Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Flash Workshop & Game Design Workshop & B&B Steamboat & WCG

Lazy Kuan delayed and delayed his blog again! I really getting lazy to blog? Nah! I just hardly take my breath, sit down there and start typing the thing I want to record down. Recently flooded with assignments, test, events and enjoyment time :P. It seem that my room missed me so much that i normally just spend 6/7 hours with it, and my laopo too :( . What's busy? hehe, here they are.

Flash Workshop

Ya~ the very first event of GDC this year. Directed by Leong Kee, and his helpful Sub-Comm - Norman (Terrence Chi's brother ah! At MMU wo, hehe), Shuqi (another great "flasher"), Jia vui (0007...not you...dun perasan! wuahahha, same name wo :P ). And sure, don't forget William, Iris, John, Key who help out the event also :D ( I am sorry if i missed someone...really scary to put people name since I am damn forgetful). I not sure if the workshop is a good one but I am sure it is a successful one. For me, it's objective achieved which is let the beginner get their starting hand on flash and hopefully they will keep playing with it.

Workshop is two days. As usual, few of the participants didn't turn up, some of the 1st day participant didn't turn up on the second day. Nevermind, we still did our best and try to deliver as much knowledge as possible to the people who interested and want to learn. I hope all of them learn something and did share some of the flash out if they make some.

Game Design Workshop

Last saturday was this second event of GDC game dev. This is relative bigger event compare with flash workshop and the guess is Big People from the industry such as Josh (Dragonback's CEO ? plz fix me...), Max (GM of Code Master, Malaysia), Mike Ooi (Lead game designer of Feng Weng Online. Sound familiar? refer to 2nd blog of mine, hehe), James (someone from MDV, he's quite big but I forgot the position...) and many more. The guess seem good...but the participant seem abit dissapointed since near 40% of participant didn't turn up.

Still, this event is a successful one. Great event, great speaker and great setup. Too bad I can't share any picture of that day since I not getting one myself. Will update this after I got some. hehe. The bad thing about me is, I can't fully join the event and actually missed some important part since I had a Java lab test at the same time (And I used all 120 mins in it..unbelievable...).

B&B Steamboat party!

Wah ha! B & B finally appear at my blog! Beuty and the Beast - Group of Taman Negara gang. We came out with this idea at someday I steamboat at SK with Min Bee, Willaim and Leongi. It's funny that we spend some time there to decide the group name. Well, now I am member for LsL, HLG, GnL and B&B. wuahahah (SSing....). Ok, back to the steamboat. Thie Steamboat is mean to gather back the Taman Negara Trip gang to chit chat, eat something and...dunno what liaw.

We chose to have our own steamboat. We did a lot of preparation, Such as... Min Bee brought a lot of stuff from her hometown one week before. William's dad so kind that he drive to MMU just to give us table, the steamboat's "boat". Shopping council who go Alamanda in the early of morning to buy food (but so bad that we buy 15 ppl food for a 9 ppl gathering :P ). William who stay alone at Min Bee house to cook soup and cut chilies (Salute!). Eddie and Alfred Cut Vege at Bao Bao (their house...). Ms Yoon brought some Malaysia's KimChi (I think she brought for Josh, he finished them! ).

It's a bit tedious and tiring to actually made a homemade steamboat, but I think it is 100% more fun then drive my car go out there and eat. We enjoy the night very much, chit chat, play some lame magic (by Kuan again, wuahahah). Ms Yoon and Leong Kee just cannot get the clue until everyone made it damn obvious (Ms.Yoon may be becuase of cultural and background...Leong Kee.... :P ). Well, beside of playing lame thing, something interesting and exciting happen in the middle of the eat, it's Eddie Concert!!! Can sing some Korean Song in front of a korean, I think he really enjoy it :p

Problem arise at the end of the steamboat party, a lot of food left! Everyone was full until cannot move already. So we gave up continue and start cleaning up thing. After things were settle, we sit together to sign the white wine and red wine bottle drank at taman negara. We gather everyone signature on the bottle and leave it as memory of Taman Negara. hehe.

Got some life...

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Life recently is...busy? Fantastic? Exciting? Not so sure but I did enjoyed my life very much. Sunday just went KLCC one noon to watch WCG with Kent and Shyang. Yesterday night just went Sunway Pyramid watch movie with Ms Yoon, Min Bee, William and Josh. Just now just played almost 3 hours Tennis. Tommorow going to celebrate Ah Seng Birthday at Setapak (Don't get me wrong, Bday, not Nday). MANY assignments, some test next week, some ACM training, some GDC event, some other things. I do hope I can blog soon about my BeeGame.

