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November 12th, 2009
blurtofeuphoria
 | 08:33 pm - where's piggy?
even though Christmas still has more than a month away,
to dearest Mr. Santa Claus (or any kind soul out there)...
will you bring me a little piglet in a basket for me this Christmas night? :)
i think having a pig as a pet is sooooo adorable!!
currently it's 1 mouse + 2 fishes,
add 1 more piglet in?
goodbye bunnies, hello piglets! :D
anyway, to you who asked me why am i always so cheerful, this is my answer for you.
i am not a happy kid, i am just receiving the gift of joy from God, whom gave it to me.
Psalm 118:24 (NKJV) says, "This is the day the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it."
and, from the wise word of Solomon,
Proverbs 15:13 (NKJV), "A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken."
and yes, gratz to the O level KIDS for ending their battle well. i believe God has seen your efforts, and He is getting ready to pour down His blessings upon you guys! :) 1993 outing soon, right? hahaha
and Ade ended her exams too! hahaha 9 more days before she's coming back to this lots-of-good-food country ;) yipeee!!! our cellgroup "farmer-mother" is back! :D
* random: i am prosperously round. :) not fat. hahahahaha
i am very very very blessed by the Lord.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/ibrad/biggrin.gif) excited
Current Music: Switchfoot - '24'
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lj_maintenance
[dwell]
 | 02:00 pm - Network Maintenance: Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 04:00-06:00 UTC/GMT
On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.
Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.
We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!
As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.
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November 11th, 2009
shopoholicious
 | 12:27 am
I'm so upset, but I'm too tired to spell out my thoughts. But seriously, I'm sick of all these.
STOP taking me for granted, taking advantage of me.
This world is ugly, i dont like how the closeness of our friendship is determined by you. And I'm quite sure you don't feel sad about it at all, because you're heartless.
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November 10th, 2009
crashingfun
 | 11:28 pm - miscarriage and abortion
from someone blog. shall not name it.
"2 of november 2009 is a unexpected date for me.Ard 4 am in the morning,Bf sent me to KKH, the first word i hear from the doctor saying" you are having a miscarriage", baby is coming soon. My water bag have burst.I was stunned. Bf was there for me thru out the whole day at ard noon time, I gave birth. It was a baby boy:) with no heart beat..I have no choice but to let the baby go.Bf went to see our baby for the last time but i was not allowed as i can't move..Thats was the end of our baby boy..Till today i still cannot let it go, i still cry in the middle of the night, but too bad we have no fate..
Baby, rest in peace
Mummy love you:) "
gosh the moment i saw this, i was like WAH.my heart miss a beat, its like MISCARRIAGE! i was doing my assignment and then i stopped a little while to read blog. and then i read all those up above. immediately my mind wenrt blank, the sudden urge to stop whatever im doing and just unable to think..FOr a moment ,i placed myself in her situation and thought for a while.
its ultra saddd, although i dontknow what happen to her, but i know, its a really horrible feelings. like what i heard in the past, every baby is being held by GOd hands onto this earth, its such a pity.really. and i got this linked back to how fortunate we are to be borned and how sad for those who had to go through abortion. its like right there you';re going through abortion not wanting the child, and at the same time, someone else is trying to save the child, but was unfortunately unable to do so... thus misccarriage. that feelings is more than words can say.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/sad.gif) sympathetic
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November 8th, 2009
crashingfun
| 12:04 pm - acoustic event by stansfied
YOOO-HOOO!
ytd was a GREAT day! with great sermon and great time sharing.and we managed to chit chat abit here and there. and when it was time to leave i was reluctant to go. drag my feet and left ); it sucks to be leaving early week after week. but well next weeek karaoke + sleepover at my place+ no more leaving early on saturday= LOVE LOVE.
yesterday acoustic event by stansfied at SMU tree house cafe. was gooood! had lots of laughters and fun!
