Friday, July 30, 2004
Work Fast, Fun Comes.
I managed to finish quite a substanstial amount of work yesterday. So I managed to get off work pretty early. So I only worked about five hours or less yesterday.
So today I'm doing nothing but slacking in my office. I was hoping to get my pay today so I could go shopping tomorrow or something.
But I couldn't, because my bosses suddenly told me I'll be paid on project basis from now on and in the future. So that last project I did still has one more final step before that project's contract is signed off, to teach that cheapskate client the Macromedia Dreamweaver programme.
The cheapskate client was trying to save some money by editing his company's website contents HIMSELF, so he requested to design of a website where he could do that, by using another programme known as Microsoft FrontPage. But sadly, that Bill Gates' shit didn't work well, not flexible, so it screws up the webpages when ever the client tried to do something stupid on it.
And so I was ordered to teach him some basics.
Anyway, now that I'm really paid by project basis, I'm now truely considered a freelance multimedia deisigner/artist.
Ghee... If I can't work in town, I will miss my city life everyday... I like the working in the big city (except the transportation fees are heavier if my paid is not good enough to cover it up).
: /
But I have a problem. I couldn't work using my slower PC at home as it was just abit too painfully slow. Neither I had the apporpriate programmes at home. So my bosses would see that maybe I would continue to work at their office, if they have available PCs in the future. Or pass me the pirated programmes' CDs to install them at home and work painfully.
If I am to work at home, I think I might need to find another solution quick. Maybe get a relative's PC or rent a friend's PC or something (so I think I may need your help, my friends).
Thursday, yesterday.
So I knocked off work at 4pm yesterday. I went to meet Alvin and Chee Wee at Siam's Kitchen restaurant at PARCO Bugis Junction. Alvin is working at Siam's Kitchen and was having a meeting. So Chee Wee and I waited for him there.
While waiting, we went for a short walk and to look around around the mall's area for such and such. But Alvin's meeting was about one hour.
So Chee Wee and I left first to walk down the Middle Road to Parklane Shopping Centre, because we were late, our another friend Andhika was waiting there already. But Alvin's meeting ended slightly later after we left, and so he caught up wth us on time.
And so from then, we play LAN gaming till almost 10pm! Along with Meng Kiat who joined us later around the later evening when we're in amidst of our games. We had a big online gaming session online with Bryan too, who was at home.
We left the LAN gaming shop at around 10pm. Andhika and I accompanied Chee Wee and Alvin to the closing foodcourt at Paradiz Centre to have their dinner. Andhika and I decided to have our very late dinner at home instead.
During their dinner session, Alvin put out his IT business proposal of making some human networking website, which was something like Friendster.com or WhoLivesNearYou.com.
I listened to his basic proposal, it is somewhat feasible, starting small before adding bigger fun featured sub-programmes in. I thought it is basically all right, but whether it is true marketable that the website gets advertisers coming in is a big profit issue.
Yes, whether advertisers would put their money into the website is highly dependent on the success of the website's public user population. But as they were already quite alot of such human networking websites (examples like Friendster, WhoLivesNearYou.com, MySpace.com and others) available in the global internet market, it was quite a business concern.
If we're to start by aiming only the small local Singapore users as our target audience, it may be too small. Especially, there's already other established competitors like Friendster.com or WhoLivesNearYou.com dominating the customer base, it will be difficult to attract those users to our website, unless our website networking features are more unique and maybe more interative than that of our competitors'. Or else there will be no chance to succeed.
Well, maybe some of you may think my "business market and risks report" on Alvin's and his some other friend's business plan is a entrepreneurship killer and rather discouraging. But well, but it is all the truth I we need to know before we really start any business.
But I admire Alvin and his some other friend's entrepreneurship spirit.
Anyway, after their dinner, we all went home. Alvin and Chee Wee together took their bus home, while Andhika and I took the MRT transit instead.
I managed to finish quite a substanstial amount of work yesterday. So I managed to get off work pretty early. So I only worked about five hours or less yesterday.
So today I'm doing nothing but slacking in my office. I was hoping to get my pay today so I could go shopping tomorrow or something.
But I couldn't, because my bosses suddenly told me I'll be paid on project basis from now on and in the future. So that last project I did still has one more final step before that project's contract is signed off, to teach that cheapskate client the Macromedia Dreamweaver programme.
The cheapskate client was trying to save some money by editing his company's website contents HIMSELF, so he requested to design of a website where he could do that, by using another programme known as Microsoft FrontPage. But sadly, that Bill Gates' shit didn't work well, not flexible, so it screws up the webpages when ever the client tried to do something stupid on it.
And so I was ordered to teach him some basics.
Anyway, now that I'm really paid by project basis, I'm now truely considered a freelance multimedia deisigner/artist.
Ghee... If I can't work in town, I will miss my city life everyday... I like the working in the big city (except the transportation fees are heavier if my paid is not good enough to cover it up).
: /
But I have a problem. I couldn't work using my slower PC at home as it was just abit too painfully slow. Neither I had the apporpriate programmes at home. So my bosses would see that maybe I would continue to work at their office, if they have available PCs in the future. Or pass me the pirated programmes' CDs to install them at home and work painfully.
If I am to work at home, I think I might need to find another solution quick. Maybe get a relative's PC or rent a friend's PC or something (so I think I may need your help, my friends).
Thursday, yesterday.
So I knocked off work at 4pm yesterday. I went to meet Alvin and Chee Wee at Siam's Kitchen restaurant at PARCO Bugis Junction. Alvin is working at Siam's Kitchen and was having a meeting. So Chee Wee and I waited for him there.
While waiting, we went for a short walk and to look around around the mall's area for such and such. But Alvin's meeting was about one hour.
So Chee Wee and I left first to walk down the Middle Road to Parklane Shopping Centre, because we were late, our another friend Andhika was waiting there already. But Alvin's meeting ended slightly later after we left, and so he caught up wth us on time.
And so from then, we play LAN gaming till almost 10pm! Along with Meng Kiat who joined us later around the later evening when we're in amidst of our games. We had a big online gaming session online with Bryan too, who was at home.
We left the LAN gaming shop at around 10pm. Andhika and I accompanied Chee Wee and Alvin to the closing foodcourt at Paradiz Centre to have their dinner. Andhika and I decided to have our very late dinner at home instead.
During their dinner session, Alvin put out his IT business proposal of making some human networking website, which was something like Friendster.com or WhoLivesNearYou.com.
I listened to his basic proposal, it is somewhat feasible, starting small before adding bigger fun featured sub-programmes in. I thought it is basically all right, but whether it is true marketable that the website gets advertisers coming in is a big profit issue.
Yes, whether advertisers would put their money into the website is highly dependent on the success of the website's public user population. But as they were already quite alot of such human networking websites (examples like Friendster, WhoLivesNearYou.com, MySpace.com and others) available in the global internet market, it was quite a business concern.
If we're to start by aiming only the small local Singapore users as our target audience, it may be too small. Especially, there's already other established competitors like Friendster.com or WhoLivesNearYou.com dominating the customer base, it will be difficult to attract those users to our website, unless our website networking features are more unique and maybe more interative than that of our competitors'. Or else there will be no chance to succeed.
Well, maybe some of you may think my "business market and risks report" on Alvin's and his some other friend's business plan is a entrepreneurship killer and rather discouraging. But well, but it is all the truth I we need to know before we really start any business.
But I admire Alvin and his some other friend's entrepreneurship spirit.
Anyway, after their dinner, we all went home. Alvin and Chee Wee together took their bus home, while Andhika and I took the MRT transit instead.
Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Days of Ups & Downs.
My emotions ran wild these days. Moods swinging up and down. All for different reasons, ranging from work to friends or almost anything. Or simply for the liking of someone.
I'm still coughing. The illness' name is acute brom... something. I forgot the whole name. Something to do with my lungs. Most probably an infection.
I saw a doctor on last Saturday morning. He gave me antibiotics (for my lungs infection), cough syrup (for relieve of cough and phlegm), lozenges (for my sore throat) and paracetemol (something like Panadol, for my slight fever).
I didn't knew my cough had became so serious then. Anyway, now I'm taking my medicine regularly. Not I'm left with only my coughing.
Anyway, I've summarised down how I felt these few days:
Monday, the day before yesterday.
The main emotion theme for this day was simple. Pure boredom. Because I need not go for work that day as my office PC was being used by bsomeone else. I had no choice but to stay home.
Yet, staying at home not doing anything but surfing net is very boring to me. I love doing things of different variety. Doing only one thing continuously through long period of time drives me mad, especially when no one was chatting with me on the MSN messenger.
Tuesday, yesterday.
A whole day of angst. Angst of sadness. Angst of Worries.
Tuesday was my first day of work for this week. So instead of Monday blues, I had my Tuesday blues.
Not only having my bout of blues. I also still had my cough. Which made me coughed like some sick patient with very bad tuberclosis. It made me quite angry, as it was pretty irritating.
