Hi everyone. Second sem just ended. Actually I should feel happy about it, but I just couldn't feel the happiness as Hon Wai had just left and don't know when only he will be back again.
All of us didn't have a proper dinner or sort of farewell with him. haiz.. Feel sad about it. In our last lunch together, we just say bye like how we do normally. Last lunch already and it feels like no one feels uneasy about his leave. Why is that so?
Anyway, just hope you guys wish him good luck and dreams come true.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Blog Documentation - Additional Explanation
The template of this blog is downloaded from bloggerbuster.com. About the chatbox and music player, page elements named 'Order' and 'Spices', I get to know these features from my friend's blog. I explore the website of both features and I signed up for them.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
From Programming to Charity, Always About Helping People
Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft and one of the world's richest men, is stepping down his job of running the world's largest software company. He plans to devote his time to charity work.
Bill Gates hoped that he could make a personal computer on every desk in every home. He did it. He programmed his first computer at the age of 13. While studying in Harward University for 2 years, he spent most of his time in front of the computer, polishing his programming skills. He then set up Microsoft with his childhood friend, Paul Allen after dropping out of college and moved to Albuquerque.
Microsoft signed and agreement with IBM to build the operation system, MS-DOS. Microsoft went public in 1986 and Bill Gates became the youngest billionaire within a year.
Now, even with the age of 52, he still has a boyish look, but he is no longer the world's richest man as it is overtaken by the investor Warren Buffett and the Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim. Although so, with the current fortune he has, he decided to leave his day job and concentrate on his charitable organisation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
He will remain as Microsoft's chairman and work on technology projects. According to Mr Gates, great wealth brings great responsibility and his future work will include finding new vaccines and financing projects in the developing world.
Bill Gates hoped that he could make a personal computer on every desk in every home. He did it. He programmed his first computer at the age of 13. While studying in Harward University for 2 years, he spent most of his time in front of the computer, polishing his programming skills. He then set up Microsoft with his childhood friend, Paul Allen after dropping out of college and moved to Albuquerque.
Microsoft signed and agreement with IBM to build the operation system, MS-DOS. Microsoft went public in 1986 and Bill Gates became the youngest billionaire within a year.
Now, even with the age of 52, he still has a boyish look, but he is no longer the world's richest man as it is overtaken by the investor Warren Buffett and the Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim. Although so, with the current fortune he has, he decided to leave his day job and concentrate on his charitable organisation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
He will remain as Microsoft's chairman and work on technology projects. According to Mr Gates, great wealth brings great responsibility and his future work will include finding new vaccines and financing projects in the developing world.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Intel Processors(Core Processor) - Laptop
Let me just talk about processors in Intel Core processor Family as it is the famous ones currently.
- Intel Core Solo mobile processor
- Intel Core 2 Solo mobile processor
- Intel Core Duo mobile processor
- Intel Core 2 Duo mobile processor
- Intel Core 2 Extreme mobile processor
Intel Core Solo mobile processor 
Features and benefits
Enhanced performance
The Intel Core Solo processor is the next generation mobile processor for power-optimized mobile processing. It is enhanced to handle today's demanding software applications—such as graphics-intensive games or serious number-crunching programs.
Power efficiency
The Intel Core Solo processor enables laptops with improved battery life for an enhanced mobility experience.
A vibrant media experience
The Intel Core Solo processor delivers enhanced performance for today's demanding applications such as CAD tools, 3D and 2D modeling, video editing, digital music, digital photography and gaming.
Smarter, more efficient designs
Intel Smart Cache enables smarter, more efficient cache and bus design for enhanced performance, responsiveness and power savings.
Intel Core 2 Solo mobile processor
Features and benefits
Power efficiency
The Intel Core 2 Solo processor has new power-saving features designed to extend the life of your battery.
Enhanced performance
The Intel Core 2 Solo processor is the next generation single-core processor for power-optimized mobile processing. It is enhanced to handle today's demanding software applications-such as CAD tools, 3D and 2D modeling or serious number-crunching programs.
