9th July 2008
5.19.2008
Last week we launched Plurk - a social journal we have been working on for the past 6 months.
There are already a bunch of social networks out there and some compare and contrast are bound to happen. That’s ok. I do want to share some personal thoughts about the kind of social networking problems […]
5.18.2008
“What is the purpose of good design if there is no one who can use it? Like the mythical tree that falls in a forest if no one heard it crash, is a product’s design any good if it remains on a museum’s pedestal? […]
When a product is lauded by the industry and the critics […]
4.24.2008
I could never quite get why my blonde crush, Rachel McAdams dated Ryan Gosling. I mean he sounds like a goose, for one thing. Yeh yeh he’s a good actor, I give him that. But other than that, it’s pretty obvious to me I’m the more attractive one when it comes to miscellaneous details like […]
12.18.2007
Happy holiday and happy new year. Drive and fly and walk safe. May 2007 brings you a happy and warm closure. :-)
11.23.2007
surely you’ve listened to one of those songs where the starting makes you go ‘hmmm, this is nice’ and then somewhere in minute 0.34, it starts to show symptoms of a sad bastard song, morphing slowly into a grungy, screaming, emo-itic, ‘i want to die’ crescendo, before dying down literally to a mellow and […]
11.11.2007
I thought I will only see Windozz’s error message on UNL student union lobby’s LCD. Apparently it’s everywhere!
that’s what we used to call it before ‘Phoenix’ and ‘Firebird’…
now you won’t have trouble navigating your remote with your toe!
9.12.2007
Because they are autodidacts. The main purpose of higher education and making all the smartest kids from one school come together with all the smartest kids from other schools, recursively, is to show every smart kid everywhere that they are not the smartest kid around, that no matter how smart they are, they are […]
8.4.2007
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Song Title
Artist
Say Hello
Rosie Thomas
Throw It All Away
Brandi Carlile
Just a Dream
Great Northern
Our Bleeding Hearts
Great Northern
Home
Great Northern
West Coast
Coconut Records
The Quiet Things No One Ever Knows
Brand New
Shitty Day
SoKo
Alfie
Lily Allen
Until June - You Do
until june
Four Winds
Bright Eyes
Young Folks
Peter Bjorn and John
If This City Never Sleeps
Rosie Thomas
Boy With A Coin
Iron And Wine
7.31.2007
Regular Expression Test Tool
Scorched 3D - A 3D Remake Of Scorched Earth
IconDrawer
Open Source Social Platforms: 10 of the Best
Narrative JavaScript
Web Reflection: JavaScript prototypal inheritance using known libraries
TED | Talks | Will Wright: Toys that make worlds (video) SPORE! Will Wright is truly an amazing visionary. Can’t wait for the […]
7.25.2007
Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All He got a point and he’s funny but man it would stress me out having him as a colleague. Software tester/developer with an interest in statistical analytic topics should read this.
Why Germans Supported Hitler, Part 1 A good read. So much can be put […]
7.22.2007
August edition of Wired’s magazine has an article chronicling the search and rescue mission of programmer, database guru, Turing Award recipient, Jim Gray who remains missing until this day. It’s a sad and tragic story.
His disappearance prompted, according to an interview given by a veteran deputy of the Coast Guard to Mercury News, the largest strictly civilian, […]
7.21.2007
Best. Project Name. Ever.by Skevin (16048)
Bill: [with a Fed-Ex delivery of the new version of Windows] Linus, I never got to tell you how much I admire you and your operating system.Linus: What’s in the box, Bill?Bill: When I saw your operating system, I wanted all the features in it. Everything from the widgets on […]
7.15.2007
Classic design pattern overkill [funny]
Hell on Earth: The never before seen colour photographs of the bloody battle of Passchendaele | the Daily Mail Amazing photos behind a hellish battle
New Moscow, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
7.10.2007
Changing Active Directory passwords - code samples in Perl and PHP Bookmark this because I want to steal some nifty javascript codes from the site.
Regular Expression Basics | evolt.org
welcome to DinPattern Some very good background patterns in here.
7.6.2007
Honda-Tech.com: General Discussion and Debate: Oh Dear Lord! BEEEES! Man VS Bees
Scalable CSS Buttons Using PNG and Background Colors | David?s kitchen
The Parable of the Two Programmers One of the best tech stories I’ve read this month. The other is the Wired article on Hans Reiser.
7.2.2007
Zombies. Ninjas. Hot Lava. - holy shit I am so gonna watch Transformers.
parseUri 1.2: Split URLs in JavaScript
Exclusive Photographer/Videographer : sodafish | iStockphoto.com
Flickr: Photos from roboready Cute robots!
Hypertext Style: Cool URIs don’t change.
duffs device | doc.cat-v.org | /sys/doc/ Documentation archive
6.28.2007
camera on kite
HTML Purifier - Filter your HTML the standards-compliant way!
Free font - regular cargo : Design : Brand Spanking New
6.27.2007
Data Mining Tools - JJW Design
Foreign capital doesn?t have to put up with NEP Brilliantly written.
New in JavaScript 1.7 - MDC
Alex Faaborg - » Quantitative Design …Unfortunately simplicity is not necessarily king, pressing and holding the back button isn?t exactly discoverable, but the controls are noticeably simpler.
The Dilbert Blog: Champagne Moments humble read […]
6.24.2007
Peter Saville Graphic Design - fonts Some very good quality fonts here.
Dubai in the fog - a photoset on Flickr wow. just wow.
WebHome < ASAP < TWiki It’s for actionscript as prototype library is for javascript.
