Tuesday, March 5, 2013
2013 Update
Woah, it's been a while since my last post. Um uh... quite some stuff happened since the end of the year.
Biggest news for me I think is that I got my ACCA results, which to my relief was relatively good, albeit once more on the borderline. Well, having the 'pass' is already it, so yea, moving on to the other papers, which once more will be mostly theory >~<. Oh well, I'll manage somehow I guess, like I did before and if I happen to fail, I'll just resit the exams. The deadline to pay for the papers is coming quickly anyway.
At work, the busy season was a little less as expected, but still as busy. I had to do quite some overtime, but couldn't charge it in January. Bottom line, I had to charge everything in February, which meant that I had a week where I charged all my January hours. One might think that I worked 24/7 that week if the saw that timesheet x3 Things otherwise have been less than expected, but as I said, there's still a lot of work as there are some 'new joiners' from the other department who joined to give a hand, but they need support which can sometimes be very time consuming. This week however, things have like completely died down. I really don't know how things will be in the next few days and my chargeable hours are dropping down.
Next up I think is PMDe. Things have been picking up in terms of activity in the group, mainly about the tasks. I began the January tasks, it didn't end too well since I lost a big chunk of the story I typed and didn't notice until after posting it to deviantArt. Oh well, I'll rewrite if for sure but it's kind of demotivating to rework on that. I started the last part of M7 (which is also the third) and it might take some time... I've been trying to have something new, but I don't know if it's good so far, character wise and I think I'll have to go over it several times in hope of getting a more or less realistic reaction (I managed to submit my first two part of M7, although it's not as good as I wish it would have been :().
I also got The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3DS which I already finished the first walkthrough ^^; I'm currently in the Master Quest version in Dodongo's Cavern, which I admit is a tad harder since the order of rooms is different (and I didn't know the roll attack could crush boxes...). I must say that I really liked the game. The last battle with Ganondorf was a bit disappointing though. There's this ledge where it's difficult to reach and Link would almost always miss it and fall down a few dozen storeys... where he could get hearts to restore himself while Ganondorf is patiently waiting for him upstairs to come back. It just doesn't appeal much to me. I don't know, maybe the central pillar should have been wider so you could jump on it easier, but still get attacked. I don't think that Link randomly jumping right or missing it relies on skill but instead on luck (Also the way the camera moved was not always desireable in such situations, or you would lose time trying to adjust it properly).
The last battle with Ganon was a bit more reasonable. That's where I actually used more of the different melee moves I learned through the game. The first was with that armor monster thing with a huge axe. I was glad Link could do backflips and side jumps then ^^. I still don't know how to get all the hear pieces though, which might change with my second walkthrough. Two points in my mind is the heart piece at the top of the Fire Temple, visible from the peaks upper entrance where smokes escapes. I don't know if it's related to the Fire Temple's east tower, which I still don't know how to reach.
The other one is in the desert temple. There's the last room before the final boss there (the twin witches) where there are the mirrors? Well, there's a chest on my map I don't know where it is, nor how to get it. And also various other hidden heart pieces and 5 spiders I don't know the location of.
I also got Pokeradar, which is quite fun, though a bit tiring after some time. The camera would sometimes mess up and you almost have to make more than a 180 degree turn to see every cloud. I've got all the legendary trio, which were quite easy to get really. Though now I need to get the english version of either Pokemon Black 2 or Pokemon White 2 ._. I guess that'll be for another time.
I also got a couple of demos from Nintendo eShop, some are cool at best, notably Kindom Hearts 3D and I think that's it... the others were not as good. I thought Castlevania and Monster Hunter would be good, but the former is lame with lame 2D moves and the latter is much too slow. The protagonist takes so much time to drink potions, or to land combos. Plus the fact that there is no HP bar really annoys me, and there seems to be limited moves.
I've been drawing a bit as well, though there're not as good as I wished I could draw them, partly because I've only my mouse to draw digitally. I wonder when I'll be able to draw with a pentablet =P.
Chinese new year was not so exciting, like last year. We didn't do much. Actually, we went on catamaran at Tamarin. Thing is, you probably know the situation here if you're Mauritian; and there's been a lot of rain. The morning was quite wet (but that wasn't the issue) and we saw some dolphins. A big storm started when we headed to the islet Ile aux Benitiers and there were lightning all around us. Not to mention the BBQ got wet... But we got back safe, so that's about it. Oh, someone had caught a Blue Marlin and hung it upside down for weighing when we got back. It was impressive. The only thing was that it spewed out a half digested fish at one point in time and what I believe was the marlin's heart then dropped down from its mouth, still hanging from its blood vessels... ugh.
That's about it I guess, until next post! ^^
Monday, December 31, 2012
December Update
Okay, I know it's been a real while since my last update since there's been a lot of things keeping me busy.
There's be considerably a lot of work, almost equal to this year's busy season, but with only me, a colleague who's been with me through that busy season, and two new joiners. The senior team members have been to South Africa on other assignments and you can imagine how lacking we were... We pulled a lot of overtimes as well, it was tiring, but it was a great experience and I'm pumped for the coming busy season in 3 days now x3.
I also had to sit the three papers I took in July and I'm pretty confident in two of those. For the third one (F9), I'm not sure if I'm getting the pass there... I'll probably have to resit that one next June. I already took the other papers in the meantime; P1, P2 and P5. P1 and P2 being already close together, I didn't want to have P3 immediately after that knowing how it went last 5th, 6th and 7th December >.>
In other news, PMDe is still going stong! I finished M7 (almost, M7 Past's epilogue is about two thirds done) and I already have some ideas for the current E7. I'm also thinking of having some side stories to complement what's going on and I'll hopefully be able to squeeze in some time between the busy season and the studies beginning again very soon.
I've got some new friends as well on deviantArt, pageviews have nearly hit 4500 since last time, wow! Also, brackenhawk have been using the excel sheet I've been populating since March to make a flash app that picks random cameos! You can find it here. It's really awesome and I admit I was flattered when she asked me if she could use the list ^///^. I was also so caught up with things that I didn't get on tumblr much... but I'm trying to change that a bit, and visit once a while, as much as I can.
Anyway, another 'thing' that happened was that I began watching some anime. Yea... little sis got some DVDs borrowed from her friends, and those had FMA, FMAB, Fairy Tail, Gundam and one or two more I didn't watch. I guess I'm about to go watch several more episodes of those soon ^^; They were not as bad as I expected, so, I'll probably be looking forward for the next episodes of those.
Next up, I got a new console system, the famous Nintendo 3DS! One of my colleagues who had to go to South Africa bought one for me and since it was free of duty, it was more affordable for me (double yay!). I haven't gotten any games on it yet (besides the default ones on it...) but I'll try to remedy to it asap. I'm playing my Nintendo DS Lite in the meantime. I've got Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded basically finished, only a couple of final optional stages to complete. I also played and finished the main storyline of Inazuma Eleven 2 Blizzard. Currently playing a bit of Yu-Gi-Oh 2011 Championship (or something like that) at the request of a friend so we could play in tag-mode. And there's the crazy 'Card games on motorcycles' in there. Oh well xD
Then Christmas came up, and with it came the internet upgrade (woo!). We now have unlimited download capacity, and wireless at home. I've been trying syncing my DS Lite with it but so far no luck. It's an Orange modem, ZTE model. If anyone can help me, let me know!
I got The Hobbit as well yesterday, and I say that it's a pretty good movie, as expected! Though I'm a bit disappointed with the ending. I didn't see them use the key of before, or maybe I'm just missing something!? ._. Anyway, I loved the thing!
Until my other update, Happy New Year!!! xD
There's be considerably a lot of work, almost equal to this year's busy season, but with only me, a colleague who's been with me through that busy season, and two new joiners. The senior team members have been to South Africa on other assignments and you can imagine how lacking we were... We pulled a lot of overtimes as well, it was tiring, but it was a great experience and I'm pumped for the coming busy season in 3 days now x3.
I also had to sit the three papers I took in July and I'm pretty confident in two of those. For the third one (F9), I'm not sure if I'm getting the pass there... I'll probably have to resit that one next June. I already took the other papers in the meantime; P1, P2 and P5. P1 and P2 being already close together, I didn't want to have P3 immediately after that knowing how it went last 5th, 6th and 7th December >.>
In other news, PMDe is still going stong! I finished M7 (almost, M7 Past's epilogue is about two thirds done) and I already have some ideas for the current E7. I'm also thinking of having some side stories to complement what's going on and I'll hopefully be able to squeeze in some time between the busy season and the studies beginning again very soon.
I've got some new friends as well on deviantArt, pageviews have nearly hit 4500 since last time, wow! Also, brackenhawk have been using the excel sheet I've been populating since March to make a flash app that picks random cameos! You can find it here. It's really awesome and I admit I was flattered when she asked me if she could use the list ^///^. I was also so caught up with things that I didn't get on tumblr much... but I'm trying to change that a bit, and visit once a while, as much as I can.
Anyway, another 'thing' that happened was that I began watching some anime. Yea... little sis got some DVDs borrowed from her friends, and those had FMA, FMAB, Fairy Tail, Gundam and one or two more I didn't watch. I guess I'm about to go watch several more episodes of those soon ^^; They were not as bad as I expected, so, I'll probably be looking forward for the next episodes of those.
