Sweetness
Apr/090
I have to admit, I kope this video from someone else’s blog after watching it. People from RP will definitely know what I meant.
But seriously, this is a cool and sweet ’short’ clip. Watch till the end 
P.S. I seldom put a standalone video post entry, so believe me… its good.
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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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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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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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We can do it!
Feb/090
To my dear fellow classmates:
If you are reading this, instead of doing FYP, because you need a breather after hours upon hours of doing FYP, I forgive you. But straight after this, get back to work, alright?
Here a youtube video my friend recommend. For those looking for motivation to do work, check this up.
Still not motivated enough? Well, for all you Apple fans out there. Presenting to you Steve Job! This is arguably one of the best graduation and/or motivational speeches ever. Watch it, it will really make your day!
Whether you prefer Microsoft or Apple, you must admit Steve is one of the worlds brightest minds.
If you are still not motivated enough after these videos… man! Just had a good time laughing at this.
ciao, time for me to get back to work. Wanted to blog more but then if I do, I can’t justify that I’ve being working hard for FYP =P So I will update more after the DEAD-line, 20th Feb, D day, the Judgement Day… *swallow saliva*
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Am I a Potential Assassin as seen in ‘Wanted’?
Jan/090
Am I a Potential Assassin as shown in the movie ‘Wanted’? It works like this…
During a crucial moment, more adrenaline is pumped to your body. The world seem to slow down. You feel like you might almost get a panic attack. Turns out, your speed and agility increase due to the slow speed of reality. You can dodge bullets, do extraordinary-super-human feats and even curve bullets…
That’s what I experience when I took NAPFA yesterday. Every time I take Shutter Run, I feel the Adrenaline Rush. It was an uncomfortable feeling as I felt that my whole body seem to slow down and my heart is pumping so fast, I could get a heart attack. My last timing is 9.6s for Shutter Run, which I think should be the best I can get (not bad for someone who don’t exercise very often).
I heard the person say go, and it took about .2 seconds for my body to react. I sprint, but I realize I am not sprinting as fast as I used to. My sprint seem to feel like jogging speed to me. I want to go faster but my body just don’t listen to me. When it come to the first turn, I took like another .2 seconds before my body realize it is time to turn… This happen when I took the first cone, then the second cone. When I pass the line, and the time is stop, everything suddenly resume to its normal speed again. I knew I didn’t run as fast as I usually could when I was training at home. But as the person announced the time, I was dumbfounded. 9.4s!!?? To me, it seem like a 10.5s speed (my estimation is usually very accurate)
That’s like! The whole world slow down in my mind. That’s like, Wanted! That’s like soooo freaking COOL! Ha-ha. For the rest of the 4 stations, I cleared with ease. My pull-up got a 8 this time and I feel that I can go more. Unfortunately, I screwed up for my 2.4km… yes… again. I had to much warm-up. I slow jog for 3-4 minutes and end up not being able to catch up with the timing. At least I improve, when my timing for Silver past, I just have 200m left to the finishing line. Just 200m!!
Beside being able slow down time, I can also speed up time. Ha-ha. That happen when I was chatting with my friend who was an actress (joking!), everything became so fast. I never realized until she asked why I slowed down. I slowed down!!?? What’re you talking about!!?? I was moving at normal speed (to me) and everything else is moving so quickly. I couldn’t explain it. Is this those kinda ‘theory’ that time passes fast when you are having a good time?? But this ‘theory’ is mostly figurative or happen only in the mind but in my case… its too literally!!!
Another case left unsolved. Leave that for another episode of… 5AmUeL wonderful blog post. Errmm… That’s a bit drama. Errmm… ciao!
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Hello World!
Dec/080
This is your first post…
…NOT! To see my old posts, you can visit http://www.5amuelchan.com/blog-old/. I’ve transferred all my all posts from http://cyborg5000.blogspot.com/ to this new one for easier browsing and for backup purposes.
I updating this post while I’m in the lecture room. I did badly for my presentation… again. Sh*t! Reason being, done too little and lack of preparation.
Ciao!
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