6.22.2007
techno.blog(”Dion”): GSpreadsheet: JavaScript Helper for Google Spreadsheets
Alex Faaborg - » Engaged! Firefox UI designer is getting engaged. Sweet quote: After work in the evening I?ll often get her feedback on some UI mockups I?m working on for Firefox, and she?ll swab out the inside of my cheek to get enough DNA to run in […]
6.21.2007
Dramatic Chipmunk - CollegeHumor video you need to keep replaying it to get the laughter out loud.
Size isn’t everything for the modest creator of SQLite | Technology | Guardian Unlimited Technology I really enjoy this interview. He’s a very humble guy.
Malaysian Factory Rooftop Ad? on Flickr - Photo Sharing! polution caught in act.
6.20.2007
enigma.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) amazing flash enigma encryption program
FONTSELF - A bitmap font & text engine
copper - waterfall if only my dog can be this witty and smart…
The Old New Thing : I’m pretty sure he’s going to be the envy of his next school reunion why Masi Oka is hot…
6.18.2007
xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe sorry for the multiple xkcd bookmarks but i really gotta jot this down.
MyStoreSpace.com Company Blog: MyStoreSpace launches at eBay Live! (But My Google Shirt rains on the parade) yep it’s probably very true now - Ebay hates Google to the bones.
best […]
6.16.2007
Manchester United’s right back, Gary Neville and midfielder, Michael Carrick got married recently. It’s definitely a good year to do that :).
6.14.2007
You, Jeepies? - Worse Than Failure One of the best entries in dailyWTF.
Custom Google Map Overlays The Stanford Google Maps is darn impressive.
Will & Grace Font | dafont.com
Free Toolbar Icons for Mac OS X Developers by WebAppers
Open curly: Confessions of a Samurai Coder
6.12.2007
A JavaScript Module Pattern » Yahoo! User Interface Blog
Sling Font | dafont.com
pinvoke > Fonts
6.9.2007
CSSTYPE v2 (BETA) - web safe typography on screen for pixel perfectionists
Free Vectors by Vecteezy!
Publicité & Communication Responsables
6.7.2007
Everyone loves tall, blonde, hot women tennis players from former Soviet Union. But I think I like this Serbia’s sweetheart. My dad is a huge Justine Henin fan but I’m rooting for Ana.
She will win :).
Update: She lost….very badly. I think it’s something like 6-1, 6-1. :(
6.7.2007
Web Reflection: JSTONE - JavaScript Temporary Object Notation Engine
Resources: (Non-Google) Geocoders & Reverse Geocoders - Google Maps API | Google Groups aha. even better geocoding!
SunLightLabs API I could make use of this for the ‘feeling’ project to find coordinates by inputting city and state
6.5.2007
Lightweight device-detection in PHP | dev.mobi
The X Library Index a bunch of JS scripts
Google in 20 years
6.4.2007
UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
MATHIEU BADIMON
APE - Actionscript Physics Engine
Im just a kid in the middle of all this? » Blog Archive » GammaSlamma 1.1 Update Now Available
The Ultimate Reset Button | Seen On Slash instrument of death…
6.1.2007
TED: Ideas worth spreading amazing talks by amazing people
EVE Online Scandal Deliberate Frame-Job? | Seen On Slash comment like this is the reason why ./ is still worth reading.
metropolis ::: out of home communication
5.29.2007
Geocoding multiple addresses The good and bad.
YouTube - Ode To Zach Braff I love Zach Braff too, but not that much!
ongoing · Big NetBeans 6.7 millions lines of codes now…..@_@
5.27.2007
Performance Optimization A must read if you’re using Dojo.
SHOWROOM
How to get a free meal at McDonald’s :: Awesome Brilliant! I have to try this.
5.23.2007
Efficient JavaScript - Opera Developer Community
Lessons From Google Mobile - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
Human 2.0 Which one are you?
5.20.2007
yeawen.com » Blog Archive » ??????????? Yeah it’s about me.
CASS-Hacks - Javascript URL Encode/Decode
menyhart.net : blog » Enabling curl on XAMPP
5.19.2007
Sparkline PHP Graphing Library
We Feel Fine / by Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar amazing….just simply amazing.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | De Niro and Pacino pair up again omygawd omygawd!!!! Heat was like one of my all time favorite. Now if they can cast Val Kilmer too…
5.17.2007
Alex Faaborg - » Microformats - Part 4: The User Interface of Microformat Detection
One-Line JavaScript Memoization at Oliver Steele
Free Photoshop Brushes by Brusheezy
Shinybinary v2.1 - Art and designs of Nik Ainley amazing art work
3.30.2007
Has any of you ever wondered how messed up the political situation is on the east side of Asia? I have, ever since I was 12 (my mom always said I worry too much).
See, on one side you have the North Korean and South Korean constantly ‘peeking’ each other over at the DMZ line. But […]
1.25.2007
When I started Puppylab studio 2 years ago, it was mainly a big cover-up plan for myself to get away from having to establish a one-man studio on my own. I hated the idea of doing everything by yourself and showing it to the world - it was simply too narcissistic for me. I still […]
12.12.2006
When you compare the specs for OpenId and hCard, you might see two totally different things. OpenID is more like your state ID/driver license while hCard is like a business card (I suck at analogy). But they do share one common feature - an Open Standard.
Let me talk a little about OpenID. First, OpenID […]
8.12.2006
Shinobi
Dog Soldiers
Gedo Senki (Tales from Earthsea)
Taepong
7.4.2006
Well, obviously that won’t happen. Italy scored 2 goals at the last minute of the extra time. I’m shattered. Bloody hell~
When Jurgen Klinsmann and Lothar Mattheous lifted the trophy in 1990 on their triumph over Maradona’s Argentina, that moment brought football into my life. That moment, I was made a Germany football fan for life. […]
6.28.2006
I love story, great story. A great story can be a simple one-liner, ‘once upon a time’ or what just happened five minutes ago. It can be fictions or true events, sad or happy.
