I can't sleep so I'm posting this...
I had a very strange feeling today, it just feels like a sense of calmness, it came during lecture, for some reason the lecture about Human Computer Interaction seems strange and yet calm to me, there I was sitting somewhere in the front roll, the usual "nerd" position and out of a sudden I heard this phrase "Academic Research", and my lecturer proceeded to talk about the research on the effect of Human Computer Interaction and how it has changed over the years and the direction in which this research is heading toward. Out of a sudden "bam" I suddenly feel so comfortable listening to research statistics.
It came to a point where I felt I can't really study at home, as in back home back in Singapore, I don't know why but it seems to give me a sense of home is somewhere where I can rest, relax and slow things down, have time for myself and the people around me. To spend time doing the things I want to do, other than work. And here in University is where I get my work done,
I had to force myself to do research and read academic papers when I was home, but here its just natural for me to pick up a book and start reading.
This feeling is weird, again at this point of my life I feel as if I like studying again there is some sense of enjoyment in it again. I hope my mom isn't feeling too happy now, mom just in case you're reading this don't be too happy it also means your son is a workaholic, or worse a research-crazy monster.
Saturday, March 03, 2007
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
It feels like a dream
Its been less than a week and it does feel like a dream. Walking along Brisbane street, I can't help but feel as though I can keep walking and end up on Jansen road.
It feel as if I never left Australia and yet I can remember just a few weeks ago I was still attending SMU CF, I can still picture myself sitting somewhere in the back roll, Joshua next to me, Jeremy one roll ahead but on the other end, Evelyn same roll as Jeremy but somewhere in the middle, Felicia just a few chairs away from us. And Dorcas hardly ever seen.
The feeling is definitely different this time round, I used to be somewhere in the middle of the "food chain" and always had other senior students as a"safety net" but now, its my turn to be that "safety net". I don't really have much of an idea, but I just seem to have this gut feeling it'll all turn out just fine. Still I do not know what to expect, but I know it is not my job to worry about tomorrow, but to do my best today.
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Road trip on foot
The holidays are coming to an end, its going to be a very busy time for me once I get back to school. Especially after this holiday, I seem to have to much fun, OCF retreat at mount warning, yes we climbed a mountain to watch the sun rise.
Touring around with my mom and sis who came to visit......well just a lot happened.... Mt Coo Ta...food....ermmm more food..."Shan Tong Chicken..."
Hmmm....however I had to go through this holiday with a bit of trouble....I don't know why but I was frustrated over something I don't know...maybe it had something to do with direction, maybe it had something to do with purpose, maybe it had something to do with will...I just don't know....
Today was no different.. I woke up and yah...my mom and sis left last night to I woke up to a rather un-usual but normal feeling. Than I just remembered I need to buy some Christian stationery....and this was how today became the most interesting day of my holiday...a day I spent alone (maybe not alone considering God being there all the time) but I did have a choice... So lets check out this chapter....a 4 hour road trip on foot...
This is the back of the train station, one of the lesser travelled streets in ipswich. Road trip starts here.
This is how west ipswich looks like, rather boring I guess...
This is the ending corner of west ipswich, it dosen't really seem interesting here, so I decided to turn back and head for "Brassall"
Wow, a bus stop...yah the only bus stop in west ipswich...
"Burnett Street" this is towards the end of west ipswich, they were having some sand bike competition there yah it was happening behind me.
"Ipswich Grammer School" located just on the outskirts of Brassall...
Good old "Brassall" you can even find a crain there...
Ever wondered what that doggy sign was right between the railway at the back of woolworths...well...sorry I didn't take a good enough picture to be able to read it....
This is the poluted side of the river, they happen to be building some "high class apartments" beside it.
"Mount Crosby", you mean there is actually a mountain somewhere in ipswich???
This is the first sign you'll see right after you cross "that" bridge in ipswich...does it look familar Judy?
I can't cross this field due to the fence, but that chapel sure looks nice from here...
Hei a wedding.....Eunice!!! look their not only having weddings in the city...they are weddings here in ipswich as well.....ARH!!!!!!!!! The wedding band is following me...!!!! get away from me you married couples...I'm happy being single(for now)...arh!!!!!
Just a random street, but yah this makes the other side of "North Ipswich" or rather I was walking around "Browns Park"
"Fitzgibbon Street" I just thought the name sounded rather weird, but yah I stop by at petrol station nearby.
My first rest point...needed a drink.
"Browns Park" the other park that can be found in ipswich other than "Queens park".
This marks the end of the normal roads and well...going any further will be the road to "Toowoomba" lets just say if I had carried on walking, the next landmark would be that "big red elephant."
