Archive for March, 2005

Void

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

Today was the kind of day that happens (a lot !!!) in my life. You know, a day when you dont feel doing thing. Maybe doing somethings, but unnecessary/unuseful/waste of time kind of thing.

So i spent most of today playing Master League of Pro Evolution Soccer 4. I played it until i feel really tired and sleepy. I even manage to sleep between attacks / defends, suddenly awake with replays "almost goal" scenes. I decided thats the end of the day. Switched off PS2 and go to sleep. Wake up then watch Scrubs, Southpark and Thats 70’s Show. None of these are useful -_-’

Not my favorite kind of day. I kinda embarassed to actually have it. But well, i’m hoping to count how many times i did it in a year. And make improvement year by year.

the lab day.

Wednesday, March 30th, 2005

Today (Wed) i have SC 303 - Operating System Lab. I also made appointment with Susan at 1.30pm to do SC 438 - Robotics lab assignment.

Aaannd i missed the lab again. Same problem as yesterday, overslept. I didnt really upset though. As long as i submitted the report and demo the program, no harm should happen to me :D

I was editing SC303 report at Lee Wee Nam library when  Susan ring my handphone telling that she’s having lunch in the canteen downstairs. I rush my editing and print the report then head to canteen. The first question asked by her was "How was the quiz yesterday?". "Well, let me order my food first. We’ll talk about it while we’re eating". I told her my sorrow in between chewing food in my mouth. Anyway, she told me that Fida will come to join us doing SC438 Lab. After 5-10 minutes,  Fida came and joined us in Canteen A. Fida then tell the problem she had with the photobox machine. In short, it was Fida-Panda-Eyeliner-Jack Sparrow-Susan’s experience with puffy eyes.

Looking at the clock, it was 3 something pm. I said to them that i’ll join them at Control and Instrumentation Lab after i meet SC303 lecturer (Ast/Prof Ng Geok See) to arrange the demo. I went to General Office (GO) and searching his name in the staff’s board. Accidentally, i also spot Benjamin’s (my SC450 lecturer). NGS’ office is in block B, unit 60 and Benjamin’s is unit 62. "Sweet, we can 2 fish at one go".

I decided to for NGS first. I knocked his door three times. "Hmmpfh.. no response." I looked at his teaching schedule. "What ? he doesn’t have any class at the moment. Where is he then ?". I was on my first step to Benjamin’s office when suddenly i heard "Yes???" from NGS’s office. "Ohh.. he was there. Why did he ignore my knocks just now??". I tried to open the door. "Eh? its locked." Inside, I explain that i need to make the demo and then he asked me who’s my name is and which group i belong to. He asked me to wait at Computing Lab 2 for another 30 minutes. Oh well, i can use that to polish my report.

After putting the report inside the pigeon hole. I wait for NGS and tested my program. While testing the program, i notice the program ( OK, i admit it. I got the copy from FeiFei :P) produce errors. I tried to modified it. My wandering eyes suddenly caught NGS talking to other staff. Damn, not like this. I was panic. I couldn’t produce any single line of code. That’s it. Finger crossed, hopefully he wont notify the error.

Slowly NGS crept towards me (in slow motion. Like those in movies :P). I open the Bash terminal, compile the program and executed it in front NGS. He only ask three questions. "What is this, what is that, and that?". I answer them all with a sentence. He said OK then left. "Oh great, did he notice that i get this program from someone else ? Oh heck.. its not an issue ATM"

I head to CI Lab and found Susan and Fida busy with two screens. Susan’s laptop and Desktop’s monitor. I didn’t do much, these girls already solve the problem. Susan then sent the copy of the lab solution to our emails.

Whoah.. write so many already. After that, Computer Room-Network Down-Cancel Econs discussion-head to Canteen-chit chat with Bimo-Susan the Psychology Master-Fida the confused with what i said-Bimo looking at Bacol the Nicotine supplier-Take 179 bus with Susan to Boon Lay-172 bus caught in traffic jam around the funeral-I didnt bring doorkey, tried to knock and call home. Nobody was there (Cicak apparently sleeping inside, but the phone ring didn’t bother his sleep)-I went to EC to cut my hair-then went to "LifeStyle" to bought some cheap stuffs. And finally Pro Evolution Soccer 4 matches against Yasrop and Arif.

That’s all folks!

Mistake no. 1

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

I make a disastrous mistake today. I missed the SC 450 - Mobile and Personal Communications quiz. This is so bad, i was overslept because i stayed up all night to study for this quiz.

After waking up Susbye at 430 am, i was feeling a bit tired. So i decided to reading the remaining lecture notes in my bed. Zap and thats it. I opened my eyes … (Oh Fuck! .. its 1.30 pm) My quiz was like 9.30 am. I immediately send email to Benjamin (the lecturer) and explain my situation. I requested to retake the quiz since i was overslept. An hour later, he replied and said "It wouldn’t fair to the other students". (Oh Fuck! … i should have lied. I should have said that my Javanese Flu has comeback to haunt me. Oh well.. sucks to be me)

So my friends, i’ve lost 30% of my final mark. I should work hard to get as perfect as possible in my final exam.

Calming myself

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

After knowing that i lost that F*ckin’ 30%, i get carried away. I lost my passion to study. I need to watch something. i immediately mstsc-ing to Arif’s comp. Thank God some movies are downloaded completely.

The first movie was "Meet the Fockers". I found this movie is too ordinary. I wasn’t laugh at all while watching this movie. I wonder whether i’m too sad, or this movie just sucks ? Oh well.. maybe i’m too sad and the jokes in the movie is not working.

The second movie was "Million Dollar Baby". Anyway, this movie left nothing to me. I didn’t really know how to react to this movie. I mean, i just sit here, watching the LCD screen of my laptop without feeling anything. When "Maggie Fitzgerald" punched by that WBA defending champion (yes, she is cheating. Punching her when the referee stopped the game) and she fell to that chair, my reaction was like "whoops, that’s sucks".

The conclusion is, i shouldn’t watch movie when i’m sad. Its just deminishing the enjoyment of the movie. Hmmpfh… maybe next time i’ll just go bowling when i’m sad.