I truly believe many great stories are being left untold. Those that do, well, get turned into motion pictures or books […]
4.30.2006
United 93 was a stressful movie. I got out of the cinema thinking this is one of those movie I will not watch again. Should had gone for Ice Age 2. I could use some laughters this weekend. Oh well~
Woke up at 11 on Sunday. One of these days I have to make it to […]
4.27.2006
Things might get wacky here tonight…….
In the mean time, you can check out these variants of the Wonderwall theme.
4.18.2006
I hope you will like it as much as I do. :)
Download Wonderwall (alpha)
4.17.2006
If every softwares prepare a user-friendly, funny and thoughtful defensive design (like adium does here), maybe users will be more apologetic, rather than going ‘oh fuck!’
3.3.2006
I know I know, it’s not like I update Daily Misery with 10 posts per day or anything. But my draft ‘repository’ just keeps getting bigger because I find some drafts to have too little content to be turned into a post. But they are post-worthy nevertheless. Snippets are cool in a sense that most […]
2.22.2006
No, this is not going to be a long post :-).
Personally, I look at both Digg and Slashdot as different kind of sites. Stuff like the newest css hacks, javascript functions or Mac gadgets make it to the front page of Digg all the time whereas topics in /. often covers stuff on GPL, nanotech, […]
2.19.2006
Another wonderful recommendation. A great ’snack’ movie.
Flying Boys
Psst: Apparently someone from Lincoln, Nebraska has won the $365 millions lottery. Funny how I drove pass the billboard a couple days ago thinking ‘Damn, that’s a lot of money. Maybe I should give it a try….’ Advise to self - Do, dont think.
2.17.2006
I’ve just uploaded three batches of photos. The first one was taken during Keat Siang and Weijet’s farewell party. Second batch is from Chinese New Year’s dinner and the last one was taken at my work place. It has been a happy, fun month.
Thanks to Huinee for the photos. Here’re some previews. You can head […]
2.16.2006
My Macbook will have to wait. Car loan can wait too. The same goes to healthy food, utility bills, rent and whatever else deem unnecessary. In fact all things can wait. But not this. Ho Ho Ho.
2.10.2006
I decided to power up my photoshop and splashed a couple of high res. wallpapers based on the trilogy. There’re two themes - dark and white. Enjoy.
1024 x 768
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1600 x 1200
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1600 x 1200
2.7.2006
A lof of stuff happens around the world today. In Europe you have the whole Islam caricatures thingie and it is spreading fast across the globe. Then in middle east you have the Iran’s nuclear crisis and as always, the Israel and Palestine and of course, the oil. Turn to Asia you will see China […]
1.28.2006
I’ve been getting more emails than usual lately and it’s getting hard for me to keep up with my try-to-reply-every-emails motto. Over time, it had also turned into a somewhat repetitive process when the same questions kept reappearing. So I thought maybe an f&q session would make all of our lives easier. Here’re the 5 […]
1.25.2006
I prepare a little delicacy for all Daily Misery’s readers for this coming Chinese New Year. Hit the refresh button on your browser and everyone gives me my *ang pao!
This year is the dog year - my year! woot!
*ang pao - red packet stuffed with money.
1.18.2006
1.) If you haven’t know, Google doesn’t sell ads to tobacco and alcohol company. They are ok with porn. But our SEM account manager told me they are VERY strict in regards to porn advertising. Huh?
2.) Using Java can lead to death (at least according to MS licenses)
“The software product may contain support for programs […]
1.15.2006
Time for DM’s entertainment weekly report.
Saw three movies over the last couple of days. Fortunately, they were all not bad. None of them blew my mind away, but they gave me two good hours each. Seven swords is a medieval action movie, SPL is a gangster-police action movie and 3 iron is a weird, but […]
1.11.2006
Let me share some of my experiences while working on Daily Misery’s latest design.
Font-weight:bold is ugly. For some reasons bolded text does not work for me, be it Arial or Verdana or helvetica. I guess I just love the sharpness of clean types and prefer to increase the size of the type to get […]
1.11.2006
A friend of mine, Thomas, sent this over via IM this morning.
read… its quite lame/funnni
Year 1981
1. Prince Charles got married
2. Liverpool crowned Champions of Europe
3. Australia lost the Ashes
4. Pope Died
Year 2005
1. Prince Charles got married
2. Liverpool crowned Champions of Europe
3. Australia lost the Ashes
4. Pope Died
In future, if Prince Charles decides to re-marry […]
1.4.2006
This picture cracks me up for a good number of times. INCOMING!!!!
After years of slaving myself to Hollywood movies and Cannes-Sundance wannabes, I realized for the past few years the movies i really enjoyed and loved came from the east - Asia. They produce the darkest, bloodiest, and most thought provoking movies. You want uniqueness […]
1.2.2006
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Hmmph, until i get this flash player to support chinese character encoding, you guys will just have to cope with my chinglish translation. Anyway, I stumbled across a couple of good chinese songs over the holidays, hoe you guys will like it too.
12.26.2005
Things might be a little bit wacko here in Daily Misery over the next couple of days. I am upgrading Wordpress to the latest version and plan to change a couple of things here and there in alvinwoon.com.
A new design to welcome 2006 maybe?
Stay tune.
12.15.2005
Most of my friends who are still in school are having their final exam this week. I spent the most part of the evening with Ryan who was studying for his Communication Network exam tommorow. He was putting the final touch into his project report while I was sipping away my hot chocolate reading the […]
12.12.2005
This is the full list of the software I have in my current workstation. It gives you a general idea of what a web developer has in his/her machine. Hopefully it will justifies our plea for more RAM…
Note: Click on the picture for the full list screenshot.
