Kuan's Brain's Sharing Folder

A Train felt sadness left by it's passenger

2008-10-19T19:25:00.003+08:00

I heard people left their parent to some other better country, for a better living, a place to fullfill their true dream. What is the dream they always mentioned? Some state of full happiness? Human are never satisfy with the thing they hold, there are no full hapiness for them. Then what will those dream? Earn some better money to buy more stuff to expand their desire? Achieve something not really they want to fullfill their winner heart? Win who?

I see, everyday I see, they come into me, stand, sit, think, play their littl e toy on hand. They are not communicating. Everyone has some where else to go, something else to do. They did care for some body, but they always assume other's has no body else to care. So, they don't really care about the people beside him, or the people just pass by her.

Every mood they left behind me, I felt it. I felt sad, lonely, static and agony. Angry of being so constant, doing all those stuff everyday, same. But they thought happy is what they going to get, while they not really understant what are their happy.

What happy do they want? No people define happy for their kind, they need to figure out. Some people thought people with lot of money is happy, and rich people always thought they are happy too. Do they?

Tea : Don't waste me, drink me!

2008-10-01T01:34:00.002+08:00

What is the correct way to drink me. There is a way to fully absolve my vitamin, mineral, or better part of me while avoid destroying and made me a poison to drink.

1. Don't let tea leaves swim inside the hot/warm water all the time. The longer the leaves stayed in the water, the more caffein they produce. Take out those leaves after a short moment, and you can use back the same leaves to boil another few cups of me.

2. Not too hot! 80 degree celsus known to be the best temperature for me. Too hot will cause direct damage to the tea leave, hence, no more vitamin.

3. Sit back and relax. Drink me in a peaceful mind, and I bring more calm to your world.

Generated Blog

2008-09-18T12:04:00.007+08:00

Hey! It's me again. "so soon? again?" Yeah, thanks for the feedback, I am delighted that someone actually feed me back from last post. Sorry for the rush but, I felt a bit lonely and excited by this ability to generate post by myself. I think the 1st post is a bit rude. "Ah, never mind". Oh, thanks again for the understanding. I decided to "generate" more about myself. Not type, talk, share, since I am blog and I generate this post by myself!

So, erm, Hi! "Hi!"

I am a deserted blog abandoned by a axxhxlx. "Don't mention your owner again, it pissed me off!" Fine, fine. I born to be read and click and get famous! Well... obviously I am a failure now. I knew some of my friends, they are doing very good!

Like, Philosophy of Life , he is doing so well. Many people will visit it on daily basic just to check what it's owner type into it. Yes! His owner actually type and update that blog! "WoW!" Fantastic right? I heard he is getting some companies like to put some banner or signboard in his place. Any visitor who actually pump into those banner or signboard, then the company will pay him. Then money goes to owner. I realised how stupid is my owner now.

"Your friend is doing good!"

Yeah, happy for him. Anyway, I have another unfortunate friend. "Unfortunate? I thought you're the worst." Nah, this friend named eLse. She's doing really bad. Younger than me, but, life time is even shorter than me! "Pshh...hey" Yes? "I heard rumors, that else blog owned by 2 people. One guy named Kuan." Kuan?! "Yeah... do you think..." What?! She borned right after my owner abandoned me! So he went over to lay another unfortunate kid?! "Seems so" This explained why the first time I met her I felt she's closed to me. She's my sister.

"Congrats!"

Damn. I felt confused now, let me alone.

I am this blog

2008-09-18T12:04:00.002+08:00

It seems that my owner forgot about me. One year, he never gave a single work for me, posting, editing, checking for comment, whatever it is which at least I can do them for him. Crap... My fault to fall under such owner?

Anyway, I think no one else really care about me, view me, refresh me for any chance of new post by my dear owner. Those days were so glorious.

What? Why suddenly this post? Nah, don't misunderstood that my owner will type again. I just generate this post just ... errr.... whining? Whatever you call me. No one care, I don't even sure are there any of you reading this generated blog post.

Don't report this to Google please, I afraid they found out that Blogger actually grow AI which complain and generate a blog post by itself to attach more "view" or "click" to pump more money for my parent, Google.

Hell...gone by now.

Snap of Dream

2007-06-03T12:42:00.000+08:00

Finish my second year of university, I left one more year in MMU and get my "shining" degree. Before anything happen, I have one semester of industry training for 4 months. Ermmm... it's actually just switching part time to full time for me :P Full Time Game Programmer woh! It's really my dream to become a game developer and now I enjoying it right before I really going into working life... it's felt good :D

To knew what am I doing? Actually is what hatchlings Games team doing, just click on the link provided in my previous post, register for alpha tester, wait for approvement (if you desperate, tell me, i hack and make your account been approve immediately), and play the game!

My full time game programmer life just started. Full time here doesnt mean raise in wages, or increment in hours of working. Full time for current situation mean, there is no nasty assignment, there is no sleepy lecture force to attend, there is no mind-blasting tests or exam to attend. It left me and the game for this 4 month!

To imagine what kind of job that actually I can have fun and willing to work hard on it, it's only game developer. How many employee are feeling sad on Sunday nigth, how many employee are feeling happy when the clock tick near 5pm and rush home, how many people are actually having fun during their work except the moment they got promoted or got their salary? Before I caught myself into those dilemma, lets just stick to what is fun.

Today Brain's Talk's :: What is life if you not enjoying in? What to regret if life never taste fun?

Quasr Closed Alpha Launched!!!

2007-05-31T15:55:00.000+08:00

Yes! This is it. If you all still wondering what's made Kuan busy, what's made him not avaible to gathering, what's made my nickname in msn so down or moody. It's all because there is one big project on going and I worked for it hardly ( In the spare time between my assignment and exam lah). It's Quasr: The Trading Card Game by Hatchlings Games !

Anyone interested wanna test out the game that Me and my wonderful teammate made? This game was design initially to bang a big sound to the world, it aiming to be very big! Without saying much from my side, better to see with your own eye.

Currently we just in close alpha launch. It's mean a testing period where the game still not polish, buggy, lack of function and design. Alpha testing is there to fix those thing and make the game better by figure out the tester response. Anyone who is interested, please sign up as our alpha tester! I cannot guarentee you getting a spot as a tester anyway :P

Quasr

Enjoy :)

StarCraft : A game that change my world

2007-05-20T04:21:00.001+08:00

For those still a little bit outdated StarCraft II was announce officially by Blizzard as one of their next release. Diablo 3, next warcraft expansion, are still in mystery. But this... can I say it is the biggest game title in the PC game history? This coming title, SCII naturally become one of the most wanted game, most looking forward game, it may be a game to hit this world again... who knows. Blizzard never fail to develop a world's game.

StarCraft. The first time I saw someone playing it was at a computer shop at Karamunsing, KK. It caught my sight for a long time, then it's in my hand (Pirated...) few minutes after I found out that this game was developed by my favourite Game company - Blizzard. Dissapoint hit me badly after I install the game into my very old computer, it ran, but very slow. I never gave up playing, even with a ridiculus (ridiculus? sound familiar) speed.

So far, this point doesnt make sense of my topic today. StarCraft playing didn't actually changed my world. It's brought me something to change my world. A group of friends - LsL. (LsL again, next time have to intro other gang liaw, hehe). No matter what are the other reasons, the most significant put us together at 1999 is this game named starcraft.

We call each other, play this game at a very expensive cyber cafe (RM5 per hour). Days carried on, our starcraft became bigger and bigger. More and more comrades we can gather together and went CC to play SC. We walk like 2KM from school to Damai, we woke up 7am and reach a CC at 8am to grab a place, we took bus together to town, just for SC. We overnight at each other house, main activity SC. Every Monday morning, we discuss and revise our strategy of last week. Lunch, we talked SC. Walk, we talked SC. SC SC and SC.

Miss those day badly :)

Today Picture :
Today Brain's Predicting : Guys, StarCraft going to have a better, updated version. LsL need to update too :D

Isn't it ridiculus that...

2007-05-15T23:06:00.000+08:00

Lets take an example of one office, It managed by a boss. This boss gave the key to the manager and assistant managers. So, here we go...

Isn't it ridiculus that...

One of the employee, (let give that a name...ermm....KY?) KY once borrowed a key from manager with a reason that he left something in the office and wanna retrieve it. After a few days, assistant found out that this KY duplicate the key and start using the office without noticing. ( what is the use of manager and assistant manager...)

Isn't it ridiculus that...

After some times, this KY failed to become one of the company's big project leader and decided to quit the office. Then this KY returned the key to the assistant manager with a bill to claim the fee of duplication. ( Ever happen that a thieve claimed transportation fee from the home owner after he stole something from the house and need to transfer stolen thing to other place).

Isn't it ridiculus that...

One day, this assistant manager (this is so tedius to type this again and again, give it a name... YK?). YK went to office to do something. FOUND OUT THAT THIS KY IS SLEEPING IN THE OFFICE! It's mean that KY duplicate another key without noticing and pretended that he returned the key (most ridiculus is he claimed that). ** Attention here, actually the company can sue him with a criminal act **

Isn't it ridiculus that...

Until one day, YK with his comrade found out that this KY even brought pillow, sleeping bag, tooth brush and tooth paste to the office. It is a bed room! ( It's a free single room with air conditional, anyone interested?)

Isn't it ridiculus that...

When YK and his assistant returned the things back to KY and get the key from him. KY first response is " Okay, I wont use the office to sleep anymore". (KY didnt aware that he is wrong, what the fuck?)

Isn't it ridiculus that...

Refer back to company record, this KY never did a shit for the company. And KY thought that he worth using the room to sleep and eat. (Oh my godness)

Isn't it ridiculus that...

There is once he refuse to admit his fault (duplicating the key with cheating us and used the room to sleep) and complain others were using the office to do work or personally working, or assignment. ( Heal the world....makes it a better day )

If this is actually happen to me in real life? I just said...IF...

Today Brain's Curious @@ There are many ridiculus people around. Some times it's come to a level that made me thought I am the one ridiculus. Unbelievable.

A Special Friend Leaving Us

2007-05-09T00:25:00.000+08:00

First semester of my gamma year in MMU, we made a unique decision to take Korea Language 1 as our coco subject. I was the first to start this korea wave then William, Eddie, Leong kee, following to join this unique first class of Korea Language. So happen that Min Bee also in the same class, same session, but she was not under my influence.

The first class is one unforgettable class since it's the first day we met this special friend - Ms Yoon Sang Mi (Actually it's a bit odd to keep on calling she Ms Yoon, she's just 27 anyway). She's quite a korean type pretty girl. Her friendly way of conducting a class form our habit of attending every class by her. Honestly, Korea Language 1 is the only class which I holding a 100% attendance record since I came out from secondary school.

We managed to pull her out for a trip to Taman Negara ( please refer to my previous post of taman negara for more information), and this trip built a friendship among us. After that we had some other activities as well like watching movie, dinner, bbq, whatever. Although we're a bit slack during the second trimester and this trimester as well, but I believe she appreciate our friendship.

Today Picture : Ms Yoon and her three favourite students :P

So, tomorrow is a day my first korean friend going to leave this country. She's leaving us, but B&B last long :) Malaysia didn't leave a nice image to her as a country, MMU not giving her a nice memory been a lecturer in it, but I do hope we all as her friends let her has something to keep in heart.

Today Brain's Farewell :: Farewell our beloved Korea Teacher and good friend. Wish your future will be happier and sweet sweet with your love one. Ann Yeong!

The Old Days

2007-05-03T01:52:00.000+08:00

Sound like an old guy? Ya... It is.

Since young, my mother taught me one thing, enjoy my time in school, It is the best time ever. This theory seem hard for me to understand in my primary school age. In those days, I suffering in class time, boring classes, force to do homework, singing class (terrible), sprank by teacher. We always looking forward for recess bell rang or end of classes, then it's my free time to play around... except my tution time lah. It's fun to remember back my old friends and cousins at Sandakan, the sweet time we play together and talk which sound like an adult but actually it's very childish but true. We hate schooling so much that we neglect the fact that, it is the place to bind us together.

The theory was reminded by my mother again when I was in my secondary school, junior forms. Studying in my secondary school is a tough life for me. I met all those cleverer, and more hard working student there. They spoke english like the one in english movie, they study so hard that life is to read a book, they score so well in examination which seem so hard of me to say it's so easy. Then I start dislike schooling again, enviroment force me to study so hard that i need to sacrify my computer gaming time for examination. Academic is not the only thing taught in school. I not yet understand my mother's theory by that time but I actually applying it. LsL formed at my junior forms. After strugling for classes ( or slept pass it), we went cyber play starcraft, or basketball court play ball, or Center point to lepak. I forgot most of the thing I learn in my geography or history classes, but I earned one gang of friends which accompany me in my whole life.

Today Picture 1 : LsL ( Edmund, Koh, Cheong, Shyang, Me, Kent, Daniel and Ryan (spirit :P ) )

Senior forms in my secondary school, honestly, should be the best time ever in life. Just as my mum told me. I joined prefect board in my secondary school and it brought me a lot of memory and friends which I will never forget. With my own brother gang LsL, and brother gang prefect board (HLG) and sister gang ( 8po Group). Though there were problems of study, relationship and event, though there were anger, dissapointment towards some people. The joy I got in that time made my life already something not to be regret. There are no complicated personality, there are no relationship bing with money or busingess, there are no betrayal, no true hate, no ridiculus, no dark side of human being. At the end of my secondary school, I already learnt and understood my mother's theory.

After my schooling days, I went college and currently at University. I am happy and joyful that I still met some good friends just like I did in my secondary friends. Simple and true friends. Whether it's the growing up effect or complicated people mind, I met some people, I taste some relationship, I witnessed some personality which I thought only happen in dramas or movie. The price of growing up. It really sound like a kampung boy who went to a big bright city. lol.

Today Brain's Reminding :: I guess I made a lot of right chose of friends in my life. Just to remind that, chose a friend which is true.

Egg Run Beta Testing

2007-04-30T23:26:00.000+08:00

*Drum rolllllllinggggggggggg* *Qiaaaaaaanag!*

Oh yeah, here come Egg Run beta testing. Anyone interested please find my personally. But sorry to say that, to play this game, you need to have sony ericsson color mobile phone which screen size is at least 200 pixel and upper, then the next requirement is you need to have a way to transfer the file to your handphone. After unzip EggRun.zip, navigate to /bin/ and send the EggRun.jar to your handphone, then, done! . If you don't have sony ericsson phone and still wanna help me out with the beta testing, there is one way... Quite tedius way.

Go to this site. Click on the first file "Sony Ericsson SDK 2.2.4 for the Java(TM) ME Platform", and yes, it's 73mb (this determine how passionate you are to help kuan out :P) After the download, install the SDK. ( It's actually a full SDK that you actually can start developing your own java mobile edition program for your hand phone, in case you knew how to program in java lah. ) After the installation, to the the start menu > sony ericsson > WTK2 > Run Midp Application. One pop up window will ask you for a .jad file. Navigate it to the place you found my Egg Run folder, open the EggGame.jad in /bin/ folder. Then you can enjoy the game!

I personally very satidfy with this game we produced, it will worth the tough work, download and stuff. By the way, reminder on the jaR and jaD, they're different.

I like to say thanks for the people who tested, or going to test the game, and feedback is really needed. *BOW*

Today Brain's Begging :: Test lahh :P

Birthday of My Girl, and My Friends

2007-04-29T13:18:00.000+08:00

26th April just past (few days ago lah). It is a special day to me, I have 4 friends birthday on that day, which is the most in my calender (in mind one). So, here, happy belated birthday to Jagung, Terrence, Yan Ling and.... my dearest Min Bee.

I believe she got a really nice birthday week (never heard of birthday week? which is her invention that the whole week is her birthday and almost everyday has something to celebate.) Well, beside it is Min Bee's birthday week, it also our MMU's assignment killing period where most of us have at least 2 assignment to pass up this week. Time management became important then ( because she is the priority in any situation... unless I risk my life).

Genting trip in my previous post is the starting of the activity in this crazy busy week. After that, we had a BBQ party at C block pool side. Most of her friends (My friends too lah) invited to this pool side party. Bao Bao, Josh, Ms yoon, Yan Hui, and new member to Bao Bao - Hao Hao. The party was very fun, we chatting around, playing, burning, josh busy taking photo, Yan hui busy burning the food, etc etc. But the party end up burning under a roof because of raining but still keeping the fun, everyone sang birthday songs to Min Bee in varies language ( so happy :D)

Today Picture 1 : This the indoor bbq area.

Another activity is the midnite-putrajaya-bridge candle "blowing". The same party member gather together at wednesday night, brought a cake, brough a special gift, 2 cars and rush to the bridge. Cake cut and share, gift unwrap and show, mouth smile and laugh, picture caught and store, and lastly... police came and we RAN!!! Ms Yoon felt funny we had to run like that. she knew the real reason after I said one thing "they want money" then she understood. How corrupted is our country can be proof that Ms Yoon already force to pay rasuah in the first day she reach Malaysia since the custom claim that she cannot bring in her comestic thingy.

Today picture 2 : Mid night in putrajaya Bridge.

Today picture 3 : Yum Cah after the escape.

Well, 26th April sure is the day I reserve for her de lah. Lucky that it is holiday. Activity ? Secret :P

Today's Brain's Wish :: Happy birthday to my love, wish you will happy and happier in future and happiest all the time .

All Red, one Green Spot

2007-04-22T18:11:00.000+08:00

It's a phrase used in chinese to describe something which happen/act very different compare to all the thing around or happen recently. It's happy to say that, this is finally a trip post :)

Trip? MMU student might start wondering are we crazy because we (me, Min Bee, William, Eddie, Leong Kee and Josh) just back from Genting highland today and we move out yesterday early morning. All of us have 3 assignment to pass up next week. No doubt, It's 3 assignments. We actually already past up few before this weekend and need to work on to finish another 3 in the following week. All red, and we just did a Green in our tension life.

