weiyentan.com

The weekend was pretty laid back. I have been pretty lazy and have not been posting as regularly as I should. This is partly in due to the lack of inspiration of ideas and facebook microblogging (status updates) is far easier than writing up a whole post.

Maybe I’ll start off with putting up a few vlogs as I am getting into video editing once again.

I originally saw the trailer to “Sherlock Holmes” and seeing the shorts it really sounded like an action packed movie rather than a movie showing the science of deduction.

How surprised I was to see them show Holmes deductive reasoning at work. It was a modern interpretation but it at least stayed true to form.

I just finished watching the movie “Avatar”. It was visually appealing but I felt that it was rehashed storylines of past movies. I mean look at the “Last Samurai” where you have a foreigner entering enemy territory and then switching sides to fight against their own. Or look at Matrix. It was something similar.

So in essence the technology maybe different but the storyline has not wavered. Tomorrow, new years eve is my birthday. I am turning 32. Let’s see what it brings. Will post later.

I have not been writing much. I have been working throughout…life is getting to be a vicious cycle that I sorely need to get out off. I can’t wait till Christmas…I am going back to Hamilton for two weeks, which means that I have to start to clean up my room and the like so when I get back everything will be fresh again. The year has ended quickly and I think the next year will even be better. That we shall see. Anyway I am out…I may post later on today.

Well I have not written in a long while. Life here has been good, I have been enjoying my stay in Wellington. Its quite hard to believe that I have been here for more than 1 year. I am almost going to be more than 2 years here. Most of my time follows a routine schedule, I get up, go to work have dinner and then sleep. In the weekend, I have to do the daily chores and buy food. The same routine over and over. I think its a bad habit to take up.

I think a hobby is in order. I am trying to start working on a few projects on Alpha Five databases with my friend. Its a good time to get started and do something. I am going toi start to post once more rather than start carrying on with a basic routine. This is something that I want to kick the habit of. I want to do something with my life rather than just sit there and do nothing. Any way I am out.

That Wedding entrance video has been a hit everywhere. Unless you are stuck under a rock and have not seen it yet, check it out on youtube. Just look for “YouTube – JK Wedding Entrance Dance”  To date it has reached 19,389,431 views, and continues to grow. I find it amusing to see that the use of the song “Forever” was used  and the Recording Studio never batted an eyelid despite the number of views that it got. And you know why? They were making money thats why. Yes, according to this Boingboing article, the recording studio CTR (Click to Buy) sky rocket increase not long after the release of this video.

I liked Cory’s comment:

So many of the record industry giants are publicly traded companies. Why aren’t their shareholders howling for more stuff like this — which actually makes money — and less pointless Grand Guignols to extract a couple grand from some hapless teen, alienating a future customer and her family and friends for life?

Thats my thoughts exactly Corey. Before I finish this post I’ll leave you with this parody of the Wedding Entrance: (Thanks to Anish who showed me this, I had to chuckle)

EDIT: I had the wrong title up there before. REAMENDED now.

Interesting thing happened yesterday. Yes my Gmail account got broken into. It was not a  nice experience having the mail acccount that you depend upon violated and spammed from. And then embarrasingly having to write to everyone in your contact list to say “Sorry”.

Anyway I digress. . .I found out about the account being compromised when my site lead sent me an email to ask “Did you send this?” and then when I tried to log into my Gmail account it came up with the error “This is not the right password, Access is denied” Several more attempts and it confirmed my suspicions.

Google is quite good in that it has a recovery process to deal with compromised accounts. I won’t go with the semantics but suffice to say that  straight after I found out about my account being compromised I changed my passwords on everything that is important to me. Gmail, my online banking, just to name a few. Who knows what those people would have gone through?

These are some of things that I did. What about you?

I was talking to a friend of mine at dinner last night and we were discussing whether buying for somebody (and reciprocating) was in the same league as just turning up and paying for ourselves and enjoying each others company. My friend’s premise was that the simple act of turning up to the event is good enough and is the same as buying for somebody.

This post is not focusing about the above discussion and the merits of it, but after our dinner appointment, it got me thinking why we have differently. Some of you may fire back to me and say it is glaringly obvious, but I believe that why we think differently is largely because we have different values. The Meriam Webster online dictionary defines values as “something (as a principle or quality) intrinsically valuable or desirable <sought material values instead of human values — W. H. Jones>”

It is of  what we experience in our lives and what has been past down to us from our parents and those that are very close to us that distinctly defines what we consider with certain values in our lives. Do remember that there is the odd exception. . .I mean a person in a derelict family may see a different outlook to that of people around them.