Bookfair yo!

So, I went to the Big Bad Wolf bookfair 2012
which was held at MIECC.

If you guys want to get good books for real cheap price,
u guys should go there too.
However, there wasn't an IT section this time
although a few IT books can be found in the Reference Section.
That was the only disappointment I had on that day.

The rest was great, as I get to see a Lamborghini up close which was displayed outside the hall.
And thanx to that, I was able to win a free book by answering a question by the DJ.
He asked what was the brand of the car that was displayed outside the hall.

Anyway,
I bought about 6 books.
My brother and my dad bought about 3 books each.

There were some parents who brought their little kids to the bookfair as well
since there were a lot of children book also.
Some of those kids got lost and were brought to the DJ who will make an announcement
to inform the kids' parents about their children.

Sometimes, the parents did not come up front to collect their children maybe because too busy shopping for books.
So, the DJ will say something like
"I want everyone to check their own IC and see if their name is (the kid's mom name) and if yes, then please come and collect your daughter. "

I was laughing when i heard that.
Guess the fair was really huge and crowded.

I hope next year they will have an IT section though.
It would be really good as most IT books in the market are really expensive.

Overall, its really worth every single penny to get there and buy the books.
Its really dirt cheap.haha

Big Bad wolf event

I can't wait for tmr.
Its the big bad wolf bookfair.
They have new books with 95% discount.
Isn't that crazy?
hahax..

I am sure gonna stay there for a long time to hunt down some good books.
Maybe I will buy ten book.

Can't wait for tmr =)

Bad attitude~

hmm...., today i saw a young man working in the bank,
he was suppose to settle my documents for me,
 so i waited and kept seeing him rushing with his unorganized papers on his table.

So, as busy as a bee he is, he made some mistakes here n there and  was notify by his colleague.
He didn't even thank his colleague but instead he gave a cold look at his colleague.
So, it was my turn, i was kinda worried that he mite screw up my document, so i kept double checking before filling up the forms and read through some of the doc before signing.

Since I was not very familiar with the document, I needed more time to read it and understand it.
Due to his previous mistakes, more ppl where queuing in the line.
Not to mention he is still rushing some other documents(Not mine).

I did not mind that he didn't smile or was rude to his colleague
but the next thing that comes from him was somehow annoying to me.
He said "Can you read faster and fill up the form faster or not?" with a rude tone.

I didn't said anything and jz continue at my own pace.
So, at one part of the doc i was suppose to write the amount.
He assumes that it is the default amount and submitted the form for me
until i saw and notice and ask him why it wasn't the amount that i put in.
He just kept quiet as though as it wasn't his fault...

All in all is that I can see that either he was having a really bad day,
or his ego is too high.
And I dun think that kind of ego will get him far.

Good type of ego is okay but not that bad type of ego.

2022??

hmm..., the year of 2022..
where do i see myself ten years from now?
This was what i was asking myself for the past 3 months.

A lot of thoughts ran through my mind lately.
Well what about you guys?

I guess, i think too much eh?
hahax.. but I am just being me,
a person who likes to plan things far ahead.
Maybe i got this habit after learning chess since i was 8.

The future is full of uncertainties  and its kinda scary for some of us to even think about it.
What would your career be? What kind of friends will you have?
Will you still be single? Will you be rich?
Not to worry too much, since its quite far away.

But i think its a good thing to think about to past time sometimes.

As for me, i had a dream that me and my friends(the 4 of us) hit our 30's
and all of us are still single for some reasons.

Its just a dream anyway, but if that really happen, it would be funny.hahax..
Anyway, nothing much recently.

For now, my assignment priority will be:
1)SPCC
2)HCI
3)RMCT

okay, good luck guys. 

Silence~

yeah, all i want is jz a peaceful and quiet environment to study.
bt no..
Guess what? Its school holiday for kids now.

Most of them are making lots of noise,
not sure if they are laughing or crying.
Sounds the same to me.

Anyway,
I am pretty sure that most of us were told to keep quiet when
the teacher is teaching.
The teacher may say something like,
"You know why God gave you two ears and not two mouth? Its so that you should listen more than to speak."

Well, yes, you should actually keep quiet when someone is teaching.
However, did you know that we tend to learn better through discussion compare to just copying some notes and memorizing it?
I am talking about brainstorming~

Not saying that memorizing is ineffective, but for my own personal preference, understanding would be more important than to memorizing bluntly without knowing the reason behind it.

In fact, when I gave some lessons to a group of 20 students before,
I allowed them some time to chit chat a little and also to have some simple discussion among themselves.
It actually helps them to relax and of course reduce their sleepiness.haha

When you talk more, you are actually stimulating your creativity.

