Praise the Lord
Mar/090
I think of no other special chance to glorify God’s name than this. My face appear in 27th March TODAY newspaper. (Psst… Jacq face was there too)
God is in control of everything. He can give you anything. He can also take away what He gave you. I experience it first hand.
It started when I was in office. I received a call from a lecturer and was informed that I will be interviewed by a reporter. Was that cool or was that verrrry… cool!??? The first thing I did was to SMS my best friends (yea, plural). Basically, I tried to control my urge to tell the whole world. I was thinking… let’s just wait till I get on the paper.
The next day came, I did adequate preparation like… ehhh… shave, wash up and rehearse in my mind what I need to say to the reporter. Then after I cooled down, glorifying God came into my mind. I was thinking, beside thanking, lecturers and supportive parents, I need to thanks God. That’s when I realize I was like the fisherman, Simon Peter, in the Bible. When school of fishes appear around Simon Peter boat when he let down the net, he got so carried away into catching all those fishes. I always desired fame and when it came, I got so overwhelmed and excited that I forget to glorify God’s name. Only realizing after I cooled down. I felt really bad.
Then, someone from TDS call and said the interview is cancelled. I was a little disappointed. Perhaps, its a lesson God want me to learn. I just continued my day. Going for the Diploma Show. Explaining to everyone who visit the installation. I notice that was this guy who kept taking pictures at my booth and he stayed with the installation for quite some time. I was wondering why didn’t this guy take pictures of other installation? The shadow detection thingie installation is cool too… so is the stand-in-front-and-video-start installation. I was about to ask him, when he told me, “I am actually from MediaCorp, and so sorry, I am actually in a rush to get this on tomorrow’s paper so can you tell me a little bit more about your installation?” In my mind, it was just this, “Me..me..mee..mediaCorp!!”
After I recompose my mind, we just did a simple, impromptu ‘interview’ and he left.
Next day, the first thing I did was to rush to the petrol kiosk and grabbed a copy all the newspaper I could get my hand on. Straits Times, Newpaper, and went into a frenzy looking for the mention of me. I flipped through the 2 papers twice and it was nowhere to be found. Then I recalled, ”Me..me..mee..mediaCorp!!” OH! MediaCorp! Newspaper by MediaCorp is most probably TODAY so I went to TODAYonline.com to read today’s TODAY. I flipped through the PDF… and… my eyes were fixed onto a black piece of column. This is it! I’m on Paper!
First thing that went to my mind is to write this post and tell everyone how God blessed me, His Child, and that He has the authority to Give or to Take Away ones talents, fames, fortune. Nevertheless, it is all within God’s Plan.
Btw… my name card is ready. Be sure to grab one from me when you see me. Its basically a rubber stamp whereby I stamped it on a blank piece of name card. This requires a lot stamping skills and patient =P
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Updater…
Mar/090
I just watched the movie, Push and everyone that posses ability (power) has an -er behind the type of ability they possess. Someone with the ability to move things telekinesis-ly is known as Mover, someone with the ability to ‘watch’ into the future is known as Watcher, etc.
There’s this particular group call the Pusher, which reminds me a lot of Matt Parkman from Heroes. They have the ability to Push thoughts into others, even though they lack Parkman’s mind-reading ability, they still kick-ass.
Well, Updater is here to do an Update on his blog. Hope everyone is still watching closely for Updates.
First I had some people asking me, how’s my FYP. What did I do? Is it good? Well, I have to say that even though my design can still be improved, I am quite satisfied with the scope and overall quality of my project. Its a pity that I never film down the installation when people is playing with it but if you like, here’s the link to my Installation manual.
I am also quite happy that both my Project 4 (bicycle simulation system) and FYP (multi-touch mirror) installation are being used for our Diploma Show. To make it possible for my FYP interface to be on the Diploma Show, I also went back to school to help complete the multi-touch table my lecturers were building previously.
All these new technologies is truly amazing and I am glad to be one of the pioneer to explore new form of human-computer interaction (aka surface/physical computing). There will also be a lot of opportunities in this field as more and more people wanted to jump into bandwagon and there will be more and more demand for such designer/programmer. Recently I was referred by lecturers and got hold of such amazing opportunity. The company seek my expertise and I seek their experience in commercializing and packaging the technology, it was indeed a perfect match. Not to mention the project fee is also not bad for a fresh graduate like myself.
Well 5amuel, do your best!
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Recently, I’m rather frustrated at myself. I will not go into the specifics but if you want to know more. You can always ask me. You know, I prefer face-to-face talk than tell-you-everything-in-my-blog. Hope tomorrow, I will no loner be frustrated =(
Will keep you guys posted.
Ciao.
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Staring into blank space…
Mar/090
… thinking what I should do. I’m still not used to the transition from schooling to becoming a free man. The stress and pressure to perform well just went away.
So, now what? Work freelance? Work in some design firm? Do some self-study? Or just focus on my business? I have not really made up my mind. Fact is, money is not really important to me now. I’m still living under my parents’ roof, receiving pocket money every week and always have money left each week (enough for me to spend/still able to satisfy my needs).
Maybe I should enjoy myself this few months? Go out with friends. Go out and eat, play, slack. And do only things that interest me.
