Tuesday, January 20, 2004
Dissin' pissin' missin'
Yep, I was in a crappy mood yesterday, and the last blog entry from me was a manifestation of my unenthusiastic rebellion against people with half-a-brain and two bags full of irritants.
Well, just wanna say today is a much better day - the printer I reviewed wasn't givin me any problems and the old donkey in the lab is behavin himself. Happy Chinese New Year!
Shan't be missin office till next Monday!
P/S: Punya la lama tak makan biskut meri, as if it's banned for non-students!
Well, just wanna say today is a much better day - the printer I reviewed wasn't givin me any problems and the old donkey in the lab is behavin himself. Happy Chinese New Year!
Shan't be missin office till next Monday!
P/S: Punya la lama tak makan biskut meri, as if it's banned for non-students!
tragedi biskut meri
menemui saudara dan saudari yg berada nun jauh di tanahair. semoga berada di dalam keadaan sihat sejahtera hendaknya. ada pun saya di sini teramat sejahtera kehidupan, walaupun ada kalanya mengalami sedikit sebanyak tekanan adan dugaan dlm pembelajaran.
adapun saya baru sahaja menyelesaikan tugasan2 yg diberikan utk smester pertama ini. satu minggu yg penuh dgn tekanan, dugaan, yg benar2 membuatkan semua org mengalami kesan sampingan. demam, migrain, darah tinggi, pitam...semuanya ada belaka. bolah dikatakan dlm satu minggu yg baru lepas ini kami semua berkampung di dalam computer room 24jam sehari. membuat 3D animation menggunakan MAYA dan juga membina WAP enables site, disamping menyediakan presentasi Human-Computer Interaction Design ataupun di dlm bahasa mudahnya psikologi perkomputeran. dan kami juga terpaksa menyediakan diri utk perperiksaan bagi matapelajaran yg sama, HCID.
didlm proses menyiapkan 3D animation tersebut proses yg paling memeritkan adalah sewaktu modeling human character di mana saya sendiri terpaksa menggunakan hampir 9 hari utk menyiapkannya. dan sewaktu mengakhiri development process tersebut, Rendering process, hampir 7 jam terpaksa digunakan. ada yg terpaksa menggunakan hampir 9 jam utk rendering bagi 20 saat playback. wow....
bagaimanapun masih terdapat satu lagi tugasan yg mesti disiapkan sebelum isnin 26 januari, Multimedia Systems yg berkehendakan penulisan laporan sebanyak 2500 patah perkataan dan juga satu simple games mengguna kan Macromedia Director with Lingo usage. haha.....sememangnya satu jangkamasa yg cukup kritikal utk kami semua.
hari ini 19 january, kami baru sahaja menyelesaikan presentasi HCID. bermula dr jam 9.30pg, kami semua sekali lagi berkampung di MSc lecture room sehingg jam 4ptg. terdapat hampir 26 presentasi yg berlansung sehingga kan saya tlah berjaya mencipta puluhan gaya duduk di atas kerusi yg mungkin boleh menarik perhatian pechenta seni utk dijadikan sumber ilham mreka.tak kurang juga kami sepakat bersetuju utk merekodkan segala perkara pelik yg terjadi sewaktu berlangsungnya presentasi tersebut. sbg contoh saya telah berjaya merekodkan pengulangan penggunaa frasa "for example" oleh seorg pelajar pakistan sewaktu giliran beliau. 34 kali pengulangan telah digunakan dlm masa 10 minit. manakala seorg pelajar wanita british telah mengulang ucapkan expressi "urrrmm..aaa" sebanyak 45 kali sepanjang presentasi beliau. itu tidak termasuk perkara2 pelik lain yg berjaya direkodkan oleh teman2 yg lain, seperti ketawa kecil, menggaru kepala, mengurut dagu, dan juga kedipan mata. saya percaya jikalau kesemua rekod ini disatukan, kami boleh menjadikannya sbg eimcpostgrad class of records.
