Derek Ang

Friday make up post.

Couldn’t find time to blog yesterday. Yesterday was a stressful day for me. Had been meddling with coding from noon to midnight. Though stressful, it’s quite useful day, i learned some new stuffs. And of course, thanks for those members that gave advices to me, couldn’t do that without them. Was chatting with anthony and we are discussing about how “stupid people ruled the army”.. lol

Today is a saturday (entertainment day) and will be meeting those guys that just booked out. Will be watching red cliff with kelvin today. Ok, time’s up, i think i have to go before i will get late.

Making progress…

Today marks the first day of my new life. I hadn’t been slacking today. I spent more than 9 hours today doing my work. I hope i can last. No, i must last. If not, my life won’t changed. I had already wasted the last  month, doing nothing but slacking and i really regretted it. I could have done something more useful instead of just slacking and wasting my youth.

Bills are heavy for my current financial status, a guy with no income, with incurring cost of $70+ every month. And guess what, i  just wasted $70 last month from doing nothing. That’s the price to pay. Alot of people, including my sister, asked me, why don’t i just go find myself a part time time job, at least i have an income. Since i am due for enlistment in the coming next 2 months, i decided not to find myself a job, instead, i will use the time to enrich myself, in terms of knowledge. I had been learning seo previously and i thought i should continue it.

Looking at the current situations in the web hosting industry, i think i should really reconsidered my plan to start a web hosting firm in future. The market is really getting too saturated and it’s hard to fight those competitors. On top of that, my server management skills sucks to the core and i found out that i am actually more interested in programming and designing than networking. I think there will be many other possibilites out there too.

Now, i am focusing 100% on the community that i had set up. Traffic are declining, alot of things are declining due to me not doing a good job. There are alot of other factors as well. Stand up from where you fall if you want to advance, that’s what my teacher told me.

Instead of just doing work all the time online, i think i should set aset some time for entertainment. Maybe 4 hours for dramaing.

Today is a good start for me. I will work hard. This post will be logged to remind me not give up halfway.

I want to change

I am dread of my life now. I want a change. I want to change myself. Here’s one scenario.

You are in a party or seminar where there’s lots of people. Are you the kind of person that are proactive? That kind that stand up, shake your hand with others and say “Hi, nice to meet you, my name is xxx or are you the kind that waits for people to introduce themselves to you.

If you know me well, i belong to the latter kind. And that’s the reason why my social circle is small. So the first thing that i need to change is to be more proactive.

OK. Here’s another weakness of me, pointed out from a true friend. I don’t really realised it till now. “I tend to “cut” in conversations. May be while Girl A and Girl B is talking and i suddenly cut into it”. That’s very unrespectful of me. Remember, true friends are friends that don’t hesitate to point out your mistakes because they want you to improve. I am glad i met a few true friends in my life till now.

Because i am of a quiet personality, people might thought that i am unfriendly or not interested in bonding with them or even self fish, but in fact i am not. Actually i faced this problem alot. I could still remember around few years back, when some guys (forget who are those) wanted to ask some questions regarding school work. And lol, i could heard they clearly whispering to each other. “nono, you ask.. don’t 1 la.. i scared u ask..” Seems that i am not really good with human relations afterall. And, i finally found the reason to this kind of problem. Because i look unfriendly.

Procrastination. I can’t believe i am facing this particular problem now. I am those kind that “Today stuffs must be completed today”. But that was months back. Maybe it’s due to too much slacking and reason of no schooling that i tend to procrastinate my work now.

While i am writing this post, something stuck me in my head, the conversation i have with kelvin a few weeks ago. Well, it’s also about changing oneself. Kelvin told me that he wanted to change his life, he wanted to change the way people look at him. And i am very inspired and motivated by the conversation i had with him, because we have the same desire and aim. In other words, we are on the same boat.

Human are by no means perfect and everyone bound to have some faults in them. Don’t ask me why, ask god or buddha why they created us in this way. I made alot of mistakes in my past which i regretted and couldn’t forget, i am sure all of us do make mistakes. I hope it’s still not late for me to change. I don’t wana spent the rest of my life staying the kind of person i am now. I dread of it.

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VueStar V.S Google, who will win?

Recent buzz in the singapore internet is that many websites / companies are receiving letters from a company called Vuestar, demanding them to pay for a technology that Vuestar had patented.

What Vuestar patented

A method of locating web-sites using visual images.

Quoted

“those who use visual images which hyperlink to other web–pages or web-sites and in particular to contact details whether on the first page or subsequent pages of a web– site require a VUESTAR licence of “Use” in order to have the right of lawful enjoyment.”

Have you infringed the patent?

• a user submitting a search request to a server-side application via a terminal;
• the server-side application searching a database in accordance with the submitted search request; and
• identified database entries being transmitted to the terminal as a search results list, each entry containing a hyperlink to a web-page;
• whereby, each entry of the search results list contains visual content, the visual content related to the web-page for which the entry contains a hyperlink, the user able to view the visual content without being required to activate the hyperlink to obtain the visual content, and contact information for an organisation is provided as a component of an entry of the search results list.

This is really bad news for web developers. If Vuestar win, it must be freaking rich from the license cost.

It is also said that Vuestar are also sending emails to big internet titans like google, yahoo for demand of the use of license. Lets see what happens..

 If you are interested, join in the discussion at http://www.community.kan.sg/showthread.php?p=2028 :D
 

I have Graduated..

