Busy With School
I am so god damn busy with my school. My assignments and tutorials keep coming, I hardly has time to breathe. As Chinese New Year is just next week, I got like 1 assignment (1x CS3216) and 4 tutorials (2x CS2301, 1x MA1312 and 1x CS2106) due on Tuesday. Damn stress. This is definitely my most busiest semester in NUS and it is only the 3rd week of school!

Microsoft LifeCam VX-3000
Got myself a webcam, a Microsoft LifeCam VX-3000 for SGD$89. I was quite skeptical about the whole webcam thing when it first got popular. I was like, why the heck do I need a webcam for, it is like invading my own privacy. But ever since Li Xiang got a 3G phone, I would video call her at least 3 times during the weekdays as we don’t get to see each other for the whole 4 to 5 days. Then the day has come that Li Xiang desktop computer was rather unstable and hence she switched to her laptop which as a built-in camera. So instead, she video called me over WLM, and I am able to see her on the video, but she can only see what I type. So I decided it is time to invest in a webcam and save on my mobile phone bills.

PS: MSN has been known as Windows Live Messenger (WLM) for quite sometime. So try not to use MSN abbreviation anymore, instead use WLM.

The Mist
Caught The Mist today, and I think this is so far the best movie I watched for the year. The plot, acting and suspense are all good. The visual effects was just average but still acceptable. But the best part of the movie was the twist at the end, IT WAS FANTASTIC. I was going WTF and I really didn’t expect that to be the ending.

Cloverfield
Personally, I find the show is not that bad. I know many people after watching it is feeling unwell or even vomited due to the filming techniques used is the Blair Witch Project. Worst still, I witness some of them after 15 minutes into the show, they just walked out of the cinema. I think that the sickness is called motion sickness. Even Li Xiang after watching it, was feeling giddy for the whole night. I think guys like us who play FPS games have no problem adapting to it.

Michael Clayton
This is the first time I went into the wrong cinema. I went into the cinema showing The Darjeeling Limited by Owen Wilson. Apparently both of the movie timeslot just differ by 10 minutes and also the seats are also not taken in the cinema that I went wrongly and hence we did not know we went into the wrong cinema till the movie actually starts and I see Owen Wilson name instead of George Clooney. But anyway, I think this show kinda suck. I don’t understand what is going on.

The latest MRT & LRT Track line system map. This includes the latest annouced MRT route, Thomson MRT Line and Eastern Region MRT Line, by Transport Minister Raymond Lim on 26 Janurary 2008.

Singapore Future MRT/LRT Map (Updated On January 2008)

Source: Wikipedia

I found this poem entitled “My Spelling Checker” very interesting during my CS2301 lecture today, just thought I share it with you all.

Wrong Version (But Pass The Spell Check)
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequertolled me sew.
~ Sores unknown ~

Correct Version
I have a spelling checker
It came with my PC
It plainly marks for my review
Mistakes I cannot see
I have run this poem through it
I am sure you are pleased to know
Its letter perfect all the way
My checker told me so
~ Source unknown ~

School Started
This week is the first week of my new semester. I am currently in year 2, semester 2. If everything goes well, I will be graduating in year 4, semester 1, which is around end of 2009.

Here are the modules I taking for this semester:

CS2106 – Operating Systems (4 MCs) [1 PT]
CS2301 – Business And Technical Communication (4 MCs) [1 PT]
CS3216 – Software Development on Evolving Platforms (4 MCs) [N/A]
CS3254 – Introduction To Computer Networks (4 MCs) [778 PTS]
MA1312 – Calculus with Applications (4 MCs) [1 PT]

Module Code – Module Name (Module Credits) [Points Bidded]

Mom’s Cousin’s Daughter Wedding
My last week before school starts was pretty busy for me as my mom’s cousin (from China) came down to Singapore because his daughter is getting married to a Singaporean. They are not those usual PRCs/FTs who come to Singapore and snatch our job because they are like 921380123 times richer than my family and secondly they speak hokkien as their main language instead of mandarin. You might be wondering how rich are they? They brought in SGD$50,000 in cash and got stop by air port custom, own several casinos in Asia and own a resort and a helicopter in Philippines. The daughter wedding dinner was held at Fullerton Hotel, if I am not wrong it is about SGD$2,000 per table (total of 30 tables). But the food at Fullerton Hotel was just average and all the food served are cold.

My Family, Photo Taken Before The Dinner
(From Left To Right: Me, Li Xiang, Dad, Mom, Hui Mi and Leroy)

Nokia N82
My mom and brother finally changed their handphones. My mom changed from Nokia 7610 to a Nokia N82 from Singtel for SGD$588 and my brother changed from Sony Ericsson W800i also to Nokia N82 from M1 for SGD$598. As for me, I am still waiting for my Nokia N82, hopefully I can get it before Chinese New Year (*hint* Dinesh *hint*).

Family Of Nokia Phones
(From Left To Right: My N93i, Mom’s N82, Bro’s N82 and Dad’s N73ME)

Finally after they some miscommunication, I finally collected my spectacles from Optics Today located at Queensway Shopping Center. I have been patronizing Optics Today since I was in Secondary School. As the shop is owned by my uncle’s secondary school classmate and he can gives us very good price, and I mean really very good after comparing with several optical shops. My Swissflex Spectacles cost $350 (including frame, lenses and taxes) whereas I checked out 1 optical shop in VivoCity and the exact same brand and frame as mine cost $360 alone. My current Oakley Wiretap is also from him, cost me $250 (including frame, lenses and taxes) but just that it is a import set and comes with no warranty.

My New Spectacles By Swissflex Eyewear

My new TV was delivered to me on Tuesday together with my new washing machine. I put it on my TV rack and realize it was quite big and my dad suggested to me to mount the TV to the wall. After having that thought, I can’t figure it out where is the 4 screw holes that my TV suppose (my living room Samsung LCD TV has them) to have. After posting my question in Hardware Zone Forums, I got an answer and apparently I need to unscrew the 4 screws covering the 4 screw holes! The instruction manual didn’t even say anything about that! It just says that if I want to mount the TV to the wall, I need to contact my dealer. It was rather a stupid answer.

Then, the screws that come with the wall bracket could not fit into the hole of my TV, I was like WTF. In the end my dad installed the bracket first and today we went to Daiso to get the screws ($2 for 5 screws). Just for your information the screw needed is 6mm (diameter) x 25mm (length). My dad has been producing screws for the past 30 years and hence once he look at it, he knew exactly what screw can fit.

I really must thank my dad for helping me and of course my mom for paying for the TV!

My New 32″ Hitachi LCD Television (L32A01A)

2 items down, 4 more to go:

• New Hitachi 32″ LCD TV
• New Samsung 24″ or 27″ LCD Monitor
• New Intel Yorkfield Desktop Computer
• New Nokia N82 Mobile Phone
• New Ikea Table
• New Swissflex Spectacles

I just love 2008.