Books from Amazon

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two amazon books
I just received my orders from Amazon – I sent them to my mailing
address back home instead of over here and my parents brought them over
today during dinner. They were on their way to KL.

strength of the wolf book
The Strength of the Wolf – The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs by Douglas Valentine

road of excess book
The Road of Excess – A History of Writers on Drugs by Marcus Boon

Anyway, my apologies about the quirks this site is experiencing
now…I messed up something while putting up the categories and broke
it even more when I went into phpMyAdmin to try and rectify things.
I’ll fix it tomorrow, excuse me, I’m so full now that I am either going
to throw up or sleep and I’ll choose the latter. 🙂

Download my nosebleed video while it’s still fresh! ;)

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nose is bleeding
Nose bleed

Here’s something to entertain you on a slow Saturday morning. 🙂 The
link to download it is at the bottom of the post. It happened just now
– I suddenly felt blood dripping down for no reason and saw that I had
a nosebleed when I reached up to wipe my nose. I quickly grabbed the
digicam – I can’t remember the last time I had a nosebleed…probably
before I reached puberty? I was mildly concerned at first though, coz I
thought it was precipitated by *cough* sheesh, this room needs a good
dusting.

nosebleed stemming
I love the ones that still drip after you wipe it.

Anyway, I must say though, I have hypertension, which they say makes
me prone to sneeze red. 😉 It sure wasn’t the gushers I used to have
while I was young – my mom had to get me to pinch my nose to stop it,
and still it won’t quit. Heh. Memories. How I wish it was one of them
legendary ones just now, those take to motion picture well. I don’t get
them now though so I was mildly surprised at this pleasant occurrence.
It’s something interesting to kick of the day, even though nosebleeds
are really very tame and isn’t anything to shout home about.

nosebleed teeth
Mmm…tastes like chicken!

I still like to take videos of everything though. This was a really
mild one, didn’t last longer than a minute. It makes a nice video
though, eh? 🙂 I thoroughly enjoyed this experience, as inappropriate
as that might sound.

Transcript:

Hey, this is sixthseal.com, and for no reason at all…
I found myself getting a nose bleed.
It sucks.
This is…a cause for concern.
I haven’t even touched it, before, ya know, like blood flowing down?
And then I felt it drip on my shirt…and…
I can’t remember the last time I had a nose bleed.
Must be pretty long ago.
I think…er, my teeth is clotted.
Well, anyway. I’m going to clean myself up.
sixthseal.com, out.

Download:
My nosebleed [sixthseal.com]
It’s only around 4 MB, good quality DivX encoded video running for 46 seconds.
Requires DivX 5.11 or XviD codec.

sixthseal.com – delivering cutting edge entertainment 24/7. 😉

Note: This post was made early Saturday morning, but went down
sometime during the afternoon – it’s a configuration issue, and also a
database corruption, which took the whole of this afternoon to rectify.
The post just disappeared and I’m not sure why that happened in the
first place. I remember six comments last time I checked, but I only
received four through email unfortunately, so I can only restore those.
Please feel free to comment again, as I’ve missed your input during
that time frame.

I will fix the rest of the server problems tomorrow – I’ve gone for
too long without sleep and I’m getting the hardcore constant visual
hallucinations now (tiny worms are infesting and crawling across my
screen, the box in the corner is flapping at me, you know the drill)
and I have to rest even though I’m not sleepy per se (an amazing 35 mg
of clonazepam could not put me down, not just due to tolerance but
*cough* damn, there’s some nasty weather coming up, I reckon).

I will also reply all the comments tomorrow – thanks for your
patience. My apologies for the glitch that affected Apache and MySQL
this afternoon…

Thanks goes out to Rebecca (Beckie) from Hamilton, NZ and Jason Tan
from SF, US for taking the time to notify me. Cheers! I’m still looking
into what’s going on here…

Movable Type 3.0D

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mt30d

sixthseal.com is now running on MT 3.0. I love the comments
interface, it can list ALL the comments in a descending order. I
already anticipate this will be my favorite feature in this release. I
have waited for this day for so long…the day, the glorious day, when
I can mass delete those spambot comments in seconds! I shall finally be
faster than a bot! 😉

Anyway, I was torn over MT or WordPress, coz MT with it’s Perl and
CGI bloat, really stresses my server while I rebuild the database. I
installed WP 1.2 and was mighty impressed by it, the easy set up
(imported my MT export file within minutes, faster than even MT can
import!). It can be easily set up within seconds and I like the PHP
type UI – reminded me of the stuff I used to write for the uni last
time. Heh.

It was really fast too, I know that MT rebuilds make a huge spike in
CPU utilization but surprisingly, extreme administrative stuff – I was
continuously right clicking Delete links and opening it in a new window
to see how fast it can delete, and even after 115 windows popped up,
all of them deleted fine, as PHP commands issued should. It’s just a
quick right click, close on each docked window, and there you go.

