me studying "quantitative methods"

Final exams coming in less than two weeks, and this is my last attempt at the "quantitative methods" paper. It's my 4^th retake (which is the max limit) and if i don't make it, good bye HUC!

art, life, computer

Sifu showed me how to draw portrait during our lunch about 2 weeks ago. I had only the opportunity to test if i've really learned yesterday. Took less than 2 hours to draw the above, It's not perfect, but there's really a dramatic improvement in my drawing, to my own awe!

Also, when u think Linux can't get any better, it just did! I'm now running on Xubuntu. It gives me drop-shadow and real transparency effects without lagging my machine at all! And i'm running an old laptop: 32MB S3ProSavage video, 640MB RAM and 1.4GHz AMD Athlon. It even sped up my machine performance ^_^

IE stinks (again)

Read here.
If you do web-design and coding, you will know how heart-wrenching it is whenever you see your hard work get deformed in IE, which means you have to go through your codes and fix what IE is not rendering, which means tonnes more unnecessary work and time, and sometimes settling for less-than-what-i-desire design and coding.

So there goes... I can't wait for SitePoint to finish their CSS Reference, so i will know where not to step on the poop, it stinks...

ien wallpaper #01

http://iensstory.blogspot.com/

A pre-release wallpaper, 1024x768. Leave comments / feedbacks please please... (especially sifu!) ^^

PS: ah yes, it hatched much quickly than i thought it would, hehe.

*made purely with Inkscape and GIMP in Ubuntu

project ien

announcing "project ien"

ien = implicit expressive norm

That egg will hatch slowly with my mood, hehe... But the design is as such you can see the egg hatch, if you know how to tweak the contrast, etc. to have a peek at what is coming out, why not give it a try? ~_^

PS: If you are using GIMP, then it's just about 3 clicks away.

Lions for Lambs

http://www.lionsforlambsmovie.com/

Go watch that movie if u haven't. It's worth your every single second!

fancy dinner

Guess guess guess?
and win yourself a designed-to-your-taste blogger template (with the codes!)*

*1st come 1st serve basis, friends and family only

new hair

Mom did the haircut for me before she went back Indon on Tuesday. Today i was taking picture for my passport (save cost, hehe), so thought play play a bit with the hair. Nice or not ar??

Indon passport photo require red backdrop, so i had my my bro's red t-shirt and pinned it to the curtain and used it for the background, hehe. Don't mind ya bro since u ain't here to wear that shirt anyway. *grin*

This one is untouched. But used GIMP to smoothen out my pimples and brighten up my eyes black bags for the passport photo, haha, the advantage when u r a graphic designer! :P

PS: They say don't put your face on the internet, old myth... nowadays almost everyone has, like i care anyway...

Living in Malaysia

Read: http://fiftyrefugees.wordpress.com/
You've heard of its peace, friendliness, beauty, etc. But have you heard this side of the story?
If these things are happening in a country like Malaysia, i wonder what is in Indonesia...

"Oh God, what a heartache you gave me. What do you want me to do? I see the paths, but how do i take all? How do i choose?"