i am going to bore you with more of my Vista experience!

First look, aesthetically it’s less boxy and… holed up (however you want to put it) as compared to XP. I must say, i have always been a Mac OS’s fan, mostly because of it’s beauty aesthetically and thereafter, because of it’s ease of use once you got past the first week of playing with it.

Evidentally, Microsoft thinks so too. I am pretty sure there’s a thousand and one sites out there telling everyone about this, but to see this for myself O.o and then having been able to mess around with it for the past few days, it’s quite… fun.

Obviously, though, Microsoft somehow managed to make this beautiful OS painful on the ram. On checking the ram usage, i am seeing a minimum clock-in range of 500 megs. This dumbs down the beauty of the OS. With my old Ibook, which had about 512mb ram, the OS hardly registered (i believe the current OS would be slightly different). XP itself didn’t use very much. It’s not till i run 2-3 Lineage 2 windows that the 1gig ram started sputtering and swearing at me, and that’s considering the immense amount of stuff i have running in the background (Trillian, multiple-tabbed firefox, mp3s… blah).

While it doesn’t matter much to me now, considering my immense 4gig ram (woohoo), it will be stupid to have just 1 gig ram should i upgrade my desktop to Vista.

Still, i like the shadings, shadows and all the beauty of it. At least, since i can’t own a mac for now, i can still own a sub-standard copy of it (yes, i still don’t like microsoft :D)

Not to mention, like Mac, there’s also a “miniature” screencap of your window when you hover over the tabs on the taskbar.

Now, this performance thing amazes me just a little bit. I am not quite sure why it existed, if not for bragging rights or to assure non-techs their pc is 1337. On a personal level, i think most people should know at the back of their heads whether the games/programs they are intending on buying CAN be played to a certain quality on their current machine.

and of course, there would be people like me who conveniently forgets that when new games comes out, and walks out to just buy it, COZ i could. and then i couldn’t play it for eons.

Despite that, This rating thing seems a little… i am not sure how to put it. For dramatic effects? “oh yeah, my pc has a rating of 5.9 (the max)” “oh damn, my pc’s only 2… can only play Vista’s and old games nia, pai seh pai seh”. of course, when you click for more information here and there, i can only see lame help-lines and sales pitches.

The rating though, is related to this little “category” thing. I am not quite sure about the rest of the categories, although it seems only the Games related ones are on “auto categorise”. Basically, whenever i install a game, whether it’s direct install or a port over form my old pc, the category/folder instantly recognises it, and adds it to the Game folder. This “add” though, is more of a quick link area.

This is helpful for some, albeit minor, reasons:

1) when you are forgetful as to where you have put the folders

2) when you want to de-clutter your desktop

3) when you seriously just want to login and play.

The ratings and performance was also meant to be shown with the games. However, it seems that other than the Vista pre-loaded games, it can’t do a comparison with other games that i currently own (which isn’t much). Also, COD4 wasn’t “auto-categorised” for some reason.

I have managed to install the various other things i need, and everything seems to be running fine. Most of the “Enhanced” features, or pre-loaded stuff by Dell, has not been tried because they look and feel TOO COMPLICATED. Obviously, Vista’s widgets-wannabe are working, but it’s not the same i kinda like the “overlay” feel, plus the panda widget that i was using, plus a whole host of other stuff too.

i mean, i know i shouldn’t compare vista to Mac, it’s just now the aesthetics are sssooo similar, it makes me miss Mac more.

aight end of another long, and useless post! <3

Ok look at this, and tell me what you think of it….

a) a skank posing in a photo

b) a beautiful girl in an artistic shot

c) hot stuff

personally, i would have gone for b) because it IS an artistic shot. Right now though, the int3rw3b and half of the other worldly media is giving Miley Cyrus the shits because they decided it was a RISQUE and sexual shot. Not to mention the scores of other photos on her myspace, which included pictures of her hugging and kissing her boyfriend, and some shots with her flipping the top of her bra at the camera, plus some pictures of her in a bikini in a bath tub with some gal pals. Media has decided to name those shots as sexually related and lesbian action.

holy shit.

I never knew bathing with friends while CLOTHED is considered lesbian action. I used to do that. And omg, kissing and hugging is sexual. Seriously, the girl’s 15, and that photoshoot for vanity fair IS artistic. Why is the media so willing to label someone a whore, slut or skanky just because they hug someone, kiss someone and they also act in Disney channel stuff?

She’s goddamn 15. let her be 15.

I smell some jealousy from the media, maybe they didn’t have a boyfriend/girlfriend till they were 21+++.

For the past 2 weeks, the only other form of entertainment i have (that’s not watching stupid vapid girls hang all over the kitchen boys) was to watch shows over youtube. For all the trash that can appear on youtube, it’s an amazing way to be watching the “telly”.

ya, i don’t really watch tv anymore. i just buy seasons when they come out, if they do, and watch them that way. when i am broke though, there’s the youtube way.

Anyways, i picked up on the Malaysian Dreamgirl Contest. Infact, i did already know of its existence months ago, but i seriously dread beauty contests. In it, there’s such a wild amount of bitchiness that’s makes beauty pageants, and especially reality < insert wtfever female related > contests a brain numbing show. Not to mention the things contestants can say or do. i guess, about the only beauty pageant i ever really care to watch is Miss Universe, just so i can bitch about how ugly the Singaporean representative always is (compared to the other chicks), to my Dad. haha.
I guess every show is different, and Malaysian Dreamgirl is as cringe-worthy as with most other beauty pageants/reality modelling shows. what is so wrong about it too though is:

• how the label is “Malaysian Dreamgirl” and it’s in reality, a MODELLING pageant. There’s not many Asians above 1.7m in height, and of the final few contestants, in my humble opinion, i had hardly call them Malaysian Dreamgirl. If they were looking for a model, perhaps it should have been more… obvious? i mean, look at the applicants to the search, not many suited the height requirement itself.
• the obsessive amounts of screaming. I don’t know if it was the accoustics, or their mics, or just the girls themselves, it felt like i was in a toilet with a tape rolling out the screams. OH MY GOD, SHUT UP ALREADY. It’s not like you girls haven’t seen branded goods, had a makeover in one way or another, or hair products packed nicely in a box. urk.
• I know my english isn’t perfect, and i know not many people can easily handle multiple languages. it doesn’t make my skin crawl any less though to hear the English language being ripped a new asshole.
• The facade of “sisterhood” and them holding hands every time they go into the elimination shoot. at the end of it, everyone “hugs” but you can always see someone who’s not hugged, or just waved off. So mean, right? infront of camera too.

So anyways, my few favourites have been voted out, and all i am waiting to see is which of the finalists gets the prize, just for the kicks. Hey i am not pretty, and i am quite… lumpy? fat, whatever else you want to call it, but the fat girl loves to judge <3 <3

p.s At least, for the sake of it’s name, they should let Hanis win. She’s pretty, seems Andrew Models like her, can do runway, still very “malaysian” girly and loveable (IMO) - let her win no? Adeline looks more Taiwanese tv show host type, and Cindy has a modern “global citizen” feel to her… mewp.