Speckled Green

IF YOU CAN CORRECTLY PRONOUNCE EVERY WORD IN THIS POEM, YOU WILL BE SPEAKING ENGLISH BETTER THAN 90% OF THE NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS IN THE WORLD. AFTER TRYING THE VERSES, A FRENCHMAN SAID HE’D PREFER SIX MONTHS OF HARD LABOUR TO READING SIX LINES ALOUD. TRY THEM YOURSELF.

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It’s my 2nd day of school, and I’m already tired. AND IT’S NOT EVEN LUNCH TIME YET!!!!

Anyways, as I sit here in the library trying to think up of what to do for my SDD major work, I wonder if I’m not going to go crazy this year.

If you’re wondering about my holidays, they were fine, rather relaxing, perhaps too relaxing, in that I didn’t do any work at all. Well, I did some work, but it wasn’t enough. I didn’t go anywhere these holidays unlike some of my friends, however I did get to see Green Hornet. It was an alright movie, but now I should try and get a hold of a copy of Toy Story 3 and see how that was. Heard it was good.

As I get more and more work to do, particularly requiring the internet, I keep thinking I should move the desktop to my room, except that would an immense problem logistically… where would I put the horrid mass of cables when I have to clean up the horrid, yet organised mess of my room? That and it’d be awefully hard to have access to the internet in my room with out some really long and ugly cabling or a Wi-Fi adapter for it… and the modem/router we got from Telstra is a piece of junk Wi-Fi wise, although considering it’s free I guess it’s alright. Then again, you think back and see that over 2 years we’re paying them around $2000 for line-rental, internet and phone, and they have tonnes of customers who all pay thousands of dollars over 2 year contracts, all using the same central network hardware… and yeah, that’s why they’ve got profits of like several billion. Well, they profit has to come from somewhere.

So I was thinking I could convince my parents to get me a new laptop after the HSC. If I survive the HSC that is… (I mean asian survive, with marks like averaging 90%… yeah, not going to happen)

Anyways, back to school work for me. And lunch soon. I’ll blog more about stuff some other time this month.

TTFN!! Ta Ta For Now!

Well, now that it’s a new year, I dread to imagine the amount of work the will be thrust upon me this final year of High school, and for the rest of my life the amount of stress that will explode upon us young people.

Anyways, I think now is a good time to start reading all those  emails I’ve not paid any attention to for the last couple of weeks.

The fireworks last night were amazing. I love how Sydney is perfectly suited to put on large fireworks: A bridge as the centre piece, surrounded by low laying buildings which don’t hinder or obscure the fireworks, along with a long, wide river and harbour on which to float barges for the fireworks to spread across the city scape. I quite liked this year’s fireworks, however I wonder again if it’s better to be there and see it yourself, and miss out on the music which they play (you can barely hear it in the harbour, what with the fireworks going off and the loud noise of partying people), or to watch it on TV where you get to see it from the air, and see all the fireworks going off along the Parramatta river and on the Harbour bridge, with the music playing quite loud and clearly through the speakers. Iunno.

One last thought: What genius thought of having a party to celebrate the beginning of the new year?

Anyways, I’m gonna go and relax in this hot, humid weather before attempting to do some more work.

TTFN!! Ta Ta For Now!

It’s been a week of holidays!! YAY! Actually, NO!!!! ALREADY?!

In that week I’ve played through CoD7′s campaign once, had a go at zombies mode, finished most of AC:B, tried out the online multiplayer of CoD7, watched plenty of TV, gone to a party, slept in once, gone to bed late on a regular basis, be lazy, performed twice at a Christmas Carols night, played Minecraft, failed at trying to write a short story (I couldn’t end it, and it was long winded and lacking in actual descriptions that the teachers so love), and basically relaxed… somewhat.

I don’t know what I should start first: working ahead in physics, catching up in chemistry and maths, working on my music work (composition and performance) or working on English (reading Frankenstein and what-not). And then there’s the stupid Major Work for SDD to start. I’m starting to find that subject to be a pain.

Oh well, this is a short post, because I’m being lazy. My domain/web-hosting expires in less than 90 days. I’m going to get my parents to renew it for me as a Christmas present. Good luck to myself for trying that!

Anyhows, Merry Christmas Peeps, and Happy New Year!!! Hopefully by then I’ll have my P’s (I’m able to sit the exam starting New Year’s Eve).

TTFN!! Ta Ta For Now!

No. I don’t like them. Therefore Exnglish sucks heaps. Only because we’re forced to do it.

Just a few minutes ago, I tested how long it takes to send an email from one student’s DET email address to another student’s DET email address. It took approx 50 seconds. LONG

Anyways, back to chemistry =]

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

I really can’t be bothered to blog this week. Maybe I’ll come up with something about my holidays and the semi formal on one go…