Next up, I got a new console system, the famous Nintendo 3DS! One of my colleagues who had to go to South Africa bought one for me and since it was free of duty, it was more affordable for me (double yay!). I haven't gotten any games on it yet (besides the default ones on it...) but I'll try to remedy to it asap. I'm playing my Nintendo DS Lite in the meantime. I've got Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded basically finished, only a couple of final optional stages to complete. I also played and finished the main storyline of Inazuma Eleven 2 Blizzard. Currently playing a bit of Yu-Gi-Oh 2011 Championship (or something like that) at the request of a friend so we could play in tag-mode. And there's the crazy 'Card games on motorcycles' in there. Oh well xD
Then Christmas came up, and with it came the internet upgrade (woo!). We now have unlimited download capacity, and wireless at home. I've been trying syncing my DS Lite with it but so far no luck. It's an Orange modem, ZTE model. If anyone can help me, let me know!
I got The Hobbit as well yesterday, and I say that it's a pretty good movie, as expected! Though I'm a bit disappointed with the ending. I didn't see them use the key of before, or maybe I'm just missing something!? ._. Anyway, I loved the thing!
Until my other update, Happy New Year!!! xD
Saturday, September 8, 2012
August Update
It's been a while, I know... Anyway, I've been pretty busy lately and yeap, things are on the move. Studies are going full strength (I only got a small break today which gave me a little free slot of time to write this post, but which will be caught up next week with a 5 hour session instead of a 2.5 hour session...) and I've paid for the exams for this coming December. My exams will be on the 5th, 6th and 7th of the month... and I've got no other choice... Wish me luck! ^^;
Work's been going smoothly, until our seniors had to go to South Africa, so all the work comes down on me and my colleagues, with only me and another colleague managing everything technical-wise. And yesterday, she called a sick and I was alone having to deal with everybody at the same time T~T It worked out okay though, and there're some pressing deadlines for this Monday.
I currently also have two possible jobs for which I'll have to travel to South Africa and none of those two have fixed dates yet. One is about SQL and the other about php+html (blech). I just hope it won't be too soon 'cause I have other things to do in the meantime, studies being a big factor about it. Plus I hear that I won't have internet at the place where I'll be sleeping, unless I'm at work (which really isn't the right time for personal purposes...). I want to go on the other hand because I'll be able to visit new places, meet new people and even get to buy some stuff (electronics mainly) that isn't sold here. So, that's always good.
I've seen the first Inazuma 11 Movie \o/ Amazing effects, though the movie doesn't quite well fit in between the series in that they sort of become suddenly stronger, but still not as strong in the series... Oh well.
Otherwise, I've played some Pokemon Conquest and I must say that I liked this game a lot! I'm a little disappointed that I cannot retain some of the progress once I complete the main storyline, like I mean there are a lot of other characters I could have recruited and obtain their best link... oh well, I'm now going through the little stories post game and am upgrading the city structures slowly.
I finished the main story for Pokemon Black 2, and am at the post game storyline. Some more trainers to battle, and I think Team Plasma's HQ. Also, the PokeWood is fun! =P Got some events as well, so that the legendaries I've left to get are Celebi, Shaymin, Meloetta and Keldeo. \o/ Except there's a current event for Keldeo which is non-WiFi *grumble*.
In other news, there's a Laptop bag coming my way from a prize I got on deviantart for writing a little story involving a sad whale, cupid and a road made of bubble wrap. In case you want to read it, it's here.
PMD-E is going on smoothly. Just finished Event 6 (complete one, that is parts 1 and 2 of the event) and the teams sheet is going on well. I did the event with someone else as collaborator (this would be narelith =) ) and I must say that I learned quite a few things in the process. Definitely an experience I'd like to have again. I've also recently hit the 3000 views of my deviant profile \o/ Dunno if I'll take some more contests on dA, but we'll see.
Cheers! =)
Work's been going smoothly, until our seniors had to go to South Africa, so all the work comes down on me and my colleagues, with only me and another colleague managing everything technical-wise. And yesterday, she called a sick and I was alone having to deal with everybody at the same time T~T It worked out okay though, and there're some pressing deadlines for this Monday.
I currently also have two possible jobs for which I'll have to travel to South Africa and none of those two have fixed dates yet. One is about SQL and the other about php+html (blech). I just hope it won't be too soon 'cause I have other things to do in the meantime, studies being a big factor about it. Plus I hear that I won't have internet at the place where I'll be sleeping, unless I'm at work (which really isn't the right time for personal purposes...). I want to go on the other hand because I'll be able to visit new places, meet new people and even get to buy some stuff (electronics mainly) that isn't sold here. So, that's always good.
I've seen the first Inazuma 11 Movie \o/ Amazing effects, though the movie doesn't quite well fit in between the series in that they sort of become suddenly stronger, but still not as strong in the series... Oh well.
Otherwise, I've played some Pokemon Conquest and I must say that I liked this game a lot! I'm a little disappointed that I cannot retain some of the progress once I complete the main storyline, like I mean there are a lot of other characters I could have recruited and obtain their best link... oh well, I'm now going through the little stories post game and am upgrading the city structures slowly.
I finished the main story for Pokemon Black 2, and am at the post game storyline. Some more trainers to battle, and I think Team Plasma's HQ. Also, the PokeWood is fun! =P Got some events as well, so that the legendaries I've left to get are Celebi, Shaymin, Meloetta and Keldeo. \o/ Except there's a current event for Keldeo which is non-WiFi *grumble*.
In other news, there's a Laptop bag coming my way from a prize I got on deviantart for writing a little story involving a sad whale, cupid and a road made of bubble wrap. In case you want to read it, it's here.
PMD-E is going on smoothly. Just finished Event 6 (complete one, that is parts 1 and 2 of the event) and the teams sheet is going on well. I did the event with someone else as collaborator (this would be narelith =) ) and I must say that I learned quite a few things in the process. Definitely an experience I'd like to have again. I've also recently hit the 3000 views of my deviant profile \o/ Dunno if I'll take some more contests on dA, but we'll see.
Cheers! =)
Thursday, July 5, 2012
July Update
It's been a while! Things have been really busy since my last post. Exams coming nearer, Mission 6 of PMD-E and wait... no things haven't as busy as that but I got hooked into other things as well, which have slowed down recently. The first was Avatar: The Last Airbender. I've been following the adventures of Aang and his friends through the magical world of benders overcoming the trials they faced and growing in maturity, wisdom and strength. I must say I loved the series and have been watching the sequel of the series: The Legend of Korra.
I love it as much! Here we meet Korra, the new avatar, born in the water tribe. She already has an affinity to her multi-bending abilities; water, fire and earth, with the exception of air bending, the one completely against her personality. Korra's got guts and is depicted to be strong early on with the elements she has mastered; which is already a big difference from the previous series.
Unfortunately for her, a great foe is awaiting her when she moves in with Tenzin, one Aang's son who is an airbender, to learn the art of air bending. She makes friends on her way, but also discovers the greatest enemy of benders, who might be linked somehow to Aang's death. If you break down the episodes, you might even learn a lot of things and discover the effort the creators of this show put in it. I really recommend watching this and get engulfed with this magical world where friendship, humour, action and thrill meet.
The next is, surprisingly for me, the first Japanese show I watch from the start to finish: Inazuma 11. While I'm not a fan of football, I really like how this show was made. The story in a nutshell features a boy, Endou, who simply loves football since he discovered a copybook of his deceased grandpa containing a lot of flabbergasting techniques and strives to become the next best football player. He decides to join the football club as soon as he enters junior school, the one attended by his grandpa when he was young.
Unfortunately, the school's football club is no more and, with the help of his friend Aki, he decides to re-create the club. At the start, only a few students are interesting in the sport and the notorious junior school of Teikoku Academy challenges them. The latter are known for destroying the school of teams who lost matches against them.
Endou manages to get enough players in the team in time and start training. On the day of the match though, they are all brought down to the ground by the other team. This is where Gouenji, a transfer student joins their team and scores their first goal. The Teikoku team forfeits for apparent unknown reasons and their school is saved. Join them in their adventures to get better at football and take the Football Frontier Cup and even grander adventures!
There's already a sequel to it, occurring some 10 years later I think, where football is no more the same. Its spirit has been drained and Endou once again joins the crew, but this time, as a coach.
Show and anime aside, work has been less demanding lately as we move away from the busy season. Some new people have joined the team and for a week, me and other colleagues had to do the reviewing of files before delivery. That was quite an experience but I should say that I didn't find it that much difficult. Things have been cool and fun really.
On the other hand, exams... I still can't understand how they dared put 'Centre' and 'East' in the same basket. What I mean is, they have 'North', 'South and East' and 'West' as choices for examination centres. 'North' was not a good choice for me, neither was 'West', nor 'East'. What I really wanted was 'Centre' but they somehow cannot give that.
And for 2 exam days out of 3, I had to go far away, requiring almost 2 hours of travel just to get to that examination centre D:<. Worse, it seems that the examinators pushed the level of the F5 paper 10 levels higher than it has been for the past few years. I can't really say how I did in that paper, but oh well, we'll know when we hit August.
Speaking about the future, I'm almost done with M6, couple thousand of words left and I'll be completely be done, save for the revision. I've also been participating in a Flash-Fic 'contest', if I may call it like that, which lasts for a month as from the first of July. I say, so far, I've been able to try out different writing styles, first person perspective, second person perspective and several genres: comedy, urban, sci-fi, romance (gulp) and horror so far.
