Met up with Jacky and Co yesterday at Holland Village. We had dinner at NYDC. Finally, the Mushroom Monster(I think that is the name) was not out of stock. Geargina, Serene and I ordered pastas that is associated with mushroom, looks like we are craving for mushrooms. We had quite alot of chat, and catching up. Lets hope we can meet up often, make it a habit. =D

Elaine passed her TP after a 2nd attempt with 18 points, congratulations Elaine.

Today went to Causeway point with my mom to deliver some goods to Cold Storage. Had lunch at Jack’s place and the food there is like getting from bad to worst. Little variety, expensive and average food. Give me Ponderosa or Sizzlers anytime.

I am going to sleep before 11pm today for the first time because I need to wake at 6.30am for WSC. Will be staying in NYP from 8am all the way to about 6pm, can’t they just spread the thing over 2 days instead.

Getting sick of programming for the 2nd time.

Epic Games Completes Development on Highly Anticipated Multiplayer Opus; Game Will Be Available Worldwide March 15
LOS ANGELES - March 4, 2004 - Atari and Epic Games are pleased to announce that development is complete on Unreal® Tournament 2004, the highly anticipated follow-up to last year’s smash Unreal Tournament 2003 and the third installment in the mega-selling Unreal Tournament franchise. The game is expected to be available at retail stores worldwide on March 15.

“Get ready, PC gamers, because the biggest thing to ever hit multiplayer gaming is about to land on your hard drives!,” said Peter Wyse, executive producer at Atari. “The granddaddy of all multiplayer competition is back and better than ever! The extra time was worth the wait - Epic has produced the biggest, baddest, and most exciting multiplayer title ever to grace the PC.”

Unreal Tournament 2004 was developed by Epic Games in conjunction with Digital Extremes. The game builds on the success of past installments, taking the franchise to the next level with the introduction of the hyper-charged Onslaught mode, the return of the fan-favorite Assault mode, which last appeared in the original Unreal Tournament, and the introduction of land-, air- and space-based vehicles.

Gamers worldwide have already made the free, downloadable official demo of Unreal Tournament 2004 one of the most popular game demo downloads of all time, with more than 1.5 million downloads in the first week of availability. The demo first hit the Internet on Wednesday, February 11, and was distributed on a worldwide scale and is already one of the most played online PC games on the Internet.

In the game, players suit up as the ultimate techno-gladiator of the future, taking their fates into their own hands as they battle up to 32 other players in action-packed, frag-filled arenas. Unreal Tournament 2004 contains new maps for all established game modes, including Capture the Flag, Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Bombing Run and Double Domination, as well as all new arenas for the new styles of play. In addition, Unreal Tournament 2004 contains all of the maps, mutators and game types — such as Mutant, Last Man Standing and Invasion — from Unreal Tournament 2003 and the free downloadable bonus packs for that game.

Features in Unreal Tournament 2004 include:
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Yesterday went to my mom office to fixed her computer. As usual, I have no idea how come her computer in office ALWAYS got problem, yesterday I solved the 56kb modem issues and HansVision issues. And later I am going to her office again to solve her modem issues. I solved it yesterday and managed to connect to the Internet with a 56kb dial up, and this morning I received a call from my mom saying that it don’t work again.

Seriously, I feel very primitive whenever I go to my mom’s office, most of the computer stuffs there are all outdated(beside my old computer). No networking, no router/switch, bloody slow computers, 56kb dial up and so on and so forth. My dad and I always advised my mom to invest some money into IT, but she say it is not necessary and always say “can use can already”. I mean this phrase is always used by our older generation, I can foresee that in the future, people will change their computer once every 2 to 3 years because computer will get outdated easily.

Finally have some motivation to code my polls of my ITP after a few days of being sick. My computer has an uptime of 5 days for the first time because I am downloading Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 Season 2 Episode 12. It took my 5 bloody days to download a 175mb file.

