Let’s see, the last time I updated my blog was on the 1st September 2008. That’s about 2 months of inactivity of this blog!
To save the “I’ve been busy with exams and work” yada yada, let me just type out a few things which comes to my mind now.
RAM prices are down! My desktop is messy, my study room is messy and my cubicle is messy. Petrol price might be going down tomorrow.
Sorry to bore you readers. 
Today is the 1st of September. I though the government is going to announce a new price for petrol today. Everyone forgetten already?
Sigh.
It’s still expensive now. 
Getting stressed out quite easily lately and because of that, I’m loosing focus and getting numb and out of breath easily for no reason at all sometimes. Could be my diet, could be lack of sleep, could be lack of excercise or could be I have too much to do lately.
Since I’ve completed most of my work in the office and have some time to relax a little, I do plan to do so. Maybe eat better, take less coffee and excercise a little bit every morning after I wake up and every night before I sleep.
I certainly don’t want to die due to stress. It’s certainly not worth the amount that I’m being paid for. Besides, I have so much more to live for then to die for. Right?
Done at least 18 different revision changes for my programs in the past 2 months!
Here’s a tip for Programmers. Never work for people who don’t even know what they want themself! You’ll find yourself in my shoes redoing everything just to satisfy those kind of people!
In my case, I’m not getting paid by every modification made… Which made things worse.
Bah.
The Government is determined to eradicate hardcore poverty in two years despite the current austerity drive.
That’s what the they said.
Well, that’s also what they said 4 years ago. But it seems that everyone is getting poorer instead. The only people getting richer are the already rich.
For the past few months, I’ve been eating really cheap and lousy economy food in my canteen. Sometimes even just drinking some cereals for lunch and even skipping dinner. I used to pinch my wallet so that I could buy a new hardware or a new pair of shoes. Now, I have to pinch my wallet and even tie my stomach so that I can service my car! Already “ubah gaya hidup” mah.
As I look at the RM625 I got from the post office as rebate for the fuel subsidy, I can’t help but think how fast this stack of money is going to be spent. It’s only going to last me 7 times to the petrol station. That’s only 2 months!
I went for grocery shopping last weekend and the price of Tesco Value instant noodles has been replaced with what Cintan or Maggi used to cost. Wholemeal bread now costs RM3 instead of RM2. When the government asked us to “Ubah Gaya Hidup” during the last fuel hike, I supposed they were talking about our television usage, luxury food consumption, etc… I never know they were actually asking us to die of hunger.
More things to cut? Perhaps if I cut my hair BOTAK each time, I get to save more on haircut bills.
MyVi’s fuel tank capacity is 40 litres. In fact, if you’re a MyVi driver, most probably you’ll be spending about RM60 everytime you refuel your car in the petrol station. That’s because the last bar when the fuel gauge meter starts blinking, you’d actually still have about slightly less then 10 litres left but no one dares takes the risk to go anywhere far with that blinking warning.
So, the previous price of RON97 petrol costs RM1.92 per litre. The last increase of 30 cents have already costs the price of everything to increase madly and the most affected people are THE POOR. The richer class of people probably have little impact to their salary, some have subsidised from their company, some businessmen actually earns more by increasing the price of everything in their shops.
In my case, my car is MyVi and previously, I’m spending about RM60 everytime I refuel. Now I need to spend about RM90 everytime I go to the petrol station. That means I’m pumping about 30 litres of petrol everytime. 30 litres multiplied by RM2.70 is RM81. ARGHHHh~!~!~!
Die la… I’m already eating cheap cereal for lunch only. Now eat what ah? Grass?
Just about a month, I confessed my feelings to a girl. Although not directly but I was happy she got the message. However, things were complicated as mentioned in this poem. Although after the fog had clear, I had not really officially asked her the question yet.
This can be considered a continuation of the poem previously written. 
Deary, I’ve been wondering.
Will I still be dreaming.
You by my side and we’re hugging.
Be comfortable, be joyful, be happy.
My heart beats like in a hurry.
Girlfriend I wish you are to me.
Her reply >>>
Deary, you are the one shine
I mentioned before time
Do is what I have for thee
Deary don’t give up on me
I will always be there for thee
Love and cherish your kisses
You have melt me to cheeses…
I had been waiting for a reply with my heart thumping hard. My Reply >>>
Deary,
You have made me worry,
made my heart beat in a hurry.
The faces you made when you made me wait
Waiting for you to decide our fate
Worth the time I’ve wait with mind blurry
It was a simple yet wonderful poetry
I was touched and very happy
Am I stupid to be so worried?
Happy after your reply I see.
I’m nearing the final year for my course. Luckily, I made it through so far without much unwanted incident. Of course, there were horrible management in the admin department, lousy lecturers who come and go. Some temporary replacement tutors who come in in the middle of our course and also extremely lousy plan for the students to actually learn much of anything before taking on any exams.
