Went out with secondary school friends...

Finally I get to meet my secondary school friends on last Saturday! I have not met some of them for nearly 6 years I guess hahaha and they have totally changed! I was like "Who are you?" or "You changed a lot that I don't even recognize you!". We went for buffet lunch at Sakura, the outlet which is beside Republic Polytechnic. We ate quite a bit but talk crap a lot hahaha, not all are crap actually, I think that's because we didn't meet up for such a long time that we have many things to talked about.

After that we went to Woodlands Waterfront, which I don't even know it's existence until Justin suggested it. That place was pretty nice and comfortable, which I think is a nice place to go for a run or a walk maybe.

Then we went to Causeway point, where TTL needs to go home as he had something on in the evening, so we walk around Causeway point and we suggested to watch a movie which is call Season of the witch.

"His faith broken by years of battle as a crusader, Behmen returns to central Europe to find his homeland decimated by the Black Plague. While searching for food and supplies at the Palace at Marburg, Behmen and his trusted companion Felson (Ron Perlman) are apprehended and ordered by the dying Cardinal to deliver a young peasant girl ¬believed to be the witch responsible for the Plague to a remote abbey where her powers can be destroyed. Behmen agrees to the assignment but only if the peasant girl is granted a fair trial. As he and five others set off on this dangerous journey, they realize with mounting dread that the cunning girl is no ordinary human, and that their mission will pit them against an evil that even in these dark times they never could have imagined. "

We went back home after the movie cause some of them lived in Malaysia, and anything later then 6pm, they will have to join the queue for the jam at the causeway. So yea, that's about the small gathering I had planned. Hope to meet them once again. And really, as you grow older, you have lesser time meeting up with your friends as some of them are already working thus it makes it even harder to meet up even for a lunch. Glad that I propose the idea of the gathering if not, gods know when I will be able to meet them again :)

All links worked!

Every section in Ampdreams.blogspot.com are available right now. Feel free to look around on the latest updated links which are "Projects" and "News".

In Projects section, I have put up 4 projects that I have done, which are, Element Destiny, a video of VENews which is done by PlanetKY for Imagine Cup 2009 competition, E-commerce layout picture and my previous website layout picture. I have yet to upload E-commerce website yet as I am still finding a suitable place to upload my file. As for my previous website layout, you can view it at http://james-gaara.blogspot.com (Note: The links on the navigation bar is not working because I have taken down the rest of the webpage due to some technical problem). For VENews, I only have the video for now because Microsoft had taken down popfly website, so I am not able to show you the application of VENews.

But the good news is that in I have created a similar yet a simple version of VENews which is on the News section. It display the past earthquake location and plotted on Google map. This is my first time handling Google map, but I have done it! Although is not a complete VENews as I am still working on the application itself, but feel free to view the Earthquake news in the News Section!

If there are any bug or any problem you faced in my website, feel free to drop me an email. I will do must best to correct the error ASAP :)

Thanks!

Road Block!

Before today, I feel myself as a good, not say best, programmer. But after today, everything changed. I can't even start to type in any single code into the program itself. I was like, "What, is this serious?!". There's no doubt about it :(

This is a serious road block to me because in a few months time, I am going to NUS(Computing) course, which focus heavily on programming skills and usage of English Language. My English Language is already bad in the sense that I still make a lot of Grammatical error, which is like an extremely tough task for me to catch up in university. So I thought I still have programming skills to back me up, but everything turned upside down.

Creating website, writing a program and my English, I think I might be a goner when I enter NUS. That's what I initially thought of. But I asked myself again, "Am I really that weak? Am I going to stop just like that?".

The answer to that is "NO!".

There is no way I am giving up. The reason is simple, because I have the passion in creating new stuff, creating stuff which belongs to me. Also when I think back when I first enrolled into Nanyang Polytechnic studying Multimedia and Info-communication Technology, I started as a computer idiot, not knowing anything about computer stuff.

So you may asked, why I chose this course since I know nuts about what I am going to learn? I choose this course is because I chose it for the sake of choosing. Because during that time after I received my O level results, I was dying to go to polytechnic to study. After scanning through the course available, I choose to do IT stuff, as it is more related to me simply because I use computer more often. In IT sector, there are variety of courses for me to choose from, so I simply pick the location somewhere near my home and the course with the longest name. So pop! I choose Multimedia and Info-communication Technology without knowing what they are providing.

After I went into that course, everything seems fun, especially programming. I don't know about others, but for me, I felt that programming is more like a challenge to me rather then a burden because I like challenge. Every time I solved a problem, I feel like I gaining one step forward into creating a application that's done my me and I felt a sense of satisfactory each time I completed my projects.

So that's why I told myself not to give up no matter what because I strongly feel that if the person has the passion in something that he/she believes in, he/she can definitely do it. Today's incident really shocked me, but in the end, it makes me fired up even more about getting into university to make applications that I can be proud of!

I can smell Chinese New Year!

It's coming!!!! Chinese New Year is coming!!!!! Wow, my final celebration of Chinese New Year before I ORD!!! I am so happy! :)

Even though CNY is drawing near, I still haven't buy my new year clothing as I simply have no time for shopping. Because right now, I am preparing myself for the Safari 8km run and also creating my own website which is AmpDreams.

This coming Sat I am going for a buffet session with my secondary school friends, well I am quiet excited since I have not meet some of them for nearly 6 years? LOL...

Well... You know what I am going to say... 144 days to ORD LO!

Hope everyone have a good and happy Chinese New Year!!!

Gong Xi Fa Cai!