It's a nice challenge and I don't have to write a lot of words! In some way, it's really easier, but in another way, it's quite hard when you want to include all the things you think are as awesome to put in, and you've got to make your characters known to your readers as fast as possible! It's my 5th day today and I've yet to come up with a new story ^^; Hopefully, it'll be ready by midnight.
I've also discovered something to help my writing. That 'thing' is called Brandon Sanderson! Seriously, this guy breathes awesomeness and just look over his blog and the youtube videos of his creative writing classes. He's just awesome! He is able to tell a lot of things that as writers, one might not be aware of but which still has an impact on the readers, unbeknownst to them even! Wouldn't you like it to know how to hook your readers and make them go 'oh, it's already over?' after making them read some 80,000 words?
Okay, I think this is long enough for now and I'll try to get another post a bit sooner than that. Plus I need to start working on today's Flash fiction. ^^;
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
March Update
It's more than late for another update... *sigh* In anycase, things sure have been changing a lot since last time!
PMD-E is still flowing as smoothly, I've been doing the 5th Mission writing entry and am about to start working on the Epilogue. Otherwise, I have the saved draft of the new app version which was released. I admit I'm not too enthusiastic about this new app in some ways. First, the app is supposed to give information about your team: the name, members, natures, moves and so on. Unfortunately, the new version of the app displays by default an interview with a rather difficult character, known as Callahan, the Ninetales. Well, I do understand that it's a way for the writers to showcase their writing skills, that's a good thing.
What I'd suggest rather, is that every writer should have one app, similar to the previous version and should have a link to the interview with Callahan, which then will be compulsory. Does anything change? Yes, when you are linked to an app, you get the app and not see a huge interview (which for some are, if they have so much to say and show for this brief interview). Want to see the interview? Fine, click the link in the app! Easy? I say yes.
Well, enough of ranting now ^^; PK's epilogue are all posted, the prologue for M6 has even started! Seems at first sight that the mission will be to find and help with the cooking, but we'll see later on. Another thing, I'm a little ashamed I had overlooked Shade, the Zoroark. Well, maybe Darkrai is still the mastermind behind this, only the future will tell. It's a bit sad that Sorbet became once again the rock that he was, unable to move, unable to know what's going on... but I guess it's for everyone's safety that no one can control him like a puppet.
With the release of that new app, I also started another project related to PMD-E. I've been keeping records of every new team and it's going on smoothly up to now. The only problem is that I've been busy at work and haven't been able to update the 29 art apps which are currently in the group's folder. I've been customising my bot too on irc.veekun.com and it's working good so far. I need to do some other tweaks for better search of pokemon. Searches such as 'paras' would, for instance, also bring 'parasect'. So, I'm not sure if I'm going to change the database itself or radically change the search function.
Also, I managed to find the last few movies of Pokemon and I've been watching them one after the other lately XD. I watched Pokemon 2000 The Power of One again, as well as The Spell of the Unown, then watched the ones I didn't watch. Only two more to go, then I'll get into the Unova arc.
As of PU, things are quite slow if I may say so. We got some new people to help with the pixel art, and one person for the map editor. I was promoted as global moderator, the wikia is slowly but surely growing, some members have returned as some have left... yea, the usual in a way. The beta is still being delayed to an unspecified time since there's a lot of things to be (re)done. Augh, the battle vector sprites are missing too! :( Though I did some vector logos for the factions which will be present. And I hope I'll get some time to work on them once more in the near future. I have a logo to animate, a logo to design, then I have my own PMD-E team logo to design, maybe make it a stamp as well.
I've also got a few apps I wanted to get; Adobe FlashPro and Sai Paint Tool. They're so cool I cannot describe it X3. I'll certainly be playing with them when I get the occasion, not that I get much time though. =/ Maybe I could use Flash to make my app? =P
Yeah, things on the other hand have been busy. I didn't know about the 'Early entry' for ACCA and I'm stuck with the fees of 80 pounds/paper instead of 69 pounds if I paid for before the 8th of March. I do hope the company's gonna refund that too. Because ultimately, it's still a loan, and I'm still going to refund from my salary later on.
Things are getting bulky otherwise for the ACCA papers. Law is hard to remember... I really need to find a solution for that... Management accounting is going pretty well I should say. And I really don't understand how you can call something a 'demand curve' if price is the subject of the formula. This costed me a whole 8 marks in an assignment. Tax has a flood of rules. CGT... Income Tax... so many seemingly 'random' values in there. Annual Exemption is 10,600, rates on CGT are 18% and 28%, Personal Allowance is up to 7,475 and so on. Why do they not have things like 10,000, 20%, 30% or the like? Much easier to remember and a lot less decimals to deal with!
Oh yes, speaking of driving license... I FINALLY GOT IT! WOOOOO! It was a surprise really. I did some mistakes (ugh) but turned out the policeman I got was nice. The engine didn't stop, but I forgot to turn on the flasher once in a deserted lane, I forgot to put on to the first gear at a corner and lastly, I had gone into some branches (which supposedly, I shouldn't have as these could have damaged the car, even though I'm sure they weren't hard or anything like that). There was a van on the other side, and the lane being as small as can be, I couldn't do otherwise. Only maybe wait for the driver of the van!? But yea, that was not going to happen since he was nowhere to be seen >.>
We had a hectic week two weeks ago. There was in internal audit simulation which required us to do a complete internal audit of 3 weeks into 3 days. It was a real race against time, and there was a lot of frustrating moments. My team (out of three) managed to come up second. Well, it wasn't that bad seeing that we didn't really put much effort after all. You see, the way it was, as soon as you submit a deliverable, the senior manager player would send us the 'better' files. In the end, it was easier to just send something simple and get new 'good' data to work with in the following steps and end the thing faster. Of course, that NEVER happens in real life internal audits. Oh well, if everyone around the globe is having that same training...
Lastly, I'll be working in the Data Analytics department until the end of April (sob). Oh well, I'm happy too, to be able to get to various places around the (tiny) country I live in. Maybe I could go to another hotel? =D I sure will miss the tight feasible deadlines, full chargeable hours and working fully with Excel, Access and Monarch.
Okay, that was long x3 enough for tonight I guess. I'll watch a bit of Arceus and the Jewel of Life and then, another day of work!
PMD-E is still flowing as smoothly, I've been doing the 5th Mission writing entry and am about to start working on the Epilogue. Otherwise, I have the saved draft of the new app version which was released. I admit I'm not too enthusiastic about this new app in some ways. First, the app is supposed to give information about your team: the name, members, natures, moves and so on. Unfortunately, the new version of the app displays by default an interview with a rather difficult character, known as Callahan, the Ninetales. Well, I do understand that it's a way for the writers to showcase their writing skills, that's a good thing.
What I'd suggest rather, is that every writer should have one app, similar to the previous version and should have a link to the interview with Callahan, which then will be compulsory. Does anything change? Yes, when you are linked to an app, you get the app and not see a huge interview (which for some are, if they have so much to say and show for this brief interview). Want to see the interview? Fine, click the link in the app! Easy? I say yes.
Well, enough of ranting now ^^; PK's epilogue are all posted, the prologue for M6 has even started! Seems at first sight that the mission will be to find and help with the cooking, but we'll see later on. Another thing, I'm a little ashamed I had overlooked Shade, the Zoroark. Well, maybe Darkrai is still the mastermind behind this, only the future will tell. It's a bit sad that Sorbet became once again the rock that he was, unable to move, unable to know what's going on... but I guess it's for everyone's safety that no one can control him like a puppet.
With the release of that new app, I also started another project related to PMD-E. I've been keeping records of every new team and it's going on smoothly up to now. The only problem is that I've been busy at work and haven't been able to update the 29 art apps which are currently in the group's folder. I've been customising my bot too on irc.veekun.com and it's working good so far. I need to do some other tweaks for better search of pokemon. Searches such as 'paras' would, for instance, also bring 'parasect'. So, I'm not sure if I'm going to change the database itself or radically change the search function.
Also, I managed to find the last few movies of Pokemon and I've been watching them one after the other lately XD. I watched Pokemon 2000 The Power of One again, as well as The Spell of the Unown, then watched the ones I didn't watch. Only two more to go, then I'll get into the Unova arc.
As of PU, things are quite slow if I may say so. We got some new people to help with the pixel art, and one person for the map editor. I was promoted as global moderator, the wikia is slowly but surely growing, some members have returned as some have left... yea, the usual in a way. The beta is still being delayed to an unspecified time since there's a lot of things to be (re)done. Augh, the battle vector sprites are missing too! :( Though I did some vector logos for the factions which will be present. And I hope I'll get some time to work on them once more in the near future. I have a logo to animate, a logo to design, then I have my own PMD-E team logo to design, maybe make it a stamp as well.
I've also got a few apps I wanted to get; Adobe FlashPro and Sai Paint Tool. They're so cool I cannot describe it X3. I'll certainly be playing with them when I get the occasion, not that I get much time though. =/ Maybe I could use Flash to make my app? =P
Yeah, things on the other hand have been busy. I didn't know about the 'Early entry' for ACCA and I'm stuck with the fees of 80 pounds/paper instead of 69 pounds if I paid for before the 8th of March. I do hope the company's gonna refund that too. Because ultimately, it's still a loan, and I'm still going to refund from my salary later on.
