Speckled Green

Well, it’s been a while. Almost a month since I wrote my last blog post, and in that time, some stuff has actually happened. Yes, I know. Shocking. Life happening. Read more »

Speeches were given, songs were sung, dances done, slide shows hung (hey, I was trying to make it rhyme). My graduation has occurred, and joining over 60,000 people across the state who over the last couple of days have done just like me, completed around 13 years of schooling (some more, some less), and have felt emotional, cried, laughed with joy, experienced relief, or something else. Read more »

It’s the evening/night before my graduation from High School, and I’m feeling a mixture of emotions. Part of me is obviously sad to leave a place I’ve grown to love over the last 6 years. The students there are all brilliantly smart (and awfully hard to beat in exams), mostly mature and responsible, kinda a sheltered haven from the rest of the world (filled with plenty of immature people, sadly). Part of me is further saddened to think that I’ll be losing regular contact with plenty of my friends, through the fact that we’d be going to different unis, live pretty far apart (one of the problems with academically selective schools is how everyone lives so far away from it), or just get out of contact. Read more »

So, it’s been yet another long span of time between this blog post and my last, but hey, I’ve been busy studying. OK, and also procrastinating, which this is in a way, but still. Stuff. I could semi-bore you with a rant, or detailed recounting of events of my life (wait a moment, isn’t that what blogs are typically for?), but I’m too lazy to actually bother to recall my life. Well, to talk, write or in some way present recollections of my life, but maybe some time in the future I will be more willing to actually spend the effort on that… Read more »

So, it’s been another long gap between by blog posts, but I guess that Year 12 does that to you. Actually, I suppose any final year in secondary or tertiary study would do that to you. Anyways, today I’m posting this from school, because I have absolutely no exam on today during this trail HSC period. Why am I at school then, when I could be at home studying? How nice of you to ask =P Read more »

Time for the seemingly weekly Friday post I’ve been doing for the previous two weeks. Umm.. what can I talk about… Well, it’s the end of Week 7 of term 4 of 2010 (meaning just 1 week & 2 days until exams…), and I’m really starting to be worried. The tension is killing me. Why couldn’t life be simpler??

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood is being addictive, and I want to finish the story, although finding all 101 Borgia flags seems too much of a drag, so I’ll just leave that alone till I have more time (and a lot more patience). Meanwhile… It’s kinda weird, this feeling of being on edge all the time, remembering the half a million assignments and assessment tasks ahead of me, it’s probably a bad way to think right now, but it’s also the only way for me to remember the ‘seriousness’ of this last year of secondary schooling…
Anyhows, this post from the ‘QuickPress’ box on the wordpress dashboard is getting long enough, and I’m intrigued to see how the formatting goes for this.

EDIT: How do you like this redesign/refinement of the theme?? It was worked out in two sessions, but spaced apart by about 6 months, so it’s like 2 days worth of work over 6 months… yeah, my productivity is odd =]  Don’t worry, there’s still more work to be done on the theme (like I lined out in the ‘Roadmap’), however, I probably should reschedule the AJAX ideas to halfway through uni, whatever year that might be (2013?), when I’ve finally decided to read up on AJAX methods and manipulation.

TTFN!! Ta Ta For Now!

I was thinking about Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood which came out recently, and how it was effectively a Assassin’s Creed 2.5, and I thought back to how I became interested in the Assassin’s Creed series. Essentially, I thought the first game had an intriguing storyline and a fancy gameplay. I only really played it to enjoy a different game and to say I played it. However, when AC2 came out, it became a different story. Working on their marvellous previous game, Ubisoft Montreal (a subdivision of Ubisoft) built a new, more advanced game engine, and it was what brought me into the game. The graphics, the cityscape, the new features and game play, the ever expanding immersive  story, they all combined to draw me into a new exciting (or so I feel) series. So, when AC:B (or AC2.5) came out, I wasn’t sure what to think of it: it’s made some improvements, added a few new features (e.g. multiplayer), and continues the story line. I guess I’m gonna buy it like I buy the Halo series, because I like the story, and I like the game play. Why am I talking of this on my blog instead of something about my life? Well, in a way I guess it is part of my life (my brother plans on purchasing AC:B as soon as he can), and I don’t really feel like talking about much else in my currently unexciting life. Oh, and I decided on having Ant Hill on the back of my jersey (with Harry on the front, to amuse some of my friends who suggested something similar). Time to get back to my overly busy homework schedule which I’m not keeping to very well…. =[

P.S. what do you guys think of the changes to the theme I’ve made?? Personally I like it (duh, I made it), probably mostly because it looks different to the previous one, no other reason than that. I’d probably change 2 colours on it next year and like that more instead, also just because it’s different. I’m trying to follow my ‘roadmap of sorts’ in progression of ‘features’ in it (e.g. I’m currently calling it version 1.0.3, with plans to have a working 404 error page by version 1.0.5 and yes, I’m doing my development in stages like that… I wonder what kind of software development approach I’m using… little documentation, lots of prototypes… probably Rapid Application Development. See, I am learning something in 2 unit Minecraft… er, I mean 2 unit Software Design & Development. =P

Yeah, so it has been… well… I can’t be bothered working out how long since I last posted something here. Talking about posting, that reminds me that I have plenty of unfinished posts that I can’t be bothered finishing…

Reading different people’s blogs/facebook posts/tweets/tumbler blogs can be funny sometimes. Never really bothered checking out other pages…

Right now I’m in English Advanced (period 6)… right before lunch, and today we have a substitute teacher. Hashan & I have dubbed her the female version of Mr Hagan… yeah, we’re mean like that =P But we’re down in the library,  supposedly working on our English essays, which is rather hard to do as most of us left our notes at home, and haven’t chosen a related text yet (me included). At least I have an interpretation of the idea of belonging:  belonging is an psychological attachment we place upon people, objects and ideas around us as a way to define ourselves. Not entirely sure how I’m going to wrap that up with Romulus, my Father or with whatever related text I come up with

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally the holidays are here! No more school, well, for two weeks, that is…..

Today, after a short, and annoying, first 10 minutes of Music with Mr. Wong…. then the year 12 Graduation Assembly, and while the presentations were boring like always (who ever thought 200 students could take so long?) the items and the speeches in between were good. Then again, the speech by Mrs Monday wasn’t the best….. But Mitch’s was! The music was good as well. Who’d ever think William was so flexible? The things the year 12s showed in their presentation were…. interesting (go to YouTube and search up Baulko 07 jump on it, you’ll find one of the videos they made….).

Anyways, after that, and all the stuff that went with it, we got to miss out the 1st 4 periods (Double music and Sewing), leaving only the last 4, which, except for science (darn it, our class is behind, so we actually have to work) all they were bludges. Maths especially. “Just do stuff quietly” is what the maths teacher said. I mean, how often does a maths teacher say that?!

Anyways, now its the holidays, I can work on my website, maybe actually get it working? That would help a lot. And now I can play games! Yay!