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Apple iPhone 3G

2008-08-14T17:33:00.032+08:00

This entry is made exclusively for those gadget lovers who intend to buy, or keen on buying Apple iPhone 3G this coming 22 August 2008. Yes, iPhone 3G will be available in Singapore on 22 August 2008 onwards. Singtel has confirmed it via email for those who have reserved the phone online. From what I've heard, the phone does come in "bundle" with a 2-year Singtel mobile phone plan because this phone is currently exclusive for Singtel user only.

Well, here I'd like to summarize what I've found across the internet, regarding the good and the bad of iPhone 3G. Here we go.

The Good aka Pro:

High-Speed 3G network: meaning, you can browse at a faster speed than the old iPhone does.
The new design: Well, it looks slightly "slimmer" than the old iPhone. Truth is, the body of the phone itself is thicker in the center but the edges are thinner than before. If you ever notice it, the back of the phone is no longer a matte aluminum, but a black (or white if you choose to buy the 16G one) plastic.
GPS navigation: fast GPS acquisition, depending on your location and reception. It utilizes the Assisted GPS (AGPS) supplemented by satellites, which better pinpoints your location.
Camera: Slight improvement in the photo quality.
Contact Search: Now you are able to search your contact by typing any portion of the name.
Call quality: The call quality is improved by eliminating the presence of slight background hum and increasing the audio volume.

The Bad aka cons:

Its high resolution 480 x 320 3.5-inch display is a magnet for fingerprints and smudges.
The most irritating one is that the Bluetooth only supports headset and can't be used for file transfer.
There is no MMS (Multimedia Message) feature in iPhone 3G.
You can't shoot any video using the 2MP camera. Well, perhaps for those of you who don't really bother about shooting video using mobile phones, this drawback could be ignored.
We might be familiar with "copy and paste" feature that common symbian / windows based phones have. Sadly, this feature can't be found here in iPhone 3G.
After contemplating some pictures taken using iPhone 3G's 2MP camera, I conclude that the camera is really something Apple needs to improve when launching next generation of iPhone.
The battery is short-lived, as in when you turn on everything (3G, wifi, bluetooth for headset, GPS), the battery could be drained very quickly. In addition, unlike most other smart phones, the iPhone battery is sealed and hence can't be replaced with a spare.
No voice dialing for iPhone 3G.
There is no way to extend the memory size of this phone as no memory-card slot can be found in this phone.

Conclusion:
iPhone has successfully delivered what other smart phones unable to deliver. The design, technology, user interfaces, all are brilliant! However, most features that a standard phone has are missing. For myself, at least for the time being, I'd prefer to buy iPod touch rather than iPhone 3G. Both of them are nearly the same, the UI, design, applications, and so on. The only difference is that iPod Touch is working offline, as in not receiving any GSM signal whatsoever. Last word, iPhone 3G is worth the design and all the technologies it utilizes, but it is not worth a phone..

*all images are courtesy of engadget.com

Graduation and Working life...

2008-08-13T11:55:00.009+08:00

Finally.. it's the end of our undergrad journey my dear SCEian fellows.. I started a new life on 8 July 2008.. which is my very 1st day working here in NCS. Yeah.. I'm working with NCS now. It's not like I have not ever imagined it before, but it's totally a two different worlds.. schooling vs working. Somehow.. in this very moment, i can feel the insatiable desire of human being.. It's very simple, once you have graduated and entering a working life, you might feel like university and dorm life were so great. Hahaha.. you could skip as many lectures as you want. :P you could slack and sleep in the LT.. etc and hence you wish you could go back in time to your uni life haha.

Having my convocation on 25 July. It was raining back then :( couldn't take pictures outdoor hahaha.. Yeah, I am officially graduated from NTU with Bachelor of Engineering (CE) degree :P LOLz.. My parents, my sis, and my dear were all there :D what a beautiful yet cloudy day :P

Well, my first day of work was quite normal. Woke up very2 early in the morning (ard 6 i guess) and reached office ten minutes before 830 and hence I had to wait til' 830 ^^;; I was brought to some room (dunno d name :P) and they took my photo for my staff ID card. I was introduced to Adam then, so called my buddy here in my team. haha.. He's so funny, talkative, etc :P i was also introduced to Jenny (if you noticed, she is the one who spammed my blog several days ago.. you can see her comments are everywhere within my entries LOL). Well, I was brought to my cubicle then.. in the nice corner just beside my Project Manager's cubicle haha. Well, maybe i was wrong, there's one flaw.. i wrongly put my monitor to face d aisle. You may have guessed it.. ya that's correct! Everybody who walks pass my cubicle might see what I am doing LOLz haha. Can't browse too much :P:P hahahahaha.

Nothing much to do on my 1st dae actually, read some online orientation module and tried hard to keep my eyes open :P hahaha. Then I tried to familiarize with the environment ard here, tried to remember the way to pantry and toilet, etc. One thing I dun really like here is that in this big big room, no single window can be found! haha.. of coz without ur watch or computer, u won't know whether it is morning, afternoon, or night! No big deal actually hahaah.. since my PC is always on.

a view from NCS's pantry on a bright day...

I was assigned to PORTS project. At first, I thought PORTS is really2 ports.. literally.. as in Singapore Ports stg like tat. haha, the real thing is, PORTS is totally a different thing. It's an abbreviation of Prison Operations and Rehabilitations System. hahaha.. So I'm kinda in "prison" rite now LOLz. About the work so far.. ya quite ok I guess. Still can manage to meet the deadline and everything. Sometimes, it could be dreadfully boring here.. hahaha.. especially when my team mates are nt in.

I have finished one assignment for module enhancement yesterday.. and nothing much to do now hahaha. Can just relax for d time being I guess :P

-=I'm out=-
"work hard, play harder!!"

--> this entry is the 100th entry in diz blog.. :P

Unofficially... GRADUATED!

2008-05-05T18:15:00.004+08:00

Yoshh.. today is my "judgement day" yeah well, FYP presentation day!! haha.. and now I'm finally FREE!! I started preparing my slides on Friday, and I still blurred tat time.. :S hahah.. I had to go thru my report again.. and find out which one shud be included in the slides, which one shudn't.. The initial slides were done on Sunday.. and after having an "improper" rehearsal, i noticed that it was more than 20 minutes !! Yeah actually we are only given max 20 minutes for presentation and 10 mins for QnA. I deleted some slides then.. mostly about the literature review. I did a rehearsal again and the best I could do was 20 minutes sumthin'. Ya, quite a relief.. but still.. I was thinking how to further shorten my presentation... I went to school, looked for a bench.. and did a rehearsal again there. Well, nt really rehearsal actually, juz tried to speak (I was whispering thou :P) and timed it.. and it was still ard 20 minutes stg.. well, I stopped and went back. hahaha..

Today before the presentation, I rehearsed once again and surprisingly it was only 18 mins hahah.. yeah well.. maybe I spoke too fast .. enough is enough.. Venny, my group mate for diz FYP, went first. I was surprised tat during the presentation, our examiner interrupted her and asked stg regarding the slide. hahaha.. quite frightening rite.. I was afraid tat I cudn't finish everything in 30 mins time. However, to be honest, my examiner was nt tat scary and to make it better, my supervisor (same as Venny's) helped her answering the qns from examiner (well, I was wondering tat time.. would he help me as well? :P) and the time came.. it was my turn.. During my presentation, I was interrupted only once.. and after finishing my presentation, he asked another question. That's ALL !! haha.. luckily my supervisor helped me convincing my examiner during the very last question. haha.. Thank GOD !! It's all over then !!! :D I am UNOFFICIALLY graduated now haha.. --> Edmond Gunarso, BEng (Hons) huahauha..

but still.. I'm afraid of the results hahaha.. well, what's done is done.. nothin' you can do to fix it eniwei.. so yah.. juz hope for the bez !!

-=I'm out=-

Chapter 22

2008-05-01T12:25:00.003+08:00

Yosh... It's my Chapter 22 of life.. Thank GOD for everything :) Birthday wishes : iPod Touch, PSP, PS3, job offer, etc2 wakakaak.. juz kidding lar :P I wish everything goes well, including my FYP presentation (5th May), job hunting, and.. my future endeavors !! :D Nothing special today, I went out wif my sis, having lunch at Ajisen Ramen @ Tiong Bahru Plaza.. and of coz her treat wakaka.. XD

Well, my dear is not in Singapore.. She's leaving for Shanghai today haha.. quite sad.. but she really has to go. That's okay :) I'll juz wait for her to come back.. and maybe we could have a little celebration together XD

Thank you all! Have a nice dae pals!

Freedom !!!

2008-04-30T21:22:00.004+08:00

Yes yes yes.. today is our "independence" day.. at least for some ppl taking CPE416 - Distributed System as their LAST paper.. Freedom finally... from EXAMS !! haahaha.. yeah but it's not really over actually. Will be having FYP demo and final presentation on 2nd and 5th of May. That will be the last two stuffs.. before I'm leaving NTU.

Today, other than my LAST paper, I got final interview with Citibank as well... wad a day! Yeah, hopefully all went well.. The paper was quite okay.. little mistakes here and there thou'.. Interview? "sufficiently bored" waiting.. and a bit sleepy :P Well, I waited for approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes (well, I arrived at the office ard 12.15..) My schedule was actually at 12.45 but there was this one person who was supposedly engaging the panelists at 12.00.. and he came late.. hence his slot was brought to 1230. The HR person told me tat it is a 30-minute interview but well.. I waited til' 13.30 to get my turn.. Quite bored waiting.. hahaa.. the interview itself was okay.. normal interview questions I had expected the nite before.. and luckily not too technical as well..

I'll just relax myself for now.. counting the hours before my........ XD

One more...

2008-04-21T21:35:00.005+08:00

One last paper.. for the entire life.. *oops.. nt really.. well.. at least for several years :P Yesss.. It's the very lastttt oneee !! on 30.. Haf to finish hundred pages of lecture notes in... hmm.. lemme think.. 5 days ? well let's just see..

These few days, I suffered from quite SEVERE diarrhea =.=" it started on Tuesday night..... Tuesday was the presentation day with Citi (refer to the previous entry), and I decided to skip my lunch and directly go for dinner. Well, that was nt intentionally thou.. I juz din feel hungry tat afternoon, so I decided to juz sleep away and skip the lunch (I ate breakfast quite a lot neway..). Me and Jaq were having dinner at the newly opened Sakae Sushi outlet (hoho.. NTU is getting more and more "classy" huh ? :P) and I grabbed one plate of sushi tat nite before savoring my "main course", chicken katsudon if I'm nt wrong...... then we continued studying at the newly opened canteen A. I was okay for several hours.. which then I felt like vomiting.. dunno why.. I rested well that night, and the next day, I felt that I had a little fever.. and lost my entire appetite for food! After lunch, I was feeling like going to toilet every half an hour or so. =.=" tat was tiring !! I was very tired.. I din do enithing but very tired.. that must be due to the diarrhea. I was sleeping almost the whole day man ! and believe it or nt.. the next day was my FIRST paper dude! I was afraid that I could not make it .. :S but I kept on believing tat tml I NEED to go.. rili2 need to go man.. I had porridge for the dinner, nt too savory but I needed to eat sumthin to get some energy to finish my study! To sum up everything, that nite was very2 awful one.. got headache, needed to use the toilet every half n hour, got a lil' fever too! =.="

the next day, when I woke up, the fever had gone, but my body was tired still.... I went to bathroom splashing some waters on my face.. then preparing things for exam.. and grabbed a red bean pau on the way to the bus stop to catch the shuttle bus to the exam venue. Well, that was at SRC (Sports and Recreation Center) which is quite far from my hall of residence and under normal circumstances I'll just walk from here, but... no choice I had to take shuttle bus there due to my sickness T_T Miraculously, I din need to go to the toilet during the 2-hour battle with Simulation and Modeling.. thank GOD! Went back, had yong tofu for my lunch then went to bed again... too tired to do enithing else... wew and.. the fever came back T_T

After some days without any sign of getting better... on Saturday I went to the medical center wewww... to get some "proper" medicines.. (well actually I haf only NORIT and DIATABS tablets for diarrhea.. but they weren't handy thou). Now, I feel a lot better.. and just gone for the second paper this afternoon. Thank GOD.. I managed to get out from very very very mortifying situation last week...

Citi actually have contacted me on Thursday, and I have been selected for the FINAL interview on 30 April next week. Wow.. juz let it flow, do my best.. and leave it to God for the rest... :) I'll just relax myself tonite.. recharging for the last battle with Distributed System.. and the interview of course.. quite frightening thou :P

-=I'm out=-
Mugging hard and play HARDER !!

Treasuring every moment..

2008-04-13T15:33:00.009+08:00

Wohoho.. I'm back ! hahaah.. Phew, 18 January... quite a long time ago huh? XD Well, so many things have happened diz semester. Mostly, FYP matters... I thought tat my FYP was a piece of crap, dunno wad to do, dunno how to survive, exaggerated desperation (if it is even the correct term to describe it :P) etc.. but in d end, I could finish d report on time and surprisingly.. no comments from my examiner, and my supervisor told me that the report was good. Thank GOD.. but, it's not over YET.

Preparing the demo was another challenging yet exhausting work. Well, I changed the program quite A LOT.. enhancing the overall running time at the cost of less reliability. The idea is still the same with what I have written in the report, only the method is a lil' bit different. That's okay, its unreliability is still at the tolerable level, and more importantly, it's neither disrupting another processes in the program nor causing run-time error. Phew.. More or less, now the demo preparation has finished.. Most likely, the demo will be on 2 May.. just a few days before my FINAL presentation which is on 5 May, 1400. Yeah, tat will be the very LAST and FINAL task I have to tackle in NTU.

I mentioned about summer studies in the previous entry rite.. know wad ? ISC has ruined everything!! Here is the story.. I submitted the application quite a while ago using FIREFOX browser.. and it was stated that the application has been submitted successfully. I didn't expect for any acknowledgment to be sent afterwards, since.. yeah, sometimes we just need to wait for the outcome rite? (to make it worse, me and some of my buddies were all submitting the application using Firefox.. so nobody knew about the ack email.. =.=") After waiting nearly a month with nothing abt the summer studies, my friend Adi called ISC and was told that his application did NOT thru'... WAD??? I couldn't believe that, and I called ISC myself to make sure.. I was told that my application did NOT thru' as well =.=" wthh... The problem was.. he said there was a technical glitch when students submitted their application using Firefox browser.. WTH.. Why didn't they give us warning, or precaution about Firefox before????... =.=" damn lousy lar ! Yeah, so.. my summer study dream.. gone.. oh well..

It's less than a month now to the time of freedom (after my FYP FINAL presentation.. and to be exact, it's ard 21 days, 12 hours, 20 minutes and 16 seconds).. from school.. textbooks, lecture notes, etc.. (for a while.. since I'm thinking of having a Master degree in 2/3 years time). Well, nt really a freedom thou.. haf to keep on looking for a job (if I haven't got any...) and looking for a new shelter.. to be called home..

Job hunting ? I'm still jobless huahau.. No worries, keep on trying still.. Well, actually I have a presentation for Citibank CTI-MA this coming TUESDAY!!! haven't prepared anything yet.. and my first paper is juz ard the corner also.. on this coming THURSDAY!! What a week! Juz, treasure it.. treasure ur every last moment here in NTU (i mean.. your "schooling" time.. :P nt necessarily to be NTU) coz you might have these times no more...

I'm out..
~Mugging hard and play harder !! ~

New year.... new spirit ?

2008-01-18T11:59:00.000+08:00

guess it's quite late now to say.. Happy new year 2008.. XD Yeah, what's ur resolution for diz year? Mine is at least 1280x1024, 60Hz.. wakakaka.. kidding lar. Talking abt resolutions.. I wan to improve my communication skills (especially interviewing skills, thou haven't engaged in one for a few months alr..), have a better time management, have more patience in .. nearly everything, have more faith as well... Perhaps the aforementioned resolutions are just a few from the very long list of mine :P

Well, finally the very last semester in NTU!! Loads of things to be done.. job hunting, FYP, as well as looking for a shelter after graduation XD So sick with FYP, endured so much "pain".. but well, that was for good, my own good... is an at-least-2nd-Upper-Class-Honors still widely open for me? That's the question my FYP will answer a lot when the time comes...... I'm still stuck with that Mozilla thingy.. cache thingy.. loads of efforts have been done, but still... I'm in dire need of enlightenment.. Can you give me one ? XD I've given up my minor coz all the subjects offered this semester ain't tat interesting .. :S one subject that I thot would be interesting, the coursework is super heavy tat I'm afraid I have no time for FYP.. decided then...

Job hunting? Planned to start applying again diz sem as there will be some job openings this semester.. I hope, before summer studies period, I have got a decent job alr...Wish me luck! :D

-=I'm out... =-

Bad dining experience at Hog's Breath Cafe (Chijmes)

2007-12-25T12:37:00.000+08:00

Went there for the first time wif my dear last night on Christmas eve and we took the Christmas eve package dinner. I was totally disappointed with the service hog's breath had given to us.. a very bad impression at our very first visit. First of all, the server didn't even know if we got our food yet. Moreover, the drinks weren't served until we asked for it. After finishing the appetizer, we waited for approx 1 hour plus for the main course to be served!! We were very upset, and the manager said that the kitchen jammed. I was wondering, there were this couple who came after us and they had their dessert already while we were still waiting for our main course! That was absurd! In addition, they also served us the wrong side dish and lastly our dessert that was supposed to be the Mississippi Mud Cake was suddenly changed to Apple crumble. They said the mud cake had been sold out. :s

Yeah, of course that ruined our mood and we lost our appetite alr. The food was average (perhaps it was biased.. due to very lousy service), but the atmosphere and ambiance were great. One thing I noticed missing was the table number. There were no table numbers at all! and perhaps that was the reason why the kitchen jammed......

I don't know whether the other branches' service is as lousy as this or not, but one thing for sure, I will dine at Hog's Breath no more.. that was really2 bad dining experience, and thanks for ruining our Christmas mood... =.=

We then attended the midnite mass at Cathedral of Good Shepherd, we didn't manage to get a seat thou. The mass was great, the ambiance, the choir, everything was great! May this Christmas bring joy and peace to the world :D

Merry Christmas everyone!

Holiday..

2007-12-15T13:01:00.000+08:00

Not really a holiday for me.. yeah u know I gotta finish my FYP coz I don't have much time left. Good thing is, I got my "normal" life back, as in everyday I woke up at ard 930 in d morning, having my breakfast, went to lab until 6 o clock in d afternoon, having dinner, went back to hall and enjoying d rest of the nite :P that reminds me of the time when I was doing my internship.. one semester back. Next semester will be my last semester in NTU, happy or sad? Both actually.. all human being have insatiable desire.. I might be happy tat I have no more exams, stack of notes to be read, and lecture videos to be watched, but at d same time, it's kinda sad tat finally this is a goodbye to school life.. and youth life.. I decided to take my master degree after working for at least 2 years (some of the master degree programs required us to have at least 2 years of working exp). Have to sit for GRE too later.. At least 2 years w/o stack of notes, assignments, reports n .. u name it :P isn't tat good :P hahaha.. Working life might be more complicated, challenging, and perhaps interesting XD sounds good huh..

Haven't been invited for an itvw since Barcaps phone interview.. yeah, let's just put it this way, experience is what we get when we don't get what we wanted. Won't be so desperate tat I can't get a job, juz relax.. need not to rush .. GOD will show me which path I should follow.. (perhaps not investment banking as I thought :p) as long as I have a lil' faith.. and of coz some efforts in looking for a job, everything will be juz fine :)

Kind of sleepy now.. a serendipitous weather for sleeping.. -.- k .. juz relaxing myself for now..

im out..

Last one....

2007-11-28T12:32:00.000+08:00

Tired.. one single word tat expresses my condition rite now.. hahaha.. I'm tired of studying!!! Wanna break freee... but sadly I won't be home for Christmas, doing my FYP huhuhu.. but I shud be grateful tat I can at least spend the Christmas eve with my dearie.. and perhaps with my sis on Christmas day itself. Yay! My parents are also coming at the end of this year and we will be celebrating the coming of year 2008 here in Spore! :D Another good thing to look forward to is, I'll have my PC upgraded soon! Don't have to wait til' graduation day as I mentioned in previous entry. :) Study hard and play harderrr !! Yeah tat's rite :)

Went to Changi airport yesterday (despite of my exam today XD) accompanying my dear as she went back to Indo yesterday hehe.. well, I miss her alr when I went back to NTU ^^;; (nt even a day :P) Can't wait for 17 Dec to come!! XD

Yeah, juz finished my second paper diz morning.. Thank GOD! :D will sit for my last paper on Friday and today I plan to mug wif Dela at either benches / library but now I still dun have mood of studying..

After exams.. wad to do? there should be loads of things to be done.. the first and foremost is.. my FYP of cozz.. the progress is damn slow, and I haf to catch up wif Venny; my partner, as she has finished her papers a few days ago and should have done stg :P.. followed by.. "spring cleaning" my room from all notes, papers, and everything tat won't be used anymore next sem.. next, which is also important, is to prepare my schedule for next semester as subjects registration starts earlier this sem.. (even before the exam results are out :P) Haf to choose two PEs for next sem.. decision decision and decision.. hopefully I have good decision then.

You know wad.. I have given up on my 8-months-old external hard disk.. since it couldn't boot up correctly and I think there must be stg stuck inside.. it's either the head problem or the motor was burnt out.. :( However, luckily it was still under warranty, so I brought the faulty HD to the dealer and expect to get a replacement in another 1 week time from now hueheu.. (diz Friday, it's 2 weeks alr) The bad thing was, I didn't manage to back up everything. I only managed to backup some but not everything.. wew.. yah.. no choice, it's better to get a replacement ASAP than waiting in an endless sorrow..

Tomorrow.. will always be a better day.. :)

-Im out-

Linkin Park LIVE in Singapore

2007-11-14T15:59:00.000+08:00

Went to Linkin Park LIVE concert yesterday in S'pore Indoor Stadium wif my sista. Yeahh.. was damn crowded, damn noisy as well !!! It was LP mann.. no wonder perhaps everybody just felt soo excited XD Lemme share my story then..

Dropped at City Hall MRT and planned to take bus no. 16 to get there, it's just a few stops away from Raffles Hotel bus stop. Well, when I first reached the bus stop, I checked the SBSiris-next bus service wif my GPRS. It was stated 15 mins. Ok lor, I kept on waiting til' I realized I had waited for almost 30 mins alrd !! Wth.. I checked the SBSiris again and It was still 12 mins.. I was like wad the heck, ard 30 mins ago it was said that the bus would come in 15 mins, but after alm 30 mins it was still 12 mins.. so lamee hahaha.. I kept on waiting.. still... and eventually the bus came, BUT, it was soo damn crowded and the bus din stop... o_O" So fed up alr.. but I tried to be patient.. waiting for the next bus... and after it came, I pushed my self hard into the bus and told my self tat this time I should really go.. no more delay...

Upon arriving, the queue for free standing Pen A was soo damn loongg already.. (as I expected, that for free standing area, ppl should have queued 3/4 hours before... =.="), no choice I joined the queue.. heheh.. not bad, actually, I was still able to get good standing position.. XD. My sis was still on her way wif the same bus.. 16 !!! ... Once inside, I still had to wait for approximately an hour before the show begun. I was starving inside, hadn't had my dinner.. and thank God my sis brought some breads to satisfy the need of my shouting stomach.. Finally, the light was turned off.. and they were "awaken"... by the first song, Wake.. (you can always refer to my older entries (Part I here and Part II here) bout' LP's songs from their new album.. to know more..) Followed by Given Up .. the ppl around me started pushing me to many different directions.. felt like I was crushed from different directions... Luckily, from the third song onwards, no more crushing2 and pushing2 from many different directions.. I got tiny little space finally.. and was able to enjoy the whole performance! Yeahhhh tat was sooo damnn loud n noisy, crowded, and hottt hahah... yet fun !! Jumping up n down like crazy.. following the beat.. singing out loud (thou u can't hear ur own voice..). Overall... that was a great performance !! great LP !! but maybe next time I'd prefer to sit back and relax rather than standing and being crushed by others :P

Below are some pics from last nite show..

*anw.. tml is my first paper... wish me luck k ? ;)

im out...

Challenging week..

2007-10-23T18:38:00.001+08:00

Yeah.. what's done is done..

sat for Credit Suisse aptitude test in SMU diz morning.. Well, the test wasn't tat hard anyway, it's just tat I wasn't fast enough to whack everything.. Perhaps.. I'm just not used to it.. hahaha.. Well, we were given 100 questions which should be finished in 50 minutes time.. in average, each question takes ard 0.5 mins (yeah, the truth was, some numeracy problems demanded more than 0.5 mins huhuhu). Too bad, I wasn't fast enough and thus I didn't manage to finish all the questions..

