Starting off to ski trip

I am now in my lab having finished the mid-term presentation. Later I am going to take the bus to... (sorry but I forgot the name of the place) to play snow board(play?). So, for sure I am not going to update my blog in these few days but here I want to wish everybody a Happy New Year!!! (too early...) Well, since I will be busy during the end of the year(busy enjoying myself) so I just want to make an early wish. Hope that the coming year will be a better year for all of us :D

And next year is the year of the dog... woa! woa!

Added the ablum to static website

Hi, just as promised I have added the photos I have taken on the day which snowed heavily.
Check it out :)

HERE!

See you :)

Merry Xmas

Why do I need a forest if all I ever need is just a shade to rest under?

Merry Xmas.

A white Xmas & Beware of the Santa worm

Merry Xmas! Xmas is just around the corner and it has snowed quite heavily today. Above is the photo of my bike being covered by snow... poor fella... More photos will be uploaded to my static website when I have the time.

And while you are in the holiday mood, don't be fooled by this worm reported by ZDnet here. Viruses and worms tend to appear during holiday seasons.

So see you again :)

Life long debugging process

From a developer's point of view,
life may be a piece of software which needs constant updating and debugging. Now where is the next bug?

Tomorrow's a holiday :D

Late at night thinking...

Thinking about what? An algorithm for my current research :) And I finally thought of a way to make what I want it to happen happen. Well, since it has nothing much to do with other people so I am not reviewing it here :P

And now I can go to sleep happily :) Going to implement the algorithm tomorrow. Now I wish morning comes sooner :) See you and good nite :)

Template change again

Hahaha, I don't really like the girlie look of the former template, so I changed it again. And I added a photo in the profile box. It was my former handphone strap but since it tore off some days ago so now my phone is naked...

Changed the template..

Just tried to change the look and feel for this blog. Look a bit girlie? I think so, too. Anyway, will put it this way for some time and see...

Japanese Proficiency Level Test

I just sat for the Japanese Proficiency Level Test Level 1 today. FYI, level 1 is the highest level you can take in this test. Well, what can I say, I haven't actually prepared for it. I would tell you that because I want to know how well I can do without any preparation if you ask. But in fact I just didn't have the time + mood to prepare for it :P

The test is not as easy as I thought, but not extremely hard, too. Just feel a bit nostalgic answering all those questions. I haven't taken a test for language since the time I was learning Japanese 4 years ago. Just made me think about the good old days :D

Well, the test is one thing. The other thing is that it has rained heavily today. And it is very cold. Heard that it will be even colder tomorrow. >Sigh< So I suppose I will spend my whole day in my lab tomorrow.

Wanted to wash clothes but...

Ok, that's all for today.
See ya :)

Firefox 1.5 is out!

Quick, go download it from here. Amongst the new features are:

1. You can now rearrange your tabs.
2. Clear up sensitive informations(history, cookies, etc.) in one click.
3. Faster rendering.
4. Find out more from the above website!!!

I know this sounds like an advertisement but it is not. Those who know me should know that I am a hardcore fan of the mozilla team. I hope you enjoy it, too :)

See ya.

To test the template :D

Hello, please ignore this post, I am just trying to see how things get displayed with this design template :)

Now, this is a blockquote:

Well, a blockquote looks like this. Now just want to make it longer to see the whole of it. It looks nice. Oh now let's think about it. Why didn't just copy a block of text instead of typing it like an idiot? :P

I watched "Saw"...

Yeah the title of the movie is "Saw". Not the past tenst of "See" but the tool you use to cut thing. The story is quite scary but not without meaning. Highly recommended. But not for the weak-hearted. Watch only if you have no heart problems.

Have had many activities today. First, I would like to say "Selamat Hari Raya" to my Malay friends. And thanks for the Open House they had today. Nice food! Thanks.

After the Open House, we went to a garden(Bampakku) to take some photos of momiji(red leaves). But unfortunately, the battery of my camera died off halfway so I didn't manage to take many photos.

Then, went to eat sushi(nice food again), doughnuts. And at last watched "Saw".

Didn't mean to report the whole day at first but just feel like writing more.

See you next time until you have watched the "Saw", too :P

Good nite.

Just dropping by

Hi, sorry for not posting for almost a month. Just don't feel like writing about anything. Not that now I have something to share but just want to drop a line so that you guys know I am still living fine.