Things are getting bulky otherwise for the ACCA papers. Law is hard to remember... I really need to find a solution for that... Management accounting is going pretty well I should say. And I really don't understand how you can call something a 'demand curve' if price is the subject of the formula. This costed me a whole 8 marks in an assignment. Tax has a flood of rules. CGT... Income Tax... so many seemingly 'random' values in there. Annual Exemption is 10,600, rates on CGT are 18% and 28%, Personal Allowance is up to 7,475 and so on. Why do they not have things like 10,000, 20%, 30% or the like? Much easier to remember and a lot less decimals to deal with!
Oh yes, speaking of driving license... I FINALLY GOT IT! WOOOOO! It was a surprise really. I did some mistakes (ugh) but turned out the policeman I got was nice. The engine didn't stop, but I forgot to turn on the flasher once in a deserted lane, I forgot to put on to the first gear at a corner and lastly, I had gone into some branches (which supposedly, I shouldn't have as these could have damaged the car, even though I'm sure they weren't hard or anything like that). There was a van on the other side, and the lane being as small as can be, I couldn't do otherwise. Only maybe wait for the driver of the van!? But yea, that was not going to happen since he was nowhere to be seen >.>
We had a hectic week two weeks ago. There was in internal audit simulation which required us to do a complete internal audit of 3 weeks into 3 days. It was a real race against time, and there was a lot of frustrating moments. My team (out of three) managed to come up second. Well, it wasn't that bad seeing that we didn't really put much effort after all. You see, the way it was, as soon as you submit a deliverable, the senior manager player would send us the 'better' files. In the end, it was easier to just send something simple and get new 'good' data to work with in the following steps and end the thing faster. Of course, that NEVER happens in real life internal audits. Oh well, if everyone around the globe is having that same training...
Lastly, I'll be working in the Data Analytics department until the end of April (sob). Oh well, I'm happy too, to be able to get to various places around the (tiny) country I live in. Maybe I could go to another hotel? =D I sure will miss the tight feasible deadlines, full chargeable hours and working fully with Excel, Access and Monarch.
Okay, that was long x3 enough for tonight I guess. I'll watch a bit of Arceus and the Jewel of Life and then, another day of work!
Sunday, January 29, 2012
2012 Post
Oh woops! I really forgot about leaving a post here. I really meant to post one earlier but turned out I got involved in more stuff and got busy. Oh well, now I remembered! ^^;
Soo yea, let's start with ACCA. I got my pass on level 1! ^_^ Well... actually, I'm not too satisfied with the results though, such as for F2, I expected something better. Oh well, they say the good thing is to pass and that's about it, no need to procrastinate over it anymore but focus on the next ones. Because yes, I'm taking level 2 this semester with F4 (ugh), F5 and F6. So far, it's more or less okay, which means I have to start getting serious into those if I want to get the pass this time.
On the other hand, I've 'changed' department at work... of some sort. I won't do any internal audit for some time now, but will instead do Data Analytics. Apparently, it's the activity which brings the most money to the branch of the firm right now and I won't say it's very hard. I like the job very much. There are a lot of deadlines, for sure, there are lots of work, we have to take overtimes to make sure we don't go past the deadlines, we have many issues concerning the work itself as a lot of things we require are most of the time missing and incomplete... but I like it nonetheless. Through this, I've been able to learn a great deal more about how to use Excel and a little more Access with some SQL statements.
Surprisingly, I was able to use the things I learned in Tcl to do some of the tedious tasks given to us =P. Though I'd really like to know how to make Tcl go and edit excel/access files for at times, notepad literally gets busted by the sheer volume of data we handle.
PMD-E is going on smoothly, I didn't get a ranking, but I'm quite in the line of the winners so I am not losing hope that soon. Been trying to change my style of writing and not use so much apposition in my sentences. Apparently they make them sound weird .-. . Been otherwise doing some animations today and working little by little on the PU wikia. If you want to see it, here's the link: http://pokemonuniverseinfo.wikia.com/.
And for the resolutions for the year... get to know more Tcl and try to learn and get a better grasp of SQL and Golang. I really dunno how far this will go, but I'll try to incorporate some AS2/AS3 as well for flash.
Oh gosh... time goes fast! I also learned that there are elements associated to the chinese calendar, and this year is the year of the water dragon. Apparently, I'm a water monkey and this would be the last year which is 'beneficial' for me. I really don't care about those superstitions, but we'll see how this goes. And... driver's test this Tuesday... I really want to get this pass now after all the money they drain from us D:<
Jerry out!
Soo yea, let's start with ACCA. I got my pass on level 1! ^_^ Well... actually, I'm not too satisfied with the results though, such as for F2, I expected something better. Oh well, they say the good thing is to pass and that's about it, no need to procrastinate over it anymore but focus on the next ones. Because yes, I'm taking level 2 this semester with F4 (ugh), F5 and F6. So far, it's more or less okay, which means I have to start getting serious into those if I want to get the pass this time.
On the other hand, I've 'changed' department at work... of some sort. I won't do any internal audit for some time now, but will instead do Data Analytics. Apparently, it's the activity which brings the most money to the branch of the firm right now and I won't say it's very hard. I like the job very much. There are a lot of deadlines, for sure, there are lots of work, we have to take overtimes to make sure we don't go past the deadlines, we have many issues concerning the work itself as a lot of things we require are most of the time missing and incomplete... but I like it nonetheless. Through this, I've been able to learn a great deal more about how to use Excel and a little more Access with some SQL statements.
Surprisingly, I was able to use the things I learned in Tcl to do some of the tedious tasks given to us =P. Though I'd really like to know how to make Tcl go and edit excel/access files for at times, notepad literally gets busted by the sheer volume of data we handle.
PMD-E is going on smoothly, I didn't get a ranking, but I'm quite in the line of the winners so I am not losing hope that soon. Been trying to change my style of writing and not use so much apposition in my sentences. Apparently they make them sound weird .-. . Been otherwise doing some animations today and working little by little on the PU wikia. If you want to see it, here's the link: http://pokemonuniverseinfo.wikia.com/.
And for the resolutions for the year... get to know more Tcl and try to learn and get a better grasp of SQL and Golang. I really dunno how far this will go, but I'll try to incorporate some AS2/AS3 as well for flash.
Oh gosh... time goes fast! I also learned that there are elements associated to the chinese calendar, and this year is the year of the water dragon. Apparently, I'm a water monkey and this would be the last year which is 'beneficial' for me. I really don't care about those superstitions, but we'll see how this goes. And... driver's test this Tuesday... I really want to get this pass now after all the money they drain from us D:<
Jerry out!
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Exams coming...
Well, it's been some time, but yea, the ACCA exams are coming now. And I had to reschedule my leaves so that my exams fall within the range. Yes, so much for being able to take the computer based exams 'anytime' >.> Boah! I'm worn out from those crash courses! But they sure did me well, besides falling asleep once or twice in class because of fatigue ^^; But yea, they were good in general, though I didn't quite like that teacher who did F3... So... 1 week and 3 days to go! Gosh, it's so close :o
Otherwise... oh well, I've been into more games because of my sister -_- Got into playing Digimon World DS, which has not that good graphics, okay playthrough and slow as can be dialogues. The mechanics are a little weird though and I was able to exploit something, which practically gave me a rookie digimon which could pawn Ultimate digimons with a couple of hits and without taking significant damage. No need to say how much it ruled when it became Champion and Ultimate...
And yet otherwise, I've finished with M4 of #PMD-Explorers on deviantart. Been around even making a tumblr account (unknown008.tumblr.com) and am taking on the next part, which is Event 4. I'm not sure if I'll be able to pull up a collaboration on this one but if I do, I'm sure it'll turn out great! ^_^
And... driving test scheduled to 31st of January, Christmas coming, I'm trying to learn some flash, getting used a little more to Inkscape, what more? Oh, I need to get Victini soon before the event ends. Oh and the release of PU Beta is near, so stay tuned!
Otherwise... oh well, I've been into more games because of my sister -_- Got into playing Digimon World DS, which has not that good graphics, okay playthrough and slow as can be dialogues. The mechanics are a little weird though and I was able to exploit something, which practically gave me a rookie digimon which could pawn Ultimate digimons with a couple of hits and without taking significant damage. No need to say how much it ruled when it became Champion and Ultimate...
And yet otherwise, I've finished with M4 of #PMD-Explorers on deviantart. Been around even making a tumblr account (unknown008.tumblr.com) and am taking on the next part, which is Event 4. I'm not sure if I'll be able to pull up a collaboration on this one but if I do, I'm sure it'll turn out great! ^_^
And... driving test scheduled to 31st of January, Christmas coming, I'm trying to learn some flash, getting used a little more to Inkscape, what more? Oh, I need to get Victini soon before the event ends. Oh and the release of PU Beta is near, so stay tuned!
