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2007-10-04T02:29:00.000+08:00

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New Semester

2007-09-20T23:20:00.000+08:00

So far the new semester still okay. Monday is okay, Tuesday module is very tough as in last year 29% of the students get D and below and only 3 students get A for that module in the poly history so far and it involves mathematics which I hate most. So I hope I dun fail that module. Like the Thursday lesson most so far for now at least because only got 9 people in the whole class list. That means that we can go home faster as the most is only 2 teams presenting =). Friday still okay bah but still dun really like it. Good thing about Friday is many friends are in that class.

Updates

2007-09-04T02:58:00.000+08:00

Not much. It is now in the holidays which is a good thing but I just cannot find a way to make myself sleep before 3 am. It seem to be a habit now even though I am suppose to be very free since it is now school holidays.

Took some time to remove some past contents (put in draft mode) due to some reasons.

Got to kick the habit.

LaTeX Tutorials postponed. Sadly.

2007-08-24T00:48:00.000+08:00

Well it turns out holiday only 3 weeks then school start again. So little time so no choice. LaTeX tutorials postponed.

LaTeX for the Lazy 1: Introduction

2007-08-13T00:32:00.000+08:00

Now that my school project has ended. Time for some LaTeX tutorials! The tutorials are made to be as simple as possible I hope so that the learning curve will not be too steep. My proficiency in the English language is terrible so I hope you don’t mind most of my language mistakes. If you are willing to help out in any way (spotting mistakes.etc). Feel free to leave a comment (but I doubt anyone looking at this) =).

So What is LaTeX about and what is so great about it? Since I am not so great at writing introduction I shall link to some great introduction links to LaTeX and also to why you should prefer LaTeX to your typical Microsoft Word processor especially for complex documents such as reports.

Coming next – Installation of LaTeX on Windows. Hope my first attempt at writing a tutorial will be a nice experience.

Final Year Project 1 Over

2007-08-09T23:58:00.000+08:00

Finally it is over. It is really an experience. Lots of things happened. Felt a great sense of achievement and also sadness which I prefer to not say. Count yourself lucky to be spared. Other teams may not be so nice. You know who you are. Hope you learn something from it too and change for the better in your future projects.

Presentation wise, I am quite disappointed because I did not present well. Kind of like feel very nervous and end up my presentation very cock up, say very little and not sure what I am saying too. The evaluators talk very soft, cannot really hear their questions too. Still as long as we can get a pass grade, I am more than happy.

A lesson learnt. Will remember it well.

Difficult Decisions

2007-07-23T23:20:00.000+08:00

Our first final year project is coming to an end. Final year project 2 selection started and dateline is 28 of July. Not sure which project to choose and also to still be in same team anot. 1 of my team mates just called on asking should disband anot. Need to make decision by tomorrow. A very difficult decision. On this site it is very hard to post my more true thoughts although I do have a private one to myself. Maybe I should start a new one with WordPress that allows password protected individual post. Ha ha

Sister’s Birthday

2007-07-18T20:07:00.000+08:00

Today is my sister’s birthday so birthday to her lor.

Project Evaluators Known

2007-07-17T16:41:00.000+08:00

Today, our supervisor told us who our evaluators are. Feel quite nervous. Hopefully it turns out well. :)

Lame Pianist in School

2007-07-13T23:57:00.000+08:00

Today after school went to the library with some friends to do some stuff. Everything is okay until some student come and plays the piano. He doesn’t seem good with the piano but its okay given that nobody is good at anything but as long as he is willing to learn we should encourage it. We guess he probably comes to practice and improve his piano skills with the piano at the library. But it soon becomes obvious that he isn’t even trying to learn how to play the piano at all. Keep playing louder & louder random notes for like at least 1 hour non-stop. It is clear that his aim is to irritate people instead. It is worse when we are like doing our work next to him. We feel like moving away but we also lazy to move away. So we tolerate like shit and he seem happy.

Why do such people exist? Torture people must also torture for so long.

A Special Day

2007-07-11T23:50:00.000+08:00

A special day… July 11. A day that I dislike. Met our supervisor today. It is still okay. We talked about some project stuffs on the reports, on testing and so on. This semester and project is coming to an end soon. Lots of thoughts in my mind which I rather keep to myself for now.

I’m Still Procrastinating!