Today Feeling ****** Shoulder pain lahhh, someone massage? Tennis is my latest favourite sport now :P

Thursday, August 24, 2006

Sleepy Month

I ran out of idea to blog for 2 times. I type some text in the blogger but at last didn't publish it. Once is because I didn't save what I type and restart the PC. Another time is because I am too sleepy to continue typing and close the windows. So i chose to blog once right after my dinner, to ensure I have a blog today :P

Art of Sleep in Class

Sleeping in class seem is something evil for student who studying. But it's my habit since primary 5 or 6.Everyone know me well or been in the same class with me will agree in this, sleeping is one of the main activity for me in class :P. This month seem is the most serious time which I will sleep in class. One hour, 2 hour lecture or tutorial, in front or at behind, friend wake me up or not, eat sweet or not, still sleep... Sometimes I will wonder how people can actually stand awake 2 hour in a boring class (or may be people will wonder why am I so sleepable in a just 2 hours class). May be someone can help me out and comment this blog how you stay awake? lol.

Why Sleepy month? This month I did a lot of changes in my sleeping habit. I woke damn early in the morning (6? 7? 8? They consider early compare to my time before...). And i sleep damn short (4-6 hours). I personally think that not affecting my life beside get sleepy earlier in the night. Sleep in class is not the main side effect, I keep 100% focus in Korean class :P and 70~90% focus when learning new topic. I just got sleepy when the class going to boring, lecture start repeating or teaching slow... that really drive me sleepy.

Sleep in class is normal thing for me, but get sleepy suddenly early in the night is something "new" to me. I think the effect of cutting short my sleeping time made me fall asleep earlier. So, another question....how to stay awake and not that easy to drop sleepy in the night. hehe. I knew the best way to fall asleep, read some book.

"Game Coding Complete"

This is the book which I borrow from MMU library almost 6 weeks (actually got another book along, mathematic for game, but never read any single page). I borrowed Game Coding Complete once at my MMU's first year first semester but it overwhelmed me at that moment because I cannot understand most of the thing inside, it just too hard for me.

After one year of learning game programming, from Hatchlings Games, from forum, from article, from other book, from friends. I can't say I got significant improvement in skill but I do learn a lot more game development knowledge through out the year. Then one day I came back to library and search for books. MMU library is so nice that have a lot of "Kuan Wanted" book but too expensive to buy book and I can borrow it and renew it like unlimited :P. (Actually felt bad that sometime I not really enjoy this facilities since I just use 30 minutes to study a book in a day.) Whatever, then I get back this book
"Game Coding Complete" and watch it over. Wow! I understand the table of content, I can read the "aliens" words now! Then I get it, until today :P

This book is recommended strongly to people who interested in Game Programming. It covered a lot of game programming technique which I think I will never learn by myself or in class(Definately...). It emphasize in programming style (how to organize code and directories) and special technique (wont find any "simple" code in that book, cool). I personally think that this book is not for beginner. It mean more for people who knew programming and did some game programming. I didn't mean that I am the second one since I still having problem to understand some part :( . need more coding!

blehh.....

hIt's really seem that I ran out of thing to say? But not the next post. Actually was waiting Game Design workshop, WCG to over, then will have a long blog to report them :)

Today Feeling ------- Stuck in many things... Released many thing too.

Friday, August 18, 2006

Trip of Taman Negara

犯小人, 贵人助

This week seem is a very terrible week for me to talk about people. I felt the Chinese speaking of "犯小人" now. Translate to english, it is "offense small people". It have a meaning of the fate will make me have problem with people in some time (week or moths). I got several people problem in this week, what a "happy" week. People just piss me off with no reason. For me, they just want to piss me off even everything is going fine. Or some people pissing me off for something they are not involved? What the heck. There are 3 people actually pissed me off this week (surpise? some might just knew one, haha...) But, thanks for my true friends all around me who support me, understand and bear with me in this kind of "shit" moment.

It's not easy to make me felt angry, but one thing is too easy to make that happen. Stop treating Kuan as friend and trash our friendship. Friend respecting is the very important thing for me, so i respect every friend of me, if they don't, surely they ignite me. Somehow, something prove my way of treating friend is correct. Instead of some pisser kicking my ass, there a lot, a lot more angel who carrying me from falling to frustrating and angry life. Thanks to those friends, I live no regret as with my true friends :) (geli? ya...i think so... but to show my appreciation to my dear friends! )

DAY 3!!!