12.12.2005
I’d watched three movies for the last three days and there were all so good I think you all should pay me money just for reading this recommendation.
Or I can always hypnotize you. “You are getting tired, you do not want another crappy movie, you want an Alvin’s recommendation list, now when I snap […]
12.12.2005
One of the better crafted campaign effort for Commercial Film Producers of Europe. By TBWA\PHS, Finland.
Via Advertising/Design Goodness.
12.5.2005
Hehe, I sounded weird in the video. But boy was that the worst blizzard I have ever encountered. The visibility was less than 5 meters and snow flakes were hitting our car like raining bullets. We had to sing and make jokes along the way to control the tension and fear that our car will […]
12.4.2005
We were tired after running around like turkeys trying to hit each other with snow…errr powder. None of them knows how to make a proper snow ball except me. Muahaha, it comes with experience, guys.
I like this picture :). Three boneheads lying on the snow freezing our back trying to take a decent photo shot […]
12.3.2005
Have been wanting to write about this British movie for a while ever since I watched it a couple weeks ago. I will let the trailer does the talking.
View Trailer
Fell in love with the song that appears near the end of the trailer? There you go.
[http://www.alvinwoon.com/blog/wp-content/images/14.- El Bosco - Nirvana.mp3]
12.1.2005
Today is World AIDS Day. A Belgian advertising agency called Duval Guillaume created this commercial and I think it portrays the message of AIDS very well. Very very well indeed.
11.28.2005
A Bosnian city has erected a statue of Bruce Lee to commemorate his 65th birthday, as a symbol of universal peace — Bruce was apparently equally popular on all sides of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.
“We will always be Muslims, Serbs or Croats,” said Veselin Gatalo of the youth group […]
11.22.2005
Oooh Oooh. It’s Karena! It’s Karena!
Ok she’s like my number one favourite chinese female star. Second down my list would be Vivian Hsu but most of my friends hate her, I dont know why.
So I went ahead and bought this Karena’s CD from yesasia. God, I almost forgot how much I used to like […]
11.22.2005
This is a direct quote from Paul Graham’s latest essay - Web2.0. If you havent subscribe to his feed, you should. He speaks the mind of people like me who wants to make the web an easier and cleaner place for everyone.
At Y Combinator we advise all the startups we fund never to lord it […]
11.22.2005
Someday I’m going to get heart attack as a result of these increasingly ‘real’ spam mails.
*Address checked out to be from Department of Justice. Sneaky…*
11.21.2005
1.) How to get rid of hiccups? This is specially linked for Huinee.
2.) Puppylabians feature in mcville’s interview column. Thanks for having us, Marko. Guess what, Shaun Inman and Jon Hicks are also featured in there. Woot!
3.) Finally found out a way to validate email input that ends with ‘@[ipaddress]’ in form. The magical regular […]
11.19.2005
Watching this video reminds me so much of my Inti college life. It is the exact same setting, garage, instrument and crazy band members. Except the fact that we had a REAL dummer who was this hot girl with attitude. It was crazy fun and we were a close bunch, real close. It’s probably one […]
11.19.2005
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11.15.2005
Thing is, I dont think I have to write a review for this movie. It’s one of those rare pieces that can justify its own full stars rating by just showcasing the line up of the production crews. World class filmaker, Pen-ek Ratanaruang directed it. Lead actor is the ever-stunning Asanon Tadanobu (Zatoichi, Ichi the killer, Bright Future or as Huinee likes to put it - the jellyfish movie). I watched all those three movies by him, all in this year alone and I tell you this guy is going to be BIG. I mean really BIG not as in genitalia BIG but stardom BIG. He is the Asia’s Johnny Depp in my heart. Last but not least, the legendary cinematographer, Christopher Doyle (2046, In The Mood For Love, Hero, Rabbit Proof Fence). I have a love and hate thingie going on with this dude. Sometimes he makes the movie clicks so well you just help yourself up and give him a thunderous round of applause (Wu jian dao). But other times it pretty much goes like this - WTF? in font size 72 (2046).
People needs to make more of this kind of movie. It reminds you of the many wonderful things you used to feel after watching a great movie.
11.11.2005
There’re currently 285 posts in Daily misery. Of those, there’re some that I really enjoyed writing and have personal liking over others. They are also most likely something I would love to share with my readers. So I installed a plugin called Noteworthy by Jamie Saunders hoping that it will helps me gently keep track […]
11.10.2005
Pinkpau’s latest hypothesis theory on why Impulsive force formula is a total lie.
hey you know what, i believe i have single handedly proven the Impulsive force formula wrong. okay lah maybe not that grand, but i swear to you that the (mv-mu)/t formula does not work when you are utilizing the toilet. wait waitttttt, hear […]
11.9.2005
自己一向來都很喜歡讀華文文章, 也很羨慕那些一拿起筆就能很自然寫出好好聽的句子的人.
怪就怪在自己本身華語教育不是很好 (SPM = 6C. 干!), 漢語評英又爛, 每次只好用 a b c 來表達心里想說的話.
但今晚的我不想再當那個’水紅色’的人了, 大家就給個機會讓這個’粉紅色’的人說說他的華語吧.
(哇, 好累. 三行句子好心花了我整整一個多小時!)
Ok, 故事開始….
很久很久以前, 不, 應該說是最近….也不對..
就說一直以來吧, 都很喜歡這一位女孩.
她時不時就對我發疲氣, 又常常對我投訴說自己很胖, 像只野豬.
跟她在一起很烦, 很累, 很氣. 短短在一起的時間不知讓我掉了幾根頭髮, 生了多少痘痘, 連每天大便都黑青青的.
搞了半年也搞不清楚自己為什麼那麼喜歡這個愛生氣的胖子.