Last night went for a movie called "The Corpse Bride". Quite nice an animation. Very creative and some jokes about death. It is trying to show you that sometimes the deads are much sweeter than the living ones.

That's all for today.

See you then and have a nice holiday(if you are in Malaysia and Japan).

About the ads...

Recently I noticed that there are many random advertisements added to my blog here. Well, since I enable the option to let anonymous user post replies to my posts, so I suppose that this is unavoidable. So for the time being, please ignore them. I think it is pretty easy to recognise the ads from the real replies.

Anyway, I am looking for a way to get around this but since I am not that free recently so this may take some time. So please don't be cheated by them.

About OpenDocument

Having waken up earlier than I have planned, I am surfing the web to kill some time. And I have found this article about Microsoft Office's support of the OpenDocument Format(ODF).

As its name implies, ODF is an open format that every applications can adopt. Imagine this, how many times have you got a file that only a proprietary application(something that costs money) can open/save to from your friends, and you have to write back to them to convert the format to another one which you can open with a free software?

If Microsoft is kind enough to implement this ODF into its office suite, then we may be able to use an alternative office suite(which is free) without any worries about incompatibilities. However, There might be a catch behind. Even if they implement ODF into Microsoft Office, we can never be sure whether they will try to manipulate the format once again. (Just look at what have they done with the WWW standards and you will know)

Well, if you also wish to get rid of the lock-down of Microsoft Office, perhaps this is the time for you to download OpenOffice.org(which is totally free! No catch) that supports ODF. But just be careful not to download version 1.1.5. The version that supports ODF is version 2.0 and above. Although it is still in its release canditate(rc) state, I think it is reasonably stable enough for daily use. For the safe bet, perhaps you should wait for one or two months before the official release comes out.

Microsoft must support OpenDocument

OpenBSD Release Songs! Cool!

Just something to share. It seems that the other free and open-sourced operating system, OpenBSD, claimed to be one of the most secure OSes on earth, has a release song associated with their every release since 3.0. And many of them are quite nice to listen. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
Tips: Don't just listen to the songs, read the explanation on the left of the lyrics so you can understand the songs better :D

Here you go:
http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html

I have to go now since there might be a sales in town.
See ya! :)

The different feelings...

When I was in Malaysia, I liked to stay in my house most of the day. Watching TV, DVD, VCD; reading some books, magazines; doing some work I brought back. These seemed to be the most exciting things that I can do, and I really enjoyed doing them. Although the Internet connection back home was a merely 56Kbps dial-up, I did really take the time and read the articles on the web.

When I came back to Japan, I like to stay in my house most of the day, too. But doing basically nothing! Or should I say I am doing too many things, without one being at the satisfying level of accomplishment. Weird, huh? Despite all the resources I have here, I am not so keen on doing what I have been doing back home anymore...

So, what is the moral behind the story? Who knows...

Listen to this and amuse yourself :-D

This is a cool idea!!!

Someone has use the voice of those talking dictionaries to sing some famous songs. And it is really funny :D Enjoy!

http://www.dictionaraoke.org/

A lot to report...

Wow... the last post was posted before the Graduate School Entrance Exam... and you know what, the result has been announced more than one month. So I did passed the exam and that means I will stay here for another 2 and a half year.

After getting the result, I went on a trip with lecturers, seniors and friends. Right after that trip, I went back to Malaysia. And this morning, I came back to Osaka again. Time is fast. So, use your time wisely. :)

Didn't have enough sleep after coming down from the plane, so see ya for now. Good night.

Oh yeah, I came across this article when I was in Malaysia. Hope you enjoy it, too. But be warned, only interesting for technology people. :D

Get passed weekend blues (^ ^)

Har... Finally I got over the weekend blues and started studying like normal again. Should think of a way to escape the blues before another weekend comes. :P Any ideas?

Oooopppsss...

Sorry that I forgot about the promise that I would continue to write last night. But never mind, I don't think you care anyway :P

Just now I went to a local electircal store to get a light tube to replace the old one. And naturally I had a look at what softwares they are selling. And I just notice that almost half of the shelves is filled with antivirus softwares. Now I think these company should thank microsoft for its popularity :P

What I thought was that, there are in fact many free alternatives out there. Here is a list of some of them which I have tried:

Antivirus:

1. AVG Antivirus
   http://free.grisoft.com/
   I'm using this :D


2. Avast! Antivirus
   http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
   You need to register every year... although it is free


3. ClamAV
   Official site: http://www.clamav.net/
   Windows port: http://www.clamwin.net/
   An open source software. Under development now but I think it will be highly usable in the near future. So be sure to check it out frequently.

