Sabah's Trip Preparation

*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

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

Checklist for Sabah

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Personal medicine.
4. Small size board game or card game. We have some time which nothing to do. Such as waiting leong kee finish his bath.
   
5. Underwears, swimsuit (if you want, no body care you wear or nake at the seaside)
6. Others. Cannot think of myself now.

Checklist for wallet or purse

1. 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.
2. Estimated rm 100 - 150 for FOOD at KK.
3. Estimated rm 50 - 100 for miscellaneous (boat ticket, snorkelling, possible activities)
4. 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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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?

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.

1. 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.
   
2. Next day (Thurs), not much time since I predict that we going to rush Math assignment, so... PopUp power, easy thing.
   
3. 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)
4. Sunday, full day working is needed, to finalize the Game. Create menu, make level.
5. 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