Smarter, more efficient designs
Intel Smart Cache enables smarter, more efficient cache and bus design for enhanced performance, responsiveness and power savings.
Intel Core Duo mobile processor
Features and benefits
Outstanding dual-core performance
With its two execution cores, the Intel Core Duo processor is optimized for multi-threaded applications and multitasking. You can simultaneously run multiple demanding applications such as graphics-intensive games or serious number-crunching programs - while downloading music or running virus-scanning security programs in the background.
Power efficiency
Demand for greater power efficiency in computing is on the rise from desktop to laptop PCs. With an Intel Core Duo processor, you get a balance of great dual-core computing capabilities and power savings. Its enhanced voltage efficiency supports cooler and quieter system designs as compared to traditional desktop and laptop PCs. And thanks to the innovative energy efficient technologies built-in, the Intel® Core™ Duo processor is able to transfer power only to those areas of the processor that need it, thereby enabling laptops to save power and desktops to have thinner, sleeker designs.
A vibrant media experience
The Intel Core Duo processor enables your Intel® Core™2 processor with Viiv™ technology and Intel® Centrino® processor technology multimedia experience to be all the more vibrant. Featuring Intel® Digital Media Boost, the Intel® Core™ Duo processor enables accelerating technologies for applications such as CAD tools, 3D and 2D modeling, video editing, digital music, digital photography and gaming. This is one of the key ingredients that help Intel® Core™2 processor with Viiv™ technology and Intel® Centrino® processor technology to give you a truly rich multimedia experience.
Smarter, more efficient designs
The Intel Core Duo processor features Intel® Smart Cache which helps deliver a smarter and more efficient cache and bus design to enable enhanced dual-core performance, and power savings.
Intel Core 2 Duo mobile processor
Features and benefits
Power efficiency
The Intel Core 2 Solo processor has new power-saving features designed to extend the life of your battery.
Enhanced performance
The Intel Core 2 Solo processor is the next generation single-core processor for power-optimized mobile processing. It is enhanced to handle today's demanding software applications-such as CAD tools, 3D and 2D modeling or serious number-crunching programs.
Smarter, more efficient designs
Intel® Smart Cache enables smarter, more efficient cache and bus design for enhanced performance, responsiveness and power savings.
Intel Core 2 Extreme mobile processor
Features and benefits
When "Extreme" is an understatement.It's not about playing the game. It's about dominating and winning the game. Designed for extreme performance, the Dual-Core and Quad-Core Intel Core 2 Extreme processors feature the latest arsenal of performance-rich technologies:
Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution, enabling delivery of more instructions per clock cycle to improve gaming execution time and energy efficiency
Intel® Deep Power Down Technology, designed to deliver extreme energy-efficient performance
Intel® Smart Memory Access, improving system performance by optimizing the use of all available data bandwidth
Intel® Advanced Smart Cache, providing a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem. Optimized for industry leading multi-threaded games
Intel® Advanced Digital Media Boost, accelerating a broad range of applications, including ultra-realistic game physics and human-like artificial intelligence for an intense gaming experience unlike any other. Now improved even further on 45nm versions with Intel® HD Boost utilizing new SSE4 instructions for even better multimedia performance
Warning: Graphics may appear to be too real.
The Intel Core 2 Extreme processor has the power for incredible visual experiences. Get inside amazingly complex HD games and applications with the incredible performance from Intel's most advanced gaming desktop processor ever.
For more information, please visit http://www.intel.com/products/processor/index.htm?iid=subhdr+prod_proc
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Friday - Finishing Line of BUSY WEEK
Friday, due date for ER diagram of database class. Our lecturer, is pregnant. On the first day of the class itself, she was on MC. After that, she was hospotalized. Reason? Unknown. She was back last week but our first lab class has not started at all and it is week 6 already. She promised us that she would replace and catch up the lessons we missed and lab classes will start after a certain chapter is taught. This week, the chapter was taught and we thought we would have our first lab class which is on Thursday. Some said that there is and some said no. So we were in a mist. We approached our programme officer and she said she would confirm it with us. We waited until 3.45pm and I called miss Anna to confirm the lab class. Lab class will begin next week.
