April 20, 2006

Maths II Gone Case...

Raining again! Yesterday's Maths II paper is really gone case... I think most prob will "da-bao" that module... but who knows? miracle might happen just like my Electronics and Maths I modules last sem...

Any way... i got a very serious headache since last night... haven't recover even though I ate panadol and slept for 12 hours... So now I don't know should I go and rest or go study... urgh...

Yesterday after the paper, Wilson, Desmond, Wei Yang and me went to JP (Jurong Point) for dinner... i ordered a bowl of curry mutton... Wow! that was the best Curry Mutton I ever had! the curry is fanstatic, except that it's really spicy, but it's damm shiok... and the mutton is super thick! not like other stalls that give you bones...

afterwhich, we went arcade (XZone, I think)... desmond and Wilson played their usual game, dream catcher! you remember the game where you have to catch your favourite softtoy? that's it... I already gave up on the game many years ago... firstly, I don't have the skills to catch it, secondly, I really don't feel the game is fun (unless you caught something), and thirdly, it's addictive and cost you a lot of $$$. While they are playing, of course I went to play my favourite parapara and shooting games etc...

Ok, I think that's all for now, my headache is killing me, just want to share with you all 1 joke and 1 story as follows, you can also check it out at http://ymeagain-collection.blogspot.com

Joke
A store that sells husbands has just opened in New York City, where a Woman may go to choose a husband.

Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store operates. You may visit the store ONLY ONCE!

There are six floors and the attributes of the men increase as the shopper ascends the flights. There is, however, a catch, you may choose any man from a particular floor, or you may choose to go up a floor, but you cannot go back down except to exit the building!

So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find a husband . .

On the first floor the sign on the door reads:

Floor 1 - These men have jobs and love the Lord.

The second floor sign reads:

Floor 2 - These men have jobs, love the Lord, and love kids.

The third floor sign reads:

Floor 3 - These men have jobs, love the Lord, love kids, and are extremely good looking. "Wow," she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going.

She goes to the fourth floor and sign reads:

Floor 4 - These men have jobs, love the Lord, love kids, are drop-dead good looking and help with the housework. "Oh, mercy me!"she exclaims, "I can hardly stand it!"

Still, she goes to the fifth floor and sign reads:

Floor 5 - These men have jobs, love the Lord, love kids, are drop- dead gorgeous, help with the housework, and have a strong romantic streak.

She is so tempted to stay, but she goes to the sixth floor and the sign reads:

Floor 6 - You are visitor 4,363,012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible to please. Thank you for shopping at the Husband Store. Watch your step as you exit the building, and have a nice day!

Please send this to all men for a good laugh and to all the women who can handle the truth!

Meaningful Story

One day, when I was a freshman in high school, I saw a kid from my class was walking home from school. His name was Kyle. It looked like he was carrying all of his
books. I thought to myself, "Why would anyone bring home all his books on a Friday? He must really be a nerd."

I had quite a weekend planned (parties and a football
game with my friends tomorrow afternoon), so I shrugged my shoulders and went on.


As I was walking, I saw a bunch of kids running toward
him. They ran at him, knocking all his books out of his arms and tripping him so he landed in the dirt. His glasses went flying, and I saw them land in the grass about ten feet from him. He looked up and I saw this terrible sadness in his eyes
.

My heart went out to him. So, I jogged over to him and
as he crawled around looking for his glasses, and I saw a tear in his eye. As I handed him his glasses, I said, "Those guys are jerks. They really should get lives." He looked at me and said, "Hey thanks!" There was a big smile on his face. It was one of those smiles that showed real gratitude.

I helped him pick up his books, and asked him where
he lived. As it turned out, he lived near me, so I asked him why I had never seen him before. He said he had gone to private school before now.

I would have never hung out with a private school kid
before. We talked all the way home, and I carried some of his books. He turned out to be a pretty cool kid. I asked him if he wanted to play a little football with my
friends. He said yes. We hung out all weekend and the more I got to know Kyle, the more I liked him, and my friends thought the same of him.


