What The Year 2009 Has Done to Me

2009. I've celebrated the coming of the year in tHe Curve.


Looking back, the year was crazy to say the least.


Yes, from my Blog, the year seemed kinda boring. But what I would highlight is the things that I did in the University first.

1. The Haunted House





2. My Uni has been hit with A(H1N1)

3. My Uni is boring!!!


Well, apart from my Uni, there's also other places that I've hanged with my uni friends.

1. Went to UCSI Orchestra to see Amy perform.






2. Went to Broga Hill, found out that I really need to work on my stamina!





3. Went for Shabu-Shabu, conveyor belt steamboat.





4. Celebrated my 21st Birthday. Ahh... Pics are on Facebook... (Steamboat... Again Minus the sigh) Thanks Guys!


DIY and Upgrades that I've done;

1. Finally my bed is stable! Manage to fix the problem of the mattress constantly falling into the bed frame.






2. Installed Windows 7 (32-bit), then Dual-Boot it with XP and Windows 7 (64-bit)







3. Installed 4 GB of RAM.


Besides that, I've became God-like when I was back in my hometown for three months, couch-sitting, TV-sitting and bed-sitting.

1. Back there, I've also met up with friends for trips to Permai, twice actually.





2. Yum Char sessions, which I think would amount to more than 10.

3. BBQ at Joash's place, met up with Dominic, Clifford, Kai Liang and so on...

4. Played Prospectors and Saboteurs during almost every yum char session when Joash is there. Nice game by the way!

5. Family time.


While during the last semester break;

