Happy New Year!

It's been a while into the new year and I'm getting quite excited about ORD'ing... I've planned to do a number of things after I ord, and I am beginning to make preperations to accomplish them. Now I'm just jotting these things down to help me keep track of what I'm doing...

1) Relief Teaching:
I've registered and been given a provisional offer, gotta bring my certs to the first school i go to, the website also told me to visit it in a month's time about a month ago, visited it today, still got the same message. Think I'll have to contact my school soon to ask them if they need relief teachers...

2) Driving:
I've payed a visit to the ang mo kio driving center on last friday to find out... I've passed my basic theory and I can obtain my pdl anytime at $25, but it'll only last for 6 months. Will obtain it when I decide to take my practical lessons. Hoping to engage a private instructor. Will have to book my advanced theory test and practical tests soon.

3) Cycling Exp for my Cell:
Just spoke to Joey (a cell member) today about it, have been quite enthu about it. The date would tentatively be on 6-7 may this year (fri-sat of the week I ORD). Will have to do some homework, including bicycle rental from bishan park, reccee the route, which is envisioned to be on the east side. Also need to look for a van and a driver for a safety vehicle, seems to be the hardest thing to do at the momment.

4) Serving in the IT ministry:
Just found myself a ministry in church, the IT Ministry... Hoping to see how I can help out, there are no concrete things to do yet, but hoping the staff incharged would contact me to begin on something. I could begin when I start to clear my leave properly, maybe around the end of march onwards.

5) My Birthday celebration:
Plan to celebrate my birthday with all my good friends since primary school. Haven't thought of the details yet, perhaps a bbq with catered food at my home... or at some cheaper restaurant...

6) Prepare for Uni:
Ah, uni's beginning, and yet I'm not sure where I'm going now... If I'm going overseas, I'll be recceeing the Uni with my family in June (from 3-22 june) will be missing church retreat.. sigh... and term would start in Oct. If I'm doing uni here, I'd begin to pack and furnish my room for uni...

That's about the things on my mind now, haven't posted for a long time... posting today as i felt that I'm getting myself involved in a lot of things and I wanna keep track of them.

Will be beginning a new blog just before I ord to mark the new phase in my life. This time the blog entries will not be so malencholic...

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...