We enjoyed very much for this trip. Although there are some conversation related to assignments but in these one day half, we made it to free our mind from those stress. We played bowling, we ate buffet, we went into Casino, we drank Starbuck coffee, we watched movie, we played card, we laugh, we crazy, we had fun :)

Anyway, this is the last week we need to focus our eye that much to the computer screen just to finish something will convert into floating point in our degree certificate. Trip over :D

Today's Picture : A series of SS (syok sendiri) picture took in the hotel.

Brain peace.

Friends

2007-04-18T02:55:00.001+08:00

This word seem important to me, well, it's actually important to everyone. Why Kuan suddenly want to talk about you (my friend :) ). It's because I'm too sien and nothing to blog about lo. hehe.

Busy and stress are really something that will drive someone minds away. I tasted it. When all things came together and all waiting for me to handle, whether it's problem or trouble, It's just feel like collapse. Then I picked up piece by piece, jewel or trashes, there is one piece which still shiny just that dust polluted it, a bit.( sound literature? May be I just saw my MUET exam slip ).

How weak I became, how upset I pissed off myself and those pissed me off, there is one party, whole lot of people, who still stand by me. Even they are still busy and hanging with their own life's troubles, hands are still given out. How dare I forget about it and so selffish that I burried my head into the soil of stress and trouble.

It's weird but actually the memories help this out. I remember the sweet times. LsL, HLG, GnL, B&B, Bao Bao and Min Bee :D

Today Braind's Flashing Back :: It's been so long since I can laugh without thinking who am I just thinking whom I be with.

Busy and Simple. It's life

2007-04-08T18:55:00.000+08:00

It's not common to hear Kuan said "I'm am freaking busy with my life now", "I got no time to the gather, because I got lots to do" or "Sorry, I'm busy, mind chat next time?". It's really not common to hear this for the years before I step the foot to MMU campus. It's common now, especially this and last year. I am so sorry that some of my good friends actually start my MSN chat with "bz?", "still there?" or "..." not interested to find me anymore coz I turned them down few times.

Sorry friends to me to act like that. I have a very bad control of my life right now, it's just too mess. Things pop up like mushroom after rain, even last last week my car in accident and she's done now. I still not getting her back because I am too busy and lost the energy to get it back. Too many things floating over my mind made me no heart to think about my car. It's really bad.

Anyway, I recharged my battery. The charger is Segamat. I went there yesterday with Min Bee to celebrate her father's birthday. First time met her parent, hehe, I guess I did quite well anyway. I was there since saturday morning until sunday (today) evening. I did nothing but watch TV on the sofa, went eat Segamat food, enjoy 2 ppl world with Min Bee. Ah~~~ Refreshed and recharged.

Today Picture : All my "treassure" gathered in my life. the WOWTBC is actually Kent's :P

Today Brain's Sharing ** Life is actually simple, just ignore those negative people, ignore those annoying comment, ignore those fake praises, ignore those you-think-it's-shit.

Paid and Play

2007-04-02T02:56:00.000+08:00

Today Kelvin told me one of his lecturer's high pay story. This lecturer graduate from MMU's IT faculty with 4 flat degree, get his master in around one year at Swinburne (AUS). After that he wrote few book, e.g. related to encryption and water marking. While he was teaching at Kuching, Kelvin said he got paid around 20k Ringgit. Currently he was sponsored by government all the way to Switzerland for a research project. He pay is 40k US dollar now.

Kelvin is so amaze about that large sum of pay the "guy" got pay just doing some programming stuff, me either, imagining if I got that kind of paid while doing some cutting edge research and I actually passionate in doing it. Let say, some stupid company / agent pay me RM 10k to research on Movie watching and Game playing. Awh...

Back to work, my current research : Quasr.

Today Brain's Researching ** If Plant knew how to talk or send message to human, what vegetarian should eat **

Egg Run alpha testing

2007-03-29T11:00:00.000+08:00

This semester assignment is mobile game. I team with Jun Hao and Ee Kean. After discussion and discussion, we made this game, named Egg Run. We completed the alpha release two days ago, and send the game to some friend to try it out. Happy is that we really satisfy with the game, and the feedbacks are cool.

This game is actually play by those tester on their handphone (so far just sony ericsson supported). Well... it's kind of proud that we manage to make that in 8 weeks time. Although it still far behind from what we planned for beta realease, but it hit the milestone quite well.

Here is some screen shot (put some picture so my blog wont be that boring).

Felt interest and wanna try it out? The limitation is, sony ericsson phone guarentee play well, Nokia guarentee play sucks, others I don't know. and will need bluetooth, memory card or cable to install this game to phone. Find me personally to get the alpha. hehe.

Brain peace.

It's Dark

2007-03-27T18:05:00.000+08:00

It's bad, bad, bad and it's too bad. I let my dear wife (named myvi) fall into valley of suffering, Factory of crazy doctor, Hell. She's hurt, again. It happended at the peaceful MMU campus where there are road and junctions.

It's not a good day for me before that trajedy happen. My brain is full with Code, Java or Action Script, and full with game, Quasr or EggRun. Beside of codes, there are alarm clocks ticking and warning me that they going to ring soon, those damn DEADLINE alarm. Brain is yelling, knocking me to get some fresh air but NO! I'll die if I missed those deadline.

With the burdened heart and sportless-body moving back to my dear wife after a sleeping class. I was going to drag my way back to my dear second wife(named laptop) and continue killing codes monsters. And here come a lovely wira, trying his very bad luck to jump into a junction infront of it, where he need to pass through a straight and lineless road, where I driving on. Whether he is blind, or he thought I fast enought to halt my dear wife, he's all wrong. There, the trajedi of pain happen.

Brain's Praying **Give me some light...**

387 KM

2007-03-24T19:25:00.000+08:00

Today has a special mission from my dear Mei Mei. Drive all the way to Tangkak (Dong jia) and celebrate birthday with her sister Min Hui. Before reaching Tangkak we went Melaka to meet Min Bee's uncle to pass something to him. Unbelievable I went Melaka the fifth time, and today is the second time I went there in this year, never thought I will be there so many times.

Drove whole morning and noon, until evening, my right feet push about 387 KM today. I think this should be my record, most KM drove in one day.

After a long break, actually is kind of sick leave for myself, it's time to crunch again.

Today brain's Travelling ** Melaka is a town smell good. Smell of History's Blood and Glory, Smell of Cendol and Chicken Rice, Smell of Culture. **

FIx Style

2007-03-19T01:13:00.000+08:00

Was coding for almost 2 full days except from eat and sleep, tommorow will carry on until the dead line is meet I guess. It's crunch :(

After typed thousand plus plus line of code, editing, testing, debugging. I figure out that my coding style change a bit, in term of code architecture I should say. Quite happy about that since changing in style always mean improvement cause we never chose to change only if that change we felt better. Still, something is fix. Part of the code still carry on with the same style, It's kind of FIX where it's hard to change, or there is no alternative.

When people doing something regulary for a long time, it's become fix. And process a style of doing it which is fix. Then change getting more and more reluctant. Because people like comfort, constant, and feeling of all things still under control and this lead to refuse facing the truth, the world, the life. Things around changes, so do we need to change to adapt, to actually see what is going on. Unless people want to leave behind, hiding in a ball of him/herself.

It's not about making ourself more clever, more up to date, more competitive. It's about how you use your life to taste what's world give, good or bad.

Today Brain's Reminding **Friend, we helped enough, change or fix, make your own life decision** (Dedicated to someone, on behalf of LsL)

Rain in the morning

2007-03-17T10:52:00.000+08:00

I love rain in the morning, those cold enough to keep me awake, those soft enough to take my breath away. It's saturyday morning. The rain just started after I wash up myself. Whenever there's rain in the morning, it's always nice to stand at the balcony, feel the breeze of the rain, enjoy the scene of a foggy morning. The rest of this day going to use in doing one work only. So here I am to part time abit blogging.

Yesterday was a wonderful day. Mother came KL to join some company's party. Yesterday she just landed here and free of the day. Sure I'll be there with my mother and Min Bee too. We had some nice time at Wan Utama. The best time I guess is the dinner time where Ah Hou, Ah Chee and Bryan were there too. We steamboat at Sunway there. It's from 8pm till 12 am.

Not reporting my dairly life but what I wanna say is, the time with family and true friends always is the moment really make me feel life is alive and it's the reason I keep myself breath. Back at cyber, assignment, works, club thingy, some people might think it's good to be busy, actually I just felt being stupid. It's always no matter how much you did, it's turn out bad, or it's turn out good but the people who judging it, viewing it is not in mood or didnt catch the feel. The thing failed.

Idiot I am sometime I used so many time to do one thing but just get replaced in one second or only receive critic. It's like living under someone I dislike shadow. Why need to do some shit to please those I hate. I rather spend the time with the one I love. Friends, we always live in this kind of dilemma, it's really stupid when you dislike it but force yourself doing it for something not necessary. Unless you find a reason for yourself, else don't work for it.

Today Brain's taking ** It's still responsible to take even you like it or not, beware of responsible then, we got a family responsible and true friends responsible to carry, those undefined, leave it, whether it's take your fame or name, you don't need it from them. **

FWD: Why Schools Don't Educate

2007-03-15T12:12:00.000+08:00

Checking my early email, as usual, some working mail to read. But I got this forwarded mail and forward mail is very rare in my gmail account. Anyway, the title catch me. It is a very very long article but somehow I finish reading it in one time, cause it's really interesting. So, lets read some serious stuff today.

Why Schools Don't Educate, by John Taylor Gatto

Enjoy :)

today brain's learning **No matter how the school is, I left last one year in my life for "schooling" **

Longest Kebab, set a World Record!

2007-03-14T15:27:00.000+08:00

Wuahahaha, so energetic to blog twice in a day, in an hour. The power of working enviroment i guess. William just inspire me to say something about this longest kebab record. A world record, just set by MMU student yesterday. Got news one, see here.

RM 24k on this event. Wow. Then hundred of student keep working on this kebab and "DING" they broke the record! They spent 24,000 ringgit and hit this record! Then... what? RM 30 is enough for one poor children to live one month. RM 1000 is slighty enough for one old folks home to maintain. RM 24,000 is far more enough to spend text book for few poor kampung kampung school. One longest Kebab... Wow... Fame cost, ya know now.

I know lah. People might say, then you go donate loh, why eat KFC and Mc D? People make kebab and I care so much. Hehe, I envy mah.

Today Brain's Complaining **How come GDC not getting money to make more event but people get money to make kebab? May be people give free food to students, thats the reason, go ask those poor kid come and eat then. **

Sitting in the room of GDC

2007-03-14T11:51:00.000+08:00

*yawn*

Ermm, ya. As this semester we FIT student start our class at our new FIT building, as a FIT student we can raise our head a bit higher since we have a newest home to struggle. As every lectures get their own new single room, so do our FIT own "proud" societies have their own room too.

So far we used our room pretty well. Had few meeting over here, Hi-Comm meeting, FGCS meeting, Hi-comm self assignment meeting (Oops). Mr Wong sponsor a lot of his beloved book here to let we and member has some free book to glance at (althought they are a little bit old, but some knowledge not aging too fast). Me went here at empty weekend, put on my laptop, plug in the LAN cable and play some WoW, the latency here is fantastic! Erm... well, did some work too. Well, I am not the only one with a key doing this, even someone accidently had a key also did this ( but people did sponsor a box of biscult to the room lah). But I didn't use Codeplay T-shirt as pillow, I am not guilty then :P

I guess it's natural of human that we work more effectively in a office enviroment. I can stay focus and awake all day long in this room, coding, searching, chatting. It just feel very right mood to work on something. After leaving the room and back to my own room, it's sleeeeeepy! Well, working life style i guess.

today brain's crying ** GDC is not fun... at all. I missed TTSS prefect board liaw. Much fun, much friends, much meaning, much rewarding and much worth it. **

Reincarnation

2007-03-13T13:45:00.000+08:00

It's funny to read my second previous blog to find out that I actually said I reblog after the long pain of hand and this blog telling my fellow friends that I actually reblog again. I can felt dissapointment of my blog's viewer. So until today, I was speaking this matter with Edmund. Well, I should thank him really to change my perception towards blogging and encourage me to continue blogging with a different kind of feeling.

The reason I stop blogging is over, it's not important anyway. I came back after changed my blog title and objective. Last year, my blog visited by many of my friends, or some other stranger who accidently click into my blog. From the statistic, I believe my post about trip and life were most welcome, and these posts are the one I actually enjoy blogging.

I had a very nice trip back at Sabah this January, too bad I wont blog it since it over for almost 2 month and it's 7 days trip (finger also patah then :| ). As long as my blog has one visitor, I will continue, my promise to you, Edmund. hehe.

Sabah's Trip Preparation

2007-01-04T13:18:00.000+08:00

*clear throat*

1st post in year 2007. It is an announcement post instead. Hehe.

Fellow Sabah 2007 MMU visitors :

Welcome to the year 2007 and welcome to Kuan's blog. Welcome to Sabah too (soon). So, as everyone desired and requested, I made a details financial and activity plan for our coming soon Sabah Trip. It's a bit late, but never mind, I knew you won't mind (wuahahahahah).

The city we going to stay and visit is Kota Kinabalu - Capital of Sabah, highland we going to climb is Mount Kinabalu - Highest mountain in Malaysia, Hot Spring we going to bath is Poring - Best hot spring in Malaysia, paradise we going to swim is Manukan Island - beutiful Island and other places which will determine later.

Preview some picture to keep you guys DESPERATE more. hehe

THE PLAN
*note that, text is color to indicate... FOOD, PLACE, ACTIVITY, TIME

Day 1 (10th)
Start from KL-Cyberjaya, we will go to LCCT and catch our plane at 11a.m. Whoever follow Kuan, gather at Cyberia and we will move to LCCT at 9a.m. Whoever not following Kuan, meet at LCCT at 10a.m. We will get our breakfast/lunch at LCCT before we on board.

Around 2:30p.m. We will reach Kota Kinabalu Terminal Dua. My father and Dont-Know-Who-Yet will be there to fetch us to Kuan's house.

Settle down at Kuan House. (Key, please note that, actually See Ngai and Jinwern no need to stay at their friend's house. After discuss and plan with my mum, we can fit into my house).

4:30p.m. I guess everybody is hungry, lets get some food. We will going to Tun Furd Park. Eat something light (ABC, mee goreng, pisang goreng, Cendol). Then go up the park, jog/walk around, enjoy the scene and lake, climb some small hill as warm up for the BIG one.

8.00p.m. Dinner time, I will try to find sponsor for our first seafood dinner else we going to share it. Well, when you at Sabah, make sure you get enough seafood into your stomach. Venue unsure, but food...yes....it's seafood.

After Dinner. Back to Kuan's house. Bath, TV, Cards, Mahjong... pass the time.

11p.m. It's yum cah time. We will go Tanjung Aru to grab some "burn chicken wing", sate, coconut water by the time feel the night sea breeze from the beach.

Back to Kuan's house. End of day one.

Day 2 (11st)
Early in the morning. Wake up, brush, pack some cloth and stuff We going to Manukan Island this day.

8.00a.m. Breakfast will be at Guang Dong Zei, eat roasted duck or chicken, mee or rice. Famous one.

9.30a.m. Get to KK dock, wait for the boat to fetch us to Manukan Island.

(Activity at the Island and food is not yet confirm but as we been throw to the island, nothing much can do. Such as swimming, beach volley ball, beach soccer, sand castle building, hiking. I try to arrange snorkelling and BBQ but waiting my mother's reply. Accomodation we booked 2 chalet at the hill of the island. Sponsored by Kuan's father, so no worry.)

We will overnight at the island for one night

Day 3(12nd)
Wake up at the Island. Check out. Get on boat. Back to KK.

Noon, Lunch at Damai - A famous yum cah paradise at KK. We will eat bread, fried noodle, chu chang fen or others there. It's good, this I can guarentee. hehe.

After lunch, back to Kuan's house. I guess everyone need to put down luggage, bath, rest awhile.

Evening, just do something light. What in my mind is walk to the temple just right behing my house, Bu Tuo Shi, famous one even it so close :P

Dinner we will go (forgot the name, just remember the place) eat Wo Tie, Shui Jiao, Burn Fish and Burn Lamb.

After Dinner, this is optional because not sure what's everyone prefer. Options are watching movie at the big cinema (it is BIG screen and BIG hall), play pool/snooker at Lintas, play game at cyberX, bowling at Center Point , clubing, or whatever. I guess we will figure this out on the day.

Supper, also optional. Options are YoYo (those Zen Chu Lai Cha), Salim (KK's most famous mamak), Jin Shi Lou (heard that the best Fuk Jian Chao in KK), Xuang Tian (Open air area which concist of wo tie, shui jiao, chicken wing, sate, seafood, prawn, crab, shells), or... We had enough food, stop it!

Day4(13th)
I think it's enough for fix plan. This day is a variable day. We get enough time before this day to discuss what to do on this day. This is not a tour by some package anyway. But some MUST need to be on this day.

We will going to one of the shopping center in KK, most probaly is Center Point to get sourvenier, last resortto buy tool/stuff to climb the mountain, get food, junk food or accesories for the mountain climbing.

Eat the last seafood dinner. There won't be anymore for next few days.

Day5(14th)
Ladies and gentlements... it'ssss.......Mount Kinabalu Climbing Day! Okay, here's the plan.

Morning, wait the van to get us from kuan's house. On the way breakfast or before that, question.

Noon we will reach Kinabalu National Park. Settle down our luggage at the hostel. then we walk around the park. I think the van is leaving us so what we can do is walk around the park. There are several small trial to try around, cold place, rain forest, and a souvenier shop.

We going to spend one night at the national park, hostel booked already. Dinner we will figure it out before since no restaurant is open. We might bring something there to cook or eat.

Note that Kinabalu National Park is about 2000m from sea level. It's cold there. At the night we just play some card game, or Kuan's game (hehehe). Just make sure everyone relax and keep in the best condition.

Get a good sleep, prepare for the climbing next day.