Firewalls:

1. ZoneAlarm
   http://www.zonelabs.com/
   This is certainly my choice! Since it doesn't nag on me :P For power users, the following two maybe better :)


2. Kerio Personal Firewall
   http://www.kerio.com/kpf_download.html
   An alternative


3. Sygate Personal Firewall
   http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
   Another alternative.

If you can't find the one you like, just search for "Free antivirus firewall" on google :D

Enjoy the free world!!!

Gulugulugulu....

Now ignore the title since it doesn't bear much meaning.

There is an old Chinese saying, "Bitter now and sweet later". It means suffer now so that you can enjoy later. But what about enjoy now and enjoy again later? Of course you have to do your planning so that you can spread your bitterness evenly but not focusing it on one spot.

Oh, my room is getting hot so I am going. See ya. Perhaps will write the rest tonight, and perhaps not.

Bye bye.

A good idea (- -!)

It is so HOT~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!!

If someone has ever invented a time machine, I have thought of a good way to use! First, you make a hole that connect to the space on the other time on your wall. Then, set the destination time to which it connects a winter time. Then, the cold air would flow throw the hole to your room! With this, you don't need a heater in winter, too!!!

Arrggghh... how brilliant I am.... (_ _!)

To all my busy friends...

I have so many busy friends around me. What about you? Everybody just seems that s/he is so occupied by his/her studies, by his/her work, by whatever s/he is busy with. But why am I always the luckiest one who doesn't "seem" busy at all? Well, I think I am "optimally" busy. Have enough work to keep me busy, yet with a little time left for myself to enjoy my live. Good luck to those busy ones. I hope they will have their rewards for all their hard work :)

Today I would like to talk about the topic "Being Happy". I once told my friend, when he was miserable, that you can be happy anytime when you want to be. Of course he opposed to this idea and thought that I was crazy(Ok, I added this one... :P) But come to think about it, is that actually something that prevent you from being happy all the time? "Being happy" is just a state of your feelings. You feel good. If you insist to be happy, will anything outside you can stop you? Ya, maybe there are. This is a world full of challenges. Challenges that prevent you from being happy. But if you simply insist on being happy. Nothing can stop you :D Just like nothing can help you if you want to feel sad and miserable.

We often hear that one "can't help feeling bad", but I would hope that someday somebody would tell me that, s/he "can't help feeling happy" :D Isn't that nice?

Bad day... (T T)

But I am not going to talk about it :D I just decided that I will only write about good things from now on. Writing about bad things only make you feel worse. Agree?

Good thing.. good thing... Oh ya, today I cleaned my room. I don't actually remember when did I clean my room last time. But it makes me feel a lot more comfortable now :D Yaho!

And good thing good thing... Oh ya(again?), I helped a junior with his programming work just now. I think he should try harder to think about it himself, though. So instead of writing it all for him in maybe 20 mins, I made him write his own code and spent about 2 hours with him :D Hahaha, I think I will make a good teacher :D

What else? what else? Ok nothing else... so I will stop here.
See ya again with more good news :)

Ok I lied....

Hi, it is me again... hehehe... missed me? But I didn't actually lied. I was actually busy, and am still busy. Why I made it sound so BIG was that I wanted to let someone know that I am busy, too. So, I hope that the someone has got the message and the someone will never think of a mission for me again. Thanks.

And in this weekend without the someone, I have completed building a website for a school organisation, complete with PHP authentication so a user can just log in and post messages. Something like a blog but not as powerful as one. Well, anyway I learned a new skill and my job of maintaining the website becomes easier with this tool. Good work to myself. And starting from tomorrow, I will spend more time in the library to prepare for my graduate school entrance exams. Good luck to those who are going to sit for it.

I think I made it sound too suspicious with the term "someone", but the one who knows knows, the one who doesn't get it, maybe you don't need to know. But one thing is for sure that this someone is not the someone that you think if you don't simply know the answer...

Ok, let's call it a day here :)
See ya!

I AM BUSY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When you think that new hope is here, you are 99% wrong. Evils strike back!

OK, ignore me. And I am damn busy lately. No time to write here. So, expect my next post to be posted... maybe... next year?

See ya.

