Congrats to Kai Yang for getting his First Class Honours.

And by God’s grace I passed my Japanese, considering the tutorials I skipped, the oral which I screwed up and completely forgetting the meaning of every verb in one of the sections in the finals, though Xiao Hei will want to differ.

About my other only graded module, let’s just say that my CAP dropped a little. For fear of being misunderstood, just ask me if you wanna know exactly.

Brought the equipment to Jap tutorial today as I was running late and didn’t have time to drop it off. As the seating arrangement of the class is rather cramp, I placed it on the floor behind my seat.

It could have been the two hour lesson or my state of mind as I completely forgot about it when the class ended. Realised it only at the bus stop when I was about to leave school two hours later.

Rushed back to Arts praying that the tutorial room would still be open and that it’ll be in there, or if not then at least some kind soul turned it over to the security post.

Found the place still well lit, unlike SoC where they close the rooms early and the entire floor will be dark. Interrupted the class that was going on to retrieve the items. Thank God they were still there.

Went back to dump the stuff. Found that LJ had told those around of my folly. So embarrassing.

Never felt so absent-minded before. Think I must really be losing it.

[EDIT]
Just remembered I did a Cheesecake last sat too. Left my wallet at home and had to go back to get it.

…because the SoC PnP logon authentication service failed at about 10pm and only those which are already logged on could remain online.

…because the computer which I’m using for work timed-out and could not get online anymore.

…because having BitTorrent downloading files (legal ones!) perpetually on my laptop kept the connection alive, allowing me to download materials online to transfer them over to the terminal for work.

…because I teach a class on Tuesdays that’s why I brought my laptop down to school.

You know why I feel that SoC’s administration is the most competent administrative body in NUS?

Decided to report the network failure this morning at 9, after waking up and finding that the problem has not yet been resolved. Walked into the helpdesk office and Lay Hoon was on the phone. Overheard the conversation about “not being able to log in at SR1″.

I patiently waited for her and when she was done, she gestured for me to hold a moment while she called for “AV” over the intercom, before hearing me explain my problem.

“You’re the second one you know…” she mentions quizzically.
“It was down since last night. A few of my…”
“Since last night?!” she exclaimed, picked up the intercom and paged for “Network!”

Now that’s what I call good support.

It don’t take very much to deduce that two persons reporting a same problem in different locations is no longer an isolated problem with the equipment at SR1 (needing AV support) but one with the network, and it pleases me that our technical support crew are well trained and experienced to do that in an instant.

So many times have we been pissed at getting dumb support people *coughNUScarparkcough* to realise what the problem really is and what they have to do to solve it. And it doesn’t help that they are the only ones who have the power to fix it.

Now only if we can get the rest of the university as well-oiled as our school’s operations is.

Called up The Hardware Place yesterday to enquire about the shipment of the Pioneer DVR-A09 and was told that the new DVR-110 OEM has just arrived. Yay!

So went down to Sim Lim to get it. Being an OEM version, the front panel was all black and dull, without the nice white logos and the “Pioneer” word. But still it’s no different inside from a box retail version.

Got a bunch of TDK 16x DVD-R to test out the 16x burning through the external case and made an expensive coaster. But also can’t bear to use it as a coaster cos the TDK discs look really nice and shimmery.

Finally managed to burn at 16x via the firewire instead of USB.

There’s something about Pioneer that it takes a couple of months for the firmware to mature before producing really good burns. But I don’t mind. Good things come to those who wait, which reminds me of how God sometimes work.