I went into my box via SSH and ran top in shell (no I wasn’t trying
to be smart, and not use WHM, I was already in there to do some dig
soa’s) and was surprised at the vast different between MT rebuilds
(heavy CPU and memory usage) and WP admin stuff (very, very low).

The only thing stopping me from installing WP is due to the
unfortunate “single php file with templates” design. You can opt to
have each post named according to the title of the post, but it’s
generated dynamically – there are no flat files, it usually ends with
something like this:

/archives/this-is-wordpress-posting/

The problem with this would be apparent if you go to WP blogs and
I’ve been to many before deciding that I’ll better stick with MT. The
WP system doesn’t pass PageRank down to the individual pages, except in
unusual circumstances.

Anyway, I’ll be adding the rest of the sidebar soon and do some general redesign of the blog later today.

Wow, is this a boring post or what? 😉

Quick, someone with better English than mine tell me what this means

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Why is there a single CPU restriction in the license?
The single CPU usage statement was not intended to be in the license.
It has been struck from the license, and everyone who has downloaded
Movable Type 3.0 thus far can officially consider this change
retroactive.

This is from the Movable Type 3.0 DE page. I still can’t figure out
whether it means MT only supports a single CPU or that there’s an error
in the EULA that erroneously states that it supports a single CPU.
Basically, from the semantics, does the answer mean that MT 3.0 can
support dual processors? This is an issue for me as I’m running on Dual
Xeons (2 x 2.4 Ghz). TIA.

This is my answer

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I know you don’t like me to write about our relationship, so I won’t.

veritas and castitas.com is gone.

I willingly deleted all of my drug posts. I will be lying if it
didn’t hurt me to delete all those memories. This will totally ruin the
PageRank and SERPs I’ve worked so hard for. You know how much
sixthseal.com means to me.

I don’t care about those now. I’m doing this willingly. 🙂
I want to know that you’re more important than anything else.

veritas
2002 – 2004
Pioneer and daredevil
May the memory live on…
R.I.P.

Those that will remember me will, and those that will forget, will forget.

I know that this would not be enough, nothing ever will be…but at least it’s a start.

This is a small token of my sincerity, my love.

I will try my best to be the boyfriend that I never was. I will try
my best to do the right thing. I am willing to do that, because you’ve
more than I could wish for.

I choose you, Louisa.
This is my answer.

ChickaCheese by KFC

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kfc chickacheese

This is the new product by KFC – Chick-a-Cheese! It costs RM 1.90
and didn’t look like much from the banner, but I went in to check it
out anyway.

chickacheese promo

There was a lot of cheesy goodness.

chickacheese decor

Much more than I expected.

chickacheese assault

I was overwhelmed by the cheddar assault.

chickacheese tray

Hell, even my tray liner is advertising the new Chick a Cheese.

Here’s some interesting facts (?) from the liner notes:

KFC Chick-a-Cheese

Crispy Cheese-stuffed Chicken Sausage on a Stick!

Introducing the new Chick ‘a’ Cheese from KFC! A juicy chicken
sausage, stuffed with yummy cheddar cheese, cooked nice & crispy in
corn batter. That’s what gives it the triplelicious taste of corn,
cheese & chicken!

Did you know?

Sausages have been around for a loooong time. The Babylonians and
the Chinese have been eating them since 1500 BC! They were even
mentioned in Homer’s “Odyssey”, written in the 8th century BC.

The term “hot dog” was coined by cartoonist Tad Dorgan in 1901. He
sketched a cartoon depicting vendors selling “dachshund sausages” but
wasn’t sure how to spell “dachshund” – so he just called them hot dogs!

Corndogs, made by dipping in corn batter, are a popular item in
American high school cafeterias. They were created in 1942 for the
Texas State Fair by Neil Fletcher.

According to the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council, July is National Hot Dog Month!

chickacheese

Anyway, this is what the Chick ‘a’ Cheese looks like. It’s corn dog on a sticks wrapped in individual packages.

chickacheese 1

Here’s what it looks like after a bite has been taken out of it.

chickacheese 2

Here’s another angle.

What does it taste like? It tasted surprisingly good actually. The
warm cheese was divine, melting out of the crispy batter and creating a
wonderful fusion with the sausage. Recommended!

The ceiling fan is going to fall on me!

