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8.28.2002
time to go. cya on sat!
getting pretty annoyed by the increasingly trite nature of my posts - fanZINE's really degenerating into a diary-esque journal rather than a reflections-essays-ish-bully-pulpit-type journal. why??? [insert obscure Animal Farm quote here:] i must work harder to rectify this...
overall reflections on brunei (very brief) - realised, to my horror, ive since forgotten most, if not all, of my social studies... apparently brunei is split into 2 bits by the malaysian state of sarawak (erm maybe ill add a link to an online atlas or something this weekend). so getting from the capital, Bandar Seri Begawan (BSB, geddit? *rotfl*) to e other half requires a long trip by prop-jet ferry... not that it's without creature comforts. mildly entertained by a very old rerun of once upon a time in china and america on e in-house movie system. hrmmmmm!
watched e musical fountains in Jerudong Park Playground - i think that's the amusement park e Sultan built for his people, but we were there on a tue and, so i hear, the park's closed on mon n tues. perfect timing!!! gaah. surprised i kinda enjoyed it- maybe i thot i was too jaded already? at least there's still hope; havent lost all that innocence yet. not intending to, at any rate.
back! not for too long tho, e new place im posted to doesnt quite believe in giving off-in-lieus esp for e 10d working 'holiday' ive just been thru (no point going into details now... decidedly uneventful when viewed with the great leveller that is hindsight...) so ive gotta get back to work in a short while. at least this new place is nearer to home (sorta, kinda...) some consolation, huh!
mmmz shouldve really been sleeping but spent most of e time today reinstalling e stuf i quite enthusiastically formatted away a week ago without bothering to check if i still had e cds wif me in e 1st place... now *that*'s a lesson learnt - you know the drill, even if u back up the program its pretty much useless without all e registry settings etc. mac users out there, DON'T SMIRK - in any case i really totally lost my SB Extigy drivers (impt!) and my palm connectivity kit cd (even more impt!!)... sigh. wound up purchasing a new cd of drivers from creative. there's something to be said of having a mnc in your backyard (relatively speaking of course)...
8.18.2002
okay im flying off to brunei for a working holiday. gotta get to e airport by 0130, flight leaves at 0400. ill be back on e 28th, so in the meantime, obviously, there wont b any updates on fanZINE. im bringing my fone along so if u need to contact me just msg - well yes itll be an intl roaming msg and hence itll cost ya - n also no guarantees ill b able to recieve it, but i should be back in camp every 2 daysish.
last 5 days went by in a blur - literally wasted them away. totally drained from late nights spent doing virtually nothing - formatted my com, installed xp, then installed warcraft3. guess what happened next... - and waking up always just in the nick of time to rush whereever i had to go that day. *sigh* so after 5 days, what have i accomplished? absolutely nothing. my com's still empty, save for warcraft3, i only just finished all the normal missions at 2200 today, my rooms more of a mess than ever, my bag's not even packed for my new posting. at least my brunei bag is packed... sorta. so much for 5d, a stretch i thot would be productive...
its just like e old days. ive really regressed! now when my time is at such a premium, instead of being more sensible about the way i spend it, i wind up doing what id normally do, but regret it more later. i suck bigtime. *sigh*
hopefully ill clear my head of this radiation-induced haze over e next 10d in the jungle. meant to post something loosely about insomnia (movie!!) and the plot of warcraft3 - cant quite recall the word!! arrgghh
8.16.2002
also - happy bdae to a dear fren of mine. we've since drifted apart but ill never forget. ~happy bdae.
okayy more computer woes. got help to totally format e hard drive, so now everything's gone.. gotta install everything again! *groan* better start afresh anyhow. space bar's getting stuck for some strange reason.. its gonna be a very long while. another day without much posts im afraid... not much diff i guess.
ive realised that theres been a dearth of remotely insightful op-ed posts on fanZINE for e past week or 2, will rectify that ASAP. once my com's up n running properly...
