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    October 30

    变得好看一点

      部落格上面最醒目的地方是“大家请不要……骚扰……”，好像很难看。所以，懒惰的我才想起了更新。
      自从校内网红火起来，msn space似乎冷清了不少。能抓住时代潮流的商业者是成功的企业家，facebook现在做到微软都要入股想要收购，校内网的影响力由此可想象。这段时间新加坡沉溺于facebook，报纸也在不断的报道，批判也好鼓励也好。与之对应的，应该是我们对校内网钟爱。呵呵，我很感谢校内网，因为我在上面甚至找到了将近10年不见的老同学，它的价值实在无法估量。不过，那毕竟不是blog oriented的地方。
      10月27日，是第13届新加坡金曲奖，或者叫新加坡金曲奖2007。这是93年以来每年一次的大型颁奖典礼，但去年没有，因为第6届全球华语歌曲排行榜颁奖典礼轮到新加坡Yes 933电台东道主值班。它在国际上的分量和权威程度不高，但来新后我倒是一直在关注。地点从前年的Suntec City Conference Room搬到今年Singapore Indoor Stadium，我其实有点不理解。933明知道不会有很多人捧场为什么还自讨没趣？当然这也算造福了我们这些买票到场的观众，后面的位置根本就没有卖票。
      总的来说，我觉得这一值得肯定的一点是，它仿佛不再是本地歌手垄断天下的局面。两年前的孙燕姿林俊杰可谓叱咤风云。让人为了打破所谓的谣言（其实是实话），933也可以展现出了一些奖项，表明不是“来者皆得奖，无奖则不来”。他们的用心还是能体会得到的，也可以理解。现在做颁奖典礼的不容易啊，要“放平”歌手商家和媒体，谈何容易。不巧的是，在27日台湾刚好有一个很大的event（具体什么我也不清楚，只是听说），所以很多台湾歌手都未能光临捧场，也为今年的新加坡金曲奖上座率打了不少折扣。比起去年10月的全球华语歌曲排行榜，星光惨谈了不少。说实话，真正像我这样为了金曲奖本身而来的观众有多少？更多人都是冲着自己的偶像明星而来，今年有飞轮海，所以他们的粉丝团赢了，就像前年的Energy。不管团体本身怎么样，谁的粉丝来得多谁的场面就赢了。说到场面，偶像的知名度相当重要，典礼颁到“地区最受欢迎歌手（中国内地）”的部分，“让我们来看入围名单……”全场异常的安静，呵呵，因为大陆的歌手他们都不太熟悉……
      拜一的报纸对其仿佛也很多批判，关于授奖说服力方面。我理解933，所以对于今年的金曲奖，还是要说不错两个字。获奖名单就难得说太多，一说又停不下来了。那就还是弄一点照片吧，效果不是很好，因为我都在认真看，没有怎么拍。不过好过前年根本不允许拍摄。
     
      每一次好像都是从这个入口进入新加坡室内体育场，演唱会也好颁奖典礼也好。估计因为每一次买的票都差不多。
      左边一群人忙活着某某free membership registration。
     


      安检不能带水壶，不过相机都是可以，我很惊讶。
      记得在中国什么不能带，包括手机，但是还是有人向场内舞台乱扔东西，荧光棒那些都是小case。

      开始的时候，呵呵，上座率可见一斑。

      拍实体不如拍大屏幕，向迷路兵这样本地歌手团体，肯定不会错过本地这样的盛事。呵呵，what else could they join? (wopps...)
      哈，然后我倒是第一次听说星光大道放在演出内场来举行，服了……

      哈，蔡旻佑来了我倒是很开心。不过左边那个叫李吉汉的马来西亚歌手，我第一次听说……服了，太久没听933了。

      哈哈，庭竹的光临我算是最兴奋的，因为我觉得这些人不太容易看到。她现场表演《喜欢你》，没有音乐伴奏，全部自弹自唱，效果相当惊人。现在的新人，没有两把刷子怎么混娱乐圈？右边那个方大同待会儿再慢慢介绍。