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon - Explorers
So yea, I joined this group on Deviant Art and loved it to pieces as soon as I got my way in. Got into learning a lot of things, getting to know who the artist of my so used Mudkip avatar was, getting to know people with great writing skills and art skills same and oh, not enough words to express what I can say. I have immediately worked on my characters for the group and picked a Pikachu and a Mudkip (Peter and Marston respectively). Unfortunately, I have missed Missions 1 to 3 and 3 events which come in between each mission. I have started with my writing application (drawing needs a LOT of work before it can compete with the others ^^;) and I feel more expressive in writing that drawing... for the time being. I already have planned out the pictures, if I ever get to draw as good as the artists, in my mind. Can't wait to finish my missions and actually try to start on drawing.
PurpleKecleon (or PapayaKitty) is my favourite artist so far. Her drawings are amazing and breathtaking! Yes, I know that some of them way back from now maybe have been into... um... not very appropriate... stuff... but it seems she's over that now, and seems happy to be out of it. And yes, she's the one who have drawn the Mudkip I used the first time on Pokemon Universe and edited it for it to move. And then... woah, I meet her there, on deviant art. I felt a little ashamed that I have used her art and that I didn't pay much attention when I made the icon. Yea, I resized the .gif I made on Pokemon Universe and it was all blurry and ugly. So yea, I made a complete revamp out of it!
Other than that, there's Riiko (Or Luvaci or Shroomsworth), Marl (MarlKitty), Eevee (LexyEevee) who, latiass (Gunpowder), Michael (Mike) wrote great stories and which PK illustrated with her marvelous pieces of art. I didn't feel so keen to write since... since... that competition thingy for Commonwealth where they said that they didn't receive my application -_-. So much effort and then nothing. And I was so sure that I'll get at least the third place... anyway, I'm going astray and I simply love the group I just discovered.
On another side... time is really running fast. With driver's test in only 5 days, ACCA exams being conducted from 12 to 28 Dec... and oh, I passed in the F1 paper mock exam lol. Really didn't expect that since I didn't revise at all. Well, I won't be telling the mark, but I think that's a good start. Plus there were uncovered chapters in the mock exam too... so...
And yea, I'm also re-launching myself into pixel art. Been doing a fisherman in two different positions so far and still need to work the other 15 or so other positions for Pokemon Universe. The balance server on PO is up and been practicing a little with the balanced team. Not too bad, but I really miss my powerful pokemon :(. The Black and White Winter Tournament is over too and got a friend ranking in the ~3500. Pity I couldn't get in there... and I wonder what rank I would have got XD.
Also, more depression from AMHD. Really now, they made rating completely anonymous, you no more even see who rated you in your profile and the reasons for giving +ve or -ve ratings have been removed; the older skin have been removed, where I still could give reasons; I can no more close threads, nor open them, nor move them, nor merge posts, nothing at all!!! After all this time... seriously now, I really want to leave that behind, though it would mean to lose some of the friends who are still there. But most left it either way, to find other QA sites, but still like nomads looking for the right oasis to settle down. After all, not all oases contain the required amount of land or volume of water to cater for the needs of a particular person, and AMHD's oasis is now a dry, withered one. The only thing that grows are thorns and fungus, really. /rant
PurpleKecleon (or PapayaKitty) is my favourite artist so far. Her drawings are amazing and breathtaking! Yes, I know that some of them way back from now maybe have been into... um... not very appropriate... stuff... but it seems she's over that now, and seems happy to be out of it. And yes, she's the one who have drawn the Mudkip I used the first time on Pokemon Universe and edited it for it to move. And then... woah, I meet her there, on deviant art. I felt a little ashamed that I have used her art and that I didn't pay much attention when I made the icon. Yea, I resized the .gif I made on Pokemon Universe and it was all blurry and ugly. So yea, I made a complete revamp out of it!
Other than that, there's Riiko (Or Luvaci or Shroomsworth), Marl (MarlKitty), Eevee (LexyEevee) who, latiass (Gunpowder), Michael (Mike) wrote great stories and which PK illustrated with her marvelous pieces of art. I didn't feel so keen to write since... since... that competition thingy for Commonwealth where they said that they didn't receive my application -_-. So much effort and then nothing. And I was so sure that I'll get at least the third place... anyway, I'm going astray and I simply love the group I just discovered.
On another side... time is really running fast. With driver's test in only 5 days, ACCA exams being conducted from 12 to 28 Dec... and oh, I passed in the F1 paper mock exam lol. Really didn't expect that since I didn't revise at all. Well, I won't be telling the mark, but I think that's a good start. Plus there were uncovered chapters in the mock exam too... so...
And yea, I'm also re-launching myself into pixel art. Been doing a fisherman in two different positions so far and still need to work the other 15 or so other positions for Pokemon Universe. The balance server on PO is up and been practicing a little with the balanced team. Not too bad, but I really miss my powerful pokemon :(. The Black and White Winter Tournament is over too and got a friend ranking in the ~3500. Pity I couldn't get in there... and I wonder what rank I would have got XD.
Also, more depression from AMHD. Really now, they made rating completely anonymous, you no more even see who rated you in your profile and the reasons for giving +ve or -ve ratings have been removed; the older skin have been removed, where I still could give reasons; I can no more close threads, nor open them, nor move them, nor merge posts, nothing at all!!! After all this time... seriously now, I really want to leave that behind, though it would mean to lose some of the friends who are still there. But most left it either way, to find other QA sites, but still like nomads looking for the right oasis to settle down. After all, not all oases contain the required amount of land or volume of water to cater for the needs of a particular person, and AMHD's oasis is now a dry, withered one. The only thing that grows are thorns and fungus, really. /rant
Monday, October 17, 2011
Exams coming... soon!
Well, with everything happening, I'm having less and less time and the deadlines are approaching. Got on my 21st driving course, getting there, slowly but surely. Almost hit a dog last Saturday! Fortunately, my tutor braked in time and avoided any accident. Otherwise, getting very well with parking, rear drive and driving on the mains. Only thing now is that he told me that the traffic is much more difficult during weekdays, what is, on the day of my test. So, I'm going to use the day I have my ACCA mock exam, which will be on the 24th, Monday next week. So... driving course in the morning, then mock exam in the evening. Talk about a day off work...
Otherwise, I've been playing Frozen Synapse a little, got maybe halfway through the campaign, not bad, not 'extraordinary' either, but sure takes a lot of power from my laptop.
Something else which happened is that I made my first vectors. Electrode and Shinx. They're both on my deviant art account and I would gladly like some feedback on them. I've been doing Luxio in the meantime, but it's not working as well lol. In other news, I joined the group of #PMD-Explorers on DA. I was looking for a group where I could get some drawing techniques and get better at vectors, and stumbled on that group. And me having liked the PMD series, I started reading through it, seeing the nice drawings and the ~3000 members. Well, it was interesting and after seeing here and there, finally decided to join. I hope that I will be able to participate soon and get better at drawing too XD.
And last thing, touhoumon. Yes, I completed the game story wise, or so I believe. I have beaten the league, but it won't save the file, so I'm stuck 'pre-league' and made my way to the other part of that world to get some more tomes, got 2 in the process, not too hard, except for the Bamboo Forest one. Those 'blind mazes' get so confusing... So, I'm stuck there and I don't know where to get the last HM, Waterfall, which prevents me from going to an area I am pretty sure must be accessible; because the others don't seem to be.
Forum wise, I gave a last chance to AMHD. The activity sure has risen, but the issue remains the same. They treat volunteers as if they are employees and that is not acceptable. But as long as they don't come to me and say do this and that, I'll be fine. And I've been to another QA site since; answerbag.com. It's not 'that' bad, but it's not as good as AMHD used to be either. Oh well, I still have MHF, PHF and CHF where there are the options I like, besides the missing LaTeX in PHF and CHF. And I joined freemathhelp.com too. Not bad either, but they sure could do better!
Okay, I think that that's it for now. It's been quite long and... the IRC client has been blinking a lot now x3.
Otherwise, I've been playing Frozen Synapse a little, got maybe halfway through the campaign, not bad, not 'extraordinary' either, but sure takes a lot of power from my laptop.
Something else which happened is that I made my first vectors. Electrode and Shinx. They're both on my deviant art account and I would gladly like some feedback on them. I've been doing Luxio in the meantime, but it's not working as well lol. In other news, I joined the group of #PMD-Explorers on DA. I was looking for a group where I could get some drawing techniques and get better at vectors, and stumbled on that group. And me having liked the PMD series, I started reading through it, seeing the nice drawings and the ~3000 members. Well, it was interesting and after seeing here and there, finally decided to join. I hope that I will be able to participate soon and get better at drawing too XD.
And last thing, touhoumon. Yes, I completed the game story wise, or so I believe. I have beaten the league, but it won't save the file, so I'm stuck 'pre-league' and made my way to the other part of that world to get some more tomes, got 2 in the process, not too hard, except for the Bamboo Forest one. Those 'blind mazes' get so confusing... So, I'm stuck there and I don't know where to get the last HM, Waterfall, which prevents me from going to an area I am pretty sure must be accessible; because the others don't seem to be.
Forum wise, I gave a last chance to AMHD. The activity sure has risen, but the issue remains the same. They treat volunteers as if they are employees and that is not acceptable. But as long as they don't come to me and say do this and that, I'll be fine. And I've been to another QA site since; answerbag.com. It's not 'that' bad, but it's not as good as AMHD used to be either. Oh well, I still have MHF, PHF and CHF where there are the options I like, besides the missing LaTeX in PHF and CHF. And I joined freemathhelp.com too. Not bad either, but they sure could do better!