Everyone is asking about the day 3. "Where is your last day?", "Too sad to write the ending?", "busy week? I want your day 3!". I wanted to blog day 3 right after my Day 2 post but din't have Day 3 picture (Josh pindah rumah, congrats to him to leave his hostel "venom" room). Got the picture yesterday, so, need to work something out then :)

Early in the morning of Taman Negara Trip Day 3 - 6:30 a.m. "Handphone Opera" again but no one going to do anything of it. Until 7 a.m. our leader cannot stand anymore, she's switched on the damn light :P. Everyone had a very nice sleep after really tiring Day2 activities. We had a very rush morning. Boat will reach the jetty at 8:45 and we only woke up at 7:00. hehe. We rush pack, rush queue, rush eat, and rush down to the jetty.The fact is, we are not the 1st group to get on board, and we waited around 30 minutes for next "express boat" to fetch us to Kuala Tembiling (what is the purpose of rushing... should have enjoy the toast and hotdog slowly!). It's returning mood for everyone, after just 2 days of trip, I felt like it's been a long time to stay there and with all the people there. Well, every trip have the same feeling when returning :)

I was keep awake for the 3 hours boat trip (had a nice good sleep mahh) and so do others. At 1st we all boys played poker on the boat, not pluging leg fur again...just drink some water. After one hour, sien liaw. Lol. I sat beside Ms. Yoon, she's enjoying her Ipod and the river breeze :| . Then I start to ge boh with her, Yin Yee and Min Bee, ask some girls' stuff ahh, boy's stuff ah and...3 hours just past like that. There once our boat mulfunction, it float there until some other boat pass by and give the boat driver a hand.
Without proper rest and lunch, we get onto our bus after we reach Kuala Tembeling. We have some plan to make sure we get the last 2 row of seat before get on the bus. Girls will go up in 1st place to book the place and boys load the luggage to the bus (I think only chinese and youngster will do this.. :P ). What happended in the bus? zzZzzZzz. Hehe.

Back to the "Bulding Forest" -- KL.

After the sleepy bus trip, we are back here, KL. But not an end for Cyberese, still way to go. Ms. Yoon is rushing back to CyberJaya for her Seminar for the korean student. Me and Min Bee need to back and prepare go pick up Min Hui at LCC (low cost airport for Air Asia). So...everyone need to rush back :P. We had our lunch at KL Sentral - KFC. This is the fastest KFC meal I ever have with my friends. But still, we late of one minute :P and need to wait another 30 mins for next train.

Activity not stop right after we reach CyberJaya. Everyone of us still have stuff to do. Ms Yoon need to go seminar. While the rest of us + Min Hui & Alferd - Leong Kee, went to Mines to watch movie - CLICK. It's a fun nigth because pity William and Yin Yee keep fooling by us to "matching" they two. Hehe. I over night at William's house that day, to accompany this pity lonely guy who don't have anything in his house :P Min Bee and Yin Yee went to William house, and we four have so "early morning" sharing like that lo...

The Trip...

Well, this is my Taman Negara Trip. I enjoyed it so much and I believe others too. Some of us are not familiar or even don't know each other before the trip. Then end up is a bunch of friends. I went to many trips before this, but I can say Taman Negara Trip is one of the best. I miss the trip very much. Looking forward for next trip :)

Today Feeling --> Many things happended, I can felt people around me, good and bad.

Sunday, August 13, 2006

Day 2 Part 2

(Please read part 1 first :p)

Longest Canopy Walk
in the Globe!

After a very fast lunch, we ready ourselves to the next exciting event, canopy walk. I been to few canopy walk before, Ranau's and Penang's... and where else....forgotten, there's one more. But Taman Negara's one sure a lot better. The Age of the forest, The distance and height of the bridge, the feeling of the bridge are the thing make it best canopy walks I ever been to.

To the canopy, we need to take a very short boat trip to entrance of the canopy walk. Actually everyone was very tire after morning tracking, Ajax saw this and ejek us lagi :| . Ajax brief us the history and fact for this canopy walk. The highest bridge is 44 meter from the ground, the whole canopy long 500++meter. There's are rules and regulation to follow to walk this canopy, which is keep the distance and mind the number of people to stay on a platform (frankly no people told me this at previous canopy walk).















