i. server migration

yes yes. migration and post-migration problems have finally been ironed out. (including some very weird php errors) overfuse is now sitting on a new server with a nicer admin panel. of course nobody cares about the panel other than myself and the co-owner of this domain. speeds are great, but then again thats what i paid for aint it

ii. school

three words to describe. boring boring boring. wireless tech replaces telecom systems and fufills my bi-yearly engineering nightmare. especially when coupled with an indian tutor whose accent is indecipherable. i'm not racist really, i'm trying my best to comprehend every single word hes trying to say.

as for projects, there seems no way to realise my potential since i have no ultra enthu classmates to team with. i shall let dreams remain dreams and continue building sub-quality work. heck, why am i even worrying.. projects haven't started yet :x

iii. silver wedding anniversary

no not mine. haha 25 years ago the two people who created me were married. happy 25th anniversary to dad and mum we delayed celebration to this friday due to unforeseen circumstances

iv. birthday

happy 18th to clarissa

first week of EDD lab was cancelled. and today's timetable appears only to have EDD lab. therefore today no school. so i decided to be busy today. set alarm at 10am, managed to crawl out by 10.30.

first stop was to recruit express at raffles place. had to settle the remaining 2 timesheets i was holding onto. i wanted to pay 23 cents and mail the damn papers in, but the agency was rather apprehensive about the postal service. appears two of their temps tried mailing in and had their papers lost in space. ouch.

i left the house with my bank passbook, thinking i might as well go update it since i was going out. been months since it was last updated. after i left i remembered i was meeting my classmates for pool at pavilion, and i certainly didn't want anyone peeking at my transaction records. so i stopped by home from raffles place, then to tampines.

had a few rounds of pool. i was only enlightened there that i was the only one enjoying a full holiday, the rest of them had to head back to school later for cds. i had to eat, and obviously not alone. so i followed them back to school. i am seriously sick of short circuit, but the new food court at ITAS sucks even more

fuei and company changed their cds to arts appreciation, then found out their timetables sucked even more, so they changed back to project management so i didn't have to hop down to the cds appeal place. cause i was considering jumping to VBA if they stayed at art.

met up with cherie after that. she now has a new habit of accumulating 100+ photos, borrowing my thumb drive, putting them in, then heading to parkway to print them cause its cheaper here especially if you print in bulk (20 cents per 4R). she had jap lecture at 6 so she couldn't wait for the photos. so i had to collect and deliver to her tomorrow. since when got such service -.-"

after collecting her photos, went to paya lebar to meet cherene to borrow her FTT book. she gave me the ace the ftt book as well. the one with questions and answers. super cool. don't need to go popular and stand there like some dork and read. thanks a whole lot!

all in all, thats ten rides in one day on the public transport network

first day of my fourth semester. a quick glance around my lab & tutorial groups is depressing. from the original 20+ in F408, a pathetic few are left. and they just had to mix in people from other classes whom which i don't have a very positive impression on. just 11 are left. thats a pretty tough number to form project teams, unless somebody wishes to risk it and join the unknown. (or forced to risk it. somebody's gotta sacrifice *shrugs*) lecture group looks alright.

one more bad point is lecture placing. three are squished together today with lunch in between. seriously cannot make it, damn tiring even though today was supposed to be "introduction" only. whats worse? FOUR are squished together in the same fashion tomorrow. 2 days of 8 to 5, 1 day of 9 to 6 theres a bloody high price to pay for having fridays empty alright

just booked my FTT don't you just love the convenience of online booking :p

couple of stuff to write about for the past few days. i was supposed to be holidaying this week, but my job got extended so i worked until friday. been rather lazy to write here. lets start from the start. this is gonna be one looooooooooong post.

wednesday night. met up with sabby for her little birthday treat. she was working at the metro sale, so she could only meet me at 10+. not much stuff to eat at that time. so we ended up having swensens at the airport. an omelette, an iced latte, and some lime drink.

thursday evening. met up with cherene, who nicely made me wait close to an hour for her but it was the hairstylist's fault i guess. she actually spent six hours there doing her hair had cartel for dinner and we kindly forgot we both had 10% off that we didn't use (she had student privilege card, i had my visa mini) spent the rest of the time at the arcade. she "almost" won a PSP lol

friday. last day of work. morning. timetable release. its right here! i got my cds, project management, which i selected with fuei and company. but none of us got into the same class so i might tentatively consider appealing if the first week doesn't impress me. and yeah, friday is off day! never in half my poly life has that happened before.

friday. afternoon. pizza hut for lunch. i think i didn't pay. a big thank you to all the nice folks at uob ccoc towards the end of the day, i destroyed every trace of myself at the office. transferred away and deleted my excel sheets, shredded my papers etc the end to my second longest running temp stint.

goodbye to my temp pass. although it was pretty useless. the door only opened to perm passes. lol.

friday night. supposedly chersian's birthday chalet. oh yeah happy birthday cherie! her chalet was at the country club beside downtown east. i had dinner at home so i went with sabby and wanjia later at night. and we found nobody from 507 there damn sad. all leave so early. so we left as well. had mac for supper sabby had been whining the whole day about why she didn't get a cds. you'll get your psychology la! don't worry so much girl!

today. (finally). morning. woke up at 7+ cause sis wanted dad to fetch her somewhere. i didn't want to miss out on breakfast :x dad was meeting his surveyor friend at the new place to have a qualified report about the horrid job the contractor is carrying out. he (dad's friend) brought his henchmen and equipment and all. showed us the autocad plan of the architect's drawing vs the "as built". if only those two superimposed perfectly, then it would be world peace. we have a cock eye of a contractor for those who don't know. i watched as the surveyor shot a laser from one end of a wall to the other. the beam didn't reach the other end. truly speechless.