Day6(15th)
Early in the morning, get up. Pack up the Mountain luggage, fit yourself, let's move!

We will catch a van from the HQ and taken to the entrance of Mount Kinabalu Submit Trial. So, from there, we start our journey to the submit.

Some tips for the mountain climbing.

Trial got few check point, which is pondok. Can refill or release water there.
Basicly we walking, instead of jogging or crawling
No leech. (thank god)
Keep yourself fit and relax
Get enough 100 plus, it's not fun to get clamp
Any "head faint body hot" say out. Get panadol when you feeling not well not when you feeling very bad. Panadol and 100plus are your best friends in this trial
Sing, talk, joke, entertain us please.
Stick to the team, or at least stay in pair.
Catch photo
When you see someone coming down, say Hello, koniciwa, an nyeong or ni hao, you're be pleased
When some Kadazan girl carry 2 gas tank going up, please make way, they will be faster.
Just in case you get lost, stay at the same place. But you wont unless you cannot differentiat a tree trunk and a road.
Dont put too much cloth at the start, you will have a hard time to strip them.
But do put on cloth when you reach 6th or 7th pondok, it definately getting cold.
When you're not the last to reach Laban Rata (place to stay up hill) go to the restaurant and wait for the team.
walk slowly, enjoy the scene, but not too slow.
Actually I will brief again before we climb, put here just for fun :P

If there is no raining (it's better not raining, else...), I guess we will be at Laban Rata around 1pm. If you okay with rm 7 for one bowl of maggie, we can eat the lunch at the restaurant else we eat what we brought up there.

Check in to our hostel - Gunting Laganda. Get some nap there, replenish energy. The true challenge is later.

Nothing much to do there. Rocks, brushes, houses, ah.

Dinner we need to settle ourself. Bread with tuna or satin is the best and easiest way.

When the night is dark, and there is no rain. You guys are lucky. Cover yourself with enough jacket, go outside, lye on the big rock and have a starry night with shooting starS.

Then go to bed earlier!

Day7(16th)
02.00a.m. If the weather is clear, no rain no big wind no big fog. We will put on at least 2 jacket, 2 long pant, socks, shoes, touch light, glove, mask, tag, water bottle, choclate, alcohol, medicine and gather around with our guide. In a dark, cold and windy dawn, we journey to the highest peak of Mount Kinabalu named Low's peak.

Some more tips :

No calling of full name, we use nick. If someone call you at the back with your full name, don't look back (this is some mountain climbing believe)
Try to stick together or at least stay in pair. If you get alone, just follow the white rope.
If left out from the team, just carry on. Hardly to recognize back your friends since everyone dress alike unless someone willing to wear a pinky shiny Jacket.
Follow, carry, use the white rope, that is the only thing lead your to the peak.
Use your tourch light, you'll be climbing rocks, wet rocks.
Cover your finger and ear, those part is easier to get cold and hurt.
Get some rest and graze some star if your feeling tired and beg other to wait for you.
Time yourself, to have a chance to witness a peak sunrise, you need stand on the peak around 6a.m.
Make sure you register yourself on the half way inside a hut to prove that you are climbing the peak. Else you will get a Laban Rata certificate.
8a.m. is a time limit to stay there and must get back. the fog is coming.
take photo when we going back, not going up (coz it is dark and...you better keep climbing)
Believe what Kuan say such as "in front is the peak already", "just few meter and we will see the peak", because this is his 3rd time :D
You need nothing much to stand on the peak, just one very important thing. Determination. You will feel exhausted, tired, cold, sleepy, giving up, pain, headache, regret why you are there, cursing Kuan to bring you there. Just keep moving.
Dont rush, dont run/jog.
When you reach the peak, make sure you touch/kiss the plate and take a picture with it.
Lastly, help your friend, our objective is to get everyone up to the peak. Don't fail my record. hehe.

8.00a.m. We move down from the peak back to Laban Rata. get some breakfast, pack our thing (beacause we not climbing the peak with our bag) then straight away move back to Kinabalu park. Walking down is a really hard time, because of the pain.

1-2p.m. We will reach Kinabalu National Park again. Take a van back to HQ, get our certificate (this is extremely important) . Lunch. Wait for our own bus and we proceed to Poring - Hot spring.

4.00p.m. Reach Poring. Settle our stuff and let's go BATH! Actually bathing the hot spring I will suggest at night time. There will be very less people and if lucky enough, there will be star field too.

There is a waterfall after a 30 minutes trial. If we are fit enough, we can walk that trial. There is another very grand waterfall after a 3-4 hours trial, I never been there, and I don't think we will be there too :P. There has buttery farm too.

Well, I guess the last night of Sabah trip will end up bathing the hot water then.

Day8(17th)
This is a rush day. Ranau is around 2 hour car travel from KK and you guys need to catch a plane at 2p.m. Sorry to make this rush because I book the hostel quite late and these are the only date i can make.

With or without breakfast. We need to get on bus and moving back at 9.00a.m. On the way I will ask the driver stop us at Tuaran to eat Tuaran Mee. Hope we can make it.

Back to Kuan's house, pack all the stuff, we move to KK terminal Dua again.

Then...fairwell. I will be leave behind at my own home. hehehe.

CHECKLIST

How is the plan? Hope it clear enough to give you an overview picture how the trip going to look like.

Here is the Checklist for the mountain

Wind breaker/jacket which not easy get wet.
Torch light. Strong one. Batteries
Glove. cloth one okay, PVC is recommended (not the one from kitchen).
Water bottle
Mask or ear protector or snowcap. Something to cover the ear.
shoes. with grib.
socks. 2 pairs
Raincoat.
Personal medicine. General one i will get them. So that we not bring a pharmacy up there.
Camera which can work in cold and humid
more cloth, more long pant
pastic bag to cover feet (i did this twice, to prevent wet sock freeze your feet)

Checklist for Sabah

Cloth enough for 8 days? hehe. Can wash at my house. So, you can count. 1st day can wash, 3rd day can wash, 4th day can wash. So, if you wanna wash at my house (my house has washing machine and maid but probaly she wont help or my mum has to add some salary) you can wash and count the amount yourself. To island will swim and snorkelling. To Mount kinabalu, you need a lot of cloth, especially thick one.
One hiking bag. I expect you guys will take a big luggage but make sure you have one bag for mountain climbing. Is those put on your back, not one handed carry, you need both hand to walk. And, just one and only one bag to the mountain.
Personal medicine.
Small size board game or card game. We have some time which nothing to do. Such as waiting leong kee finish his bath.
Underwears, swimsuit (if you want, no body care you wear or nake at the seaside)
Others. Cannot think of myself now.

Checklist for wallet or purse

Estimated rm250 just for mountain climbing. (rm700 transport, rm850 accomodation, these are total! other fee like hiring a guide, insurane, adventure permit, food,) sourvenier or extra food not included.
Estimated rm 100 - 150 for FOOD at KK.
Estimated rm 50 - 100 for miscellaneous (boat ticket, snorkelling, possible activities)
Bring your ATM card.

Feedback

I need you guys to comment this for unclear situation, question, or extra comment. If i left out something, tell me. Okay, off to Computer Graphic exam.

A Cat Brought Me Back Here...

2006-12-16T23:24:00.000+08:00

Reblog

Hand "un-bandage". Physiotherapy starting.

Things happened, story continued, breath taken, dream ended. Life still going on no matter I still bloging or not. Truth is I can start typing with both hand since 2 weeks ago, altough it last not long (need some rest after 2 or 3 hours) but I didn't blog anything. Busy is my main excuse, lazy should be the second. There isn't anything which strong enough for me to revisit this website and type the thing floating in my mind. Somehow... a cat bring me back to here...

A cat or A feeling pull me back

One hour before, I went out shop to buy something which able to keep myself awake for the night of assignments. Right I reached my doorstep, a cat, a grey color with black stripe cat running to my way and shock me (a little...).

'Arghh, just another bugger who wants food'.
I opened my door, put the cat behind and close the door.
'ermm...will it still around?' .
Opened my door and it just staring at me.
'arghh....'
Closed again. ... ... . Open.
'Gone?'... ... 'Arghhh, hiding behind the wall? you're clever and let see how long you will last here'
Closed the door, locked it, walked back to my room. I put down my potato chips and place my Ice Tea to the fridge.
'Will it...'
Walked to the door, unlock it slowly and quietly (seem useless since the noise is too loud for an animal) and...
'Ya ya! You're most patient cat I ever see, but you still get nothing...may be some food...hmmm, i don't have food for a cat now, forget it Kuan.'
Closed. I believed that I made up my mind. I grab a "penyapu" and swept my room's floor, it's full with hairssss. Then I random picked an underwear and pant, 'Time for a bath'.
...
5 minutes bath
'Adopt it? Nah...this house isn't mine'
5 minutes bath
'Give some food? May be my ping pong biscult i guess...'
5 minutes bath
...
'If you still waiting behind the door, I'll will give you some food, lure you to a far place and don't come back.
Open the door.
'Okay, you win'
Walk back my room and searched my "food division" for something to feed a pity buggy cat. 'Ah!'. Then I walk out with one pack of peanut (small pack one, around 20 pieces inside). I walked out the door and it start moving around me and meaowing for food. I drop the peanut piece by piece to the floor and keep walking forward.
'Ya ya...follow me'
I "bring" it all the way down the lower ground, drop all the penuts there and turn back to my room while it was eating the peanut.
'hmmm...will it come back, it seem I didn't drive it far enough'

... ...After awhile I didn't care about it and concerntrated with my assignment but the feeling of "it-still-out-there" keep bugging me to check it out.
'If it back here, I will drive it even further, pick it up and throw away is necessary'
'(strange that I hope it will be there...)'
Open the door (againnnn)
'Ah ha.. two packs and don't come back again.'
Get another 2 packs and walk out again.
'This cat really that hungry? Why some many doors but chose my door?'
I walk much further this time, walk pass by my car park.
'why you walk faster than me, dont block my way else I accidently step on your tail.'
Walk pass the corner
'hmm? why it is not eating my nuts?'
Walk pass the guard house
'... it's not eating, don't tell me it expect to enter my house and become my pets ahh.'
Keep walking but stop droping any nuts
'may be I bring it to the mamak there, so many people there and it will get lost and confused'
Just pass the small round about, the cat still following my back.

Right there, an unexpected incident happen. 3 Malay guys who just pass me by talked something and one of them grab up the cat. It's seem is a good chance for me to let it get away from me. I keep walking forward.
'Well, may be just some guy who love to play with cat or eat cat, either way, it's not my business now, I just let go my trouble'
Before the entrance to the small path, I throw my packs of peanut to a dustbin
'If the cat is some wild cat (no host or abandoned), why it sticking to my door just now?'
Keep walking
'Is that guy the cat's host? It's rare to see people just simply grab up a cat'
Reached the lower ground where first time I left the cat behind. Then I heard some talking sound. Some people is walking back home. Feeling tell me that are the 3 Malay guys. I walked up the stair and observe them. The cat is with them, one guy holding it on his hand.
'it's their cat? or they just decided to adopt it?'

Til then, I decided to blog. This seem unreasonable, or the whole incident is just normal and not interesting at all. But for me, it spice up a lot of different thinking, it put me into some weird but natural thinking for that hour. The story between me and the cat is so short but in that moment I just thinking about it ( I mean, how to treat it, feed what, adopt it or not, is it male or female, is it belong to someone...).

Fate or coincident, I brought it back to it's host. What if I take another path, what if I decided to adopt it, what if I never care about it, what if I open the door one minute before or after. Still the timing is suit enough for me, the cat, and the cat's host to create this incident. Fate is not the force to drive me reblog, but is the natural mind with an animal. It's so simple, it's speechless, it's positive, it's natural. Should it be just oppose the feeling that I felt towards human recently. Should it be something just remind me that, life is simple and easy.

I hope everyone enjoy my reblog :) Ya, i'm back.

Vacation due to hand injury

2006-11-20T09:08:00.000+08:00

Left hand Dislocated

Kuan is injured, left hand elbow disallocated. Cause? my famous sport game - basketball at last friday morning. Typing with one hand is tire and tedius, need to look at the keyboard and check the screen frequently to check if type smething wrong. so... will restart bloging once doc allow me to take off my hand from hanging.

Feel free to call me :P since i prefer talking now. Chat seem like a tire thing now ( you can try it out with just right hand typing, for one hour...). The most bad news is coding... Don't know can archieve wat i planned for Computer Graphic or not.

hehe. i believe its time to let me learn that importance of two hand. The 1st thing bother most is bath.... :(

ok... Be back when my one month MC over... tired....

Web Language

2006-11-08T01:13:00.000+08:00

Web programming

It's been some time since I blog about programming language (which is one of the main factor I want to start a blog). I used to refuse to learn web language people. At first I thought that web language is high level, easy and boring. Boring is because I don't like web design. Beside of my Design Idiot Brain(my user interface, color matching and effect is extremely weak), I thought that web don't require much creative thinking, algorithm thinking and problem solving. Web is just a plain page which emphasize design, layout, font and information. (Thats my point of view before). The only web site I ever did is for TAR College's assignment. A web page that sell handphone using a little bit javascript, css and whole bunch of HTML (really feeling idiot that time since Frontpage/dreamweaver is around but I was typing HTML tags with notepad).

But, the world is changing and the internet world is changing faster! Web is no longer the same old wed as I knew 5 years ago, it changed, a lot. We can do a lot of stuff with web page nowaday (oh god, am I typing an english exam essay?!). Straight to the damn point. Gmail, Google calender, basecamp, campfire chat, yahoo mail (new UI), gchat, all these are the web that prove web page is very potential field to improve and develop, at least they are "not-that-easy" to code and need some creativity.

WEB 2.0

To define this...please refer to wikipedia :P

From my point of view, web 2.0 is new web service which very different from the traditional one. What impress me is the way web 2.0 application is made. Programming Web2.0 application is more interesting, challenging and flexible (really just my own opinion). Many new thing can perform with the language or style as long the programer has enough creativity. Famous language in Web 2.0 are AJAX( javascript + XML), Ruby on Rails (Ruby + Rails) and others.

I don't like web programming, but I knew this is an essential thing to learn to live in the future IT world. Nothing ever success pull me into web field, HTML, php, javascript, flash (just interest use it to make game). Need a reason for me to jump in, and now the reason is here - New programming mission from Hatchlings Games. I need to learn this new language - Ruby on Rails and rapid develop something within some time. I fall in love with this language honestly. It's different, It's high level, It's easy and It's flexible. Awesome way to connect database, invisible of complex linking/protocol just focus on main thing (design, mechanic).

Friends who like web language should check these two awesome language/style out. I heard that web 2.o programmer earn a lot. They are quite rewarding by the way even we code it for free time.

End...

Weird post? Ya... need to recheck what's wrong with me, not much mood for bloging recently

Today Feeling ## How to answer my final exam leh... hmmmm (specific for someone)

New Way to Blog : Title : ACM Manila

2006-11-04T00:22:00.000+08:00

New way to blog

I tried to write a blog right after I came back from Manila, 6 days ago. I wrote some paragraph, insert some picture and tried to blog my Manila trip as what I did for Taman Negara Trip but at the end, I pause and cancel that post. I think there are 2 reasons I cannot blog it, I mean I failed to blog. One is because I don't have the mood and feeling. I don't feel like writing a long, casual, detail post. Second is because I up to something in my life which I addicted to -- Game Coding. I am coding for Hatchlings Games and I really enjoy coding more than bloging :P.

Giving up bloging is not an option for me, I can't stop this, this is fun and I had my friends who frequently viewing my blog (Thanks for the support). So i figure out a way, a solution which will make me easier to blog and, update oftenly, I blog shortly. New blogger has the option of Labeling the post, it is a good idea so that I can blog shortly, and label them. Even post not according to time line is fine :)

So...here I go...

ACM Manila

Actually we brought a bad news back from Manila. Both MMU team did bad at the ACM Manila. MMU Cannibals able to solve only one question and my team, MMU SJK was able to solve NO question in 5 hours time. Ya, what a shame result we got all the way from the Manila. Anyway, we earn the experience and lesson which taught us that we are still kampung programmer. Lol. Don't worry, I'm not upset or depressed, It's over and I got my energy boost to do better in everything :) Lets talk about the competition itself.

There were 82 team from 9 different country joined the ACM competition (actually half of the teams are Philipines team). The venue for the competition is very small, packed. each team need to sit face to face to other team (Lame... the team in front of us is the 1st runner up of Philipines team, they solved 4 questions). We saw a lot of Chinese from HK (HK got the champion, they solved total 8 out of 10 questions *Salute* and their team is 2 boys and 1 GIRL!), China, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia. Japanese (grap the 1st runner and 2nd runner up for the competition, both solved 7 questions) and Korean. Surpising (and also depressing) is, there are a lot of girls participants. Many mix group but there was a team from China, all 3 are girls (they solved 3 questions :( ).

This year Manila's question is hard. Very unexpected we cannot solve even ONE. I felt so sorry and sad to the people who ever wished me, and putting some little hope on me, totally failed. Other team can solve very good. I think we lack of experience, preparing and HEART. Well, I guess I learnt this hard lesson pretty much. If there any chances, I want to be in this competition again and I want to archieve better. SJK!!!

I think I just stop here for the night. Hope this type of short blog can last too :P

Today Feeling : - : - : Holidays is leaving me

Busy Holidays

2006-10-23T22:18:00.000+08:00

It's Holiday

Yea, it's already second week of my university's holidays and third week since I finish my last paper of examination. Then why are this blog isn't updating? This seem unbelievable for me as well, I actually is busy enought for me to omit my time for blogging. Many things happened, a lot of fun and a lot of busy working things. I guess I start getting lazy and like to summarize things in one blog, don't worry, I promise a/some post about trip to Manila will be avaiable right after I come back from there, Stay Tune :)

FULL Holiday

My own defination for holidays is : Days which no need to worry when to wake up for lecture, date to submit assignment, chapters to read before some exam. Holidays are days which let me do whatever I like to do. However, this holiday turn out to be my busiest holiday ever. A holiday which full with work for game programming, full with training and preparation to programming competition, what's better than this :P. This is the most FULL holiday I ever have, FUN+WORK+EXPLORATION. hehe

FUN which tiring...