Because of this matter, one student went to make a complaint to our head of programme, saying that there was a misconduct of classes by our lecturer. Our lecturer was very angry about it and she immediately replaced our lab class on Friday, the day after the complaint made. She said she already promised us she would replace the classes for us but someone still went to complaint. So she had no choice but to replace it immediately. Thanks to the fella, we had a last minute replacement which gave us problem as some of us already bought the ticket back to hometown and so on. Only half turned up in the end.
This was the end of the busy week. It was really tiring. This sem is much more worse than the previous sem. I hope I will be able to pass it. Haiz..
Because of this matter, one student went to make a complaint to our head of programme, saying that there was a misconduct of classes by our lecturer. Our lecturer was very angry about it and she immediately replaced our lab class on Friday, the day after the complaint made. She said she already promised us she would replace the classes for us but someone still went to complaint. So she had no choice but to replace it immediately. Thanks to the fella, we had a last minute replacement which gave us problem as some of us already bought the ticket back to hometown and so on. Only half turned up in the end.
This was the end of the busy week. It was really tiring. This sem is much more worse than the previous sem. I hope I will be able to pass it. Haiz..
Thursday - Final Check Point of BUSY WEEK
Thursday was the due date for Web project proposal. At first, I thought my group was the only one which is successful in handing it in in time as the other groups have not printed anything out. Unfortunately, the content of the proposal was not as good as it should be. It wasn't very detail. Although the Japanese group has not printed anything out, but they were able to show a much more detailed but rough proposal.
I am somehow a perfectionist, so I set myself to do things especially group assignments to be near perfect or at least the best or top 3. Being disappointed at my own work and personally, I feel that it is my responsibility that I didn't do a good job in providing a good proposal which consist of my group members' effort. I wasted their effort though they didn't think so. To better things up and make their effort worthful, I decided to improve the proposal according to the lecturer's requirement.
At night, with the proposal done, I had my group meet up at bakery for another discussion and in the meantime, show them the improved proposal to see if there is any mistake. After our discussion which took up about an hour, we went to Al-Salam for supper. Kenny & Roger were very hungry as we didn't have our dinner. We went to the sideboard. I picked 2 chicken chests, one fried one curry, and a beef. I ordered a 'teh tarik' as well. While eating, we watch the exciting football match. The crowd was making noise when the players missed their shot. It was kind of a enjoyable atmosphere with all the woohaas, aiyo, goal! around.
When the bill comes, it wasn't surprising at all yet enjoyable. My supper cost me RM11.20. If I had my dinner before this, my dinner plus supper would have cost me about RM17. Well, RM11.20 didn't make me full enough. But no choice, its late already, Good Night time.
I am somehow a perfectionist, so I set myself to do things especially group assignments to be near perfect or at least the best or top 3. Being disappointed at my own work and personally, I feel that it is my responsibility that I didn't do a good job in providing a good proposal which consist of my group members' effort. I wasted their effort though they didn't think so. To better things up and make their effort worthful, I decided to improve the proposal according to the lecturer's requirement.
At night, with the proposal done, I had my group meet up at bakery for another discussion and in the meantime, show them the improved proposal to see if there is any mistake. After our discussion which took up about an hour, we went to Al-Salam for supper. Kenny & Roger were very hungry as we didn't have our dinner. We went to the sideboard. I picked 2 chicken chests, one fried one curry, and a beef. I ordered a 'teh tarik' as well. While eating, we watch the exciting football match. The crowd was making noise when the players missed their shot. It was kind of a enjoyable atmosphere with all the woohaas, aiyo, goal! around.
When the bill comes, it wasn't surprising at all yet enjoyable. My supper cost me RM11.20. If I had my dinner before this, my dinner plus supper would have cost me about RM17. Well, RM11.20 didn't make me full enough. But no choice, its late already, Good Night time.