1. Yum Char sessions

2. Went to Permai again, this time to skim-board. Thanks Mei Fern for the lesson. Now my butt doesn't hurt anymore from falling down!


~~~

However, there were downers,

1. PTPTN - I forgot to receive or take the agreement letter, had to drive all the way to Bukit Damansara to get the letter! Hence my school fee was paid during the last minute. Anyway, the upside is that the cash came in just in time.

2. Leg Injury. 20 cents coin on my knee!!!

3. Flu. But which one did I get??!!

4. Hard Disk failure! Lost some documents. -.-''


Despite the downers, the yeas has been memorable. The last week I've prepared Spaghetti and Meatballs from scratch, for 30++ people during the Christmas Party. Pics later la...

This year, I'll send off the year 2009 with a BBQ with friends.

The Menu~

1. Chicken Wings
2. Lamb Chop
3. Mashed Potatoes
4. Fries
5. Watermelon.


Yeah, I know that its not as grand as it can be, but smoking and charring for 16 people will prove a new challenge. With just a nominal fee of RM15, would you expect smoked salmon? Well, if I've got the cash, I will personally fillet and smoke the fish for 5hrs!

Anyway, gotta marinade the meat soon~

Busy

Just about came back from cat-sitting at my 2nd Sis place in KL...

One thing I've learned there is that;


1. Cats will pee on rugs, even those synthetic ones that acts like mini sponges that you put on the car dashboard.


2. Washing those rugs are pointless.


3. Cat fur will multiply in the exponential scale in just 24hrs after vacumming and moping the floor, rug and so on...

4. I've gotta use my anti-inflammatory nasal spray at least a couple of days before jumping into cat world. Or else there's a flood of phlegm. Yes, its sounds gross.


5. When you are asleep in the couch, cats will jump at you, scratch your legs and go on as if nothing happened.


6. Remember to use a blanket if you plan on sleeping on the couch, reduces the scratches.


7. If there's no entertainment, there's always the sofa to sleep on.

Eve

Merry Christmas,
I'm beat... Rest.

Soil soi...

Soil 2...

Actually, what did I learned in Soil 1 to begin with?

Week 2

I survived week 2, lecturers are... lets say eccentric...

Did PC fair-similar-work at PJ Digital Mall... Tired for more than a week, and my shoulders could still need some massaging...

To sum up, busy!!!

New Sem...

New Semester, and I've haven't been to class yet...

-.-"

Tagged By Sui-Sui Ling

I'll try my best to understand what all these scripture means.... Lolx




我的大名：Then Yii Soon
我的生日：9月03号
傳給你的：sui a.k.a Sui-sui Ling
生日想要得到什麼禮物：I know this sounds cheesy and probably old fashion, its the thought that counts... Though a Nikon d90 would be nice... lolx..
近期開心的是：Back in hometown, hanging out with friends...
近期壓力大的是：On the way back to hometown, with the stupid airasia flight delayed!
未來想做什麼：Retired by 35!
有沒有喜歡的人：很有可能
同學會要回去找老師嗎：Just want to keh poh Kuching High
跟誰出去最幸福：Anyone
如果你的兩個好友吵架了：Sit back and maybe try to listen? Does that work?
跟情人出去最想去哪：Anywhere
聖誕節要做啥：Either a simple party or all out crazy
最想跟誰過聖誕節：Friends and family
有沒有起床气：Depends... I think...
有幾個兄弟姐妹：3
最喜歡的一首歌(女生的)：Evanescence - My Immortal [with full band] Mainly because I like the guitar riff...
最喜歡的一首歌(男生的)：Too much... Suddenly thought of, 'The Way You Make Me Feel'
喜歡什麼顏色：Black, Grey, Red
上廁所會不會先沖水：? Depends... If there's something... Wouldn't you?!
愛不愛自己：Yes
喜歡男生還是女生：What kinda question is this?!
最想大聲說什麼：Ah... I think it depends on what I'm thinking..
誰很欠打： Sui... ngehehe
現在很迷什麼：Anything interesting...
睡相很差：?! How should I know?
現在的時間：9.40 pm
是否痛恨傳給你點卷的人：爱死了
今天天氣：RAIN RAIN...
你懷孕了嗎: ?? HUH??
你若中樂透最想做什么: Anything that is not boring..
大學生一定要玩的活動：Dunno... I guess I'll put down prom night too... Since it'll be interesting..
如果能為彩虹添加一種顏色你選 ：Is that possible? Wow! Maybe
你相信爱情会永远吗 ：Why not?
现在的你穿什么颜色的衣服：Blue
放棄一個人會很難嗎：I guess so
最近在追看什么戏：Nope
最想有的异能：Faster reaction time...
+你现在在哪里？：Home
最近最想做什么？ : Pillows..



I'll end this circle of death here...

Going Back to Kuching

In a couple of hours...

Will be in Kuching till the 3rd of December.

Outing anyone?

Windows 7 and XP RAM Usage

Here's a screen shot of XP and Windows 7 page file usage...










Well, the difference is that I've haven't configured the start-up process in Win 7, hence the higher PF usage.



Secondly, I think my PC runs smoother compared with XP. However, that could be due to the newer hard disk that I've installed to use Win 7.


Both of the OS runs on somewhat similar hardware, except for the hard disk..

Installing Windows 7

Here's a couple of pics I took when I installed Windows 7

The 1st step, I didn't took any photographs, but it's quite simpled compared with an XP installation.

The installation will ask you which partition you want to install, in full graphical interface, i.e. with a mouse, click, select how much MB or GB you want for that partition, unless you've already formated the hard disk, or continue with the size of that partition.

If its an unformatted hard disk, you would have to select >NEW> Size of Disk>OK>format>next to install...

If you've already have the disk that is partition and just taking over XP or an clean install, just click >NEXT

2. Enter some basic info, or something... and you will come to this screen...

3. Wait for awhile, you are near completion.

4. It will resize the screen, nearing completion.

5. Tadda!!! Windows 7 is done installing. Basically, you will have to enter some basic thing like your name and pc name..

6. Update, activate and so on..

7. Find drivers like graphics card driver and some other basic driver, like your audio codec driver... Like I did.. It took me an hour to find a suitable driver.. I have to hunt down the driver from Realtek myself, took me awhile to realize that the driver from the motherboard website's is very old, not compatible with windows 7. Hence, here's the site...

8. Install those programs, like firefox, antivirus; AVG or something. Maybe office?

9. Look at the beautiful stuff, and now switch back to XP, cause I'm downloading something.. Lolx..

My desktop...

Windows 7.

It only took about 30-40 minutes to install...

Will post progress later..

Final Finals!!!!

YES!!!

That's the end of my 5 months torture!

And with about a month of pleasure... Short lived, yes...

Well, I'm pretty much confident in 4 subjects, Soil, SA2, WW, CProg... Well, tech-comm.. I guess it depends on the lecturer... And I'm not depending on her too much...

Should I,

1. Sleep?

2. Need for Speed Shift?

3. Watch shows?

4. Non of the above...

p/s: Thanks Min Xin for the Soil intensive course! Helped me alot!!!

Of Halloween and Procrastination

Been procrastinating throughout my revision...

Visiting blogs, reading mangas, and listening excessively to music...

Though, the last two days were worse.. Reading PhD comics from the archives...

