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25-06-2008 01:53 AM Why I don't have to go to school today

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Warning(s) in Force

NO. 8 SOUTH-WEST GALE OR STORM FORCE SIGNAL
Tropical Cyclone Bulletin

Here is the latest Tropical Cyclone Bulletin issued by the
Hong Kong Observatory.

The No. 8 Southwest Gale or Storm Signal is in force.

This means that winds with mean speeds of 63 kilometres per
hour or more are expected from the southwest quarter.

At 9 a.m., Severe Tropical Storm Fengshen was centred about
60 kilometres north-northwest of Hong Kong Observatory
(near 22.8 degrees north 114.0 degrees east) and is
forecast to move north or north-northwest at about 14
kilometres per hour moving further into Guangdong.

Fengshen is expected to gradually weaken after making
landfall. The Observatory will consider issuing Strong
Wind Signal No. 3 later this morning.

In the next few hours, Hong Kong will continue to be
affected by heavy rain. The public should remain on the
alert.

In the past hour, the maximum sustained winds recorded at
Chek Lap Kok and Cheung Chau were 58 and 65 kilometres per
hour with maximum gusts 72 and 93 kilometres per hour
respectively.

(Precautionary Announcements with No. 8 Signal)

1. Since seas are rough, you are advised to stay away from
the shoreline and not to engage in water sports.

2. Flights at Hong Kong International Airport may be
affected by the weather. Please contact your airline for
the latest flight information before departing for the
airport.

3. Please listen to your radio or watch your TV for the
latest weather information broadcast at the 15th, 30th,
45th and 58th minute of each hour. You can also browse the
Hong Kong Observatory's web site for the information.

DISPATCHED BY HONG KONG OBSERVATORY AT 08:47 HKT ON 25.06.2008

RED RAINSTORM WARNING SIGNAL

Red Rainstorm Warning Signal Special Announcement issued by
the Hong Kong Observatory at 6:00 a.m.

The Rainstorm Warning Signal is now Red. This means that
heavy rain has fallen or is expected to fall generally over
Hong Kong, exceeding 50 millimetres in an hour, and is
likely to continue.

Further heavy rain could cause, if not already caused,
serious road flooding and traffic congestion and could
disrupt normal school hours. Parents, students, school
authorities and school-bus drivers should listen to radio
or television announcements on schools. People who have to
travel should carefully consider the weather and road
conditions and take necessary precautions.

Meanwhile, those with duties to perform during rainstorms
should now go to their duty stations.

Please listen to radio or watch television for traffic
conditions and further announcements on the rainstorm.

DISPATCHED BY HONG KONG OBSERVATORY AT 06:01 HKT ON 25.06.2008

THUNDERSTORM WARNING

THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED AT 6:25 A.M. ON 25 JUN 2008 HAS
BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 10:30 A.M. TODAY. ISOLATED SQUALLY
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO OCCUR OVER HONG KONG.

GUSTS REACHING 120 KILOMETRES PER HOUR OR ABOVE MAY
CONTINUE TO AFFECT HONG KONG.

MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE ADVISED TO TAKE THE FOLLOWING
PRECAUTIONS WHEN THUNDERSTORMS OCCUR:

1. STAY INDOORS. SEEK SHELTER IN BUILDINGS IF YOU ARE
ENGAGING IN OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES.

2. DO NOT STAND ON HIGH GROUNDS. KEEP AWAY FROM HIGHLY
CONDUCTIVE OBJECTS, TREES OR MASTS.

3. TAKE PRECAUTIONS AGAINST VIOLENT GUSTS. BEWARE OF FLYING
DEBRIS AND FALLING OBJECTS.

4. DRIVERS USING HIGHWAYS AND FLYOVERS SHOULD REDUCE SPEED
TO BE ALERT TO VIOLENT GUSTS.

DISPATCHED BY HONG KONG OBSERVATORY AT 09:29 HKT ON 25.06.2008

LANDSLIP WARNING
Landslip Special Announcement issued by the Hong Kong
Observatory at 8:10 a.m. on 25 June 2008:

The Hong Kong Observatory has issued the Landslip Warning.
Keep away from steep slopes or retaining walls.

Motorists should avoid driving in hilly areas or on roads
with landslip warning signs.

Cancel non-essential appointments, stay at home or remain
in a safe shelter.

If you see signs of landslip danger, keep away from the
area and report to the Police.

Temporary shelters provided by District Offices are now
open. If you receive a notice to evacuate because of
landslip danger, or believe that your home is endangered,
you should make immediate arrangements to move to a safe
shelter.

