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Eventful Weeks

The past weeks (not over a month) have been pretty eventful (writer’s side-thought: eventful sounds more positive than busy?).

(usual projects, schooling, concerts, performing and weddings… yadayadayada…)

So to shorten, the more important events (to me) are:

  • NOC interview
  • New facebook application: Boombasheep
  • NUSSO Concert: Flame of the Night
  • NUSSO Elections
  • Piano Exams

NOC interview
I’m grateful to be able to attend the 2nd interview. Questions asked were similar to the 1st, but I felt my responses were better during the 1st interview. Still, the interview teaches me lessons and gives me experiences, and the least I tried was to show my determination. Lesson from my dad remains- pray, try my best and expect the least.

Boombasheep
Screenshot
Boombasheep
is the name of the latest facebook application I developed together with Lester Chan, and my Zi han, my OG-mate. The objective of the game is simple and in fact brainless: a bomb is created with a time to explode, and so the parcel gets pass around. The idea came from Chua when we were sharing ideas, then I decided it was feasible. Although it was meant for my 3rd assignment, my personal objectives deviate from the assignment’s, but I believe our team were largely satisfied with the outcome.

Flame in the Night
Mr Lim and Me
Photo with our conductor, Mr Lim
Before this concert was NAF Opening concert, but this concert had the orchestra and committee preparing at least half a year ago. Although some might expected better, it was still a great experience for everyone and myself at YST’s concert hall and comments have been positive. The concert was also reviewed on The Straits Times. A pleasant surprise was I personally didn’t really expect my siblings and friends made out over 10% of the hall’s capacity (thanks for coming!). Photos here.

Elections
I got voted for Welfare Secretary post. Its my wish that I’ll be able to contribute as in the best of my capacity for the best of everyone.

Piano Exams
Something that I wanted to be over and done with since last year, and today’s the day. I feel indebted to many- first to the many friends who often encourage me. Auntie Fong who first persuaded me to take on, and buying the exam book for me, Uncle Yeow Whye, Auntie Alison who sponsored the exams, and recommended my teacher to me, my teacher Ms Winnie for her care and patience in these few quick and brief months, my parents for sponsoring the lessons fees, and my mom especially for encouraging me so much beyonds words and actions. The first piano exam in my life, things feel far from ideal, what only was familiar is the courage had to gut down failures when it comes again: hence preparing the worst is my unwritten plague to try again until success. (However, Auntie Alison cheerful declared my exams pass over the phone :p)

Closing
These are the times, stressful, challenging and trying. I ever thought if I would lose my sanity. Thanks be to God whose grace is sufficient for me. Battles continue with mid-term exams and assignments for the next 4 consecutive days. While the future and the many outcomes lies unknown, trust and hope needs to be learn.

Facebook Musical Wall Application

In less than a week, together with my teammates released a wall-like facebook application for our 2nd assignment.

My Facebook Music Application

The difference? Instead of the usual messages and links, videos & photo attachments, users get to record or create their music by clicking on a virtual 3d piano before sending to their friends.

Application Description Link: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=9575698857
Application Link: http://apps.facebook.com/musicalwall/

Main Page

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Piano Studio
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My Music
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My Wall
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My Wall
Gallery
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Current features include:
+Playing on a virtual piano
+Playback and save the music played
+Send it to a friend’s wall
+Share the music with other users
+Download music as a midi file
+Convert to RTTTL ringtone format
+View and playback music on your own wall

Not forgetting my capable teammates. “)
Teammates

And for those interested: Here’s a link to the javascript version of the flash piano I experimented with.

Piano

Happy Lunar New Year!

School Started Updates

Hi all,

Timetable
First of all, for those who are interested in my timetable.
Semester 2 Timetable

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My Timetable Year 1 Semester 2

Here’s this semester, compared to last semester.
Semester 2 Timetable
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Previous Timetable- Year 1 Semester 1

Hislide Flash Issue Fixed
Hislide popup images usually get covered by flash objects, and the fix to it is to add wmode=”transparent” to the embed tag. Photos taken for my last concert Miniatures can be viewed.

Fotobook Problem Solved
I was running into some problems important facebook albums. I was getting
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 15728640 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 71 bytes) in [...] /wp-content/plugins/fotobook/facebook-platform/simpleXML/IsterXmlNode.php on line 234. I fixed this problem by replacing the php4 facebook client library with php5 client. I’ve also added jquery chilli plugin and scripturizer on this blog, but I’ll skip the elaboration.

Facebook Hello World (with Flash, Fbjs, Fbml, css, ajax and ElizaBot)
Random Beautiful Flash Text

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Random Beautiful Flash Text Generation on Canvas Page

View my application page here or visit the canvas page here.
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Hello Alice World Profile - Chat Dialog

Actually a challenging part of this was setting up and configurating a Solaris 10 Zone. I thought of trying rails, but with some restrictions I didn’t carry on that idea.

InnoFusion
I’ll be leading a project- a epublishing business, with nextfusion.

Things are getting busy and stressful but I hope I’ll be able to manage.

2008 New Year Updates

well nothing much has change. Things are moving on at a constant (or maybe pretty fast) pace that I do not feel a full reset. I still feel some new year symptoms for example when noticing the heavy congestion on the roads after work- due to fact adults are getting back to work and students back to school.

Modules Bidding. School reopening in 2 weeks time and I’m torn to which path to take. The technicality of the Computer Science stream seems to entice me, but my Diploma in Business Informatics seems to set the path for Information Systems. Anyway I bidded for 5 modules, which seem quite pro-IS :

  • CS1231 - Discrete Structures
  • MA1505 - Mathematics I (aka Horror Maths)
  • CS2261 - Enterprise Systems Development
  • CS2250 - Fundamental of IS
  • CS3216 - Software Development on Evolving Platforms (aka Facebook Module)

Blog maintenances. This blog has been advertisement-free since it started (>2.5 years?). Since there were suggestions of getting a little pocket money due to a steady amount of visitors here, I compared Google Adsense, and some regional advertisers- Adverlets, Nufflets, Nuffnang. Since Google is more reputable, I’m trying it. I customised the ads not to be too obvious, and can be found in a small section/widget in the right sidebar of the page.

You might notice I’ve have been playing with some other widgets in the sidebars. I’ll be adding scripturizer (js version), some interesting stuff (get hints from my next post) and trying to clean up stuff which is not working.

Also, I’m involved with OpsFly (Operation: Financial Literacy for Youths), in the IT team and its site will be at http://opsfly.com Not much content is up for now and work will have to be done.

Next month would be my piano exams, and I’m involved with a concert this month- I ought to spend less time with computers and more time practicing music.

Updates & Thanksgiving

As year 2007 comes to a close, just a quick look back and some updates.

I’m having internship, as mentioned before, and so far its a nice, fun and learning experience. The environment at work, feels more like my final project in poly than my industrial attachment I had.

Who whould imagine going on Facebook is my job?

My 1st year 1st semester results released on boxing day. I must say I’ve been satisfied, that my grades is satisfactory, of a very average CAP, that would be a yardstick for my performance keep me, and hopefully to keep me humble and work harder. Now what is left is to reconsider what path to major on, and to decide the modules for next year.

Psalms 47:4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

I’ve coded an integration that laid out my blog posts in 2007 on Timeline using MetaWeblogApi last night, but time is running tight so the post on it might just have to wait to the new year. Both using that and K2’s ajax archive navigation makes it easy to recap what have been done this year.

Although it seemed not much is done in the year, time passes faster than that I feel, one single important event is that I’ve stepped through quickly from my army stage into my study stage.