iQuest Studios

Hmm, long time since I have blogged.

Firstly, sorry for not providing any updates to ALS or ICF for so long. So sorry that there has been hardly any progress on any of the 2 scripts in the past erm.. 5 months. And I am sorry to announce that there isn’t any scripts updates. BUT..but I am going to restart work on the scripts from today. Just give me a while to get used to the code and continue from where I left off. I am pretty out of touch with coding.

Secondly, thanks for your continuous support for this blog despite the fact that I post on a very irregular basis. The blog is nearing 35K - that is 35,000 unique visitors, which, I must say is quite an achievement. The number of downloads for all the 3 scripts that I have written totals to about 7000. I shall now resolve to blog more often from now, despite my hectic JC college.

Thirdly, the weather was pretty bad for the past week, (which was actually my school holiday) and I did not have the chance to train much at all. In fact, as I am typing this, it is raining outside AGAIN. Then, the bad weather made me catch a flu, and I even got a fever. HOWEVER, I got an aero helmet. I got it from another triathlete for S$200, which is quite cheap (relative to original price of an aero helmet). But actually coming to think of it, it may not be exactly that worth it. After all, I don’t think I will wear it often during cycling training, maybe except when I am training in aero position. But never mind, I shall not regret my purchase.

But today, I shall not be blogging about my training, which sadly has been the main focus of the past x number of posts. I know you guys are bored of reading my duathlon training progress reports.

No, today, I shall be commenting on how authoritative our school can get. Apparently, they are now monitoring our Internet activities as well. A few weeks back, my friend told me that our school’s Discipline Master paid a visit to their class blog, and found pictures of “flagpoling” - which is basically the act of ramming a guy with his legs spread open into a flagpole. Apparently he forced them to take down the pictures, and had a chat with the class representative (which is that friend). I was quite shocked when I heard about it, but I can understand the school’s actions - after all, such pictures may affect our school reputation.

But it doesn’t stop there. Just a few days ago, another friend told me that his blog is under surveillance by the school. Reason? A few sharp (and not exactly stinging - but that’s my opinion) remarks about another blogger from our school. Well, apparently the other guy can’t stand a little online flaming, and ran complaining to a teacher. And BLAM, now the school is reading every word that my friend wrote on his blog. Oh, and my friend had to make a public apology. Ouch. What happened to freedom of speech.

Seriously, to tell the truth, knowing that school is waiting to jump on a single word on your blog out of line with the school policy SUCKS BIG TIME. I am going to ensure that the school never finds my blog. Haha, kinda hard when I listed my blog URL on the school portal. But it’s time to take that down.

Anyway, I realised that I got lots of commitment this year. Hope that I can manage. Time to sign off =)

Till next time,
cheers

Tags: aero helmet, authoritarian, School