So two and a half weeks of mayhem and how did it all fare? Just scraped through. Many sleep deprived nights coupled with lack of responsibility has been the cause of most of the frustrations. And it doesn't quite end there. In attempt to get all my assignments in before 9:30am on Monday, I was really pushing the envelope quite a fair bit by trying to send it at 6 am. Guess what? Murphy decided to pay me a visit. The RMIT servers were not responding for a good half an hour. Given my sleep deprived state, I decided to get some shut-eye and try and wake up at 7 to try sending the assignments again. Operative word here is try. I ended up waking up at 11 am and doom and gloom just flooded me. If the lecturers were really strict about late assignments coming in at the end of the semester, they can just refuse to mark the assignment. Very painful when the assignments I sent in were 30-35%. I'm still very jittery about it and hopefully my mistake doesn't kill me later.
On a different note, I've been listening to this piece from a Malaysian jazz quartet (with the exception of the drummer). Thought it was a cool concept and *finally* a local jazz band that I like.
Without much to say over here except for the countless tabs of news opened, I'm just going to dump it all here now:
Masterchef seems to be rewriting the text book on television advertising
It seems that I've been doing it wrong as far as relationships goes, according to this. Speaking of which, apparently birth order is a compatibility factor. Interesting.
If we can't afford the Grange at the end of the year, at the very least we could have a $160 bottle beer
This is going to sound a lot like the beginnings of the Borg
Apparently fried rice in Penang is said to be one of the top 10 iconic meals according to Lonely Planet. How come my parents never bring me out for fried rice?
Some people don't like Masterchef for the drama especially the older generations. That said, I quite like the last line of the article on it.
We are getting ever closer to making a true quantum computer so that we can shrink computers down even more and be able to waste time more.
So generous of the hotel, and they are one happy couple.
This cannot end well for the education.
IBM security fail.
Some interesting statistics on divorce, in particular the last point.
Hey, it matters for our existence.
I wonder, why didn't he say anything when he was doing these films? Or even accepted the role in the first place? And why talk about it now long after the film has been shown.
TMI Kate. TMI.
After a great deal of thinking and listening, I somewhat agree to what this guy has to say. Kenny G is not really a jazz player.
Hard Presssed
Friday, May 14, 2010
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6:28 PM
Well, so far so good in the plan to conquer 4 massive assignments in the next 2 weeks. The real work however will only start to come somewhere in the middle of next week and it will be chaotic from then onwards. The good thing is that I won't really worry about the exams after that because I very much like how the timetable looks like. So basically I just need to stay alive in the next 2 weeks and I will be fine. Anyway, if all goes well, I will finish one of those assignments by the end of the week. Interestingly, that is the biggest assignment percentage of all the 4 assignments. No biggie, just write a literature report of 3000-5000 words.
Moar niuz:
Is this a Facebook CEO fail? On another note, since attending the Secure Programming Environments subject lectures, the one thing that has been hammered into our heads for the past 10 weeks is that building programs/applications should always consider security from the beginning and not as an afterthought. There's a few things Mr. Zuckerberg should learn in this subject.
For now, I'm under the Mickey Mouse Degree Club.
Cigarette butts to stop steel from rusting. Now I know virtually waste can be recycled.
I may love Apple products but I don't love them that much to sign myself up for a dating site specifically for Mac fans. Seriously.
"Can we be friends?" "Sure, after you pass the interview". Interesting article courtesy of Bing. Brings in a new light on one bad apple spoils the lot.
Speaking of friends, have you been talking to The Friend lately? I mean real heart-to-heart talk. I know I haven't.
It seems like everyone from Cupertino is making it big in the internet business, even those who haven't hit the big two-oh. Is it because Apple has this aura around them that makes people smart?
Now there is no excuse for infidelity. It can be done, science has said so. And God has said so.
I've yet to adopt this lifestyle. Or rather I've yet to come to this realization I'm not lacking, just have different stuff. For now, I still want.
That's it. I'm buying more white vinegar. Good for the house. And for poached eggs.
So apparently we are all born with a moral compass and not that we're a blank canvas. How can that not point to God?
