. . Watchmen & Flight . .

Finally, finished reading up the graphic novel "Watchmen" which I started some months back. Heh. Can't even remember when I bought the book.

Anyway, the story for "Watchmen" is great. Got to read it to appreciate it. Written by Alan Moore (The Leagues of Extraordinary Gentlemen, V for Vendetta), "Watchmen" is one of TIME magazine's 100 Best Novels.


Basically bought this novel when I read that Hollywood is making a movie based on this title. Kind of wanting to find out about the story beforehand and later on, see how they translate the story from comic book page to movie screen. Not sure why, but I kind of have some fascination on comic based movie. Heh. Can't wait for the movie to be out in March.

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This is my current read, well, yeah read. "Flight" is in it's fifth volume now ( I have all the previous volumes) . I love this series of graphic novel. "Flight" is a compilation of short stories and novels; mostly, the usual comic with narrations and others, the unique ones of just drawings to tell the story.


It's a great mix of stories and art. Great inspiration book for budding comic/webcomic artists. If I'm not wrong, earlier volumes of "Flight" are available at the public libraries for loan.

. . Birds Photos . .

Finally get to finish editing some of my photos from my trip to the Jurong Bird Park some months back. I put it off for so long, but still, I had to put it up.

Here are some of the photos.

Check out the rest of the photos here.

. . Happy 2009 . .

Happy New Year to all! If there is anyone reading this at all.. Hehe..

Anyway, it had been a long time since I had been blogging. My last post was in September. That was like 3 months ago. Hah! Looking back the past year had been quite a roller coaster ride in my life. And I started this blog to archive those ups and downs...

My initial intention for this blog was to do a very simple daily rantings of my life. A storybook-like kind of blog. But it looks like I had failed. Hah! Started out good with daily posts for quite a many months. There were even times if I was unable to blog for some days, I would come back and typed in the events for the days that I had missed.

Soon after half a year, I guess, I got lazy.. Then things started to get monotonous and there was nothing much to blog in anyway. Generally, that's one of the reasons that I had stopped posting any more entries.

But I like to keep a blog going. I feel that by keeping a blog, it keeps the people close to me informed of my life and I definitely don't want to throw this blog away. So this is how it's going to be. I'm going to revamp this blog! WOohoo!.. It will no longer be an anonymous blog! Well, if you don't know me, my name is Yusman! nrySmn is basically my full name but without the vowels. Hehe..

Anyway, I'd been thinking, I want to revamp this blog to something more cheery! Something less moody and angsty and dark. And for the past postings, which I had slammed some people and say bad things and all that.. Well, I'm going to go back and edit it all.. Just need to delete it away!*Ehhm this will take a few days though.* This is going to be a friendly blog where anyone can read about me. Hehe..

What is that? Why change? Why not?! I'm always thinking of changes and new ideas every time. And every new year especially. Achievements gained in the past year wasn't that transparent. I still haven't started to learn how to cook. Put off learning the sign language. This year though, I've already thought of new ideas. Hehe..

Sometimes I can be so fickle-minded.

So, for those people who already knew my old blog theme, what do you think of this change? Tell me! Drop a comment! Email me! Cbox me!

Do tell.

. . Fasting Month . .

Yeah, I know. I haven't been blogging for quite some time. Well, there's not much to blog about anyway. Most of the time its the same old stuffs. A quite from a friend " Same shit, different week".

It has been 5 days since the muslims started fasting this year and it seems like time is moving very fast. Already it's going to be a week and left with 3 more weeks. Anyway, it's still too early to feel the holiday mood. Hari Raya will be celebrated on the 1st of October, Wednesday, and I've already booked to take my leave the whole week. Hehe. In consideration of the half-day workday on the eve of Hari Raya, I'll be taking 3.5 days of leave for the whole week.

Hopefully The Boss would approve my leave form. It's not that I've been taking so many leaves from work. I still have a lot of leaves to clear for this year. Hehe.

Saturday today, and I don't really have any plans. It's the fasting month and I would rather stay at home than go out. I guess I'm too lazy in a sense.

Anyway, I was thinking of creating a new blog. A better blog with less anonymities and more colour! More into the stuffs that interests me. More into my life. And less like a storybook. Like it is right now. Still thinking about it. Thinking more into the approach and execution and also looking into other blogs. For some people, " I am not copying" anybody or anything. I just want to inject more purpose into a blog rather than just words and few pictures so that I can reach a wider audiences.

Hmm. Still thinking about it. What say you?

. . Forget! . .

Oh gosh! I forgot that I haven't blogged for a long time. I mean, I know I have a blog. Just that I kept forgetting to post! Hah!

