Singapore's managed to win a Olympic medal after a _LONG_ wait of 48 years, in the inaugural table tennis team event for women. Quite entertaining, even though the team was eventually pwned hard by the Chinese. Then again, no one had even expected them in the final, so yeah. The PM's National Day Rally speech was even set aside for one free-to-air television broadcast, kind of an indicator as to how important it's thought to be ^^;

Well, after that moment of patriotism-like emotion, I'm bringing this up: Mozdev's RIP (Remove it Permanently) extension for Firefox. It doesn't work on the more stable 3.01 make, but there's a tweak on Lifehacker that purportedly works for that too. Trying it out at the moment, it's really pretty useful. RIP's wasted as an ad blocker because there's AdBlock Plus for that, though it takes out other elements of sites which lessen the viewing experience. I'm going to see if it works on those annoying comment lists/boxes that dump spoilers over video sharing sites without the option to turn them off...

 Happy 42nd birthday to Singapore!

Holiday today, so ikka took a break from studying to play Maple. *laughs* I really shouldn't be playing that, it's pointless, addictive, annoying, punishing to die, has my Shizuru-clone...and as can be seen from all these words, playing results in way too conflicting feelings about it.

Only writing this post to wish my country a happy birthday, and COMPLAIN LOUDLY THAT THE SINGAPORE MAP IS DAMN EXPENSIVE TO PLAY! (hey that rhymed) For my part, I can't hit most of the time because a non-promoted Swordman (with Fork on a Stick) isn't good enough. On Wizet's side, the drops sell for very little and it costs a total of 40,000 to go in and out of there...and there's no bank even though Singapore's known for her economy...

Geh. Am I just stingy like the stereotypical Singaporean?

Maybe the NDP will make me feel better about things.