Amazing and beautiful

Beyond expectations, though beneath hope.

Nonetheless, I am thrilled.

I got an A for my Honours Year Project.

A big thank you to my supervisor, my family and my friends for their guidance, support and encouragement.

d o n e

I’m done with exams, at least, for the near future.

The paper today was similar to last years and the year before, etc … If only I knew the answers, but there were never any model answers. No one will ever know if they were really correct or not. Who cares! As the prof said, for some of you this will probably be the last time you will be hearing the “statement” for the exam. =)

Bags … I saw this nice laptop bag … it was a Braun Bauffel .. it cost $300++ … I next saw this MandarinaDuck bag, which I thought would be cheaper, but it cost $387 … faints. Can’t expensive stuff stay away from me! Just let me like cheap stuff, can!

It’s my mum’s bday tmr. Time to eat, watch movie and get FAT! =)

Final Paper

My final paper is tomorrow afternoon and I would be done with the examinations. Not totally done with NUS yet, cos’ I still have to settle admin for my HYP with my Prof, and possibly, the company. Hmm … i think it’s going to be such a busy busy next week. Too many things to do in 1 week. I’m sure I’ll figure it out somehow.

I must thank the Lord again today for the brilliant planning done by Him. Well, so far so good, cos’ all the timings for the plans appear to fall nicely into place. Now, the whole settings has been laid, and the environment favours me. I need to get the prize. With so many people helping and assisting me on this, I really hope and pray that it will come true soon. Yet, I know what time is not something I should hurry, but I should let it happen and when it does the Lord’s victory will be even sweeter. Ha!

Ok, there’s a question in tmr’s paper that I don’t know how to do. How I know? Cos’ it seems like the papers for each semester have exactly the same question style. So how to solve, waiting for a friend to help. Hurry, leh! (If you reading my blog and never tell me the answer yet, I kick you ah!)

ok, back to figuring it out …

Up for hire

Yesh, it’s almost time to be up for hire.

Darn! You mean I actually have to find a job?

Right!

Ok, I shall do what I must.

My compiler project with my friend got an “Excellent” grading. Yea! Happy! BUT, dunno how many excellents he gave in the entire class. So, can’t tell our standing. But I’m still happy!

I think I might be bad with purchasing things. I buy then I get 2nd thoughts. This feeling sucks!

Ok, everyone around me seems to have completed their exams. I’m gg to be next. Just you wait. It’s 6 Dec 2006, at 3 pm. I will be done. Done! DONE!

My ammunition have all been loaded and fired. I pray that it hits the targets.

Fruitful Day

Accomplish many many things today. Feel damn tired liao, but quite satisfied.

Had my 1st paper for this semester this morning and it was OK. Not too tough, neither was it too easy. Just managed to complete the paper 15 mins before the end of the paper. Looks like the Prof really planned and strategize how to make sure we use all the time in the exam. Heard some people could not complete the paper. Don’t worry lah … we all end up on the curve at the end of it.

Anyway, I have no stress cos’ I know that moving up a notch in my honours is almost impossible. I would require A for everything HYP, my 2 modules before I just hit the next honours with 0.01 to spare. It’s that close and possibly, to be practical, rather impossible. So, I just study as hard as I can, understand as much as I can and do as well as I can. No stress! In fact, I like this feeling a lot.

Stress free studying!

Went to VIVO to shop after the paper. Needed to de-stress, and I think I DID!

The Food Republic there has a lot of food! Apparently, they are famous food from the different places. They had Thunder Tea Rice, which I failed to interpret as Lei Cha until much later so did not have a try. But, I’m sure, cannot beat somebody’s home cook version.

Topshop, Espirit, , ZARA, G2000, I vote my favourite store as GAP, followed by G2000. Enough said. The clothes at Topshop looks good only on the models, and maybe they only suit the Europian cut. Just don’t like their designs. Zara is nice and pro but rather dull at times. Espirit tries to be too funky or it just becomes too plain. G2000 is simple work attire. GAP seems the most informal, yet the casual feel about it is very nice.

Page One … found my Dubai guidebook “Time Out Dubai”. There were 3 to choose from, the Lonely Planet, Footprints and Time Out. Chose Time Out in the end cos’ it looked the most comprehensive and yet had a snap shot of other parts of the UAE which would probably be of interest – Abu Dhabi. Now, is to think how to cram all that ‘touristy’ thingy in the few days that I have there.

Was tempted to get the 1 GB thumb drive, for only 53.90, but I realized that as much as it was good to have, I didn’t urgently need a 1GB thumb. So, that shall wait, until the 2GB thumb prices drop and I get it even cheaper. =)

Finally had my coffee bean and carrot cake. No free wireless, unfortunately. So only typed out emails which I wanted to send. Spent like a while drafting them out. Is my English getting bad?! Whatever! I got my plans, but it’s like an If-Else condition. For now, I’m banking on the IF. Let’s hope I don’t get proved wrong. ==

Next stop, ended up at Orchard Cineleisure. Went to the Apple Store. Nope, not to complain about my iPod again. I gave up on that. If it works it works, if it doesn’t then I just pray about it, coax it, abuse it until it works properly again. I wanted to get a case for for the new iPod Nano. Wanted the plastic case from Marware, but could not find it. So, ended up getting another version, which I think is better and possibly cheaper cos’ less moving parts means less tendency to spoil. BUT, I saw a faint scratch in the front after I was on my way home. Sighs! Too much hassle to change. Lucky it’s only seen in bright light. Which is seldom the case.

