there's no title because this post is written to contain various stuff of very distinct natures.
stuff 1a few days ago, i signed up for a gmail account for misc. purposes. i already have 3 existing email accounts: hotmail, yahoo and webmail (school's) but it just doesn't seem enough.
ok, gmail has more space, but i don't really need that. it is seemingly better in terms of interface, but i didn't play with it much to know if that's really the case. but the most interesting thing is that it allows directing mail that's sent to your other accounts be directed to your gmail's. this is very handy especially when you have multiple email accounts, but you don't really want to check all of them every time, and that gmail is the one you often use.
i'm very tempted to change my main account to gmail, but thinking that i have to do all that importing and stuff makes the effort unwarranted... fyi, i'm actually very poor at all the tech stuff. only good at MS office. hardware, gadgets, etc... not my forte.
then, i recalled that, a few months back, i was using this program that allows me to add all my available email accounts into it, and it would automatically run when windows starts and checks all the accounts for new mail. i used the program for a while (like less than an hour) and ditched it because 1) it doesn't check webmail, which in fact is really my main email account and 2) the interface, while simple, is lacking in aesthetics. it simply tells you if you have new mail, and does nothing else. it seemed to not work for my hotmail account, and if you want to send / receive / read emails, you have to open your browser and go to your account.
wtf is that for? it's really stupid because while this program helps in notifying you about new emails, it does crap when you want to retrieve right on the spot. sometimes the mails are just junk. i don't want to check and realize that i've received some ads that tells me a secret crush is waiting for me, or that a miracle pill is on the way to strengthen my manhood.
so i looked up another program today and found one which works wonders, except that it doesn't check webmail. ok, maybe it can, but i don't understand the jargon well enough to know how it works. although i took computing at 'A' levels, it was pretty balls (in terms of my results) and the content wasn't that... advanced (for lack of a better word) to let you know much about computing.
sidetrack: when i was deciding which subjects i should take at 'A's, i looked at computing - and took it because i thought it's just going to be point-point, click-click, use MS office etc... nonsense. i did programming for most of the time and i sucked real hard. you really have to think at the level of the computer, which, for 99% of the time, is pretty stupid. i thought i'll flunk the thing, but perhaps the theory part helped a little. even the theory was damn dry - it was about more programming, albeit in a non-computer way. it discusses on the possible code you could write to solve a problem, which is most of the time maths and logic based.
some examples of these problems include writing programs that allow you to play blackjack, tic-tac-toe (i wrote one that works, my only accomplishment during my JC computing days) etc. apart from these problems, there was file manipulation, managing lists of data, etc, etc... super dry stuff. all in a DOS environment. kaoz!!
anyway, back to the issue. if you want to use the program that i'm using now, go to:
http://www.poppeeper.com/
and download it. heck the tech stuff, just add your accounts and give it your passwords. then set the frequency to auto-check your accounts. voila.
stuff 2many weird dreams lately. last night i dreamt that i was in thailand, where i've never went before but i planned to.
it started at the pier, when i was waiting, with two other friends, a friend to arrive. apparently she was late, and she never came. so one of my friends decided to go ahead without her (wth?!) and as i only had cash and thus no card to pay for the ticket, the one who suggested to go ahead flashed her gold card and slot it into the machine. we chose the "full day, all sights" package for 100sgd. then we went into a dimsum restaurant to have a meal before setting off. we were contemplating if the "full day, all sights" included the dimsum meal. but before we knew it, we were off to thailand.
it seemed like thailand was a "theme park." entry was via crossing a small sea on a wooden plank, with hands as oars. wtf?! (on hindsight, it seemed plausible because it was only last week that protesters left the airports, so entry into thailand by sea was feasible. hmmm... current affairs in dreams??!!) the sea water was murky and supposedly deep, and i have no idea, nor wish to know, what was in those waters. we "oarred" as fast as we could and got to the pier, which looked like a kelong.
i started off by going to the "river" tourist spot. it was a real river, murky, and this time it was better - i was on a sampan. however, the sampan just seemed to be a few wooden sticks bound together by string, and that seemed really shitty especially when i saw the river to be filled with crocodiles. i steered my sampan to a floating shop, and talked to the shopkeeper. apparently, the sampan is meant to be flimsy, and if anyone drops into the river, crocodiles will attack. no shit. you die in a theme park. and the shopkeeper said it in a matter-of-factly way, like people are supposed to fall and get killed by crocodiles. what theme park is this?
i saw this big group of guys on a "boys' day out." approx 10+ of them around 20 years of age. they were clinging to some flimsy structure built on the river, and were hoping to stay away from the crocodiles. these boys were dressed in the usual manner guys dress in orchard road - t-shirt with jeans / berms and sneakers. they should be tourists too.
i asked them if they could lend me a hand as i was trying to steer my flimsy sampan, which was on the verge of breaking, to the flimsy structure (i guess this is what you call out from the kettle into the frying pan). then, my sampan broke apart and oh my, i thought i was going to die. i swam like crazy. luckily, one of the guys reached out and pulled me "ashore."
as i paused to catch my breath, i looked to my right and saw a former schoolmate waving to me. she was walking down this path that seemed to float on the river. said something about going to jump. i saw her walk to the end of the path, which was the edge of a waterfall, and jumped. jumped into a big quarry pool with dinosaurs bathing in it, and the background was totally foresty and primitive. oh my, what was i dreaming?!
then i decided to go back to my room for a rest. i went to the main building, but the doors were locked. i tried a door which led me to a gym and passing that, i went into the gym instructors' canteen. i was hungry, and i wanted food, even if it wasn't really for me - i suppose guests should be dining in a proper restaurant. the instructors all looked at me as if i'm some weirdo, and they were from this gym company that runs safra gyms. energyOne or something like that... and the food was all vegetarian. worse still, it appeared in the form akin to that of canteen 1 in BMTC. shit! messy, all thrown into metal containers, served by uncles and aunties with masks.
then i woke up.
had a few other funny dreams as well, but forgot. anyway... i think i wrote something long again.