      在新加坡火热之前，他给我的印象，是个香港歌手，和薛凯琪关系不错。有一些歌手会专门着手新加坡市场，很奇怪是吧？就是说只在新加坡出名，除此之外我觉得还有个杨培安。方大同的《爱爱爱》在这里打疯了，Zesture上一次在Channel 8比赛的时候他还是嘉宾。这一次他拿了不少奖。哦，他是我见过国语说得最好的香港歌手。

      Tank这张怎么看怎么像唐禹哲，可能是摄影师的技术问题……

      其实要认真拍的话，效果还是会不错的。Tank其实很难见到，只是比不上去年全球华语歌曲排行榜的时候第一次见他时候的兴奋。

      张韶涵是个大赢家，得了不少大奖。她还专门准备了两套晚礼服，因为她要领其中一个舞台魅力大奖。

      哈哈，我们的lecturer和孙燕姿一起颁奖。梁文福在本地是很受尊敬的音乐前辈，他的新谣文化打造了新加坡音乐史上的的里程碑。
      孙燕姿由于飞机晚点，迟了不少才到场，没有参加星光大道。


          思菘伟菘是新加坡的骄傲，两兄弟当然经常抛投露面，不过同台我倒是第一次见到。


      呵呵，EEE Night都可以请到的人物，她“擅自”带上了牙套，第一次向大众公开。不过她现场的《从台北到北京》倒是令我很兴奋。（怎么听起来怪怪的……）


      盲人弹吉他，就像当年在街头卖艺一样，陈伟联的表演总是让人心酸。从颁奖典礼上看，其实他是相当开朗的人，也很会讲话，除了眼盲以外他是个相当正常的歌手。和潘嘉丽一样，现在选择开拓台湾市场。他应该是学古典吉他出身的，因为姿势有点奇怪，或者说独特。


      Er...这是苏永康。很多颁奖典礼，都有奇奇怪怪的人来插一角，哪怕是今年台湾金曲奖，也有个温拿五虎。可以理解，他肯定是最近在新加坡有演出或者商业行为。


      就像我说的，飞轮海是场面冠军。当然SHE，曹格也不示弱，没有来人气都很惊人。周杰伦王力宏当然不需要说。

     

      不知道这么版面会不会好看一点。
      在这篇entry中，也许是从这篇开始，引用学习了天王blog的习惯，也没经过同意，不知会不会更加方便读者。

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    October 17

    大家不要打开我的邮箱发来的骚扰邮件

      我服了，今天才从室友哪里得知，我的邮箱在过去的至少一个月时间内一直在向好友群发关于“单身俱乐部”“找到真爱”之类的邮件，而且相当频繁。
      我中了msn的蠕虫病毒，msn账户密码被盗，被恶意用来向我的好友群发骚扰邮件……那些邮件千万不要打开！
      而这一切，我丝毫不知情……现在我已经更换了密码，问题应该已经解决。大家如果还有收到邮件（10月17日2030以后），请第一时间告诉我？
      我的电脑一直没有安装杀毒软件，因为一直也没有中过什么大的病毒，最多有的时候会有一点程序木马之类的。没想这一次一下中了很无耻的性质及其恶劣的黑客行为。
      我在网上找到关于邮件病毒的描述及解决办法，希望大家不要也成为受害者：
     
     
      最近常收到MSN好友发来的莫名邮件，追问之下才发现并非本人所发，而且似乎解决不了，从网上摘录了一些MSN的邮件病毒草问题，顺便也提醒一下中毒的朋友能够解决的方法。 
         由于帐号被盗用，所以请中毒之人修改MSN登录密码就可解决，要防止别人发给你，请发给你邮件的那个人也修改登录密码，似乎麻烦了一点，但这却是唯一方法。
         避免感染MSN蠕虫、感染后降低其危害程度，都是不难做到的，总结成下面4点：