Wanted to get a nice, formal and stylish bag for my Mac, but I realize that there does not exist one in the whole of Singapore and possibly the world. I have searched online, searched the shops, but there isn’t one that looks small, stylish, formal and cool. Sighs! I shall wait.

Just as I shall wait for a nice Swatch skin model to come out to replace my RIP one. I did ask the guy if I could get one similar in face and then get them to switch the strap for me. No problem. This I shall consider further.

Ok, I’m just in a weird mood, saw some people with those nice Havanna sandals and I really liked it, but at the shop at Heeren, there was only the few colours that I knew were too flashy for my liking and won’t match with anything at all. All I want was simple black. Well … I can’t have everything can I?

Hmm … looks like my ‘Wishlist’ or ‘To buy’ list just got a little shorter, but seems long still … I need to get out of Singapore. Prevent me from shopping. I know overseas, I do not like to swipe card so I have less cash to play with … haha!

Hehe … have a good weekend all. I am looking forward to Saturday … KL here I come.

No Spinelli today

Didn’t go to school today to sit at my usual spot at the Spinellis (Uni Hall) to order the same old mug of coffee.

Stayed at home today, cos’ tmr’s the paper and I didn’t feel like travelling to school. Travelling takes me almost 2 hours both ways. Quite a lot of time, if you really think about it, and considering that I live so near school. (Blame it on the transportation system, la)

Studied compiler in the morning, as I had enough of HW/SW … after lunch then decided to flip through my notes for HW/SW again, since it is tmr. It’s been a long day.
After tmr, I will be half way through. Phew!

Hahaha! Looking forward to the weekend to KL. Also, looking forward to the Dec trip.

It’s always nice to be looking forward to something. It lifts the soul and brightens the day.

I am ready to take the exam

Yup, I am, but it’s on Thursday.

I think I can’t do very much more within the next 2 days to improve the situation. I think I have covered most ground and everything seems in order.

So, I shall not stress myself out, but just slowly look through my notes again and spot any thing which I had missed out.

I think few hours of Spinelli does help in the end.

It must be me lah

Where ever I go to trying to study, I get distracted. Hmm …

Well, at least for sometime I was fine at the Uni Hall Spinellis. There were also a couple of other people studying there. Add pressure. haha!

Finally settled my claims for being TA.

2 more days to the paper. So far so good, just that I’m not sure what the paper will be like, cos’ there had not been any tutorial for this module, there was only 1 midterm , and I am clueless about the questioning style of this lecturer. Even past year papers are not accurate as he just took over the module and might change the style of questioning.

Well, I am hoping that the paper would be similar to his midterms and assignments. Do-able!

It was raining so heavily today. My feet were all wet and I had just washed my sandals yesterday. Hmm … It’s never going to get clean. Just not going to work … eh? Can’t change to shoes also leh, cos’ if rain than shoes gets soggy and gross and the feeling is worst that wearing wet sandals.

Dun mind me, I’m just grumbling as I always do … which bring up another gripe … was not able to get my fav carrot cake from coffee bean, sighs … “You all don’t have carrot cake?” … “It’s not that we don’t have, it’s sold out.”  … duh! just say it’s sold out lah …

Studying

Not much time left to study.

In fact, not much time left to study even if I wanted to.

Find it so difficult to get the information into my head. It’s refusing to head in. It’s not concentrating enough to understand simple words. Maybe after fighting the ‘war’ of assignments, I feel so tired that I don’t even want to pick a fight anymore with the exams.

I shall head down to sch tmr to do some drumming into this thick skull.

To all the students, all the best in the exams.

To all the students taking the same module as me: all the best too, but don’t ’spoil the market’!

Yet another BIG thing over

One more step for Edwin, a huge step towards … ?!

Well, I did the final presentation with the company. They will finally run in the system to see how much their efficiency increases. Probably, have to go down 1 last time after the exams to check if all’s well. It’s not perfect system, especially with the less that perfect input. Nonetheless, assuming an ideal situation, the system does what it is suppose to do. The staff there seems happy, hopefully it really helps them and not screw them up. I guess the system has a lot to improve on and if I really want to, I’m sure the company will take me under them so I can further enhance the system and make it even better. However, I mention to my Prof that my interest lies else where and he probably guessed it too, and I won’t be contented being in that company, even though it surely is a good company and has great potential.

Had a debrief with my prof this afternoon over lunch, and I did feedback some of the things I thought could have been much better and, I definitely, if I had to do it again, would have done things in a very different way. Anyhow, at the end of the day, I think it was really a great exposure. Picked up many things, including GUI programming, web interfacing (a little) algorithms, scheduling, etc … Though I still claim that a pair work would have made it much ore efficient.

So, my final task is to complete my compiler by Saturday night hopefully, so that Sunday, dun have to pia and can focus on my exam.