Greetings from Australia.

At an internet cafe in rockhamton now, costing me $2 for 10 min. so this will be short.

The past 14 days was wuite an experiance. saw hail, shooting stars and kangeroos. getting used to the life here, will be stuck here for another 2 weeks.

time's running out... next time...

Going to Australia!!!

Setting off for Australia in a few hours time. Won't be back for 6 weeks! Looking forward to the unique experience of wandering about the Australian wilderness in an M113. Hoping to see some kangeroos, wild horses, dingos; but fear the other native wild life like ticks and sandflies. But first, got to get pass the aussie quarantine, gotta make sure all my baggages are clean... its a real pain...

Next stop... Rockhemton!!!

An Update

Wow, haven't blogged for a long time. looks like my blogging rate is about once a month. Anyway, just returned from a shiong week, think it's about as shiong as it gets, and I'm surviving. Getting ready for Wallaby, will be going there for 6 weeks!!! Hope to get extra overseas allowance and proper compensation for the weekends burnt, it'll amount to more than 2 whole weeks if they calculate according to the 5 day work week, but doubt they will... But still i'm looking forward to the experience.

Have been very uncertain about the future lately. dont know what to do... overseas or not? which scholarship if at all... getting referee letters... reapplying to ucas... which path to chose? which path will lead me to my dreams?? how to get there? sigh. Guess i'll just commit it to GOD, do what i can and not worry so much... getting quite used to uncertainty since coming into this camp...

Also hoping to try to improve the look of this blog. Also hoping to try out some online photo gallary services, but i'll need some photo's first. The gallary will come in useful if I go overseas to study, I'll be able to post all the pictures of my life on it...

An Idea

Just jotting down this idea I 've been having for a while. Have been picking up a bit of Visual Basic, and was able to creat a minesweeper solver with the help of some API's. If you are interested, you may download it here. Hoping to materialise this idea using VB if i have the time to do so.

Anyway, here's the situation... It has to do with websites you visit.

How many times have you vaguely recalled a good website you visited before, but just cannot remember the website URL? You try the search engines but simply cannot find the right words. The solution is to use the bookmark right?

Now, how many bookmarks do you have that you have not visited since you added it? It should be a large portion of them. Your favorites list is probrably cluttered with lots of other websites you do not visit, and the good websites are probrably hidden within the heap of junk websites.

The solution? To develop an application that runs with IE, which you can use to mark a good website which you visited, and which will sort it according to how many times you visit the website. There can be other features as well: adding your own description, sorting them according to topics, and it can even be put online using services like yahoo or something. But for now, I'm just jotting down this idea so that perhaps I may try to do something like this in vb... I really don't know how, and i'll require a lot of time... but this would be quite a useful project to work on when I have the time...

Just An Idea...

My new interest...

I've been reading a book, 'money and wealth in the new millennium' during my free time in camp, gaining interest in what the federal reserve is and what frb is about... found some websites... here it is...

A flash presentation on the Fed

Publications and Education materials on the Fed

Sigh... I've been posted to 46 SAR...

46 SAR is a very shiong camp. It is very regimental and garang. The camp itself is situated in the middle of nowhere, and the condition of the bunk i'm staying in is quite bad. I'm facing the prospect of only being allowed to book out on weekends for the rest of my NS life.

On the brighter side, the food is OK, better than in SMM, I have a few friends there, and it looks like with the training, I'm going to get quite fit. I'll also be able to sympathise better with those people posted to armour, and i guess this experiance will build my character.

hope that i'll find something meaningful out of this posting...

Some Websites I found ...

Guess i'll just store the websites i found on the internet in this entry...

programmersheaven  : found it on the above website, not sure if it's good...

helping my cousin to get the counterstrike working, found some useful website... posting it here without much organisation... just what i intended to use blogger for...
here it goes...

an online IBM book on tcp/ip , looks like there are many other books on this website too...
IBM Redbooks

 
Links added to my webpage...
AllAPI.com list of api's (useful functions fuond in dll's) 
andreavb.com : looks like a very good page to find out how to go about doing interesting things with your com using API's...
webopedia.com : an online dictionary with definitions of technical terms related to computers and the Internet

My purpose for blogging...

guess I'm quite a reflective person, I evaluate everything that I do... Even for something as simple as blogging, I require a reason to do it, as well as what I hope to achieve... anyway here it goes...

when I first saw this blogger thingie, I thought of it as another form of website that was very easy to update and maintain. I have another wepsite on geocities, which I use to store the links to the good websites that I come across; but over time, it got filled with many pages I visited once, thought was good, and posted it on the site, but never visited it again. This made the page quite an eyesore, as the good pages were hidden among the junk, furthermore the updating of the geocities site is very difficult as I have to edit he html code. I thought that with blogger, whenever I came across a good webpage, I could simply copy the url into a post, and should I not visit it again, it would simply be chucked into the history.

Another reason for blogging is to keep my friends posted of what's been happening in my life, just as I hope to be informed of what has been happening to them. I'm finding it especially important now that I'm begining to lose touch with many good friends I have made.

Third, it would be like a diary, though I've never really kept a diary before, I've had occassions when I had a lot of thoughts, sorted it out through notes on paper, and discussed it with my close friends. This could act as the medium for such discussions, but at the moment I'm not sure if I am prepared to post my personal thoughts on the web for the world to see.

Not sure if I'll actually achieve my purpose for blogging, or whether this is just a passing fad... only time will tell...

My first blog...

Just trying out this blogging thing... hopeing to incoperate it into my existing website, think might shift my website from geocities to blogger if possible...