Going to be sick... (-_-!)

it is so hot lately in the afternoon, but it cools down at night. I think I am going to be sick if this kind of weather continues. In fact, I don't feel quite well now. Sore throat and some coughing. Going to see the school doctor tomorrow to get some free medicine. (- -!)

Getting busy these days. Need to prepare for the entrance exams of the Graduate school but I haven't got anything done yet. Sigh. But it is much better than last year, though.

Arr... sleepy now... need some rest badly...

See you next time if I survive the bad weather :(

Wow a long time again!!!

Sorry for not writing for such a long time. Ya I am still alive :) And everything is fine except my poor little old white scooter... the exhaust pipe got stuck after all these years and the mechanic of the shop told me that it doesn't worth it to repair. So, I got a new one for 55,000 yens. (-_-!) Broke.

Oh ya, I rented the whole series of the LOTR(Lord of the Rings) and watched all 3 episodes in two days!!! I found it quite boring last time when I first watched it. But now I think it is actually quite interesting, if you watch all at the same time, before you forgot the stories of the former episodes.

And... what more... nothing... my life is quite empty... but buzy... So see you next time :)

Wait, I forgot to mention that I bought the whole set of the City Hunter comics at 1,800 yens!!! Cheap cheap... and they are in good condition. I have finished reading them yesterday. Fun.

So, see you.

One month...

It has been one month since I came back to Japan. Somehow I felt that it was longer. But it was just a month. Everything is fine here. Not much problems with studies. Things are like usual. I just write to let you know that everything is fine.

Oh ya, I still have some assignment to do. I have to pass it up tomorrow but I haven't started doing it yet. Anyway, I don't really need the credit, so... But I will try to finish it lah... :) TRY... :P Just now one of my juniors told me that he thinks he is lazy... but now let's see who is the lazier one... :D

Ciao.

Constantine + First week in school + Misc

I watched Constantine last night. Quite a nice movie. It included many elements. It's got humour, phylosophy, action and a little of love. All in all, it worths my money :)

So, after the first week in school, I think I am going to have a good year :) Although I still have to attend classes, I don't really need that many credits so I can really enjoy the lessons without worrying about the credits. No pressure. About the lab, I think I chose the right lab :)) The people are nice. Although the lab is a bit old :P But I feel relaxed with old things :)

Just realized that I keyed in the wrong phone number for a friend. And this troubled her a bit since she couldn't get me when she got lost :P hahaha... sorry...

How true can you be?

Have you ever thought that someone is very nice and you think that s/he is your model in life, from whom you should learn? And you start imitating her/him in every aspect in your life. But since you are not her/him, you struggle to become one.

I have. Although I was not trying to imitate anybody in every aspect, I tried to imitate some characteristics from someone, and others from the other people who I found worth imitating. And it was really hard. Since I would never become exactly as them.

But now, my idea about imitating someone changed. Just because that someone is nice in their way doesn't mean that you will be nice if you have what they have. They are special because they are who they are meant to be. And you are meant to be you. There is no point to act like the others since they are already there and the world doesn't need a copy of them(even the cloning technology can't copy them inside out).

So, just be yourself and someday you may find that someone is trying to imitate you, the one who you think is the worst guy/girl on earth :)

Wow, 4 years!

The new guys arrived in Japan to start their new journeys today morning! Here I wish them good luck with whatever they do here. Although they might not need as much luck as I did and still do. Hehe. I had a dinner with the newcomers and the old guys just now. I was really happy since it has been a really long time since our last gathering :) Hope that we can have more gatherings like this in the coming year. Looking forward to it.

Come to think of it, I have been in Japan for 4 years. What have I got/learned in this 4 years? I can't tell for sure but of course I did improve and learn a lot. Perhaps I am not so good academically, but I think I have spent the years in a useful way. And I hope I can make the correct decisions in the remaining years.

Going to bring the newcomers to Umeda(the centre of Osaka) tomorrow. So see you and Good night :) Sweet dream :)

headache...

The weather here is just too HOT~~~!!! And I had a bad headache because of that today... I hope it will rain in the coming days or I will be... dried...

I met a friend who is going to start working next month. I wish him good luck and all the best! But do you know how it feels when all of your friends are working but you are still studying??? It doesn't feel good... you feel small... you feel childish and you feel like you live in a separate world... Not only those who are in the same year with me are working.. but those who are younger than I am, started to work, too... And they will just tell you that studying is much better than working, blah blah blah... but it is just the same as telling somebody that being single is much better... and what is worse is that these two "advices" apply on me... :-(

But anyway, although I am quite desparate and want to work and have a relationship now, I know this is not a matter of I want it or not. At least I will have to finish my studies first. But there will be another 3 years if I want to acquire a master degree... To go for master or not to go for master has always been my question with a high priority...

