Yea man, and they say time spent won’t go to waste. And its finally up and running V11. yea!…

Anywaya, most of the site is unavailable as its in its base form. Moreover, the site wil be undergoing de-bugging sessions for this week till I throw any new stuffs up. In the mean time enjoy!

There was off-in-leiu yesterday and that came very much like a welcome as I had actually get to book out from camp early. I am really starting to hate army life, esp when it even eats into your one and only precious weekends, when atcually, you end up slacking and wasting most your weekday time doing unproductive jobs not of comparative advantage to my kind.

Haiz. Did some site coding the moment I finally get to “chill” at home. Dropped by to bukit batok driving center later to meet my camp friend Darryl for the BTT at the 6.30pm slot. The test is very simple I say, not to mention the “courtesy” of some previous candidates who circled their answers in the question booklet for me to see… (didn’t those invigilator check the books? or do they do it on purpose?) duh, it would be really screwy if I were to fail right? oh well, it all went well. Whether I would pass? well, it would be know in 2 weeks time… than.

Timing is all bout everything yesterday and I glad I rode with it- immediately after the test, the hourly shuttle bus was just happen to be at it stop, feeeling rather shopping deprived over the last busy weeks, hopped on transport towards west mall to feed some impulsive buyings.
(well not really) I needed a USB hub so a self powered one would go neat at $39 from cyberactive computer store. I really wish they stock up d-link or linksys bluetooth USB adaptors if not I would spurge out more money there. Theres a new game, simpsons hit-and-run ( mind me if it were to be out for a long time already, I am just like a frog in a well now) not bad but I think I actually did find out more bout the game and reviews before actually commiting myself to it.

Dinner was at AV with my fam for some je-chak (like hawker resturant)I the beef stew there was rather nice too and they even serve it in a claypot which REALLY keeps your food piping hot till even at the end of the meal. seldom would I see that, most fires just goes off midway.

All in hand it was a rather enjoyable friday, I guess being involved too much at work is rather taxing on my personal time already, really need to spend more time out with my family, friends and my eventual girlfriend?

yea, as you know the site was attacked early this week, managed to get it up asap.

damn you hackers, what can you gain from doing this shit?

yea, just woken up, having a simple bread and tea breakfast (lunch?) and getting on with my much needed sunday rest… why? just say I was very busy with some dumb SAF division exercise for the last four days (and so it woud carry on till next week. Besides getting to work like slave office workers in front of retarded pentium4 and sun workstations running Nvidia quadro4s on 18″ hp/17″ Dell, IBM/15″ phillips LCD monitors, everything sux in terms of our working hours (up to 4am in the morning on friday). Moreover even with the regular basic coffee and tea breaks to keep us running, I’ve never been so dependant on coffee before its like a drug to keep me functioning properly, not to mention my workmates. So much for the experience, I jus think office work is not for me…

The obvious lack of free time in my hands would, sadly delay this site’s building by alot. So don’t expect V11 to come up so soon, I need to rest…

Been surfin around lately for some addons for my phone and I think getting used to messaging on my new phone can be quite a pain at first and I guess it do take some time to get used to it. One alternative is to keep on practising on type gun speed typing game to get acustomised to the side key strip arrangement or get a wireless bluetooth portable keypad/board to do the job, which too means money being spent again. Anyway, check this baby out. Also a gyroscopic mouse do seem nice, even if this is like “the” technology many years back, it still have much of a wow factor to it (Link).

After hardly a week’s usage on the phone and damn, my screen is kinda stratched on one part, not very noticable in the dark but very annoying in the light, esp being spatted right on the lower left quarter of the screen (and now I know not to put my phone and charger in the same bag compartment). Think the warranty should be able to cover that, part of damage during normal usage right?, as numbly stated in the warranty card. But I guess that even if they were to replace the screen cover, it won’t be cheap either considering that it is actually part of the whole phone’s casing. Oh well, as the saying goes, “you won’t enjoy your new car till you put your first stratch on it.”

Reached home bout 4pm today, everywhere’s raining kinda heavily today, esp in the afternoon around the western Clementi area. But that didn’t prove much of a trouble as I have shelter all the way to the bus interchange and from the bus stop near home upon alighting in the rain, didn’t really take time to appreciate this on dry weathers, but its very efficient shelter network in both there and my area though…

Reached home, dumped my bags, turned on my comp and started slacking in front of the computer, mainly fixing up site related matters, designs.. etc. I find that I seldom find time to even play games on my comp these few weeks, and yea it had been very busy weeks on the weekends- when I actually can find time to use the computer. Its always work work, coding or otherwise general surfin, oh well, habits.

It was a lazy morning, woke up with an urge to complete my driving theory tests… (and it a good day to test out my phone too) Got my dad to fetch my to bb diving center at noon where I sat down to complete the 4 BTT practice books in 1hour, then finally got the clearance to enter evaluation itself. Within 1/2hr of “very careful reading and doing ” cleared the test with 77/80 right (need 90% correct to pass). I was happy for myself, partly for someone who never studied the highway code since I took my class 2B last year, and kinda luckily cleared all the 5 tests in 90 minutes. Whew!

Booked a TP BTT test date with one friend who is taking class 3 currently too, got the 27th feb date (18.30, Friday). shoulda be chicken feet, oh well taking bout chickens, just lets not count the chickens before they are hatched, but I guess some revision before the actual thing do help though…

UPDATE!
With BTT gone, comes the FTT (Final Theory Test). FTT will actually be slightly more challenging than BTT firstly as the questions are more scenerio dependant unlike simply just regurgitating highwaycode in the BTT. For the final driving test, feel free to read up my writeup on 20 Tips for your Final Driving Test.

Came back bout 4pm after having a late lunch at the “new” redhill hawker centre, the old market is kinda leveled (literally) now, but business is still on at a new temp location near the MRT station, same old stores, same old food, different ambience though… more pollution.

Then there came experiementation with my new phone, Installed tons of apps, customisations and finally got it to run doom3D, sonicN and afew N-gage games, which are still quite unstable till I find some fixes here and there.

Dinner is on tonight either at jacks place of YMCA metro-Y at stevens road. It will be a bash!

SX1 Camera tests in sub-vga modes

Dropped down to hello shop, Orchard today. There was this very funny aura there which was rather “funny” initially, the “coming soon” sign is gone now, being replaced with a “features” backdrop in the store. but still a dummy phone on display, so I approached the salesgirl regarding the launch…

“cuse me, is the SX1 out yet?” (for the millionth time this year)
“its out, shes says”
“ahhh out?, I replied”
*flips*

So it was a soft launch/opening they say, the phone is actually out today! and yea… got it, finally got the phone! (after a 5 month wait) but at a helfty $888 with a 2 yr contract with singtel, but with my mum who’s willing to fork out 50% of the cost, that helped loads. Now my SX1 is softly having a nice long 6hr initial charge before I can finally use it… whee!