8.15.2002
camping on my com for e entire day - instead of e great outdoors for a change! really cant drag myself outta my chair. decided it was time for my long-overdue system overhaul and finally set about getting rid of the incredibly troublesome win me, replacing it wif win xp. finally figured out e problem ive been getting wrt e win xp installation was due to roxio GoBack3 - an otherwise incredibly useful utility i strongly recommend for those 'oh shit' moments when u realise uve really screwed up ur com big time - and disabled it, installation worked like a charm after that. unfortunately it seems that e 'new installation' which is supposed to wipe ur hard drive kept all my programs on it - now theyre kinda like headless chickens cos theyre there taking up space on my HD and goodness knows if their registry entries are still there.. yet i cant run them properly. icq99b certainly cant, thats e reason for my *ahem* conspicuous absence today.
meanwhile vegging out esp since i brought my dad's portable vcd player down n planted it smack next to e com. i mean, installing windows isnt exactly e fastest or e funnest thing in e world to do... watched insomnia and boy is it good... that kinda serious movie that makes u go all uptight n antisocial for a while just thinking about e implications. and that's exactly why u hafta watch it!
getting weird problems wif my com, strangely - every few words i type e blinking text cursor springs back a few lines and i get horribly lost... my soundblaster extigy isnt being recognised, or at least ive gotta reinstall e drivers, cos no sound is coming outta it. n worst of all, e mouse cursor disappears in warcraft III! help... now what am i gonna do? groan.
8.12.2002
home again for the 3rd time today - came back for a medical review of my foot, its doing well, im pleased to report - and then now cos we got a stay-out, ie go back in *early* tmr am. but sleeping at home, away from the incessant swarms of mosquitoes in my room there, and being able to touch my com's good enough for me. ^_^
got my posting earlier today - exactly what id been hoping for in months. but it means ill be going to brunei next week, which im a bit unprepared for... must take a photo now for a proper 'before' n 'after' comparison... its the best way to lose weight, im told...
tried to install win xp for the umpteenth time today n i *always* get a BSOD (blue screen of death)... damn. maybe on wed ill format the bloody hard drive n start afresh... but then again its also a bit risky to do that - not to mention the fact that itll eat up my entire wed nite n prob most of thu too. i dunno.. then again i could always just live with win me and its occassional crashes. can i get an informed opinion from anybody who's used win xp before? much appreciated - as ive mentioned in one of yesterday's posts, im soooo out of touch with computers now.
gotta love typing in hypertext. tags are so much more convienient than Ctrl-B, Ctrl-I etc, or worse, clicking at the icons to bold or italicise text. this is the way all word processors should work in the future!
way too tired now. ~ til wed!
8.11.2002
okay i shouldve been sleeping like 2h ago.. damn. anyway go check this out - its quite fun!
SimWork
actually a showcase for this designer's work... pretty nifty tho!
wow wasnt that a long n rambly post? think i got back the inspiration i lost yesterday...
jean danker's "the selecta" comes highly recommended (from me, of course). sat nights 2200-2300 on 987, showcasing the latest n greatest on the british music scene - and im not talking about britchart fodder (okay too harsh, im quite pro-britcharts actually... but at least the stuff on this show all has cred!) go listen sometime soon.
so many nice programmes coming up on radio nowofdays... maybe the radio scene is finally moving on - dare i say maturing? - i really was horribly disillusioned with local radio for quite a spot in late 01 - mid 02. u kno the feeling u get when theres just nothing u wanna listen to on radio and you can name the artist n titles of all the crappy songs u dont like... then u channelsurf but still come up with nothing. i switched over to chinese radio, yes933 and ufm1003 and all that - i still listen on the occasional basis, surprise surprise! - and the 1st chi cd i ever bought (on the basis of 1 single alone) turned out to be horrible... the 2nd - jay chou's 1st album, i forget the name of the album now - that was a purchase i dont regret. so there, thats the back-story for anyone who ever wondered how the hell i kno who jay chou is... hahaha =)
better work instead of blog for a bit now. still gotta install win xp later... my com's really beginning to annoy me with all this incessant crashing.
