Thursday, March 12, 2009
See curling is intense
Drakonen: Edited it from a link which you had to copy and paste into an embedded video... these noobs
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Pressure
The Fable-craze is starting to die down as priorities begin to set in. I've been very thankful for a lot of things this past school year. With my new sense of appreciation of life and how easily it can be taken away one would think that I'm just about thankful for everything. However, I think i've been taking a few things too lightly... or for granted. With relationships and school, I'm just not that great at organizing my priorities.
With a new sense of transparency, let us dive deep into echoes mind and see who he really is underneath that mask.
So who is Echoes? He may talk a lot at times when it seems fitting, but he is actually quite an antisocial guy. When nearing the socializing quota, he hides away in his room and gets distracted by the internet.
This explains the random mumblings and awkward situations he gets himself into... or where the first case leads to the second case. Talking just takes too much effort and energy, but echoes is frequently happy to go out of his comfort zone to make new friendships and build relationships with others.
With his low self-esteem and antisocial behaviour, cubicals or slightly solitary areas are the place to be and the place to study. It surrounds him with people, yet there is no pressure to talk. Though Echoes doesn't mind talking once in a while, he does occupy himself in a world inside his head where he's not such a big loser. =P.
Wow... this is beginning to sound like a suicide note. I've just been reflecting on my manhood (subject for insults yes... set myself up for that), and I just can't help critisizing my faults and problems with my personality. I've just been talking to a few people about relationships and it's just been a beat down for me as people continually tell me to take charge and to be a man, stop being so complacent (that last one was just me). I know they probably meant well and said it to encourage me to step up a little. I guess the approach to it however didn't really sit well with me and it just fueled the critisizm that continually occurs in my head of the things I need to do and the things that i'm lacking to the point that I'm just breaking down.
You can tell me to step up, and be a leader... but those words just don't inspire me. I know i have to take more initiative and be more balsy but I need to know how. I respond better to stories, of people who were in this situation where they felt inadequate but somehow battled through with a reasonable amount of hard work.
This post just took up my shower time.... this is what unknownuser made me do. You made me dirty unknownuser. That sounds wrong. I will take a shower tomorrow morning... if i wake up for it... ok maybe i'll just wash my hair. Ah whtever, i'll take a 2 a.m. shower. Wht up!
edit: I should probably finish the point I was making with school and relationships. Basically I have to start taking them both more seriously instead of just brushing them to the side. I need to start going hard core studying and hardcore reflection and thinking/prayer if you will.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Sleeping Patterns
Some people hate it, some can't live without it. I remember back in middle school and early high school, as coffee being this weird foreign substance which didn't taste very good. I mean, sweet hot chocolate, bubbly coke, or pretty much anything with sugar in it, pretty much >>> coffee.
Why would Anyone possibly want to drink something which was bitter and didn't taste very good? My jump to coffee was so strange, and i still remember when and how it happened. Well its a bit fuzzy now that it was a bit back, and possibly repeated use of coffee may have dulled my memory. But anyways,
it all began one summer when I was working at a music camp for younger students, Quite a few late nights , and somehow I needed a way to stay awake as I had quite a bit of responsibilities throughout the long day. So I resorted to drinking this coffee thing, people spoke of. I remember it being very black at the time, and me not a fan of seeing myself put too much sugar into coffee drank it that way. After a few days in a row, coffee made the transition from ew to mmm. red rover red rover i call coffee over. go coffee mon.
I came back from the camp in addition to many other lessons learned, with a new found joy for coffee.
I have invented the time machine.
More like an ability to add one hour of time anytime i want.
Due to my class schedule, I am granted with a terrible lack of sleep due to All my classes beginning at 8:30 am everyday, all clumped together one after another, for a nice morning of classes til 12:30 or so day in and day out. Meaning minus days with four hour labs in the afternoon which have become much less frequent due to an improved ability to finish it without even really going in during lab times, means Long afternoons.
Having long afternoons are not as healthy or productive as they seem. Time seems to drift away, slowly but surely. The secret, is to "*"
Alright so I got the job in toronto, Pretty excited about moving back and living at home. One thing for sure is i'll get to live with my sister before she goes off to wherever, the offer letters are coming in one by one, so her choices are expanding, with most being out of toronto. Another is I guess to stay with parents before the empty nest phenomena may happen. Shut up nim, it works back you know.
* set all your clock an hour ahead, Except for your alarm. it's 1:30 right now, wait no its 12:30 so i've technically gained an hour.
I don't mind this black background at all.
Monday, March 09, 2009
Bap Bop De Do Bop
I’ve added two more albums to my current playlist, Kasabian by Kasabian and Perfect Symmetry by Keane and am looking at the newest album by Ne-yo which i never got around to. Did anyone else know that the wiki page for albums automatically collects and displays “professional reviews”? It would be interesting to actually go through it and see how “professional” critics see, or hear, the music we listen too, although i suppose metacritic.com is much more powerful at aggregating it….
I think I have a think for British rock, with mild to heavy electronica, or maybe its because I’ll never hear it on local radio
Things seem to be going smoothly, I’ll be going to the South Asian Student Alliance show that happens every year. It happens with all the universities in Ontario with their respective south asian clubs/alliances/groups. I didn’t go to last year’s one, but people said it was well worth it, which i will find out this coming Saturday. The after party is also said to be eventful, if your into after parties of mainly westernized south asian kids… hopefully the guy:girl ratio isn’t abysmal.