apa yg menarik ialah hampir di dalam semua kejadian kami telah menjadikan biskut susu atau didalam bahasa saya, biskut meri sbg juadah bagi mengalas perut. ini bermakna biskut meri telah berjasa kepada kami semua didlm menamatkan pengajian kami di sini. terima kasih biskut meri.
dan satu lagi perkara yg menakjubkan adalah kami semua telah "click in as a budy", to kalau dlm bahasa inggeris la. pertama kali dlm 4 bulan di bradford kami semua keluar makan tghari bersama2. satu situasi yg selalu wujud dlm mimpi aku. hanya ini sajalah detik dan waktunya biskut meri tak wujud, tapi dia memainkan peranan juga kerana mungkin kerana biskut meri inilah kami mula rapat antara satu sama lain....ooo what a wonderful world.
yang jauh di mata dekat di hati,
asnol lob (gerik)
adapun saya baru sahaja menyelesaikan tugasan2 yg diberikan utk smester pertama ini. satu minggu yg penuh dgn tekanan, dugaan, yg benar2 membuatkan semua org mengalami kesan sampingan. demam, migrain, darah tinggi, pitam...semuanya ada belaka. bolah dikatakan dlm satu minggu yg baru lepas ini kami semua berkampung di dalam computer room 24jam sehari. membuat 3D animation menggunakan MAYA dan juga membina WAP enables site, disamping menyediakan presentasi Human-Computer Interaction Design ataupun di dlm bahasa mudahnya psikologi perkomputeran. dan kami juga terpaksa menyediakan diri utk perperiksaan bagi matapelajaran yg sama, HCID.
didlm proses menyiapkan 3D animation tersebut proses yg paling memeritkan adalah sewaktu modeling human character di mana saya sendiri terpaksa menggunakan hampir 9 hari utk menyiapkannya. dan sewaktu mengakhiri development process tersebut, Rendering process, hampir 7 jam terpaksa digunakan. ada yg terpaksa menggunakan hampir 9 jam utk rendering bagi 20 saat playback. wow....
bagaimanapun masih terdapat satu lagi tugasan yg mesti disiapkan sebelum isnin 26 januari, Multimedia Systems yg berkehendakan penulisan laporan sebanyak 2500 patah perkataan dan juga satu simple games mengguna kan Macromedia Director with Lingo usage. haha.....sememangnya satu jangkamasa yg cukup kritikal utk kami semua.
hari ini 19 january, kami baru sahaja menyelesaikan presentasi HCID. bermula dr jam 9.30pg, kami semua sekali lagi berkampung di MSc lecture room sehingg jam 4ptg. terdapat hampir 26 presentasi yg berlansung sehingga kan saya tlah berjaya mencipta puluhan gaya duduk di atas kerusi yg mungkin boleh menarik perhatian pechenta seni utk dijadikan sumber ilham mreka.tak kurang juga kami sepakat bersetuju utk merekodkan segala perkara pelik yg terjadi sewaktu berlangsungnya presentasi tersebut. sbg contoh saya telah berjaya merekodkan pengulangan penggunaa frasa "for example" oleh seorg pelajar pakistan sewaktu giliran beliau. 34 kali pengulangan telah digunakan dlm masa 10 minit. manakala seorg pelajar wanita british telah mengulang ucapkan expressi "urrrmm..aaa" sebanyak 45 kali sepanjang presentasi beliau. itu tidak termasuk perkara2 pelik lain yg berjaya direkodkan oleh teman2 yg lain, seperti ketawa kecil, menggaru kepala, mengurut dagu, dan juga kedipan mata. saya percaya jikalau kesemua rekod ini disatukan, kami boleh menjadikannya sbg eimcpostgrad class of records.
apa yg menarik ialah hampir di dalam semua kejadian kami telah menjadikan biskut susu atau didalam bahasa saya, biskut meri sbg juadah bagi mengalas perut. ini bermakna biskut meri telah berjasa kepada kami semua didlm menamatkan pengajian kami di sini. terima kasih biskut meri.
dan satu lagi perkara yg menakjubkan adalah kami semua telah "click in as a budy", to kalau dlm bahasa inggeris la. pertama kali dlm 4 bulan di bradford kami semua keluar makan tghari bersama2. satu situasi yg selalu wujud dlm mimpi aku. hanya ini sajalah detik dan waktunya biskut meri tak wujud, tapi dia memainkan peranan juga kerana mungkin kerana biskut meri inilah kami mula rapat antara satu sama lain....ooo what a wonderful world.
yang jauh di mata dekat di hati,
asnol lob (gerik)
Monday, January 19, 2004
Can a girl and a guy stay just friends?