For most of the angst, it came from work. I was trying to figure out some stuff hard and quick then. Which made myself pretty pek chek at times. My mood went to the lowest point. No one was talking to me much on the MSN messenger also.
Wednesday, today.
My mood returned to a much better state today. Though not as perky as the days I had before, but at least not too bad. I still had quite an amount of work to do today but I managed to finish it before my work knock-off time.
My mood rised better, as I helped Huimin to do some editing of text on a poster. It was a poster to call for people to donate storybooks for poor children. I felt it was a good deed to help, especially for this.
I love to help people. When they're helped, they're happy. And I'll be happy for them.
The only people I don't like to help is helping people who don't help themselves, or have their abilities to solve the problems themselves. If I accepted to help this kind of people who don't help themselves, especially forthose who simply don't solve the problems themselves, I will feel that I'm being taken for granted.
I will rather "teach a person to fish, rather than giving the fish".
That's the best real true help to a person.
My emotions ran wild these days. Moods swinging up and down. All for different reasons, ranging from work to friends or almost anything. Or simply for the liking of someone.
I'm still coughing. The illness' name is acute brom... something. I forgot the whole name. Something to do with my lungs. Most probably an infection.
I saw a doctor on last Saturday morning. He gave me antibiotics (for my lungs infection), cough syrup (for relieve of cough and phlegm), lozenges (for my sore throat) and paracetemol (something like Panadol, for my slight fever).
I didn't knew my cough had became so serious then. Anyway, now I'm taking my medicine regularly. Not I'm left with only my coughing.
Anyway, I've summarised down how I felt these few days:
Monday, the day before yesterday.
The main emotion theme for this day was simple. Pure boredom. Because I need not go for work that day as my office PC was being used by bsomeone else. I had no choice but to stay home.
Yet, staying at home not doing anything but surfing net is very boring to me. I love doing things of different variety. Doing only one thing continuously through long period of time drives me mad, especially when no one was chatting with me on the MSN messenger.
Tuesday, yesterday.
A whole day of angst. Angst of sadness. Angst of Worries.
Tuesday was my first day of work for this week. So instead of Monday blues, I had my Tuesday blues.
Not only having my bout of blues. I also still had my cough. Which made me coughed like some sick patient with very bad tuberclosis. It made me quite angry, as it was pretty irritating.
For most of the angst, it came from work. I was trying to figure out some stuff hard and quick then. Which made myself pretty pek chek at times. My mood went to the lowest point. No one was talking to me much on the MSN messenger also.
Wednesday, today.
My mood returned to a much better state today. Though not as perky as the days I had before, but at least not too bad. I still had quite an amount of work to do today but I managed to finish it before my work knock-off time.
My mood rised better, as I helped Huimin to do some editing of text on a poster. It was a poster to call for people to donate storybooks for poor children. I felt it was a good deed to help, especially for this.
I love to help people. When they're helped, they're happy. And I'll be happy for them.
The only people I don't like to help is helping people who don't help themselves, or have their abilities to solve the problems themselves. If I accepted to help this kind of people who don't help themselves, especially forthose who simply don't solve the problems themselves, I will feel that I'm being taken for granted.
I will rather "teach a person to fish, rather than giving the fish".
That's the best real true help to a person.
Sunday, July 25, 2004
So Unhappening Club.
Yesterday, Saturday night.
I went clubbing at the Centro last night. It was so unhappening, especially at the dance floor.
There was as little people as I had for clubbing for the first time at the Illusions Bar during the SARS period (but at least at that time we had fun and had plenty of drinks because we're the only ones drinking).
Bryan and I went to Centro first and for the first time there. We're hoping for something happening. Before we went to the club, we went to have our dinner first at Lau Pa Sat Festival Market.
After that we walked all the way to Fullerton One where the club, Centro, was located. We went in for free, courtesy from dear Chee Wee, as we got some invites of some Russian boy band duo's music showcase. The Russian boyband was known as Smash.
There was a long queue for the entry into the club. We only managed to went in at around 9pm, instead of the settled time 8pm.
So we went in for free. But the catch was we both had to wait for the rest of the gang to turn up at the place to club at around 11pm, when the Russian giggings would end.
So we waited and waited...
Surprisingly, those fans of the Russian duo all left, even before the peak clubbing hours! I think some were like us had entered free into the club using the free invites to get in, but I think they also gave up on the unhappening place and left in the end.
At the worst time, there were only five customers in the club (which included Bryan and I).
It was such a pathetic sight for a club with some name!
Bryan and I thought maybe the management was holding the queue outside the club so that there would be an en masse of clubbers coming into the place, so that the crowd would make the place more happening.
But I went out to check, there was no queue, and there was no one.
So clubbers did came in but left in less than an hour as the place was just too unhappening, especially at the dance floor.
A friendly female clubber even went around rallying people in the club to go the dance floor and dance. But no one ever did. So she only went to dance with her a couple of friends at the dance floor.
The rest of the gang was late.
By that time the rest of the gang arrived, Hong Yun, Chee Wee, Huimin, and Junlong, it was already past midnight. And when they arrived, we gave a sigh of relieve from the boredom, because we've been staring at the flashing lights and hearing repeative trance beats for almost two and a half hours.
Bryan and I didn't ordered drinks (I can't drink then because I got a bad cough and was on medication) and didn't dance. We waited like some cool statues there posing.
Initially all of us just sat down there together around looking at how the place is... Pathetic...
So when the rest finally went to buy drinks, I finally took some initiative went to the dance floor and danced. A couple of friendly clubbers (including that female who went around rallying people to dance) were there, and asked me to join them.
Ans so I joined them.
But only for a while, after when the girl dancing asked me a question in which I couldn't hear in that blaring trance beats, the other two latters left me there alone at the dance floor...
*Duh...* (-_-)|||
So I quitted my dance and joined the rest of the gang. Hong Yun, Bryan and Chee Wee was playing finger guessing games. Junlong was drinking by himself trying to be drunk again. Huimin was also doing nothing but straing at the empty dance floor with that idiotic flashing blues lights. I tried to get Junlong or Huimin to dance together with me at the dance floor but they thought it was just too unhappening to dance right then.
When the gang finally finished their drinks. There was finally a decent crowd at the dance floor dancing. It was already 1pm plus then.
There and then we all started to joining in to dance to the trance rhythms.
As I danced, I thought the botak DJ was sickening (he did't rally people to go to the dance floor and dance was bad enough). The beats were almost the same, it almost sound the same, and he kept giving anti-climate endings to the dance tracks. And he also gave that blinding flash lights as powerful as those of still cameras continuously for no good reasons.
But we tried to make out all the fun we had anyway by just continuing to dance.
As I dance my way through time, there were two girl friends who seems to be looking for some male counterparts to dance with them, said Chee Wee, who happened to stop dancing and sat at a seat observing the people at the dance floor.
Chee Wee said the girls were looking at guys, sort of hinting some other guys to dance with them (how true is this perception, I'm not so sure). I think I was also one of those guys, as I did notice them looking at me while I turned around looking at their direction while I was dancing. But I turned my back against them again after a while... (Anti-climax for them eh?)
Why I kept turning my back against them?
On one of the girl's face, she resembled someone... Everytime I see her face, that familiar face of another female friend popped out. I tried to snap out of it several times. To prevent seeing that facial image I know, I turned my back against them.
Heh... whatever it is, for the two girls, I guessed it was a case of "the men don't get it...", if they were trying to get attention from men like me to dance with them... lolx...
So that two girls left without any guys entertaining them...
But everyone else continued dancing.
I enjoyed the dancing session very much because that was the only fun thing I could do then. I looked at every member in my arena of friends dancing. Huimin was quite a dancer. Hong Yun was not too bad. Bryan was definitely and finally enjoying himself. Junlong was semi-drunk dancing. Chee Wee was also dancing but I always find his dancing abit weird, abit corny at times (no offence Chee Wee, just some comments).
Chee Wee's dancing body movements are "rigid", meaning his musculary movements are not "soften" up. Joints seem to be "locked". But I think if he loosen up his body movements, he'll be cool.
Maybe I can teach Chee Wee a trick or two next time in dancing smoothly, or we can improve our dancing together, ha ha ha! Maybe I danced corny at times too, its just that I didn't realise it perhaps. Anyone should tell me also, as my friends are my living "mirror". All comments are welcome, because I want to dance better : )
We ended our clubbing session at around 3am plus. We all thought that the clubbing session at Centro was pathetic.
We took into our vehicle and Humin drove everyone to Orchard Road's food festival's heritage food fair to have some supper as we were all hungry and thristy as well.
After our meals, Hong Yun drove the rest of us back home. Bryan's home journey was long, but the journey back the western area of Singapore took even longer. We were lost at times. We took almost of all Singapore's expressways, from PIE, KJE, BKE, SLE, TPE and CTE. The only two we haven't took was ECP and AYE.
Huimin was the next to head home, then it was me. When I reached home, it was already 5.20am. Wow... I think the last person could only reach home and fall asleep at 6am or so...
What a night...
Yesterday, Saturday night.