Ok... end of the day...
Hope that tomorrow is another good day :)

On vacation?!?!

Hi, I am in my hometown since 22nd of February. Time passes like lightning. It has been almost 2 weeks since I came down from the plane. It is pretty hot here. I feel like there is fire burning inside me right now!!! Now I miss the winter in Osaka? No way :P But I would be happy if it rains more often here...

It seems that most of my friends are not around. Perhaps they are busy with their work. Many of them have actually started working. Is working in Malaysia fun? I have to ask them when I meet them next time. So that I can make my decision about whether to work in Japan or in Malaysia. What do you think?

Ok, see ya next time :)

Going home...

Country Road... Take me home... To the place... I belong...

Will be back home until 22nd of March. The update of this blog might not be as frequent as it is now but I will try my best :D

And remember that I said I have scored a very low mark in one of my mid-terms? Now I have confirmed with the lecturer that I passed the subject!!! Hurray~~~!!! :)

Thanks for the support from everyone :)

See ya ;)

Living in a world of limitations

I feel that this is an era of limitations. Sometimes you may feel that something you want to do is not something wrong, they simply don't let you do it. And there are many rules and regulations that tell you that you cannot do something without telling you the reasons. Or even if it does, the reasons may be something ridiculous that you simply can't agree with.

Let's think about this situation: There is this rule, although well known, but broken purposely or inpurposely a thousand(or more) times a day. And what is more interesting is that, even the ones who are supposed to enforce the rules don't accuse anybody who breaks the rules in a normal situation. What is the meaning of having this rule? Shouldn't this rule be reconsidered and changed accordingly?

I have not been the rule maker so perhaps I am a bit naive regarding this. But I think rules should be made with some clear reasons that really have the points. And it should be flexible and adaptive to this ever changing environment. This is especially important in this IT age. Everything changes so fast nowadays.

In the past, since it is impractical to get all the people involved in making decisions regarding rules and regulations, we have representatives, who are supposed to voice out our opinions. However, the situation is much different now with the advent of IT technologies. It may be insecure sometimes, but I think it is practical enough to give everyone a chance to vote for a decision to be made, or send their opinions directly to the authorities.

So, to the rule makers out there: please respect the ones who are supposed to follow the rules you are making, ask their opinions before making any decisions. With this you may get better rules which will be willingly accepted by the majority of people.

Thanks.

Spam & Junk Mail of the day!

Recently I got many mails with titles like this:

"Please help me update my address book"

and this:

"Join XXX's Network".

And I have had enough. Somemore the latter will keep on sending you following requests if you ignore the former mails. Although there is a link(I am not sure but there should be) to stop further invitations, I feel that is very cruel to click on it coz that will make me feel guilty about blocking my friends!

So, please don't simply forward mails or send such invitation mails to friends since it could be a disaster to him/her.

Perhaps somebody may think that this is an easy way to keep in touch but there are actually many other better ways to do this. Just keep this in mind, "Something you enjoy may not be so to someone else".

What do you want?

When was the last time you thought about what you want in life? Perhaps you are happy with your life now, perhaps you are not. Since the world is getting better and better, we(ok, most of us living in the cities) don't have to worry about food, accomodations and other necessities in life anymore. This gives us more time to think. However, I am not very sure if this is a good thing.

Last time when I was a child, everything was so simple. And I always seemed to know what did I want at a specific moment. But not anymore. Life is filled with so many things now and I don't really know which are more important than the others.

Life can be so simple but we tend to make it complicated and difficult. More advancement in sciences and technologies brings us more possibilities. And then more possibilities bring more options and choices. With more choices you need to make more decisions. And I don't think making decisions is something easy. Therefore, most of the time spent everyday is on making decisions. To do or not to do. Do now or do it later. etc etc... And this is quite tiring for me.

I think I am going to cut down the unnecessary in my life and make it simpler this year. Let add this to the list of my New Year's resolution.

Ok, going to get up earlier tomorrow.
See ya and Gnite.

And songs are good ;D

About our brain...

Just found this interesting article on the Internet. I think I am the one of the LWM group who is also affected by pressure...

