had IES Orientation dry run. played a few games and stuff.
in the morn was changing module plan and stuff. and still a bit ‘stuck’ on what to take next sem.
still thinkin on what to take this sem.
ok im still not sure how to call the coming semester. this / next sem. its hasnt started yet so i tend to call it next sem but module bidding has started and stuff thus i refer to it has this sem.
so to all out there if you hear me say ‘this’ / ‘next’ sem it means Year 3 semester 1.
im in year 3 already :|:|:|
2 years gone and 2 more to go.
but good news about modules is that i have 2 free days with 6 modules now. but then everyday will be like 9-7 or 9-5 :|
let me think.
im sure all the things i’ve said are all jumbled up but im to tired to think properly and arrange them nicely. at least the stuff is here right? :P

just back and my room is still my old room :D
smells kind of funny. need to find out what exactly causes that smell :P
flight was short and enjoyable. maybe because my gf was beside me the whole trip? :”> :P
tomorrow night is IES members night dinner
saturday is packing of goodie bags
sunday is orientation dry run
i come back and already my weekend is taken :'(
well enjoy as much i can before school starts :|

** Updated at 16:06:39 on 2004/07/15 **
well half of billy bob at least.
here’s an animated gif of him drinking a can of something. :P

yes i was bored :P
and i wanted to do it for a long time so it finally comes now.

dial up is pathetic :'(:'(
i need my broadband!!!! soon!!! :'(
anyway. back to work…

====ADDED====
oh yeah. another thing.
im on google!!!!!
but its my old site!!!!
can you believe it? i was logged into my account on this site and it asked if i wanted to be listed. so i agreed and it shows up with my OLD account!!!!
only reason is because both accounts are under tripod hosting i guess
now just need to change the old blog. do that sometime.
sometime now i tink :P

in singapore…
for a while. :P
goin back tomorrow 0910 flight. so i better get some shut eye
good night and good bye singapore :(
no more nice net connection :'(
hello brunei
=D gf there :P haha
cant wait to be back

i thought i FINALLY finished my internship stuff, what i wanted to do.
so as i thought a bit more, there is still a little bit left 2 do.
but im not doing that now. maybe when i try give a beta run of the system then i’ll add it and debug any bugs which im quite sure there will be :(
got to go sleep. mom coming in a few hrs for bro’s graduation
nite world. maybe i can sleep a bit more soundly tonight :D

** Updated at 9:36:12 on 2004/07/07 **
currently kinda addicted 2 stickmen :P
ever since a fren asked me 2 find a pic of a stick man and i typed out

 _
(_)
-|-
/ \
stick man =p
then came up with

  _
 (_)
-/_\-
 / \
stick woman

  ...
''(_)''
-/_\-
 / \
stick woman w/ hair (ok i know the hair isnt that good :P)

then just came up w/ this

  _
 (_)
'-/-)----
 /''.
fencing
actually it was supposed to be running ended up fencing :p
so fun to do :D:D hehe

but i tink life has other plans 4 me.
2 many things running through my head. well at least i can try 2 get rid of some by finishing off some of my work.
ies slide show
ies website
ies mail run on fri mornin
internship
website

work work work..
mom coming on thurs. planned 2 finish everything by thurs so that could possibly relax and go about w/ mum. looks like its not gonna happen :”(
hey.. i just found a low ping quake 3 server. lemme go try :p
if it wont work 2 ies slideshow i go :P

before going into the details of yesterday let me start on a lighter note and give a few interesting links and stuff 1st..

forgot your password and all you have is your md5 hash? well then MD5 Online Cracking is here for you
or maybe its for people in this School that teaches ‘ethical hacking’
i want to go there…. some one sponsor me US$4000 :D:D ;-)

Could Your Voice Betray You?: something about the polygraph test
1 computer 4 users!!!!! running on Linux. however i think for me its the other way around: 4 pcs 1 user :P. i think i better learn to tweak and maintain my computer properly.

yesterday wanted to see internship supervisor. so off i went to engin faculty. wanted to set up my comp first before seeing supervisor so got a bench and started to boot up my comp. everything looked fine. then i tried to open stuff. Opera and taskmanager because i know my Opera starts up slowly. so i waited. and waited. and waiting…. so i tried to see how much free space i had left. open up My Computer (which is renamed to TheWeed’s Domain :P) and see i have 300MB+ of free space!!%$!&^%$^&!%$^&! i was like “WHAT THE HECK!&$*!&^$^!&*$!” i had FreeRAM XP running it says i still have 200MB+ of RAM FREE!!!! and when i checked earlier that day I had roughly 1gig of free space left. so whats with all the virtual RAM being used!*!&$^!!!! ok either the comp was slowed down sooooo much that it didnt refresh or something wrong with my other 256MB RAM that I got the other time, like maybe its not registering properly. but it shloud be as its detected by the BIOS. *shrug* so finally after 20min+ of waiting and fiddling around with this and that. taskmanager and Opera FINALLY open. ok Opera is slow at startup due to mail and cache and also due to the little amount of hard disk space available but for taskmanager to take so long to open!?!?!!? i mean what the heck?!?! it should be up and open quickly. its a part of the freaking operating system. i opened up separate windows within that 20min and taskmanager still wasnt up yet?!?!?! COME ON!!!!!