I went clubbing at the Centro last night. It was so unhappening, especially at the dance floor.
There was as little people as I had for clubbing for the first time at the Illusions Bar during the SARS period (but at least at that time we had fun and had plenty of drinks because we're the only ones drinking).
Bryan and I went to Centro first and for the first time there. We're hoping for something happening. Before we went to the club, we went to have our dinner first at Lau Pa Sat Festival Market.
After that we walked all the way to Fullerton One where the club, Centro, was located. We went in for free, courtesy from dear Chee Wee, as we got some invites of some Russian boy band duo's music showcase. The Russian boyband was known as Smash.
There was a long queue for the entry into the club. We only managed to went in at around 9pm, instead of the settled time 8pm.
So we went in for free. But the catch was we both had to wait for the rest of the gang to turn up at the place to club at around 11pm, when the Russian giggings would end.
So we waited and waited...
Surprisingly, those fans of the Russian duo all left, even before the peak clubbing hours! I think some were like us had entered free into the club using the free invites to get in, but I think they also gave up on the unhappening place and left in the end.
At the worst time, there were only five customers in the club (which included Bryan and I).
It was such a pathetic sight for a club with some name!
Bryan and I thought maybe the management was holding the queue outside the club so that there would be an en masse of clubbers coming into the place, so that the crowd would make the place more happening.
But I went out to check, there was no queue, and there was no one.
So clubbers did came in but left in less than an hour as the place was just too unhappening, especially at the dance floor.
A friendly female clubber even went around rallying people in the club to go the dance floor and dance. But no one ever did. So she only went to dance with her a couple of friends at the dance floor.
The rest of the gang was late.
By that time the rest of the gang arrived, Hong Yun, Chee Wee, Huimin, and Junlong, it was already past midnight. And when they arrived, we gave a sigh of relieve from the boredom, because we've been staring at the flashing lights and hearing repeative trance beats for almost two and a half hours.
Bryan and I didn't ordered drinks (I can't drink then because I got a bad cough and was on medication) and didn't dance. We waited like some cool statues there posing.
Initially all of us just sat down there together around looking at how the place is... Pathetic...
So when the rest finally went to buy drinks, I finally took some initiative went to the dance floor and danced. A couple of friendly clubbers (including that female who went around rallying people to dance) were there, and asked me to join them.
Ans so I joined them.
But only for a while, after when the girl dancing asked me a question in which I couldn't hear in that blaring trance beats, the other two latters left me there alone at the dance floor...
*Duh...* (-_-)|||
So I quitted my dance and joined the rest of the gang. Hong Yun, Bryan and Chee Wee was playing finger guessing games. Junlong was drinking by himself trying to be drunk again. Huimin was also doing nothing but straing at the empty dance floor with that idiotic flashing blues lights. I tried to get Junlong or Huimin to dance together with me at the dance floor but they thought it was just too unhappening to dance right then.
When the gang finally finished their drinks. There was finally a decent crowd at the dance floor dancing. It was already 1pm plus then.
There and then we all started to joining in to dance to the trance rhythms.
As I danced, I thought the botak DJ was sickening (he did't rally people to go to the dance floor and dance was bad enough). The beats were almost the same, it almost sound the same, and he kept giving anti-climate endings to the dance tracks. And he also gave that blinding flash lights as powerful as those of still cameras continuously for no good reasons.
But we tried to make out all the fun we had anyway by just continuing to dance.
As I dance my way through time, there were two girl friends who seems to be looking for some male counterparts to dance with them, said Chee Wee, who happened to stop dancing and sat at a seat observing the people at the dance floor.
Chee Wee said the girls were looking at guys, sort of hinting some other guys to dance with them (how true is this perception, I'm not so sure). I think I was also one of those guys, as I did notice them looking at me while I turned around looking at their direction while I was dancing. But I turned my back against them again after a while... (Anti-climax for them eh?)
Why I kept turning my back against them?
On one of the girl's face, she resembled someone... Everytime I see her face, that familiar face of another female friend popped out. I tried to snap out of it several times. To prevent seeing that facial image I know, I turned my back against them.
Heh... whatever it is, for the two girls, I guessed it was a case of "the men don't get it...", if they were trying to get attention from men like me to dance with them... lolx...
So that two girls left without any guys entertaining them...
But everyone else continued dancing.
I enjoyed the dancing session very much because that was the only fun thing I could do then. I looked at every member in my arena of friends dancing. Huimin was quite a dancer. Hong Yun was not too bad. Bryan was definitely and finally enjoying himself. Junlong was semi-drunk dancing. Chee Wee was also dancing but I always find his dancing abit weird, abit corny at times (no offence Chee Wee, just some comments).
Chee Wee's dancing body movements are "rigid", meaning his musculary movements are not "soften" up. Joints seem to be "locked". But I think if he loosen up his body movements, he'll be cool.
Maybe I can teach Chee Wee a trick or two next time in dancing smoothly, or we can improve our dancing together, ha ha ha! Maybe I danced corny at times too, its just that I didn't realise it perhaps. Anyone should tell me also, as my friends are my living "mirror". All comments are welcome, because I want to dance better : )
We ended our clubbing session at around 3am plus. We all thought that the clubbing session at Centro was pathetic.
We took into our vehicle and Humin drove everyone to Orchard Road's food festival's heritage food fair to have some supper as we were all hungry and thristy as well.
After our meals, Hong Yun drove the rest of us back home. Bryan's home journey was long, but the journey back the western area of Singapore took even longer. We were lost at times. We took almost of all Singapore's expressways, from PIE, KJE, BKE, SLE, TPE and CTE. The only two we haven't took was ECP and AYE.
Huimin was the next to head home, then it was me. When I reached home, it was already 5.20am. Wow... I think the last person could only reach home and fall asleep at 6am or so...
What a night...
Thursday, July 22, 2004
Stranded.
Today, Thursday.
I was stranded in the office. One way or the other.
Though having to done one challenge of finishing a website for some cheapskate corporate company, I thought and hoped I would have the adequate skills to pull me through other website implementation projects in the future. Including the current website implementation project I'm on now for my attached company, Stratical.
But I'm wrong : (
Bui I knew that as being a multimedia designer, it'll will be a life-long learning process throughout my career learning all the knowledge, skills and technologies of my trade.
I admit I am not totally an enthusiastic learner (I do have some lazy genes you know). But I am trying to do what ever I can to learn while I work and to serve the purpose needed for my projects.
So I was having some technical problems doing on the web project I'm on. I lacked some skills to do some features required on the project, especially I couldn't remember the stuff I had learned about two years ago (and I've hardly touched web-based project ever since).
But I was trying hard to solve the techical problem on another scale, thinking it out of the box. So, I offered other methods into re-designing the graphic user interface (GUI) to Linda (who was my boss, as well as a friend) who designed the graphical aesthetics of the website, so that I may solve that techical problem.
She got quite pissed and walked out of the office when I couldn't speak well to what exactly the technical difficulty was as she couldn't understand. She also complained that I was not speaking loudly enough for her as I was on a bad voice due to a very serious cough I have for almost a week now.
But of course, who wanted to re-design, as I knew re-designing is a process that sucks big time. So I didn't blame her.
Sometimes I find it hard to communicate with Linda, for her as being the graphic designer while doing web-based projects like this. Especially when she has no vivid idea of what technical constraints or problems best avoided in web design. For example she suggested using Director Shockwave, I told her that the software was normally for use in CD-ROM applications or web 3D applications, and it was also slow to download the Shockwave file and needed web users to download the Shockwave player.
So sometimes its quite difficult when one hand she promised the client that a feature could be done, but at that time she may not knew whether that feature was possible. Worse, she doesn't know whether I know how to do it or not.
But well, I wasn't angry for she didn't accept my out-of-the-box proposal. As I'm sure she just being temperamental after when she was even challenged by her business partner (who was also my boss), Terence, to the Stratical company logo earlier.
So my bosses were in a bad mood after that heated critism and rejection.
My sneaky co-colleague, Edwin, managed to get away (as he was nearest to the office door outside and he had not much work today) when the battle started.
Maybe I wasn't experienced to these storms between the bosses like Edwin had, I think I also accidentally added a small amount of fuel.
Unfortunately, I had no excuse to get away as I was working, so I was caught in that crossfire somewhat (maybe I should have gone for the toilet for cover at that time, but as Edwin left first, it would be too obvious everyone else was ducking for a cover...)
I blamed no one for the bullets that accidentally hit me. I simply just consider myself unlucky today.
Anyway, as for that technical problem I had, I gave up using that specific technical method to solve the feature problem. But I was determined to solve that feature problem.
But it was quite by accident that I solved that feature problem. I was editing the HTML template of my blogspot, I accidentally spotted a possible solution of a particular HTML code, the "iframe" html tag code.
So I tried using it, and I got it. The stupid scrollbar needed for scrolling long textual content within a webpage.
Feature problem solved.
But I think someone got a problem.
I think Linda needs to control her fluctuating temper which easily upsets everybody's moods easily. She gets into bad temper easily...