但很開心, 真的真的很開心.
過後她開始自責曾經給過我的快樂, 不安內疚曾擁抱過我的溫柔.
也算了吧. 已經很滿足了….說真的.
他媽的, 不知不覺又失落起來了. 不寫了. 晚安.
11.7.2005
My apology for all the video postings. It was one of those serene nights where I had one hand on keyboard and another holding a beer while the melancholic melodies blasting on background covering every inches of my rational senses.
I just realized I’ve always wanted to certain things before I reach 40.
1.) Go to […]
11.3.2005
Due to the many requests from family and friends back in Malaysia, I’ve posted some pictures of my crib in the newly polished Pixel of my life. Enjoy!
Note: You might have to refresh your browser to load the spanking new design ^_^.
11.3.2005
I started my early day by turning on my coffee maker without putting in the coffee pot. Hot and fresh coffee spilled all over my kitchen table by the time I got out of the bathroom. About a week ago I sent a mail with my own address as both the sender’s and return address. […]
11.2.2005
His pictures are captivating. So much emotions and depthness involved.
11.1.2005
If you would kindly leave your name (gotta get my form validation set up soon), maybe we can work out whatever issue we might have. Even though I have a large fanbase across multiple continents, I dont recall ever blocking anyone from my contact list. Let me know ^_^.
10.31.2005
I watched Saw II yesterday. I am having a terrible headache this morning because I wasnt able to sleep well last night.
This.Is.Bad
10.30.2005
I just watched Saw I and I afraid I wont be able to sleep at all for the rest of the night. If you are free and would love some corny and one way conversation with me, call me and we’ll talk till the sunlight is bright enough for me to sleep.
It’s 4.20 am. Tik […]
10.28.2005
1.) My eldest sister chinese writings/articles.
2.) Hui Sing’s char kua tiao.
3.) All the old CS clan members.
4.) Astro
5.) Mom’s cooking.
6.) Daddy’s angry face.
7.) Sisters fight (we are talking about World War 3 here).
8.) Soccer ‘kaki’ which happens to be ‘teh tarik kaki’ too.
9.) You.
10.26.2005
Joleyn and I had came to this conclusion that in near future, I will stay home to code and cook while she goes outside and makes a decent wage to support my cocaine addiction. It is sad that thing has to come this way.
10.25.2005
I am going to bitch about standards and their conformity level in the web technology world today.
I ask myself the same question almost everyday while developing web sites/applications that are cross platform, cross browser and cross-whatever-people-like-you-and-me are using to access the web.
10.22.2005
I know, I know. ‘Morning glory’ doesnt really last that long after all. After launching puppylab.com, I have this sudden crush on elegant and classy design based on clean and simple look. There’s nothing wrong with the pink color on previous design. Neither do I hate the long list of links at the right sidebar. […]
10.20.2005
Ryan Lim says:
aku mau tidurrrrrrr
Alvin - -_- says:
aku pun!
Ryan Lim says:
hahaha
Ryan Lim says:
aku kena dengar BR…..
Ryan Lim says:
mata ku jadi berat………
10.14.2005
Our web designer, David asked me to turn around and say hi while I was stressed out over that stupid Ecommerce bug, so I flipped him. He made it into a movie, with music. I couldnt complain.
10.12.2005
Dear Daily Misery,
I know I havent spend much time with you lately. You are lonely, and I apologize for that. I wish I can bring you to the playground, to meet those awesome people I’d met over the weeks, tell you all the great and crappy movies I’d watched, all the foods, cakes and beers […]
10.12.2005
So I was trying to log in to my Cingular account today and guess what, it gave me unstyled pages all the way! It looked like the stylesheet was not being cached or linked properly or something until I read the ‘error’ message on top of the page.
10.9.2005
Something must had gone terribly wrong in my head when I somehow promised Joleyn I was going to make dinner for us earlier today. My fridge was (and still is) as always, empty and I havent do my dishes for like a week. There was me, holding the pan in one hand and a spoon […]
9.27.2005
Dont ask why, i got an ‘INSIST‘ bounty on my head.
SEVEN THINGS….
Seven things that scare me.
1. chiwawa
2. spiders
3. horror movies
4. headless object
5. President Bush
6. boy band
7. sissy girls
Seven things I like (this is easy, i just cut and paste from my ‘about‘ page
1. cheesecake with raspberry toppings
2. watermelon
3. dark beer
4. Jessica Simpson’s breasts
5. ultra-silent keyboard
6. […]
9.25.2005
Sorry for the lack of activity recently. Had been real busy with life and other’s people life lately *ahem*. But hey, pictures are worth a thousand words, or so they say.
Taken from my balcony.
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Awesome formation of birds migrating. (largest swarm flock i ever seen)
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Maggie mee dinner at my place with Huinee and Ryan. Hehe, we […]
9.22.2005
A web developer life would be so much easier if
a.) IE and Gecko based browser (Firefox) are identical twins.
b.) flash’s swf. size can still go under 10kb even if you put gazillions bunch of stuff flying around in there.
c.) there exists a full fledge, software suite just for debugging javascript.
d.) three monitors set-up are as […]
9.22.2005
Above is the latest satellite image tracking the Rita hurricane. My cousin and her family live in Houston. At this time of writing, I received an email from her saying that her whole family are evacuating to Dallas. I hope everyone stays safe and let’s hope this will be over soon.
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You can keep track of […]
9.18.2005
All about the weirdness
I woke up this morning and felt the need to shave. After applied the cream, I realized I ran out of Gillette. So instead of saying ’shit’ and proceed to wash off the cream from my face, I went to take my camera and took this shot. Maybe it was the nightmare […]
9.15.2005
-_-||| - this smiley which was introduced to me by her, represent in many ways my what-the-hell, har? , *speechless* or like-that-also-can-meh emotions. Recently I found myself on several occasions where only this particular smiley can best describe my facial expression.
