So, on 9th of September, 090909, I was promoted from a recruit to a private (= more pay)

Call me Private JY (Jia You) Chan

So much had happened while in this chalet-liked island. We trained to together, played together and suffered together. I will never forget my BMT’s friends…

The sergeant in the middle has the same initial as I am. 3rd Sergeant J Y Ong (Ben)

To be continued… (when I got the time)

Yesterday, I went out with Edmund and Lim Han. Took Bus 135 to AMK Hub and I really want to mention a very friendly bus driver. When we are waiting for the bus to come to a halt, Mr Driver signal to us to stop walking to catch with the bus. He stopped right in front of us for our convenience. When we boarded the bus, Mr Driver greeted us and waited till we sat down before giving a hand signal indicating he’s leaving the bus stop. Mr Driver waved at fellow bus drivers along the way.

His hand signs is so much that I can feel that some people sitting at my side is noising their irritation. It goes to show that in this world, its hard to please everyone. When a bus driver is rude, people complain. When Mr Driver of Bus 135 shows abit of friendliness, people get uncomfortable and talk behind his back (literally, its behind his back right?).

That’s why I really want to take this chance to compliment Mr Driver of Bus 135. That’s also why I recorded down the event on my iTouch just in case I forget. For those who can’t read chinese (like my dear), it say, ‘I met a very friendly bus driver today. Was almost shocked by his friendliness’ and I also recorded down the Bus license plate in case there is a chance I can vote for the ‘Most Friendly Bus Driver’. Forward this the SBS or something. Mr Driver deserve an award or something =)

After meeting Lim Han and Edmund, we had lunch and went ‘guy shopping’. Can really see the difference when guys shop and when gals shop. We are very specific. We just go straight to the store we want. Never walk around just to look, see, look, see…

Edmund wanted to buy a new phone. How can a Apple Fanboy not pushed the iPhone to him? Eventually, I convinced Edmund, iPhone is a good buy. Value for money, app-based and will not go out of date so fast (unlike other phone whereby you are tempted to buy a new one when a new model came out). An older model of iPhone will work the same as the new model when you update the software. The only difference is that newer model will have better spec (more memory, faster processor). Don’t think an iPhone as a phone. Think it as a miniature computer (I wasn’t the only person saying that, fyi).

It can do anything a computer can do, if you seriously think about it. There are more than 30k apps (last checked) and growing… There are apps for ‘Working Out’, apps for ‘Managing Money’, apps for ‘Getting Things Done’… and more.

Yeap. I’m also brainwashing my fellow blog reader. At $199 with plan, you can’t go wrong. No plan? Use a friend’s Singtel plan to buy

We went to play L4D afterwards. As you can see, there’s only 3 of us. In the campaign, Dead Air, we barely survived to the last stage if not for a stranger playing as the 4th player. We were killed 2 time in the last stage before… we win and escaped. He escaped. The stranger managed to survive while me, Edmund and Lim Han die.

Yes… all 3 of us noob die in the end even if we completed the game.

Ciao.

P.S. love my dear, 5andra, very much XD

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And if you still don’t think its cool… look! There’s even a robbery case on the camp itself. We organized it… Errmmm I meant someone organized it. I’m not involved =P I am a law abiding policeman in the camp…

and I got married to a fellow female policewomen and led a wonderful life… and having 3 kids.

Tell me. How many camp allow you to get married and have kids?

Oh yah. Notice the new spec on that previous picture? =D Need to change one coz army dun allow colourful spec =( I also had new phone (w/ torchlight) and a new LED torchlight and a new alarm clock that can never wake me up (tried it this morning. End up. Waking up the whole family except me).

I’m still having serious sore throat and cough now =( (pls don’t let 5and noes about it).

Watch up for the Twitter update status. I will try to Tweet often while Im confined in camp to update you guys =D

Btw, Transformer 2 kick ass XD !!!

Ciao.

Credit to Sonico30 from newgrounds for this funny animation.

Was re-watching Fantastic 4 and I totally loved Human Torch.

Here’s your chance to become Human Torch. It requires you to have a webcam and you need to allow the flash to use your webcam before you can set yourself on fire Flame-on!

This is one of the flash we were playing around when I was working at my internship company. Cool huh. It was done with actionscipt 3.0. In the future, I will post more Flash project for your viewing pleasure ;) Ciao

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Hey guys, come join Twitter and start following everyone else that matter to you. For those who do know what Twitter is for, here’s a short video intro to Twitter =) My blog is Twittered-enabled btw. Look at the side bar –> =D

Some people might be wondering why I changed my blog theme (a.k.a blogskin). It was purely an accident. Most of you should know how busy I have being recently that I haven’t got the time to even update my blog, let alone revamp my blog design.

I just wanted to update my blog to the new version of wordpress but I accidentally overwrite the theme folder. And it was gone… all gone. My green-mouldy-looking theme. I actually like it very much. Especially since my ‘heady’ integrate nicely into the website.