-> Juz wait.. time will tell.. Come wad may.. :)

Barclays capital's phone interview comes next.. this Thursday !! I feel so awkward wif tat Investment banking thingy.. Yeah, I've done an intensive research of coz.. but still.. hahaha.. Why investment banking? perhaps it's just an unexplainable passion :P Why Barclays? of coz because the starting salary *rolling eyes* :P hahahaa kidding2.. look beyond the salary.. what lies ahead.. your future... I heard it once: "Money will come to you if you are passionate enough with what you are currently doing.." haha.. stg lyk tat..

-> Wish me luck k ? :)

*still reading some articles abt current Asia market conditions @.@

-Im out-

Sunshine after rain ? XD

2007-10-16T12:54:00.000+08:00

Hoho.. as you may realize tat it was raining almost the whole day yesterday.. and as you can see, today is brighter than yesterday.... The good thing is, Barclays finally invited me to the phone interview stage LOLz.. yokattaaaa nee.. It's on 25 Oct, Thursday next week at 13.30 (UK Time) LOLz.. I din even know that the time slot is in UK Time until I got the confirmation email hahaha.. they din state there when I was choosing the time slot weww.. So, 13.30 UK time is supposed to be around 20.30 here in Spore ^^;; hahaha so late :P luckily I din choose 16.00 haaha.. sooo latee alr.. XD

What to do today ? erm.. of course continuing the training of tat 20 stupid artificial neurons.. You want to know more? I'll associate it wif "students" den, so it's easier for you to digest XD Now imagine you are trained with 12000 maths problems and tested with 6000 questions. LOLz.. huahahaa this is what really happening here at the Learning and Validation stage. hahahaz I train the neurons using 12000 data and validate them with 6000 or so data. Root Mean Square Error is then calculated to get the "grade" of tat particular neuron XD I'll pick the top three "students" to go for another training, namely Testing stage wew.. and those three neurons have to undergo training with 18000 or so data, and tested wif 2000 or so data.. The winning neuron is the neuron wif the smallest RMS Error Hahaha.. Now you know how tedious it is... wew.. haha XD

Perhaps.. tonite I'll go mugging at Canteen A (as usual :P) .....

-em out-

Savoring the flavor of final year...

2007-10-12T20:40:00.000+08:00

Aaaaaargh its d end of week 9 alreaddyyyy... And.. recess week was too fast to be savored bit by bit... Haha.. I only managed to revise few things during recess week (well, maybe I shud be grateful alr :P) and do Comp Archi assignment, due on 1 Oct. My FYP (~~Finding Your Partner~~ Final Year Project) progression is damn slow! No idea, my supervisor is kinda slack too, but of course I can't follow his example :P Slacking will ruin my FYP for sure o.O" and I don't wan that to happen XD How about pestering him ? Yeah, we have done that, and we decided to do the FYP in an "unsupervised" manner, meaning nt too dependent on him hahaha.. Now that we have finished the input part and have sent him the algorithm for our next step last week, he hasn't replied til' now.. weww.. We plan to integrate our code by ourself, according to our own algorithm XD

Sigh.. all assignments due in ard 2-3 weeks time and diz Neural networks assignment demands almost my whole day to finish each training of neurons wew.. very2 tedious one.. By week 12, all assignments should have been submitted :D and I can focus more on my exams. My first (and the hardest as well) paper is on 15 Nov and coincidentally on 13 Nov there will be Linkin Park LIVE Concert! I wanna watch them LIVE !! Haven't bought the ticket thou.. heuheue.. Phew, need to prepare the paper first of coz..

Job hunting? Yeah I've applied for 7 companies (all of them are investment bankings LOLz) in total and currently waiting for the invitation for interview. All online tests required in order to be considered for interview have also been completed.. facing some problems thou.. When I have finished the Barclay's online numeracy test, the system wasn't able to retrieve the test result, hence I din know whether I was qualified for the next stage of online test or nt. It was 8 Oct, and the deadline for the test was 9 Oct (5 days after I submitted the app form).. Heck! I have emailed the technical support ppl, asking for assistance but I have never received any reply from them until yesterday (11 Oct and obviously I was late), they finally replied me and told me tat the result for the numeracy was ready. Fortunately, I was qualified to take the verbal test and in d end my application was still under consideration, meaning I have successfully completed all online testings and waiting for the phone interview invitation. Hopefully my application is really under their consideration, thou I was late in finishing the test..

Last week, me and Jaq were having our dinner at Canteen 4 and planned to go back to hall with shuttle bus. The funny thing was, when we walked to the bus stop, there was this one bus passed us by and we thot it was the last shuttle bus (it was ard 9pm alr). We ran for the bus and finally managed to get in. Once we have sat down, the conductor mumbled stg about JP and suddenly we realized that we took the wrong bus !! Hahaha... so stupid LOLz :P we had to pay of coz, it's nt a free shuttle to JP anyway o_O Well, actually it's quite cheap compared to SBS transit but the thing was we din need to go to JP at all hahaaha.. In d end, we met up wif Dela and had a chat in Kopitiam while eating desserts.

One long entry huh.. hehe.. Thank God it's weekend.. but I got loads of things to be done T_T hueheue..

-I'm out-
"savoring the weekend.."

New face..

2007-09-03T14:11:00.000+08:00

Yes, my desktop got new face... hohoho.. if you notice from the picture, my LCD has been changed.. Last Friday my 4-year old LCD was suddenly black out and kept on blinking afterwards.. I thot the problem was with my CPU or VGA Card (I was like "again ?? the heck..") but I was wrong.. It was the LCD itself this time wewww.. (I wonder why recently my PC always got problem one.. T_T). I asked my daddy whether I should buy the new one or just have it repaired.. Well, my dad just asked me to buy the new one in d end ^^;; hohoho.. luckily, there was COMEX (computer exhibition) @ Suntec in which IT stuffs are sold in discounted price.

I was rushing there on Saturday, since I was planning to go to church as well. Finally, I bought black 19" LG LCD. hohoh.. nice one.. XD Haizz.. another unexpected expenses T_T Yeah, but no choice man.. without computer I can do nothin' which means I can't do my FYP as well.. huhuhu..
I'm planning to upgrade my PC once I have graduated from NTU (which is next year.. hopefully hahaa XD) so.. juz hold on my dear processor.. just another one year man before an endless dormancy for u.. hahhaha..

No more sorrow... hopefully...

2007-08-21T00:39:00.001+08:00

It started with a sore throat.. assumed as one of flu symptoms.. then my irritating asthma came (yeah juz a symptom anyway...). I didn't feel well that time.. wew... including the time when we had to set up benches the nite before, for Geben on Wed, 15 Aug. On the day itself, the most destructive disaster (err.. perhaps it's exaggerated too much :P) happened.. Geben ended nicely, except that my nokia-6280's LCD was broken! =.=" I guess, it was crushed by the edge of the bench when I was moving them to their original position T_T I wonder.. how hard it was.. =.= I'm using Erikson's N70 til' now.. wew..

The other problem was.. on Friday night, when I was doing remote desktop to my PC, suddenly the connection lost. I guessed correctly that my PC was restarting by itself .. over and over again.. (well actually it had happened a few times before...). I asked my roommate to turn it off for a while before turning it on again. Yeah finally it was turned on again and was able to load the windows, but no internet access since then.. wewww.. I got headache .. T_T I decided to turn it off that whole night... and the next day, after woke up, I tried powering it on again but it wasn't able to even boot the windows and it kept on restarting by itself.. Haizz..

I had no time that day to troubleshoot my PC thoroughly, coz I had to go to Nokia Center to have my handphone serviced.. yeah.. and finally on Sunday I found the problem! It was power supply problem.. again.. so haizzz.. Bought new power supply and installed it right away.. However, no internet access still.. I was like.. wth... =.=" I emailed CITS and got the reply this morning.. then in the afternoon CITS called me and the problem solved in an instant! hahaah.. phew..

I don't expect any more sorrowww .... I have enough... no more sorrow pleaseee.. huehue.. Yeah juz wish me luck k ? hahaha.. I will get my handphone back this Wednesday.. hopefully every thing will back to normal...

Morale of the story: be very careful of yourself man.. Sometimes accident happens at the time you expect it the least..

*FYP progress --> Week 3 - Learning AJAX from zero... *

Broken guitar....

2007-08-09T11:04:00.000+08:00

Yeah, IndoSupper was a great success.. thou here and there still got some flaws, yeah nobody's perfect eniwei XD hihihi.. del'Dante went thru the first song (Mengenangmu by Kerispatih) smoothly.. and when the second song (Maafkan Aku Yang Mencintainya by del'Dante) started, I felt an emotional arousal.. since the song is created and arranged by our very own band... XD In the middle of the second song, suddenly one of my guitar's strings broke.. O.o" perhaps I was playing with too much excitement.. ^^;; weww.. soo embarrassing... but I kept on playing and I was relieved nobody noticed... til I returned to the tribune.. heuheu..

Haizz... gotta buy a new set of strings then... huhuh.. can't play til' it is fixed.. T_T hueheue... I actually will have it fixed, not only the strings, but also to narrow the gap between strings and fretboard (if it's still even possible..) hueheue..

Below are some photos from IndoSupper

Well done del'Dante ! hoho.. :D

1st day of school = skip the 1st lecture

2007-08-06T17:53:00.001+08:00

Yoshhh.. finally the school is restarted! (Am i suppose to be happy ? o.O) hahaaha.. Well, the very first day in AY 2007-2008, which my last year in NTU, is started with a lecture skip :P LOLz.. Wahlew.. I dunno wad happened wif my stupid alarm, suddenly it stopped and well thanks for waking me up at 8.39 this morning.. =.=" hahah.. Of coz im soooo latee mann.. hahaa.. Wad can I do, I was thinking, If I pushed myself to attend the lecture (which is most prob still an intro) I would arrive at ard 10 mins before the lesson ended.. =.=" So.. I just went to bed again til 10am XD hahaha..

Yeah, of coz Im not gonna skip the other lesson today.. which was at 1130am. Well, actually nothin' much la for today.. just a simple introduction to the course.. hmm.. and finally decision to take CPE422 - Neural Networks this sem. hohoho.. Yeah, I think this subject is quite interesting to be taken, moreover the lecturer has successfully delivered the lecture with full of friendliness.. XD

Again.. today Im selling the Duck ~~Rice~~ Race tickets on behalf of SCS (Singapore Computer Society) for charity, wif some CEC fellows. haizz.. so boring.. =.=" hahaha.. haf to knock each professor's door and pleading for their generosity.. yah some harsh comments were received too.. ^^;; but hey.. if you are interested with the Duck Race, just gimme a call, sms, msn, or enithing else.. :P

Yoshh.. del'Dante's special project (yeah juz call it lyk tat :P) will perform on IndoSupper tomorrow! hahaah.. It is called del'Capede.. :P LOLz (inspired by a Japanese band, Depapepe). We'll be performing (censored) songs which are (censored) wakakaa.. So not fun if I let you all know today wkwkwkwk.. just come to find out, seat back, relax and enjoy the show.. :P Gonna practice shortly.. still waiting for the others to come...

-= I'm out =-

Crazy buffet XD

2007-07-29T20:26:00.000+08:00

Yosh, actually it's just an ordinary day til' we had our crazy buffet.. I went to church wif jaq at noon.. and after that we actually planned to have our brunch at Westmall.. Yeah that's when the "disaster" began.. LOLz.. I was actually craving for Sakae buffet, but unfortunately the buffet is not available today.. T_T Phew.. but we saw another buffet promotion just beside Sakae Sushi, it was on Bali Thai restaurant.. hahaha.. After short discussion, we decided to have the buffet there.

At the beginning, we were full of excitement since.. yeah we were starving! hahahaz.. We ordered 6 dishes at once.. We thought that was enough for our first round.. The funny thing was, when all the dishes were served, our table was already full of it! and it was like we haven't eaten for several days already wkwkwkwk.. XD Yeah, no choice, we juz ate and ate.. and several minutes later the servant came and asked us for our last order for the buffet.. We were like.. "shoot.. what time is it now?" shortly we knew that the buffet time is only til' 2.30pm.. but it is NOT stated there.. phew.. haha.. We ordered another 7 dishes for our second as well as our last round and asked them to serve it later since no space there in our table :P A minute later, I ordered another 2 sets of chicken Satay.. so in total, we had 15 dishes! XD wkwkw.. so crazyyy..

So here is our crazy buffet menu.. XD

1 set of tahu telur, 3 sets of Maduranese chicken satay, 1 set of sambal kangkong, 1 set of pandan chicken, 1 set of pad thai, 1 set of soto ayam, 1 set of green curry chicken, 1 set of beef rendang, 1 set of fish with thai-style chili sauce, 1 set of kailan with oyster sauce, 1 set of sambal sotong, 1 set of mango salad, and finally 1 set of spring roll.

Phew.. in the end we were super duper bloated.. (fortunately I din puke on the spot -.-) It was hard for me to even walk.. LOLz.. wkwkwk.. yeah... I dun feel like eating til' tml.. maybe.. hahaha...

Fragile...

2007-07-28T01:31:00.000+08:00

Haf you ever felt lyk "cursing" every single lil' thing...?
Haf you ever felt you are the worst...?
Haf you ever felt so sensitive...?

at least.. I do have..

So fragile.. what's wrong wif me lately? I wonder... Well, I hate this kind of feelings, but I can't stop it from entering my body n soul.. It's just.. different.. It's not me..

Dun let me fall any deeper.....

Maybe I'm just tired..

Juz simply... untitled..

2007-07-24T18:05:00.000+08:00

Hoho.. recently, I was so addicted to Audition SEA.. phew.. It's an online dance game that similar to any other dance games that need us to follow the direction of arrows in order to score. Haha.. quite silly actually to be addicted to this kind of game hahahaz.. Yah, for the sake of time killing.. especially when I just woke up from my very2 deep sleep XD LOLz.. hihihi.. Well, I guess the addiction has ended.. hahaa.. Dun feel like playing tat game anymore.. :P (hmm.. one good thing from the game is that there are some ear-catchy songs, juz to pamper your ears maybe.. XD)

Yosh, the Convocation period (23-27 July 2007) has begun.. hoho.. Free meals for the whole 5 days! LOLz.. *oops.. hahhaha.. Congratulations for Class 0f 2007! I've attended three Convocation ceremonies since first year.. :P and the last Convocation that I will be attending, which is next year.. will be my OWN Convocation ceremony! Yay! One more year!... I can't wait til' that time comes.. phew.. hahaa.. Haf to pass another full-of-struggling and stressful year.. diz is final year! hahhaa.. But I know that I'll be fine, I'm doing fine so far.. (wad? The new semester hasn't even started yet :P LOLz) Ya, what I can think about right now is to give my best shot in this final year... yeah, I shud give my BEST shot! hahaha.. That's the spirit!

Well, spirit alone is not enough without "willingness" from the heart to diligently attending every lecture... LOLzz.. XD This life is surely full of hardiness and obstacles.. still no one can skip this life.. juz let everything flow.. :D Aaaa enuf crapping :P hahaha..

Haf a great day everyone!

Yosh...

2007-07-15T19:51:00.000+08:00

Yoshh.. finally.. I'm here in Hall 16 XD haha.. Well, the actual moving progress from Hall 3 was on Thursday 12 June, nt on Wed as I stated earlier.. haha.. Raymond's stuffs needs to be moved out first before I'm able to move in.. yeah and on Wed 11 June I helped him moving out some stuffs to his new room on the third floor.. And the day after... at ard noon, I started moving out my stuffs to Hall 16.. wew.. that was a very tiring day! I couldn't stop sneezing.. phew.. I'm very2 sensitive to dust... hahaha... just realized that in my old single room, the dust are everywhere :P especially when I reached out under the bed and table :P LOLz *oops* it's not that I'm lazy to clean my room up.. XD haha..

Yosh, after so much pain in moving all my stuffs out (I also just realized that my belongings are that many.. wew..) finally at ard 10pm I managed to finish everything.. Phew.. What an exhausting day.. hahahaha.. but, well the new room is worth all the pain and efforts I have made.. LOLz.. XD

FYP... aaarrgh.. that so-difficult-to-understand papers.. o_O Must tahan.. or condition myself as "critical" as possible so that MESTAKUNG happens :P.. MESTAKUNG; a theory taken from a book by Yohanes Surya; is an abbreviation from Semesta Mendukung, which explains that under critical condition, there will be some kind of force to naturally get us out from that critical condition. For example, if your assignment's deadline is just around the corner, and you haven't done all your preparation, you'll push your body and mind to work it out til late nite, and unconsciously all the creative thinking will flow like a river in finishing that assignment... Well I dunno whether this theory correct or not.. XD but what I know for sure, this theory will help you a lot to motivate yourself in everything you do in your life.. hahaha

All the bez for ya all !! :D

Back in Spore...

2007-07-11T14:06:00.000+08:00

Well, I know perhaps its kinda late to post diz entry now.. :P LOLz.. I've been 3 days already here in Spore.. and as usual.. time flows so fast.. today is time to move out from Hall 3! hahaha.. Hopefully everything flows smoothly and can be finished in one day :P... Now I'm still waiting for Raymond to come back.. XD

FYP preparation? hmm.. I just emailed my supervisor "si Boss" and arranged a meeting with him on 15 July onwards (well he's still having conference overseas til' 15 July LOLz).. Hmm.. other than that, I've printed all reading materials (wew.. that super-difficult-to-understand papers..) and binded them but reluctant to read it til' now wakakaka.. :P aaaarrgh.. Holidae mood is still in the air.. wew.. hahaa.

I'm out... slacking2.. XD

The Cape of Frog

2007-06-26T19:22:00.000+08:00

Yosh.. enjoy these photos from The Cape of Frog LOLz.. XD

The entrance..

Some fishermen's boats... ;)

The frog-like rock :P ..

See that ray of lights from heaven ? :P LOLz

A journey to "world's end" LOLz

The small lighthouse...

"Don't JUMP over the fence !!" XD

The theme park..

Silhouette...

A cloudy sunset..

Pohsarang

2007-06-24T13:56:00.000+08:00

Below are some photos from Pohsarang.. Enjoy! :)

Paddy field nearby...

The church (multifunction hall)

The 'cave' itself... :)

6th Station of The Cross : Veronica Wipes The Face of Jesus

7th Station of The Cross : Jesus Falls The Second Time

8th Station of The Cross : Jesus Meets The Women From Jerusalem

13th Station of The Cross : Jesus is Taken Down From The Cross

14th Station of The Cross : Jesus is Laid in The Tomb

An endless path... :P

The marketplace.... ;)

An endless staircase... :P

InDo iNdo IndO

2007-06-21T13:16:00.000+08:00

Yosh.. almost one week already here in Indonesia.. and... yeah this stupid asthma stroke me again.. =.=" swetee... phew.. not that bad actually.. yeah.. hopefully by the end of this week, that stupid mucus will be all gone..

I lurve Indonesian foods so much hahahaz! I've been bored of NTU canteens' foods wew.. hahha.. I tried soto ayam, Cianjur-style roasted fish (Ikan bakar Cianjur), tahu telor, gado2, pecel..etc.. :P (yeah I write them in their native lang.. ^^) LOLz.. I hope I dun make you all drool to your knees (esp for all of you who haven't gone back home yet.. XD peaceeee) :P LOLz..

The first week in Indonesia, nothing much happened.. We just went out (regardless of my sickness :P) to Pohsarang, a holy Saint Mary cave situated in Kediri East Java, and went to Tanjung Kodok (Cape of Frog) situated near the city of Tuban East Java .. well it is called like that coz some of the reefs there look like a frog :P XD Actually it was my sis who needed some ideas for her drawings and perhaps the sea is the best place to accumulate ideas.. hehe dunno.. :P I'll post some photos in the entries that follow. Enjoy it hohoho.. Yosh, I still have two more weeks before my departure back to Sg.. haizz.. Back to 'hectic' school life again.. It's final year man! hohoho... I haven't finalized my timetable as well.. huhu.. The registration day will be on this coming Monday.. I have only few days to finalize it.. Sure, I'll finalize it very2 soon... :) no worries.. hehehe..

Enjoy your holz pals! :D

del'Dante Fifth Meeting @ Beat Merchants Studio (14 June 2007)

2007-06-16T13:38:00.000+08:00

Yay! It's our fifth meeting already ! hohoho.. Finally we were able to go outside for a studio (thou the studio was not the best studio I've ever seen :P ) hahaah.. We still prefer the Cultural Activities Room @ hall 16 to this studio thou.. XD However, the drum was a very2 nice one actually! hahaha... We played our 2 original songs, Maafkan Aku Yang Mencintainya and Akhirnya Ku Sadar... but we only recorded Maafkan Aku Yang Mencintainya since the other song was kinda messy.. We made a recording two times LOLz hahaahz.. Nice one.. (thou after conversion to mpg video, the sound esp the vocal can't come out clearly huhuhu).

After the practice, we had our dinner at Food Junction, Bugis.. hohoho.. den we went to Dela's "secret" place, Starbucks @ One Fullerton LOLz hahaha.. Unfortunately, Davin couldn't join us since he had to wake up early for Professional Attachment on the next day.. So only me, Raymond, Johan, and our boss Dela left :P There, we were gj-ing hahaha.. playing truth or dare but most of the time it was Dela who bullied to answer all the questions.. :P That place was actually a very cozy place to sit back, relax, and have a chat hehehe.. Yes, the ambience was great XD Anyway, the funny thing was, we (Edmond, Raymond, and Johan) sang the boyband version of Maafkan Aku Yang Mencintainya LOLz XD wakakaka.. Well, actually we dedicated the song for Dela hahaha.. accompanying her story :P yeah, Dela shared her story about her love life yesterday.. hohoho.. yosh.. you know wad Del, you haf to move on k? hohoho.. and we glad that you finally made it thru the rain.. :) hohoho.. Gratzz. XD hahaah..

Yeah, you can say that probably we are the narcist-est band of musicians XD LOLzz ahahaha.. We took loads of photos on the bridge near Fullerton Hotel.. with Esplanade in background hahahaa.. LOLz.. We had great times there! Taking photos like mad already wakakakaa.. :P We will keep these photos in our memory.. memory of our band.. of our togetherness.. :) That was a very great nite! hohoho.. Well done everybody! XD

reaching for the stars....

the boyband..

someday.. we will fly together...

Welcome to [Sechzehn] hohoho..

2007-06-10T22:09:00.001+08:00

Yosh.. HOLA (Hall Online Application) results were out on Friday, and finally I got the room that I wanted! hohoho.. Our plan succeeded! (please refer to this entry :P) Hahaha.. Raymond got a single room on level 3, Jordan got his current single room, and I got Raymond's current room, with Ong as my roomie (again... XD). hohoho :D Well, I realized that some failed to get their choice of halls (even some ppl who tried to retain their current room were also dumped out... =.=").. haizz.. I also heard that 6 out of 16 JCRC presidents din get their choice of rooms... :s I guess HAS (Hall Allocation Scheme) is still incomplete, and perhaps hasn't been tested and gone thru' pilot run thoroughly.. =.=" (It was said that ppl who retained their current room would have priority among others who applied that room) What a weird system.. However, most final year students (in AY 2007-2008, which is the coming AY) got their choice of rooms.. I think final year students have some kind of priority or sumthin' phew... I dunno.. It's their job (SAO ppl) to review the current HAS after the allocation results... to develop a better system next year.. (thou actually im 'out' already next year :P LOLz)

8 June 2007

ACCOMMODATION IN HALL FOR AY2007/08

I am pleased to offer you admission into the Hall of Residence 16 for the academic year 2007/08 beginning 6 August 2007. The room is 16A-05-14. Hall and room allocations are processed by the computerised HAS.

hohoho... Thanks Lord for everything You have given to me.. :)

del'Dante Fourth Meeting @ Hall 16's Cultural Activities Room

2007-06-10T13:21:00.000+08:00

Hohoho.. That was a very great practice.. I guess.. :P Finally we could practice in the so-called 'studio' hahaah.. We were practicing our two original songs, which are Akhirnya Ku Sadar and Maafkan Aku Yang Mencintainya in full band version hahaaha.. The current line up is.. Davin and Dela as vocalists, Ray as bassist, Johan aka Jon as keyboardist, and me as drummer :P (Sony was absent that day, but surely he will be our guitarist) wakakaka.. Yeah, I think I haf to practice the drum again.. hehehe... Still a lil' bit messy here and there.. The two songs were video-ed yesterday :P haha.. but for personal view only.. LOLz XD hahahaha.. We rearranged the two songs into the full band version hohoho.. nice one, great job everyone! Maafkan Aku Yang Mencintainya is kinda mellow.. still.. and Akhirnya Ku Sadar is kinda upbeat and more cheerful XD Anyway, a big thanx to Rica for the key to the studio as well as the drum stick, and Sam for the semi-acoustic guitar :D Can't wait for the next practice on Thursday.. Thank you everybody ! ^^ Below are some pictures taken on Friday :D

Last Day of IA !!

