Excellent Review

Woh woh woh,

Read this review and I’m sure you will give the anime Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto a try. The screen shots are so nice.

Suspended Thread

For the past few weeks, I’ve been trying to find out why a thread in my program got suspended. And I found out that …

In GreenHill Integrity OS,  a thread can be suspended for a million reasons.

1. Starvation occurs  – Play with the thread’s priority

2. Stack/heap size too small

3. A CoreDump has occured (eg. array out of bound)

They are so robust that your program will not crash. whatever happens, your thread will only get suspended and the other threads will continue to run. No error message. No illegal operation. No exception.

Tokyo Majin Gakuen Kenpuchou Ep 2 – Exciting!

Woh woh. I really like this anime. Episode 2 brings us to 2 months ago, when Hiyuu transfered to Magami High school and met kyouichi and the rest. It seems like they obtained their special power in that haunted house but I wonder how. I was hoping that more explanations will be provided in episode 3. The 20 mins was filled with action. Very exciting anime!

Happy Lunar New Year

It’s that simple

After killing a lot of my brain cells, I’ve decided to turn down the canada trip offer. I’ve been thinking for the whole of last night how to break this news to my boss.

But it turned out to be that simple.

Me: Erm. I’ve decided not to go to Canada…

Boss: Oh… so it’s your parents ah.

Me: Yap.

Yeah. I felt super relieved now.

Dalieu, Kife, egeus: Thanks for your advice!

Happy Valentine’s Day & Friends forever

Dear Friends,

we may not have contacted each other for a long time, but I still treasure our friendship and is just a phone call away.  Friends forever!

To my dear,

thanks for your lovely valentine’s day present and the Queen of Hearts. Thanks for being such a supportive boyfriend. I will always love you.

Nobody is indispensable

Just as the Canada trip is drawing near, I developed some other thoughts…

I am actually having plans of giving up this “golden opportunity”.

1. I felt like changing the domain of my work.

2. My mum is very worried about me going there alone. (Really alone, no colleagues, nothing. Got to find my own accomodation some more)

3. When I come back, I will be bonded for a couple of years. (Though not in black in white)

4. If I want to change domain, this overseas attachment has no value in my career. Since my training there has no commercial value.

5. My boss chased me for my resume (to be send to the attachment company). He said if I cannot go, he will ask someone else to go. I was both surprised and relieved when I heard this. Relieved because I am given the option to NOT go. Surprised because he can simply send someone who is not trained in this area to go. Stupid me, I thought I was indispensable.

6. I consulted one of my close colleague and she too see no added advantage in me going to this trip, if I were to change domain.

Critical decision has to be made…

The green pipe is clogged!

Stupid green pipe. Promised even higher bandwidth at no additional charges but my download speed has dropped from 100kB/s to 1.6KB/s. That has lasted for 2 weeks. Until I was really fed-up and decided to call their hotline.

And this is what I get…  “sorry our operating hours is from 8am to 9pm…”

No place to vent my anger, so I turned to blog. Sorry. =p

Tokyo Majin Gakuen Kenpuchou 01 – Interesting supernatural theme

Title: Tokyo Majin Gakuen Kenpuchou (東京魔人學園剣風帖)

Brief plot taken from Anime News Network:

In the night of Tokyo, mysterious deaths involving the ‘Reborn Dead’ occur. Mysterious transfer student, Tatsuma Hiyuu, and delinquent student, Kyouichi Houraiji, fight these undead every night. They, along with the rest of their group, soon realize that a greater threat, that involves even more powerful demons, is near.

The first episode is interesting enough for me to recommend it. The pace is fast and I’m interested to see how each of them display their special powers. I’m quite sure the story will slowly reveal the past of each of these characters. Their power each of them possessed are very different from each other and that makes the story interesting.

Sadly, ever since the first episode was released in mid January, no fansubs has released new episodes.

Why can’t I just finish it…

Yesterday I confessed to my organ teacher that I’m losing the motivation to practise. I enjoyed practising and playing the songs but dreaded the theory, improvisation, sight-reading and all those things that are required only for exam. I see no purpose in preparing for the exam when I’m not going to be a organ teacher anyway.

She said she noticed the change in my attitude recently and was worried about it too. She told me that if taking the exam became a burden and not a motivation, then either I dropped the idea of taking the exam totally and continue learning new songs for leisure, or gather my determinations and drilled on. Of course, I prefer to take the easy way out, drop the exam and have fun. But isn’t this hobby a bit too expensive? (S$215 per month)  But I think I will not play the organ if I drop the classes completely. And this is the worst scenario because I just bought the organ (EL-90) last year. I still want to continue learning, cos I enjoy my lessons and the process of learning how to play nice music pieces.

So that means I need to find a new objective in taking up organ lessons. If not for exams then what?

A reasonable suggestion from Leslie is to reduce my reliance on organ lessons. Learn how to perform any new song beautifully without the need of my teacher to tell me how. It’s not just about reading the notes and playing it. At this stage, I can easily pick up any piece and play it. The problem is, the song can sound really different after my teacher enlightened me. Break free from organ lessons ultimately.

However, to complete up to teachers grade (Grade 5) is something my mum really hoped I can achieve since I’m in secondary school. She was really excited when I take up organ again after dropping it in Sec 4. One large part of mind kept telling me that taking exam is not important at all since I’m not going to be a teacher after all. A small part of mind is asking me, why can’t I just finish it…

Assignments and projects – into Gear 2

No time no time. No time to watch anime, no time to practise organ, to time to watch tv, no time to have a good rest…

Taking 3 modules is draining. But I guess I’m lucky I didn’t get a super heavy load subject like last semester. But I burned out almost all my weekdays. 3 days classes, 1 day organ lesson, another day is discussion/consultation. Nooo…

Luckily, there’s something worthed celebrating in my work. We are almost ready for the demo next month. I’ve integrated and tested my peer to peer voice/file transfer/text messaging application with my colleagues’ modules and 2 out of 3 schemes works. I’ve debug until the point where I can confidently say that the bug is not in my code. It just failed to work with all the real time issues coming in etc.