in retrospect of the previous post's title

well, i think i just screwed myself, just as i wrote in my previous post's title (hence, today's title).

the past 24 hours were acknowledgably the busiest point of my life in that past semester or so. No, not exactly because I procrastinated, well partly, but not wholly. and not to mention that my computer is lagging like snail now.

yesterday morning, as you might have seen in my previous, previous post, i finished writing my sci-fi term paper for NS&T module.

then i took a nap for a few hours. that's when my project group started the whole brouhaha over our lousily-written project report. i admit! okay? it was damn lousy. if i were a chemistry-idiot, i won't even freakin' understand any single damn thing we wrote there. the worst thing is that the report is due at 12 midnight. not to mention that i was getting pissed with some of my group members. hey, i'm supposed to be the one who don't care about grade. you all said that you all care, but some of you are just purely disappointing.

i pity khai. heh. i feel bad because i didn't help you yesterday. anyway. she had to edit the majorities of the report yesterday. and she wasn't really very great with this kind of scientific writing. i mean she's a maths major for goodness' sake. maths major should just be allowed to concentrate on maths and not this kind of rubbish. and so should computing students like me. but she did it anyway. i knew she was quite pissed with another girl who used to be our (khai and i) classmate in jc. that girl just lifted everything from the source! pure plagiarism! even when khai asked her to paraphrase her part, she basically just paraphrase some words and that's it. not to mention that her part is technical and took time to understand. i don't even think the she understood her part.

well, anyhow, at seven, three of us (out of FIVE!) met at siok's room at Temasek Hall. and we started redoing the report slowly. it's really amazing how our brains become million times better when we're under stressed. even siok, who always complained that she didn't understand anything science at all could understand most of the things we went through, so she was able to suggest better sentence structure and phrasings, etc. khai also managed to read through quite a bit of materials then.

i was, meanwhile, rewriting most part of the reports. it's simpler that way. khai wrote a draft version, then siok and i did major editing to that draft. without the skeleton set by khai, we'd have died trying to rewrite such a huge report. khai left at eleven but i stayed on till twelve plus. we managed to rewrite more than half of the report, the part that our senior said was un-understandable and lousy. at the last twenty minutes before deadline, we scrambled to redo the references. luckily, i suddenly devised a method of using find and replace to do the tedious job. it's good to have great computer background when you were needed to do this kind of things.

well, all right. you know what, i was actually tempted to post something in the forum. but i guess i'll keep that to be posted through more private channel, probably thru' e-mail. i mean, i know i'm not a real great team members, but when your other members are in great needs, the least you should do is call or give us a visit for awhile. i'm sure you all are not that busy since the two of you stayed in nus. hrmph.

during the grueling hours of the day when the three of us edited the report, my editor called me. she told me that i've to finish my CD by tomorrow. wow! what a nice way to tell me that i'm screwed! and hey, it's not my fault. damn. the photo editor had not selected any photos due to some miscommunication. he only gave me the photos at 1am, about three hours ago. i still have quite a bit to do right now. siao mad lar! that's not the worst part. at least i know the photo editor quite well, and i know that he's a very responsible person. and that this wasn't entirely (or even half) his mistake. the problem lies with my Sub-Editor for IT who was supposed to supervise me and my other IT Specialist. HELLO? where are you guys? what am i? Sub-Editor + TWO IT Specialists in ONE?

my computer is now lagging as it resized the thousands of photos (literally, about 1500-2000 photos), each sizes ranging from 1MB to 2MB, to a smaller photos, one about 100KB and another about 10KB. crazy lar! look. it's been quite sometime since i started this entry, and i still have time to write imbetween my resizing jobs. why? because resizing a batch of about 100 photos take more than five minutes. and my computer lag so much that the only thing i can do with it with sufficient speed is blogging. i'm running mad.

lucky my editor is around in msn to help me do some other less technical stuffs she could do, like choosing thirty different background colours for each different categories of photos with photoshop. or provided me with a vent to bitch around about those two guys (the same like siok and i providing vents for khai to bitch around about that girl in our project group, and the other guy who, at the very least messaged us in msn and had a decent write-up for the project--i tell you, i'm going to re-evaluate those two people, bleah!--edit: i just did, re-evaluating them i mean). well anyway, thanks editor, for being there.