Even it just 500 m something, but the whole journey took us like 1 hour ++. We divide ourselve into two group, which is Group 1 and Group 2 (Plain...). These picture took at the starting point. We got plenty of time taking picture, watching snake (which Ajax found out). It's just a small snake but his eye was so sharp like can see and feel every animal around the jungle :| The reason of having a lot of time is because every group need to wait the group infront to leave the platform only they can walk the bridge to that platform. So...if one of the group infront stop moving, everything slow down. But...who care? We are there to enjoy, no rush :P

We took many picture on the bridge (since we have plenty of time on the platform). The feeling of this canopy really nice. It's high in the sky, can spot some nice scene view up there since it just next to the river. Especially crossing the highest bridge, I cant even see the ground, too many plant cover it. Min Bee got very exciting for the canopy walk, whole walk just can see she laugh :D. Ms Yoon got a bit unlucky (again). She bite by "unknown" insect on her finger and I can feel the pain by her face. Lucky its not something poison. Josh keep doing his job of photographer :|. No report for group 2, please refer to Billy's and Leongi's blog for that, lol.Rapid Shooting...or Playing Water on the boat ooooo

Last event of Nusa Camp package is Rapid Shooting. Actually this doesn't turn out something expected in my mind but it still fun :). This activity is easy, get on the boat, and get wet! There are few rapid in Sg. Pahang. As the river bank become narrow or the change of depth will make the water flow faster and form a rapid there. What this activity does is drive the boat, and shoot the rapid. This action is not that fun and exciting, because the splash from the river is nothing to us that time since we are already wet by "human action".

As the boat drive very fast, just put the hand into the water and the people at your back will whole wet. The water just splash to behind. Me and William was at the last row, sure, the "wettest" of the boat. Josh was infront of me and he keep putting the hand to water, later Ms Yoon beside him learn to do the same thing. When we come across with other boat (who playing the same game), all also splash to each other. It's like primary school but, its fun :D. (Pic : We don't have picture for rapid shooting. This pic is taken after canopy walk, but the same ship we used for rapid shooting.).

Before getting back to CampSite, the boat stop us somewhere in the river and let us swim. I can't said I have a good time there because, its quite dangerous to swim in this kind of water current, it keep flowing. There once Ms Yoon, Leongi and Josh wash push by the current to far and need to come back carefully...It's tire to swim againt the current.

Well, then we back to the campsite and end all our acvities in taman negara. Although it's a bit sad to indicate an end but, I don't think we have any extra energy for more activities too :P.

Waiting for the night ~ and Cheer for the night

After all the wet chicken dry themselves, they just found out that it is still have 2 hours until dinner serve. Then we start doing random thing in the room, not actually remember what is that. But one thing very classic is, all the boys go up to Josh and my bed and play Poker. The loser of the game will need to... Plug one Leg fur. Too bad I am the big time loser an at least plug out 7-9 fur total :(. Ms Yoon was fall asleep while she reading a book on her bed while another 2 girls were too boring and keep disturbing the boys' play. Well, actually everyone are waiting for the dinner!

Nothing good about the dinner, so let's jump into the night activities! William's Dad chose 2 very good wine for us. I sponsor the red wine and William sponsor the white wine. Both is very good wine! We took all the remaining junk food, wines and cards to the place we used to play last night. Then we celebrate our successful trip and sure, play some games.

The first game is "Lying Games" which use card to lies. This game aint about winning or whatever, just a game to have fun find out who is lying and who do not believe who. Everytime I played this game hardly come out a winner but create a lot of laugher. Well, next game sure is one of those silly game lo :P. I Choice to play Truth or Dare instead of King's game because truth or dare I can stick with Dare, no need to tell truth, hehe.

Truth or Dare Dig many secret among ourselves, even about Ms Yoon de oo. So I going to reveal them all here... ... ... and I will be dead man :P. There's many funny Dare happen ( as the picture show, Min Bee slap William because of me, too bad ). I enjoyed that night very much :)



End of day 2...

Ahhh.....finally... After the games, we went back room to sleep. It was a tiring day and everyone sleep very nice :)

It is 6 a.m. in the morning, Can't believe I used 4 hours to wrote these two blog. I didn't continuous typing but flashing back a lot the memory in the trip. It is so fun and memorable. Day3 will reveal soon and I promise it wont be long again :P

Today Feeling *** I found out something, something which may be my happiness of life, or another tragedy in life.


