New 宠儿: Wonder Girls!

this korean group is freaking HOT! their dance is tremendously zhai, ultimately sexy, fantastically coordinated, superbly soothing for the eyes and splendidly drooling... oh my gawt!!



so many people imitating their dance.. and to be honest... they are quite zhai wor.. they made it look so easy...zzz...

the policeman one damn hilarious.. hahah.. kudoz to them..











more here

peektures of their visit to singapore during Singapore Korean Festival 2008... link

wonder girls fighting!!

FYP update

anyway have been busy with my fyp and the report. finally finished the report. but still got amendments to do later on.

so my fyp has reached a stage where the prototype is finger recognizable... and now it is performed on the glass(solid surface). so easier to implement also. very Microsoft Surface liao. TouchWall to be exact.

it is my prof who changed to the solid surface la. basically he wants to showcase a new interactive visualization tool for real-time earthquake activity, something that he wanted to do as he had links with the new faculty in our school - Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS). so basically EOS wanted a very visual experience in their lobby for guests coming in from the main entrance.. and my prof was thinking of putting my multi-touch system at the lobby to give the state-of-the-art paradigm the new faculty wanted to exudes.



anyway the NASA world wind in java visualization. still got problem with the panning. its not my code lar... its gotta do with the world wind SDK... so still trying to see it there is any workarounds.... sianz....

kmovie: Humming

beautiful storyline with beautiful han ji hye... how bad can it can.. ha 8/10 from me.
a little too short for my liking... han ji hye is so gf material lor... why the beep did lee dong gun deserted her......... damn it





a trailer

Singapore Salary Guide

http://www.kellyservices.com.sg/res/content/sg/services/en/docs/singapore_salar_handbook08.pdf

i tot this is a helpful link for those who want to know what kind of job commands what kind of salary.

kmovie: Garoojigi aka "A Tale of legendary Libido"

A funny, lame, nonsensical movie. Watch it if you have time to spare and craving for a sex comedy. Here's the trailer for the movie.

Garoojigi Trailer

kmovie: Rainbow Eyes

this movie: 2 words, awesome plot! unpredictable till the end. 9/10. I really love how the video editor portrays the flashback sequences. and the way the scenes are choreographed. i especially like one scene, the one in the office where the camera moves around the whole setting and shows how busy everyone is working. i believe the shot was taken like 2-3mins continuously without stopping. Great stuff! wonder how many NGs did they clock for that shot.

and this Lee Soo-kyeong, nvr seen her before. She chio man. Nuff said. Time to find out more about her.

FYP: multi-touch curtain *beta*

have been a little enthusiastic lately about my fyp or should i say multi-touch technology. Turns out that i'm doing a similar kinda multi-touch system but the surface i'm using is a deformable one rather than a solid one. the video shows the rough idea of how the thing is interacting with the user. the project as my prof said is a form of electronic art, no specific application will be done, more importantly is the HCI and computer vision studies of the system.

as you can see, the system now only recognizes palm(or similar size) touches and the problem now i'm solving is to harness finger touches. another problem is that this curtain is supposed to be placed at a doorway where the user can actually enter through the curtain. seriously dunno have time to do dat siah.... interim report in august... diez...

well if you wondering how it works, here's a picture of what is behind this curtain. 4 infrared illuminators, 1 infrared modified webcam(XBOX 360 live webcam) and the projector(EPSON). And the curtain is a shower curtain from IKEA.




So for all those who wants to know what i'm doing for my fyp now knows cos when i explain what i'm doing, everyone gives me the "HUH? simi lai eh?" look.

o.. forgot to credit the music... its グッド・フェローズ from Last Friends OST. Hope they dun sue me!

cheers!

kmovie: 6 years in love

ok plot but i tot the acting was brilliant from the leads. gives u something to think about when you've a relationship for 6 years. the actresses in the cast are all so hot lor.. sometimes really thinks that korean surgery really do wonders?

