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….

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…

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

** Updated at 14:54:51 on 2006/01/09 **
And as always I never finished my holiday list :P
Note to self, try to fix my amx mod. Went out to to buy a new phone today due to the fact that the phone that I’m using for my FYP died on Friday. Just couldn’t switch on. I would see the white backlight then it automatically switches off. And since its an overseas phone (from Europe I believe) its not covered under the warranty here. I sent it to Nokia care centre in Suntec and got a quotation of $488 to repair the phone. Now who would want to do that if it cost $210 to buy a new phone? Anyway last semester 3 modules + FYP on top of that leading to a official 3 day week but if you include FYP it could be like a 7 day week? :P

Anyway have fun for the coming semester people. Have fun and all the best and I continue to stuggling with trusting God and socialisation (which I believe I have had little exposure to in my school life after primary and pre-University). Attended the 1st session of my church’s (COOS!!!) Baptism Membership Class.
Memory verse
John 1:12
Yet to all those you receive him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God.
Memory Psalm
Psalm 23
The Lord is my shepard I shall not be in want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
He leads me besides quiet waters,
He restores my soul.
He guides me in paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I shall fear no evil, for You are with me,
Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies,
You anoint my head with oil, my cup overflows,
Surely goodnes and love will follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever

With that good night folks and God bless

Finally some progress on Philips side. The hardware, which is an NFC shell, for 1 part of my FYP (final year project) has finally arrived and will be picking it up on Tuesday =D After getting the phone (cant seem to remember when I got the phone due to the hectic schedule I’ve had since I got back) that supports this shell I’ve been trying to work out the kinks in the programming and stuff. The SDK that Philips provided to us (which is actually from Nokia) is kind of screwed up. Had to install them in the proper order and kept getting funny errors. It could partially be my fault as I am lazy to read the installtion and manuals. Out of the little that I did read I was able to configure it properly and finally got the 1st part of the 2 part installation to work. I could develop handphone programs using Eclipse.

I’ve never used Eclipse before so getting used to the IDE and trying to find out how it works is always a pain to me. The tutorial provided seems to pathetic to me, unless there was a more indepth one which I missed. What I hated most was the fact that I could NOT Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+Shift+Tab to alternate between tabs in the program. That completely sucked. I remapped the keys but that didnt seem to work either. However I couldnt get the NFC part to work with Eclipse. From problems with ANT where I accidentallby put a trailing ” at the end of the ANT_HOME variable caused ANT to not work properly to Eclipse seemingly compiling the application downloading it to the emulator phone and the phone not being able to find a class required by the program thus giving an error on startup to not being able to create a JAR file due to the fact that it could not load a class in the SDK JAR file. Like what the heck. Something to note, why do IDEs have to make things so complicated??? Just trying to run or compile the project was a pain as I had to go an extra step to just create a special configuration for it. There doesnt even seem to be a compile option just run which compiles and automatically runs the program.

After the whole day trying to get Eclipse to work nicely with the NFC SDK, I decided to give up and try Netbeans. And guess what it works! Kind of. When I run the program in Netbeans it runs on the emulator however it uses a different emulator compared to Eclipse. It uses the Java Wireless Toolkit emulator instead of the S40 Emulator that I downloaded from the Nokia Forum. So when I added the S40 SDK that would run the program in the S40 emulator the program decides to not work on the emulator. However using Netbeans I could create the JAR file which I can use the S40 standalone emulator (where I manually start it up, not via Eclipse or Netbeans) to manually download that JAR file created to run the application. So I guess this is my workaround. It’s times like these that makes me wonder if I should just spend time (who knows how much of it though) to actually find out what the problem is and try to understand how both Eclipse and Netbeans work (as learning IDEs would be good), not to mention the several Nokia applications that got bundled up with the SDKs (S40 and NFC SDKs) or just live with the workaround and just continue and finish up my FYP ASAP.

Anyway been having male PMS for the past few days I swear. IYWSDRYHTDIY: if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. Club stuff. Sucks. Whatever. Anyway got my final modules that I will be doing in NUS, EE4217 Technology of Digital Entertainment, CS3221 Advanced Operating Systems, FNA1002 Financial Accounting and last but not at all the least, EE4001 B.Eng Dissertation, ie Final Year Project. I should go to sleep now. Going to the nightwatch service 2230-0030 later on today. In the afternoon cell will be converging to Joline‘s place just to hang out and basically rot, something I rather do a lot of right now but not much time to do so. Feel there’s a lot to do for my FYP as the phone application that I’m doing in J2ME is just 1 application, there still is another PocketPC application to be done, not to mention a desktop application + thesis writing + whatever else FYP throws at me. Anyway people time to sleep. Good night, belated Merry Christmas and advanced Happy New Year!

Friday
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2335: Arrive in Singapore

Saturday
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1400: Cell
1800: Service
2000 onwards: Dinner and fellowship

Sunday
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1230: Meet up with brother and Ya Chee’s cousin Kah Boon. Then to Sim Lim to buy a few things then Funan to look around
1830: Meet up with Lim Hao

Monday
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I can’t seem to remember what I did on Monday I guess I was working on the timetable system for the Ruicheng Phonics Academy that I went to to teach English, ie the reason I went to China.

