I have always ponder if there is a flaw with Singapore’s education system. Do you think we study too much and did not have ample chance to apply what we have learn to real life settings? That is how I feel.

I had an opportunity lately to apply knowledge I picked up in school into real life settings. Recently, a good friend of mine that goes by the name of Kamelia, hey kamelia! a shout for you, you can check her online portfolio here and her blog here and her twitter here and her tumblr here. I’ll stop, I guess there’s no need to post her facebook profile or myspace profile or her address hah!

As I was saying, we decided to open a little business venture. Hey, don’t look down on us, everyone start small somewhere. I’ll release more information about this when we have finalized things. I’m glad I’m doing something useful in my life at this age.

Since I’m in Information Technology, I learn about computers including managing of databases. I managed to apply what I learned in school into this little business venture by drawing the database schema, normalized it into it’s third form and initialized it. Basically, I created a database which will store our customer and their order’s information.

The database is hosted off a server. I’m accessing it via HeidiSQL. In my opinion, this is better than keeping our records in a Microsoft Excel document and emailing each other to keep ourselves updated.

Hence, I feel happy that I did learn something useful after all in school.

On a side note, I am elated that I finally managed to upgrade my Macbook and my iMac to the lastest installment of the Mac OS X. Mac OS X Snow Leopard, 10.6.X and being a makeup enthusiast myself, I finally managed to grab my first makeup item from the famous MAC Cosmetics.

School has been amazing. I prefer my new class so much more. Lastly, I finally managed to give my blog a much needed new look!

What made you happy today?

MAC OS X Snow Leopard.
The world’s most advanced operating system. Finely tuned.

Have fun with Windows 7 windoze users.

Steve jobs is so gonna be proud of me!

Anyways, last thursday July 16, 2009. Yes it’s been about more than a week, my iMac arrived! It’s like finally!

This is the specification of my iMac,

• 24″ Glossy Display
• 2.93GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
• 4GB 1066 MHz DDR3 SD RAM
• 640GB Serial ATA Hard Drive
• ATI Radeon HD 4850 512 MB
• Apple Mighty Mouse & Keyboard

And of course it comes with iLife, MAC OS X and so on and so forth. I can’t wait for Snow Leopard to be out! I got another offer, Snow leopard for 9USD only! This machine runs blazing fast. Comparing to my Macbook, 2.4GHz and 4GB RAM. It’s way better even though the specification is nearly the same.

It cost about $3050 all in all. It’s a gift from my parents for doing well in school! Hopefully i can still do well in school.. I’m finding this semester difficult.. I don’t wanna disappoint them. Anyways, since it was a gift i had to somewhat take advantage of the opportunity given. I specifically configured mine at the Apple Store,Yes i know you get more for what you pay for like any other computer like DELL, HP but it’s not a mac, I got the most expensive graphics card that money can buy for the iMac. Yes, I know I’m such as asshole. But i play games at times too! Speaking of games, i so love Left 4 Dead and i can’t wait for Left 4 Dead 2 is be out. I’m digressing.

Nevertheless, my iMac is so heavy. The exact weight is 11.5 kg. I had a hard time carrying it alone into my room after it got delivered. Let the pictures do the talking!

Hugely written. ‘Assembled in China.” – Finely printed at the bottom.

It’s thin and have 2 USB ports and yet it’s sturdy. It feels heavy.

Totally loving it.

My macbook and loads of wires on my desk.

It’s not that glossy. It still has a plastic warp around it.

What? Only one wire? The power cord only? Sucks to be you, Windoze Users. Well.. unless you’re using a windows laptop then you win me LOL. I still have the Keyboard and mouse wire.

Pretty much, everything in my room is white..

The slit where you actually push in the CD or DVD.

And then my skin arrived for my ipod touch. I got this plaid design which is somewhat close to Burberry’s design.

And it also comes with a matching wallpaper! I paid $13 only for it. Cheap or what huh? I’m so in love with the design. And i absolutely love my gorgeous iMac.

Like as if no one else knows that. It’s like in secondary school, i’m not paying attention and as soon as someone said apple or mac my attention will be on them instantaneously!

My dock is so cluttered with a lot of software.

I love Adobe’s software. But i love Apple’s software more. That explains why I’m using Aperture instead of Adobe Lightroom, which is presented Lr with a black square icon, as you can see the icon beside PS which is Adobe Photoshop CS3 followed by Fireworks CS3, Flash CS3, Dreamweaver CS3 and Bridge CS3. I need Adobe Illustrator CS3

OHH. ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE 4 IS COMING OUT SOON. HELL YEAH MAN!

I installed this software, Sapiens, to reorganize my dock!