Wednesday - Fun Point of BUSY WEEK
Wednesday was the big day. Our first birthday celebration of our group. After the class, around 7pm, Tee Siang and I went to Secret Recipe by car. The price for most of the cakes in whole cost RM70. I didn't know which to choose as I afraid that some might not eat cheese if I chose that. Only left chocolate cakes which have the most choices. So I asked which is the most popular one. The manager pointed it to me. I forgot the name of the cake but it was made of chocolate and ice cream. Then I remembered some of them said that they like ice-cream cake, so I decided to take that.
Here comes the interesting part. We requested the "Happy Birthday" to be written followed by Torros' nickname, "臭阿瓜" , followed by "Torros". To whole sentence would be "Happy Birthday 臭阿瓜 Torros" - (for more information on why '臭阿瓜' was given to Torros as nickname, please visit http://torros-ych.blogspot.com/ or http://profiles.friendster.com/torros)
Being a malay, the manager doesn't know how to write '臭阿瓜'. So I have to write it myself using the 'cream pen'. It was my FIRST time writing words on cake!! Torros took my first-time away which I reserve for my future wife or girlfriend. SAD!! The cream pen was almost out of 'ink'. The manager wanted to give me a new one but it was very big, so I didn't want. It was very hard to be handled by a newbie like me. Squezzing hard on the pen, my hands were shaking. The result was utterly bad!! But the sentence formed a Z if looked at far side.
All of us who stay in campus hostel gathered in front of bakery at 11.30pm. Then we walked to bistro to meet up with Tee Siang and Hon Wai. Bringing the cake along, all of us walked to Torros' house which is near Al-Salam. As Max told Torros that he would be going to his house to take a software cd, he went in first with Roger. The rest of us were getting ready outside the house while waiting for Max to give us a signal. Once we received the signal(sms), we lighted up the candles and brought it up to Torros' room. There goes the song and everything. Together with Torros' housemate which included Roger's younger brother, Chin Yong, the feast began. We were watching the football math while Tee Siang, being the photographer, took some shots of us.
After we have cleaned up, it was time to give our birthday boy a memorable present, 'Aluba'. We have the strongest among us, Roger and Long Sheng, to hold on to Torros' hands while Max and I grabbed his legs. Torros felt the LOVE from all of us.
LOVE giving was over and all of us headed for CC!! Our tradition? I guess so. It was near 1am. The CC near bistro was full so we have no choice but to go to campus' CC. 4on4 dota match began. Each team was able to win once after the 2 hours game which brought us to midnight 3am. Everyone was tired and went back home to sleep as we have 8am class the next morning. Cool..
All of us had fun. I'm sure we have given Torros a memorable 19 birthday and nightmare after the LOVE giving ceremony.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TORROS!!
The Cake with The Ugly Chinese Word I wrote.
Preparing While Waiting Signal From Max
Make A Wish!!
Blow!! (don't know what those two guys are laughing at)
Doing Torros' Favourite Pose (Max Blocked Me!! T.T)
Eat Eat Eat..
Here comes the interesting part. We requested the "Happy Birthday" to be written followed by Torros' nickname, "臭阿瓜" , followed by "Torros". To whole sentence would be "Happy Birthday 臭阿瓜 Torros" - (for more information on why '臭阿瓜' was given to Torros as nickname, please visit http://torros-ych.blogspot.com/ or http://profiles.friendster.com/torros)
Being a malay, the manager doesn't know how to write '臭阿瓜'. So I have to write it myself using the 'cream pen'. It was my FIRST time writing words on cake!! Torros took my first-time away which I reserve for my future wife or girlfriend. SAD!! The cream pen was almost out of 'ink'. The manager wanted to give me a new one but it was very big, so I didn't want. It was very hard to be handled by a newbie like me. Squezzing hard on the pen, my hands were shaking. The result was utterly bad!! But the sentence formed a Z if looked at far side.
