i've hardly been at home of late… and have not been processing hdr for a couple of weeks or so already… anyway… the last couple of months saw two of our fellow comrades moving on to their respective new paths… the great times we had together… albeit in a short span of time… shall be cherished…

it's been a long while since i've actually written a post… that doesn't include the usual filler text which accompanies my pictures offering some customary explanation of where i hung out at… with whom eating what… i guess you know the usual :) anyway since my spoilt modem at home has yet to be replaced… hence there won't be any pictures for this post… something that hasn't happened for more than a couple of months now if i'm not mistaken…

the past couple of weeks were practically spent deciphering source codes… something that i'm bad at apparently… well… i'm making pretty slow progress but i guess i shall not think too much about it over this long weekend… where i'll be holidaying by the beach… a well-deserved break i suppose… after endless hours scratching my head over puzzling algorithms…

i picked up my guitar for a while last night… after a month or so of it just lying around in the room… well… i guess my time has not been well-divided given the fact that i've been spending extra hours at work… being somewhat pessimistic about completing my code within the given deadline… it's interesting though… but would be better if i could solve them faster obviously…

the next post will have more pictures and less talk… it's too boring to read my own writings :P

posing during office hours in our new t-shirts… we're a bunch of red-clad cad engineers :)

the place i spend endless hours coding…

one of the newest features of friendster really caught my attention… a javascript photo organizer and uploader for the gallery… it's a long-awaited feature that should have been there ages ago…i haven't really got to test it thoroughly but from what i've seen… it seems to be pretty neat and user-friendly… compared to its previous buggy and plain gallery manager… nevertheless… there's still room for much improvement… take for example the schools and colleges section where multiple entries exist for some of the education institutions… there should be more moderation and standardization when it comes to creating the list… then i wouldn't have six variations of my university's name to choose from…

the dropdown menus at the top are a new addition which eases navigation somewhat… however… the content of the blogs section is totally unrelated to what one would expect… instead of displaying a collection of feeds from your friends' blogs… another personally often-used feature is the explore friends' photos part which has been pretty inaccurate for the past months right up till now still… it doesn't really display the newest photos as it should… it used to work quite fine in the beginning but nowadays it's just plain hopeless… old photos are being with mixed with the new ones somehow…

for all the ranting about bad programming and implementation… i'd have to admit that my scripts are not completely bug-free too… and it's a matter of time before someone rants about it :P

last weekend was a three-day break for us… so most made their way back to their hometowns for a long-deserved rest and reunion with families and friends… i took the opportunity to meet up with some old friends for some drinks and a movie… indeed it was a relaxing breakaway…

i've been a codaholic of late… which explains why it's past ten at night and i'm blogging from my redhat workstation… my posts have been dwindling to about only one per week… and it's probably due to the fact that i spend most of my time at the office… so unless i start writing about programming syntaxes and other stuff that would put anyone to sleep… i've hardly any interesting events and pictures to share…

i'm probably not working smart enough… or am i just pushing myself beyond the usual?

i've been shopping for the past three nights… got myself a pair of jeans and a couple of shirts… i even got a new pair of specs… courtesy of my company-sponsored vision care program for people like us who stare at the lcd for half a day… and just like about everyone else in the city… my colleagues and i watched transformers over the weekend… a movie long awaited by many… advance bookings ensured us seats in the packed cinema…

it's been a long day and i've only got half the amount of sleep i was supposed to last night due to some nocturnal burst of activity in my brain which kept me awake… tomorrow i'll probably have some real work assigned to me i reckon… after a month of training… which is far from completion actually… but i've got to start somewhere… little by little…

no rest for the busy…