... Oh did I just say that I want to live with more confidence?!?! Ok... I am of course in the HWM group who is not affected by pressure at all... (err.. I refer this as "cheating oneself behaviour"...)

Happy Chinese New Year!!!

Happy Chinese New Year to everybody!!! I hope that this will be a better year to everyone, including myself :P

OK, although I never put any New Year resolution into practice, I still want to make one this year. I hope I can live with more confidence and more trust in myself, and can make up my mind about what to achieve in my next stage of life :D Emm, sound great.

Do you have any New Year resolution? Share with me if you don't mind. I promise I won't laugh at you... hahaha... (^0^)

Back to Mac OS X!

Ok, I tried to install Debian on my iBook for fun during the winter break and I am now back to Mac OS X. You know I actually feel that it gets better every time I reinstall it :P And I just found the OpenOffice.org port to Mac OS X. No longer has to start X before starting OpenOffice.org... Oh, the port is not called OpenOffice.org, instead it is name NeoOffice/J. I thought "J" was for "Japanese" but it is apparently not :D It actually stands for Java. Ya, it uses the Java environment instead of X so it runs almost natively on Mac OS X(the start up time is a bit long... but usable...)

Well, although it is never complete but I would like to write a report on the experience with Debian linux on the iBook(G4/800MHz/318MB RAM/HDD 30GB/ATI Radeon 9200(?) Mobility). It was overall an interesting experience for me. I thought I have learned quite a lot about linux before I started the installation but I was wrong. I spent quite some time on making the "sleep" function to work properly when the lid is close. I recompiled the kernel(2.6.9) after applying Ben's sleep patch #7(thanks Ben :D) and rebooted just to find out that it wouldn't boot correctly complaining that it couldn't find the modules. So I tried to tweak the kernel config in any ways that I know(in fact I don't know many...) but it still didn't work. After a few times of recompilation, I noticed that the default kernel that came with Sarge had some other files(initrd.img, System-Map) other than the kernel image. So I started to study the man page of mkinitrd and finally successfully installed the patch. And it works flawlessly ever since! :)

Other than the above issue, I also managed to get the video-out to work properly. I applied a patch to XFree86 and editted the config file but later I heard that you don't have to patch XFree to get it to work. But anyway this works well, too. There were other small tweaks that took place but I have forgotten most of them. The above 2 issues took the longest time for me.

As a conclusion, though you need to spend some time to configure it to work, most of the functions work as expected and it is fun to install linux on a Macintosh machine. Next time I would like to try out NetBSD but at the moment I will stick to Mac OS X for a while.

Thanks for reading. :)

p/s The only thing that isn't supported under linux is the built-in modem since it is a software-driven modem.

Test result... (not academical ones...)

I took a test on this site and got the following results. Take the test and if you are the "Warrior Soul" or the "Visionary Soul", tell me :D It said that you are the most compatible with me :P

http://www.blogthings.com/kindsoulquiz.html

Emm... I see.. there are many other tests, too except this one...

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
You Are an Old Soul

You are an experience soul who appreciates tradition.
Mellow and wise, you like to be with others but also to be alone.
Down to earth, you are sensible and impatient.
A creature of habit, it takes you a while to warm up to new people.

You hate injustice, and you're very protective of family and friends
A bit demanding, you expect proper behavior from others.
Extremely independent you don't mind living or being alone.
But when you find love, you tend to want marriage right away.

Souls you are most compatible with: Warrior Soul and Visionary Soul
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Oooopppsss....

Now come to think of it, did I just violate the copyrights law by translating a part of a song? If you think I did I will take it down. Just tell me and don't sue me... (-_-!)

Found a good link!

You don't need to do the search for "Richard Stallman" anymore because I did it for you. Go here and read! (^ ^)

http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/

Happy reading.

Happiness that stay forever...

Be happy
Don't let your worries tie you down
Learn how to make your heart
As deep and as wide as ocean

Be happy
Don't try to figure out everything
Letting go is a must
To make happiness stay forever

- Translation of part of a song by Beyond -

The first time I listened to this song was when I was still in junior high school. My sister was(and still is, I guess) a great fan of a band from Hong Kong named Beyond. And this is one of their songs that I like the most. It has since then helped me through many down periods.

Someone may claim that, if you let go of everything, there will never be improvements. But I think the opposite way. Perhaps I am such a pessimist that letting go is the only way to calm me down, thus enabling me to concentrate better.