today. afternoon. dad and i continued our hunt for a driving instructor after we left dunbar walk. today damn lucky. dad was saying if can, might as well start today. then he really found one. went home to grab my PDL and glasses and off to my first lesson. people taking Class 3 (not 3A) and do not stall the bloody car during your first lesson, i sincerely salute you. maybe it was lack of sleep (only 3 hours+ okay!) that i didn't focus very well. i better book my FTT asap. and my timetable also brought good news. friday can be driving day!

after driving, headed down to the interior designer's place to confirm on some of the stuff. i don't really enjoy those draggy meetings. soooooo many things to decide. sat there for close to 3 hours looking at perspective drawings and doing nothing but decide. i hope it all comes out good

one semester ago, my school announced the release of the then-coming semester's timetable with what i proposed as a trademark grammatical error. the trademark lives on. this time its spelling instead dont we all love timetable releases releaves? whos to blame for the atrocious standards of english in polys? its not our fault

was in school from 9am to 12+ for the TP-Microsoft .NET day. simply put, it was 4 lectures squished into the 3+ hours. most of it was demos of the express (read: freeware) editions of the .NET 2.0 development tools, which are actually snippets of programs derived from the main visual studio 2005. they gave everyone a web developer express cd although i could easily download that off microsoft.com, but heck, i could save some time. but this really nice person got a few of us the full visual studio cd to share so i'll just wait until it gets circulated to me and i can dump the webdev express cd.

somewhere in the middle of the presentations, some unknown number called me but i didn't pick up. i called back to find that it was UOB's main line. sometimes i wonder why i get so paranoid. i hurried back to the office (after having a fill of the refreshments no less) to find that it was a no issue. apparently HR called to inform me they didn't even know i was working since friday -.-" or which dept i was at. or who i was reporting to. and you see corporations drawing large business models and hierachical diagrams to explain their oh-so-systematic internal communications. seems it isn't working too well..

somehow i always forget to mention the more important parts. woke up this morning with my typical sinus symptoms. has developed into a bad bad cold since. i seriously need to do something about the pathetic amount of immunity i have~

few things happened today. first off, a new job. (who starts work on a friday? ) i'm now working at UOB's credit card operations centre at novena square. quite far from my place, so i took the faster bus route instead of mrt. i'll be holding onto this job until end october, which is good, provided i don't collapse from stress by then. my job scope is no longer general admin, now its more like fully blown financial. do reports and stuff. i'm already going after one entire day of seeing nothing but numbers. and i'm not allowed to talk much about work, since i have signed an agreement to acknowledge clause 47 of part vii of chapter 19 of the singapore statutes, otherwise known as the banking secrecy act. lol.

second, its the 23rd of the month, which is bizedge payday. but who cares. a paycheque for 3 days worth at exxon doesn't really mark itself as significant.

third, results release. the magic sms came by in the morning. the office intranet was so slow i didn't bother looking until i got home. my perfect GPA is gone. nothing surprising. i expected to do badly for tcs2 and psych as i have mentioned here a gazillion times. lucky psych was lenient.

back to school today for a special training session held by microsoft. we were introduced and taught to build applications based on the yet-to-be-released .net 2.0 framework, which will be launched come november. what i have to say is that this is the ultra fast lane to build stuff. we didn't do much hard-coding today, mostly drag-and-drop programming. and its actually possible to build a dynamic eCommerce website with database functionality in under 10 minutes. pretty impressive. though everyone gets more or less lethargic at the end of the day. like we're used to 4 hours of java labs in a week, not 14 hours in 2 days lol.

mobile computing. the subject i detested the most for the term tests (also turned out to be my lowest term test grade among the other subs). fortunately, today's paper turned out to be damn easy judging from my preliminary score my lecturer leaked to us, i should do pretty well overall and now i'm freeeeeeeeeee~

oh yes my job agent rang again. i didn't make it for the serangoon stint. it sounded quite interesting.. some telecom-related place. and so, for the fourth consecutive time, i'm hohoho back at exxon again, for only 3 days nonetheless. there should be a new position status called permanent temp employee or something. since i'm almost permanently there. and i'm temp.

anyway, this time i'm required to fill a 3 page form, one that i have never seen for my past 3 stints, and they had questions like "have you ever been convicted in a court of law?" *knock*knock* i'll only be there for 3 bloody days doing some paperwork and you question my legal record? what the hell happened to the yellow ribbon project?

the form also wanted my employment history and questioned whether i had been fired before. or in nicer terms "have you ever been dismissed from the services of any previous employer?" it also has a place to affix a passport-sized photo. terrorism paranoia anyone?

and after writing so much (or typing. too lazy to write ), i seriously hope they consider extending my term and keep me there to do some meaningless stuff because i have probably grown rather accustomed to it. (oh yes, and pay me in the meantime) its a complete waste of talent i know, but even if i get off 3 days with a hundred odd bucks, i'm already better off than screaming my lungs out struggling to earn commision at IT Shows. so there~

telecommunication systems. eeeeeeeeeeeee. complete flop for paper two LL [my lecturer] is a liar! he said that he ammended the paper after seeing horrid scores for the term test! more like ammended to the tougher side yeah? thanks a whole lot >.< and whats worse? i hear news that they are going to axe telsys next sem? pfffft