I was thinking of making a surprise trip back to Penang again today since it's a memorable day that Irene agrees to be with me 3 years ago. I was thinking that 3 years was a very long time, and I can let her go after being together for 3 years. That is something I can't possibly do. How can I let go the first person I ever think of when I'm in trouble, i'm sad, i'm in pain and suffer. Not forgetting all those funny moments where she can be such a innocent looking gal.

Sadly, the faculty receives a lot of complains that our exam is on the last day which will cause us students to be very tension, nervous and helpless. No one wants to be the last to free themselves from the exam stress. So, instead of going back Penang to celebrate with Irene, I have to stay back here and study. :(

I only got 19/100 for my midterm. And it's a Murthy's paper, so I just hope that the paper doesn't come out with PartA and PartB as that'll mean I have less choices of question to choose from. (we can choose 4 out of 6 questions to do in our exam). My course work mark will badly be affected by my poor midterm results, but thank god the paper came out quite ok. At least can manage to pass. No need to worry about supplimentaries, and asking for leave when I'm training back in Penang.

Yup, I'll be goin back Penang for my Industrial Training in Seagate. Thanks to the help of my academic advisor getting me a placement there. Being in Penang means that I have more time to spend with Irene, Nikki and my parents. But I also have to consider about my Final Year Project. :(( Have to ganti back those signal simulations that I was lazy to do for the past 3 months.

Photography? FYP? Hm...juz have to balance both pleasure and work. Like what Felicia says "The plain fact that a human beings are happy only when they are striving for something worthwhile." We have to strive to appreciate the fruit of our labour. So let's just "Aza, Aza,Fighting!"

Another day another birthday. It's my best friend Josh @ Wan Choon and my AhMui MingZheng's birthday this time. The birthday celebration is brought forward because during their birthdays we will be busy with our exams. We planned actually he planned, thanks again to the help of justin yap as he's always the person remembering the birthdays, making the plans and collecting the money. I'm so thankful we have such a good friend among us.

It's a surprise birthday party actually. This Josh oso one kind (complain sikit), says wanna go Umbai to have seafood. It's just a 20 minutes journey to Umbai from Bukit Beruang, but I don't know how they plan to go town to collect cake and all, end up we spend much more time to get there. Worse part is, I got lost on the way :P .By the time we reach there is already 8.30~9.00pm. Everyone was hungry....

I was sitting beside AhMui and Josh when they open the cake I was as shocked as the birthday couples are. Let's call them JoJo (Josh-Joleen) for simplicity's sake. Josh's is on the 28th while AhMui's is on the 3rd of next month. Attendance that night includes: Alex, SengKuang, SeowKern, DingWen, YongLing, HoayLing, Bryant, Yap, YokeMei, Marimo, JengMin, PengCheong, ChangWah, WanYing, Me, and the JoJos. Back to the cake...They make it in such a way that the two cakes are together, and it's of different flavours.

HUNGRY!!! But food is like free flowing. Josh ordered so much fish, and squids, there's also crockels cockles(sea ham) and I've called for at least 4 baskets (80 sticks) of Otak-Otak. It's not be confused with the one we have back in Penang, this Otak-Otak is the Muar style otak2. I just loved them. Erm...but when the bill comes...i was rather rather how to say...feeling that it's over our budget. Haha...now can complain sikit about AhMui dy. It's her idea that we have our meal at the first stall. I remembered last time when we were there, the food ain't that expensive as we were eating at a stall. End up everyone have to pay over RM20 pax. It's more expensive than having steam boat buffet. AhMui...tis one ur fault liao...haha

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On other issues, Seow Kern juz bought a new Wira from Kota Tinggi, it's a new car, and according to him it only cost something like RM45k. It's cheap isn't it, for a big car like that. Well, next time we can go out in a larger group dy with more transportation. Yeah!

There has been a lot of birthdays lately. And it's just days seperating their birthdays. First it was hoay ling's birthday on monday. As we are in the mood of exam, din really go far. The whole lot of us went to her house around midnight and make a fool of ourselves at her house. Me and my friends are rather high tat time, I was having such a great time.