Day 2 Part 1

Before I continue...

Previous post seem really long. Everyone said that (not sure if anyone complain that except Cheong). I knew this do nothing to gamedev thingy but this is very worth to be record down. So that I can enjoy back the mood and feeling brought back from the trip. 2nd Day post will be crazy long, was going to split it into two. My bloging speed become slower and slower since I start care about the grammar and thing to type. Think today I just type whatever come across my mind since I just wake up from 3 hours night sleep, strange feeling.

Day2 - Fresh Morning

Early in the morning - 6:30am. After last night Forest Orchestra, our room was playing HandPhone version one. I can heard at least 3 handphone alarm is ringing at that time but no one willing to wake up, including me :P. Min Bee is the one jump up and open the light, then everyone only willing to sit up. The room is much more colder than the 1st moment we got into that room, I think it because we were in middle of rain forest. I think the best place to wake up is in the middle of jungle, air very fresh, cold and clear morning. It enlighten people mood.

All of us finish brushing ourselves very quickly and went to the river side to enjoy the morning breeze. Nusa Camp has a very special enter way. Infront of it is a very large Rock area in the middle of river, this made the river who squeeze to the side become a rapid river. Boat will need to "shoot" that rapid and make a 'U' turn to get to Nusa Camp. (my direction skill seem weak).

We went down the rock area to grab some beautiful morning picture and touch the water while waiting for the breakfast to ready. Nothing much happended down there. But we took this funny picture :) For information, Sesat is Malay language and it mean "lost" in English. At first we just wanna joke around and play with the picture. But Josh did a good work in editing this picture and I think everyone face is damn suit. So...put it on here.

The picture at the right side is the taken by Kuan when everyone finished a very...time consuming breakfast. Imagine that, around 30 people wanting to eat breakfast, and there are only 2 bread toaster, mean 4 toast per time. everyone average want 2 toast and it take around 30 sec to toast one. So the queue is just funny, waiting everyone to toast the bread. The buffet food is always insufficient, I guess the boss of this restaurant like to give surprise to the customer. They keep serving addition food one by one when all the food finish in the tray. To save cost may be but it make very ugly action like us...such as, when something come out, Min Bee will go and take half of them and gave it to everyone on the table while all the foreigner thought she can eat so much :P

Adventurous Trail but disappointed Fall

According to what the package arranged by us, we suppose to get moving to a place named hill Warisan for hill hiking. But after discussing among ourselves and with our guide - Ajax. We decide to go another trail which lead to a water fall named - Abai. Ajax gave us a very brief map for the way to the fall. That map helped a lot. So 8 of us move on ourselves into another trail without anyone else. Before this we thinking to go to that fall in the early of morning, now I am relief we didn't do that, else find me on the newspaper.

This trail is 3KM long, path is very obvious at the 1st part but it getting blur and need to find marking to go on at the last part. 1st part is just walking in the jungle, with soil and tree around us. The 1st leech victim of the day is Ms Yoon if I not mistaken :P. But we are well prepare today with Yin Yee medicine and always have check point for everyone to check their body for leech on the way to the fall. We need to cross river for 4 times in this trail. 1st crossing is peanut, 2nd crossing is 2nd tougher which just a 2 feet big rock to keep your shoes from getting wet. 3rd crossing not that hard but here is where I wet my shoes for 1st time. 4th crossing is tough which u need holding a rope to actually cross the river safety (William cross without rope and got himself both wet shoes :p).

I think the only thing the girls most worry on this trail is Leech. Ms Yoon was panic at the second bite, Min Bee keep find leech on the floor, Yin Yee was very worry of it. They keep checking out their shoes, shock, bag for the leech, alien creature huh? :p. We came across with a Orang Asli village on the way to the fall. It just one house there (Wonder how it called a village, may be other house hidden inside). the Orang Asli there was playing guitar...yes...guitar. Orang Asli village is the middle point of the trail. We rest and took the best picture there with the help of Orang Asli (best picture in my opinion and this is my wallpaper now :).
Path after the village is getting tougher. This is the toughest jungle tracking trail I ever walk. Up and down become more and harder to climb. Path become hardly visible and need to find marking or rope to go on. Some of the part need to climb big rock with the help of rope which ready there. There once I knock on a very big spider web, the spider built the web and block the entire path and she is huge :| (but we are bigger...so...her house was destroyed by me).

