nerdook's blog

Splurging!

2008-07-30T20:00:00.002+08:00

Money can't buy you happiness: but it can get you a new sofa set and a new tv! :)

Hehehe...

desert tales #smth

2008-04-13T23:33:00.002+08:00

actually, now that i've gotten used to life here in sp, it's actually kinda enjoyable. quiet, peaceful and cheap. end result: my dvd collection has just overflowed into its 3rd book.

was reading thru my old blog posts, then realise i shud update smth here. so many things i've forgotten happened! well, i'd like to go on the record and say that life is not perfect (no gf within driving distance), but on the whole it could have been a LOT worse. im also getting a new hsmate on tuesday, wonder wat she'll be like?

just finished two seasons of desperate hswives, turned out to be more addictive than i thought (hello 2-3am sleeping times, goodbye 10pm bedtimes). got the third season as well, and i just got myself 6 seasons of smallville. SERIES OVERLOAD!! think im turning into smwhat of a hswife myself.

oh and i did hswork today. and washed my car. and yesterday had a great karaoke session with penang friends and a delicious dimsum meal. nyummy... :p

top 5 phrases of the day

2008-01-30T22:56:00.000+08:00

1) if your garbage bin smells alcoholic, it's time to empty the trash

2) living in a condition where you are isolated from family, close friends, and hot chicks, a huge ego goes a long way towards ensuring you remain sane and fully functional

3) hard work is not quite as important as making sure people have the impression that you are hard working: and the reverse, nothing is more foolish than a hard working person who is seen as lazy :p

4) if you want to destroy the body, take off the head first

5) that which does not kill me, makes me mildly irritated

towers, flags, chickens and the bridge

2007-09-02T23:26:00.000+08:00

Hah, what a long week it's been. obviously it was memorable enough to warrant a blog post...

1) UTP Convocation Day!

After 5 long years of sacrifice and hard work (no, not really. more like 5 years of fun & games), we finally got our chance to wear the funny square hats and the wizard robes! it was nice to meet my parents, the korean gang and that cute carrot again!

thanks to everyone for a good time (thx hikki for the german rose, thx tracy's mum for the flowers, thx mum n dad for the snoopy, thx yingying for the bear, thx carol for the roses!)

driving to ipoh and back was a pretty tiring experience, but i would say it was well worth it... carol finally got her chance to meet the other zany friends that I have.

2) KL Trip + Merdeka

Was in KL for a meeting, and had a great time there, while the decoration team finished off the rest of the work back at the company. thanks to the #korea guys (especially tong)... nothing like relaxing in hotel room followed by shopping followed by a good lunch followed by a good game of basketball followed by an excellent dinner (next time, 4 ekor ikan) followed by a bunch of dota games followed by supper of tong sui. phew.

On the last day back, I had:
a) Kentucky Fried CHICKEN in Puduraya for breakfast,
b) CHICKEN burger for lunch along the highway,
c) CHICKEN rice for dinner followed by CHICKEN wings.

I think I'm gonna sprout feathers any day now.

3) Penang Trip

Went down Penang on the Sunday I got back to visit carol before she flies back: thx to her church ppl for the lunch, then me n carrot had a good time at queensbay mall!

for my future reference:

8.30am: left laguna merbok on the SP north exit
8.35am: passed SP south exit
8.45am: passed Bertam/Kepala Batas turnoff
9.00am: reached Penang bridge on the mainland side
9.15am: reached Penang island (45 minutes)

Came back in a heavy downpour, fortunately I arrived safely! And that's the end of my hectic week. Phew.

sungai petani

2007-08-19T19:31:00.000+08:00

oh goodie, finally, an update! it's been a few months, i know, but better late than never!

some of the important things that have happened: i'm now officially employed in the petrochemical industry, as a proud (and smelling slightly of ammonia) member of a fertilizer plant in the rice bowl of malaysia... mostly i'm doing planning stuff on their systems, and so far it's been fun.

the plant itself is in gurun (literally, desert), while i'm staying in sungai petani (literally, farmer's river). So here are some pics of my new pad:

Always start with pics of a toilet bowl, that's what my mum says...

This is my room. Note the shine. It's coz tracy bugged me to clean it.