about digicams.. been wanting to get a new digicam (as jiaying's done) for quite some time now, eyeing the new sony cybershot [u] or something like that, the tiny palm-sized one.. 1.3 megapixels only, but at that kinda size and portability who cares? either that or that casio cardsized camera. that'd be cool! basically something small n portable enuf to bring around anywhere to replace the old cheapo no-zoom camera in my going-out bag (SPE now - standard personal equipment) with stagnant film left over from last dec or so - never took more than a few photos since then - and in any case its probably expired many moons ago. actually been wanting one since i have this unhealthy tendency to break all the cameras that i borrow from my grandfather (he likes cameras).. last one i borrowed from him was for social night and i din take more than 10 photos before i bent over and forgot all about the camera, which i put into my shirt pocket. hooray... (does grace have any pix of the camera i broke on her digicam?) for the record i tend to keep my things quite nicely.. i dont dog ear my books, i wrap them up, and all my toys - most, anyway - are in mint condition okay? i just happen to bend over n drop the cameras i borrow from my granddad. and they happen to be broken past the point of [economical] repair.. *sigh* i digress. i mean yeah i should get a digicam so i wont break these cameras but given the extremely low anticipated rate of usage it just doesnt make much sense buying one now. but its definitely on my wishlist of stuff to buy before i head overseas to study. (just like jiaying... got my revenge, haha [inside joke] =| )
other things on said wishlist: a cdplayer - not necessarily a discman, im looking into boomboxes - that can play cdrs n mp3s so i can do something else on the com while listening to cds (okay i mean do something else involving the cdrom drive... my coms crashprone but not that bad... yet) to replace my radio discman that doubles up as my room sound system (sad but true, i never quite saw the reason for buying a boombox, much less a hifi unless its got some extra to justify its spacehogging presence). again this is a likely pre-departure purchase on account of the expense involved, tho i can envisage myself using it rather often.
another item: 5.1 speakers so i can make full use of my soundblaster extigy - maybe as *the* amp for everything in my room from sound system to com. it blows the socks off my laptop's sound card, honestly, esp cos my laptop sound card has this unhealthy propensity to start giving way after about 30 mins of straight sound-playing - be it mp3s or audio cds or vcds or streaming content or games or something - giving voices this metallic tinge. i have this strange aversion to any speaker that needs its own power supply instead of drawing power passively from the line out (headphones do this)... and i guess its pretty justified cos ive only got 2 power sockets in my room, 1 on each side. 1 of them's taken up by my aircon (ahemz, thanks to the nature of my work i *can* survive without an aircon, fyi i was backing up stuff onto cdrs upstairs the whole morning with only a small window open...) which of course is such a high power consumption device that i really wouldnt dare to plug anything else in that socket. that leaves 1 socket, which i stress to the max by attaching it to a powerstrip with all the electrical peripherals in my room, from discman to com n scanner, printer, etc so i cant really imagine taxing the thing any more by plugging in a set of high-powered speakers! besides the powerstrip only has 6 plugpoints on it and all are used already. thinking aloud: hmmmm well to be totally honest i doubt if the speakers will draw much power. heck, probably the only thing that draws a large amount of power would be the com itself... so its not all that much of a fire hazard. i think.
enough of materialistic wants for now *grin* =)
hot DAMN i just lost a long post regarding my plans to get a new digicam (since the last topic was digicams) - this time its not cos blogger logged me out n i forgot to copy a copy of my post... the stupid com hung!! grrr im definitely gonna install win xp right after i finish my work. (which i should really be doing instead of blogging now!)
grrr.
cake's "i will survive" - well no, i think the original was by gloria gaynor if im not mistaken - anyway fine, "i will survive" HAS to be the most annoying song of 2002... for me at least. its been slaughtered, butchered n pieced back together like some frankenstein's monster (lit purists take note) sooooo gazillion times - nb not the cake version. i kno a few people who *hate* the cake version but imho its probably the best out there since it encapsulates the anger/angst of the situation, as portrayed in the song, quite well.. i digress. sooo many gazillion times - and each time its parodied or *modified* it gets WORSE... ickkkkkk. mib2 had a version ("so now ure back, from outer space...") that they played to death in the trailers (frankly its putting me off watching the movie) even tho frank the pug's one of the more interesting characters. then i heard the absolute worst version ever on monday's presentation (im not gonna name it) cos it was the guys' song item (checklist: there were 5 items total, guys' song, gals' song, dance & instrumental performance.. wait that makes 4. logistics was the 5th *grin* anyhow coming in a close 2nd to logs was the instrumental performance - violins, cellos with [student] conductor, the works - see a previous post for more about the rest of the items. i think it was 020802 or 030802.) about surviving without *mommy* overseas. man! grow up already... im sure there are quite a few more that i really made an effort to forget - so much so that i really cant recall them now! you get the point.