Before we saw Abai Fall, the last last part is climbing up a very big rock then can felt the big disappointment :( . 3KM of tough trail and we meet this "Fall" in the picture. It just took me 1KM at Poring,Ranau for a waterfall which is 3 times higher than this. Anyway, the trail is enjoyable anyway. We spent sometimes at the fall, taking pictures, swim (I'd swim to the fall, it's deep), check leech (A stupid leech dead when sucking my blood and cause my sock and shoes in bloody red!!). But not much time spent since we are late and get back on track very fast. We're quite rush on the way back to the campsite but I did lead the group to wrong direction once :P what a lame scout. When we got back, everyone finish their lunch already, we're last again.

End of part I

Day 2 is very happening day. Another half is even better. I need to split this up in case one post is too long and people get bored and start skiping. In order not to miss fun part, so take time and read this separately will be better :) Ok...here I going to post next blog

Yesterday Feeling -->> (Forgot to post this at previous post, but I remember the feeling) Lonely and missing the trip so much !!!

Friday, August 11, 2006

Taman Negara - Nusa Camp Site - Day 0 & 1

Foreword (Day 0)

Yea yea...I knew everyone missed me and thought I gave up for bloging since one week I didn't update anything in my blog. I wanted to blog once right before the night I went to Taman Negara but too many thing happened and lost my mood to blog but just worry about the trip. This trip was a bit tough and full with obstacle/accident/delay. Eddie can't make it to the trip one day before the trip (lucky we found one replacement at the last minute and covered Eddie cost). Yin Yee's train was delayed 3 hours and reach KL very late, after that stupid Kuan take a wrong turn at Serdang and end up eating dinner at Ampang (From Cyber Jaya, 40km). Honestly my mood was disturb at that night because a lot of changing went on, and I hate last minute changes... well, letz move on to DAY 1 !! (this blog is so damn long...so...bear with it :P )

The team and On The Way (Day 1)

Who are the people I went with? Lets introduce the team! They are... William(billy loh), Leongi(see his blog for details of the trip :P), Yin Yee (The only one Non-MMU, Min Bee's Segamat friend), Min Bee(the one start and make the trip happen *Salute*), Josh (our dear photographer), Kuan (?), Yan Hui(Min Bee's neighbour who did us big favour to replace Eddie), Miss Yoon (My Korean Lecturer!!! Ya! She was there with us :P).

Day 1 was a very tough day. At the early of the morning, everyone woke up damn early and preparing for the trip (I just caught 2 hours sleep). Due to chaging of plan, 4 of us need to take ERL to go KL, while the rest follow William's dad's car (Thank Billy's Dad :) ). The trip start at Taking bus at Mutiara Hotel in KL city. Well, bad thing happened there, our agent forgot to book bus seats for us! 8 of us didn't reserve a place on the bus, we were so worry and wondering is it we have to gave up the entire trip because of the mistake of stupid agent! Thanks god there are 8 absence to the bus and 8 of us manage to get on the bus (While the bus delayed half hour cause of us).

The bus trip took 3 hours to fetch us to Kuala Tembiling, Pahang. Kuala Tembeling is one of the entrance to Taman Negara (Taman Negara is so large which cover 3 state and have another 2 entrance at Terrenganu and Kelantan). At there, we took a lunch at the very friendly boss shop. And the lunch is the 1st event which all of us gather together and know each other (Miss Yoon, Yan Hui and Yin Yee are new people to the group anyway). Then we took the first group photo (up there).

We are not there yet. Another 3 hours of boat trip need to enjoy before we step my foot to our place of staying. The boat is 2 people sit one row and a long boat (River Boat) and it was more stable than I expected where me and leongi can play Poker on it (And I won RM0.50!!). The boat "sail?" up to the river and keep going going going. The scene beside us was beutiful at first but it getting boring as you sit at the same place and see the same greeny tree and water for 3 hours. (Pic : Me and Leongi was split up with the group and they sat at the back).

Nusa Campsite

3 hours past and we reach our staying place! All of us were so excited. Nusa Campsite is a good place to stay, natural feel, have a nice scene of river and rocks, link to trails into the jungle and friendly crews. Nusa Campsite is a bad place to stay too, Simple room ( 4 double decker bed all fit into a room and it was hot like hell as we enter it), bad food (not delicious, always insufficient food and tea which is not tea.) (Pic : Left : everyone going to hostel, it always need to cross the hanging bridge which someone complain it is so shaky. but no more after 2nd day canopy walk) (Pic : Right : The hot room force us to come out and take some fresh air, the house at the back was our hostel, i mean one of the room there.)