2007-07-07T22:37:00.000+08:00

The school project is due within less than 1 month but I am still procrastinating! Often I try to tell myself to work on it but whenever I try to I just feel my head hurts and feel a lot of stress and end up play game for for a long time instead until next day early morning. So progress very slow. I try to kick it but still cannot argh! On days when I finally managed to concentrate I feel tired also. Sigh.

Must really buck up or I will really fail.

Professional Profiling Proposal Accepted

2007-07-06T11:57:00.000+08:00

Finally accepted. But not sure how to start it. After project then think about how to do it bah.

Gorillas in School

2007-06-30T23:38:00.000+08:00

The school lesson on Friday which is yesterday is pretty unique because a game is included in the lesson. It’s basically a remake of a classic game known as Gorillas. It is a very long time since I last play this game. So it is very fun. I spend most of the day lesson with the classmates playing the game instead of doing the day problem ha ha. Anyway the remake that we played is called Gorilla 2: The Return. I still prefer the original that I played years ago but this is fun too. Here a screen shot of the remake we played. Really bring back lots of memories.

So Bored and Stressed!

2007-06-27T22:12:00.000+08:00

Must really tolerate this week. Don’t feel like doing anything. Shall experiment with something random & stupid below:

Bye. Just tested out how to upload an image to Blogger.

Safari on Windows

2007-06-13T20:16:00.000+08:00

Tried it. Look good to me even though I had some problems getting user style sheet to work. Many Windows users seem to be complaining about the font smoothing setting in Safari. That expected given that it is something many Windows users are not used to. Oh well…

Wallet Found but Sigh…

2007-06-04T14:06:00.000+08:00

Went to school today to collect my lost wallet that has been found. No $s or any cards inside sigh. Got something back is better than nothing la. Haha…

Back from Camp!

2007-05-30T00:20:00.000+08:00

Just lost my wallet in school today. Sian my $s, cards and everything. Y I always so dumb and forgetful!!!

Anyway the camp is over so I shall post something about it. For those curious, it’s just a camp lar. Activities wise the camp is quite boring honestly due to the tight schedule which led to lack of sleep and also got many talks and very little play games session lar. But it is not totally bad because you get to interact with many people from many different schools and a chance to find some long lost friends.

Quite unlucky didn’t manage to find any long lost friends (Which is 1 of my 2 main motives for even joining this in the first place, the other is to skip 1 week school and regain my energy but too bad the camp is not relaxing). As usual I’m back to my usual anti-social quiet self. I dun noe how my camp mates view me but they are a good bunch of people overall. I guess I just dun noe how to communicate well haha but nvm.

I am not sure if I should post about my experiences in the camp here, Maybe I will. By editing this post in a future date. Nobody is interested so I can take my time :).

Little Mischief

2007-05-19T14:11:00.000+08:00

I am going to a camp soon. They give us the consent form where you will have to give your parents to sign so that if anything bad happen to you, they will not be held responsible. Our teacher sends us the form in soft copy. I am quite bored that day so I edited some parts of it like for example: “The school shall not be responsible…” to “The school shall be responsible…” for fun and print it and ask my parents sign. Then I go school just hand it up and they just accept it.

Oh well, people don’t check such things. I hope none of the teachers see this. I’m just doing it out of sheer boredom and fun. I dislike camps because I am always very stupid in it and I rarely ever go to camps too. But what worst is my very poor eyesight. I did not wear spec since primary 5 until now (lazy to get one) and I play game a lot ah so you can guess my degrees how much. Probably can only see the exam paper infront of me. Hopefully the camp will not be so horrible.

Argh

2007-05-10T23:22:00.000+08:00

Aiya. Today test I forgot to do 1 lots of marks question. Sure fail liao. My grades this semester have been very bad due to several reasons best kept to myself. I hope it don’t end up failing. Pass can le.

My left eye very painful. Sick also but still must go school. Stupid school (I hope I don’t get into troubles with this) grrr, just because they want to cut down on the school’s big truancy problems, they decided to no longer even accept Medical Certificates! As long as you are absent from school, your subject grades will be penalised no matter what reasons you had. Most stupid new school rule ever since last year. There are always better ways to do things. The one who proposed this new rule got to get his/her head checked. I know people will say that rule is introduced long ago since last year but I still can’t stand it.

Tutorials Coming

2007-04-29T22:50:00.000+08:00

Nothing much. I’m just wondering if I should post some LaTeX tutorials on this site other than personal life. They will probably come in weeks or months or years later. Depending on how busy I am. I decided to start this after getting fed up on several things best kept to myself. Bye!

