Overdue post

Haha my blog, sorry for neglecting you for so long. I mean, it was such a wonderful holiday period for me for the past month, that I totally forgot about you haha!

First up, my DrumZout 2009 was a roaring success on 20th June at vivocity amphitheatre! We started the preparatory work on friday, and transported many stuff to vivo in the day. Then, jy and me stayed overnight at vivo, and we only went back home on sat morning itself when some people came to relieve us. I took my time at home, and used the computer haha, and only reached vivo at around 2pm lol. Shortly after, the competition commenced, and it was such a spendid performance by all the teams!

My bro then let me in on a part time lobang haha. Hasbro, the toy company, is having a booth at marina square for the Parents' Fiesta 2009. Basically, what we did were just game station masters, and taught the kids how to play. Pretty fun job, and I liked interacting with all the super uber cute kids there! Haha!

I also had ate at Molly Malone with jf for his bday on 3rd july. I first went there with my army D2, and realized they really served good fish n chips, and so I decided to go there again hehe.. Then after the filling meal, we headed over to suntec city to visit the World Cyber Games there. Well, we reached there pretty late, and they were closing already, and so it was pretty boring.

My dad's bdae also falls on this month 12th, and we had a superb buffet dinner at kuishinbo on saturday 11th july at suntec! I only called and tried making reservations on the day itself, and was thus denied a reservation because it was fully booked. So, we headed over early, hoping to get a walk-in table. Alas, we were a little too late, and thus spent an hour waiting for the early birds promo diners to finish before we had our table. Yummy food! My parents loved the snow crabs, salmon sashimi, and many many other nice foodie like the chocolate fondue etc. =))) And on sunday itself, which was my dad's bdae, I went to collect a new york cheesecake from northpoint bakerzinn. I had earlier made an order on friday to collect the cake on sunday. My dad lurve cakes, and was thus delighted at having a very nice and tasty cheesecake! He took quite a few pictures haha! The cake was finished in just 24 hours. Imagine the cake craving that lurks in my family lol! =)

Finally, it was time to start planning for my driving lessons! I booked a total of 5 lessons, inclusive of 1 circuit lesson, before my impending test on 20th july! I was originally under this instructor, or group of instructors, whose head was a Mr Ong. Well, all his instructors were very lousy and unprofessional, and only taught me how to drive, and not how to pass the test, nor all the safety driving checks. I failed my test, with a grand 42 points without any immediate failure, in february this year. Then, I had changed a new instructor who was a single instructor on his own, and had a very high 1st time passing rate in bbdc. I had also booked a test in April, right after my last exam paper, but after taking 2 lessons under him, I felt that I wasn't ready yet for the test, and so, I forfeited the test. It's better to lose $20 than to lose the test $150 haha. And so, now, I had my final test on 20th july. I was super nervous on the test date, and during the test, the tester had helped me brake twice! I thought it was gonna be a bad test, but alas, I passed with only 6 points! Haha. Thanks to this new Mr Tan, that helped me to pass. He was a good instructor who taught me all the correct techniques, unlike my previous ones. But then, he had thought badly of me actually haha, cos he didn't had the confidence that I would pass, and so when I asked him how many points he think I would have gotten, he replied '16 or 18'. ZzzZZzz. Lol. I was surprised at the score myself too hehe. And so to celebrate, I went to eat buffet again w A haha!

Next comes my convocation and reservist. I had woken early on tuesday to go back ntu with my family for my convo. Took quite some pics haha. But the ceremony itself was abit slow. I waited very long before going on stage to collect my cert as my surname was one of the last few to go up. So, I fell asleep haha! Had little sleep the previous night lol. Then after the whole thing, I rushed home, changed, and went to nee soon camp for my IMT. This year's ICT is range. Shoot only haha!

Tmr's my 1st day of work at yckss. Wonder what will happen. And if I'll be suitable for this job. The future is uncertain, but I hope it's exciting and fun!

Fingers crossed,
YY

Beautiful trip -> Vietnam

And so here I am, having not posted after such a loooong time. Heh, been feeling lazy, that's why. Anyway, felt quite lucky that I finished my papers much earlier than the rest of my peers hehe. And did them pretty well too I felt =)

Right after exams, I headed down to SLS on Saturday 25th April to get the components for my new PC!! So excited haha! Spent about $1.6k in total. These are the components of my PC, which I'll be using for at least the next 4 years:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 (at 3.95ghz), w/ OCZ Vendetta2 and IC Diamond 7
Gigabyte EP45-UD3R
2x2gb Kingston HyperX DDR2-1066 rams
Western Digital 640gb Caviar Black
Powercolor 4870 PCS+ 512mb
Aerocool Horsepower 750W
Asus Xonar Essence STX sound card
Asus Vento TA-M11 chassis w/ Scythe Slipstream 1900rpm fans and Coolermaster Green LED fan

When I got all of them back to hall, I spent the whole night fixing them up, only to realize it doesn't boot up after so much hard work. Went to bed feeling vexed, and the next day, I opened up the casing and reseated the front panel headers, and voila, it booted up fine! Yay, my troubleshooting skills are good lol! Damn happy with this PC!