IT’S AMAZING.

I literally just have make a circular gesture anywhere on my screen using my mouse. And this circular animation appears. It works anti clockwise or clockwise. Size of the circle doesn’t matter at all

And then a menu of my most used application will appear!

I’m pretty much awed by this awesome software. It requires no clicking or anything of sort. Yes that’s Microsoft word. As much as i adore Microsoft, it’s in inevitable.

Urgh don’t make me roll my eyes.

*Roll eyes*

LOOK WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?

Random odd weird moments smacking right on my face.

Better not step on the freakin’ grass!
I warned you! Now you owe me 50 bucks!

Eeeuuu bird poop.

I was watching private practice episode 1 of season 1 in the library during my break
I can’t express anymore how much i freakin’ love that drama! It’s on Starhub Cable TEEVEE Channel 18 Star World.

Anyone watch Private Practice?

The name is FLUFFY!

Did i tell you guys how i love using macintosh? With their latest operating system, Macintosh OS X Leopard, it has time machine and it works seamlessly with my time capsule. In another words time machine will automatically makes backup of my macbook every 1 hour. HOW AWESOME? I don’t have to worry anymore about losing my project. Everything is inside the damn freakin’ time capsule!

Anyways, today during CMSK, kok’s laptop kinda hang while he was doing his presentation and i was like muttering under my breath, this wouldn’t happen if you bought a mac. LOLOL.

I really really want an AMERICAN ACCENT. Period. I kinda rarely use Singlish. And i tried to slang a little when i talk. But i think my english sucks big time!

Leopard introduces over 300 new features, including a new Desktop and Dock with Stacks, an intuitive new way to organize files; an updated Finder featuring Cover Flow™ and a new way to easily browse and share files between multiple Macs; Quick Look, a new way to rapidly preview most files without opening an application; Time Machine, a new way to easily and automatically back up and restore lost files or a complete Mac®; Spaces, a powerful new feature to create groups of applications and instantly switch between them; and enhanced iChat and Mail applications, which easily allow users to communicate even more creatively.

With its unique ability to let users travel back in time to find deleted files, applications, photos and other digital media, Time Machine is a revolutionary way to protect your digital life. With just a one-click setup, Time Machine automatically keeps an up-to-date copy of everything on the Mac. In the event a file is lost, users can use Mac OS X’s Spotlight™ to search back through time to find and then instantly restore the file. Time Machine can automatically back up a Mac to an external hard drive connected with a FireWire® or USB cable, to a server, or wirelessly to an AirPort Extreme® base station with an attached hard drive.

Leopard also includes three new technologies that take full advantage of the latest developments in processor hardware: full native 64-bit support to enable applications to take complete advantage of 64-bit processing while still running side by side with existing 32-bit Mac OS X applications and drivers; easy multi-core optimization and scheduling to take advantage of the latest Intel hardware; and Core Animation, helping developers easily create animated user experiences as amazing as Leopard’s Spaces and Time Machine in their own applications.

I copied over some of the interesting ones from here

Isn’t it cool? Even though I don’t know what is 64Bit but i guess it must be a good thing. I want Leopard too but I don’t think I can install it on any of the computers in my house. I tried installing Tiger before but it doesn’t work so I gave up trying to get a fake mac and just save up and just buy one of the those machines. I’m positively sure those ‘beta’ Leopard will be floating around in the internet.

Not forgetting iPhone it is coming out in US 29 June. It will be coming out in Asia 2008 i think. Nevertheless it will give us some time to collect money and buy that stuff. iPhone is seriously nice looking and it has such wonderful interface and multi touch technology! However, it only has 2 Megapixel camera which i find it rather low and it does not have 3G capabilities.

I want a Macbook Pro and iMac. The Macbook Pro can use it for schooling in poly and the iMac use it at home. I’ll drive my bmw with my macbook pro or maybe a macbook. (HAHA i’m just a dreamer)

Macbook 13 Inch Black
2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
1GB memory
160GB hard drive1
Double-layer SuperDrive
S$ 2,488.00

Macbook Pro 17 Inch
2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
1680 x 1050 pixels
2GB memory
160GB hard drive1
8x double-layer SuperDrive
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics with 256MB SDRAM
S$ 4,688.00

iMac 24 Inch:
2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
1GB memory
250GB hard drive1
8x DL SuperDrive
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT graphics
S$ 3,388.00

Price and some of the pictures were taken from www.apple.com. It is so expensive. There is no box thingy where you put your CDs it is only the screen, mouse and keyboard for the iMac. Everything is inside the box where the screen is. The Macbook Pro is much more powerful in terms of speed. I really want one..(maybe 2 of it) I love Apple’s product!