i just had a go at Gallery 2.0, and it looks fantastic.
however, i don’t think i’ll be migrating the photo album just yet, as the code looks complicated and i won’t be able to create any new tool to read the G2 information. besides, G1 works alright so far.
took my mom to the yacht club today. there was a photography session for the youth teams sailing for the raja muda. due to most of them being tardy / missing, i had to pose as a sailor. 
kinda disheartening when they ask you to look away, preferring to take shots of your back/ass. it’s as if i’m not sailor material.
well, that is true. haven’t sailed for so long that i’ve forgotten the ropes. literally.
wheeeeee i just love the holidays!
took the entire day sorting out my computer stuff into proper boxes and drawers. there’s a lot more to clean up before Hari Raya.
haven’t even had a chance to play any games today. 
can’t blame the spring cleaning, cuz it all started with me messing around with some MT plugins at work (it was the last day of work before the hols and no one was doing anything seriously). stumbled upon the Gallery Link plugin, which is rather basic as it is, but provides ground for improvement.
so here i am, improving it.
to avoid my main page from getting messed up while i experiment with this, i only modified the individual entry template to show the pictures. i’ll probably add some ’sample’ functionality for the main page later.
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just as i leave my house for work today i run into two beatup vans trying to outdo each other in residential territory.
the drivers: somewhat uneducated skinny malays wearing caps. these types always wear caps while driving, don’t they?
kinda amazing how they manage to keep those derelict vehicles from falling apart driving so fast.
oh well. on another note, i seem to have botched my leave application for this coming holiday season. i seriously thought that i’d be on leave starting the 31st, but according to the system i’ll only be away 2nd onwards.
that means i have to come to work on monday! argh!
but just to double check, i’d better dig up my submitted leave form and see if it’s really true. :\
and here’s some updates on my pc status. as mentioned before, i’ve brought down the [CPU] frequency back to the original so that i can test each overclocked level / component thoroughly. so at the moment, i’m seeing how the overclocked [GPU] fares. it’s currently running at 450MHz/350MHz, which is quite alright. 3dmark03 scores show a +1000 point improvement. and with my SATA drive all nicely set up, BF2 load times have never been faster. so far, i’m always the first person to enter a map after its loaded, so the attack chopper is usually mine, all mine! 
:D
7 things that scare me:
1. marriage
2. poverty
3. malaysian drivers
4. things that go bump in the office
5. spending the nights in unfamiliar places
6. sadako
7. myself
7 random facts:
1. sits at the computer ’til he falls asleep every night
2. likes to eat out with friends
3. has never confessed his love to anyone before they do (family doesn’t count)
4. almost broke his back doing a backflip into a pool
5. has yet to break a bone
6. addicted to work, but lazy
7. horny, constantly
7 things I hope to do before I die:
1. skydive
2. tour the world
3. earn riches
4. find a loving partner
5. find the fountain of youth
6. experience interplanetary travel
7. get free electricity
7 things I can do:
1. hum a tune with impromptu lyrics
2. mess with Merv
3. play mahjong!
4. ogle
5. sleep at odd locations in odd positions at odd times
6. make people laugh
7. pay 100% attention to a particular activity
7 people I pass this to:
1. kittenz
2. tetrino
3. hemlocke
4. ichaya
5. pikey
6. becky
7. naf
finished transferring all my “goods” from my old hard drive to the new one. it’s now unplugged and idling in my chassis at the moment, while i figure out what exactly i should do with it.
with my PSU fan speed on minimum, my computer is soooooo quiet now. means i can make it work while i sleep.
think i should get a chassis fan just to help the airflow a bit. as it is now, with the casing closed up, the cpu and mobo idles at about 38 degrees. could be better i think.
anyway, took the car straight to DU today to fix its dire overheating problem. before this i had to refill the radiator every two weeks, but since i took a bad bump hit in bangsar a few days ago, i’ve had to do that every day pretty much.
seems that the steel pipe that runs through the engine is badly rusted, and one end of it, where the hole is plugged by a rubber stopper (which when removed allows you to flush the cooling system), is so thinned out that water is seeping through. the mechanic had to saw that edge off to plug the leak.
hopefully that would be the end of my overheating woes. but i’ll still carry that big bottle of water in my trunk, just in case.
since i was already there, i serviced the car as well. and since i was in pj, i took the liberty of spending the next two hours looking for parking in pj state to pick up my new mykad. daym, i’ve forgotten the feeling of a newly serviced car. and daym, i feel much better having picked up my mykad after delaying for 3 months (another few days and i’d have to pay a hundred ringgit fine). ooh, and i had my breaks cleaned out as well. maybe the handbrake turn will work this time.