Thus, to keep pushing myself to do better then pass and with lots of help from friends, good lecturers and of course, with lots of help and support from my lovely girlfriend, I am able to make it this far without much problems with my results. I do hope it’s better though but I know my own standards. I’m still happy for at least it’s still relatively better then most of the other students.
So now, it’s time to plan for a project which I can make for my final year’s project. Something which can “Wow” the invigilators and taken over to Degree level. Something which we needed to start planing on now instead of waiting for the stupid admin to announce it first.
It would probably sound like this:
Admin: Hi students, you’ll need to start on your FYP now. Here are the topics and your lecturers.
Student: When is the due date?
Admin: Oh… 1 week from now. You need to do the work of at least 1 year though. Try to cope! Or you’ll need to pay for a re-sit.
Student: *Blames PSDC*
PSDC: *Blames tutors*
So anyway. to start thinking of our own FYP isn’t a bad idea now since we have some free time before our next assignment or exam. My girlfriend suggested Artificial Neural Network, or at least the AI part of it. Doesn’t sound like a bad idea. Sounds like it can really impress. We found a book about the fundamentals of Neural Network which only costs around RM50. If it’s too complicated then we probably can opt for some simpler alternative such as Fuzzy Logic with some advance AI.
Then maybe if it’s still not acceptable, then we could always just make a humanoid robot like Iron Man.
A guy met a girl in class,
Then, he was too shy to ask,
so he just admire her from far,
about the girl who shines like a star.
Those who made it pass a semester,
she was one of the most popular.
Another guy seems to like her,
but it all sounded like a rumor.
Until the day he saw them holding hands,
that’s when his hopes turns to sand.
but he still is happy together with them,
as he and her still remain as friends.
For one year he watched and waited,
for one year he remained silent.
Thinking his miserable love life is fated,
to wait but not get the love he wanted.
There is no blood but tears,
there was no hate but fears.
Seeing them together makes him jealous,
seeing him mistreating her makes him angers.
“But who am I to interfere?”
She probably loves him so dear.
he tries to keep himself occupied
with work and games and silent cheers.
But it made him feels more lonely
it made him feels so sad.
Sad enough to do something mad,
mad enough to find another lad.
The lad was tall and pretty,
but he still misses her like crazy.
When she said she won’t disturb,
he snaps and finds himself in dirt.
Feeling like a piece of trash,
feeling his heart burnt to ash.
Quickly he broke up with the lad,
who was also kind of mad.
He realized how much he had fell,
for the girl he now know quite well.
But there are so much more he wants to know,
About the girl he knew few years ago.
So he wrote his feelings somewhere,
thought that no one will read it there.
Surprised on the next day,
to hear what she had to say.
She had read what he wrote,
and she waited for him to spoke.
One ice cream, one dinner and a few chokes,
he still has no courage to tell what he had wrote.
She said it’s touching, without being asked,
the whole story finally unmasked.
but it would have been a lot better,
if only he was a little earlier.
He made a mistake by waiting too much,
as she had feelings for him just as much.
but now there is another guy,
who seems to always makes her cry.
*
The story stops here for now
as it is an ongoing tale.
I hope and I pray as I follow the trail,
that it’ll be you I see at the end of the vale.
that it’ll be you I see when I remove the vile.
that it’ll be you I hug, so I must prevail!
Events are usually the only time PISA will fully utilize their car park space. Even if PISA becomes a venue for an Olympics event, I don’t think the car park will ever be full.
Anyway, there are 3 different car parks in PISA. Outdoor, Multi-story and Basement. Out of the 3 car parks, the basement car park has got to be the the car park with the most pillars in the whole of Penang. So there, you’ll find people simply parking their cars wherever there’s a “hole” which their car can fit into without considering if they’ll be blocking anyone or even themselves.
So today, I parked normally in one of the parking lot at the basement car park. There was already a car inside which could not get out after I park but since he himself is parking at the wrong spot and the other car blocking him was also at wrong, I didn’t care. I paid for parking, I found my own spot, and it’s a legal parking spot.
What do I get after walking for 1 hour? An announcement from the PA system that my car was blocking the TRAFFIC! What a load of crap! They expect the one following all the rules laid out by the building management to make way for those who are at wrong?
I moved my car anyway. I didn’t mind since it was time for me to go back to the office anyway. When I arrived at my car, there was no one there standing by their car. The car which was blocked is still there and no one standing by their car to get out. So I just drove away… And someone else parked back at my spot blocking that car again…
MUAHAHAHA!!! Now I would have loved to stay and look at the guy’s expression when he comes back to see another car blocking his way and will have to go back to the announcer to make another announcement. Hehe…