A friend of mine has begun his usual round of "Let's Irritate Someone Today" again. And this time around he almost won hands-down simply cause I was stupid enuf to respond in the first place. But I have not surrendered just yet, simply cause I refuse to say anything at all to him!
His goading gun this time was: A girl and a guy can never be best friends and stay being just best friends.
It was his proclaimation, lacking of statistics and valid supporting material and all, and I was bozo enough to say, "Eh ya ka? I don't think so lah."
And the way he carried the battle was as if I had done the most terrible thing by disagreeing with him. Gosh I hate this kind of people.
They want intelligent conversation but simply can't think of a better subject. Bozo!
His goading gun this time was: A girl and a guy can never be best friends and stay being just best friends.
It was his proclaimation, lacking of statistics and valid supporting material and all, and I was bozo enough to say, "Eh ya ka? I don't think so lah."
And the way he carried the battle was as if I had done the most terrible thing by disagreeing with him. Gosh I hate this kind of people.
They want intelligent conversation but simply can't think of a better subject. Bozo!
Thursday, January 15, 2004
Prosperity burger is back again!
It is that time again - that time when your office receives boxes and boxes of mandarin oranges, and Petaling Street is filled with cherry blossom and money plant, and bookstores stock up on red packets for sale. For me Chinese New Year is an event to look forward to.
Not just cause I'd be able to visit my Ah Lek who used to bring grocery for us, "Uncle Hollywood" my kuay teow chef extraordinaire, Tang Kau the old taxi driver and Su Yin our ex-dressmaker. Though it's a sure thing that I can get at least RM5 from each one of them - I know Tang Kau would give more if his mind wasn't stuck in the '80s.
Not just for all the cool Cantonese movies they'd be showing on TV. Though now that Channel 9 and 8TV are operating regular hours I have five channels to flick across in case ASTRO's down.
Not just for all the lovely Chinese gal friends I'd be bumping into at Jaya Jusco Ipoh soon. Though many of them are here it's still more fun to come across each other in our own hometown.
To me Chinese New Year also means the comeback for McDonald's Prosperity Burger! I know by right I should not be associating a simple fastfood item to something as auspicious as a festival celebrated by more than a billion people in the world, but I can't help it!
If you know me well enough, you know how much an item as ordinary yet versatile as food means to me. Even if you don't know me, my email address includes the word food - doesn't that tell you something?
I love food but I love good food even more. I find new delicacies very exciting. I find destinations that offer lovely gastronomical selection worth the trip. I find authors who use food as simile brilliant (check out Rosie Haslina Nasir, Roald Dahl and Peter Mayle). I even find my job, which entails a lot of discussions and info grovelling over hors d'oeuvre, worth waking up in the morning for.
Tender piece of meat, dipped with spicey gravy, laced with onions, clapped by halved buns, hot from the griller. Count in the twisty fries and the peach-orange sundae. Down it with Vanilla Coke. And that, is the beauty of the Prosperity Burger meal... don't miss it!
Not just cause I'd be able to visit my Ah Lek who used to bring grocery for us, "Uncle Hollywood" my kuay teow chef extraordinaire, Tang Kau the old taxi driver and Su Yin our ex-dressmaker. Though it's a sure thing that I can get at least RM5 from each one of them - I know Tang Kau would give more if his mind wasn't stuck in the '80s.
Not just for all the cool Cantonese movies they'd be showing on TV. Though now that Channel 9 and 8TV are operating regular hours I have five channels to flick across in case ASTRO's down.
Not just for all the lovely Chinese gal friends I'd be bumping into at Jaya Jusco Ipoh soon. Though many of them are here it's still more fun to come across each other in our own hometown.