2007-06-08T16:00:00.000+08:00

Hohoho.. finally.. the day that I've waited for since December 2006.. :P hahha.. Yosh! Today is my last day of internship with Datacraft! hahaah.. Nothin' much to do today, yeah, as always.. XD having lunch with my colleagues including my supervisor, and was treated by him! hahaah.. Hontouni arigatou ne.. :) As a token of appreciation and gratitude, I gave him a Parker pen.. bought yesterday haha.. Well, I learned a lot too during this 22 weeks of IA period.. Thanx to Datacraft for giving me such opportunities..

Yosh, what do I do after this? hahha.. plan plan plan! I have 1 week before my departure to Indo hahaha.. del'Dante fourth meeting is tonight and fifth meeting will be on Thursday next week XD Hopefully we can practice well tonite.. :) We have 2 singles already :P the second single titled Maafkan Aku Yang Mencintainya by Dela (lyricist and music arranger) hohoho.. Nice song, yet another mellow song by Dela. Well, we will re-arrange it for full band version..

Still waiting for hostel allocation results! Haizz.. I can't wait to put sechzehn tag again in my MSN nickname :P :P hahhaa.. LOLzz...

-slacking2...... -

del'Dante 3rd Meeting

2007-06-06T10:14:00.000+08:00

Yeah.. It started a lil' bit 'late'.. hahaha.. We played 2 songs basically, Akhir Rasa Ini by Samson (me and Dela's favorite :P) and Kejujuran Hati by Kerispatih (as requested by Raymond XD) hohoho.. Well, actually the song choices haven't come out yet, but Dela knew for certain that all the songs are Indonesian band songs. First we played Kejujuran Hati, it took a while til' everyone knew how the song is, and how to sing it :P hohoho.. In the end, we can play it quite well actually hohoho.. thou it sounds different from the original one (yeah, it MUST be different, no point of copying) XD

Second, we played Akhir Rasa Ini, yeah my favourite.. We tried to arrange the song by ourself.. and the temp line up for this song is Dela and Davin as vocalists, me as rhythm guitarist, Jon aka Johan as bassist and Ray as Keyboardist.. where's the drummer?? haha yeah, no drum set can be used at that moment anyway.. hahaha LOLz.. After a while, we planned to book a studio for our next practice to have a drum set to be played, so that we can practice several songs in 'full band' version hohoho.. The GREAT thing was, del'Dante finally has a single! hahaha.. Jon played the demo version of the song yesterday.. All credits goes to Johan (Music arranger) and Adela (Lyricist) XD hahaha.. I kinda like the melody, esp in pre-chorus and chorus parts! hahaha.. great job Jon! The title is.. Akhirnya Ku Sadar hohoho.. :P XD Juz wait til' we play it in full band version wakakakak..

I din know what it was called, but it was some kind of 'luck' maybe :P Rica sms-ed Raymond and asked him to do a sound check in Hall 16's Cultural Activities Room. Yeah, Hall 16 has new instruments for its band there. hohoho.. and the good thing is, there's a drum set! hahaha.. But, guitars are not there yet, so Ray had to bring his own bass guitar and I brought my own acoustic guitar down.. (so sad, my guitar can't be plugged to the amplifier.. ). I tried playing drum again yesterday, and I kinda feel bad.. not so good.. hahaha.. It's been so long since last time I played it.. haf to practice again if it is decided that I haf to play drum :P XD We played several songs down there, like Akhir Rasa Ini, I Will Survive, Naek Delman (I will survive version :P), Bukan Pujangga, Bila Nanti... etc.. :P

Below are some pictures taken yesterday (in Raymond's room.. again :P LOLz a big thanx for Ong and Raymond *again* for their room XD)

Some Thoughts... Inspired by "Bambino"

2007-06-04T10:25:00.001+08:00

Hoho.. Inspired by this Japanese Drama, Bambino, I'd like to share sumthin' with you from the drama.. morale of the story .. I can say.. ^^

Hm, This drama is about a guy, Ban Shogo which later on called 'bambi', who is good at cooking Italian dishes and when he did his internship on Baccanale Italian restaurant, he felt that his dignity was flattened since everyone there was a pro and what he did was actually not cooking, but helping with stuffs, just like a slave. However, from what I can see, he learned a lot during his times there, like efficiency of work.. thou his partner, Katori, yelled at him all the time to prepare the ingredients for the dishes.

After the internship period was over, he went home, and had good times with his girlfriend.. until that night when he told his girlfriend that he wanted to go back to Tokyo with her and work for Baccanale.. quitting his college.. coz he has fallen in love with that restaurant.. His girlfriend refused to come along with him, she told him that she had her own life and more over she thought that Ban was too egoist coz he thought about himself, about reaching his own dreams without even considering her future..

In the end, Ban decided to let go everything in his hometown (broke up with his girlfriend and quitting college...) and go to Tokyo for Baccanale obsession... There, the shocking thing was, he had to work in Dining Hall as a servant ... This shocked him so much since his dream is to be a chef.. to cook and prepare dishes.. not to be a servant... And he started to grumble....

Yosh... Morale of the drama are... (so far.. coz the drama is still airing :P)

1. In working life, we can't expect to have a good and nice working environment... It's not about how good the working environment is.. it's about how we adapt with the current environment.. (it's hard thou..) Our working environment is our battle ground.. You'll have to get used to your surrounding before you can tackle the jobs aka enemies 'perfectly' and efficiently... (yeah.. nobody's perfect thou.. well it's not about perfectness, but about how to be a better person each day..)

2. Everything is done step by step.. like for example.. you can't expect to be a CEO directly when you graduate later .. It also applies to 'bambi'.. he can't expect to be a good chef without to be a servant first... Quotation from the drama (rephrased) "if you want to be a good chef, you have to first understand how the customers feel about the foods.." Sometimes you need to go thru' the worst.. before reaching for the best..

3. Focus on what you are doing right now.. Treasure what you have right now.. For working matters, just simply... love your current job.. coz, every job has its own pro and cons anyway... has its own struggle also... and still, everybody is working hard... "One who can't focus on what he is doing right now, doesn't have right to pursue his dream.." hohoho...

4. Always learn from every little mistake we made.. Let it be our own good teacher.. for a better tomorrow... Try to cope with an inevitable bad feeling.. and inability to forgive yourself.. (at least you try..) coz everybody makes mistakes too, so don't give up on what you are doing.. keep on trying.. :)
(well, somehow it's not as easy as I thot...)

Yeah.. just some thotz.. hehe..

Comments about Minutes to Midnight ( II ) - End

2007-06-01T11:02:00.000+08:00

Okay, I'll continue my comments about Linkin Park's new album Minutes to Midnight hohoh... We stopped at track 6 in the earlier entry, so.. here we go again..

7. Hands Held High
"With hands held high into a sky so blue... as the ocean opens up to swallow you..."

Guess wad?? This song is a solo performance by Mike Shinoda! wakakaka.. LOLzz.. He sang the whole song by himself.. In this new album, Mike Shinoda sang in collaboration with Chester only for Bleed It Out hohoh.. That's why, I told you that Mike Shinoda is becoming more and more melodic here :P It begins with a rap.. as usual, another cool-rap style from Mike.. The drum played by Rob is another different and unique drum sequence.. It sounds more like 'marching band' or sumthin... In the background, Brad played repeated and continuous notes with his guitar... hoho XD den, near the end of the song, he sang a melody.. Yoshh.. I never heard him singing a melody before leh! hahaah... Diz is the very first time he is really2 singing .. not just rapping hahaha.. Thou he sings in a very2 deep vocal range (i.e a bass), that's still nice bro... hohoho.. Gratz to Mike Shinoda! I kinda like the melody sung by him near the end of this song man.. :D Finally, this song is simple, but nice.. :)

8. No More Sorrow
"No, no more sorrow.. I've paid for your mistakes.. Your time is borrowed..Your time has come to be replaced......"

Another 'rough' and 'tough' sounding song from LP hohoho.. This song is also a reminiscence of their old style.. nu metal.... :D hehehe.. I like the drum sequence and some effects in background hohoho.. Again, Mike Shinoda played the second guitar in this song... playing the riffs most of the time while Brad played the melodies and some riffs to support the second guitar in the chorus part. Overall, yeah, nice piece from LP ! and another head-banging song hahaahazz..

9. Valentine's Day
"So now you're gone, and I was wrong.. I never knew what it was like, to be alone..On a Valentine's Day........."

When I saw the title for the first time, I din have any idea about what this song is about, how is the melody and the style.. is it the very first 'mellow' song from LP .. yeah, many questions are echoing inside my head.. ahahaha.. But when I heard the song for the first time, my first impression was.. In the beginning, the song sounds uninteresting, and it's not a mellow song anyway.. (thou you see the title is about... Valentine's Day :P). It begins with solo guitar melodies played by.. not sure.. Brad I guess .. hohoh.. then the drum and the bass come in gently.. The mood of the song is rising from gloomy to bright.. and finally it goes to chorus part.. and the song ends.. When I listen to it again, the beginning part of this song is actually cool enuf man! hahaha.. In the chorus part, when Chester is shouting "on a Valentine's Day..." repeatedly, the mood is suddenly different.. Expresses voices from the hearts of ppl who are lonely on Valentine's Day.. LOLz huhuhu.. Well... Valentine's day is also a Friendship day rite.. :P dun haf to be so mellow den... hihihi.. :)

10. In Between
"Let me apologize to begin with.. Let me apologize for what I'm about to say.. But trying to be genuine was harder than it seemed.. But somehow I got caught up in between........."

Another solo performance by Mike Shinoda! wow... He is singing for the whole song! hahaha.. With his unique bass vocal range.. that's cool ! I heard, this song is one of the band's favorite.. that's why it is not left behind and is included in this album hahahaz.. Sometimes, songs need not to be so complicated and so skillful-sounding to attract people.. This song.. I can say, is VERY simple one yet it's nice! Background musics are all originated from turntable and effects played by DJ Hahn! hohoho.. The background melody somehow reminds me of an Aborigine traditional oboe.. :P (forgot the name :P) The vocal uniqueness of Mike is another added value to this song. So... KISS... Keep It Simple Stupid... hohoho.. :P :P

11. In Pieces
"So I, I won't be the one, be the one to leave this... In pieces......."

Hmm, the song begins with some effects.. including the percussion.. Not bad but it's kinda an OKAY for me dude.. I like the solo guitar melodies played by Brad in the middle of the song thou :P hehehe.. The drum played by Rob took over the percussion effect from DJ machine after a while.. hohooh.. Overall: nice arrangement and interesting guitar and drum techniques (they have really gone beyond their boundaries!) :D Sumthin' new from the band! hohoho.. Well, nothin' much I can comment about.. :P

12. The Little Things Give You Away
"Don't want to reach for me do you? I mean nothing to you.. The little things give you away......."

Wow, it starts with some effects from DJ Hahn and an acoustic guitar! haha.. They are completely evolving! Their music is getting more mature.. and skillful ... Yeah, this piece shows their skillfulness in playing their own music instruments! I like the drum sequence.. and the solo guitar played by Brad! This piece emphasizes his guitar techniques, other than just riffs.. and gives him more solo part :P This is really really another something new from them! It's not just plain nu metal with shouting and DJ effects here and there.. It's more melodic.. deeper in meanings... and it's the new Linkin Park! hohoho..

It's the end of my comments.. Recommended album this year... in my version :P

-i'm out..-

del'Dante Second Meeting @ Ray's Room :D

2007-05-31T19:10:00.000+08:00

It's our second practice ! Yay.. hohoho.. Yeah, we played some Indonesian songs yesterday, medleys from some traditional Indonesian songs too ! XD like Bengawan Solo, Rayuan Pulau Kelapa.. etc.. :P Thou the line up is still not decided yet (except for Sony as guitarist and Davin as vocalist), but everybody is very2 great in their own way ! hahaha... Well, I still can't spontaneously figure out the chords for some songs I've never played before hahaha... Need your guidance.. my band mates.. hohoh :D Yeah, we work as a team rite hahaha XD Thanks everybody ! I had a great nite yesterday ! Thanx for Ong and Raymond too for their room.. as our second meeting's venue :D haahah... Below are some pictures taken yesterday.. XD

Dela with bass guitar.. haha you look cool ! :D XD

Sony sang a song while playing his classic guitar :D Wow.. He's great ! :D

Raymond with his own bass guitar hoho.. with Ong in background (playing WOW... XD) LOLzz

Me on bass guitar :P (err.. playing 'Rock n Roll' I guess.. :P)

Davin, our vocalist :D browsing for lyrics on i-net :D

Dela with my acoustic guitar hahha... Cool2 :D XD (oops.. i guess the strap doesn't match the guitar color.. :P)

Master Raymond on keyboard.. :D and Sony as his 'pupil' hahhaa :P

Yoshh... looking forward for our third meeting next week.. hohoh.. Let's work hand-in-hand ! ^^

Comments about Minutes to Midnight ( I )

2007-05-30T09:48:00.000+08:00

Yosh.. I'll spend few minutes to give some comments about the brand new album from Linkin Park, Minutes to Midnight. hohoho.. Before I start, I think it will be good if I let you know what Minutes to Midnight means.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Minutes to Midnight is typically associated with the Doomsday clock, which is a symbolic clockface maintained since 1947 by the Board of Directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago. It uses the analogy of the human race being at a time that is "minutes to midnight" where midnight represents destruction by nuclear war."

Hope it's clear for you.. Let's start the comments.. I'll go track by track and .. here we go:

1. Wake
There's so called distortion of sound in the beginning, and continued with the 'awakening' of sumthin' big as the music is getting louder and louder.. The guitar riff is conclusive and this short piece somehow could be a reminiscence of Linkin Park's old style..

2. Given Up
"I've given up... I'm sick of feeling, Is there nothing you can say?........."

The sounds of clapping hands (or I dunno wad it is.. :P) and tinkling keys makes this song sounds 'ethnic' or sumthin'.. This song sounds rough and tough .. Good enough to rise up your mood and wash away all the mellowness .. Commonly called head-banging song :P LP's old style is still rooted in this song, the new stuff here is the drum sequence sounds somethin' different, not another nu metal style anyway..

3. Leave Out All The Rest
"When my time comes.. forget the wrong that I've done.. Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed........"

As I mentioned in the earlier entry, this is the most melodic piece of the album. When I first heard this piece, I was instantly falling in love with the melody! hahaha.. The lyric is also great! It's not LP that I knew 2 or 3 years ago, but this is still awesome! What more can I say, this song is just perfect! XD Thou I realize Brad's guitar technique is not the core of this song... He did the single-string strumming in every chorus part of the song, except the last one, Brad tried to conclude the song with single-strumming style in each chord played (similar to wad he had done in the song Numb).... 10/10 from me ! :D

4. Bleed It Out
"I bleed it out diggin' deeper just to throw it away..."

An old school rock style.. hoho.. The solo guitar from Brad is also not bad, at last, he tried sumthin' new, other than just riffs. Playing each notes repeatedly blended in few riffs here and there.... This song is really really sumthin' new from LP! hohoho.. They used wider range of musical instruments in this album, particularly tambourine in this song.. Another effect is the sound of clapping hands of the audience, somehow depicts that the song is played live somewhere...

5. Shadow of The Day
"And the shadow of the day, will embrace the world in grey, and the sun will set for you......."

It starts with dark mood.. and when the drum gets in, slowly but sure the song is getting brighter and brighter. It's like going to a climax or sumthin'. Wad I thought as the climax of this song is when the guitar enters the higher octave of notes (the nicest part I guess.. :P). Nice and conclusive ending.. I thot I saw the sunlight in the end of the song :P thou the lyric conveys a different thing XD

6. What I've Done
"I’ve faced myself, to cross out what I’ve become... Erase myself.. And let go of what I’ve done......"

This is the very first and the only single released by Linkin Park before the release of Minutes to Midnight. When I heard diz for the first time, I knew sumthin' has changed... their music style.. They have said goodbye to their nu metal style and developing sumthin' new... Another nice piece, especially the chords progression in the chorus, intro and bridge parts of the song. There are 2 guitarists for this song, one played the lead (the melody) which is Brad Delson and another one played the riffs.. which is.. surprisingly.. Mike Shinoda! hahaha.. He's becoming more and more 'melodic' in this album. The song is not as 'harsh' as Given Up and No More Sorrow but it sounds somewhat dark.. and reflects the meaning of Minutes to Midnight itself. I noticed the drum effect played by Rob in the beginning of the song, represents the ticking of clock... Doomsday clock...

-to be continued.....-

Leave Out All The Rest by Linkin Park

2007-05-29T17:39:00.000+08:00

Yosh.. dunno why, I just feel like.. want to post the lyric of diz song.. sung by Linkin Park, my all time favorite.. :) on their new album Minutes to Midnight. This song is awesome, it's sooo melodic, and I like the way they are now... They have reached outside their boundaries, trying new styles and play beyond their comfort zone. Gratz to Linkin Park!

I dreamed I was missing you were so scared
But no one would listen cause no one else cared
After my dreaming I woke with this fear
What am I leaving when I’m done here

So if you’re asking me I want you to know

When my time comes forget the wrong that I’ve done
Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed
And don’t resent me and when you’re feeling empty
Keep me in your memory leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest

Don’t be afraid
I’ve taking my beating I’ve shared what I’ve been
I’m strong on the surface not all the way through
I’ve never been perfect but neither have you

So if you’re asking me I want you to know

Forgetting all the hurt inside
You’ve learned to hide so well
Pretending someone else can come and save me from myself
I can’t be who you are

Enjoy the song.. :)

-i'm off.. -

It's about del'Dante ...

2007-05-24T09:51:00.000+08:00

Yosh.. try to guess... what del'Dante is.. haha.. It's not a brand of ketchup, it's not an Italian restaurant as well.. It's our BAND name ! hahaha LOLzz.. Yeah, I have a band rite now.. Few weeks back, I was chatting with Adela and discussing abt music and stuffs.. den we talked about creating a band.. hahaha.. She was interested to have a band, and so was I.. hahaha and Yeah, the band was formed then with only me, Adela and Raymond as its members.. XD hohoho.. Later on, Adela also proposed to join Indokustik band competition in ard Aug hoho, yeah so we had to recruit other members of the band. Finally, we managed to recruit Johan (keyboardist / bassist), Davin (singer), and Sony (lead guitarist). So, our band is complete now...

del'Dante is.. Edmond as rhythm guitarist/drummer, Raymond as bassist/keyboardist/drummer, Adela as singer/keyboardist, Davin as singer, Johan as keyboardist/bassist and Sony as lead guitarist.

Yesterday we had our very first 'meeting' cum 'practice' session in Adela's room hohoh... She has just bought a keyboard for our practice XD hohoho... Yeah, it wasn't the real practice anyway, it was more to a 'brainstorming' session.. We played many2 songs yesterday, and also tried to compose and remix few songs into a medley hahaa.. nice2 :) Everyone was very2 good! hahaha.. I haf to give my best too for the band ^^

Oya, I hvn't told you about the idea behind the band's name... hohoh.. Ard few weeks ago after members of the band were half-complete (minus Sony), we had an MSN conference chatting, discussing abt our band's name :P LOLzz.. In the beginning, Adela proposed 'terJERAD' ahaha... based on our first alphabet in our names 'JERAD' hahah LOLz, then many2 names were proposed that time .. like Red-AJ, del'danco (Dela dan cowo2).. del'dancoker (Dela dan cowo2 keren XD).. del'dante (Dela dan teman2), PERKEDEL (Perjaka2 keren dan Dela LOLzz XD) and so on... (can't remember :P ) Denn it was voting time, annd the name was decided to be del'Dante..(Dela dan teman2, coz she is the only girl in the band :P LOLz) hahaha.. sounds like somethin' Italian :P wakakka..

Anyway.. Thanx to Adela for the initiative to form this band.. Thanx too for giving me this opportunity in my last year in NTU :P hahaha (kek apa aja :P LOLz) and also for giving me precious moments that soon will be passed together... :D hohoh... Yeah, let's do our best !

del'Dante rawks ! XD

I'll End This Fight (courtesy of Adela) :D

2007-05-22T12:11:00.000+08:00

"this poem is inspired by a friend of mine *which is me :P *... dedicated to the person as promised :) "

things changed
memories faded
hopes get eroded
and that chapter... was ended

i thought i could stand up
waiting... just like in the past
until one day i decided that i'd end this fight
yes, i've given up
... maybe i just haven't found someone who is just right
for me
perhaps we're just not meant to be...

just as wisemen said, "you'll never lose what you've never got...
you'll never lose what you've never had..."
well, it means i shall not regret and continue to move on
it's our star-crossed fate

it takes time to forget...
there shall be no regrets...
i won't stop this race and look back...
by that time, everything perhaps would have become too late...

i'll just go with the flow
wherever the wind blows and wherever the river flows...
day by day, i will just follow
today and look for tomorrow
'coz everyday makes me grow

so many people are on the same boat
together we'll walk this long and winding road
until one day all of us can find a way back into love...

-by Adela Josephine-

*thanxxx ya Dela :D XD

Taiwan rawks ! ~~ XD

2007-05-08T09:40:00.000+08:00

Last weekend was a very2 longg weekend hahaha.. I went to Taiwan on Friday (4 May) til' Sunday (6 May). XD Haf to wake up very2 early in the morning coz need to catch up the group check in at ard 8.15 am. Yeah, me and Adi took a reserved cab to the airport but guess wad, the cab was sooo damn long.. and actually we need not to reserve a cab since the cabs passed us by was quite a lot too, can just simply flag.. haiz... =.= hahaha.. We reached the airport at ard 8.30 (phew.. not that late anyway..) and did the group check in .. Nothin' much to do after that, just strolled along the Terminal 1, hopped on from one shop to the other to wash away boredom :P hahhaa.. haf to wait ard one and a half hour before boarding the plane. It was a 4 hours flight from S'pore to Hongkong hohoh, we had another 1 hour flight from Hongkong to Taiwan then.

Upon arriving in Taiwan, it was ard 6 o' clock already, and we prepared to go to Shi Lin Market to have dinner there. Our tour guide, Betty, told us that Taiwan is famous for its local foods! hahaha.. So, our first destination is the place where we can find very2 great local foods. However, on the way there suddenly our group leader realized that there was one person that shud be in our group left behind in the airport.. weww.. haizz.. hahaha. We turned around and went back to the airport to fetch him.. haha.. Yeah, we arrived at Shi Lin Market at ard 8 pm, and we had time til' 10 pm. Shi Lin Market can be compared with Bugis in S'pore, but perhaps the term 'Taiwanese Hawker Center' suits it best.. ahhahaha.. Wow, what Betty said was really true.. hahaha.. The local foods were very2 delicious XD The poor thing was, me and Adi cudn't even read the stalls' name coz all are written in Chinese XD LOL hahaha, so we joined other employees who understand and are able to speak Chinese. Then we did an 'eat-by-hop' method :P, we tried the food in a small2 amt each stall. We tried dumpling soup, oyster omelette, Taiwanese carrot cake, big chicken satay, etc :P wakakaka.. all were great ! hahaha.. After finishing our dinner, we strolled along the 'night market' area to 'relax' our 'fullness' :P:P. Then, we went to Taoyuan Hotel, our hotel for 2 nights hihihi. It's a four-star hotel, but still quite nice except the surrounding since the hotel itself is located in a suburb area of Taipei.

