NotePad And Flash
9am to 11am for WWWP practical. Dull start to the day, teaching basic webpage stuff, coding five pages in Notepad. Some used Dreamweaver, some Notepad. It's basic HTML; JavaScript and XML are what I'm waiting for.
Archive
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CANI & Warcraft III
Finally animating something semi-realistic after today's CANI practical, six weeks till the first assignment deadline. Played Warcraft III over BattleNet for the first time since buying the original box, with Reaper, Faze, Maxima, Phuse and others.
Function Curve
Learnt the most important part of computer animation, according to my lecturer: 'The Function Curve'. Fail to grasp it and you fail the module. Also finished coding my schooling reference page, simple stuff. Tomorrow's another day.
2nd Week Of School
Second week of school: learnt to write, read and delete files and folders in Java. I could whip up a virus to wipe C:\Windows, evil laugh. Cured fishie's computer; she's back online. Added friend's party photos.
Ikea
Ikea in the afternoon for lunch with my family, as my uncle was furniture-shopping for his new house. Spotted a CD rack holding 880 CDs, noted measurements, checked at home; it fits nicely, I'm getting it.
Minority Report
Had a seafood buffet lunch; it sucked, all I can say. Then to Orchard, where we split up: three friends and I watched Minority Report at Plaza Singapura, while the rest went to East Coast Park.
Friends Birthday
School ended at 1pm, then teppanyaki at Bugis Junction with my poly classmates. Funan, I bought a Microsoft SideWinder gamepad for $39.90 to play FIFA World Cup 2002. Out at 6.30pm for three friends' birthday presents.
Happy 4th July
Happy 4th of July to all Americans, their Independence Day. Just home from a 'breakful' school day, 4.5 hours of breaks. In OOPG we used to code user GUIs by hand; there's a faster drag-and-drop way.
3rd Day Of School
School ended at 11.30am, home by 12.30, shattered after sleeping at 2am and waking at 8. Did body modelling in my first CANI practical; it looks good, if more cartoon than human. The lecturer approved anyway.
Warcraft III Official Launch
Just back from Funan with my copy of Warcraft 3. I'd expected few people, since students had school later, but there were already huge queues. Four shops were selling it, 1,000 copies each for today only.
Updated To b2 0.6pre3
Updated the blog software to b2 0.6pre3, fixing several bugs I'd found along the way, though one in b2archives2.php still eludes me. If you spot any more, please mail or ICQ me. The fixes are now in.
First Pratical Of the Semester
Posting from school; first practical of the semester and the lecturer's late, due at 10am, now 10.30 with no sign of him. Just reset my login password, since some of us, me included, couldn't log in.
1st Day Of Year 2
Back from school, plenty of breaks, since there are no tutorials first week. Met four of my seven lecturers; I'll know them all by week's end. No escaping Java again, after taking it in Year 1.
World Cup 2002 Day 31
Caught the World Cup final at Civic Plaza, great fun, with 7,500 people and Perfect 10 hosts Daniel Ong and Jean Danker keeping us going. My pick proved right: Brazil are world champions, beating Germany 2-0.
World Cup 2002 Day 30
Slept the whole day, exhausted. Today's match was at 7pm; apologies for the wrong time. Turkey beat Korea 3-2, with Hakan Sukur scoring the World Cup's fastest goal at 11 seconds. The Korean crowd were sporting afterwards.
World Cup 2002 Day 28
Slept at 5am after chatting with a secondary school classmate studying in LA. He told me about Singapore Express, a restaurant selling only Singaporean food like laksa and nasi lemak. Even Singapore Airlines orders from them.
World Cup 2002 Day 27
Brazil beat Turkey 1-0 to reach the final against Germany this Sunday, 30 June at 7.30pm, with the third-place playoff on Saturday. Got my SP timetable today, and it's a mess; so many clashes need sorting.
World Cup 2002 Day 26
My prediction held: Germany beat Korea 1-0 and head to the final, most likely against Brazil. The semi-finals kicked off with Germany versus Korea, and Germany duly owned them. No more lucky Sundays for the Koreans.
World Cup 2002 Day 25
Finally tracked down the last Warcraft 3 figurine at PK Computer in Funan; my collection's complete. I'll grab my copy of Warcraft 3 at midnight on 2 July at Funan, where they're holding a celebration. Can't wait.
World Cup 2002 Day 24
The World Cup's winding down, four matches and seven days left. Who'll be this year's champion? The semis: Germany versus Korea on Tuesday, 25 June, and Brazil versus Turkey on Wednesday, both at 7.30pm Singapore time.
World Cup 2002 Day 23
Turkey beat Senegal 1-0 in extra time and will face Brazil again in the semis on Wednesday, 26 June. Go Brazil! Korea edged Spain 5-3 on penalties, so damn lucky, every day's a Sunday for them.
World Cup 2002 Day 22
Germany beat USA 1-0 as expected. Brazil won too; England are out. The semi-finalists: Brazil and Germany, after England 1 Brazil 2 and Germany 1 USA 0. Tomorrow's the last quarter-final day, with Spain versus Korea.