IE screwed.
Adobe Acrobat Reader screwed.

How the heck am I supposed to use my laptop now. Life doesn’t seem to get any better does it?
Tried attaching my laptop to a TV set yesterday. Its ok if you want to watch DVDs on the TV but its killing my eyes if I try to read the text. Had to change resolutions and despite that still very hard to read. TV resolution is 320×240. I think I heard or read that somewhere. Correct me if I’m wrong but I could care less if I were. All I want is a working laptop.

Attended 2 lectures so far. And both of them seem like putting a nail in the coffin that I seem to have bought myself this semester. Workload going to be pretty heavy I think. Next semester I’m not sure if its going to be any different with my FYP (Final Year Project) and Real time embedded systems which everyone says is another killer module just like EE2011 Electromagnetics that I’m taking this semester. Sigh…
Thats all I can do.
Sponsors stuff not confirmed. Club disorganised I feel. Noone reads mails. Noone contributes. Or at least so it seems.

For module choosing. Clashes and modules not being offered to engineering students in semester 2….

Anyway went to chalet on Monday until Wednesday morning. All the way in the east National Service Resort & Country Club. No Internet connection… Costa Sands Resort the last chalet I went to had a connection and a good one at that. Ended up going to McDonalds to get my fix of emailing important stuff like my appeal to take a module despite a clash in lecture timing….
Watched ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘My Sassy Girl’ the 1st night of the chalet. 2nd night planned to night cycle and watch the sun rise but it was raining… grrrr Wasted money on renting the bikes. I learnt Mahjong there!!! :P haha Need a reference guide to ‘read’ the characters though haha

Anyway I think this semester which starts on Monday :|:|:| is going to be quite a bad one. 5 modules with 2 modules having the grade soley based on projects :|:|:| Anyway hope for the best for all the rest of you still choosing modules.

Or is it? Laptop still not fixed yet. Need to get work done and its very hard to get it done on a computer that’s not mine. I would install all the stuff I need but its still not the same.
Have to call the service centre on Monday. Hopefully its done. Big hopefully. It took like 1 month+ to replace a broken bracket or something like that the last time when my laptop could not open/close properly. Hopefully it wont take that long to replace the screen. sigh… I want my laptop!!!!! :'(

Anyway HAPPY NEW YEAR to all. Enjoy the year ahead

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