This is my desk, before I cleaned the room. Note the artistic random clutter.

My room, again. And my beloved PC where I'm sitting now.

Ok, that's enough for one post. I was supposed to do this a few months ago when the net came up, but... erm... but.... things, and stuff. you know how it is... *shuffles feet*

Making a Game: Post #1

2007-01-04T22:30:00.000+08:00

I am making a game! again. But this time the progress is pretty good, to me. Here's a screenshot: remember it's still under construction, k...

Yeah i know, it looks damn primitive. But hey, it's a hobbyist project! Randomly generated content that should appeal to guys and gals! (<-- haha) no working title yet, but that's coz that'll be the last thing to worry about.

Completed (and semicompleted) features:

- Inventory System, Basic AI (realllyyy basic), Basic Combat System, Persistent Rooms, Room Content Generation Functions, Item/Object/Character Interaction functions, Dialogue functions.

Most of what's left is.. the game design itself. Onwards!!!

checkmate

2006-09-17T11:09:00.000+08:00

gah... dreams. last night was rather strange, since i dreamt of home: definitely a rare event. most likely coz my bro's flying off to the UK today, lucky him. i dreamt of ruby too, the barking, eccentric and possibly slightly mad dog i used to have (past tense noted). woof. the dog was running in and out of the house compound as the gates swung open and shut (the old gates: white and swinging. now it's black and automatic)... hrmmm.

- R.I.P Ruby 198? to 200? - (sorry, cant remember)

in three hours time, i'm going to sit for an aptitude test thingie that is supposed to determine if i get accepted into Petronas. spent the night fiddling with fyp, followed by futurama episodes (omg leela was a *spoiler deleted*!!!!), the most recent house md (omg house was *spoiler deleted*!!!!), and a mamak session. in other news! the geniuses in charge of the campus have added even more bumps to the roads, and we STILL have to take the longggg way round to get to the car park due to some complex traffic restrictions. which means everyone's fuel consumption has just gone up several percentage points.

and yesterday was malaysia day! independence day for my home state. passed with minimal fanfare. as always.

binary coded decimals

2006-09-11T12:28:00.000+08:00

the one week break starts today...

bro's msn status says 6 days, so i'm assuming that's how many days before he is whisked off to the UK. i currently have 5 seasons of futurama and x-men sitting on my hard disk, just in case. my final year project is in the final stages of completion, and i'm going to do my best to finish it off. my microp lab is in pieces in front of me, but it'll be done soon.

need... to... rest... more...

lucidity

2006-09-07T21:56:00.000+08:00

random image taken from google images: eeyore! (hi hikki, heehaw)

i have racked up an impressive sleep debt. in the last 72 hours, i successfully completed 22 episodes of Prison Break, with a total sleeping time of (approximately) 11 hours. for most of today, my eyeballs went on strike (how naughty!) and refused to work properly. and i had a migraine for several hours. ahaks. moral of the story: Prison Break is a good series, though a bit gruesome. and addictive.

the sweet smell of a one week break is in the air... AH! and i have a test 2moro at nine, which i haven't read for! probably should start looking for the notes after this, ahaks.

on the air: jay's new songs. queerly enough, they sound eeriely similar to his previous songs. still worth a listen though... although i must admit, im really tempted to remove some of the new songs off the list, due to their stratospheric annoying-nimity ratings.

pigeon

2006-09-05T20:29:00.000+08:00

i have two wacky friends, and they have a wacky saying: "some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." and it's quite true, if you think about it.

i woke up late, and rushed assignments... only to find out that it's due on friday, not today. and the microcontroller experiment (which was quite tricky to squeeze into my, erm, hectic timetable) was pushed back to after the mid semester break. yes! and the lab session for cvid was spent turning aaron into a dark skinned version of himself, at his request... -_-"

then had a 17-lap swimming session, followed by a nice meal at kfc. it doesnt get any more pigeony than this. oh yes, and it's tomato's birthday! had a celebration for the guy in v5 cafe, where he was assaulted with toothpaste-flavoured toothpaste. and tong stripped again. for no reason.

and now, if you'll excuse me, i have a dota game to tend to. ahaks.

