굿닥터 K-Drama

One of my friend introduced this K-Drama to me by telling me that's this actress who looked a bit like Kim Tae Hee.

I was intrigued.

So I went to search for its wiki, and also downloaded the drama.
Best thing is that the soft-subs were quick and available.

so,

굿닥터 (Good Doctor)

 

 

It has been months since I watched the last K-Drama IRIS 2.

Refreshing to watch something new again.

 

The show revolves around a kid who has Autism and Savant Syndrome, who wants to be a surgeon once he gets older. Indeed he did with the help of a doctor who known him since young.

 

My review on it:

The drama has a lot a lot of predictable scenes and there are many events that happened literally and obviously made as a coincidence.

Normally, such a script would turn off the viewers but not in this drama's case.

 

There are just too many touching and emotional scenes, TOO MANY! From the care of the children as patients to memories flashback of the main actor's past. +++ ....

 

What I liked about the romance side is there's not so much into it and that way it feels fresh and innocent because my thoughts at first was like "how would someone with autism be able to love wholeheartedly?"

 

Furthermore, from this drama, I can sense and feel how being humane would be like. Something that the society has rid it off, thanks to money (and obviously Singapore is one)..

 

Well, the characters wise I liked all of them and 문채원 just looks like Kim Tae Hee (forgot how to type her name in Korean already.)

 

Pretty.. 예쁜다!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The drama ended today though, with sweet moments. Unlike other K-Drama I've watched, they are so agonizing.

Friday the 13th

It's Friday the 13th and it's the day we receive our postings.

I got posted to

1. You are posted to ARTY INSTITUTE

2. Your vocation is ARTY OPR - GUNNERY

3. You are to report to: Khatib Camp, Blk 26, Artillery Institute (Main Lobby)
Reporting Date/Time: 16/01/2012 at 0800 hrs
Person to report to: Chief Clerk
Contact Number: 6210-0075/0076
You are required to report in smart no.4 uniform (PES E recruits to be in No 3 uniform), except for those assigned to Police Force.

4. Special Instruction:
No Camera Handphone is allowed. Bring complete SAF issued items. stationery, and 2 colour passport sized photos. You are expected to stay in.

Yep that's right. ARTILLERY vocation. I don't know how's the life as such because I couldn't find a single information about it even on sgForums.

I guess I gotta suck it up no matter what it throws at me. Oh and I also hope that the commanders are the good-to-be kind.

Objective-C

What have I been doing since day 1 of block leave?
Trying to experiment with coding for iOS5 notification center.

Few days ago, an author with the name of Shades published SimpleDate for Notification Center. I installed it and yes, it's exactly what I wanted before (as opposed to ClockCenter) BUT with a digital clock like the lockscreen.

Realising that it is open source from github, I decided to work on it by experimenting with Obj-C.

I am glad I had Hackintosh installed on my PC. The following is what I did. Basically, to record a note of what I have done to accomplish it.

Updating Mac OSX Lion
1. Boot to Hackintosh
2. Update Mac OSX Lion 10.7 to 10.7.2 and installed MultiBeast
3. Sound wasn't working
4. Removed HDAEnabler*.kext, ALC8xxx.kext remained
5. Reboot, sound returned (no more sound lag too!)

After updating to 10.7.2, I was then able to install Xcode 4.3 with iOS5.1 SDK (I didn't realised it until I tried to experiment with it on VMware Leopard 10.6). This installs the make bin file too, required to build the .deb from source code.

Then I Googled around, looking for tutorials on how to create a notification center template file to code. First I found is this. The original website is dead so I had to open up the cached version. I followed the tutorial, I was able to get Theos installed fine and then I ran the nic.pl, hell it didn't work.

When I tried to create the notification center template which is based from this. All I get is a package folder with Theos alias. No .m file or any files that has the template. I kept trying but to no avail. Then I redownloaded Theos without getting the notification center nic file and it works. I don't know how it affect but it stayed that way until now.

I gave up as I am unable to find a solution and so I went another way. I downloaded the source code of SimpleDate and immediately build it by using make package. It didn't work. It tells me I need dpkg-deb but I already have it by following the tutorial. So I looked for solution which is MacPort. I downloaded MacPort but didn't know what it does and how it works. Then I came across this website, who gave a really clear-cut tutorial on how to get started on Theos. Also, that's where MacPort came in I guess.

Everything works pretty after - make package as it actually builds the .deb file and I was elated.

Setting Up Compiler and Environment
1. Install Xcode 4.3 w/ iOS5.1 SDK
2. Followed brandontreb.com guide to setup Theos and other tools
3. Ran make package on Shades' SimpleDate source code
4. .deb file compiled
5. Compiler ready

I had ClockCenter source code and SimpleDate source code side by side. Those 2 are the same because Shades stated that he ripped it from ClockCenter. With C++ and C knowledge, I slightly understood Obj-C. With all the initialization and variables, it gave me a nostalgia feeling.

I basically played around to add a digital clock to the SimpleDate Shades created. I managed to do so and the end result is a date with a clock as a compact notification center widget. Oh, the clock auto-updates too by using the NSTimer class.