         1、对于好友发来的可疑文件，在接收前一定先询问清楚；

         2、一定要安装杀毒软件，及时更新病毒库。从MSN接收下来的文件应使用杀毒软件扫描；

         3、一旦发现自己的电脑有自动向好友发送信息、文件等症状，应立即结束MSN程序，然后更新病毒库，使用杀毒软件或专杀工具对系统进行扫描；

         4、不要在不明网站上暴露自己MSN账号的密码。

    以下是摘录的MSN有名的邮件病毒范例：
         MSN病毒是指那些通过MSN发送含毒文件或含毒网页链接，实现自我传播的恶意程序。大多数的MSN病毒的工作流程都相当类似，分为下面3个步骤：

         1、病毒获取用户的MSN好友名单，向每个好友发送病毒文件或恶意网址；

        2、当MSN好友们接收运行病毒文件，或者点击了恶意网址后，遭到感染；

        3、病毒在每个好友的机器上，又开始了步骤1～3的工作流程。

        凭借MSN即时通讯和用户量大的特征，很多MSN病毒都在短时间（几个小时）内感染了大量用户。对于病毒来说，MSN是个传播平台，因此，称它们为MSN蠕虫来得更加准确。

         据我所知，最早的MSN蠕虫是出现在2001年4月的I-Worm/Funny，也被叫做Worm.Hello，因为它会通过MSN发送一个名为 “Hello.exe”的文件。2001年，我正在大学读计算机系，对MSN也只是略有耳闻，同学们几乎没人用它。那时国内的MSN用户量很少，所以这个病毒对国内用户影响很小。

         随着MSN在国内用户数量的激增， MSN蠕虫家族的“后辈”们所带来的危害、影响远远超过了“开山鼻祖”。

         2003年12月，江民公司截获了Flooder.MSN.Convont，运行后会向所有MSN好友发送“今天我请你吃饭”、“I love you, my baby”、“I love you. darling”等信息。它并不会主动把自己传播出去，所以并不是蠕虫，而只是一个恶作剧程序。即便如此，在2003年12月11日那天，我还是收到了来自好友们的4、5条“请饭邀请”。2004年7月，另一个很相似的样本被截获——Flooder.MSN.Marry，它发送的消息是“明天我结婚”。

         国内早期的MSN病毒大多是这种恶作剧类型，它们不会通过MSN传播，也不会对系统造成什么破坏，唯一的功能是惹人烦。

         相比之下，同期来自国外的MSN病毒更成熟些。2004年7月，一只名为“MSN射手”的蠕虫（I-Worm/MSN.Sinmsn.c）在韩国大面积爆发。“幸运”的是，“MSN射手”只针对韩文版的MSN，不会从非韩文用户的机器上扩散。它对国内用户基本上没有影响。

         在我印象中，可以称得上“爆发”的第一只国产MSN蠕虫是2004年10月10日被江民截获的“MSN小丑”（I-Worm/MsnFunny）。它通过 MSN向好友发送自身复本funny.exe和某个网站的地址，并把900多个常用网站重定向到该网站上。在传播的同时，为某网站大做广告，带来了巨大的访问量。该蠕虫爆发后的几个小时内，江民反病毒中心就收到了数百份感染报告。这也是相当比例的国内MSN用户第一次遭遇MSN蠕虫的袭击。

         越来越多MSN蠕虫的出现，迫使微软对MSN进行了安全升级，禁止直接传送exe文件，希望借此遏制MSN蠕虫的势头。但就在2005年初，“MSN性感鸡”和“MSN好快”蠕虫的先后爆发，证明微软的这一安全升级完全是形同虚设。