All of us who stay in campus hostel gathered in front of bakery at 11.30pm. Then we walked to bistro to meet up with Tee Siang and Hon Wai. Bringing the cake along, all of us walked to Torros' house which is near Al-Salam. As Max told Torros that he would be going to his house to take a software cd, he went in first with Roger. The rest of us were getting ready outside the house while waiting for Max to give us a signal. Once we received the signal(sms), we lighted up the candles and brought it up to Torros' room. There goes the song and everything. Together with Torros' housemate which included Roger's younger brother, Chin Yong, the feast began. We were watching the football math while Tee Siang, being the photographer, took some shots of us.
After we have cleaned up, it was time to give our birthday boy a memorable present, 'Aluba'. We have the strongest among us, Roger and Long Sheng, to hold on to Torros' hands while Max and I grabbed his legs. Torros felt the LOVE from all of us.
LOVE giving was over and all of us headed for CC!! Our tradition? I guess so. It was near 1am. The CC near bistro was full so we have no choice but to go to campus' CC. 4on4 dota match began. Each team was able to win once after the 2 hours game which brought us to midnight 3am. Everyone was tired and went back home to sleep as we have 8am class the next morning. Cool..
All of us had fun. I'm sure we have given Torros a memorable 19 birthday and nightmare after the LOVE giving ceremony.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TORROS!!
The Cake with The Ugly Chinese Word I wrote.
Preparing While Waiting Signal From Max
Make A Wish!!
Blow!! (don't know what those two guys are laughing at)
Doing Torros' Favourite Pose (Max Blocked Me!! T.T)
Eat Eat Eat..
Our Youngest and Cutest Max. Lol..
Poor Torros
The Gang!! Friendship Forever!!
Credits: Photographer (Tan Tee Siang)
Actors (The Gang)
Tuesday - 1st Check Point of BUSY WEEK
On Tuesday, we had our discrete math test. The night before, 3 of us, Max, Roger and I went to the temporary common room in AO to revise. There were a lot of people studying there. To be honest, I salute those people. Everyday, I could see all the common rooms filled with people. Unlike some of us, we only go there to study when test or final exams are approaching.
On Tuesday morning, we were seated accordingly, a space between each person. The atmosphere in the class was unusually serious. The test began and oh no, Torros and I forgot to bring our calculator. We were so careless!! I left it in the pouch I brought to study the night before. We had to borrow from Roger who was sitting on my left and I pass to Torros on my right when he needs it. We have lost some time over that.
After the test was over, as usual, we discussed about it and see which question had we got wrong. At times like this, after the test, we were able to relax a bit, stress level reduced. The next was Web class. Lucky enough, it was a relaxing one as well. We were given articles to read and present what we have read. It was somehow relaxing compared to the usual lecture classes.
At night, my Web project group (Max, Roger, Torros and I), the Chinese Cuisine-ians, had our discussion in Bakery. Torros was in a hurry to somewhere, so we dismissed as soon as possible. Now left 3 of us, and we started to plan for a birthday celebration for Torros. If I'm not mistaken, he is the first birthday boy in our group of friends. Every month we would have one birthday celebration as each of our birthday drops on every following months. Cool? Torros is the first. So from June onwards, we will have birthday celebration every following months. Haha..
On Tuesday morning, we were seated accordingly, a space between each person. The atmosphere in the class was unusually serious. The test began and oh no, Torros and I forgot to bring our calculator. We were so careless!! I left it in the pouch I brought to study the night before. We had to borrow from Roger who was sitting on my left and I pass to Torros on my right when he needs it. We have lost some time over that.
After the test was over, as usual, we discussed about it and see which question had we got wrong. At times like this, after the test, we were able to relax a bit, stress level reduced. The next was Web class. Lucky enough, it was a relaxing one as well. We were given articles to read and present what we have read. It was somehow relaxing compared to the usual lecture classes.