discovered a small tailorbird nest in the garden - and there are 2 tiny little chicks inside! (sorry no photo cos my very old digicam's konked out) soooo cute... naked (no feathers) and blind and their beaks are wide open but they dont cheep or chirp or anything - presume theyre just born or something, unable to chirp yet.. dont ask me, im not the authority on birds or anything, im an armchair birder! =) and theyre really small, as my grandma puts it theyre the size of peanuts. well i mean the shell, you know, groundnuts.. still its a very interesting experience. nice.
PS let me kno if the image doesnt show up... 1st time experimenting with pix from my own webspace. =)
ive been logged out once or twice in the previous long-post session so maybe ill get cracking on my latest vapourware project - right up there with all the others, like my supposed overhaul of this page and my home page... heh - to come up with a tight (as in small footprint) little blog editor, a bit more user frenly than notepad but with added functionality (as yet unspecified) thatll b conducive to blogging.. but i dont think its possible to make it automatically log in n then post & publish the blog. doubt that very much!! [plug time: maybe blogger pro? ] and besides there are sooo many text editors out there... if anyone's interested in this let me kno and ill add it to the list of ongoing (hahaha) projects.
i realise im a very castles-in-the-air type person cos all i seem to do is plan projects down to the smallest detail on paper (yes, paper) and forget all about the actual implementation - the important transition from paper to code. maybe ive just become too disillusioned with all the unexpected coding errors that inevitably crop up... me, a jaded programmer? =|
now playing: trick turner's "frens and family" - best summed up as slow southern/country hiphop... if such a thing exists!!
also noteworthy: paul 'oakey' oakenfold feat shifty shellshock "starry eyed surprise" - heard on wkrz913 last week as a new tune, surprisingly (not cos its old or something, its pretty damn new)... also surprising cos u could never tell from the cd cover n e ads for the cd that it actually contained such quality stuff... honest, the artwork's pretty appalling... i digress.
okay this is the 2nd pix i added. let me kno if it doesnt display properly!
time to revisit an old post: does anyone remember me posting about prodigy's "baby's got a temper"? read in the jul mixmag i bought a *long* time ago that prodigy themselves realise that theyve begun to steer away from dancemusikmusic, sorry.. quote from Liam Prodigy (ho ho im beginning to use gossip mag naming conventions.. *grinz*) "[our music] doesnt feel like dance music any more, I ******* hate all that. I'd like to bomb Ibiza." now now isnt that a proper firestarter!! (inside joke. "firestarter" was their previous runaway hit single...) anyway prodigy's most-heard choon is, IMHO, "mindfields" which was on the matrix OST [original soundtrack]... the one where it goes "i like to walk in mindfields/ watch your head rock" or something like that... guess theyve always been on the rock side of dance. quote.. "Liam says that the Prodigy's sound has always been down to him trying to recreate Public Enemy in his head. 'The Public Enemy influence is mixed with the Sex Pistols and the British punk sound.' " gee... for the record ive always liked the matrix.yours truly, 'keanu' fan
*grinz* *wistful* damn i feel old.
