thank you all for your very sincere wishes (: to be honest i can really see who are my true friends now (:

got surprised by mingfang dear and vaal at the manicure shop. and i think im really blind as i didnt see them at all. lol. thanks for the effort (: yf me and mf did our pretty nails and we had fun laughing and gossiping and taking pictures.

next we went to sakae at icon village and liting met us there. everything went well except for that manager but she also hum la. disappeared even before we paid for our bill. we took so many pictures inside sakae and with the christmas tree. haha its the christmas season again!

why does blog post always have to mention life.
when i first typed why, i deleted it.

any ways that i can not go through life the way it is now? fuck no. unless a fucking million dollar drops down now

happy by leona lewis is stuck in my head. the very first line. so apt.

working is pretty fun, great. where can you get 6-7.50 pay. take photos of kids, get free awesome milo from milo van. then slack at coffee shop, go colleague's house to bathe then go back to office. print photos while facebooking.
great. everyone's like envious of me, and im thankful of such a job.

but fuck yea, losing touch with so many people when its just 2 weeks. guess i'll not work in dec. but where the f is my money gonna come in from. i just didnt talk to so many people. i dont even know what i want to mention here.

just didnt want to throw eleij away. hope chalet next week will be fun.

Notes augmented

We've enhanced and de-bugged Notes. If you haven't tried it yet, now's the time! You can create a private note when you ban multiple users. You can also delete multiple notes at once. Lastly, paid users have the option to add a note (visible only to you) whenever you add or remove a friend (guaranteed to avoid embarrassing social mishaps). If you don't currently have a paid account, you can upgrade now! It only takes a few minutes and costs less than a bad shopping mall haircut (plus, it's way more fashionable)!

Product tweaks and bug kill

1. In another effort to zap spam, comments containing links from domains LiveJournal deems untrustworthy are now automatically screened
2. If you sign up to get notifications of the Writer's Block question of the day, you'll now see the daily question in the email notification, so you'll have a little extra time to ponder before you post. You can subscribe to Writers Block notifications here
3. The issue causing random comments to vanish has been fixed!
4. If you visit a LiveJournal page and get prompted to log in, you'll be returned to the same page after you sign in (Thanks, Dreamwidth)!
5. If you don't edit the timestamp for an entry at all, the entry timestamp will indicate the time the entry was posted instead of the time the Update Journal page was loaded
6. Comments with paddings/backgrounds render correctly within the comment box (and will no longer wrap outside the box and break frames/margins)

New FCK fixes rich text editor!

1. We've updated our RTE (Rich Text Editor) to FCKeditor version 2.6.5
2. When switching from the RTE to HTML editor, links for syndicated feeds are no longer broken
3. RTE now functions properly in Safari 4.0
4. An extra line/space will not be auto-inserted whenever you switch from RTE to HTML editor
5. The insert image link now works correctly in all browsers

LiveJournal Cares

We’re pleased to introduce you to lj_cares, a new LiveJournal community dedicated to raising awareness and funds for U.S. charitable organizations that improve the health and well-being of people around the world. Each month, we’ll spotlight a nonprofit that is making a significant global impact through medical research, public outreach, and/or humanitarian social programs. Charities will be selected in accordance with the U.S. calendar of national health observances based on a high rating (of over 60%) on Charity Navigator and global scope of impact.

In this, our inaugural month of November, we will celebrate national adoption month by offering a charitable virtual gift (priced at $2.99) to support Love Without Boundaries, an organization that saves the lives of orphans with life-threatening diseases and places them in loving homes around the world. LiveJournal will donate 100% of the proceeds from the sale of charitable vgifts (we'll cover the cost of credit card transaction fees). To learn more about Love Without Boundaries, please visit lj_cares and read about how they helped save Baby Kang and the Rainbow Twins from fatal illnesses, who are now thriving in nurturing families. You can purchase your Love Without Boundaries gifts in the Virtual Gift shop.

Papered in postcards

A couple of weeks ago, we asked you to send in postcards to surround us with LiveJournal community. Thanks for coming through! We've received postcards all the way from Germany, Finland, and Canada and from all over the US, including Texas, Florida, Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, Indiana, Hawaii, and Oklahoma just to name just a handful. We're thrilled with our improved decor.

Please keep the love coming for one more week by writing to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. Be sure to include your username, since we'll be drawing the names of ten random contributors next Thursday to win paid account credits!

Photos of the week

We have more dazzling images posted by talented LiveJournal photographers from around the world. We're hoping to span the entire globe, so please continue posting and tagging. Of course, you can also sit back and enjoy the view at lj_photophile.

You can see a sample of this week's gorgeous photos and check out spotlight communities and awesome user content after the jump!

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Curtains

We thank you, once again, for joining us. See you next week!

EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP.

Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!!

Thanks mhwest and dnewhall for helping out!

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On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

Between announcing my cessation of life on various networking sites and mourning this inundation on the phone, I have decided that maybe it isn't technology that hates me, it is karma. Karma for picking on kids, karma for undeserving b&j, karma for k, karma for being so half assed about op, karma for my random massacres of creepy crawlies. I might be retreating to a nunnery in an effort to redeem my tortured soul.

I will now proceed to the toilet to drown my lifeless body.

