I was sitting comfortably on my chair when it started to vibrate a little. It thought the Gundam robots are here. My elephant behaved differently too, it used to be balanced on my round CD compartment, it sort of fell onto the ground. I heard that there is an earthquake in Sumatra or something. The tremors stopped already of course.

Tremors felt around Singapore, some buildings evacuated

Singapore’s Meteorological Services Division says an earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale struck Padang, Indonesia at about 11.50am Tuesday.

The epicentre was 50 kilometres north-northeast of Padang, on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia and some 430 kilometres south-west of Singapore.

Tremors were also felt in many parts of Singapore.

Callers to the MediaCorp News Hotline said they felt tremors in areas such as Beach Road, Jalan Besar, Robinson Road and Toa Payoh.

Some buildings, like the Concourse at Beach Road, Capital Square and Centennial Tower in the city, and even Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Clementi, were evacuated.

Witnesses said several tall buildings in the central business district swayed slightly.

Source: ChannelNewsAsia

Okay, they can add that it was felt in Bukit Batok too. I felt it when sitting on the office chair, I happen to be sitting crosslegged watching an anime. Have you felt it too?

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_(The new School of Chemical and Life Sciences in Singapore Polytechnic.)_

The above is the new building of School of Chemical and Life Sciences (CLS). Very nice structure although I have seen better. I love the new building. I walked around it and envied the current batch of students.

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About folders

It all begins with folders and directories right? It’s the operating system way. It’s so important to store all your documents in a way that you can find it back easily and I don’t mean chunking all of them in your desktop or something.

Folders are probably invented to give people the feeling of their documents kept in a physical location like how they store their newspapers, magazines and tax invoices. When your April edition of Newsweek is in your book self, the same item cannot exist in your bag, the same item cannot be in your mom’s trashbin too.

When you store things like digital photos, haven’t you encounter times when you can’t decide which photo the image should go into?

I can have 3 folders:

* Buildings
* Singapore
* School

And I have 1 picture of my secondary school which is in Singapore. So should I put it in Buildings? Or Singapore? or School? Can’t it be all three?

About categories

So we have categories. That really saved the day. My problem is solved. Now I can assign categories to my picture. I assign it to 3 of the categories. And when I select a category to filter out – for example – Singapore, I can see my beautiful picture as one of the many images that is presented to me.

That is how WordPress does things by the way. It is more intelligent this way. For example, this post can go into Technology and Site related. It’ll make the post much easier to find for you guys.

About tagging (or labels or keywords)

But still, I have a problem. My picture could have been assigned with more categories. My picture is taken in Bukit Batok, in Singapore, and is of a School and that’s a Buildings. It’s taken at Night. My Friends and Teachers are in the picture. We are having Barbecue.

Now, that is a hell lot of categories already. The category structure has a major restriction – it has to be created before something is assigned into it. An analogy would be that you decide to buy 3 copies of Newsweek this time, one is left in your mom’s trashbin, one in your bookshelf and one in your bag. You can easily go to either of these places to fetch your Newsweek. You need to have a bag first before you put your magazine inside. You need your mom’s trashbin to be present first too.

Tagging is just a smarter way of categorizing. Basically, you assign all sorts of keywords you want to your document. My picture with us barbecuing can be assigned – Food, Barbecue, Teachers, Friends, Buildings, Singapore, Night, Bukit Batok and Gathering.

Another picture can be an image of my polytechnic in Dover, taken with my pals in a computer laboratory. That can be tagged with – Dover, Singapore, Polytechnic, Friends, Teachers, Computers, Lesson, Campus and Perl.

In a way, no categories exist. Instead, a lot list of tags are gathered distinctively and displayed in front of you. When you select the tag ‘Friends’, the page is generated and all the pictures containing the tag ‘Friends’ is fetched out and displayed.

Back to the analogy with my Newsweek magazine, it can be tagged with Bag, Mom’s Trashbin and Bookshelf. When I choose to go to the Bag, my Bag is generated so that I can get my Newsweek along with all the items tagged with the keyword Bag.

The advantage is you can assign as many tags as you want without worrying that the categories are no present prior to assigning. It’s easier to manage too.

And WordPress 2.0.2 (latest version) doesn’t support tagging natively. Major Web 2.0 implementation such as Flickr does tagging. It’s fun, non-restrictive and quick. I just hope that more softwares would be implemented in this way. Hopefully WordPress would support it in their next release. It’d be really cool.