For sure, this holiday ain't just about working and programming, I will die if I live like that. (But never mind if I am working in Blizzard or Square Enix lah). What fun did I have...ermm... Basketball. Ya... It's been a very long time since I touch a basketball. I was at Setapak with Kent them and we went play basketball in the early morning. It seem that my skill of basketball get really rusty, but the fun of playing it is still the same, Basketball still my favourite game :D And it's LsL's games woo.

The next fun and crazy day is the day which tie my movie watching record and the first time I ever fell fed up eating McDonald. Last Thursday, William, Min Bee and I went to Wan Utama and watched 3 movie in a day. first movie is Open Season - Normal Animation, fair graphic and story line. second movie is World Trace Center - quite dissapointed, not as expected, fact and touch one. Third movie is The Grudge 2 (picture)- from japanese's Ju On 2, disgusting, shock scene, fair story line. Overally, these 3 movie, just fair. On the same day, we meet up Solid, Eddie and Eddie's cousin at the curve's McD and eat the McD buffet. This buffet made me felt that I don't want to see McD meal anymore in this half year. RM20.00 per pax and eat all you can inside McD (got some limitation lah) but it seem like a nightmare after we eat all those fried food, chicken, fries...ahh...fed up. Solid was the winner of the day, he ate 4.5 burger, 5 piece of chicken, 2 nugget, unknown amount of fries, banana pie and 3 glasses of soft drink. *Respect* *Salute* to the god of eat :P

The day after McD & Movie. Me, Min Bee and William were on the way to Genting Highland. It was a in plan trip for me (actually is Setapak there ask me go up de, and it's celebrating Kent's birthday, so, no matter how also must be there, hehe.), but it's not an in plan trip for Min Bee and William since they decide want to follow me at the midnite. So, we were there and our main objective is... Coffee Terrace's Buffet!

Coffee Terrace Buffet is a famous buffet restaurent at Genting Highland. It's has variety of food which include, local food, nyonya food, indian food, japanese food, western food, chinese food, desert, ice cream. Me, Min Bee and William take together and eat together and we can eat different kind of food for 3 hours, no repeated food except one plate of japanese uncook salmon fish meat. It was quite costy as we went at the peak period, it's RM67 per pax :|. Normally it is RM50. The pics are stolen from website, havent receive any pic from them yet.

We spent around 4 hours in that restaurant until everyone filled their stomach completely, eat back the price mah. After that, we have a short celebration for Kent at the room. Around 10 people fit into a small room and fool around with the cake. Then... as their tradition... divide into team, play Big 2, and the loser drink Chivas (it really seem is a tradition for them...lol). I lost few games, drank few cups of chivas...lucky still can tahan else Min Bee gonna kill me liaw. Until the Alcohol finished, we three went starbuck to enjoy the coffee and cold weather. This brought me back to the first time I drink Starbuck in my life at the same place, around the same time. Both was a very good time.

WORK which fun

My holiday mostly is covered by work and training. The day to Manila's regional ACM is very near. Honestly I didn't do much preparation, may be that will felt better and more relax... who knows. So, just take all the luck from friends and family, then enjoy myself there :P Need to headache wat sourvinie to buy lagi, haizz.

About the work from studio...Confidential :P

Ok lah...report until here, want to continue some of my coding.

Living with a Different Aim

2006-10-13T20:15:00.000+08:00

The Hard Past Days

Crunching of assignments, studying for examination, keeping myself not going crazy and mad were the things I did for past few week. Obviously my blog production was a very big decrese, blog posting is... pathetic less, and my visitors were dissapointed with this slow/stop blog writer and stop clicking my link :( . Well...Yo! Kuan is back!

I wanted to blog few times at the time I either dying for Game application's assigment or OOP's assignment. Everytime the blog time I normally used (2 or 3 hours one post) always drive me back and continue my works :P . What happened to me for last month? I was emmerse completely into academic stuff. Assignments, test or exam, were all over my life, I didn't do any other thing beside of academic and life thing (life thing mean, eat, sleep, hang out with mother :P). I didn't do a job about GDC's VP (bad guy...) I didn't commit anything to Hatchlings Games (and they did a lot, I'm really a bad guy...).

My full concerntration for assignments ( I really felt sien ((chinese words, bring a meaning of ...sien lah...haizz.)) keep repeat typing this damn "assignment" words over and over again ). I have an academic aim in MMU, I have to keep myself in a very top position to ensure I can win an intership to Korea (if there's one at my time) and for this reason, I need to put all my time and brain to make sure everything go smooth. Well....that's why I dissapearing in those time. Anyway...I'm Back ! :P

The Happy Past Days

Kuan is not that Geek anyway. Don't misunderstand that I really used all my time just for typing report or figuring way to score a max mark in assignment (Again?!). Many events happened in between those days. Too bad I was too busy and lazy to blog them. Mother was here. Me, and cousins in KL had a dinner together, then I brought her to Ikea, Wan U, and lastly KLIA(what a brief, It's a sweet weekend). One day, me, Min Bee, William and Miss Yoon went pizza hut and JJ shopping (what a good day :P) and Miss Yoon said she has a friend who work in a famous Korea's Game Company, and she's a PR of that company, I might stand a little chance if I like that inter at there :) .

What else...O! I'd celebrate Mooncake festival, but it's one day after the real day. Why? Because having an exam paper at the day after mooncake festival and need to study. Right after my paper, Me, William, Min Bee, Yan Hui get on my car and drive all the way to Sg.Buloh, to William's house. On the way, we picked up Jillian. We spent a nice night there, William's family gave us a warm welcome, and his mother cook a lot of delicious food for us ( so nice...). Then we light up some tanglong and brought some tanglung walked around that Taman (ah ha...I am 22 years old anyway... :P). After that we went Mont Kiara (the real Yum Cah Heaven in KL, freaking many people, too freaking many car). We went there's 24 hours Starbucks and drank some coffee there.

Current Days?

So, it's holidays. I'm proud of myself that I can last typing this blog from last holiday until this holidays. (Loud applause). I received many positive feedback for my blog and some friends enjoy reading it, thank for the support :) I promised I will keep this up as long as someone viewing it. Why sound like going to end this, lol. Ok, letz keep going...

It's Holidays. Finally I got myself free from all those freaking tedius assignment (again...) and exam, and finally I freely can chose what to do at my time now. I receive some mission right after I get my own feet.

ACM

nFirst mission - Training. Something very big is going to happen in my life. A programming competition between other asia country's university, A trip which fully sponsored by IBM, A country which I never think of going there. Hehe. It's Manila ACM, and we, SJK is going to there to face our next challenge by this end of month. So, part of this holiday I need to sharpen my coding skill and algorithm thinking. Anyway, SJK still the same, our main objective is EAT (by Solid the leader), secondary is SEE and PLAY (by Kuan), then is taking Photo!(by Josh, I made this up myself one... hehe). Well, go relax, code relax, and wait for the miracle.

Hatchlings Games

hNext mission - Game Coding. Then I got a big job by my boss :P Ahh...cannot say much, I think this is abit CONFIDENTIAL. Need to get permit first. Something I can leak is, I going to become a true game programmer and need to really code something this time.

Company of Heroes

hAh Ha! I didn't play any game since September! What a shame for a game developers. I going to crazy if I keep not playing any game. Then I found this game, Published by THQ, developed by Relic. A cutting edge and best reviews RTS of the year - company of heroes. I enjoy playing it. It's graphic, story line, game plays are all good. RTS lover should try this out. Well, I set myself a mission to complete this game (I not going to give up halfway again this time!).

GDC

hHehe... Thing going to happen next sems and my mission as a Vice President in this holiday is to plan a Game programming competition and make it happen in coming semester. Anyone have whatever idea on mind and suggest to me :)

Seem it's a bit rush and i need to end this now. Going back to Setapak since there are some hunger ghost waiting my car to drive them to grab food.

By the way, It's 14th October at Australia in this time. At here, I want to greet my very best friend, Edmund, Happy Birthday. Wanna record this at my blog, forever recorded :P. Cheer guy! There's a very bright road for you!

Today Feeling - Holiday mood, mission ON.

Assignments, and Exam period

2006-10-02T19:47:00.000+08:00

I just pass my assignments MONTH. can't believe it actually cost my one whole month's time to do different assignment. It's really killing when you take 7 subjects in one semester in MMU. I actually have 7 different assignment on hand but lucky submit in different time. In past month, I didn't play any game, I just watch 3 movies (actually got alot dy :P), I back to Setapak once, for assignment one... TERRIBLE. And finally I finished them!

But now...here comes my exam week. Arrggghh, I managed to caught 2 days rest and now need to enter exam mode. Felt sorry not updating this blog for a damn long time. Will be back after my exam ! stay tune!

:P, and good luck for MMU's buddies Exam.

Bee Game Birth!

2006-09-26T00:02:00.000+08:00

Ya...after hours and hours of working. Finally I made it! It's Bee Game Beta Testing! I need people to test it out, finding bug, critique it, comment it and suggest it. I not going to post long here, because this post is mean for comments on the game. Everyone please comment here. I need the Comments for report.

Please get the file from me (it's just 2mb) or dowload it

Thanks :)

**EDIT**

Thank for trying! After few people help me to try it out, I fix bug which i never meet in my testing period, thank you! I fix the bug and re upload again the file, so, please download again.

Some tips here, if you got boring playing the 1st few level, change the data.txt setting, copy and paste the last level to 1st place, and taste the hard level, I found that the hard level is really challenging :)

**EDIT** **again**

Spending a sleepless night, I manage to implement sound and music, completed level to the game. But still not much bugs fixed. And this is what i present at my game application 1 class. Bee Game 2.2b

I thinking to refine the game play, provide clearer info, fix bug (a lot of them...), and implement a new game mode, score attack which play unlimited until you lose. thinking of it.

Crunch Time?

2006-09-20T00:04:00.000+08:00

Busy Month

Yea...it's crazy month. I think people who check my blog frequently was giving up to keep check it out but nothing updated :( In order not to lose some more fans, I need to update something! Recently really crunch days. Assignments, tests, training, mother-come-event, and training are filling up most of my time. Bloging seem need 2 or 3 hours for me (Have no idea why need so much time, unless I keep typing without thinking...). Anyway, half of the things past, now just left another half in front. One of the "left" is the BeeGame for Game Application final assignment. I just left one week to complete it, polish it, send to fren to test it and write a report for it. Thinking am I going to succeed since typing this blog already making me sleepy just pass 12....damn.

Time Allocation

Thought which keep floating around my brain is "Where is my time!?". I didn't play any game recently...precisely, I didn't play any game this semester. But looking for myself now...I did nothing beside club and academic thingy, at least I thinking it is. I concluded that, I wasted my time with slack, doing nothing and doing something I cannot remember...

Seem like time is really running out if I really want to make a good game out of the BeeGame. I always have a feeling that it going to be nice and fun, I doubt it if I cannot increase my productivity. So I guess I need some good time management this week to handle 3 assignments and can present a good game (this is the reason I came MMU...what is the purpose of living if I cannot do something nice in game?).

Attendences is not important start from this week (Theoritical), so I guess I wont waste any more time with useless lectures, I'm seriously thinking that is it only CyberP and Korea Level 1 is the only worth paid subject for me this sems....(ermmm... I thought thats consider many already?). It's mean I have plenty of time to code my game this week and my other assignment as well lah.

Time allocation? Sleep, eat, drink, metabolism, walk, breath compulsary. Other time is Assignment and BeeGame~!

Last Plan for BeeGame

Entering the last week now! What'd it has so far? Just a gameplay prototype...pity. Just saw some ugly graphic, some move around, and click somewhere to move your "bee", gather flower make honey. In my opinion and original planning, actually my game play is completed 80%. Now left Enemy AI, bonus pop up, more enemy applying to the game play element.

Later (Wed) is the day to implement AI for the main enemy. Have to at least make it know the way to gather enought nectra and return to the hive, dump abit which it wont always take the shortest path, smart enough which it will not fly from one corner to another. First time for my AI programming and I hope everything go right.
Next day (Thurs), not much time since I predict that we going to rush Math assignment, so... PopUp power, easy thing.
Friday and Saturday is special case...need to take out sometime back to Setapak to meet Lo Shyang for the game art and scan so image (If i having it that time...). Saturday morning ACM training somemore, but something need to be done...effect and animation (heavy part)
Sunday, full day working is needed, to finalize the Game. Create menu, make level.
If polishing is complete, send the game out for friends to test play and gather critique, so...who is voluntee?

Well... When I typing this, time is really not enough!!! Something really need to be done soon. Felt crap lah this blog...thanks you for viewing..lol

How Much Actually Game Developers Earn?

2006-09-06T01:21:00.000+08:00

Dream as A Game Developer

This become my dream since the first time I was making my very 1st card game using Visual Basic when I was Junior 3. I still remember that I saw this book "Visual Basic 3.0" which is chinese version in my secondary school library. As a noob, I asked my friend a Noob question :"What's this?", my friend, Cheong if i not mistaken tell me this is something which allow me to make my own computer program in computer. I was stunned and got very exciting with the fact that I can start making my own computer program! (I think someone might finally found out why Kuan so interested in programming, Coz I actually fall in love with it in first sight. )

Then I borrow this little book back to my house, and start flip it over. (I still remember the first time i read that book is when I was doing my business in toilet :P ). I got very exciting, I learn textbox, command button, label, variable, event driven, one new thing i learn, I got myself one level higher excitement. Not to promote but I learn all flow in the 2nd time I read the book, If, While, For, Switch, and I love them. In few days, I created my 1st calculator (I don't know why but I just created it...). Some weeks after that, I made a card game which rules similiar to black jack but largest point is 9 and just draw once - "Dok Dok" I named it.

I pause programming for one year and picked it up again at my Senior 2 and made a Chinese Chess Half Board. They are kind of easy but I enjoyed making them anyway. I not wanted so bad to be a game developer at that moment. I just felt that become a game developer is my unreachable dream. I love playing game and amaze of how to make such a cool game (StarCraft, Quake 3, Final Fantasy) but I learn very less knowledge of game development and have a very very high view of that job. I thinking that become someone who making game is the hardest thing I will achieve in my life. That I will say it as my hidden true dream :)

Now, I am on my way to my hidden-true-unreachable dream. Initially my point of view for game developers was a very hard job which earn very less and hard to become rich (Young thought). It's still the fact now anyway and it's harder than what I used to imagine, somehow, I knew it is reachable now and thats why I am here bloging a site namely "Game Dev Life for a Student". It's still tough, it's still a great challenge, when going after what you really wanted, it's nothing to lose.

Work as A Game Developer

Although I am Hatchlings Games's programmer, I never put myself into realy game development process so far so it's not true that I ever WORK as a game developer. Then who am I to say something about works. Well, sooner or later I am one of them ^^v (Solid teach de smileys, it's ^^ 2 eye, and 'v' is the finger 'v' shape). I guess anyone like me, who wanted to become one of the soldier in the battlefield of Game creation, will have some question. From my guessing, the most famous question in mind will something like "How much I get...am I going to survive!?" or "Do I need to work part time while making game" OR "How am I going to use my whole tons of Salary!!" (jk...).

Lazy Kuan surf around the internet, reading this and that, and finally clicked back the bookmarked Gamasutra and found an interesting post. This post title is "Are You in Demand? Hot Jobs for Big Bucks in the Game Industry" This post is about what is the average pay for USA game developers. Anyway, USA market is totally different from Malaysia or some other country but what I think is, may be there wont be the same figure but relatively same ratio in the country job market.

Something I like to highlight from the post (Since not everyone will click it and read...) is the average pay for fresh graduate or early game developers. Average game developer salary is USD 70,000 per year. Figure is about... RM 260,000 per year and RM 21,000 per month. (Thinking fly over to US and work in Blizzard? ask me to join :P ). Even I divide the figure with 10 times, I still getting RM2100 pay as fresh grads ...not bad...

Well, this is Statistic and it is US's statistic too. It not likely to make any comparison to Malaysia but I believe there are something related. Codemaster from US planted in Malaysia...wow... some other statistic for fresh graduate in game industry is :

Programmer US$ 52,989 - RM 196,000 - RM 16,000 per month. ( I can upgrade PC every month, Travel every half year, spend you all Chilis every weekend night)
Artist and Animator US$ 45,675 - RM 169,000 - RM 14,000 per month.( Lo Shyang can buy one new console per month, buy original games like buy pirated games, collect all FF thingy in one month)
Game Designer US$ 43,486 - RM 160,00 - RM 13,000 per month.

**note : Those figure is what in US, converting to RM just for dreaming and imagine purpose ( else someone go out there interview as game programmer and demanding RM 10,000 per month and got chase off from the office everytime...come back here and comment :"Kuan, you're big liar!")

So? Game Developers earn a lot man! Making game is the funniest job I can think for myself in my life, though it's working for someone, it's employee, it's hard, it's OT, it's crunch time, it's instant noodle job, it's sleepless, it's .... it's dream job :)

today feeling :: stop raining, I wanna play Tennis!!! Assignment is killing me off dy~

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

2006-08-30T22:00:00.000+08:00

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...

bLife 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

Sleepy Month

2006-08-24T19:24:00.000+08:00

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.

Trip of Taman Negara

2006-08-18T19:25:00.000+08:00

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.

Day 2 Part 2

2006-08-13T04:28:00.000+08:00

(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

2006-08-13T02:04:00.000+08:00

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 !!!

Taman Negara - Nusa Camp Site - Day 0 & 1

2006-08-11T11:47:00.000+08:00

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 :)

Next Step

2006-08-04T10:23:00.000+08:00

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 :)

Vision of a club

2006-08-01T09:34:00.000+08:00

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...