The second day.... It was a cloudy and rainy day.. phew.. First we started off with National Palace Museum which is an art gallery and museum in Taipei city housing loads of artifacts from ancient China. It is said that The National Palace Museum in Taipei holds one of the largest collection of Chinese artifacts and artwork in the world. hohoho.. XD

Next, we went to a 'Jade shop' (which I can't remember the name XD) hahaha.. The ppl there could actually read your element and your Chinese zodiac by examining either your Chinese name or your birth date. Then they will show you which color of jade stone (the color represents the element) you need to buy, to bring you more luck and stuffs. Yeah, I actually didn't buy one since it's too expensive.. hikzu...can't afford it .. v_v

Our next destination is Chiu Fen Village, and the weather was getting worsen and worsen... and immediately the rain poured down from the sky... hehehe.. To get there, we had to take local bus from so called 'bus terminal' there. The surrounding was super duper amazing ! I kinda like that place man.. hahaa XD It is situated near the top of mountain, and quite similar with Bugis Street here in S'pore LOL. Along the sideways, there are loads of shops selling delicious local foods, souvenirs, and so on. Unfortunately we only had one and a half hour there, me and Adi didn't even reach the end of the street wew... and had to go back already to have our lunch in the 'Beef Noodle' restaurant. The beef noodle reminded me of rawon, one of Javanese (esp East Java) local foods.. hahaha.. The only difference is the rice in rawon is replaced with noodle. hohoho.. XD

Next was Taipei 101 Tower, one of the tallest skyscrapers in the world and we had a 'small race' there, which is a part of the team bonding activities. We were grouped into a 10 separate groups, then each group was given eight pictures of something that we should find out where it was located inside the 101 Mall... and it was a race, thus the fastest one will be the winner. Phew.. not as easy as we thought, but in the end we could finish third hohoho... The mall was an ordinary mall, nothin' special on it.. The bad thing was we couldn't go to the upper level of the tower to see the Taipei city from the top (yeah, it was raining, so there's no point to go up since we would see nothin' up there anyway...). Yosh, it was dinner time then! We had a sumptuous dinner at Five Cents Driftwood House Restaurant hohoho.. The building was very2 super duper unique ! Both its exterior and interior hahah... :P In contrast with the nice atmosphere and surrounding there, the foods were an OKAY for me.. hahaha LOLzzz

We left the restaurant at ard 7.30 pm and headed to Xi Men Ting for our second team bonding activity. Xi Men Ting is the place similar to Orchard Road in S'pore, the center of fashion in Taipei, I can say.. hohoho.. Yeah, let me introduce you the Amazing WET Datacraft X Race hahaah.. The word WET shouldn't be there anyway, but due to 'fantastic' weather that nite, I should add the word WET on it.. haha.. It was raining.. *again.. and almost all of my group's members were drenched.. thou it wasn't a total.. We had to finish each post by doing sumthin' the postmaster asked us to do.. In one post, we had to eat roasted duck tongue ahahhaha.. fantastic.... just imagine yourself how the taste was.. :P I didn't eat the entire tongue anyway, only bite some small small parts of it.. XD and in another post, we had to do a 'skipping' together in the middle of the rain :P LOLz.. hahaah.. sooo GJ .. We didn't care anymore about the race, just tried hard to finish it.. and get the hell outta that wet wet place.. hahaha...

Finally, at ard 10 o clock pm, we finished the race and went back to hotel.. It was another 1 hour journey to the hotel.. with my wet hair and shirt... hahaa.. Luckily I didn't fall sick hahha :D Upon arriving at the hotel, we had a debrief, prize presentation (of coz the winner wasn't us :P ), closing speech, and group photos... Yeahhh, that concluded our second day ! hohoho...

Third day.. it was a quite shiny day actually.. hahahaha... LOL It was like the day before our activities were not 'blessed' or sumthin'... :P XD After finished our breakfast, we went back to our room and I took a bath, packed up, and just watched tv to kill the time.. at ard 10.10 am we went down, did a check out and shopped a while in the hotel's souvenirs shop (yeah, the day before I didn't have much time to buy some souvenirs to be brought to Indo later.. =.=" ) And.. finally we made another 6++ hours journey from Taiwan to S'pore and arrived in S'pore at ard 8 pm hahaha.. Yosh, and the next day had to go for IA again.. phew.. and here I am, stuck in here, doing log book and IA report.. hahahaa.. back to the usual activity...

Chapter 21

2007-05-02T10:15:00.000+08:00

It's another new chapter in my life :D .. had it celebrated twice actually XD At midnite yesterday, Erikson asked me to join them playing cards in Lissi's room. I had a feeling already anyway.. hoho... Yeah, we celebrated my birthday there, and what shocked me was... the cake was a 'very last minute' cake (according to their version :P) hahhaha.. Dunno whether it was intended to sabo me or that was just really2 'last minute'. Nevertheless, I appreciated their efforts.. creativity and stuffs.. Thank you so much! :D Let me describe to you the cake.. Okay, basically it was a 3-slice white bread, with jam in between (looks normal rite ? :P). Oreos, wafers, and some chili sauce was put in the outer part of the bread. Yeah.. R u curious with its taste? hahaha.. It was not that bad.. Acually, it was quite 'normal' to me, except that 'hot' taste caused by the chili :P hahaha.. Below is the pic of the 'cake'.. XD

Haha.. just imagine urself eating that cake .. :P There were Adi,Thomas,Lissi,Erikson,and Wewoen that nite. We were playing 'capsa' and '100' games til' ard 4 pm I guess.. hahaha.. and as usual, the loser must choose either "truth" or "dare" hohoho.. When Wewoen lost for the first time, she was asked to 'tease' either Chandra or Edbert; whose room is just opposite of Lissi's room, by shouting 'I love you' :P hahaha.. LOLz She did it in a very2 funny way :P Eventually she could really say it when Chandra and Edbert came to Lissi's room wakaakak... XD *peacee Wewoen lost her key and access card that nite.. >< I hope you'll find it very2 soon woen.. :D

The second celebration took place last nite, in my small tiny single room :P Actually, at noon Erikson had 'leaked' some info abt the plan of my birthday celebration which should had been done that noon, but since I went to city wif my sis and watching Spiderman 3 thereafter, they postponed it til' nite :P

When I replied some comments from ppl in my FS, suddenly Ong and Raymond was entering my room and asking me what was I doing .. haha.. They left the door wide open, and suddenly a Happy Birthday song was sung by all of them who came from nowhere :P LOL wakakaka.. There were Rica, Sophie, Vily, Venny, Myrna,Shilvia,Feby,Ai, Adi,Ong,Raymond,Moja,Erikson,Andy,Jordan in my room! Woww... My room was over crowded then :P XD LOL hahaha.. Usual rite for birthday celebration was applied, it's a cakes-giving time haha.. Well, actually it wasn't a cake, it was a pudding ^^ I chose Adi as my 1st 'pudding' hihihi.. and Rica for my 2nd 'pudding' XD Then, testimonials time! Jordan gave the first testimonial since he came late :P everybody was sabo-ing him, asked him to give me testimonial when he just stepped his feet in :P haha.. It was a quite normal testimonials time til' Adi's turn to give me testimonial, it sounded more to 'gossips time' than testimonials time.. It was sooo not personality matters... (it should be comments/critics to one's personality wadd...) LOL Phew.. then suddenly the mood of gossips was in the air.. but unluckily all the kaypoh2 creatures were all there.. hahhaaha *peaceee... XD Rica gave me an ordinary testimonial and right after she finished her words, everybody was like staring at me and pushing me to tell them about the person Adi was gossiping about... haiizzzz... Hahaha.. Soooo GJ ... ^^;;;; At ard 11.50 we ended the celebration as we are all need to wake up early in the morning for IA hohoho... A biggg biggg thank you for everyone who has made my birthday soo special... :D Thank youu for you all !!! *a big hugzz*

Taiwan oh Taiwan XD

2007-04-23T09:35:00.000+08:00

Hohohoho... See the title? Guess what? I'm going to Taiwan! hahaha.. XD However, it's still subject to visa approval and I'm going to submit the application form today. hihihih... Earlier last week, when the company annual trip invitation was first sent out, I bewildered about whether to join the trip or not. I and Adi decided to ask the HR person first before replying the email, but unfortunately the person seemed to be busy and in the end we couldn't talk to her. Due to time constraint, we just simply replied the email stating our intention to join the trip. After a while, Adi showed up and told me that the trip wasn't meant for us, the guy from his department told him 'bout diz. I was like, wad the... since I hadn't received any reply from the guy in my department.. So I decided to wait til' the next day, in which still no reply came so I wrote another email to him stating that I withdrew from the trip and explained the reasons. Then suddenly the guy replied my email and asked me to call him. On the phone, he told me that actually the HR lady had told him that our head of department had given us permission to join this trip so he wondered why I withdrew. After lunch, me and Adi had a talk with him, since Adi was still confuse whether to go or not. The guy then showed us the email sent by the HR lady regarding the permission for us to go for the trip, and I also spotted the word 'exceptional' hahaha.. Actually attachment students can't join this trip, but since our head of department have given permission, so it's an exceptional case for us :P XD Everything was clear then.. Yosh... ^^

Haizzz it's raining again.. aaaa my laundry... >< Today I feel super duper dizzy and sleepy.. =.= =.= dunno why.. errr..

Week 15, Day 73/110

2007-04-18T10:13:00.000+08:00

Here I go again.. Last weekend was very2 super duper fun! wakakka... Yeah, perhaps it was a lil' bit GJ, but I think that was fun.. ;) Originally, we only had one plan, going to Coffeebean at Boat Quay and have a chat til' late nite. However, suddenly Rica called me that day, and told me that Sofie was hospitalized the day before and asked me whether I could go to see her or not. In the end, I planned to go to SGH first to see Sofie and after that, Coffeebean time! I invited Ong and Muja to join also, and at SGH we met Rica XD After some chit-chat with Sofie, we went to VivoCity and had our dinner there. Jordan almost ruined our 'coffeebean' plan coz he wasn't sure to go, but we actually felt that going to Coffeebean was a quite 'bad' idea that time, since we were in a group of 5 ppl.. had to take 2 taxis to go back..... wew.. but in the end Jordan decided to go there straightaway after finishing his work, so.. no choice :P. While waiting for Jordan, Rica proposed to play pool and we were agree with her instantly! :P Huahahaha.. It's been a long2 time since last time I played pool and now I feel like I am addicted to pool :P wakkakaka XD in 1 hour we were able to play many2 rounds of 8 ball game and 9 ball game for the last round hohoho XD Finally, we joined Jordan in Coffeebean, there we played the 'number guessing' game again :P wakaaka.. anybody who lose (i.e he/she who guess the number correctly XD) will have to answer question proposed by others as honest as possible :P wakakkaa.. Some secrets were revealed that time muahahaha.... *evil laugh* Ard 2am in the morning, we went out from coffeebean and took a walk to Merlion area and had a GJ (read: unimportant) chit-chat there :P this part was very2 GJ one... :P lastly, we went back by taxis, but Moja chose to be alone in one taxi >< >< and 4 of us were in another taxi. Yooww... that's it :P XD

hmm.. quite boring here.. as always... but just now I got something to be done for the rest of this IA period.. hohohoh.. Have to extract information from the raw file *.ldif and save it back to *.csv file. hohoho... hmm, abt my love life.. I'm ready to let go of her, have to learn to let go of sumthin' anyway ... and love myself more.. yeah.. that's it.. So, for now, I have given up on you... Just let it flow and hoping that time will heal everything ... I know it might be a lil' bit "theoretic" but it's true that love is not possession, and to give love to others means happiness to others... Those memories will always be there, framed nicely in one corner of my mind..

So.. I end this journey.....

"I'm going home... back to the place where I belong.... I don't regret this life I chose for me..."
-quoted from Home by Chris Daughtry-

Week 14, Day 69/110

2007-04-12T14:08:00.000+08:00

Yo! HOLA and FYP selection have been done! In the end, I chose Ong as my roomie and applied for Hall 16, his current room ^^;; hoho.. Here is the story.. On the last day of Hall registration period, which is last Monday, Raymond asked me to discuss sumthin'. He told me that he would apply for single room in which he should gave up his current room and he suggested me to apply his current room with my ex-roomie Ong :P Jordan, which currently stays in single room, also applied for single room next year and put Raymond as a roomie if the application to single room failed (and vice versa for Raymond). At last, I agreed with Raymond and... Yeah, now I'm hoping for the best outcome! Just let God do the rest .. ^^

By the way, congratzz to some of my friends who had done their baptism on last Saturday! The new life has just begun! ^^ The 3 holy days were very2 amazing. :D Happy Easter then to everyone! (I hope it's not too late hohoho...) The baptism video has been successfully transfered from DVcam to computer, but the size is very2 big (ard 6 gigs leh XD)! Wew.. Have to edit it somehow.. hihi..

It's 41 more days left for IA.. wew... which is ard 2 more months from now.. Hohohoh... Haf to prepare my IA report very2 soon.. =.=" The coming semester will be my final year in NTU as well as my final chance to study and ... erm.. XD hauhauhahaa... Yay! I got my first choice for FYP... :D The result has just out today! hohohoh.. I'll work on this project with my friend Venny (so far I only know her, there will be 2 more ppl joining us on this project ^^) I hope we had great times! Time flows so fast.. as always.. I feel like I just stepped my feet in NTU a year ago but I've been here for almost 3 years already! I miss my freshie times, when I explored NTU for the first time.. when I joined my first ECA.. when I managed to play LAN games such as CS and Warcraft.. XD Those times were a hard yet fun times... hohoho...

Aah.. sooo boring.. hahaha.. and the rain outside makes me wanna sleeppppp. Haf to go back to book..... hohoho... Jyaaa nee.. ^^

~haf a nice dae...^^ ~

What I've Done

2007-04-05T16:33:00.000+08:00

"In this farewell,
There is no blood,
There is no alibi,
Cause I’ve drawn regret,
From the truth,
Of a thousands lies,
So let mercy come and wash away…

What I’ve Done,
I’ll face myself,
To cross out what I’ve become,
Erase myself,
And let go of what I’ve done…

Put to rest,
What you thought of me
While, I clean this slate,
With the hands,
Of uncertainty,
So let mercy come,
And wash away…

What I’ve Done,
I’ll face myself,
To cross out what I’ve become,
Erase myself,
And let go of what I’ve done…

For what I’ve done,
I start again,
And whatever pain may come,
Today this ends,
I’m forgiving what I’ve done…

I’ll face myself,
To cross out what I’ve become,
Erase myself,
And let go of what I’ve done…

(Na,Na,Na) [Mike Shinoda!]

What I’ve Done,
What I’ve Done,
Forgiving what I’ve done…"

Troublesome day....

2007-04-05T14:21:00.000+08:00

First.. When I woke up this morning, an 'asthma' struck me .. =.=" I dunno, it's not usual, but it wasn't that bad actually, at least I was still able to walk and had my breakfast and took a bath... ><" After bathing, I was thinking of having a leave again today, but in the end I decided to keep going. That was hard in the beginning, but eventually everything was getting better and better.. Huff.. I can breathe 'normally' now even though I felt it's still not 100% recovered.

Second.. My laptop's HD crashed (or wadeva' the name is since I couldn't even open My Computer -.-).. I was lucky it was only 1 partition that crashed.. Then I was looking for somebody in NTU who were available that time to send me the software from my sharing folder in NTU to recover the partition. Fortunately, my friend Yulia was still in her room, and was able to send me the software... Huff.. 1 problem solved... In the middle of scanning, suddenly the lappy was becoming soooo lagging... =.=" the problem was, there was an I/O error in the HD, I also din know why.. :s After a while, I stopped the scanning and continued with the recovery, and... lucky me, the files to be recovered were all there and I recovered them one by one... Since I couldn't access My Computer, I formatted the partition via Command Prompt ... and finally.. done ! ... That's it.. I hope this is the one and only problem I have to face wif this lappy...... (Actually this lappy is lent to me by Datacraft as IA student here :P)

Today is Maundy Thursday, the day when Jesus held the last supper with his 12 disciples... I will go to church these three consecutive days (tml is Good Friday, and the day after tml is Holy Saturday), and some of my friends will receive sacrament of baptism and confirmation on Saturday.. hoho..

Hm.. will continue reading the book from now on XD... hmmm.. hmmm....

Bright day...

2007-04-04T10:03:00.000+08:00

Woke up late again today.. =.=" the funny thing is, the day before yesterday (i.e Monday) I also woke up late (7.04 am, exactly the same as today.. =.=" what a coincidence.. :P), and yesterday, it was Adi who woke up late :P I wonder if tml he will wake up late again XD so it's like we wake up late in turn :P:P hahaha.. Today got no seat in MRT so I haf to stand all the way to City Hall from Boon Lay and of course I couldn't enjoy my usual sleeping time in MRT... >< heuheuhe.. (*ga fentink berad...:P)

These 2 days I felt my head was gonna fell down after every 15 minutes reading the CCNA self study book.. v_v so sleepy ... especially after having lunch, at around 3pm, that's the 'worst' time here ... =.= Haizzzz.. Nothin' much to do now in the office, since the 'project' from my supervisor has been 'finished' (at least for now), but he himself now is overseas til' 10 April and got no more usual feedback and additional tasks, so... yeah nothin' much to do ... So I 'waste' my time by reading the CCNA self study book .. Not bad, at least I could gain sumthin' from reading that book, and also to prepare my 'future' *jieeeh.. XD XD If you don't know about CCNA, I'll tell you briefly here.

CCNA is a Cisco Certified Network Associate, which is a foundation to Cisco networking technology as well as the lowest Cisco certification available (got 2 more certifications above CCNA, they are CCNP and CCIE). Quoted from Cisco website : "CCNA certified professionals can install, configure, and operate LAN, WAN, and dial access services for small networks (100 nodes or fewer), including but not limited to use of these protocols: IP, IGRP, Serial, Frame Relay, IP RIP, VLANs, RIP, Ethernet, Access Lists". Yeah, sorry if you are not interested in networking, but as I promised, I only tell you 'briefly' wad.. :P

So, if you had at least CCNP (or if you aim higher, CCIE) it will be a quite distinct point in your resume when you apply for networking job fields. However, experience of working is still needed here if you wan to work in a big company, like for example in company where I'm working now i.e Datacraft (as attachment student of coz, not permanent employee :P), they would prefer to hire ppl who have at least 3-5 years of working experience in networking fields rather than a fresh graduate.

Hum, haf to start reading again.. hohoho.. hopefully the day is really as bright as it seems XD

~haf a nice dae then !~

The end of weekend...

2007-04-01T12:54:00.000+08:00

Finally.. the flash for year book has finished yesterday.. hohooh XD It has been deployed to CD and should have been distributed by now (perhaps...:P) hohoho..

The rain was very very very.. heavy yesterday when I went out to church.. it was also accompanied with the heavy thunder.. and it seemed that the rain also affected 174's bus frequency.. ><><>< >< style="font-weight: bold;">Championship Cat 2007 @ Expo Hall but at the same time I also think that, it's too far... -.-"

Oh yeah, today is 1 April, April fool day! hahaaha.. Hopefully I am not fooled today :P The day b4 yesterday, I read from a website about top 10 worst April fool and I was like.. swt =.=" read one of the articles below:

Glenn Howlett's colleagues at London city hall thought they had dreamed up a great gag. They sent him a memo informing him that the really big report he was working on was going to be due early, in just two weeks. The tip-off was that the memo was dated April 1st. Ha Ha. Except Howlett didn't realize it was a joke. He received the memo while on vacation and immediately cut his vacation short and phoned the office to tell everyone to start getting busy. But as he contemplated the new deadline he worked himself up into an increasing state of panic, until soon he began to experience heart palpitations. Finally he collapsed from the stress and had to take leave from work. As he was recovering he realized it just wasn't worth risking his health to finish the report, so he filed for early retirement. At which point someone told him the early deadline was just a joke. He responded by suing for damages. As a consequence of his lawsuit, city hall banned employees from pulling any more pranks.

hohoho.. crazy ar.. You'll find another crazy April fool here hahaha.. just for fun lor and not to be tried at home!!! hahahaa..

~haf a nice dae then....~ XD

Love so sweet? ... no... not yet .....

2007-03-30T11:09:00.001+08:00

Yosh... the title has already told you the idea of this entry rite? hihi... Talking about love.. It's something that I always unfortunate with.... Yeah, it's not my time yet... I had liked this some1 since 2 years ago, and I'm the one who decided to wait until "the end of time" (read: graduation)
Day by day.. year by year... I realized that we are getting farther and farther, and that could be a sign that I'm not supposed to continue this 'journey'... Perhaps, the way I 'approach' her (read: pdkt) is too aggressive (though some friends told me that I wasn't aggressive enough), but if she is not my mate, whatever I do can't make us together... Sometimes I think that I should give up on this, but when I go to some place or talk about sumthin' that used to have a 'relation' with her, I started to remember those times again.. It's hard to forget.. *again* ...

I can't do much now, there's no point of pushing right now, just stay cool and let your heart listen to the sound of destiny... Confession? I don't expect to much from it.. Maybe I look happy outside, smile here and there.. but somewhere inside me is weak and sad...

Okay, in the end, I haf no regrets.. At least I've tried... "It's sad.. but no regrets..." hoho...

*just a piece of thoughts.....*

Below is the reff from the song Home by Chris Daughtry...

"I'm going home,
Back to the place where I belong,
And where your love has always been enough for me.
I'm not running from.
No, I think you got me all wrong.
I don't regret this life I chose for me..."

Hummm....

2007-03-28T10:34:00.000+08:00

Today woke up a 'little' bit late hahaha, coz last nite I went to bed a lot late ^^;; hehehe.. At last, HOLA had been settled (even though I wrongly filled the Roomate's Particulars with MY particulars ^^;; and have to re-do it again today), what left is.. FYP selection, I hope I got enlightenment today hihihi...

Don't know why, but this morning there was a toppled tree somewhere along the 199 route (according to sms sent by Lissiana this morning when I just opened my eyes :P), she also said that there was no 199 service this morning... then I decided to take 179 but when I almost reached canteen A to catch 179, I saw 199 passing me by =.=" haha.. I think the 199 route was still opened but the frequency of the bus will be a little bit longer than usual.

Just giving my thoughts regarding the mess in my TV lounge in hall (y) created by some ppl in hall (x) and (y) a few days ago. In the end, only 2 owned up to hall office and write an apology letter.. From what I heard, there was some other ppl I knew (I won't mention it here in what circumstances I knew these ppl) but they never owned up... I don't know why, but they seem to be afraid of losing face if they owned up, and some of them are not even from hall (y) anyway.. I don't really know how filthy the lounge was, but from the email I received, it was really2 'inhuman' behavior.. However, they weren't evicted from hall.. As a responsibility for their behavior, I think they should be evicted from hall or at least committed to clean the bathroom everyday at certain time. This kind of ppl must learn how a real life in society (as a human) is established, that everything has a regulations, constraints, ethics, etc.. We are not animal that don't care about those regulations, ethics, etc.. We are all made mistakes, but there are some kind of responsibilities for that mistakes we have made. I hope they didn't write the letter of apology as a kind of formality only, but were able to open their eyes, not to repeat those kind of things anymore, anywhere in the society.

Hahaha.. It's too long already isn't it hahaa...

*Hoaahemm it's raining outside... hopefully it doesn't make me sleepy.. =.= hoho..

1st post in 2007 ^^;;;

2007-03-27T11:15:00.000+08:00

Yoo.. Am i back to blogging life? Hahaha.. I don't know exactly.. but today, suddenly I miss my blog and something urges me to start writing on it again XD hohoho.. Almost a year since my last post, and I dunno why my mood of blogging always like.. on and off all the time :P XD

Back to boring life, hem no, challenging life.. XD An IA life now hahaha.. No need to go to lectures, tutorials, quizzes, and even exams ! XD As usual, I got up at ard 6.50, had my breakfast really2 'fast', bathing, then went down to catch the 7.40 bus :P

After reaching office (i.e at Suntec Tower 4), what I usually do is.. reading daily newspaper TODAY hahaha.. However, the hard copy is a lil' bit 'hard' to get now and I don't want to fight with Adi who also read it everyday (becoz we only got I copy in the office :P), so I prefer to read it online on www.todayonline.com rather than getting the hard copy. <--- ga fentink berad ye bahas ini :P :P Time flows so fast... don't realize it til' we have to choose our final year project for the next two semesters (last year in NTU !!). I still confuse with what to choose, actually I got some projects in my mind already but reluctant to submit my choice.. XD Next issue is.. about HOLA (Hall Online Application) phew.. The hall allocation system has changed from PAS to HAS which in my opinion, still incomplete. Gossips are all around the campus regarding the new systems and sometimes a lot more confusing than the real fact itself.. perhaps.. I've decided.. I'll apply for double room for the last 2 semesters in NTU. The roomate is still not clear yet, but MOST LIKELY will be Jordan. He hesitated to apply for double room in the beginning, but I had tried convincing him that for the new system, single room is very very risky... Let's see his decision tonite.. I hope this is not a too-long-posting for today.. hohoho.. I've uploaded new song for this blog, which is a song from Chris Daughtry (from Amidol season 5) titled Home. I like it so much! Enjoy....

*what a shiny and bright day.. XD

Bored....

2006-06-19T15:06:00.000+08:00

Hoai...>< so bored. Just come back from school after walking around looking for part time job. Aaaah..so hot...the air is very2 humid. ^^;;;;; For a few days i'll be alone in this room becoz my roommate's parents are coming so he will be staying at their place for a while...huhuhu so bored..so lonely >< heuehhue..Got nothing to do, all are coming back to Indonesia. Only me and yourries left here for now..=.= Ya special session class is starting tml, at least I got sumthin' to do lar :P hahaha..I hope I enjoy the class..

Actually today the boss of the Al Dente resto called me, but I don't think I have desire to work there anymore...Becoz it's quite far from NTU and I got special session classes as well. Frankly speaking, I'd prefer fish and co than Al Dente, becoz fish n co is nearer to NTU compared with Al Dente..That's the main reason.

