Entering a new semester ALREADY!?

Spent hours checking out modules and sorting out the remaining half of my University life. At least I imagined I could have some fun by putting in some unimportant electives such as drama performance or sociology, but reality always strucks the opposite way. No such american time, a chinese phrase would say.

I had made serious mistakes when it comes to decisions in life, and I wanna rectify it but I am helpless. Is it still laziness or unwillingness to face how my current life will crumble if I do? Resolution to be more hardworking didn't work out last semester, sleep early and correct my body clock seems like a regular swear I make.

Is it the time of the day (almost 5am in the morning) or the feeling of helplessness that is causing my inner scream for a soul that can understand me. Stop critisizing me, stop telling me the status quo of this world, stop brainwashing me with your propaganda. Can you listen to me, understand me and give me a sincere advice? I wanna dream, wanna try, wanna be confident.

My dreams change as I enter new phases in life, meet and see new people/things. I wanted to teach, wanna be someone to impact the new generation. But the grinding in NTU has rubbed off my passion, my pathetic state as a student discouraged my thought of being a role model. I can no longer stand infront of a class proud of my route in studies.

To have a small business of my own? That would certainly have thrilled me if this dream came 2 - 3 years ago, having a Cosplay cafe or just some dessert cafe for students to have a place to chill and study. You cannot study without tibits and good ambience (away from your bedroom and electronic devices of entertainment). But with the knowledge that firstly, I am not a business student, and the simple fact that I don't have any capital, simply put me off the idea.

What lies ahead for me? Simply just finish my course, and do whatever job I can find related to my degree. Boring, Dry, but quoting army term, I just have to suck thumb.

Hong Kong Trip

I am so out of time in my studies for exam because of the distraction from youtube and msn. Now, there is one more distraction - Twitter. I'm still in the journey of finding what is the right way of tweeting without seeming too attention seeking.

Will take pictures of my precious moment figurine collection and upload soon, since I'll be buying new ones after my exam. My priority is still getting the presents and make over before I buy these figurines. Pondering over whether I should renew my membership for 2011 since I won't be buying as much as I used to, and the membership card for 2011 looks substandard. :(

Anyway, I am proud that my aunt's friends find the photos I took during the Hong Kong trip is beautiful! Below are some pictures that I love most...

Xmas Deco @ BP International reception area
Taken By: Me

Night Scenary of Hong Kong from the Peak
Taken By: Me

Heart Sutra at the Wisdom Path
Taken By: Me

Flower along Wisdom Path
Taken By: Me
River View at Tai O village
Taken By: Me

Ferry departing
Taken By: Me

Sea View from the ferry
Taken By: Me

SAYONARA~ 301 Assignment

Yes! After battling my sleepiness and rusty brain for the whole night, Amzi has finally gave me a "yes"... Calculated & Verified. See you again during 301 Paper, Prolog!


Gosh, it's already 6am. I should start on my report while trying to figure what's my mum cooking for breakfast. *hmm~*

Prolog is such an Ass

It is irritating enough that I have to rush out a report, and to make things worse, the program does not run as I've expected.

Out of boredom, I've randomly typed nonsense and all it replies is "no". Well, Prolog is not a very good companion in lonely hours at night.

Of course I know the reason it returns 'no' in this case, but I wonder how to solve the infinite recursion that my gpaForcast gets into. ARRGH.

Good News: Tomorrow's 201 lab does not have a quiz (one quiz down in a way), and I've obtained an A for both the previous 203 lab quizzes, though that's the average grade.

Bad News: I need to get this freaking 301 prolog program and its report, as well as 203's report, before I can proceed to study for the exams!

204 Assignment FINALLY COMPLETED!

Yes, after staying up till 4am this morning, my 204 assignment is done. Although I am not exactly sure how much of the 40% I can secure, at least one of the heavy burden is down. Somehow the charm that I brought back from Huang Da Xian has given me confidence, and hence studies seem smoother with a little more motivation to study.

16 more days to exams, so my priority is to score as well as I can for the next 3 quizzes and then start on my exam revision. Guess I'll only have time to upload the pictures taken during my Hong Kong trip after exams.

Below is Octty, a five-legged octopus that I've created using the fvrml website hosted by Alexia.

Candy Octty
Created by: Me

We are also supposed to do Level-of-details to cut down on the resolution required by the objects when the avatar is not near to the object. While playing around with the LOD figures, I found the expression quite cute, so I did a screen shot on the LOD for both implicit objects.

LOD of Candy Octty
(Resolution from Left to Right) Low, Mid, High


LOD of Genie Boo
(Resolution from Left to Right): High, Mid, Low

One Down and more to go!

Prolog DONE! :D

With that, my 301 Assignment is more or less completed, just left with a report which shouldn't be much of a hassle. Also submitted the proposal for FOC'11/12 program schedule and budget. FEELING SO EFFICIENT~

Now the challenge left is 203 & 201 lab quizzes, and a very challenging 204 lab assignment. Anyway, I made some changes to the virtual house again due to dissatisfaction upon looking at some of my classmates' work.




Found some random pics of Lights taken at Mandrin Hotel when I visited Mum's workplace few weeks ago.



