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Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:33:55 +1000

talktomeinkorean.com

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 06:45:09 +1000

Their podcasts are funny and engaging. Definitely worth listening to.

The pace of the lessons is quite good too. I listened to the Level 1 podcasts from lesson 1-13 at work yesterday and I was able to grasp everything easily, even through the grammar explanations. I studied Japanese before though, and it’s quite similar and so I probably have a slight advantage here.

Please donate if you guys like their lessons. :D

ZenLatest - square thumbnail hack

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 06:11:47 +1000

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here, so I thought I’d start with something constructive. :D

Lately I’ve been working on TKPN’s redesign, which includes adding a photo and video gallery. When deciding which gallery PHP script to run it all, there’s only really one choice for me these days and that’s ZenPhoto. It’s light, themes are easily customizable and easy to integrate with WordPress due to the many plugins that are already available.

I decided to use ZenLatest to put a latest photos widget in the left hand side of the the footer. Everything was great, except the thumbnails weren’t square. The originals looked like they’d been stretched to a square, then cropped and resized. To fix that, I modified some of the code in the plugin with a little help from Return True for the image resizing logic (‘cause my maths suck /FAIL). Find the line:

if(!file_exists($thumbfullpath) || !checkdimensions($thumbfullpath,$x_size,$y_size))

and replace the thumbnail generation code with the contents of this gist - gist:372967.

That’s it! :D

[CLOSED] Trading Fany Photocards!!

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:46:00 +1000

UPDATE: I’m no longer trading. Ended up paying for Sunny’s photocard from cph’s shop. :D

UPDATE: 1 card on hold for @CphirMaig. Still looking for Sunny photocard. :D

I’ve got ~~2 Fany photocards 1 Fany photocard~~ up for trade. I’m aware that there are different versions for some members, but both cards are exactly the same design (what are the chances? XD).

I will trade for ~~Sunny’s and Hyo’s~~ photocard. If you have one, please hit me up on my twitter @yatyisam or email me.

Pardon the quality of the pictures, as I took them with my phone. x_x

Updated to Windows 7

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:15:50 +1000

For a few weeks now, my computer has been rebooting itself randomly. I’d run memtest on the memory and swapped hard drives, but the thing was still being a huge PITA. Now, for some reason after upgrading to Windows 7 from XP, everything’s stable. I just find it odd that the operating system would do that to itself. I’m pretty sure all the apps and drivers I’d installed were 32-bit.

Got my Korean textbooks!

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:32:00 +1000

The textbooks I ordered a few weeks ago from Amazon have arrived. I feel really dorky, but I’m kind of excited about getting new textbooks. I haven’t had a textbook of any kind since I graduated from uni 5 years ago. XD

Is it just me, or has the print quality of textbooks gotten better? The font and layout is so much easier to read than my French textbook in high school.

Now I’m just waiting for my CDs from YesAsia to arrive. I think I ordered these books after I ordered the CDs too. >_>

iPhone meat stylus

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:13:00 +1000

iPhone meat stylus:

This made my day. :D

Just tell me!

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:32:53 +1000

I hate it when people tell me they’re busy doing this-and-that, then look at me expectantly afterwards. Just ask me for help already and tell me what you need me to do!! I’m not a mind reader! >.<

These kids are so f’ing cute! cr: toebeast

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:28:00 +1000

These kids are so f’ing cute!

cr: toebeast

Ordered some Korean books

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:17:36 +1000

So I ordered some Korean books today to supplement KClass101 lessons. If certain things go ahead, I might be going to Korea earlier than originally planned. ^^ YAY!

Why the hell am I so addicted to this song now? I’m not...

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:03:55 +1000

Why the hell am I so addicted to this song now? I’m not usually into uber happy songs, but I realised it’s supposed to be like that! XD The Power of 9.

SNSD Comeback next week!!

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:33:00 +1000

Happy Australia Day weekend! Australia Day isn’t actually until next Tuesday, but most people are celebrating it this weekend and some are taking Monday off. Unfortunately, I still have to go to work on Monday. Bad planning on my part. /facepalm It’s shaping up to be a scorcher this weekend too.