On 21 May 2008, I am officially graduated from Nanyang Polytechnic Singapore. Time really flies. Three years back when i was first enrolled into my course, i was 16 years old then, now i am 19 years old. And looking back, there are alot of memories that will stay with me for my lifetime and of course regrets…

During these three years, i have learnt quite a number of things, not just technical knowledge but of course, other attributes like life experiences. i am glad that i have met quite a number of friends, lecturers and classmates in the poly days… All I can say is that these 3 years played quite an important part in my life. My mentality and thinking matured/changed alot compared to in secondary school. I am now more matured compared to secondary school. (haha..playing arm wrestling everyday..etc) It was just 2 years back that i realized the importance studying and purpose of enriching oneself. Learning things that you are able to put into practice in the outside industry and not to mention, learning things that you like.

Now, i am waiting to be enlisted in National Service on 22 september 2008. As for what i intend to do during these few months, frankly speaking, i really have no idea. Maybe i will find a part time job soon. As for my plans after national service, i will be enrolling into school of computing in NUS. I don’t really know whether its a wise decision that i have made because i don’t really want to go university if not of my parents. I rather spend 4 years of my time to concentrate on things that i am passionate on, then spending 4 years of my time studying a wide variety of things. I believed that will in fact helps me more in future.

Well, no one know what is going to happen in future. Life is unpredictable. As for now, i think i need to start working towards my dreams.

To all my friends, classmates, associates that walk into my life, i am honored to be able to meet you guys in these 3 important years of my life and i wish everyone all the best in their future career endeavors, in their personal lifes etc.. blah blah blah. Lets remain in contact and please don’t walk out of each other’s life.

Live Videos When (Sichuan) China Earthquake Happens…

This blogpost is dedicated to all the survivors and victims of the the recent earthquake that happened in sichuan on 12 May 2008 at14:28:01.42 CST, which is named Wenchuan earthquake. It is estimated that the death toll of this tragedy would reached up to around 50000+. While we are living comfortably here, people are suffering there. Thousands of people lost their families, thousands of people are still battling with their life, waiting to be saved. Thousands of people lost part of their bodies.

Below are live videos when the earthquake happened.

1. Live Video 1
2. Live Video 2
3. Live Video 3
4. Live Video 4
5. Live Video 5

There are even people who had to cut off parts of their bodies themselves in order for the rescuers to be able to save them. That requires alot of courage and determination to do so…

FOUR days after the earthquake, some harrowing tales of survival are being told.

Gong Tianxiu, a 40-year-old woman, cut off her own right leg to escape the rubble, the Beijing Times reported yesterday.

Rescuers found Gong in the debris of an Agricultural Bank of China branch in Beichuan County after she had been trapped for 73 hours. They soon found it was impossible to remove the stone from her leg and set her free.

The only way to save Gong was to amputate the leg, the newspaper reported. But surgeons could not do the operation as the space was too small. Rescuers then handed a saw to Gong, who cut off her right leg herself.

I would like to send my deepest condolences and sympathy to the victims and their families. Life has to move on…

I am learning how to manage my time well…

I am not here to blog about how to manage time well, but why we need to manage time well as i myself don’t really able to manage my time well. Whether it’s in dramas, movies, real life or business world, people are always saying, Time == Money. And till recently, I finally realized the importance of time management. In the working world, people are always rushing. Rushing for projects, rushing for deadlines, rushing rushing rushing… 24 hours per day doesn’t seems enough. But however, why do some people have so much responsiblities and things to do and 24 hours are more than enough for them to play, sleep and work?

Well, i had been slacking. I did not find any jobs unlike some of my friends. And this period of time makes me realised the importance of time. Just because i am doing almost nothing everyday, its make me feels guity and useless. Am i just wasting my time and life away? I am 19 year old now and how many more years will i have? I think i will be wasting my remaining years if i do not start to manage my time well.

Here’s a couple of reason on why i think managing time well is important. Here’s what i found out from researching.

1) Time management allows you to optimize your efforts and concentrate as much time as possible on certain task. Effective time management will ensure you the achieve the greatest benefit possible with the limited amount of time available to you

2) Make yourself less stress. For e.g you had couple of projects on hand. If you allocate your time effectively to each project, it makes completing the project easier and faster.

3) Time == Money, so if you do not learn to manage your time well, you will not be able to manage your money well.

 

 

I think i am going bankrupt..

It’s been 6 days since i last blogged.. Kinda busy this few days.. My PC get VIRUS AND SPYWARE again and i had to reformat it and install all neccessary software again. I think i had to get a updated anti-virus software asap.

I am on the verge of emptying all my money in my bank, and wooh!, what am i going to do? Most of the money spent are spent on online stuffs, food, leisure .. etc. I think i had to save some money for future use. Don’t know why, i feel that i am getting tired and more tired one day by one day. I wasted just one whole day today sleeping from 11am to 5pm. What the hell is happening to me? I am getting lazier and lazier.

I still had not received my letter from national service and my enlistment status is unconfirmed. What the Fuck? Becoming an adult really sucks, have to think of ways to pay bills and what really sucks is to have no job and no income. How i wished to stay as a kid forever so i don’t need to worry about the money matters. But that’s not going to happen…

 

Depression

Recently i think i am undergoing some sort of depression or what. I am a web designer and whenever i look at the design of other’s website, i found my design really sucks. That’s a really serious problem because a designer should be proud of things that he created. But me, i thought of the other way. I always have the feeling that i am not good enough and this kept me in confusion of whether to pursue my future career as a web designer.

I agreed there’s always someone out there that is better, but why can’t i be the better ones? Similarly, from when i started to walk till now, i did not achieve anything that i am proud of. I didn’t have any achievements. I feel useless…