Archive for April, 2006

INFOMATICS UPDATE

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

First of all, I’m not supposed to be blogging…It’s 1am and I have an exam at 11am later…The subject is Cognitive Science(Artificial Intelligence) but I dun feel like studying at all…WHY?!

So anyway, back to Informatics…I was looking at the notice board and came across this notice:

BEFORE:
Informatics_closing
Unfortunately, I cant say that this was a recent notice. As a matter of fact, it was dated 17 December 2005. Luckily for me, I have an "after" picture as well…this one is dated 18 April 2006.

Check it out:

AFTER:

Inf_closing3_1

This notice was handed out a couple of days ago to the students so that the remaining students could either go to KL or I-Systems College in Kuching  using credit transfer.

I don’t care really because I’m gonna gradaute this term!!! The only problem is that I’m not sure how I’m gonna get my result transcript from the college…cacatz…anyways, my final exam is in a couple of hours and if I flunk I’ll be going to one off the above mentioned colleges…btw, tell me if the font in the letters are too small. It isn’t the whole letter coz then you wouldn’t be able to read it, I just cut out the important parts.

**edit: Actually if the fonts are too small just get glasses.

-jiarenLau

If I was a handphone…

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

Remember those essays that we used to write in primary school or lower secondary school??? The ones that begun with something like "Jika saya sebuah kereta…" or "Saya sebatang pensel…"??? Well, I was cleaning up my computer and found this on it. I remember writing it but forgot when…Andy told me I should post in on my blog so that’s what I’m doing now. It was originally a file called "abtme.txt" on my desktop.


Enjoy!

If I was a computer…no…I’ve done that in friendster before. hmm…If I was a handphone:

I was designed in 1986 by the Lau Mobile Communications Department. They were lacking funds so they had to quickly manufacture this product. It was codenamed "Big Fat Foot". In October 1986 it was commercially available. It was given the name J.I.A.R.E.N. The Lau Jiaren. It was big, bulky and consumed a lot of energy. It was to be recharged at least 3 times a day. It’s retail price was so high nobody could afford it so until today it resides within the boundaries of it’s original corporation.

Slow processing power, lack of storage capacity, and insufficient memory caused major problems. It did however have a state of the art (at that time) cognitive science (artificial intelligence) feature which enabled it to learn from its surrounding environments. It has been tested in cold climates such as in Holland and in China as well as in the tropical region namely Malaysia. It’s artificial intelligent ability to store information was still in BETA stages during production and therefore has a bug which contributes to it’s short attention span. It also is drawn to shiny objects and its younger more slimer handphone counterparts.

Today the Lau company continues experimenting with the Jiaren. They have gone to China and left the Jiaren in Kuching alone. They wish to track its ability to survive in a hostile environment. Scientists are not too optimistic.

Pros:
-Durable speaker system.

Cons:
-Large size.
-Short battery life.
-Low credit.
-Bad navigation interface.
-Irresponsive functions
-No silent mode.

-JiarenLau

Happy Easter

Friday, April 14th, 2006

HE had no servant, but they called HIM MASTER.
No degree, but they called HIM TEACHER.
No, medicines, but they called HIM HEALER.
No army, but Kings feared HIM.
HE won no military battles, but HE conquered the world.
He commited no crime, but they crucified HIM.
He was buried in a tomb, but is ALIVE TODAY.
HE is humble, but will always be exalted.
HIS name is JESUS.
HE is our Hope and Guide.

Warm wishes especially in this holy week.
Happy Easter.

-JiarenLau

*edited from an sms I received from Mabel Ong.