Windows Vista, the successor of Windows XP, will allow users to assign keywords to files. It’s a similar to tagging but we really have to see how Microsoft implement it in the end. Keywords are implemented more for search than categorization purposes.

Sorry if the whole post is a total bore to you. I kinda enjoy writing these stuff, hahaa…

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And he went on to tell me about an incident so familiar. He told me that he did some mischievous stuff during his polytechnic life and they all found it funny. It was just a joke although it’s an inconsiderate one.

(Our trash bins are green!)

He and his group of friends pushed 3 green rubbish bins into a lift. They manage to carry the rubbish bin from all corners of the lecture block and all stuff it into a lift. Then they laugh all day long because no one can enter the lift! They watch the people appear in frustration and amusement.

And I told him that that incident happened to me too. My then-classmates pushed a trash bin and a ‘Danger Keep Out’ sign into the lift. And guess what, my neighbor did the similar by pushing one trash bin into the lift.

So there seems to be a total of 3 incidents that involved trash bins found in lifts. And I actually thought it was quite an original prank.

Jeremy and gang actually placed three of the trash bins! We all had a good laugh though. There must’ve been something about all these trash bins, the polytechnic students seem to prefer them in lifts. And guess what – the 3 incidents all occured in Singapore Polytechnic.

I’m sure the cleaners would be less than amused.

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But this time, I found that some men are searching for the strangest things! In no particular order:

* singapore girls wearing bikini
* ericia lee maxim
* fiona xie in own bikini
* zoe tay wearing bikini
* ann kok in bikini
* archive of fhm singapore

See, it’s all about the bikini’s. And I don’t have search things, the nearest is probably Ann Kok stripping to her bra. It’s quite funny to see what local people are searching. Most people include Fiona Xie into their searches because she’s the hotter one and she once ran in bikini in Orchard Road for a drama series about bikini swimming.

Then there are people who seem to be searching for some sex-related videos of Singaporean women:

* singapore college student caught in act
* singapore phone video clip student
* sex singapore bukit batok
* polytechnic student caught in video
* singapore student video

This is probably with regards to the now famous Tammy incident. Tammy is a 17 year old polytechnic girl who lost her phone with video clips of herself having oral, normal and anal sex with her boyfriend. I didn’t even want to talk about it when the outrageous video clip got the attention of our media on Febuary, I’m tired of the news so you didn’t see any news in my blog on this. And trust me, I don’t have the Tammy video, perhaps you guys can try other web sites instead.

And finally, some men just prefer artwork:

* ragnarok cute female pictures

I do have Ragnarok pictures that I thought was quite cute – ones that my friend gave me when he married a character in the game.

_(My friend Daniel’s online wedding images in the game. I thought that’s a pretty cute feature. Image used with Daniel’s permission.)_

[Apologies to the crazy pingbacks in my blog, some scripts of mine went wrong.]

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And it was then I realize – damn it, I ain’t so free after all.

_(I have not pay my SingTel bills!)_

First, I didn’t pay my phone bills. I just forget about it totally and my phone company – SingTel – sent me a reminder in red! They threatened to cut my line! How dare they! Anyway, I went to pay up already. I am not so free to pay all the time and I am thinking of allowing SingTel to take the money from my bank account to pay automatically.

Then it is my Singapore Polytechnic diploma certificate and transcripts. As I was held up in the army, I wasn’t able to book out and join my school’s graduation hence I did not get my certificate. I am quite pissed that time. I would like to collect them from my school soon.

Also, I wish to check out my magazine subscriptions, I don’t see all my magazines coming and I am not pleased! Damn it, I paid okay. It’s been 2 months.

And my insurance, it is over-deducting from my bank!! I didn’t allow a transaction of that much, I’m losing money…

I still got to return some library books. I got to pay my lecturer some money too. I need to pass some money to a couple of friends from polytechnic. I still need to collect the money that people owe to me.

All of a sudden, it just seem that I have a lot of unfinished stuff that I should have done earlier. I just didn’t do it when I am in the camp. I’m going to finish all these one by one on Monday. Today, I’ll just do the most important thing in my task list – tidy my room and unpack my stuff from army.

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I scored 938 out of 1000. As far as I know, the people who win this competition scored full marks in the previous years. I know my mistake and revealed my mistake to my lecturer who will tell another guy who is going to take the test. I believe that he made this similar mistake too.