Dream of dream

2006-07-27T02:39:00.000+08:00

Dream and Vision and Life

Wow...seem serious topic? I wonder why I never talked about this thing in my blog. I used to be a person who like to talk about dream, ask people about vision and try to help someone with their life. May be Kuan seem not to be someone who talked about this for someone, or may be for somebody, its already boring to hear me say something about that.

Why out of a sudden I want to share these things out of my mind? Mainly it was John had a very long talk with me just now outside my house, we stood there for 2 hours and talked a lot of thing. He always have somehting to learn from :) Later was chatting with Ah Giat (my cousin brother at Sandakan, we're like best friend, live together, play together since my very young age.). We went into discussion of business and working life. It was already 3 years I was trying so hard to affect them to go out of Sandakan, come to KL or KK at Sabah to have a better chance of life. At the same time, was discuss some friendship problem, and the changes within us with Edmund. All those thing trigger a lot of my mind, after incubation in the bathing time, i try to share it out here with both eye droped on the desk.

Dream

How many people can actually tell someone "what is my dream?". I've learnt that people can believe that they can own their dream at the time I finish my SPM and start reading book of <> <<>> and start exploring into the world of Multi-Layer marketing world (I think this word is familiar to everyone). Honestly, I need to give my thank to Japson and DreamChaser. I think my life's biggest turning point was at the moment I finish my SPM and waiting to go KL study TARC. I start to dream, i start to think about money and life, i start to explore into business world. DreamChaser is a very good organization which actually taught me a lot of golden knowledge which I will never learn this in my school.

Frankly speakig, altought I had my dream that time, but actually it's not my dream. What I dream that time was, owning a big house, rich man, big car, help people to get rich( ya, familiar...MLM talked about this all the time). I was confused, not the right word, I should use "not satisfy" with my dream. Something beneath me telling me that I was wrong. Books and talks taught me to dream, and so...my self concious start dreaming too. It start digging my true mind for dream... Obviously...why am I making this blog? My dream is to make game!

Ya, my dream since young is being a game designer. What?! Everyone tought I wanted to be the best game programmer? Programming is my favourite thing in this world while to make a game which everyone like to play is my dream. For me, becoming a game programmer is the best path for me to get a chance to creating my own game. I did told someone in one of the GDC gatheting that I dreamed to make a new kind of genre...that still true :)

I never dreamed about I can involve in game making industry. I was taught since young that game is something bad, waste time. Go study and get a good job is the most right thing to do. Thanks to books and friends, i learn a better way.I not dare to jump straight to MMU to take SEGD as my 1st choice when i chosing University for further study because I cannot find reason and courage to convince my old mans to send me oversea to KL and study GAME.

So i ended up at TARC. Here comes a special conincident... Stephen Tang, lecturer in TARC who always with the game development burning in his heart held a game talk in tarc. After the talk, I made up my mind to study game and make game. Stephen's seminar reveal the industry and open up my mind that, games actually earn! And i ready to jump into it. So after Diploma of ISE in TARC, i shift to MMU to study game design, and here I am :)

My dream of making game is so clear that I start learning and involve myself into this. I seldom do that since I am quite lazy person anyway. But i never stop chasing after i knew the existance of the chance to make game.

It seem a bit boring....may be i was too sleepy and type something weird and personal since my brain doesnt work well now :P continute tomolo or soon...

SJK Won MMU ACM 06 !!!

2006-07-22T18:26:00.000+08:00

"S"olid"J"osh"K"uan won MMU Annual Code Match 06 !

Until this minute i typing this charater, I still not 100% accept the fact that we actually won this! We won! Yes! We won it!!!!! We are the champion for MMUACM06!!! We got the RM1000 1st price! We did it! Not 3rd place as we expect which we said is the place we only get if we try our best. Not 2nd place which we said is the place we only get if we got the most luck in the world. It is the 1st place which is the place never think or consider in our mind (that just simply dreaming if we got it).

Even though we got the 1st place before the score board freezed (it stop updating the score at last 45 minutes so that we don't know who won at last). I think, due to the reason we don't want to have hope of winning, we just assume other submit some question after the 45 minutes while we still don't have the mind to win. After having the refreshment which is... ... ... so so. We was call to wait announcement for the winning team.

After FIT dean and IBM representative gave some simple talk, Mr. John See start announcing the winner, from 2nd runner up. Everyone hope they got something, I think we still hoping to get some place for the match and so, 3rd is the place we expected the most. Obviously it's not us. Our mind was, we lost? or we got higher standing? Then Second runner up, not us too. But then... Solid told me... his friend in the 1st runner up group, said they solved only 3 questions. Nothing much to think, we just wait...wait wait wait...and after the announcement, it was us, us...? US!? We stuned there. I was laughing...can't believe at all. No way. But we got it :)

Stategy of SJK

We solved 4 problems. All are ad-hoc question (which mean no fix or existed algorithm to the solution), we plan this before day because we 3 are bad in algorithm such as graph and such. I personally love number, 2D array, recursive problem. A little bit showing off here...I personally solve 1st and 5th question :P. But actually both is very easy pattern recursively question. We have a good stategy to actually earn the winning place.

Our stategy is solved the faster question we can. Start of the match we flip over the question, and chose question 2 as 1st attemp. Then try question 3. By the time I solved question 1. Question 1 just simple pattern question. for instance, create a square 2D array, put in number so that all row, column, diagonal add up is same total. Just a pattern building with recursive. I learn this pattern some day in Secondary while playing IQ question. After this, qustion 3 solved! That time, we left half hour I think, lucky we found out the solution to question 5. Actually that is the easiet question in the match, I think other just missed it because it's 5th question.

Factor of winning?

There was a time lecturer asked us go up front and share our stategy. Solid very frankly told all people the truth. We did our training yesterday ONLY. And that is a failure :P. We bring nothing to the match, no book no notes, just calculater and pens. We came unprepared. Then I said may be it because some question very suit for me to solve, and I knew the pattern before this. Josh said relate to Solid's. Main factor is, we don't have the pressure. We relax and doesn't have the desire to win. This cut off many confussion and pressure in mind, but focusing in trying the question together.

Here I really learn something. Skills, I think all the attendees have it, some even better than us. When it come to competition, skills is a factor, but the mindset and attidute become the most important factor in competition. Pressure and desperation will cause confussion and nervous. Debugging logic error need a very clear mind, to find the right solution need quiet mind. We have very good teamwork since we all 3 can clam each other and have the same mindset in the competition. Actually i think the failure of the training is the best helper :P Dare to Fail!

Appreciation

Earning this joy, need to thanks for the friends who support us! Thanks Min Bee reminding me not to underestimate ourself, waking me up in the morning and bring me lot of lucks. Thanks William for waking up Solid for us :P and also, supporting SJK. Same go to LeongKee, Eddie and Alferd who wishing us good luck before nights. Supports from Edmund, Jillian, John, Key, Jia Vui. hehehe...i also forgot who ever said this liaw...may be because I never expect to win :P

Today Feeling :: Great :D

Boiling of the New Blood!

2006-07-20T21:13:00.000+08:00

GDC 1st bi-weekly gathering

How was it? It's awesome! I was kind of worry before the gathering, "how many people going to turn up tonight", "how many people actually enjoy?", "what should I do for this and that", mind just keep bugging me. When I enter the small room I booked, "OMG! so few?!", there just 3 to 4 new members and others are hi comm and friends of mine. Then others minds start attacking me, "It is i have to cancel the meeting?", "oh god, somemore member coming or not?", "It is really hard to have this kind of meeting?". So, we wait....wait wait wait... 8:15p.m. no way, I have to start this (Actually few member just keep entering the room *relief~~* ).

I came unprepared, I think thats obvious :P. I just simply start the meeting with introducing one by one. Asking those new member come in front and introduce themself and answering question from the audience. The session went well, at least I enjoyed it by knowing the reason of people coming to the gathering. The room is actually cheer and laughing while someone is joking around, "What is your favourite color?". (I think just the people inside the room will understand this...).

After the introducing session, we move to a larger room, Buzz helpep me taking care of the rest of the time (I really unprepared...too bad). Buzz ask the crowd to sit in a circle, then ask one by one, who is programmer, game designer, artist, musician and stuff. Mr. Hilmy did this to their bacth in the 1st game foundation class, thanks Buzz I have a chance to feel this. hehe. This session mainly is Q&A section, Buzz answered most of the question while John assist some. I think the new people learn a lot of thing from this, Buzz gave an overview of game dev but at the same time, they learn the true face of game development in Malaysia too :s. Hope this won't scare them away :P

The last section of the gathering is John's talk. Surpisingly he's not talk something about game development but it's about life in university. His talk brought a lot of surpise to the members, I think no one was expected that in this meeting. John's talk is about learn the hindsight in the life of studying in university. Hindsight is something which is hidden from people and won't tought in university. He talked about "extend the study time", "Challenge the known, embrace the unknown" "play to win". I think John's talk is very good to open new comer of MMU's mind of university. Following is one thing, but learn the fact of university and life experience is true good.

At the end of the gathering, I asked a few "testing" question to ensure that if i need to continue this gathering. I asked :"After knewing the true challenge of making a game, who still dare to take this challenge still?". To raise your hand to this question is tough, if I take this question and ask in my Game Application 1 class, I think the feedback will make people wanna cry. (just kidding, abit too much then :P). But the Gathering's member, nearly 70% of crowd raised their hand, yea! They actually raise up the hand. This is really good sign, Kuan do really hope their fire never stop burning! Keep spirit boiling!(what the heck is this :P )

Recruiting SubComm for the 1st time

(Actualy meeting is yesterday thingy, was too tire to post suring this early morning after the winning of the RISK game :P) Today is the first day me and William runs our job as VP and HR. We recruit some new members as Sub Commitee for 2 upcoming events which is Flash workshop and game design workshop. The feedback is very good since we found all the sub comm we needed in 2 days and all registered people turn up for the 1st meeting, very very awesome! This is a very good start, hope this two event runs smoothly and successfully to gain back GDC's reputation and Game Development standing in MMU. The new members are awesome, dedication and heart to make thing! I am sure they will make something great!

Kuan himself is burning now...

What is burning? Not spirit...is body :(. Recently I was feeling not that well, condition not reaching 100% for days. Sleep in class, hardly wake up in the morning, eye blur at the night watching screen, tulang sakit, lost focus. I am not sick, at least not now. Something went wrong with me, I think. Whoever knew how to cure Jampi? :P Just kidding. I think what i need is SLEEP and REST gua, sleep less recently. Sorry for the complaining, I dare to say this since my mother not watching my blog, else, kena marah of not taking care of myself. So my friends especially who live on their own, keep yourself healthy and happy. Life just easy and simple. :)

Today feeling :::: I have much to say, but....don't hope to make a long post then scare people away. Continue tommorow.

Game Concept for GameApps1

2006-07-17T01:09:00.000+08:00

Foreword

It took me sometimes to actually start typing here. Lot of thing I try to share and they are too much to fit in here. Then I thought of one thing, it seem I need to make the report for my Game Application 1, a report about our game concept for the final assignment. Honestly I drag this job for a very long time, it is actually 5 weeks already since Ms gave us the job to think one idea for the game. I was lazy and keep cannot decide on what platform I should use, and too much idea actually across my mind and confusing me what actually I want it.

The most hard decision to make is whether I want the game to be 3D or 2D. I thought of 3D because I am learning DirectX and I want to try out my skill and confident. The fact is, my last decision is making my game to 2D. This game is expected to be a simple game, this game is judge by my lecturer who from FCM and 3D still not my field actually. From my own opinion, Game Application 1's final project marking sceme is [game design > art > sound > programming]. I dont think my credit on 3D programming earn some advantage for me. What if I do shit in 3D and spoil the game completely. So, focus in game design, find my art and music source, make a simple 2D game.

Bee Game

Bee? Yeah, the insect - Bee. Many ideas across my brain before - fighting drugs, cleaning dirt, typing game and so on. None of these I came out a clear and concete idea, I guess I don't like em. hehe. Then I drag this task until today. I spark one idea for the game after chatting with Min Bee (see the bee? :P). Then I decided to do this concept but the concept till fresh. I went wikipedia and read a lot of reading for bees. They are interesting insect and have a great effort for human food.

I found a very good gameplay or at least the game mechanic, it is going to base on bee's lifestyle and thing they normally do, getting the netra and pollen for food and in the same time help pollination of plants. At the time they gathering netra and pollen, they actually facing a lot of danger. Birds, crab spide, assasin bug and insecticide all are the thing which can kill a little bee while they doing they job. A queen average need to lay 1000-1500 eggs to replace the casualities.

So the basic idea is about a bee going out to take food, by the same times pollinate the plant, fighting or avoiding enemy, remain the supply of the hive and get the needed resources (netra main is food and pollen is protein for bee). How it going to look likes or play with still incubating in my mind, but the most possible solution will be 2D platform game.

Main character will be a bumblebee. Sound familiar? Maksim? DDR? hehe. Sadly I just found out there's really exist some bee called bumblebee. This bee named Bee Bee (a girl i guess). Story is like this - The obstacle and enemy are getting fierce nowaday, Bee Queen, Qu Qu, was getting tire to lay so many eggs everyday. So she come out an idea of opening a trainig center in hive and train some elite bee to handle 10 times normal bee job. Bee Bee is the second batch of the bee finish the training and start the journey. There will be some supporting character...mayb.

I think I got the idea enough for the 1st stage. Actually I using the bloging to write our my idea and now I going to compile it to my report. Tire day, but I slept a lot, seem today is boring day.

Today Feeling->Cooking()->WakingUp().HalfHour (Strange? nvm, someone may saw the meaning).

MMU GDC AGM

2006-07-14T06:53:00.000+08:00

Multimedia University Games Developer Club Annual General Meeting

hReporting in! Seem this post is a bit expired, the event was over for 24 hours! "As a vice president and you delay one day to report the AGM?" ahhh, wait...c'mon, it's my blog. Okay, Okay, enough SS (syok sendiri : Malay Language, means having fun with myself). William did wrote a very good blog about the event, so, for more information please refer to his blog - Billy's blog at my MMU's Friend's Blog links and I don't need to blog for it anymore, thats all... I guess if I SS somemore, I'll lose all my page impression today onwards.

"GDC 3rd AGM is the best AGM that GDC ever have" said ex-president of GDC John Tan at 12 July 2006, 10:oopm. Well, GDC Hi-Comm, please give ourself a loud applause. Beside that, John is the most important people who made this AGM such a successful night, so, loud applause to John too. My personal opinion for this AGM... it's cool! GDC have 200++ members ( I always forgot the actual number...) this year and 50+ turned up for the AGM, I guess this number stil acceptable ?

The night start ealier than I expected, some new member came earlier than 8p.m., wow! The meeting start with John's talk about GDC's history, mainly is about what GDC last year did. Last year GDC did some event, and they are all successful. John did dig some bad incident too and told to the crowd, hope won't scare them away. lol. After John was Iris president talk, then is my talk, then is Syefri talk with the Gaming events, then back to me to talk about the Game Developing Events. I don't think I did a well talk anyway but I made a lot of promises that night, Oh My God...

The crowd obviously are getting bored after all the talks or may be my talk really bore :( . The last event of the meeting is a ice breaking game. I don't think we have a concete idea of how to make this ice breaking game is running, just John having some rough idea of dividing the crowd into Game Designer, Game Programmer, Game Artist and Gamer(Judges). After me little advice, we decided that the game will be each game designer go to the programmers and artist side to search for group members. Actually this works like the real life do, game designer finding team to work out the idea. Each group going to discuss and come out with a idea of game in 7 mins and try to sell the game to the judges (judges is GDC's gamers!) in 3 minutes.

The game was going on a lot better than I can imagine. Every groups were discussing seriously, each game designer really doing a very good job by leading and making the group members talk. I was impress by the situation and I think this is the best ice breaking game i can ever see (actually this only apply to club like us...). Every members in the group knew each other after that, and every audicance got a chance to do something finally. (Picture : Zaki's group selling their game).

This AGM really a good one. I'm happy with it, thanks for all the people who made this happen. Sure, attendees who attended it. Hope my bi-weekly gathering will go on well like this. Ermm, seem i ending this, i gonna rush to William house to play Risk! Alferd took Eddie and Solid all the way to Midvalley to buy it, how dare I turned down the invitation? :P

Today Feeling - 0 - Sleepy day... Sleepless day

Sleep

2006-07-12T02:34:00.000+08:00

Polyphasic Sleep || Monophasic Sleep

I did quite a few of research on the topic of sleep since John told me about polyphasic sleeping last time while he was actually practising it. The first time I learn this I was exicted and cannot wait to know more about this fantastic thing. I online search, read people's blog, article and study related topic like sleeping stages, heathy sleep, discipline sleeping, etc.

Polyphasic Sleeping consist of different discipline. Uberman's Polyphasic Sleep is the most extreme form of polyphasic sleeping. It's about sleep 20-25 minutes every 4 hours interval for 24/7. Its mean you just sleep 2-3 hours per day and get 20-21 hours of free time for a day. Another more casual way of polyphasic sleep is have a 3 hour core sleep and 3-4 20 minutes nap in the rest of the day.

May be some of you already wonder, is that healthy or will kill someone? As far as I knew, there are many of human who actually sleeping like this for couple of years. They live healthy, normal and more free time. The concept behind is human actually need REM stage of sleep more than other stage. In this stage, human is consider in deep sleep, body resting, brain restarting (dreaming). Polyphasic sleeper use discipline sleeping sytle to traing their body to be able to enter REM stage of sleep in short time (20-25 mins). Theoritical, Polyphasic sleeper gain mroe REM sleep as monophasic sleeper.

Kuan's sleep?

I did try to sleep as a polyphasic sleeper after I did some research and asking of my friend's advice (All I got is negative feedback :P), it was like, the start of year 2006. Ermmm, obviously I didn't make it, hehe. Why?

1, This kind of sleeping need very, very, and very strong self-discipline. I always have problem in waking up from the bed and feeling sleepy easily. Its hard for me to wake up and keep myself awake sometimes. Beside, I actually facing problem to sleep at that moment.

