Mars
So tired yesterday I crashed at 10.30pm, an hour after getting home; sleep deprivation. Posting from school, since I've an FYP rehearsal later. First Thursday in school in eight weeks. Visited Suntec after NSC with Elaine.
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The Medallion
A year ago I watched Austin Powers: Goldmember with Lian and friends. A year on, it's The Medallion with Lian and mine. A year ago I held her hand on the bus; now I hold nothing.
Final Theory Test
After school I played table tennis with Jacky at the hall while the rest played badminton; I suddenly love sports. Table tennis barely raised a sweat, unlike basketball or badminton. Off to BBDC for FTT practice.
Table Tennis
Heavy rain in the evening. Met my secondary school friends at Tiong Bahru Plaza, where they broke their record: all of them late. Next time I'll leave home at the meeting time, like I used to.
The UnBorn
We'd wanted Freaky Friday, but turnout was poor, then A Tale of Two Sisters, but front-row seats left. We settled on The Unborn, a Thai ghost film, not bad and scary, though Two Sisters is scarier.
Productive Day
A productive day pouring hours into coding Quietroom, now 95% done, content aside, and I'm proud of it. I'd expected no mood, but the opposite happened. Maybe drowning in code keeps me from overthinking; it works.
SoBig Virus
Hot on the heels of the Blaster worm, another SoBig variant is spreading fast across the Internet since Tuesday. Dubbed SoBig.F, it behaves like its predecessors, infecting Windows machines over email and blasting dozens of copies.
Integration Of Quietroom
Did most of the Quietroom integration at school on the laptop; I dislike laptop keyboards, hard to type on, and lugging a separate keyboard around is impractical. Met the client afterwards, arriving at 4.45pm and waiting until 5.30pm.
League Of Extraordinary Gentleman
Unlucky day. My GAME practical's camera wouldn't go straight, so I tried pasting my lecturer's code bit by bit to find the bug. I accidentally deleted the whole practical. Crap. Had to redo practicals 3 and 4 from scratch.
Hair Cut
Got a haircut before meeting friends at Tiong Bahru Plaza. I'd thought I'd be first there, but turned up third; everyone's punctual these days. They used to treat a 4.30pm meet as time to leave home.
The Great Escape
Got home at midnight, too tired to blog. Went with my poly friends to The Great Escape, a mini concert plus a magic show at Suntec City's Convention Hall, organised by Touch Community, my friend's church.
Jogging
My JSPG assignment: build an online auction site with JSP and Java Servlets. The logic is tricky, though web programming is alike: it's never the coding that's hard, it's the logic. Sketched the database structure.
Coding CBT
Thursdays are my off day unless something urgent calls me to school. Had lunch with Elaine at Raffles City foodcourt before heading to her place to get MySQL running. We hit a few snags but eventually sorted it.
Coding Search Page
An interesting day, with most of my classmates buzzing about the Blaster Worm. All the SP computers are already patched. I wonder if they got infected first then patched, or patched the day Microsoft's advisory dropped.
Removing the W32.Blaster.Worm
After reading on the Blaster worm, here are some tips: run shutdown -a from Start, Run to cancel the forced shutdown. Install the MS03-026 patch and reboot; then download and run FIXBLAST.exe to clean your system.
FTT Evaluation Passed
Lunch at Ikea with Elaine: roast beef and shared meatballs, which I adore. Off to BBDC for two hours of FTT practice before the evaluation. To my surprise, I passed my first try with full marks.
W32.Blaster.Worm
Plenty of people have been hit by the W32.Blaster.Worm, which exploits the DCOM RPC vulnerability over TCP port 135. It downloads and runs msblast.exe, weighs 6,176 bytes, and targets Microsoft IIS, Windows 2000, NT and XP.
Durians
Our FYP is running a week behind, and I feel no pressure, so I'm forcing myself. Meant to take FTT practice at BBDC but skipped it. Dad was off and bought durians, my first in ages.
Nasi Padang
Slept until the afternoon, my first time in months. Lunch at some unnamed place opposite the Concourse building, my first visit. The Malay nasi padang was excellent, especially the chilli, and the iced Milo came incredibly thick.
Happy 38th Birthday Singapore !!!
Today marks Singapore's 38th birthday since independence in 1965. My driving instructor rang this morning about my schedule and told me to cancel my 21 August lesson; it wouldn't make a difference. My practical lessons begin soon.
Twilight Kitchen
Worn out from lack of sleep, so I came home after school and napped until 5pm. Met my poly friends at Tiong Bahru at 6pm for dinner, my first Plaza visit in ages; much has changed.
Pixel Junkies
Long overdue for a site update, though there's little to report. Orientek is now Pixel Junkies; the old domain got cybersquatted, and cybersquatters suck. We've bought the direct URL, so please use that one going forward.