thanks for those who came down. especially thanks to JJ, yeevonn, yuzhen,meiling, fee who came down! =D im bias to them, cause they came down to support me. they give me face. they gave me so much face that now i got thick skin! LOL LOL. haha im just kidding, im blushing now already :p
the acoustic event, was filled with lovely beatiful songs, like taylor swift love story, i want nobody nobody but you, and even titanic song was being played! like wow! it was a blast (: we sat around the table and laughters and jokes filled the air. oh yes and alot of teasinggggggggg! =x
yeevonn was the brave little girl, talking to all my girls! not girl ah, she's never shy, well at least i didnt see before, and after she left someone even told me something about her.*cough cough* only that person and yeevonn knows. wait theres another person. oh yess and its so unfair, rajiv was her personal waitrer! but in the end , because he was known to be slow and inefficient i ended up being yeevonn waitress, or should i say everyone waitress. and oh yes, i gave yuzhen a plate of grass to eat! colesaw , cabbage and some raisin. then JJ on the other hand, half the time he was tooo attracted by one of the performing pink girl, and practically looked at her throughout her whole performance, JJ you're interested in her already ahhh! and meiling half the time she's was laughing away, giggling and more gigglingggg! Fee was also another one laughing at me and teasing meee!
and yessss, i got a new nickname for myself again ytd. *bang wall* i was being called by 3 different person.JJ boyfriend ( please dont kill meee), yeevonn and ytd acoustic pple! *ahlamak* am really that thing?but it was fun still.
pictures to be up sooon! im having backache now, i can only typed but too tired to move my butt! :p
oh yes just a random thought, am i really very nice to be tease? everyone was practically teasing me ytd
you can leave me a comment and tell me :D
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November 7th, 2009
skinnysand
 | 02:54 am - Take one at a time
Do not whine
Do not complain
Do not rant
Take one at a time and i will be able to finish my assignments.
Bit by bit.
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November 6th, 2009
crashingfun
| 11:43 pm - happy happy girl (:
shengjia is feeeling happpy happy ever since 330 pm! =D
reached home at 330 and the moment i laid on bed. and there goes my phone ringing :D
meiling and sandy" arlow shengjia ah, where are you" and great i was home already. after not getting a reply from sandy about wheather we're meeting to get a gift for " someone" ( ishall not reveal now) but i guess its pretty obvious for those who knows about it. (: since back then i got bad bad fluuuu. my nose is like a running tape.keep AH CHEW-ing non-stop! who's missing me so much which caused me to sneeze so muchm, better own up! :p whats more last night before i sleep and this morning after i woke up, im still having headache.
imagine headache+ bad flu. very poor thing hor.. ): but im alright now =D
so after on the way there, had a chit chat session about like 1 hr talked with rongping, and its was goooood. its was a good good one :D more talk sesssion okies girl (: hop around for " someone" gift, we got it pretty fast though :D reached vivo at 5and left at 640 to meet pf at clementi for discipleship. and in the end. wel never do discileship ah! cos i didnt know im suppose to prepare before hand =x never mind we had a good time chattting and talk until super shoik, and got to start thinking things for my beloved small groups. its gonna be alittlehard, but with i will shall tap into GOd strength for help.
although, today didint happen much, but today just a happy happy day, minus the fact that i didnt study at all. bad girl shengjia ): being happy is the best thing ever! =D
and tml is my school acustico event, hopefully it will be a blast ((:
shengjia doesnt want today to end, but at the same time is excited about tml tooo.yes you are right, im so contradicting. =P gonna see my cell grp/small grp/school friends/beloved secondary school friends toooo! YOOOO-HOOOO! :D
LOVE LOVE <3 <3
no point dwelling on unhappy/sad stuff, there's always something to be happy about (:
wheeee!
