2 most happening incidents in class last week, Part 1: Want to Cry

Still remember my post about a student always ask me to give him free music scores? and said i am stingy bcos i had to beg for my 10 sen every time i give out a score?

http://www.uglymen.net/?p=295

Another thing happened after the 28th May Piano Recital!! This made me really want to fall off the stairs. There was one student who used a minus-1 track to perform on that night, and he/she has not pay the CD for weeks, guess what happenned after the show??

After he/she saw his/her name still on the “payment ounstanding list”, he/she brought the CD back to me and told me:

“michael, na, finish perform liao, u take back the CD la, no need pay u liao”

Me: …….

really not easy to be a teacher nowadays….

My Singapore trip is so 'sick'

I'm in Singapore now. It must be the hokkien mee again that I ate lastnite during a stop by bus. I'm having allergic now. So itchy…Later will have to see doctor…..

There were too many peoples waiting for custom checkpoints. I waited for 30 min to have my passport stamped. Shit…my bus didn't wait for me….I not able to find the bus. Then I took a public bus to the nearest MRT Kranji station and took MRT to Bishan. While I was sitting at the MRT, there was a guy looked like pakistan or indian (I can't recognise) sit beside me too. His phone rang, and answered the call.

The Guy: ” hello…hello… hello…” ( I think he can't hear the caller's voice)

The Guy: “Ma Cx Bxx, Ka Ni Nia”…

Wah lau…so fxxxing cool….!!!

Added:

Last nite I went to Dbl 0 pub at Mohammad Sultan. Wah Lau, a lot of gorgeous gals there. Drank until 4am…then come out from the pub…..saw many youngster were so drunk and vomited outsite the pub…..Then moved to another bistro, I can't remember what is the bistro name. It opens until 6am. I went back on 5 something and reached home at 6am.

cool photos by fooeleen.multiply.com

we were surprised to receive a comment from foo eleen the sexy photographer who took gorgeous photos during indie gigs held in penang last year. she replied to our post and gave us another link to her photos gallery.

we dint know that we looked so “good looking” in a filtered photo effect. nice work!

evident: mike bowed guitar angkong after a gruelling guitar solos duel where he admitted that he still has a long way to go to reach a god-like status… amen amitabha… be strong my child…

leh mak, freaking guitar… mmphh…

ah hooi sangat ber-gay-a, betul tak?

guitar solos lah, gay lah, sigh… i better zzZZzz…

nice angle!

guitar duels.

let’s sing along…

there’s a special photo which i have included in my bio.

Big News

酝酿大降价英特尔欲向对手发动”最恐怖价格袭击” 收藏到和讯网摘



5月25日消息,据HKEPC报道,来自台湾一线厂商的消息,英特尔公司已决定在第三季向对手AMD发动“史上最恐怖的价格袭击”,部份桌面处理器产品降幅超过6成。英特尔企图在AMD产能不足的情况下以成本优势打压对手,以求收复失去的市场占有率。 

  为迎接即将发布的Core Microarchitecture(核心微架构)处理器,英特尔将在本月28日调低其双核心Core Duo处理器的售价,降幅从13.3%到33.6%不等。 

  6月4日双核心Pentium D降价,包括Pentium D 930、Pentium D 940将会由千颗单价209美元及241美元下调至178美元及224美元,下降幅度分别为14.8%及7.1%;此前英特尔已在4月23日的Pentium D的进行降价,两个月内累计降幅高达43.7%及47%。将对AM2单核心Athlon 64及低端型号Athlon 64 X2的销售造成压力。 

  之后在7月23日,英特尔发布全新Core微架构的日子。Pentium D、Pentium 4及Celeron D将出现割喉式的降价,Pentium D 940、950、960将会由每千颗单价224美元、316美元及560美元下调至183美元、224美元及316美元,降幅分别为22.4%、29.1%及40.4%。 

半导体老大地位不保? 