Sick

2007-04-23T22:41:00.001+08:00

Sick with fever, flu & cough. Not going to school tomorrow too. What a bad start after the 1st week. I guess it’s fate that I will do badly this semester. Okay lor, so be it. Give up already. :]

Sad Start

2007-04-21T22:36:00.000+08:00

School starts again & I think I’m quite unlucky. Here an overview of the 1st week:

Very nice, same class with many ex classmates on day 1 & presented well too.
Didn’t install the files required for the day 2 problem because I thought of formatting my notebook. That led to me being quite clueless for the whole day. Since I didn’t work on the problem, I decide to put some extra work in preparing the presentation slides instead but I can’t complete it since my team didn’t finish the problem in time. Finally, submitted RJ through LEO but RJ is not saved despite the system telling me that it did.
Doing the compulsory self evaluation for day 3 at night keep giving me error. Also happened is something sad which I prefer not to say here.
After 2 days of severe downgrading = No morale for day 4.

There is 1 thing I’m sure me & many others do noticed is that it seems that almost everyone in year 3 is so sort of hyper active now. I also noticed a big sharp increase in knowledge of fellow students as compared to year 2 in the sense that almost everyone is kind of like a genius now somehow where they already knows the solutions to the lesson problem right after the first meeting. I think I’m gonna get lots of Cs this semester. I guess all these happened is due to the FYP and also due to the fact that year 3 is the time where students get to choose their specialised area of study. The area where they had the most interest in & also probably their strongest area or maybe it’s because of some other reasons.

For me & a few others that isn’t the case. I chose the wireless specialisation simply because I don’t know what specialisation suits me best. I just toss a dice & choose it as the dateline for choosing is running out. Wireless is no doubt my weakest area. I know totally nothing about it. I didn’t even own a mobile phone until the middle of last year (forced by my parents) & even then I switch it off almost all the time as I dislike mobile phones. I’m still wondering if I should have chosen what I feel as my best area instead.

Seeing that I’m now lacking so behind all my classmates. I know I’m dead for sure this semester. I can’t even remember what I learnt last time. Just hope I could scrape through this semester again.

Talked to Supervisor

2007-04-19T00:36:00.000+08:00

Finally we met our supervisor for the project physically! He isn’t as bad as we first thought. We didn’t talk much in our first meeting except joking here & there & some other simple casual chat (like him showing us his son photo with him) because we are not sure about what to ask too. Pretty soon our meeting with him ended. It’s a nice experience but we must not joke around too much or we fail our project :(.

Format Attempt Failed

2007-04-17T20:29:00.000+08:00

Today, I got no mood in school because I’m going to format my notebook as I plan to use another notebook from next week. So in class I’m more quiet than usual (I’m usually quiet in class) today somehow. I think this will continue.

After school, I go to the help desk & as I approach it. I somehow changed my mind. It’s kind of like don’t know how to say. I just suddenly realise I can’t bare to format the notebook. There are possibly lots of precious files that could be just gone even though I did do a very through backup. Plus by formatting I seem to be washing my notebook of it’s memory. It seem unethical.

In the end I didn’t format. Relieved or not? I don’t know.

Summary of What Happened Recently

2007-04-12T21:44:00.000+08:00

Been busy & tired lately, here what happened in a summary. Sigh.

Still can’t sleep.
Went to several places to do some things that I’m still clueless about.
Project allocations are released but we still don’t get to meet our supervisor in person so far. Have to wait until after school start which is next week then can meet him.
Our project meetings so far only covered a little. 1 of the main problems we have is we doesn’t have someone with leadership quality to be honest, but I guess this would be fixed sooner or later with either 1 or 2 of my team mates volunteering to be one.
Supervisor strongly recommended us during an on-line chat to go learn a particular language that he claims to be more familiar with. Most likely we will do it since he will be the one marking our final product after all. I just hope it will not take too long to learn & we won’t fail our project due to that. Sigh.

No mood. Don’t want to type liao.

New Book

2007-04-01T23:46:00.000+08:00

Yes! Finally buy the book le after so long searching at different book stores. But I can only read a bit. Got no time.

Hopeless Future

2007-03-29T00:50:00.000+08:00

Die le ah, final year project allocation released. I dun noe can even pass a not sia lol. I tried but cannot recall any single thing that I used to know. My memory is getting worse & worse somehow. A state even worse than last sem.

