Final Year Project Handed In
Finally handed in our Final Year Project, around 400 pages of documentation, a poster design and the source code. Sixteen weeks of hard work paid off; despite a rough start with problems, we finished on time.
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Final Year Project Due Soon
Went on an ELIT excursion to CID's Technology Crime Division. I didn't learn much. I'd hoped for a demo on how they trace hackers, but it's confidential. The job interests me, yet there's no direct entry.
Weekends Burned
Three days without a blog update, swamped with my FYP and helping friends with their JSPG assignments. Most is behind me now, with two days to my FYP deadline and the final presentation Tuesday, 21 October.
JSPG Assignment Submitted
Just submitted my JSPG assignment, an Online Auction, despite some weird intermittent bugs (IllegalStateException and ResultSet Closed) that I can't pin down. All I can do now is pray nothing breaks during my assignment interview.
Taxi Drivers
Went to school for an FYP discussion; I hate documentation. Twenty-five pages for the project, and the appendix will top 300 since the code alone runs past 200. My 8th driving lesson nearly saw an accident.
New 120GB HDD
Slept till 1.30pm, my first lie-in in months. At Sim Lim Square, mom grabbed a 5m USB cable for work and I got a WD 120GB ATA100 drive for $180, plus a mobile rack for $19.
UnderWorld Again
Too busy to update these past two days; the next three weeks look worse as deadlines close. Friday I visited my grandfather and auntie in Toa Payoh, my first time in months thanks to packed weekends.
UnderWorld
My 7th driving lesson went well; I'm less nervous on the road now. I caught Underworld at Great World City, my second time watching a movie alone. At over two hours, it's set perpetually at night.
Overworked, Under Paid
Reworked my GAME assignment, switching collision detection from the grid method to bounding volumes. I'd tried volumes first, but a mistake made it lag. Napped at home, since I'm pouring every day into rushing my FYP.
Half-Life 2 Delayed Till April 2004
Damn it, Half-Life 2 is delayed again, this time to April 2004, after a third of its source code was stolen in the leak. Valve says the breach forces a four-month push back to rewrite parts.
Infernal Affairs 2
My Pac-Man finally moves on a timer, though it's riddled with bugs I've no mood to chase; I'll return to it after my FYP. Worried about the FYP, so little time. Lunch with friends helped.
Lunch With Good Buddy = Priceless
No classes today, but I still went to school just for lunch with my good buddies. Transport $1.20, a bowl of seafood soup $2, a can of bitter lemon $0.80; lunch with good buddies, MasterCard-style: priceless.
Half-Life 2 Source Code Leaked
In case you've missed the gaming news: Half-Life 2's source code has leaked, the code alone, without any assets. That's worse than a beta leak. Imagine five years of hard work suddenly out in the open.
Work, Work And More Work
Too tired to blog lately; these two days have been work, work and more work. Went for my 5th driving lesson early yesterday morning, half-asleep until I got behind the wheel, then back to drowsy afterwards.
28 Days Later
Celebrated Suqin's birthday at school with a chocolate cake from Bengawan Solo at Tiong Bahru Plaza, reasonably priced and good. We cut it at SP's foodcourt six, singing the birthday song softly, too shy.
Parents’ 21st Wedding Anniversary
Met my FYP lecturer to plan: finish everything by end next week, then spend the following week on documentation, PowerPoint slides and rehearsal. Time's so tight I'm unsure we'll make it. Had driving today, practising slopes.
Women Integration Network (WIN)
Finally made real progress on my GAME assignment, drawing the wall, the seed, and positioning the camera nicely, thanks to my friends. Had lunch with Serene and company, joining the 'Suanning Campaign' I'd missed yesterday.
3rd Driving Lesson
My 3rd driving lesson, and it rained again. The rainy season is closing in for November. The lesson was fun; I'm less nervous changing gears now, and we moved to more advanced manoeuvres beyond the circuit.
Sunday’s Shopping
Breakfast at The Nudle Bar in Heeren, then shopping for another Fourskin shirt, an old design with 20% off. I asked for other designs, but my size was sold out everywhere, so I left with one.
Serene’s Birthday
Depot Road laksa for breakfast before my ELIT lecture, the most interesting one yet. The lecturer covered the RIAA, piracy, caning and gang members, one of the best part-time lecturers in SP, better than some full-timers.
Mom’s Company Dinner
Stayed after my JSPG practical to help Serene with her PHP FYP. The more it resisted, the more I wanted to crack it. It was ages since I touched ereg, but after hours I solved it.
The Italian Job
Breakfast at Ikea, where the special was vegetarian bee hoon, decent and cheap at $1.50. My 2nd driving lesson with a fixed group, rotating between Mr Tang and Lee. Today was Tang's turn, in heavy rain.