was what my sis said we would be on the way back from Sentosa.
My last exam paper ended today near 8pm after a 2.5 hours struggle against time. I spent over an hour trying to work out 1 qn just to fumble through 32 questions in the remaining 1-and-a-half hour.
So after exams, took a bus to HarbourFront and took this (MRT-like) train ride from Vivo into Sentosa for my first time. At least 2 years since I was last there and there are many changes.
Having no proper meals and starving already, I had my fill stuffing myself with pizzas, cakes and more.
Everyone took this Luge and so I bought the tickets to go up with everyone for their 2nd ride. The skyride was nice! You can to see the skyline and the coastlines, see your feet go above the roads and and trees, and sitting on a seat held on only by a cable. So people scared of heights, do be prepared. Then from the top, the luge is a little mixture with Go-Kart and a bicycle or skateboard. Just gravity, steering and brakes. I happened to record my coordinates using GPS, but in order not to clutter this post, the GPS stats and photos will be in the next post!
There’s tons of stuff I have on my TODO lists (infact many of them thought of in the midst of my exams), with some on the priority like replying emails, filling my lecture notes for this semester so on…
Anyway I’ll be hitting up Malaysia tomorrow night, be back for the Orchestra camp, then JSM family camp, then enjoy Christmas and New Year plus perhaps work a few additional projects.
My life’s excitement always starts after exams!
In my last post, I mentioned that my email address needs to be updated (for those who emailed >2 years ago). This time zz85.is.dreaming.org couldn’t redirect to this blog and needs updating.
I tried to login dyndns to check my dynamic domains account and weirdly my account has been deleted. Anyway it seems that current dreaming.org network would be terminating its domain.
So I re-sign up and got http://zz85.is-a-geek.com as a url shortcut. Yes, for those who bookmarked this site, http://www.lab4games.net/zz85/blog/ still works. One last exam paper to go, taking another break now!
Just a quick post here because there are 3 exams papers in the next few days which I’m not prepared for yet.
Having to do some quick typesetting, I found it useful to use the tool nwc2ly.py I did few years back.
There are few issues I’ll address here as the website is outdated with some invalid html.
1st. the link to get the script is can be downloaded or viewed using sourceforge online svn browser here.
2nd. my email previously at joshakoo/at/myrealbox.com has been abandoned years since
a. I couldn’t seemed to log on at times. b. Some messages could be deleted from the server, and some downloads seem stuck using the pop3. c. It was filled with spam. I can be contacted via zz85/at/users.sf.net anyway.
Anyway here’s some tips for using nwc2ly.py. If there a piece of music available in midi format, I would import it using NoteWorthy Composer. Then I’ll clean up and highlight the parts which I need. I’ll create a new NWC file, and add a single staff in as I found the script usually work without flaws this way.
I’ll run the nwc2ly python script, followed by the lilypond’s convert-ly script to update to the latest syntax. I’ll run lilypond and maybe make some extra changes and fine tune the score. I usually work with LilyPondTool in jEdit and except that the shortcuts for running nwc2ly and convert-ly don’t seem to work for now, but can only look into it when I got the time.
Thats for now, and hopefully anyone who needed help to use nwc2ly.py could have gotten some tips here.
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