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.

BOSS Season 2 Finale

I finished watching ボスシーズン2 (BOSS Season 2) yesterday.

Casts with 2 new actress in this season:

credit: asianmediawiki

I can't believe I finished watching this drama where I wasn't so on about watching it before.

Masami Kimoto (木元真実) - Erika Toda (戸田恵梨香) who is one of my favourite actress appeared only in the last 3 episodes.

The last case was rather straightforward. It is about a CD with encrypted data that needs to be decrypted so as to find out the mastermind. I prefer the rest of the per-episode cases, love those twists.

I think there are a few new soundtrack which I don't know where to find..

Really, every time I watch Japanese dramas, I always get that bonded feeling within the actors and actresses. They all cooperate really well.

Japanese dramas usually end at Season 2 so I doubt there will be a sequel for this drama, but I still hope there will be. Love those faces.

Self-Repair iPhone

My White iPhone 4 parts came in today and also the white button w/ flex (which means I bought 2 white buttons). It's hilarious because I ordered the tools first but ended up the parts came in first.

With the parts, the urge to replace my front broken screen is so strong. Therefore, after having lunch outside and checking something I went home and started to prepare in replacing the parts.

Because there are really lots of different types of screws, I took a blank paper and labelled the different individuals so that I won't mix them up together.

I will just upload pictures in which it will tell the steps I did.

after opening the back cover.

top view

after removing the logic board (mainboard)

top view again

logic board (mainboard)

after removing the front panel

The whole procedure is really fun. But the reverse is absurd! I really encountered lots of problem putting back the screws because my screwdriver ain't magnetic and they are all so small! However, I magnetized it with a magnet and my job is a whole lot simpler afterwards.

I am glad that my proximity sensor works now. The few headaches are that the back cover which comes with it isn't really fitting and the camera glass cover have scratches all over. So with that scratches, the camera couldn't capture a good photo anymore plus my dad left a small crack after forcing it close (because I told him it wasn't fitting).

Because I changed the home button to white also, the flaw is that it's not aligned center. Looks really really weird and obvious. I would probably align it back when my proper tools comes. Sigh, I thought it was all good.

my camera captured the imperfectness perfectly

Now, my front is white while my back cover is black. Makes it a pretty unique unit. :P

BOSS J-Drama

Synopsis
This series revolves around a group of peculiar detectives in a new division created to fight against an increase in atrocious crimes. Osawa Eriko is a beautiful career woman who has just returned from training in the U.S. and is appointed as the "boss" of this division. But despite her intelligence and capabilities, she can never understand a man's heart, so she remains unable to find a husband. In fact, her assignment in the U.S. was really a demotion after she ruined her career track over a man. So why was she chosen as the boss of the new division? Even though the detectives are talented, they all have some kind of issue or flaw, and they are considered to be the "problem children" of the police force. In the end, the division's true purpose is just to isolate these problematic detectives.

Well, it's a 2009 J-Drama starring:

Credit: Asianmediawiki

I always love how JDramas with the theme of detective cases end up with some twist as the case winds up. The last 2 episodes had me fooled, really.

Well I am glad I watched it, the casts are really great and not to forget Toda Erika as a refresher (for me).

Here's the link to where I downloaded
http://myasiancinema.com/j-drama-boss-2009/

and also some information of the show:
http://asianmediawiki.com/BOSS
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/BOSS

I am also currently downloading BOSS Season 2. More twists!

End of Haven Season 2

I have just finished watching the season finale episode of Haven and the cliff is really high for this one.

Audrey was making pancakes, someone came to her apartment earlier than Nathan, and after she opens the door. Bam, she's tasered. My best guess of the culprit who tasered her would be Agent Howard. One who I think no one has thought of. Who else would have the taser other than the police/FBI? Well, someone could probably steal one but Agent Howard was the only suspicious character so far I've seen starting from Season 1. Oh and one more thing, Season 1 ended up with an Audrey-injected memory FBI came into the scene so maybe Season 2 would be the same, as in it has something to do with the FBI?

Then the whistle found in Audrey's apartment made Nathan thought that Duke was the culprit. I am pretty sure Duke wouldn't be the culprit unless the blood he absorbed from Kyle made him someone else he doesn't know of and he went doing things unconsciously. But still he wouldn't be the one...

Other questions I have are:
"Where the hell would Audrey be now?"
"How would Duke react to all this?"
"The gunshot from the last scene, who would get hurt or maybe none at all?"
"What has Vince and Dave got to do with all these?"
"Now that Vince and Dave are of opposite side, what would Dave do to Vince if he tries to help Audrey?"
"The people with the tattoo, what are they? Guardians of the troubled?"
........ ETC! MANY MORE!

Haven S02E12 720p HDTV x264 ORENJI

Haven S02E12 Season Finale - Sins of the Fathers

Haven's dead rise from their graves to reveal the town's secrets... and those of Audrey, Nathan, and Duke.

Haven S02E12 720p HDTV x264 ORENJI

1.03GB | AC3 | x264

http://www.filesonic.com/file/r000216945/2262426281/Haven.S02E12.720p.HDTV.x264-ORENJI.part1.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/r000216945/2262426261/Haven.S02E12.720p.HDTV.x264-ORENJI.part2.rar

Fringe S04E02 720p HDTV x264 DIMENSION

Fringe S04E02 - One Night in October

Waltenate and his team call upon their counterparts from This Side for help when a serial killer goes on a bloody rampage. However, when they recruit the killer's This Side counterpart, a professor of forensic psychology, the team is forced to consider whether they can put civilians at risk.