But things are different on tuesday night when we were celebrating the birthday of my housemates' Seng Kuang/ Bryant. I wasn't in the happy mood. It's just one of those down days of mine. Things gets worse when Irene called me up. She was like worried, confused and frustrated asking me why I don't pick up my phone. That's the one thing that i don't like about my Motorola C380. It doesn't ring when it vibrates, but when it vibrates it doesn't ring. Fortunately I don't receive much calls, nor do I expect to have any.

Talking of those 2 housemates of mine, their birthdays are on 20/9 for seng kuang, and 21/9 for bryant. Just some small note in my blog in case i forget. They are 364-days-old apart and both comes from Kota Tinggi, Johor. So very sorry I wasn't in the mood of celebration that night near RSU. One of those more classy malay restaurant in Taman BBU.

Well, the three of you...o tanjobi wa omedeto gozaimasu!

Thanks YiLing for informing me that my archive is not working. Well, juz managed to debug the problem with some minor tweeks with the help of uzyn. As for the tagboard, i will figure out a way to insert it though i find that it might make a page looks messy.

Appologies readers, I've been busy preparing for my Final Year Project (FYP) presentation for the past week. I didn't allocate enough time to make the slides, and to rehearse. Presentation has not been my fear since Form 3 when i am trained to present for Cambridge English test. But this one is rather different as I am not much an engineering kid as I don't really understand what I'm studying after I get into electronics.

For the past 3 months, I've been reading about Synthetic Aperture Radar. But it is hard to get into my mind as I don't know what it is that requires of me. Getting so nervous and tension at the very last minute as I don't have any output to show to the supervisor and moderator. 2 days before my presentation only I go and check the work done by my senior, and found out what the title really need of me. Not enough time to generate the graphs already so end up decided to explain only the theoretical part of the project.

My moderator is usually a nice guy, but his mood is not good today. When he comes into the room he's already having this inverse "U" on his face. When I start presenting, he rests his head on the desk. Hm...okey...he might be tired i suppose, don't bother. But when it's time for Q&A, he asks me tonnes of questions like what's the operating frequency? What's Fourier Transform used for? Why you use different notation, are they the same? It makes me speachless and brain became blank. There's no one to help me but myself. Oh well, I have to work twice as hard on my 2nd part of the FYP dy i guess. Draw out a time table and make sure that I follow it.

If Mid Autumn Festival = Mooncake Festival, does Chinese New Year = AngPow Festival??? Why issit called the mooncake festival when mooncake is not the purpose we celebrate MidAutumn?

Not in the mood of celebrating. Tomolo is my FYP presentation, and till now I don't know what I'm doing. Spent all day watching Las Vegas Season 1 yesterday as I want to hide myself away from the fear of facing challenges. I'm that kinda guy, where i hid under the blanket when there's trouble. I seriously need to get up and face the world. If not, I'll never be in the top, never be a leader. Get ur ass up NESOHU!

As for those of you out there who have nothing much coming up. Happy MidAutumn Festival, and enjoy yourselves!

Finally got my Samsung LCD back since parting from it for 2 months. I missed you so much SyncMaster 710N. I sold the unit Richard Then loan me to my housemate and place my 710N back where it belongs, behind my keyboard. But when i switch back to my own monitor, there's a lot i need to get used to as the my own monitor's display isn't as good as Richard's. Mine's an analog LCD while his' is a DVI model.

After repairs, i find that the color is rather greenish until i fine tuned it. According to the salesperson, I was told that the problem occured earlier is because of voltage spike. Which I don't see how it is possible as I'm using a voltage regulator, and I have a separate power cable for my LCD instead of sharing power with the CPU unit. The only thing i can think of is that I switch the screen on/off too frequently. I should just set the screen saver and monitor power so that it goes into hibernation after 15minutes idle.