Recently I have been thinking about the copyrights law and reading a book written by Richard M. Stallman with the title "Free Software, Free Society". I really admire him because he can let go of many things just to uphold his own idea. For those who don't know, he is the man behind the free software movement. Take note that the "free" here doesn't mean "without a fee" as in "free beer", but "free" as in "freedom". They are different, ok? I think I will make mistakes if I try to explain the concepts here, so if you are interested please do a search for "Richard Stallman" and you will find out what kind of world he is trying to pursue.

Yawn~~~!(-_-)~~ Gnite.

Up and Down...

I was feeling quite happy last night, and even felt proud about myself since I have completed the compiler and it was approved by my TA(Teaching Assistant) that the compiler has passed all the prepared tests. What I have to do next is just to write the report and pass in. "Since I have been working quite hard these days, so I deserve one day off work", I said to myself and rested the whole night watching variety shows yesterday.

However, there is always down time following the up one. I got a piece of bad news today. The result of the mid-term test of the subject I am retaking(since I failed it last year... :( Do I have to explain this???) was out! And I have got a rather low mark :((( That means I have to aim for near 100 points in the final test... (x x)... >> Sigh <<

And whenever this kind of things happens, I tend to blame myself for many things, like not studying seriously, like spending my time on those foolish and meaningless things, like this and like that. It makes me feel really bad about myself. Is there any way to increase one's self-esteem? If you know one of them please let me know...

But don't worry about me. I will be OK again a few days later. This may be the only best thing about myself. Those some may refer it as "escaping from realities" :P But why not if realities really hurt you bad? OK again don't worry about me. I will be OK again tomorrow since I know there are many people who love me and support me no matter how lousy I am :D Am I right?

Come to think of it, I shouldn't let the bad overshadow the good. It is a fact that I've completed the compiler afterall :D

so see you.

Wow wow wow...

Wow I think I have been switched into the workaholic mode. I always think of work work work these few days. Stayed back in school late again today, testing my somehow-completed-but-should-be-full-with-bugs compiler. If everything goes as planned, I should be able to start writing the report this weekend ;D

However, another assignment, the experiment, didn't go as well as I expected. But since there are others who are struggling, too. I think I should be ok :)

Don't worry, be somehow happy...

Thinking of switching back to Slackware... Slackware... Slackware... By the way I am using Debian now...

Gnite.

Another hard coding day...

Phew... the compiler is a bit nearer to completion today. There is only one last feature I have to implement to get it into the next stage: the test phase. I think I will have some hard time again debugging this badly designed compiler :P But I think I should be able to pass in before the deadline :D Thanks to those who are supporting me, directly or indirectly :)

But there is another nightmare, the experiment. I have to design a pipelined processor in this experiment but I still haven't passed the first stage... Luckily the lecturers gave us extra time on it. See how I perform tomorrow.

Anyway, I think I will have some time to relax after completing these two assignments. Then I might format my computer again :P Oh, by the way I am running Debian Sarge now, on both my desktop and iBook G4. I really like it but I feel it is somehow slower than Slackware and FreeBSD. Perhaps it is because of the bloated desktop environments I am using. Although it is always said that linux can run on very old machines, it is not so true nowadays. If you would like to enjoy all the latest technologies, you might need a rather modern machine. FYI, I am running GNOME 2.8 and KDE 3.3 on an Athlon XP 1800+ box and I don't have much complaints about it :D

See you + Good night.

exit

Eyes strain...

Wow... I have been facing computers too much lately, for completing my compiler. The LOC(lines of code) of all the .c and .h files exceeds 4000 now. Heard from the lecturers that somebody has done the same thing with the LOC of 2000+. I don't know how they have done it but I think I am stupid. So I need to double the lines and the program is still not complete :P

Still wondering should I get a LCD monitor for the sake of my eyes. The price of the 17" seems attractive to me. But it may be a bit luxurious to have such a nice monitor. How should I get rid of the old large CRT if I decided to get one? Questions everywhere.

Anyway, after 31st of Jan I will be a bit more free. Since I should have completed all my reports and passed them up by the time... I hope :)

Getting busy...

School starts tomorrow. And this is how I spent this holiday according to my feeling(I didn't actually measure the time, ok):

50%: Configuring Debian on my desktop and iBook
30%: Going around and play
20%: School work, other activities

Althout I didn't manage to execute my plan to work on my school assignments in the holiday and will have a hard time in the following weeks, I think I have at least made it a meaningful holiday :D