Informatics Kuching closing…

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

Well, well, well…It seems like I’m a walking disaster. Every place I go seems to close down. I went to Informatics Miri, and it closed down. Came to Informatics Kuching and now it’s closing down too…*sigh* Funny thing you know Informatics used to own half the entire block…now it’s reduced to the 1st and 2nd floor only…


let me show you my college:

Info_blog2


   

 
 

 

            

Legend:

  • Red border is what Informatics Kuching "used" to be.
  • Green border is what Informatics Kuching is now.
  • Blue border is now "One Stop Discount Store".
  • Yellow border I heard has been bought over and is going to become a trophy store or something….
  • cacat huh?

Soon all of it will no longer belong to Informatics. All the students who are continuing will be transfered to KL… Fortunately, Im not one of them…COZ IM GONNA PASS ALL MY SUBJECTS AND GRADUATE!!!

Theres supposed to be some kind of session regarding the closure of the school. It was supposed to be on 7th April but they postponed it to the middle of this month…the date hasn’t been confirmed yet but I’ll let you know how it goes. The management from KL is coming together with the Ministry Of Higher Education(MOHE).

by the way, do you like the frame for the pic? I just learnt how to make it a couple of minute ago with photoshop, hehe…and how come cannot colour the fonts in this blog thing anymore? Anyone else have this problem?


Oh, besides that, IM FREEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOO!!! It feels so good to wake up in the morning and have absolutely NOTHING to do…ahh…been waiting months for this day…thats why I’m blogging…but I just told Linzhi that I’m about to go study…so I better go g
oof off someplace else for now.

Last thing, Happy "belated" Birthday to Vera and Tina (11 April)


Au revoir!

-JiarenLau

UPDATE.

Saturday, April 1st, 2006

    This is probably gonna be the last update til at least 13th April…I’m so friggin tired of this stupid final project of mine…the good news is that it’s finishing on the 7th April…the bad news is the project has to be finished by tuesday…the worse news is I still have another mini project which I havent started yet…and thats due on 12 April..

    So now u can see why I’m rarely online…well, thats not entirely true as well…I’m in my room all day "supposedly" doing my work…and my MSN messenger is always on…just that I keep it in "appear offline" mode. Thats coz I dun want anyone kacauing me when i’m watching movie, i mean…doing my project…

    It’s so so so so so so SO SO SO SO SO SOSOSOSOSOSSOOOOOOOO TOUGH!!!!!!

To give you an idea of how much pain i’m in..do the following:
    close ur  eyes…no not yet you moron! how are you gonna know what to do next if you friggin dont read whats gonna happen?! close ur eyes…imagine the nuclear holocaust…no…no…erm…imagine…you got ur sister really really REALLY MAD!!! then the next day at school ( bring urself back to the old days for you ppl who aren’t in school no more) ur results come out…and you couldn’t possibly can any worse. Now you teachers tell this to ur goodie-too-shoes who is already out for revenge. She yells at you then when shes all worn out guess who she tells?

    thats right! …mum. So now mum yells her head off and as if ur not feeling bad enough she tells dad when he gets home. So now "already stressed" dad is over-stressed as ever and basically just seeking whom he may devour, i mean…looking for an object, an entity, a subject to release his bottomless pit of steam…and at the same time you think to urself:

"oh boy, this is gonna be fun…time to do the head-tilted-down-with-no-expression look"

…as if you reflecting on your mistakes but you’re really just thinking of a way to get revenge on your tell-tale sister.

    eh?! where am I??? off topic? not again…crap…*sigh* okay, nevermind…I can still use it. Now, imagine how angry you are…how much pain ur going thru at that very instant. The pain, the agony, the stress, anger, and the in-the-moment-urge-to-commit-suicide/pull-out-a-gun-and-shoot-everyone state of mind. Now hold that thought.

    ( thought * 1000 ) ^1 billion = a fraction of the pain I’m in right now.
    btw, * = multiplication, ^ = power.

    So as you can imagine, it ain’t pretty…but someones gotta do it. I’ve wasted enough time here so I’m off now. Last but not least I wanna get a sticker for my car that says "Honk if you think I’m doing an exellent job at driving!" then I can cut people off and they won’t know wat to do, haha…