Till then, it would be one week till you will hear from me, whats next? first impressions at the camp? woot!

When the Windows XP “Luna” user interface was revealed in February 2001, the Windows User Experience team took great pleasure when they verified that I had never seen a leaked copy of the UI before the official unveiling. I decided, at that moment, that the next Windows version would be different. Here, for the first time, is a gallery of UI prototypes that I believe accurately portrays the “Aero” user interface in Longhorn. They are presented in reverse chronological order, so that the olders pictures are at the bottom. Naturally, things could change and, if anything, I expect the UI to be more impressive in person than what we see here. But at the very least, the task-oriented nature of Longhorn comes through nicely in these shots.

They would be staying for a few weeks, doing all the necessary sightseeing and shopping, very affordable stuff in Singapore they say.. yea *grins* Would be going out with them during my bookout next week, the week where I would pass out as CPL from Sispec. So whats on big next week at cap for me? Based on the timetable for next week, I would be learning to use the SAR21 rifle, neato! with that aside, the all grueling 32km route march will be on before graduation day (22th aug for the 28TH BSLC). Oh well more passing out rehearsals here I go- after that, up and done with BSLC man!)

*throws abit of tantrum* Oh yea, the run was conducted yesterday, Infantry day an annual event where all the infantry units in SG gather at tekong for competitive runs where teams send in their best runners to win the 22km Tekong challenge. For me and my coy, we are just casual runners in the “healthy lifestyle run (++ free bonus 6km) ” everything ended in the late morning where we booked out around noon.

Jus as shagged and sleepy after the run. The rest of the section managed to crawl to beach road to get our chevrons sewed on and we felt cheated having to pay for $4 each set. Had lunch in the vicinity too, OTW. Fingers are itchy after being shoppping deprived for weeks, zipped to Simlim in my “ugly” book out artire & purchased a Linksys PC card ($67, usual $79) and C&C Renegade ($39.90, usual $49.90-$59.90)- all at great bargains *feels momentarily proud*

After reaching and dumping myself in the comfort of home, started building the server section of my home network, this one is a resurrected AMD Atlon 333Mhz from my old notebook, I would be prying it out and building a new ventilated desktop casing for it. The reason why laptops don’t make good 24/7 computers is that they have very very lousy cooling systems, so therefore the redesigned fanned case. oh well, the next thing on my to-do list is to actually find time to get it done…

Mmmmm, and something off-topic but otherwise, interesting, check out this niffy PC mag article Forcing Windows to Crash on forcing your OS to crash, for a good cause- to test the recoverability of your system.

ok, so I will shoot, would be dropping down to NUH tomorrow for some medical review on some eye infection, acute conjunctivitis(otherwise known as sore eyes). It had been bugging me for quite sometime, however its not in anyway, life treaterning. With that in hand, hey I got to book out! *kisses off-pass slip* This week is gonna be a very short week at camp, which I am too, not complaining though *grins* Would also be booking out this friday morning, being infantry day. *duh* wow? (some b-i-g occasion?) who cares, its the bookout which matters dudes! *uses fingers to count* roughly 3 more camp days left this week till friday, till then I will blog, chill out dudes!

And yea, so there was the outfield defense exercise for my company last week, namely manual digging, shoveling and lots of digging all day, all day… all into the night with my buddies, dig dig dig, so bad that even our enigneer gloves all start wearing out with holes, with aches and fatigue all over. Yes, it was really long, not to mention the complete lack of sleep the whole last 50 hours and the nightmare of carrying a 20kg++ heavy field pack cum signal set back to camp with the attack squad go for tens of kilometers, (being luckily appointed as general purpose machine gun commander.. *duh*) its one load that even your hands will start going numb after hours of “choinging” (rushing).