Dakepaike's Weekly Quotes:

Week 51:

Getting a B grade is a matter of hard work. Getting an A grade is a matter of hard work AND luck.

-dakepaike-

Chasing Happiness

It is a rarity that I would be posting something heart warming but I think this story is quite interesting.

Heard this from 98.5Fm - a radio station for 'old' people.

Here is the short story:

One day, a lion cub asked its mother "Mum, where can I get happiness?"

The Mum replied "Happiness is at the end of your tail."

So the little cub turned its head back and looked at its tail. It wanted happiness, so it began chasing its tail for days...

Exhausted after numerous attempts to catch 'happiness', it went to its mum and asked again "Mum! It is almost impossible to get happiness!"

"Dear, you don't have to pursue happiness, you already have it. Happiness is in your tail and it is within you."

End

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Its ONE TERAAAAAA!

Hahahahaha! Bought a 1 TB Maxtor external HDD for just $189 at Cyberactive. Was at Sim Lim and was looking at the prices for the same HDD, and they were mostly at above $200. So damn tulan until i decide to go Cyberactive and see that it is cheaper at Compass Point. Can't believe it.

Anyway, need the HDD to store wadeva I need to backup. Hmm... 1 terabyte of space... That is suppose to be 1 times 1024 gigabyte times 1024 megabyte times 1024 kilobyte times 1024 bytes. (1024 because it is 2 to the power of 10. Boring binary code stuff.) That will make up to be 1,099,511,627,776 bytes.

However, when I look again after I plugged it in, I discovered that it only had 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) bytes, about 9.05% less than what I percieved. Damn. It turns out to be 976,562,500 kilobytes, or 953,674 megabytes, or 931 gigabytes, or 0.909 terabytes. Felt so damn cheated.

Nevertheless, I would be storing my mp3s in this new HDD. If all of the HDD is filled up with mp3s, I wonder, how long will all the mp3s play? Assuming all the mp3s are of 192 kilobits per second (192kbps), that will be 196,608 bits per second, or 24,576 bytes per second (1 byte = 8 bits). Given that I have 1 trillion bytes, there would be 40,690,104 seconds worth of songs, or 678,168 minutes, or 11,303 hours, or 471 days, or 15.7 months (30-day), or 1.29 years! WOW!

If it were the true terabyte hard disk, I would have 44,739,242 seconds, or 745,654 minutes, or 12,428 hours, or 518 days, or 17.3 months, or 1.42 years. Hey, i was shortchanged 0.13 years! Damn!

－异客拍客－

Dakepaike's Weekly Quotes:

Week 50:

"You can't win a thousand battles without losing one but you can lose a hundred battles without winning one."


I was thinking how should I explain this quote... If you are good, you have more opportunities to do things and being good, you can win so much but there are bound to be times where you will lose. However, if you are lousy, you have less opportunities to do things and with you being lousy, you tend to lose a lot and very possibly never win even one.

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Smiling Moon

This is a picture of a smiling moon, authentic and not doctored.





People in Thailand saw this phenomenon a few days ago. Not too sure about how was it formed, but my guess is that the 'eyes' are planets instead of stars.





You can see these 2 'eyes' and the cresent moon in Singapore too, but they are just too far apart to make a 'face'.

Anyway, for the 1st time I can say a natural phenomenon I see is cute. lol.


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Dakepaike's Weekly Quotes:

Week 49

"Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things"

This is not from me, it is actually the first law of Geography, which is kind of weird, funny and commonsensical.

That actually means to say that if you are standing on land and I blindfold you, the next step that you take is most likely not going to make you plunge 100m down... because the tendency of you stepping onto land in your next step is so much higher. Haha...

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