After settling my new computer, I had to busy myself with the FYP presentation. Luckily, it was all fine =) Very soon, it was off to Vietnam! Woohoo! I touched down in Ho Chi Minh, and spent the first 4 days there. Trekked around the city on foot, and also took some day tours to further places. The exact places and pics are in facebook lol. We then took a domestic flight up to Hanoi (capital), then to Halong Bay (some beautiful scenery, and was once voted to be 1 of the world's great wonders), and to Sapa by train. Sapa was literally the coolest place in Vietnam; temperature hovers around the twenties, like in an aircon room. The rest of Vietnam was just scorching hot! Hotter than Singapore I would say. Sapa was full of those small girls who spoke better English than everyone else in other cities in Vietnam. They said that they picked up the language because they had been bringing tourists around as their main means of livelihood. Anyway, I really enjoyed myself at Sapa, though it was only a short 2 days 1 night. Next, we took an open tour bus and came down to Hoi An, which was known for its shopping. I bought 4 shirts, 2 pants, 1 slippers, and 1 shoes, and all of them were tailor made! Still cheaper than what I can find in SG. Haha! Our next stop was Nha Trang, which was basically a beach city. We were lucky on the day we headed to the beach, as the sun was happily displaying its prowess at the beach-goers. We then ended up back at Ho Chi Minh, where we were to take out flight back to home sweet home. I miss the Pho, the walking under the hot sun, the sweating, the taking of pics, and many other things.

Anyway, when I came back, I signed for the education service shortly after. Now, just slacking and busying myself with DrumZout matters, and then have to start taking my driving lessons and PASSING the test in July. Sian, this year's convo and 1st day of reservist clashes. Most probably I guess I would be going for my convo, rush back home, and book in. Sucks. And, I would be starting work directly on the week after reservist. There goes my honeymoon period in NTU. Bye NTU. I think I will miss you =(

YY

End of Projects

Finally, I have come to end of projects for this final semester. After printing my report and binding it, I submitted to my moderator on monday afternoon. My FYP supervisor just needed the softcopy, but moderator wanted the printed copy. ZzZz. In any case, I have a demo tmr, and hope that it will go smoothly *wish*

Today was my Engineers & Society presentation. My group was the last group to present, and we had initially not wanted this slot as it was so freaking near to the exams, 1 week in fact. But we chose abit too late, so there wasn't any choice left. Anyway, it went pretty ok today, but the last member in our group, was basically just murmuring away. It was really so boring, and I could just imagine AP Jessica stop his 'self-conversation' lol. But I guess our group was still pretty ok, minimum should have a B. She also returned our assignment that was submitted right after the term break, and each question was graded and awarded to the individual member who did it. I got A+! Haha!

Just did some cleaning up of another project powerpoint slides and added in some stuff. Tmr is my demo, and I'm not sleeping yet. Argh. Next tuesday's my first paper! Gotta go into active mugger mode!

YY

Job Hunting !

I finally got to eat steamboat last saturday at bugis lol. Had been wanting to eat that since last year, but always didn't have the opportunity to do so. Hence, I jumped at that when jf asked me to go out eat for my bdae lol!

I had eaten twice at a particular shop before, therefore we ate at this seemingly 'higher class' steamboat. The price was also alil more premium than the rest. But the food was really good, much better than the one I ate before. Shall go back eat again someday haha.

Sian, haven't gotten a job yet. Applied for 3 companies 2 days ago, but I guess even if they contact me, it will be after exams, since they won't disturb the students during exam period.

Will be submitting my report to my fyp moderator on monday. Hope he doesn't want a demonstration haha! Just feel lazy, wanna have the time to mug instead. Exams coming! One more week.

Mug mug mug..

Happy =)

This is a good weekend for me. Last night, I had gotten another new mouse, the razer salmosa (asian gaming edition) from sls, and then headed over to Pierside restaurant to have my sumptuous dinner at Fullerton.

Man, the Cod Fish was just heavenly! I have never tasted such nice fish before lol. It was just this good. And the other dish was the kurokawa pork, which I believe is the black pig I heard from one of my friends before. That was nice too, but I still preferred my cod fish haha. After the dinner, comes the Guanaja cake from Rive Gauche. It was a nice chocolate cake, with melted chocolate on top, and a biscuit (mcvities?) as the base. The best chocolate cake I have ever tasted =)

Next stop is Equinox! We went to the City Space, a nice cosy bar whereby we got to enjoy cocktails and mocktails, and also admire the beautiful landscape that sunny singapore has. Saw LY and MY there, so we sat together. And chatted till 2 am! Gosh, I was dead tired by then haha.