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David, our web designer, came out of the restroom holding a magazine and pointed his […]
9.13.2005
–Prelude–
I ran ran ran ran, then I stopped.
Stop to gaze at the blue mist from the morning rain,
The fog was so thick I ran around in loop.
chased by a dog, hit by a car, shit my pant and faint.
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Pick myself up and ran again.
This time I ran and shout and wake everybody up.
Like a crazy […]
9.12.2005
Kids are probably the most beautiful subject of all living creations. David J. Nightingale shows us why.
9.10.2005
Its been a very long while since I last added any photos into my flickr moblog. Everything ranging from cam whoring while shopping at Aeropostle to waiting for train to cross to hot chocolate with cream on top are added to the page. Hope you all enjoy the photos.
9.10.2005
90% of the geek world might have hated them to guts, but I would only turn around and go against the flow for this one time by giving Microsoft a two big thumbs up for their latest innovation/research website. It is made entirely with flash (yes, I’ve always stressed that this is a big NO […]
9.8.2005
Gas price is hiking. Autumn is coming. Xbox 2 is going to hit the market soon. Iraq is still doing its…uhm..liberating thing.. and Daily Misery is changing. Welcome back, everyone.
So what’s the deal?
This project serves as a great platform for me in experimenting ways to lay out an aesthetically pleasing, standard complaint and content-centric website. […]
8.24.2005
This picture concludes my long and exhausting moving journey from 25th to 23rd street (approximately 200 steps). I manage to get all the furniture in and set up my workstation. Hang this last piece of the jigsaw - a miniature MAN United jersey by my eldest sister - outside my bedroom door. Speaking of […]
8.24.2005
Wee I got internet! Let me set everything up first before I post some overdue entries.
8.22.2005
I havent been able to write much lately because I’m still waiting for the cable guy to come and set up my internet connection. Just chip in to let everyone know that I’m still alive and kicking.
By the way, this must has been the ugliest CSS code I ever written. Hey, as long as it […]
8.16.2005
Today I was on the brink of throwing both my fists to the dual monitors in front of me at work. All because of one stupid javascript drop down menu. It worked perfectly in html, but once I migrated it to an aspx page, it borked! So I began carrying out a couple of debugging […]
8.15.2005
You can only apologize for so many times when you realized what you’d done in the past was very wrong. You can only apologize much lesser than that if it was done by your previous grandfather or great grand father. You shouldnt even be apologizing if it was your ancestor who did the sin, […]
8.8.2005
It’s 6.31 pm and so here I am, in this little town called Beatrice, working and prophesizing my way of life to Kiki Lala. All these while staring at the walls looking out for spiders (we do have lots of them here, besides from raccoons). Tired and bored, my fingers somehow brought me back to […]
8.6.2005
I am too tired to write about it right now. Its one of those so-fun-that-you’re-so-tired-at-the-end-of-the-day trip. Wish there’re more bikini girls and less a mad dog.
Oh almost forget. Here’re are the photos.
8.5.2005
Never have I felt the need to have one but its probably appropriate to make a rough sketch of it now before I got hanged for one of my entries.
» Some All my entries are real and truthful in my own words. Many things are open to personal interpretation and I cant force people to […]
8.2.2005
Finally, ho ho ho. There’s a reason why I only had two haircuts in the states even after almost three years residing here. The barbers here just suck so bad you wish they would just shave all the hair off. That little picking-my-nose pose is just an added bonus for all the readers ^_^.
8.1.2005
Its exactly one year today I’ve blogged in alvinwoon.com. I am glad it is still part of my life, despite numerous attempts to close it down or taking those long hiatus periods.
Unfortunately, postings will be far and few during the next coming few weeks as I am moving to a new place and with […]
7.31.2005
I participated in a volleyball tournament on Saturday. It was jointly organized by CSSA (chinese something something), LFFS (Lincoln Friends something something) and NUMSA (Nebraska University Malaysia something something), Fun, sweaty and a good little get together among all the members of the organizations. Got to know a couple new friends, managed to add a […]
7.31.2005
I found this pretty cool Ajax stuff written by Garrison Locke in the websphere last night. So i installed it and now everyone can play it in alvinwoon.com ^_^.
This is just like the magnetic poetry kits you’ve seen before except this is on the internet! It saves state when you release a piece. It updates […]
7.27.2005
When I first decided to name this blog ‘Daily Misery’, I wasnt really expecting it to be like a daily journal to put all my misery life’s experiences into perspectives, much less for public viewing. Nor it supposes to depict what my real life is really about. It was just a name that I felt […]
7.26.2005
It was pouring today. I almost forget how much I miss the rain. Driving to work during days like this makes up for all the problematic troubles off and on road.
[sarcasm]Of course, since I’d just washed my car over the weekend, it could not have come at a more perfect time.[/sarcasm]
7.24.2005
Everyone deserves a second chance. In many ways I think that sounds a lot easier to say when you’re not the one that have to look people in the eyes everyday and wonder whether they know what you’ve done in the past. What’s the worst thing one could have done to be put into that […]
7.22.2005
List of thing I need to get done by tommorow:
1.) Go to Walmart to buy a paper shredder. Too many confidential letters from bank and co. that need to be rid of.
2.) Clean the interior of my car. And also restroom.
3.) Malaysia’s password passport renewal.
4.) Watch movie with friends.
5.) Grocery.
It would be nice if someone […]
7.21.2005
Daily Misery so far supports the following browsers and OS.
