HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMY!

This geek is going to be a bookworm this semester. I have so much to read! Computing students really loose out when it comes to business subjects. We all got to work extra hard for the business subjects while the Business students can sit, point and laugh at us.

My current reading list;
- Brint.com, everything on BPR (Business Process Re-engineering) and TQM (Task Quality Management)
- Ford case study
- Honeywell case study (15 pages)
- Tesco case study (21 pages, for my assignments! If you think this is bad, look below)
- Compaq case study (61 pages, for class discussion...arghhh)
- any Boeing IS/IT case study (we have to look for this ourselves)
- OSI model, LAN, WAN and whatever stuff that I need to recap for DCCN.

Jin presented her system today to her assessor and supervisor. Everything went well. I wonder when my presentation schedule will be out. I can't wait to get it over with.

I read this on In-Tech today. Times have changed. You need more that IT graduates need more than IT skills to survive.

I also read that Hotmail is going to provide 250mb of inbox space to all free users soon! wOOt! And can send up to 10mb of attachment! (I love gmail man. Competition is good) So...it looks like I do not need to change my primary email after all.

I've got a question to ask. Will you take advantage of a certain assets that you have to improve personal standings? For example, if you have a lady boss, which you know loves your butt. Will you use that butt of yours to your advantage with the boss?

Something really weird happen yesterday. I have always hated 'tong sui' (Chinese sweet watery dessert). Whenever my mom makes 'hong tau sar' (red bean tong sui) or 'burbur chacha' or whatever, I never touch it even when I'm forced to. But... I actually craved for 'fa sang wou' (groundnut tong sui) yesterday. Damn weird. But then again maybe not that weird also la, cos of all the tong sui I have eaten, I like fa sang wou the best and during my grandma's birthday I ate that for dessert.

Anyways, BC and Zhong tried to con me yesterday. Nottie men. HAHAHA. I didn't know both of them were playing football together. And then when BC was sending Zhong back, BC passed his phone to Zhong and told him to ring me, pretending to be him. When I picked up the phone I was like "Bla bla...okie bye bye" (5 second conversation just to confirm stuff). When both of us hung up, I was thinking how come BC's voice sounded like Zhong's. I felt kind of uneasy thinking about it. But a few seconds after that Zhong called, and when I heard BC's voice on the other side of the line...HAH I knew they were up to something. Nottie nottie.

...weird. But still have to be caution. I still feel that I'm gonna get screwed.

Anyways, my relatives came down from everywhere to celebrate my grandma's 89th birthday. We had dinner at a restaurant in Paramount Garden. The food was good. The atmosphere was ok. My little nieces and nephew were great!

And like always, my grandma will give out 'angpow' (red packets) to everyone after dinner. This time it was a little different. The kids got angpows with $, but the adults got ang pows with 'ma piu' (lottery tickets). Hahahaha if only it was so easy to strike the JACKPOT!

I wore my jade necklace to the dinner. My aunty saw the necklace and said she have a matching bracelet that she bought from China last week. Then today during lunch today, to my surprise, my grandma's maid passed me the bracelet. She said it was from my aunt. She did not personally give me the bracelet cos she had another luncheon to attend. I should give her a ring later to thank her.


Jade is not really my thing, but I like these few jade items that i own

Two words... Potong steam. I had to leave damn early. Didn't feel the kick. Music like shit. Freaking broke. Heck...I'm so screwed.

Where is the sky?

Echo(" Someone is blinded by love that he/she doesn't even know where the sky is ");
-jk

Echo(" The sky is high...high above the rest so high... ");
-daren

Echo(" Go out of your house.. but if you don’t want to see it... you wont see it ");
-crabman

Echo(" Just look up, if it's not there, then blame the haze ");
-teckiee

I wish I had a sky painted in my room. I remember once on Discovery channel, there's this hotel in Vegas, ..wait or is it Dubai... I forgot... Anyways, there's once section of the building with sky. The 'sky' syncs with the time. Morning sky, afternoon bright sky, evening sky, at night. In order to control the sky, the management actually have 24 hours 'change the light bulb' crew. Imagine how many light bulbs they use every month!

BC came over with two of his keyboards today. We spent the day cleaning the keys, the nook and crannies of the board and fixing them back together like Lego.