         2005年2月3日，MSN性感鸡（I-Worm/MSN.DropBot.b）爆发，该蠕虫运行后的最大特点是，会显示一幅恶搞的性感烧鸡图片。同时，蠕虫还会释放后门程序，感染计算机被黑客完全控制。它不仅通过MSN传播，还可以通过多种系统漏洞和弱口令传播，感染能力极强。“MSN好快”在同年3月爆发，可以通过MSN和P2P共享软件传播。这两只蠕虫都会发送自身的复本文件，它们把文件名后缀设置成“.pif”或“.scr”，这也是可执行文件的合法后缀名，很容易地绕过了MSN“禁止传送exe文件”的限制。

        “MSN性感鸡”和“MSN好快”的“成功”，吸引了一大批跟风者。称2005年是 “即时通讯软件蠕虫年”，应该不过分。通过各种即时通讯软件传播的国产蠕虫比例急速上涨，并且第一次出现了通过QQ发送自身复本的蠕虫。到了这个时期，通过MSN传播的技术已经被病毒作者们熟练应用，很多老牌木马、后门也纷纷增加了MSN传播的功能。比如着名的盗号木马“武汉男生” （Trojan/PSW.Whboy）——让人联想到李俊，他在熊猫烧香病毒里面也留下了“Whboy”的字样——就增加了通过MSN、QQ、UC、网络泡泡传播的代码。

         2006年对于MSN病毒来说，是波澜不惊的一年，种类和数量依然不少，却没有什么大规模爆发，能让人记得住它们的名字。如果一定要找出点关于MSN的回忆，那就是“中国缘”网站利用大批MSN机器人冒用网友MSN账号发起的“骚扰事件”了，可能有很多国内的MSN用户都遇到过。先是一个陌生人请求加为好友，一旦通过后，就会发来一个指向“中国缘”的网址；或者在hotmail信箱中发现自己的MSN好友发来的电子邮件，内容同样是在宣传该网站。为此，很多用户曾经求助于江民反病毒中心，怀疑自己感染了病毒。但经过调查发现，这并非病毒引起的。网友在中国缘网站的提示下，输入了自己的MSN账号密码，导致账号被冒用。

         2007年6月1日被江民截获的 “性感相册”蠕虫是最近1年多以来爆发最为迅猛的MSN蠕虫。它会通过MSN发送一个含毒的ZIP压缩包，压缩包里面是病毒程序。中毒电脑还会连接远程的IRC服务器，接收黑客远程控制，成为“僵尸计算机”。

         由于最新版本的MSN已经禁止直接传送exe、pif、scr等类型的文件，“性感相册”选择了把自己先放进ZIP压缩包，然后在发送ZIP的方法。这样虽可以绕过MSN的屏蔽，但似乎会降低病毒扩散的速度：用户需要接收含毒ZIP文件、解压ZIP文件、点击运行里面的程序，才会被感染。可是，从爆发当天的收到的感染报告数量来看，解压ZIP文件带来的麻烦显然不足以削弱用户的好奇心，蠕虫的传播速度一点也不比2年前的“MSN性感鸡”差。

         上面简要回忆了一下我所知道的MSN蠕虫们。利用MSN进行传播，已经成为恶意软件的常用技术，五花八门的后门、蠕虫、木马都有能通过MSN传播的样本。

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    October 14

    Dancetitude 2007

      I never went back home this summer vacation. That was three months. Originally I plan to take this programme called Work and Travel in the USA, but could not make it at last because of another big event, I mean at least to me. Anyway, my attachment started in early July also.
      Dancetitude, is a bi-annual concert put up by NTU Modern Jazz Hip-hop Dance Club. I have been looking forward to this ever since two years ago when I joined the club. It is really a great opportunity for us MJ people to expose ourselves, our club to NTU and beyond.
      Two shows fell on 25th and 26th August, 2007. More than two months have passed, and I would really feel guilty if I do not record that great moment down, because of my current tiredness. All excuses actually...getting lazy these days...
      How do I say? Too much to start all over I guess. Everyone has really put in a lot of efforts in doing this,
    especially the choreographers and the committee members. For each item: theme, music, steps, costumes...a lot of things needs to be done well. So instead of telling the tiring and boring practing process again and again, it would be easy to look at the product directly. I think it's really worthy for memory also.
     
