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Today's my mom's actual birthday. Happy Birthday, Mom! Dinner at Marche in Suntec City: steaks, pizzas and more, with the bill around $82, very filling. Cake-cutting later, the cake bought yesterday from Swensen's at Plaza Singapura.
9am to 11am for WWWP practical. Dull start to the day, teaching basic webpage stuff, coding five pages in Notepad. Some used Dreamweaver, some Notepad. It's basic HTML; JavaScript and XML are what I'm waiting for.
Finally animating something semi-realistic after today's CANI practical, six weeks till the first assignment deadline. Played Warcraft III over BattleNet for the first time since buying the original box, with Reaper, Faze, Maxima, Phuse and others.
Learnt the most important part of computer animation, according to my lecturer: 'The Function Curve'. Fail to grasp it and you fail the module. Also finished coding my schooling reference page, simple stuff. Tomorrow's another day.
Second week of school: learnt to write, read and delete files and folders in Java. I could whip up a virus to wipe C:\Windows, evil laugh. Cured fishie's computer; she's back online. Added friend's party photos.
Ikea in the afternoon for lunch with my family, as my uncle was furniture-shopping for his new house. Spotted a CD rack holding 880 CDs, noted measurements, checked at home; it fits nicely, I'm getting it.
Had a seafood buffet lunch; it sucked, all I can say. Then to Orchard, where we split up: three friends and I watched Minority Report at Plaza Singapura, while the rest went to East Coast Park.
School ended at 1pm, then teppanyaki at Bugis Junction with my poly classmates. Funan, I bought a Microsoft SideWinder gamepad for $39.90 to play FIFA World Cup 2002. Out at 6:30pm for three friends' birthday presents.
Happy 4th of July to all Americans, their Independence Day. Just home from a 'breakful' school day, 4.5 hours of breaks. In OOPG we used to code user GUIs by hand; there's a faster drag-and-drop way.
School ended at 11:30am, home by 12.30, shattered after sleeping at 2am and waking at 8. Did body modelling in my first CANI practical; it looks good, if more cartoon than human. The lecturer approved anyway.
Just back from Funan with my copy of Warcraft 3. I'd expected few people, since students had school later, but there were already huge queues. Four shops were selling it, 1,000 copies each for today only.
Updated the blog software to b2 0.6pre3, fixing several bugs I'd found along the way, though one in b2archives2.php still eludes me. If you spot any more, please mail or ICQ me. The fixes are now in.
Posting from school; first practical of the semester and the lecturer's late, due at 10am, now 10.30 with no sign of him. Just reset my login password, since some of us, me included, couldn't log in.
Back from school, plenty of breaks, since there are no tutorials first week. Met four of my seven lecturers; I'll know them all by week's end. No escaping Java again, after taking it in Year 1.
Caught the World Cup final at Civic Plaza, great fun, with 7,500 people and Perfect 10 hosts Daniel Ong and Jean Danker keeping us going. My pick proved right: Brazil are world champions, beating Germany 2-0.
Slept the whole day, exhausted. Today's match was at 7pm; apologies for the wrong time. Turkey beat Korea 3-2, with Hakan Sukur scoring the World Cup's fastest goal at 11 seconds. The Korean crowd were sporting afterwards.
Slept at 5am after chatting with a secondary school classmate studying in LA. He told me about Singapore Express, a restaurant selling only Singaporean food like laksa and nasi lemak. Even Singapore Airlines orders from them.
Brazil beat Turkey 1-0 to reach the final against Germany this Sunday, 30th June at 7:30pm, with the third-place playoff on Saturday. Got my SP timetable today, and it's a mess; so many clashes need sorting.
My prediction held: Germany beat Korea 1-0 and head to the final, most likely against Brazil. The semi-finals kicked off with Germany versus Korea, and Germany duly owned them. No more lucky Sundays for the Koreans.
Finally tracked down the last Warcraft 3 figurine at PK Computer in Funan; my collection's complete. I'll grab my copy of Warcraft 3 at midnight on 2nd July at Funan, where they're holding a celebration. Can't wait.
The World Cup's winding down, four matches and seven days left. Who'll be this year's champion? The semis: Germany versus Korea on Tuesday, 25th June, and Brazil versus Turkey on Wednesday, both at 7:30pm Singapore time.
Turkey beat Senegal 1-0 in extra time and will face Brazil again in the semis on Wednesday, 26th June. Go Brazil! Korea edged Spain 5-3 on penalties, so damn lucky, every day's a Sunday for them.