I hesitated in revealing my mistake at first. I was thinking if I should let others learn from my mistake and be better than me. But after thinking for a while, I decided to reveal this mistake I made in the XML question.

The reason is that I can’t win, perhaps someone from Singapore Polytechnic (same as me) would win the competition. All the best to him. I felt better after I speak out about that mistake too. I treat it as a way of returning what the nice lecturer have patiently imparted his Excel skills.

I returned home with nothing, but I felt glad that at least I got the Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Expert certificate. It isn’t that bad I guess.

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*As it is considered pornographic, you may not walk around your home nude.*
Whether you want to walk in your home nude or not is the government’s business? I think if you have those nudist lifestyle thing – not that I am in support of nudist lifestyle of course – you can walk all you want. Just close your windows. Well, if you are a hot girl, I doubt the policeman would report you parading your home with nothing more than a necklace (idea stolen from Titanic). Verdict: Dumb

*Failure to flush a public toilet after use may result in very hefty fines.*
Ah, they don’t call Singapore “Fine City” for no reason. Now, you can imagine the amount of city coffers we have. Most public toilet have automatic flush systems in Singapore nowadays. And when the automatic flush is not working, it’s just not working! There is absolutely no way to flush the toilet – you can only leave it unflushed.

*It is considered an offense to enter the country with cigarettes.*
I haven’t heard of this law. I supposed it’s pretty dumb if it really exists.

*Cigarettes are illegal at all public places.*
I am not sure if this is quite right. You see, there are some public places that you can light a cigarette. No one would care if you light a cigarette in the park. I recall this conversation Dexter had with a security guard at Singapore Polytechnic.

Security Guard: Hey you! Why you smoking here in the bus stop?
Dexter: Sorry sorry.
Security Guard: You know what is the underpass for?
-Dexter was puzzled. -
Security Guard: The underpass is for you smokers to smoke inside. Why you think they build the underpass then.

So, smokers at Singapore Polytechnic has a preferred location to smoke at I guess.

[This is a pre-recorded entry as I'll be away. I'll probably be back on June 26, 2005. Part 3 will follow soon (June 28).]

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Previously, I took part in some sort of competition to test my skills in Office Excel 2003. I passed the test and won the competition in my school.

I later discovered that I need to prepare some sort of speech to give to the a small audience to receive the prize. Well, the speech went okay. I’ll post my speech up soon, it’s a rather simple speech though, it’s my first speech and I was really nervous when on stage.

And just when I thought the whole Excel thing is over, I found out I have to give an Excel demonstration to some people at my polytechnic with two other winners of the Microsoft Office Excel 2003 certification competition.

My scope of the demonstration is:

• PivotTable
• Diagrams

I have no problems in diagrams as it is pretty easy. PivotTable is a little hard and we came together to create some raw data to better suit the demonstration. It appears that not much people responded for the PivotTable, either they found it too hard (to use or to understand) or it just basically useless for them (I am not surprised).

My other 2 friends did fine in the demonstration but they made several minor mistakes during which the demonstration is shown. They are usually typing mistakes and I was lucky that my demonstration is about dragging and dropping most of the time so obviously I don’t make typo errors.

We fail to understand the level of the audience. They are all lecturers and administrative staff. About 10 people, including my previous semester’s class tutor, is present. It turns out that our demonstration is too hard to grasp. We did not conduct surveys to question the Office Excel knowledge of the audience before hand.

Although mistakes are made, we’re relieved that we manage to finish the whole presentation (although I took too long) and the people seemed thankful for the presentation.

I learnt a lot through this:

• Speak better in front of people
• Conducting a simple course
• and I learnt more about Excel while preparing for this demonstration

The main reason I agree to give a demonstration with my 2 friends is to gain experience in conducting a simple course. That day, I understand it is not easy to capture attention of people. The lecturers struggled to capture the attention when teaching about the ways of -doing good- performing extraction of DNA from cells. I recall we were playing hangman at the back of the lecture hall.

Yesterday, the lecturers listened. They tried to, at least. They have been helpful. It’s quite an experience to teach your lecturers something. If given a chance to sit in a lecture hall again, I will pay much more attention than the previous (sleepy) semesters.

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milky says:

*cough those are from singapore polytechnic (your school) and my sister was one of those in orchard stalking people like you cough *

I pity you. *solemn nod *

Oops.