Sometimes it is interesting to see what other atheists say about religion (aka. Christianity). Sometimes it's so absurd that it's funny and others really make you think about what you believe. This, unfortunately, falls on the former.
I now want to go to Gordon Ramsay's Maze. Seems to tick all the right boxes for foodies like me who don't have a lot of money on their hands.
Moar niuz:
Is this a Facebook CEO fail? On another note, since attending the Secure Programming Environments subject lectures, the one thing that has been hammered into our heads for the past 10 weeks is that building programs/applications should always consider security from the beginning and not as an afterthought. There's a few things Mr. Zuckerberg should learn in this subject.
For now, I'm under the Mickey Mouse Degree Club.
Cigarette butts to stop steel from rusting. Now I know virtually waste can be recycled.
I may love Apple products but I don't love them that much to sign myself up for a dating site specifically for Mac fans. Seriously.
"Can we be friends?" "Sure, after you pass the interview". Interesting article courtesy of Bing. Brings in a new light on one bad apple spoils the lot.
Speaking of friends, have you been talking to The Friend lately? I mean real heart-to-heart talk. I know I haven't.
It seems like everyone from Cupertino is making it big in the internet business, even those who haven't hit the big two-oh. Is it because Apple has this aura around them that makes people smart?
Now there is no excuse for infidelity. It can be done, science has said so. And God has said so.
I've yet to adopt this lifestyle. Or rather I've yet to come to this realization I'm not lacking, just have different stuff. For now, I still want.
That's it. I'm buying more white vinegar. Good for the house. And for poached eggs.
So apparently we are all born with a moral compass and not that we're a blank canvas. How can that not point to God?
Sometimes it is interesting to see what other atheists say about religion (aka. Christianity). Sometimes it's so absurd that it's funny and others really make you think about what you believe. This, unfortunately, falls on the former.
I now want to go to Gordon Ramsay's Maze. Seems to tick all the right boxes for foodies like me who don't have a lot of money on their hands.
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Keeping Abreast
Monday, May 10, 2010
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12:12 AM
So yes, it has been awhile now. You can thank the rather massive hit of assignments that I've just had. Overall I managed to scrape through but I am just not really satisfied with some of the work that I've put in. That'll shake me up a bit in preparation of the "storm" that is going to come. I've now got 4 big assignments due on the last week of uni, one on Tuesday and three due on Friday. Yes, three! Seriously going to die soon man.
On the other hand, that trip to Wilson's Prom was a good trip. We've had such fantastic weather over the weekend we hardly thought it was fasting approaching winter (until night time hits us). Off on a tangent, the weather these days has been rather odd. It's now progressing through May and it's warmer than usual around here. Heck, even the trees that are supposed to shed their leaves for autumn hasn't really done so even until now. Anyway, we've had a lot of fun just chatting, walking and eating in the 2.5 day outing. One of the best part about the outing actually started out before the trip itself. A friend and myself were the cooks for the trip and we bought quite a lot and good range of stuff. When we actually got there we forgot a few but rather key ingredients for the dinners. So fail man the both of us.
So before I start to live like a hermit for the next 3 weeks, the news:
Interesting how just a small animal can build something that's visible from space. Oh dam!
This article really isn't helping me survive my massive assignment attack.
Anzac Day fail.
Perfect for the inner MacGyver in all photographers.
This will come in handy someday when I finally do a triple OS boot.
Cool but personally I'd rather have Homer Simpson doing the turn-by-turn. Because sometimes we really act stupidly on the road trying to get somewhere.
Are you prepared to shell out $200,000 for a medical degree? And that's not the price for international students. Crazy.
Adultery. How screwed up can we get?
What does your sleep position say about you?
Thought it was quite a funny in-your-face moment. Seriously, I thought the super conservative Christians are the only ones to say such things. If you see the video, there's one guy who held up a sign saying "God hates boobs" and quotes 1 Timothy 2:9-10. While I'm all up for modesty in dressing as said in 1 Timothy, it's something else to put stuff in God's mouth, let alone saying something that's not really there. Sometimes these people just never think before writing up their signs. Are you saying that when God created women and created them with breasts, that that is a serious design flaw? Or even more absurd, that boobs came up when sin just crept up on the human race and therefore God hates it? They keep saying read your Bible frequently with these signs but I highly doubt that they are reading it properly. Anyway, the following since the incident just basically says "SO, what's gonna happen now? Hmmmm?"
