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Had VB lecture in the morning. Lecturer went through last semester exams paper. The paper was quite easy but abit tricky.

Went to Marina Square later. Ate the minced pork noodle there for lunch. Actually everytime we went Marina Square I would want to eat the minced pork noodle there, but Lian don’t really like it, so end up not eating it. LOL. This time she say I sick so she give in to me. LOL

Went to school for 3 lessons today TBCM, MMPJ and VBAS. Got an A for my MMPJ assignment after checking it with the lecturer.

My VBAS interview start at 2pm right after lunch. Was hoping to go first then can leave earlier and hoping that my lecture lecturer will interview us instead of our tutorial lecture. But so bloody unluckily we are the second last group and interview by out tutorial lecturer. That lecturer interview us 1 by 1 instead of a pair, wasting so much time. Actually my schedule is 3.50pm and I thought I can leave by 4pm, but that lecturer drag till almost 5pm. So end up waiting 3 hours for my turn to be interviewed. CRAP

Had IGRA as my first exam of the day. Well it sucks. Quite difficult for me and not enough time to do. Sigh, hope I can pass this exam or fail by border line, then overall I can pass. =(

Waited for 4 hours till my next exam, which is MMAS. This is opposite of IGRA, it is so easy, more than enough time to do it. I hope to get an A for MMAS after taking this exams.

Half-Life 2, the rumors that have been going on for the past week and I have been following it closely. They are not rumors, it is true that Half-Life 2 will be out by the end of this year, rejoice guys. Here are some points taken from Planet Hal-Life & CS Nation:

» Half-Life 2 is scheduled for a September 30th release.
» Yes, you’re still Gordon Freeman, and yes, the story assumes you went to work for the G-Man.
» Half-Life 2 takes place in a European city called “City 17.”
» Headcrabs will be back! Although some of the Xen aliens will be your friends?
» Barney is back. And so is Half-Life’s original writer, Marc Laidlaw.
» While the new engine has all sorts of fancy features, it’s still designed to work on lower-end machines. Apparently a 700mhz processor and a video card capable of running DX6 is enough, although a 2ghz with a GeForce4 is recommended.
» The girl in the promo art is named Alyx, a daughter of a scientist who factors into the story somehow. She’s not playable.
» Scripted Sequences will be more interactive.
» Half-Life 3 is planned, so expect another cliffhanger ending.
»The eyes of players are dynamic, and accurately track objects in the real world, jumping to various objects of interest as well when nothing is happening.
» Eyes also feature true reflections.
» While a number of “Barney” security officers will be around, one main sidekick is planned.
» Full facial animation, based off of muscle-movement studies, gives natural expressions as well as automatic lip-synching.
» Fully realistic physics engine for fluid movement, falling, and collisions.
» All players will no longer walk “through” corpses, but rather step on and over them.
» Advanced fully dynamic particle system.
» Vastly improved AI system with intelligent pathfinding, threat analysis, and multiple prioritized objectives.
» Expected to be published by Activision.

Woke up in the afternoon. Bought lunch back from my house downstairs coffeeshop. It has been months since I ate the Wan Ton Mee there. Miss it. By the way, my house area got 2 coffeshops, 1 is famous for its Lor Mee and the other is for its Wan Ton Mee and Western Food. =D

Started studying for my MMAS at 3pm till about 6pm. Of course with breaks in between. I got short concentration power of only about an hour or 2. Touched little bit or IGRA only. Wrote down all the important codes in my book as it is a open book test. Took a short nap after that.

First lesson was IGRA revision lecture. Crap. The exams is on this Wednesday not Saturday. Clash with my MMAS exams. No choice, have to study harder. Luckily IGRA is open book test, so is still ok. More worried about MMAS exams. Sigh. Will start studying tomorrow, as I will study IGRA today.

Had my MMAS/MMAD 5 minutes interview. Nothing much just let teacher see your application and compared it with the storyboard.

Went to pray in the afternoon as exams is coming. Pray that I can recover quickly and get good grades in exams. Went to Bugis Junction for lunch. Wanted to eat Mos Burger, but end up eating Swensens because my parents hated fastfood. LOL

Came home, my uncle ask me to go Funan with him, he want to see digital camera. Went to Funan, instead of seeing for digital camera, he bought a HP iPAQ 1910 and bought for me a HP iPAQ 5450 with 128MB SD Memory. He bought that for me because he strike 4D first prize. LOL. So luckily. And he just struck the third prize not long ago. Thanks Uncle Raymond. =D

Think I just got a flu today, running nose and slight cough. But luckily no fever. The SARS outbreak is getting quite bad. Thanks to China who cover up the whole incident since it is first discovered last year.

Met Lian in the afternoon to watch Bullet Proof Monk. Didn’t saw any trailer on this film, only posters. But surprisingly, it is nice, even better than Johnny English.

Woke up in the afternoon today, feeling much better after a constant attack on the sore in my throat. LOL

Something is very wrong with my computer, everytime when I turn on my computer and it load windows, I only can see my desktop picture, nothing else. No start menu, no desktop icons. I only can access task manager to do things. Click here to see the screenshot. And the only solution to solve it is to End Task Explorer.exe and Run Explorer.exe again, then restart my computer, then everything will be back to normal. If I turn off and turn on my computer the same problem will occur.