Before the dinner, we plan to explore the camp and we walked on the only jungle trail at that camp. We just walk slowly, enjoying, chit chating and get ourself adapt the jungle. The 1st part of the trail was a road for four wheel car to pass and it is wide and easy. I thought all the path we going to jungle tracking are going to be like this (easy) but lucky I was wrong :p ). We wanna find the path to water fall and planning to adventure to it at the next morning at the camp. We stop at the junction which point to several place and plan our morning there, it seem everyone of us were exciting for the place and wanted to play as much as we can.

Night Walk and Game of Ourselve

There nothing to tell about the dinner(it's not nice). But a funny thing happen after the dinner. Me, Josh, Miss Yoon and William were standing and talking something at the restaurant, then suddenly Ms Yoon scared by something on the floor and run behind us. I can't see what is that at first and thought it is either a dog or lizard. but...a porcupine turn out!!! It walking freely and smelling here and there. Everyone around were stunned and get exciting of it. Some worker gave it a plate of...vegetables and the cutely porcupine enjoy the dinner by skiping everyone human who stand around it and shooting picture. It is so cute! Too bad I cannot hug it, or even touch it.

Here come our 1st event in Taman Negara - Night Walk. We had a very nice guide (ranger) who named Ajax. He brought us into the jungle at the dark night and search for anilmals and insects. It is a full moon night (the day after chinese calender july 14th...), Ajax said it is the worst day to find insects and animals. He manage to show us some insects (Spider, Scorpion, Stick Insect, Fire Fly), frogs, and luminous fungus. Ajax is a very skillful ranger, He can spot very very small spider (around 2 cm big) at the range of 5 meter away using tourchlight. He taught us the way to hold the torchlight and searching for growing eye of insect or animal to spot them. He told us some knowlegde of insects and fungus, thanks him we learnt a lot on that night and everyone enjoy the walk.

*Hold On* Special announcement, our first victim of Leech... Ms Yoon! A leech was stick to her leg and enjoying Korean Blood when all of us checking ourself at our room. She'd scare because she don't know about leech ( our bad for this, short of information). We used some Leech repellent from Yin Yee to chase away the leech, but too bad the wound not heal and keep bleeding (bit by bit lah). Pity Ms Yoon :P

After everyone's bath time, we start to play our own stupid game :P. We brought some junk food and Min Mei's sparking juice to the restaurant which facing river to have our happy hour. There was just us, yelling, playing, whatever no one will care :P. I was the one who keep come out with games, so, we just played what I've played at my previous trip. Alot of them, "pair Card calling name", "Thieve and police (use hand purse)", "Heart Attack", "Pick Turtle". Sure, a lot of punishment going on :P. There are no crazy game at the 1st night such as "Truth or Dare" and Kuan's all time favourite "King's game". We had a lot of fun playing those stupid game

It's happy that Ms Yoon did enjoy the game with us. Frankly she is the one we worry the most because habit of talking chinese hard to change and always make she felt left out when all of us talking chinese. But I think the group was trying so hard to talk english lah :P. She quite a quiet people, or may be she not so familiar with us, not so sure. Josh did talked a lot to her ( me too but not so much). She did enjoy the night walk and game lah, and everyone did, from the smiling and happy mood of everyone :)

Everyone went to bed at around 2a.m. While some of us fail to sleep in this kind of exciting holiday and group together to talk ghost story. Actually just Ms Yoon and Josh were slept sweetly and the rest gather at Min Mei and Yin Yee bed to share "ghost story". Min Mei not a good ghost story teller since she will laugh at the middle of telling (who wanna laugh while hearing ghost story :P ). Yan Hui talked a lot...but... too long and draggy which successfully put everyone to sleepy mood. William was scare and quiet hidding in the corner, wuahahah.

Well....what a long post, omg, just day one. Day 2 is the most important day and happening day, will post it as I gathered more picture and more time. I love this trip, and I believe all of us love it :)


Friday, August 04, 2006

Next Step

It's cold morning

Recently Malaysia is rainy. It's feeling good to wake in the raining morning, everthing seem beutiful and fresh (except for the cold which always keep me inside my blanket :P). The sun is lazy this week, but... I enjoy the day without burning hot sun, hehe.