Interesting things… things like… Augmented Reality??
With just a few lines of code in Actionscript. The camera can track any pattern on real time and create a 2D/3D on it.
Live video would be more impressive and reinforce the fact that this true AR and not just some photoshop crap.
The perspective of the cube will change according to the angle of the pattern. I will try and develop and showcase more Augmented Reality test/finished product in the future. Ciao. 4am now. Gotta sleep
**EDIT**
More Augmented Reality Stuff
Cute little monster…
I shall name you Ali… let’s be friend, let’s play a game…
the game is call “Smash Ali”…
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The Future…
Mar/091
as visualize by Microsoft
Microsoft Office Labs Vision 2019 Montage
these are the vision of Microsoft by 2019. Cool~
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What really happen between Rihanna and Chris Brown?
Mar/091
Now that my FYP’s o’er, I have ample time to relax and chill and do some research. I saw the news on TVMobile that Rihanna and Chris Brown are back together. The question that bug me most is why Chris Brown beat Rihanna in the first place. Having hours upon hours of research, I finally found a super reliable source. (Remember, back in the school days, in Social Studies, you need to differentiate between credible and non-credible source) Then I spent another countless hours of cross-referencing and analyzing and calculation and coin-flipping. I have found this to be the perfect source and perfect credible source.
Can you see how much the person in the video resemble Rihanna and Chris? So this must be the footage extracted from the CCTV outside Rihanna’s house.
That brings about another topic. Ever wonder how accurate and correct the information in the internet is? Believe whatever you see online. Be it forum, blogs, videos, pictures. Everyone that share stuff on the internet definitely have a good journalism attitude and is accurate in whatever they say. Even liars and cheaters in the real world will turn into professional journalists on the internet. Every things on the internet is true and so is TV advertisement
The phrase, Internet Scam/Fraud is true only in the early 60s (Internet wasn’t around until the late 60s). The top secret organization agency run by the government had already trashed all incorrect materials on the net and round up everyone who lied online and locked them up in some deserted island in the Bermuda Triangle.
Yeap! Just like Heroes: Fugitive
Now that I’ve let the cat out of the sack. They might come and get me, but they can’t sent me off the island since I wasn’t lying. That’s why I am expecting hitmen, assassins and silence me. They have these top secret high-tech hacking satellite that they secretly sent to space using rockets powered by baking soda and vinegar which will be able to intercept every piece of computer data before it is sent to the cyber-highway so….
*****EDIT****** (add-on)
Me: *Hey, who are you and what are you doing in my bedroom!?*
Agent 1: *You know too much and these cannot be released to the public…*
Agent 2: *Prepare to die!*
Sound Effect Real Sound: *Bang bang*
Me: *Look what you have done!? You hit the SEND button*
I never meant to release these informations. Agent 2 did it by accident and end up, I got away scott free (bob not free) while Agent 2 is locked up. Well… moral of the story, Internet is always right and no one lie on the internet because if they do, they will never live to tell.
End of Story Real Story Real Account.
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Worst day ever~
Mar/090
People change. Im no exception. My perception of feelings changed too. In the past, a bad day to me is a day when everything went wrong. Like waking up at the wrong side of bed, late for class, stepping on SH*T or maybe missing the bus. Now I’m just a happy-go-lucky kinda person and everything seemed manageable.
Everything… everything except this 3, sick, bad weather(when Im sick) and missing item. Today its the combination of these 3, so I proudly announced to be my worst day ever (not really ‘ever’).
I always fall sick straight after a school Major Project. Not before the major project, nor during the major project. Its straight after the project. I find that to be mostly mental. While doing the project, I always stay up late, burn midnight oil and nothing EVER happen to me. Un-consciously, I must be telling myself, “5am, you can’t fall sick in the middle of the project”. Then after the project, the ‘un-conscious mind’ would tell the body, “Phew… glad that’s o’er. You can go ahead and relax, fall sick, whatever you want”. The body would just fall apart. Like… do you know? Domino. Chain reaction.
Falling sick sux. Hope I get better soon.
What’s a good companion of being sick is bad weather. Imagine, when you are sick, the last thing you want is a gloomy weather which add on to your body ‘gloominess’. The cold weather adds on to my flu. Bad weather sux too. Hope mr. Sun come out of hiding soon.
Just when I wan to take a picture of how gloomy the weather is with my camera phone, its no where to be found. What add on to a sick person during a bad weather is the need to look for stuff. I just thought of one more. What add on to a sick person on a gloomy day looking for stuff is confusion. What a sick person, who is looking for stuff, need during such a bad weather is well… love. From countless sources of sayings and poems, Love is said to be warmth. Isn’t it. So a cold and sick person need warmth of love, am I right? Ha-ha.
However, I am very confused myself. Its not like I’m Casanova, its not like there are people queuing if I wave my hand . I just had conflicts within myself who to love. Everything is at a standstill. So what’s a worser day than being sick and cold and confused with love and looking for things and having to write a post when I don’t have a feeling to. Ha!
So with all these factors. I conclude this to be the worst day.
p.s pls, pardon if there’s alotta spelling, grammer mistakes and un-fluent sentences in this post. I’m too sick to do a proof-read. Ha! Ciao.
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