tell you what? i'm going to work at this until 7:45AM, then i'll go for my breakfast. then i'll sleep until damn late.

sheesh 5:22, and i haven't even finished resizing everything, this is so sad! damnit. anyway, i just received another photos from Koir/KRX Kollaboration. wah. i don't know how i noticed that this one was missing. i was doing A|X when i just thought, eh, there was another event a week after A|X right? the one that i missed (and got myself an angry barrage from that girl ;). you know who you are). so i asked my editor, and my editor ask the photo editor. and yea, the photos weren't there. hmm. i shall do that later. i lazy to unzip the file.

me: thanks ^^ [for the photos]
rr: thanks also
me: =)

why did he thank me huh? now that i thought about it. i just caused him more trouble by getting him to select those Kollaboration photos. hmm. nvm. i knew he thanked me because i told him that those photos were missing. but to think that i just gave him a shitload of work at 5am in the morning and he thanked me for that... Respect!

all right! A|X is done. next event!! IBG! damn. 156 photos. i'm going to wait until i bald. and still have IHG after this. and the IHG team photos. sigh! sigh! sigh!!

peon: work! work! [Warcraft]

well, at least, after doing this two, i'll only have a few more little things to be done. oh and that email--must remember to send! anyway, i think i'm losing concentration. this is taking too much. i should be sleeping right now. but no, i'm still busy working with the photo cd. well, i can only hope that the result looks great at the very least.

oh yeah. today, two people told me that my playlist is great. wow. khai told me that she likes almost all of the songs that i have in my iPod. cs, my neighbour, asked me for songs just now, because he'd been listening to my playlist (over the wall) and he happened to hear a very nice song that he really liked. and then he told me the reason why old songs sound nice to him. that's because newer songs are too noisy. correct. khai confirmed that this evening. she told me that 98.7 is filled with rap songs nowadays, which are obviously noisy. sigh. i guess now we know how our parents feel about those 70s or 80s songs of theirs. we feel the same for the songs of the 90s, and probably the early 00s (how would people called this arh, the seventies, the eighties, the nineties, the zeroies?).

today i just realised why khai looks different from other girls. its her back! her back is damn straight! straight like a tabletop! that's like! erm! wow... never seen a back so straight before (wahlao! i don't sound right). but seriously, you should see that one day. straight, fatless back. how cool is that? haha, and it took me more than three years to realize that. crapbag!

6:01AM - i just realised that i did a stupid mistake. the file extension isn't consistent! some are .JPG while others .jpg. damn! big mistakes! i had to QC almost every single photos that i did. no, it may sound like no big deal since .JPG and .jpg is the same after all, right? they are the same in windows! and ONLY in windows! they are completely different in Linux, Mac and Unix-like machines. they are just two different things. when you refer to something.jpg, the computer will complain if something.jpg is not there, even if something.JPG is there. these sytems are case-sensitive (that means, unlike in windows, you can create three files a.txt, A.txt, a.TXT in the same directory without getting much of an error). damn. took me quite sometime to batch rename everything so that it's consistent with the standard usage of .jpg. must remember next time. not that down.

anyway, before that, i walked around for awhile downstairs, to cure my sore limbs (from sitting down for too long) and to relax my eyes. the hall is so empty. but even at this time, a guy was studying in dining hall; reading room was still lighted up with lots of books inside. i didn't see anyone in the reading room though. otherwise, the hall is completely deserted.

i'm hungry! going to cook some noodles. i know breakfast is coming. but well, i'm just too hungry to hold up for another hour or two. damn. weakling! but who cares. i need food. i'm too stressed up from all these works. the only thing i can be sure of is that THE CD WILL BE COMPLETED. that i'm very sure off. i've never not met a deadline when it's about work (non-studies of course, my studies suck big time). tomorrow must also write resume and apply for some jobs. sigh. too many things to do man.

