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It’s gonna be a busy week. Heck, I think it’s gonna be like that every week now. Today marks the commencement of our final semester. Attended the first lecture this morning - I can’t believe how much I actually missed attending lectures. It was also interesting to see how my coursemates have changed. Some had their hair permed. Some had theirs cut. Some others decided to permanently ‘ink’ their eyebrows. Heh.
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This is too good not to share. Check out Apple’s Next Product contest.

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(Via Digg.)

Boyz II Men did not disappoint. In fact, they were awesome. We went for their Jan 26th show. They sang songs that everyone knew very well - including On Bended Knees, Water Runs Dry, Four Seasons of Loneliness, A Song for Mama, Doin’ Just Fine, I’ll Make Love to You and End of the Road. They also belted out a coupla tracks from their latest album The Remedy, such as Perfect Love Song and You Don’t Love Me.
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Narrowband.org received a number of hits via Google and Yahoo!. Among the keywords used were “how to restring an acoustic guitar”. You see, I initially imported all my old entries over from the old blog (bulk-import). However, some problems cropped up later so I decided to have them removed. Apparently, before they were removed, search engines had already indexed my site. And because the posts were no longer around, the links were invalid. Therefore I figured that I’d repost them here ;).

[Author’s note: This is a repost dated Oct 23rd, 2006 - taken from my old blog.]

If you’re unsure whether your guitar is classical or acoustic, fret not. Some people do not know the differences simply because they have not been introduced to a different type of guitar before. Generally speaking, all non-electric guitars are acoustic guitars - they include both metal- and nylon-strung guitars. But by convention, we usually use ‘classical’ when referring specifically to nylon-strung guitars. Otherwise, the term ‘acoustic’ refers to metal-strung, non-electric guitars. My classical guitar needs new strings.
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[Author’s note: This is a repost dated Oct 16th, 2006 - taken from my old blog.]

Ok, this is for noobs. It’s gonna be done on J’s guitar. It is a decent Fender, pretty trustworthy. We used it for most of our practices back when we were in school. The high-E string was broken when I borrowed it. Maybe it was left untouched for too long. Or maybe it was a case of mishandling. Anyway, the rest of the strings were in bad shape too so I figured that I’d have all of them replaced.
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I heard about Rain’s concert. Uhm, concerts, in fact. His Singapore concert tickets were among the most expensive ever sold on the island. He performed in Madison Square Garden in New York, last year. His world tour includes the US, Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam *gasp…*… Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. His popularity is simply out of this world (although I doubt that everyone understands his singing).

His concert this weekend has been widely publicised. The whole venue will sport some super high-tech stuff that would ‘take audience into a different dimension’ (or something like that - read that in the papers this morning). I kinda like him too. No, really. I mean he’s got the skills and the physique. His immense popularity has even made him one of Times’ 100 Most Influential Persons in the world. Pretty impressive, I’d say.

But given the choice of either a Boyz II Men’s concert ticket or Rain’s, without question - I’m all for Boyz II Men’s.

Why? Because I understand English better than Korean. Heck, I only know “anyeonghasaoyeo” (screw spelling, ok?) and “sarangeyo”. I’ve been listening to Boyz II Men since the day I learnt how to add and subtract. I bought their CD’s, sang along with them and love their songs. I mean, if I’d chosen Rain’s concert I’d most probably be lost in his singing, and not to mention girls screaming away as he rips his clothes off.

So to those of you who’re ditching Boyz II Men’s concert for Rain’s, I’m sure you’ll be wowed nonetheless (regardless of your command of the Korean language). I’ll be in Genting enjoying Boyz II Men’s concert :). It’s a pity Michael left, though - Boyz II Men as I knew them, were made up of four great vocalists. My favourite song? On Bended Knees, of course.

Btw, just for the record, I’m straight as arrow. No doubt about that.

Update@2352hrs, Fri Jan 26th: Boyz II Men was awesome. The a capella intro of On Bended Knees really got the crowd all hyped up. It was the second song of the night! Shall update more after tomorrow. (They will be doing another show tomorrow night, same songs and venue).

Just as I was contemplating upgrading to 2.0.7, an even newer version is released. (How am I supposed to keep up with the releases? I’m still using the ‘old’ v2.0.5). As with every update, there is a list of new features; only this time there’re more. You can view it here - I’m particularly interested in this though:
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I should’ve known. The two-column layout wouldn’t stay for long. Even my old blogs ran on three-columns. And because I love this theme, I decided to modify it. Obviously it’s much easier to modify an existing theme compared to creating a new one from scratch.
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I absolutely hate it when I speak in English only to be replied in BM. Rudely, at that. Just because she couldn’t understand English well, she made a face and it all seemed as if I was at fault. McDonald’s should fire all workers who aren’t competent in English. Anyway, I was there for only one reason.
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