While walking along a dark road, I vaguely saw a green light ahead. My first thought was whether it was a torchlight of someone behind the trees. However the light weaved and disappeared. Then realized it was a firefly when I saw another green light floating in the air. Wow fireflies in Singapore! :) Was really a nice surprise to see fireflies.
Could still remember and humm the firefly song that was often played on air during my much younger days. Found its lyrics and kind of like it.
Fireflies only emits their brilliance for a short while just like in the lyrics "短暂的生命努力的发光". Is just like life, life does not always have fairytale ending that is reserved for story books. Treasuring and living our life well for the moment is what we can do and control.The ending depends on many external factors and will decide for itself. Hopefully despite the short brillance, we can just like the lyrics "让黑暗的世界充满希望". :)
作词:伊能静
作曲:陈秀男 陈大力
萤火虫萤火虫慢慢飞
夏夜里夏夜里风轻吹
怕黑的孩子安心睡吧
让萤火虫给你一点光
燃烧小小的身影在夜晚
为夜路的旅人照亮方向
短暂的生命努力的发光
让黑暗的世界充满希望
萤火虫萤火虫慢慢飞
我的心我的心还在追
城市的灯光明灭闪耀
还有谁会记得你燃烧光亮
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Friday, July 13, 2012
*Hackers*
I am always changing passwords for my various electronics devices. Sometimes I don't know whether I should be angry or amazed. The thing is there are many hackers at home in the form of my neices and nephews. They have been quite successful at times that I am just simply amazed, amused and exasperated.
Is not that I do not want to let them use my stuffs, but they are not supposed to use them until they finish their work. Their mothers, my sisters, say they should not be using without supervision which I agree. We are not around during the daytime to supervise them.
I guess is just a matter of tries at times. Once they managed to hack into the ipad and I changed the password. The next time, my ipad content was deleted due to a default setting where the content will be erased when the number of tries for trying the password exceeded 10 or 100 times. Did not even know there is such a default seeting. I had to download all my content again and change the setting to never allow content to be erased.
Then for the laptop and computer, I set up children accounts wth parental control setting to only allow them usage at certain time slots. But my clever eldest nephew somehow managed to change the settings a number of times when my sister was logged in her administrator account and moved away from the computer for a short while.
Recently the parental control does not work at all as he manages to do something to the computer that requires him not being able to log in any of the accounts I set and use it. Wow I am also not sure how he does it. He told me he just banged on the keyboards and it worked. I tried but still it required passwords. Still scratching my head over how he did it.
Anyway I have to say my nieces and nephews are getting better at this *hacking* thing. Though of course the eldest nephew is really good at it. In fact, I feel he is talented somehow with IT stuff. Maybe it can be an area he wants to pursue.
Is not that I do not want to let them use my stuffs, but they are not supposed to use them until they finish their work. Their mothers, my sisters, say they should not be using without supervision which I agree. We are not around during the daytime to supervise them.
I guess is just a matter of tries at times. Once they managed to hack into the ipad and I changed the password. The next time, my ipad content was deleted due to a default setting where the content will be erased when the number of tries for trying the password exceeded 10 or 100 times. Did not even know there is such a default seeting. I had to download all my content again and change the setting to never allow content to be erased.
Then for the laptop and computer, I set up children accounts wth parental control setting to only allow them usage at certain time slots. But my clever eldest nephew somehow managed to change the settings a number of times when my sister was logged in her administrator account and moved away from the computer for a short while.
Recently the parental control does not work at all as he manages to do something to the computer that requires him not being able to log in any of the accounts I set and use it. Wow I am also not sure how he does it. He told me he just banged on the keyboards and it worked. I tried but still it required passwords. Still scratching my head over how he did it.
Anyway I have to say my nieces and nephews are getting better at this *hacking* thing. Though of course the eldest nephew is really good at it. In fact, I feel he is talented somehow with IT stuff. Maybe it can be an area he wants to pursue.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Thai Pub @ Hotel Windsor
My thai coursemates were talking about going to one last time. In end it never materialized. This time, finally managed to get a friend who been there to bring me there last week.
The Thai gals were all eye candies, they looked very pretty, slim and young. They floated around the tables. Pouring drinks for the guys, drinking with them as well as playing finger guessing games with them. On-off a group of them were be on stage belting out Thai songs.
It was quite an eye opener. First of all, most of the patrons there were guys. Possibly 90%. And most of the patrons were surprisingly looking like in their early 20s.
There were quite a number of Thai gals hanging around the tables. According they earned by selling drinks as well as through the garlands of flowers bought and showered on them.
Surprisingly there were also a band that was made up of a middle aged auntie as well as 2 other singers. She was belting out Mandarin songs. And she was popular. She seemed to get more garlands of flowers than the young gals. Wow!
Towards the end, all the gals were standing on stage, parading and doing simple dances along with the music as they awaited their turns to receive garlands of flowers.
Hmmm... even though the whole experience was interesting for me as an observer but I am not sure for the gals as a kind of job is it really what they would have want if they have better choices. Drinking like what they do everyday must be detrimental for health. Hmmm....there must be a story behind how each of them come to be there.
Tea Cosy @ Plaza Singapura
Went with Tweet Tickle to Tea Cosy at Plaza Singapura. Is a nice cosy tea house that is quite relaxing. Tweet tickle really liked the decorations in the cafe. We ordered 1 set of the tea set to share between us. The scones and the other items were quite minature. Thus we were able to finish it easily. We paid $15 dollars each in the end. The price was ok but the food items could be a little bigger. Overall it was a good place to catch up with friend.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Tsubohachi @ Illuma Bugis
Went to Tsubohachi with Giraffe, Kolala and Goldilocks. Illuma now has more people than last time. The revamp certainly helps.
We decided to try the restuarant. We ordered Vegetable Ramen($9), Chirashi Don Set Dinner ($17.80), Ten Don Set Dinner ($14.80) & Tsubohachi Combo ($14).
When the food came, we were all surprised at the portion. The portion was quite small and Giraffe especially reminded me to write about the portion if I am writing my blog. My ramen was ok but the rest did not seem to enjoy their food. One thing though the green tea was surprisingly not hot, just a bit warm, which I thought they could do better.
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