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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.
Lian worked half day. Ended at the Noodle Bar in Heeren; we'd considered Swensen's, then Sakae Sushi, but its long queue sent us to Noodle Bar. First time, food was good, thumbs up. LOTR: Two Towers.
Week 52, the last of 2002. Next Monday, 30 December, kicks off 2003's first. Christmas in 26 hours. Lian brought me breakfast, McDonald's Sausage McMuffins; I thought them pricey, not realising McDonald's had a promotion on.
Warning: long post ahead. Breakfast at the Scotts foodcourt: Creamy Chicken from Pasta Mania and soup from some stall I couldn't name, but it was truly great, one of the best western soups I've ever had.
Claypot laksa at Depot Road, long overdue, lovely and famous, so crowded at lunch we went after. The temple downstairs to pray Tai Sui, which the Chinese know; threw a couple of coins for the ritual.
Too tired to blog yesterday, asleep by 11pm. Nothing much, usual weekday. Went to Suntec's Tower Records for Kinki Kids F Album with Lian; she heard it's out December, but not in Singapore yet, maybe Japan.
Secondary school classmates' chalet BBQ, after Bugis Junction with Lian; spotted XiuHui right behind her, no wonder her back looked familiar. Reached Aranda Country Club's chalets, surprised by a $1 entrance fee. Found the room, 2314.
Lian worked a full day at my place, finishing the extracting and resizing of the third product batch, still to upload, add info, and extract the fourth, within six days. Lunch at Great World City foodcourt, oily.
Plenty of ranting ahead. Slept at 5am after Warcraft III till 3am, then spent two hours trying to configure PHP as a SAPI module in Apache2, with no luck. Gave up and posted for help online.
Slept till 3.30pm; heavy rain makes great sleeping. Woke and started coding my Food Module, planning the structure yesterday. It'll hold the best eating places in Singapore, with 200 records to insert and more to come.
Posting this for the third time; the data won't insert after I hit submit, and the page just refreshes empty. Today's Friday the 13th, the year's second after September's. It's been raining steadily for hours now.
No Warcraft III last night. Reaper wanted to watch TV, so I slept early, around 1am. Had vegetable rice from my coffeeshop, good; another solid stall alongside the western food, wan ton mee and lor mee.
Lunch at Park Mall's Hans, long since my last. Their set lunches have gone up from $6.80 to $7.50. GST rises 1% to 4% too; everything's going up except your pay or allowance. Sad case, really.
More Warcraft III with Reaper and Demoblitzer, on a losing streak; we couldn't beat two insane computers on Timberhold, must buck up. Woke earlier at 1.30pm, grabbed lor mee for lunch. Mom called to fetch me.