I am using Windows Vista SP2.

If you’ve tried other methods that are posted online (e.g. Setting Advanced Settings for Windows Firewall, Enabling Pipeline and TCP/IP, etc) and it doesn’t seem to work, perhaps the following method will work:

1) Go to All Programs -> Microsoft SQL Server 2005 -> Configuration Tools -> SQL Server Surface Area Configuration
2) Click on Add New Administrator
3) On the left window, under your (Computer name, e.g. USER-PC) click on Member of SQL Server SysAdmin role on (Computer name)
4) Click on the > button
5) Click on OK

Try connecting to MS SQL Server 2005 using SQL Server Management Studio Express using Windows Authentication and it should work now.

Freaking drama recently. I am still emotionally unstable that I can cry when I look at my lens or just flashback yesterday.

Will send it for repairs after school and lunch with Kartika tomorrow.

O&G was pretty okay. I was too stressed about life to think about anything else.

Sorry if I sound not so positive today. I am just being me. I don’t want to pretend that I’m fine and put on a mask to fool everyone. Sorry but I hate lying.

Happy National Day!

Anyway, I would like to thank the following people for their birthday wishes (regardless of whether it’s through Skype, SMS, Facebook, Twitter, Plurk, or in person):

(In no order) Huzaen, Candy, Mum, Dad, Boon Han, Serene (NUSSD), Scott, Huzz’s Mum, Xiaowei, Sherry, Boss, Jiemin, Evelyn (NUSSD), Joel, Weili, Daphne, Jasmine (Plurk), Felicia, Madeline, Kenneth, Anthony, Twin Eve, Twin Dragon, Jeremy, Nadz, Jessica, Wei Wen, Kelvin Lum, Vina, Henry, Hasniza, Jessica Ng, Xu Ping, Si Hui, Hwei Ling, Dickson and Inez.

Special mention to Jia Hui who did a card for me!

On the eve of my birthday, I watched Inception alone and finished a whole packet of nachos (yum). Hahaha. I stayed at home on my birthday due to CS3235 finals (so dead) but my sis managed to celebrate my birthday at home by getting some cakes!

Oh yea forgot to mention Mum cooked me some mee sua when I woke up in the morning!

Anyway, on the 1 August, I went for an NUSSD O&G prep meeting and they celebrated Vicky and my birthday! Her birthday falls on the 27 July (different year though).

I love this shot I took

Vicky and I. Guess what she studies at NUS.

The card they gave me.

A few days ago, I received a card in the mail.
(These were taken using my Acer laptop’s webcam)

Sent from Twin Dragon all the way from Sydney!

Thank you everyone!!

Somebody To Love – Glee

Somebody to Love – Justin Bieber

Somebody to Love – Leighton Meester ft. Robin Thicke

Leighton Meester wearing that super wrong. She doesn’t have enough cleavage to wear that leh =x

You may think that I should get my dad to fetch me right (since he’s a taxi driver), but there are 2 problems to this sentence:
1) He has to queue in the taxi line if he enters the airport (meaning I cannot get him to fetch me).
2) Yesterday a lorry hit a Mercedes behind my dad’s taxi, and the Mercedes hit his car -.- He ended work early.

I know these reasons sound so stupid whatsoever, but i guess i’m trying to relieve my guilt for not sending off a good friend at the airport! (Yilong told me not to say sorry again so I shall not say it here.)

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Anyway, love this song (hence the title). it reminds me of me and Huzz.

Recently life has been to hectic to my liking. But anyway, am glad to have some friends around.

This holidays, I was supposed to visit Janning at KL, but the plan was cancelled in the end, and about a month ago, Janning emailed me to tell me that she’s coming to SG! What a surprise! So we discussed for a few nights on MSN where I could bring her to (for half a day) and she suggested we could have a mini cousins gathering. I mass FB-messaged my cousins, but not many replied unfortunately. We just gathered a few then, and after that set a day and place to meet.

Anyway, I got sick a few days before Janning came, but managed to recover on time.

On the 19th June, Uncle Alex drove Janning over to my house to pick me up and we headed to Khatib. As Janning was hungry, we went to a coffee shop at Khatib and Janning had her lunch while I had tea.

Sooo… Here are a few of the pics I took at Bottle Tree Park (which was our first stop for the day).

There was some fishing competition and this guy caught that fish. Pretty big, but they put it back after the photo.

Next stop was Marina Barrage! Okay we went to eat at this coffee shop next to Northpoint and surprisingly the bak chor mee was pretty good! Then we went to Marina Barrage.

We chatted along the way and I got to know Janning better. Haha. We’re both cousins but even though she’s from KL, I feel I’m also not that close with cousins from SG what say KL? I’m glad I got to talk to her and know her better.

It was dark when we arrived. I’d planned Marina Barrage as the “night event” because I felt that there would be more stuff there to see instead of Bottle Tree Park.

To be honest I didn’t know what I would see there, and wow! I didn’t realise that there would be soooo many people around as well as things happening!

Kite flying at night. Blur coz slow shutter speed and strong winds…

Basically, we walked around taking pictures of people and the view. It just so happened that there was NDP rehearsal and there were fireworks! But sad to say, I lack a tripod and the skills to take proper pictures of it.

UFO flying above Singapore Flyer???

Look at all the people!

Light from MBS.

Anyway, most of the shots were blurry because of the lack of tripod and slow shutter. Quite bad la.

But it compensated for the above pic. Look closely at the fountains

Janning wanted to take the fountain with coloured lights but for some reason she kept missing the chance. So since we had time, we sat there and waited for it. I decided to experiment with bokeh shots. Haha. I’m quite amused by bokeh. Pretty interesting you know? So yea here are some of the shots.

