Well first of MERRY CHRISTMAS to all!!!
Now for the not so merry christmas for me.
My screen is flickering for extended periods of time. What used to be 3 or 4 flickers have turned into 30 second episodes :”(:”(
Currently while I’m typing this its okay. But it was in a mean cycle just now. Long flickering episode, nice normal screen for like 2 seconds then another long flickering episode and so on….
So looks like I can’t/won’t be getting much work done unless I buy another laptop or computer. I can’t use other computers as well as I can use mine. ‘Everything’ I need is installed on my laptop and I know where I can get everything I need. With using another computer I have to 1) install all the necessary programs if I can indeed install programs and 2) customize my settings and such and its just such a pain… sigh…
Picking up my friend’s LCD on Monday from repair. I wonder if I should buy a new laptop or send my laptop for repair or just use it with the LCD. But when my friend comes back I’ll have to return the LCD leaving me with only my junior’s computer which I’m using to host the CSalpha server. Think I want to buy another laptop but it’s best to wait for matriculation fair which is 1 semester away :| Good news its that my laptop is still under warranty. 3 years warranty *phew*
Life… need to backup stuff tomorrow just in case

Until results are out :|
Been playing Quake 3 for the last hour to keep my mind off it :P
Now its just the waiting game. Tick tock tick tock

Tuesday onwards was okay but still a bit =S here and there. 12+7 hours until my results are out. And found out that I have a module clash for next semester so I have to change plans.. sigh.. Sucks plain sucks crap.
Anyway I should get back to doing the work I am supposed to do =P But I’m lazy as always :P
Good luck everybody with your resuls and Merry Christmas

Left my laptop on last night and when I woke up I found the screen to be off, so I thought at least. So I tried moving the mouse around but the screen did not turn on. Then I realised that I could see something on the screen. I saw the windows I had open and realised that my screen was dead =|=|=| Backlight dead :”( So hooked it up to my junior’s desktop monitor. For some reason I adjusted my laptop screen and *poof* like magic it was working again =| Now I have to say that was a scary experience. This is after I saw my laptop ‘blink’ at least times yesterday. The screen was on, then it ‘blinked’: the monitor screen turned all black for like half a second then came back on. And this is also after I’ve had ‘flickering’ problems with my display where the brightness just changes slightly. And that has happened like 3 or 4 times while posting this…sigh…. On the brighter side I’ll probably buy an monitor (hopefully LCD screen =D) if the screen does die, or better yet I’ll buy a whole new desktop / laptop =D. Crap just ‘flickered’ again. I think I’m still under warranty though :P But arent excuses fun to buy new stuff? :P

Or so it seems. Need more sleep. Need to play less. Need to work.
Motivation where have you gone? Or maybe more like ‘sleep’ where have you gone?

Trying to make things more manageable in the underlying code. I could use those management systems like PHP-Nuke, Mambo and b2evolution but I prefer to do things myself. Yes it’ll much more time and wont be as good as the management systems but its something I like to do and makes me learn things. Anyway tiring day went out with my dear dear :D Tomorrow going out with my cousin again :P Anyway I should go shower

Cousing in town, so ended up having dinner with him, uncle and aunt and Tony Roma’s: Famour for Ribs. Nice ribs I have to say :D
After that went to play pool as we always end up doing due to my cousin’s ‘obssession’ to play and beat me. He hasn’t beat me much despite my lack of playing while I’m here. I play like maybe 5 or 6 times a year since I came to Singapore. Played quite a lot when I’m back home. Well most of my wins involve lots of kalokness (luckiness) :P
After that went to Burger King when my cousing took the Swiss mushroom meal. Then went looking for a taxi and walked passed Parco Junction where they have this broadway thingy (Broadway Christmas @ PARCO – Sales Promotions and Broadway Musicals). Watched them practise a while as we ate McDonald’s 25c ice cream cone :P Then took a cab back. It was a Mercedes cab :D:D Nice and comfortable. At first life was being itself when we got to the front of the queue and suddenly the taxi’s just disappear. None. Zilch. That’s life for you. But then it gave a nice unsuspecting twist :D Anyway I’m off to shower now

I !&*$^!&*$^!&*$^!$&!*($& HATE IT!!!
It keeps disconnecting and I can’t even save my password so I have to manually type it in time after time after time.. $*!&$*(!&$*(!&$

Anyway back to work…

Running about quite a bit. Still working as I always do :P
Playing bits of Half-Life 2 in between and it still so cool, though the AI doesn’t seem all that great. Maybe its just because I played HL1 on hard and the enemies were pretty hard to kill compared to HL2.
Anyway the immersion factor is just great in game. Never had a game feel like HL2 feels. Anyway I should get some sleep, off to meet possible UROP supervisor tomorrow

** Updated at 5:13:33 on 2004/12/05 **
I can finally play Half-Life 2 on a desktop but the thing is, the display is too dark and it is so eye straining because its just way too dark and its the beginning of the game where you dont have a flashlight yet. Now looking for software to increase the gamma settings of the monitor or something. Life just has to do this to me doesnt it?

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Finally found the settings. Dont know why I couldnt find it just now. Who cares off to play HL2 now :D