1. If I put you out there, I wonder if anyone is interested.
2. No one will care, I guess
1. Are you available for sale?
2. Maybe
1. How to acquire you?
2. By heart
….
But it doesn’t seem to be enough.
And I shouldn’t have been there with you today.
Share on FacebookYes, I comes finally, even just once a year.
Today I’m free of any fear. I’m not bounded by the limitations. I feel more ready to connect than I ever have.
This year, I will write to 3 total strangers, picked randomly from the global address book.
Why not just go with the flow, which has always been my favorite lifestyle?
December 5th – Thoai’s day of freedom (free day).
Share on FacebookMy first exam, Programming 2, is finished. I did it well and am quite confident about the result (Gee, at least I will never have to take those GUI stuffs again). The timing was tight; I only had about 5-10 minutes to check everything before submission. One surprising thing is that almost everything in the exams was covered in the review sessions. A problem set was identical to what we had in the labs, which, in my opinion, is not good for testing. Anyway, it might have helped some of my classmates to pass the exam.
Only 3 more to go…
Today, I stayed at school until 9pm to review for the next course – Data Communications and Net-centric Computing. I had a look at the first 5 weeks of the semester realizing the subject is not as boring as I once thought. Hopefully I can finish this revision tomorrow morning in the library and get the question list sent to Stanley before continuing with the revision for Document Markup Languages.
It just feels great these days. I love this exam atmosphere because it keeps me busy without much worrying.
Share on FacebookIt’s the title of my favorite song, originating from the game series Final Fantasy. The song is about the evil’s will to reunite with its mother thus creating a great power. (You need to watch Final Fantasy – Adventure Children to really understand its meaning.)
It’s the melody that helped me survive back in 4 years ago, when there was very little hope left.
How is black different from white? All aim for survival, and then to live.
Sometimes, life just doesn’t give us you a single opportunity to be angel.
You cannot understand the feeling of evil unless you become evil yourself.
Fortunately, it’s us, the human, who have the choice of whatever we become.
You cannot loose without giving up.
Z
Share on FacebookIt has been a while since my last entry when I had a flu. It’s over, yet not completely. I am feeling much better now. The weather change this afternoon, perhaps, caused some bad effects on my health again. And right now, I feel like getting sick again.
Have bought a new shoulder rest (for my violin), and it’s quite a pleasure to use. It was my teacher who noticed my left shoulder being too high due to the old, spoiled shoulder rest. Just a minor change brought about a significant improvement on my playing, and I’m happy with it.
I also bought a new monitor for my desktop PC, doubling my working space. It was a total boost in productivity. With two monitors, I now use one for coding, the other for reference materials, no more switching back and forth between applications. This is really nice and I would definitely recommend everyone getting another monitor for your daily use provided that your graphic card supports multiple output (my card has support for up to 3 monitors 
).
Bad news, I am running out of storage. The 160GB HDD I purchased along with this computer one year ago is now almost filled up (only a few GBs left). Initially, I didn’t think that far about the need to store media. I thought the desktop is for processing-heavy task only. My laptop (250GB HDD) is still OK with the storage, but maybe this won’t last long. And I’m considering getting a 2TB HDD whenever possible (maybe next month).
These days, I am having a review of functional programming with ANSI C as I work on a project involving creating plugin for Pidgin (the most popular open source chat client). This recalls my old days when all the code was in Pascal (another functional programming language). After all, ANSI C is still an elegant language to learn and use. Some of my friends said it’s useless for OOP. In fact, OOP with C is not about the language itself but rather about the way of thinking. And while writing this entry, I am reading an ebook about Object Oriented Programming with ANSI C. It’s how we think about it, not just how we write it (the code).
My classes are fine, hope to get high scores as usual. Fortunately, IT students in my semester don’t have any mid-term exams. However, I personally consider this worrying since such exams are chance for us to “try out” the difficulty of the final exams, without the risk of failing.
It’s bedtime. Cygwin and some movies are supposed to be ready tomorrow.
Share on FacebookThe headache is almost over yet my body temperature still remains high. When I woke up this morning, it was 39 census degree. Living alone and being in bed with a flu is really worrying.
It’s 38 census degree now, the medicine works.
Share on FacebookRecently, when logging into the school’s WebEMS, you will get either (or both) of the following screens.
Internet Explorer:
or in Firefox:
Although the website seems to be down, it’s not. Here’s what happened.
Share on FacebookIt came finally; and no one likes this fact. The influenza created such a heavy atmosphere on campus. Students skip their classes. Many people wore a mask today. The school is about to be closed temporarily until next Monday, as far as I know.
People start to panic about the situation. For the first time in my student life the door to SOS Clinic is filled with a long queue of students and staff members waiting for a check. In just 6 hours, more than 300 medical masks have been distributed. And Health is now obviously the first priority in the school.
I had a check this afternoon, just to ensure that everything was OK. Negative. Great!
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Just the beginning…
Minutes ago, I received the email from Steve Paris regarding temporary closure of SGS Campus. It’s 6:30 now; and our beloved staff doesn’t seem to care about the working hour anymore.
The threat is so close. And everyone should be ready.
Take care!
Update (24/7/2009): The closure has been extended by one week; all activities will be back to normal on Monday 3rd of August.
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