update: finally got my backup done, burned my 1st 2 cds! *achievement* *smug smile*
dammit im becoming incredibly un-techified ever since i school ended (for 2.5 yrs anyhow). i remember when i used to be reading byte (whatever happened to byte now? i cant tell the diff between all the latest processors or tell u which one's more suited for what task anymore...) and pc gamer and pc computing (too MOR - middle-of-road - for my liking anyhow) but now im tenuously getting by via zdnet's AnchorDesk email digests... can you even believe i burned my 1st (& 2nd) cdrs today?? maybe it means im getting more of a life. maybe it means im changing - yet again.. hooray, another image overhaul... =)
anyhow the 1st backup cd din work properly cos i crashed the com a coupla times trying to write the cd n watch vcds at the same time - there wasnt anything remotely worth watching on cable at 0400 anyway and mtv alternative nation can get pretty staid after a while...aside hasnt the commercialisation of alternative *always* been a problem..? only programme where real alternative stuff is on currently seems to be Glenn Ong's A-TRAX but its difficult to tune in nowofdays cos of the unearthly hours i gotta work. man.. hands up if anybody remembers paul "i-hate-a1-n-boybands" zach & zach's trax that used to be on the old heart913? okay /aside so after a while my personal folder (which was the most impt thing i had to backup.. no i wasnt backing up my drivers or anything like that! haha) on the cdr got corrupted n e com crashed every time i accessed the folder. coaster time! =| and that's how i literally burned my 1st cdr n wound up making a 2nd.
speaking of cds, pretty inspired by cd art - not just the stuff that goes on the box, usually the nicest ones appear on music cds (gee i wonder why!) - esp after muzik mag's aug electroclash cover cd mixed by miss kittin... maybe ill scan in the cd art sometime [does it break any copyright laws?] its apparently drawn by the kittin herself using a marker (i mean they duplicated her original design) and its very, well, *original*. what can i say, im inspired!!
speaking of electroclash im still quite impressed how chris ho (@ x'ho) spotted electroclash rising on the horizon over a year ago. if i remember correctly he was playing chicks on speed *all* of last year on hip parade and at that time they werent even classified as electroclash - imho the term is a very mid-2002 thing. time for reminiscing: i was pretty freaked out the first time i listened to the lyrics for "warm leatherette" but it does seem like electroclash's all about that... grown to like or at least accept it now. dont tell me im turning goth... no no i dont listen to goth!
8.10.2002
itching all over! cant get anything done. stupid mosquitoes...
just a frenly reminder to all bloggers out there: always copy n paste ur posts before u submit (post n publish) just in case u get logged out n ur beautiful post gets washed up the the unreachable depths of ur browser's cache. ^_^
time to be honest: im feeling the effects [of sleep deprivation]. my spelling (or maybe its more of my typing..) is going from bad to worse, every 10th word im typing i have to make like 2-3 corrections, my mind's a blur and i cant remember the names of nice songs i hear like 30s ago - well okay granted theyre new songs, more often than not im not familiar with the artiste and the title - even so...
felt so full of ideas just now in the bath. somehow warm water just inspires, dont ask me why... i should work on some way of blogging or at least logging down my post ideas anywhere, anywhen; itd make this blog so much more varied and thot-provoking!
just realised i shouldve scanned in all the neoprints n photos ive been meaning to scan before i brought my com up to backup so that i could at least preserve them on cdr (for easier distribution/transferring) rather than save time by directly storing them in the new os, as i originally intended to do. was planning to scan n print copies of my precious neoprints (cant bear to bring the originals out with me), maybe store them in my palm for posterity's sake [im not talking about having a tattoo done, im referring to the pda - Ed.] oh well, too late. incidentally, was thinking about the relative merits of using a laptop, esp when u share peripherals among a few coms: in my case its the CD-R thats upstairs (my coms usually downstairs in my room) and e zip250. with a desktop id hafta disconnect all the cables and bring the cdr down then reconnect them downstairs; with a laptop all i hafta do is unplug the power cord n move my laptop upstairs. no fuss whatsoever! on the down side its rather difficult to upgrade a laptop, but having said that its a pain upgrading desktops too... all things considered laptops probably are the way the go. smaller lighter faster! ^_^ ~becoming incoherent...