New Year, POP

Yes I know that I am late in blogging about new year and stuff. That's because I was busy and away. So anyways here's some updates.

3rd November 2011 - I got enlisted into NS, BMTC School 1 (Basic Military Training).
Life inside at the start was rather hectic. However, what's unexpected is that the whole journey was actually a replicate from my dreams and yes it's just DeJaVu. Honestly, everything felt like it happened before. It was really strong. Those pieces of short dreams I had in the past seems to have stitched up by this real experience.

Ok, let me just blog about the reality side. Hectic at the start but I was really enthusiastic. I learn, I participate in all the trainings and the problem comes.

Before I enlisted, I had some injuries on my legs. Shin splint due to flat feet and also an injury on my right knee from standing broad jump in the past.

All these injuries started acting up and I had to go and see a medical officer. Getting those statuses was shitty because I could do nothing and it really sucks. But well, I had to suck it up.

I still managed to finish all the high keys and I POPed without the last P - parade because I have a 6 weeks status which ends at 300112.

Now that I am waiting for my new unit, what I could do now during my 1 week of block leave is to learn some new skills and also head out with friends as much as possible (provided I have the $ of course).
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Oh yes about new year, I didn't do anything except watching movie and heading out to eat with parents.

Updated to iOS5

I have updated my iPhone to iOS5 with redsn0w tethered jailbreak yesterday. This entry dedicates to my comments, both complaints and also the love of it.

First of all I have to say that FINALLY they fixed the damn springboard bug like touching a folder and you have to wait some microseconds before the springboard splits and opens up the folder. They fixed that probably due to Newsstand (lol). Yes, Apple I am LOLing at you.

This is what sucks about Apple, if there is any single bug that exists in the iOS, one have to wait for a 'major' update or a 'minor' which usually does nothing.. just like 4.3.4 and 4.3.5 where jailbreakers can get those vulnerabilities closed from Cydia on 4.3.3. Ugh, they and their "if it works, make it sell" kind of slogan.

Anyways, like I said I always loved Android's notification window and they call it notification center in iOS. Installing all sorts of widgets after jailbreaking is definitely the best thing to do. System Info, Battery info, power controls all with a swipe down at the status bar. What I need now is a time and date widget now.. if only I know all about iOS programming, I could have done it myself (just why am I not doing it if I have the expertise??)..

I've tried the Reminders app, pretty fail because it just lack too much. Unlike Things app where one can set recurring event which suits my lifestyle.

iOS 5

iOS 5 will be officially released on the 12th October, which will be tomorrow for the time zone I am in (+8 GMT).

iOS 5 Countdown - rmblogs

As usual I have to say - without jailbreak, iOS is a total piece of shit (lol). 

With that said of course, I'd hope that an untethered jailbreak will be released in a few hours later after the release of it because the Chronic-Devs have found vulnerabilities on the bootrom and user-land side.

The only thing I am looking forward in iOS 5 is the notification center. I have always loved how Android has it and it is definitely the best way to handle notifications. Also, being jailbroken, developers can create tons of widgets for it which obviously is way better. There are already a few, for example RSSWidget, Twitter, SBSettings, UISettings - all in which a user should have.

SBSettings on notification center

Another to look forward to is the software side updates - the internals I mean. Bug fixes, performance updates and all, with performance being the priority.

The downside of upgrading immediately is the compatibility problems - both maybe App Store Apps and also jailbreak tweaks. But I foresee that they will all be updated very swiftly.

Renewing everything on my iPhone

It seems like after changing my front screen to white and replacing my old cracked screen in the midst, I have this sense of good feel. Because of that good feel, I went to replace my old back screen protector where it's filled with scratches to a new mirror back protector.

after removing the screen protector.. wow it's as good as new.

top view

after placing the new screen protector.. so white and reflective and it looks like it's a fingerprint magnet

Alphas

Can I just say I really like those questions dangling in my mind?

 

Casts

Bill Harken - summon amazing strength

Cameron Hicks - hyperkinesis

Gary Bell - transducer, able to see 'signals' and interact with it

Dr. Rosen - preeminent neurologist and psychiatrist

Nina Theroux - ability to 'push' people's will

Rachael Pirzad - heightened senses

Yes, I have been on a drama marathon. Watching Haven, Fringe, Alphas and Japanese dramas like BOSS.

Well, I just watched the finale of Alphas Season 1 (Another SyFy drama like Haven). Questions and questions, really a lot of it just pops in my mind.

I am just going to make this entry short. So, the finale ends with Dr. Rosen telling the public about the existence of Alphas and then Stanton Parish was with Dr. Rosen's daughter. Stanton Parish said "This just got complicated." and Danielle replied "I've warned you.". Huh? So Danielle knows about Stanton Parish all along?

I wonder what's gonna happen to the team of Alphas now that Dr. Rosen made it public.

Oh and another thing, the character that I am most interested in, with all the crude and funny jokes, is Gary the transducer. I mean his way of communication is both funny and 'annoying' plus straightforward, really straight.

I am glad it's renewed for a Season 2 in 2012. I can't wait for the renewal of Haven too!

All these shows just keeps me busy, that's what I do I guess.