My Laptop's desktop as at 2007/12/25

My 1st attempt to format and recover my Lenovo IBM T60 laptop after it was bought around one and a half years ago (3 semester).

Unlike formating my PC, the recovery process destroys all partition in the physical hard disk and recover everything beck to factory default, which means I have to backup the things I want into another media(in my case DVD and external hard disk). What I did in the past to my PC was that I can just shift everything I want from the C drive to D drive and format my C drive to reinstall Windows.

Lenovo IBM T60 comes with 9 Recovery CDs and that is a lot compare to other laptops. None of the CDs are the Windows XP CD. What stored inside the 9 CDs are mostly drivers and some programs that I consider as junk (I cannot tell you what program I am referring here, because the company of that program also own Blogspot now! Hahaha!) , LOL~!

Say goodbye to all those old Windows gadgets that accompanied me for the past one and a half years. Good thing is that what I have now is all latest version, Rainlendar 2.2, Serious Samurize v1.64.3 and SpeedFan 4.33. Also say bye bye to Symantec Security, I now use AVG and Comodo which uses lesser resources. Yeah!

Too bad I forgot what software I used to remove the Recycle bin from the desktop in the past. If not my desktop will be perfectly clean.

Vegetarian Dinner

There are a lot more delicious food, but I only managed to snap this plate of kang kong. because I was too busy eating. This plate of kang kong was the only leftover when we are all too full to finished that... LOL~

What makes the 3 of them so angry, block his nose
and sian until play handphone? -->

Are they just too full to react normally? LOL~

Pika performing a Pole dancing show before leaving us to Beijing?! LOL~

Pika is leaving us on 28/12/2007 to Beijing (GIP China for 6 months). Before he leave us to Beijing, he performed a Pole dancing show for us? No no no that is not pole dancing. Hahaha! That is just a candid shot in the MRT while Pika was adjusting his cap.

Plaza Singapura 篮球机

Went to Plaza Singapura to watch the movie 《投名狀》 "The Warlords". A very nice movie, see how they fight in war, wow power! See how archers pwn the riflemans.

“我们要为弓箭手争取那100步！”

Then after the movie, really got nothing to do liao, so go in the arcade just beside the cinema to play play a while loh, since its still quite early for dinner at that time. Hahaha, there I saw a few basketball machines. Have been watching 《娱乐百分百》 for quite some time liao, see them play the basketball machine is like very fun leh. So I also 手痒痒 wanted to go play loh. S$1 for 1 game.

My score is 173, 很烂吧！ hahaha! 欢迎有意想挑战的朋友来挑战， 哈哈哈！

Kena Headshot...

雨中足球篇：
Actually was suppose to play soccer in the morning one, but then hor, due to the super duper heavy rain (not the korean singer Rain ah, I am referring to the real weather rain here. hahaha, i know its damn lame, LOL~) , we have to hide under a shelter to play UNO (thanks lau for bringing the UNO cards, heng ah~).

then hor, at around noon, the rain stopped. but the street soccer court still wet wet leh, but we still play lah.. lol

and then hor, there is this guy hor, who shoot straight into my face loh, what a head shot loh. thanks man, LOL~ (no name mentioned here ah). so near still shoot so hard and so high for what sia?!?! street soccer mah, its suppose to keep the ball below chest level mah. somemore right in-front the goal only leh.

also hor, there is also this guy hor, guarding me mah, cause the ball is with me. then instead of tackling the ball from me hor, he used his leg to splash those rain water on the floor, on me!!! WTH!!! act cute ah? LOL~ (also no name mentioned here ah)

aiya but dont worry ah those guys mentioned above, no one was blamed... its just a game mah... (T_T) LOL~

all the way until 3pm then go eat lunch... so tired loh....

this post is posted just purely for the sake of posting.. lol

Mouse Autopsy 滑鼠大解剖

This is a Logitech Optical Mouse. Let's open it up to see what is inside and what can I recycle from it.








There you see a circuit board, a USB cable connected to the circuit board, a roller and the shell of the mouse.



Let's take a closer look at the circuit board. On the top part of the circuit board, there is 3 black colour components, those are the mouse clicking buttons of the mouse.
This mouse was abandoned because of its left click button is spoilt, so probably is the top left black colour component on the circuit board.
The USB cable can be disconnected from the board for recycle.

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~~~ After 30 minutes of desoldering and cutting ~~~

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Ok, these are those that i think is of not much usage. The IC chips, phototransister, infra-red emitter, capacitors and the board (components named here might be wrong).






This is the spoilt left click button. There is no more "click" sound or feel when it is pressed.









These are the component that I reserved for later used.
2 x button switches, 1 x 5pin connection seat, 2 x resistors, a LED attatched to a acrylic plastic and a USB connection cable.



These are the components that was thrown away.

DDP Finally Ended

Life has never been easy for me... hahaha!!! After exam still need to go back to school to do project, Micro-Mouse!!! Dont ask me why its call DDP, coz i also dont know what it stands for, hahaha!!! but its still kind of fun anyway, just very tedious for that particular 1 week period after exam, but everything we did is worth it!!!

In the photo, u can see me and my DDP group-mates, 2007 Semester 1 DDP group 10.
Starting from the left of the back row: Cheu Eng Kiat, Wang Peiyi and Toh Yixuan.
From the left of the front row: Chee Jian Wei, Chong Khai En, Me and Sng Yong Pei Eugene.
Last but not least, our Micro-Mouse Robot in the center of the photo! Chio right! Yeah... hahaha!!!

That photo was taken on the last day of the DDP, 07/12/2007. That was the day after 4 consecutive of restless nights struggling to make the micro-mouse work.

Basically what this micro-mouse do is that firstly, it must be abled to follow black coloured line.
Secondly, it must be abled to explore an unknown sized map with black coloured grid lines on it.
Thirdly, given a destination, it must be abled to reach the destination by the shortest path and by the fastest path, 2 seperate functions.
Furthermore, given a series of destinations to visit, it must be abled to travel using the fastest path to visit all the destinations, aka Traveling Sales Man or Traveling Sales Person (TSP).
In addition we also provide a function where by instead of using the fastest path to do the TSP, it can also use shortest path to do the TSP.

All of the above are only the basic features required as mentioned by the lecturers. We didnt managed to do those fanciful fanciful features which some of the other groups did (well done for them!). Too bad that some of the lecturers do comparison between ours and theirs while assessing our micro-mouse. Sigh... But wont be that bad bah (I hope), at least we met all the required features. Cheers!

Let me show u what we have done!

<-- Top view

Side view -->

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Foldable Head

Transform to Standing Mode LOL!-->

A simple animation showing the GUI of our program. Click to see animation.

Exams Over!!!

Exam is finally over at around 1530 of 29/11/2007. Whether is it good or bad... sigh... I have no control over it anymore... lets just hope for the best for all... And I know that my work is not yet over... I still have my DDP project!!! 1 more week of suffering!!! hehehe but just let me relax a while for this weekend...

Relax time! Bicycle Trip in East Coast Park on 01/12/2007 Saturday!
Here are some photos taken using NYC's camera. Wanna see more photos? See his blog here...


<-- Hehe, thats me showing off my teeth protruding(LOL!) and the bike that i rent.
A group photo. NYC being the photographer. -->