Maddox Tan: 2016

Scars To Your Beautiful Cover, Rebecca Black And Kurt Hugo Schneider

Kurt Hugo Schneider

November 30, 2016
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Closer, The Chainsmokers Feat Halsey

2016

November 18, 2016
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Cold Water, Major Lazer Feat Justin Bieber And MØ

Cold Water

October 26, 2016
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Louise Delage, The Truth About The Rising Instagram Star

Addict Aide

October 03, 2016
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Eyes, Nose, Lips (紅薔薇白玫瑰), G.E.M. (鄧紫棋)

BigBang

September 08, 2016
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Treat You Better, Shawn Mendes

Buzzfeed

September 07, 2016
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Son Pranks Parents After 3 Years Away From Home And Lost 20kg

Hadi Wibawa

August 25, 2016
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Obliviously, more than half of my holidays have just passed by. like. that. Well, on the bright side, I still have about two weeks before fourth year starts. Since I have all the time in the world (on a temporary basis), I decided to embark on a journey to discover the world of Pinterest. I know, I am a little bit outdated, but just bear with me. Prior to this, I do not really understand what is so interesting

about Pinterest other than the word is probably formed from the combination of the words "pin" and "interest". Hence, I created an account few days ago to see what Pinterest has to offer that attracts millions, if not billions of users daily. Upon creating an account, I was asked to choose several topics that I like. After that, I saw numerous pins on my home feed which Pinterest has filtered based on my interests.

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Up till this point, I started to get impressed and get the reason people are using Pinterest so often! The pins are not only interesting, but also come from all over the internet, Having said that, this could potentially saves massive amount of my time from browsing through sites to look for images or things that I want. With Pinterest, I can simply type the keyword in the search tab and all related pins will magically appear! Besides, you can pin anything that you like and categorised it into boards that you have created so that other people would be able to see what you have shared when they visit your account. Furthermore, I have also linked this blog to my Pinterest account! However, I am still having difficulties of pining the posts in this blog to my Pinterest as it kept saying that the images are too small when I try to pin them!

To all Pinterest experts who are reading this, please help me to solve this problem! Thank you in advance! Last but not least, please do follow my pinterest account at pinterest.com/maddoxtan to see more things that I would really like to share with you guys but I am simply too lazy to post them in my blog. Till then, au revoir!

August 19, 2016
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Scars To Your Beautiful, Alessia Cara

Alessia Cara

August 18, 2016
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PokéStop in Pokémon Go

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Recently there has been a craze about Pokémon Go all over the world (well mostly). As you can notice, people tend to wander around and stare at their mobile phones more frequently than they used to be, it is all because of this childhood game that has been created by a company called Niantic. Also, Pokémon Go is available in both iOS and Android for free! While that might be one of the reason the app has become so popular, the real deal that attracts so many players could be the fact that they are now able to catch the pokemons in real life (sort of)! They pop up on players' mobile phones alongside real world objects. (The app uses the phone's GPS and camera to turn real life surroundings into playing ground). Having said that, the downside of the game is that it really drains the battery life of the phones. Anyway that's another story.

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The objective of the game is to catch as many pokémon as possible to fill in the pokedex and to train them. Ultimately, you are on a journey to be the Pokémon Master! So what is the PokéStop that appears on the map? A Pokéstop is basically a location where you can move into close proximity to utilise a variety of features. PokéStops are generally scattered all over the map where they are shown as floating blue cubes which will transform into blue PokéBall-like image that floats. When you reach PokéStops, simply swipe the image to collect items. Some of the items you will be able to obtain include:

PokéBalls (all-types)
Potions
Incubators
Eggs
Lucky Eggs
Revives
Incenses

If you feel lazy to walk around for other PokéStop stations, you can just wait at the same place for five minutes to re-swipe and get more things. I have personally tried the game and I find it quite fascinating. Not only does it relive my childhood memories (massive Pokémon fan), but also I get to be more interactive and catch them with much more effort rather than just pressing "A" and "B" buttons (if you know what I mean). Go download and try the game if you have not already done so! Till then, au revoir!

August 17, 2016
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Singapore's First Olympic Champion, Joseph Schooling

2016

August 16, 2016
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Rise, Katy Perry

2016 Summer Olympics

August 10, 2016
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Here, Alessia Cara

Alessia Cara

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Recently, I am addicted to this song called "Here" by a Canadian singer Alessia Cara. It is her debut single as well as the lead single for her extended play "Four Pink Walls" and her debut album "Know-It-All". The 20 year-old singer born Alessia Caracciolo to Italian parents in the Ontario stated that the song is actually about everyone who secretly hates parties.