"Smith Street" or rather "Telegraph Street" the first street from the express way.
If any OCFer's remember this spot, this is the spot which Jon stopped , to wait for the last car (Judy) just after we exit the express way from Toowoomba. And yah, it is a pet shop. I came down the car to tell Eunice we were waiting for Judy, and soon after Louis came along and parked in front of us, not too long after that Judy finally appeared and we just droved off....(arh ha...beat that for memory)
This was my lunch...Hei I got to stop once in a while...I'm not superman you know...
Wow..a canon not something you get to see everyday, but yah we have some memorial thingy for soilders in ipswich...
"Flint Street" this is where the ipswich people will have to take our driving test.
This is the view from the top of the bridge.
The "David Trumpy Bridge" you know that long long thing to the other side of ipswich
Ever Wondered what the name of the river in ipswich was..well this is it...
I walk in one direction
I headed back in the opposite direction
I could see myself
An image, an im-perfect image, an im-perfect self
I couldn't see You, were You there?
Were You with me?
Was I with You?
But I know...You were there and You are here...
The reason I only saw 1, was because
It was too hard to walk...
I couldn't do it alone, and yet...
I only saw one
Because You carried me through
You were there all along....
Touring around with my mom and sis who came to visit......well just a lot happened.... Mt Coo Ta...food....ermmm more food..."Shan Tong Chicken..."
Hmmm....however I had to go through this holiday with a bit of trouble....I don't know why but I was frustrated over something I don't know...maybe it had something to do with direction, maybe it had something to do with purpose, maybe it had something to do with will...I just don't know....
Today was no different.. I woke up and yah...my mom and sis left last night to I woke up to a rather un-usual but normal feeling. Than I just remembered I need to buy some Christian stationery....and this was how today became the most interesting day of my holiday...a day I spent alone (maybe not alone considering God being there all the time) but I did have a choice... So lets check out this chapter....a 4 hour road trip on foot...
This is the back of the train station, one of the lesser travelled streets in ipswich. Road trip starts here.
This is how west ipswich looks like, rather boring I guess...
This is the ending corner of west ipswich, it dosen't really seem interesting here, so I decided to turn back and head for "Brassall"
Wow, a bus stop...yah the only bus stop in west ipswich...
"Burnett Street" this is towards the end of west ipswich, they were having some sand bike competition there yah it was happening behind me.
"Ipswich Grammer School" located just on the outskirts of Brassall...
Good old "Brassall" you can even find a crain there...
Ever wondered what that doggy sign was right between the railway at the back of woolworths...well...sorry I didn't take a good enough picture to be able to read it....
This is the poluted side of the river, they happen to be building some "high class apartments" beside it.
"Mount Crosby", you mean there is actually a mountain somewhere in ipswich???
This is the first sign you'll see right after you cross "that" bridge in ipswich...does it look familar Judy?
I can't cross this field due to the fence, but that chapel sure looks nice from here...
Hei a wedding.....Eunice!!! look their not only having weddings in the city...they are weddings here in ipswich as well.....ARH!!!!!!!!! The wedding band is following me...!!!! get away from me you married couples...I'm happy being single(for now)...arh!!!!!
Just a random street, but yah this makes the other side of "North Ipswich" or rather I was walking around "Browns Park"
"Fitzgibbon Street" I just thought the name sounded rather weird, but yah I stop by at petrol station nearby.
My first rest point...needed a drink.
"Browns Park" the other park that can be found in ipswich other than "Queens park".
This marks the end of the normal roads and well...going any further will be the road to "Toowoomba" lets just say if I had carried on walking, the next landmark would be that "big red elephant."
"Smith Street" or rather "Telegraph Street" the first street from the express way.
If any OCFer's remember this spot, this is the spot which Jon stopped , to wait for the last car (Judy) just after we exit the express way from Toowoomba. And yah, it is a pet shop. I came down the car to tell Eunice we were waiting for Judy, and soon after Louis came along and parked in front of us, not too long after that Judy finally appeared and we just droved off....(arh ha...beat that for memory)
This was my lunch...Hei I got to stop once in a while...I'm not superman you know...
Wow..a canon not something you get to see everyday, but yah we have some memorial thingy for soilders in ipswich...
"Flint Street" this is where the ipswich people will have to take our driving test.
This is the view from the top of the bridge.
The "David Trumpy Bridge" you know that long long thing to the other side of ipswich
Ever Wondered what the name of the river in ipswich was..well this is it...
I walk in one direction
I headed back in the opposite direction
I could see myself
An image, an im-perfect image, an im-perfect self
I couldn't see You, were You there?
