Okay , let's get back into Reality , guys !! . Today marked the ending of my Final Fantasy 9 expedition . Phew !!! The expedition had been going for almost 9 weeks since last year and I'm glad and satisfied with what I've played . Perhaps , it marked the Final Final Fantasy that I'll be playing . No more RPGs from now on . Imagine the pain sitting on the couch for countless hours killing the same dragon just to level up . Well well well , if it is fated , perhaps the spell that prevents me from playing Final Fantasy series might be broken IF and ONLY IF I get a PS2 and have the chance to play FFX and FFX-2 . As always , here is the statistics of my characters when I was about to kick the FINAL bosses' butt :

Believe it or not , ExMachina , the tech show on TechTV was the main publicity channel for this game . Here's the proof :

Neways , this holiday had been a black holiday to me . I've seen countless bad things and I'm totally depressed . Why life had to be like that ? My bad mood had still not recovered yet . I'm sad sometimes and mad sometimes too . I wondered if Daniel had come out with the solution why TMnet was such a snail . I've suffered from bad connections since early this year . Connection was running as smooth as silk last year . Normally I can get 4.5K speed . Nowadays , all I get were just 600- bytes . It's just so sucked . Sometimes, the connection was freakingly slow that I got pissed off by the server . Come on ! It's not that I meant to get my connection idle , it's your(ISP) fault !!!

I'm pretty sad to learn that XML was and is a Micro$oft-only technology . XML is great but unfortunately , it is only compatible with IE browsers . I run some XML tests on our blog and the results were pretty disappointing . I seemed that only IE showed out the information when I tried to embed XML onto ORG . It failed to display in Opera and Moz . Is XML only be used for RSS feeds ? How about the future ? Will it really replaces the conventional way we use DBMS ?

Simon SMSed today saying that there will be another old-school gathering stuffs . Another gathering ... boring . I don't know why . My social skills were bad and when I sat there , I don't know what to talk . With the SARS outbreak , it's getting much more sicker to go out . Why does the world have to deal with another outbreak ? Can't help it . Dad's on leave for the next four days and it only tells me one big word : QUARANTINE . Yeah , yeah , yeah , it's like I really got SARS ( touch wood ) . I wondered if Yvonne's online tomorrow . I'm really boring now . Life ....

In the meantime , I'm still looking forward to learn some new programming languages . Daniel , can you suggest any language ? I don't really wish to wait for the lecturers to teach . They don't teach so much and it's pretty basic . Boring ! . Programming is fun . It is much more fun when you found out some new things yourself . The world of computers is still widely laid in front of me . I'm still not getting enough of it , personally speaking . It feels like just a small pace . It's an endless journey . However , I'm still not regretted to go on with this field . It brought me a lot of meaning about the world of technologies as well as the real world . Computer programs maybe are the model of our life .. well , I would say that computer had been a great tool for us to model different scenarios of life . No matter how difficult our life's system would be , there would be someone who can find a way to model and describe it . That's a real computer scientist .

It seemed like I had been a stranger with the world of blogging . Checking the dates , I'm not blogging on daily basis . Seriously speaking , it's lazy for me to type lines of words late at night . However , blogging is fun . When I read back the things I typed , it bring back old memories to me . Ahh ! It's so sweet . I'm thinking of modifying the layouts . I still got another week to go before school reopens .. and hopefully , I can come out with something that makes ORG a more peaceful and a more fun place to live . Am I too exaggerating ? I'm serious , I can feel life from ORG . Frankly speaking , I had never been maintaining a site so active like ORG . It's contents are changing everyday . Most probably , my homepage , "http://www.geocities.com/mel_laiy2k1" ( sans quotes ) , might end up going to the recycle bin . Blogging is much more fun than doing a personal homepage . Once again .. it's BORING !!

Solid Snake - Will be staying in his secret hideout for another 4 days ... Life ...
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