*Has been edited. Please forgive lapse of judgment.

A test that I'd already flunked in once and fever that makes me actually breathe out fire and congestion and cold are not a good combination. Specially when you go blog hopping and find stuff you like and want to do yourself because you are so sad, that people won't tag you to do it. Oh and did I say breathing caused me so much pain- there isn't even a word to describe it!



Anyhow, here are the rules.

1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
2. Using only the first page, pick an image.
3. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.

1. What is your first name?
********* (there you go)It's official.
2. What is your favorite food? Right now?
Apple pie. Doesn't really count as food, does it?
3. What high school did you go to?
BVM, Madras. Center Point School, Nagpur. Carmel Convent, Mumbai. Though I guess BVM counts as high school in every sense.
4. What is your favorite color?
Red. I love colors, full stop. Red holds a prominent place though.
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
George Clooney all the way. Muah. Can't believe I just said that. Oh wait, I have fever. So it's ok.
6. Favorite drink?
Lemonade. Not exotic, but me loves.
7. Dream vacation?
To travel everywhere. Five star plus of course. This ones Brooklyn Bridge though.
8. Favorite dessert?
Gooey chocolate cake please.
9. What do you want to be when you grow up?
Carefree. And uninhibited.
10. What do you love most in life?
Happiness & Laughter.
11. One Word to describe you.
Guarded [I liked this pic better than the one I found for "shy" ]
12. Your Flickr name.
SG. Big surprises there.

I'm tagging everyone who happens to come by. Leave me a comment when you do this pleej.

Happy Monday!

SG.

Credits for the awesome pics- 1. 0000400291.jpg, 2. apple pie, 3. bala vidya mandir, 4. rojo sobre negro (mosaico) / red on black (mosaic), 5. 5-hour-phone-conversation, 6. .relax & have some fresh squeezed legonade., 7. Brooklyn, 8. Day137 - gorgeous gooey chocolate cake slice, 9. The chase, 10. at least it started out with laughter, 11. gaurded with color, 12. sg.wang plaza@malaysia

So, I finally got my laptop- handed down it might be, but at least it's a laptop. One, I should mention was a "You get above 9.5, you get a laptop"-trying-to-push-you-harder mom talk. And for what is probably the third time, promises have not been kept.

And this is first post!! *take two minutes to pay respect*

Right. New personal property involves customization.

The iTunes 8 pink color bug has been tackled and normalcy has been restored.

Almost like a dog peeing around something, to mark it's property. Not a pretty comparison, but what the hell. Customizing involved downloading iTunes 8.0, which lead to viewing of a completely bizarre pink colored screen that made reading tough on a more intellectual level and just hurt the eyes on a more baser level.

Looks something like this->



Minimizing/ maximizing works for only about two seconds. You might also encounter a green and black color combination when you select songs.

I was all set to re- download the software, when purely by chance, I decided to comb the erstwhile web to find out if something like this was happening to anyone else. Gladly (no, not the misery-loves-company-one) it IS a bug in the software ( which is SHocking considering it's Apple)

Windows XP users need only do the following-




1. Right click on your desktop and select Properties.
2. Select the Settings tab.
3. And change the color settings from 16-bit to 32-bit.

And that's it.

Vista users need to select Personalize after right clicking on the desktop, and do the same as above.

On a totally different note, I've got a new pet- Zinnia. It's the name of a flower

Other news. Actually I'm just showing off this new pullquote thing.

and in the language of flowers means, thoughts of absent friends. And I love that.

People, who don't like it's munching and/or baahing, may turn on the mute option. Feed her, though.

I'm not sure if I like my current blank state. Oh and I joined twitter. What purpose it's supposed to solve, I'm not sure of as yet.

Pleasant Sunday,

SG.

The yellow light is so bright, that you can't look at it directly. Or look at it and not be able to see a thing. Which is surprising because the setting sun is supposed to be calm.

This feels like one of those images that a booming voice singing "And there will be light" creates.

When you stop trying to look directly at the sun, and look around instead- it's like the stadium lights have been switched on.

Only better.

All that is not metal is crimson and all that is metal, is silver.


SG.

A favicon (short for favorites icon), according to the oh-so-reliable Wikipedia, is also known as a website icon, or shortcut icon, is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage. It's the icon that appears near a page's url in the address bar.


Within Internet Explorer the Favicon is displayed on the Address line and in the Favorites menu. Mozilla users, can see this icon, in the tabs they create too. Look up and you'll see this near "Quest For Thought"

or or or or or

You could add one to your web page too. It's super easy.

I used MpP, to find an icon I liked best. There's also Delta-Tango-Bravo. And if you cannot find anything you like, you could create a brand new icon from image files you have using FavIcon from Pics. Creating a 16px by 16px image is a piece of work in itself, but for those of you who can't find ANYTHING at all, here's a good photoshop tutorial.

Once you've decided what you want to use, upload it onto a file server. Make sure the image you intend to use is either in the .gif or .png or .ico formats. I use Ripway. Add the following two lines of code in between the head tags of your template code.



Where "http://myicon.com/favicon.gif" is the url of your favicon image- Save the template, and you're all set to go!! The url of the image, as you can see, is a direct link to the image file and shouldn't include words like ".php?" or ".asp".

It doesn't work quite as smoothly with IE, so for all you not-so-enlightened ones, wake up and see the light- shift to Mozilla. If you MUST use IE-

1. Make sure the file is named favicon.ico and is placed in the root folder of your web server.
2. Add your page to the favorites list. If it already exists there, then remove it and add it again.
3. Clicking on the "e" in your browser's address bar of your webpage, and moving it towards the right slightly two or three times sometimes helps. (I swear it does)
4. Clean up your temporary internet files folder and load your page afresh.
5. Sometimes, it's imperative that you use an absolute address to the file and not a relative one. (i.e, instead of an href="//favicon.ico", you have to use a complete address- which starts with an "http" like href="http://mysite.com/ favicon.ico")

If it STILL doesn't work, take the hint, and shift!

All my love.

Three things to do today:

1. Get up.
2. Survive.
3. Go back to bed.



SG.

Everyone who is anyone, is actually DOING something. Whether it is writing columns for newspapers (I'm VERY happy for you); or acing exams they have no right doing well in specially when I'm doing terribly; or be driving around the town in cars that I've always wanted to have; or basically living the life I've always wanted to.

Sigh.

In the words of Chandler,

I mean if I die the only way people would even know I was here, would be by the ass print on this chair!

Pleasant weekend?

All my love.