Whatever, just see la. Maybe can pass also =).

Mum’s Birthday

2007-03-24T21:05:00.000+08:00

See topic above =).

Missing School Uniform Days?

2007-03-23T23:13:00.000+08:00

Yesterday night, while asking somebody about the homework we are supposed to do in order to get the 1 activity point, we also happen to talk about missing the precious school uniform days.

Hmm, after the O’levels, many students choose their next path mainly with considerations like say – their future ambitions in mind. But how many students actually choose their next school base on 1 thing: the precious chance to wear a school uniform for possibly the last time for about 2–3 years? It’s something worth pondering about.

Yes, I do miss the school uniform days after entering a polytechnic & this remind me of a great song called 二十二岁的心情 by Singaporean singer Hong Shao Xuan (I hope I don’t get his name wrongly.) & it’s really a nice song since I mentioned it. I tried to find the disc that contain the song but couldn’t find it. A search on Google & YouTube returned either 0 results or complete irrelevant stuffs.

I finally managed to find the disc today! I’m going to listen to the song & type out the lyrics below since I can’t find the it on the web. I hope I don’t type the lyrics out wrongly :).

我又回到这熟悉的地方
走在我十五六岁走过的路上
忘不了大家一起走过的草场
手牵着手的那种天真模样

我又回到这熟悉的地方
用二十二岁的心情把过去想想
少年往事毕竟不能说忘就忘
还有什么比年轻更辉煌

校园的钟声叮当叮当的响
把我带回从前的挥霍无知的地方
校园的钟声叮当叮当的响
有很多年轻的笑声正在荡漾
他们天南地北无所不谈
不知道他们明天还记不记得对方

我又回到这熟悉的地方
多年的友谊都在记忆收藏
有空的时候我也会拿出来看看
想一想当年真挚真诚的伙伴

Next Semester Classroom List Released

2007-03-20T17:37:00.000+08:00

A different classroom for me everyday. I feel like quitting school. Sigh.

Troubles with Security Guards Before Meeting

2007-03-17T20:00:00.000+08:00

Today, I went to school to meet a group of people that I’m supposed to meet at noon to discuss something. As I arrived at the school far too early, I decided to go to the library to waste time until they arrive.

Not knowing what to do in the library, I walk around from one end of the library to another repeatedly until a security guard stopped me at a corner & said my behaviour is highly suspicious & starts questioning me -_-. He asked several questions including which other school I’m actually from which I replied with our school name obviously. Finally, he asked for my student card to prove it. I took it out & he checked it several times with & without spectacles -_-. Yes, he is doing his job well but I do feel a bit weird at the whole experience of being questioned by him with passers-by staring at me -_-.

After being convinced that I am indeed a student of the school, I witnessed a total transformation. He turned so friendly all of a sudden & keeps laughing & said I still looked suspicious & left :O. I left the library straight after that & wait outside until the people I’m supposed to meet arrive. I’m not moving about any more just in case I got into trouble with another security guard again.

Finally, they all arrived & we start our meeting. Honestly, I’m still totally clueless about what we are supposed to do at all but I guess that doesn’t matter :).

Perfect Boredom Solutions & Some Sad Recalls

2007-03-09T20:33:00.000+08:00

Yes! I think I had found the cure to boredom. By randomly picking some books & correcting their mistakes with a mechanical pencil by referring to their respective errata list provided by their publisher’s website, I am able to keep myself occupied for a long amount of time today.

Anyway, I’m going to do something different tomorrow. I’m going to start studying for a subject that I failed in my O’levels back then prior to entering this school. I have always been a lazy student, especially more so in my previous school. I never/rarely studied, do any home works, nor pay much attention in class since I am unable to look at the white board clearly (due to me not wearing spectacles). Still I managed to scrape through each year somehow. My luck seems to finally run out when the O’levels result are released, getting mainly Bs & failing a very important subject by 1 grade.

I went around different polytechnics to appeal & it’s not a fun process. Talking to teachers at different polytechnics to ask for advices, writing appeal letters and so on. There is 1 particular teacher I met at 1 of the schools I believe I will never forget. She told me, in a cocky manner, that it’s totally impossible for any polytechnic to accept me & advise me not to waste any time trying to appeal at other polytechnics for any courses and just go to ITE and get a NITEC & come back 2 years later. By saying that it also means to me that she is discriminating against a big group of people & that could potentially get her into more troubles. Anyway I could only blame myself for not studying hard & I’m really lucky again when 1 of the polytechnics accepted my appeal. While it isn’t a course I liked, I’m sure it will lead me somewhere. After all the fine line between different subject areas are getting blurrier nowadays =).