finally back for the weekend. happy belated national day, everyone! incredibly low on sleep - havent felt like this in months, even tho work eats up so much of my waking time compared to school, already bad in itself.. i digress. anyway low on sleep but getting by on a natural high (is that the name of a new s club juniors single? im not sure if i *should* be allergic to them... manufactured pop is a many-faceted thing) cos theres just so much that needs to be done on e com. im upstairs now, going to back up all my impt stuff on a cdr before installing win xp at long last... stupid com keeps crashing left right centre. cant work properly for more than 45min without it crashing or hanging some way or other.. so anyway if i cant install xp over win me then ill reformat and start from scratch. sunday just feels like such a long day that just about anything can be done!
have no idea why im feeling so upbeat even tho im dog tired and my posting comes out on mon. i really should be filled with trepidation - but then again theres not much point since its not going to help, right? thot id just leave a post here in case my com goes down so badly i cant resuscitate it before i hafta go back!
aargh crap i overshot midnight again. damn i hate it when im back but i miss posting on that day - now instead of seeing this post as 100802 itll show up on 110802 instead. in the long run i presume its not gonna make much difference since i dont blog particularly often anyway.. later.
8.06.2002
i need a fresh start - ASAP.
any takers?
felt particularly antisocial yest - partly e people, partly e sianness of going at 0900 to do absolutely, spectacularly *nothing* til e actual ceremony @ 1600ish - so din make much new frens.. on hindsight maybe i shouldve, as zuan likes to point out "these'll b e people wholl b your colleagues for e next 6-10 yrs of ur life" - of course im quoting out of context: actual context was why any hanky-panky shouldnt be on the cards {insert above quote here}. then again it's also a tremendously small world cos over 70% of the faces there are familiar - can-recognise-the-face-as-having-been-seen-somewhere-before - and about 30% (conservative estimate) are acquaintances. met a lot of people who know about my colourful past (read: all e big mistakes ive made over e past 2 years) and dont quite tire of reminding... wont *anyone* give me a break??
dinah washington "Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby" (Rae & Christian remix) - how apt.
anyhoo you wouldnt believe how many artistes have covered this song, but rae & christian really manage to invigorate this track just enuf to make it sound soulful without being dated, in the sense that classic soul-jazz usually sounds old...
particularly glad that i wasnt involved in any of the items cos they turned out to be a little lacklustre... to give credit where credit is due i think there wasnt enuf time for preparation, given the abruptness of the notification (yours truly found out about one rehearsal - e last one before e real thing - e same day it was to be held. that was about 2 wks ago...) but in any event since only parents n VIPs were in the room watching e performance i dont think anyone suitably 'qualified' was around to judge. =|
e food was good, tho: oodles n oodles of food that just kept coming. and they had tortilla chips (purple too!) wif salsa. tangy... and the dessert spread was lovely. did i mention the way they served the coffee n tea? that was perhaps the best part of the entire thing... well okay maybe i was hungry thats why... heh
spent a small fortune on music mags from the citylink hmv yest - ran off during lunchbreak, had 20 mins left and despite deliberating for so long, managed to come back just in time [reminds me of days gone by... JIT used to be what i lived my life by. it's since been replaced by rush to wait, wait to rush.. cant wait to change it back to JIT again.]. picked up e August Muzik [out in the UK on e 2nd Wed of Jul] n ministry instead of mixmag this time - mixmag's more crass than the other 2 IMHO, ill admit buying it only for e CD or e freebies (eg last month's pocket guide to ibiza).. have a bad feeling ill be spending most of my money on mags or subscriptions when i go over. hrmm!
going back real soon, nothing done. painful realisation that my blog's really degenerated into something that's neither here nor there.. more like post its on wat im doing at the time (which never fails to be boring since i tend to be at home when im on e com). hrmm. feeling totally lousy from not sleeping much (thanks to bad scheduling - some events beyond my control, of course) and having wasted 5 precious days at home not accomplishing *anything*... not even stoning, mind. been in a perpetual rush trying to do something, anything, but not quite managing... this sucks.
nursing a horrible headache now. may comment on yesterday's mane event (ho ho) later on if i get the chance, or maybe this weekend. maybe by then ill be inclined to be a bit more controversial with my comments... (i highly doubt it tho).