Never mind. You know, actually I did that before too. Well… I am one of those “volunteers”. You know, these people should stay clear of Orchard, it’s just not the best place to ask for donations. Some people are all lovey-dovey and it would be embarrassing to walk to them and ask them for a donation but – trust me – because if you do walk to them, chances are high that one of them would donate. The guy wants to show his generosity, the girl wants to show her compassion to whatever charity you are helping for.

I never stick at Orchard to gather donations to fill my tin can so that it would be heavy. During my freshman year, we -volunteered- are forced into helping out in a charity. That was even before the semester starts. My polytechnic – Singapore Polytechnic – wants some money to fill up the endowment funds.

Orchard is a bad place. I was at Somerset.

Hey, I was posted there, okay? I was posted there! Well, anyway, I was at Somerset (right beside Orchard) which is a rather nice place that can’t gather much donations.

The problem is not with Somerset people being less generous. In fact, Somerset is one of the most visited places in -Earth- Singapore, and I am standing right in the middle of it (no, I’m not at SingTel Comcenter side). I did not receive as much donations as I expect due to competition. Competition with our own people who are holding the same bloody tin can.

Later we discovered so many of our people at Somerset that, at one point, the population ratio of the public to our people is 3:1. In the end, Jinyao and I thought the whole situation was lame and left Somerset. Too many people. I don’t believe in competition in who has more donations.

We return to the polytechnic, tired and wanted to go home. I remember the lecturers still want us to count the bloody coins!

Okay, I brought all my one cent, five cents, ten cents, twenty cents coin and dumped it all into the can. And then I have to count it.

“Hey, wouldn’t it be dangerous if we steal the money while counting?” I questioned the lecturer hoping he would suspect me to be a thief and tell me to leave the tin can alone and go home.

“I trust you,” the lecturer answered. And yes, I stayed…

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(The Microsoft Office Specialist certification for Microsoft Word 2003.)

And I got 2. I only take the test once and I got 2 certification. I took the certification on March 9, that is about one and a half months ago and did not receive the certificate. I only receive the Microsoft Excel certificate. So after a month, I decided to email them to remind that they still haven’t sent me the Word certificate. And after a while, I found 2 in my mailbox. Both mine, both for Microsoft Office Word 2003.

For my girlfriend, she got the 3^rd^ prize in Singapore Polytechnic (1^st^ in School of Chemical and Life Sciences) in the competition with a score of 967 for Office Word. For me, I got 1^st^ in Singapore Polytechnic in the competition with a score of 966 for Office Excel. So we kind of get to represent the polytechnic. I will be taking the Microsoft Office Expert certification for Microsoft Excel a couple of months later. My girlfriend would be taking the Microsoft Office Expert certification for Microsoft Word at the same time. We both scored well.

Hope that we’ll pass. I am not sure if I can come out of the military to take the Expert test even since I am in for compulsory army. Hopefully I’ll be able to get out just for a day. It really depends on the commander there though.

[Happy birthday Shawn! Doubt that you'd spot this message though. ]

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If all goes well – it better do – I’ll obtain a Bachelors of Computing and Information System. Had I not been in the computing field, I probably be at marketing or some sociology course. When free, I do enjoy racket games, fiddling with the laser part of the computer mouse and people watching.

(Size of Singapore as compared to West Malaysia which is right above.)

I’m 20 plus, reside in Singapore, and am a program analyst at a local web startup where I do Flash ActionScript 3.0, PHP and pencil sharpening. I’m a Christian though not that a faithful one.

I have a Diploma of Biotechnology (Bioinformatics) lying somewhere in my house. My previous schools are Singapore Polytechnic, Bukit Batok Secondary School and Yuhua Primary School.

I like Food Hunting, Skipping Breakfast, Cycling, Meeting People, Slacking, Web Designing, Train Riding, Acting Nerdy, Reading, Making Friends, Window Shopping, Internet Browsing and Blogging.

Really dislike Java, snobbish people, conspiracy theorists, spam and Mondays.

If anything, just talk to me. Even if it’s just for a chat, I’m always looking for new people to talk to.

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Mr. Dew says:
oh wow, you got into London School of Pharmacy?!!
congratulations junice!

I got into London School of Pharmacy! says:
yeah!!

I got into London School of Pharmacy! says:
hee

I got into London School of Pharmacy! says:
of cuz

Mr. Dew says:
what the hell…

Some people are just so smart.