To me Chinese New Year also means the comeback for McDonald's Prosperity Burger! I know by right I should not be associating a simple fastfood item to something as auspicious as a festival celebrated by more than a billion people in the world, but I can't help it!
If you know me well enough, you know how much an item as ordinary yet versatile as food means to me. Even if you don't know me, my email address includes the word food - doesn't that tell you something?
I love food but I love good food even more. I find new delicacies very exciting. I find destinations that offer lovely gastronomical selection worth the trip. I find authors who use food as simile brilliant (check out Rosie Haslina Nasir, Roald Dahl and Peter Mayle). I even find my job, which entails a lot of discussions and info grovelling over hors d'oeuvre, worth waking up in the morning for.
Tender piece of meat, dipped with spicey gravy, laced with onions, clapped by halved buns, hot from the griller. Count in the twisty fries and the peach-orange sundae. Down it with Vanilla Coke. And that, is the beauty of the Prosperity Burger meal... don't miss it!
Wednesday, January 07, 2004
tak kan melayu hilang didunia
kali ni aku nak cakap melayu. tak kira apa yang dah jadi atau yang nak jadi, aku mahu cakap melayu jugak.
hari ni hari selasa, 06/01/2004. hari ke enam dalam tahun 2004. maknanya dah 9244 hari, 13 311 360 minit aku hidup sejak keluar dari perut mak aku. eh..ye ke. waah...lama tu.
dalam sejam 45 minit 21 saat aku depan komputer. dalam sehari 588 minit 13 saat aku main komputer. dalam seminggu 4114 minit 11 saat masa aku habis sebab mengadap komputer...hmmm...40.82% masa aku dlm seminggu habis kat situ je. lagi 59.12% apa aku buat?
tu baru seminggu. kalo sebulan?? berbulan-bulan??? atau bertahun??? bertahun-tahun???
aahhrrghh...sudah. apa yg aku dok merepek ni.
hahahaha...hahaha...sunshower season when i'm down. wah best gak phrases tu. aku rasa la, chris cornell ni ada buat cult la. tajuk lagu dia semua boleh susun jadi ayat yg ada maksud. tapi apa maksud dia...???
hari ni hari selasa, 06/01/2004. hari ke enam dalam tahun 2004. maknanya dah 9244 hari, 13 311 360 minit aku hidup sejak keluar dari perut mak aku. eh..ye ke. waah...lama tu.
dalam sejam 45 minit 21 saat aku depan komputer. dalam sehari 588 minit 13 saat aku main komputer. dalam seminggu 4114 minit 11 saat masa aku habis sebab mengadap komputer...hmmm...40.82% masa aku dlm seminggu habis kat situ je. lagi 59.12% apa aku buat?
tu baru seminggu. kalo sebulan?? berbulan-bulan??? atau bertahun??? bertahun-tahun???
aahhrrghh...sudah. apa yg aku dok merepek ni.
hahahaha...hahaha...sunshower season when i'm down. wah best gak phrases tu. aku rasa la, chris cornell ni ada buat cult la. tajuk lagu dia semua boleh susun jadi ayat yg ada maksud. tapi apa maksud dia...???
Monday, January 05, 2004
And it's 2004 already, how young am I again?
Firstly macih banyak-banyak for your thoughts and wise words. You guys sounded very sympathetic and optimistic that that friend of mine will eventually find a guy that will have her despite her past. Though I don't know if I can share your optimism, it's still good to know that there's a couple of nice guys out there, hmm...
I was pissed-as-hell when I last wrote for this blog - my poor unsuspecting heart wasn't so used to receiving news that some evil person had done bad things to people I care about. I had a lot of time to think about this, and finally told that friend of mine that I admired her strength, and the fact that she had done so well showed that she's very brave indeed.
She said thanks, then she gave me another dilemma: If a guy asks her to be his girlfriend and so on, should she tell the guy about it, or just let the past be buried?
I told her I'll ask the two nice guys who blogs with me about this, see what they think. She said she thinks you guys will probably run a mile. Would you?