Fringe S04E02 720p HDTV x264 DIMENSION

1.43GB | AAC | x264

http://www.filesonic.com/file/2261974651/Fringe.S04E02.720p.HDTV.X264-DIMENSION.part1.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/2261974591/Fringe.S04E02.720p.HDTV.X264-DIMENSION.part2.rar

Love such Weather

Wow I am always amazed when I see 22℃ in Singapore. It's rather rare.

Came across this

Yep, I came across this image on Facebook.

 

Well, it makes so much sense.

Haven, again

Here I am going to post about Haven TV series again.

Well, I've finally caught up to the latest episode. What's sad is I didn't know that season 2 is ending soon with just 2 more episodes 12 and 13.

Having watched this far, I must say it does have some similarities with Fringe. For the main story, Haven calls it 'troubles' while Fringe calls it 'pattern' (or does all US TV series are like that? Sorry as far as I know I've only watched Fringe, Heroes and Haven - all which has to do with the kinds where it's impossible to happen in reality.)

*Spoiler*
Episode 11 ends with Duke finding the answers after opening a bigger box where his father kept secretly. Simon's diary stated that Duke must finish his task in which is to kill Audrey. Now for that it posed serious loads of questions. Anyways, Duke's trouble must be that when he absorbs an afflicted person's blood, he will become stronger. So maybe if somehow he comes in contact with Audrey's blood, something will happen (The promo in episode 12 looks like Audrey got stabbed or something :O)? I don't know, just my two cents.
*Spoiler*

Side topic. Everytime when I watch Haven or Fringe, I have this urge to look at the actors' and actresses' body language. I don't know it just naturally make me do it.

Haven season 2 is ending in 2 more episodes. I wonder if there will be a season 3? I really hope so cause I don't want such an awesome show to end just like that. What's worse is that there isn't any discussion around about it...

and lastly, counting down to both Haven and Fringe.

Haven Download (Links to S01)

Downloading Haven Season 2 from filesonic. And they are just annoyingly slow!!

Anyways, below are filesonic links to download Season 1 720p:

http://www.filesonic.com/file/r000216945/1721494471/Haven.S01.720p.BluRay.x264-SiNNERS.part01.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/r000216945/1721408281/Haven.S01.720p.BluRay.x264-SiNNERS.part02.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/r000216945/1721400061/Haven.S01.720p.BluRay.x264-SiNNERS.part03.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/r000216945/1721409311/Haven.S01.720p.BluRay.x264-SiNNERS.part04.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/r000216945/1721404551/Haven.S01.720p.BluRay.x264-SiNNERS.part05.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/r000216945/1721419081/Haven.S01.720p.BluRay.x264-SiNNERS.part06.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/r000216945/1721456171/Haven.S01.720p.BluRay.x264-SiNNERS.part07.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/r000216945/1721465721/Haven.S01.720p.BluRay.x264-SiNNERS.part08.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/r000216945/1721456201/Haven.S01.720p.BluRay.x264-SiNNERS.part09.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/r000216945/1721492621/Haven.S01.720p.BluRay.x264-SiNNERS.part10.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/r000216945/1721498361/Haven.S01.720p.BluRay.x264-SiNNERS.part11.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/r000216945/1721500041/Haven.S01.720p.BluRay.x264-SiNNERS.part12.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/r000216945/1721510011/Haven.S01.720p.BluRay.x264-SiNNERS.part13.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/r000216945/1721571131/Haven.S01.720p.BluRay.x264-SiNNERS.part14.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/r000216945/1721608641/Haven.S01.720p.BluRay.x264-SiNNERS.part15.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/r000216945/1721597381/Haven.S01.720p.BluRay.x264-SiNNERS.part16.rar

480p DVDRiP:

http://www.filesonic.com/file/r000216945/1717646011/Haven.S01.DVDRip.XviD-SAiNTS.part1.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/r000216945/1717650731/Haven.S01.DVDRip.XviD-SAiNTS.part2.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/r000216945/1717646101/Haven.S01.DVDRip.XviD-SAiNTS.part3.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/r000216945/1717640981/Haven.S01.DVDRip.XviD-SAiNTS.part4.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/r000216945/1717679821/Haven.S01.DVDRip.XviD-SAiNTS.part5.rar

Social world?

I didn't thought about myself that I would be thinking about this question: "What is my greatest fear?"

Well seriously, the answer to that will be "Fear that my words could be outcasted, fear that my words could hurt people, fear that my words didn't mean anything." The common thread here is "words". Sucks at socialising? Yeah, you got that right.

If it means anything, everyone has fears and someone gotta come by and help you succumb that fear. Who would it be? Just who? Don't know. I was a fate believer, but now? More like 50-50. You see, right now I believe that fate is greatly connected with changes. Obviously, changes are hard, really hard and we all afraid of changes because we don't want to step out of our comfort zone. If that particular you is currently moving forward, you change the surrounding with that personality or what you have. If you change, you move forward as that way. It's like being an introvert and no one knows you and suddenly you became an extrovert and you are the center of attraction. Would you like to call those people who you've attracted or connected - fate? Maybe? It's all inside one person.

Back to myself. And I will talk about domino effects. Sometimes I didn't really understand but if it has to be socialising, it either comes naturally or it happens based on a domino effect. One comes and many other follows - that is what I meant.

It just all seems strange, sometimes.

Extraordinary.. they just...

Yea, anything has to do with supernatural or extraordinary or 'special' just seems to interest me, a lot..

I've spent pretty much the whole day today just to watch Haven Season 1 from episode 5 to the final episode, which is episode 13. And that took umm 7 hours.

The bed was the answers for my body after that as I took a nap for 1 and a half hour.

Well yeah, I couldn't stop watching.. as there's just too many questions about this drama lurking in my head and I want the answers.

And here I go, continuing with Season 2 and nearly catching up with the latest broadcasted episode. Can't deny it alright.