Huff..the rest of the dae ? dunno, no idea wad to do...Yesterday I went to Simlim with Lele and Karin, carrying Lele's PC to be repaired there. After that, got nothin' much to do and the funny thing was, in deciding which way to go we took at least 5-10 minutes staring at the MRT station board :P hahahahaa..so silly ! hahaha ... At last, we decided to go to City Hall. Actually nothin' 'special' to do and we just walked till' Suntec =.= A moment later, Karin had to go, having a mass in Novena's church. So me and lele spent the time in Starbuck 'meng-GJ' hahaaha..

Hopefully I found sumthin' interesting after this....

Gloomy..?

2006-06-09T22:39:00.000+08:00

These days..the weather is somewhat..gloomy..u know, almost no sunlight for the whole day. >< heuehue..So do my mind, maybe..>< heuehue. Yesterday I went to Holland Village with Jordan, to have an interview in Al Dente Resto. On the way there, dunno why..the moods changed a bit..Sleepy, slack..hehee. But, still, must keep on going since it's my willingness anyway to look for a part time job. After waiting for around 15-20 mins for the Bus no. 200, finally we arrived at 'Lorong Mambong' and I didn't realize where the resto was until Henni shouted at me. haaha..so stupid, the resto was just in front of my eyes, it was just that my eyes couldn't see those resto's label. After filling the form, Jordan was interviewed first and I sit silently, listened to the wad manager was asking to Jordan. Next, my turn was arrived, and I engaged an interview with him. The manager looks..err..neat, have a sense of responsibility, full of resoluteness...hahahha. So, we had to wait to be called by him sometime later whether we are accepted or not accepted.

Todae, I had another interview with the manager of Fish and Co. The difference was, the fish and co's application form was quiet long and complicated :P not as simple as the one used in Al Dente. The interviewer was an OC (PRC :P), I'm sure, from the way he speaks. Have to wait to be called, but I'm looking forward to working at fish and co rather than at Al Dente. First, Fish and CO is just a few minutes away from NTU (depends on ur hall actually) but not that far. Second, the atmosphere here is more 'casual' than in Al Dente. hahhaa.. Though the salary is not as much as in Al Dente (actually not a big difference, only 50 cents wad..:P) but I think, better to work here. Tonite, at 00.00 the first match of World Cup 2006 will be started and I'm sure I won't miss it. At least I have to watch the opening ceremony that is usually continued with the first match, Germany vs Costa Rica :P ...

Nothin' much to do....hope tml will be better...

Holidae..earn money or relaxing??

2006-06-07T16:41:00.000+08:00

ehhehe...Confuse ? ahaha..Actually so do i. Sumtimes, something inside me urges me to get a part time job, but on the other side also urges me to do nothin', relax, since it's a holiday hueheue..But, in the end I've decided to get a part time job, instead of only doing nothin', wastin' my money and time..^^;;;; Yesterday I asked Fish and Co, the place where Rica is also working. He said that I will be informed again, thru Rica. Heheh..so, now all I can do is waiting. However, I'm thinking of getting another interview in other place, Al Dente, the place where Sofie and Henni are working now. I haven't decided, but MUST be decided by tonite I think..:P heeheee..Bored..Lonely everyday in this tiny-looking room. But, on the other hand, watching ZOIDS GENESIS is really2 interesting. I can't stop watching till' the end...hahahahaa..But, it's not over yet..the story still goes on and on..Dunno till' what episode. Currently, it stops at 28th eps ^^;;; cool !! Can't wait for the next eps to be released ! haahaha...

Perhaps about 2/3 days ago..I did something very2 silly..>< I took money from the ATM, after entering PIN, amt of money etc..The card was pulled out of the machine, but I stupidly forgot to take the money and just went away, dunno why..even the 'bip2' sound from the machine was like nothin' to me. Maybe my mind was full of sumthin' or wad..I was shocked by someone that slapped my shoulder, told me roughly like this "bro2..ur money bro !" while pointing to the ATM machine. Suddenly I realized how stupid I was..^^;;;;;;;;;;;; wahlew...Nvm, anything we experienced, can be our good 'teacher' anyway ! ^^ and teach us how to 'grow up' more and more...rite ? :D

Now..wad to do ? I also dunno..>< I'm planning to have a new haircut..but no idea which haircut shud I apply :P Dunno leh..Maybe not now :P Aaah..bored..hhehhe hopefully I find something interesting after this hahhahaa ^^

Almost neglected...again :P

2006-06-02T01:53:00.000+08:00

Hahaha...This blog is almost neglected again..^^;;;; Lately, I faced soooo manyy problemss with my computer. Start with the crashed hard disk, and after the recovery process, another problem was my computer sometimes got 'hang' or 'freeze' dunno why....=.=" and the climax is when every 5 minutes (even less than that !) the PC was suddenly shutdown. Yesterday I figured out that the problem was the power supply, and not the mother board..(huff....) lucky me. Finally, today I go to JP buy new power supply, and up till' now, still good :P so far so good.....^^

I'm playing maple again, hahaha..I remember last time I play this game when I was in the first or second semester in NTU. Actually in this loongg2 holidae, I got nothing much to do..Trying to get a part time job, and do some 'constructive' things :P As for part time, I have asked sofie about this, and she will ask her boss whether he still need any parttime-er or not. I'm soo bored...everyday doing 'GJ' things in this 'tiny' room, with my GJ rumet :P

Ahh..so sleepy now..maybe I play too long...*_* gotta get some rest after this..for sure.><

Another 'dull' Saturday...

2006-03-18T23:27:00.000+08:00

yes, that's it..Another dull Sat. Got stuck in my room, and did everything could be done..^^;;; My roommate went to a Lion Dance event almost the whole day, really boring here...=.= But at least, in this boringness, I could still review my 205 lecture ^^;; and tried to do the Lab 3. >< Other than that, juz sat here, stared at my monitor, listened to the music, frequently checked my MSN to see who's online (but even after 2-3 hours, the number of ppl who online almost didn't change..),played games.. I'm sooo borrredddddd..Hoping this semester last no more..impatiently wait for 22 May to come ^^;;;; and I'll be freeeee (oops..still got special session II) ^^;; nvm at least this boriingg and toughhh semester has been gone thru :P

Next week..another tough week..like Alvin said "must tahan.." :P hahahaha

gotta go now........................................

Busy2........many things.....

2006-03-17T20:33:00.000+08:00

Wuff..finally I update this tiny poor blog :P:P (is it tiny? ^^;;;, but poor most likely because I'm very2 lazyy to update it +_+) hahaa...1 month oredi since my last posting..dated 16 Feb 06 hahaha..This 1 month, really like hell!! Projects here and there, rushin' here and there...=.=" Life becomes so difficult..at least felt difficult this time. ><

Nocturne 2006 accomplished successfully hahahaaha, I like the song from Govi titled Dolphin Escort played by Nael's small group. And the most fantastic, to be honest, is Suhu group played Ngamento, wahlew...they are so brilliant man, composing such a funny and attractive song :P Actually it's a medley from several indonesian children songs like balon ku ada lima "I have five baloons", abang tukang bakso "meat ball uncle", Teletubbies ^^;;;; , naek delman "riding two-wheeled buggy". Hahaha..funny rite? especially for those indonesians :P hahahaha

Got toothache around a week ago..wahlew.I dunno what to do man. Juz went to the dental center at NTU and shocked when I heard about the cost.=.=" No other choice..I dun want to pull out the tooth..the one and only option is to do treatment..>< This last 2/3 weeks were like hell! My head is overwhelmed with sooo mannyy projecctssss and assignmentsss andd assessmentss...:s huhuhuhu..This week at least 1 more project has ended, the most BORING and swt project..techcomm.>< You know, this is the first time I submit the report 5 minutes before the dead line. Soo many things screwed up and have to be fixed..:s I don't care anymore, I submitted it already juz forget it and looking forward for the presentation next 2 weeks..^^;;;

Actually now I'm "skype"-ing wif sophie :P Talking2 GJ and keep wondering why the NTU's network recently becomes sooo baaddddd soo poor...=.="

Ahh I wan holidae..looking foward for it hahahahaa :D

tired2..relax2..chatting2..playing2..no study todae..^^;;;;

Kibou no Akari...Engine soundtrack..

2006-02-16T19:10:00.000+08:00

Yeah, that's it.If you have watched Engine before, you should know this theme song. The song is a lil' bit mellow, but also sounds conclusive. Because this song appears when the problem is concluded..Happy ending or maybe heroic ending..things like that :P Very nice arrangement.. thou no vocalist is present. Actually I'm practicing this song now for Nocturne 2006 small group.But, the arrangement is still a bit messy, and need to be 'rearranged' in some manner..

Haizz, still got report to be done.. ><" tried to do the System design report wif muja, but still no willingness to do it..=.= hehehe..Ok la..nvm, I believe we can finish it on time anyway :P

Aaarrghh..Guitar practice again todae (hopefully it doesn't take too long tonite...) Too lazy to go, but no choice. Nocturne is coming man :P Hungry222..get some food first..ciaoooo!! ^^;;;;

Valentine for Jomblo...^^

2006-02-15T10:18:00.000+08:00

Pass another valentine and still jomblo..That's not a big deal actually.^^ Still enjoying the meaning of Valentine. At least I could give care to every1, especially..(not to be disclosed here.:P) Tough my plan for her wasn't able to be realized, still, I'm happy. ^^ For jomblo, Valentine dae is more suitable to be called as 'friendship' dae maybe..hahhaa.Ok nvm, in the end, I believe each of us will find our own match..That's why, maybe someday I'll pass another valentine wif some1 I really love. ^^

*concious* hahhaha..So lil' time to talk and think about love now since so many projects and assignments and also reports =.= waiting to be done...=.=' Recess is also coming actually, but so manyyy thingsss to do on recess week. First, guitar ensemble practice will take the recess time to practice the main group score as hard as possible since Nocturne 2006 is coming and of course we will give our best also this year ! ^^ Must strive for it I think..Second, must reviewing the materials that had been lectured for the first half of the semester, while doing free access lab also for lab report =.= So, recess is actually abbreviation of REvision with exCESSiveness..^^;;;; that's true, make sense rite ?...:P

Wahlew..got class 5 more minutes from now..and still dun have any willingness to go..:P hahhhahah...Nvm la, I go to class now..(want or dun want...) hahha striving for the bright future ! ^^

Holidae holidae...la la la...

2005-12-23T14:29:00.000+08:00

Yosh, holidae is coming (or it's too late to declare it ? :P)..But soon it'll be over..>< As usual, I was going back to Indonesia on 4 of December. But time runs so fast..It feels like it was just yesterday I came back here but in reality it's almost 3 weeks already leh !! >< >< Actually not so bad to be here in Indo, since a lot of pressure from the last semester I had got and here I can relax myself a bit, preparing for the tough semester next year ^^;;; Holiday is a holiday..So no study at all :P hehehe..But instead I have set my new own goal for next semester, and I know it's much harder than before...

To let you know that maybe next semester will be the worst semester, everr!! since I will have 2 core subjects exams on one day !!!!!!! Huhuhuhu...I'm not actually thinking about that right now because I believe that there will be a way to solve it, no matter what..Juz wish me luck I can stand it :P Exams result ? Not that bad I think, but must be improved a lot next semester.

Here, not much to do..On the first week spend my time mostly with families, and some friends that also coming back from Oz. Where are the other friends ? hahaha..same old condition when I came back here, they're still doing their exams ^^;;;; Till the 3rd week of December, at least :P

At last, I've bought new specs !! Heehehehe..this new specs maybe looks better and somewhat 'cooler' than before :P :P, but whether it's fit for me or not, hehehe not for me alone to judge it, but you can judge it later :P ^^ One thing that makes me a lil' bit irritated is that the internet connection now turns out so baddd...very2 bad..it's not a usual dial up connection like before and using ADSL already..Worse than when I last time coming home on June, dunno why... I'm pretending that with this kind of internet connection there will be a great possibility to fail the registration of my subject for the upcoming semester..But luckily I've trusted my senior to do this registration before I came back to Indo ^^ Thanks to Alung !! :D

Happy Birthday to Wewoen !! Hope all your dreams come true..And be more mature, smart, gorgeous, etc...Wish you all the bezzzz d !! :D

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU !!!

LasT weeK this Semester...

2005-10-25T15:00:00.000+08:00

Huff..At last we reach the last week (and usually the most scary week) of this semester..>< Actually I'm at Microcomputer system lab now, do nothing, nothing to do (GJ kan =.=)..And ' si kaktus' remind me to update the blog, then I realized that my blog has been neglected for so long time oredi. ^^;;;;; Maybe many ppl complaining oredi about this 'neglected' blog and I apologize for that...>< :P

Tml is quiz day..CPE204 quiz leh!! Scary2 subject with scary..oops :P:P:P:P I had studied from Saturday till today and still so many confusing thing..(Oh no..my last Saturday gone oredi...=(, becoz this Saturday of coz no more slacking lor..2 November is the first exam!!!!). Hopefully I'm not late for the quiz tml becoz usually for 8.30 lecture I always late about 10-15 minutes..:P (due to the shuttle bus' laziness or my laziness ? :P..I also dunno..:P).

After updating this blog..of coz go home lar, still so many things to do..Algorithm revision, do the past year paper..and so on and so for...Actually this is the first time I use the Lab's computer not for the lab itself but for dumb thing like this :P

One more thing, if you want ISCF to pray for you for the exam (or just to look around the exams' schedule for some students :P) visit www.kejut.com/exam. Wanna see my exams' schedule ?

-2 November 2005 : CPE203 (Software, System and Model)
-7 November 2005 : CS101 (Introduction to Communication Studies)
-11 November 2005 : CPE201 (Digital System and Circuit)
-15 November 2005 : CPE202 (Computer Organization)
-23 November 2005 : CPE204 (Descrete Math and Algorithm)
-25 November 2005 : HP801 (Mind Overstress..Last onee..horrayyyy...:P)

So u see now rite ?...I must scheduling my study from now on due to the tight schedule (no more 2 weeks 'holidae' like the previous semester)..I promise my self not to get C anymore this sem :P:P:P:P:P:P (except for HP801 :P:P) Study hard for the exams !!! But play even harder hahaahaa...

GOOD LUCK FOR YOUR EXAMS !!

exam mode : ON, mood : ON-->OFF-->ON-->OFF....(starvation :P:P) =____=;;;;

The Third Semester...:P

2005-09-04T02:31:00.000+08:00

Yo guys...Maybe some of you (or maybe all of you ??) juz wondering why I never update diz blog again..hehe..Actually, I didn't really know what to write here :P hahahaa..(maybe you can't believe that silly reason huh.. :P:P) yeah, as the title said, currently I'm in my third semester in NTU, meaning that I've been 1 year here oredi !! heheh..Time flows too fast...Hehehe. back to my university life..as always, sometimes tiring, boring, have ti face sum funny and dumb lecturer, but still, I also have great times here in NTU :D New Hall (Hall 10), new friends, new experience, new room, new roomie (Ong) hahhahaha :P Especially that this year I joined GTD 7 Project Officer Subcommittee. Maybe sum of you don't know wad is GTD rite ? Actually GTD (Get Together Day) is an Indonesian Freshmen Orientation. So that event is held only for Indonesian freshie here in NTU, Spore. I know when u hear the word "orientation" your mind is directed suddenly to the so called "orientation" in Indonesia which is usually not fun, tiring, full of suffering :P and so on....But this orientation is different from those orientations. I also feel it when I joined GTD last year. The atmosphere here is different, we have a lot a lot of fun..We'll feel juz like in our own country tough we're currently in Spore, having great times with sooo many friends from different province in Indonesia. Maybe this iz ur chance to meet ur soulmate (eh ?? :P)

GTD is held for 3 days only. But the memory still remains in our heart..The memory will never vanish from opur mind..our heart..Especially when u heard GTD's song theme :P. Joining GTD this year gives me sum advantages : get to know many freshies, expanding my social intercourse, and so on :P:P:P

Now, I've reached the first half of thiz semester oredi. on 12 September I have recess yay !! hahaaha..But so many things to do I think..:P PO outing of course, then IAF, then..dunno..maybe studying hahhha (so kiasu ><). Oya, for Nata, don't skip lectures again in the second half of this semester ! hahhaa..This semester is just getting harder and harder, especially for 201 Lab. -____- Huhuhuhu..Must study hard...perhaps even harder than last sem..:P

Sleepy oredi...I've just steamed the mantou bread, but dunno why it doesn't seem edible..>< hehehe :P:P:P Aahhh go to sleeppp...Bye2 guys..:P

Online again...:P

2005-07-02T22:00:00.000+08:00

Yoo..at last I can online again..After some time my internet was a kind of 'suspended' becoz I only have 500 MB per month..>< And unfortunately I had used up all the 500 MB b4 the end of the month, so I've to wait until 1 July lor..:P But that's quite enuf lor, though I can't donlod2 as many as I want just like in Spore..>< hehehe. Most of the time just stay at home, watching some DVDs and Korean drama named Love Story In Harvard. As usual, interesting in the beginning, a bit boring in the middle and still dunno what will happen in the end :P Whether happy or sad ending >< But, I like this drama becoz its setting; particularly in the beginning of the drama until a bit in the middle; is at Harvard University. One of the top university in the face of the earth :P and not all ppl can enter this uni hahahha (am I too over-sumthin..?:P) Nice lor, knowing how hard studying there :p, knowing its surrounding and so on and so on :P hahaaaha..Though the story is ordinary, but I think there's sumthin' makes u interested wif this drama in the beginning :P

Until now, still got no room in NTU...>< wahlew..And, I had changed the plan oso, I'll go on 12 and moi father will catch up on 14 of July :P hehehe..Upon arriving, I'll stay temporarly at my friend's room becoz his roomate still not around at that moment :P hehehehe..But after my fatherarrive, maybe I'll stay wif moi father lor ^^ Huehh..wad a 'busy' holidae..Moving out, still got no room to stay, load2 of meeting..:P I'll be having load2 of meeting after going back to NTU, preparing for GTD 7 as PO (programmer)(as usual, PO always has the hardest comparing wif other commitee :P).Yeah, just see the + side lor, and do the bezzz :P

Todae is Saturday..an ordinary Saturday..Hahaha..I'm just going out for bowling wif my friends (Hari, Edric, Lukas, Jimmy and Jesslyn) hehehe..Nothing to do after that becoz Jesslyn had to accompany her mother at home and Lukas had to go to church.

O yah, I've promised to post the Darius - Live Twice lyric b4 rite ? :P hehehe Here I post the lyric..

Darius - Live Twice

Don't leave now
Not yet
They're words I
Regret
And I'm sorry
Somehow
I only
Wanted to make you proud

If I could only let you know
I'd give up everything I own
For just one more day with you
There's nothing I wouldn't do
How could I let it pass me by
If I make every sacrifice
To bring me back your love
If only we could live twice
If only we could live twice

When you told me
I froze
It still echoes
In my soul
Please forgive me
If I didn't say
I love you
Every single day

If I could only let you know
I'd give up everything I own
For just one more day with you
There's nothing I wouldn't do
How could I let it pass me by
If I make every sacrifice
To bring me back your love
If only we could live twice
If only we could live twice

Nobody told me we'd only get one chance
I didn't know that our time would turn so fast
Why we have to say goodbye I don't understand

If I could only let you know
I'd give up everything I own
For just one more day with you
There's nothing I wouldn't do
How could I let it pass me by
If I make every sacrifice
To bring me back your love
If only we could live twice

I could not let it pass me by
Nothing I give to sacrifice
To bring me back your love
If only we could live twice
If only we could live twice
We'll meet in another life
If only we could live twice

nice waddddd.....hehehehe...:P ^^

yayy!! tml go to Malang city !! :D :D

I'm Home...:P hehehe..

2005-06-25T19:45:00.000+08:00

Yeah..finally on 10 June I'm home ! Hehehe..Actually dunno wad to do here in Indonesia hahaha..But going back home felt so nicee..damn nice hahaa...Eat regularly, sleep nicely, and so on hahaa..:P I decided to learn sumthin' on this quite short holidae. PHP language for web design !! yeah..that's it. I'm kinda interested on web design again, maybe becoz I sumtimes 'modify' thiz bloggy thing so I tend to have interest on web design, again... :P Nice lar, mostly similiar with Java language I had learned at NTU before..But unfortunately I can't practice wif my own PC at home, dunno..Something's not quite right in thiz PC >.< Ok lor, juz read from book iz quite enuf oredi la, nvm..practice later..:P

After some time in Indonesia...

Hehehe..quite boring too. Sometimes going out wif some of my buddies, (they had came back to Indonesia also from oz :P) coz another buddies still have their exams finished..>.< Same old story, when I came back here, most of them still do their exams..=___= hahahaha..They have just finished the exams this week. I hope next week will be better than diz week..Hopefully :P The rest of the time is spent at home, watching television, go wif my family and so on. Deciding when is the right time to go back to Spore oso, becoz I still dunno which hall will be allocated for me, meaning that I'm homeless u know !! hahaha..Wad a pity of me..:P Search for room or apartment to rent, but those people I tried to contact wif didn't response any at all !! Wad the hell..But I keep on trying to find short term accomodation for me and my father that will accompany me back to Spore to help me to sort the things out..I tried to ask my sister for help oso, becoz at the moment she's still there in Spore doing her job, cannot go home lor. Hope she finds room or apartment to rent near NTU..><

AAhh..My health is also not quite right at the moment. Iz it becoz 'Indonesia's air' that I breathe or it's just becoz sleep too late ??..Dunno le hahaha. Clearing my throat every moment (ehem..), huf...and my asthma getting mad again..Wahlew. But now better la, nothing to do anymore wif asthma :P juz that damn sputum remains on my throat...-___-

Wad a dull saturday..Nothing to do, alone at home..hahha..Try to call as many friend as I can and write thiz blog. Sorry guys I seldom to update it now..>.< Hey, maybe I still have DVD movie to watch hahaha, ok lor. O yah, I've bought Yoshiki Eternal Melody II Album, thanx to Hana that had informed me thiz beautiful album. I like it Hana ! :D hehehe..The song is..deep and sumtimes mellow, can't be discribed by words, u have to listen it by urself, then u know it...Nice nice nice..:D

Plan for tommorow ?? Hmm..let me think of it..Definitely, go to church in the morning..After that, still dunno..hahahaa.

--->I'm listening to..Darius - Live Twice..Damn nice song leh !! I'll post the lyric for you all !! :D

Hello Everyone !! :P:P

2005-05-17T11:37:00.000+08:00

Huhuhuhu so long never update the blog..>.< Huhuhuhu so long never update the blog..>.< hehehe..Yeah, u know, due to the exams, I seem to neglect this blog ^^;; But now the Exams had been passed !! Yay !! :) During the exams time, everyday nothing to do but STUDY, everytime and everywhere..So tired leh !! But, this sem exams was quite ok la, except Math II and Logic Design (especially the Math II exams, wahlew...I could only do half maybe...-____-;; becoz the first 2 parts was very very hard leh !!)Whateva the result will be, I must satisfy with all my hardwork anyway, I had given my best during the exams time :P (jieeee...)

