Life's been good lately, with the new addition of new hardware to my room =D
Started our first Bible study on Genesis and while the group hasn't changed at all in terms of regulars, there is something missing about the atmosphere of the group. Last time we had about 17 people coming to our studies and pretty much most of them actually come to our studies regularly, which is actually a huge rarity. Now there are like 10 people in our group, which makes getting people to participate in the studies a bit better compared to last time. On the other hand, a lot of the more noisy people have been "stolen" from us because they decided to add another Bible study group. Well apparently, the rest of the other groups were huge making us look small. Weird.
Upon going to the leaders' meeting before the study itself, it suddenly dawned upon me that I had less than 10 days to complete two programming assignments. Worse still is that I haven't started on both. Suddenly, I went into panic mode and started trying to do one of them. I think I chose unwisely on which to start on because I started on the Java assignment. What a waste of time because nothing was done despite spending several hours trying to figure out how to do my assignment. I got scared man. But now, it's not so bad as I have finished the other assignment in about 3+ hours. So I'm unwinding before I start tackling Java again. God help me.
The plus side of all of this is a good kick start for me to continue doing more work on my own. Now that there is always something moving or going on as compared to my PhD stuff, it makes me want to work. I always wondered why some people absolutely hate it when there is nothing to do at work or that nothing is moving. But now after going through that cycle and now back on the fast track, I can fully identify that feeling. Because there is so much going on in my course with assignments and all, I need to absorb things faster. So while refreshing my memory of C, I'm learning Java and more commands on the Unix environment and I have grown to like the Terminal on the Mac. On top of that, I'm learning to use various other programming packages to make my life a lot easier, at least in theory. Xcode helps a lot but still have a few things to iron out and I would love to try and do stuff on Java but I think I will stick to Eclipse for awhile since that is the program that I have been using in classes. But yes, things are moving fast but that is a good thing.
I sound like a Mac noob but that's fine...
Moving on to something less geeky, my companion for doing my assignment is chill out music on some of the iTunes radio channels. It's so relaxing even when you are trying to look for a bug in your program and certainly keeps the heart rate down. I really wish I had more CDs for chill out music but not many people give recommendations because either they don't listen to it or they are like me, loving chill out music but have no idea where to get a good collection.
Also, after having a post on Facebook highly viewed and quite a number of people have been very concerned about what I said there. I thank you all for you concerns but I assure you that nothing is the matter and purely something that I have to deal with myself. I'm actually quite puzzled about things like this. Only when posts like these come out in the open that people suddenly ask or talk to me but other times, nothing. So suppose that there is something that bothers me and I don't say anything about it, will people still ask? Who's to blame here when something goes wrong as a result? Interesting that these sorts of things happen to me on a fairly regular basis although more often now than ever...
Remember the Advanced Bass-ics post? I just found out that the third song that was on the post "Dear" by Hatsune Miku was actually done by computer software. As in the singer in that song was actually computer generated. Cool. All you need for input are lyrics and a melody and then you can tweak things from there. The bridge between human singing and computer generated singing is closing in. Which gives many more cannot-sing-to-save-their-lives people more room to explore. Whether or not they will be judged more harshly because they rely on computers to do something that the human vocal chords are supposed to do is another separate thing altogether.
Seriously, this is like the adult's version of the ageless "My dog ate my homework" excuse...I iz not havinz pwn. Iz nayture dockcuementariz. Kthxbai.
Back to Java...
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