hmm. i'm still thinking about the design of the website (for the CD) too. i mean, i know that currently i'm interested in doing rounded-edge squares designs. but the colours and tone and everything are still in the blur. i only have the rough sketches, but placings are still not there. i don't really know where to place the stuffs. i guess, i'll just have to make do with fireworks at the end. cheh. using the piece of software that i hated so much. i must have sunk quite low (i.e. i must be damn desperate). but that's only for the main page. the other pages are basically okay. my editor already chose enough colours for me to play around with the rest of the pages, won't be much of a problem. and yay! i'm going to use photoshop again quite soon to do the designing. hahahaha! i so love photoshop nowadays.

okay. cook, cook! cooking noodles now.

no wonder the choir people came down with masks for their photoshoots. apparently they were wearing those masks during Koir/KRX Kollaboration. hahah! and i thought that they bought those masks specially for photo taking. wth!

anyway, somebody commented that my writing is too cryptic and ambiguous. she told me that i wrote about something on the line of not being able to talk to some "her" until i am 29 years old or something. i was just stunned lar! since when i wrote this kind of things? then another girl, who happened to be nearby, added in and gave the same comments. i was even more stunned! wth! until i'm 29? are they mad? since when i wrote about not being able to talk to a girl until i'm 29? they thought i was talking about my ex-gf. hmm. then we went through the blog again. hmm. you know what? i did write something on that line. i think i wrote something like "i can't wait till 28. then i can talk to her" or something like that. but what i meant was 28 april! the day my exam (and hers, and not my ex-gf!) is over! well, i must say that i wrote that in a rather ambiguous manner.

on the cryptic part, i have to write it that way. there are some things that are just meant for me to know and remember. while there are other things that only specific people should know and remember. of course there are things that everyone could know and read. like this entry for example. straightforward and to the point. but it's more of an exception rather than a norm. after all, this blog is not meant for general public. this blog is meant for those who are close to me. hmm. including the two of you since you both know the existence of this blog from me. but yea. there are things that are better kept in secret. well, cryptic is beauty after all.

aww! it's bright outside already! 6:50AM. i feel like scolding people now! knnbccb! i still haven't finished resizing. this is taking slower than i ever imagined.

FINISHED! hahahaha! 7:05AM and i finished resizing every single damn thing! i still have committee photoshoots, but that's a later problem. now i've bigger problem, the design! shoot! come on shinji! be efficient. think quickly!

okay, let's start designing.
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pui! it's 8:44AM. i just had breakfast with slam, roy and eysc. and i still bitched around about those four people that irritated me to the core the past twelve hours. pui! roy passionately wanted me to see this photo he brought to hall specifically to show me. the photo of him and this supposedly super chio and hot girl that he used to like. it was taken during his prom. story too long to be told by this fragile mind of mine right now. some other time folks.

this one is just too funny to be left out...

siok: hey, you like her then why never go after her?
khai: if he liked me, he would have done that long ago. he had two years in jc. [referring to me being her classmate and seatmate for almost two years]
me: wth! that sounds so wrong...

and this one...

qilin (on the phone): hey how to solve this integration?
. . . [some conversation here]
khai: [asking me] how to solve this one?
. . . [some conversation here]
khai: ahh, you talk to her lar! [shoved the phone to me]
qilin: hello...
me: hello... [pause] khai's boyfriend here.

and then the room exploded with uproar and laughs. wth! that was one fun project meeting man. with all the cakes and pepsi and chocs. wow, you really have lots of food in your room arh? so different from our previous host at KEVII (pui!). ;)
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all right. it's time to post this one. i'm going to bathe and sleep until 4 or 5pm. then will wake up and start doing the CD thing again. well, i guess i'll be pretty exhausted by the time the CD is done.
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song trivia before i sleep...

It's alright to tell me what you think about me
I won't try to argue you or hold it against you
I know that you're leaving you must have your reason
the season is calling your pictures are falling down

who sang this and what's the title? well, don't try to google, that will make it too easy. this is one of the new songs that i added to my playlist. and it's one of my new favourites, along with four or five other songs.