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Halfway through the motion, not the best I have, but not the worst either. Is this something I should be happy and be content with?

It could have been worse. If not for the people whom I've spent my time studying with, even though I couldn't have asked them any questions regarding work, except for one person on one module. No surprise that that module happens to be my best this semester.

The Turing Test

The lecturer of the Artificial Intelligence course once told us that whatever that he had taught us, we may forget; but we must remember what the Turing Test is. Obviously, I didn't. This question came out in both the mid-term and finals, and I crapped through both because I simply don't understand what he was trying to say.

Finally, 3 weeks after the exams have ended, I've understood what a Turing test is. While reading the sci-fi book

2001: A Space Odyssey by Sir Arthur C. Clarke,

I read this line of word "If one could carry out a prolonged conversation with a machine - whether by typewriter or microphone was immaterial - without being able to distinguish between its replies and those that a man might give, then ....." then the machine has passed the Turing test.

One line, so clear, yet the lecturer simply made it sounds like an ordeal. Now I'm starting to worry about the result that will be coming out this Friday at 6pm.

Champions League Finals 07/08

So fast another year of soccer season has ended with the ECL finals being played early this morning between two English teams - Chelsea and Man U.

Just 363 days ago, I was watching the match between AC Milan and Liverpool at Bimbang's house and today's match we've planned to watch at his house again, but due to other commitment, he's now 1845 km away. Therefore, I ended up watching on the computer alone as others don't seemed interested to watch the match.

Prior to the match, I had hoped that it won't be a boring match. I'm glad that it wasn't that bad after the first goal went in. Both sides' goalies have had a lot of work to do and going into the penalties was the climax.

I've heard someone commented that for each of the two teams, their fans would hoped that their teams win the double, and other fans would wished the glory shared between the two clubs, but I've secretly wished that Man U will triumph. At least this would mean that another club has failed to win any trophy this year, just like my favourite club.

Anyway, during the penalty shootout, I thought that I will once again be disappointed. On the fifth round, Terry walked forward to the penalty spot confidently, and I thought that was the end. On the seventh round, looking at the expression of Anelka's face, I knew it must be the end.

1-1 draw between the two sides, Man U win 6-5 from the penalty spot. Let's look forward to next year's match between Arsenal and ????...

Hedgehog's Dilemma

As much as the hedgehogs wishing to share their warmth, it's a sad thing that they can't do that without hurting one another, and it's even sadder that this dilemma applies to human beings as well.

In Evangelion, the Human Instrumentality Project is the attempt to force human to evolve and merging each individual into one single entity by removing the barrier between them known as the Absolute-Terror Field(commonly known as AT Field in the show).

This way, there will be no more loneliness and there will not be people hurting each other. As a single supreme entity, human will be like God and be able to achieve things that individuals could never attain.

However with instrumentality, individuality will be lost. Though the negative feelings are wiped out, the positive ones are annihilated as well.

In the end of Evangelion, Shinji rejects Instrumentality and decides to live his life as a separate individual, at the risk of being hurt by others again, probably because he realizes that increasing human potential is only possible by having individuals interact with each other to solve their problems and advance, and that finding a solution to the problems of people hurting each other was the only true way forward.

Instrumentality seemed a good thing, nonetheless, it cannot be achieved. Therefore the only way out for us is to interact and advance. Then the inevitable hurting of one another can be reduced to the minimum.

In sweet memory of Ligo

For more than half my lifetime so far, I've had this great friend whom always never failed to come to the door, whipping its tail to welcome me when I visited my great aunt's house.

When he first came, I was overwhelmed by his size. When I sat down, and he sat up, he is much taller than I was, so I never sit down beside him so that I'm taller.

When I was still a puny boy, and when he was still a puppy, though no one could tell given his big size, I liked to bully him by chasing him around the house in a bicycle. Not once did he lose his temper against me, yet everytime he will come back to me wagging its tail whenever I am eating as he's such a glutton.

He especially hates stormy days, as for some reasons, he's very afraid of thunder and water. Every stormy day, he will like to hide under a table and shiver in fear.

I used to like taking him along to 7-eleven, without a lash. It's a lot of fun when I see people acting a bit scared of me. Though I know that he will just follow me wherever I go, and wait for me outside the stall when I told him to. I didn't know how he understands me, since he had never undergone any training. The previous dog my great aunt had, went missing after going out alone..

After my great aunt shifted house, he will walk me to the mrt station whenever I'm going out for meetings from there. I was quite afraid he will go into the station with me, but lucky for me, he will just walk back after seeing me go down the escalator.

Even though he's not the most cutest, handsome, cuddly of dogs I've seen, he's probably the one that is most worthy of a place in my heart.

Ligo returned to the planet on 14 May 2008

Ironman

The main purpose for watching ironman wasn't the show. The main plan for me and Bimbang was actually the lunch at the roasted meat stall that was saved in 抢摊大行动. Ops, still need to thank Kyuu for coming to watch this show a second time.

This School Holiday

OMG, everyone is so busy this holiday. Going overseas to have fun, working for the extra sum of money to spend for next year, and one even already planned to play chess for the whole period.. WTF..

I'll really need to find something to do, getting too lazy after mixing with too many not so hardworking people in my school. However, everything is still in the planning stage, but it should be something like (according to priority):

1) learning to master more games, I haven't won a single game against Bimbang so far..
2) doing something meaningful every Saturday
3) training for IPPT
4) learning C# programming language, a wtf programming language, that will be very useful next semester
5) appear every now and then in gatherings.
6) finding work to do

So the top priority is to play..

Thanks for your kind thoughts

Thanks for coming to pray for me during this exam period but my exams have ended last week..

The Dessert is Sour

Finally I've finished eating the 5-course meal. It's so filling that I can hardly think straight. Everything that can go wrong, went wrong.

The appetizer was bad but i managed to force it down my throat.

The first main course was ok, but the serving is way too much and I didn't manage to finish it up. Think many others didn't manage to clear up that dish as well, so it's not my fault.

The second main course was not bad apart from one of the ingredient they used that I didn't like, that's why I didn't eat that one up.

The third main course was probably the nicest of the whole meal, half of it was a mixture of 5 ingredients, but of course, no one will eat up all the 5 ingredients. That just can't be right.

I was looking forward to eating the dessert until it was served. Not to mention that it was not sweet, it was sour. Utterly disappointed with the standard, but with no choice, I had to eat up the dessert since I've paid so much for it. Maybe I'll just sue the restaurant for damages after the meal.

Oh, the clause on the wall states:

"Eat At Your Own Risk!!".