Ever since the time my computer died on me, I'd stopped blogging. I did picked it back. But I guess it didn't last. Well, so many things had happened in the last couple of weeks.

Things like, 2 weeks ago, Syn came back from Dubai; we *me, Trixx and Syn* had dinner at Marina Food Loft before we head for chill out and satay at Glutton Bay next to the Esplanade. Bry dropped by and had a good catching up.

Hmm, other than that I don't really seems to fully recall. But today, I met up with Trixx at Downtown East and had some Korean style barbeque dinner. Was quite good, though Trixx thought it was just ok. *She didn't like the rice there though, right Trixx?* Hmm, maybe next time can bring Frecky there for dinner.

Downtown East new *eHub* mall was still having some major contructions in but some areas are fully done up. There's also a cinema there. But strangely, it felt like it was not fully utililse, or should I say, there were not many patrons there. Hmm, maybe it's a weekday night so not so packed. Or that it its still under constructions.

Wonder if the place going to be a flop.

. . Olympic . .

Didn't have anything much to do today, Monday, and also last weekend. Was an off day today from The Company in lieu of the public holiday on Saturday. Stayed at home and watched the Olympic Games on TV.

Saw the Games Opening Ceremony last Friday and was very proud for the Chinese People for an awesome/fantastic opening. Was really very, very good. The fireworks show was simple inspiring! I joked with my younger brother that the Chinese didn't had to import those fireworks 'cause they invented them! Hah! Most probably they bought those fireworks somewhere down the streets. Heh! If you didn't catch the ceremony, see if you can find it on YouTube or something. It's simply can't be missed.

Caught some of the Games in these few days and alreay lots of World Record had been broken. It's very inspiring to watch these finest atheletes fight it out in the sporting arena. It's not everyday to watch these kind of spectacular sports in action!

Maybe I'll pick up a sport. Like Archery! HAH!

. . New Computer . .

It has been nearly 3 weeks since my old computer died on me. Well, actually, I'm not sure yet which component of the hardware which failed on me. Anyway, I am on my new computer right now and I still have a few more programs that I had yet to install.

This is my new setup.

Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 2.66GHz 6MB 1333MHz LGA775
Gigabyte EP45-DS3 Intel P45 Chipsets mainboard
Asus GeForce 9600GT Black Pearl 512MB DDR3
Western Digital 400GB 16MB HDD SATA2
Corsair PC6400 800MHz 1GBx2 DDR2
Sony 20X DVD Writer SATA
Cooler Master eXtreme 550W PSU
Cooler Master Elite 330 Black version

I actually had this new computer delivered last Sunday. Yeah, delivered to my home as I bought it on a local online shop. But had some hardware problems with the new computer initially. My new PC kept having random crashes and bluescreens of death. Wasn't sure at that time what was the problem.

Told my colleague L10 about this and he offered to help check my computer out. He came over on Tuesday and tried to help search for the fault *if any* and also to help see if I did set up the computer properly. I am not a really knowledgable on this computer hardware stuffs and I needed help.

Went through a lot of different situations and steps to reinstall the operating system *OS* to the old harddisk. Long story short, we were not able to reinstall the OS and were facing frustating obstacle.

He also was stumped over what was wrong and didn't managed to find the fault. He was sure though, that it was a hardware problem. Myself, I wonder whether my old computer had a virus and had contaminated this new computer *as I had installed the old harddisk to the new computer*.

The next day, while at work, I was even considering of getting a new fresh harddisk to install but L10 advise me to consult the guy from the shop that I bought the computer from. I listened to his advice but decided to have one last installation trythat Wednesday night.

During work that day, I managed to researched on computer crashes and installation of OS. And that night, I tried some of the procedure that I read up on. I followed a simple basic setup for the computer and finally managed to installed the OS! Was so happy that night!! On closer inspection, one of the RAM that I took out from the motherboard was actually faulty. The RAM's cover *heatsink, I think* was not properly aligned to RAM itself the and I think this made the memory unstable when installed and thus the random crashes. This also prevented the OS from any proper installation. Called up the shop and going to have it replaced.

Anyway, it took me a few days and today to get my computer to what it was. Did managed to backed up my stuffs and data before the OS reinstallationbut had to reinstalled a lot of programmes *as I formatted all the harddisk during the reinstallation as we thought it was harddisk problem that causes the initial problems* . And it really took a while.

But it was worth it.

*Today, Saturday, is Singapore's 43rd National Day. Wishing all Singaporeans a Happy National Day! Have a great long weekend!*