I have been thinking, what if I can’t get admitted to a NTU (Nanyang Technological University) or NUS (National University of Singapore) – what should I do?

I’ll be quite troublesome. I think – to a certain extend – I do not have much hopes in entering both the universities. I wanted to get into NUS’s School of Computing actually, but I guess the whole thing wouldn’t work out. I’ll be trying next year though.

I do know that their are private educational institutes that allow the students to study and get a degree with an international university. Universities such as Monash and Oxford Brookes have partnerships with local companies to offer such degrees. Admittedly, I do not know how good are they. Would the degree, such as the Monash one, when done locally be equivalent to that of the done-in-Australia one?

The cost of study to get a Monash degree is high too. Studying locally is cheaper, I think it’s about SG$1,900 per module and if I were to go to Australia to study, it costs SG$2,300. It makes me suspect a difference in the quality of the tutoring and possibly the value of the degree.

I am kinda in a dilemma now. To study or not to study? Of course, I am likely to get the Singapore Polytechnic diploma and I can always go out and work. But I am not very confident to be able to find a good job at present.

My Diploma in Biotechnology (Bioinformatics) may not be valuable at all based on this and that posts. We are the pioneer batch and we have to open our own doors to job opportunities.

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There is a problem with the scores awarded to us. It lies with the fact that everyone has different supervisors. At least nearly everyone.

You may work very work for your ITP and gained fantastic results but your supervisor just hates you and he decides to give you a C. Then you went to a corner crying.

Or, in another case, you didn’t do any work, your supervisor was in Miami attending a conference and checking out the beach girls and is therefore unaware of your tasks’ progress. And then he loves the chocolate you gave him last Friday as a parting gift. You got an A. Or rather – your chocolate got an A.

Either way, the grades may not be a true reflection of your performance. Nearly everyone’s supervisor is different too. Their definition of what is to be an A and what is to be a B is totally different.

That’s why we have liaison officers who visit you around 2 times in the ITP. But still, it cannot accurately reflect what you have done in the internship, the amount of experience you gained and your effect put in.

The whole internship grading thing, in the end, comes back to your luck. Your luck in picking the right company and project to take. Your luck in getting a good supervisor basically. It just boils back to luck.

[I got B+, a score lower than the maximum which is A.]

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So, as the fire alarm is ringing nonstop, much to the girls’ annoyance, I was secretly excited. I know there is no fire somehow. I don’t believe in fires when I was in primary school. I am a firm believer that the only place that a fire would be is at the stove.

Okay, I was naive. But still, I got through primary school without a fire-related accident. Basically, there just isn’t any fire back then. We has drills. We have twice per year I believe. I was tempted to make a suggestion to my principal to make it a weekly event – knowing how important these drills can actually be in times of emergency. That didn’t happen.

The alarm was sounded, the ten-year-old me and the rest of the kids left the classroom, rushing to… Well, we just want to get out of the classroom – we don’t really know where we’re going.

The teachers would be most panicky. No, they aren’t afraid of the fire. I am pretty sure they have some insider news that there is going to be a fire drill on that day. They are just afraid of kids getting lost. I mean, these teachers don’t want an accident to occur in a drill. After all, that would be such a irony because the very reason for these drills is to minimize confusion and accidents that can occur in an event of a fire or something.

We have it during secondary schools too. I love them. I just don’t have to study during that time. In polytechnic, there isn’t any fire drills. I would very much presume that Singapore Polytechnic is a very safe place and fires just don’t start despite numerous sightings of cigarettes in the dustbin.

Today, as I am typing this post, I realized my foolishness. Fire drills aren’t fun. Fire drills are a dread – especially you got to climb down EIGHT BLOODY levels and walk 400 metres to reach the assembly area of Biopolis!

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As for now, I am typing a report. A report that took long to type due to various distractions and the fact that, well, I just dislike typing reports.

My industrial training programme is coming to a close. I am going to graduate from Singapore Polytechnic soon. After that it would be National Service for me.

I hope to study more on the computer stuff. I developed a liking to web development. I’ll be participating in developing a web site that is to do with Ragnarok Online. I have no idea what the game does but I participated in this joint project with 2 other guys to create a Ragnarok Online portal. It would probably be powered by ASP.NET. All 3 of us hope to gain experience in web development while creating this web portal.

That aside, I plan to look into Java applications development. I can’t code in Java at all. I don’t understand it basically but I am willing to learn. I gotten hold of several books to help me with it.

