in search of the truth

Remember the times in primary school? Social connections were formed and broken with such ease back then.

"I don't friend you."
"I friend you!"

We were blunt. And very straightfoward. There wasn't a spectrum, only two discrete colours named black and white.

Looking back, I suddenly appreciate how direct we were to each other in the past. Now that we're young adults, we've come to understand social mores, and we've accepted them. Yes, they are a way of life. But I hate some of these unspoken rules. I hate how we sometimes compel ourselves and pretend to be friendly; how some are willing to change their behaviour simply to fit into a group, and how others... forcefully forge friendships to up their popularity index.


Spending time with Shijia on Good Friday, studying and chatting with Nina, talking to my close friends...

These quality moments remind me that apart from our families, there do exist people whom we can be absolutely honest with. They are the true friends we can trust for the rest of our time on this bluish-green sphere. Mortal angels who lift our spirits from the seemingly inescapable depths of depression.

All of you have brought shame upon the shallow minded, and shone light upon the world.
Your light made everything as simple as they could get, but not any simpler. You showed me what truth really means.

(hmm, my blog's poster boy would've liked you.)
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Okay. End of post, end of escapism... But before I end,

Thank you for your honesty.

Through the Years

Stand By Me

it's a nice song =)

no idea why the judges have to nitpick about him always closing his eyes - that's insignificant in comparison to the way he can contort his vocals... beautifully.

Heaven

Note the background singer sobbing a tad bit at around 0.32. Omg...

Here's a flashback.

=) hope you enjoyed this post.

so many great inventions from just one guy

Was watching a video about Wiimote hacks made by this Johnny Lee, a graduate student at the Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.



http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/johnny_lee.html

That's his profile page.
(on a side note, http://www.ted.com/ is a great website to visit for highly interesting talks about various topics... useful for GP. May I suggest that we pon GP to watch videos on TED??? =D )

Ah, if only.

If that demonstration cum manifestation of his intellect and creativity hasn't astounded you yet, take this!

ownage! =O

And some chim RFID locating technology which my feeble mind can not yet comprehend.


His blog, http://procrastineering.blogspot.com/ , (hahaha love the name) gave a brief mention of Sensitive Object, a French company specializing in the use of microphones to detect touches on any object. In fact, their technology can even locate the touch and detect dragging with more microphones. To my surprise, it wasn't done by sound localization. (!!!!!) The microphones are calibrated to recognise how touching a certain part of the object sounds like. This means that it will match the sound created by your touch to one of those in its memory, and then determine where you touched the object.

Woahhh! It's shockingly similar to the speech recognition software we dabbled with while we were building Ambi. Who would have thought?!

All these stuff inspire me to major in electrical/electronics engineering in university. =D

K. I've been watching TED till 4pm. This is bad. =P

Off to finish my tutorials! =)