Monday morning came, and there was Kyle with the
huge stack of books again. I stopped him and said, "Boy, you are gonna really build some serious muscles with this pile of books everyday!" He just laughed and
handed me half the books
.

Over the next four years, Kyle and I became best
friends. When we were seniors, we began to think about college. Kyle decided on Georgetown, and I was going to Duke. I knew that we would always be
friends, that the miles would never be a problem. He was going to be a doctor, and I was going for business on a football scholarship
.

Kyle was valedictorian of our class. I teased him all the time about being a nerd. He had to prepare a speech for graduation.

I was so glad it wasn't me having to get up there and
speak. Graduation day, I saw Kyle. He looked great. He was one of those guys that really found himself during high school. He filled out and actually looked good in glasses. He had more dates than I had and all the girls loved him. Boy, sometimes I was jealous.


Today was one of those days. I could see that he was
nervous about his speech. So, I smacked him on the back and said, "Hey, big guy, you'll be great!" He looked at me with one of those looks (the really grateful one) and smiled. "Thanks," he said.

As he started his speech, he cleared his throat, and
began. "Graduation is a time to thank those who helped you make it through those tough years. Your parents, your teachers, your siblings, maybe a coach...but mostly your friends. I am here to tell all of you that being a friend to someone is the best gift you can give them. I am going to tell you a story."

I just looked at my friend with disbelief as he told the story of the first day we met. He had planned to kill himself over the weekend. He talked of how he had cleaned out his locker so his Mom wouldn't have to do it later and was carrying his stuff home.

He looked hard at me and gave me a little smile.

"Thankfully, I was saved. My friend saved me from doing the unspeakable."

I heard the gasp go through the crowd as this handsome, popular
boy told us all about his weakest moment.

I saw his Mom and dad looking at me and smiling that same grateful smile. Not until that moment did I realize it's depth.

Never underestimate the power of your actions. With one small gesture you can change a person's life. For
better or for worse.

April 18, 2006

I found out a very strange thing... People don't tell people when they moved their blog or when their blog is dead... (this is not against anyone in particular)... See the number of deadlinks I had on the side... Anyway, it's a small matter, I shouldn't be angry about it... I had been too picky I think... btw, if you wish to have a link to your blog or you have moved my blog, please tell me... simply because I loved to read blogs... my MSN nick is now changed to "ymeagain@MA2 ~~ Blog Addresses Collection! Tell me if you have a blog or you had moved your blog... ~~ 不管是落叶 不管是阴天 天灰永远会变晴天" MA2 is the self-created abbreviation for Mathematics II and the chinese words is just to motivate myself to study hard for exams (it was extracted from the story of 天灰 MV as follows)...

天灰了
重病缠身的女孩 对著键盘打下:
请问宋哲纬?

他是我高中的同学
他叫宋哲纬很会画图
我休学之后就没见过他了
我很想再见到他

时间拉回高中时期 当时已经被病缠身的她 藉由日记写下自己的心情

2002.11.22
下午开始热了起来
大家都去上体育课了
只剩下我一个人
心情有点灰.....

男生依旧在画著女孩 望着女孩的背影
女孩你有感受到吗?? 用相机写日记的你
在她的青春里 最常见的搭配只能是口罩
遮住了她的笑脸 躺在病床上
只会使她伤心 流泪

2002.12.3
365个吃药打针的日子
什么时候会停止

男孩还想要给女孩牛奶补充营养 希望她能康复
女孩拿到了他的关心 也看到了他的画 可是

2002.12.3
终于
无法再上课了.....

女孩休学了 习惯用影像纪录生活的她
男孩则继续他的学生生活

看着一篇篇的回覆 知道男孩近况的她眼框湿了
是想念还是欣慰抑或是不舍 哭了

女孩消失了 被上天带回家了吧
偌大房间只有透过相框想念她

男孩的画依旧在那 人不在了

不管是落叶 不管是阴天
天灰永远会变晴天
你在找我吗?