Today, Thursday.
I was stranded in the office. One way or the other.
Though having to done one challenge of finishing a website for some cheapskate corporate company, I thought and hoped I would have the adequate skills to pull me through other website implementation projects in the future. Including the current website implementation project I'm on now for my attached company, Stratical.
But I'm wrong : (
Bui I knew that as being a multimedia designer, it'll will be a life-long learning process throughout my career learning all the knowledge, skills and technologies of my trade.
I admit I am not totally an enthusiastic learner (I do have some lazy genes you know). But I am trying to do what ever I can to learn while I work and to serve the purpose needed for my projects.
So I was having some technical problems doing on the web project I'm on. I lacked some skills to do some features required on the project, especially I couldn't remember the stuff I had learned about two years ago (and I've hardly touched web-based project ever since).
But I was trying hard to solve the techical problem on another scale, thinking it out of the box. So, I offered other methods into re-designing the graphic user interface (GUI) to Linda (who was my boss, as well as a friend) who designed the graphical aesthetics of the website, so that I may solve that techical problem.
She got quite pissed and walked out of the office when I couldn't speak well to what exactly the technical difficulty was as she couldn't understand. She also complained that I was not speaking loudly enough for her as I was on a bad voice due to a very serious cough I have for almost a week now.
But of course, who wanted to re-design, as I knew re-designing is a process that sucks big time. So I didn't blame her.
Sometimes I find it hard to communicate with Linda, for her as being the graphic designer while doing web-based projects like this. Especially when she has no vivid idea of what technical constraints or problems best avoided in web design. For example she suggested using Director Shockwave, I told her that the software was normally for use in CD-ROM applications or web 3D applications, and it was also slow to download the Shockwave file and needed web users to download the Shockwave player.
So sometimes its quite difficult when one hand she promised the client that a feature could be done, but at that time she may not knew whether that feature was possible. Worse, she doesn't know whether I know how to do it or not.
But well, I wasn't angry for she didn't accept my out-of-the-box proposal. As I'm sure she just being temperamental after when she was even challenged by her business partner (who was also my boss), Terence, to the Stratical company logo earlier.
So my bosses were in a bad mood after that heated critism and rejection.
My sneaky co-colleague, Edwin, managed to get away (as he was nearest to the office door outside and he had not much work today) when the battle started.
Maybe I wasn't experienced to these storms between the bosses like Edwin had, I think I also accidentally added a small amount of fuel.
Unfortunately, I had no excuse to get away as I was working, so I was caught in that crossfire somewhat (maybe I should have gone for the toilet for cover at that time, but as Edwin left first, it would be too obvious everyone else was ducking for a cover...)
I blamed no one for the bullets that accidentally hit me. I simply just consider myself unlucky today.
Anyway, as for that technical problem I had, I gave up using that specific technical method to solve the feature problem. But I was determined to solve that feature problem.
But it was quite by accident that I solved that feature problem. I was editing the HTML template of my blogspot, I accidentally spotted a possible solution of a particular HTML code, the "iframe" html tag code.
So I tried using it, and I got it. The stupid scrollbar needed for scrolling long textual content within a webpage.
Feature problem solved.
But I think someone got a problem.
I think Linda needs to control her fluctuating temper which easily upsets everybody's moods easily. She gets into bad temper easily...
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Sensuous Urban Morning.
Today, Wednesday morning.
I was going for work after my morning routines. But while I was on my way to work on the MRT train. Linda SMSed me to head for work only at 12.30pm (the usual start work time was 11am), because nobody would be early then to unlock the office door.
So I alighted at the City Hall MRT station instead of Bugis MRT station. I wanted to head for the Esplanade area for a walk or something so I can pass my time...
And the first thing I did I arrived there was to pass motion...
Hah... : p
But I think the Esplanade Theatres have one of the best washroom facilities with the nicest interior deco of urinals, cubicles, toilet bowls, flush systems, auto-on taps and last but not least, the shiny, silvery hand-dryer.
After the nice relieve, I headed for the Libary@TheEsplanades to maybe read-up on something, but I was attracted to a nice small innovative exhibition in there on dance. From the social dances to the modern dance, I've seen it all.
I already knew that dance are incorporated into our daily lives. I dance when I feel I want to, to display my body movements of emotions. There's also a photographic showcase of folks doing Tai-Chi, and people walking down busy junctions on streets, and those are also considered the dances of our daily lives.
A quote also caught my eye, but I'm sorry I do not exactly remember the quoted phrase and author exactly. But it goes something like thing.
"If I'm not able to dance, please don't revolutionalise me to do other things."
~ Someone I forgot to remember.
It made me feel that dance is a very big thing in in life and in the eyes of that author.
For me, dance is part of my life, it is an expression tool for me to speak with my body movements. Dancing is also a very good and quite a wild workout to do.
Anyway, after the visit to the library, I went to the Esplanade Walk for a feel of the sea breeze...
Though the skies weren't really nice, filled with greyish clouds and was slight drizzling. It was still nice to just simply sit down there, feel the wind and looking on the sailing clouds above me, looking at the awesome skyscrapers to my right, the grassy Marina Bay and the peaceful Singapore River waters in front, the strong Benjamin Sheares Bridge to my left, the beautiful architectural wonder at my back and the happy kindergarden children playing around me...
Even the tourists I saw also took the time to just sit down and enjoy the environment. And I saw the smile of satisfaction after they left...
I hope that all my love ones (refers to you all, my dear friends) were also there with me to feel what I feel...
Today, Wednesday morning.
I was going for work after my morning routines. But while I was on my way to work on the MRT train. Linda SMSed me to head for work only at 12.30pm (the usual start work time was 11am), because nobody would be early then to unlock the office door.
So I alighted at the City Hall MRT station instead of Bugis MRT station. I wanted to head for the Esplanade area for a walk or something so I can pass my time...
And the first thing I did I arrived there was to pass motion...
Hah... : p
But I think the Esplanade Theatres have one of the best washroom facilities with the nicest interior deco of urinals, cubicles, toilet bowls, flush systems, auto-on taps and last but not least, the shiny, silvery hand-dryer.
After the nice relieve, I headed for the Libary@TheEsplanades to maybe read-up on something, but I was attracted to a nice small innovative exhibition in there on dance. From the social dances to the modern dance, I've seen it all.
I already knew that dance are incorporated into our daily lives. I dance when I feel I want to, to display my body movements of emotions. There's also a photographic showcase of folks doing Tai-Chi, and people walking down busy junctions on streets, and those are also considered the dances of our daily lives.
A quote also caught my eye, but I'm sorry I do not exactly remember the quoted phrase and author exactly. But it goes something like thing.
"If I'm not able to dance, please don't revolutionalise me to do other things."
~ Someone I forgot to remember.
It made me feel that dance is a very big thing in in life and in the eyes of that author.
For me, dance is part of my life, it is an expression tool for me to speak with my body movements. Dancing is also a very good and quite a wild workout to do.
Anyway, after the visit to the library, I went to the Esplanade Walk for a feel of the sea breeze...
Though the skies weren't really nice, filled with greyish clouds and was slight drizzling. It was still nice to just simply sit down there, feel the wind and looking on the sailing clouds above me, looking at the awesome skyscrapers to my right, the grassy Marina Bay and the peaceful Singapore River waters in front, the strong Benjamin Sheares Bridge to my left, the beautiful architectural wonder at my back and the happy kindergarden children playing around me...
Even the tourists I saw also took the time to just sit down and enjoy the environment. And I saw the smile of satisfaction after they left...
I hope that all my love ones (refers to you all, my dear friends) were also there with me to feel what I feel...
Monday, July 19, 2004
Kings in Bugis & Queen in Orchard Road.
Last Saturday evening.
Chee Wee and I went to Bugi's Shaw Tower to meet up first for a LAN gaming session, to have some fun first before we watched a subsidised movie of the King Arthur.
Didn't want to watch it at first because of what I seen in the movie critics in magazines and newspapers said that the movie was average. And I also knew that the story of Arthur was pretty much a blur to historians.
The archaeologists are still trying to get the real full picture of the Arthur story.
But I went to watch it anyway since it was subsidised : P
[Subsidised = (2 complimentary tickets + 3 paid tickets) divided by 5 persons)]
My "father", the team leader of my former SPSU Freshmen Orientation Camp, Zhijian was one of the staff at the LAN gaming shop there.
After playing for over an hour, Hong Yun and Junlong came. We went to buy the rest of the tickets before Bryan arrived.
So we all went to watched the movie, slightly late. But thanks to Siwei, the door was kept open for us while we went to buy drinks and popcorn.
So how was the movie King Arthur?
Well, like the critics said, and to me, it was an average movie. And I can criticise it like the critics themselves (afterall, I am still somewhat a film-making student).
The emotions interacting between characters were expected.
There were no surprise elements in battles scenes and there were only three battle scenes.
First was the initial was the failed ambush attack by Merlin's tribesmen, where they were all killed by our heroic people, the next one was at the icy lake, the other was the final battle. At least one knight hero simply die in any of the battle. The last battle scene was the biggest, yet non-dramatic. It was either the ambush tactic using arrows, fire and stones, and the charge tactic.
