Random little bites. 3

First of all, I BLOODY PASSSED MY PHYSICS B AND ENGINEERING MATH! YAYY!

Results were finally out last Friday after a whole week of postponement. I was out with my family during the results release and had to check the results online via my dads phone. The slow EDGE connection and tiny mobile screen were no help to the suspense.

I swear my heart was inches away from pumping itself out of my chest as I scrolled through the cluttered Excel file on my dad’s mobile.

That said, I’m on my way to degree in August!

Which, though, puts me in another dilemma. For as of now, I have not a vague idea of which specific discipline of Engineering I should take up as my degree.

I initially entered the Swinburne engineering foundation course with a degree in Robotics and Mechatronics in sights. But over the course of the year (yes! it’s been a year) of studying in Swinburne, I had come to conclude that Robotics isn’t going to be easy and had subsequently opened myself up to other choices.

Now I’m torn between Civil, Mechanical and Robotics. I’m not so keen on Electrical and Electronics, so I’m more than happy to drop it off my list of choices. Mechanical sounds boring, Civil isn’t good in job prospects due to an apparent over-supply of Civil Engineers, and Robotics is well, tough and isn’t in substantial demand locally.

The fact that I have a grand total of three days left to decide isn’t helping at all. Degree enrollments are next Monday!

Argh.

Best. Superhero. Movie. Ever.

Big decisions aside, I managed to convince my dad to bring us to watch The Dark Knight last Saturday. And god was it AWESOME. I know everyone’s been saying it! Yet after I watched it, I don’t see a reason not to!

The Dark Knight succeeds as a dark, gripping thriller that didn’t fail to entice even though it was a wee bit draggy being 2 and a half hours long. Seeing as I was literally on the edge of my seat all throughout the movie!

And I must applaud the stunning performance of the late Heath Ledger as The Joker, whose dark and maniacal antics bound to send chills down your spine, if not leaving a lasting, dark impression of the movie. He’d mercilessly throw you on a wild ride as his evil schemes gets played along time after time, leaving you helplessly wondering just how the movie is going to lead.

If you haven’t watched it, you have my every endorsement to do so!

In the words of The Joker, and my favourite dark quote from the movie, “Why ..so.. serious?”

Wiiicked! =P

All About SUVs

I had actually promised to show you guys my IT2 project entitled All About SUVs a while ago. I had to optimise the images, iron out bugs and have the whole code go through more QC before I could release it here. Thing is, I’ve completed everything almost a month ago but totally forgot to post it up.

So without further ado, here it is!

WARNING: #1: Doesn’t work in Safari and Opera. Only enter if you’re using Internet Explorer 7+ or Mozilla Firefox 2+. Preferably of course, viewed in Mozilla Firefox 3.

#2: Site may take awhile to load due to large images. (Speed optimisation can only go so far..) For those of you on modems, enter at your own risk!

The Guide gets better!

On a related note, I’ve spent some time revamping the most important page of tehCpeng.net - the About the drink page. I’ve noticed there’s an increasing number of you who arrived on that page while searching for Kuching’s famous drink. So to live up to your expectations, I’ve styled and souped up everything on that page. And of course.. to better live up to the tehCpeng.net domain. =)

Oh, and if you have friends who are clueless as to what teh C peng exactly is,  or if you just want to share and promote the Kuching teh-C peng love, I wouldn’t mind if you link them to this guide of mine!

tehCpeng.net/thedrink

A community service proudly brought to you by tehCpeng.net.

Well, that’s pretty much what I’ve been busy with these holidays. I also have two Wordpress themes up my sleeve - one in the process of coding and another still on the drawing board. The former, a theme for my client’s blog and the latter, a theme for Swinburne’s upcoming unofficial community blog.

Look out for it!

Greetings in the rain. 9

The rhythmic sound of raindrops hitting on the car’s roof were almost hypnotizing. That, and the swinging of the mechanical arms of the windshield wipers set to mid-high frequency to compensate for the increasing rate of raindrop splatters.

The sky was gloomy as rainclouds hung low, showing water upon Earth. The heavy midday traffic leading out of the city meant long waits at major traffic intersections.

I have always wonder in amazement at how traffic light junctions seem to be a display of obedience, in the otherwise, chaotic roads we know today. Lines upon lines of cars from all four directions at the mercy of a simple set of poles flashing three bright colours.

Sensing the drop in temperature, I switched off the vehicle’s air-cond. I stared into the distance and found myself looking at four lanes of cars waiting on the opposite side of the traffic junction. All of them had their wipers turned on.

It was a sight. A mass of windshield wipers swinging back and forth, almost in unison. From a distance, it looked almost as though everyone is waving at you. I could almost hear them greeting, “Hi!”

I cracked a smile as I felt a sudden warmth in an otherwise chilly and gloomy day. Each and every vehicle has different directions to go, different places to reach, different point of origins, it is only coincidence that led us to converge at this very traffic junction at the same time. Strangers we all were, but there we all were at the same traffic junction, sharing a common goal - waiting for green light.

It was a display of affection so much lacking in society.

It then dawned upon me, as I focused on my car’s own windshield wipers - wiping back and forth - that my car is waving back at them!

I followed the swinging motion of my car’s windshield wipers and thought with a smile, “What could you be saying to them?”

It was then when the lights flashed green, and I continued my journey back home in the light rain..

..as my car continued to wave at each and every oncoming vehicle.

Hi!