天灰了 灯也熄?

sad story right? if you want the MV, can nudge me on MSN...

It had been raining heavily everyday... so I cant even dry my clothes... moreover, my neighbour used up all the hanging lines! Talking about my neighbour, he's really a bastard and an idiot... firstly, he hang the clothes by just throwing the clothes on the lines, and leave it there for weeks! I mean, how you expect it to dry when you don't spread out the clothings and you leave it there whether it's rain or shine... Secondly, he drink until drunk every few days, and I once saw his vomit in the toilet basin (it's a common toilet)... please la, please vomit into the toilet bowl... I wonder how he get into a University when he don't even have general knowledge of hanging clothes... Even my roommate (a Sinagporean Indian) cannot tolerate my neighbour (India Indian)...

The other day, I was downloading videos from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/learning/default.aspx , to refresh my skills on .NET programming... I should be experimenting using .NET to develop my personal website... The plan is to have a website that explains ME and also serve a platform to share photos, videos, music etc on a database... and hopefully have a forum, so one group of friends can get to know another group of friends... who knows? it might develop into a larger network of friends... I can also assign username to friends that I think deserve it, so they can access exclusive files such as contact lists and birthday lists... you will never get to forget each other's birthday, because I can also implement birthday reminders... of course, this needs a lot of work...
I think I will start working on this after exams... (although I still need to cope with FOC and Special Term) ... Hopefully, I will get something running in August... Meanwhile, do tell me if you have any ideas...

Yesterday was really a nightmare, I had been studying whole day and whole night, I didn't sleep until 8.30am in the morning... And when I look at some lecture notes, I don't even have impressions of what it's talking about... what's worse? I was alone in the room, and had not talk to anyone (even on MSN) for the whole day... Hopefully, things can turn up better today...

Well, I can't blame anyone but myself... I had been skipping almost half of the lectures I think... I really need to put my mood back to studying... Studying in a University really isn't easy... especially in my Computer Engineering course (people says that it got the highest dropout and "dabao" rate in the whole Singapore)... I once heard a professor says that it's accredited by IEEE as a degree of Masters standard (see here), that explains why it's so tough...

"The Computer Engineering course is accredited by the Institution of Electrical Engineers, United Kingdom, at M.Eng. level. The course is also accredited by the Professional Engineers Board, Singapore." (see here)

This assures me that I had not choosen the wrong course... A lot of my friends wonder why I choose Computer Engineering (as compared to Computer Science or NUS Computing, which I was offered also, and is nearer in nature to my diploma)... I think I should explain once and for all...

Firstly, Computer Engineering is not equal to Computing, Computer Engineering is a combination of engineering and computer science. My area of interest is embedded systems and wireless technologies, the only way to truly learn these is through an Engineering course, not a Computing course.

Secondly, there are IT experts everywhere, any foreign average IT professional (or maybe a teenage programmer) can be much better in skills than the best Singaporean IT Expert. Moreover, these experts (especially from India) are willing to have a lower salary, and works harder than an average Singaporean. Foreign talents will definitely be a rational choice for employers. Well, unless, you have competitive advantage. That is, an engineer can design and build a computer, I don't think a pogrammer can do it. Who knows? I might design a microprocessor better than Intel! (haha, impossible hor?) Besides, an Engineer defintely have a more professional status than a Programmer in society, agreed?

Thirdly, if I want to choose a degree, why choose one that is similar to my diploma? I come here to learn new things. My objectives in studying is never about getting the certificate (although having a certificate is really a bonus). To those who study for a cert: "please la... study for yourself, for achievements, for your family! Be realistic, having a cert doesn't guarantees a job. Compare to, there are a lot of successful people who never got a degree! (look at Bill Gates..)"...