I do not know who the fuck my brother offended in IRC, every few days/weeks I would get DDOS(Distributed Denial of Service) attacks on my Internet Connection. This time I will use a packet logging tool to trace that fucker, and report to his ISP if he does it again. I am really sick of those fuckers who have nothing better to do then to DDOS me. Want to DDOS, DDOS some RIAS/RIAA sites instead. I am really pissed off.

The days draw closer for the qualifying rounds of WSC, only 6 out of 46 will qualify and I think none of them will be from SP. I did not really prepare for it because it does not stimulate real life environment. In real life, you can get resources from the Internet, but in this competition, you have no Internet Connection at all and only can be dependent on Application’s Help Files. One thing for sure, I can’t remember ALL the syntaxes in PHP.

Hmm looks nice woman nowadays are getting more violent, Singapore Woman Getting More Abusive.

Yes, finally my flu is getting better, more reinforcements have arrived inside my body to battle against the virus. Thanks my friends for the concern. =D

Is the month of March and as far as I can recalled, here are the March babies.

» 6th March - Yong Tang
» 13th March - Elaine
» 20th March - Denis
» 23th March - Lester Goh, Jade
» 24th March - Me
» 25th March - Shaun
» 26th March - Wei Quan
» 27th March - Zhi Wei, Kelvin
» 28th March - My Brother
» 29th March - Wei Xiong

Johnson called me and talk quite a bit on University admission, both NTU/NUS have no opened for admission yet, guess it will be later in the week or sometime next week. You can apply online too. I have counted we have taken 31 modules so far (including Internship).

Anyone knows the exact procedure of applying?

Went to the Adidas Sale yesterday at Suntec City Conventional Center. The hall is very big, this it don’t look crowded. Didn’t bought anything from there because nothing fancies me. Most of them are just old stocks. Normally this type of sale is just to clear away the old stock and to make way for the new stocks/design.

Head over to Heeren later because my parents want to buy Adidas’s shoes and my brother wanted to buy a polo shirt, and I got 10% off because of the Heer card. I will definitely renew my Heer card when it expires, the card is really worth it. It really rewards you with lots of benefits when you shop at Heeren. My dad bought a ROM series shoes. Something like Superstar. He told me that this shoe has been around for almost 30 years. And when he was young he could not afford it. Now he just bought it without thinking. I also bought 1 fourskin t-shirt while my brother bought 2. My mom has been telling me not to buy anymore t-shirts.

Been down with a bloody flu, must be got it from my brother and he must have got it from my auntie. Stupid body virus definitions not updated, maybe I should consider taking the flu jab.

Did nothing productive for my ITP because I was sick and could not think properly, all I was thinking was to sleep, rest and of course eat.

Guess I will not be joining my friends for the backpack trip to Malaysia which going to last 20 days. I need to help out my mom during the last week of May because there is a 6 days food expo going on at Singapore Expo, and I do not know whether my Army Letter will come in June, abit dangerous. At first it was Redang and it going to last for 4 days, and I was quite excited and looking forward to it, but guess now I am disappointed. Hope I can go with my family someday. Looking on the brighter side, I can save $500 and use it on my iPod.

Just 11 days more to the IT show and my 2nd pay =D

Charlene passed her TP finally and she got only 4 points. Haha, congratulations.

Woke up at 7am, and I think every since I left Secondary School, I seldom woke at 7am or earlier. I reach NYP at around 8.15am. As I expected, I will and I did get lost, and the signs around are not that helpful after all.

The whole thing last around 4 hours. We do not have an Internet Connection for the qualifying rounds, even though the technical specifications put “High Speed Internet Connection”. When we brought that up, they say that the Internet Connection was meant for judge. I was like WTF? Why the judges need the Internet for? At least give us access to php.net and mysql.com. Sigh, looks like I have to rely on Dreamweaver Help File as I think/hope/pray they have the syntaxes inside there. I went to take a look at the system that we will be using on that day and looks like they do not have Edit Plus 2 installed even though the technical specifications stated that it would be installed. Can’t they just follow the fucking specifications. All the softwares stated in the specifications are all the latest softwares like Flash MX2004, Photoshop CS etc, but the funny thing is that the MYSQL server is quite backdated, version 3.23.

