Skipped lecture today

** Updated at 17:38:30 on 2006/02/15 **
To play Counter-Strike: Source. Same team what I played iPlay with. 16-0, 16-0. 3 teams and top 3 teams get prizes. Kind of sad that nobody else is playing. Most people are playing DOTA which I doint really have much interest in. When will there be more people playing CSS? :( When most default computer systems can support playing CSS probably haha :P Anyway should be getting the prize later.1 Razer Copperhead coming up =D Thanks giving to God that I get to know people like Reuben who led us yay!!! hehe Too bad I’m graduating this semester. Can’t play more :( Sad…. Anyway back to FYP. Restructuring some code to make things easier to extend and modify. YAY!!! FYP is fun again :D

Edit: Apparently they changed the prize from the Copperhead to the Diamondback Plasma Limited Edition. Kind of sad that they downgraded the mouse but hey its limited edition so maybe I should just keep it nicely in the box and let the price appreciate? :P Anyway still happy for the mouse :D Yay!!!

Dont want to study =p

Want to program. Was making a Perl script and converted it to a Windows Service over the weekend for the IES Games.net servers. Which reminds me that I need to check to check out whats wrong with my old AMX mod. Lazy lazy lazy.
Any programming done with respect to game management is fun to me. Want to do more of it. But alas FYP and TDE projects to do.
3 letter abbreviations are engulfing my life: FYP (final year project), TDE (Techonology of Digital Entertainment), AOS (Advanced Operating Systems), FNA (Financial Accounting). AAaaaahahhhhhhh school work. hmmmm could add ‘NUS’ to that list? ‘PGP’, especially PGP Block 10 TV room :P

Back to listening in lecture :P

Dont you feel hopeless at times?

I’ve been trying to do a Financial Accounting tutorial for over 3 hours now. It’s times like these that I just feel that my brain has hit it’s limit. I’ve taken accounting before during the O levels but for some reason none of the question makes sense. Have to submit answers later on today to the tutor as my group is presenting next week. Why wont my brain work? Why cant I understand? Well I do understand but I dont understand what the question is asking and its just getting tiring. It’s times like this that I just want to go into a little corner and cry. And to think I’m spending all this time on a freaking tutorial when I have more important things to do like my FYP and TDE projects… Man…. Panic mode setting in? I dont know. Why why why? Who knows? Because certainly I dont know much right now except that I’m going to wake up late in Friday afternoon that is IF I do sleep. Sad life I live.

NUS SoC well kept secret?

Get free Microsoft products here. Only for NUS students though, but I’m not sure if its only for SoC students and those with Unix accounts. If there is anybody out there without a Unix account can you try to access the site and comment if you are able to get it. If you are I really wonder why this is not publicised to students. I only found out through a friend who is taking a module where the lecturer told them about it as they needed Visual Studio or something like that.

Lazy Sunday

No reference to the SNL Narnia Rap but just that I just want to have a lazy sunday. Just rest and relax despite having FYP work to do.

Happy Chinese New Year to all who celebrate =) Enjoy the holidays especially here in Singapore until Tuesday. My schedule would be to start and finish 1 assignment tomorrow and as always FYP work. Hopefully I’ll be able to communicate properly between the hardware given thus making FYP in a much better standing.

After collecting my clothes I want to make this clothe folding ‘machine’ which is something I prefer to this clothe folding technique

Anyway I guess its back to work now….
Enjoy the holidays people

Walking zombie

At least thats kind of how I feel right now. No sleep last night but the good thing is had more breakthrough for FYP! Thank you Lord! =D So in essence my phone application is more or less done minus the communications that should work but dont due to different implementations of Philips and Nokia sides (well at least it should be different implementations since they dont communicate properly :P).
So I was looking for a Java API to access a device through the USB port and I didnt find an actual proper finalised and up-to-date API for USB for Java on Windows which I think is really a surprise for me. Considering USB is kind of the defacto standard of attaching anything to your computer and with Java actually surpassed C++ on Sourceforge last year, meaning more and more people are developing Java applications. There is a Linux version however, and it supports recent versions reports this article at IBM.
Anyway now time to try for a major breakthrough :P If this works its possible that there will be a working demo instead of a simulation at the next FYP meeting with my supervisor =D

Happy advanced Chinese New Year folks and enjoy the holidays if you have them ;-) Back to FYP……

I’ve realised 2 things

1) I want to redesign my website now, despite having my FYP to do. Just feel a sudden urge haha
2) I dont know what to do right now for my FYP. Kind of run into roadblocks and just realised that I really dont have a real direction on what I’m supposed to do. In this time of helplessness I turn to God who comforts me. I believe this is a test for me to trust the Lord more :) Thank you Lord and I pray that I persevere. I cannot remember who said it but something somebody said just struck me. It goes something like this: “There is no such thing as luck, however perseverse and opportunities will arise that make it seem as if it is luck. Its 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration”. Well it really went something like that :P
So anybody going through hard times just persevere. :)

PS I will have to discipline myself not to redesign the website however more talking of it makes me want to do it even more!!! :P

Printer problems

Having problems installing my old Lexmark Z13 printer. When installing the driver a Software License Agreement pops up but it never pops up fully because it doesnt respond anymore as show below.

This is annoying. Tried uninstalling the old drivers and reinstalling it and still the same problem. Had this problem before and after some luck it just managed to work. Annoying….

Apple Intel has landed

Using the Intel Core Duo, the new MacBook Pro and the iMac have been unveiled at Macworld 2006.

Wacth Job’s keynote address: Over 1.5 hours but the good stuff happens just after the hour. Having a bit of a problem watching it despite being in the school network. Some times the audio just disappears.

And yes dual booting with Windows is possible. So now who wants a mac?

Back to fyp…

That was fun

Just finished a Quake 3 session :D
KQuery rocks!
Night people and Selamat Hari Raya Haji