Ok, enough of typing... back to studies... Maths 2 Exam tomorrow! I think I offended a lot of people while writing this, this is written in a general point of view, not against anyone in particular. And of course, you are free to disagree with me and give me comments.

meanwhile, visit the following sites
Local brand - a T-shirt brand developed by true Singaporeans, endorsed by Xiaxue, click on the shirt films (especially 100% Hero), it's damm funny.
不想長大的 S.H.E - A blog written by S.H.E themselves, a lot of interesting life photos there... Hebe really has a good sense of writing...
TANK的音樂日誌 - A blog written by Tank himself, his songs are really good, can be compared to David Tao and Lee Hom...
MV Links - A series of lonks to many MVs
Videos on S.H.E
一眼万年MV - A nicely taken MV of their new song
S.H.E~搞笑全記錄 - S.H.E only depends on looks? no, they are more than that. You will laugh until stomachache after you see this video
S.H.E. saying jokes
S.H.E第15屆金曲獎girl power - An excellent performance by them, not singing their own songs, but singing other people's songs
S.H.E @ 娛樂百分百 (2004-11-17) (Part 1 of 4) - Ella emotionally breakdown and hit herself with the mic in this show, got 4 parts...
S.H.E @ 娛樂百分百 (2004-11-17) (Part 2 of 4)
S.H.E @ 娛樂百分百 (2004-11-17) (Part 3 of 4)
S.H.E @ 娛樂百分百 (2004-11-17) (Part 4 of 4)

April 15, 2006

I got one good news and one bad news, which one you want to hear first???

Normally people will say bad nes 1st... alright, bad news then...
Bad News: I haven't started studying Maths 2!
Oh shit, I basically had been wasting time these 2 days on watching movies (Cinderella Man, Ice Age 2 etc.), dramas (爱杀17 and 爱情魔发师) and surfing net...

Good News: I finally finish my laundry! and also I added some photos, music and videos to my "long-time-no-touch" multiply site... Do drop by http://ymeagain.multiply.com if you have the time... (or when you feel boring)... yah... I also manage to clear most of my yahoo mails (which I only check in a few months), send future mails to yingyong@singnet.com.sg ok?

Alright, cut the crap... you can add me in multiply to gain full access to my multply site... I will be sharing my photos, music and videos there for the time being... (ymeagain ask ying yong: why you must repeat yourself huh?)

At the same time, I had been searching for a good web host to do my future web development... When I say web development, I'm saying I need support for a database (preferbly MS SQL) and technology like ASP.NET ... frankly speaking, I don't paying... If you have any recommendations, please tell me (p.s. lg, thanks for the help)... My ambition is to develop a platform to share my stuff with friends, then from there develop further... who knows? maybe I can develop that into a business... btw, please help to click on the google advertisements by the right side (don't the the top one)... it's actually put by myself and I can earn a few cents if somebody click it... well, I'm not forcing you la... click when u like lor... if you are interested, you can visit https://www.google.com/adsense/

Another thing that might interest web developers, Microsoft is offering free download of Visual Studio 2005 until Nov 2006! check it out at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/default.aspx

if you notice, my blog also had a new name: "The Chronicles of Y-cube..." ... Nice right??? I also added another blog called "Y-cube's Collections" , this is the place where I share some interesting pictures and comics I received through mails... it's a pity if I don't share... and btw, I stopped forwarding this kind of mails a few years ago... (i used to do it but people complain that I flooding their mails).. do drop by at http://ymeagain-collection.blogspot.com/ ... the photos are uploaded by a friendly and free software called Hello Bloggerbot developed by Google (Blogger is under Google anyway)... But the bad thing is you need to upload a pic one at a time and also only 1 picture can appear in one post... nevertheless, it's good for those who want to "hassle-freely" post pictures... and I think I can cutomize it with some html editing (which I don't have time to do now... Maths exams coming in 3 days! OMG!)

