Fish And Co
Woke at 2.30pm, a long sleep. Lunch at Maxwell Market: fried sliced fish soup with rice, the best I've had, the stall once featured on Yummy King. Finished DEUI assignment 2's report: six pages of text.
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Kuey Chap
Woke at 1.30pm after a long, good sleep. Went to school to bring Lian to my place, stopping at Tiong Bahru Plaza foodcourt for lunch: Korean spicy chicken noodles, spicy but not enough. She came for DEUI.
UT2003 Not Out Yet
School ended at 1pm. Lunch at ABC market with Lian, bumping into a primary school mate at the bus stop. Then Funan to check on UT2003; still not out, and the salesperson had no idea when.
Orchard Road
My WWWP lecturer is brilliant; he cracked the total-price logic I'd wrestled with for an hour. My WWWP assignment's 99% done, so I set aside and focus on IWED, CANI and DSAL. Did DSAL during practical.
Parents’s Wedding Anniversary
Today's my parents' 20th wedding anniversary, married in 1982, with me arriving in 1984. Went to school at 12pm but skipped lessons, staying in lab until it closed at 5.30pm. Suntec's Marche with Lian and family.
Happy Children’s Day
Happy Children's Day, for kids under twelve. I'm well past that now. Went to Suntec for laksa and roti prata; the laksa there is genuinely lovely, well worth the trip if I'm no longer a child.
Burger King
The staff committee came to video our lecturer teaching today; you could see how nervous he was. Mom had a meeting and didn't cook, so dinner with Lian at Suntec's Burger King, long since my last.
Updated To b2 v0.6
B2 is out of beta; v0.6 is the last release before v1.0, and as always I keep the site current, so it's now on v0.6. Little changed from v0.6pre5 beyond minor bug fixes and backend work.
The Tuxedo
Dim sum at Lei Garden that afternoon, my grandfather's treat for his and grandmother's wedding anniversary. To Waterloo Street temple to pray, with exams looming; my first paper's on 22 October. Stress. Dinner at Kenny Rogers.
Bugis Junction
Had the famous minced pork noodles at another branch in Best Way building; the owners are brothers. Then to school to meet Lian, Stacy, Jean and Zhi Wei, off to Sim Lim Square for computer bits.
DSAL Assignment
Finally started my DSAL assignment, first screen layout done. Stayed back at school on the entrepreneurship report till 5.15pm. Coffee Bean at Funan since Lian was thirsty, and dinner at Swensen's in Changi Airport Terminal 2.
Pasta Mania
Pasta dinner at Pasta Mania in Funan, which just opened a branch; otherwise I always go to Picnic Food Court at Scotts Shopping Centre. Fort Canning Park, freshly renovated, with many flights of steps to top.
Electives Day
Voted for my electives at 4.30pm: IGRA, VBAS and PCT, submitted at 4.31.13pm. No real guarantee you get your picks, though; it's decided on three criteria, the first being academic performance, so fingers crossed for mine.
Entreneurship Presentation
During IWED practical, I continued assignment 2 and fixed the INSERT bug, thanks to the lecturer; turns out 'date' is a reserved word in ASP. In CANI, the lecturer taught us the 3DS Max particle system.
Monday Blues
An 'exciting' Monday, a last-minute notice that next semester's IGRA elective will teach Java, not C++. The quote: 'the implementation language for IGRA is Java, not C++'. Sucks; how can Java replace C++ in games development?
Updated To b2 v0.6pre5
Upgraded the site to B2 v0.6pre5, which adds PingBack and TrackBack, features I don't understand. The headline additions: TrackBack support, distinct from MT's standalone version, and Pingback, a new way to notify other blogs you've linked.
Boring Sunday
Woke at 3pm and did nothing all day, pure slacking. Dinner at the Singapore Swimming Club with my family. Came back to a tiny bit of CANI, that's all. A boring day. Also did DEUI evaluations.
MoonCake Festival
Nudged this post's time to keep it within the day. School morning for the entrepreneurship presentation slides, due Tuesday. Then a walk at Marina with Lian, where I spotted my classmate Lynn being interviewed by MTV.
UnrealTournament 2003 Gone Gold
UT2003 has gone gold; it'll hit shelves in about two weeks, and I can't wait. Sure to be a great game with fantastic graphics. As the forum post says, they shipped the release version to manufacturing.
Slice Fish Noodle
An hour of Warcraft III with Lian at Orchard Cineleisure, then Suntec to help someone with something; can't say what, since they read this site. Accompanied her back to school for her project, playing Quake 3.
StarCraft: Ghost Announced
Not Starcraft II, but Starcraft: Ghost. At a Tokyo Game Show press conference today, Blizzard Entertainment unveiled Starcraft: Ghost, a tactical-action console game set in Blizzard's epic Starcraft universe. Console, not PC, which is rather surprising.
Buggy Day In School
A walk at Suntec with Lian, McDonald's for dinner, pricey. Got update and delete functions working in ASP for IWED, but add function stumps me; I can't find the bug or understand code. PHP beats ASP.