We won! :D
[N]dt has won iPlay Counter-Strike: Source. Though we were playing as a foreigner team and can’t represent NUS. That sucks. We had to foreigners me and grim. Aaaaahhh wasted. Prize ceremony tomorrow evening but I cant go because I have my Alpha course in the evening. Aaaaahhhh :P Sister will also be in town tomorrow. Need to bring her and her boyfriend to Sim Lim Square :D
Anyway the way it was that in the 1 match we started off as Terrorist playing de_dust2. 15-0 without a sweat. 2nd half we won the 1st round so its 16-0. 2nd match which is sadly the finals was on de_cbble starting as Counter Terrorist. 14-1 in the first half. 2nd half we won the 1st 2 rounds so it was 15-1. I have to say the standard was pretty low but I also have to say that my team was super good. Considering I think I was the worst out of the lot compared to the rest as this was my FIRST real competition. Man I’ve been missing out on a lot of fun. Good game guys.

I welcome that more clubs are organizing LAN competitions and I like the fact that they tried to make it big. However I pity the shop vendors as the traffic was very low due to it being held in the multi purpose sports hall so people have to make a conscious decision to actually go down there and see whats going on compared to places like the Science foyer or Arts forum which is accessible by anybody with lessons near there.

Things to rant about :P First of all I have to say that all the publications advertising iPlay I remember seeing “WarCraft 3: Frozen Zone”. And I also dont understand why they capitalize the ‘c’ in “Warcraft” (though it is there in the “Warcraft” header at the WCG website though in the context its not capitalized). They also copied the game details from the WCG website. Since when did CSS have “over 20 new missions”. Heck when did it have any missions at all. Shame to the people who did the WCG site. I believe that you should verify all your data when doing things like this that will be presented to anybody as it reflects badly on the site/company or whatever. And the iPlay publication the word from the editor (or somebody I can’t remember) on the first page. I dont know where they copied the text from but there was like a ‘ö’ character at the end of the game names, eg Need for Speedö. I guess they copied the TM / ® sign from somewhere and it ended up like that. Perhaps it could have been the printers fault as well. But still have to say Need for Speedö is funny :P

Anyway I’m hungry, tired and sleepy. Have Philips FYP meeting tomorrow as well all the way in Toa Payoh :p Go eat and relax a bit then FYP mode

I was typing a post about my escapades today from skipping CS2106: Operating Systesm lecture to go play pool in Clementi to soldering stuff to fix a broken Palm m105. AAAahhhhhhhh
Guess thats what happens when I multi-task too much and forget about things and end up closing the page I was typing on before realising I hadn’t updated yet… ahhhhhhh
life.. lazy to continue. I go train :P

After several problems I finally managed to dual boot my laptop with both Windowx XP and Debian. Initially I installed the business card edition of Debian. Then I tried to install Windows so I popped in the Restore disks that I got with my laptop. It didnt even get me an option to which partition it was to install on. It wiped out my partitions and formatted the drive. It then hung at 85% of formatting then I had to reboot the computer to restart it. So after finally installing Windows AND the updates I wondered what to do. I wanted a distro of Linux to dual boot. So I tried search for non destructive partitioning for Windows. I had to scan disk and defrag to make sure the partitioning went along with less problems. After much looking if found Ntfsresize to do the partitioning. Finally I went with BG-Rescue Linux or SystemRescueCd (can’t remember :S :P). All in all it worked =D Yay!!! So installed Debian by downloading and burning 2 iso’s of the 12 available hoping that it would be enough to install Debian and then I could configure the Linux ACU client
or VPN to get online and finish the install. I guess I was wrong. Currently the screen resolution is 800 x 600 maximum. Something to do with nvidia drivers I’ve heard or something. Slowly but surely learning Linux thought thats the good thing :)

Went to Festival of Praise yesterday with several cell group people. Great experience :)

Been a long day today. Woke up at about 1100 today then went down to Queenstown to Church! :D 1300 meeting with cell leader for new life kit follow up before cell group, then service. After service end up eating and fellowshipping at the hawker centre until about 2200. 3 exchange students all from France , 1 from NTU 2 from NUS, were there so there were obviously curiousity on their side as well as ours. I suggested they drink bandung but too bad the stall didnt have :P One of the things I remember of the evening was where they mentioned that you can ‘slash’ a person. Weird word to use but as I recall it was basically you can say something to a person then when you ‘slash’ them they are not able to respond. An example the guy gave was a guy says this to a girl “I’m having a great party tonight. But I’m not inviting you”. Then he ‘slashes’ her so she cant respond or protest. We’re not too sure if they mean it out of sarcasm or just some strange culture thing. Anyway back to learning about Linux and hopefully get my screen resolution proper :P

And school is starting soon.
Yes I have yet again feel I have ‘wasted’ my holidays. Still so many things left unachieved and even untouched. Maybe dont plan for the holidays would be best :P
Starting to have doubts about my FYP (final year project). I’m thinking I would have liked it if I got my first choice. Maybe it’s just me being lazy and not wanting to work or maybe it is true. Anyway back to reading and brainstorming about my FYP, the thing that will probably make or break my first class honours. Hmmmm.. first class honours, is it really worth it?
I want to LEARN things. I want to enjoy school. I want to rest and not feel tired. I want me time. I want to stop typing now. What do I learn?
I’m selfish. As everybody is sometimes. Selfish. I need to learn to live my life and enjoy it more. I need to enjoy life more. I need to enjoy the finer things in life and not worry too much. God help me I pray