Another thing, regarding my birthday wish list on my msn nick, you can ignore it la... I just put it for fun... although I really want the following items la...
1. a new pair of Bermudas (my current bermudas got a hole liao...)
2. Tank's Album
3. Digital Camera (5 megapix) (essential item to make a good blog)
4. Creative Zen Micro 5GB (or higher) (or equivalent MP3 players like iRiver H10)
5. PVR (to watch TV on computer)
I really don't need any present la... (sure or not?) ... I found that once people reach over 21 years old, birthday really doesn't matter to the birthday boy(or girl)... But birthday is a good opportunity for friends to have a gathering and give friends a treat... (i want to la.. but I am very poor recently)
Anyway, I can buy the above things using my PROGRESS dividends! Haha.. coming on 1st May... Wait a minute, I need to pay back my mother, pay my overdue bills etc... that means left with... Hahaha... I think I better save up if I got any $$$ left...

Ok, I think I should end by showing a pictures when my whole family went to KTV on 1st April (to celebrate my father's birthday)

Aren't my parents cute?

April 11, 2006

Ok, I am stubborn.

Everytime I want to study, I want to read through every piece of lecture notes and make a notes on cue cards. Results: I can't finish studying in time -> just flunk my quiz on monday (discrete maths notation, haha!). I think I need to come out with another more efficient way to study. I told myself that I definitely must score better than last semester. (if you don't know yet, I had my worst results in my life last sem)... Ok, let's not bored everyone... change topic...

recently, I had read quite a few blogs that are really interesting...

Xiaxue aka Wendy http://xiaxue.blogspot.com
She has been my favourite blogger so far. She's a celebrity blogger... nono... she's not a celebrity who blogs. She's someone who got famous by blogging. The interesting thing about her is that she talks everything under the sun in the most frank way (sometimes vulgarities)... And her blog is so famous that companies give her free products and invite her to events, just to make her blog about it. Somethings I like about her is that her posts are always full of photos and meaningful words, and always backing up what she says with evidence. Besides her main blog, she also a "Hate Xiaxue" blog, a "Media Centre" blog, "Geek" blog and a "Superstar" Blog... Interesting right? check out her blog!
btw, she's also a columnist for magazines such as Maxim and SNAG.

Talk Rock http://rockson.blogspot.com/
He (I think he's a guy) uses the most Ah Beng language to talk about sensitive issues (especially political) that nobody dares to talk about. I think the government will vomit blood when they sees his blog. Quite interesting points of view from him, but you need a certain knowledge og Hokkien to understand him.

Sarong Party Girl
http://sarongpartygirl.blogspot.com/ and http://www.missizzy.org/
Hasn't really read her blog, but she's quite a good writer also, but the language she use is too formal. I heard that she became famous after she post a nude picture of herself on her blog.

Ok, next... want to introduce you all to a few sites that I find interesting

SparkyBlue http://www.sparkyblue.com
Yesterday, Eric send me this link http://www.sparkyblue.com/misc/italian_english/index.htm
it's on a Italian speaking Engish joke... Quite funny, but I heard it 3 times already! Then I went to explore the whole website... And found some flash animations that interest me at http://flash.sparkyblue.com/main.htm ... some recommendations are Happy Tree Friends (A very sadist and hilarious cartoon), Star 摘星 (A professionally-made Taiwanese romantic comic series by Kokoro) and 小小作品 - Xiao Xiao (well-done and realistic Kungfu comic done using stick men)

Miniclip http://www.miniclip.com/
Yesterday, Xiang introduce me to this website full of games... Hasn't got the time to try all the games, but do try the Top Ten Games listed near the top left hand corner. I tried the Club Pengiun game, its like a Virtual Neighbourhood, and you go around buildings and rooms to play mini games, interesting thing is that you can even buy clothings and even buy your own skin colour! (serously, I don't see penguins changing colours by buying)

One last thing, I planning to revamp my blog and personal website (I done it halfway last time but my comp crash) after the exams. I would like to have some comments... leave our comments by clicking the "0 comments" link just right after this post. Don't leave it in the ShoutBox (it's kind of giving me errors)... well, of course, I welcome comments on the way I write my blogs also... haha...

Ok, I think I need to go back to study Software Systems And Models (some people call it Java, I don't understand, because it's actually not much about Java)... Exams on this Thursday!!! OMG! I better go back to studies... LOL! See ya!