It has been long, isn’t it?

The truth is, I act seh and tried to upgrade my Wordpress installation… and accidentally deleted the wp-config.php file. Which has all the configuration settings to make the blog work.

I didn’t have a backup.

So the blog was dead. Thanks Leung Yan for reviving it.

2008 holidays are almost over. 2009 is here! Going to (hopefully) graduate from NJC this year. So fast! It’s like only one year ago I was a newbie at NJ. (duh) But the holidays have been really really fulfilling.

So many events worth noting, just afraid I’ll forget some… The star, no doubt, of the holiday camps is OUTWARD BOUND! I was supposed to go to NJ’s YLTC before last minute change to OBS. I think it was all worth it. Made some IJ friends from my group and they are all nice people and very funny. Those five days at OBS will certainly be cherished.

Besides OBS, also had Track Camp (with awesome food trail), track farewell, Nan Hua Council Camp where I was a second i/c (almost died from walking from Nan Hua to Henderson Waves in the middle of the night), helping out at MINDS, training (somewhat), doing homework (abit), studying (even lesser).

I’m also going to be an OGL. OGL camp was okay-okay where we learnt alot of things in the short span of 2 days including the mass dance. (This reminds me of Solaris’ informal walkin performance. Yeesh) It was quite fun. Looking forward to welcoming the new J1s SH1s (yep, get used to the lingo).

Of course, the ultimate highlight is my family’s trip to Beijing! First time went to sub-zero place, first time saw real snow (not Snow City’s fake ones), first time see real snow coming down from the sky, first time followed a tour group for more than 2 days. Really really enjoyed the trip. The hotel (Sheraton Great Wall Beijing) was awesome with the beds so shiok. Too bad wake up calls are darn early and we returned damn late to the hotel. The Forbidden City was great and visiting the Great Wall is a dream come true.

Some photos are available here… just a snippet of the almost 9GB worth of photos and videos taken by our family and my cousin. Heh. (click more)

Heh. It was fun!

Of course, one surprise for me is that I will once again test WIndows for Microsoft as part of its Technical Beta (means that its not open to public). Considering I got a free copy of Vista Ultimate in 2006 for helping ‘em up, I hurried to agree to test Windows 7 for them as well.

And they released it (the beta) today. Verdict: Windows 7 is the Vista done right. So much faster (on the same hardware), so much nicer, and the Windows taskbar keeps reminding me of Mac OS X’s dock. (So when I’m doing my stuff on Windows it’ll remind me of the Mac. Haha)

A screenshot of build 7000 (Windows 7 beta):

Click for larger view – it’s great.

Almost time for track.

Happy new year!