  4月20日,英特尔发布了2006年第一季度财报。报告显示,由于面临主要竞争对手AMD的强劲挑战,英特尔第一季度净利润下滑38%。市场研究公司Mercury Research公布的数据显示,2005年AMD从英特尔手中夺走了5.3%的市场份额。而在本周四,戴尔的重大战略改变无疑又为巨人雪上加霜,该公司宣布将推出基于AMD处理器的新款服务器产品。此前英特尔一直是戴尔的独家CPU提供商。 

  英特尔过度依赖中央处理器市场,在过去6个月里表现欠佳,且股价自今年年初以来持续下滑。 

  4月21日,韩国证券期货交易所(KRX)宣布,按股票市值计算,韩国三星电子公司已经超过美国英特尔公司,成为世界最大的半导体制造商。三星电子的市值达到1201亿美元,超过英特尔同日1121亿美元市值。 

  “AMD在市场与产品性能方面,都给予傲慢与安逸的英特尔以无情打击”。《福布斯》杂志资深作者David Kirkpatrick评述道,“英特尔终于承认跌倒落后,现在似乎决定反弹。”就公司收入而言,三星较之英特尔还相差很多。据iSuppli统计,2005年英特尔收入355亿美元,占全球半导体行业总收入2371亿美元的15.0%;三星只有172亿美元和7.3%。 

过分谦虚暗藏温柔一刀 

  英特尔CEO欧德尼4月27日在英特尔分析师会议上表示,英特尔计划进行大规模重组以提升自身竞争力,更好地应对激烈的市场竞争及计算机需求减缓的不利局面。未来90天里,英特尔高管将找出业绩不佳、高成本低效率的部门,并对其进行重组。欧德尼强调:“重组并非只是裁员这么简单。” 

  英特尔只是承认市场占有率下降,利润下降,以及技术领先程度相对下降,但巨人并没有落后。英特尔即将推出新一代芯片架构Core Microarchitecture,之后公司将宣布一项加快芯片再设计步伐的计划,将以前每四年推出一个新芯片架构改为每两年推出一个新芯片架构。 

  在英特尔的日程表上,2005年底推出65纳米生产工艺,2007年将逐步演进45纳米生产工艺;2008年,英特尔将推出下一代芯片架构Nehalem,同时开始生产基于45纳米生产工艺的芯片;2009年,英特尔将转向32纳米芯片生产工艺,于2010年推出另一个新的芯片架构Gesher。期间,英特尔还将从双核向四核甚至更多核芯片转变,产品的每次更新换代将使性能明显提高。 

  英特尔将以市场占有率为目标,此后将是血腥打击AMD今后两年需要收回几十亿美元建厂投资的关键时期,同时可能会面对新出现的敌人,英特尔是否能生存也将受到严峻考验。 

大规模价格战在即 

  在第三季度,英特尔将展开公司有史以来的最大规模降价攻势,无论是桌面双核还是单核Pentium产品,包括低端Celeron都将全线大幅降价,从而在各个细分产品市场完全封杀AMD。 

  HKEPC指出,多家厂商在得悉英特尔大降价后,对AM2处理器的前景深表忧虑,以往AMD处理器无论效能、性价比均比英特尔处理器优秀,但现在英特尔以效能强劲的Core 2 Duo搭配价钱便宜的Pentium D夹击Athlon 64 X2及Athlon 64,AM2 Sempron为Pentium 4狙击,AMD在处于产能不足的情况下显得无力还击。因此各大主板厂商表示将会调节英特尔和AMD产品的生产比例,以配合英特尔的降价行动。AMD则在K8L架构及65奈米产品量产前显得较为被动。 

  在各大硬件论坛上,英特尔的拥趸们已经开始扬眉吐气,弹冠相庆。

Live Gig 7

Hey friends, please be there and don't miss this~ Uglymen is coming to town… 24th of June, 2006 (Saturday) at Berjaya Times Square!

Live Gig 7

Date: 24th June 2006 (Saturday)

Time: 3:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Venue: Berjaya Times Square (Boulevard Driveway)

Admission: Free

Bands performing: Lightspeed, Destroyer, Dropout, Lang, Wu Feng Ling, Soundwall, Malito, Uglymen

tony reno of dragon radio HK on TV with uglymen song

he has taylor hicks hair… wooooo….

tony mentioned our band and played our FULL song… the 44 seconds “wah lau eh” at the TV show. tony is the first podcaster in HK and the TIC TV station interviewed him regarding the asian music scene and growth of the indie/underground music in countries over asia.

he's meeting with justin of www.rock-it.com over at lunch today and will be getting his address to me so that i can send over our CD to him for review… and pray hard for them to select us to play at the rock it event. Rock-It is a Hong Kong Music Festival held yearly… let's pray.

watch the TV interview here!

tony is sitting on the left.