Why clean the keyboards? Well, a new one only cost about RM15. Why do people even bother cleaning them? It’s all about the feel of the keyboard. When one is used to their keyboard, one tend to stick to it. Something like the ‘perfect jeans’, ‘perfect glove’ concept. The question is, will one even bother to clean their keyboard?

Can cleaning keyboards bring bugs (money)? I won’t mind cleaning keyboards if it can bring me a little cash.

Viagra Thursday? LOL!

Don't ask me anything. I'm innocent.

Have you ever felt so confined in your own space until it suffocates you? Is this normal? I need air. Lots of it. AGOGO with a touch of 'honey' works well too =)

Classes started. I feel the hardworking me kicking in again. I just hope this is not a preliminary 'This is the end of the holiday' feeling. I have 3 modules left to complete until my convocation. 1 networking subject (DCCN) and 2 business subject (BPR and SIP). What scares me is that for all 3 modules, there's no programming skills needed. All projects, assignments and research papers are all documentations, even for the networking subject!

I sat for my second DCCN class today and the project spec was already given to us. Second day, yeahhh second day and project topic is out. *stress* But the official start date wont be until next Wednesday cos that's only when our team groupings will be given to us (3 in a group...AHHHHH, if both also don't do work then die lo).

I became the second class representative for DCCN too. My DCCN lecturer Mr.Mohan was looking for another class representative, since my class rep was a male, he suggested for a female. I was minding my own business when he asked for a volunteer, he then just picked me cos according to him, echo("How about you? Since you have a sweet smile and you are smiling away..."); Ishhh smiling like a jakun can bring trouble.

Going to be doing a lot of reading for this semester. No more coding. The Edge, NewsWeek, and Forbes here I come!

ARGHHHHHH!!!!! I can't see the sky today. The air was filled with dust. The haze sucked.

Echo("
Excuse the bitchin', I shouldn't complain
I should have no feeling, 'cuz feeling is pain
As everything I need, is denied me
And everything i want, is taken away from me
But who do I got to blame? Nobody but me
.
.
.
I want to go back, I want to go back
And I don't even know how I got off the track
It's time i got back, it's time i got back
And I don't even know how I got off the track
I want to go back…Yeah!
");

The past three days have been emotional. One minute I’m ok, one minute I’m frustrated, one minute I’m depressed, one minute I’m cheerful, one minute I’m hurt, and another minute I’m back to normal. Now…I’m just numb because all this feelings is just too overwhelming. I have so much to say. Lend me your ear.

There are things that I need to *baboom* out. Some happy stuff, some unhappy stuff. But I just don’t know how to start because I’m too numb to do anything.

That’s when I decided to get out and get some air. That’s the best thing that happened to me this week. Today’s evening sky was beautiful.

There are just so many things in my mind right now. This, and that, and how, and why, I just don’t know what I’m doing anymore.

I think I still know what I want. But why am I not the kiasu geek that I used to be? Where have my passion gone? Where has all my energy flow to? What am I turning into?...or the correct question to ask is What have I become?

I noticed the changes. I noticed it since day one. But why am I not doing anything about it? What happen to my self control? What happen to the head strong, stubborn, almost hardworking, strive for perfection me?

Questions questions questions. So many questions… but I have always known the answers to them all. It’s time I did something about it. I have already wasted so much precious time. I have already wasted so many chances to succeed.

I won’t regret my actions in the past, because I have learnt a great deal through the experience. I won’t regret my future actions, because I know what I must do to get what I want. I just hope that certain people will understand that success comes with great sacrifices.

I love shopping! But my pocket think the other way. I'm broke. I was actually quite broke already, but I've even 'brokekerer' now. Yikes!

I bought a pair of stoned washed jeans, an army green cotton draw string pants and a retro pink thong sandals. Wanted to get this really nice flip flops from Vincci and short denim skirt but ... damn broke already. I need jobs.


Jeans..jeans...still not yet the perfect jeans


Very comfy!!!


Slurppp I look sexy in these HAHAHA

Anyways, my time table for classes next week is already out. 3 classes in a row on Wednesday! and another 3 on Thursday. Sienn. I want a longer holiday.

I went shopping with Ying today. Dropped by Times Square, then hop to LowYat to get a network card for my other pc, then flew to Sungai Wang. Ying bought a Gundam action figure for his younger, one top and something else. Can't remember..getting old already. As for me, I didn't get anything cos I'll the there again tomorrow with Jin! Today is kind of my preliminary shopping stage. Marked my territory already. Tomorrow I'm there to kill (Kill my pocket...LOL).