Were You with me?
Was I with You?
But I know...You were there and You are here...
The reason I only saw 1, was because
It was too hard to walk...
I couldn't do it alone, and yet...
I only saw one
Because You carried me through
You were there all along....
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Back into the fray
Some week ends I had.....
It was interesting though, this post is about the weekend and I'm only writing about at the end of the week strange....
First on the list saturday "Toowomba flower festivel", I can sense some guys going "wah lau Flowers leys....Daniel you ok or not?" Hei guys chill man, I'm cool with it...I wasen't really there for the flowers...I was there for the chicks...(*bish* ouch..kidding...) I went to it as it was a chance to get away from the busy uni life for a week and its also a sorta "road trip". So it was interesting, not much happening things going on, except for the fact Mel rolled me down a hill and we were stopping and playing at every children's playground we saw...it was fun though, lots of fun, the burgers, the rain the ice cream and the "atahs" food (yah man so what if the other table has fire, we've got picking duck). hahahahaha =P
The flowers were nice, although just looking at flowers is not really my cup of tea, but even though there were so many people running and screaming around, somehow I felt at peace when walking around alone among the flowers. Its finally out, I went because I needed a time of reflection.
Sunday, karaok at sunny bank..out of all the people there (15 I think), only 5 were really singing, the rest was just playing a fool (as usual) and 1 person was sleeping....that make 5 singers, 9 monkeys and 1 sleepy...hehe...sorry just a random thought...yah it was another fun night singing jumping, running away from the air-con, confusing people....the only thing I can think of is that I really need to learn more chinese songs...
Hmmm, back on working week now...this was a very busy week, both my major assignments has stuff to be done and seriously, can we all please pray for more programmers in this word, not just programmers, but good programmers. I'm coding C# till I look retarded, a designer that can code...armed with the technical skills of coding and the concepts of design....
Sometimes you so lost in work that you can actually wake up not know what you're suppose to do...the saddest would be to not even know when you're sleeping or actually are awake....but I've not reached that stage yet. So since when is overseas uni slack?....anyone who say overseas uni is slack deserves to be shot....
Ok back to work...and this is for Josh and Jem, please pray for me as well, I'll be treaching in OCF on friday, teaching as in stand in front and teach....the topic is IBS, so yah, this is my first time doing it and I really have no idea what to expect...so lets just see how it goes...
P.S. Jeremy its not my fault if the Newcastle keeper trips over himself and can't stop a half field lob.....
"YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE"
It was interesting though, this post is about the weekend and I'm only writing about at the end of the week strange....
First on the list saturday "Toowomba flower festivel", I can sense some guys going "wah lau Flowers leys....Daniel you ok or not?" Hei guys chill man, I'm cool with it...I wasen't really there for the flowers...I was there for the chicks...(*bish* ouch..kidding...) I went to it as it was a chance to get away from the busy uni life for a week and its also a sorta "road trip". So it was interesting, not much happening things going on, except for the fact Mel rolled me down a hill and we were stopping and playing at every children's playground we saw...it was fun though, lots of fun, the burgers, the rain the ice cream and the "atahs" food (yah man so what if the other table has fire, we've got picking duck). hahahahaha =P
The flowers were nice, although just looking at flowers is not really my cup of tea, but even though there were so many people running and screaming around, somehow I felt at peace when walking around alone among the flowers. Its finally out, I went because I needed a time of reflection.
Sunday, karaok at sunny bank..out of all the people there (15 I think), only 5 were really singing, the rest was just playing a fool (as usual) and 1 person was sleeping....that make 5 singers, 9 monkeys and 1 sleepy...hehe...sorry just a random thought...yah it was another fun night singing jumping, running away from the air-con, confusing people....the only thing I can think of is that I really need to learn more chinese songs...
Hmmm, back on working week now...this was a very busy week, both my major assignments has stuff to be done and seriously, can we all please pray for more programmers in this word, not just programmers, but good programmers. I'm coding C# till I look retarded, a designer that can code...armed with the technical skills of coding and the concepts of design....
Sometimes you so lost in work that you can actually wake up not know what you're suppose to do...the saddest would be to not even know when you're sleeping or actually are awake....but I've not reached that stage yet. So since when is overseas uni slack?....anyone who say overseas uni is slack deserves to be shot....
Ok back to work...and this is for Josh and Jem, please pray for me as well, I'll be treaching in OCF on friday, teaching as in stand in front and teach....the topic is IBS, so yah, this is my first time doing it and I really have no idea what to expect...so lets just see how it goes...
