Summer
I will be gone to Thailand from July 1 - August 22. That’s just about all my summer. Feel free to send me and email at admin@alvinsng.com. I wont be checking my email as often but I will try to reply to them. Other than that I have been working with Mark on the Third Generation of Lincolnhigh.net. Its will be done hopefully within the first few weeks of school. Here is a photo with my close friends outside AMC Van Ness, after watching Wanted on opening night.
Senior Year
Prologue
Well its finally Senior year! The year that I have been waiting for is finally here. It is the final chapter of my High School experience. I am pretty proud with what I have done so far, not to mention its just the beginning. During senior year I will be creating new and more crazier videos and also be boosting new levels in technology around school.
School
Junior year passed pretty quick, with my biggest memories would be the BSA Video, Drama BSA, Prom, Newhs.net, SEfL Project, First Music Video and Drama Awards! Its been a fun yet unforgettable experience that I would have never gotten if I was home schooled.... the year ended with a fun hike around the marin, below is a photo of where we hiked
Doesn't seem like 30 minutes from SF eh?
Video
There has been two videos posted since the last blog, the Drama Awards video and the SEfL project video. Both were presented and both where big. The SEfL project was the video that explained to our district what we are learning from the Academy program and what has helped students, school and the community. Our video came to a big success and the student involved were all rewarded with certificates. The Drama Awards video was a sad memory that captured the fun moments during this year, from the start of the crucible to the last day on MustangTV the video has brought it all back. During the summer I will be in Thailand for the majority of the time. I hope to do a video documentary when I return from the trip. There might be a chance that I will create a video about my room design.
Computers
Well the site newhs.net is a bit more active now, the next feature will be the "howto" section. I have begun to create software packages so that anyone can learn and apply the open source codes onto their own website. Check out the software page on this website for available packages. I have been able to run a file server off Ubuntu and will begin to open up web servers off my computer. This is currently just for testing purposes. It may be available in the future for dropoff/pickup of large files. Computer Club next year for those interested!
Music Video
Prologue
It is nearing the end of the school year. It is the time of year when I have to get a ton of work done before the year ends. A simple list of what I need to do by the end of the school year is, PSA video project, Drama awards video, Last Drama video, Complete Academy website, Online grade book/class site, Grease DVD and Physics Project. Whew is going to be a long and tiring stretch until I get all this done.
School
Interestingly in APUS we are on this mission to learn about history and how it affects our daily life. This new online mission is done to learn about history from us and other students. It been pretty fun. I did three missions so far with a total of 47 points! Check me out at playflashback.com, (Im Computer Dude). I have been deciding for a while now on whether to transfer to Lowell or stay at Lincoln. Not many people know about me thinking about this but it has been in my mind for a long long time. After some long thought it should just stay. Lets hope i don't go crazy and change the decision last minute eh?
Video
Its been a while now, the first music video is here! Yeah i got a lot of feedback about how its of sync. Its harder than you think. I seen the music videos online and they have similar but smaller problems. Sometimes when you think the artist is singing in a certain way, their lips move differently. This video just happened to be a bit more dramatic. It wont happen next time lets hope. It was pretty impressive how it was done is just a day. Probably the fastest video i made. The only video I havent done would be an action video... Get ready class of 09!
Computers
I am now on my final web project. Academy.lincolnhigh.net is just done. The new class site will be published by the start of the next year. Hopefully there will be a wide use of the website. It will be incorporating some of the fun features in newhs.net. I been working more on Apache web servers and I will probably have a fully running file server soon. It seems like the school computers have some security vulnerabilities that needs to be addressed.
AP Testing
Prologue
This is a restart to my blog (AGAIN). I haven’t really been a dedicated blogger, I think it has due to me being busy and not having time to really write down what happens.
School
Well as the title has just said AP testing, I find that to be quite a pain to do, not the test but just the worry, stress and cramming. Well APUS is done and I am still not sure on whether I should even try to get a 2 on the AP Physics test. I haven’t been concentration in studying for that test mainly because I am not in an AP Physics class??? Well if I was then that would be a totally different story there. Sighs that is $85 bucks gone to waste =(. On the bright side I think the AP US test went well. I am going to prom =).
Videos
There are two prom videos that have been quite popular at the school. The videos were quite simple to film and especially having Dominic giving pretty much the stupidest ideas that a video producer would want to hear. The videos were made to promote prom but I doubt that has convinced anyone to actually change their mind on going. I know that a lot of drama people wanted to be in the video but didn’t know that we were filming. On all upcoming video days I send out messages on facebook to my “drama friends”, make sure that you are on my facebook drama list and also check your facebook. I am planning on a few more fun videos after the play including a music video. I have recently added the two SF cliff side videos that were shot a pretty long time ago with mark. It was made just to test around the camera and gather some good stock footage.
Computers
I have recently been moved into learning more of the server hardware and server side software management. Just a little thought is to try out the user-friendly version of Linux, Ubuntu. It is the most well known and most popular of all the Linux developments. I find that Ubuntu offers much more advanced and powerful tools in both networking and shell permissions that windows can ever achieve. Ubuntu is able to apply the pretty GUI to make the OS seem more human. The Lincoln Academies is getting a new website, the almost done website academy.alvinsng.com/ (will be moved) has all the info and media relating to the academies at ALHS. Starting soon, I will begin to develop and add open source coding onto this website in mainly to help others in learning PHP, MySQL plus the general web programming aspect (Sorry I don’t teach hacking, please learn that on your own). It is planned that next year I will start a computer club so that people that are interested in learning more advanced topics about computers beyond the current level can do so from me and others. Let me know if you are interested in doing so.