Okay, I think that that's it for now. It's been quite long and... the IRC client has been blinking a lot now x3.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Pokemon Universe Community Tournament
Well, as planned, there was this tournament going on since Saturday, and unlike all expectations, I found myself enrolled into the tournament, and won a blazing 6-0 on the first round. Viper (or Jarodel) won his first match with 6-4, a close one and Gammal, my other teammate won on 6-3 (I think) giving us a perfect score of 3-0. Anyway, we moved onto the next round and it was getting late for me, so I went to bed, but today when I wake up, I learned that our team lost to another team; Gammal lost 2 matches out of 3 and was automatically disqualified... I'm sort of disappointed that I wasn't able to be there at that time to have a match, especially since I've been working on my teams quite a lot, trying to make up some synergy... Probably another time then.
On another note, the ACCA exams are coming and I finally decided to take the computer based one. I can pay for the exams in November and then take part in it in December to get my first level qualification. On the 3rd, I'll probably be in another hotel for auditing; this time, Long Beach Hotel, for Sun Resorts again. This'll be quite far and I know I'll have to wake up early, but hey, I hear it's one of the best hotels around. So, I'm looking forward to it. I just hope that there'll be some transport so I don't have to take so many buses. I completed my Annual plan for the company (quite some work, and a lot of importance is put into that...) and am awaiting for 2 ERs from an Assistant Manager, one having the deadline already passed... I wonder what will happen...
Anyway, driving tutoring is going okay-ish, knowing that the tutor has quite of a difficult temperament and am on my 16th lesson. Been driving okay on the roads and the rear gear seems to be good. The last thing this remains is the parking part of the test. It doesn't seem too hard, but hey, better not shout out victory before getting the pass in the test.
Scripting is slow but surely coming. I just finished a level up script and started to work on the stats-up part, together with how items work and I started with the unleashes of weapons. There is something else too that I changed to make it work better in the Psynergy script, which I'll have to duplicate in the Djinn script. Well, it won't be ready that soon =P.
On a final note, I started playing touhoumon a little; a hacked version of Pokemon FireRed with touhous replacing the pokemon. The typing and stats are a little weird, but it's okay. I just got my 5th badge the previous day and my bonekas (touhous) are low-average level for that part of the game. Bah, it doesn't matter, I can still go on strongly!
On another note, the ACCA exams are coming and I finally decided to take the computer based one. I can pay for the exams in November and then take part in it in December to get my first level qualification. On the 3rd, I'll probably be in another hotel for auditing; this time, Long Beach Hotel, for Sun Resorts again. This'll be quite far and I know I'll have to wake up early, but hey, I hear it's one of the best hotels around. So, I'm looking forward to it. I just hope that there'll be some transport so I don't have to take so many buses. I completed my Annual plan for the company (quite some work, and a lot of importance is put into that...) and am awaiting for 2 ERs from an Assistant Manager, one having the deadline already passed... I wonder what will happen...
Anyway, driving tutoring is going okay-ish, knowing that the tutor has quite of a difficult temperament and am on my 16th lesson. Been driving okay on the roads and the rear gear seems to be good. The last thing this remains is the parking part of the test. It doesn't seem too hard, but hey, better not shout out victory before getting the pass in the test.
Scripting is slow but surely coming. I just finished a level up script and started to work on the stats-up part, together with how items work and I started with the unleashes of weapons. There is something else too that I changed to make it work better in the Psynergy script, which I'll have to duplicate in the Djinn script. Well, it won't be ready that soon =P.
On a final note, I started playing touhoumon a little; a hacked version of Pokemon FireRed with touhous replacing the pokemon. The typing and stats are a little weird, but it's okay. I just got my 5th badge the previous day and my bonekas (touhous) are low-average level for that part of the game. Bah, it doesn't matter, I can still go on strongly!
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Second Thought about AMHD
Okay, yesterday some of the rules of the site were changed and we apparently are no more allowed to put in personnal feelings in our posts. Many of my friends are considering leaving the forum, so, I too will probably leave. I'll just be standing a little aback, watching how things will eventually turn out to be. I'm sad that the owners of AMHD are putting such things up. My hope right now is that the forum will not lose its members and become deserted.
Otherwise, I'm still at Grays Inc, got a new laptop because of the problems I was having with the previous one. This one has its problem too: it doesn't load the desktop sometimes when I turn it on. But overall, I think it's better than the previous one I had. I also got some new apps installed on my PC too and I'm planning to get some more stuff for Golden Sun script up for this week.
As for driving, I took my appointment for the 14th of November and I don't know if it'll be a first try-first pass or not. So many people fail the first time because of those mean policemen who only think about making money out of people. Oh well, we'll see how it goes.
On the gaming side, I played Ninja Gaiden (yes, I know it's a bit late) and finished the normal mode in about 5 hours. I'm now in the 'Head Ninja' mode and I'm in the Frost Area. It's a lot harder (that's a good thing) and I'm waiting to get the last few useful items to get those hard levels. It's short though and the extras are somehow wrongly hidden. I mean, they are well hidden yes, but once one miss it, you cannot get back to get the extras, which sort of bugs me. Oh well, after that I'll be picking up Golden Sun again to get the other things I wanted to get for the script.
Otherwise, I'm still at Grays Inc, got a new laptop because of the problems I was having with the previous one. This one has its problem too: it doesn't load the desktop sometimes when I turn it on. But overall, I think it's better than the previous one I had. I also got some new apps installed on my PC too and I'm planning to get some more stuff for Golden Sun script up for this week.
As for driving, I took my appointment for the 14th of November and I don't know if it'll be a first try-first pass or not. So many people fail the first time because of those mean policemen who only think about making money out of people. Oh well, we'll see how it goes.
On the gaming side, I played Ninja Gaiden (yes, I know it's a bit late) and finished the normal mode in about 5 hours. I'm now in the 'Head Ninja' mode and I'm in the Frost Area. It's a lot harder (that's a good thing) and I'm waiting to get the last few useful items to get those hard levels. It's short though and the extras are somehow wrongly hidden. I mean, they are well hidden yes, but once one miss it, you cannot get back to get the extras, which sort of bugs me. Oh well, after that I'll be picking up Golden Sun again to get the other things I wanted to get for the script.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
New Project
Okay, this time, I'm into another project. This actually started as being a project at Deep River Beau Champ, but due to the fact that it was much further than another project starting in the same week, but at Beau Plan, which is much closer, I swapped with a colleague who lived nearer to Deep River Beau Champ. So, I have been at Beau Plan, Pamplemousses since yesterday at Grays Inc. Ltd, a spirit/wine/rhum/beer//liquor, well you know, alcoholic drink producer. We'll be covering the Repairs and Maintenance process. One thing though... the name of the FC was familiar... a name I think I hear some 8 months ago on the Costa Cruise... Well, we get food there and transport, so yeah :3
Anyway, there's not much very exciting otherwise going on right now. Two of the closest Rizon servers went down recently and I'm having to fall back towards a little further servers, increasing the lag by a little... My Golden Sun Script is not moving much due to the rather high volume of work.
Driving is coming on slowly. With the balancing and startups being the worst areas. Why does the . The silly police HQ is open as of 9 am while I'm in the area at 8 -_-.
I thought my laptop was okay... but it got the same problem again. This week was definitely not a good one >.<
Anyway, there's not much very exciting otherwise going on right now. Two of the closest Rizon servers went down recently and I'm having to fall back towards a little further servers, increasing the lag by a little... My Golden Sun Script is not moving much due to the rather high volume of work.
Driving is coming on slowly. With the balancing and startups being the worst areas. Why does the . The silly police HQ is open as of 9 am while I'm in the area at 8 -_-.
I thought my laptop was okay... but it got the same problem again. This week was definitely not a good one >.<
Monday, August 15, 2011
Back to Office
Okay, I'll be back at the office tomorrow and the testing at Swan Insurance Co. Ltd is not even complete... I don't understand why they would remove someone on a job just because of an ERP which is not even a real measure of the utilisation of an employee. And one more thing, now I will be unassigned at the office, and will be asked questions as to why I am unassigned... Either they let me stay on the job, or don't get surprised when your fellow workers are unassigned!!! I could very well stay at home otherwise, and still stay unassigned and this way, I won't get awkward questions.
Bah, on another note, PU disclosed the release date for a Beta which will be for this December, and by the looks of it, it will probably be on the 31st, as always =P. Also, the devs are using some site to keep a backlog. I'm not sure how it works, nor how beneficial it is, but it probably is if they are using one.
Still in the lines of pokemon, Pokemon Rumble seems promising and I would probably should get it sometime. With the Nintendo 3DS which appears to cost some $250 (~ 7000 MUR, and which is indeed quite cheap), that should be fun, together with Luigi's Mansion, Mario 3D Land, Mario Kart 3D and last but not least, Zelda Ocarina of Time. As the Best Wishes season is out, I would probably be able to get the lyrics and add them to my collection soon ;)
Also, I just realised that I missed one last summon in my Golden Sun Dark Dawn Game... =/ Haures is apparently obtained in another 'distorted' way somewhere over the map. Oh well, I'll get it next time I reset my game to get the other experience trees I need for my bot. Otherwise, the summon and djinn procedures are ready, excluding calculations involving luck, which I don't know the exact mechanics. Next on should be psynergies and items utilisation, and after that, monster skills. When the experience is available, they should be up too and lastly, the class change and psynergy change should be done last, since that's what I see as the most complicated as it constantly changes and alters the stats and psynergies of players.
