fold it up, and just pretend

bad things accumulate exponentially

2006-08-23T06:57:00.000+08:00

#1 i'm having exams. and i'm lagging behind syllabus. i need to catch up, but i lazed. so i kept hanging 'round till last minute. totally my fault.

#2 on the verge of exams, my PC's PSU blew. FYP, lab reports, et cetera had to wait till i get it fixed.

#3 i caught flu before the paper.

#4 the flu pestered me till today, where i will be having my lab session.

Not as bad as my housemate (where he got dumped and having to drop his FYP), but it's still terrible. my, i need a break.

Dota Digest #2: ICCG APIIT and official photographers

2006-08-14T08:21:00.000+08:00

the Bites
It will be held on 5th & 6th August.
Participating University/College/Institution of higher learnings;
1. APIIT - UCTI
2. Binary University College
3. IMU
4. Inti College Subang
5. KBU International
6. Kemayan ATC
7. LimKokWing
8. Metropolitan
9. Monash U
10. Multimedia University
11. Prime College
12. Sunway University College
13. Taylors College [Pre-U)
14. Taylors PJ
15. TPM Academy
16. UCSI
17. UniTAR
18. SEGi
19. Mantissa
20. Informatics KL
21. HELP University College
22. KDU

Cash prize for the champion is RM2500, followed RM1500 and RM1000. There will also be trophies and medals, and T-shirts.

official website

the Results
Champion: Taylor's Zionnet
1st Runnerup: MMU G_G (aka Blink)
2nd Runnerup: MMU DB (aka KIA)

we got 3rd place. ^^
some pics;

the Job
been working for awhile now as a part timer in MMU with YS Photo. Congrats to all those who's graduating! Times does fly. Familiar faces with their families brushing shoulders outside the halls, parents knowing more new friends, and kids running along the bazaar. what a sight.

Many never thought of the convocation day. for me, convo is just another event that come and go each year.
just a day where you wear your robe and throw your hat.
a day where you shake hands, hugs and congratulate each other.
a day of troublesome ordeals.
hehe.
silly me.

if the amount of efforts of all those who completed their studies accumulated together, it would be something so astounding that we could never imagine.

ah, last day at job.
tiring days are over, and classes are back to normal.
p/s: the new buildings are definitely breathtaking, especially MMU's new hall.

Dota Digest #1 : ASIAN Championship and a withdrawal

2006-08-08T11:31:00.000+08:00

ASIAN CHAMPIONSHIP at SINGAPORE
venue: FTZ cybercafe, SS15.
participant: Only the champions of WCG preliminaries in Malaysia.

what's in it?
The winner will be representing Malaysia to Singapore to play in the Asian Championship. All accomodations will be fully sponsored by WCG.

what's the differences? (in a nutshell)
6.34 -AP draft match
Match Length : Until the winner is determined
Match Point: Best of 1 match
Match Winner: The team who destroys the opponent’s throne/world tree first, or if the opponent surrender
Version: 6.34 or later
Game mode: All pick (-ap)
The match will begin with a coin toss and winner of the coin toss will get to choose:
(a) Sentinel/Scourge side of the map or
(b) the first hero selection from drafting
Important rules changes: backdoor allowed.
full rules: download
full info: wcg website

The Winner
Semi Final
Bz2 Vs WN-SK
Netzerozzzzz Vs Bz1

Final
WN-SK Vs Bz1

Winner = WN-SK

The hot Stuffs
SK had a come-back win from having 4 rax broken in early game.

The ugly Stuffs
sK leader M4Gi_7 just announced his unavailability to join his team in Singapore due to studies. Malaysia's dota community is going to have a big frown for the weekend. Goodluck to remaining members of sK. Unofficial news states that Aven from sK 2nd team will replace M4Gi_7.

Cutting it short
all the best to SKz. sigh.

Upconverting of OFDM and Dota.

2006-07-26T18:20:00.000+08:00

Dear sirs;
I have a question about OFDM signal spectrum. I will be so glad if you answer to that. If we have 200 carriers with 100Hz carrier spacing, after OFDM, what's the band width of signal on the RF=1300kHz. is it 20kHz or 40kHz? and why?

WITH THE BEST REGARDS
Maryam Sedaghat

Miss Sedaghat,

Up converting a signal to RF or carrier frequency doesn't change the bandwith of your signal: it is just a frequency translation. If we look at your system in baseband, we see that you have 200 subcarriers witha frequency spacing of 100 Hz so a BW = 20 KHz. This
answer is valid when you up convert by multiplication with exp(-j*2*pi*fc*t) where fc is your carrier frequency (1300 KHz).

On the other hand if you upconcvert real part and imaginary part of your baseband signal by multiplying thzm respectively by cos (2*pi*fc*t) and sin(2*pi*fc*t), you have 2*20 KHz= 40 KHz of BW.

Good luck,
Seyed Sajad Sadough

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I had been playing a lot of dota. To date, i joined a total of 3 tournament;
- irelax 2004?
- MMU GDC LGC 2005/06
- WCG College Preliminary 2006

and i am about to join another one. next week, organized by APIIT, the ICCG (InterCollege Cyber Games).

sigh, hope i can win this time.

Amount of competitions that we could've but didn't join;
- SMM N9, SMM Revenge.
- BananaNet.

i.need.to.finish.up.simulating.my.OFDM.codes