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Download:
Soundtrack to The ceiling fan is going to fall on me [sixthseal.com]

This will be an experimental multimedia (or do they call it rich
media now?) post implementing photos, text, animated gifs, mp3
downloads and a Divx encoded short film of the ceiling fan in question.
I really did think it was going to fall on me for a second. It’s not
that I’m afraid of fans…it’s more like I have…er, a manly apprehension towards these things in general due to some childhood issues I’ll rather not talk about. 😉

meth is cold

Anyway, it didn’t help that I’ve been up since Friday morning with
just one day’s rest in the middle before going on another high
intensity caffeine run. My apologies if I mislead anyone, the straw
containing crystalline wonders that’s depicted above is not
methamphetamine (That’s Illegal!), but plain caffeine, the stuff you
can find in coffee. Kuching just got way colder ever since I met up
with this…er, coffee barista. *cough* He’s a nice enough guy, always
on time, with the goods at reasonable prices too.

The only thing about him is his fondness for meeting in hotels. I
didn’t think much of it the first time I was introduced to him…I
suggested we meet behind a local disco/karaoke in Sekama and he didn’t
think that place was safe (it comes with the lifestyle, you think
everyone’s after you, including ceiling fans ;)) so he asked me to meet
him at the 3rd floor of a nearby hotel. The transaction went well and
I’ve since consumed the straw of quality caffeine crystals (not meth,
mind) so I met up with him again today…

He was going, “Would it be convenient for you to meet at Telang Usan
Hotel?” I didn’t even know where that is…and to be honest, I don’t
know why he’s so interested in doing business in hotels. He told me
today that is apparently safer. *shrugs* It seems like we were
attracting attention from the hotel staff to me. Anyway, I finally
found the place and we met at the 3rd floor again. Well, actually I’m
obligated to tell you that there are two third floors at that hotel,
strange as it may sound. Naturally, we both went to the different one.

fire the gift of the gods
Fire – the gift of the Gods.

Anyway, the picture above might look a little dodgy, but please, let
me explain. I have a sensitive stomach (stomach ulcers), so the only
way I can consume caffeine (which is the stuff you get in coffee and
tea, for the ones amongst us who’s lagging behind ;)) is through a
combustion procedure. IV works wonderfully too, but that’s not
something people talk about in polite company. 😉 Back to the
apparatus, it can be easily rigged from any small glass bottle
(my personal favorite is Livita). The most important doohickey is a
small glass tube where the combustion will actually take place.

Well, some people would prefer a bulb, but there’s nothing that can
beat this for rapid and hassle free deployment. It can be assembled
within seconds – empty out both the glass bottle and glass tube (get it
from Chinese herbal shops – it’s sold as Sha Yau Wan, and as far as I
know, the only people who buy it are tweakers) and wash them. It’s just
a matter of making two incisions at the anterior of the bottle after
that. Oh, and the previous phrase is a pretentious term for “jab a
screwdriver through the top of the bottle cap”. 😉

I’ll write about it someday on castitas.com, but basically that’s
all there is to it. The caffeine crystals goes into the tube, which
goes into a small plastic straw, which in turns goes into the sealed
glass bottle and comes out the other end from another plastic straw.
The one that’s not occupied by the glass tube is where you inhale from.
😉 It’s simple, and detachable for fast refilling, and most
importantly, it gives you one good lungful of smoke. Just don’t put
water in it, meth, er, I mean caffeine is soluble in water, so that
would be wasting things.

meth animated gif
Here’s an animated GIF of me smoking the home made pipe.

I did that all today in Adobe ImageReady. It’s amazing how fast you
can learn when the brain is allowed the proper nutritional supplements
it needs. It’s also amazing how you can spend hours and hours just
perfecting an animated GIF; even going to read whitepapers about what
the standard for encoding is…sheesh! Anyway, if you’re not in Sarawak
– “Ha! Ha!”

We have a public holiday spanning two days – the Dayak Harvest
Festival or Gawai. I had wanted to go with a couple of coworkers to
their longhouse…until I found out that it was further than Sibu (!)
and they took annual leave. Myself, I wasn’t prepared to use up my
annual leave quota yet, I’m planning something big end of the year. Oh,
I just remembered something funny – I was getting some spare Sha Yao
Wan when one of my friends drove by and saw me in that shop…

It would not have been an issue if he didn’t know what I was there
for. I have no good reason to step into a store like that except to
purchase glass tubes recycled from medication. I felt like a guilty
little boy, being caught with my hand in the cookie jar, but we seem to
have made a manly unspoken rule not to talk about it. It’s
complicated about why I don’t want him to know about my, ah, caffeine
indulgence, but I have my reasons.

multimedia idea

Anyway, we’re digressing…about how the animated GIF was made, it
was quite fun to do. Then again, what isn’t fun to do when you have
enough caffeine crystals to last you through the holiday. 😉 I recorded
a MOV (Quicktime) movie with my digicam and then imported it in, frame
by frame. I was surprised that it could do that. It’s easy to arrange a
set of frames and set the time before each slide flips, so to speak. I
had to take out a lot of the frames and also had to compress the
animated GIF to a nearly unrecognizable degree, because it’s about 650
kb, and that plus the other stuff and assorted CGI requests this site
gets, might just kill my server (or make me have to reboot anyway).

