Daily Archive for December 14th, 2005

These Last Few Weeks

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from the time i think last updated myself.

Health:
Not that too great, although thankfully (or not) I started to fall sick at the end of my course, and taking zero MCs and MAs. Just like in BMT, times of my recuperation for my illness happen over the weekend and my block leaves.

Perhaps I first sign of falling sick was last Friday eating some lemon puffs biscuits. The saying that the mouth, throat, nose, ears are connected seems to apply well for me. Sore throat, leads to cough, then flu, blocked nose, slight blockage of ears, to feverish. Combined with irregular meal and sleep times (i slept just a little a night before, and last night i slept at least 18 hours straight skipping the meals), me and my body is feeling weird.

Army:
Thank God I reached these last few weeks at school. Things are toning down as the course is ending. A couple more interesting visits (and 2 camps were near my place) and projects and tests ended soon. Except one of my project didnt make it, so last week’s time at home was spent touching up the project (one of the reason i didnt went over for the messages at night).

Spiritual:
Was really great that Dr Hubert Spence and Dr Robert Wilson were able to come to Singapore. I am blessed to be able to listen to Spence’s messages during revival meeting last week of November and his Sunday sermons.

At the close of my course, this passage I read in the Bible seems to relate a little maybe at David close of life. This song seems to be place in Psalms 18 too.

Music:
Lots of music sessions this time! I learn a great deal from Dr Robert Wilson’s Piano Masterclass. Then a Christmas pipe organ by Carlo Curley at the esplanade. There I learn great deal about organs, esplanade’s organ, the colours, techniques of the organs and its pieces, while all on the theme of Christmas. Then in 3 days time, went for this “A Chopard Christmas with the SSO” at Victoria Concert Hall which I was really not pleased with the music programme. in 3 days again, was the first NYPSE concert at TFA which well wasn’t that bad.

Sports:
More doze of them this time.. physical training in school usually means soccer and basketball.
Plus more sessions of tennis, squash and badminton over the weekends.

Computers:
Due to all the other stuff during this time, I am surprising spend little time on computers. One update I learnt recently is the Firefox 1.5. So time to update and try the fasterfox extension.

Customising Windows: ICONS

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Someone asked me about changing icons, for example those on your windows icons, perhaps to match your style or relieve the boredom of your old icons.

Here’s a link where you can find free nice icons to download.

From MSDN,
Creating Windows XP Icons (Windows XP Technical Articles)
Design and create colorful and dynamic icons for Windows XP using a vector program, such as FreeHand, Illustrator, or Photoshop.

Customizing Icons

A quick search at snapfile/webattack to find related software for designing icons.

Snapfiles Freeware for Icon Tools

ActivIcons - a freeware to customize Windows icons

“CHANGING DESKTOP ICONS
Getting tired of the same old icons on your desktop? Pre-made icons are often embedded in the DLL and EXE files that Windows and other programs install on your hard drive. Peek into these files to see whether they contain any icons, and if so, use them on your desktop shortcuts. To change a desktop icon, right-click on the shortcut and choose Properties from the context menu. Click the Shortcut tab and then click the Change Icon button. The filename in which the current icon is found is shown at the top of the dialog box, while a gallery of the icons available in that file is shown below it. To use one of those icons, select it and click OK.

To search for more icons, click the Browse button. Select a DLL, EXE, or ICO file and click Open to display the icons available in that file (if there are no icons, you’ll receive a prompt). To get you started, check out “pifmgr.dll” and “shell32.dll” in the \windows\system folder on your hard drive (where “windows” is the folder in which Windows is installed). These files contain dozens of attractive icons to liven up your desktop.”

To really get some real useful software, (esp. if you pay) see Stardock and other line of products. IconPackager is the software for swapping your icons quickly easily.