At night, my Web project group (Max, Roger, Torros and I), the Chinese Cuisine-ians, had our discussion in Bakery. Torros was in a hurry to somewhere, so we dismissed as soon as possible. Now left 3 of us, and we started to plan for a birthday celebration for Torros. If I'm not mistaken, he is the first birthday boy in our group of friends. Every month we would have one birthday celebration as each of our birthday drops on every following months. Cool? Torros is the first. So from June onwards, we will have birthday celebration every following months. Haha..
Monday - Starting Point of BUSY WEEK
I've missed blogging for so many days as I was very busy during the weekdays. There were 1 assignment due on Monday, Math test on Tuesday, Torros birthday on Wednesday (11 June), proposal due on Thurday and ER diagram due on Friday.
On Monday, the first thing I do after I've returned back to my room was to sleep till 11am to transfer my assignment files to my 'pendrive' which is actually an external hard disk. Then I went to meet with my classmates. Almost all of us were busy doing the final editing of our programming assignment once we discussed and found the mistake. Though it was a last minute thing, but in this way, without plagiarising, we could help each other to find out the mistakes and able to know that there is a better or different to do it.
I actually edited mine twice or so. Printed twice. I was so careless that I didn't notice my mistakes in one shot. Few of us had spent about RM10 on one assignment. The printing cost about RM2.50 each time we print - depended on how many pages we have. Lucky enough, when we submit our assignment before 4pm, the lecturer told us that we have to bind it. If we were to bind it before that, the cost for sure would have bombed us all and we have to eat bread for our dinner. Monday was a mess.
Despite the mess we had before we hand up our assignment, we were able to submit a better quality of assignment without all the careless mistakes.
On Monday, the first thing I do after I've returned back to my room was to sleep till 11am to transfer my assignment files to my 'pendrive' which is actually an external hard disk. Then I went to meet with my classmates. Almost all of us were busy doing the final editing of our programming assignment once we discussed and found the mistake. Though it was a last minute thing, but in this way, without plagiarising, we could help each other to find out the mistakes and able to know that there is a better or different to do it.
I actually edited mine twice or so. Printed twice. I was so careless that I didn't notice my mistakes in one shot. Few of us had spent about RM10 on one assignment. The printing cost about RM2.50 each time we print - depended on how many pages we have. Lucky enough, when we submit our assignment before 4pm, the lecturer told us that we have to bind it. If we were to bind it before that, the cost for sure would have bombed us all and we have to eat bread for our dinner. Monday was a mess.
Despite the mess we had before we hand up our assignment, we were able to submit a better quality of assignment without all the careless mistakes.
Friday, June 6, 2008
The Power of Accomplishment
This week has been a busy week. Stact Club, the only club I joined together with Chee Heng(Torros), Chin Yang(Roger), and other classmates, is organising the Charity Monopoly Challenge. On Tuesday, they drew the floor advertisement. On Wednesday, they would start painting it and after that start drawing the huge banner. Torros was seeking for help, though I am not part of the organising team, I would like to give a hand. Roger also agreed in giving a hand but in the end, he couldn't come as he was feeling unwell.
They appointed to meet each other at 8pm at SAO. Everyone's job is the same, paint the drawings. It wasn't a easy task as it looked. At first there were less than 10 painters, which is a very small team. As the indicators of the clock were nearing 12, showing it's already late, most painters started to leave, leaving 5 behind. Torros and I were one of them. Leaving behind these 5 person, the work got harder.
After we have finished the painting, it's time to draw the banner. We planned to project the image on the banner by placing the projector on the ceiling or above banner so that we could follow the image and drow, but we were having a problem in getting the signal to the projector through the laptop. After about half and hour of guessing and setting, we finally get it. But problems yet to come. The projector needed a higher place to screen the image on the banner to be fit but there wasn't such place and the plug was not long enough. So we gave up and decided to draw the banner using the other technique, freehand. Thanks to the pro drawer, the publicity for the event, she manage to draw everything freehanded and yet precisely. The part I drew, it was a mess till she came and corrected it for me. I felt like I gave her more problems instead of help. I don't have the art genes. Felt so guilty about it.