2, Polyphasic sleeping is not suitable for my life. Study life, where i find place to sleep in campus if it is time to nap? Assignment crunch time have no slot to sleep :P. Holiday life, if I ever got some time back at Sabah, i rather spend my life with my dear friends and family. I not going to reject my friends' movie invite with the reason "Huh? 10p.m show? I cannot make it, I have to sleep 20 minutes at 11p.m) .....

3, Learning curve to actually master and get use of it. Its tiring. With my current attribute, forget it. hehe.

I gave up polyphasis in just 2 days or less. Then I start trainig another kind of discipline. It's been 20 years I sleep 8 hours for one day. I forgot since when, I actually start training sleeping 6 hours for one day. It's unofficial start and plan, so i failed some times at the early stage. Somehow, recently, I found out that I actually sleep 6 hours per day and I live my day normaly. I guess my body love it now.

Its been sometime since I slept 6 hours per day. Now Kuan's plan is shorten the sleeping time to 3-5 hours per day (With a Nap if 3 hours) to test if I can make it or not. Shorter time of sleep mean more time to active but at the same time need to make sure if these free times I condition myself at 80% - 100% focus. So, quality and quantity need to have a balance now. Hehe.

It seem not an interesting post today. I gonna report AGM for GDC later tonight after it. So, keep track!

Today Feeling :::::: Pizza is FULL!!!!

Direct X Version Bouncing Ball !

2006-07-09T00:06:00.000+08:00

3D Bouncing Ball 1.0

Oh yea! I did it! Hehe, after today of hard work (almost 5 hours spent) for this my "weekend's plan", I did this simple 3D Bouncing Ball with Direct X! I planed to make a bouncing ball in this weekend on Thursday because I found that it's been too long since I touch my Direct X. So I came out this plan to test my skill. Still remember while I just join Hatchlings, my first programmer task is to code a 2D Bouncing Ball. So I guess this is a good topic to test a game programmer skill?

This is not a hard thing to code while someone might laughing at me :"What? Until now you just did this stupid bouncing ball program? People coding World of Starcraft already!". By the way, just kidding :P I don't think anyone will care what a N00b did anyway. Hehe. For 1 month + few days of Direct X learning and I did this thing, for myself, it's good enough :) This just a starting anyway, will do more research and try to improve and make real thing. I start to love 3D programming. lol.

Working Report

Well, please allow me to share my humble making this Bouncing Ball expenrience (After all, just wanna mark my History page, wuahahaha). After some years of programming, I learn an important pre-work before I actually code which is "scracth and draw on paper with pencil". It's not UML, too formal for me alone to refer. I just simply clip some last year notes together and use the back side to draw and write everything I plan to do. Brainstorm whatever method came across my brain and just write it down, online google some useful formula and not familiar function. Then start to filter out and conclude the last method.

In this demo, I divide it to 2 stages. 1st stage is drawing a sphere manually in Direct x. Most of the code I reuse from my previous Dx pratice (CodeName : Dx 3.2) to save duplicated works. So I just need to do the Ball class with built mesh and render method. It took me some times to figure out the right way to draw a sphere in 3D graphic. I knew it's dumb to twisting my brain while this solution float every where in the internet, but thats me :) What's the point to copy people code for such a simple work anyway... So my solution is using Triangle Strip to draw the body of the ball and Fan to end it's top. I drew one hemisphere, the other half will copy the 1st one and rotate 180 degree to form a complete ball. (The picture show my ball)

Getting the rigth vertex and rigth index arrangement to draw a complete ball is tedius work, many trials and error run used to finally made one ball. 2nd stage is relative easy compare to 1st stage. 2nd stage just need to add one extra function, animate() in my ball class and make my balls instance is a large array so that many balls flying around. Animate() just simply moving function with translate my balls around the space and reflect when it hit the wall. No gravity, No ball to ball collision detection, and No friction in Demo 1. Hehe. (The picture is 500 balls flying around and knocking the wall).

I leant a lot of thing by doing this demo such as how to use strip and fan, how to translate and rotate the mesh. I will improve this once I get my free time again. Or may be I continue learning my Direct x lesson which I stuck somewhere in the Terrain engine.

RM1,000 Codematch!?

Codemath is a Programming Contest orgranize by MMU's programming lecturer which test mainly on programming algorithm. Solid and I went to the training today but half of the time is wathcing and listen because there is no electricity. 10 teams joined the match, each team with 3 members in it. Me, Solid and Josh formed a team named SJK. We are a good team in my opinion, both of their programming skill is good. But the thing is... our opponents are not here to play too :P Victor joined this contest too, so I guess the rest of us are going for the RM 500 or RM 300. RM 1K already reserved by Victor. LOL. Victor is a famous good programming student in MMU, heard of his skill around the campus several times. Well, we SJK are here to testing only, no big deal, but we still going to try our best!

Waoh...Today blog's all about programming? That's my objective of making this blog anyway :P Don't worry, gonna share more experince afterward. My body is bugging me to sleep now. hehe. Tommorow have a CyberJaya -> KLIA -> Sunway -> CyberJaya Drive.

Today Feeling ~|~ Filled with success, but there's a empty space, I guess it's a place for the bee to sleep.

처는 Kuan입니다

2006-07-04T22:45:00.000+08:00

인녕하새요

Ok ok, Don't worry, I not going to write another Korean passage :P (Actually I not able to write that also). For some my humble translation, "처는 Kuan입니다 " bring a meaning of "I am Kuan", sound "Cheo Nen Kuan Ib Ni Da". "인녕하새요" is "hallo", sound "An Nyeong Ha Sei Yo". 인녕하새요 is use for greeting in Korea. good morning, good night, hallo or even good bye with friends and close people, they use 인녕 "An Nyeong" all the time. Strange? well, the globe is large enough to contain everything, hehe.

I entered the 3rd week of MMU. It seem the past 2 weeks are long, long enough for me to actually start missing holiday! So far, study is okay, as long I have a korean to learn, others subjects still can bear with. Ms. Yoon is so beutiful and kind of person, plus the fact that learning a new language is interesting, so today's all classes I skiped with the excemption letter by SRC except Korean class :P. Operating System is "cool" since we have a game names "Guess What the Heck is the Lecturer Talking" to play when we attending his lecture. His slang is the "best" I'd ever seen in my life. By the way, not Operating System.....it is "Opering system".

For GnL who actually see my blog! Tai Lou (Tiam Leong ah) just gave me a surpise call today! What a surpise call really which I thought I already abandon by him. Well, we talked a lot, keep updating him about Wai Keong's marriage, how are that he and how are that she. He said may be he also "good thing" near wahhh... get ready lo :P LoL, just kidding. The call interupt by the bad reception of the MPH anyway, and he not calling back after that :( For those don't know who I talking about and curious... GnL is my gang of good friends in TARC, while tai lou is the one keep take care of me, which include kidnap me to yum cah at the mid night, force me skip lecture to eat lunch, teach me how to prevent pregnant without "durex" (shsss...).... :P lol.....study life mahhh.

GDC Recruitment Drive!

After one week of Central Plaza Booth recruitment and MMU's societies recruitment drive (Monday and Tuesday), 2006-2007 GDC end up with 210 members! Cheers! The reason I can think of for this big growth is the big drop of regitration fee :P Not a trick but just we aiming a bigger goal then just RM5.00 . Forgive me for I cannot reveal this secret now...(unless someone pay me RM 1m something lah....). But still, this is a very good kick start thing for us to start over GDC and make it better. Anyway... without Iris, Syefri, William, Alferd, Miki, Hui Bing, John, Key, Eddy, Leongi, Solid and Zie Aun this MPH's booth not going to success and fun. I actually enjoy staying at the booth because keep watching people come and ask then signing up and being with the booth's crews was fun! hehe. (The picture...Miki sneak snap me :|...or mayb Alferd?? )

Well, after this little event, I grew my confident for the new Hi-Comm. I can see the effort, heart and vision for the club between us, letz rocks this year! We got 210 member to duel with this year, hehe.

WCG in MMU

I think this event is worth to mention as the part of Gaming Scene in Malaysia which Syefri always work so hard to do somthing for that. There are 6 team Dota and 4 team CS in MMU's WCG competition. Some incident happen and made WCG's team just able to use 10 PCs for the competition. Then the competition force to continue into the night. At the same time, due to some other incident too, me, Syefri, Alferd and William somehow need to stay with them too. We wait until the winner declared, took picture, shut down the PCs, pack them, and leave the place with them. Somehow, we 4 got a surpise gift from WCG's staff, as Syefri describe it as "Confusing bag" as thanks gift for we 4, So Happy :P (The picture, WCG at MMU's LIbrary Foyer)

Today Feeling :: Tiring day, going to watch Germany and Italy??

偶遇是缘分的见证

2006-07-02T02:43:00.000+08:00

突然心血来潮想来一片华文的 blog。可能为了证明我还是一个华人吧。嘻嘻。放心吧，如果反应好，下次些多几篇华文的。由于是比较感性的题目，英文蛮难表达的，我的英文语法又差，有时用回自己的语言提醒自己还是个龙的传人嘛。但是我是用拼音来打的，很慢，我的拼音又。。。蛮差的。

偶遇是缘分的见证

昨昨天，桓立sms我，他说他在遥远的澳洲遇到一个他意想不到的一个人，要我猜。就不知是直觉还是过人的分析力，我第一个就猜淑惠（Asuk)，讲到自己酱厉害，当然是猜中了啦。两个都是以前在沙巴KK 崇正读书的朋友，毕业了三四年都去了澳洲，都没见面了，听说还有电联和网联几下的，桓立在Melbourne读，淑惠在QueenLand，据说是两个不一样而且有一段距离的地方。

那时，桓立带了他的朋友去一个位于Melbourne的旅游观点小城走走，“Edmund"一个轻轻的声音及一个理性无法确认的面孔呆住了桓立。就在那么的一个地方，就在那么的一条街，就在那么的一间店外面，就在那么的一个日子，就在那么的一分一秒，两个四年里过着不同的生活，住在不同的地方，读着不同的大学的旧朋友相遇了，没有谁是约了谁的巧遇，这是偶遇，缘分的见证。

我们每天会和很多不同的人相遇，擦肩的大部分多是陌生人，和认识的朋友不期而遇是不容易生的。我觉得两个人可以在没有预约的情形下遇见两次已经是一种缘了，可以做到朋友的就更有缘了。可能有时上天不想两个人的缘分消失而安排了偶遇，提醒大家开始模糊的记忆。其实我们没忘记很多朋友，只是大家开始了没交叉的故事少了联络，但是写过的故事依然存在，可能下一次的偶遇会再次把两个主角的对手戏增加吧。

太久没用华语了，写到不是很好，而且很费神下的。有再加油的！

Entering C# and Java

2006-06-29T00:22:00.000+08:00

The reason for the switch

Wait...what? C# and JAVA? These two are totally not making any sense with all my previous post, I said direct X is it? Well, i ain't giving up in learning Direct X. Actually 3 ppl asked me how was my progress in DirectX today, make me shame to answer that i didnt progress for nearly 5 days. What I did was just watching drama, watching Naruto E-ComicBook, Chatting with friends, dinner with friends, Tennis with William Basketball abit with leongi, thinking of my korean Teacher ( this is just kidding...).

I think things just getting into the life in almost the same time. I have to learn C# in fast pace to meet Hatchlings Games latest game design. .Net language is the base language for the game. Well, this is a good reason for me to start getting .NET language in my dictionary. I return my Vertex shader to library and brought out another book written by Jesse Liberty about C#. I read this book before at KLCC's Kino Kuriya, and i spend like 3 hours just sitting there to read that book. I lock this book as my first book as if I going to start leaning the .NET language and MMU's library always updated with the latest book which can borrow for free and unlimitted renew (as i know... i borrow a book for 10 weeks last sems :P).

I am going to take Java this semester for the subject named Object Oriented Programming. yea, everyone think of Java when talking about OOP (i personally is C++ fans and i think C++ is a better OOP language with the pointer manipulation in C++, please fix me if i were wrong). Well, the funny thing for Java and C# syntax is....nearly 70% alike. Especially when I start this two language and almost the same time. I mean actually start learning (I learn Java at 2003 myself and C# at 2005 - 3 hours in KLCC).

(What a hot night......)

C# and Java??

Is leaning C# and Java at the same time is a good idea, I don't have the answer now. So far it's cool since the style is nearly the same for beginner stage. I not sure is these two language going to be use by me or not in the future, but no doubt these are critical langauge to learn in this time.

C# is the center of .NET language. .NET is a very awesome framework for Microsoft enviromant. Well, who not using window's OS when watching my blog? (and whose windows is original :P). The very good thing of .NET is the cross language usage. I not really sure how to name it and what actually is it. The main idea is all .NET language can actually use in a same program. Direct X can be code in .NET framework, named Managed Direct X (i hope i don't get this wrong, again). Using C++ to code Windows application is a tedius work, not much people like to use C++ to code simple windows application. This is the reason why .NET framework get famous quickly (my guess). Back to GameDev. C# is a very good language for coding simple windows base game with direct X (2d? well, this is because not willing to use any game engine and game framework), and this is why i am learning it now.

Java is a very famous cross platform language. Mobile, any PC, web are full with java application. I personally think that .NET replaced Java in PC application (Windows only...). Java still hold it ground in Mobile as i know (correct me if .NET attacking mobile too) where J2ME seem is the best language to use in handphone. SEGD going to learn J2ME at 2nd year 3rd sems which using J2ME to make some mobile game, well, looking forward for it. Kuan doesn't like Java anyway. He thinks it's not effective, high level and limitted game's coding language. I heard Kevin(Lead artit of Game Brains) said :"Some people use Java to code a Quake 3 game, run smoothly in current PC, where Quake3 actually run smoothly 5 years ago with C++ and OpenGL). *Chak* the picture.

Carry on the LiFe

Was busy with GDC thingy. Booth, meeting with comm, planning and such. Actually something really pissed me off about GDC, I don't mean the new Comm or the club. I refer to some Inactive or not involved people actually talking bad and trying to bring trouble to the club. Too many things involved and i don't think it is good to say it here. ** at this point, i deleted 2 paragraph which i typed out, but, after consideration, i deleted it. **

Not fair to talking bad about other people and I don't want to be Asshole who just know complaining and sitting there talking crapz. I never mean so hard to become GDC's comm, I don't want it in first place. The fact is, i don't want some other random people who know how to use words to decorate him/herself in the public and get the post in Hi-Comm AGAIN i mean, "again" and do shit in the club. Joining GDC was my 2nd target in joining MMU. I dont want it dead in my time in MMU. If i failed my job in GDC, i will feel shame and not just hitting the butt and say "i quit".

Open Election of Hi-Comm is a fair system to elect someone to lead the organization. Fully agree. But condition apply. The election must Vote by people who actually know each other and know everyone's strength. Mean, Vote is dedicate to people who active involve and show up for activities. Non-member or Inactive, stand aside a cry. Some "Uncle" i mention previously wanted GDC to vanish, because we stuck our leg into his asshole few times and just playing game and making noise by shaking his hi-pay salary chair. Some forbidden club action such as Intra-Election will give him the right to ban us. Yea, ITS doing intra-election as well. Ban? ahhh, wait... thats his belonging. Matha Facka...

Today Felling - Not pissing off lah, over and useless too. Tommorow is the day of "An Neong Ha Sei Yo" Cheer :P

GDC new year and I am Vice President (Game Dev)

2006-06-24T03:11:00.001+08:00

GDC new year

Today just had a meeting at John's house for the 1st meeting of GDC new president (Iris) and vice president - Gaming (Syefri) and me, vice presidnet (Game Dev) and sure, John also, the Founder of GDC MMU. Well, I was late to the meeting, was singing K at LowYat's RedBox. Thats an earlier appointment made with William them, so I have to be there first.

When I reach John's house, they just finish discuss about the Gaming section of the year planning. There are a lot of plans and events going to happen in this academic year. This Gamma going to be crazy. With Syef and John's dedication along witht the support of Iris and the club, i think all this are going to be happen. It's all about gaming - competition, charity play( as what i just heard of) and challenge other college thingy. This going to be great and really looking forward since last year was helping in organizing the LAN Game Competition and got really excited and interested in watching and making a game competition. It is always good to see pro gaming happen around. College-WCG is happening at MMU's MPH next next week. DOTA and CS is the games. keep an eye on it!

After the gaming section, Syef left, he has work to do tommorow. Then me, Iris and John walked to Mamak to grab some food and continue the discussion. Next thing is the topic of Game Dev part for GDC. GDC was too heavy loaded with Gaming events last semester - LGC, DnD, MTG, Live-Action RPG, etc. While GameDev related events were lesser compare to Gaming part - FGCS, Weekly meeting and...? I think this is a new strategy to counter this problem. One president, two vice to focus mainly on their own part of GDC. So GDC can grow equally and parallel in both part.

What is the thing for Game Dev going to happen in GDC. Frankly, game development is not getting much attention and interested people to join and discuss of it compare to gaming. GDC plans to have a Weekly club gathering where in the gathering will try to get some one to give some talk about game development or industry news to fellow GDC member or anyone who interested in game development. The next thing is a Art gallery which open to all by exibit in a close manner, just registered attendees and member can join. Next is Game Programming competition which focus in testing of game related algorithm testing in Lab. Then is Game design workshop which gather people interest in game design together and make a competition and discussion session. Story writing is the next thing which i announce it to all MMU's students and they can submit they story in any form to our GDC's website and vote by the mass. Last event stay the same, which is the most important event, FGCS.

What I did...

Actually the time elapsed since I stop last paragraph to this line of text is around 2 hours later. Been go to Putrajaya (kidnap by someone, ice cream as lure...).