Interesting how not to focus can give you nice art too. What I see when I don’t wear my specs basically. =x

At night.

We’d wanted to go to MBS but unfortunately I was too noob to know where to go. Lol I made us alight at the wrong stop (so paiseh) and the buses there weren’t that frequent so we had to go back or it would be too late.

Janning and I on the train!

So that was the first meetup with her! Remember the cousins gathering thingy, it was to be on the 21 June.

We’d asked quite a few cousins, but unfortunately by the actual day itself, it was just Janning, Me, Danny and Wei Wen. Fortunately to be honest. >1 person better than no one right?

Dinner was just Janning, Danny and I. Danny kept wanting to go to this place called “The Creation” at Shaw Centre (opposite Suntec that area) so we went!

I had pasta (can’t remember what) with chamomile tea and soup. Approximately $15. Not bad!

Wei Wen joined us after that and we took a group photo before heading to INK Club Bar.

Danny, Janning, Wei Wen and I. I know I’m the shortest

So we headed to INK! It’s a great place by the way. They had a guest trumpeter that day.

We had a drink each. Only Janning got an alcoholic drink. I was still under medication so didn’t dare. Next time perhaps! Love that place. Love the type of jazz music there.

We took another group pic together!

Benny was supposed to go on that day. But he had to OT till late (poor thing), and… he arranged for another meetup with Janning on the 22nd!

I brought Huzz along coz he’s almost family (hee hee) and we were supposed to be watching a movie that day. He was okay that we weren’t going for the movie anyways Thanks bf!

I reached there quite late because I had to OT a bit as well as the fact that I got off the wrong stop. zzz Huzz and I went to look for Janning, then we headed to Xin Wang HK Cafe at Marina Square for dinner!

Had a good long chat (okay I was mostly observing) with Janning and Benny. Huzz was pretty entertained as well.

Group shots!

*Group pics and pics at INK are courtesy of Janning!!

Well, it was a fufilling 3 days. I got to communicate with cousins Janning, Danny, Wei Wen and Benny. Learnt a lot about them that I didn’t know before. Basically the main reason was the age gap I feel and over the years, we just stopped talking much at Grandma’s and all. Pretty sad. But anyway, I am determined that one day, all of us cousins will be able to meetup like friends do outside of where we usually go to! In fact, I have this dream of having a photo of all of us 20+ cousins together. I will definitely print and frame it up if there comes such a day. I know that my cousins either like photography, or music or do something related to either one (e.g. singing, dancing, playing instrument, art, etc) and I belong to either one as well! I am very sure that we will all be good friends instead of only being related by blood.

Aiming for more of such outings!

Remember last year when I won a pair of tickets from Shan and Rozz of 987FM to watch a movie with my sister for her birthday?

This year, I got the opportunity thanks to Omy.sg to watch Despcable Me!! And again, I brought Candy to the preview. I immediately signed up when I saw the opportunity so that I am able to bring her again!

When we arrived, The Cathay was super crowded and we realised that this is the very first preview of Despicable Me in SG! Meaning we were one of the first group of people watching it in Singapore! Haha.

There were people handing out stickers, and queuing for photos. And as you’d seen in the first image, my sis and I took one with the minions too (who are probably kids judging from their height).

I didn’t know what the movie was about actually, except that this guy (Gru) wants to be super evil so he stole some stuff like the statue of liberty (from Vegas lol) and the Times Square screen and now he wants to be the super evil person and steal the moon.

Who is it to stop him right? Right! Except this other evil guy (I shall not say who, go and watch it) and 3 little kids who managed to touch his heart. haha.

I shall not say too much to spoil it but go and watch it. You’ll laugh like mad and GO AND WATCH THE 3D VERSION! I know it may sound like I’m trying to advertise for the movie (this is after all a review) but I believe they made the movie for 3D. Especially some scenes! Shall not spoil it but the experience is just amazing.

Do sit through the credits too (with your 3D glasses). The few small scenes after that that played with the 3D technology is amazing.

I just found this app where you can translate what the minions are saying in the movie! Go download it before you watch it here: http://www.bestbuymoviemode.com/

My favourites are the minions as well as the little girl, Agnes. haha. She’s so cute!

Source: Movie Wallpaper.net

Excellent movie! I gave it 4.5/5 stars because of the humour, fun, great 3D effects and some surprising stuff that happens in it. Lol.

Oh and the soundtrack’s mostly done by Pharrell Williams, who is a popular artiste and worked with people like Justin Timberlake before.

Thank you Omy.sg for the movie!

Anyway, Candy was sick before the movie so we couldn’t go for a good dinner! Another day then.

Leaving you with one more pic of the minion:

It’s my holidays now again (it has been for the past 2 months already) and well, it’s been a really really busy holiday! So many meetups, meetings, events, outings, gatherings… Wow. And now that special term has started, it has gotten worst. Sad to say.

The worst thing that happened was that Huzz left for Sydney already. I really felt like part of me has left. I don’t really feel like doing anything at all to be honest. I just want to sleep the months away. Wake me up when November ends (and when he’ll be back).

But I know life must go on. So I’ll do my best to clear up the photos that I have yet to share and blog about.

Oh and I got bitten by a cat again. The same cat btw. Pisses me off seriously. It came and rubbed its head against my leg and plastic bags then I patted it a bit and it bit me!! Like WTH! I will upload the bite marks picture and the picture of the cat here soon. Beware of it!

Take care everyone.