DISPATCHED BY HONG KONG OBSERVATORY AT 08:11 HKT ON 25.06.2008

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ON FLOODING IN THE NORTHERN NEW TERRITORIES

DISPATCHED BY HONG KONG OBSERVATORY AT 06:35 HKT ON 25.06.2008

- Source: [HKO]

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24-06-2008 01:14 PM Rants on summer holiday

as you may know
I'm doing the ib diploma program(me)
which is basically a 2 year hell.

im finishing the first year, and now is the time when the horrors of summer become imminent. the horrors. of summer. horrors.

in IB, summer sucks
s for sucks
u for unbelievable suck
m for mega suck
m for montrous suck
e for enormous suck
r for retarded amounts of suck.

we had mock exams, and it's clear even for good students like me that lots is to be revised/reviewed/revisited over summer. BUT there's no time for that, because we get homework. chocolateLOADS of it.

basically, IB doesn't fit in 2 years. it's like fitting rasputia through a cat flap

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and I'm not even half finished. for IB, besides 6 subjects, you also get to do (yay!) CAS, Extended Essay and higher-education preparation (obviously). CAS basically means at least 150 hours of unpaid work. Extended essay is basically adding some university level academic writing to the mix as if it isn't enough yet, and needs to be 4000 words long.

in the very beginning (as in the first day/week) of next school year, our CAS should be about finished, our EE drafted, and our higher education sorted. apart from that, we get homework such as do A HUGE UNIT of self-study for physics, or read and analyse 3 books and make notes on them for english, to name a few. all of this is expected to be finished when we get back. oh AND we need to be absolutely comfortable with any of the stuff we learned this year, of course.

[Ge64] COWON IAUDIO 7 :D | PSP,  NDS, iPod REPAIRS!! http://repair.ge64.nl says (1:57 PM):
grrrrr it pisses me off so much, but there really isn't another way i suppose, just going to have to make a choice. I'll pick up what's left of my social life after IB i guess...
[Ge64] COWON IAUDIO 7 :D | PSP,  NDS, iPod REPAIRS!! http://repair.ge64.nl says (1:58 PM):
i wanted a summer job....
[Ge64] COWON IAUDIO 7 :D | PSP,  NDS, iPod REPAIRS!! http://repair.ge64.nl says (1:58 PM):
i wanted to party, i wanted to play xbox 360, i wanted to revise my old maths stuff, not do even more new stuff
[Ge64] COWON IAUDIO 7 :D | PSP,  NDS, iPod REPAIRS!! http://repair.ge64.nl says (1:59 PM):
i wanted to clean my room, get back to my electronics projects, do some programming, make a good website, sell stuff online, earn money
[Ge64] COWON IAUDIO 7 :D | PSP,  NDS, iPod REPAIRS!! http://repair.ge64.nl says (1:59 PM):
the only thing that makes a school year bearable is being able to do all the stuff you want to do in the summer

^^
this is my last summer in Hong Kong. after next year I'll be going to thailand with friends to celebrate, then i might be back for a week or so but probably move to amsterdam quite quickly. so that means i can't do any of the stuff i wanted to do. I wanted to learn chinese, japanese, maybe both, i wanted to get a job and make money so i had something to spend when i got back.... i want to do so much but i can't do anything.

"i would kill myself, but i don't have the time"

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01-05-2008 05:24 AM Today: Lanparty!

I invited some xbox360's (and their owners) over to play some stuff (read: GTA4).

Check out the live webcam at http://ge64.kicks-ass.net:50005

Take screencaps of whoever you think is ME and then we'll see who gets it right!

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28-04-2008 09:49 AM [Howto] Pancakes

These are Dutch pancakes. They are the best. Others suck.

For 8 medium sized pancakes (like 15-20cm or so)

200g flour
500ml milk
some salt
some sugar (optional)
2 eggs
some margarine (for cooking)

Mix the flour with the salt and the sugar. Make a dent in the middle for the eggs and put them in. Add 200ml milk, and use on of these things to stir it around:
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(yes, that thing. no, that's not my pic. yes, anything else will do)

Add the rest of the milk while ur stirring
Make it so that its like smooth

Leave it for 30 mins (optional)

Now, get a big pan (like 15-20cm), put in some butter and heat it, then use a soup spoon or whatever big spoon you have to pour in some of the stuff, and let it spread over the entire surface of the pan, unless your pan is huge. It will likely be way thinner than you are used to :D

Now wait till the bottom is golden brown and turn it over until the other side is golden brown, put it on a plate. Now either keep the plate warm and make more, or eat:

put sugar across the diameter of the pancake, roll it up so that you have a roll of pancake with sugar evenly divided :D cut into slices, enjoy !!

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22-03-2008 03:11 PM Rubber band ball

So im making a ball of rubber bands. Just start by folding up some rubber bands and then tieing others around them as tight as possible until you get a ball.