Anyway, it was already over 4am, Thursday, when everythin is done. Torros and I only have 2 hours to sleep before 8am class and the Thursday classes are from 8am to 2pm straight. Oh my god. I was so doomed, we were so doomed.
We were late for the first class for about 20 minutes. Sleepy in the following classes. After the tiring day, we rushed back to sleep as we were going to have our 2nd session at 8pm same place to paint the banner we drew the day before.
On Thurday, more helpers were called. Roger (Chin Yang) and his girlfriend came to help as well - after feeling guilty about not able to give us a hand on Wednesday night. On halfway through, even Max came to help. His main reason to come over was to take something from Roger, but end up helping us, how kind. The atmosphere in the working place became more lifely as 4 of us, Max, Roger, Torros and I started to chat and joke. This way, it is more relaxing. Although the number of helper has tripled the previous night's, we only manage to complete everything at 4am. After the tiring hours, 5 of us, Roger, Max, Torros, another friend and I went to Bistro to have our supper.
After refilling our energy, we carry the tools back. I had to carry the heavy banner all the way from Bistro to Block L hostel.
Today, after the hardwork from everyone, the banner is finally up on display. My first time drawing and painting such huge banner. It is even my first time trying to tie such huge banner in order to display it. The banner is about 3 stories long, 2 classes wide. What an accomplishment.
I am happy that I was able to help, somehow, in some ways. Although it was very very tiring and there are many assignments, proposal and test due the following week, no matter what it took us to complete the work, the feeling of being able to accomplish something after intense hardwork is great.
They appointed to meet each other at 8pm at SAO. Everyone's job is the same, paint the drawings. It wasn't a easy task as it looked. At first there were less than 10 painters, which is a very small team. As the indicators of the clock were nearing 12, showing it's already late, most painters started to leave, leaving 5 behind. Torros and I were one of them. Leaving behind these 5 person, the work got harder.
After we have finished the painting, it's time to draw the banner. We planned to project the image on the banner by placing the projector on the ceiling or above banner so that we could follow the image and drow, but we were having a problem in getting the signal to the projector through the laptop. After about half and hour of guessing and setting, we finally get it. But problems yet to come. The projector needed a higher place to screen the image on the banner to be fit but there wasn't such place and the plug was not long enough. So we gave up and decided to draw the banner using the other technique, freehand. Thanks to the pro drawer, the publicity for the event, she manage to draw everything freehanded and yet precisely. The part I drew, it was a mess till she came and corrected it for me. I felt like I gave her more problems instead of help. I don't have the art genes. Felt so guilty about it.
Anyway, it was already over 4am, Thursday, when everythin is done. Torros and I only have 2 hours to sleep before 8am class and the Thursday classes are from 8am to 2pm straight. Oh my god. I was so doomed, we were so doomed.
We were late for the first class for about 20 minutes. Sleepy in the following classes. After the tiring day, we rushed back to sleep as we were going to have our 2nd session at 8pm same place to paint the banner we drew the day before.
On Thurday, more helpers were called. Roger (Chin Yang) and his girlfriend came to help as well - after feeling guilty about not able to give us a hand on Wednesday night. On halfway through, even Max came to help. His main reason to come over was to take something from Roger, but end up helping us, how kind. The atmosphere in the working place became more lifely as 4 of us, Max, Roger, Torros and I started to chat and joke. This way, it is more relaxing. Although the number of helper has tripled the previous night's, we only manage to complete everything at 4am. After the tiring hours, 5 of us, Roger, Max, Torros, another friend and I went to Bistro to have our supper.
After refilling our energy, we carry the tools back. I had to carry the heavy banner all the way from Bistro to Block L hostel.
Today, after the hardwork from everyone, the banner is finally up on display. My first time drawing and painting such huge banner. It is even my first time trying to tie such huge banner in order to display it. The banner is about 3 stories long, 2 classes wide. What an accomplishment.