Current Mood: happy
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November 5th, 2009
news
[theljstaff]
 | 01:15 pm - LiveJournal Major Notes: Spam counter-attack, RSS feeds again, CSI Deadly Intent contest
The empire strikes backIn recent weeks, we've taken huge steps towards blocking spam accounts on LiveJournal. In fact, we've suspended as many as 30,000 accounts in a single day! We've implemented several pre-emptive measures to prevent the creation of spam accounts, and we've honed our detection of suspicious content. Spam bots are a crafty lot, so we'll continue to refine our tactics and keep up the good fight to keep you safe from spam attacks on LiveJournal.
RSS feeds againIf you're addicted to , ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) icanhaschzbrgr, or other syndicated feeds, we're pleased to report that we've resolved the update error that was mucking up your RSS feeds. While content was being pulled correctly, it wasn't being posted to the feeds themselves. Late last week, we finally nailed down what we hope was the root problem, so content should post properly. We thank you for your patience.
Wii have killer CSI Deadly Intent contests!
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If you're a gamer who loves CSI, have Wii got news for you! c_s_i is sponsoring killer contests. Simply post a question to a member of the CSI crew. The winner will get a free copy of CSI: Deadly Intent for Nintendo Wii (with a retail value of $39.99) and get their question answered by a member of the CSI writing team! There's also a fantastic monthly contest. To enter, join c_s_i, play the online version of CSI: Deadly Intent, and respond to a two-part query for a chance to win a Wii! Entries will be judged on composition and originality. Sorry, but you must be a U.S. resident and over 18 years old to participate. Check out the rules here.
Enveloped in postcardsLast week, we asked you to send in postcards to help us decorate our drab concrete walls. Here's a photo of the results so far! Thank you so much and please keep them coming! You can mail them to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. Be sure to include your username, since we'll be giving ten random users paid account credits.
Photos of the weekIf you haven't visited our new LiveJournal photo community, you're in for an amazing visual trip. LiveJournal users from around the world will take you on a scenic journey to everywhere. Post your own pictures or kick back and enjoy at lj_photophile. You can view some of this week's awesome photos after the jump. Please start tagging with geographic location, since we'd like to track all the places around the world represented in this community. Keep on commenting too!
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November 1st, 2009
behind_th_smile
 | 03:28 am - Goodbye.
 All posts will be private now.
Dont bother coming back to look.
( Maybe, just maybe, I might customize viewing settings for close ones)
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/tired.gif) tired
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October 30th, 2009
lj_maintenance
[dwell]
| 05:17 pm - Network Maintenance - Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 04:00-05:00 GMT/UTC
EDIT: If you're reading this, our maintenance is OVER! The problem was not found on our equipment, which means we'll have to work with our ISP to fix this small problem -- which also means another maintenance window in the future -- but at least we have eliminated our side.
Thank you everyone, and a special shout out to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rekoil for giving me a great suggestion AND also the opportunity to feel like I've just called in to a local radio station.
Have a great day, night or afternoon wherever you may be.
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Hi everyone, sorry for the late notice but I'm going to have to do some testing on 1 of our 4 internet circuits TONIGHT; Friday night or Saturday morning depending on which time zone you're in.
Most of us shouldn't notice any impact, though there may be some slowness or lag when I switch traffic on to our other ISP circuits and then another hit when I stop the tests. If a page won't load or times out, try hitting refresh 1 or 2 times and it should load then. If it doesn't work at all... trust me, I'll be typing really really really fast to try to undo whatever I just did. Hopefully you'll have some Halloween candy (if you're in the USA and celebrate that kind of thing) nearby to take away the bitterness of a small site outage. :(
Here's the handy-dandy Website That I Always Use to get a feel for when the maintenance will start in your area. Our site traffic historically dips on Friday afternoons until Saturday morning which is why we tend to pick this time for maintenance work.