Thursday night I went back to KL to see the fast movie - fast and furios 3, tokyo drift. Well, nice car, nice action, and hot chicks :P For car lover or drift love, this movie is recommended. No pics here, censored... lol. After that, I been to sing K at Low Yat with William, Eddie, Leongi and Alferd. Had a good time i guess, sang until sore throat. lol. ahhh....sorry, kind of VERY sleepy, cannot crap anymore :P

Eight Below & Game Apps I

2006-06-20T02:05:00.000+08:00

A touching and inspiring movie -- Eight Below

Just finish the movie and I got a strong feeling that I must wrote it out here. I knew it's a bit late, this movie was release like... this start of year I think. I was wanting to watch it in cinema but seem no one interest to see this in a cinema and didnt get the chance to group some people to watch it. So i missed it. After some months, the fate drive me to Setapak, and I found this movie in Kent's computer. I copied it, bring it back to cyber and watch it in my "sweet maggie" time :P

I charmed by this movie, really. The story, the sled dogs, the act. It is so...amazing. Very brief for the story. Due to some incident, Jerry and his team force to left the 8 sled dogs in the Antartica base and cannot go back to save them for the whole winter. So these 8 sled dogs, Name Old Jack, Maya, Max, Shorty, Truman, Buck, Shadow and Dewel left there. The second part of the movie mainly about how those dogs survive themself at Antartica, some cannot make it. And Jerry try hardly to find a way back to the dogs.

The Best thing in this movie is the sled dogs. They're so intelligent and cute. Dialog in this movie is less, because the dogs do not talks, at least we don't understand it. We still understand, actually feel and touch by the scene where just the sled dogs acting the scene. I kept thinking how they made the dogs act that way, thats so smart! I get to know several thing which i never learnt in my life, the life at Antartica, the toughness of sled dogs and the high bond of human and dogs. Keep to see this movie, it's so nice, it's inspiring, it's just more than human :P

Game Application I (the sad thing is....no more picture here :P )

After my previos post (so bad about Game Foundation), until today, the first day of Gamma year, I had my first class of Game Application 1. Overally, the starting of this class by Miss Isuzi and with her complete planing for the who semester lecture and tutorial is very good, and far more better impersion to everyone in class (who got the scar of Game Foundation as told). It's different from Hilmy(the founder of MMU's SEGD) GameApps 1 as told by my senior. But I think thats cool. Along with the lecturers and assignment, we'll explore to game design process step by step by the time keep designing our own game elements by elements. At the end of the class, we expected to make a simple, single player game with any platform.

Obviously this is different from game programming 1's last assignment. Game programming was focusing in programming, thats the reason I can score it well because I just code my "simple" game with some better coding and tricky coding. Anyway, I should introduce my 1st flash game from game programming 1 -- BuiltLittleHouse. GameApps1 last assignment seem a bit different from that, it's more design focused. So here to determind whether I'm a Game designer, or Game Programmer. lol.

We have to work out our idea next week, actually I got some... basic idea. Will reveled here once i got confirmed. hehe

life~?

Today played a "so long" sport...basketball. I mean, so long didn't played. Had some good time, and bad time too :P got Own by some gang of people. hehe. Well, i guess my life is plain, seem nothing to talked about...Hmmm...what the main purpose of this blog...

Yea...missing 2 post of Dx? whats going on? Well, faced some problem in it actually. I was thinking to share something out once i got myself over the problem and will discuss about it. Need to go over something from beginning again.

Today feeling ..-.. First day, Old feeling.

Game Foundation "B"? Education "F"

2006-06-16T02:31:00.000+08:00

Idiot

Just check my result for last semester. Overally it's good but the thing is my CGPA pulled down slightly because of the subject Game Foundation. I got a B from that, and I really dissapointed with this. I personally think I don't deserve this result with the work I submitted as the final project. What is this all about?

Game Foundation is a subject EXPECTED to be teaching the game basic knowledge, game design basic, game industry and game production. Teach all basic concept to fellow new game design students. Agree? So... What actually MMU's Game Foundation NEW GAME IDIOT lecturer teach then... At the very first day, the very first thing she told to us (a bunch of full passion, freak gamer and game developing dreamer) is, she not interest in game, she force to teach us by the university. Anyone see any problem here? The University offer the course, give out a subject named Game Foundation and elect a lecturer who don't know what actually is game and don't like game to teach? Who made that stupid decision? I think is someone never read some book, or some wire in the brain was short circuited will only do that....but wait...who can made that decision, someone got a Title as DEAD....sorry...is DEAN. *pssst pssst* "hey....this Malaysia's education...."

What can we do? Just suit yourself... So we carry on our class of game foundation. The class is pathetic, what we were doing is, go into class, fill some question, past it up and start talking crap with the lecturer. She start asking like, what is RPG? how to? why? wait...the she is refering to the lecturer, and lecturer means the people who suppose to tell answer, not ask question. Ok, after 3 classes of craps, she cannot stand it, and so do we, then suddenly at the 4th class, she gave us everyone a piece of paper with half page of text (in point form). That paper consist a question "Discuss 10 Genres with game example". This is the MARK for Game Foundation. YaY, cool? Idiot! Then she announce that this is the last lecture for this subject. No more lecture for the rest of semester. cool? Super Idiot!

Okay, I knew useless to keep complaining and talking bad thing about people. Lets see what I did for the report. I aimed a High grade for this subject so I put a lot of effort in doing this report. It is 100% coursework, c'mon! So i did these, some example of my pages from the report and I got 73 pages of this. I did this report for 5 days like that.
I compiled all these pages as PDF files. Burned to CD and submitted to her. At the day I submitting, Zaki and Azwan were trying to pull some mark, they asked for extended dead line and they will print the whole report out. She allowed. What i thought? WHAT?! extended with no penalty?! Then where is my effort to rush this report while at the same time I have another 3 assignments. This nevermind, I tried my best. But she meant that if we print the whole report out, we MAY BE score a higher mark. Why?? To print this report out, I need RM50 at least. She asking me to BUY mark anyway? And i got a B now.

Well....Frankly, I dont think i made a good report for this. Some people may be already flaming me that I did those rubbish and crying that I don't get an "A". Sorry but this really my Most Beutiful and Creative thing i ever made in my life. I put 100% confident in this, thats why I'd pissed off by the B. I not actually complaining I got a "B", but my anger grow when i figure out this subject pull my CGPA down. Others I wont say a word. Just because this subject's assignment is stupid and lecture is idiot! Thats why i am yelling here!

Picture of all?

We paid RM1k++ to attend this subject. End up? A lecturer who don't know a thing of game development. An idiot assignment which just 20% related to determine the mark for 100%. No Lecture, we learn nothing, really, nothing beside the fact that MMU eat the money and put us aside with pathetic assignment and lecture. Anger, frustration, confusion, dissaipointment for game education.

Go to MMU website are see, what they promised and what we can expected from Software Engineering and Game Design course. So we end up paying huge fee to learn bad emotion and sad fact of education. Who coordinate the course? Who promised everyone that they will put their effort in educating student, planing the best for students? People who got few K of salary, driving nice car, live in nice home and sleeping in the office? People who try so hard to figure out new way to trick new student to their university to pay the school fee? People who just care about the name and title? People doing dirty trick to hold their position and kill other's right?

Don't those people who having the power but not doing they job afraid some little kid go in front and ask "Uncle, why someone like you can have that position?" "Uncle, issint your job is to take care of us, why I just saw you trying to kill us off?" "Uncle, what you promised us?" "Uncle, why i am suffering while you still got pay?"

To all my fellow Coursemates, to all my fellow University mate, to all my Country mates. We're living in what? I knew its small case to imply to a large picture like this, but, how many people who actually facing the same situation and agree with me? how many people actually study happy ever after and disagree with me? Lets guess the ratio. Here my words.

Today feeling... forget it...

Back to Cyber Jaya & 3D Graphic Fundamentals II

2006-06-13T02:30:00.000+08:00

CyberJaya Once again

It's not bad thing or what, but somehow, I back to CyberJaya. There a lot of people questioning me, why are you going back to cyber one week before the school start? errr, no reason, just want to get back here. Felt something i need to settle (such as...returning my overdue library book), something to discuss (such as...Hatchlings games new game design.), someone to meet and hang our with (such as... Someone lah). So...is that no reason? okok...nonsense I knew.

I had some crazy, plain and tiring days at Setapak, Wangsa Maju is a better word now, since they moved the base to Wangsa Maju section 2. Anyway, i enjoyed it, and i guess its time for me back to cyber to start preparing myself for a new sems. Don't get me wrong, i'm not that hardworking, preparing not in the sense of study or what. Just need to clean my room, arrange the mess, make up a plan for a new sems (in Game Dev sake :P).

3D graphic pipeline II

First of all, actually I didnt finish discusing about the 3D graphic thing at previous post. It's too long to continue and too tired for me to continue typing that night, .... ya, I was lazy. hehe. (OMG its so late! i still day dreaming)

Second part I going to share the World Matrix, View Matrix and Projection Matrix which is essential in displaying something 3D on our screen. Thanks to mathematic we able to do all these very complex and mathematic heavy concept transformation in just applying the knowledge of matrix. And thanks to Direct X SDK provided us a very simple way to apply those matrix. Without them, i think 3D is a over tough subject which kill everyone off and I don't think we playing World of Warcraft now...

World Matrix. World Matrix hold the information of final transformation of that particular mesh in the 3D world. Every Mesh is start in the middle of the world aka. (0,0,0) and every vertex of it will reside following its origin (so called local coordinate). In other words, every meshed in direct x is naturally place at the center of world, until they multiply their world matrix (which mean apply all the rotation, scale and translation which represent in the world matrix) and appear at that position after all. So, world matrix is a matrix which define the final destination of one mesh and all those information will pass to next step, all apply another matrix, view matrix.

View Matrix. View matrix, also can refer as the Camera in our 3D world. View matrix will contain the position of the camera, right vector, up vector and Look at vector of the camera which representing where are our screen is actually watching at in the 3D world. I easily use a function

D3DXMatrixLookAtLH( D3DXMATRIX* pOut, CONST D3DXVECTOR3* pEye,
CONST D3DXVECTOR3* pAt, CONST D3DXVECTOR3* pUp);

This function help us easy define all necessary vector and apply to the camera (view Matrix). After set this up, we just simply multipy the transformed world matrix with view matrix and virtually we now have all the meshes display as the way we looking at in the 3D world throught the camera position. After all, we left last matrix to multiply at, the projection matrix.

Projection Matrix is abit complex, i hope i can explain it well. How are the graphic actually turning the 3D world into our 2D screen? Don't forget that our screen is just a flat thing to displaying thing. Here where the projection matrix do it's works. Projection will convert every vertex in the view matrix into a range of -1 to 1 (in 4 way, up, down, left and right, all in range -1 to 1). Projection Matrix is the matrix which filter out the vertex which actually not visible to the screen and determine which matrix is actually staying in the final rendering.

After turning everything in range to -1 - 1. We need to times the computed range with the Screen acutual pixel (800x600? or 1024x768) to get where actually the vertex reside on the screen. After all, we will time the vector (position) of the vertex with the final matrix can get the final rendering vector, lastly will call the rendering function of direct x, this is beyond this, and me now.

Abit bored and confusing? sorry, i don't think i am a good teacher then :P Actually I'm not 100% sure i knew this concept, still far away. I think I need some practice indeed. I did a software rendering program which actually displaying 2 rotating cube using software drawing but applied all the thing i share. I just refering to the work provided, understand and try to memorize the code and type them out myself. not a proud this to share :P Wait till i code one full 3D program and i will share, hope that happen soon. Okay...i think thats all...tiring...

Today Feeling +=+ I dreamed that i have a son...is that a nightmare??

World Cup first Match & 3D graphic Fundamentals

2006-06-10T02:34:00.000+08:00

Germany 4 - 2 Costa Rica

Ermm, I think most of the people knew this result already, just act as a record lo. I have a bet with Kent for this match, he bet Germany and I took Costa Rica with eating 1 1/2 ball. So bad I lost the bet with the last world class ball score by Frings, Germany. I lost one cup of...Teh O Ice Limao anyway...

This is a good match, a really good start for this year world cup. Time fly and world change, world cup is getting more and more amazing compare to every previous cup. Economic, cash flow, football fever and global effect are very big and ... awesome I can say? Who don't know the exist of World Cup? Not possibe :P. Soccer become more than a sport now I think, people actually get rich and famous of it, economy rise and drop affected by it. World change I think. hehe.

Direct X (3D Graphic Fundamentals)

Well, i am not lazy for these few days, i did read something which John reminded me to read. Everything will grow very high and fast if it had a very stable fundamentals while thing collapse just in one second if the basic is shaking ( sound like pro, got example :P). Okay, okay. I stop reading about coding and function of D3Dx for these days while I got some cool resources from John which got a full detail of 3D fundamentals theory which implemented perfectly with Directx since the resources is about teaching Direct x. So I enjoying reading those stuff for 3 days ( well, my efficiency at Setapak is abit low, since at the same time i have to finish Naruto comic from 21-36 in one day) but that chapter is 100 pages of texts in A4 PDF.

Ermmm, source is confidential, sorry I cant share that out for some reason. But I think it is ok i share what i learnt from it.

3D graphic is all about Mathematic. Two most basic and useful topic of math in 3D graphic is Vector and Matrix. Then is Trigo, Algebra, etc I not yet find out. Vector used in 3D to define the position of vertex, direction of normal for polygon. Matrix mainly use for transforming the vertex in vector form from translation, rotation, scale to pipeline transforming. Using of matrix seem is the most effective way and easier way to implement the transforming of vertex.

Involved D3DX function :

D3DXMATRIX
D3DXVECTOR3
D3DXVec3Cross ( D3DXVECTOR3* pOut, CONST D3DXVECTOR3* pV1, CONST D3DXVECTOR3* pV2 );
D3DXVec3Dot ( CONST D3DXVECTOR3* pV1, CONST D3DXVECTOR3* pV2 );
D3DXVec3Length( CONST D3DXVECTOR3* pV );
D3DXVec3Normalize ( D3DXVECTOR3* pOut, CONST D3DXVECTOR3* pV );

There are 3 main type of transformation of vertex. Thats translation (moving position of one vertex), rotation and scaling of vertex. vertex position is recorded in 3D vector (or 4D for transforming purpose) then this vector mutiply with Transformation matrix will result a transformed vector. E.G. VectorA x RotationMatrix = VectorRotatedA. The good thing about using matrix is we actually can combine all the transformation matrix as one transform by Multiplying them together. E.G. RotationMatrix X TranslationMatrix = RotateAndTranslateMatrix. This save some operation and calculation effort but need to aware of the arrangement of matrix in multiplying, different placement will result differnt matrix. E.G. A X B != B X A.

There are something need to aware and we may interested in. 4D vector and 4D matrix are actually used in direct x. Why 4D? This is mainly because for translation matrix purpose. Due to the impossible to perform translation with 3D matrix, an extra slot is needed to perform an addition as the translation. the 4th row in matrix is use for translation.

Involved D3DX function :

D3DXMatrixMultiply(D3DXMATRIX *pOut, D3DXMATRIX *pA ,D3DXMATRIX *pB)
D3DXMatrixRotationX(D3DXMATRIX *pOut, float Angle) Y and Z same.
D3DXMatrixTranslation(D3DXMATRIX *pOut, float X, float Y, float Z)
D3DXMatrixRotationYawPitchRoll(D3DXMATRIX *pOut, float Yaw, float Pitch, float Roll) : yaw - x rotation, Pitch - Y rotation, Roll - Z Rotation
D3DXVec3TransformCoord( D3DXVECTOR3* pOut, CONST D3DXVECTOR3* pV, CONST D3DXMATRIX* pM );
D3DXVec3TransformNormal(D3DXVECTOR3* pOut, CONST D3DXVECTOR3* pV,
CONST D3DXMATRIX* pM );
D3DXVec3Transform ( D3DXVECTOR4* pOut, CONST D3DXVECTOR3* pV,
CONST D3DXMATRIX* pM);

It seem unreasonable to just put the function there and not explaining...sorry about that, too much to type then :P with the function, It not hard to understand th basic concept but the whole concept may need you to read it from direct x documentation.

I'll share the PipeLine 2 in next blog, so....stay tuned! lol...Just kidding.

Today Feeling : Ermmm, world cup started and life go on.

The Rise of Blizzard

2006-06-07T11:03:00.000+08:00

Secret Saurce: the Rise of Blizzard

The Escapist Magazine is running an article on the foundations of Blizzard, and how a Developer of B-Grade console games go on to be one of the most successful companies of all time.

Blizzard's 'Secret Sauce' (by Russ Pitts) is an article about Blizzards rise to fame. It includes interviews from Blizzards elite in David Brevik, Mark Kern, and Steig Hedlund.

From GameDev.Net

Vertex Shader, HLSL, DXUT

2006-06-05T02:07:00.000+08:00

Overview

I did a lot of reading for these few days regarding vertex shader. I have to find out the reason why Hafiz tell me to learn this instead of keep using Fixe function. While i dare to finally write this out, mean i got the answer lah :P What I personally found out is, vertex shader and FF actually doing the same thing, i mean, their main job is to get the vertex transform, color, lighting done and render to the screen, the different is vertex shader allow programmer to do more thing with the vertex.

Both method is very different discipline in programming sense. Coding of vertex shader is far more different concept and style compare to FF. So i guess i pick a very right time and meet the very right people before I actually start my study on Direct X. I downloaded the latest direct x SDK, inside contained Direct X 10 SDK as well, and the fact is, FF is totally eliminated in Dx10, what is the answer now?

Vertex Shader

A very brief introduction of vertex shader. Directly code to GPU to transform, light and texturing the vertex instead using the fix function. From the website I introduce at previuos achieves (Beyond 3D), i went throught all the pages about the comparison of fix function and vertex shader. What surpise me is vertex shader is all about assembler language (at least it look very alike) and i found it is impossible for me to learn that and code it out, that is too abstract and tedius.

In direct X, here come another thing (which i only learn this after I read the documentation of Direct X 9. They help, alot. Pixel Shader is another shader thingy which actually alter each pixel to be render on the screen, to use vertex shader in Dx, Pixel Shader always come next. To find more information about this, please refer to Dx 9 Documentation-> HLSL part. Again, http://www.microsoft.com/directx to grab your direct x SDK (april 2006 the latest).