After two packets:
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After four packets:
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Now im out of rubber bands. Will get more after i come back from holiday, which will be ages from now. Goodbye EP!

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21-03-2008 02:03 PM [Blag] On Easter, School, Procrastination and Being Away from EP

School holiday started at 12PM on tuesday :) So actually I've been free for 3 days without posting anything in my blog :( bad me.

Not next monday, but the monday after that I have to go to school, so it's one and a half week free. Sunday morning I'll be leaving for China where we will visit lots of places and see lots of stuff, and I'll only get back the next sunday at midnight, so I have to immediately get my ass to bed and after that, school.

That brings me to my next point, school. I've got a chocolateload of homework to do this holiday but I understand that theres no way I can do it all. The past two days I've actually got some done, mainly getting my work organised. The actual work remains procrastinated though. As for school, it's now going to be end of friggin MARCH when I get back to school, and the year ends effectively at the beginning of JUNE. so that's JUST APRIL AND MAY LEFT! Oh my gawd, I'm really stressing now. See, at the end of this year, I should have finished half of the diploma or something which basically means I have some grades set and stuff. Also most of the learning is THIS year, next year there's less work.

However, more importantly, at the end of this year my teachers will have formulated a list of predicted grades, and a list of extracurricular stuff I've done over the past year(s), both of which will be sent along with my UNIVERSITY APPLICATIONS, THIS SUMMER! That brings me to my next very significant points: being away from EP. Spending all my days on a forum living an internet addict's life isn't going to get me into uni. I can't afford to not go to the uni I want just because of procrastination and lack of effort for a few years in my teens. I love EP, but it's very addictive and I actually spend HOURS A DAY here, which is probably not a good thing for me in the long run.

So, starting with my holiday in China, I'll be away from EP for a week. However, after that, I plan to be away for a longer period. At least another week I will stay off EP and see if I can improve myself a bit. If it goes well, I'll let myself visit again but I probably won't be as active as I am now anymore until I really sort it all out. I've tried just 'getting off EP and doing work' for the past week or two but it hasn't really worked yet, so now I need some more absolute measures to see if that helps. Besides, I think I may actually be 'addicted to Endless Paradigm', yet I'm not really doing much at all.

I've still got one more day here before I leave. I'll probably allow myself to post back about this within the week, but if you happen to be wondering where I am you know why I'm off.

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20-03-2008 03:15 AM 28 Hours a Day, 6 Days a Week

I was wasting my time a few days ago reading through all the xkcd comics, and I found this one quite interesting:

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Now I haven't researched it at all or anything, but I did see if I could possibly start actually doing this. The big plus is, as stated, that you get the whole saturday night awake, and not cause you stay up late but because it's actually day for you, so you aren't tired at all even at 8AM or whatever on some days. Also for me, this allows me to spend time with people in different time zones easily on some days. The biggest problem however is that it depends heavily on the flexibility of your working times.

If you work from home or have your own business, this is quite possible. However if you have a normal job, it's not really possible at all. If you go to school, it might still be possible. To see if it is possible for me I made a little spreadsheet and rearranged the hours a bit. My ideal one lets me go to school, stay up all saturday night, sleep more in the weekends than in the weekdays, and whatever. Here it is if you're interested:

http://tools.endlessparadigm.com/fsharel...&id=hb0wpx

The drawbacks are still:

- You have school at the end of the day on some days
- You live a completely different life than your friends and family
- People are awake when you're asleep, and may wake you up
- You miss stuff like dinner unless you live alone
- You only get 6 days a week

The advantages are great though:
- Stay up all saturday night without being tired!
- You are sometimes awake at night which gives you a lot of peace and quiet to work in
- You are awake at different times every day which gives you the opportunity to communicate with people in any time zone directly
- You get long days, so you can do more in a day and be more satisfied with what you've done
- You get nice long nights
- Because it's not synced with normal day and night anyway, you don't have jet lags if you just keep to your normal pattern

Anyone want to try this? My parents probably wouldn't let me...

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15-03-2008 05:59 PM [Blog] A small little update about ActionScript

So I've been spending the day programming after reading for a few hours the day before, and after a lot of crap this is about where I am. It's a small .swf flash file (yes, you can open it):

http://www.sendspace.com/file/j70mdo

Remember, its more about the code than the looks right now and this is all standard pretty much :P
You type into the lower textbox. As soon as you start, it records the time and whenever you hit enter, the time is recorded again and compared to the start time to determine the time it took you to type whatever you did, and it's added to the autoscrolling box above that.

Note that you can't paste anything, you can't use your arrow keys and you shouldn't be able to select anything either. See if you can find some problems with it and I'll see if I can fix them :D

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