( tech details )
status.livejournal.org will, of course be updated before and after the maintenance window. Or else marta will get mad at me. :D
bt
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behind_th_smile
| 01:44 am - Undefinable Emotions
I was on facebook and I saw the crew class choreo by Orange. Wah, I loveeeee it tooooo the max :D I like the song too! Tomorrow morning is the interview for the Apec Summit ): Wish me luck! :)
Hate U- Mariah Carey
Once upon a time, we swore not to say goodbye
Something got a hold of us and we changed
Then you sat alone in pride
and I sat at home and cried
How'd our fairytale just end up this way
We went round for round til' we knocked love out
We were laying in the ring, not making a sound
and if that's a metaphor of you and I
why is it so hard to say goodbye
I can't wait to hate you
Make you, pain like i do..
Still can't shake you off..
I can't wait to break through
these emotional changes..
seems like such a lost 'cause
I can't wait to face you,
break you, down so low
there's no place left to go..
I can't wait to hate you..
ooh this was a love phenomenon no one could explain
and i wish, i could press reset and feel that feeling again
i sit and press rewind and watch us everynight..
wanna pause it, but i can't make it stay
we went round for round til' we knocked love out
we were laying in the ring, not making a sound
and if that's a metaphor of you and I
why is it so hard to say goodbye
I can't wait to hate you
make you, pay like i do..
still can't shake you off..
I can't wait to break through
these emotional changes..
seems like such a lost 'cause
I can't wait to face you,
break you, down so low
there's no place left to go..
I can't wait to hate you..
uh uh uh..
no need to call my phone cause I changed my number today
a matter fact, I think i'm moving away (away)
sorry, the frustrations got me feeling that way
and i just keep having one last thing to say
and i just wanna hold you, touch you,
feel you, be near you, i miss you baby baby baby..
i'm tired of tryin to fake through, but there's nothing I can do..
boy I can't wait to hate you..
I can't wait to hate you
make you, pain like i do..
still can't shake you off..
I can't wait to break through
these, emotional changes..
seems like such a lost 'cause
I can't wait to face you,
break you, down so low
there's no place left to go..
I can't wait to hate you.. baby..
I can't wait to hate you..
Current Mood: jealous
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news
[theljstaff]
| 10:53 am - LiveJournal Major Notes: Search super-tweak, postcards, and amazing user content!
In response to user comments from last week, we want to let you know that we'll remain LJ cut-free for the next month in order to get more eyeballs on our evolving newsletter. As for product coverage, that continues to be our top priority. For more granular detail, however, we recommend you join lj_releases.
Super-tweak for Yandex searchSome of our beta testers expressed privacy concerns using the Yandex search engine. Here's why: Last week, when you ran a search, you could see the usernames (and only the usernames) of everyone who commented on an entry, even if that entry was switched to Private or Friends Only after it was originally indexed. You could NOT see the actual comments from Friends Only or Private posts. In response to your input, we've implemented a fix to keep all user activity currently marked Friends Only or Private completely hidden. If you'd prefer your public content not to be indexed by Yandex, click here and use the settings labeled Search Inclusion (this covers your entire journal) and/or Comment Search Inclusion (which covers comments only). To test drive Yandex search now, click here.
Postcards from the edgeSeveral years ago, we asked LiveJournal users to send postcards to help us decorate our dull, white-washed offices. Since a good idea warrants repetition, we're at it again (same issue, new address). We hope you'll surround us with LiveJournal love by sending your postcards to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. We'll post snapshots right here. Be sure to include your username, since we'll randomly pick 10 lucky recipients to win free paid account time.
Conquer Writer's BlockHere are some excerpts from this week's most popular question of the day:
If a friend or relative makes a racist or homophobic remark, do you tend to confront them or let it slide? Are you more likely to confront them if it offends you directly or someone else who seems reluctant to speak up?- I find it easier to stand up for other people, and i wouldn't let it slide if they made a rude or hurtful comment.
- Usually if a friend makes a racist or homophobic remark, I tend to let it slide. I think that while i would not say such things myself, I have no right to censor those around me.
- This happens all of the time. I confront some relatives, but I refuse to if they are drunk or watch Fox News.
- I'd let it slide if it was just a private remark... As much as I despise bigotry and intolerance, I know that you can't change people-they have to change themselves ...