Windozzz:
Firefox 1.0+
Internet Explorer 6.0
Netscape 8.0 (this browser suprises me in so many ways, despite what some people in the OS community had said)
Mac:
Firefox 1.0+
Linux:
Firefox 1.0+
I have also discontinued support for the following ‘legacy’ browsers:
- Mac’s IE (all versions), Windozz’s IE (5.0 or any other prior versions). […]
7.20.2005
I always know that someday I’m going to write an entry about her. Turns out that day arrives earlier than I would expect.
3 years, 4 months and 6 days. That’s how long we’ll be together during this time of writing, if we didnt break up back then. We managed 3 years 1 month and 2 […]
7.17.2005
If there’s one thing that I am not, its being a materialistic freak. I dont have a thing for poshy sport car, big ass TV, Nike sneaker, branded attire or a spa in my bathroom. This nonchalant attitude of mine had both troubled and delighted all my ex-girlfriends to some extent. But I’ve also […]
7.16.2005
Warning - The Geek-ometer reading for this entry can be very high for some.
I was doing my annual desktop folders clean up when I stumbled across tonnes of snippets of codes scattered within my 5 level deep ‘codes’ subfolders. Some of them are RC version working programs, some are uncompiled, some are classes of methods […]
7.13.2005
I know I have some overdue emails, friendster messages, missed IM’s and phonecalls to reply to. My sincere apology for the delay. Since I am pretty sure most of these people stop by Daily Misery once in a while, I will just catch up with things here ^_^.
Dad - I didnt drink as much as […]
7.6.2005
There was a time in DM when all I ever wrote was about her. Even my colophon and contact page were filled with depressive words motivated by selfless, emotional conscience. Dark age was looming and it was as bitter as it could have possibly get.
More and more things fell apart as we got closer to […]
7.5.2005
I guess this is what my ex-gf was trying to tell me for the past couple of years when we were together. It felt not so good at all getting hit back like that, but this XX species got a point here. Its quite a laugh too.
By Greenietea
.: torment of a relationship :.
i wonder what […]
7.5.2005
It was colorful and spectacular. A very beautiful night ^_^.
Then there were the bugs attack, getting lost while on our way back, Huinee slipped over a small hole and Alvin not wearing any underwear under his jean incidents.
Also I need to polished my skill in taking night scene photos.
7.4.2005
After going through some photo galleries that are available in the websphere, I finally opt to set up my mobile camera’s gallery using flickr simply because I am…lazy. I had gone through gallery, coppermine and folderblog and all of them are great web applications, no doubt. I even created a template for folderblog and got […]
7.2.2005
*Whooooosssssssaaaa……*
The suckest part is I havent even have time to take pictures of my new car and show them to my parent. Oh well, maybe I should count my blessing they couldnt start the engine in the first place.
Whooooosssssssaaaa……*
6.25.2005
I watched these two awesome movies in the space of 36 hours!
First is ichi the killer.
Nevermind that I had a nightmare last night after watching it.
Nevermind that I will not let Huinee puts movie into our Blockbuster queue anymore.
Nevermind that I am starting to look at sex the different way.
Nevermind that I almost puked from […]
6.22.2005
Image from SimpleBits by Dan Cederholm (Dan, I’m gonna borrow this for a while :) )
Strawberry shortcake to Huinee, Sin Yee, Micah, DannyFoo, Charles Bump, Joyce and Leh Tieng for keeping my recent after-work’s life in check, and that helps to prevent the upside-down ‘LIFE’ from disappearing altogether from the picture.
6.21.2005
Didnt I always tell you guys those unknown entities from the galaxy millions light years away are reading my blog? They do, they really do! Here’s the proof from DM’s latest weekly web stats.
We’re not alone.
6.20.2005
Click here for more pictures. You might need to clear your browser’s cache to reload the gallery ^_^. Click! Click! Click!
[http://alvinwoon.com/art/uselessguy.mp3]
Click to play ‘Useless Guy’. Click! Click! Click!
Walaaaaa. lal a la laaa laa la la laaaa. Walalalalalalalala lalalalall allaa la la
La lalla lalalal al lal lwa w al lwa wawa waaa
Ha ah ahah […]
6.13.2005
Next time before I post another cryptography puzzle, I should probably check on my schedule to see whether I have the luxury of time to entertain all the IM messages that have been flooding my desktop screen ever since I posted the entry. But it was fun nevertheless. Some of the messages were very hillarious […]
6.8.2005
How many times have we told ourselves thing will changes for the better next year? The very fundamental structure of a society will collapses when merits are worthless and the thought of cronism, preferential treatment and hypocrisy filled the minds of people, rendering the image of a corrupted institution guarded by many layers of funny […]
6.5.2005
Have any of you tried peeing in an airplane’s cabin restroom while the plane is shaking wildly in the midst of a turbulence? It was not fun at all.
I swear Tiger Woods has a higher odd in hitting a hole-in-one down a par-3 hole in the Masters than me trying to pee straight down […]
5.22.2005
I was never a big chat or telephone person. I have this difficulty of maintaining constant human interaction over a communication medium for a long period of time. Not that I dislike it or anything, I just have this tendency to hang up the phone before the person on the other line finishes his/her bye […]
5.21.2005
The moon is blue tonight, and its light shines upon my feet. All the sudden I realize I have a set of twelve ten ridiculously sexy toes. Just take a look at these sexy little bad boys. Can you even believe how tight and fit they are? It almost turns me on.
