Minesweeper Clone 2006

A new version of the Minesweeper Clone is released! (for details, click on the "Minesweeper Clone" link on the side)

Having woken up early, I was just thinking that I could start getting some work done today. But then what did I see when I went online? The release of this new version...and of course I had to download it and try it out! This version needs something called a .net framework from Microsoft to work, so it's less convenient than the previous versions. It took me almost two hours to download that! (23MB with my super-slow connection) But I'd say that it was worth it, it looks better than the older version at any rate :-P

I'm really happy that this version finally came out, because the last version(0.97) couldn't work on my computer, and I was using the 0.96 version, which couldn't play 0.97 videos! So now I finally got to see the videos made by other players during the last 6 months, including the world record of 10 seconds on intermediate :-D

If you feel that you don't want to download a 23MB thing for a programme you don't know, I can always send you the 0.96 version I was using ;-) Then if you like that you can move on to the new sophisticated version :-P

(and I did get some work done today, just maybe less than I would have done if there hadn't been this "distraction"! :-P)

a little extra info...

The towns I went to are situated on the Cote d'Azur (the French Riviera) You might have heard this name before ;-)

Cannes

When we left Nice, we went to Cannes for half a day. There wasn't much to see there (as we had already heard), we walked along the coast a bit and went to the place where they hold the festivals. The photo is just me in front of the steps...we took a group photo there as well, but I haven't got it yet, I'll have to wait till my friend sends it to me, then I might put it here (or not :-P)

We also saw the handprints of stars, but there were a lot whom we didn't know. But I'm sure you all know this star whose handprint I put here :-P

After visiting Cannes we left for home. Two of my friends came back to Lyon with me to visit, they just left this morning (that's why I have time to write all this!)

Oh yeah, and in this post the photos came out in the right order. Goodness knows why. :-/

still Monaco...at the palace!

And of course we had to go to the palace and see them change guards... it was at exactly 11.55am. There were already quite a lot of people there when we arrived, since it's one of the major attractions.

After that we took a photo with a guard, he was actually on duty but there were a lot of people who were taking photos with him. Between photos, he had to open the gate for people to pass (that's how we knew that he was on duty, and not just there to take photos with tourists! lol) So we decided to make it quick and take a single photo with all of us in it.

I don't know why the photos are inversed, the bottom one should have been on top! Does anyone know how to make sure which photo comes first? (it worked fine in the last post)

Monaco

We went to Monaco for a day trip. One of my friends had friends studying in Nice, so we spent our nights in Nice and took the train to visit nearby towns. Monaco is about 20 minutes away from Nice (by train), so it was really convenient.

Of course we had to take photos in from of the casino (the first photo) You can't see the words very clearly here, but you can click on the photos to enlarge them. I still made them a bit smaller before uploading them (otherwise it would take ages with my super slow connection!) but they're bigger than what you have on this page.

The second photo was taken in a Japanese garden. We also went to the rose garden, but I won't post those photos here, hehe, if you want to see them you'll have to come see them on my computer ;-P

Vive les vacances!

The title of this post means "hurray for the holidays!" But somehow I find that the English version just doesn't sound very nice (it's a bit too long) :-P I'll spread my photos over several posts, I hope it looks better that way.

Well, in this post you have the photos of Nice. The waterfall is on a hill, and there was a lift going up...but we have to pay to use the lift! The price was 80 cents going up and 1.10 up and down. At first we thought that we would walk down after seeing the waterfall (and that on the way down we could see the sights), but it turned out that we had to walk a bit to get to the waterfall, and after that, since we didn't know how far it would be to walk down, we went back and took the lift. :-P And we didn't even pay for the down trip, when we reached the bottom we just walked out as if we had paid for a round trip when we entered (okay, we are bad, bad girls :-P)

And the beach...well, it's what Nice is famous for. I must say that I really like this photo I took; I think it captures the scenery quite well ;-)

Other than the beach and the waterfall, I didn't like the town of Nice very much, I found it slightly dirty and crowded (there was construction work in town, it might be partly because of that)

Holidays!

Finally I'm on holiday! On Monday I'll be leaving for Nice (a town in the south of France), I'll be meeting up with 3 girls from my batch (all studying in different towns now) Then during the 2nd week of the holidays, I'll be going to a friend's place for a few days. I'll be posting photos! ^_^

(added 29th April) Okay, I said 3 girls, but in the end another one decided to join us :-D That's why in the later post you have 5 girls in the photo instead of 4.