I'm so happy to get my own LCD back. Going back Penang for my industrial training, so, it'll be a problem if i don't have a display when i get back home. Alrite, back to my FYP dy. Tension tension...

Spent four hours updating my website last night. As you can see, everything is in place. Well, at least everything except my galleries, which I have no idea how to intergrate it with every other thing. I've got this template from Andreas through Open Source Web Templates. This is the work of a 25-year-old designer, which i find the coding rather simple to understand, and easily being able to develop any other websites from it.

As compared with the previous templates I used, this one doesn't use complicated images as icons, which saves the hassle of resizing, renaming, and aligning them in place after I've spent 2~4 hours just to change the outer looks. This one looks rather dynamic to me as well. As if there is a need in the future, I can simply just add another few more pages into it, just change the color scheme a bit.

Well, let me know what you think about the new look now. By now i officially announce that my blueish blog is retired. :)

Best news I read today. Adobe and Nikon are friends again. Isn't that nice? Here's the source from Engadget [Photoshop to read Nikon encrypted RAW data ]

Nikon has provided Adobe with a “mini-SDK” for accessing the encrypted data (which affects the company’s D2X and D2H cameras), and Adobe is poised to release the Camera Raw 3.2 plug-in for Photoshop, which will include the ability to read it.

That will be nice isn't it? The next time I'm processing my pictures I'll have the option of not having them processed with Bibble/CaptureOne before viewing them in Photoshop. Well, Bibble will still be my favourite in correcting white balance/color cast of photos while CaptureOne is juz a substitute in case Bibble stops working. Here's the story on DPReview. [ Adobe and Nikon, friends again ]

On other news, the new satellite image of New Orleans is available on Google Maps. If you are still living under the well, New Orleans is one of the worst hit state town by Katrina. I actually love the song Katrina by David Tao, I even sang it once in front of hundreds of fans in Terminal 1, Seremban.I actually sang "Catherine" not Katrina :P (Alrite, there are not there for my performance, but I'm just entertaining the fans before David arrives.)

" Satellite imagery of New Orleans taken on Wednesday, August 31st is now available on Google Maps. Enter 'New Orleans' in the search field at the top of the page, or drag and zoom the map to the area. A red 'Katrina' button will appear at the top right of the map, next to the existing map buttons. Older images for the area are still available too - click the "Satellite" button to switch to those." [Slashdot]

I was being struggling over the past few weeks with my assignments and final year project. Always hide myself under the pillow when i face problems. There's this fear and pressure built up so intense that i feel like there's a huge rock pressing against my chest i'm about to spit blood anytime. So, for this weekend, I've planned to go back...it's sorta a very last minute decision. Cause i've to leave my Electromagnetic Interference assignment to my groupmates and go back home to enjoy myself.

Seng Kuang drive me to the bus station, and chyoli tag along as he says he misses A&W. I have to let these people wait as I found out that all the 20 over counters there in Melaka Sentral (bus station) has their tickets sold out!!! Not just those tickets back to Penang, but Sungai Petani, Ipoh, Butterworth...every single ticket up to the northern region is sold out. Even the tickets for the following day is also out of stock. I thought it was a cold season, since Merdeka Celebration was over, there's no public holiday neither are there any school holiday. But why are all the people going back?? What am i goin to do? I've all my bags packed, my weekend planned, and my parents and gf is expecting me (not that much of my parents as i only inform mom minutes before I get off of my house :P)

Well, i waited and ask the P&Co ticket seller there to help me find a seat. I have to go back, I have to go back...!!!(Haha.. I act like a kid insisting on his ice-cream. ) Begging pityness and asking him every few minutes, holding 2 big bags and my baby Nikki. The 2130 bus went off, without an extra seat, then the 2145 bus also turns out a disapointment. Then comes the 2200 bus, the last bus going up north for the night. Thankfully there's a vacant single seat available in the bus. I paid the whole RM35 and happily get into the bus. I double and triple check juz to make sure that i'm not dreaming. Yeah! Finally can make it back to see my beloved island, and my new house :")