My point being is that, you can't expect students to just shut up during the entire class.
They may have ony one mouth, bt doesn't mean they shouldn't speak at all.
After all, the new generation of kids are getting more active.haha

Well, feel free to criticize this post anyway.
Most are from my opinion.

its jz the begining of everything~

Its the beginning of my 2nd semester of lvl2 in IT.
I am currently studying in APU aka UCTI for those of you who do not know about me much.

As the 3rd week of the semester is about to approach me,
I manage to finish one of my module's assignment's implementation.
Its done in java.

It involves connecting the application to a database using jdbc.
The database that i used was mysql.

I highly recommend mysql compare to mssql or ms.access.
Reason being is that mysql is more stable.

N yup, the application was done in GUI which means not in command line type of interface
but rather with buttons, textbox and combobox.

oh yea, regarding to the topic above,
All the things that I had to deal with so far whether in work or in my studies,
are all just the beginning of everything.
Even bigger challenges will come into my life.
I welcome those challenge with open arms.
hahax..

I rmb i once lost all of my assignments due to hardisk failure.
Should have back it up online btw.
I had to rush all 4 of my assignments since due date was near.
Somehow or a rather, i manage to finish it all in one day.
and manage to improve those further using the remaining days left.

At one point when my hardisk failed me, i wanted to jz give up.
bt i didn't because I somehow know that I will be able to get through this.
I took it as a challenge.
Using my will-power, that mostly comes from my ego,
I overcame it.hahax..

Yeah, life is full of problems,
Or u can choose to see it them as challenges.
 

Nested~

for most programmers or IT ppl who did coding before,
I am sure you know what it meant by nested.

As for non-IT literate ppl, i will explain what it meant by nested.
Have u watched Inception? Its about a movie about how these ppl
can go into ppl's dream.
And the interesting part is when they go into a dream within a dream.
Sometimes, it maybe a dream within a dream within a dream.(3 levels).

If u did not watched it yet, then u have no life~

So, back to nested.
We normally have nested loop, nested if-else statement, nested queries and so on.
What i learned recently was nested class in java.
Example,

public class Admin extends users{
    public Admin(){
    }
    public class SubAdmin1 extends JInternalFrame{
        public SubAdmin1(){}
    }
    public class SubAdmin2 extends JInternalFrame{
        public SubAdmin2(){}
    }}

So, as u can see, SubAdmin1 and SubAdmin2 are nested inside the Admin class.

Now, in ur main class u can declare something like

private Admin ad;
private Admin.SubAdmin1 sub1;
private Admin.SubAdmin2 sub2;


And then to use it in ur main class constructor, u declare it by doing,

Admin ad = new Admin();
sub1 = ad.new SubAdmin1();
sub2 = ad.new SubAdmin2();


okay, the end~

The joy of coding~

Yes,
in case some of you do not know yet,
I am currently studying IT although I look and talk like a business student.

So, here's the thing about coding.
It is frustrating when you keep getting error,
but the moment you solved it, fuh..., u feel like a genius who jz managed to solve a world problem.
hahax..
i think i mite have exaggerate that a little bit.

So, that is one of the joy of doing coding or programming.
I did not code for quite some time already as i was busy reading business related theories.
Yes, i am also a book worm.
I love books more than almost anything.

The feeling of solving an error in coding is like winning a lottery
or found the needle in the haystack.hahax..

gotta continue my things for now~
and to that someone, thanx for ur support although it may not mean much to u
but it meant a lot to me.

Study means smart?

Sorry, but studying in college doesn't actually makes you a lot smarter than other people.

Take it for instance in one of today's newspaper's incident.
A person with only an education level of up to standard 6 was able
to con a businessmen who i assumed to be more educated than the conman.
The person manage to con about RM2.4million according to the newspaper.

Oh wait, i forgot, most ppl from my generation seldom
read newspapers now a days.
hahax..

bt its okay, they get their news from facebook which
will always have the most up to date news.
However do note that information from facebook news or post may not be that accurate or reliable.

 So, point being is that in most con cases if any of you actually notice this pattern,
the victim are usually well educated people.
And to my surprise(not so surprise anymore) most of the conmen were not
well educated.

How is that possible??
I would bet my money on greediness.
Sometimes, no matter how "smart" or "educated" you are, but once when u get greedy,
you are no difference than being as dumb as a rock.

I would say that people with lower education qualifications who are able to con ppl usually
possess good soft(communication) skills.
This now make more sense doesn't it?
Better soft skills, means better in influencing and convincing the victim.

And yup, plus the victim who are greedy will get blinded from the obvious tricks that the
conmen will pull off.
When its all over, well..., most of the time its already too late.
The money is long gone, and so as your pride.
I mean, you wouldn't actually be proud of yourself for being conned rite?
hahax..