I mean girls […]
5.18.2005
While I was a student at Inti College, Malaysia, I was one of the student researchers for a joint research expedition organized by Inti Malaysia and University of Tanjungputra, Indonesia. The research was mainly about collecting statistical data on the ongoing transborneo economical activity around the border towns in the state of Sarawak, Malaysia and […]
5.17.2005
I am sorry that I have to take down the entry that includes the transcript of the conversation between Noel and me. It was generally due to two reasons - some of my friends seem to be very concerned about the fact that I might really about to dive into the delusional utopia of the […]
5.14.2005
How’s everyone doing? It’s been a long hiatus, at least in my own timespace. A lot had happened. It’s been an overwhelming month and I am trying to write again, hopefully documenting my life wouldnt be such a painful process this time around. Some snippets would be nice, dont ya all think?
» I graduated! Will […]
5.10.2005
Its a beautiful dream, when you dont think about the consequences. It’s so wonderful you wish that’s all you have to think about for the rest of your life.
Yet it aint that simple. It’s not.
4.18.2005
She has a habit of falling in love,
I have a habit of not knowing what I really want,
We crash in like two locomotives moving in different direction,
and everything explodes into pieces of hurt and agony.
I smile when I’m suppose to cry,
I told her I slept well last night,
when in fact I cried myself to bed,
I […]
4.14.2005
While the US congress debates on social security bills and whether or not to attack another middle east country, or while the Germany house of parliament discusses on measures to help improve the economic condition in the east side of the country or while the Singapore’s parliament discuss on additional funding to their Institute of […]
4.5.2005
One of the few softwares that the Redmond giant finally got it right. MSN beta 7.0
So much fun especially when you have friends in your contact list who is a maestro in mouse drawing.
*Alvin bows his head down to yic teng*
Updates: Miss Yic just clarified this with me:- she didnt use mouse; she used her […]
4.2.2005
Ok, I seldom post celebrity pictures since I think they’re boring. But this picture from FunPic makes me realize the very fact that what might seems obvious to you might not be the case for other people. Please do click on the picture for the larger version to see what I mean.
And these are […]
4.1.2005
Sensing its my birthday, Google decided to increase my gmail storage from 1 GB to 2 GB. But I refuse to be selfish so I asked them to why not give every gmail account holders the same bonanza since I would really love that as my birthday present.
And they did.
3.14.2005
K, lets take a break from the poem brain-storming. I want to tell you guys about this coffee house that I frequent. Its called..uh..The Coffee House. I initially plan to blog about itonly after I take some pictures of it but we can do that later.
Stepping inside, one will easily be captivated by […]
3.14.2005
*untitled*
Along the mellow tones you dance,
through the sparkling sand under the wind,
an opening worth of a thunder kind,
every moves decorates every minds,
with the finale a wonder shine
Captivating stares fill the room
under the dark ceiling beneath the hall
yet all are good in home
aint fair to spare anymore of this doom
just waiting for years for the sword […]
3.8.2005
Since I had came across quite a few child abuse cases in the news recently, I think it would be appropriate to repost the poem I had wrote about a year ago, for which it generated quite a hype back then. I dont know why i would want to repost it, maybe its just that […]
2.24.2005
Wokay, some quick bits of my recent rock-star alike life.
0.) She will melts your heart.
1.) DM went hiatus for two days to pay tribute to Malcolm X (you can still view the page here). He was an amazing person, fighting for what’s really important during a very difficult time. The thing is, there shouldnt be […]
2.10.2005
This is my friend - Wilson.
This picture, oh this picture. How am I going to put words into it? Isnt he like the cutest creature ever exist? I swear if you stare this picture long enough, you will spend the next 10 minutes laughing and redo the whole thing again.
Cant get enough of […]
2.7.2005
Hereby I want to wish everyone within alvinwoon.com blogsphere a very Happy Chinese New year and Happy Valentine’s day. Apparently the desperate attempt to potray my sad-looking face for not being able to celebrate CNY with my family for 2 years in a row failed miserably. I badly need to work on my facial expression. […]
1.7.2005
Cheers, the photo gallery page is up. Thanks to the brilliant simple PHP gallery script by Paul Griffin. Right now there isnt a lot of images being uploaded but rest assure the gallery will increases in size over time. I am still coding the flash player as it gets pretty annoying when it starts to […]
1.6.2005
Today is my mom’s birthday. I want to take this opportunity to wish her a very lifetime of good health and happy birthday.
Beloved son,
Alvin.
1.5.2005
Sometimes it takes massive trajedy of such magnitude to make the world come together. Sad, but true.
At the Elysee Palace in Paris, a somber President Jacques Chirac observed the tribute with government officials and about 600 civil servants. In Brussels, hundreds of officials gathered outside European Union (news - web sites) headquarters to pay their […]
1.4.2005
I was having a little chat with Akira just now and realize that all men(excluding spoiled rich kids) encountered the same problem when deciding what to buy their gf during special occasions - finding the right balance between the depthness of your love for her with the depthness of your money pocket.
Akira wants to […]
1.2.2005
While i was digging through my stacks of cd-back up data, i found this rather interesting piece of art performed by none other than me myself during my first semester here in UNL. This is a classic face-switching snapshots, i can guarantee!
See i was trying to emulate this magnet sticker back then:
And here’s my version. […]
1.1.2005
I’ve finally gone live!
After 2 freaking days of porting over the new design (that’s the consequences of using nightly builds instead of the stable official release of wordpress), i finally get everything but the photo section and music player in place. This feels so good! I get to release it on1.1.2005!
While i managed to port […]
12.19.2004
Uncle Bushie is Time’s person of the year. That’s like saying Britney Spears is the new Madonna or Outkast is the 22st century’s Beatle or tomato is my favorite food/fruit of the year. *I can very easily think of another 1001 metaphors but……* You know who i think should be the person of the […]
12.18.2004
Playing with numbers:
15 freaking credit hours down the transcript.
4 finals.
2 A- down the pocket.
2 other final results yet to be released.
1 glass of beer at frens’ graduation party tonight (i am not into beer).
2 of my frens puked like the everclea