It's morning again and I am here typing my blog which related to dreaming again ( as jia vui comment my previous blog which need time to digest what is the true meaning of that ). I love to plan my day a little bit at the morning when i woke up, and always morning is the best time to figure some plan or solution (coding i mean).

Steps

It's been 10 weeks since I first blogging, as I review back, I dare to say that I improved my game dev skill and experience which I think is the greatest growth compare to any other time. From zero Direct X to making simple bouncing ball. From no-one in GDC to someone who responsible for game dev activity. From ordinally programming student to champion of ACM. From someone just knew 5 language to someone knew 6 language.

Ermm.....why it's like showing off...omg. Actually I just want to know where is my step now and where to go in the next step. So...What is the next step? I not someone who will have a very clear vision of long term. I like "see one step, walk one step" style of planning because life is unpredictable and too much change or fail of plan seem demoralising and becoming something forgivable for myself... which is unforgivable.

I was once read a book which wrote about planning, and it emphasize on setting short term and easy to achieve objective in life. Keep rewarding yourself and get self-motivated for a bigger and longer plan. One last 5 years plan seem far away and get nothing until then while a lot of distraction will happen in the path of life. Set middle or short term goal which lead to the last plan, and make sure the short term goal is achievable and reachable. Accomplish them step by step and reward yourself (Feeling happy and shared the success already a nice reward i guess ).

Kuan's Step

Talked so much, what's in my mind? I'm someone who never satisfied and believe there's always room for improvement (actually it's not a room, it's a city), but I am someone who never feeling "not enough" for what I'd done so far. Strange? I guess so, I have no idea how to describe it...

I think I having problem to explain myself today morning?? By the way, just wanna mark my plan for the future days...
  • Get back my feeling in SexyFrameWork, which is PopCap framework for C++ doing simple 2D game. This is for ready my final game of BeeGame.
  • Keep the plan working and succeeding in GDC for second half of 1st sems.
  • Read some book...finish it...
  • Enjoy the break :P Taman Negara! I am coming!!
Today Feeling <> It's Holiday :)

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Vision of a club

Visions....?

It seems the topic recently were slow and not related to game dev. It's happy that my blog is getting a bit famous between my friends, thanks buddies :). Well, this the reason why everyone rarely saw some blog with "D3DXMATRIX" , "String Hallo = "hallo world";" or "*-+/" recently becuase it's not much people going to read them and I don't think I am a good tutorial writer. So I decided to post more about the thing happended in my life which affected the road of Game Dev. (So is this the vision of Kuan's blog?? ).

GDC GameDev Vision....???

I was told to think about this before yesterday meeting. The terrible thing is I never really deeply thought about this even the first time I knew I going to be Vice President. I keep figuring out the way to improve GDC and promote more game dev related stuff but never think about what vision is the game dev division in GDC. I think the meaning of vision is aim to achieve in time. Well, I spend some time to figure it out what's in my mind.

I think I'd inherite most of the vision from John. We'd plan a rough year plan for GDC GameDev right before the sems start and the vision is quite clear with the plan : "Promote Game Development". After some times of evalute and concrete my idea, I've come out with Kuan's vision in GDC game dev in year 2006.
  • Survive year 2006... This is not kidding, keep something alive and the way it use to be is something tough.
  • Create the game development culture/habit for GDC. GDC much like a Game Club than a Game Dev Club. Both is the obective of GDC, just need something to keep the game development department alive. Create culture/habit means Game Development event and gathering will carry on no matter how.
  • Make this year as a super class of years after this so that the future Hi-Comm can inherite the propertise. (:P programming). Meaning is, make as much event as I can, record the process and method, keep them for next batch of GDC Hi-Comm. A small system is needed to let the culture grow. None Hi-Comm knew how to book a booth before this week... Lucky Iris found a whole lot of links of "how to do thing in MMU".
  • Guide the lost sheep. Hehe. I knew the feeling of first joining GDC and SEGD course, want to know more about game development. I was lucky for meeting John last year and he guide and taught me alot of game dev stuff. So the most important vision of GDC GameDev is... let the junior or people with heart in game development have a place to stay and learn together.
This is the first time I type a blog in the morning after i woke up. Last night was too tire. People is more fresh in the morning, so I chose to share the vision in the morning. I hope I still in the track :)

Today feeling :::::::: Kuan is getting lazy to blog...omg...