I was very impressed with NYP, it looks very nice as compared with SP. The lecture theaters the chairs are all cushioned and at SP we are sitting on plastic. The toilets there are clean and looks quite new. The best thing I like about NYP is the use of water in the school compound especially the stairs where streams of water flow down on each side. The only thing the sign is very misleading. I am suppose to go to Block N, so when I reached this block, the sign point to the right “Block N”, there is a wall along this whole straight of path and they expect me to walk through the wall. After that then I realized that I need to take the lift up in order to go to the right. The computer labs there are almost the same as SP.

There is a food junction there and the canteen/food court are worst than SP in terms of looks because it is all fenced up, makes it feel like you are eating in a prison. They have elevators there too, cool. Thumbs up for NYP

I really can’t stand those bloody aunties who take the MRT, some of them can’t even wait for passengers to alight first before boarding and they stand in the middle of the door like a bloody statue and once the door open, they rush in. No sense of courtesy.

Starting this year, semester will start in December and not in January, that means you will have to spend Christmas Eve in school. Luckily we are going to graduate soon.

By the way, according to my mom, we do not need to take SAT I anymore in order to qualify for local University and that means I had just wasted my $82 for nothing. But anyway, it had already been paid and I don’t think they will refund, so just go and take for fun. The new scheme is 75% polytechnic examination results, 20% “O”-level examination results and 5% CCA.

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Went back to school yesterday with Xiu Yu to eat the food there. Miss all the food there, but too bad I can only eat 1 meal, so I chose the Wan Ton Mee. It never taste better.

Helped my mom to move my old computer to her office and help her install some software into that computer. Also helped her format one of her office computer. It is a 633 Celeron and it was running on Windows ME till I format it to become Windows 2K. Windows ME got to be the worst Operating System ever. To my surprise after installing Windows 2K and Office XP, the system is actually quite fast. Before that it was slow like a Pentium 100 computer, and if you are using it everyday, I think your lifespan will be shorten due to constant frustrations.

Not to be rude or what, I find our parents that generations don’t really mind that the computer is slow and they can be so patient as to wait for the software to “hang” finish. For our generations, we want everything so fast and as soon as the program hung, we will “End Task” immediately. I find the computer nowadays are still abit slow as compared to our reactions. I can’t wait to see the day where the computer is as fast as your reaction by reading your mind and predict what are you going to do.

Got this horoscope from Serene’s email and I saw it on some website before and it is VERY TRUE. So finally decided to post it.
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Met up with my ITP supervisor yesterday in school and on the way pass Geargina my SAT book to photocopy. Got an A for my first month grading. Charlene will be taking her TP this Saturday. Good luck Charlene. Don’t disappoint me!

Met up with Terry, Jacky and Laily in the night for dinner in Orchard. We had Pasta Mania, and Laily only add a few strips of noodle. It was kinda a last minute thing, but I still manage to make it. Had lots of chat. It was kinda enjoyable. Should make it a point to meet up weekly or fortnightly for a chat.

Terry plan to organize a backpack trip, and it sounds kinda interesting. But I need to check my financial status after my Redang Trip. I am going to be very broke for March. 2 birthday celebrations, 1 with my poly friends and 1 with my secondary school friends and on top of that I am going to get an iPod. That easily add up to $1k. Ouch.

Just bought another domain name same as this but instead of .net it is .com. It will be redirect to the same place.

Just in case you didn’t notice, I have updated the polls and added 8 more photo albums in the Gallery. 1 under family, 1 under seconday and 6 under polytechnic. I am still waiting for Serene to send me photos taken during Laily 21st Birthday.

This Saturday will be going to Nanyang Polytechnic for a familiarization course for WSC.

Went to RELC Building and wanted to book my SAT I Test. Note, I used the term “wanted” because I did not book from there. My first impression of the building that is is like a hotel and true enough, there is also a RELC Hotel. The examinations bureau is at 3rd level.

Fill up 4 pages of form and find I find it very troublesome. The form is not even meant to be use for Singapore. There is not enough space to fill in my full name and address. For our IC number, we need to put 00 followed by your IC number without the last alphabet. There are 2 test date. One is on 8th May 2004 and 6th June 2003.

