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Northern Light, lovely phenomenon of nature also regarded as nature fireworks. Click here to learn more about it.

Came out with this phrase while I am doing my Java. I need to find my pencil case but my ah dear tell me where is it before I can even say it out.

Lester Says “Women are just like Google, except that they search for things in the house and say the results out”.

Been super busy for the the past weeks since my school started. University is unlike Polytechnic, tutorials need to do, break time need to revise through, weekends need to do lab exercises and tutorials. Lab exercises is graded that is why we need to do, tutorials if you do not do, towards the end of the semester, you will have difficulty revising through, especially Maths and Discrete Structures. So all this means you got no life. =)

Upgraded my M1 Line and thus, changed my Sony Ericsson K750i to O2 Atom Exec. Sent my K750i for the last service and firmware upgrade before my warranty expires in September 2006. Will be passing my phone on to LiXiang whose Samsung X460 is really very basic.

Nothing to do now, 2 hours break, thus crashing Wei Quan and Suqin lecture on Software Engineering (CS2103).

I will be getting a new PC in 2008, life span of my PC is 5 years. My desktop PC was born in the year 2003.

» Intel Pentium Quad Core at 4Ghz
» 4GB of DDR3 Ram
» 2x 500GB SATA III HDD
» 2x ATI Graphics Card with 1GB memory PCI Express 2
» Audigy 2 (I do not need a good sound card)
» BluRay (BD)/HD-DVD Combo Drive
» Windows Vista SP1

Sounds good?

My house area has a MAJOR parking problem because cars are getting cheaper these days. I live in Bukit Purmei, it is a small neighbourhood with only 15 blocks of flat. I live in block 115, which is the last block of the neighbourhood. After sending LiXiang home yesterday at around 2.30am, I came home and COULD NOT find a single parking lot. I combed 6 carparks between my block all the way to block 109.

So no choice have to parked illegally and I think that is the last illegal slot at the carpark near my block. Everyday there is about 5 cars or even more that park illegally due to insufficient parking lots. I hope they can do something about it. This issue is getting on my nerves.

NUS
My orientation group, Veragok (God of Shadow) won the best orientation group. There were a total of 10 groups. Even though I think some of the orientation activities are quite dumb, but I am glad I went for most of it because I got to know a lot of friends, this makes lecture, lunch, lab and tutorial less lonelier.

My official study term started since Monday, finally I am back to study. The feeling is so good after wasting 2 years and 2 months doing nothing productive. And speaking of it, guys REMEMBER TO CANCEL YOUR PIONEER MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION because they charge your 3 years advanced payment to your last pay and that total up about $14.40. Please made an effort to cancel even though you are rich, lazy is not an excuse, unless you like to read it then I got nothing to say. As if 26 months of Pioneer Magazine is not enough and they still want to give you 36 more months of it.

Firstly, NUS is damn big, you need to take the internal shuttle bus to get to places unlike polytechnic. Secondly, the food is VERY cheap, $1.50 for chicken rice and it is filling, $2.30 for hot plate grilled fish with spaghetti. Thirdly, the Internet is blazing fast, so much faster than Singapore Polytechnic. And of course, nothing beats studying.

Click
Caught click last week at Cineleisure with LiXiang and Laily. It was a good show, very touching and it shows the different side of human. Recommended! I think LiXiang and I will cut down our movie watching from 4 times per month to maybe once or twice per month due to school work.

Oreo Cheesecake
My ah dear aka LiXiang made Oreo Cheesecake for me. Even though it is her first attempt in making Oreo Cheesecake, it tasted good. When you cut it to bite sizes and freeze it, it tastes even better. Seriously, I am not joking.

To ah dear: THANK YOU FOR YOUR CHEESECAKE, so what is the next cake you going to make for me? =D

This is the day every NSF has been waiting for, after serving the nation for 2 years and 2 months, it is time to say ORD LOH.

My NSF Life:

» 9th June 2004 - 23rd September 2004
(BMTC2 Pegasus, Platoon 3, Section 1)
» 4th October 2004 - 3rd December 2004
(School Of Provost MP Basic Course 3/2004, Platoon 1, Section 3)
» 6th December 2004 - 11th November 2006
(Gombak Base,Platoon 1, Section 1)
» 14th November 2005 - 8th August 2006
(SAFTI INTEC)

Downgraded on 11th November 2006 from PES B to PES C2L2 and posted to SAFTI INTEC, and that place is the best place to be in as a NSF.

Got my PINK IC earlier on 4th August 2006 instead of 8th August 2006 because I requested it due to study commitments =D

Looking Back: Tekong Here I Come

Cheers to all my army mates who still visit this site, please do keep in touch =D

I will be taking the following modules for my first year, first semester:

CS1102 - Data Structures and Algorithms (5 MCs) [530 PTs]
CS1104 - Computer Organisation (4 MCs) [1 PT]
CS1231X - Discrete Structures (4 MCs) [1 PT]
MA1301 - Introductory Mathematics (4 MCs) [1 PT]
ET1000 - English For Academic Purposes (N/A) [N/A]

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

530 points for CS1102 is a little crazy, LOL.

NUS Matriculation
NUS Matriculation was very fast, within 20 minutes I am already paying for my notebook. Upon entering the sports hall, we submitted most of our forms and we get the NUS matriculation card immediately. After that, there will be an area where all the laptops booth are and you can purchase the laptops straight from there. For cash and carry, you only can pay by NETS, Cheque or Cash. If you opt for the notebook loan, you will get your laptop around end August.

After that, we went to the 2nd level where all the CCAs booth are, I bought the SoC Matriculation Pack for $8, kinda regretted, but just take it as supporting them for the effort they put in. If you want to siam all the CCAs booth, just walk as fast as you can and when they stop u, just say not interested. LOL

NUS Orientation
Orientation started at 9am on Thursday, although it stated 10am on the paper. After gathering at LT27, we practice our cheers. I am in Group 6 by the way. Followed by some ice breaker games which I think is the most meaningful segment because we all do not know each other. Lunch was after that, followed by a talk on Games Development and Interactive Media Design.

I was intending to stream into Communications and Media, but after the talk, seeing that I need to do 3D modeling, 3D/2D animation, storyboarding, designing, drawing and insane amount of programming (all these are my weakest), I decided to stream into Information Systems. At least it is useful to me when I need to help out my mom in years to come.

Right after the talk, there is a mass dance segment and flag creation segment which takes up 1 hour each. By the time it is already 6pm. I still think that both of the segment is quite redundant.

We went to bid for our modules in one of the lab in SoC, the bidding process was quite ok, beginning to understand. Hopefully I can get all the modules that I want, I will post what modules I will take when it is confirmed.