Our leading hero Arthur simply killed the Saxon army leader with the Mel Gibson hero(hero kneels down with one leg pretending to be defeated with back facing enemy, and then poke his blade backwards when the enemy approaches behind him), which I've seen in the movie The Patriot.
The only thing different is that Mel Gibson used a bayonet instead of a sword.
*Duh* (-.-)'
The movie King Arthur was as superficial as its current history itself.
So after we have watched the movie, we all went to Orchard Road at around 10pm or so.
We met up with Huimin to deal with her defect handbag bought from Isetan at Shaw House. The people there had refused to change her defect bag. So she wanted to use unity en masse to pressurise the customer service peopl at Isetan to change it for her.
But in the end when we reached there, Isetan was closing. But Huimin managed to go into the place alone. She still did not get her bag changed, but managed to get them to repair it for her.
After the bag incident was settled. We walked all the way down the Orchard Road to a somewhat nostalgic hawker place of the 60s and 70s, held for the Food festival 2004 for the month of July. They had stalls selling very local dishes.
The place was packed with people, but we were all very hungry as we haven't ate dinner as it was already 10pm plus.
But still we used about an hour's time to conquer a table and the seats, and to buy all our food where the food stalls were having long queues.
The longest queue was of the Fried Oyster stall. Up to about 50 people or more were queueing then. The shortest queue was the Nasi Lemak stall, with only a few of about 5 people queueing only.
Though one of my favourite dish was the Fried Oyster, I can't bother to queue for it as I was too lazy and I was really hungry. I asked Hong Yun to order the drinks and my carot cake for me and others. While Junlong order the grilled rays for all of us.
Alvin had also came to join us from work. He ordered the simple nasi lemak dish instead as he was really very hungry as he also didn't have his dinner yet.
We enjoyed our food and had a nice chatting session too.
It was already 12am plus, past midnight when we decided to go home. There were no train transiting so we all had to take the midnight bus services home...
Last Saturday evening.
Chee Wee and I went to Bugi's Shaw Tower to meet up first for a LAN gaming session, to have some fun first before we watched a subsidised movie of the King Arthur.
Didn't want to watch it at first because of what I seen in the movie critics in magazines and newspapers said that the movie was average. And I also knew that the story of Arthur was pretty much a blur to historians.
The archaeologists are still trying to get the real full picture of the Arthur story.
But I went to watch it anyway since it was subsidised : P
[Subsidised = (2 complimentary tickets + 3 paid tickets) divided by 5 persons)]
My "father", the team leader of my former SPSU Freshmen Orientation Camp, Zhijian was one of the staff at the LAN gaming shop there.
After playing for over an hour, Hong Yun and Junlong came. We went to buy the rest of the tickets before Bryan arrived.
So we all went to watched the movie, slightly late. But thanks to Siwei, the door was kept open for us while we went to buy drinks and popcorn.
So how was the movie King Arthur?
Well, like the critics said, and to me, it was an average movie. And I can criticise it like the critics themselves (afterall, I am still somewhat a film-making student).
The emotions interacting between characters were expected.
There were no surprise elements in battles scenes and there were only three battle scenes.
First was the initial was the failed ambush attack by Merlin's tribesmen, where they were all killed by our heroic people, the next one was at the icy lake, the other was the final battle. At least one knight hero simply die in any of the battle. The last battle scene was the biggest, yet non-dramatic. It was either the ambush tactic using arrows, fire and stones, and the charge tactic.
Our leading hero Arthur simply killed the Saxon army leader with the Mel Gibson hero(hero kneels down with one leg pretending to be defeated with back facing enemy, and then poke his blade backwards when the enemy approaches behind him), which I've seen in the movie The Patriot.
The only thing different is that Mel Gibson used a bayonet instead of a sword.
*Duh* (-.-)'
The movie King Arthur was as superficial as its current history itself.
So after we have watched the movie, we all went to Orchard Road at around 10pm or so.
We met up with Huimin to deal with her defect handbag bought from Isetan at Shaw House. The people there had refused to change her defect bag. So she wanted to use unity en masse to pressurise the customer service peopl at Isetan to change it for her.
But in the end when we reached there, Isetan was closing. But Huimin managed to go into the place alone. She still did not get her bag changed, but managed to get them to repair it for her.
After the bag incident was settled. We walked all the way down the Orchard Road to a somewhat nostalgic hawker place of the 60s and 70s, held for the Food festival 2004 for the month of July. They had stalls selling very local dishes.
The place was packed with people, but we were all very hungry as we haven't ate dinner as it was already 10pm plus.
But still we used about an hour's time to conquer a table and the seats, and to buy all our food where the food stalls were having long queues.
The longest queue was of the Fried Oyster stall. Up to about 50 people or more were queueing then. The shortest queue was the Nasi Lemak stall, with only a few of about 5 people queueing only.
Though one of my favourite dish was the Fried Oyster, I can't bother to queue for it as I was too lazy and I was really hungry. I asked Hong Yun to order the drinks and my carot cake for me and others. While Junlong order the grilled rays for all of us.
Alvin had also came to join us from work. He ordered the simple nasi lemak dish instead as he was really very hungry as he also didn't have his dinner yet.
We enjoyed our food and had a nice chatting session too.
It was already 12am plus, past midnight when we decided to go home. There were no train transiting so we all had to take the midnight bus services home...
Friday, July 16, 2004
Living it Out.
Today, Friday.
Hmmm... My life felt a bit bland these few days. Perhaps it was the weather, or just my simple emotions for someone... or something...
Sometimes I asked my emotions if it was really that closely related to the weather.
But I really do not know.
I am trying to live my life out in this rainy weather days. I am now searching for some sort of new excitement in my life, yet I do not know where to find it.
I went to buy a new light blue shirt (to compensate the eternally stained, light blue, collared shirt that I favour) and a new music album of mandarin pop rock (it is the F.I.R. album by F.I.R.) on Wednesday evening.
The new lively music I've bought to listen certainly help to bring down the effects of my loneliness and boredom from time to time.
But I am still looking for that someone or something to fully ease down those wild emotions of mine...
Today, Friday.
Hmmm... My life felt a bit bland these few days. Perhaps it was the weather, or just my simple emotions for someone... or something...
Sometimes I asked my emotions if it was really that closely related to the weather.
But I really do not know.
I am trying to live my life out in this rainy weather days. I am now searching for some sort of new excitement in my life, yet I do not know where to find it.
I went to buy a new light blue shirt (to compensate the eternally stained, light blue, collared shirt that I favour) and a new music album of mandarin pop rock (it is the F.I.R. album by F.I.R.) on Wednesday evening.
The new lively music I've bought to listen certainly help to bring down the effects of my loneliness and boredom from time to time.
But I am still looking for that someone or something to fully ease down those wild emotions of mine...
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Its Nothing or Work.
Yesterday, Tuesday evening.
I went off early from work yesterday. I had nothing to do for the rest of the day, even though I still haven't solve the scripting problem for the forms send thingy (because I really don't know how to do scripting using PEARL, a very, very alien progamming language).
So I left work at around 4.30pm or so to join Chee Wee for a LAN gaming session at a internet gaming shop at Bugi's Shaw Tower. We were to watch the Korean movie, Brotherhood, after the playing.
So after the LAN gaming play, we went for the movie.
We were given complimentary ticket of a couple seat.
And my friend Chee Wee was whining why he didn't manage to get a girl for the movie.
I was thinking, "Hey. At least I'm your friend and is not a gay okay?"
Anyway, the movie is a nice and touching stories between the two brothers in the movie. The mixture between the emotions and the actions of the brothers were blended pretty well in the face of the dilemmatic Korean War of the 1950s.
It was not only the split of ideologies, it was a split of a single nation, kinship, morality, and of course, the brotherhood of the two brothers, as when the the Koreans themselves.
As for the war and the battle sinces, it was almost as good as those of the western movies, though there was really hell lot of blood splatting everywhere which reminds me of my Ohama Beach 3D animation.
After the movie, we met Siwei on the exit. After that I accomapanied Chee Wee to McDonald's fast-food restaurant to have his dinner. I only ordered a large fries to munch on as I was heading home for a very late dinner.
I took the MRT transit back home while Chee Wee, along with Alvin who also work in the area and was off work by then, took their bus trip home.
Today, Wednesday.
Today was almost as usual. Doing my utmost for whatever crappy changes that came to me via Linda from the client.
Hopefully I've done all the required content changes of images and textual infomations and the whole web design is totally finished.
I hope I'm only left with the scripting problem. Although I am hoping that I will not be doing the scripting myself because I really don't know how to do it, I hope that would be the end of my affinity with this website project which I thought it was taking too long to end.
Anyway, I got my pay of $250 today ($500 per month, given $250 every week). I'm not going to anyhow spend it. I'm going to use some of it to top-up some CPF insurance plan thing. The rest is for my appending handphone bill and transportation fees for this month, and last but now least, leave some for my $200 debt from Elvin in which I borrowed to buy my new spectacles.