After exams, there's still smthn to do, yes u right, special session (similiar with intersemestral session). Remember in the preceding posting I told u that in this special session I took GV01 subject (Appreciation in Western Classical Music) hehehe..Not bad lor, I attended the first lecture on Friday,and, tough I felt a lil' bit sleepy in the middle, but overall this subject is quite interesting..We're discussing many important parts of music such as melody,harmony,dynamic and so on :P Later on maybe we will discuss more on the classic music itself. Besides GV01, I have another compulsory subject registered by SCE this semester..Attributed as CORE and not ELECTIVES..hahahha..It's CPE110 (C language proficiency). For this subjet, we don't need to go to any lecture becoz all the material has been posted online at edveNTUre :P Yeah, we must read the lecture by ourself and if we have plenty2 of time we can also watch the video recording by S.C Hui :D No exams, but 2 tests, woww..But, not that easy of corz..I've tried the FIrst test (Test A) and it was a kind of problem to me haha..Must read the lecture first leh!! >.< Fortunately TestA can be repeated many2 times as you like until you got 100% mark. But the second test, Test B, can't be repeated but can be paused hahaah..>.<

On Saturday and Sunday last week, I had 2 outings continously, so tired..But fun also :P On Saturday is CSA activity day at Sentosa and it was just similiar to activity day last semester at East Coast. Upon arriving, we were walking from the front gate to the Palawan beach. Hahaha quite hot leh !! We passed the Merlion statue also on the way there and took a picture together :P Yeah, at last we arrived at Palawan beach and first activity we did was introduction game. We made a very2 big circle and then introduce ourself to the others la. After that, we was divided into 5 small groups and played a game named 'the liars'(actually I don't really know what the name was..:P) to know more about our friends there. So we told the other in the group three facts, and one of them is a lie, so the rest will discuss and decide which one is a lie :P hahahah..Funny la, not bad..:P Following the game, we had lunch together and some of us also playing frisbee and volley :P We were also have an activity named 'singing in action' so we were singing and act sumthin' refer to its lyrics ^^;;; Hahaha...I like the song 'Christ in the vessel' which after a while we omit some words and only do the act :P hahaahah :P In the afternoon, we have free time and we played together on the beach, my short and tshirt were all wet :P hahaahaha..At night, after everybody had finished clean up their body, we watched Musical Fountain. Wowww..niceeeee leee..hahaha..very2 nice..I didn't remember had watched this musical fountain before when i was very2 young :P So I thought that was the 1st time watch it :P
The next day, which was Sunday, I got another outing, this time is the outing for GTD7's maincommer and subcommer to East Coast ^^ We planned to have bbq there, but in the morning the weather didn't seem friendly, it was raining !!!...^^;;; Fortunately as sun went up to the sky, the weather getting better, so we left NTU at about 2 pm. :P Upon arriving, there we tried to dry out the bbq stone made table (i thought that was such a wasting time-working hehhe, becoz we can't dry it out until really2 perfectly dry wad..>.<) We had ice breaking game also before we had free time there...yeahhh. Iwas playing volley ball, while the others was playing cards game, guitar and riding a bicycle :P Woahh, this place, once again, very2 nice leee...At about 8 we had our bbq started..But, while we were waiting for the food to be done, we had another game called 'family 99' haha ^^;; The game was just similiar with Family 100 we often watch on television but the topic is about GTD 7 huahahahah..Funny2..heehehe..The food was nice also, but after eating about 3/4 times we full oredi..hahhah.(The effect of eating same food again and again in the short time..hahaha make us full faster..maybe ?? :P:P). Almost forgotten, we also had guest from NUS and SMU.. hehehe...The commitee of indonesian society in their university :) Huf, 2 tiring days..hehehe but having fun also :P:P

2005-03-29T15:30:00.000+08:00

You Will Die at Age 85

85

Congratulations! You take good care of yourself.

You're poised to live a long, healthy life.

What Age Will You Die?

Yeah ! I'm StiLL hErE !! :P

2005-03-29T15:11:00.000+08:00

Yeahh !! I'm back..Hahaha How long since I last update this blog ? 1 month ? hahah no la..less than 1 month of coz..:P So many things had happened until now..I've passed one hell-like week...Yeah, that word best describe how is this week....-___-'' On Monday (2 weeks ago^^) there was an NTU OPEN HOUSE at SBS. Hana and Yessi chan came along also, and we took FREE shuttle bus from Boon Lay MRT. :D ahhahahaha.....So I was their unofficial guide for the OPEN HOUSE :P hahahaaha. After looking around and having lunch at SBS canteen, Hana end Yess wanted to see my hall for comparation with NUS hall.:P So I brought them there. I also guided them to went down the highest stair case in NTU which have around 214 steps if I'm not wrong. Woww..ehehheehh. At Nanyang lake, the 2 girls enjoying watching turtle in the lake :P hahahah..The turtle was so funny, sometimes they swam towards us and showing their head at the surface of the lake. That was my first time saw turtle there...I had never seen the Nanyang Lake's turtle b4 hahahaahha...After that, they played in the playground near the lake hahah..Hana was playing swing and Yessi was playing sum kind of 'jungkat jungkit' hehehee...At last, we arrived at my Hall ^^ . U know, my room was a bit messy..as always ^^;; hahahha. In my room they watched Nocturne 2005 video also, especially the very2 beginning part which had been skipped by them becoz they came a lil' bit late that time :P Huff...wad a tiring day. I still have to finish my Lab5 programming also, and fortunately, after being debugged by HBUI my program can run correctly!! Yay!! So happy!! ^^;; Actually there was only a very2 small bug in the source code but I couldn't find it until HBUI found it and fixed it!! hahhha :D Hbui, domo arigatouuu nee!! :D

On Tuesday last week, we should be having guitar ensemble practice for our last performance at LT19 (Exxon Mobile lunch time concert) but only 4 of us from beginner group came..^^;; Then our instructor (Ya Chuin) told us that our performance will be replaced by the other small group due to lack of ppl in beginner group. Huff..Ok lor, we promised to do our best next sem as main group member :P At last, the day of GE (General Electives) announcement for this upcoming special session came and all my 3 choices weren't allocated for me..-_____-;; even the 'nyampah' GE, GV01 wasn't allocated for me too..so swt.In a desperateness, I met Andre in Library and he told me to try add a subject that still had a vacancies (of coz not Psychology...that subject is quite popular here..) then I found GV01 still has 8 vacancies, so I immediately added it and TADA the subject had been registered successfully. Though I had successfully registered for GE,I still sent an email to STARS for appealing for Psychology. And, in the end as expected, I failed to get that subject due to the high demand of the subject and mostly, the subject was allocated for third and fourth year student..-____-;; Ok lorr, I still earn another 3 AUs for GE (9 more AUs for GE's AU requirement..) this special session.:P

Ok, my ECA points is only 58.1....As i expected before that I should be placed in the second round for allocation of hall and room due to my ECA points is below GCP (General Cut-off Points) and I had planned to get a new roomie since my roomie now, Willy, is in the first round and it would be difficult to apply with him as a roomie again...>.< Most likely, I will have Ong as my new roomie becoz his points is also under GCP and surely he will be placed in second round :P But until now there's still no decision which hall to be stayed in next year ^^;;;

There's no point to maintain the status as Hall 2 residence due to the high hall 2's GCP (huff..last year reached 115 for male leh!!) and like or dislike we have to move out ! >.< huhuhuh...Actually we have some choices for hall, 9,10 or 13. But we can only place 2 choices for Hall and 5 choices for room in that particular hall (most likely that second round-ers can't choose room...>.<) We will conduct a 'location survey' this evening with Ong and also Chandra maybe :P and hopefully we can decide the halls choices tonite..huf...

O yah, HAPPY EASTER TO U ALL!!!Hahaha...Last week was really2 a holy week especially on Thursday ('Holy Thursday'), Friday ('Good Friday'), Saturday ('Holy Saturday') and Sunday (Easter). We got a holidae from Friday to Sunday :D hahahahaa...Nice2..On Thursday, Friday and Sunday I went to the church wif sum of my buddies and my sis oso :P On Friday and Saturday my sis was kinda of 'Orchard mode : ON' :P hahahaa..She asked me to accompany her to Orchard 2 days straight hahahahaaha....I bought Jay Chou Concert 2004 CD on Friday ^^ Most of the time there was spent for eating (huff..2 days eating at ToriQ -____-;;) and window shopping around :P (I dunno why my sis was very2 addicted with Orchard..Looking for sum ideas maybe ?? ^^;;) On Sunday, I asked Hana to come along to the church also. Hope you didn't nervous anymore inside the church Hana :D

Huff...very2 long entry isn't it ? Hope I don't confuse you with the entry :P This morning fortunately I could do the Lab 'pop-quiz' perfectly and also done all the experiments on time..Huff..Thanks to my Log Book :P hahaha..Now I'm very2 sleepy (I think, everyday at the same time I always feel sleepy huh ?? ) so..haha I need to take a nap la..ahahaa Cyaa all !! Thanks for reading this long long entry hahaa..:D GBU!

--->(exam mode : ON)
Exam is very near now, gotta study study and study harddddddddd..!!!
べんきょうしましょう！！！>

What Color R U ??

2005-03-10T23:22:00.000+08:00

Green

You are a very calm and contemplative person. Others are drawn to your peaceful, nurturing nature.

Find out your color at Quiz Me!

Wow..I act like 26 years old :P

2005-03-05T01:39:00.000+08:00

You Are 26 Years Old

26

Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe.
13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world.
20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences.
30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more!
40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What Age Do You Act?

...ReCeSs Is oVeR...6 WeEkS tO ExAmS...

2005-03-03T15:10:00.000+08:00

Hahaha...ReCeSs has already gone now...hhuhuuhuh..1 week felt like only 1 or 2 days!! Most of the times catching up many subjects (many ?? hahahaha actually only 2 ubjects only leh hah..Data structure and Logic Design) -___-' Econs seemed to be neglected a lot since I always don't have a mood to study that thing..^^;; Hahahaha..too bad for econs..But remembering that exams period is 6 weeks from now, I have to start thinking about those economics thing la....At last I bought The Phantom Of The Opera 2 CDs Deluxe Edition. Almost all the conversation that was took place during the movie is recorded there hehehe..Yeah even though sumtimes for some tracks there are too many conversation (and sumtimes they're converted into a song), but I still can tolerate that becoz diz movie is a kind of musical movie type :P and over all, this soundtrack CD is okay la..Nice one :D On

Friday I had a charity outing with spastic children at pasir ris park (or playground? :P) wif sum of my friends. Yeah, there we helped those spastic children to play in the playground and at the beach. Huaahh...more tiring than the collection drive becoz..u know la how was the condition of the spastic child..But not bad la, we were given free lunch b4 went back to NTU and I got a beautiful kite oso :D

O ya, I've converted the video of Nocturne 2005 into mp3 files. Need a lot of effort to do that actually..^^;; Firstly I extracted the music first into WAV files, doing some editing like reducing the noise,changing the volume level and so on..After that the WAV file is converted into mp3 files hehehehe. Not bad lah, eventough there's a weird noise sounds like 'ngiiing' in the background but overall the music still can be heard :P:P:P After listening for many2 times I conclude that we (begginer group) was playing great !! hahhaa..But in Que Sera Sera, after the tremolo part, guitar three players (including me >.<) was playing a bit faster, but fortunately we could follow the rhythm again..:D

On Tuesday got Logic Design lab, so of coz preparing for everything the day before. Unfortunately I hadn't got th lab report assignment yet >.< (a bit weird huh, that I should be happy :P)Becoz the later the lab report assignment is given, the more difficult the lab report will be..-____-' Aaaaa..Now I'm in Lee Wei Nam library, waiting for another 3 hours lecture (but almost sure that I will skip 2 hours econs lecture :P) and tonight I'll go for SAJC Symphonic Band performance at Spore Conference Hall near Tanjong Pagar :P Hahahahaa...of coz I'll skip PO meeting again -___-' becoz I thought the meeting was yesterday, but actually is todayyyy !! Hahaha..nothing I can do now ,tix has been bought :P Aaahhhh....Cyaa all!! :D heheheh...

current song---> OST Super Mario Bros, piece played in Nocturne 2005. I like the encore part when the song's rhythm is going faster (just similiar with its game when the time is almost up :P) hahaahahaha..so funny :P:P

What Random Object Represents Your Inner Self? :P

2005-02-24T23:56:00.000+08:00

You are Windex.

You are a neat freak. Quite plain and simple. If you walk into an unorganized area, you go insane. Most of your free time is spent cleaning and organizing, when you aren't having fun with you friends. Even though many are annoyed by your constant organizing, some see it as a quality of neatness, and that is something most people envy about you. The opposite sex sees you as clean-cut and pure, though you are too shy to express your true feelings for them. You keep a list of goals and priorities in your life, and in almost all cases, accomplish them. You are the over-acheiver, most intelligent in your class, and strive to do all that is in your ability. Some people may try to take advantage of you, however, so don't let them make you clean up their messes. "Just put some Windex."

Most compatible with: Toothbrush.

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Yay! Recess iZ coMin'!! NicE aNd TiRiNg SeVeNtH WeEk..:P

2005-02-21T01:47:00.000+08:00

Yay!! Very2 long time since the last post huh? hehehe...O ya, almost 4got to tell u all bout' the Nocturne 2005 Guitar Ensemble performance last Sunday.Woahh, everything just went fine lah..No serious problem at all.I like the opening song,Divertimento,Heal the world, Doraemon (I like the coda where they subtituted the last melody wif a word from its lyric 'Doraeeemon..' sang by all main group member hahaaha) and especially the MARIO BROS theme arranged by Suhu!! Waooww so funny lehhhhh..U know, suhu is the best guitarist I've ever met!!Now I'm curious wif the arrangement of that MARIO BROS..Hehehee wants to try playing it by myself :P

My turn was coming very very soon after the main group and Small group consist of Indonesian ppl named 'Indo Cafe' performed. Hahahaa Indo Cafe performed a piece from spain called Moliendo Cafe that is 'pirated' by Indonesia as a 'Kopi Dangdut' (no wonder I felt very2 familiar wif the melody :P) wahahaha :P >.< Our performance, begginer group, done successfully. No big mistake la..Over all, the song still followed the rhythm just as we had practiced b4 :P Nice !!! Hana and Yessica came along oso watched the performance :D hehe good2! Next year u should come again buddies coz I'll be in a main group next year! :D We tidied up everything and then went back to NTU...So tired -___-'

The last 'seventh' week was very2 tiring oso..Midterm test,lab test, and deadline for lab 3....Aaaaarrghhh,almost made me stress :P But finally I could make it!! :D Fortunately I could finish my Experiment 3 on time though I didn't 'touch' it again due to the practices for Nocturne 2005 >.< For Lab test, not bad la, the program still could run correctly, but maybe not robust.....And, lastly for the Math II midterm test, I had studied almost all the important points but still confused doing the test...:S Hoping all e bez for the test's mark and hoping that I can catch up everything that I didn't understand in this recess. :P Japanese oso had its midterm test on the same day as Math II midterm. Ja bu duo la, I had done my bz for japanese, forgot sum verbs but that was okay overall. Huff..At last recess is coming !!! yay!!! But this time I must study even harder preparing the upcoming second half of the semester...Catch up many2 subjects that I had left behind >.< (such as econs and math a lil' bit) This Saturday I went to SAJC Fun Fair wif Sbass. Yeahh!! Not bad han! hahaahaha, still enjoying all the thing there. Hehehe..But the weather was very very very super duper HOT!! -____-' (sweating hahahaha)There we just went around the school, the track and fields, the 'band-stage' etc. Hana couldn't accompany us oso becoz she had a duty in her stall :P About an hour later Nata,Tony,Hany,Yanto and Hari came oso! Heheheehe..I played ball games in the hana's game stall. Not bad, I was the high scorer for that game hahaahaha got 8 tokens !! :P Not my skill la..juz 'hoki' :D hahahaaa. I tried the hot dog oso and wanted to try the pizza oso but I had to wait for 10 minutes so I changed my mind to juz ate hotdog :P Planned to go to church after the Funfair, but had a difficulties to find the church in Bugis..:'( Huaaaaaaaa...So yeah, me and Sbass went to SIMLIM, wandering around and ended up wif eating at food court :P I wanted to go to Orchard oso met Hana and watched the CHINGAY if possible. When I arrived at Orchard, the parade had begun and there were sooooo manyyyy ppl gathering around on the street watching the parade..Huff huff huff..So tired, had to stand all the way to watch the parade, still not so clear enuf -___-'...Me and Sbass were a bit exhausted so we tried to look for a place to sit and finally fortunately we found it!Huahhh...Rest a bit >.< We went home at about 10 when the parade had oredi over too. Actually couldn't meet hana becoz she stoke at Plaza Singapura..All roads to Orchard was closed due to the parade...>.< hehehehehee..Tired tired but the next day possibly more tired than that..KARANGGUNI!!! -______-'

(Me,muja,yungki,Hboy,Venny,Wihu,and Duncan was one group) I had to get up very2 early (and of coz no time for breakfast gt lohhh, juz drank cereal..) and gathered at LT1A to have a briefing first b4 we went to the place of collecting.Yeah, we had to collect old newspaper or old clothes from the ppl living at the apartment at Jurong East complex. So tired lehhh, going up and down (even though wif lift) wif that heavy thing..>.< But I enjoyed it oso though very2 exhausted...Sometimes we oso had a 'kongkow2' and played Capsa to rest our feet a bit..:P Hahahahaahaha..What a nice week but oso an exhausting week (again) this year! Gotta go now, so sleepy and so tired (still)..Ciaoooo!! GBU all!! :D

Nocturne 2005 Beginner Group

~~~current song---> OST Chrono Cross - Faraway promises. Nice one!!! The instrumental version of Radical Dreamer..:D

Gong Xi Fa Cai everyone!! :D

2005-02-12T21:42:00.000+08:00

GONG XI FA CAI!!XIN NIAN KUAI LE..!! :D Yeah! This year CNY was very2 great!On CNY eve I went to Esplanade and Merlion wif sum of RO members, they're Muja,Yungki,Hboy,Alen,Icha,Ong,Chandra,Wihu,and Willy oso join us later on.:D Firstly we took some photos in front of esplanade building, then we just walked around the Spore river enjoying the most beautiful spot of Spore City..:D My sis called me and told me that she wanted to join us oso, so I picked her up in the Eslpanade Underpass Gate heheheeh..Huff..so far...*sweating*...:P After that we had our dinner at Thai Express, yo trying 'strange' food once in a while ok lar hahahah. I ordered food wif a 'strange' name oso,but in English should be 'green curry' or sumthin' wif seafood inside.Woahhh so spicy lehh!!>.< (I think all Thai foods are made to be spicy..agree?:P)but not bad la :D hahahaha.Right after the dinner and after we knew that there would be a Fireworks later on at around midnight, we walked away from Esplanade and went to Merlion. Almost every 100 metres we sit down and took a photo wahahhahaha -____-'At last we reached Merlion but we rili2 didn't know what to do while waiting for the Fireworks, so we was just taking soooooo many photos and then gathering around having a chat.Waiting waiting and waiting was all we could do and after a moment I went to Fullerton Hotel wif my sis, u know for what ?? just for its toilet bwahahaahaahah so funny leh!The hotel is very2 nice u know, the inner interior is very great!!Tough the hotel is maybe small but the design was very2 nice one, including the toilet oso hahahaha :P Hoping after graduation and get a nice job,I would have enuf money to stay there waakakaakaakakak :P:P:P

Wowwwww the fireworks was very2 fantastic and beautiful.They depicted many2 shapes and had so many variations so we were not bored watching the show :D But unfortunately the show was 10 minutes only hahahahaahah :P I didn't go home that time, I decided to go to Nata's house accompanying my sis going home..We were playing Mahjong until 3.30 in the morning you know !! wahahahahaa...Played wif nata,alex(tutorial group buddy),and tony the master haahahaaha..I slept in my sis room using sofa's cushion use as a 'bed' hahaaha :P Not bad,at least i can ZzzZzzZzz fastly (or becoz I was too tired??) wakakaka :P

The next day got up at about 10,couldn't sleep anymore...the room was so hot..I couldn't take it anymore..>.< I planned to watch CONSTANTINE at Orchard wif my sis that day and she oso said that she would treat me diz time!! Wahaahaha yay yay yay!! :D We chose Plaza GV Cinema at Douby Ghaut bcoz as far we knew that only Golden Village Cinema showing this movie..:P Finally we arrived there wif so many sweat in my shirt becoz we walked on along the way from Orchard to Douby Ghaut..hahahaha.Fortunately there was still sum seats available for us even though we got two seats in the third row from the screen :P (quite worthed lar..:P) The film was cooooooooooooooooooolllllllllllll abiezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz :D The story is original and we know that there is a lot a lot movie about 'vampire slayer' oredi but in this movie the protagonist actor (Keanu Reeves as Constantine, if i'm not wrong) is slaying many2 creatures from hell which some of them are infiltrating humans' body. Nice one..I recommend u to WATCH this movie wahahahaah :D

At night Hana,Hany,and Tony came along again to Nata's house.Firstly we didn't what to do and we were just watching Amazing Race on TV.Great!!Rili2 an 'amazing' race :D In the end we just ended up wif playing Mahjong again (me,hana,tony,and nata) hehehe.But this time until 1 am only..Everyone was very2 tired (including me...) and exhausted...*_* I slept in my sis room again wif the same 'bed' style as b4 :P:P:P

Woahhhhhh so tired and so sleepy oso...Tomoro is my 1st peformance on NOCTURNE 2005 wif NTU Guitar Ensemble Club under CAC.yay!!The 2 pieces will be played by Beginner Group had been prepared as good as we can bcoz there was only little time to practice so many things. I'm hoping the performance tomorrow will go well oso :D hahaahahaaha. This coming week should be a very2 busy one and stressing week..but I believe that I can get through it..!! God always on my way :D GBU all and take care !! :D

~~~current song--->Li Sheng Jie - Ni Zhou Le

Yay ! Nice week :D

2005-02-06T02:21:00.000+08:00

hahaha..tough this week is very very exhausting me..it's still a NICE week for me :D Logic design tutorial and data structure tutorial become more and more difficult this week..Huff...-___- But,still I could get through it...Diz week there was no Japanese GE (the one and only afternoon class besides econs :P) hahaahah yay yay...So I'm free at Wednesday afternoon and on Friday oso :D On Wednesday I got my first guitar ensemble performance in front of LT2.Walaoooo..so nervous neee..That was not good at all..But,the Kelvin said that we had tried our best and we had to practice even harder to get best result for NOCTURNE 2005 later on.:P On Thursday, as always after econs lecture,I had guitar ensemble practice again :D This time we played better than sum practices before :D hahaaha.Our feeling to the music had improved tremendously!! :D The instructor oso said 'not bad at all, but u must look at the dirigent once in a while to keep the tempo of the music..' hahaahaha..On friday,I planned to watch MOCCA, one of the indie band from Indonesia, that performed in Esplanade outdoor stage with Wihu and Sebass.I asked Nata to come around oso but she had a dinner wif her buddies and decided to come the next day..(actually MOCCA performs here for 3 days)Wowww!!Their songs is very2 nice wadd ! Moreover,the live performance was fantastic oso, nice song arrangement combined with the crystal clear voice of the singer :D Waooww....But unfortunately the performance ended at 09.30 pm..We oso had supper at JW first before got back to NTU hahahhha. Today actually I have no plan to go to.But my sis asked me to accompany her to Bugis so, yeah I went wif her and Ong oso hahaha.Ong wanted to buy an mp3 player,and I really2 didn't know what to do there >.< But,in the end I bought and mp3 player oso !! :D yay yay yay..Finally I got what I've dreamed of for about a year hahhahahahaahahahha...SO happyyyyyyy :P:P I got a great deal oso for the mp3 player,the shop gave us a discount becoz we bought 2 mp3 players in the same time :D hahaha..After that,we left and went to Douby Ghout and my sis went to City Hall to have sum kind of church meeting..I oso planned to go to church today at Douby Ghout.I met sum new frens (Ong's frens) and then we went to church altogether wif Muja en Venny oso.The church was a bit 'old' from the outside, but if u went inside the decoration was pretty good :D Not bad la but the lightning there was a bit 'crowded' or sumthin...After church time, we planned to go to MOCCA performance again wahahaha..I really2 like them lehh !! hahaha.So we ate first at Raffles City mall at City Hall and then staright away went to Esplanade.We missed the opening band performance, that band from Spore named Serenaide..But it was still okay as long as we didn't miss the core performance, MOCCA itself :D WOaaahhh so many ppl there,we couldn't sit like the day before so we had to stand in the middle of the crowd..-____-;;; They sang sum new songs while sum of the song that they had sang yesterday was sung oso :> Still nice !!! Back to NTU there was a 'farewell' party dedicated to Dipta becoz tomoro he'll going back to Indo and continuing his study in Japan ! Woooww sugoi neeee..So yeah almost all of us gave him testimonial and then we sang a song together and oso took a pic..ix2..Farewell Dip!! We're here wish u all the best and hope you always success in every step in your life...Sayonaraaaaaaaaaa....GBU alwayss !!! :>

Nice Weekend..

2005-02-01T02:05:00.000+08:00

Yo..Here I am again!:D On Friday Hana crashed in to NTU and attended our CPE104 and CPE105 lectures..hehehe.There, she met more CE and CS guys such as Hans and Alvin :P Actually her intention to be here at NTU was, she wanted to see Nata's cogan but unfortunately in the end she couldn't see him >.< Hana had learned sumthin from the lecture she had attended, especially from CPE104 logic design lecture. She was a bit surprised when the lecturer said that 1+1 = 0 hahahaha.. I know maybe even a kindergarten student know the answer exactly that 1+1 is equal to 2 ! hahaha But in Logic Design there's a differences since we make use of binary coded system to represent the boolean equation (binary consist only 0 and 1) So every addition and multiplication equation in Logic Design related to the OR and AND gate respectively. And 1+1=0 is one of the expression of NOR gate (the negated version of OR gate)..Ok2 I won't discuss this logic thingy farther more..:P After the 2 hours lecture, Hana and Nata went to Library 2 and then they would go to JP to pick my sis up at JP national library and then I dunno their plan next..