To put some of these sad memories behind me, I must retake this subject as a private candidate this year & hopefully pass it. Good-bye.

Annoucement & Stupid Noise

2007-03-08T16:55:00.001+08:00

Today, I shall continue with yet another boring post. First of all, being so bored again, I decided to spend some little time to prepare a piece of lame document & send it to my project mates & so for my project mates, be sure to check your mail box & sharing folder if you see this =).

After finishing it, I decided to go & try to sleep again but unfortunately my neighbour who live 1 storey above me starts to drill holes with his/her electric drill again like some weekly routine. If I’m reading story books I would be happy since construction type sounds does make me feel more energetic & more focused when reading but that not what I wanted to do at that moment. Furthermore the sound produced is far too unbearable for my ears even though I love construction type sounds. It’s too loud :(.

I need to find some interesting activities for myself. Currently planning them now.

Hmm 8^th March, look like it’s another friend birthday… Have a nice birthday then =).

Boring As Usual

2007-03-04T22:33:00.000+08:00

As usual, I am bored these days. To waste some time, I have decided to read comics & some other stuffs and it has been an interesting read.

After getting bored of reading, I have decided to play some computer games. Having only about 1 to 2 games in my computer, which are mainly sports games, obviously I got bored too.

I am so bored that I am writing such a boring entry too. Bye.

School Results Released & So Many Work

2007-03-01T19:56:00.000+08:00

The title says it all, managed to pass again phew! Ha.

The school project is going to start soon. I aiming for just a simple pass, after all it is our first long school project & the priority for me is to get a feel of how working with a team in a long project is like.

Oh yes, there is another school project too that students must do individually, that the professional profiling. I am still unsure between choosing to profile an industry or company. I have certainly regretted not being able to convince my dad in time to allow me to profile him when we are still allowed to profile an individual or profession.

Finally is the activity points required for all students of to complete. Out of 40 points, I have only managed 26 points. There is still so much points to go. Sigh.

My Sister Never Ending School Problems

2007-02-27T23:00:00.000+08:00

Today my sister is rather unhappy, something bad happened to her at university again.

It appears that during her team presentation on their project proposal for a compulsory computing related module that all students regardless of course need to take. Some particular team that is very skilled in computing stuffs, for some reasons best known to themselves, decide to cause my sister’s team troubles as they keep asking questions, giving comments about how bad they feel the proposal is & such. In the end, it turns into some huge spirited discussions with my sister worrying a lot as her whole team only had very basic computing knowledge like surfing The Internet for example. Luckily, as the spirited discussions heats up, the attacking team kind of overstepped their expertise area & went into some advanced mathematical stuffs & my sister’s team, having 2 extremely talented project mates in mathematics, took the opportunity to counter back & end up causing huge shame to them. The professor stopped the presentation around that time.

I think my sister has been rather unlucky in her past 1-2 years of university, just last year alone, she had two incidents that severely affected her grades. One of them caused by some weird project mate, who virtually never participate in the project at all & during the final presentation, finally appeared & shouted vulgarities & so on to anybody who attempted to ask questions. Thus ruining the whole team efforts, especially when grades were given on a team basis. It does puzzle me on why there were such students who do not even mind his own grades being affected at all as long as he could sabotage somebody. For the second incident, some project mates plagiarised & the whole team is penalised heavily. My sister & some of her project mates who did not plagiarise did perform some checks on their own but did not manage to find anything suspicious. They tried to explain it to the committee but it seems to be ignored unfortunately. Who simply just replied with they should have checked their fellow project mates works for plagiarism, which they did :(. There were just too many resources available in the world. Sigh…

Judging from what my sister’s experienced, it seems to me that a university is not such a nice place to be in but I guess that not my worry since I do not think I could even make it to university at all. =)

Another Birthday

2007-02-26T19:59:00.000+08:00

Hmm 26^th February, look like it is somebody birthday… Have a nice birthday then =).

Welcome

2007-02-24T23:10:00.000+08:00

Welcome, just shifted to this site from another provider. It would take me a while to find out more about the features Blogger offers & get familiar with it. Hopefully I would be able to do what I wished with the features they offered. So much for talking to myself. Good Bye. :)