So basically, all these money that will be spend will not be on any extra luxury items...
But maybe I'll buy an album and a clothe... : p
But I'm still enjoying my life quite well enough : )
Yesterday, Tuesday evening.
I went off early from work yesterday. I had nothing to do for the rest of the day, even though I still haven't solve the scripting problem for the forms send thingy (because I really don't know how to do scripting using PEARL, a very, very alien progamming language).
So I left work at around 4.30pm or so to join Chee Wee for a LAN gaming session at a internet gaming shop at Bugi's Shaw Tower. We were to watch the Korean movie, Brotherhood, after the playing.
So after the LAN gaming play, we went for the movie.
We were given complimentary ticket of a couple seat.
And my friend Chee Wee was whining why he didn't manage to get a girl for the movie.
I was thinking, "Hey. At least I'm your friend and is not a gay okay?"
Anyway, the movie is a nice and touching stories between the two brothers in the movie. The mixture between the emotions and the actions of the brothers were blended pretty well in the face of the dilemmatic Korean War of the 1950s.
It was not only the split of ideologies, it was a split of a single nation, kinship, morality, and of course, the brotherhood of the two brothers, as when the the Koreans themselves.
As for the war and the battle sinces, it was almost as good as those of the western movies, though there was really hell lot of blood splatting everywhere which reminds me of my Ohama Beach 3D animation.
After the movie, we met Siwei on the exit. After that I accomapanied Chee Wee to McDonald's fast-food restaurant to have his dinner. I only ordered a large fries to munch on as I was heading home for a very late dinner.
I took the MRT transit back home while Chee Wee, along with Alvin who also work in the area and was off work by then, took their bus trip home.
Today, Wednesday.
Today was almost as usual. Doing my utmost for whatever crappy changes that came to me via Linda from the client.
Hopefully I've done all the required content changes of images and textual infomations and the whole web design is totally finished.
I hope I'm only left with the scripting problem. Although I am hoping that I will not be doing the scripting myself because I really don't know how to do it, I hope that would be the end of my affinity with this website project which I thought it was taking too long to end.
Anyway, I got my pay of $250 today ($500 per month, given $250 every week). I'm not going to anyhow spend it. I'm going to use some of it to top-up some CPF insurance plan thing. The rest is for my appending handphone bill and transportation fees for this month, and last but now least, leave some for my $200 debt from Elvin in which I borrowed to buy my new spectacles.
So basically, all these money that will be spend will not be on any extra luxury items...
But maybe I'll buy an album and a clothe... : p
But I'm still enjoying my life quite well enough : )
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
I Just Want to...!
Yesterday and today, Monday and Tuesday.
As you people know, I've been try to solve a problem recently on the website I was doing. All I want was just to to send user data input in forms to be send to an e-mail adressee without using using e-mail programme.
But this simple feature needed in the website caused me lots of queries.
So far I have queried these people on the MSN messenger:
Caizhi.
Even the greatest genius have been called for help! He fasinated me with loads of alien progamming codes.
Sidik.
He tries very hard to help me, but it all came down to the same problem using the e-mail programme to send one.
Chee Wee.
He refers me to someone else.
Andhika.
Web skills could be as rusty as me.
Chin Leong.
Not very sure. A better pal for lunch.
Vivian.
No answers, we ended up chatting. Hee... : P
In the end, it is accumlating problems of the problem.
I hope this whole crap ends. I'm under an invisible pressure to end it all : /
Yesterday and today, Monday and Tuesday.
As you people know, I've been try to solve a problem recently on the website I was doing. All I want was just to to send user data input in forms to be send to an e-mail adressee without using using e-mail programme.
But this simple feature needed in the website caused me lots of queries.
So far I have queried these people on the MSN messenger:
Caizhi.
Even the greatest genius have been called for help! He fasinated me with loads of alien progamming codes.
Sidik.
He tries very hard to help me, but it all came down to the same problem using the e-mail programme to send one.
Chee Wee.
He refers me to someone else.
Andhika.
Web skills could be as rusty as me.
Chin Leong.
Not very sure. A better pal for lunch.
Vivian.
No answers, we ended up chatting. Hee... : P
In the end, it is accumlating problems of the problem.
I hope this whole crap ends. I'm under an invisible pressure to end it all : /
Monday, July 12, 2004
The Night of Stars & the Crescent Moon.
Last Saturday night.
It was Chee Wee's birthday the next day. So his friends, Huimin, Alvin, Junlong, Hong Yun, Soon Wei and I decided to go his house to have fun and to celebrate his birthday after midnight.
Alvin was already at Chee Wee's house as his house was near. He was on Chee Wee's PC playing Warcraft III: Frozen Throne on Battle.net. When I reached Chee Wee's house's main door, Junlong also just reached too, and "stalking" behind me, he said.
So we went to his room. And started playing on his PC too. Time passes, the rest of the people came too. We all squeezed into Chee Wee's and his brother's room, making it feel small.
There and then, we started playing mahjong. Too bad, we weren't playing money that day. I was winning alot of plastic money chips. I won almost every game for just the first round.
But everybody simply quitted because I was the only one winning... Ha ha ha!
But then we started playing blackjack with money. This time I lost, and suffered losses.
Anyway, we also ordered pizza delivery from Pizza Hut for supper. Then we went back to play blackjack again.
We also celebrated Chee Wee's birthday with a coffee-creamed cake. We sang the happy birthday song with speed and sincerity, before we went back to play blackjack yet again.
When Alvin was the banker, he almost won all of everyone's money! But in the end he lost it all and went back to square one.
Junlong was the banker most of the time. But he hardly lost, so he was the big winner for the day. But he was already tipsy with only half a can of Tiger beer.
He sure is one bad drinker, and also a cheeky and lustful person.
He kept "threatening" Huimin that he'll rape her on the way home, as Huimin was thought to bring him bad luck. But we all knew he was only kidding. But it seems that he was desperate for "love". He also requested massages on him from Huimin and also thought Huimin was tempting his lust, when he's already lustful.
When we were tired of playing blackjack in the end. We tried to have fun with some other games or go outdoor somewhere, but can't think of any.
In the end, we all decided to went home.
So Huimin taking turns with Hong Yun drove Chee Wee's dad's van to drive us home on that misty starry night with a crescent moon...
Last Saturday night.
It was Chee Wee's birthday the next day. So his friends, Huimin, Alvin, Junlong, Hong Yun, Soon Wei and I decided to go his house to have fun and to celebrate his birthday after midnight.
Alvin was already at Chee Wee's house as his house was near. He was on Chee Wee's PC playing Warcraft III: Frozen Throne on Battle.net. When I reached Chee Wee's house's main door, Junlong also just reached too, and "stalking" behind me, he said.
So we went to his room. And started playing on his PC too. Time passes, the rest of the people came too. We all squeezed into Chee Wee's and his brother's room, making it feel small.
There and then, we started playing mahjong. Too bad, we weren't playing money that day. I was winning alot of plastic money chips. I won almost every game for just the first round.
But everybody simply quitted because I was the only one winning... Ha ha ha!
But then we started playing blackjack with money. This time I lost, and suffered losses.
Anyway, we also ordered pizza delivery from Pizza Hut for supper. Then we went back to play blackjack again.
We also celebrated Chee Wee's birthday with a coffee-creamed cake. We sang the happy birthday song with speed and sincerity, before we went back to play blackjack yet again.
When Alvin was the banker, he almost won all of everyone's money! But in the end he lost it all and went back to square one.
Junlong was the banker most of the time. But he hardly lost, so he was the big winner for the day. But he was already tipsy with only half a can of Tiger beer.
He sure is one bad drinker, and also a cheeky and lustful person.
He kept "threatening" Huimin that he'll rape her on the way home, as Huimin was thought to bring him bad luck. But we all knew he was only kidding. But it seems that he was desperate for "love". He also requested massages on him from Huimin and also thought Huimin was tempting his lust, when he's already lustful.
When we were tired of playing blackjack in the end. We tried to have fun with some other games or go outdoor somewhere, but can't think of any.
In the end, we all decided to went home.
So Huimin taking turns with Hong Yun drove Chee Wee's dad's van to drive us home on that misty starry night with a crescent moon...