p/s won the game. and the person ignoring me finally talked, a bit. *blink*

spiral

2006-09-04T10:25:00.000+08:00

that was another wasted weekend. notable achievements:

- moved up to blacklist #3 in need for speed. hurrah.
- played another 4 games of dota with the korea guys (and gal). won 1. hurrah.
- persuaded carol to tunnel into utp's mirc server. hurrah.
- slept a lot. ate several times at mamak.

total productivity: 0%. oh well~

song of the day: Gary Cao - Xiao Wo Ben. side note: when translated to english, chinese songs sound quite silly. like a sad attempt at poetry.

cliffs

2006-09-02T10:26:00.000+08:00

i am a special sort of procrastinator. if something needs to be done that i'm not interested in, then it gets dragged on forever.... like the epilogue. heehee. and the dozens of half-completed games sitting on my hard disks. and probably some other stuff i've forgotten about. and my final year project needs my attention soon. :p k... must.... spend... weekend... doing... work. i think most of the trouble comes from the fact that i get totally absorbed in something for some time... and then i get distracted by something else. like a kitten. meow. and ironically, i've always seen fickle-mindedness as a girly thing, hehe.

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went pasar malam, again. in small towns like tronoh, i think it's some kind of Social Highlight of the Week. it's quite interesting: like a super mini version of the sunday market back home. the burger's quite nice, and we usually stop by the 'buns, dumplings, sausages and other assorted food' stall, with one eye closed to the uncertain hygiene.

mid-semester break is a week from now, and i've got some tests coming up, i think. not sure when... gotta ask chen, haha. and yes, i still don't have a copy of this semester's time table... copied it once, then used the other side of the page to doodle some superheroes during a particularly boring lecture. then i threw it away. WHOOPS.

in other news, i think i'm turning into an atheist. although i hope i dont get struck by lightning for saying that.

independence

2006-08-31T12:43:00.000+08:00

hurrah, independence day. 49 years later, independence day involves:

-all night parties the night before
-convoys of half drunk motorcyclists flying malaysian flags
-sleeping and enjoying the holiday

we spent the night having a large meal at this hawker's place just behind JJ Ipoh, then a quick shopping trip and a night of singing at e-box, all the way til midnite, followed by supper at tong sui kai. mad, fun, and enjoyable. ahaks.

now to relax.

sociopath

2006-08-30T10:21:00.000+08:00

food for thought: this is ripped from wikipedia, just thought i'd put myself to the measure for fun.

(Quote)" The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a widely used manual for diagnosing mental and behavioral disorders, defines antisocial personality disorder as a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others occurring since age 15, as indicated by three (or more) of the following:

1) failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest
2) deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure
3) impulsivity or failure to plan ahead
4) irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults
5) reckless disregard for safety of self or others
6) consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain steady work or honor financial obligations
7) lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another "(Unquote)

interesting! and since i fulfil three (maybe even four) of those, does that make me an antisocial sociopath? not as far as i can tell, since i'm pretty sure i'm not. but still, interesting. and in a related development, i have yet again pissed someone else off (whoopsies. it's a long story anyway, but safe to say i think i won't be giving any tutorials to her again), and relationship-wise, the carrot is still dangling... so to speak. officially single, but then again, life is seldom so straightforward. gahahaha.

recent events: i completed both seasons of House MD in a week (and a few days)! nice! sorry, but i have a thing for curly haired, sarcastic, egoistic and manipulative people who are actually quite nice deep down inside, but refuse to show it. aha! and i'm back to daily games of dota. god i'm gonna miss the student life.

currently listening to: our lady peace - somewhere out there.

"...and all we are.. is oh so far..."

migration

2006-08-30T08:59:00.000+08:00

ho hum. i'm sitting in class, and i'm supposed to be learning new and wonderful things about job queues, i/o interrupts and process scheduling. fortunately, i'm spending the time doing this instead... thank god for modern technology.

moved to this new address (isn't it sooo much easier to remember??), coincidentally on my roomie's bday (happy bday fong...). yes i know, im easily distracted, but sometimes that's a good thing.

old address: http://halfacoffeecup.blogspot.com