Speaking of which, seems that a certain cosmetic surgery is growing out of fashion and natural beauty (a term rather loosely defined, in my opinion) is a growing trend. I especially found the title in the second article funny, "Pardon me gorgeous but your cellulite is showing". Seems like more people are going for the no-airbrushed look these days which I think is a step in the right direction.
While I'm quite interested in what the study says, I have a hunch that it will be inconclusive. That would really suck, both for the researchers and the tax payers funding the research.
How healthy is your ocean? Check for whale excrement.
Apparently people want our badly roasted Malaysian coffee. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
It's been awhile since I've found this but I reserved it for some of my inspiration for couple shots. Needless to say that most of the ideas never really materialized mainly also because it turns out that the shoot I did wasn't in the right circumstance to use any of my ideas. Rats.
Apparently you can learn a lot from the outside world, locking yourself in a room with just Twitter as your contact to the outside. Sad? Maybe.
On the other hand, that trip to Wilson's Prom was a good trip. We've had such fantastic weather over the weekend we hardly thought it was fasting approaching winter (until night time hits us). Off on a tangent, the weather these days has been rather odd. It's now progressing through May and it's warmer than usual around here. Heck, even the trees that are supposed to shed their leaves for autumn hasn't really done so even until now. Anyway, we've had a lot of fun just chatting, walking and eating in the 2.5 day outing. One of the best part about the outing actually started out before the trip itself. A friend and myself were the cooks for the trip and we bought quite a lot and good range of stuff. When we actually got there we forgot a few but rather key ingredients for the dinners. So fail man the both of us.
So before I start to live like a hermit for the next 3 weeks, the news:
Interesting how just a small animal can build something that's visible from space. Oh dam!
This article really isn't helping me survive my massive assignment attack.
Anzac Day fail.
Perfect for the inner MacGyver in all photographers.
This will come in handy someday when I finally do a triple OS boot.
Cool but personally I'd rather have Homer Simpson doing the turn-by-turn. Because sometimes we really act stupidly on the road trying to get somewhere.
Are you prepared to shell out $200,000 for a medical degree? And that's not the price for international students. Crazy.
Adultery. How screwed up can we get?
What does your sleep position say about you?
Thought it was quite a funny in-your-face moment. Seriously, I thought the super conservative Christians are the only ones to say such things. If you see the video, there's one guy who held up a sign saying "God hates boobs" and quotes 1 Timothy 2:9-10. While I'm all up for modesty in dressing as said in 1 Timothy, it's something else to put stuff in God's mouth, let alone saying something that's not really there. Sometimes these people just never think before writing up their signs. Are you saying that when God created women and created them with breasts, that that is a serious design flaw? Or even more absurd, that boobs came up when sin just crept up on the human race and therefore God hates it? They keep saying read your Bible frequently with these signs but I highly doubt that they are reading it properly. Anyway, the following since the incident just basically says "SO, what's gonna happen now? Hmmmm?"
Speaking of which, seems that a certain cosmetic surgery is growing out of fashion and natural beauty (a term rather loosely defined, in my opinion) is a growing trend. I especially found the title in the second article funny, "Pardon me gorgeous but your cellulite is showing". Seems like more people are going for the no-airbrushed look these days which I think is a step in the right direction.
While I'm quite interested in what the study says, I have a hunch that it will be inconclusive. That would really suck, both for the researchers and the tax payers funding the research.
How healthy is your ocean? Check for whale excrement.
Apparently people want our badly roasted Malaysian coffee. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
It's been awhile since I've found this but I reserved it for some of my inspiration for couple shots. Needless to say that most of the ideas never really materialized mainly also because it turns out that the shoot I did wasn't in the right circumstance to use any of my ideas. Rats.
Apparently you can learn a lot from the outside world, locking yourself in a room with just Twitter as your contact to the outside. Sad? Maybe.
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