So, my advice would be
"Less greed, less trouble~"

Its a long nite

Well,
usually on a Friday night,
i will spend time with my a few of my secondary school friends
for a drink at a tomyam restaurant.
We called it "tomyam session".

So, now that I no longer need to fetch my younger brother from school,
I am now able to stay with them til as late as 11pm although sometimes i stay til 12.
Normally i will leave by 10pm, when things are just about to get interesting.

I have to admit that I sometimes talk very loud.hahax..
have to tone that down.

Normally we will talk about whats going on in our college or university and always
end up complaining about it.
Noted that the few of us are from different college or uni.

Its quite fun actually, since its something to actually look forward to do after 5 days of weekdays.
Not saying that i dun enjoy college, but after all those traffic-jams and stress from studies, its nice to talk it out.

And yeah, we are all guys.
Having a girl in our group would be weird actually.
What brings us all together was that, most of us were also from the same class during our secondary school.
And most of us are studying in the IT field.
So, yeah, lots of things to talk about.

oh yea, next week is my holiday, again.
gonna plan to do some studying as usual.
how else i can spend my time with good return?
Going out will cost my wallet to lose weight..
Plus, i stopped working already, so money is not really coming in.
Gotta start saving more from now on.

Scheduling

Okay, so i got some of my assignments adi despite its the
first week of the class.
As for java, the application have to be link to a database which is something i did not do before in
java though i did one b4 in visual basic. I did some hunting for books that may help me in the library(as usual).

As for spcc, gotten the question but i will need to test out the software first to familiarize with the system before developing on it.

As for rmct, its a research subject, i will most probably use back one of my idea for CRI.

Thankfully, i will not be having classes on friday anymore, which gives me one day to breath for a bit.
And  thankfully again i have a one week break next week, which i will use it for my java assignment as priority.

My priority for now
1)Java
2)spcc
3)rmct

okay, gotta go now, else i will be late for class, still at home.hahax..
not yet shower also.

time to get serious

oh yea, you will actually see me study from now and then.
Not like last time, chill and care-free.

Why a sudden change?
lets just say that, sometimes, things just happen and sometimes those things that happened will force us to make decisions in life.

That sounds a little negative doesn't it?hahax..
On the lighter note, i think i found one of my strength.

"Resilient"

It may not matter much to any of you out there but it meant a lot to me.

so, yup, will be studying more and more from now on.
And i will not work part time anymore(unless during sem break)

Anyway, will be updating my blog once a while from now on.
feels good to speak out.haha

Things that i need to do~

1) Get serious with my studies.

2) Find out more about what my strength is coz i still dun have much idea of what my strength is. I am a jack of all trades but master of non.

3) Stop getting distracted by other things easily.

4) Study more on managing people as a resource.

5) Have a better control over my emotion.

6) Stop being selfish.

What i least expected~

Well,

life can be very unexpected at times.

sometimes, things that you thought its over, will come back to you again.

like a boomerang.hahax..

In life, for one to continue living in this world,

is to continue learning..

When i said learning, i am not just saying in terms of education,

but I also meant learning about other things in life that revolves

around us.

There is this nice quote,

"He who risk nothing, does nothing, has nothing and is nothing~"

The full version is:

"To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out for another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas, your dreams before the crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To live is to risk dying. To hope is to risk despair. To try is to risk failure. But the risk must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing. He/She may avoid suffering and sorrow, but she/he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live. Chained by his/her certitudes, she/he is a slave, he/she has forfeited her/his freedom. Only a person who risks. is free. ~Author Unknown"

Interesting? isn't it?

hahax..

2012

yo,
how are ya doing?
bored?
if yes, then this place is the correct place for you to be.
Else, just continue reading since you are already reading this.

so, here are the list of things that i wanted to do by the end of 2011.
1)c#
2)sql
3)make a website
4)learn php and asp.net
5)learn c and java
6)learn javascript(heard that it was the IN thing back then)
7)Get 4.0cgpa.
8)get a job.

Things that i manage to do in 2011.
1) learn c#, sql, php, asp.net, c, java and javascript.
2) I didn't just make a website, but made two and its for real company and ppl.
3)well, i didn't get 4.0cgpa. Though i was close enough.hahax..
4)Manage to get a job, free-lancing making website.


i guess thats about it.hahax..
oh wait,
things i want to do by the end of 2012.
1)Go further in depth for c#.
2)Create an actual system to be use by a real company.
3)get 4.0 for my lvl2 sem1.
4)learn jsp(java server pages)
5)learn pipelining and some networking things.
6)earn my first 6k??(who noes)
7)I want to gain some weight. =D


okay, i think thats my list for this year.

oh ya, n also to tell her how much i love her.
lol... thats is to my mum who really took care of me since young.
One of the way to repay her is to work hard and maybe do more housework.

kk..
bb..