I went to canteen A wif Hboy, bought sumthin' to be eaten while waiting for the Japanese GE class. I asked Hana oso to crash in again but she didn't dare to do so. The reason is becoz this time is a TUTORIAL not a LECTURE, so sooner or later the sensei will figured out that there's an outsider on his class :P hehehe But in my opinion that's ok wad, becoz I think it's ok for the sensei to have an outsider in his class :P hehehe So, u have to try next time hana :D Hmm, still an ordinary japanese class, quiz in the beginning and so on and so on. I was hoping oso that there would be no 2 hours extended make up lecture that time, but in the end the sensei told us that there would be a 2 hours extended make up tutorial.. At a break time, Hana sms-ed me and invite me to watch The Phantom of The Opera movie.. Not a bad deal anyway and in the end I skipped the make up tutorial and deciding to attend the next day's morning class..>.< So I straight away went to Plaza Singapura and met my buddies (and my sis oso :P) there. Hungry hungry hungry all the way.. so I bought a food to be brought in to the cinema :P hahaahaahaha..

The film was very2 fabulous u know, and so musicall !! The song sang in the movie was all great!! I like the early scene when the lamp that once used in the opera was uncovered in an auction and then the scene was going back to about 50 years ago, the era when the opera was very2 popular in Europe. Overall the film was good!! Fantastic and satisfying lar.. Dun miss it ! hahahaa..Hoo.. I went home by 174 wif Tony and Hana but they stopped very2 early before me (of coz laaar since I would stop at Boonlay :P ) Yeah, I was alone in the bus wif my sleepy2 head and heavy2 head..*_* At boonlay I didn't expect to get a ride on 179 buses and went back to Hall by taxi... Tired day but happy :D hehehehe

Yeah !! Weekend!! But... The worst part was, I had to get up sooo earlyyy to attend the japanese make up tutorial which I had missed the day before...Ugh2.. Luckily I was in a good mood that time, so..yeah I could make it la :P Went back to my lopely room, and my sis was oredi there :P hehehe. She didn't have any interest on karaoke at all so she didn't join us karaoke. She planned to meet ko Andre to ask about PR and so many thing. So we parted at Outram Park MRT becoz she met ko Andre at City Hall and I went to Chinatown, so I stopped there of coz :P Woahh,I was a bit early leh.. My buddies (Nata,Tony and Hana)were still on their way from orchard (dunno what were they doing there :P) So yeah I was waiting there, all alone but fortunately at least I knew a lil' bit around chinatown.. juz a LIL' bit... So I was wandering around there while waiting for Nata CS to come.

After they arrived, Nata sms-ed me that she was eating at a place named Lucky China town or sumthin I dunno, and I asked ppl there but no-one knew what is lucky china town was..-____-;;; So I was a bit lost u know!! *_* I had never been going so far there, so yeah I was still confuse and blind... At last, after trying2 and trying so many directions,in the end I found the place named Lucky China town and at last met Nata in front of it..Huff..I was relieved.. Yeah and now we walked on to the place of karaoke. We sang sooo many songs and all the songs were great !! hahahahaha...

We had a great time there, sang and sang like crazy :P Singing made me hungry, but we couldn't eat yet, becoz sum ppl would come around soon. Yeah we met Lydia first and then Q-kho and Hanjin join us oso :D But Hana left us becoz she had a 'party' maybe wif her classmate at the..ummm forgot the name of the restaurant liao..>.< We ate in the seafood-foodcourt and after finishing our meal, we were still there, gossiping diz and that...so swt -___-;;; hahaha...Time was running so fast so at about 9 pm we left, Hanjin and Qkho went home and me,nata,lydia en Tony went to HMV. There Hana joined us again and we went outside HMV and went home.. I parted wif them in front of MRT station.. I took MRT and then 179 bus this time, still not so late...hehhehehe. I still had a fren's birthday party to be attended :P so I stopped at Hall 1 busstop and walked on by to Hall 7 u know !! heh..heh...-_-;; long2 way to go but in the end I could make it... Happy Birthday Lily, wishing u have a beautiful and joyful year and hope all ur dream will come true soon! :D I went back to my Hall at about 2.30 lehhh O nooo...I had to get up in the morning the next day for church..Yeah, those 2 days was very2 exhausting me..But a lot of happiness oso :D Gutnite my fren..Ciaoo !!!

~~~current song---> Aerith's Theme from Final Fantasy 7 composed by Nubuo Uematsu..nice one!!

Housewarming..JB..so many things :P

2005-01-28T02:32:00.000+08:00

Woaah... These days very2 busy leh, can't even edit my blog..-___-;; Today I've finished editing my blog (againn!!!) U know, few days ago I lost my blog's template..so swt -__________-;; no other way, I should choose the new template and editing it again from the beginning. Fortunately I've saved the link for sum pictures I used in the blog...

The housewarming was very2 exciting, even though in the end maybe a bit boring ^^;; When I came, of coz wif a bunch of guys from CE and CS (yungki,muja,duncan,rizky,wihu en sbass), there were Marlin's friends from NUS oredi, and Hany oso (firstly I wonder where's Hana but in the end I figured out that Hany came straight forward from her school :P). So,yeah we introduced ourselves one by one formally ^^;; then they introduced themselves to us oso :P Then the S'porean guys and girls were coming too. After that quite short moment, we sat on the floor, playing 'D.O.A' card deck that was brought by Yungky.. hehehe really2 fit the theme, tropica :D and all over again, Duncan showed us his fabulous technique on card magic.. hauauhuahuaha He's more likely to be the professional one! :P We spent our time there mostly playing card game, mahjong and oso eating and eating.. hehehehehe We had a Mahjong 'lesson' conducted by Tony bcoz all of us had never been trying play mahjong b4.:P Actually, not so difficult lar, we could understand it very2 quickly and started to play and play again hahaha (addicted huh ? :P)

We had a 'photo session' too, we took so0o0o0o many photos that time. In the garden,playground,and pond. The funniest photo was taken when Muja was asked to act like he was going to take a pee in the edge of the pond -____-;; 'jijay bajay' but so funny hahahaahahahaha :P:P:P We oso took pic as a groups such as NTU student, NUS student and so on :P Time ran so fast, we left at about 6 or 7 PM and straight away go to JP to have dinner (we hadn't got any dinner yet :P)

On Monday,I went to JB wif sum of my friends, they're Junnany,Hendri,Willy,and Ong. Our plan was, after I finished the mass at about 10, we would have met each other at Kranji MRT station, but plan is still a plan, can't be realized as always hahahaaha. Everybody gathered up at almost 12 o'clock u knoW! >.<>.<) and at last we could find a food court there. After had a lunch, as usual we went shopping becoz the things here is much cheaper than in Spore (not all but for certain things like pirated CD :P) I bought Need For Speed Underground 2 ! hahaahahaa nice2, finally I can play it after waiting for a long long time... Boring wif the mall, we tried to look for another mall nearby and Hendri suggested us to go to Kota Raya mall. We actually didn't know where the mall was so we decided to go there by taxi (the problem is we were in a group of five people now -___-;; and most of the taxi will refuse to take 5 people) Finally, after so many trial, we got a taxi that brought us there. Woah, we were so surprised that actually Kota Raya Mall was at the back of that City center Mall..O sh*t man! OK lor, we couldn't get our money back anyway.. The mall was smaller than the first mall,and this mall most likely got an image of 'muslim'. But, there we bought a key chain which our name could be written there..hahaha ok lar for souvenir.:P After that, we got nothing to do again there so we decided to go home. Besides, night would fall soon and we afraid the check point would have closed oredi oso -___- We still had a dinner in Spore at Lot one Choa Chu Kang before parting. This is the last time we went together wif Junnany becoz on Tuesday she will be back to Indo..('kapan2 kesini lagi yah :P') hahahaah. OOo0o0hhh what a tired day wadd but hepi2 oso :P Hoahhh, Monday again and I had to picked up my sis in the airport. She was coming here to look 4 a job and for 1 or 2 months she will stay at nata's condo.:P ahahaahah seph2 :D I spent the whole day wif my sis and oso nata en marlin. We had an 'orientation', showing my sis many2 things here :D hehehehe and end up wif dinner at Lot1 (again heheh). Nothing I could do after reaching NTU but preparing the Logic design lab the next day. Wuff luckily I had read the Lab manual so I could do the quiz.. so swt, a quiz in the first lab session.

AAAAAhhhh yesterday my sensei (teacher in japanese lang) became maddddd,he said that due to the Hari raya Haji, Chinese new Year, and his absent next week, we'll have many2 make up tutoriallls :'( and for yesterday, he extended the class from 2 hours to 4 hours lehhhh!!! Even we will have tutorial on this Saturday from 9-11 in the morning!!! o_O;; So tired man..........

Today's lab still ok, I had finished my Experiment 1 oredi except the comments and the read me files. In Lab, I was doing Experiment 2 and confuse wif some errors in the first place. However, in the end I could make it even though It's still a long2 way to go..>.<

Luv...

2005-01-17T01:18:00.001+08:00

Once said that, when u love someone, never regret what u do, but regret what u didn't do.. I think this quotation is true for some cases. I've experienced many times (actually 3 times) approaching (read:pdkt) a girl with an unsuccessful ending..In the beginning everything was ok lar, but after sum times, the condition was not getting better but 'bitter'... yeah, according to the quotation, all of the effort I had done in the past time shouldn't be regretted, but those can be a 'good' experience 4 me..>.<

Perhaps to love some1 is quite easy for us, start with an 'admiration', and then the feeling develops into sumthin' big and along with the time, it is becoming bigger and bigger... For me, and maybe for anybody else oso, there's sum kind of 'approaching' to determine whether the guy/girl we crush onto is 'fit' for us or not. After that, we make a decision whether to continue approaching or make a slowly 'backward-step' against him/her. That's 4 me, I dunno maybe anybody else have a different thought..:)

Now, I'm in a deep thought, thinking about sumthin' that urge me to make a decision... I think now I've a crush on sum1, say Ms X. We've known each other for about 4 months, yeah maybe we seldom to meet but we often chatting via MSN or juz sms. I think this girl is such a quite nice person, and the one I like from her actually that she's so sincere and a straightforward person. She tells the others about her feelings about sumthin', whether she likes it or not honestly. Now, I'm judging myself about my feeling.. whether I rili2 like her, or this feeling just 'passing' my mind for such a nice gurl like her and soon will washed away.... Aniwei, I haven't done any kind of serious approaching to her yet, maybe juz sum 'caring' words via sms. A few days ago, I knew that she has already had a crush on someone else than me... I dunno who oso,not so sure... This fact makes me more confuse, I dunno what to do exactly in the position like thiz. I've asked many of my frenz 'bout this, try to 'curhat', but I only know that I've to be patient and patient all the time, not trying to make her confuse about her feelings. So for now I think I can juz let the things flow juz like a river..Long2 river.... If she rili2 loves that guy, if she thinks that she rili2 fit with him and in the end can be wif him, maybe I'll let her go lar, becoz love can't be forced and secondly love is not possession, but to see the one we love happy....*sobz2..* hmm..

~~~current song--->Track 7 from Infinity, albums of relaxation..(so mellow2 blue...)

Weekend....

2005-01-16T01:19:00.000+08:00

yO..WeEkEnd again.^^ Almost all day playing maple story..hehehe. Actually I had just played it yesterday but, I couldn't enter the gateway which irritating me so much ><.. After trying for a some time,I gave up trying and i oso got an info that I should download the installer by myself from the maple's site. Ok la, I downloaded it, but Woaahh, u know it took 5 hours ++ leh to finish the thing... -___-;; I hadn't gave up yet, until Chandra told me that the installer wasn't the main problem becoz he oso got the installer from Shandy and he could play. So I installed the game again using his installer and...BINGO!!I could enter the gateway hahaahaaha :D yay yay yay yay!!

Todae I play play en play to raise the character's level and I'm on level 10 now, but unfortunately I was wrong in distribution of status additional points; the points we get every increasing the character's level by 1. I wanna be a bowman, so I should add add and add the Dexterity points, but I dunno how high I must add it and in the end i couldn't get the job becoz my dex was too low...-_______- Woaa so I have to train my character again, at least 2 more levels b4 I can get that job hauahauahuahua...

Playing maple too long made me a bit bored and sleepy *_* So I called Nata and asked her whether she went out or sumthin' that I could possibly join :P She told me that she was at Orchard wif Tony, so I decided to join her. I asked Muja to accompany me and Muja straight away asked Yungki and Wihu to go oso :P We arrived there at about 8 o'clock leh, and all of us was starving >.<>.< Aaaaaaahhh I can't watch the last 'live' match on Tiger Cup between Spore and Indo here, tomorrow :( The tickets was sold out few days b4 man!!!Late late late to buy them...huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhu..

O yah,Hepi Bday Roolin!!All the bez 4 yaaaa, God Bless U always through the year,now and 4eva !! :D Hmm...sleepy, gut nite 2 u all!!

NUS Trip...:D

2005-01-13T13:02:00.000+08:00

hey guys ! :) Actually nothin' special yesterday,just an ordinary early morning lectures for CPE106 and CPE104. However, the one made me a bit surprise was, Marlin and her friend Lydia crashed into our lecture :) Wow... After 2 hours lecture, we had our lunch at NIE canteen, due to the crowd of canteen A (no wonder ar, that was lunch time :P). Even though a bit far away from canteen A, NIE canteen still can be our alternative canteen if canteen A is too crowd :P After the lunch, we (me,nata,venny qutu,sharon,marlin and lydia) went to NUS straight away :D I had realized that NUS's buildings not as new as here in NTU, they were a bit old, but still nice :) I like the library oso, the decoration is better than LWN or the other libraries here and there is one full floor used as a place for study, very2 vast and quite..:) U know, we even crashed into their lecture oso, the lecture was about economics issue of developing countries or wad..I dunno..Woaahh.. so sleepy leh! After one hour we 'skipped' that quite boring lesson and went to canteen to fulfill our important daily needs, eating !! :) We all ate Japanese food there, not bad la.. quite similar with Japanese restaurant in Surabaya named 'BENTOYA'. I got a contrast between the canteen here and NTU's canteen, here the plate is made by glass, not paper like at NTU, so after eating we must give the eating utensils back, to be cleaned and not throw it away to garbage :P So fulllllll leh ! Nice2 Japanese food :) (I'm promoting again ar ? :P) We went home straight away after the meal, unfortunately nata en Venny seemed to be late for their accounting lecture >.<>.< Huff..but at last I could make it..:D
Now I'm so full,after had a dinner at canteen 2, fried bee-hun..so many wad..hihihhiihihih.. Now I'm trying to study again, doing sum tutorial questions..All the best for us !! :D

Hehehehehee...

2005-01-11T09:21:00.000+08:00

Last Saturday I played badminton wif sum of my buddies here,hehehe from 08.30 until 14.00 leh !!! -_______- so tired that day..huff. I oso dunno why,i got heavy headache..uuurrghhhhhh *_* First of all, I planned to watch a movie at cineleisure, but we had our first problem deciding the title...hufff. Secondly, after a long2 argument on MSN messenger, I couldn't take it anymore.. the headache was more intensive so I decided to go to sleep hahahaha :D and of coz the plan was ruined (not me la,but due to the rain oso :P ) After woke up from my very2 deep sleep >.<, I went to JP wif ong,chandra,wihu en edbert to have a dinner (so funny leh since the canteen still open :P hehehe...but okay la, once in a while having dinner outside NTU).O yah, still Saturday, there's a kind of 'BIG' match of soccer (Tiger Cup) between Indonesia en S'pore u knoww !! hehehhee..Of coz I couldn't miss the thing lar ..At courts, JP, there was a TV showing the match, so we all standing there and watched the match ^^;; That time Indo had lost 1-0 from Spore and at about 30:00 Spore scored 1 more goal.. (aaaaarrgghh) and of coz we left back to NTU, hoping in second round Indo can take a 'revenge' :P The condition not getting better,in second round Spore scored 1 more goal !!!!!!! (grmmblllllllll..) How come??!! But the match hadn't over yet,with the rest of the energy, Indo was trying to score at least one goal to make the condition better for the second match wif Spore as 'home' and Indo as 'away' next Sunday. Reaching injury time, Indonesia was still left 3 points by Spore...-___- when Indo got their last attacked, the referee gave a 'quite' near-to-goal free kick to Indo due to a foul suffered by Spore player. And what a FANTASTIC moment, they could score a GOAL at last !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww..... I told u, very2 FANTASTIC you know !!!!!! Even David Beckham or Zidane maybe can't make it.. :P ahuauahuahuahauahua.. That's a very2 nice goalie from Indo. :D The next Sunday,they should score 3 goals far from Spore (3-0,4-1 etc) or more if they want to grab their win here, in S'pore !! :) Hope I could watch that live last 'BIG' match hihihihi :P

Woaahhh...Now Monday again -__-;; the first day of the week that usually makes people a bit 'lazy' or sumthin' due to 'over-enjoying' the weekend :P And so do I..hehehehehe. Some tutorials start this week,except CPE105...I think...(and I hope so :P).Yesterday, I went to Nata's new condo (actually they only move to the new block or maybe u can call it tower but still in PALM GARDEN :D)to take Willy's bed cover and many other things that was entrusted to Marlin from Surabaya. I'm surprised that Tony, Sebass, Hana en Hany went there oso..:D So, yeah we had a great time again... play play en play :) We didn't go out for dinner diz time, Marlin had an idea to order a pizza and KFC so we just continued playing :D The funniest thing was, when we played 'fake' card game and everyone was trying to tell a fake to the other..:P we were using 2 decks of card, so..yeah, so many cards leh hihihihihihi.

At about 10pm we left, back to NTU.. becoz tomoro (today) I got an early morning lecture....(relieve I can make it :P) Have a nice day pals !! :):)

New semester..new spirit..Jia you!!!

2005-01-06T16:06:00.000+08:00

hehe.. Soo long never update this blog..:P At last, on monday 3rd January 2005 the second semester started. Fortunately, on the first week we won't so busy, becoz all Labs and tutorials will start on week 2 and so on :) hehehe...On this semester, we got 3 new subjects plus Econs, and this time is really2 new, never had before on high school hehehe. I hope I can get through this semester wif flying colors marks :P hihihhihih.. Gotta change the way of life, must study harder, enuf sleeping and so on :) hehee. I got quite nice lecturers for 2 subjects (CPE 104 and CPE 106), but not for CPE 105, becoz his pronunciation is a bit difficult to understand leh (second Adel ??? -_-)! Tomorrow is my first Econs lecture, hoping the lecturer is nice oso :D O yah, On Monday Junnany came here at NTU. She wanted to take a look around here hehehe. So I picked her up at Boonlay MRT, and started from canteen A, we walked around NTU. First we went to Lee Wei Nam library and she told me that the atmosphere there was very2 conducive for study.. yeah I'm agree wif that, LWN is nice ! :) After that I showed her some tutorials room and Lecture theater 2A, where I usually have all the lectures. Then, we went to Canteen B and on the way there, I oso showed her Nanyang Audi en SBS. We had a lunch at Canteen B.. hehe I was so full that time.. Ate so many leh :P wahahaahahaah.. We took a walk oso to Hall 2, Canteen 2, SRC, and Nanyang Lake. Waaks2, I had been her NTU tour guide for one day heheheehe >.< Today, my computer is also getting mad u know. After a while after powered up , I couldn't browse.. It is said that the connection was closed or something like that. What the heck!! I knew maybe there was a virus inside but even Norton couldn't detect it at all :S At last,today the problem have been solved! Thanks to Yuku heheehehe what a relieve that I dun have to reformat it again >.< Huehh.. bought 2 more text books today, gotta read it or it will useless and wasting my money!! (u know,eventough the price have been discounted, for me, still a bit expensive -_-;;) Tomorrow there will be no early morning lecture, the only one session in the morning is Lab session, but u know the lab is started next week V^^V so yeah tomorrow the lecture will be on 15.30-18.30 -_-' (Still long enuf wad, especially for Econs -_-') okay, I think b4 go to sleep tonight, I'll read a bit math II text book, try to understand the concept. Jia you to you all my friends!! :)

My Tarot Card...:P

2005-01-02T04:19:00.000+08:00

You are The Hermit. You sometimes turn away from
society to focus on the inner world. You sense
that there is a deeper reality and wish to find
it. You are a seeker, and are a wise teacher.
You are The Hermit, seek and ye shall find.

Which Tarot Card are You?
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Happy New year 2005!!!!

2005-01-02T04:08:00.000+08:00

Yo Yo man..We've stepped into the year of 2005!!All the bez through out diz year kay ? :D All the experience in the past can be our good teacher in thiz year... Yesterday I was celebrating the new year wif sum of friends here at Orchard Road. B4 that,at about 3 pm, I went to JP wif Maria en Venny qutu. I thought they will join us to go to Esplanade (our very first time planning) celebrating the new year, but after a moment the 2 girls assured me that they wouldn't join us anyway.. what the..heheheehe. So It was just I en Willy my roommate went there. First we planned to meet everybody at Orchard (Sebass en his frens) and oso Junnany. I phoned Hana also, I wanna know whether she had oredi in Spore or not. Fortunately, she planned to go to Orchard also :D hehehe.. At last, we could gather in front of WISMA ATRIA.

Everybody on the street that night got mad u know, they were spraying 'snow' anywhere and to everybody wahahahahaaa.. So we're all got sprayed in our hair, and our body..>.< our very first time plan to go to Esplanade couldn't be realized due to the crowded so we didn't haf much time to go there. So we were just wandering here at Orchard Road until the countdown an then everybody (includes me) spraying the 'thing' into the dark night sky.......... Spraying the car that passed by also XD :P I got sprayed so many times... wakakaka.. Woahhh.. the atmosphere was very2 nice that time, I felt happiness was in the air!! hahah.. We hung out together for a while, accompanying Junnany oso 'til she was picked up. So we walked on until Douby Ghout MRT en had a chat there..hehehehheheehe..Woahhhhh really2 unforgetable night!! But one thing was missing.. The fireworks!! Due to Tsunami disaster, the fireworks was canceled.. But that's ok, everyone still happy :) hehehehehhee.... I went back to NTU by taxi wif Hana en Hany en of coz my roommate, becoz we didn't have any other choice of transportation. MRT had finished oredi leh!! hehehehe...Huff..quite tired..Anyway Happy New Year 2005 everybody!! Enjoy ur day!! :)

In Spore...again...>.<

2004-12-30T17:30:00.000+08:00

Woaaaaaaaaaahhhh..I think holidae season is almost overrrr.. And now I'm back here again in Spore..Huff. The last few days in Indonesia was a very2 exhausted day. On Monday,I went to Tunjungan Plaza wif Krystal.Yeah at last we could go together,even though maybe it was a lil' bit boring >.< It was nice to see her again,becoz It was a very2 long time ago since I last met her at Juanda on July 15th..She didn't change at all,yeah didn't change too much.However, maybe I can tell you that she's more beautiful and cute now than b4 !! hahahaaahhaa...If she read this she supposed to be laugh out loud :D We wasted our time there in Starbucks Cafe, drank frapuccino chocolate and had a chat..Nice. Eventough at the beginning was a bit boring, but after a while, we took so many photos. We left after about 2 hours chatting there..hihihihhihihhi.That was my last moments of 'JJS' in Indonesia, becoz the next day (last day) I only went to my grandma's house and 'Pasar Atum' looking some 'pirated' CD hihihihih..(Ssshht...:P) I bought Simple Plan and Hillary Duff CDs oso some DVDs. Woaaahh..so tired and so sleepy that day,so as I reached home,I had lunch and then slept wahhahahahaha..Woof,at night I should had prepared all the things to go back here. Actually I couldn't sleep well that night, thinking about how was the next day would be................Zzzzzzzzzz.O yeah,a few days b4, there was an earthquake and 'tsunami' that swept away all the 'things' (includes human oso) in West Aceh,Nias, and several countries such as India,Malaysia,Maldives..The victim was approximated about 23000 people and many have lost their properties and home..That was the worst nature disaster over several years.For Indonesia,please accept my deep condolences....

