ian.Tam

Only a dumb ass would fall for this

So, I was bored and a bot somehow ‘intelligently’ got hold of my Live Messenger, being bored, I decided to try some stupid conversation out of it.

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Vicki says (6:26 PM):
hi
I am The IAN says (6:26 PM):
hye, i am ina
Vicki says (6:26 PM):
hi how are you today?
I am The IAN says (6:26 PM):
and you?
Vicki says (6:27 PM):
my name is  paris I’m doing great today I’m 21 yrs old how old are you?
I am The IAN says (6:27 PM):
feeling good tq
Vicki says (6:28 PM):
listen hun, I am just about to start my webcam show with jen, come chat me there in my chat room? We can cyber, I will get naked if u do..lol!
I am The IAN says (6:29 PM):
i see
Vicki says (6:29 PM):
I can show u how to watch free if u promise not to tell anyone else how to do it???PLEASE
I am The IAN says (6:29 PM):
what’s the catch?
Vicki says (6:30 PM):
well since its free the law that u gotta be 18 (nudity involved), u have to sign up with a credit card for age verification! BUT .. Once you are inside, just clikc on “Webcams” let me know what name you use to sign in with so I know it is you babe! http://www.localpartyground.com/melia/    fill out the bottom of the page then fill out the next page as well and u can see me live for free!
I am The IAN says (6:31 PM):
yeah right
Vicki says (6:31 PM):
Please dont mention anything about that in the chatroom once u get in ok?
I am The IAN says (6:32 PM):
how can I agree on that?
Vicki says (6:32 PM):
OH SHIT.. k I am late to start my show, I gotta get off msn…I will see ya inside my chatroom babe.. remember not to mention that I am upgrading u for free… You can use your msn name to sign in so i know it is you..
I am The IAN says (6:34 PM):
ok, go off and enjoy being naked
Vicki says (6:34 PM):
AUTO-RESPONSE: hey just in the middle of my free webcam show if you want to watch click the link http://www.localpartyground.com/melia/

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This is probably one of the most dumb chatbot I ever come across with very limited non-logical response.

It is happening again…

My current state of mind is so fucked up. Stress level at it’s peak, failing to understand people’s idiocy and at a point of giving up of what I had been fighting for. I am finding myself in a constant loop of problems. The same problems keep coming back, haunting me and repeating itself again and again, either with the same people or different people. I just want to forget my past, give up on what had been the ‘proudest moment’ of my life. Seeing it now, it is almost meaningless when the world means very little to you.

When I put it all out, explaining what I felt inside me, whether it is directed to someone in particular or nobody in particular, I will be called an emo, I am doing it because I am stressed and because I am not myself. For the fact that people whom does not know me well and saying that, it is the best and selfish way to avoid responsibility when in happier times you claim that we are friends and we are one big family. I sit down and think. I pick my words and actions, for what I think it is best at that moment. That is why I rarely apologize for what I have said or for what I have done even though fingers are pointing at me. Out of the many apologies, there are only a handful of people that I am sincere when I offer my apologies because they deserve it.

p/s Let’s wind the clock back to about 9 months ago, that is what is happening right now.

Halloween Street Party @ A'Famosa Resort

Jesselton Point, Kota Kinabalu

Location: Jesselton Point (former Port Authority port terminal), Kota Kinabalu
Date: 20th October 2009
Time: 10:30 pm to 11:00 pm

Tanjung Aru

Location: Tg Aru Beach 1, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
Date: 15th October 2009
Time: Sunset

Minolta Maxxum AF 50mm F1.7 1:1.7 added in

This is it…

One of the ‘legendary’ Minolta lens…

The 50mm f1.7 prime lens…

It’s in my possession now

Statue Bokeh

Spring Cleaning

Right after exam last Friday, I decided to spring clean my room. It was supposed to be a routine of moving everything out from the room, cleaning up the room and my stuff and re-arrange them back in my room. However, over the years, my junks had grown. It took me 2 days to ’spring clean’ my room. Baby helped me with moving out my belongings from the room and to clean the room.

Those were the things were moved out from my room.

This is how the room looks like after it was thoroughly cleaned.

The space under the bed shall be fully utilized…

All my belongings moved back in

Fifty Cents Marco test shots

Lazy way of asking for exam tips

Juniors now a day have never failed to amuse me with their ‘creativity’ side. At one moment, they can be scrambling for tips for almost every paper that they going to sit for exam, to the extend of spamming everyone in their YM list, yet the next thing I realized, they are busy updating Facebook, playing those Facebook games.

This is the problem. They put so much effort to hunt down last minute tips:

1. Meet every single lecturers, 1 day or 1 week before the xam or during the last lecture. Ask for tips and what questions will come out.
2. Tell their friends to ask their lecturers (if it is a different lecturer) the same thing.
3. Posting in online forums, asking for last minute tips and claiming that they are doing it because the lecturers are not helping them, they are not as smart as ’somebody’ so they have to ask for tips or other nonsense.
4. Spamming their contact list in their instant messenger asking for tips for almost every subjects they are taking.

Instead of doing those, why don’t you:

1. Compel yourself to successfully ‘understand’ the subject and pass the exam.
2. Do all your tutorials. Nothing from the tutorials that will not come out in your exam. It may not be similar, but it will be related.
3. You should have spent your time in lectures wisely. No, this does not mean paying  100% attention to your lecturers or achieving 100% attendance. These are nonsense and bullshit. You should have planned how you want to absorb the lecture given. The truth is, human can’t absorb anything 100% and our average attention life-span is 45 minutes. Make full use of that 45 minutes while you are still not yet sleepy. Pay attention to the lecture not the lecturer (I know some lecturers are cute, handsome, hot or they are just eye candy but by staring at them will not make you any smarter).
4. Do past year papers, not for the sake of doing exercise and memorizing on what going to come out but to build confidence and recognize the question patterns. In this way, you know where you can build your confidence. It is useful if you are the type that have low self confidence.

There are other things that you can do:

• Group study. Nothing in this world is free. Help your friends the same way you would expect them to help you.
• Look for tutors, lecturers and seniors who can help. Asking them for help once a while is perfectly fine but bugging them constantly is not. They are not paid for you to bug them constantly. Tutors and lecturers are paid to help you understand the subjects. Help yourself. Show some ‘appreciation’ if they are annoyed by your constant bugging. Once again, nothing in this world is free, so make sure you reward them accordingly.
• Be friends with those lone ranger seniors whom always sit behind because you and your buddies alienated them. By your definition, they may not be smart. Even if they are repeating that subject, they are indeed experienced (only applicable to those whom previously did not fail because they were once like you). Make full use of their experience. You do not want to be one of them if it so happen the next time you have to repeat your subjects.

This is a very popular practice in many universities, but not in MMU. There are external tutors that you can hire to give you tuition. They may be your own tutors, academicians from other universities or your seniors. They work the same way like your tuition teachers back during the school days. You pay them and they will try their best to help provided you are helping yourself. You might ask yourself, I have already paid so much to MMU for my fees, why do I need to fork out more money. My answer is, there is nothing as free lunch and do you want to pay a small amount of money to increase your likeliness of passing the subjects or you want to pay a hefty price(the term here implies the consequences of failing a subject) for repeating a failed subject and having your CGPA affected and Fs written on your transcripts?

Some of you who knows me may say of course I can say all these because I am ’smart’ or I am ‘different’. I can assure you I am different and smarter than you because I have only 15 minutes attention life-span, I definitely know how to differentiate what kind of approach that I need to take for my subjects and I am smart enough to know how to make good use of the time I spent in lectures. At the same time, I am no different or smarter than you. I am still a student and I still need to study.