- Confront! confront! confront! Politely, but without equivocation.
- SPEAK UP. Always, always, always speak up. Letting something slide lets ignorance win. No matter if it offends me directly, or someone else, I will confront the speaker and let them know that's not ok.
- I don't get offended personally. As an immigrant, woman, gay and person of color if I took every single potentially offensive remark seriously I wouldn't get anything done.
- I punch them in the balls. With my mind.
- I do speak up, but often very timidly because I feel that I'm white and therefore I don't really have any authority to lecture someone on what's racist and what isn't...
- Generally speaking, I do not let this shit fly, because it reduces me as a person, to this non-person and it replicates the destructive discourse that makes sure that sexual minorities, racial minorities, women, people with disabilities, trans people and every intersection thereof into something other than human... And sometimes... I'm just too tired to deal with it, so I roll my eyes, make a sarcastic remark and hope the conversation moves on quickly.
For more daily questions and user comments, join writersblock. FYI, we don't want to invade your privacy, so we haven't credited individual users for their responses. We'd appreciate your feedback on this!
Spotlight community of the weekWe can't resist making one last midnight trip to the ol' pumpkin patch. If you adore crazy costumes, fiendish festivities, and bottomless candy consumption as much as we do, this community has just what it takes to light up your jack-o-lantern.
halloween_fan
Photos of the weekWe received so many incredible photos, we had to close our eyes and point. We uploaded a selection of awesome images at our new lj_photophile community. Please join and start posting (try to keep the width at around 625 for the sake of consistency)! We'd love for you to tell us more about your photos! You can help us select spotlight photos by commenting on your favorites. Once again, we thank you for making our online world more beautiful!
CurtainsThanks, again, for tuning in. We look forward to seeing you next week.
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behind_th_smile
| 12:04 am - Keep holding on.
Nothing's progressing. & its very frustrating. :( 700 more words to go for my report and I havent made any changes since today? & Im gonna like submit it tmr ? =.= Sucks :( And I think a sore throat is coming up pretty soon. Im beginning to sound like a MAN. Jammed with Lewis, Qaiser & Marcus this morning. Qaiser see girl, act only. HAHA. I really enjoyed myself :) Too bad I only can use the mike, cant play instruments. Lewis gan chiong only, whack the drums. HAHA. Marcus, the usual, shy boy boy :D hide from the camera. But eh, my Yangyang very the pro in playing the guitar ok! ^^
Oh, did I tell you? I ran 3.5km yesterday! :D So proud of myself ! After so many months, I finally started exercising! Gonna gym with Karen tomorrow.More like forced to gym with her. You stupid nehneh. Haha! Dance tomorrow too. Argh, I have to bring lotsa things. Bag's gonna be heavy heavy ):
Sometimes I feel so far, so left behind, lost
Cant find my way home, somewhere that I can feel belonged.
When I find it, they dont last ):
Tell me , what are friends for?
Love is not just about feelings, its a choice.
Just keep holding on, we'd make it through (:
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October 29th, 2009
coolenberry
 | 10:09 pm - infographics speak
Recently have been rather busy with many things. Busy with people, school, family, friends, all and all..... I yearn for a really good rest for my body and mind....
food for thoughts
this is definitely not a commercial that i wanna use on to advertise on pantene shampoo. NAH.... i never like pantene. Just wanna to share that It was through this ad that i learned something which i find really important for everyone.The message brought to the consumer is straight forward. Look at this phrase, “Why.... do you have to be like others?” To people who may have low self esteem, this phrase might speak off even stronger to them. Though yes, there may be sameness in some areas between you and me, but after all we're still the one and only us. You are still that only one you and me being myself. People can try their ways and means to be like you, or vice verse, but what’s the point after all? We differ, from everyone. Each of us has our own talents, strengths and gifts. We don’t have to compare ourselves with others. Each of us have been uniquely and wonderfully created by God. we differ, from everyone. Be original and not copies.
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