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Monday, January 28, 2008

12:55 AM

Sorry no updates...

Didn't post for 1 week plus... Sorry abt that...

Got things in mind, but didn't pen them down here... See if I will update them again ba...

Today's highlight is: I played with my niece for the whole afternoon today.. It was really fun to see her laugh and walk around and trying to learn new words... I was very proud of her! =p

Tutorial starts this week...

(As for my modules decision... I somewhat made up my mind to carry on with my 6 modules... So God, please help me to go through them with You...)

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

11:37 PM

Essential Brew @ Holland Village...

Went dinner with Jeff at this nice restaurant in Holland V called Essential Brew. Indeed, the place is quite cozy and the atmosphere is good for chilling out... with the cushions to sit on the floor with your shoes removed at the 2nd floor...

Heard from Sweeleong that the place is ideal to chill out in afternoon time when there are little people...

The food there are not bad... Nice steak I tried... Hehe...

*Oh... Good news for my philo module... Attended the 1st lecture today, the lecturer said about the possibility to switch the module code into arts gem if we just appeal through CORS! PTL! =)

That brightens up my day more... Thank you Lord! =p

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Monday, January 14, 2008

11:45 PM

First day of semester...

OK... Officially started my semester today... Thank God I don't have any Monday blues... =)

Was quite thankful during my bidding as I was able to secure my Copyright & New Media module today! Which means I will be able to take it together with Jesse & Bowen...

As for my other module which I tried to bid, Reason & Persuasion, sad to say that there's just too many people out there trying to fight for the few places available... And with just the 600 bid points at hand, I can't do much...

So, ended up I decided to drop the idea of taking it as my Arts GEM, but taking it as a Philo module to clear my UE... Result in getting the module with just 1 points (20 people bidding for 147 places... DUH?)

There's still a slim chance for me to get it tml and wednesday, I will still try to see if i can bid for it, and I shall let God do the rest, if it's in His will for me to take it as Arts GEM, then He will definitely provide eventually... I shall just wait patiently...

Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." [James 4:13-15]

So now, tentatively the modules I am taking this semester will be:

CS3248 - Design of Interactive Media
CS4247 - Image Synthesis and Computer Animation
CS4248 - Natural Language Processing
CS5245 - Vision and Graphics for Special Effects
NM3880A - Copyright & New Media
PH1101E - Reason & Persuasion

I shall decide again whether I am capable to manage 6 modules after attending the 1st 2 weeks of lectures, or if it's necessary for me to withdraw from 1 of them to prevent any chaos from happening this sem... =/

Oh, my time-table this semester is mainly in the afternoon till late evening (or nite), so I won't have much problem for being late for 1st morning lessons like previous sems... =p

So far so good... Looking forward to attend the rest of the lectures in the week!

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Sunday, January 13, 2008

1:34 PM

Last Day before Semester starts again!

Yup... last day before "The Start of Something New"... =p

Thursday, January 10, 2008

11:28 PM

Vexille

Went to watch the movie "Vexille" with Jeffrey today at the Cathay Picturehouse...

Enjoyed the movie very much... Think the character development was good, not to mention the cool CG effects and stuff... And I like the music used inside the film...

Synopsis:

It's 2077 and Japan has become a renegade nation closed to the rest of the world. Shielded from penetration by air, sea and space for 10 years, the island nation has become a mystery to the United Nations. The isolation resulted when it fell out with other countries over the development of robotics which was banned everywhere else. Japan has taken its creation of human androids to the extreme and the only way to overcome them is to send in a crack team to hook up with Japanese underground rebels. Enter Vexille, a female special agent, whose squad uses ultra-high-tech weapons for battle.

Can watch it if you like jap anime, or futuristic theme plot...

Official Website: http://www.vexille.jp/

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3:33 AM

New blog skin! Woohoo!!

Haha... Being influenced to also wanna change my blogskin for 2008! I love it... Took me nearly 3 hours to customise it properly & figuring out what's what in the html code...

So why this blog skin? Simply because... I love rainbow colour!!

I hope with this new look of my blog, it will also serve as a reminder to myself the joy that I always have within me no matter how bad are my circumstances... =p

Oh ya, added in a new midi piece too... (Thanks to tiyo's lyrics that give me the 灵感!)

5 more days before my sem 6 starts... =)

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Wednesday, January 09, 2008

2:29 AM

Why - Nicole Nordeman (illustrated)

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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

11:30 PM

A fun day of activities.... Yey!

Today managed to get Maureen to accompany me to sing for Klunch in amk... Yey..
Supposed to sing from just 11-2pm, but guess not much pple sing in the wkdays, they allow us to sing till 3 by ordering one more drink..

Main conclusion from this 'practise' session: Gary's key is way too high for me to sing decently, especially his duet songs... Lowered 2 keys is more ideal for me to attempt... LOL
(Thanks mau for your help & feedback!)

