Samuel Liew’s Blog

I tried the game today. It was kind of disappointing. The interface looks terrible and it was difficult to control the units.

I reached level 60 in maplestory yesterday! Some party member gave me a silver identity to wear =)

I got a hole-in-one in Pangya yesterday!
http://www.samliew.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pos=3

EDIT: Gallery no longer available. May upload the photo to my facebook instead.

Today, I completed my part of the FYPJ (final year project) and is ready for integration testing. I feel so glad that it’s coming to a closure in two weeks time. I have learnt much from this unique project (it’s the most difficult of all the projects), and it’s a good feeling to see my programming turn to something useful. It was really boring at times, when I got stuck at certain errors in the codes, or when I’ve completed a part of the project and the supervisors are nowhere to be found. My supervisor said that was really pleased with my group’s performance during the informal meeting at the end of today. Hope I will get good results for my FYPJ to pull up my GPA (grade-point average).

After I logged off, I took the MRT to Marina Bay to meet my JG cell for dinner. My sis called me earlier to inform me about it. (The last time I was in Marina Bay I was in sec 1, for some BB outing.) We took a bus to some seafood steamboat restaurant nearby. The food wasn’t really my usual type, but it was edible. We got about 12 larger-than-average fresh crabs and four plastic containers of prawns (about 1-1.5kg). John, Justus and I went to help chop and wash up the crabs, although I didn’t do much. John did a very good job of chopping up the crabs (we only had one chopper). Everything else was self-service, from meat, noodles, rice, herbs, finger-food, satay, etc. It costs $12 per person, but was subsidised 5/6 of the cost. It was quite an enjoyable time, catching up with my cell, while having dinner together.

I also just realized I don’t blog that often. Usually it’s when lots of stuff happen in one day, or some memory that I want to remember next time, or some milestone or achievement, that I will write something about it.

Now I have somewhat suspended playing MapleStory and switched to PangYa. It’s a cool 3D golf game with cartoon/anime-like characters. Similar to Gunbound, but you hit the golf ball instead of shooting at your opponents.

Two weeks ago, I took the NAFPA test. Almost got a silver, but because I only could do three pull-ups (after going through the other stations). I usually could have done five, but I guess I was too tired. Maybe the next time I’ll try to request to do pull-ups first.

Yesterday my ITIPJ final presentation went very well! Although the project wasn’t error free, it went smoothly enough to please the independant marker. If not for my good friend Rosie =), I wouldn’t have gotten an invitation to the distinction presentation (we declined the offer later as we felt that we do not have enough time to enhance our current project to qualify it for a distinction assessment. There are incomplete parts that make it not a fully integrated system and we are not able to complete it within a day.)

I also did relatively well for my Business Communication presentation.

This morning, I managed to enhance my website with the free weather feed from weather.com, which I also previously used in the ITIPJ. Now my visitors can see the current Singapore weather.

After my lunch, I went with my mother for the eye check-up in Mee Mee Optics (in Park Mall). I got a new pair of spectacles while I was there.

My mum got some weight gainers product for me from Nature’s Farm while on the way back as it was on offer (buy 1 get 1 free which also means 50% discount). Lots of people say I’m thin and have to eat more, especially my maternal grandmother. That product is best taken after exercising, which means I have to exercise more often.

Now some updates on the MapleStory SEA accounts:
MysticDoor (ice wizard) - level 41
MirackeKid (assassin) - level 57

MapleStory Update (as told from MiracleKid):
1) Bought a kumbi throwing star from OoSpArKleoO for 300k
2) Picked up a kumbi throwing star at monkey forest 2
3) Sold a wooden top for 100k + 1 gold ore
4) Sold 3 drake’s blood for 36k + 1 lith harbor scroll
5) Traded stuffs with our second account MysticDoor
6) Changed guild to FatalArchX, OoSpArKleoO’s guild
7) Traded fame with MysticDoor
Ended at level 52, with 537,292 mesos

Today there wasn’t any IT2652 Operating Systems lab; so I stayed at home playing GunBound and got carried away until 12:30pm, when I quickly changed and left the house just as my brother came home. I missed the bus by half a minute -_-” and ended up 13 mins late. The bus timings are getting more and more irregular. I should get out 40 mins before classes start.

During IT2064 XML & Web Services lab session today I got to join a very friendly group in BI0404 which has 6 members already; the tutor realized that I was “new” and had no group, so she introduced me to one. We discussed an case study for the lab session. I realized that all the lab sessions for this module was all theory and no programming at all after looking through the notes & worksheets. This made me feel disappointed as I was looking to a hands-on module.

Anyways, during the practical a lady from CMPB called and asked me to get a letter of certification from my poly and fax it over to her immediately (around 2pm), but I told her I was having lessons and will do it ASAP. I decided to skip tutorial as I figured that I had not much time to rush to the post office to fax it (before CMPB closed for the day). Read on for the reason: My father is going to the U.S. for further studies in June 2006 and my whole family is going. By right I am not allowed to go as I have to enlist for NS (National Service) after graduating from poly, but my parents have talked to an MP (Minister for Parliment) for deferment and an appeal is under way. The MP referred the case to CMPB and now they are processing it. They needed to certify that I’m still studying before they can continue with their stuff.

Just to mention happenings during this last week: I managed to get my web host (byethost.com) to remove the forced adverts on my site (http://samuel.byethost24.com), but I first had to place that banner in some other place in my site. I designed it to me at the bottom of every page, but coded javascript to remove it within 10 seconds after the page is loaded.

MapleStory Summary: MiracleKid lv 47 Assassin (Bootes), MysticDoor lv 20 Magician (Bootes)

Hope I haven’t been too boring… It’s just my style to be detailed. Could have typed more but I’m going to bed now. Have to wake up early tomorrow for tennis.