More on multi-touch computing

some inspiring videos by Jeff Han, the originator of multi-touch computing

http://perceptivepixel.com/
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65

cheers!

mod your Canon camera!

if you are using a canon camera, chances are you can mod it to a super camera! check this site out: chdk. basically its a firmware you can load from your SD card and it doesn't overwrites your original canon firmware at all. You can even enable/disable the extra functionalities just by locking/unlocking your SD card(The special lock button on your SD card). As far as i've read thru the website, it doesn't void your Canon warranty at all, just remember to take out the SD card or delete the CHDK file when you sent it for repair.

So what exactly does the mod do? well, check out the things CHDK can do on your camera by clicking on the links on the "Sample picture" column on the right of the page. While you are at it, you can check whether ur Canon camera is supported on the same column. The one feature i was disappointed my S5 IS doesn't has was the ability to save RAW images and now that CHDK made my dream come thru without me buying the expensive SLRs. Awesome!

i'm not a Canon fanboy really but i've been using Canon digital cameras and they've been great. And now that there is actually mods for Canon cameras, it is no reason why you should not get a Canon for your next digicam purchase. These mods give you the ability to make your point-and-shoot camera to a top-class camera with features that only high-end models have without paying a bomb.

Hurray to Canon users!

Router Hack

If you are using Linksys WRT54G like me, there has been firmwares around the net that modifies the original firmware. Firmwares are like drivers which enables you to apply settings onto your hardwares. And there have been those "zhai" users who actually came out with modification firmwares which enables your hardware to perform which it actually meant to perform or better performance than what the default settings the manufacturers has given you.

This particular router, Linksys WRT54G, which runs on linux os allows users to enable settings that are not shown in the default Linksys settings. I've been flashing a number of firmwares already and the latest one i'm using is from Tomato. You can type "tomato firmware" in google for more info. But if you want to just flash it i recommend this link. The author of the link is from hardwarezone and he takes the original tomato firmware and further speed mod it. So far i've been using it and it has been very stable.

So why fix when it aint broke u ask. Well, these firmwares enhances your internet surfing and bittorrent downloading which makes me a happier PC user. Remember to apply the tcpip patch as well for winXP users(Link here), if you are using vista, you would need to search around the net for them.

kmovie: Open City

a movie about pickpocket gangs in korea. plot is refreshing. a touching ending. great cast. starring son ye jin. she is freaking hot! 8/10. Recommended!

kmovie: I like it hot

its been quite a while since i last watch a kmovie. this movie talks about 3 gals, their relationships(be it with man and themselves) they encounter at their different age group. i believe there is one hk movie similar to this kinda plot? well, i find this movie not bad, in terms of storyline there isn't much but i always felt that the way kmovies are portrayed are very realistic, the use of handheld cam in certain scenes shows the 'realism'. There are some scenes that are quite symbolic as well, watch it and probably we can have a discussion on our findings.

actually, i like to listen to how people interprets a movie, and it is really interesting to discover things that you might not think of that is realised by another person. i think i got influence by the course i took in my year 2 elective called Understanding Chinese Cinema. i tend to see movies in a different light now, appreciating more artistic films i supposed, becos they tend to give the audience a more sense of self-interpretation and exploration. somehow like invoking your creative juices, which i like. how lame or how serious the movie is portrayed is up to you.

Funny Pics

a man's dream remote


motivational posters.. haha!
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=615525

Tweaking your PC

Those who wants a responsive and fast system should disable unnecessary services. Please visit this site and see all the recommended settings. You will be surprise how many services can be disabled. I'm surprise alot of my friends who are computer savvy dun know about this site. This is a must-visit site after a format. Vista users are also reminded to go here since vista is a super resource hogger.

http://www.blackviper.com

Anyway, have been using vista for the past few days. Currently running dual-boot with xp to play play. Seems quite ok. But super resource hogging, new services like double those from xp. PLEASE PLEASE PLEEASSEE go to blackviper and tweak ur system if you are using vista, ur pc will thank you for that. And also something to mention since i'm using 64-bit vista: make sure your hardware got 64bit drivers by checking on the respective manufacturers website and you still can run 32-bit applications stably. So far no hang and BSOD yet, keeping fingers crossed. 64-bit rocks since it can utilize all 4gb of ram which i'm currently running on. CHEERS.