Warcraft III rocks... but feels more like a normal RPG than a RTS. im only 1/3 (est.) of the way thru e 1st campaign so before all the hardcore blizzard groupies kill me ill admit this probably is a very skewered comment!!
8.05.2002
maybe i should just draw all my ideas out n scan them so that when i eventually get down to producing them (as in production, graphics production, movie production, that context... but i guess u could always take it literally too. hrmm) then it's possible to compare/contrast the original idea to the finished product. idea?
does anybody know the title of no doubt's latest single, the one that goes "you're really lovely/ underneath it all (horns go da-de-dah-dah)"... lovely.
update: sigh it din quite work... so im back to a very unstable version of win me again. me, win? hardly... *groan*
pleased to report that Macromedia Studio MX is a joy to use, dreamweaver mx in particular. huge improvement over dreamweaver 3 (i havent laid my hands on 4 and probably wont have a need to now), it's more intuitive and powerful than ever. and now that an environment conducive for serious design's up, you can expect to see the likes of something more creative round these parts soon... [well soon's always a relative term, okay..]
com maintainance now (installing new os in attempt to cure frequent crashes). wish me luck. ~ta
my counter is working (at long last)!! ~hooray~
waaaaaaaay too tired to post anything yesterday, will make amends today (not that it makes much of a diff - i dont think anybody's reading this blog on a day to day basis, right?)
just got back from a long scholarship presentation ceremony... as usual i hafta bite my tongue for fear of annoying the Powers That Be - as well as the frens of the frens of the people i mite write anything about - so it remains to be seen if ill blog anything about it! haha...
despite being sooo tired feeling rather inspired now... will sketch out my concept before i lose it, if im really free tmr i might set about digitising it (read: actually get something done about it). So Solid Crew's "21 Seconds" few months old, but nice all the same.
8.03.2002
the day in review (thus far)
- almost finished reading Catherine Clement's Theo's Odyssey (ill revise this post with the link to amazon.com soon)
- dusted off my old vb5 and did one of my sec2 cousin's vb computer studies projects for fun... something that displays a colour based on the rgb values u choose. wont bother turning it into an .EXE cos - as usual - ill just go on adding bells and whistles and little usability quirks until it becomes vapourware. still, it's the most concrete programming ive done in months... which reminds me i still havent got down to anything in dreamweaver. *sigh*
- played Stack-Up Sam (TM) with my grandparents n cousin. whee! (really... cos i won by putting my plates n dishes evilly close to the side so the entire thing would be off balance after my turn. *ouch* NOTE TO SELF: PLAY NICE!!!!)
- vegged out on the com
- cant find any game worth playing. wondering if ive finally made the switch from teen-com-buff (read: 110% game addict and on-the-side programmer) to serious com enthusiast/programmer. you tell me...
- fantasizing about all the stuff i wanna buy. shouldnt be doing that esp since its the time for penny-pinching...
- translated the label off a can of french ravioli so i could figure out how to get it cooked.
- which just about brings me to DINNER! ~ta...
interesting aside - i left that post open for quite a long while and blogger din log me out. hope this is a permanent improvement...
i promise ill write more when im more *me* again.
gosh dont tell me im going back to the vicious identity-crisis circle again...
im getting real tired of writing this - but once again, fantastically burnt out, something an entire morning's worth of sleep just cant seem to solve. too many consecutive weeks of sub-24hr at-home breaks i think.. not that its in my power to make my breaks any longer. hrmmm. my room's in a terrible mess and come to think of it, my life, too. on the whole i cant say i had a bad bad week, cos i finally passed my 1.5km obstacle run (3rd time thru, clocking 9:21... passing time was 9:30) so that's quite an achievement for the me-who-cant-run (but is valiantly trying to psyche himself into thinking he *likes* running..) but more of a empty kind of sad.. the realisation that uve been looking forward to coming home the entire freaking week but once ure back ure just so flat out that u cant do anything... im moaning again.
also realised that my blog's become a mishmash of the essay-type journal (General Paper-ish) and the reflective (as in journal vs diary) and almost NIL in the diary dept... so everybody, myself included, is losing interest...
can i interest you in a homepage instead?
this is the end of the page. just so you know.