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Monday, August 17, 2009

Volunteering work

It was a very bored working Monday.
I just dont feel like working today... PUI !
Anyway, i had a meaningful Sunday! =D
I went to offer my help at Chong Pang CC yesterday afternoon, all the way till 12+pm in the night then i got home..
It was fun,meaningful and get to know new friends.. =)
Our tasks was to usher the old folks, bringing them food, drinks..
Look at the crowds..
It was hokkien opera, divided into afternoon session and evening session.
Nice feeling after the work, although i din really help much. haha!
But then hor, i think i will do more of volunteering if i can... hehe!
Like the Pet Fish on my blog. I like Fish..
Maybe i should call myself Fish Soh.. but got someone called Fish Leong liao leh... haha!
How ah?
So how was your Sunday? Was it as meaningful as mine? =P

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Today went off to Westmall to meet my buddy,Dennis, for coffee.. As usual, Westmall was crowded.. where was the always mentioned 'economic downturn' ? I am seeing so many people spending... BAH~ Being bored, i do quiz on Facebook.. Did a Myers-Briggs Personality. I feel it's true! and some more same with Sandra Bullock!! I am going to see her movie next Tues~ Muahahaha! *Muah Muah* ~

Friday, August 14, 2009

YEAH! Exams over! ! I got holiday till 25th August 09, before the new modules start again. = ) However, today's paper was difficult... *pray hard to pass* Had a nice dinner with my classmates after the paper. After which i went over to Orchard to collect the tickets for movie next Tues.. I was at ION. Think was the exam's after effect, i seem to walk past the same store at least twice.. and i keep getting to the MRT control area.. why huh? LoL Anyway, nothing much was interesting to me at that place.. I even got problem finding the toilets.. and thinking that their toilet bowls are golden toilet bowls, was disappointed that it was not made of gold leh! =[ The most interesting i bumped into was this! It was actually what walking MSN icon.. i walked over to shake his hand, and then all others start to rush up to him.. -___-" By the way huh.... Who will be going with me leh ? =P

Sunday, August 9, 2009

JK Wedding Entrance Dance

Hello dear friends! You people saw a new box beside my blog ?
A box with little fishes swimming around.. click inside the box to place some food for them to eat, and watch them swim to the food !!!
Cute LEH~ =P
Was reading other friend's blog..
Happened to see this video, whose wedding coming huh? Can try leh... haha!
By the way, Happy National Day !!!
Hope things will turn for the better and everyone happy and healthy! = )
Back to my last 2 sessions of study notes....
zzzzzz

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Twitter, Facebook and Google hit by cyber attacks

By the way, this was what happened on Thursday... I was on Twitter halfway, then it forced me to sign out... After which i found out, this was happening ! Twitter, Facebook and Google hit by cyber attacks SAN FRANCISCO - Cyber attacks hammered Twitter, Facebook, and Google on Thursday, disrupting the hip micro-blogging service and causing stumbles at the hot social-networking site while Google fended off assaults. Twitter was down for more than an hour early in the morning, before the eponymous California firm got it back online. "The continuing denial of service attack is being mitigated, although there is still degraded service for some folks while we recover completely," Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said in an official company blog. "Twitter has been working closely with other companies and services affected by what appears to be a single, massively coordinated attack. As to the motivation behind this event, we prefer not to speculate." By late afternoon, Twitter said that service was improving but was still sporadic, with some people "unable to post or follow from the website." Facebook was "degraded" by an early-morning distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the Palo Alto, California-based Internet star's website, said spokeswoman Brandee Barker. "No user data was at risk and we have restored full access to the site for most users," Barker said. "We're continuing to monitor the situation." Twitter and Facebook have teamed with US Internet powerhouse Google to investigate the attacks. Cyber attacks were launched on Google websites, but the firm deflected the assaults. "Google systems prevented substantive impact to our services," said company spokesman Nate Tyler. "We are aware that a handful of non-Google sites were impacted by a DOS attack this morning, and are in contact with some affected companies to help investigate this attack." Hackers evidently employed classic DDoS attacks in which legions of zombie computers, machines infected with viruses, are commanded to simultaneously visit a website. Such a massive onslaught of demand can overwhelm website computer servers, slowing service or knocking it offline. "Ten years ago, we saw the first DDoS attacks take down some of the world's largest websites," said Cisco chief security researcher Patrick Peterson. "The irony here is that botnets, infected criminally-controlled consumer PCs, are the problem. Many of today's tweetless are part of the attack if their PC has been infected due to poor security." A DDoS attack hit Twitter about 6:00 am local time (1200 GMT) and caused the service to go offline temporarily. Access to the website continued to be slow, with some aspiring users getting messages telling them that connections had "timed out" because Twitter computers were taking too long to respond. The attack was the lead topic of conversation at Twitter, once users were able to reconnect. Twitter user Benjamin Hobbs fired off a message saying he "wishes the denial-of-service idiots would get a life and leave Twitter alone." Late in the evening, users were still posting comments in droves about the attack, using the tag #whentwitterwasdown, although many said they simply did not notice. An everyday chatting tool for many, Twitter has also become a weapon for dissidents to circumvent censorship in places where freedom of speech is suppressed. Independent information about deadly riots in China's remote northwest filtered out on Twitter, YouTube and other Internet forums in July, frustrating government efforts to control the news. Similar to the phenomenon seen a month earlier during Iran's political turmoil, pictures, videos and updates from Urumqi poured onto social networking and image sharing websites like Twitter, YouTube and Flickr. In many cases, items were reposted by other Internet users on sites outside China to preserve the content, while Twitter helped link people around the globe to images Chinese authorities did not want seen. Cyber-sympathisers from around the world joined forces through Twitter in June to help Iranian protesters dodge censorship, get out news of violent clashes and avoid real-world capture following Iran's disputed election that returned hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power. Cyber attacks on Web pages of Iranian opposition figures have continued in the aftermath of the controversial presidential election. - AFP/rs *Tweet Tweet* =P
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