Well, the weather forecast for Kuching is slated to be cold, cold, cold for the next couple of days.

wash
Wash

rinse
Rinse

repeat
Repeat

=D

It wears you down after a couple of cycles though, as the fan can attest to. 😉 You will need to download DivX 5.11
[divx.com] if you don’t already have it. It’s a codec that just makes
the file smaller while preserving quality, so it’s more suited for the
net than Quicktime. Here’s the .avi of the DivX encoded movie of the
ceiling fan, which I see as quite sinister in nature.

What do you think?

Download:
Death from above [sixthseal.com]

30 minute crispy noodles

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30 min crispy noodles

This plate of crispy noodles took 30 minutes to arrive. I was having
lunch with a co-worker and we both had to go to the bank so we ordered
crispy noodles, which is probably the fastest turnaround dish since the
kolo mee stall it having an off day. Crispy noodles are the pre-fried
noodles that comes…well, crispy and the cook just needs to prepare
the sauce and pour it over the noodles. It’s a really good noodle dish,
the contrast of the crispy and soggy noodles with the hot sauce
combines to create an unusual but tasty texture. The thing about crispy
noodles is, it doesn’t get soggy unless you purposely push it down into
the sauce.

Anyway, back to the long turnover, it was due to a large family
(complete with elders, heaps of young children and the obligatory
Indonesian maid) taking up two big tables and ordering heaps of food. I
think there should be a law banning these diners from eating at places
frequented by office workers during lunch hour.

Cheap prepaid reload cards

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howee me crown 1

I went to Crown Square just now to meet up with Hau Ee. She’s from
Sibu as well – I remember a bunch of us going for supper at Taman
Harmoni the previous time I was back home. Anyway, she told me she’ll
be in Kuching for a couple of days and I’ve been meaning to get the
discounted cell phone reload cards off her, so off I went. From what I
understand, it’s an annual commitment for pre-paid cell phone cards
(across all mobile operators in Malaysia) where you choose the plan you
want (according to your cell phone usage needs) and you get the coupon
codes every month at a highly discounted rate.

I’m not sure if I got that exactly right…she explained the plans
to me, but I was so scattered today that I could hardly comprehend what
she said. It’s Sunday today and that means it’s the last day of my
high-intensity weekend warrior run. High-intensity runs (constant and
compulsive maintenance of peak plasma concentrations, no food,
dehydrating conditions) tend to deep fry the brain towards the end.

It also didn’t help that I consumed massive amounts of clonazepam,
nitrazepam, alprazolam and lorazepam to chemically accelerate hypnotic
activity so I could turn in earlier tonight. The benzodiazepine
combination hit me harder than I expected, though I wasn’t aware of
that, and placidly cruised to town while downright sedated. I only
realized that my reflexes were impaired when I nearly drove up a curb
while making the U-turn that I take everyday and skidded (it was
raining and the roads were slippery) after going into a corner too fast.

I made sure that I was ultra careful after that and reached the
destination and back without any vehicular collisions. Heh. Anyway, I
reckon this spot is where I’m supposed to insert the obligatory harm
minimization message to urge people under the influence to avoid
driving. 😉 Well, like I said, the combination made me scattered and
higher level thought processes were affected so I had a really hard
time understanding how the discounted pre-paid cards work.

howee prepaid plan

Anyway, I finally gathered that there is an upfront fee (the annual
plan rate) and you can resell the reload coupons that you don’t use to
someone else e.g. you can sell the unused ones if you didn’t make a lot
of calls that month and thus have surplus cards. It sounded like a good
idea, except that I don’t use my cell phone all that much, and I’m too
lazy to sell any remainder cards to other people. 🙂

Thus, I didn’t go for the annual plan and just got a RM 50 Digi
prepaid coupon off her. I still have credit in my cell phone, since I
usually make outgoing calls from my house phone. I don’t remember the
last time I reloaded my cell phone, but it was barred today coz the 3
month validity period was over, so I can receive calls but not make
outgoing calls. The system Digi uses allows you a fairly long grace
period and you don’t lose the existing unused credit you had before the
validity period expired.

The existing credit is just stacked back on when you reload, adding
the balance to the new value. The validity expired today, so I just got
a single reload coupon off her, instead of opting for the cheaper
annual plan, since I don’t use my cell phone that much. I still need to
reload though, since a phone that doesn’t allow outgoing calls rather
defeats the purpose of having a cell in the first place. 🙂

howee me crown 2
L-R: How Ee, Huai Bin (me).

Excuse me, dear readers…I’ll have to reply the comments tomorrow. Sleep beckons me…

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