Guess it has nothing to do with Halloween though..

C Prog

C Prog Exam today..

I think they just don't really care about the test paper...

Too much mistakes and the correction made it worse...

Q: Blahblahblah..........................................blah..

I Crapcrap crap

II Crap-crap and more crap

III this ism't crap... I think..

IV Huh??!!

A) I,II,III

B) II,III,IV

C) I,IV,V

D) II,III,V

And they tried to correct it, into something worse... Oh, there's a question with the exact selection in II and IV.. Ctrl-C + Ctrl-V too much ar??!!

-.-"

In Section B, there was 1 question that was downright confusing..

I was like, HUH??!!

&%#*!!

Well, the rest were moderately easy..

If you were to become bored...

What if you were too bored and started wondering why about nothing, then its time you read this...

1. Why are there countries with left hand drive and right hand drive traffic?

2. Why are there so many different standards of electricity around the world, with different plugs and sockets?

Yes, I was bored as hell studying... So, I read those things..

Finals

Finals are closing in...

Here's the list:

27th October, Tuesday - Structural Analysis 2

30th October, Friday - C Programing

1st November, Sunday - Technical Communication

- Water and Wastewater Engineering

2nd November, Monday - Soil Mechanics 1

Sien, 2 Exams in one day! And the most labor intensive + confusing subject is on the next day!!!

Haiz.. Gotta get studying on my structural...

Merdeka, 油起价...

Lolx.. Just back from countdown at Genting...

No, there's wasn't a jam on the way over to the mountain top resort, yet... Finding parking is the pain in the ass... I think we wasted about an hour just to get around to find a proper parking place.


In the end, it was somewhere near the bus terminal, very far away from the Highland Hotel...


Peter, Siaw and his gf, YH, and KH went up the hill too...



Partly yes, there's was traffic, just human traffic. If you know the feeling of getting squeeze on KTM or LRT or Monorail, that's what you get when trying to leave the building so that you can look at the fireworks outside...


The fireworks are nice though, just that they are too close for comfort... Some residue got into my eyes, and my friends'.


Pics would come later when I get it from my friend... Now, sleep...

The Week...

Well, as in the previous post, I got pwn! by the SA 2 lecturer, my Soil Mech 1 is ok and today's C programing quiz was easy-peasy..



All that's left are Wastewater and C prog test. Anyway, was it just me or do you feel that there's not much of a national day mood this year? Probably its due to the fact that the economy isn't as good as it used to be, or that we just don't like our politicians to give a rats ass, hence we don't wanna buy into their crap. Oh well, happy pre-merdeka.. To me, now... As a student its just a public holiday where we try to be patriotic, for once a year...

pwn by SA 2!

Today just got pwned by my structural analysis 2 lecturer in my test today...


Sienz... Thursday there's another test, soil... so soi...

Old Town near UM

Last Friday, I went to Damansara, something to deal with the PTPTN... Lampiran A crap.


YH and I stopped by UM after since he wants to meet up with a friend, at 5.30. However, he met his junior so we went out to makan at Old Town.








After sending YH to UM, that was around 5pm, the Junior, Zhao Xue (hope the spelling is correct) and I went to Midvalley, where we met up with Peter.










The process of buying a pair of shoes took Peter about 2++ hours though, until Studio R closes! Lolx...

UCSI Orchestra Concert *Updated with extra photos...

Tuesday went to UCSI to see their Orchestra.


Amy was there, lolx, where me, Billy, Peter and Yi Heng went there for the performance of Bach, Mozart and Ravel.


Here are some shots before we got into the concert hall,






[Hungry... Since the Concert starts at 8, and I haven't had dinner...]




[The owner of the N78 that provides this post with photos...]


And some pics of the orchestra itself:



[Guess which one is Amy..]












The Pieces that are played that night:

J.S. Bach-Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046
W.A. Mozart- Symphony No. 29
M. Ravel-Le Tombeau de Couperin


Personally, I think that their Ravel was played nicely.



Well, later had supper at Billy's place, at Sg Long somewhere near the night market. The mamak is an interesting place and we had a couple of friends that joined us, where they seem to be the type that can survive a nuclear attack is North Korea made shoddy bombs that fall into Malaysia instead of China or the US...

Broga Hill, Semenyih

Went hiking with friends the day my Uni was closed (Read last post)...



WARNING: Plenty of photo's...



It was in Semenyih, somewhere right next to Nottingham College.


Time of hill accent, 5.05pm.



[Hill Climb.... Very Hot and Humid]



[The first sight clear sky since the hill climb]



[Ah... The Sun with its heat...]



[You mean there's more?!]



[Damn you tai lou take us out to suffer...]



[Obviously delirious from the sight of the second part of the climb]



[Take photo first lo...]



[See Lang taking photo's of the slackers...]



[Wei, don't come near me le...]





[Wei, I asked you not to come and yet...]



[Lolz, ran away pulak..]




[Seems like a nice spot for a pose...]




[How I wish I can just take a nap here...]



[Me and Siaw just arrive at the first part...]



[Yeah! Made it]



[No photo's please~]



[Finally, we all gathered at the first part of the hill climb]




[Lolz... Peter slept dy...]



[Second Part START!!]




[Into the second part of the climb...]



[Tai Lou chiong]



[Just to take a pose...]



[SWT]







[Wise old man]




[Look at my fair skin~]




[Time for a second nap?]



[Wah... UFO]



[Obviously, tai lou did the Adidas 10km marathon and got a medal too!]



[Look at my muscle!]



[How about you??]



[Diu! Got la... You see!!]







[Finally me and siaw reach the highest part of the hill, around 850m above sea level]



[Here, have some gas]




[Nearly fell over too]



[Sorry, no more pose dy..]







[Look at my muscle~]



[Sorry, we were busy taking pictures..]







[Everything below looks so small and insignificant]


And on the way down....





[Time for a break.. Have some grass]




[The steps that made it possible to climb]



[If not you'll just roll all the way down]



[Jay Chow's MV ar?]



[Its getting late..]









[Time for another pose...]






Its a nice place to hike, if you are into those sort of stuff...
My palm and thumb was cut from the rocks, blades of grass and sliding on the way down from the hill. My pants were full of grass and silt. The pockets were full too...

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