Well, this is one of the days where I get to wake up so early in the mornings… Yea gotta appreciate the mornings. Slept early last night (11pm), even coffee can’t keep me awake yesterday. Will be going for a nice sunny noon swim soon. Catcha back later.
Education scene
Had the SAT I reasoning test this morning.. and yup, it was relatively easy compared to the last time I took it. Didn’t studied for it as usual, partly because I don’t have the self control to sit down and actually make myself study. Moreover, partly too its a reasoning test- it is supposed to gauge your reasoning abilities, you can’t study for it! Well.. unlike most Kiasu (scared to lose) people in here which I obviously detest…. Anyway, for me, its the results in the end which have the final say.. coming in two weeks too *glup*
Talking bout this, many things had been going on the education system overseas. To end route learning, the SAT will too be revamped (as anticipated by many). And yea.. Britain is gonna scrap the ‘O’ and ‘A’ levels due to the complications and problems faced last, good they do so too. But Singapore is still kinda shortsighted and carrying on with the old system. If you’ve read today’s papers, the reason they gaveis “the lack of diversity the people here have” Man! Blame it on the people!
Anyway… yea. dude! If Singapore were to dump the Os and As… END with route learning and the dreaded Ten-Year-Series assessments, up and on to thinking & creativity- thats my kind of learning. *DUH!*
MTV asia awards
Well, the MTV asia awards is on tomorrow. Good for those who managed to get hold of the tickets through those endless begging and calling through perfect 10 hotlines, you are sure a lucky few. And yes it will be BIG, with stars Robbie Williams, Jay Chou, together with Matchbox Twenty, Anggun, j.t.L, Kris Dayanti, Kyla, Siti Nurhaliza Aishwarya Rai, Atomic Kitten, Avril Lavigne, Blue, CoCo Lee, David Tao, D2B, Ella, F4, He Yao Sun, Linkin Park, Missy Elliott, Ogie Alcasid, Palmy, Parokya Ni Edgar, Regine Velasquez, Shaan, Shaggy, Silly Fools, Slapshock, Suede, and Urban Xchange. Lets rock baby!
The official partner sponsors of 2003 MTV Asia Awards are MasterCard, Nokia, Panasonic and TOYOTA
Singapore Frag Fest ’03
Ok guys, here comes some good stuffs, the Singapore Frag Fest ’03.
Here are the details, courtesy of Mr t3mp3st, our networking Guru.
March 21st – 23rd are the current dates for the event. They may change as much as 1 day but no more (eg, 20th – 22nd).
If you wish to be invited, read below as it is invitational only.
1) First make sure you meet these basic requirements.
– You have a PC or Laptop that you can bring to the party.
– The computer must be Network equipped
– Its recommended that windows 2000 or XP be used. Windows 98 users will be allowed but will not be supported (you will have no access to the file servers).
– You are at least 16 years of age (for legal reasons) unless a guardian is accompanying you.
2) Make sure your payment of 15 dollars is made at least 2 weeks in advance to the party. This money is for payment of the location, tables, chairs, and other basic needs such as electricity and air-conditioning.
3) Pizza will be ordered and McDonalds and Hawkers are nearby. The location will be at either the Woodlands Woodgrove or Nearby Borders bookshop @ orchard (if at orchard price will increase).
No money is required until we have declared the party 100% go (meaning 20 people or more).
Prizes
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There will be prizes. We may have hardware prizes, or a cash purse. Depends on the turnout and situation. We will be having a donation session towards the prize purse. There is the possibility of a raffle.
Cash Prize Currently: S$100
Games to be played
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Pretty much anything goes thats multiplayer. There are no restrictions. There will only be dedicated servers for Counter-Strike and Quake III. Possibly a few other FPS’s. However all games are invited, welcomed, or what-not.
Contacts
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If you are interested and can meet the requirements above. Then further details will be given.
To contact t3mp3st about this event, do one of the following. They are listed in order of priority…
1. Contact t3mp3st via SGFF Forums ( http://sgac.blue-fox.net )
2. Email t3mp3st @ sgfragfest@hotmail.com
3. Or email me (Shaun) and I will PM to t3mp3st.
Please take note, that the SGFF crew takes no responsibility for hardware problems during or after the LAN party. Your equipment is your own responsibility.
Boring day
Its a boring day today, spent most of my day in singnet counter-strike servers, met some of my usual “cs” buddies there. Also updated the stylesheet for few of the site’s pages.
Doddled abit on a request sent to me for some were rabbit morph-piece, done with the sketch, will most probably be scanning and coloring it tomorrow. Its gonna be one of my first realistic/evil/nasty pieces, and my first few tries at it too. 😀
Shout People!
Lookie left! O_o a shoutbox! yea that a new edtion to the site, feel free to SHOUT anytime you want on the site, you can start a ‘live chat’ right here!
Also, fixed: resolution resize problems, the page stretches to fit all resolutions now. Also please take note that the site is best viewed at 1024×768 resolution minimum
CS 1.6 Out
Counter strike 1.6 Beta is out already, but heck! the downloads are all put off in the official sites due to overwhelming bandwidth demand. You are required to download steam 2.0, a valve’s graphic user interface (V-GUI) to get CS1.6, TFC1.6 and the other mods. o-_-o
…. But, hey, what to *shunk* about? Heres another link for you guys to get hold of it, type search “steam” @ this site to get at filemirrors.com
Chaos and have fun, the Famas rifle rocks!
Superpet hardware BBQ gathering
Lolz, the photos of yesterday’s superpet hardware BBQ gathering are up!, check out Superpet’s Website for some of them.
Code up & running
Finally! got the news section code and comments system settled, reset it and cleared all previous entries. Thanks to GamerZ pointing out the problem to me. Now its time to focus my attention to other parts of the site.
DSO labs assessment
Jus came back from the *test* early this morning. It some DSO labs assessment thingy @ science park- to determine whether you will be sweating out in the fields or sitting in front of a computer and working for the laboratories during National Service. It kinda whocked up when they say that you are the *specially selected* few for the vocation and *duh* its only 50-60 people in the whole of SG??? “Me veri normal don’t find me very special Leh!” Ok, back on topic, Its similar to the commando selection I’ve last year, but all paper work only. & man the test was all greek to me, mostly networking, solaris and unix questions, I only scored in the hardware and web site parts. The questions, when its difficult, it real tough, when it easy it really damn easy *duh* finished record time in half the the aloted time, cos the first to finish is the first the Go!
Site up & functional
The site’s pretty well much up and running already. Dude, did the tons of php coding on the blog entry and comments section- sure kinda whocked me up in the afternoon, till I got it fixed after dinner. Added cookies functions so you don’t need to retype your nick and stuffs each time you post any comments, keke, so much for THE SITE… Moreover…and.. damn, will be waking up early for the first time in 2months for some NS vocational assignement thingy at science park tomorrow morning, hope I can fall alseep by 12 tonight, cos normally 2am is my usual bedtime *duh* gotta stop drinking coffee already.
Design Version 10 up!
Ok, as promised, V10.0 is up dudes! feel free to romp around the site.
In the meantime, I have to adjust some pages to fit the new color scheme, so please bear with it. Also, a comments section is up, but its still very very buggy.