"“Here” is a song for all the antisocial, awkward, and miserable party-goers of the world. This one time I went to a party and while there, I realised how much I hated it, along with every other party I had ever gone to. We wrote about it the next day." -Alessia Cara

In my opinion, I think the song is just amazing and Alessia has done a really great job! This is undoubtedly one of her best piece of song she has created so far. What do you think about "Here"? Let me know in the comment box below and enjoy watching the music video if you have not already done so. Till then, au revoir!

Here lyrics

I guess right now you've got the last laugh

I'm sorry if I seem uninterested
Or I'm not listenin' or I'm indifferent
Truly, I ain't got no business here
But since my friends are here
I just came to kick it but really
I would rather be at home all by myself not in this room
With people who don't even care about my well-being
I don't dance, don't ask, I don't need a boyfriend
So you can go back, please enjoy your party
I'll be here, somewhere in the corner under clouds of marijuana
With this boy who's hollering I can hardly hear
Over this music I don't listen to and I don't wanna get with you
So tell my friends that I'll be over here

Oh oh oh here oh oh oh here oh oh oh
I ask myself what am I doing here?
Oh oh oh here oh oh oh here
And I can't wait till we can break up outta here

Excuse me if I seem a little unimpressed with this
An anti-social pessimist but usually I don't mess with this
And I know you mean only the best and
Your intentions aren't to bother me
But honestly I'd rather be
Somewhere with my people we can kick it and just listen
To some music with the message (like we usually do)
And we'll discuss our big dreams
How we plan to take over the planet
So pardon my manners, I hope you'll understand
That I'll be here
Not there in the kitchen with the girl
Who's always gossiping about her friends
So tell them I'll be here
Right next to the boy who's throwing up cause
He can't take what's in his cup no more
Oh God why am I here?

Oh oh oh here oh oh oh here oh oh oh
I ask myself what am I doing here?
Oh oh oh here oh oh oh here
And I can't wait till we can break up outta here

Hours later congregating next to the refrigerator
Some girl's talking bout her haters
She ain't got none
How did it ever come to this
I shoulda never come to this
So holla at me I'll be in the car when you're done
I'm standoffish, don't want what you're offering
And I'm done talking
Awfully sad it had to be that way
So tell my people when they're ready that I'm ready
And I'm standing by the TV with my beanie low
Yo I'll be over here

Oh oh oh here oh oh oh here oh oh oh
I ask myself what am I doing here?
Oh oh oh here oh oh oh here
And I can't wait till we can break up outta here

Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh

August 03, 2016
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How To Post Tall Pictures On Blogspot

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I have always find difficulties to upload tall pictures in my blogpost, particularly fantastic infographics that I have found while I was surfing the internet. No matter what I did, I was never satisfied with the end results of the pictures that appeared in the post. They will be either too narrow, automatically resized down, or the pictures will come up blurry. Of course I was aware that I could simply choose the default sizes available for the post: small (200px), medium (320px), large (400px), x-large (640px) and original (full size with the cap of 1600px). However, being a perfectionist, I wanted a more customised size of the pictures that I wanted to upload so that it would fit the size of the blogpost perfectly. Then, I tried various methods and did numerous research through Google to find the available solution, but to no avail.

Nonetheless, with a sheer determination and lots of time spent, I finally found a way to solve this issue once and for all. I came across a site called Bloggersentral with a post written by Greenlava that teach us how to resize images or infographics to our preferred sizes. Below are the steps to change the size of the images and infographics that you want to upload. In all seriousness, it is as easy as ABC. No joke.

Upload an image/infographic and set it to "Original Size"
Switch the post editor from "Compose" to "HTML" and locate the code of the image. The code should look something like this;
As you can see, the second URL is the source URL for the in-post image. This means that it is the URL for the image that appears in your post. On the other hand, the first URL is the hyperlink to another version of the same image (which means the image that appear on a new tab/window when you click the image).

In addition, notice that both URLs are exactly the same as they are resized to 1600px tall ( highlighted in red).
Replace the "s1600" with "s0" in the first URL so that it links to the original full size image. Regardless of the size of the image you are uploading, setting the size figure to "s0" will get you the full size of it.

The width will be adjusted automatically according to the height of the image. Hence it would be useful to use an aspect ratio calculator to obtain the desired height and width. I find the ARC by Andrew.Hedges.Names really easy to be used.
Now we shall fix the in-post image. In order to increase the height (thus making the image larger), replace the size variable with a larger value. While most of the proposed solutions mention that you can only resize the image up to 1600px, you can actually resize it up to 2560px (s2560). Foe example, if you want to resize the in-post image to 2000px, then replace the "s1600" in the second URL with "s2000"\

(Normally you would not want to put "s0" for in-post image most of the time as a full size image might be wider than your post size. Also, it will take a longer time for a full size infographic to load.)

Your final adjusted image code should look like this:
Remember to preview the post before you publish it.

August 03, 2016
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