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A fork in the road
Lets do blog news first: The comments system is up and free from bugs based on initial testing, though I have yet to perform a stress test on it. Will it buckle under increased loads ( which it will most likely never experience ) or will it stand its ground and retain data integrity? Only time will tell…
The Photo Gallery is a pain in the ass (I apologize for that expression) to code. So its hard to predict when I’ll be done. I’ll be concentrating more on my corporate site for Jonaize first, as I hope to have it settled by 11 January.
On to the post title: A fork in the road… I just received a brochure of sorts from Ngee Ann Poly and it looks promising… So once again I’m caught dead center, sitting on the fence, on which Poly I will attend. Singapore Poly? Ngee Ann Poly? or will another poly suddenly emerge and catch my eye? Haiz.. Choices, choices..
If the choice of which poly to attend was hard, deciding what course to take will be harder. I’m still undecided as to pursue a Information Technology course or the Networking and Communications course.
InfoTech: Basically about Operating Systems, Programming and Database Applications. The pro is that I can choose to specialize in and take a Networking Major which would enable me to venture into Network Security, leading to a Certified Ethical Hacker Cert.
Network & Comm: More on protocols and means of communication between systems in and out of networks. Would be much more helpful to get a Certified Ethical Hacker Cert but I’m afraid that the focus on networking will cause me to find the course rather dry.
Haiz.. Life is like a box of assorted chocolates, you can never really be sure of which one to go for first..
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Beta Blog
Ok. Archives are about 80% done. To access it, point your browser to http://blog.jonaize.com/archive.cgi?(from post)-(to post) replacing the ‘(from post)’ and ‘(to post)’ with the range of posts you wish to view or goto http://blog.jonaize.com/archive.cgi?all to see all posts. I still have yet to implement the search function, although I am begining to think that coding the search would be a waste of time as firstly, very few ppl actually read my blog, and much less would want to search for something on it.
I am also almost done with the comments system, and as such, you would notice a link with the number of comments below the date. I’ve yet to code the actual script that will submit the comment but the viewing and displaying of comments is done. Thus, you won’t be able to post comments till later on today. :D, Not like anyone is going to bother posting anyway…
Haiz, its 2am and I’m getting tired.. thats not a good sign. Darn, need to train up my endurance more.. So I guess thats it for now, the comments and the ‘Blog Post Link’ would be up later today (provided nothing screws up).
[edit (13 Feb 2005)]
The links above were updated to reflect the new domain.
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Badminton no more. I feel VS sliping away..
Today was the last badminton training for the year. Its true that we never miss the water till the well runs dry. Its been what? 7 hours and I already miss training. I will still play, that is for certain, but the chance to play with fellow team members has sliped away…
Very soon, after returning from the Sec 1 orientation camp, I will feel this way again, only that the feeling will be more intense.. I type and type this blog and as I do, all that I love slips away, never to return again.
Was looking at the new faces coming in next year, so eager to get their uniforms and holding their parent’s hands unsure yet curious as to how their next 4 years in VS will be. This only added to the sense of lost I feel. I was actually feeling a little jealous as they were about to experience the best 4 years of their life but for me, those 4 years are but a memory that will stay with me.
I would give everything to experience it all again.. The joys, sorrows, victories, failures, the triumps and hardships I endured.. The list is neverending, I guess the only way to classify it is as ‘The Victorian Experience’. And what an experience it has been.
‘The Victorian Experience’ began for me in December 2000. I had missed the cut off point by 1, so I grabbed the testimonials from my P6 form teacher and Discipline Master (It helps being Head Prefect in Primary School) and attached it to my appeal form and handed it in. Lo and behold, a few days later, I got a call from Mr. Ang to come down for a ‘interview’. Before I knew it, I was a Victorian, though at that time, I thought nothing of it.
Sec 1 like was fun but rather challanging, the onset of new friends, new teachers and a new school was overwhelming. Serving as Monitor did not make my life any easier, but I stuck with it, determined to make the best out of this experience.
Sec 2 started off normally, and when I though that life could not have gotten any better, I became a trainee prefect. At that time, I was still rather blur. Come November (LTC), I finally found myself and my love for VS.
Sec 3 was tough and a very trying year, between the responsibilities I had towards badminton, the PB, LTC and the school, and also to my studies, lets juz leave it as it was a very trying year for me ya? 
But these helped me greatly to develop myself and push myself to the limits. This was the most ‘happening’ year for me. LTC, CIC, HOD Organising..
Sec 4, the finale, I didn’t really get to enjoy 2004 much as most of it was spent worrying about the Os.. And now, here I am, graduated from VS but yet not wanting to let go.
As Gary’s MSN nick puts it, Somethings DO Change. Yeah, the only thing constant in life is change, but why can’t I just stay in this moment forever? I would be the happiest man alive…
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The face of things to come
Okie. Now that the wall is done, all we have left to settle is the financial situation as I dun think all of us can come out with $50 flat out. Haiz. Donations ppl?? :D. Farand said he will handle it so I’ll leave it to the admin man. hehe..
Things being planned to be added to my blog :
> Comments System (which I predict will be hard)
> Send Blog Link
> Archives with search (even harder than the Comments System)
> Shifting my Profile to a dedicated page with CV
> General Code cleanup to decrease serve times
> Photo Gallery
Ok, I’ve got the pics of the wall painting, but I’ll upload them later when the Photo Gallery has been coded. I’ve decided to keep this blog and all server side scripts it uses hand coded so bear with me while I code the aformentioned ‘extensions’ of my blog.
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