It was gone! I don’t even have a screenshot of it to keep as a memory. What a waste. So I just grab another decent-looking theme. It needed something more… something which shout out “5AMUEL!”, something uniquely me.

So here’s what I added on top of the default configuration of the Theme: a tagboard, my heady, my heady with a twitter bird, my heady twitter bird shouting out a latest TWEET from Twitter, a photo album (pictures dynamically grabbed from my Facebook photos), and a hidden feature =)

Don’t want to keep you in suspense. For those of you who owns an android phone, iphone or ipod touch… use your device to check up my blog. My blog is IPhone/IPod Touch/Android-enabled.

Before my update… viewing my blog through an iphone would take. *Start Timer…* *Stop Timer* 24 seconds. With the new update, loading up the page will take only *Start Timer…* *Stop Timer* 6 seconds.

Not to mention it look cleaner and nicer to navigate =) A treat to all my dear readers on the move =)

I want to take this time to also thanks my readers. Sometime, I just don’t feel the drive to take the effort to write an interesting post. But you readers are the reason I kept on writing. I may not be a pro-blogger who made his living through blogging, but I take the task of entertaining you guys seriously.

Well, keep tagging and commenting

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Love is sweet…

At the same time, I felt that friendship is equally as important. Especially true friendship… its hard to come by. Its so hard.

I think Eugene couldn’t agree more…

And friends ought to hug each other more often… we ought to have such a social culture Hugs is Free, what do you stand to lose. (Before I start charging $2 for a hug ;P)

Work is piling up and I kinda lost the momentum to work all day and night just to rush it out.

**RESERVE FOR AFTER GRADUATION UPDATE**

These photos is the same one I posted online,

Trying the graduation attire the day before.

Yep, I wore a pink tie =D

With my mom…

…and dad.

look kinda nice ah? Nice typo =)

Moses is up there. Ya-da ya-da (…if not now, when)

Never missed a chance to be caught by the camera.

nice…

look-alike?

my diploma cert with merit (and a prize)

In this 3 years…

I changed alot, yet my hairstyle remains unchanged.
I made many mistakes, yet Im closer to God.
I am a slacker, yet I still survive.
I had alot of friends, yet I prefer to be alone.

I gained an impressive cert, yet I lost a best friend.

(this was never meant to be a poem, so don’t expect patterns like how a poem should be like)

3 years of friendship was actually so fragile. Or maybe Im just not a very good friend…

That’s my life so far. Hoping NS life will be as drama as life in poly =)

Ciao!

(btw, I have yet to read my IDN magazine volume 15 no.6 =/)

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Many, many, many things happen over the course of this short period of time. Like relationship stuff, works, and own goals, etc. Let’s just talk about some generic topic… like who my role model is. You will be surprised. No! Its not myself =P (thick skin alert) Its actually my dad. Here’s a picture of him.

That’s him. I felt that he’s like the bestest dad ever. And because of him, it starts a “vicious” cycle of good dad in the future generation to come. Yep. I want to be a good father just like him in the future.

Not alot of my peers like their parents as much as I do =/ Maybe its just me… or perhaps they are really great parents =)

I guess I could go on with how great my dad is… but I assumed you get the point.

Now on to some other stuff.

Unknown to most people, some really BIG things happen in my life recently. Unknown to even more people, some really BAD things too. I’ve being asked how come I can overcome this so quickly and bounce right back up. No one was there to help but yet by the next day of the incident everything was fine. I do not think it was self-denial. I just manage to spend 1 night to overcome what most people took months.

And I need to sort up alot of stuffs in my life. Re-establish my relation with God, Re-organize my work desk and even Re-plan my life ahead (since I will no longer be studying)

I also need to Re-build my reputation of a helpful person =P Yep. I love helping people. Its almost like my interest. Man, how can I help others when I am all sad and gloomy and emo =/

No one will want help from an emo and sad person =P Its just like… seeking advice from a food nutritionist…

…who can’t even manage her own weight.

Getting a trainer who promised that you will be all strong and muscular within a month…

…when he’s all skinny and weak.

Seeing a doctor…

… who seem like he got lung caner and is being dripped.

Or seeing a psychiatrist…

…who is an emo!!??

It just don’t make sense. I need to resume my vibe and energy.

Anyway I still don’t want this post to be so long it will hide my newspaper article so ciao… I shall end here =)

(writing post and drawing and scanning pictures to my post is sooo tiring… Im soooo not going to do that I the future)

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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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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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Let’s see what Im going to do in the future. No school = More time.

Here’s what Im planning. More QT. More Violin practicing. More exercising. Resume Internet Business. Learn Cocoa Touch and create my first iPhone application. Pass Napfa (save 3 mths of BMT). Enjoy life. Write more blog posts.

All this plan is only short term. Very soon, I will be entering NS and spend my 2 years of youth there =D

After that, my plans were to… too early to tell. Not sure if I wan to work, or to go for further studies or to stay at home shake leg… why worry,  2 years in army to think… ciao… back to preparation of FYP presentation

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