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Orchard after school with Lian. She wanted to order the Koichi Domoto 2003-2004 Johnny's Calendar Official Edition from Kinokuniya, but the ordering window had closed, a disappointment. Then Heeren, where I bought a new Fourskin t-shirt.
A boring Sunday. Lian and I spent the whole afternoon printing my course notes, at least 200 pages across all seven modules. First time I've been this hardworking; normally I only print them when exams loom.
MMAD and MMAS lectures are so dry and boring; all this semester's core modules are, unlike the electives. The electives are far more interesting, and the lecturer's good. Lunch at foodcourt 4 with Lian's close friend.
Lectures till 1pm, lunch at Clementi since the foodcourt was crowded. Had Katong Laksa, long overdue, and lovely. Took my first Visual Basic lesson, fun, with a good lecturer; the language feels almost same as Java.
School ended at 1pm. Bought my final two textbooks for $60, bringing my total to roughly $200, the most I've spent on books in a semester. Lunch at the Cineleisure foodcourt in Orchard, duck rice nice.
The www.orientek.net domain expired today, too late to renew now. I'll wait for it to be released before buying back. I hadn't realised it would lapse so soon; time flies. Waiting is all I can do.
Thought there was no 5pm PCT lecture, thrilled, but confirming with the lecturer, there is. A six-hour break; no way we're staying in school. Bought two more books for $61: Director 8 and Lingo, plus VB.NET.
School at 10am for breakfast, with a practical first lesson. The old labs upgraded to Pentium 4 2.40GHz with 48x24x48 Iomega writers, some with Philips 15-inch LCDs. All better than my machine; technology dates so fast.
A quiet day: fixed some code and played BroodWar with Lian, then called her in the evening for our chit-chat. Wanted new shoes at Queensway, but the carpark was full, as was the HDB one opposite.
Famous minced pork noodles at BestWay building, months since I had it. A haircut at Everton Park with my grandmother, who wanted a wash too. $16 for cut and wash; I love the scalp massage part.
Here are the site updates I've consolidated over the past months: added a Related Stories feature, used site.php for content, replaced the previous/next links with vBulletin-style page navigation, and simplified the Archives page into something cleaner.
Fetched Lian from Kembangan MRT to my place, where she made a minor fix to my mom's website, 15 minutes' work. Back to Causeway Point for another look, since last time we hadn't covered the centre.
Went to the bank with my mom this afternoon to activate my account, done now. Lowered the debit limit to $1,000 from $3,000. My HWM magazine arrived too, with a microprocessor history feature and NVIDIA review.
After a five-day delay, our elective modules are finally out; Lian and I both got the electives we chose. My Semester 2 line-up (Stage 2B): Technical and Business Communications, Visual Basic Programming, and Multimedia among others.
Happy New Year 2003. Dim sum at Lei Garden in Orchard Plaza with my parents and Lian; my mom paid the first bill at 4% GST. Things get pricier this year. Heeren for Lian's Kinki Kids.
Last day of 2002. Had chicken shredded noodles at my coffeeshop for lunch; while waiting for bus, one side of my headphones died, no sound on the right. So annoyed: first my speakers, now my headphones.
Expected a boring day, but it was busy. The site's up thanks to Abnormal; I spent the afternoon fixing code. A new PHP version meant rewriting bits. Played a round of BroodWar with Lian and friends.
If you're reading this, the Orientek server on games.pacific.net.sg is back up; PHP, MySQL and Apache upgraded at last. I'd waited ages: PHP 4.3.0, MySQL 3.23.54 and Apache 1.3.27. Finally something for me to tinker with.
A boring day, home doing nothing much. Went to the Waterloo Street temple to pray since school reopens soon; usually my mom takes me before and after school terms or exams. Afterwards, breakfast: Bak Kut Teh.
Out nearly twelve hours. Saw Far East Plaza's renovated area with Lian, the whole of Basement 1. Not much to shop, spacious, about five food stalls. Earlier, lunch at Scotts foodcourt, creamy chicken from Pasta Mania.
Lian's last day of work. Lunch at Hans in Park Mall; Beef Hor Fun was nice. After sending Lian to bus-stop, I met my parents at Tiong Bahru Plaza for dinner. Checked my modules: core only.
After Lian's work, to Toa Payoh Central to buy luminous dice, thanks to a tip from Khabal Forums user. Spent $24.90: a big dice for $10.90 and two packs of six small dice at $7 each.