A little update

Okay, now everything's in place! I've added a link to a page telling you about the links (complicated huh? :-P) and I've updated my profile as well...um, if you call that an update ;-)

I also added a note on my old site saying that it will no longer be updated, so do go take a look at its final resting, uh, state. (I can't say place since it's never moved :-P)

Easter eggs

Tomorrow is Easter, (or today in Malaysia) and I have a 3-day weekend. (Monday's a holiday) Some of my friends who live not too far away from INSA go home to celebrate Easter with their family, but those who live further away don't, especially since in a week we'll be on holiday. (2-week break)

Charlotte and Alice were saying that it would be their first time not spending Easter at home, which means not getting their chocolate eggs on Easter day. So somehow I came up with the idea to buy some chocolate eggs and hide them in my room so that they could look for them. :-P Elodie went out to buy the eggs, then we hid them in my room. Then we suggested to Charlotte and Alice to have dinner together on Saturday (that way we could let them search for the chocolates later) But Alice couldn't make it, so in the end Charlotte was the only one looking for the eggs. (I must say that Elodie and I had fun seeing her search, since we knew where the eggs were hidden. :-D)

After all the eggs were found, well, what else, we ate them! But not all, since we had bought quite a lot. (otherwise they'd be very quickly found!) Then we went to Alice's room (she wasn't there, but her roommate was) and we hid some of the eggs in her room, leaving a note on her table telling her how many eggs were there to find. All in all, I'd say that we really had fun. This must be one of my best ideas ever (not that I have much :-P)

So that you know who I'm talking about, here's a photo taken during our theatral activity (it was during break, and they were fooling around), from left: Elodie, Charlotte, Alice, Anne-Lise. We don't see the faces very well on this page, but you can click on the photo to see it in actual size. And at any rate, I'll probably post more photos of them.

gravity

Here's a story I'd like to share:

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A teacher said whenever he teaches the chapter about earth gravity, he will

tell this story.

There were 3 priests, 1 English, 1 American, 1 Jew. They met at a

conference.

The American priest asked how the other two did to the money which the

followers put in the donation box for the church.

The English priest, as most of the conservative english men said "In order

not to disappoint the followers and

be fair, I would draw a line on the floor and throw all the money from the

box to the sky, those which fell on the right side of the line would belong

to god and will kept for the church uses, for those which fell on the

left side of the line would be my salary, how about you two?"

The flexible American priest said "I am more or less like you. I would draw

a circle, of course not too big and throw the money from the box to the sky,

those which fell inside the circle belong to god, those which fell

outsde the circle belong to me."

The Jews who loves money more than his life, couldn't stand it any longer

and shouted to them "why do we need so much trouble? I did not need to draw a

line nor a circle. My method is very simple, I throw the money directly to

the sky, those which remained in the sky, of course belong to the god, those

which fell on the floor, ha, of course was mine."

See, this is how to take the advantage of earth's gravity.

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And that's why we have to learn Physics :-P

How much is the probability of this happening?

I just got back from playing ping pong, and I saw something amazing that I simply must tell someone about. Ping pong players will be able to visualise this in their minds. The girl who was playing served and the ball hit the edge of the table. So it bounces right up high into the air. Now there are two ways it can bounce. It can either bounce forward (towards the other side of the table) or backwards (towards the server). Well, this ball went forward. And who would've guessed it, it hit the edge at the other end of the table! So it ended up as a good service, and there was absolutely no way the opponent could return it, since everyone thought it was out (even the server). So...let's just say...if you can master this service, you're on the road to greatness! :-P

Birth of a blog

Well, here goes, 10th April 2006, a historical date! lol

The birth of my blog...and why did I suddenly decide to start one? I'm not so sure...just thought that you might like replying to my posts rather than post in my old guestbook, where it's kinda detached from the rest of the site.

Anyway I'll try to post stuff from time to time...sometimes I feel that some things are not worth writing on my site, but I guess a blog's different :-P Well, we'll see! ^_^

I'll try to transfer the links from my site to this one, but it'd probably take some time...I've kinda turned procrastinator (that's also the reason why I haven't updated my site in ages)

I hope to hear from you all...comments are welcome!