SNSD is having their comeback soon! Yes, I can finally spazz freely again. I pre-ordered ‘Oh!’ from YesAsia, but I really wanted to buy it from leesmusic. I WANT THE POSTER DAMMIT!!! Even though I’m not that crazy about the album cover, I’ll still buy it if it has SNSD on it. I ordered two copies for the cards. I wanted to order more, but the exchange rate for AUD -> USD is getting worse by the day. T_T

Finished making this sig tonight. I’d had the idea...

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:19:09 +1000

Finished making this sig tonight. I’d had the idea floating around in my head for a couple of days now. It wasn’t until this morning that I finally figured out how I wanted the end result to look like. Took ages to make Hyo blend into the wall texture. Even now, I’m not really that happy with it. I think the first version looks more natural, since the colors are more harmonious. The white background in the second version makes Hyo look a bit out of place. I’ll probably keep tweaking it every now and then while I work on other things.

Finally figured out how to get multiple images in a post without tumblr turning it into a slideshow.

BTW, HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! ^___^

I found this pic in the folder with Samyang Ramen outtakes in it...

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:20:14 +1000

I found this pic in the folder with Samyang Ramen outtakes in it and just HAD to make an icon out of it. I had to use the smudge tool to extend the sky since the image was too short after resizing. Knocked this one out in 15 mins. Maybe I’m finally getting better at making icons. :)

Sunny + chickens = ♡

LOL XD

This is the second SPAO related icon I made today. This one is...

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:04:00 +1000

This is the second SPAO related icon I made today. This one is Yuri of Girls’ Generation. It was really hard to create a background for this render too. A lot harder than Taeyeon’s one, due to the fact that her baseball cap is super bright and blends in too much with a bright background. In the end, I just went ahead and made her cap blend in completely with the background and pretty much blurred/faded the rest apart from her face.

The background texture credit goes to *masterjinn @deviantART. I used one of his free textures and applied a motion blur to it to create the wide streaks of colour.

EDIT: Cleaned up the text for Taeyeon’s name. :D This is...

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:16:00 +1000

EDIT: Cleaned up the text for Taeyeon’s name. :D

This is the first of two icons I made today. The render is from Girls’ Generation’s SPAO promotional photos. It took me a helluva long time to finish this one. I don’t know if it’s the smaller canvas, but I had a really difficult time thinking of a good background for Taeyeon’s portrait.

I tried putting text on this one just to experiment with what sizes work and also just to play around with some new fonts I downloaded last night. :D ~~I’ll have to go in later and manually fix the pixels in her name. Can’t be bothered doing that right now.~~

I would’ve published all the icons in one post, but bloody tumblr automatically creates a Flash slideshow from it. Anyone know how to turn it off as a default?

Another sig, the base is from one of the Samyang Ramen outtakes....

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:55:00 +1000

Another sig, the base is from one of the Samyang Ramen outtakes. This one was pretty difficult due to the large amounts of white from the snow. The original image had a lomo-like color palette and vignetting, so in the end, I went with the flow. Didn’t add much to this, just added a color overlay, some texture brushes and messed with the color levels. >_< Took about 30 mins on this one.

Also, the size is slightly larger than the standard and is 380x140 instead.

Made another sig today. This time it’s of SNSD at their...

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:31:00 +1000

Made another sig today. This time it’s of SNSD at their first Asia concert tour. I overlaid the picture of the girls on stage on top of a snapshot of the ‘pink ocean’. Surprisingly, it also provided some nice texture for free. :D 15 mins worth of work on this one.

It’s really pink…T_T I always hated pink before I became a S♡NE. :P

Getting back into making sigs in Photoshop. I’m really...

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:59:43 +1000

Getting back into making sigs in Photoshop. I’m really rusty, so I’ve been following the tutorials on sigtutorials. This is my end result after completing the Absolute beginner tutorial. Pretty pleased with it for 10-15 mins worth of effort. :D

"In whatever you do, seek to live right, do what is right and love what is right. By doing so you..."

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:40:18 +1000

“In whatever you do, seek to live right, do what is right and love what is right. By doing so you will never live with regret, but w/ peace.”

- Jaeson Ma via twitter