so when i FINALLY got everything up and running went to find my supervisor who wasnt in… just great… so all i have for that was more m$ cursing….

so back in room after that i was giving AutoPatcher a try. its supposedly has all of windows patches and updates EXCLUDING SP1. but you can download that separately from m$ so not too much of a biggie to me. its supposed to detect the current patchs and updates installed on the system. however it didnt on mine…. so it took like 3hrs installing patches and what not to my computer. so my computer was rendered ‘useless’. not to mention i didnt have a net connection due to the fact that my bro was using the desktop.
but after bro left i wanted to do some work. tried to retrieve a file from the IES computer. took like 30min to transfer the 180MB+ file. and find out its the WRONG file… want the heck.. life just has it in 4 me doesnt it?
so ended up the whole day was more or less ‘wasted’ with little work done…
i want to get the work over and done with so i can go back on the 12th without anything left that i need to do.
worked till midnight then played till 3am in the morn. and was up at abt 10+ this morning so roughly 7hrs of sleep… and its practically lunch time now. go get some lunch then sit my butt in front of this comp and start work… sigh…

** Updated at 11:56:59 on 2004/07/04 **
what time you may ask. patching time by M$ :P Microsoft posts work-around for IE flaw
Microsoft half fixes serious IE vuln
the vulnerability even led to this CERT recommends anything but IE. hehehe
my recommendation would be Opera and Mozilla/Firefox
Opera | Mozilla | FireFox
just kind of sad to say that Opera is more of a geek browser i think just like this forum thread mentions

Something to worry about for most web users: Multiple Browsers Frame Injection Vulnerability
though it doesnt seem to affect Opera even though it says it is affected *shrug* go figure

its anothor one of those mobile phone stories. Phone battery flames injure teen. aside from this there is the one about phones being the cause of explosions at gas stations and also the ever worrying dangerous radiation from phones that are linked to cancer and sterility

ok better go soon. want to meet supervisor.

‘officially’ that is. been coding throughout the day today. and actually change alot of the underlying code to make it easier for user to input questions.
still a few more little features I would like to add to question management currently. Still have yet to implement a Java applet out of Jex though its possible. however if i implement it there will be alot more parsing to do :|:|
anyway with just a few minor bits of coding left for the system it feels good :D:D
then the drudgery of inputting solutions to the questions that i have already dumped in the database. thats will be boring… :(
not going to bro’s graduation now since he told me he gave his other ticket to his friend. not that i really mind especially since i do have 2 more years left :P
and also might be better as IES Orientation mail run will be commencing next week. basically its fold letters, put them in an envelope and the seal the envelope then bring the envelopes to OSA (office of student affairs) and stick a label on it. possibly more boring than inputting solutions? i think so. its the same old thing to do again and again. however routine is good because its kind of mindless so you dont have to really think to much. inputting solutions you have to following each step by step then debug and test to make sure it works ok.
1 month of holidays left and I kind of feel like I wasted it. havent really done anything much for myself this holidays… sigh…
wanted to retouch stuff on the site didnt get around to doing it.
wanted to learn Java GUI, did a bit at the beginning of the holidays before internship started but it twiddled away.
wanted to learn XML. havent even read anything about it.
and with 1 month left of the holidays I still have to finish up 3 more websites (NOT including mine) and more IES stuff….
IES becoming kind of a drag… its kind of annoying being ‘tech savvy’ people and thus end up doing the computer work. Im not saying I dislike doing computer work. Im not in Computer Engineering for nothing, but there are just some things that I dont really want to do like the slide show…..
then I have to convert a bit of it to flash for the website… sigh…. life… so much work. so little time left to play and enjoy.
worse of all my dearest Chee’s back home… :(
noone to talk to on a regular basis to vent my frustrations to and to enjoy some time with…. just hopefully next Monday the 12th of July I’ll be flying back with mom to go back home, internship ‘done’, IES stuff done so I can relax and possible do my own work!!!!!!!
ok.. think i should hit the hay soon. trying to see supervisor tomorrow mornin