There you have it, bags over bags of Macdonald's delivery, and even an odd KFC box (contributed by me and tp haha) Can you imagine how much money Macs is earning just from Sheares alone during this exams period? And it happens every 6 mths.. haha I think supper delivery is actually quite profitable, if you do it right.. My friends actually did try it, but closed in the end due to complications. They didn't exactly suffer a loss though, so I think it was a good experience for them.

No wonder Macs can increase their deliivery charge to a FREAKING $3.. imagine, a Big Mac meal would've cost you like $10 already. They must be doing really well. Maybe someday I'll start a food delivery chain and in 10yrs time people will starts saying: "Eh, lazy to go out la, let's eat Ed."


Boredom breeds Innovation

I think I've read this somewhere, and I'm in full agreement of it.. Boredom is the mother of innovations.. or something like that. Just last night, to escape the humid hot weather of Singapore, me and tp escaped to the cool comforts of the block lounge, bringing our panting doggie along. Only downside is that there is only a wired lan port there, and it was a hassle to remove the LAN cable from my room so we decided to go without internet. (it was a major distraction anyway.)

Halfway thru our very very strenuous and concentrated effort to study, we wanted to chat about smth private we didnt want the other guys in the room to hear, but HRMM there's no MSN... bah.. but we agreed that in such a technogically advanced age, there should be a way. And thus, we started poring through Windows Help, tweaking with bluetooth, etc etc.

We concluded that Hyperterminal was the way to go, the old archaic way people used to communicate during the Age of the Modem That Went "Beeeeee-dduuuuuu-diiiiiiii-Beeeeeeee" through a telephone line. However, we needed to connect to each other first in an ad-hoc computer-to-computer network. This was achieved by dear tp with our Bluetooth adapters.

After some research and trying out, voila! we got our own IPs, tp "Waited for a call on port 23" on Hyperterminal, I dialled a call to her, and we connected! hahaha we were actually quite excited when we managed to talk to each other through that telnet client, showing its Fixedsys font, something I stared at each day during my Aardwolf days.. We got stuck for awhile until we realised we needed to "wait for call" DUHHHH

Since we're already trying this out, we then decided to do something we should've done Loooooonnnngggg ago. Internet Sharing. Since I moved over to PGP, using the computer has been a pain since both of us are Internet addicts, and there's only one wired LAN port with no wireless in the room. So we had to take turns the whole time.. even now when we moved to SH, the situation's still the same.

So off to Google we researched, and actually found out that Windows XP has a built in Inter sharing option.. bahhh I feel dumb.. To think I used to have an old ethernet hub connecting 3 computers at home with LAN and using the old program called Sygate (anyone remembers this?) to share internet before the age of routers.

But, using our wireless adapters to form the ad-hoc network, and my computer shared the wired lan connection's internet, and yayyyyyy!!!!! we both have internet! we're still very happy about this till now =) Sadly, it has distracted both of us from the higher calling of studying till now too..