Times Square's arcade rocks! I played ParaPara for only Rm1 per game! wOOt! In MidValley Rm2 man!!! huahuahua Times Square will be seeing more of me HAHAHA. Most of the other games (the new onces you know, not the old old games) are also only Rm1 per game. Can play until the legs and arm get tired man.

Anyways, I went to collect my book binded documentation after shopping. $#@! I'll let the picture do all the talking.


It's Abortion, not A Bortion! RAHHHH

Thurdsday. The text below is called Forth Tear. Dedicated to someone. You know who you are.

Echo("

First tear,
For all the frustration I feel inside.

Second tear,
For all the anger people have caused me.

Third tear,
For all the truth I have always known.

I tried not to change.
But I guess it’s too late.

For all the milk,
Spilt on the floor.

Thank god I have a friend.
A friend who loves me.
A friend who tells me the truth.

She said,
Don’t cry over spilt milk.
Lick the milk. Don’t let it evaporate.

Thank you.

Fourth tear,
For all the love I received.

");

I went for 2 movies in a row today with BC today.(Practicing for 3 in a row muahaha) Shrek2 and Harry Pothead rocks. Both were good movies. Shrek2 was super funny. Puss in boots was so Kawaiiii. He and his googoo eyes. hehehe. Harry Pothead was good too. 2.5 hours movie. But every minute of it was good. Went to eat asam laksa at the pasar malam near my place after that. Had carrot sai mai lo also! Slurp slurp.

I got this on email. LOL!










Very tired now. Need to recharge for tomorrow's shopping spree!

I slept for 11.5 hours! wOOt! It's been such a long time since I got to sleep that long! I had a great day today. I felt so relaxed. I did my routine PC stuff without worrying about FYP FYP ahahhaha. Cleaned up some of the junk on hardisk too.

Ate chicken chop in the corner coffeeshop near Williams mamak with my sis and BC for lunch. Super full! One question came up during our conversation. Why is chicken marryland called chicken marryland? What's the marryland? The side dish of salad, eggs, baked beans and stuff?

Went for AGOGO (like snowy mountain from Kim Gary) in Ming Tien with BC and Zhong later in the evening. The stupid tadpole became tiny jelly balls. Not syok adi.


Both copies of my documentation. One for softbinding, one for book binding


The thickness of my documentation

The time is 9.14am on my pc. I have officially completed my individual final year project; A project submitted in partial fulfilment of the award of the Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Computing, Staffordshire University, Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology.

Title: Malaysian Web Based Abortion Information Portal
Student name: Toh Ee Chian
Student ID: DH006743
Intake: GF03A1COM

echo("

There are a number of people that I would like to acknowledge for the continuing support and guidance that I have received. Firstly, a huge thank you to my extremely inspiring and kind supervisor Mr. Jaganathan Rajkumar – thanks for all the support and guidance. It has been an honour to be under your supervision for I could not have accomplished all this without you and your valuable insights.

Secondly, I would like to thank Mrs. Wan Rohaniah, Mr. Karl Low and Mr. Dhason Padmakumar for all their time and patience. They have been so kind to offer me their precious time in order to discuss my project problems.

I would also like to thank my course mates, Henry Tien and Lim Yong Ching, both who have been very generous with their knowledge and resources. Whenever I encountered any technical problem, both were there to exchange ideas on ways to solve the problem.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all my course mates, especially Ooi Jin Jin, David Koh, Sean Teoh, and David Kwang for all of their help during the development of this project. Thank you, you are all great friends.

Last but not least, I want to say thank you to my family and friends. Thank you for all your moral and financial support throughout the development and completion of this project. Thank you Ee Fei, for all your time as my grammar teacher. Thank you Boon Cheng for your insightful ideas on graphic designs. Thank you Chze Hong, Kok Keong and Jun Kun for your patience and moral support throughout this project.

A big Thank you to all. I am deeply grateful.

");

Something Boon Cheng did for his homework.

It's a stressful Thursday. I lost all my interaction diagram on my Rational Rose software. $#@!. Damn $#@!. I was so pissed. So frustrated. I felt my UMPH crumble right there and then. I really felt like crying.

echo("Technology always fails when you need it the most"); Remember that people.