I come from a Visual Basic .NET and ASP .NET background. If any of you know of any good books that can help me with my transition, please tell me about them.

And, well, remember the Excel certificate that I mentioned? I actually topped my school for that test and now I have to give a bloody three-minute speech. And I suck badly at speeches.

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_(My brother received a mail on my behalf.)_

It is from Microsoft. I received a certification to prove that I know how to use Microsoft Excel 2003. It is like a prove kind of thing. It is quite an easy test in my opinion. I scored 966 out of 1000 points. My girlfriend, who took with me, didn’t fare too well though.

I played with Microsoft Excel quite a lot and the test isn’t much of a problem to me. I paid 20 bucks and got myself a Microsoft Office Specialist certificate for Excel 2003. Well, it just costs 20 bucks, subsidized from my school – Singapore Polytechnic. So I thought – why not participate. It may be good for my future work, who knows.

I also take a Microsoft Word one which my girlfriend scored 967 out of 1000. I scored 867 out of 1000, made mistakes somewhere. The Word one is harder and inflexible. Lots of buttons cannot be click. That’s totally lame.

_(This is what that is inside.)_

Anyway, here’s how my certificate looks like. It looks quite nice but it doesn’t look very professional due to the colors. Nice logo though.

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_(Miss Tay Yi Ning from Singapore Polytechnic.)_

The next Miss Singapore Universe from Singapore Poly? You decide!

Let’s support our very own School of Business student Miss Tay Yi Ning, as she vies for a place in the Grand Finals of the Miss Singapore Universe 2005.

You can play your part in the choice of the finalists from 5 to 15 March. Vote for Yi Ning, via SMS (Voting starts after 9 pm on 5 March). Three girls with the most votes will secure a spot
in the Grand Finals.

Be sure to catch the Miss Singapore Universe Finals on 2 April 2005 at 9 pm on Channel 5!

To vote for Yi Ning, SMS MSU25 to 72888. Each SMS cost $0.20, you can SMS as many times as you wish.

Source: Singapore Polytechnic Homepage

You know, my polytechnic loves this voting thing. Back then, it was the voting for Taufik (Muhammad Taufik bin Batisah), now it’s Tay Yi Ning. I don’t think I am voting for her, but still, I think I would support my fellow polytechnic student.

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**Reduction in Disk Quota in your M: drive**

To better utilise our computer resources, we have reviewed the disk storage allocations to all students in our computer system. In this review, we compared the disk space allocation with other Polytechnics. After this review, we have decided to reduce the disk space given to your home folder (the ‘M’ drive) from 100 MB to 50 MB.

Source: School email

From 100 MB to 50 MB? Singapore Polytechnic students would experience this cut. I don’t think it is a good idea frankly speaking. Everytime I see the words ‘M: drive”, it can’t be anything good. The ‘M’ drive is mapped into the student’s personal disk space which – in case you haven’t read the above – is 50 MB now.

To many students, the Internet Exlorer cache alone takes up to 20 MB and many students didn’t realize the need the clear it at all. Plus classes may include files that are 10 MB to run a program, I don’t remember which program requires that though, it is in one of my classes and those files need to be in the student’s personal drive.

And if this student deals with multimedia, how the hell is he going to create a 3D movie with just 50 MB? No way! And if the student is a programmer, he’ll use up the space pretty quickly if he does back up his work periodically in the student drive.

Gmail has 1 GB, MSN Hotmail has announced to increase their mail space to 250 MB even. Hard disk price is so cheap nowadays. What is with not allowing the students to get 100 MB? It’s not a lot frankly speaking. Why is my school being so petty?!

Perhaps Singapore Polytechnic did a promotion tie in with some company that does USB removable disk devices because – trust me – the students seriously are going to need one.

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_(This is one of the many Singapore Telecommunications buildings in our island – just that this one looks weird.)_

This building is SingTel’s. I don’t know why it is designed as such. I recall having a discussion with Shawn that I am going to make a Macromedia Flash animation out of this ‘creature’ when I am free. I’ll put the soundtracks and this creature will start terrorizing Singapore. The idea was there, the resources and time is just not there. Plus, I am too lazy to start on it even.

I plan to animate the hands a little and let it stomp around a map of Singapore while play Shiina Ringo’s music as the background.

I’m just too busy nowadays, but when I look at this picture now, it sure brought me memories, hahaa..

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