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…

Been working hard in the office lately. Eating in all the time even on Fridays. That’s because there has been a lot of work and even now, still more work. I missed the deadline for one of the test I’ve been doing by nearly a whole month. If that product is a selling product, we would have lost millions. But fortunately, that product was still a prototype and everything was falling apart. So if my manager writes my review, I wonder if I’ll be given a bad review or written as a hero trying to test the damn product manually instead of using the Automated system.

Been working hard at night. No, not working in the bedroom. I’m a student, and part time students usually studies at night and over the weekends. We don’t have holidays or semester breaks. We have assignments and lecturers who thinks we have all the time in the world to complete whatever they give us. The lecturers might think we don’t have to work during the day. They might think we don’t have family events to tend to and they might think we can just survive doing a 9 to 5 day job and study at night. Then expect us to pass with at least a merit and for some, distinction.

I don’t know how I’ll do in the exam because frankly, this is the first time we have no idea what’s coming out in the exam. The notes our lecturer gave us are not really like the one in our text books. Can we consider that we’re actually not studying the proper syllabus?

Anyway, the students will of course study what’s given in the notes. Since the lecturer knows what the students is supposed to know in order to pass the exams right? How much of these formulas and problem solving methods can we cramp inside our head is another question.

All I want to think about is after the exam. I’ll have work to do. But looking at how stable my last release is for the project, it doesn’t seems like there’s much to worry about for the time being. There’s also some things my friend said which had encouraged me, and made me feel a little better since a few days ago.

After the exam, I guess it’s time for a hair cut, a nice massage, and to schedule some time for jogging in the park once a week.

Things to look forward to in this month.

• Having lots of extra meetings to complete projects. Probably having lunch meetings so we can’t go out on Fridays.
• Having lots of course assignments to do. At least to complete 1 per week.
• Need to study 8 different complicated topics in less then 6 days (From Today).
• Endure a few urges. (Nothing dirty, just plain criminal)
• ZERO time for movies.
• ZERO time for car wash.
• ZERO time for PC fair and
• ZERO time for relaxation.
• 1st of May is labor day. It’s the only thing looking nice to look forward to at the moment. No plans yet. No authority to make plans over my own life at the moment.

*Warning: This is a Nerd post! it’s about programming and just a random rant. Hahaha*

As a programmer, one of my job function is to debug anything which is not working properly, or not working at all.

Of course, most big software companies will have at least a few people in a group working on only one feature and another group working to integrate all the features and code. Being in a small department, we are put in charge to program a small program all by ourselves. Of course it’s possible to make small simple programs alone but sometimes, it’s stressful when they expect results and full working programs in less then a week or two. One may be able to complete a working draft program for a simple box test (Alpha test) or a simple working system with everything looking like it’s falling apart. Instead, we are expected to produce a fully working system or at least a pre-release beta at that given time frame. That leaves us no time to even properly test the program and tweak the performance or correct any wrong calculations in the algorithm.

Okay, so now I managed to complete a program with good stable working results but with only one feature left until I can release the program for pre-release beta (Release Candidate). Everything in the code seems correct. There was no error. But it doesn’t seem to do anything. O.o

Hmm… Something must be wrong with the calculations or there must be some variable somewhere which I need to define. *Scratch itchy head*

Out of the hundreds or thousands of people we meet in our lives, there are a lot you will like. There are also some who would just makes you think “Oh, How nice if I have a girlfriend like her.” There are some who would just makes you wanna have wild moments with her but you won’t stand her when she’s serious.

Out of those hundreds of people, you might only get to know a handful. Some just as friends, some as close friends. And sometimes, maybe just together as a nice relationship. And of the few of those, there’s probably only 1 or 2 who you will fall for. And when you do, it’s probably already too late. She’s already taken.

And you start blaming yourself, asking yourself, why didn’t these feelings come earlier? Why didn’t you took action earlier? Why must you wait until now only to be sad whenever you think about not being with her?

It was a simple liking at first. You look at her and you think that she got style, you see her beauty and she just makes you feel happy being around. Then next, you want to be close to her, you just want her to notice you, talk to you and laugh with you, and also think of her once in awhile just for fun. Finally, you can’t stop thinking about her. You think about her before you go to sleep, you think about her when you’re talking to your friends, you think about her when you’re working or studying. Even when you try not to think about it, the feeling just makes you feel horrible. Horrible because you were too coward to go after her when you were just simply liking her. Horrible because you don’t know if you should go after her now that she has a guy. And even more horrible because that guy is also your friend. And sometimes, you get angry because he isn’t doing enough to comfort her when she is not well. And jealous when she still holds his hand after that.

You try to think of the possible reasons for your own feelings. Maybe because you are stressed? Or perhaps because she helped you a lot? Maybe if you go after another girl, you can stop thinking about her. But what if you still think about her when you’re with another girl?

What should you do now? Do you stay quiet and wait? Or do you confess? Breaking up a couple is not a good thing to do. It’ll hurt not only the guy but also the girl you fell for. And what if you waited and the chance never come? Will you endure this pain forever?

I’ve always thought falling in love was just simply liking someone a lot. And I thought those things about not able to loose someone was only something made up by Hollywood. Now I know, that loosing someone or not having to be able to hug them and have them hug you in return, is so sad.

Perhaps I’ll just keep staying by her side as a friend. And keep waiting.

*
Exam will be on next week. We have a very lazy lecturer and he hasn’t been teaching the class well enough. Everyone is complaining and yet he hasn’t given us any tips yet on what to focus our studies or revision on. I need to concentrate, I need to discipline myself to study. I can not keep thinking about her… Not now, at this time anyway…

What is this? Instant noodles or beer?

I very long time no blog liao hor? No idea leh! How to blog wor? What to blog? 2 more weeks to exams and assignment due dates and yet I have no F@#$%ng idea what the lecturer has been teaching so far. His notes are not helping and his examples are all too simplified and sometimes even incomplete!

How leh? Study also wanna die already now blog also have to die meh?

Maybe after the exam, I’ll really go find something to do.

Wordpress 2.5 is finally officially out. And I took the opportunity to upgrade mine to this latest version. There were a few things which I was afraid which might not be compatible and clash with some of my plugins such as the Flash Media plugin. But after installing, everything seems to be in fine working order.

I’m still trying to get used to the new admin interface which looks a lot neater now. The admin panel has a lot of changes. Many things such as media upload has now been shifted and posting new blog post seems to be easier now.

As for the readers, I guess everything else is the same.

Update:
Okay, there seems to be some problems with some users who have upgraded to WordPress 2.5. They are reporting that they are unable to upload images to their blog when using Firefox. There’s a solution. Go to your wordpress directory and open up the .htaccess file for editing. Add the following lines into the file.

<IfModule mod_security.c>
<Files async-upload.php>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</Files>
</IfModule>

Now it should work… Like mine here.

I’m going to have to put my quest for home cooked Japanese food on hold at least until middle of next month after one of my exam. There’s just too many things to do at the moment. Since this semester started, almost everyone in class has lost their direction in the course. The management of our course has messed up very badly in terms of hiring good tutors and schedules. Thus, we’re all forced to rush and improvise on our assignments and timing. Frankly, it’s also messing up our personal time. Not to mention that work is also getting a little more heavy nowadays.

So, I guess that I’ll have to find something simpler to do.  Hmm… Can we sue our training institutions for bad management?

errr… soli wrong number.

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