If anyone reads this before 7.30am, and have the stomach for dim sum, ring me. We'll have a dim sum session.

I just came back from a meeting with my supervisor. He was scary today. Usually I would usually do my thing, present my codes and whatever to him. But this time, he asked me to explain my search engine codes to him. *!!!* woahhh scary. Thank god I could bull some shit and escape some of his other questions.

Anyways, the meeting sucked. I accessed my project from the labs, I could login, but there was some bug. I couldn't show my supervisor my stuff. Damn. Then there were a lot of linking errors. Arghh. My session trackings are screwed also. It's working fine when I run it on localhost. But there seem to be a bug if I run on IP. What is this shitzz man.

I got the feeling that my project is not technical challenging enough for a degree project. My supervisor kind of hinted that. Arghhh but I've got no time to add more functions already. I can't even complete the damn expert system. No point complaining already. No time for that. Full force on my documentation now.

Sean was also with me in college. Tested some stuff there. ...I think his hard disk crashed. =/ ... May the force be with you.

Got to catch up on some sleep now. (It’s a very bad sign when) People say I look like a rape victim.

One more week till FYP submission. After that I'm gonna slack ...slack slackkkk. Well maybe just slack for a bit. I need jobs ler. I'm broke. I need cha ching! I even changed my friendster profile to self promo mode. But all I get are spam messages like this and this. Damn. So people, if you know anyone that needs "help", Contact me.

Oh yeah, my bro started blogging. Give him some hits yah =) Welcome into the world of blogging korkor.

Better catch up with some sleep. Gonna meet up with my supervisor again tomorrow. Arghh...

I stole candies.
Shhhhhhh,
Don't tell mommy.

One for me,
Two for you,
Yummy yum yum.

Eat your candy,
Don't tell mommy,
It won't happen again.

I stole candies.
Shhhhhhh,
Don't tell mommy.

One for me,
Two for you,
Three for Tom.

Eat your candy,
Don't tell mommy,
I'll get more.

Yep, it's Thursday again.


It's called Alt-Ctrl-Shift. Boon Cheng kind of gave me the inspiration for this pic. *smiles*

Happy Birthday Hiew Yuen!!! E-mail me some of your U.K. cake hehehe

The journey of paying a Saman (parking fine)


The fine. The name and the IC of the officer that produced the fine was actually printed on the bottom of the fine slip. I think it's kind of weird. The name yes, but his IC?


From the entrance of the MPSJ building in Subang, turn left into the Counter Bayaran (payment) section. Walk pass that section and you'll come to the Unit Penasihat Undang Undang (Law Advisory section). I have no idea why they call it that.


Press for a Calling Number, and wait for your turn.


...wait some more. *one little sheep jumping over the fence* *two little sheep jumping over the fence* *yawnnn*


At last... ask for a discount...erm er...I mean a rayuan (plea).


You'll get 50% off your saman. LOL!


You have just donated RM40 to the government. You are a good citizen. You can drive off now and enjoy the rest of the day.

You know, Google really comes in handy for various things. My source codes, my gmail, searching for interesting and dull stuff, and from today onwards, Google provides me with yet another function. Hahaha. *cough cough GRIN*

DBMS down, FYP to go! I have 13 days more to complete my system and the documentation. I have to GAMBATTEH! YOSHHHHHHHhh!

The tips that Mr.Dhason gave was super bull’s eye. I think I did a little more that okay *grin* for the exam. I got a little confused for the SQL part though. He said focus on Group By clause and Sub Queries. There were many Sub Queries, but no Group By. Was I wrong? Ah...F it. It’s all over...and I’m glad it's over.

Anyways, I fell asleep a little when I was studying last evening. My sis knocked on my room door and told me my mom tapow (take away) chow tofoo for me! 2 pieces! (equivalent to 8 small pieces). That was my booster man! It’s like my cup of coffee hehehe. I managed to study up till 1am even thought I was studying the whole day at college and didn’t have enough sleep the night before. The chow tofoo power man! wOOt!

And for the record, if I manage to get a first class for DBMS, Boon Cheng has to eat Chow Tofoo with me! Muahahaha! I’m blogging this to make it black and white. No escape muahahaha!

Oh yeah, my para para skilled is degrading to the max. I have to practice more after my FYP. Grade B and C…ahh shameful!