HTC Sense Asia

This is essentially the same presentation as the one during the launch in US.

Somehow, I feel hearing the presenters speak their native language is more awkward than them speaking English.

LOL.

I guess it's probably because we're more used to English presentations.


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One key difference: 8 min 10 seconds...

Only 1 word to put it - "OWNED"








One thing REALLY sucks though.


"HTC Sense: Now, doesn't that just make sense."

became

"HTC Sense: 有道理嘛， HOR?"






Simi sai lor.

The English version sounds 'sooooo' much cooler.

:(

Mahjong Show

This is a really nice show for Mahjong lovers.

I especially like the last segment where each player have to guess what tiles the opponents are waiting for.

Xu Nai Lin really shows his "gosu-ness" here. He wins like 80% of the time, even during times when he's extremely unlucky in hitting on opponent tiles, and "supposedly" gets VERY LITTLE info.

He will still manage to outwit the other guy most of the time.

It's really fun to join in and try to guess the tiles.

Highly recommended.

Sweet Potato!!!

They just never fail to put a smile on my face.






GOGUMA~~~!!!

Finally, Some Coding...

We have Imperative Programming, Functional Programming, Logic Programming...

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And of course my favourite Object Oriented Programming (OOP).

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But have you heard of Agent Oriented Programming?


Objects are essentially passive in nature. They have no choice as to whether or not they interact, and are simply invoked by other objects to perform particular tasks or functionality.

By contrast, agents have the ability to decide for themselves whether to participate in computational activity, and whether to perform the desired operation.

[http://java.sys-con.com/node/36191]

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Suddenly, we are intentionally designing programs that might disobey our orders.

What is this world coming to? =.=



Yes, "objects" are supposed to have feelings. They can choose to lie or be truthful, to promise or decline. They start to have beliefs, values, commitments and choices.

Yep.

Using my Degree in Psychology, I'm gonna try to inject a little bit of "humanity" into these guys.

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I Wanna Get Out Of Here!

Even for just a while.






Even for just 2 weeks.

The Mayans

Is There No Worthy Games To Play?!

Yawnz... feel so bored.

First, my Zynga account got banned for no reason whatsoever.

I earned my way to near $1000 million, then the next day I got an email saying I've "violated their terms and conditions", and so they banned my account.

And "out of goodwill" they're going to "restore my account and give me $1 million chips.

LOL!!!

Is this a ****ing joke?

I guess they had to resort to this so people buy their chips.

There is NO explanation as to what I did or ANY form of proof. Everything is "at their discretion".

Yeah, so that's it. I don't really care much though.

Finally seen through their true colours. Just a warning to everyone. Don't play that game anymore on Facebook.

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Been playing Civilization 5 for a while...

What a DISAPPOINTMENT.

Playing that game actually made me feel like going back to play Civ 4.

So ridiculous.

They've added so many improvements, features, modes, gameplay over the years and now, they decided to strip EVERYTHING.

No Religions. No Civics. No Vessel States. No Espionage. No Health.

Everything is dumb-ed down. 50 civilizations became 18. Hundreds of leaders became 18. The gameplay has become SO SHALLOW. It's SO SIMPLIFIED, it's not even fun anymore. And not to mention the ridiculous and random AI.

From the direction they're going, this is what Civilization 6 will be.

Pencil & Eraser

Got this from a friend's post:



"

Pencil: I'm sorry

Eraser: For what? You didn't do anything wrong.

Pencil: I'm sorry cos you get hurt bcos of me. Whenever I made a mistake, you're always there to erase it. But as you make my mistakes vanish, you lose a part of yourself. You get smaller and smaller each time.

Eraser: That's true. But I don't really mind. You see, I was made to do this. I was made to help you whenever you do something wrong. Even though one day, I know I'll be gone and you'll replace me with a new one, I'm actually happy with my job. So please, stop worrying. I hate seeing you sad. :)

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I found this conversation between the pencil and the eraser very inspirational. Parents are like the eraser whereas their children are the pencil. They're always there for their children, cleaning up their mistakes. Sometimes along the way... they get hurt, and become smaller (older, and eventually pass on). Though their children will eventually find someone new (spouse), but parents are still happy with what they do for their children, and will always hate seeing their precious ones worrying, or sad.

This is to all the parents out there...

"

Eeeewwww...

AIGOOOO......

The Balance Theory

Eons ago, the wise sage of Kay Kingdom devised The Table Theory.

Today marks another huge step forward in humanity- The Balance Theory.

Imagine that everything is being measured by this balance. You can only control the left side of this balance; The right side, you have little or no influence over.

The problem: This balance is heavily tilted towards the left side. How do you balance the thing?


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Too often, we try to resolve the issue by trying to adding weights on the right side.

And it isn't always easy. It takes 2 hands to clap. Sometimes the people on the RHS just can't be bothered.

Don't be disappointed. Don't be sad. Don't be angry.

You simply remove what you've placed on the LHS.

And everything would balance out again.

Am I Taking A Course In Psychology?

Sometimes I feel that I'm doing a psychology major.

Yeah.

I've switched course.

I've quit Computing.

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Constantly reading papers after papers about all those dumb psychology models and theories...

How it affecting human behavior, the process of human thoughts, cognitive reasoning, how people accept/reject ideas, how to do effective persuasion... the list goes on.


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"Companies use persuasion in the form of advertising to convince consumers to buy their products or services. Students use persuasion to convince their parents to increase their allowance, or let them go to see a particular movie, or to let them use the car. Parents can use persuasion to get their children to study or to clean up their rooms. People use persuasion to get their friends to go to see a certain movie, or a band, or to hang out at the mall. Persuasion can convince another person to go out on a date. It can convince a teacher to accept a paper after the due date."



"Of course, people can also use threats to get what they want, but that is not persuasion. In persuasion, we try to convince the audience that they should want to do what we want them to do--not that they should do it “or else.”"



"The next wave in Web site design is persuasive design, designing for persuasion, emotion, and trust. While usability is still a fundamental requirement for effective Web site design, it is no longer enough.” "



"We are fundamentally lazy. As a result, products that require people to learn new things routinely fail. Instead, to increase a user’s ability, designers of persuasive experiences must make the behavior easier to do. In other words, persuasive design relies heavily on the power of simplicity."



"Consider, for example, how Facebook motivates new users to upload profile pictures. This feature of Facebook, like many other features, has persuaded millions of people to take action. That means millions of people have all had sufficient motivation and ability, and then Facebook has triggered these people to perform this behavior. This type of analysis could be the basis for a longer paper..."

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As you can see, everything is a load of BS.




And now I have to write some stupid paper on this.





The last thing I saw before my sleep is the Word Document file.
The first thing I saw after my sleep is still the Word Document file.

How can I see life?!?!