P.S. Jeremy its not my fault if the Newcastle keeper trips over himself and can't stop a half field lob.....
"YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE"
Saturday, September 09, 2006
OCF UQ website Developer blog 1
From now on any blogs with this title will be the development blog for the OCF UQ website...
I've decided to have a paper trail on this website for just some reason,
1. Inventor Rights (copyrights belongs to and only to OCF UQ)
2. A public design documentation
3. Future referencse (so that OCFers in the future will know what thoughts and elements have went into this site and will know how to edit it)
4. Bench mark setting
Ok enough of that now what have my thoughs been in the OCF website so far, when I initially saw the site, I was saying "For the love of God...please take this site down..." it no secret that I felt it wasen't good (this is just me bare with it, seriously if you've been trained as a web designer for 5 years, you'll know what I mean).
However on further there is actually some meaning in the website, so what if the design is not as good as I though, people don't go to websites for "that experiancial feeling", they go to websites for information, and it does serve its purpose by giving just enough information although some are out dated.
So enters the in-famous battle of Designer V.S. Christian, just to let you guys know this happens everytime I do a christain based design or something (videos, games, website...etc) however the outcome will usually be something as beautiful the chrous of "Canon in D".
So lets see on initial looks, website has to be nice, it has to be easily updated, it should be user friendly (considering the number of IT idiots we have in OCF *looks for cover to hide*). I'll just cut to the chase, all in all after listing out the things I want to do for the website (a Flash GUI above a Shockwave architecture) it started to look more like an online multimedia presentation. HOLD IT !!! did the designer just win this battle? lets get back to basics "Who am I doing this for in the first place?" Things usually go wrong when the focus is lost, so who or what is the focus here?
Now let me openly say this, the website is NOT ....and BY NO MEANS! meant for OCF UQ, that website IS for God. I'm not just creating a website here, I'm creating something that should display the essens of God's work in OCF UQ. No doubt it shows information about OCF, but all the more it should show God as a focal point and base unit in OCF. The reaction toward the website should not be "wow OCF UQ has a great website." but "I can see God's presence in these people." The take home message should not be a nice website, but a realisation of God.
Of course this lead to a major change an deletion of graphics. Which has to done, it good that this is noticed now....
Now do any of you see what I mean by hearing "Canon in D" ?
End of milestone 1, Things to be done: Verses to be checked up on meaning and surpose. Graphics to be changed. Template will be kept, but overall theme will be updated
I've decided to have a paper trail on this website for just some reason,
1. Inventor Rights (copyrights belongs to and only to OCF UQ)
2. A public design documentation
3. Future referencse (so that OCFers in the future will know what thoughts and elements have went into this site and will know how to edit it)
4. Bench mark setting
Ok enough of that now what have my thoughs been in the OCF website so far, when I initially saw the site, I was saying "For the love of God...please take this site down..." it no secret that I felt it wasen't good (this is just me bare with it, seriously if you've been trained as a web designer for 5 years, you'll know what I mean).
However on further there is actually some meaning in the website, so what if the design is not as good as I though, people don't go to websites for "that experiancial feeling", they go to websites for information, and it does serve its purpose by giving just enough information although some are out dated.
So enters the in-famous battle of Designer V.S. Christian, just to let you guys know this happens everytime I do a christain based design or something (videos, games, website...etc) however the outcome will usually be something as beautiful the chrous of "Canon in D".
So lets see on initial looks, website has to be nice, it has to be easily updated, it should be user friendly (considering the number of IT idiots we have in OCF *looks for cover to hide*). I'll just cut to the chase, all in all after listing out the things I want to do for the website (a Flash GUI above a Shockwave architecture) it started to look more like an online multimedia presentation. HOLD IT !!! did the designer just win this battle? lets get back to basics "Who am I doing this for in the first place?" Things usually go wrong when the focus is lost, so who or what is the focus here?
Now let me openly say this, the website is NOT ....and BY NO MEANS! meant for OCF UQ, that website IS for God. I'm not just creating a website here, I'm creating something that should display the essens of God's work in OCF UQ. No doubt it shows information about OCF, but all the more it should show God as a focal point and base unit in OCF. The reaction toward the website should not be "wow OCF UQ has a great website." but "I can see God's presence in these people." The take home message should not be a nice website, but a realisation of God.
Of course this lead to a major change an deletion of graphics. Which has to done, it good that this is noticed now....
Now do any of you see what I mean by hearing "Canon in D" ?
End of milestone 1, Things to be done: Verses to be checked up on meaning and surpose. Graphics to be changed. Template will be kept, but overall theme will be updated
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