Sick Week
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.
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Unbeatables III
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.
Flu Virus
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.
Yahoo Going Towards PHP
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.
Tiong Bahru Plaza
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.
ShoutBox Updates
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.
GIRO For EZ-Link Card
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 Is A Rainy Day
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.
Study BTT
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.
It Is A Monday
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.
Billy’s Farewell Party
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.
109-bit Encryption Broken
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.
Resting Day
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 New Phones In 2003
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.
C&C Generals Delayed
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.
Chalet Nov2002 Photos Up
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.
Chalet Here I Come
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.
Pre-Chalet Preps
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.
Happy Deepavali
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.
Compass Point
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.
#Pixel.Junkies Outing
Helped move my brother's things, computer and clothes, into his room, and helped my dad fix the air-con. My room's empty and spacious, so I'll buy a study table to fill the gap. A #pixel.junkies outing.
Minor Site Tweaks
Tweaked things on the site, mostly back-end rather than user-facing. The page load time is more accurate, shown at the bottom outside the layout. All layout parts are called from a function file instead of inlining.