I tried out the new mini salmosa I got, and loved it. It's small, light, smooth, and just simply pleasant to use. Gonna sell away my A4Tech mouse, since it doesn't really suit my hands.

I had just come back from christina 21st birthday party at SMU Settler's. It was my first time walking through SMU concourse. This concourse links all the schools in SMU I believe, and is fully air-conditioned. How I wish NTU was like that lol. There were still significant number of people around campus, either studying or doing projects. Geee.

All in all, just wanted to say the weekend was just perfect for me =)

Carbonara!!!

Wheee, I cooked carbonara today for wood, clarisse, and alvin.. Bought spaghetti, mushrooms, bacon, 3 cans of sauce, broccoli, eggs, and added in the hams that were available in the fridge.

I started cooking at 515pm, and took around 2 hours! ZzZZzz, that was long lol. But the end result was pretty good! Tasted not bad! Haha! So happy with myself =))

Maybe I shall cook some at home for my family one day too ;P

IT Show 09

I had went to the IT Show at Suntec on Thursday 12pm, because I wanted to get that DLink DIR-655 router star-buy at 1pm at $139. It is really a good router from the reviews I read online, and am determined to get it. When I reached at 11.50am, there were already some people waiting outside to go in at 12pm haha. In the end, I managed to get it after queuing for 1 hour.

Then I walked around the show. Bought a 8gb sandisk cruzer micro thumbdrive and small laser mouse for my bro, Toshiba XD-E500KA dvd player for dad, and a WD MyBook Essential 1TB for my own backup and storage. I also got a small mini keyboard as a replacement for my current one.

Reached home, setup router and all, and realized that I can fully utilize my newly recontracted 8mbps singnet broadband in torrenting! The previous router I owned limited me to only 150 connections in torrents, which scaled back the full download speed my plan was capable of reaching. Now, I could open 2000 connections in torrent, and download at full speed! So many files were downloaded in just under 1 hour hehe.

I went to the show again on saturday with my family, and we bought a microwave oven cos our house did not have 1, and a 22" LCD tv for my bro's room. I also got a A4Tech X-718BK mouse to replace my Krait. In the end, we spent about $1k in this show.

The DVD player upscaled standard dvds and applied advanced algorithms to enhance the picture quality, which was quite visible. I wasn't very happy with the A4Tech mouse, as it now seems abit too heavy to use haiz. I got a new mousepad from cyberactive to match it, but it still felt heavy >.<

Now, I'm busy with eca, project, and finding jobs! Sian, can't find job yet. Cannot forget my driving too! haha..

Till then!

relaxation time!

Finally, the fyp is done. Finally, the draft report has also been done. Been rushing my fyp for the past 2 months. Even came back to hall on CNY day 1 to do it. After I completed the bulk of the project, on and off, I would head back and edit and make some enhancements to it. Other than the compulsory requirement of Google Maps, I added in a Chat Room and Forum to my Web Based Property Search System.

Come term break, and it was all assignments. After rushing through 2 assignments, I rushed through the draft report for the past 1 week. Did till 2, 3 am before I went to bed. So tired for this period. My prof had also asked me to go teach his DIP students on how to program Google Map, after seeing my work. Haha! I met up with them last Friday, and gave a 'lecture' to a group of around 15 people. All were from China. They really had not read up much beforehand I guess, and what I said did not make sense to them. I wonder if they would still have enough time to complete their DIP, as the prof is going back during the summer holidays, which explains why they are doing it so early.

Now that my draft is completed, I feel so relaxed. A heavy burden off my shoulders. But, still gotta find job!!!!!

YY

what a week!!!!!!!!!!!

DAmn sian! this is a super bz week for me, what with cca meetings, canvassing, wrapping, fyp, web services proj, valentine bash, and last but not least, driving..

Argh, I hate this week! Stupid driving!!!!!!!!!!

sianzzz

Dear Bloggy,

How many times can a person be upsetted? Well, at least for me, not too many.

Now really need to pia my fyp, or i will be dead meat haha..

bitches in the world.

Hi bloggy,

Can u believe it? There are so many bitches in the world, that there's sure to be a few surrounding each and every person. Bitches are usually naive, and full of themselves.

Seriously, I don't know what will happen to bitches in their future lives. They really need lotsa good luck =)

Happy New Year

The past 2 weeks was a nightmare to me. Something I couldn't foresee happen, happened. In any case, it's all over. I just hope I have made the right choice. Hope I can forget the unhappy things soon =(

Lying on the tanning deck, under the soft sun, almost drifting off to dreamland, I thought of the heart wrenching events again. Breaks my heart so.

This is a new year, and I shall focus on completing my fyp and other essential matters. I am tired, need a long rest soon.