My portfolio focusing on Web Design, Other Design, Photography and Writing are up at http://sillydumb.com/portfolio. It is still lacking of some work though.
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Haircut and Portfolio Good Progress
[Thursday, 22 April, 2010]
My mum started playing cards, which distracted me. I slept after 4am again, knowing I had to start sleeping early before my graduation ceremony.
I gave my hairdresser a call and she told me to call her back at 2pm. Then, she made me wait for another hour. I got the same short haircut.
I spent the entire afternoon and evening working on my portfolio, including of insertion of keywords and description to the HTML Meta tags. It was a very tedious job. I almost finished the portfolio, except that I was too tired and bored to add in descriptions for all the print-screens.
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Marina Barrage under the Threatening Sky
[Wednesday, 21 April, 2010]
I caught the second half of the soccer match between Barcelona against Inter Milan with my brother. Having being jobless at the same time allowed us to communicate more.
I had a weird dream again. I was going to my uncle’s house and no matter how I tried, I could never locate it. I was as determined as usual and did not give up even though I got back to the same places again and again. I often had such dream with similar plot – doing my best and yet could not reach my destination. I came to sense and moved my physical body, after which, knowing I was dreaming, I forced myself to wake up to reduce my weariness of the search. Dream was taxing and after so many years of wondering, I could confirm it was due to one’s own imagination.
I had a slack afternoon before going off for a jog. It was one of the lousiest trips ever for I could feel my knees tearing apart at the first few steps. I persisted but the stitch on my stomach, probably caused by the water I took with the medicine before stepping out of the house, slowed me down a lot. In the mid of the journey, I could guess my timing was going to be terrible.
Even though it rained in the afternoon, the dark was still gray and threatening. By the time I reached Marina Barrage, I could only see darkness. I was not sure if the sun had set earlier or the dark cloud had made the entire sky much darker. The place was quieter than usual and only two groups of people were flying kites. I lay down near the corner after going up the slope and the freezing weather rested my mind. When I sat up, it took less than half a minute for the wet patch on the concrete to dry up. I was lazier than usual and collapsed again. Many things flew through the hollow sight with the towel covering my eyes.
Suddenly, many people walked pass and I was sure they were tourists but their languages were quite weird. They sounded like Thais but I could not confirm. When I looked at my watch, I was amazed of the ticking time. I was down there for around forty-five minutes without feeling the length.
I took off soon, feeling tougher than before but my knees were pleading me not to move off too fast. The heavy traffic at the T-junction before the Marina Bay MRT station, leading to Shenton Way, was probably slowed me down for more than half a minute. I reached Singapore Conference Hall at another disappointing timing, even though it was better than the earlier one.
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Command and Conquer – No kick
[Tuesday, 20 April, 2010]
I had a hard time trying to doze off in Tuesday morning.
I continued with my portfolio for a while in the afternoon before I started playing Command and Conquer myself, winning in the three versus five game, first time using USA. I had another game with my elder brother and we defended against the five teams well.
I was hardworking at night.
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My Carelessness with my Personal Website
[Monday, 19 April, 2010]
Monday was a plain and boring day. I got so bored of working with my portfolio until early morning that I started playing game in the afternoon.
Progress of my portfolio was more visible at night but I got very bored of working on it and also on my daily blog and marketing work.
As I was doing Search Engine Optimisation for my personal website, I realised the footer of my blog was not amended since years ago. I was greatly disappointed with myself for being so careless. Anyway, the Blog’s title on each individual’s post entry page was improved and it would show the entry’s title instead of just my website’s name.
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Hum Jin Peng
[Sunday, 18 April, 2010]
I had a taste of fouled milk in the early morning. The strong chocolate smell of the Cocokruch covered the soul smell and I managed to discover it after finishing one-third of the bowl. I turned to cut fruits in the refrigerator instead. Finally I got to sleep before 6am.
My mum woke me up after 1pm to have lunch at Maxwell Market with my brother and his girlfriend. The fish soup was not as nice as the one I always took at Clementi’s “dead end”. The couple went to queue up for the famous “hum jin peng” and the lady selling tissue came over and asked if anyone was sitting beside me. I was stunned when she took the seat right beside me when there were so many empty seats in the same table and that there were empty tables around as well. She started counting her money like as if I was her bodyguard for more than five minutes. Her speed was fast and thus I could see how much profitable the tissue-touting business was. Next, we went to join my brother in the long queue and I got to get a hands-on on the frying of the “hum jin peng”.
After reaching home, I started helping Xiao Mei with her website and there were some amendments intervally. I continued with my portfolio but dozed off. I managed to download some of the missing fonts but was still puzzled over why where was the entire missing folder.
I went to the toilet a few times and the waste was green in colour but it was not really a diarrhoea.
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Portfolio and Gaming
[Saturday, 17 April, 2010]
I worked on my portfolio until 6am. It was another boring working day upon waking up.
In the late afternoon, I had a game of Command and Conquer and I finally got to beat the computers in a 3 versus 5 game.
I had curry with bread for my dinner. My mum made corn plus mushroom Campbell soup. I still preferred mushroom soup.
The Taiwanese “love” show on channel 8 distracted me from working on my portfolio.
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Webcam till Daylight with Younger Brother
[Friday, 16 April, 2010]
My Friday was spent like any other bored day. I had webcam with my younger brother over at Germany while doing my portfolio and my mum joined in as she woke up at 6am to prepare for some praying ritual for the ancestors. Then, my elder brother passed by the room to make the family gathering complete.
Before I went to bed, Edwin messaged me to tell me that the appointment I had with him had to be cancelled due to a sudden meeting session. I was quite glad since I might not be in good condition with the lack of sleep. I set my alarm clock off.
I woke up at around 2.30pm and quickly went to visit the TCM physician. I got eight days of medicine to continue the process of improving my stomach’s condition.
I spent the rest of the day continuing with my portfolio. It was not fully about designing, but also programming and gathering of my work.
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Meeting up with Dear Sister Hoay Min
[Thursday, 15 April, 2010]
I continued with the struggle with my portfolio, sleeping only after 4am. I woke up near 9am before my alarm clock sounded. I checked my phone and realised my dear “sister” Hoay Min had cancelled the lunch appointment with me. I was sleepy and tried to get back to my sleep but the thought about my portfolio kept me alive suddenly. I started working on my laptop on the mattress but soon, my brother invited me to join him and his girlfriend at the MacDonald’s.
I packed up my laptop and took it along. After having the unusual breakfast where some memories caught me, I took a corner seat to start doing my work alone. I realised the Wireless@SG at all MacDonald’s restaurants did not allow posting comment in Facebook. The current online visitor counter on my website, which used Ajax was not spared. I did not stay there for long as the crowds started to flood the place with noise. It was the busiest hour for the restaurant in the working district. I packed up and left without feeling very accomplished.
I continued with my portfolio at home until the mid afternoon, I went to Vivocity to meet Hoay Min. After passing by the Starbucks nearer to the cinema a few times, I finally found a seat by the glass at the corner. It was not the best seat for I could not get to see a cute girl who was using her laptop.
Hoay Min was late for quite long but I was glad enough to meet her after so long ever since I ORDed. We had long chat and she was one of the best listeners ever, able to withstand me talk out of the topics every now and then. She was the first and only person whom I told clearly about what I had been doing recently, including my Facebook marketing plans. I was glad that I could finally pour out such that at least a person on this Earth would not accuse me of enjoying myself all these while.
We left after 7pm since she had another appointment with her friends at the Coffee Bean. I went home to continue with my portfolio.
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Stars Awards 2010
I would prefer all the prize-winners to not mention anything about religion.
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