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Passed all my modules, one with a distinction, and Lian passed all hers too. The notice read: congratulations, promoted to the next stage of your course, with a distinction awarded for ST2201 Web Programming. A relief.
Kenny Rogers at Great World City for lunch, after fetching my brother from Tiong Bahru Plaza; he came back three-quarters dead from his chalet. Feeling a fever coming, restless, so I took two Panadol to sweat.
Lunch at Tiong Bahru Plaza with Lian: sliced fish porridge, something light since I'm sick. Reading my classmates' blogs, plenty of them are ill too; it's been a sickening week. My mom's products are selling well.
More of the usual: updating my mom's company website, almost done, should finish this week. The site's slow; not sure if the fault's with WebVisions, the host, or the page's file size. Played Unreal Tournament 2003.
Slept till 12.30pm; meant to follow my mom to SpotLight at Orchard Point for curtain cloth, but couldn't wake. After a few rounds of Yahoo Literati and Starcraft: Brood War, it was 6pm. Napped till 7pm.
Old news from 25 October but interesting: Yahoo! is switching its scripting language to PHP, from a proprietary server-side page language written in C/C++. Some facts: 201 million unique users, 93 million page views a day.
From now on, I'll call my girlfriend Lian here; it sounds nicer and more personal. Lunch at Tiong Bahru Plaza with Lian and my brother, the usual Spicy Beef Vegetable Soup set from the Korean stall.
Decided to move the ShoutBox onto the main page only, so the rest load faster. It'll appear as a shout module rather than standing alone; it's been practically empty for months anyway. Humans are born lazy.
At my mom's office to photograph the products, a struggle to find a good spot, the place too dark. Ended near a window for sunlight, but the photos still came out dimmer than I'd hoped; usable.
It's a rainy day and the sun wouldn't shine, an old techno tune by Ice MC. It rained all day. Slept till 1.30pm, the weather perfect for it. Lunch at Tiong Bahru Plaza with my brother.
Woke at 8am to fetch Lian from the bus-stop to my place, my mom took her to work. Went back to sleep. Studied for my BTT afternoon, reading the book, expecting easy, but there's so much.
Stayed home all day, out only for lunch. Mondays are usually dull; most stalls at my coffeeshop are shut, so fishball noodles by default. Played a few rounds of Starcraft: Brood War with Lian till evening.
Watched The Guru at Marina Square before Billy's farewell party at Union Square. Didn't know Billy could rap so well; trance and dance from DJ Ash plus rap, rocked. Shame a good CANI lecturer is leaving.
I came across a headline, '109-bit Encryption Broken', and found it interesting enough to share. 109-bit Elliptic Curve Cryptography was knocked over with brute force; academics scooped a $10,000 prize after a massive distributed computing effort.
Stayed in, leaving only for lunch and dinner. Spent the whole afternoon organising the chalet photos for online viewing: resizing, compressing, the lot. It ate the afternoon; before I knew it, night had fallen. Time flies.
Nokia is launching six new handphone models plus three enhancements in the first half of 2003: the 2100, 5100, 6100, 6800, 7250 and 8910i, alongside a trio of accessory enhancements. A busy year ahead for them.
Command & Conquer Generals has been officially delayed, though Westwood always ships eventually. GameSpyDaily reports that EA Pacific's highly anticipated PC RTS has been strategically pushed to February next year. A long wait, but worth it.
Uploaded all the chalet photos from three digital cameras to the site, 271 photos, 26 MB total. They're up in the Poly Gallery. For the record, this site runs on B2's CVS version, so files stay current.
Off to my DMMT course chalet at Sentosa Holiday Chalet today, with Lian too. We'll be back the afternoon of 7 November, though I'll sleep till night before posting again. I'll try to upload chalet pictures.
This is d-N-a posting from GamerZ's account. Tomorrow's the combined class chalet at Sentosa; we've invited our lecturers for the BBQ, so it'll surely be lively. Caught Sweet Home Alabama at Great World City this evening.
Today's Deepavali, a Happy Deepavali to all my Indian readers. It's a festival for all ages, where people express their joy by lighting earthen diyas, decorating their homes and celebrating the triumph of light over darkness.
Went to Compass Point with Lian, Alvin and Choon Sing to explore the newly opened mall and grab Choon Sing's portable hi-fi for the chalet. Surprised how big it is, with loads of shops. Tried deer meat.