Anyway, I got back to the office on Jan 2 - it was a Friday. I bloody overlooked this part of the calendar or I would have taken that day off as well - I mean what the heck am I trying to prove by coming into the office for a single day on the week (for the uninitiated, I took the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before New Year off).
On the eve of New Year, I got together with a bunch of friends and we got talking about New Year Resolutions.
Sheila said she wants to do better in her career. Yana said she wants a new career. Ros said she wants to learn to like her present career. I told them I am quite satisfied with the low-pressure, boss-doesn't-know-I'm-alive career.
So career-wise, I want to learn how to win more lucky draws during assignments.
In terms of life and such, these gals are adamant that they will not be tying the know anytime soon. Despite them having a steady BF (Sheila+Niven = 6+years, Yana+Man = 5+years, Ros+Amir = coming to 4 years). Despite their family knowing that they have a steady BF. Despite them and their BFs all have steady jobs that comes with big paychecks.
Yeah right! So in terms of life and such, I want to control the deterioration of my eyesight and watch them eat their words.
Personally, all the four of us agreed that our bodies deserve better treatment. Sheila said she will be investing on vitamins and minerals and such. Ros said she wants to take care of her skin better (she's been getting rashes due to her careless attitude towards her allergy). Yana wants to loose weight (though I predict if she does, she's gonna be so much prettier and her BF's jealousy+possesiveness level will likely rise by leaps and bounds).
So as a personal I-take-care-of-myself goal, I thought I'll exercise so that I will be fit enough to climb Kinabalu.
And I also hope I'll curse a lot less this year. I'm training myself to say "fick" instead of "fuck" - so far I think I'm doing pretty well. Though I've been told that "fick" is a German slang word for "fuck", I think it doesn't count cause not too many people around here knows that, right?
I was pissed-as-hell when I last wrote for this blog - my poor unsuspecting heart wasn't so used to receiving news that some evil person had done bad things to people I care about. I had a lot of time to think about this, and finally told that friend of mine that I admired her strength, and the fact that she had done so well showed that she's very brave indeed.
She said thanks, then she gave me another dilemma: If a guy asks her to be his girlfriend and so on, should she tell the guy about it, or just let the past be buried?
I told her I'll ask the two nice guys who blogs with me about this, see what they think. She said she thinks you guys will probably run a mile. Would you?
Anyway, I got back to the office on Jan 2 - it was a Friday. I bloody overlooked this part of the calendar or I would have taken that day off as well - I mean what the heck am I trying to prove by coming into the office for a single day on the week (for the uninitiated, I took the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before New Year off).
On the eve of New Year, I got together with a bunch of friends and we got talking about New Year Resolutions.
Sheila said she wants to do better in her career. Yana said she wants a new career. Ros said she wants to learn to like her present career. I told them I am quite satisfied with the low-pressure, boss-doesn't-know-I'm-alive career.
So career-wise, I want to learn how to win more lucky draws during assignments.
In terms of life and such, these gals are adamant that they will not be tying the know anytime soon. Despite them having a steady BF (Sheila+Niven = 6+years, Yana+Man = 5+years, Ros+Amir = coming to 4 years). Despite their family knowing that they have a steady BF. Despite them and their BFs all have steady jobs that comes with big paychecks.
Yeah right! So in terms of life and such, I want to control the deterioration of my eyesight and watch them eat their words.
Personally, all the four of us agreed that our bodies deserve better treatment. Sheila said she will be investing on vitamins and minerals and such. Ros said she wants to take care of her skin better (she's been getting rashes due to her careless attitude towards her allergy). Yana wants to loose weight (though I predict if she does, she's gonna be so much prettier and her BF's jealousy+possesiveness level will likely rise by leaps and bounds).
So as a personal I-take-care-of-myself goal, I thought I'll exercise so that I will be fit enough to climb Kinabalu.
And I also hope I'll curse a lot less this year. I'm training myself to say "fick" instead of "fuck" - so far I think I'm doing pretty well. Though I've been told that "fick" is a German slang word for "fuck", I think it doesn't count cause not too many people around here knows that, right?