I am happy that I was able to help, somehow, in some ways. Although it was very very tiring and there are many assignments, proposal and test due the following week, no matter what it took us to complete the work, the feeling of being able to accomplish something after intense hardwork is great.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Lovely Couples & Class Ajinamoto
Wow.. I just came back from cyber cafe. Bad student right? Someone also went to CC till late night. Han Seng or Max. But he went there to edit his blog as the line in hostel was terribly slow. I felt so guilty as while I'm enjoying my game he is doing his assignment. Sad.. Handful of students would actually pay for the CC service to do homework, mostly is for gaming. Like Max, he is one of those good students. Seriously salute him.
While I was on my way back to my room, I saw 2 couples sitting on the concrete bench in different side. They were doing something under the shadow (PRIVACY). Well, it was kind of sweet to actually stay up till so late to do such thing after a day of exhaustion. When I reached block E, I saw 2 of my friends who are also couple. They kissed each other goodbye even in front of the guard and others. There are a lovely couple. Another couple was spotted in the common room of my block. The girl was actually helping to guy to apply some medicine. Haha.. don't know why today I saw so many lovely couples. Suddenly feel like I hope for one. Just kidding. Even if I really wished, I guess it is impossible. Only 1 female student in my course for my batch. Unfortunate for all the 4 lecturers who teach my batch, all four ladies have to face this bunch of monkeys. Haha.. Sorry brothers, but I think we are, as what we have seen in our previous C++ class, Max actually made the lecturer laughed till she couldn't stand it and hit him. See how naughty we are.
It was good that he actually added some spices during the class, but Miss Chong said it was too much. I think she was joking. She didn't say it in a more serious way. She was actually laughin. Haha.. Hope no one ask her to read this post. I don't want to get it from her. Miss Chong is actually a hard-outside-soft-inside lecturer, I guess. She always put on a serious look during the class. When it comes to jokes, she tend to hide her laughter. But after 3 weeks, I think she couldn't stand not to laugh anymore. She told us that in her many years of teaching, we are the naughtiest ones. To be honest, when we stepped into the class for the first time, we all said:"This is bad, she looks so fierce. We are going to have a hard time." But who knows, we broke the ice. All thanks to our class' Ajinamoto, Max. Good job Max!!
While I was on my way back to my room, I saw 2 couples sitting on the concrete bench in different side. They were doing something under the shadow (PRIVACY). Well, it was kind of sweet to actually stay up till so late to do such thing after a day of exhaustion. When I reached block E, I saw 2 of my friends who are also couple. They kissed each other goodbye even in front of the guard and others. There are a lovely couple. Another couple was spotted in the common room of my block. The girl was actually helping to guy to apply some medicine. Haha.. don't know why today I saw so many lovely couples. Suddenly feel like I hope for one. Just kidding. Even if I really wished, I guess it is impossible. Only 1 female student in my course for my batch. Unfortunate for all the 4 lecturers who teach my batch, all four ladies have to face this bunch of monkeys. Haha.. Sorry brothers, but I think we are, as what we have seen in our previous C++ class, Max actually made the lecturer laughed till she couldn't stand it and hit him. See how naughty we are.
It was good that he actually added some spices during the class, but Miss Chong said it was too much. I think she was joking. She didn't say it in a more serious way. She was actually laughin. Haha.. Hope no one ask her to read this post. I don't want to get it from her. Miss Chong is actually a hard-outside-soft-inside lecturer, I guess. She always put on a serious look during the class. When it comes to jokes, she tend to hide her laughter. But after 3 weeks, I think she couldn't stand not to laugh anymore. She told us that in her many years of teaching, we are the naughtiest ones. To be honest, when we stepped into the class for the first time, we all said:"This is bad, she looks so fierce. We are going to have a hard time." But who knows, we broke the ice. All thanks to our class' Ajinamoto, Max. Good job Max!!
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