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.
Monday, October 17, 2011
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.
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