Tuesday
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1130: Meet up with Lim Hao. Out the whole day to shop and catch up
2200: Supper with Mark, Sze-Lyn, Andrielle

Wednesday
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1330: Makan-Strike day 1: Board games, captain’s ball, basket ball until 1800

Thursday
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1330: Makan-Strike day2: LAN gaming followed by dinner at Old Airport Road then supper at California Bistro @ Esplanade
2350: Catch bus and fall asleep and get nudged by girl as I mentioned in the previous post

Friday
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1330: Wake up :P
1400: Out to buy some Christmas presents
1700: Start travelling to Kovan to Nat’s place for cell Christmas dinner

Its been a busy week. Comtemplating on what to do today and on Sunday which is Christmas. All I know is that I’ll be going for my church’s musical entitled The Other Wise Men on Sunday at 1100.

I need to start working in my FYP again after a 5 week hiatus. School starts on the 8th. Need to find some sponsors for the annual IES Bazaar at the end of January. Plus I have other things of my own to do like my AMX mods to fix up.

Merry Christmas Eve people. Enjoy the last few days of the year =)

To girl who woke me up.

Ever since I came back from China on Friday near midnight I’ve been busy with things. So busy and tired that on the bus ride back last night I slept in the bus. On the last stop this girl nudged me and me being in my blurred state of just getting up was thinking why the heck she nudged me. Then it came to my realization that it was the final stop of the bus and it was time to get off. By the time I got off the bus I couldnt see her to thank her or anything. Luckily I took bus 10 that stops at Kent Ridge Terminal thats within the NUS campus thus it wasn’t much more of a walk than I was supposed to have. But felt kind of guilty not thanking that girl so this post is for that girl. Thanks =)

The events leading to my late night bus sleep night are as follows :P

22nd December 2005 log
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2350-ish: take bus 10 back to NUS campus

23rd December 2005 log
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0000-ish: End up sleeping on bus
0015: Nudged by girl
Woke up in a blurred stated
Realised that its the last stop and that I have to leave the bus
0016: Get out of bus, look around
Girl no where in site
Start walking back

0835 Destination China.
Going there to teach English. Its some kind of a mission trip, being church organised. Attened the Jackie Pullinger conference organised by my church COOS!!! Can say its been a great conference :D Ya Chee and I both got our tongues!! :D Praise God :D It’s been a tremendously tiring week with the preparations for the trip and still has yet to be completed. Need to stay up to finish getting my materials I need online as I doubt I will be able to get online while I’m there. Dancing to practise. Singing to practise even more. And language lessons? ChinesePod.com. Trying to listen to as much as I can. Just found it yesterday out of sheer desparation? :p
Anyway I better finish up packing and start getting my materials. To all trippers, to China, East Timor, India, Myanmar and wherever may God bless us all :)

How great is our God,
Sing with me,
How great is our God,
For all will see,
How great, how great is our God

Name above all names,
He is worthy of all praise,
My heart will sing,
How great is our God

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Give us clean hands,
Give us pure hearts,
Let us not lift our souls to another,

Oh God let us be,
A generation that seeks,
Seeks your face,
Oh God of Jacob

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Excerpts of two of the songs that really touched me today and that I will no doubt take with me :)

Good night people and God bless

Today, tomorrow and Wednesday will be having mission trip meetings for China. Yes you heard that right, banana (Chinese who doesn’t speak Chinese, well for my case its more like CANT speak :P) me going to China…. to teach English :P A bit of saving grace I guess.
Anyway we did some dance stuff yesterday and dare I say I like dancing? :P Considering my brother dances does it run in the genes? :P However I shall not upload the video of us dancing :P And to practise I cropped myself out of the video so I dont have to look at myself when I review the steps :P
We will have to sing some Chinese songs as well and thus there is the Pinyin for me to read but its still a pain. Ahhhhh… Need God to guide my tongue as I sing.
We did some choral speaking (length article. shorter article here, or you can try my explaination which is reciting a poem with expressions using just the face). I got 2 lines to do while most of them have only 1 line. Ack :P But its not that bad. My lines are “I’ll shiver like I’m cold, and hold my breath until I’m blue”.
Sad note. I have 1 semi-dead pixel :'(:'(:'(
Going to change after I come back from China I guess. Sigh… Another sad note: iPAQ 6535 (I keep forgetting the model #) PDA/Phone that I got for my FYP seems to be hanging more often. Guess Windows Mobile Phone Edition isnt that great or possibly just not enough horse power it (guess thats why its the cheapest, or at least 1 of the cheapest, PDA/Phone).
Anyway off to do my quiet time with God and sleep and rest before jogging in the morning for China again. They are going to make us to a 10km relay race aaahhhh
Always something to look forward to though… SNOW!!!! :P:P
Night people and enjoy the holidays ahead ;-)

CS2106 Operating Systems: pretty good content, bad way of delivery. Quite a bit of material so lots of reading. The most interesting module this semester perhaps. Went to the canteen to work just now and it seemed kind of sad because when I went down there wasn’t many people studying there. Strange seeing how it hasn’t even been a week since exams officially started. Don’t know what to type. Just feel like typing :P Perhaps I should get back to work :P

Just a quick link for fun: Illusions and Paradoxes:Seeing is Believing?. Dont trust your eyes :P