Monday, May 31, 2004

Two Weeks Of Imprisonment

My study break starts today till 13 June 2004. Final exams come thereafter, for a week. I need to cover four units this semester - Computer Engineering 203, Physical Electronics 203, Linear Systems 201 and Mathematics 277. So most of the time, I'll be at home doing my revision. For not-so-most of the time, I'll be going to university for two practical tests and a drink or two with friends on Saturdays. Darn it, I still have one last Linear Systems assignment due on 4 June 2004. Caution: Most likely I'll be hostile during this period...

Coffee

Friday, May 28, 2004

Two Weeks Of Hell And A Guy

Guess what? I've been through hell and back for two weeks straight!

Last week, me and my other 4 team members were busy with our Computer Engineering assignment final assembly and finishing touches. We were given around 2 months to come out with a detailed proposal that involves building consumer electronics using microcontroller system and low-level programming. Curious with what we proposed? We did Robotic Vacuum Cleaner. With a push of a button, it will starting vacuuming its way through your room. And we'd Christened it with KonChiang. Before that was Vacky and RVC. We didn't include the motto that we came up with in the proposal though - 'cleaning has never been this easy without KonChiang'. By the way, 'Kon Chiang' means 'clean' in Hakka. For the uninitiated, Hakka is one of many Chinese dialects.

This week, I'm to hand-in two laboratory reports for Computer Engineering and Physical Electronics on Thursday and Friday respectively. So there goes my beauty sleep session. My bed hasn't feel any warmth from me as of now. Didn't get proper sleep for the past weeks and worst, I'm haven't slept for the past 50+ hours. Well, I did some quick few minutes nap but that's it. On top of the laboratory reports, I'm to demonstrate a working program to simulate a real life lift control system. It was fun though albeit the tonnes of hours debugging works in the laboratory.

Luckily, it's all over now but then here's the unlucky part... I'm down with fever now... with one last Linear System assignment due on 4 June 2004 before finals come knocking my head in two weeks time... *sigh*... :(

Sunday, May 23, 2004

Xerox Phaser 3115

My dad got us a new Xerox Phaser 3115 laser printer recently. The 2 months old Epson Stylus C63 is still working but dad has long for a laser printer. Since then, I have had love-hate relationship with this new device sitting next to the family desktop PC. Love it for its high quality and fast print-outs but hate it for its user-not-friendliness. I'd wasted 30 minutes earlier (papers and toner as well) trying to get it to print double-sided page, multi-pages per page, etc. Hate the paper feeder too. Went to Xerox web site to look for new printer drivers but to no avail. If case you're wondering - no, it has nothing to do with printer driver. It's just me always trying to have the lastest in everything software/drivers/updates. Bah... never all that now. At least I got all my 80+ pages of lecture notes, assignments, etc printed out already. Thanks for wasting my youth and giving me frustration, Xerox Phaser 3115!

Troy

Went to watch Troy with my friends last night. It's a good show with lots of fighting scenes. Good news for the girls because they get to watch Brad Pitt and Orlando 'Legolas' Bloom sweating their way out. But bad news for the guys because no cute girls. It's supposed to be a 2 hours 45 minutes show but 15 minutes of it got censored off. Obviously the sex and gruesome scenes were filtered out. Maybe I should get a DVD version of Troy just to check out how babies are made in the ancient Greek, hehe... *evil grin* I don't get much of a surprise when watching Troy because I do know some Greek mythology - meaning I know what's gonna happen next at every turn (well, almost). For more info on Greek mythology, go to Mythweb or Greek Mythology Link

Hello World!

Hello world! World of weblogs to be exact. Actually, I'm supposed to be doing my laboratory reports but curiousity got the best of me. And here I am now, creating my very first weblog. Did I mention my final exams coming very soon? *darn*... :(

Me!