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Changing of Lifestyle
Ok, so here's the deal. I'm going to perform a complete overhaul of my current lifestyle. 3 years of sedentary lifestyle in poly isn't working out for me. I wasn't really surprised by the NAPFA test results. I think I am lucky that I can even barely pass most of the test considering that I haven't really been exercising (going to the gym doesn't count, its more like a chatting session) for the past 3 years in poly.
So what's the deal? The goal is to at least restore my physical fitness to pre poly years or even surpass it. This is going to require me to change the way I currently live. This is going to require lots of discipline. Part of the purpose of writing this post is to force myself not to back out of the plan. So the plan is that I'll be going to practise running at school's track at 7.00am on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Sounds simple enough. But the addition of this simple activity is going to change my lifestyle. No longer can I sleep at 1-2am everyday. Reaching school at 7 means leaving home at 6 and that means waking up at 5:15 to change and make breakfast and all that means that I will have to sleep by 9pm the day before to ensure there is 8 hours of sleep. This means that I will not have the time to watch TV, read RSS feeds or do assignments on the night before. Of course FYP and assignments are still the highest priority now so they definitely have to be done before I sleep one way or another, so no more slacking in between classes and every single scrap of time needs to be properly utilised (no more late night works). The only time for leisure is weekends. All these translates into one big word: DISCIPLINE.
Its interesting and it has never occurred to me how just adding a one hour of activity will have such a big impact in the way I live.
2010
2010 is going to be a milestone in my life. A lot of things is going to happen in this year. This year is going to mark the end of my 3 year polytechnic education as well as entering national service. Isn't it great to have such a nice round number marking a major milestone in life? This is going to be a really exciting year filled with challenges for me. The previous sentence really sounds like a cliché but I'm sure its not. Graduating from Poly, new life, new friends in army. Its all going to happen this year.
Gun Phone
LOL, found this from shanzai.com in case you don't know that does shanzai (山塞) means, here's the official definition.
DEFINITION: Shanzai [San-zai -alt. sp.Shanzhai] 1. mountain fortress/bandit 2. a vendor, who operates a business without observing the traditional rules or practices often resulting in innovative and unusual products or business models.Those so called "China phones" are officially known as shanzai phones. The usage of the term shanzai is not only confined to phones, but to almost any products. They even created an MacBook Air netbook!
The age of consoles
So what if its a port? After all there are lots of console games being ported over to PC platform each year. What's the big deal for COD: MW2? The problem is Call of Duty series was originally developed for PC (using the Quake 3 arena engine) and eventually got popular on the PC platform. It had a huge fan following on the PC platform. Instead of the console version being secondary to the PC version, this time its the opposite! Remember, this is not Halo. This game has its roots in the PC platform.
What does this signify? There was once a time where people just thought that FPS will always be best played on the PC and its impossible to play FPS games using a controller with 2 joysticks. But apparently market forces is able to change this perception. The console market is absolutely larger than PC market. This is the reality and game makers have to come to terms with this new reality. They are simply going where the money is.
What will be left of gaming on PC? I think gaming will never go away on PC. After all, there are still tons of casual flash games, not to mention Facebook games. But those are just casual games. What about "hardcore" games for PC? One word (uhh... acronym), MMORPG. At least for now, PC is still home to casual flash games and MMORPG games.
Oscillating memory usage
My pc has been very sluggish these few days. I wasn't sure what was the problem. Finally I opened task manager and took a look at the memory usage.
I tried to identify whats the process responsible for this. Initially I looked at what process sucks up most memory, it just shows the usual memory suckers such as web browsers and Windows Live Messenger. I also noticed that the CPU usage is also a little erratic for an idle system. This time I found that its svchost and i took a look at service behind it. Guess who is it... Its Windows Defender! Needless to say, I went to services to disable it from ever starting again.