Today,I woke up very2 early in the morning due to my flight is at ten o'clock.So,yeah I got up and took a bath quickly and then had breakfast.Checked all over again the things that is brought back here and...left my home sweet home...( Nothing special wif the flight oso,that was just an ordinary flight.I arrived here at about 13.27 local time and went to NTU by Taxi.I stopped at Hall 2 bus stop,but Benny hadn't been there yet.The day b4 I sms-ed him asking for his help on my belongings..So heavy lehhhh..At last I could call him but he was at somewhere in Spore,I dunno exactly where he was,so I phoned Dipta and fortunately he didn't mind helping me out.Thanks very much Dip !!! :):) My room a bit smelly lehhhhhh and so dusty!!!!!! Woahhhhhh,so yeah I changed my bed cover and cleaned up a bit.The surroundings here stays the same since the time I left..It's good to be here again,but I must use my time wisely,to get a better mark this semester..huff I know I need very2 hard work to get that..GBU all my friends and jia you in this upcoming semester !!!

~~~current song---> Rang Wo Ai Ni - Vic ft. Barbie Xu

Silent night...HoLy NiGht...Merry Xmas FoR u ALL !! :D

2004-12-25T16:43:00.000+08:00

yeahh..Xmas is coming!! :) Let sing together..

"Silent night, holy night!
All is calm, all is bright.
Round yon Virgin, Mother and Child.
Holy infant so tender and mild,
Sleep in heavenly peace,
Sleep in heavenly peace.

Silent night, holy night!
Shepherds quake at the sight.
Glories stream from heaven afar
Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia,
Christ the Savior is born!
Christ the Savior is born.

Silent night, holy night!
Son of God love's pure light.
Radiant beams from Thy holy face
With dawn of redeeming grace,
Jesus Lord, at Thy birth.
Jesus Lord, at Thy birth."

Hehehe..I hope the light of Xmas enlightened you all people in the world..brings joy and peace through out the world..:) Let me make a wish for this Xmas....................yeah done.:P hehehhhehe.God bless you all pals !!!

Hmm...My LaSt FeW dAys In InDoNeSiA....

2004-12-24T11:47:00.000+08:00

Yo..here I am again..:) It had been a while since last post hadn't it? ..hahahaha. Yesterday I went out to SPI (again!:D) wif some friends (Natalia,Surojo,Andi,Budiono,and Michael Giffy)Hmm..natalia had just had her hair cut,quite nice lar..we had planned to meet each other at about 3 pm..but Andi picked me up a bit late,so we arrived at SPI at ard 4 pm. 1 hour late lehh >.< hahah.Sorry nat..U had to wait 4 us. Upon arriving,we straight away bought the movie-ticket for Ocean's Twelve movie..huff I think we were 5 minutes late..Grmblll..The movie was a bit difficult to understand... If we dun pay attention even for a second,we will lost..:P Yeah,overall..cool man (eventough the story is a bit strange and complicated)!! :D After the movie,we had dinner at BENTOYA and oso had a chat wif my friends..Hahaha..That was very2 funny.It seemed that everyone was against Andi.:P and no one agree wif him either..hahahahahahah..so pity.:P (that was becoz,first he tried to tease Natalia, told her like an 'ai2', and then all of us started to 'attacked' him wif so many funny and silly comments hahahah).In the other hand,Budiono made the situation more funny.He ate Misoramen,but he could only find 1 slice of meat inside..huahahahaahaha.And at last he complained to the waiter and the way he complained was very2 super duper funny..HAHAHAHAHAHA :D:D But..unfortunately,we didn't have much time left,Natalia had to pick her mom up and the car would be used..so,yeah,after dinner,we just flagged goodbye...>.< I didn't know what to do when I was home.So I phoned sum of my old friends huah..and had realized that my time here was not that much more (only 1 week left leh..) Hope I could use my precious time here wisely..:P Huahhhhhh..Today's raining all the time..Time to think about my past,present,and future....:D

See This...:)

2004-12-23T18:47:00.000+08:00

"What Kind of Love Are You?"

Perfect Love
You are Perfect Love! Whoever you are with is probably your sould mate. you like the feeling of always being with them and but them before most others. they are your life and you are theirs. you may even get married someday.

At Last..SoMe pHoTos FrOm CeNtRaL JaVa :P Enjoy....

2004-12-21T13:30:00.000+08:00

Ride a horse at 'Candi Songo'

A view from a top...:P

Sendang Sono Maria's cave

At Borobudur Temple

A view from Borobudur Temple

At the top of Borobudur Temple

At Parang Tritis beach

A view of Parang Tritis beach from Queen of The South Hotel

Ganjuran Temple

Dawn at Samas beach

Yeah !! 2nd relieved ! :)

2004-12-19T15:49:00.000+08:00

huff..at last..The subject registraton had been done smoothly yesterday...I thought it would take a lot of time to do that.But surprisingly, It only took about a minute!hahahhah..so relieved..:P I got FE2 tutorial group and in the same group with muja,nata,and venny qutu..hahahhaaha.Nice2..O yah,today is nata's Bday,all the best for you nataaaaaaaaa!!! :D Huahhhh...2 days ago,I went out together with my buddies from 2-4 (Yuke,Andy,n Wijaya)..(at last :P)That day, they had finished their exams (huf..finally) so we could go 2gether...:) They didn't change too much, It was only Andy had his hair dyed..looked a bit cool!:P We went to Supermall,the nearest mall from my house..hahahaaha.Yeah,actually nothing special there,we just played at AMAZON,had dinner,and wandering around..hahahahha.Today is Saturday again..I've been home for 3 weeks and I dun have any plan to go to today.Trying to feel how nice at our own home >.< hehehee.Yeah, of coz the Xmas tree has been set up oso,the Xmas mood has been in the air since I came back here..Can't wait till Xmas to come.hehehe..Now,still feeling too much stuffing after a 'Xmas and mother's day' party at my 'kompleks perumahan'.So full..hahahaahah.O yah, my friend V-le had been together wif her friends Christoper a day before..heheheh.At last,she could find the right guy for her.She must be feel very2 happy now..hehehehe.Huff..When is my turn ?I'm started to think about it..Next year i definitely turn to 19 (get older and older leh)..I hope I could find someone that really2 'for me'..care of me..hahahaha.(too much thoughts..)

Hmm..Relieved a bit but not satisfy oso..-_-

2004-12-16T10:43:00.000+08:00

Aahh..Finally,today, the exams result is announced..My results was not satisfying..But I think,yeah,still ok la...For Electronics I got C (darn..), for Programming I got B (umm..this one is out of my expectation wad...) Mathematics I got A (yeah this one is as I expected..:P) and the worst one is Effective Communication..I got D!!!(O my Godd!!! but I rili dun like this subject leh...Fortunately I pass it :P)Huff...I dunno what's my father's reaction seeing this marks..Huheuheuhue..Hope He can understand.-_____________- One problem is over..Only one problem left, the registration of subjects.Today the internet connection is not so good leh..I'm afraid at the time I must register subjects,the conncetion still like this..Huhuhuuhh -_-;; I can't open NTU website anyway and the MSN can't sign in (so SWT -_-;;;)..Huehhh.I wonder what's wrong wif the connection.At last,I could connect with Telkomnet internet provider (to check my result) and I had realized that this Star One internet connection wasn't good and actually nothing is wrong with NTU website and the MSN anyway..I was thinking of asking my 2nd year senior friend to register the subjects for me..But since the MSN can't sign in I can't ask them..-_-;;; Huff..The things are becoming more and more difficult.

Woahh..My vErY bIg WoRRy...

2004-12-15T15:46:00.000+08:00

Hmmphh....Still waiting for 1 more day for the exams result..-_-;; I'm a bit worry about it..in particular the electronics one.I dunno,I feel I can do the exams,but my answer is a bit different with the others leh (yeah, maybe u can say that I must confident with my own answer,but, being different with the others is another thing wad, can't make my self 100% confident..)and second thing is,the oral test in the electronics lab session,I've prepared 4 it,but maybe I couldn't answer satisfyingly that time...I hadn't finished the Lab report book for the lab before (actually I had finished it,but maybe I'm just too shorty to write everything..),and the instructor had already checked my book (every student got only once oral test and being checked his/her lab report book by the instructor)..Aaarrgghhh..Now I'm just counting on my Formal Lab Report marks..Hope I got flying colors for electronics, and oso the others..:P Common eng student have got their mark and many of them got very2 fantastic mark leh..Chandra got 2 Di,Dipta got straight A (means A for all subjects he had registered, this one is a bit crazy wad..-____-).Yeah..maybe I'm not suppose to think about that all the time lah. All I can do now is just pray to God that I can pass those subjects with a good marks.

Hey, yesterday I started watching MARS, you know, that newest Taiwan TV drama.In this drama,Vic zhou has very2 different personality.In Meteor garden series and Love Storm,he's a very melancholic and nice person (some of you maybe call him a bit like 'nanny boy' :P), but now,he has changed..His image in this drama changed 180 degree, from melancolic guys,be a bit 'bad' and playboy guy.But actually his old personality still on him la,that melancholic eyes and his charming smile..:P SO if you like Vic zhou and Barbie Xu,I suggest u to watch this quite new drama.Maybe it has already shown by INDOSIAR or SCTV (i forgot which TV station this drama has exactly been shown..:P)..But for all of you that missed it,you still can rent the VCD at the VCD rental nearest to you hhhaahahahah :P (sounds like i'm promoting this drama hihihhihi)

~~~current song--->OST MARS track 1 (I dunno the title anyway :P)

Hmm..pretty nIcE

2004-12-14T15:51:00.001+08:00

Yeah, that's the two simple words that could describe how the 5 days-trip was. :D It took about 7 hours to Semarang from Surabaya.. I figured out that sitting in the car too long was quite boring oso, but I was still enjoying it coz I was still have a chat with mom n dad n sis. :P Telling a joke, comments on surroundings that time..:P In Semarang, we stayed for one night at Ciputra Hotels. The ambience was good there.. and I was wondering, why so many tourists there.. I think it's becoz those days was already considered as a holiday season. :P In Semarang, we went to the most beautiful and romantic place there. The name's Gombel. From up there we can see the whole Semarang city. So beautiful, the scenery of Semarang at night from up above was... very2 fantastic and really2 unforgettable. :P

The next day, we left Semarang and our next destination city was Magelang. Before that, we went to 'Candi Songo' and Jumprit. Woahhhhhh... Candi Songo is located in the slope of a mountain. That was so damn nice. At Candi Songo. We (except my mom) took a ride on a horse visited all the 9 temples there (but two had broken so left only 7 temples there). The scenery was super beautifulll and the air was super fresh oso... (I'll upload the photos later :D)

My father took a lot of photos of the temples there oso. After that, we went to Jumprit. Pretty nice place oso, situated inside a forest in the slope of mountain. Woahhh.. that day was really2 niceeee. I tell u a fact that I feel very2 comfortable in the mountain.. Bcoz I like the nature there.. so quite and so calm.. :D We continued our journey to Magelang City, where we had planned to stay in for one night. We first looked after the Hotel named 'TRIO HOTEL'. The hotel wasn't good enuf to be stayed for.. So we decided to look for another Hotel. We found 'WISATA HOTEL' but this hotel was even worse than TRIO.. Finally we found a HOTEL (actually a resort) named PURI ASRI. We thought that this hotels was better than the 2 hotels b4.. So we decided to stay there for one night. The surroundings of the Hotel was very2 exciting. I had just realized that in the morning, with a view of some mountains and forest in a distance, that place was very2 fantastic..

That day, we went to Sendang Sono and 'gardu pandang'. Sendang Sono is a place to worship Saint Mary. So we spent our time there to pray to Saint Mary (Rosario Prayers). We oso took the water from there that is believed as a holy water of Saint Mary. We had our lunch at 'Moroseneng' restaurant, where we got a lot of information about our next destination for d next day, Ganjuran. We also know about 'gardu pandang', a place where we can take a look at Merapi Mountain a far. However, there, the fog had already came down, so we just could see the silhouette of Merapi Mountain from a far >.< style="font-weight: bold;">Yogyakarta.There, we stayed at Melia Purosani Hotel.. Hmmm..quite nice oso. We planned to stay there for 3 days. That night, we went out to Malioboro mall, sady it was a lil too late and the mall was almost closed... >.< style="font-weight: bold;">Borobudur temple, Pawon temple, and Mendut temple. This is my second time go to these historical places. The weather was quite hot that day.. my skin felt like burning..:P Next, we planned to go to Ganjuran, but sun was going to set very soon.. It means that we didn't have much time to go there.. so we decided to go back to the Hotel.

The next day, we went to Parangtritis Beach, Samas Beach, and Ganjuran :D The beach was very2 fantastic! in particular was the wave ! hahaha.. so peaceful there... the blue blue sky with a little sheer white cloud there made me feels very2 peaceful and calm.. We went to Queen of The South Hotels and viewing the scenery from there. I was laying under the coconut tree, staring at the blue sky with the wind blew so gently... So nice leeehh...:P After about an hour there, we left the Hotel and went to Ganjuran. Ganjuran is a place to worship Jesus as our God. Many2 places is built for worshiping Saint Mary, but this place is to worship Jesus. Actually the name is Ganjuran Temple, becoz there is a temple there, with a statue of Jesus in Javanese style (the statue was looked like a Javanese king) inside. We spent the time to pray inside the temple and took the water beside the temple (again). :)

After finishing everything, we went back to the beach but this time to Samas Beach. On the way there, we went through the field and forest... The terrain was rough yet it was interesting.. Huahh.. after a while, finally we got there.. We stared at the beautiful sunsets there... Woaa.. So romantic leh!! :P The wave there was bigger and stronger than the wave at Parangtritis Beach, becoz I think the slope of the sea there is more steep. We left after the sun set and left the nice-orange rays in the sky.. The next day was our time to left Jogjakarta, but b4 that, we visited 'Keraton Jogjakarta' first. Take a look around at 'Museum Kereta', Sultan's house, Dagadu place, and water castle ..Huff.. damn hotttt that dayyyy.. ^_^;;;; We went home rightaway after that.. It took ard 9 hours from Jogja to Surabaya... Huehh.. quite tired oso in the car..Heheh.. but still, the trip was very2 fantastic!!! :P

~~~current song--->Craig David - What's Ur Flava (remixed) ...still listening to 94.8 DJ FM :)

A trip to Central Java !!

2004-12-07T15:23:00.001+08:00

Woahh..tml I'll have a trip to Central Java for about 5 days :D.. First,we'll go to Semarang and stay there for one night. Next we go to Jogja and then Magelang (with some particular places like Parang Tritis beach, Cave of St.Maria in Tritis, Borobudur temples.. etc2, and staying for a night in each city) :P Hmm.. I think this will be a nice trip since I haven't been there again for about 5/6 years :P But I still dunno what should I do to kill the time in the car.. I'm planning to bring my laptop so I can listen to the music and maybe playing games, but my father seems a bit unhappy with that >.< Maybe I can ask him again tml.. Hehehehee..Huff.. I have to sleep early today.. obviously haf to get up early in d morning tml... I think tml we'll be leaving at about 8.30 in the morning. Yeah..U know it.. I gotta go now..

~~~current song--->....still listening to 94.8 DJ FM :P

Hmm..Juz an OrdiNaRy SaTuRdAy

2004-12-05T17:13:00.002+08:00

hmm..Nata is going back home today.. and I got up a bit early today. (wow I can get up early XD) hahaahha...But, i was waken up by my mother, so it wasn't a surprise tat I could wake up tat early. hihih >.< style="font-style: italic;">javascript source code, but I couldn't find the most appropriate design for my BLOG..-_-;;

Huff.. today is really an 'ordinary' Saturday.. coz almost all my friends here still busy preparing their upcoming exams named UAS in their Uni.. Most of them will have their exams in this upcoming week. So.. maybe after they finish their exams I can going out with them. At night, we just went out for dinner. First we wanted to eat at Ikan Bakar Cianjur, but it was damn crowded.. so, yeah, it's a waste of time waiting for the table and we decided to eat at Food City near SPI-PTC becoz we were going to SPI(Supermall Pakuwon Indah) anw. There, the food stall (Satay stall) we wanted to eat at closed or maybe moved (aarrghh..ohh nooo :P). We had no choice but to eat at SPI. I just knew that there is pet shop at PTC (I think it's quite new). The dogs, rabbit, cats, hamsters.. they're all look super cute and funny!! Hahhhahha... So we spent our time to visit the shop one by one to look at that cute animals. :D (actually we didn't have enuf time to go around becoz SPI was closing at about 10PM..) Huahhh... not so sleepy, but I gotta sleep now.. Better sleep early and get up early also :D

~~~current song--->Indonesian song, I dunno the name.. :P (Still listening to 94.8 DJFM :P)

Woahh..So many ThinGs...!! :P

2004-12-04T17:59:00.001+08:00

Had my hair cut yesterday.. Actually, I still feel comfortable and confident enoufh with my previous hair style, thou it was a bit too long alr.. :P But, yeah, I thought that had a haircut not tat bad anyway, so I decided to have my hair cut at Rudi Hadisuwarno's salon near WHO R U factory outlet at HR Mohammad. There, the hairstylist gave me books of with loads of types of shaggy haircut. Well, I was a lil' confuse with which one should I choose and which one tat could really fit me. In the end, I chose one particular type of haircut. Maybe a bit short but quite neat..:P

Guess wad, it was not as good as I thought or as fantastic as the book had shown hahaha.. as expected.. haha.. Yeahh, now I pretty much resemble a 'good school boy' (Hana oso told me so >.<) with this new hair style..huhuhuhu.:P Today is the first Friday of Advent (I think so..) and my father's Bday ozo, me and my sis gave him a pair of beautiful wallets.:D I thought he would like it, so we bought it for him :D He looked very happy and maybe a bit surprise with the gift :) After church time, we were going to Carrefour. Woahh.. It's big lehh.. Bigger than Carrefour in Spore at Plaza Singapura, from electrical appliances to clothes and food are sold there.

I've just had a chat with Nata.. We were continuing the conversations which was cut-off yesterday...huff. We discussed about 'sumthin' that is related to love.. Hmm.. love is really2 complicated, and the girl itself not less. I think we couldn't predict easily whether the girl we crush onto also has the same feeling toward us. In my experience, some girls usually prefer to be juz a good friend than developing a serious relationship... I still dunno who's gonna be my so-called princess XD and still looking for it until now. Wew, I am so damn sleepy -_- Gotta go now, tml should get up a bit early leh.. ><

~~~current song--->Brian Mcknight - Back At One (Listening to DJ FM 94.8) :P

Try it :)

2004-12-03T11:57:00.000+08:00

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2004-11-30T14:40:00.003+08:00

Huahahahahaaha... I'm so happy that I can back home safely.. :P I went back to Indo on Saturday (27th of NOvember) using GIA. I left NTU for Changi Airport at ard 1.30pm, wif some friends (Alen, Icha, Imam, Yandi en Melinda) and we took a Van that was booked by Yandi previously. HUehh... My bag was damn heavyyyyyyyyyy....>.< , but eventually I managed to shift it into the van which was waiting in front of canteen 2 :P I didn't know that it took only about 30 minutes to Changi from NTU (depends on the traffic condition actually.. hehe).

At Changi we still had loads of time b4 departing. Our flights were in different terminal actually, mine was in terminal 1 and theirs were at terminal 2... We bought ice cream at Swenssens downstairs at terminal 1. Yeah, then we end up 'playing' with our own laptop.. haha Some browsing and some even watching movies. I was chatting and playing Gunbound :P. The wireless connection was damn good. After a while, my friend Rizky 'memed' was joining us too, he 'accompanied' us 'leaving' Spore (sounds so sad..-_-).. Later, we prayed together and 'memed' led us. After that, we went up stairs again and looked for the check-in counter for Lufthansa Airlines (all my friends were exactly in the same plane >.<) We had a lil' chat then Raissa's aunt came, we were parting and flagged goodbye..

I had to go to terminal 1 coz it was almost the time. In Terminal 1, I surprised that so many people was queuing in the Check-in counter of Garuda Indonesia and to make it worst, the queue wasn't moving even an inch! Several minutes later, I realized that there was an error on their computers, so the counter couldn't serve the passengers like usual... No wonder.. So I waited for ard 30 mins or so... huff. I decided to call Nata and had a lil' conversation with her to kill the time. After sometime, the counter was re-opened again and I was in the GA843 counter with destination Surabaya. There, I still had to wait againn!! (getting mad with these 'slow' officers in the counter :P). Well, I was lucky tat my luggage was only 11kg .. hahahha. Time had already ran out, but I knew that the plane should had been delayed becoz that computer problems. I rushed into the gate which my plane will be departing from and got in into the plane. I wonder, there were so many people on the plane alr.. Maybe they had checked in before the problems occured..-_- Nothing special wif the flight I think.. Outside I couldnt't see anything but the darkness of the night sky..

I landed in Surabaya at ard 9.20pm..HUahhh.. feel so good to be home again :D My sis and my home-maid picked me up with taxi becoz my parents had a wedding party that couldn't be missed. I nearly lost my hand phone in the taxi again, I guess I din realize tat it slipped out from my pocket.. til I reached home -_-;;; Luckily, the next day the taxi with some particular number returned the hand phone.. :)

Today, I'm going wif my father and my sis to INDOSAT office. My father has subscribed for StarOne, the newest mobile phone network in Indonesia. I brought my laptop there to be set up by the customer service to go online wif the modem-phone. That's cool man! I can online all day long with cheaper cost as compared with cable. :P Yeahh.. and I'm still online now since 5.00 XD

~~~current song--->V6 - Theme of Coming century :P:P

HoLiDaE iz CoMiN !!!! :)

2004-11-26T17:27:00.020+08:00

Huaahhhh.. finally exam is over! It's holiday time! HORAYY... from 21th of November until 3rd of Jan 2005. XD Quite long but still not enuf I think :P On Monday (22th of November) me and some of my buddies (Nata, TWINS, Venny, Qkho, Hanjin, Willy, Ong, Sebass, and Chandra) went to SENTOSA !! What a nice trip.. The weather that day was a bit cloudy, so we din hav to wear that 'sunblock' thingy :). First we tried 'kayaking'.. My 'partner' was Willy and this was my 1st time doing such thing. At first, we couldn't get the kayak off the beach by ourselves, so Mika came and "rescue" us to get the kayak off the beach by pushin' it away hahaahhah >.< I was enjoying it, even though my body felt very2 tired right after :P

After kayaking we were playing volleyball together :D Well, we have just learnt how to play volley ball "correctly", we enjoyed it so much and everyone was happy :)... next was LUNCH time!! hahahhah.. Was eating bread with Tuna and Ham that were bought by nata before we got here. That was nice! ^^V. An hour later, Andi Ong, Sebass and Chandra were joining us. There, we took loads of pictures, and of coz with all the weird and funny poses. :D Then all the guys were playing football haha. Well, I realized that playing football in the sand was pretty hard! Hanjin was the man of the match and score a lot of goalsss for our team which consist of me, Willy and himself..hahahaha.. Final score is 7-6 and we won :D That moment was really2 unforgettable, but one that was left behind.... Musical Fountain!! Oh goshh.. we totally forgot about it! -_-;;; nvm.. maybe next time.. hoho.

The next day (Tuesday,23th of November) I went out with Venny to Bugis. I wanna buy a present for my parents as well as some PC accessories which are LCD protector and USB hub for my game controller :P. The weather was not good that time. -_-;;; It was raining heavily... and I forgot to bring UMBRELLA !!! (I really2 had forgotten that I had taken the umbrella out of my bag >.<).. There was no other way, so we're juz waiting for the rain to subside.. was eating at BURGER KING to kill the time... At last, we could still reached Simlim and get what we needed, then going back to NTU.

On Wednesday, 24th of November.. nothing special.. Went to Bugis (again ^^;;;) and Clementi, and I was still looking for that present haha.. Then I went to East Coast having a BBQ. Today's (25th of November) plan was going karaoke, lunch at marina bay and play kite there with my buddies from outside NTU dorms. Sadly we didn't manage to do all that since the weather was not good and we were a bit late in the first place.. So first I met nata, TWINS, and Marlin at Spageddies, having our lunch. After that, I picked up Qkho at TAKA, and then together we went to KTV. Well, we actually have KTV Voucher and it is stated that we had 4 hours free to karaoke but we still had to pay for the drinks and the snack.. and that wasn't cheap =.= Later on, Tony joining us there..:D Then, we had just realized that the KTV's working hour is only from 2pm until 6pm and we checked in at 3.30pm.. what the.. so we abruptly changed the way we sang the song. We just sang from the beginning until the Reff and then going to the next song and skip some songs >.<

(---1 day left b4 going back to Indo---)

~~~current song ---> Sheila On 7 - Bila Kau Tak Disampingku (nice 'old' songs :P)

What A Day !!! -_-;;

2004-11-09T18:15:00.001+08:00

Woaaahh..this is my first time drowning myself on something like this. Well, it's a 'blog' where you can post ur activites for a day (just anything you want basically).. :P What a tiring day, got up so lateeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee mannn !! my Godd!! Hahahaah..recently I always start the day soo damn late :P:P. This exams period makes ppl mad, u see, all Tutorial Rooms in North Spine are fully "booked" man !!! (Well, they actually hogged it =.=) Moreover, some of them even brought a sleeping bed! Wad de..So I started to think wad these ppl want..Hahahaa..So 'kiasu' leh. At last, we found a TR in S4. But, now the problem was the AV (Audio Video) output and the aircon were all off! Oh noooooooooooo....so unlucky.. :( We had no choice, we had come this far so..yah..we took it..Fortunately the room wasn't tat 'hot', so at least it was still comfy :) Huahhh..quite sleepy also...>.<

Got to study again mann..That programming thingy. So..I gotta go man, cya all then :):) GBU !