Cycling Event - 19 April 2008

My friend is holding a cycling event, Twilight Jalan, on the 19th of April 2008. Check out the poster below for details.

Remember to register if you are planning to go! If one of your buddies doesn’t meet the age they’re aiming at, I don’t think they mind too much.

(Click on poster to zoom in)

Parallel and alternate dream universe

Posted: 14:51 hours (GMT+8)

Sometimes, you get those dreams where you find yourself in an alternate universe. I had one such dream last night.

My dream self was at a school. A few people that I knew from online were there, even if all I had ever seen of them was just a photograph. Another part of my dream sent me to a hangar at a fairground. I was with some people I knew from SPDJ. The weird part about it was that my dream self repeated that part of the dream but as a second me, hiding from the first dream self, which explained all the suspicious noises the first dream self had noticed at the beginning.

When I woke up, I felt as if I had just acted in a sci-fi show.

I wonder if writers get their ideas in their sleep from their wandering imaginations.

Maybe I’ll try writing out my dream properly, hmm. Might be fun.

“You Are Blocked” sends emails

Posted: 10:54 hours (GMT+8) 

I received the following email recently.

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Subject: Somebody has blocked you at MSN Messenger‏
From:	noreply@youareblocked.com on behalf of <deleted for privacy>@hotmail.com
Sent:	Wednesday, March 05, 2008 7:53:24 PM
To:	<chocolatefan’s hotmail acct>@hotmail.com

You’re Blocked!

A contact has recommended you to enter in www.youareblocked.com.
The site allows you to find out who has blocked or deleted you from the MSN Messenger

This e-mail comes to your inbox, since you have been recommended by one of your contacts

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What did I say about not clicking on strange sites?

I guess they’re changing their strategy now. Instead of spamming people through MSN where people can easily figure things out, why not send a harmless-looking email? Most people don’t think twice before forwarding chain-letters, much less clicking a mysterious link.

Links that are sent to you “on behalf” of someone else are hardly worth your time. They are usually sent by websites that your friend joins then for some reason or other decides allow them to access their entire address book by providing their login details. While most websites are harmless and simply want members, hackers and viruses take advantage of this fact to disguise their emails that way.

Easter is coming soon; Be sure that link sent by a greeting card websites really leads to it! When in doubt, check out the website’s reputation through a search-engine before clicking it.