After finishing filling the form, we need to use a phone and dial an extension to tell the stuff that we have finished filling the form. Even when we want to book for the SAT, we also need to dial that extension to ask for the form. The person told us that we only know whether we got a place 2 weeks before the exams and recommend us to apply online because you can know it immediately. Their system is really fucked up.

So end up wasting my time filling up the form and go back and apply online, and I think is cheaper because of US exchange rate dropping these days, whereas if you apply from there, they fixed it at 1.8.

Head towards Plaza Singapure and had Ramen in Ajisen for lunch. The set dinner from 3pm to 6pm is only $10.80.

Came back applied for my SAT online at College Board. The process is quite fast. It is the bloody questionnaire that take up most of the time.

So my friends especially Geargina and Suqin who read this, do not go down to RELC building, it is just wasting your time. Just apply online and you can get a place on the spot. The only advantage in going down is that you know what to fill in for the form fields, but you can always ask me if you have doubts.

I had book the SAT I test on 8th May 2004 (Saturday) at AEC Training Center (near Raffles Place). I have already ask James Ang, we do not need to go back to school on 8th May 2004. Hope you two can get at the same place too.

Went back to school yesterday for some World Skill Competition workshop. It is kinda lame and I know if it is going to be that lame, I rather stay at home and sleep. The whole workshop thing is about stress management, but I got no stress. As what William Hung had said, just give it your best and you will not have any regrets. For my trade there is 46 contestants, you can view it all here, my name is at the 2nd slot. If can get rid of 43 contestants, I will be the top 3 =p.

Went with Serene, Karen, Christopher, Laily and LiXiang to meet Jacky at Plaza Singapura for a movie. We caught Cold Mountain. The whole show last 2 hours and 45 minutes. Didn’t expect it to be that long. But overall the show is not bad. It is NC16 because of one lame RA scene if I am not wrong.

We had Ramen at Ajisen. It was my first time there and I like the ramen there. The soup and the noodles is fabulous. Applied the membership card for only $2 and have a 10% discount, because I foresee I will be going back again.

Went to Heeren and FourSkin t-shirts is on discount, bought 2 tees, one for $10 and one for $19. Jacky also bought 2, both at $19. The new design will be coming in 2 weeks from now.

Sometimes those electronics stores (not those big ones) can’t be trusted. I ask one store in Plaza Singapure the price of a 15GB iPod, the sales person answered me $580. I was like WTF? The official price given by Apple is $548, and that store is selling $32 more. Those shops deserved to be blacklisted.

Today, had breakfast with my family at Ng Ah Sio Bak Hut Teh because one of my uncle’s friend is going back to China tomorrow. Met up with Geargina in the afternoon for Ba Chou Mee lunch. Surprising the queue was kinda short. Went to Orchard Road after that. The new OG at Orchard Point is kinda big but as usual alot of aunties are there. Finally found a small bag that can be clip on my jean’s belt holder that I really like. It is from one of my favorite brand, Kipling. It cost me $33 after a discount.

Head towards the Apple Store at Wheelock Place. They are having some promotion, if you buy an iPod, you will get vouchers for the iPod Accessories. But you need to use the voucher on the same day. For 15GB, you will get a $40 voucher, 20GB is $60 voucher, 40GB is $70 voucher. I think this promotion last till 10th March 2004. And the great news that I heard is that Apple will be in the IT Show 2004 held in Suntec from 11th March 2004(Thursday) to 14th March 2004(Sunday). Hope to get my iPod from there.

For your information, PK computers is selling 15GB iPod for $529 and 20GB iPod for $729. Price kinda attractive.

Geargina wanted to buy an Elle Wallet, thus went to Queesnway. The shop’s uncle is very polite, this should be the way in doing business. I didn’t know Outdoor change its agent, logo and bag designs. Looks odd.

Had dinner at Ikea, and they do not have the steak anymore. Wonder what happen.

Will be going to book my SAT I test at RELC building tomorrow.