Somehow I’ve got involved with ECE (Electrical and Computer Engineering) orientation. Well a more acccurate picture would be I was dragged in by a junior from my CPE(Computer Engineering) orientation group last year, me being the leader.
So I guess this week I that I planned to use to catch up on work outstanding won’t be so successfully used :( I am still continuing the internship I was doing unofficially just to get the system complete in my view.
I all the ‘haste’ of finishing up the internship system I completely forgot Doom3 was in Singapore yesterday!!! Saw it in the shop just now after dinner with the ECE orientation organisers. Selling for S$68 :S:S Well at least its not as expensive as Max Payne 2 when it first came out and was selling for $80!!!!! The thing I hate about most games now are (1)Overpriced. Totally
(2)They dont run on my system because the requirements are too high. Ok maybe not the problem that it doesnt run on my system because its a laptop but so many games nowadays require so much as a minimum requirement. I think to me games should all run ok on a system with 32MB video RAM, 128RAM and whatever processor :p. Ok mainly the thing I hate most is I see a lot of game requiring at LEAST 64MB of video RAM!!!! I dont ask for good graphics just give me solid game play and good replay value and I’m set.
I hear my watch ring indicating its midnight :|:|
I really have to kill this habit of staying up late. But then thats the only time I can do work when I come back after everything… sigh… Orientation untill Friday. Sunday out with friends because 2 of them decide to go Denmark for SEP :P Monday public holiday due to Singapore’s National Day (at least I think it is) and Tuesday school starts. Thank goodness Wednesday is still my free day haha
Speaking of school I still dont know if I have got my EE3001 module that I hope I did else I will be doing that project as well as EE2001 project which is supposedly very tough BOTH next semester :|:|:|
Eyelids feel heavy… I need to sleep soon.
Here’s to the new semester and hopefully EARLY nights even though I doubt so as I hope to have 6 modules and a 4 day week finishing most classes in the evening :(
New semester starts more stuff to do. More games to play :P:P

done. gone. finished. finito.
Its over. No more. I’m free!!!!! For 1 more week before school starts on the 10th of August. So it’s probably going to be 1 week of trying to squeeze all the stuff I didnt get to do and want to do during the holidays :P.. minus a few stuff :P
Ok maybe just mainly do a few things
1) Learn J2ME
2) Update website
3) Do website for mom :P
I think mainly just those :P
Ok now off to relax…..

done. gone. finished. finito.
Its over. No more. I’m free!!!!! For 1 more week before school starts on the 10th of August. So it’s probably going to be 1 week of trying to squeeze all the stuff I didnt get to do and want to do during the holidays :P.. minus a few stuff :P
Ok maybe just mainly do a few things
1) Learn J2ME
2) Update website
3) Do website for mom :P
I think mainly just those :P
Ok now off to relax…..

** Updated at 6:09:05 on 2004/07/30 **
matriculation fair for IES booth was held yesterday as all engineering students were matriculating yesterday. Initially I was in the 1st 2 shifts from 730-1230 but ended up switching to the last 2 as Candy couldnt make it for the last shift. So duty being from 1230-1730.
Went to clubroom at about 1210, just in time for the briefing that was supposed to be there. But then we just ‘quickly’ rushed to the MPSH where the matriculation fair was being held together with my laptop and goodie bags :S:| So many goodie bags and stuff.
Get to the MPSH and have to wait for people to come out as each booth is assigned only 4 passes, no more no less. So wait wait and wait. Finally got in and set up laptop to replace Gordon’s laptop and start actual work. After a while my voice got a bit hoarse due to too much talking :S:S
Very tired asking people whether they are interested in joining IES as a member as well as promoting the club. The worse part I hate is when the people you approach are just plain rude. I remember there was this 1 guy in particular who answered very curtly “No” after I asked him whether he was interested in joining IES. Just very put off by that freaking guy. Everyone else was courteous at least. Why can’t you do the same? Idiot guy.
Anyway had to push the people to sign up for Freshman Welcome Day that will be held tomorrow at 930-1730 I think or something like that. At least I wont be running around with the freshman as I’m a station master :P hehe But I have to take care of the prizes supposedly :P

Now let me mention about my module bidding. Currently I’m the ONLY person to bid for CS2106 Operating Systems as you can see from the pic below

And also notice the insanely high bid for FNA1002E Financial Accounting which is actually more than my current points of 1435. So there goes Accounting for this round. I’ll probably just wait for a later round. Worse comes to worse I dont get the module I’ll still have 5 modules including the heavy EE2001 project and OS as an S/U (satisfactory/unsatisfactory) option :P
Still thinking of taking 6 but the 6th module I want to be pretty ‘light’ as I dont want to over burden myself at the same time I don’t want to ‘waste’ my S/U option in the coming semester :P

I guess thats all for now… Enjoy today as tomorrow will be another long and tiring day…

** Updated at 16:41:13 on 2004/07/27 **
mainly started off w/ the wrong cable for my phone. The guy at the shop told me it was the cable for my phone. But nooooooooo, life just decides to mock me once again….. Doesnt work and when I tried to return it the guy said he cant give me a cash refund but i can chagne it for any other goods and pay the difference if there is any….. And also that the cable i actually need is $115 not the $38 i paid for the other cable. No way am I spending so much on a freaking cable. Phones and phone accesorries are freaking overpriced these days. Went to the shop yesterday the guy was not their and his ever so ‘helpful’ colleague was so ‘kind’ to say something along the lines of “you didn’t deal with me so its not my business”. There was no “Sorry sir, but you will have to take the matter up with my colleague as I did not handle this transaction”. Heck there wasn’t even a “sorry” anywhere.
Still stuck with a $38 refund with nothing to spend it on except goods in the shop like another mobile phone / some mobile phone accessories / digital cameras / other little things that I dont NEED let alone want. All I wanted was a freaking cable that works with my phone for $38 and what do I get? In 1 word “screwed” / “conned” / “swindled”. But “screwed” says it the best way I think.
When life comes to things like this, life just bascially sucks. Life’s not good to me.
Not only that came back from a day out to find my laptop infected with 3 viruses/backdoor trojans or what not. Managed to get rid of 1 but the other 2 are there and not getting removed. 1 of them might be an ‘error’ due to the anti-virus giving a false alarm the other 1 I just deleted as it was a MyDoom variant or something but I dont know why it couldnt be removed so I just deleted the file and hope for the best.
And I come to realise that anti-virus software sites and pretty badly designed because I cant find an easy link to search the virus database. It just plan sucks.
Life sucks. For today only I hope.
On a brighter note Marks & Spencers selling 2 chocolate chip cookies packet for the price of 1 due to expiry date coming round the corner.
But still. Life sucks.

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Forgot to mention, my aircon decides to kick a fuss as well. Need to find the management tomorrow morning. When things go wrong, be wary as more things will go wrong. Murphy how I hate your law….

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…

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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