Bah, on another note, PU disclosed the release date for a Beta which will be for this December, and by the looks of it, it will probably be on the 31st, as always =P. Also, the devs are using some site to keep a backlog. I'm not sure how it works, nor how beneficial it is, but it probably is if they are using one.
Still in the lines of pokemon, Pokemon Rumble seems promising and I would probably should get it sometime. With the Nintendo 3DS which appears to cost some $250 (~ 7000 MUR, and which is indeed quite cheap), that should be fun, together with Luigi's Mansion, Mario 3D Land, Mario Kart 3D and last but not least, Zelda Ocarina of Time. As the Best Wishes season is out, I would probably be able to get the lyrics and add them to my collection soon ;)
Also, I just realised that I missed one last summon in my Golden Sun Dark Dawn Game... =/ Haures is apparently obtained in another 'distorted' way somewhere over the map. Oh well, I'll get it next time I reset my game to get the other experience trees I need for my bot. Otherwise, the summon and djinn procedures are ready, excluding calculations involving luck, which I don't know the exact mechanics. Next on should be psynergies and items utilisation, and after that, monster skills. When the experience is available, they should be up too and lastly, the class change and psynergy change should be done last, since that's what I see as the most complicated as it constantly changes and alters the stats and psynergies of players.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Things come and go...
Hmm... nothing much really happening right now, no new pokemon games... still in ACCA. I managed to write a little piece of script for an online ACCA question selection on IRC. Otherwise, I'm still coding the Golden Sun Script, and still learning to drive. Oh, and I got a nasty flu :(
The data collection for the Golden Sun Script is coming quite low and Coatlicue summon is fully operational now.
Concerning work, I'm now at Swan Insurance, where my team and I are working on the Claims Process, excluding Health and Travel. So we've got everything like motor, non-motor, fire and allied accidents, marine and crop claims under our 'reach'. I'll be dealing specifically with the legal procedures, where and how they are processed and which risks are involved. This will go for about 3 weeks to that I won't be idle 'work-wise', but at the same time, I would have liked to be idle, especially with those chapters in F2 to prepare and the random students being summoned in front of the class for a presentation =S. On another note, I might get to the electronics shop someday to see if they got the router... and get more details, especially since the other shop told me that I would be needing much more than a mere antennae to make it work =/.
Concerning PU, I forgot to say that I entered the Balance Testing team and got some of the true 'competitive' battles, some which I won, others which I lost. But hey, they weren't my favourite pokemon and were pokemon which were on the test-list ;)
But oh well, now the laptop is getting randomly its blacked out screen and I lose connection each time I put it on standby, which is the fastest way I found to make the screen work again each time it goes black. I hope that it'll either get repaired when I'm at the office or replaced...
The data collection for the Golden Sun Script is coming quite low and Coatlicue summon is fully operational now.
Concerning work, I'm now at Swan Insurance, where my team and I are working on the Claims Process, excluding Health and Travel. So we've got everything like motor, non-motor, fire and allied accidents, marine and crop claims under our 'reach'. I'll be dealing specifically with the legal procedures, where and how they are processed and which risks are involved. This will go for about 3 weeks to that I won't be idle 'work-wise', but at the same time, I would have liked to be idle, especially with those chapters in F2 to prepare and the random students being summoned in front of the class for a presentation =S. On another note, I might get to the electronics shop someday to see if they got the router... and get more details, especially since the other shop told me that I would be needing much more than a mere antennae to make it work =/.
Concerning PU, I forgot to say that I entered the Balance Testing team and got some of the true 'competitive' battles, some which I won, others which I lost. But hey, they weren't my favourite pokemon and were pokemon which were on the test-list ;)
But oh well, now the laptop is getting randomly its blacked out screen and I lose connection each time I put it on standby, which is the fastest way I found to make the screen work again each time it goes black. I hope that it'll either get repaired when I'm at the office or replaced...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
ACCA Starting
Okay, I started my ACCA courses last Saturday, not that it's difficult or anything, but the lecturer already gave us 4 chapters to read for next week, this Satuday... I have yet to read them, but I'll find some time to in the upcoming days, though there's not much left. I'm especially a little concerned about the F1 course; the lecturer is okay-ish but at the same time, I can't help having a weird feeling about him... oh well, time will tell. I've been reading up things that I need to know right now, some of which are easier to understand than others, but I'm working through it confidently.
Otherwise at work, I finally got access to EY Leads, my Global Time & Expense, Sametime and that annoying Kontiki Delivery Manager removed. I've been browsing that Independence policy online course then the Global Code of Conduct later on, yesterday. It's been so long and I was nearly falling asleep >_<
On another note, I started driving courses too and this is not going too well with this bad tempered teacher. He most often says things right after I should do them, or says something and denies having said so. What a douche...
Otherwise, the Golden Sun Script is coming slowly. I got some other parts of the scripts done and I'm now gathering information mostly about the monsters and the experience tree to get an idea of how the level up will be carried out. Also, there is a new event right now for people owning Pokemon Black/White in japanese; a shiny Golurk and a shiny Hydreigon for the first and second games respectively available until the 2nd of September I believe (needs to be confirmed) and I still don't have a router at home =/. I don't know when I'll get to get it, but I'll find sometime to.
Otherwise at work, I finally got access to EY Leads, my Global Time & Expense, Sametime and that annoying Kontiki Delivery Manager removed. I've been browsing that Independence policy online course then the Global Code of Conduct later on, yesterday. It's been so long and I was nearly falling asleep >_<
On another note, I started driving courses too and this is not going too well with this bad tempered teacher. He most often says things right after I should do them, or says something and denies having said so. What a douche...
Otherwise, the Golden Sun Script is coming slowly. I got some other parts of the scripts done and I'm now gathering information mostly about the monsters and the experience tree to get an idea of how the level up will be carried out. Also, there is a new event right now for people owning Pokemon Black/White in japanese; a shiny Golurk and a shiny Hydreigon for the first and second games respectively available until the 2nd of September I believe (needs to be confirmed) and I still don't have a router at home =/. I don't know when I'll get to get it, but I'll find sometime to.
Monday, June 20, 2011
This week... with ups and downs
Okay, this Saturday was a 'Fun Day' organised for the end of Financial Year and it really was fun.
I got the occasion to watch Pirates of the Carribean 4 last Saturday. Well, as most of the movies, I enjoyed it, especially since it was the very first 3D movie that I watched. Well, some say the movie was not that good, but I really liked it. The effects were nice indeed. The only thing is that I couldn't find Elizabeth Swann Turner (Keira Christina Knightley) and Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and was kind of sad since they had a child after the end of PoTC : At World's End after the generic. I guess that'll be for another time. This movie I'm sure one could watch it independent of the previous three. Though I sure will await the next one with impatience.
Sad thing later, was that the car literally got into another car's passenger door. The damage was not too serious, but still... it was at 11 pm and caused so much stress =/
On another note, I went to Villa Valriche this Saturday for a 'Fun Day', and getting everything paid by the company is not something I'd have expected at all! There was drinks served ad infinitum and various games during the day; table tennis, pool, babyfoot, Wii, 'petanque', football, beach volley and the organised treasure hunt, which our team got a bad surprise. Some previous team indeed played foul play on us, by moving one of the clues we have to get through hidden elsewhere so that we couldn't have it. Well, all the teams got to start differently and all the clues for all the teams are stacked up in the same place, except that when we finally found ours (out 4th out of 5 clues), the game was already over, our clue wasn't with the rest but all alone. The price was a free ticket to a luxurious hotel on the island...
Otherwise, I had one of those few times when your inbox is crowded with emails that Saturday and Sunday. So many notifications! >.< Among other things, I got promoted first to a helper on CHF then global moderator. And last but not least, there are new consoles on the market and new interesting games such as new Mario/Luigi games on the 3DS, then Pokedex, and a few more out there like Zelda Ocarina of Time which I'd like to have. The router... yes the router... I didn't get any news from the shopkeeper... I hope he didn't already forgot me... Maybe I should try to pay him a visit soon.
I got the occasion to watch Pirates of the Carribean 4 last Saturday. Well, as most of the movies, I enjoyed it, especially since it was the very first 3D movie that I watched. Well, some say the movie was not that good, but I really liked it. The effects were nice indeed. The only thing is that I couldn't find Elizabeth Swann Turner (Keira Christina Knightley) and Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and was kind of sad since they had a child after the end of PoTC : At World's End after the generic. I guess that'll be for another time. This movie I'm sure one could watch it independent of the previous three. Though I sure will await the next one with impatience.
Sad thing later, was that the car literally got into another car's passenger door. The damage was not too serious, but still... it was at 11 pm and caused so much stress =/
On another note, I went to Villa Valriche this Saturday for a 'Fun Day', and getting everything paid by the company is not something I'd have expected at all! There was drinks served ad infinitum and various games during the day; table tennis, pool, babyfoot, Wii, 'petanque', football, beach volley and the organised treasure hunt, which our team got a bad surprise. Some previous team indeed played foul play on us, by moving one of the clues we have to get through hidden elsewhere so that we couldn't have it. Well, all the teams got to start differently and all the clues for all the teams are stacked up in the same place, except that when we finally found ours (out 4th out of 5 clues), the game was already over, our clue wasn't with the rest but all alone. The price was a free ticket to a luxurious hotel on the island...