Watched "Alvin & the Chipmunks" again with Mau at Jubilee, kinda cool to find a 3.30pm show by the time we passed by the cinema, so walked in and bought the tickets ($5.50, cheap cheap)... I then remembered how much I like watching movies in Jubilee, cos it's just cozy yet not run-down for a neighbourhood cinema, and i like the fact that I can easily walk-in for a movie just 5min b4 the show and there's still PLENTY of seats available... =)

After the movies, went to arcade (as usual) for some games... Surprisingly, we started to play those 'children' games that will give coupons where u can earn & exchange it for some gifts... I forgot when's the last time I did that, but it's quite refreshing for a change...

I guess the highlight in the arcade was playing the Silent Hill shooting game. The story flow is slow and draggy, and the monsters always prefer to attack me instead of mau! Haha...

During dinner, I was glad to meet up with Zing to catch up on our lives... A very good time of fellowship & sharing together... (Oh, thank you for the shirt Zing!)

Yup, so it was a very fruitful day for me, both relaxation & fellowship time...

Oh, sorry I haven post my reflection thoughts about 2007 & my new year resolutions... It's still in my draft folder, cos haven completed it... Paiseh... =P

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Tuesday, January 01, 2008

11:47 PM

Reflections of 2007...

Hmmm... My reflections of 2007 as a whole... Kinda weird to combine my sem 4 & sem 5 together and give a conclusion... But I guess I shall just try to list down some of the major things that I went through in the year.

I shall try to write them out under the various categories, namely Studies/Work, Relationships, Economics, Spiritual, Health, Others.

Studies: Well, the 2 semesters I had experienced in 2007 are in 2 extremes. My Yr 2 sem 2 are very arts-based (New Media to be exact), while my Yr 3 sem 1 are very lab-based (programming).. I shall elaborate more on my Yr 3 sem 1 here... (read up on archive for my
sem 4) Hmmmm... As my results have shown, it was quite apparent that I didn't manage my studies well for this semester. One of the main reasons was that I honestly had the thinking that 'Grades no longer matters to me as much as before'. Perhaps I enjoy learning in general, but not learning something for the sake of exams & tests. For e.g. for my Bahasa Indonesian language module, I had alot of fun learning the new language every week, but when it comes to tests, somehow I didn't do as well... Least to say for my other hard programming modules...
Most importantly, I really wanna thank God for giving me a second chance with my results, (allowing my S/U options to come into rescue for my CAP) despite me making a mess out of it.

Relationship: This year, I would say 2 major things that happened in terms of relationship are my family as well as spiritual family. For my family, both my niece & nephew are growing healthily as the days go, and me learning more on how to be a caring uncle towards them. And I thank God for that, in a way, I was being 'trained' to be prepared to take care of people. For my spiritual family, particularly my caregroup, NUSC3, I have grown with my relationship with everyone, and also the desire to grow in love for them along the way.
As for the breakthroughs, I took the challenge to become a shepherd! Though I still have a long way to learn how to be a good one, but I believe God is helping me... =)
Perhaps one thing to thank God for this year was getting to know Junyao as a dear brother, someone whom I can really share things to and who always keep a lookout on me, making sure that I am doing ok... (though I still took him for granted sometimes.. =p )
And of course, I have my new shepherd Ellson, who is also a brother who knows me well & always tries to avail himself for me despite his busy schedule at work... (Thanks bro!)

Economics: This in short just means my financial area for this year. I don't have much to say for this area, particularly because I still have not seriously consider about financial management. I did attempted to do a record of my spendings, but the habit didn't last long.. (Sorry, i haven't grow my conviction on this yet.)

Spiritual: I would say I have grown much this year in my spiritual way with God, more in the area of knowledge & understanding of God's truth, perhaps the only thing that I had wished i can do more is converting more of my 'head knowledge' into 'heart conviction', that lead into practical application. And a particular area I learn in was being an artist for God, the issues I face.. based on the book "Heart of the Artist", which really caused me to reflect on myself in the Creative Arts Ministry...

Health: Hmmm, my physical condition was pretty 'exciting' this year. Well, 1st there was dengue fever, and the rest was history... All these experience did remind me of how important our physical body are, cos without them functioning well, we can't do things as per normal... So, being rather unhealthy after all the illnesses, I missed all my workouts and of course, the full marathon... Went through another long period of sickness during the Xmas season, while preparing for the Xmas production. It was the 1st time I totally lost my voice! And it was so miserable, I can't describe how sad I am for not being able to sing... But thank God the voice came back & I managed to perform in the end. (though the cough dragged quite long until I actually missed caroling this year...)

Others: One thing that I wish to highlight as one of my skill developments was music composition! I truly thank God for the creative mind that He has given me, allow the tune to come into my head and compose it out! Though I can't say that the pieces are very good, but I like them very much personally, mainly because I know it's a new talent that God has blessed me with! And I am excited about the future music I will be able to compose! Yey... =p

Yup, that sums it all for my 2007...

As for my new year resolutions... shall write it in another later post... =p

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