    The poster:
     
    Haha, this is CS...this pose has already become very popular...
     
    Well, I guess it's a good idea to go by item.
     
    1. Kickin It Old School (me involved)
      choreographed by Patrick (our instructor)

      "Old School" is the theme of the opening item. Nowadays in hip-hop, ppl are crazy abt popular and updated music and style. Why not bring everyone back to the old school time, where a lot of nice memories are buried?
      Three parts are included in this item. And ya, as you may notice, black and red.


      "Let's Get It Started!" (can't tell they r smiling or wat rite? hehe...ya, we were supposed to be smiling..."LiMing bend lower!..."


      Sorry, this is already the not very blur photo...we moved really fast...


      "God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You" (that's the longest name I've ever seen so far...I did not do this lyrical part, luckily...)


      "Now That We Found Love" (kinetics, so that we all look happy n energetic)
      As you can see, we are trying to do all kinds of styles in the opening item.


      Ending pose, in which I was buried inside deeply...

    2. Money For Better Or For Worse?
      choreographed by Kuan Nee & Mitran

      In a world where the rich and the poor do not mix, the same feelings ensure when both meet head on. Will the world be a place where MONEY IS NOT AN ISSUE?


      The rich ppl...lights a bit dark alrdy...


      The poor ones...(the pu ding so fake one)...


      So far can tell easily rite?


      Well, not any more liau...Is that the "harmony" we are looking for?


      Ending pose...nicer if the photographer zoomed our more I guess...

    3. Beauty Shop
      choreographed by Kelly

      This is an all-girl item, in which a Chinese song, an English song and a Korean song are used. A lazy afternoon at the beauty salon, ladies and only ladies. It's made of an easy story, but a lot of feelings. I like Kelly's choreo, especially the 1st song, haha...


      Mr. Q ("Hey U! Mr. Q! 爱你耍Cute的指数 电流……" i can't stop it anymore...)


      Well, that's our Mr. Q! Haha, David is really good at this..超爱演的...


      Nice lighting effect right?


      Ending pose (we all should clap for Stephy on that day)

    4. L' amour
      choreographed by Rizal

      The dance of lyrical hip hop boasts of passion and love. A broken hearted dame tries to keep the love of her life. As their desire heightens, it brings them back as one.
      I love the music of this item! I damn love it, as well as Rizal's lyrical hip hop steps.


      It started with Alex's "phone answering" and solo.


      "Still" was my best song during that time.


      This is the so-called 借位...seok a bit fake lah...


      The step immediately after this movement is my favorate...the lyrics goes "...baby, you~~~!"


      I like the ending pose also.

    5. From Ashes to Ashes
      choreographed by Amanda Tan

      This item is of tribal theme, which appears to be special and attractive. It shows a perfect fusion of hip hop and tribal culture. Art people like Amanda Tan could understand this well.


      Dancers appeard among the audiences.


      Dancing around the camp fire I guess?


      You all thin the fishing net looks coo? Quite Chinese to me leh...


      This was the most tribal part, so tribal that many ppl love to watch!

    6. Beat It MJ (me involved)
      choreographed by CS

      A tribute to the "King of Pop", this item reinterprets his rhythm that once revolutionized the dance floor. This number is a combination of pure upbeat Michael fused with hip hop falva.
      I was trying my best in this item, as it meant a lot to me.


      Can see me? The damn tall one..."Ghost" was the 1st song...everything black and white


      This was the cannon part.


      Almost every step goes with the music. If you can remember the starting part of "Beat It", you know why we were doing this...


      Hah, this was the fun part...as introduced be4, this item is a tribute to the "King of Pop". Well, we were trying to copy hime exactly in this dance.
      So beat it, in which there should be some gang fightings like this.