Otherwise, I had one of those few times when your inbox is crowded with emails that Saturday and Sunday. So many notifications! >.< Among other things, I got promoted first to a helper on CHF then global moderator. And last but not least, there are new consoles on the market and new interesting games such as new Mario/Luigi games on the 3DS, then Pokedex, and a few more out there like Zelda Ocarina of Time which I'd like to have. The router... yes the router... I didn't get any news from the shopkeeper... I hope he didn't already forgot me... Maybe I should try to pay him a visit soon.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Working
Okay, it's been a while since I've not been here now. This was due to work and several scripts for my IRC bot that I've taken and edited and well... re-written in some cases and so far, there's only the Golden Script and the Quotes script having some problems. Wait, youtube too is having a problem now T.T.
Other than that, some of the scripts working are pokedex (though my table of referrence is off from every pokemon coming after Magcargo alphabetically because of a typo in my original database and which I'm currently fixing), conversion of units (from metres to feet and vice versa, etc), conversion of currency, world time, world weather, 8ball and perhaps some more.
I'm also starting a nuzlocke with Pokemon VoltWhite given by Silver, I wonder how it'll work. I'm applying the basic rules;
Catch first pokemon in an area and that's the only one allowed in the area,
Faint and call the pokemon dead by releasing it.
I'm modifying a little the rules since it's VoltWhite: Faint first time in an area, and you get to try again once more through your latest save.
And last, I'm thinking about making a stalk area :O
Other than that, some of the scripts working are pokedex (though my table of referrence is off from every pokemon coming after Magcargo alphabetically because of a typo in my original database and which I'm currently fixing), conversion of units (from metres to feet and vice versa, etc), conversion of currency, world time, world weather, 8ball and perhaps some more.
I'm also starting a nuzlocke with Pokemon VoltWhite given by Silver, I wonder how it'll work. I'm applying the basic rules;
Catch first pokemon in an area and that's the only one allowed in the area,
Faint and call the pokemon dead by releasing it.
I'm modifying a little the rules since it's VoltWhite: Faint first time in an area, and you get to try again once more through your latest save.
And last, I'm thinking about making a stalk area :O
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Golden Sun Dark Dawn Completed
Okay, I completed Golden Sun Dark Dawn yesterday night by getting the last Mars Djinni which I didn't get and beating the last Guardian of summons in the game, in Crossbone Is. It wasn't an easy battle; the toughest I've have had, for I was constantly trying to revive Sveta, Karis or Matthew who themselves kept the others ready to fight. I also found the way to optimise their stats altogether and distribute the Djinn so that I could then summon Eclipse nearly every 3 turns while also summoning Judgement, Meteor and Crystallux which have the most decent damage with lowest Djinn cost, which each did 1000~2000 damage each time. With Djinn Storm, 200 HP healing after each turn and Crucible, that Guardian seemed undefeatable, but with perseverance, I finally got it!
Other than that, I got my first day at Ernst and Young and I'll be visiting my first country on the 11th of April; Yellow I think it is. Anyway, I'll get a briefing the Friday before that. The ACCA courses are starting on July and I think I'll try getting some of it as soon as possible through books and online sites. I don't know how the ACCA studies and work together will be, but I will have to do my best and get promoted at work as I should be in three year's time. Hopefully, I'll get my laptop on Tuesday, which was not yet ready last Friday :3
I've seen another shop now selling the router at R 1400 (yay!) and as such, my friend was right when telling me that Telecom has the tendency to sell things about R 1000 more costly, such a pity... Now I have to get there sometime, maybe on the 13th when I will have my Learner's Driving Oral Test, or the 11th when I go to Yellow.
Pokemon? Yes, there was an April Fool's day joke on PU last Friday and everybody who downloaded the link got a Lv 99 Magikarp knowing only Splash and the only pokemon available in the game other than that were Zubat and Mew, the latter having an encounter rate of 1/1000. Of course, I knew all about it, but can't download it due to the low specs of my computer...
Other than that, I got my first day at Ernst and Young and I'll be visiting my first country on the 11th of April; Yellow I think it is. Anyway, I'll get a briefing the Friday before that. The ACCA courses are starting on July and I think I'll try getting some of it as soon as possible through books and online sites. I don't know how the ACCA studies and work together will be, but I will have to do my best and get promoted at work as I should be in three year's time. Hopefully, I'll get my laptop on Tuesday, which was not yet ready last Friday :3
I've seen another shop now selling the router at R 1400 (yay!) and as such, my friend was right when telling me that Telecom has the tendency to sell things about R 1000 more costly, such a pity... Now I have to get there sometime, maybe on the 13th when I will have my Learner's Driving Oral Test, or the 11th when I go to Yellow.
Pokemon? Yes, there was an April Fool's day joke on PU last Friday and everybody who downloaded the link got a Lv 99 Magikarp knowing only Splash and the only pokemon available in the game other than that were Zubat and Mew, the latter having an encounter rate of 1/1000. Of course, I knew all about it, but can't download it due to the low specs of my computer...
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Golden Sun Dark Dawn
Okay, it's been forever since I made my last blog entry >.<
In other news, as the title says it, I've finally got Golden Sun: Dark Dawn and completed it, though not having all the Djinn, namely 1 missing Mars Djinni, 2 Jupiter Djinn, 3 Venus Djinn and 4 Mercury Djinn, and some summons I forgot to take, namely the one at the Passaj dungeon and maybe more.
Other than that, I started working at Harel Mallac since the 21st of March as a trainee and replacing a certain Kavita Aubeeluck who is on maternity leave. 4 days prior to this, I had an interview for Ernst and Young, and it seems I did it well, for I was to call at the bureau on Friday 25 for the contract signing, where they gave us until Monday 28, tomorrow, to return it. It turns out that I would be better off starting ACCA directly, instead of 'losing' 3 years in a BA in Accounting. Plus in the ACCA exam, the latter site said that I can get a BSc Hons together, which I think would be better than following the offer of Ernst and Young here.
Otherwise, I got the ROM for Pokemon Black EU finally, and I'm now looking for a router, which currently appears out of sale. R 2300 they say it costs. Not that bad, and I'll get Wifi at home! ^^,)
Last, Google AdSense finally is 'official'. I got a pin number and have entered it some time ago. Oh, and I almost forgot, I've been learning some perl Programming for a bot in my IRC chan, and ended up to a Project Euler site, completing 10 problems so far, with and without programming. Still learning more about it!
In other news, as the title says it, I've finally got Golden Sun: Dark Dawn and completed it, though not having all the Djinn, namely 1 missing Mars Djinni, 2 Jupiter Djinn, 3 Venus Djinn and 4 Mercury Djinn, and some summons I forgot to take, namely the one at the Passaj dungeon and maybe more.
Other than that, I started working at Harel Mallac since the 21st of March as a trainee and replacing a certain Kavita Aubeeluck who is on maternity leave. 4 days prior to this, I had an interview for Ernst and Young, and it seems I did it well, for I was to call at the bureau on Friday 25 for the contract signing, where they gave us until Monday 28, tomorrow, to return it. It turns out that I would be better off starting ACCA directly, instead of 'losing' 3 years in a BA in Accounting. Plus in the ACCA exam, the latter site said that I can get a BSc Hons together, which I think would be better than following the offer of Ernst and Young here.
Otherwise, I got the ROM for Pokemon Black EU finally, and I'm now looking for a router, which currently appears out of sale. R 2300 they say it costs. Not that bad, and I'll get Wifi at home! ^^,)
Last, Google AdSense finally is 'official'. I got a pin number and have entered it some time ago. Oh, and I almost forgot, I've been learning some perl Programming for a bot in my IRC chan, and ended up to a Project Euler site, completing 10 problems so far, with and without programming. Still learning more about it!
Monday, February 21, 2011
Last Black Legendary
Okay, got my last Pokemon Black in-game legendary, Torunerosu, the Flying type legendary pokemon, last night. It seemed tough at start, but then I found a quick and easy way to get it ;)
Other than that, I resumed school, doing some things over again while looking for some way to get a trainee placement in a company, preparing my CV, and looking for Universities.
Today announces also the first say when Shiny Suicune is available over WiFi, which unlocks Zoroark in Black and White versions. Considering I already have a japanese version of the game and the ongoing event on Zoroark, the Shiny Suicune might not be that 'must' but it suits well in my collection =P.
Pokemon Ranger, Platinum and Explorers of Sky are for the time being 'paused' but I should resume to them soon as I completed nearly all the things to do in Black. Well, update in a few days!
Other than that, I resumed school, doing some things over again while looking for some way to get a trainee placement in a company, preparing my CV, and looking for Universities.
Today announces also the first say when Shiny Suicune is available over WiFi, which unlocks Zoroark in Black and White versions. Considering I already have a japanese version of the game and the ongoing event on Zoroark, the Shiny Suicune might not be that 'must' but it suits well in my collection =P.
Pokemon Ranger, Platinum and Explorers of Sky are for the time being 'paused' but I should resume to them soon as I completed nearly all the things to do in Black. Well, update in a few days!
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