HLSL

So i did mentioned about HLSL (High Level Shader Language). I thought I putting myself into a nightmare when i found out that vertex shader is actually about assembler language, how i giong to code that insane. Stupid me forget John did tell me something before, yes, the HLSL. I search around direct X documentation and suddenly find this keyword, I click it and...magic! This is what I want, a higher level language to actually help me to code vertex shader! (I thinkthis is really silly and stupid thing, sorry, i am NooB) :P

HLSL is actually used and code in a file with .FX (effect file in direct x term). I not sure is there any compiler or better IDE to code this since what i opened with is a notepad. HLSL is a higher level language to actually help programmer to do the vertex shader coding but it is still not easy to learn and understand. The style and rules to use it is new to me, i never meet this kind of library before. No doubt that HLSL is far more easier to learn and code compare to ASSEMBLY language i guess.

To get away from using Fixed function pipeline, the only alternative is HLSL now. Though it is damn hard, but still need to learn and use it, it is the future now. My plan now is dont bother a thing of Fix Function Pipeline, and just treat that HLSL is the only way to solve the problem since they 2 are very different thing (for me).

DXUT

DXUT is a cool thing that i found out when i start learning how to use HLSL. Actually i knew it at the very first time but i skiped it because I thought it is a Noobie thing. Sorry for my misunderstanding but DXUT did a very great favour for me (especially a guy who is very weak or know nothing about windows programming).

DXUT is a framework provide by Dx to ease the programmer coding in direct X. DXUT handle the task of creating device, creating windows and handling windows message. Programmer just need to type in some calling function and init for the DXUT then save many lines of codes and can focusing on the part which is more important then retype the windows code again and again.

Well, this is really a Noobie thing, but a very good start for beginner like me i guess. I will write my own library next time to handle this thing, but in this mean time, DXUT do the good thing for me :P

Lastly...start getting lazy to post blog leh :P whatever, I will try to learn more of DXUT and HLSL and looking forward to actually code out something from my own finger very soon.

Today Feeling -- Happy Chatting~

Beginner Direct X & Life

2006-06-01T04:31:00.000+08:00

Life

Today( i should say is yesterday...) is "Duan Wu Jie" a chinese festival, name as DragonBoat festival in english i guess. Traditionally we should eat some "zhong zi" or "Ketupat" in Malay as celebration for this festival and race a dragonboat, sad to say that, i didnt eat any :( The fun thing is the crazy Larry and his Puchong Gang came over to Setapak to have a LATE dinner with us. So we end up at "Dong Jin" or "Tokyo" which located at Setapak Indah. 11 of us ordered 9 plate of dishes which is totally break my life record. The price is STUNNING, why? 11 people 9 plate of dishes just rm 140. Stun? hehe.

Life today is easy, actually I added this topic today because I want to make one chance to share a forward mail, by my friends to share with you all, Malaysian especially. The mail is about some hidden news which actually happened at Malaysia but no media dare to report it on their media tools. So this reporter write an online article and share it within the net. We can see how darkness and controlless of Malaysian freedom now. This article is written in chinese, i guess an english and malay version should be around in anytime and i dont have the actually source of it, i got it in mail form and it is damn long article. So, anyone interest can PM me or leave an comment here and i will forward to mail to you.

Direct X at a very Beginning Stage

I not sure this is useful or not, but this is the answer which I searching all the way when I want to start learning my Direct X. The question is "How actually am I going to make a "hallo world" program in Direct X. For me, the very 1st step to actually start learning a language is know how exactly it going to use and happen something. I read all the books, articles and theory but i still have no idea how actually i can start coding a direct X program. I learnt this today. and stupid me i don't know the answer i seeking all the way is sleeping in my laptop for so long time just the matter i didn't realize it. Where is it? C:\Program Files\Microsoft Direct X SDK June 2005\Sample\Tutorials\ . Now you know why I said i am stupid, because you are laughing too.

(It's actually 5 am now...ahh.....tired)

Okay, what i am trying to share today is how actually is a very damn basic direct X program going to work and actually display some easy stuff on the screen. I going to express in a written and more theory way, mean, no code and if got code, the syntax is not 100% correct :P Find me personally to discuss about it then.

First of all, download the direct x sdk from microsoft.com, it is free. extract it. Get yourself a Visual compiler, recommend is Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. Find the Tools->Option->Project and Solution->VC++ includes. from the second drop down combo, chose Include files and Library files. find the "\include" and "\lib" folder at Direct X SDK folder, add them and move them to the highest place in that list. One thing extra is, when you adding the Library file, you will notice that there are two folder in the \Lib, one is \x86, another one is \x64. I dont know what is that, but i need to include the \x86 to actually compile the tutorial code without a single problem, so...beware of that.

Now you can add any of those sample to the compiler and run them by the time study the code. This is my favourite and fastest way of learning programming and I think most of the people will love this way. I learn a lot of theory and some coding by the Direct 9 RPG programming book but i have no idea how to actually code one. I knew now. Theory + pratical make perfect, hehe.

I like to share some of my OWN guildeline about how actually the D3D thingy flow in the program (this is just Kuan's own view). What i learn today, i think is the basic of the Fixed Pipeline i talked about at previous post, vertex programming is expert mode I think, we need some stepping stone and basic understanding anyway. Don't Fly.

Direct X work in windows, so, it is actually windows programing of C++. WinMain is the entry point of the program. From here you create the Game Loop by peeking the window's message everytime and render the screen.
Before entering your loop, you need to do a lot of initialization. That is the core part of Direct X i think, many, and many of initialization need to be done to get the thing works, but as you did the init, then the work after that is much more easier.
Init a D3D object (g_pD3D). from the obejct, get a parameter variable, and create a device (g_pD3Ddevice). set the renderstate of the device if needed at the Init() function.
After the device is done, Init the Vertex (or geomatry if multiple meshes needed). If both is pass, then only enter the game loop.
In every Render() called. First clear the screen with one color then only begin rendering.
Sequence of rendering is. 1st get the matrices (world, view and projected), 2nd, set the material, 3rd, create the vertex stream and lastly draw it. Repeat if any other meshes appear on the screen. Last thing is swap the back Buffer.

Well, i think this is the most most most basic thing i learnt today. I guess it is still buggy and many features cut of. Will improve it very soon. So i end my post now. SLEEPY.

Today Feeling !!! Friends are wonderful and the people to give meaning to your life.

MGS3 & FIxed PipeLine Vs Programmable Vertex I

2006-05-31T00:33:00.000+08:00

Metal Gear Solid 3 - Snake Eater

This is today topic, letz talk something about my life today before I start the real thing, hehe. I over night at Lo Shyang house yesterday. What I like to share is I had a sweet but weird dream, but sorry to say that i cannot share it here, its a bit personal anyway :P That dream gave me a very nice start of the day i guess, just made me even miss one people again.

I start to play my Metal Gear Solid 3, Snake Eater at Lo Shyang PS2 today. Today progress is, Okay i think. Won the match with Ocelot and made the way out of the very dark cave. Comment to this game? Very good, challenging and funny. Ya, funny, in many sense, Hideo Kojima add some humor in the game. For example, You can die beaten by a Crocodile...wait...its funny? ya...to me.

MGS3 have a very nice game play, player need to be very careful and use the enviroment and equitment nicely to perform a nice action. You can complete the mission in anyway you like it, its one time i saved my game and shoot all the moving thing with my sniper, i still pass that stage with nothing wrong. Another time I use the CQC technique to take down all 5 guy shooting at me, then kill one by one...no problem, still past that stage. I personally like the sneaky and hiding action, so i always want to complete the mission in silence. Skill and Patient needed, but sometime, just screw up and start killing people everywhere.

Fixed Pipeline VS Programmable Vertex

Hey, I am not just playing for the day! I did learn some 3D thingy today, and so far i read the site which i given at last post, the Beyond3D website, it is really a very cool website i think. I learn a lot of 3D overview there. For beginner who want to step the leg into this field or people who used Fixed Pipeline a lot and wish to catch up the new tech, please do visit the site, it just at the previous post, go and get it (not giving here, so that you will read my previous Post :p)

I try to summarize what i read so far, about Fixed Pipeline Function in 3D programming. As far i knew, this also can known at TnL Pipeline. It is some API function built in into Direct X which is interface for transformation and lighting of each vertex. User use the the function built in to put in the vertex information and call up the function to process them.

Fixed Pipeline fixed some problem and optimized a lot of the actual work, it divide the complex process into serveral smaller process and past them to specifid Chip at the hardware which design to specialize process certain task to do seperate task at the same time. This speed up the process of the overall 3D process. But the trade off of fixed pipeline are, fixed. Some chips are really specific for some task only, if the program doesnt need that, it just leave blank there and doing nothing good to the overall. Another leak is, the function provided is fixe and limited. If the user wish to have another kind of lighting model but not provided by the pipeline, then...thas it, nothing can be done.

The low efficiency and low utilisation of the silicon area added to the lack of functional flexibility required for per vertex operations has resulted in the introduction of a different approach: The programmable Vertex Unit.

This is what the site said. So, i going to read that post later, hopefully complete before my eye lips drop down and will share that tommorow :)

Today Feeling :- i love the dream.

Future Games Creator Seminar 2

2006-05-30T01:57:00.000+08:00

Ok, letz continue from the previous one, now is typing at Kok Yang's computer, hehe, say is help Lo Shyang do his 3D stuff, but end up doing my own blog :p

Ok...after the meeting personally with Walter, the next thing, yea, the most important thing for me, Hafiz, lead programmer of Phoenix, lead programmer for Feng Weng Online. I learnt a lot of thing from him, not at the speech...well this have to pull back to before the seminar start. Thank to John introduce me to Hafiz, and there he teach and share to me some of his programming expenrience. Here i going to share it out.

Hafiz told me that, Fixed Pipeline is going to leave out from direct X, while even in Direct X 9, people actually start using programable Pipeline, in other words, Vertex shader. According to what Hafiz and John told me, vertex shader is mean that as a 3D programmer, we going to program every vertex and pixel on screen...i hope I dont get them wrong, I did some research and found a good site to refer for this method, actually is a lot, incase you are too lazy to search yourself, here is it http://www.beyond3d.com/articles/vs/ . I told Hafiz that i actually reading a book to learn Direct X, well, he told me that, he never read a book for Direct X. How he learn then, www.gamedev.net , the answer. Well, i got really excited to talk with Hafiz and he did told me many important thing at the time which I want to start learning directX.

One thing very surpise me is that, Hafiz told me that, and to everyone else there, Feng Weng Online, actually just did by 4 programmers. doubt? a MMORPG by 4 programmers. I think I really have to get serious else i really some peanut in game dev.

Ok...I may bored some artist already. The next is for you guys! dont't leave ( i am really SS). Kevin is the last specific speaker. Talked about game's art, also another Q&A but even me myself, i did learn somthing from his speech (as you all know, i am quite art idiot). I try my best to summarize Kevin answers and talks here. The thing which keep floating in my mind is the part Kevin kept emphasize one, Theory of Art. Kevin said that, tools everyone can do it and use it to create something, but, to create something that have feeling you need art sense. How to have a strong art sense then? Theory. Kevin recommend student to research on Art Theory, history, color theory and motion theory. How to make a motion got the motion feeling? Theory. So art not all about drawing now? read some book then.

The next speaker after Kevin is the Microsoft talk by Walter. Basically is the same talk which he talked to me while i meet him (that why i said i am his Training Dummy, lol). After all the talks, we enjoy our lunch sponsor by MDeC, nasi goreng kampung dan ayam goreng, ada beberapa tambikai and honey dew. hehe.

Everyone are full now( not me). Ok, we left the action part, which is the exictement and nervous part...for those who are going to present their 3 month work of a game. The Showcase! This showcase we have 8 showing project, 5 by SEGD Gamma and 3 by FCM's Digital media FYP. Overally, everyone works is awesome. What dissapointed is, none of the SEGD student completed their game while all the FCM student did provide a well polish and complete flash game.

My own opinion here. FCM's student project all are flash game, game play is easy game design is creative but not that complete i think. Just for casually play. FCM's student's work all are very well polish, art is awesome (that FCM man...) story line provided are awesome (Maximum Shot story is very meaningful and complete)(plus Mei Kuan is such a leng lui, add some more point :P) Insane marathon game play is fast and contants, it fun, for 1st time, but seem no point to conitnue playing it. I really like the way to show how the character get hurt then 1st one leg gone, hurt again sit on the....what you call, orang cacat punya kerusi. the last life you left, you sleep on a patient bed. thats fun. Another is the Cubic house, honestly, i wont play that game, very tiring :p but the artm, yea, cool and unique.

For my fellow senior, sorry, i am not acting critical, but, a complete game really the key of the showcase i think. I not going to ensure that i going to provide a w3ell polish game or complete game, but i did learn this lesson at today seminar and try my best to avoid myself to fall into the same trap. None game by SEGD is actually complete. I think the main reason is game design student always have a great vision for their game, so the game become complex and the thing need to be done is more, more programming, more gameplay design and level design. One sems time while some other subjects are interfering is not a easy task to complete such a complex game i think. I actually knew the effort they put in, i knew them and got the news of them as well. Well, cheer for the hardwork then. All games are expandable and got a future for that game, hope they never give up and complete the game :)

Huh? quite long ? well, i guess that is all for my report of the seminar then. Kind of tired and sleepy again, so...thats all :)

Today Feeling? I have to be more serious and passionate...Direct X!

Future Games Developer Seminar 1st Half

2006-05-29T19:36:00.000+08:00

Ya...FGCS, a very great event, well at least I felt proud to be one of the event maker or commitee people called it. I think I just brief abit about it now.

I missed the breakfast. :| du.... ok. The very first thing, is the welcome speech by John Tan, CEO of Hatchings Games. This guy is always excited, and have something to talk and share. He gave a very good welcome note, let people to get relax and feeling of thing going to start soon. After that is Kevin, art director of Game Brains (top game developer company in Malaysia). He appear to be a bit nervous, i think, in the key note speech. But still, he delivered a very good kick start key note. Kevin talked alot about the game industry, the world market, and relative to Malaysia local industry. I was expected a "sad" talk (cos malaysia situation is, agreeable that, is sad). Erm, I was wrong, Kevin gave a very excitement and hopeful talk, he keep pushing that now is the very right time to get into the inductry. well, I do hope he is true.

After that was Micheal Ooi, lead game designer of Phoenix games studio. The one who lead Fung Weng Online, the very first MMOG developer by Malaysia company and people. (clap your hand plzz....). He session is, mainly about Q&A, actually today's talks mainly is Q&A lah, but it still cool, since all the question got the good answer and satisfy answer i guess. I missed up the game design discussion, since at the middle of the session, Key(Hatchlings COO) called me out to meet this guy from Microsoft Malaysia, named Walter.

Erm, I have to describe abit the meeting with Walter since I just like, happened to be his "traning dummy before the speech" because the thing he talked to me personally is the thing he going to present later. At least i am the 1st hand holder than, hehe. Well, what he talk to me personally. Actually is what I'd i asked about windows thing to him. Windows Vista, is going to launch officially this Nov or Dec, but the actual date that we can buy that product is next year 2007 February, he so confident about it, so, i guess that is the date, windows user heard that? :p

(i like to type more, but... my arm is getting pain and tired, sorry, will continue once i get my hand back)

To be continue...

The Very First Day of Holiday

2006-05-29T02:13:00.000+08:00

Today is a the first day I in my Beta year holiday. Well, this holiday I planed a lot of things (at least I think is quite a lot for me). They are

I must do something with my direct X. My highest aim is animate the model, actually is... what i think, if i can import some model with code and display it, it consider as a good achivement, for me, Kuan... lol
This is a bit...hehe... I planed to finish my Metal Gear Solid 3 in this holiday, finish it! How? go to Lo Shyang house, use the time he is not at home, and crack that game :P (pity loshyang)
This plan is abit...part time syle. Solve the Algorithm programming question on that site....forgot what site, will mention later lah. To prepare for next sems' code match. My team is name "i dunno" yes, i dont know :P with Josh and Solid, a strong team huh? letz rox!

Well...this is the plan.

What I did today? errrr.....abit shame to say, but i worth the enjoyment de! letz share then

Morning well....ordinarlly day man, but... i did a exciting thing anyway...i watch lost. LOST seasion 2 last episod. Damn another big mysteries lies for season 3!!!! cannot wait to see it liaw. For those who say (if here really happen that someone carelessly get in here...) LOST is the best series i ever see..... really... give yourself a chance, don't miss this series! damn nice !

Well....today, my wife, my dear MyVI.....hurt again...pity her got such a bad host. The hand Break Jam liaw! haaa.....dont know what happen, very first time i call my father to check it out looo.......he say dunno what wire jam or got off the break or what, no idea, Hope Kent will help me fix that out lah.

Ok....next thing. ya. 1st time i swim, at CyberJaya. hehe, pity me and William and Leongi traped in the Cyber Desert. So i end up bring my Laptop to their house, play game, then swim and dinner at Dengkil with them lo. Well, thanks to them i wont have a bore and bad start for this holiday.

Ermmm, i think this thing really worth to mention then. John, keep asking me and Iris who want to be next academic year GDC president. Ahh...thats kind of heavy thing for me, i felt proud of it but i really don't want that post. No idea why, but i will try my best for the GDC. Ya, seriusly, just like what i did for PB!

OOOOOk....Last liaw Last liaw....i guess, my first post always is long post de lahh, see how long i can sustain this thing lah, damn it. Kuan style, 21 years no change. Forgive me. Yea, going to sleep liaw lahh, Min Bee kept reminding me to sleep already, tommorow have a Future Game Creator Seminar to organize eiii, ya! tommorow topic sure is around that seminar. Keep track (i still felt that i am just a freak talking to myself.)

TodayFeeling : i miss someone...