You can actually download Spider-Man 2 templates for your Blogger or LiveJournal over at the official Spider-Man 2 movie website! Alas, the LJ styles only work on paid accounts. The Blogger templates use tables, so nah. If I can be bothered, I'd make my own Spidey template using one of the background images available, for my Tabulas.

I'll be taking the exam in less than 2 hours, at 10 a.m. Singapore time. Do send some positive vibes my way! Read my phlog later, as I'll be blogging my results there.

If dying of happiness is possible, I think I'd die right now. After hours upon hours of feverish studying, more than 1500 practice questions & God-knows-how-many mock tests, I'm now a Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform! :D 10 months ago I was simply thinking how nice it'd be if I could be one of the students to achieve this, and my God! Here I am now, alhamdulillah. What really surprised me was my score of 90%. At my most wishful, I was only aiming for 85%! Gosh.

Only the first day of the new semester & look at the readings I've to catch up on:

• Lesson: All About Sockets (The Java Tutorial)


• Lesson 1: Socket Communications


• Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI)


• Chapter 11: Overview of CORBA (Distributed Programming with Java by Qusay H. Mahmoud)


• Introduction to CORBA

This programmer challenge looks interesting. Too bad I don't have the time to give it a try.

I've updated the 'Her' section of my domain, so check it out. (The main menu might look wonky in Internet Explorer, but I can't be bothered to fix it yet.)

I have to do a heuristic evaluation of two interfaces for my first IHCI assignment & I'm planning to write a report on two websites or software applications. So far I've thought of:

• Two blogging tools e.g. WordPress & Movable Type


• Two online bookstores e.g. Amazon & Barnes & Noble


• Two instant messenging software e.g. ICQ & MSN

I need more ideas to choose from, so if anyone has any good ones, I'd really appreciate it.

I've no choice right now but to take a break from my online life, so as to spend the little spare time I have left on schoolwork, tuition & rest. Don't expect me to update regularly as usual. Sorry I haven't been reading or commenting on your weblogs much.

Something I did during IN3D lab lesson today. It's nothing impressive, but I'm pretty darned proud of it because it's my first finished model.

Updated the 'Her' section of my domain again. Just felt like reflecting. I'm going to go offline & print out my tutorials for tomorrow. It's past 7 p.m. & I've yet to eat lunch or dinner. =/ Goodbye, appetite. Hello, time-of-the-month.

Ugh, have to get started on these:

• Java Socket Programming


• dpBasics : Java Socket Programming


• Sockets programming in Java: A tutorial


• Socket Programming in Java

These were added to my bookshelf after the NLB annual book sale the other day: (Read More)

If you noticed any errors or quirkiness on my weblog earlier, that's because I was in the process of upgrading to WordPress 1.0. It's all done, yay! I'm loving the slick new interface! It's not much different from the previous one, as you can see here, but I think it's super neat. The latest additions are great too: multiple categories, comment moderation, new template tags, amongst others. Unfortunately, the upgrade wasn't as "dead simple" as they said it would be. Or maybe it's just me.

How's this for an eBay-like auction website? (Read More)

I'm doing a report on the Singapore Discovery Centre for school & I need some feedback from the general public in Singapore. I'd appreciate it if you could take a few minutes of your time today to complete this short survey. You can leave a comment or email your feedback to me. (Read More)

Wow, to have the opportunity to go to this workshop would be very cool.

I've got my 'new' domain, finally! Remember I once mentioned buying it off Alexa? Well, here it is: elixium.org. (I stuck the pretty layout I won from Cine on DMB up there.) I love the name. I just don't know what to do with it. Any ideas as to what I can use the domain for? I might give it away if I don't have any way to put it to use.

I've received several suggestions on what to do with elixium.org & here's what I have so far:

1. portfolio / collective


2. group weblog


3. message board


4. move one of my sites there


5. host people


6. directory / listing


7. web-development help site (design, graphics, programming, etc.)

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It's my dear Mama's birthday today. This year, my sister made a birthday card & I shopped for her gift in advance, so no more last-minute rushing. Heh. Anyway, my mother's turned 45, but she can still pass off as 25! Let's hope I'll be like her when I grow old.

I received my Sun Certification package in the mail today! *bounce*
It came all the way from Utah, USA. I've never received mail from halfway across the world before! Heh. Anyway, here's the contents of the package: (Read More)

Got this list from Connie. Pretty cool. (Read More)

Made a simple 3D model of a car in LightWave during IN3D lab lesson earlier today. Believe it or not, as simple as it looks, it took more work than that 3D building I did before. I was sweating it out with the bloody pen tool, but I finally figured it out! (Read More)