Saturday, July 10, 2004
All at Sea
by Jamie Cullum
I'm all at sea
Where no one can bother me
Forgot my roots
If only for a day
Just me and my thoughts
Sitting far away
Like a warm drink it seeps into my soul
Please just leave me right here on my own
Later on you could spend some time with me
If you want to, all at sea
I'm all at sea
Where no one can bother me
I sleep by myself
I drink on my own
I don't speak to nobody
I gave away my phone
Like a warm drink it seeps into my soul
Please just leave me right here on my own
Later on you could spend some time with me
If you want to, all at sea
Now I need you more than ever
I need you more than ever now
If you don't need it every day
But sometimes don?t you just crave
To disappear within your mind
You never know what you might find
So come and spend some time with me
And we will spend it all at sea
Like a warm drink it seeps into my soul
Please just leave me right here on my own
Later on you could spend some time with me
If you want to, all at sea
Ooooh
If you want to, all at sea
If you want to
by Jamie Cullum
I'm all at sea
Where no one can bother me
Forgot my roots
If only for a day
Just me and my thoughts
Sitting far away
Like a warm drink it seeps into my soul
Please just leave me right here on my own
Later on you could spend some time with me
If you want to, all at sea
I'm all at sea
Where no one can bother me
I sleep by myself
I drink on my own
I don't speak to nobody
I gave away my phone
Like a warm drink it seeps into my soul
Please just leave me right here on my own
Later on you could spend some time with me
If you want to, all at sea
Now I need you more than ever
I need you more than ever now
If you don't need it every day
But sometimes don?t you just crave
To disappear within your mind
You never know what you might find
So come and spend some time with me
And we will spend it all at sea
Like a warm drink it seeps into my soul
Please just leave me right here on my own
Later on you could spend some time with me
If you want to, all at sea
Ooooh
If you want to, all at sea
If you want to
Friday, July 09, 2004
Re-Do, Again. Play. Window Shopping. Slack.
Yesterday, Thursday.
Yesterday, I was doing all the appropriate changes asked of me to change from the client via Linda again.
I managed to finish everythinng of my wrok and get scot-free at around 3.30pm.
There I left my office and headed for the Parklane Shopping Mall where I had met Chee Wee for a LAN gaming session. We were joined by Alvin about an hour later.
After the session, we headed to the Paradiz Centre's food court which is right near the Parklane Shopping Mall. Alvin and Chee Wee had their dinner there.
After that, Chee Wee departed from Alvin and I to join his another friend for the Stella Artois movie screening at the Fort Canning Hill.
So Alvin and I decided to go walk-walk at the Orchard Road.
I even met Matthew again on the streets, although he was the one who notice me first.
Anyway, so Alvin and I went to Takashimaya Shopping Centre to vist a food festival there. Alvin bought something to eat. I didn't buy any because I am really tight on my money now and is on a passive diet.
After that we went for some window shopping around before I went straight home taking the MRT transit. Alvin decided he wanted to head for the HMV building, so we departed from there...
Today, Friday.
As usual, as soon as I arrived for work. There is always work. Like the previous, I did all the appropriate changes asked of me to change from the client via Linda again.
By around 1pm, I had finished my work. Linda and Terence left the office to visit the client of the website I was doing.
So I am all alone now.
I went for lunch together with Chin Leong at a chicken rice stall around Purvis Street. We were chit-chatting on how our lives were going (although most of the time I was doing the talking).
We went for a short shopping trip at Bugis Junction before we went back to our offices...
And here am I. All alone slacking right here, right now, doing my cyberculture stuff... Surfing net and talking to my dear friends online the MSN Messenger : P
Yesterday, Thursday.
Yesterday, I was doing all the appropriate changes asked of me to change from the client via Linda again.
I managed to finish everythinng of my wrok and get scot-free at around 3.30pm.
There I left my office and headed for the Parklane Shopping Mall where I had met Chee Wee for a LAN gaming session. We were joined by Alvin about an hour later.
After the session, we headed to the Paradiz Centre's food court which is right near the Parklane Shopping Mall. Alvin and Chee Wee had their dinner there.
After that, Chee Wee departed from Alvin and I to join his another friend for the Stella Artois movie screening at the Fort Canning Hill.
So Alvin and I decided to go walk-walk at the Orchard Road.
I even met Matthew again on the streets, although he was the one who notice me first.
Anyway, so Alvin and I went to Takashimaya Shopping Centre to vist a food festival there. Alvin bought something to eat. I didn't buy any because I am really tight on my money now and is on a passive diet.
After that we went for some window shopping around before I went straight home taking the MRT transit. Alvin decided he wanted to head for the HMV building, so we departed from there...
Today, Friday.
As usual, as soon as I arrived for work. There is always work. Like the previous, I did all the appropriate changes asked of me to change from the client via Linda again.
By around 1pm, I had finished my work. Linda and Terence left the office to visit the client of the website I was doing.
So I am all alone now.
I went for lunch together with Chin Leong at a chicken rice stall around Purvis Street. We were chit-chatting on how our lives were going (although most of the time I was doing the talking).
We went for a short shopping trip at Bugis Junction before we went back to our offices...
And here am I. All alone slacking right here, right now, doing my cyberculture stuff... Surfing net and talking to my dear friends online the MSN Messenger : P
Thursday, July 08, 2004
Re-do. Kill. Showcase.
This week's Monday.
Re-do website, again.
This week's Tuesday.
Re-do website, again. Everytime I re-do, I doubled the speed, tripled my stress hormones in my brain fluids.
It reached a boiling point that I went to LAN gaming at PARCO Bugis Junction's LAN gaming shop after work that day to play the killing action game of CounterStrike. Though not the top fragger, I was killing enough other gamers to de-stress.
This week's Wednesday, yesterday.
Went to work in the morning at around 11am.
Couldn't solve the design problems in which requires the forms thingy. On every page of the website some more. So it would meant re-doing again.
But I managed to persuade Linda to submit just one re-done page to see what the client wanted, because the problem was that the newsletter forms thingy at the sidebar of the website is also slightly too big and also ugly in design aethetics.
I'm going to take the rest of the day off to visit SP's School of ICT's Showcase 2004 at around 12.30am.
Actually, my purpose to the showcase exhibition was only to visit. Even when I knew I was to end up exhibiting my works any way (you know doing all the introduction and others to visitors), I did nothing in the end, even I was the exhibitor.
Anyway, along with Joycelyn and Jeslyn, we were the most informal dressed exhibitors (as usual, we were casual). As graduands along with other fellow coursemates, we felt so "lao jiao" or "old bird" (meaning seniority in respect).
Looking at the junior SP students around us, I just simply felt how times has passed so quickly in which I've been through one of the most hellish educational systems I've ever been... The only nice elements on my poly life were my poly friends and my nice poly lecturers (I emphasised, those who are nice... hee...)
"SP: From good to great." ~ SP Banner on a SP streetlight.
My foot lah.
SP can't achieve greatness if they don't have the HEART to improve just on one of the any diploma courses in SP.
Anyway, the showcase was pretty lame. Not many visiting people make their comments. It was like a secondary school or even primary school science project display.
The project displays were only important to SP's School of ICT highest management. To prove the industries wrong and show the industries that we have done some work.
Well, they might be right. Because not all projects was impressive.
Potential investors were invited to the showcase exhibition. Even the the people from the TV Mobile's Talent Showcase programme were also invited (because last time most of SP students' works were scrutinised and failed by Media Development Authority when we were going for the talent showcase programme).
Who will benefit the most? The highest management mainly, of course and eventually. Unless, a student's work was really impressive, then he or she will benefit from the showcase.
All the students who were involved in the showcase had to fork out their own money to do posters and others just to doll up their booths (and yes, some looked very "old primary school" standards). Not to mention we all had to fork out the precious time of our lives (SP students was forced to be on the showcase with the word "compulsory". But for me, I'm a graduand, so they can't really threaten me.)
Especially for my displayed works, in which they are videos where we could simply left it playing on the PC's Windows Media Player in repeat.
We as the exhibitors don't even have to be there. We even just simply went down to the Foodcourt 6 for lunch. Or go watch a rock band playing near the foyer.
At the end of the day, there was no celebration. Just people leaving. And that is all...
Ghee... I had that much resentment with SP. It could have been better...
This week's Monday.
Re-do website, again.
This week's Tuesday.
Re-do website, again. Everytime I re-do, I doubled the speed, tripled my stress hormones in my brain fluids.
It reached a boiling point that I went to LAN gaming at PARCO Bugis Junction's LAN gaming shop after work that day to play the killing action game of CounterStrike. Though not the top fragger, I was killing enough other gamers to de-stress.
This week's Wednesday, yesterday.
Went to work in the morning at around 11am.
Couldn't solve the design problems in which requires the forms thingy. On every page of the website some more. So it would meant re-doing again.
But I managed to persuade Linda to submit just one re-done page to see what the client wanted, because the problem was that the newsletter forms thingy at the sidebar of the website is also slightly too big and also ugly in design aethetics.
I'm going to take the rest of the day off to visit SP's School of ICT's Showcase 2004 at around 12.30am.
Actually, my purpose to the showcase exhibition was only to visit. Even when I knew I was to end up exhibiting my works any way (you know doing all the introduction and others to visitors), I did nothing in the end, even I was the exhibitor.
Anyway, along with Joycelyn and Jeslyn, we were the most informal dressed exhibitors (as usual, we were casual). As graduands along with other fellow coursemates, we felt so "lao jiao" or "old bird" (meaning seniority in respect).
Looking at the junior SP students around us, I just simply felt how times has passed so quickly in which I've been through one of the most hellish educational systems I've ever been... The only nice elements on my poly life were my poly friends and my nice poly lecturers (I emphasised, those who are nice... hee...)