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dailyfoodie
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damn it. i got locked out by citibank becos i keyed in the wrong pin for the first time. what the heck. i feel so insecure becos i cant check my bills. argh.

went shopping w sujun after work today. thanks for the heels! (: i feel like a tai-tai when i asked the G2000 staff to help me get a whole mountain of new pieces clothings. lol. before discount was 398 and after my 50% its 199. lol. not all mine of cos.

work again tml. hope theres smth for me to do.

completed 10 out of 20 weeks of internship! but that means theres 10 more weeks left ): but i must really count myself lucky to be in cx compared to my other friends la. but still i dont like working life. or rather, i think office work is not the right job for me. no. or maybe becos im an intern tts why im quite free at times. ya probably so. still wondering wad shld i study in uni.

went back for classroom session ytd. ivy tan was quite angry cos most of us were late though. the thought of still having need to do portfolio really turns me off.

went to kbox w mf dear after tt.

and lucky my dad asked me to go out to watch the spore hit awards if not i would hv missed my husband's apperance! btw i self proclaim myself to be Mrs Jam alr. lol. his voice is damn power. and im definitely going to his concert if he comes to spore. very happy liang wen yin won 3 awards too. xing guang must be proud of their achievements.

 Protect me from what I want. 

你笑著說 他是朋友
但你眼中太溫柔

我的不安 那麼沉重
只有你不懂

他霸佔了你的心中
屬於我的角落
所以你說 我們 不是你和我

是我想太多 你總這樣說
但你卻沒有 真的心疼我
是我想太多 我也這樣說
這是唯一能 安慰我的理由

他霸佔了你的心中
屬於我的角落
所以你說 我們 不是你和我

是我想太多 你總這樣說
但你卻沒有 真的心疼我
是我想太多 我也這樣說
這是唯一能 安慰我的理由

我想我沒有 錯怪了什麼 雖然你不說
或許錯在我 太晚我才懂 愛了你太多

是我想太多 你總這樣說
但你卻沒有 真的心疼我
是我想太多 我也這樣說
這是唯一能 安慰我的理由


李玖哲 - 想太多

met gloria and wilson in the morning for breakfast and decide subj combi. damn it was a pain in the ass.

met sqdmates for buffet. crazy buffet, play snap jack and bridge. laolz.
went shannon's house for mahjong. omg mans. 2 rounds( 2 feng ) NEVER WIN AT ALL.
pissed x1mil.

IN MY HEAD IN MY HEAD. argh

tired.i want benefit

The empire strikes back

In recent weeks, we've taken huge steps towards blocking spam accounts on LiveJournal. In fact, we've suspended as many as 30,000 accounts in a single day! We've implemented several pre-emptive measures to prevent the creation of spam accounts, and we've honed our detection of suspicious content. Spam bots are a crafty lot, so we'll continue to refine our tactics and keep up the good fight to keep you safe from spam attacks on LiveJournal.

RSS feeds again

If you're addicted to xkcd_rss, icanhaschzbrgr, or other syndicated feeds, we're pleased to report that we've resolved the update error that was mucking up your RSS feeds. While content was being pulled correctly, it wasn't being posted to the feeds themselves. Late last week, we finally nailed down what we hope was the root problem, so content should post properly. We thank you for your patience.

Wii have killer CSI Deadly Intent contests!

c_s_i

If you're a gamer who loves CSI, have Wii got news for you! c_s_i is sponsoring killer contests. Simply post a question to a member of the CSI crew. The winner will get a free copy of CSI: Deadly Intent for Nintendo Wii (with a retail value of $39.99) and get their question answered by a member of the CSI writing team! There's also a fantastic monthly contest. To enter, join c_s_i, play the online version of CSI: Deadly Intent, and respond to a two-part query for a chance to win a Wii! Entries will be judged on composition and originality. Sorry, but you must be a U.S. resident and over 18 years old to participate. Check out the rules here.

Enveloped in postcards

Last week, we asked you to send in postcards to help us decorate our drab concrete walls. Here's a photo of the results so far! Thank you so much and please keep them coming! You can mail them to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. Be sure to include your username, since we'll be giving ten random users paid account credits.

Photos of the week

If you haven't visited our new LiveJournal photo community, you're in for an amazing visual trip. LiveJournal users from around the world will take you on a scenic journey to everywhere. Post your own pictures or kick back and enjoy at lj_photophile. You can view some of this week's awesome photos after the jump. Please start tagging with geographic location, since we'd like to track all the places around the world represented in this community. Keep on commenting too!
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I just can't get my fat ass down to blogging.but I'll nvr throw this beautiful blog away.not going sound stupid and haha my way thru this post

am fucking sian abt having to admit to being stressed over my subj combi.feels like nobody can save me.probably wldnt do something I love, but just something I'll be able to score?true.I guess I've always, always been too practical, I think its scary.

no preaching abt,oh I think you sld do smth you are interested in.fuck you all, I do what I think is best for me.

think my future route is planned, unless some fucker or fucking thing happens to screw up my life.

holidays were initially just to be kept to myself.not planning to date anyone, because I hate to be the despo one, and I hate ppl telling me,sorry not free.

yes I'm such a bitch,so don't bother dating me if you don't want to.I will go out w ppl if I love them.if I'm a snob, forget it.nvr felt so happy being so straight,but I've always been.I love my friends, and I enjoy going out w them.but I hate being rejected, period.

halloween was awesome fun.the making up part,the pics, the walking.I loved how we just made ourselves up into such awesome creatures.getting inspirations,using our own imagination,etc.WE JUST MADE IT WORK.

witch, bride,doll,vamp.
I love you all.more parties? oh wait, did I just date ppl.I guess I wldnt be rejected, cos most of you girls want it.so yea,I do things w confidence.

and I was just reminded of bloody bitches.my life is sad, how am I uglier than __,why am I poorer than __.
I'm so fucking gna work, repay mum money,and get myself smth really really good.maybe a lappie.

not gonna fml,cos I think my life is currently fine.I just need some love.

and I just realise how much I love saying, fuck you all.

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