Feeling pretty hyper today. The 2 day conference at church has really uplifted my spirit and just makes me feel so hyper for God =D Guest speaker David Allbritton shared so many of his wonderful testimonies during yesterday’s message was about the power of the name Jesus. There is indeed power in the name of Jesus. Today’s message was about hell. Not exactly the nicest thing to talk about but the reality of it. God bless him for his word and may he indeed be blessed by the Lord Jesus as he continues his ministry and changes the World.
So happy. So fun. So cool.
Thank you Jesus for being a part of my life =D

And now back to FYP thesis writing. Good night all and God bless

Deadlines in chronological order:

11th March: Financial Accounting Midterm – 25%
22nd March: Technology of Digital Entertainment test – 20%
24th March – 13th April: FYP CA3 – 30%
30th March: FYP thesis + technical paper draft
1st April: Online booking of CA4 timing
5th April: Financial Accounting project – 15%
7th – 13th April: FYP CA4 – 30%
12th April: 2 x Technology of Digital Entertainment demos – 40% (inclusive of reports)
23rd,24th April: 2 x Technology of Digital Entertainment reports
24th April: Financial Accounting exam – 50%
26th April: Advanced Operating Systems exam
13 May: Final thesis

On a side note. Microsoft’s Origami is revealed: Video | Microsoft website. XP tablet edition, wifi, bluetooth, minimum 800×480 resolution and ~2lbs. A bigger PDA or a smaller tablet: either way the battery life is the most important factor I think. From the video it seems too thick and to big in general but I like the keyboard hidden keyboard with the screen swivel as you can see from the video’s 1st scene. With prices from 600-1000 it seems like a good alternative to a laptop. Seems to have usb ports as well so you could attach a keyboard and mouse to it. If you could attach a monitor to it, it could be something like a Mac mini. My initial reaction was that its just a bigger PDA (me being a PDA user) rather than a smaller tablet, but now I think of it has a smaller cheaper, and I emphasise cheaper, tablet. Now that is indeed something important as tablets to me just seem overpriced. Now its much more easily attainable and what more its a smaller more mobile device than a tablet. Now I want one :P

Anyway I better go to sleep. Hope I dont do another 3am-3pm sleep-a-thon again :P
Good night people and I’m getting baptised on Sunday at 5pm @ Church of our Saviour (map). Yay!

Been working through the night for the past 2 days. Today till 9am yesterday till 11am. Work’s been good I think. Progressing well thank God :). Still quite a lot a bit left that I hope to finish before this coming Thursday for the regualr FYP meet-ups with my supervisor.
Note to anybody dealing with strings and characters in VC++ and things that the didn’t teach you in school (well at least they didnt teach me :P) here are a few things to note when dealing with them
Unraveling Strings in Visual C++
Article 3. Strings the OLE Way

Anyway for those wanting not to study here is CNN‘s 20 great jobs that don’t require a degree. Kind of makes me wish I saw things before studying haha. Nah.. I like what I do and enjoy the days I had/have in University. So I’m off to make the best of the days I have left by:
1) Finishing up projects
2) Studying (something that is severly lacking this semester due to projects)
3) Gaming (:P haha yup still play on our IES servers along with my own sessions of Quake 3 and Counter-Strike: Source and Warcraft 3)
4) AMX mod X plugin development (I have to say that this is indeed enjoyable to me along with game server administration)
5) Enjoying as much of my church and cell here as much as I can before I go back :(
6) Finishing up personal projects (like MintyMP3 after exams finish, or as how I like to call it “when time dilates” :P)

Okay people enjoy the week ahead as I continue with my projects :P

** 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!!!

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

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.

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.

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

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……

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