"SP: From good to great." ~ SP Banner on a SP streetlight.
My foot lah.
SP can't achieve greatness if they don't have the HEART to improve just on one of the any diploma courses in SP.
Anyway, the showcase was pretty lame. Not many visiting people make their comments. It was like a secondary school or even primary school science project display.
The project displays were only important to SP's School of ICT highest management. To prove the industries wrong and show the industries that we have done some work.
Well, they might be right. Because not all projects was impressive.
Potential investors were invited to the showcase exhibition. Even the the people from the TV Mobile's Talent Showcase programme were also invited (because last time most of SP students' works were scrutinised and failed by Media Development Authority when we were going for the talent showcase programme).
Who will benefit the most? The highest management mainly, of course and eventually. Unless, a student's work was really impressive, then he or she will benefit from the showcase.
All the students who were involved in the showcase had to fork out their own money to do posters and others just to doll up their booths (and yes, some looked very "old primary school" standards). Not to mention we all had to fork out the precious time of our lives (SP students was forced to be on the showcase with the word "compulsory". But for me, I'm a graduand, so they can't really threaten me.)
Especially for my displayed works, in which they are videos where we could simply left it playing on the PC's Windows Media Player in repeat.
We as the exhibitors don't even have to be there. We even just simply went down to the Foodcourt 6 for lunch. Or go watch a rock band playing near the foyer.
At the end of the day, there was no celebration. Just people leaving. And that is all...
Ghee... I had that much resentment with SP. It could have been better...
Monday, July 05, 2004
A Birthday and A Superhero.
Last Saturday evening.
Went to celebrate Hong Yun's birthday at Suntec City on last Saturday. He came shaved off his head with fresh hair. He signed up with the Singapore Police Force, so he's not much considered under National Service but patriotic service.
So along with Chee Wee, Huimin, Alvin, Bryan, Junlong, Soon Wei and Rachel, we went celebrating Hong Yun's birthday with a dinner at N.Y.D.C. restuarant at Suntec City.
Initially, we did wanted to have dinner at the N.Y.D.C. But we decided to try and see and search whether there are better options other than having dinner at N.Y.D.C.
So for about an hour or less, we walked all over Suntec City, searching for our better options. In the end, we still ended up at N.Y.D.C. But the time we reached there, there was already a long queue, wiaitng to be seated at the restaurant.
But for us the group of nine people, we had to wait even longer... Some of the us even went to look at the menu outside to substain their hunger (ha ha ha...).
But while we're waiting, we spend some nice time talking cock and chit-chat. The most attractive topic of the day was of Alvin's flashy thingy. Ha ha ha!
When we finally are seated, we steadily ordered our food. I personally ordered some clam spaghetti with some funny dish name called "Happy as a Clam" and an ice coffee.
Strangely, as usual when ever I ordered a clam spaghetti dish, it'll always be the first dish to arrive at the table and make other people hungry. That time was also the same thing.
So everybody bought a small Goldmine cheesecake as a birthday cake for Hong Yun. We even sang the birthday song together for him.
But someone was missing. Junlong was off the restroom making his own "cake" perhaps... Ha ha ha...
It was a lovely meal. Everybody enjoyed their food.
Hong Yun's definitely full from his food, he was to the limit already when the cheesecake arrived. So the girl with the sweet taste-buds, Huimin, had to settle the rest of the cheesecake, with Chee Wee and I joining.
Actually, I was concern with Huimin's "diet" (hee hee...). Even though my clam spaghetti, iced coffee and Goldmine cheesecake doesn't mix well in my stomach and felt a bit queesy, I tried to help her to control he diet by eating the rest of the cheesecake up...
So after the nice meal, we headed for the cinema at Suntec City to watch the movie of Spiderman 2, in which we bought the movie tickets earlier. Even though we were at the second row of the cinema theatre, I pretty much enjoyed the movie.
The story was good and cool along with the actors and actresses acting in it. I love it because I felt the emotions that was depicted in the movie. I can say it was as great as it would be in the real comic books or the classic cartoons.
So after movie, Huimin, Rachel, Junlong and Soon Wei took Hong Yun's car home. While Bryan took his own cab to his far, far away home at Punggol, Chee Wee, Alvin and I took the midnight bus services home.
Chee Wee and Alvin took the NR 8 bus service of the SMRT home, while I took the 174M bus service of the SBS Transit home.
My home trip was about one hour long, but I never felt asleep on the way home. Because I'm scare that I'll oversleep and miss my stop. So luckily, I had my buddy MP3 player playing all the lovely songs to keep me awake all the way home...
Last Saturday evening.
Went to celebrate Hong Yun's birthday at Suntec City on last Saturday. He came shaved off his head with fresh hair. He signed up with the Singapore Police Force, so he's not much considered under National Service but patriotic service.
So along with Chee Wee, Huimin, Alvin, Bryan, Junlong, Soon Wei and Rachel, we went celebrating Hong Yun's birthday with a dinner at N.Y.D.C. restuarant at Suntec City.
Initially, we did wanted to have dinner at the N.Y.D.C. But we decided to try and see and search whether there are better options other than having dinner at N.Y.D.C.
So for about an hour or less, we walked all over Suntec City, searching for our better options. In the end, we still ended up at N.Y.D.C. But the time we reached there, there was already a long queue, wiaitng to be seated at the restaurant.
But for us the group of nine people, we had to wait even longer... Some of the us even went to look at the menu outside to substain their hunger (ha ha ha...).
But while we're waiting, we spend some nice time talking cock and chit-chat. The most attractive topic of the day was of Alvin's flashy thingy. Ha ha ha!
When we finally are seated, we steadily ordered our food. I personally ordered some clam spaghetti with some funny dish name called "Happy as a Clam" and an ice coffee.
Strangely, as usual when ever I ordered a clam spaghetti dish, it'll always be the first dish to arrive at the table and make other people hungry. That time was also the same thing.
So everybody bought a small Goldmine cheesecake as a birthday cake for Hong Yun. We even sang the birthday song together for him.
But someone was missing. Junlong was off the restroom making his own "cake" perhaps... Ha ha ha...
It was a lovely meal. Everybody enjoyed their food.
Hong Yun's definitely full from his food, he was to the limit already when the cheesecake arrived. So the girl with the sweet taste-buds, Huimin, had to settle the rest of the cheesecake, with Chee Wee and I joining.
Actually, I was concern with Huimin's "diet" (hee hee...). Even though my clam spaghetti, iced coffee and Goldmine cheesecake doesn't mix well in my stomach and felt a bit queesy, I tried to help her to control he diet by eating the rest of the cheesecake up...
So after the nice meal, we headed for the cinema at Suntec City to watch the movie of Spiderman 2, in which we bought the movie tickets earlier. Even though we were at the second row of the cinema theatre, I pretty much enjoyed the movie.
The story was good and cool along with the actors and actresses acting in it. I love it because I felt the emotions that was depicted in the movie. I can say it was as great as it would be in the real comic books or the classic cartoons.
So after movie, Huimin, Rachel, Junlong and Soon Wei took Hong Yun's car home. While Bryan took his own cab to his far, far away home at Punggol, Chee Wee, Alvin and I took the midnight bus services home.
Chee Wee and Alvin took the NR 8 bus service of the SMRT home, while I took the 174M bus service of the SBS Transit home.
My home trip was about one hour long, but I never felt asleep on the way home. Because I'm scare that I'll oversleep and miss my stop. So luckily, I had my buddy MP3 player playing all the lovely songs to keep me awake all the way home...
Friday, July 02, 2004
The Bugis Friday...
Today, Friday.
Finally I managed to finish the corporate website I am working on for this whole week! I hope there will be no more big changes or "improvements" on the website or I'll go more nutty.
There's one problem though. Been trying to get some e-mail sending forms out of the Dreamweaver programme into the website I'm working on.
But sadly, its been so long since I touched the Macromedia Dreamweaver programme properly, especially the forms thingy since two years ago.
So I asked alot of help from people through the MSN messenger. And Sidik agreed to do something to help me over the weekend.
I thanked him, man.
Or else I'll be wasting and spending don't know how many hours into figuring out such a simple thing to do for web design implementation.
Here is the website I was working on.
Hope my working days have more freedom hours to rest or something.
Getting a bit stressed... : P
Today, Friday.
Finally I managed to finish the corporate website I am working on for this whole week! I hope there will be no more big changes or "improvements" on the website or I'll go more nutty.
There's one problem though. Been trying to get some e-mail sending forms out of the Dreamweaver programme into the website I'm working on.
But sadly, its been so long since I touched the Macromedia Dreamweaver programme properly, especially the forms thingy since two years ago.
So I asked alot of help from people through the MSN messenger. And Sidik agreed to do something to help me over the weekend.
I thanked him, man.
Or else I'll be wasting and spending don't know how many hours into figuring out such a simple thing to do for web design implementation.
Here is the website I was working on.
Hope my working days have more freedom hours to rest or something.
Getting a bit stressed... : P