      Another famous cannon here, which was everyone's favorate part. Well, how come I cannot feel anything special abt this...
      Sorry for the ugly face...the expression had to be like that, otherwise the audience could not see anything for far...

      Ahm, actually we have combiend a lot of Jackson's songs in this item music: ghost, dangerous, beat it, in the closet, why you wanna trip on me, remember the time, jam...sorry the "offical photographers" are quite sar lah at this item...

    7. 听妈妈的话 (me involved)
      choreographed by Mornin & Peishan

      For a long time, Mornin was looking forward to an opportunity to do 中国风 in our dancetitude. I was wondering also.
      This was the one. I believe a lot of people love this song by Jay Chou, and we really want to do this for Mornin's mother, as well as every mother in the world.
      "Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love."  -----Mildred B. Vermont
      "Listen to your mum, for she always loves you more than you do."  -----Mornin


      Haha, these were the five kids. Totally different facial expressions now rite?


      And the mothers were in graceful white. Alex was wearing my T-shirt, which was supposed to be cute. Right?


      Ah this part, the lyrics goes "...我知道你未来的路但妈比我更清楚..." It took damn a long time for us to figure out how to catch Jay Chou's rapping speed in this part during the practice. Well still not good enough, as can be seen from the photo: David was doing 更 while ZY was doing 清, as far as I could tell...
      Aiya music so fast audience cannot tell de...


      These were the two MJ seniors, or actually MJ alumni. They are part-time dancers now I think, and not only in hip hop. Ya they really gud of course...


      They are the real mothers of two of the girls in this item. ADM audi was shaking when two of them entered the stage in the last part. As predicted, the audience were cheering like crazy for the two mothers. That was really the best part.
      Btw, the lyrics for this photo: "...想快快长大...", make sense rite?


      See? They were dancing with us.

    8. Black
      choreographed by Bingjie, Samantha & Mornin

      We're living in a world of fear; fear because of what we lack, and in spite of what we have. Let go of your fear, but first, LET IT OUT!!!
      This was a guest performance by the MJ alumni. It was not only a dance item to me, but also a story telling, a drama playing and a way of expressing feelings.


      That was struggling out I guess.


      The girl on the right is my "mum" haha...


      Well I couldn't really understand this item fully actually. Only feelings, nothing else...

    9. Toy Story
      choreographed by NUS ppl

      This was another guest performance from NUS Dance Blast. We share the same instructor.


      Their theme of this dance is toy, as indicated in the title. So of course a lot of robot things...


      The whole dance was designed to be happy and funny.
      It was really funny that they combined Rain's "I'm coming" with the "Barbie Girl".


      And some lockin and popin obviously

    10. Tribute to Ishi
      choreographed by outside dancers

      Our concert was also a tribute to Ishi, our MJ ex-president who passed away not long ago this year. He was also a member of "Soul" boyband, which won 1st runner-up place in "绝对 Superband" in Singapore. Many of the performers in this item are professional dancers.


      Speech giving before the tribute item. The uncle on the left is our instructor, Mr. Patrick Loo.


      The guy in the video behind is Ishi, as well as the face on their T-shirts. They were doing the item which Ishi used to do.


      They were really awesome apparently.

    11. Finale
      choreographed by Patrick

      White costumes with colorful cloths. That's the idea of the finale item. It was divided into several components, in which the size of the cloth we were holding grew graduatly. Not really easy to explain by words. If you watch it, you will like it.

        


      As the cloth grew up, the stage was eaten up by this huge read one at last.


      Happy towards the end...


      The very last ending pose.

      We have put up a wonderful show, and those were two incredible nights. Thanks to everyone in this photo below:



     

      I don't really know whether that was what I was waiting for, in the past two years. What I do know is I've trying my best all the time. I know I have immersed myself deeply in MJ for two year. I might still be "super lousy" in dancing. But this is my choice, my stage and opportunity to explode myself.
      So, that is all about Dancetitude 2007.

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