the ground, a man passed by, picked up the money and off he went. The identity card was left lying there on the ground. People were walking all over the market, but they just stared at the identity card and walked away. I came to think, how pathetic is our society exactly? Seeing the situation, Kael, who is my DOTA-addict OO (Orientation Officer), picked up the identity card.

Kael : Oh… It’s a girl leh. From JB. (JB as in Johor Bahru)

Dominic (A DOTA-addict and my OO as well. He is now is Semester 5) : Walao… It’s your chance already. Faster… Go and help this pityyyy girl. Haha!

We had good time laughing about how to settle this girl’s identity card. (So lame… @@) At last, Kael, the hero, decided to give the IC to the nearest police station. We managed to find one and they (Kael and Dominic) handed the IC to an off-duty police officer. On the journey back to our apartment, there’s an uneasy slience in the car. Then, Dominic spoke.

Dominic : If that’s a bad officer, he will find the nearest garbage bin and throw the card into the bin. (jokingly)

Kael : Aiyak… What to do? We have already done our part.

And everyone was left pondering. Pondering whether the girl will get back her IC.

In the second week of orientation, we had a first-aid test. It was rather challenging. Till now, I still do not know whether it’s a fake test or not. Hopefully, it is. =)

After two weeks of tiring and draining orientation period, lectures have finally commenced. 2 hours of lecture daily is not as short-and-sweet as you think. We still need to do researches and study regularly as there is always a new topic another day. But, my orientation did not officially end just yet. On the third week, we went for a charity home visit to the T’ Ratana orphanage. It was really a wonderful and substantial experience for me, playing with children who feel the absence of love and security in their lives. Before this, I had never seen so many children who were so happy receiving gestures of love and care from strangers, people like us. The touching scene really had me thinking and reflecting about how fortunate I am to have a family, people who care for me. Here are some of the photos taken by this little, shy girl.

The shy and quiet girl.

Sak and I

Sak and I (2)

Sak and I (3)

Sak and I (4)

Smile =)

Open Arms?

Cheese!!!

Anaesthesised Pose

From left : Sue Ann, Si Han, Huang Hin, Me, Sak, Yi Wen

Me AGAIN

Since the day I came to IMU, I have spent more than RM1k on those inconspicuous thingamabob. Stethoscope is RM225, books cost hundreds of ringgit… and for the dictionary, I will survive on Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary and also, as recommended by Eugene, Wikipedia!!! Haha…

It looks like a book on skiing, but trust me... It isn't.

Sometimes, books like to camwhore too. Oh.. and look what we got here. Miss Yakult as the model. Woot!!!

Johnson’s birthday was last week. Si Han, Ying Ying and I helped him to celebrate at the Baskin-Robbins. And just yesterday, Johnson and I ventured into the road-not-taken. We went to Carrefour and bought some Dory Fillets, planning to fry it. We had 3 different types of result. The first was like a raw sashimi, the second half-cooked sushi and the third, the best and most decent of all, looked, smelled and tasted like ordinary fillet. Here’s the picture of our masterpiece.

TADA!!!

Even though the actual lectures have just started only 2 weeks ago, you can see sparks of romance flying here and there. And… I actually joined the dance club. Yeah…you heard me right, Latin and Hip Hop dance they are.

^^… Like what Dr Vishna said, “Sometimes I don’t know whether I am lecturing in International Medical University or High School Musical.” Well, it’s a little of both, Doc.

And if you are curious, my lecture notes are stacking and mountaining…… To date, my lecture notes already look like this.

Holy Shit...! Is it 2 weeks or 2 months?

Anyway, best of luck to myself.

I will end my long rant with an early Happy Raya Aidilfitri wish to all Muslim friends around the globe.

p/s : Happy belated birthday to Eu Jeen.

To Me, Singapore Means…

… the Ship, Sakae Sushi, the Soup Restaurant (public listed), the Singapore Flyer (impressive display), the dimsum shop at Chinatown and Shokutso.

Thanks to the cunningly delicious food in Singapore, my waistline is expanding.

Shokutso restaurant is one big deal and certainly deserves the highlight here. The Japanese buffet is a perfect paradise for Japanese food lovers. Shark fin soup, steamboat, specially-served lobster, marshmallows coated in chocolate, over-flowing green tea ice-cream, crabs, prawns, Alaskan crabs, salmon, tuna, all types of sushi… you name it.

For every 20 minutes or so, they rang the bell so that people would queue up to get the limited dishes which were not served on the table. It’s on first-come-first-serve basis. Yippee…! I was totally indulged in the world of kiasuism. But, one drawback is the price. $40.00 may be alright for Singaporeans to spend, but if you convert it to Malaysian ringgit with a factor of 2.4, it will cost you around RM100.00 per head which is rather pricey. ^^

Good luck to Singapore for the upcoming F1 race. With the birds-eye view from the Flyer, I could see that the tracks and podium were almost ready for the big day.

p/s : All pics are with my cousins because I was so busy eating that I didn’t have the time to take photos, myself.