Venue: Mandrin Hotel

Taken By: Me

Too stressed trying to do out a simple Prolog program, so I decided to blog some screenshots of my Virtual House for CSC 204 lab that I finally completed last week.

Random Notes

Worth
someoneA: Do you know how much you are worth?
someoneB: Priceless?
someoneA: Nope, that's too common.
someoneB: Then?
someoneA: You are worth my life.

Forever
A: I don't believe in forever.
B: Let me prove it to you.
Eventually B left A forever and ever.

Flower
You are my flower, not because you are prettier than the other flowers
You are my flower, not because you are fragrant than the other flowers
You are my flower, because you've already blossomed in my heart.

Hand
The spaces between ones' fingers were created for another to fill in...
The spaces between your fingers were created, so that I could fill them in,

XH's Bdae Card

It's already 3am and I've not done everything on my checklist thanks to the effort in making XH's card.

XH's 23rd Birthday Card
Made by Me

I hope she appreciates, but I've lost faith in trying to make a difference in our frienship. It's too hard not to feel paranoid when I could sense that she is not exactly welcoming.

Sigh... Starting to talk about personal stuff is a bad sign, especially when it's bad-mouthing.

Be Here Now

Item #132
Taken from http://thingsweforget.blogspot.com/

Ever since I received news of a colleague who passed away last night, I have this biting sensation in my heart, a fear of losing someone. Meilan's paranoid behaviour also made this fear grew as she talks about Dad in her usual over-rated manners.

The fragility of life lets loose my thoughts of holding you.
That's why I need you to be here now, closer within my reach

Really love the following love phrases that someone showed me:-

My daily weather will always be shiny wif u being around in my everday life

Fairytale is like a love story that always end up to be happily ever after

Can't help reading over and over again. :)




Though I always teased that I can't wait to "marry him off", but the truth is, I am happy for him. Things seem very positive...

Fairytale

Yes, today is like a fairytale.

Ups & Downs.

Luckily it still ended happily... :)



HQ's cake drawn by me
Venue: JP - Icing Room

Jap Culture + Art Gallery + iLight

There's some issue uploading photo onto blogger using this Acer laptop. So I delayed the uploading of pictures on the tour with Mr. Museum.

It was tiring, yet quite interesting as we went to visit the Japan Culture Centre's exhibition on Japanese Manga and Anime, held with Animax.

Cosplayers & me
Venue: Japan Culture Centre (Orchard)

Manga and Poster displays
Venue: Japan Culture Centre (Orchard)


The moment I stepped in, I felt like home. Short tour is given by Cosplayers and I was lucky to get the handsome one. ^^ When he talked about the walls pasted with library-like poster, I almost teared as it is an imitation of the Kyoto Manga Library that I always wanted to visit.

There is also a corner with manga and magazines free for us to browse. I saw giant posters of popular Anime like Inuyasha, Nodame Cantanibel, Kaichou Maid de Sama, etc. They even offered to give us free japanese manga as a token, but too bad I don't understand a word.

Next, we went to visit the soon-to-be National Art Gallery. The Supreme Court and City Hall will be closed for renovation and only available 2 years later, according to Mr. Museum.

Mr. Museum took most of the photo as I felt inferior in terms of photo-taking skills. It's a pity as the architecture was beautiful.

Lastly, we visit the iLight event along Marina Bay.

The night was romantic but also increased the amount of light pollution in Singapore. Now I understood what my China teacher meant when she complaint that Singapore is too "bright" that she feels hot even at night (due to the heat emitted from the light). However, most of the exhibits claims to use LED lights, which supposed to be less energy consuming and less heat emission.

My favourite is the giant eggshell that allows us to enter (without footwear) and look out from a hole above. Amazingly, the moon is right there, with some faint clouds. Natural beauty, solidation from the outside sound, and no distractions from fellow observers since it's too dark.

Reminiscing my past art works

Min asked me how to do supporting studies for her art exams, and I digged out my file of past art pieces that I prepared during secondary school.

It brought back a lot of memories, like how Mr. Chranjit will scold me for my wrong usage of colouring material, and how I would insist on my inspiration and he would stubbornly mark me down.

These are some of my school assignments I did:-

"Music Instruments"
Drawn during secondary 3

Supporting studies for

O-level project piece - "Beauty of Everyday Life"
Drawn during secondary 4

Final Piece for
O-level project piece - "Beauty of Everyday Life"

Drawn during secondary 4

There are also random moments of inspirations:-

"The Sunshine after the rain"

"My love is explosive"

"Fascade amidst the darkness"

Trip to Sentosa Resort world

Thanks to Granny, my siblings and I got a chance to stay over 1 night in Sentosa Resort World's Festive Hotel and enjoyed one day of fun at the Sentosa Universal Studio. :)


Uploaded some interesting photos taken by my sister/me:-

Lights in the hotel room
(Slightly above table-level)
Photographer: Me

Lights on ceilings
Photographer: Min

Giant Tree @ Far Far Away Land
(Taken at Universal Studio)
Photographer: Me

Scenary view from Treasure Hunter Ride
(Taken at Universal Studio)
Photographer: Me