Homemade DIY multi-touch surface

Was doing some research on my FYP and i chance upon some really very interesting stuff. You can actually make ur own Microsoft Surface right at your own home. In essence, its something like the Apple's Iphone user interactivity. There seems to have been a relatively new interest group obsessed with multi-touch technology. Some links below for those who are interested about multi-touch.

http://www.multigesture.net/articles/science-technology/
http://nuigroup.com/forums/

I might be using this method for my FYP. Looks really cool if i manage to pull it off.

Tokidoki + Illustrator CS3

tokidoki designer: Simone Legno reveals how he works on illustrator CS3.... cool! attained some tips from him as well

here's a preview. click on the links under the table contents, make sure u got quicktime.

if anyone wants the rest of the movies... can email me @ rainasu83@gmail.com :)



tokidoki blog

softwarez....

recommended softwares - some of them can be found at filehippo

pc essentials - free
winrar - needless to say, just feel its better than winzip lar
daemon tools lite - virtual drive to load the iso
ccleaner - clean unwanted data
spybot search and destroy - rid those unknowing wares running in your computer
cccp - the video codec, tried klite codec pack, but still feel cccp is lite enuff to play all kinds of medias i throw
quicktime alternative - plays quicktime in media classic player and enable downloadable hd file trailers from apple.com/trailers
real alternative - plays all real media files on media classic....
foobar - advanced mp3 software player, UI is very customizable if u noe what u are doing
imgburn - a pretty advanced writer software compares to bloated nero. i like its light weight straightforward interface.

the "ahem" softwares
diskeeper - hdd defragmenter: using the IFAAST technology, said to keep your disk less fragmented as it helps u to allocate the optimum location on your disk when u write data onto it. so far my pc has been quite responsive for 2 months since installed... no complains. O, the service only runs when ur pc is idle, so you wun feel any performance hit during ur normal operation on your pc. recommended! diskeeper competitor is perfectdisk, though i haven't really try that software, heard its on par with diskeeper and both have its pros and cons. mabbe someone try liao can tell me.
anydvd and clonedvd - enables u to read any region dvd and rip dvd movies into the 4.5gb dvd+r discs. recommended!


browser
Firefox - its powerful for it's add-ons, other than dat, its quite a resource hogger.
Safari - said to be the fastest browser. over-smoothing of fonts isn't my cup of tea though
IE7 - if it has the book marking feature like FF then i think this should be the best browser for me


lousy softwares
outpost firewall has been blacklisted by me.... it crashed my whole computer when surfing the web using FF.... the thing is it always crash on FF, but IE7 and safari are fine.... dunno its the folks at mozilla or agnitum trying to be funny...

craving ice cream

Link

ice cream review from ieatishootipost... yet to try the ice cream chefs at east coast road...

me recommend IE7pro

Link

Been using for a while now... so far not bad... been using and loving mouse gestures in FF and now IE7 has them... i guess no harm dling this and try...

Cool opening prelude from Jdorama: Last Friends

Added to my list of coolest Jdorama opening preludes....

Song by utada hikaru: Prisoner of Love. Wootz!

Canon EOS 450D

link
the latest DSLR of the lower end of the DSLR series from Canon

a dream come true if someone kind enuff to give me a set on my bdae... :D :D

dream dream dream...

Awe inspiring photography!~

this eikin guy from clubsnap... really brilliant captures.... me want to achieve this godly level!!

surf thru the thread pages and be awed....

his 2007 captures
http://www.clubsnap.com/forums/showthread.php?t=248156

his 2008 captures
http://www.clubsnap.com/forums/showthread.php?t=339612

A self-invented qian bian wen da ti

what's Iceman's previous occupation?

answer: Policeman. "FREEZE!"

Nice wallpapers

www.thefwa.com

click on the wallpaper link at the top navi. :)

fwa is THE site to see all really superbbbbbbbbbb flash sites of the world....

anyway some classification of wallpapers that i personally adore...

• impressionist - those at fwa
  
• minimalist - simplicity at it's best
  
• vector - clean, sharp curves and lines with gradient/mono fill
  
• photographic - especially those black and white with strong imagery