On a completely different note, how awesome is the Naruto manga going? Am i the only one who reads it? After all, you can read it online, so its not like you have to put to much work into downloading and extracting anything. I mean, there’s been non-stop action for a long time now with massive losses for both protagonist and antagonist, always loved it when the author is willing to kill of characters that were prominent, unlike others… *cough*
Sunday, March 08, 2009
My computer keeps shutting down
down down down
down down
down
Overheating apparently? In the whole process of upgrading to windows 7, i was blessed with nicer looking backgrounds and themes, and much faster gaming?? but anyways my core temperature is pretty high, like high enough to almost boil water sometimes, so its constantly being monitored which is quite the hassle, Higher temps = lift laptop and attempt to blow. Not really but it helps a little bit to just lift it up at an agle at certain times, so the next thing i need is some sort of fan mounted thingy.
Another thing which bothers me is that my fan, Blows out COLD air, while the temp is still quite high everywhere else.
Good / Bad ? more-technically-abled-people-DISCUSS.
Fable...
However, there are moments of smooth play which is awesome. Fable is quite different from Fable II... or should i say the other way around as Fable was the original one. Controls are different largely due to me using a keyboard now... (without a mouse...) instead of a controller. But even then, the way we place experience on different skills is different and the transportation. If there wasn't so much lagging, i might actually enjoy the game more. There's actual mana for fable whereas in fable 2 u can just keep firing off magic with no consequences... which i likeeeee haha.
... Fable time...
Things to do on a saturday in waterloo..
Sleep in til late! followed by lazily cooking up some leftovers, by popping it into the microwave requiring little to no work at all. Followed by catching up on the usual engadget, cnet tv, tsn, etc. Then an afternoon spent, episodes and episodes of how i met your mother combined with attempting to study to make myself feel like the day was not wasted, catching up with music downloads, gathering the few people left in waterloo for a dinner, and some msn time then we get to right now, where I have just set my clock an hour forward, and realize that it is once again a 1am post.
A short post to make myself feel better about posting and to make others post more.
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Name change?
Just landed a very possible chance at working at a small biotech company in markham for the next co-op term, woot. small = 8 people. Peter / Gary i may need to draw on some of your uber bio / chem skills. We'll see how it goes, Just need to go confirm this. And some programming? ( Visual Studio . NET, PHP ) so i may be asking Nim for some help? And the owner of the company is an electrical engineering grad. nice..
Hmm i know i had a few other things to say,
Just came out of christian fellowship today where they had an intense dsl? discussion. I understand one of you a bit more now... probably not anyways, but it provided a nice insight into how christians view relationships , dating and it all.
Why is it always 1am>~ by the time i get to posts? i'll post earlier next time
Reasons why I want to become a frosh leader: a) ... to be continued in the next post
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Thursday, March 05, 2009
World Record Time
I had massive writer' block last night.. so I woke up this morning at 7am. to finish my 12 page essay. The problem was that it was due at 6pm, and I was looking around youtube until 10am to seriously start.
Timeline:
10am: Introduction done without thesis
2pm: Thesis + first main point
4pm: two main points complete
5pm:rushed my last point + conclusion in one hour along with references..
Handed it in at 6:20pm. =]
I'm quite proud.. and the essay wasn't half bad either!
Well, I'm going to go have a break now!
P.S. Drak's font sucks!
R.I.P. Assassin's Asylum
Should be studying for tonight's exam but i checked the blog just because my blog senses were tingling. And they were tingling for a reason.
We will miss you Assassin's Asylum.
And yes... it is an alliteration. Mmm.... rhetoric devices.
I’m Just messing around here
Does this font look like segoe print? And in how many places? as this font is only available in vista and up? and yeah, i changed the name of the title hacked together a title image in paint….. if you have a problem
then just say something, i’ll switch it all back…. Assassin’s asylum had good alliteration (i think that’s the one), but Prodigy’s Omen is so much of a slicker and more imposing name? yes? no? maybe so? this has the makings of being Legen…. wait for it….
screw you, never saw a single episode :P
Posting to Catch Up?
In other news, I shouldn't be posting right now coz i have an exam... today... haha. Although I think I know my stuff... I probably don't. I have Exercise Physiology at 5:30pm to when i finish which is no later than 6:45. So here is how my day looks.... some of you may beat me... but... whatever:
12:30 to 2:30 -> Basketball ( I will rant about this later)
2:30 to 3:30 -> Anatomy Lecture
3:30 to no later than 5-> Anatomy Lab (looking at abs for this lab... yay cadavers)
Lab finish to 5:30 -> last minute review of exercise physiology exam
5:30 to 6:45 -> ex phys exam
7 to 10 -> Children's Literature
All in all... about 9 hours on campus doing actual class and not just studying. And to start off the day, Basketball.
I don't know what image you have of me in sports, I am in no way, shape, or form good at basketball. Volleyball is nice... tennis is kool (yay i can play tennis now! i challenge u!)... but basketball? Ok ok, swimming was PRETTY horrible. But I can understand that, water and I don't mix well; plus, there were other people who weren't that great at swimming too. But basketball??? I think everyone in Kin is actually good at basketball... like wow... of course there are those who aren't as "experienced", but ahhhh! My stamina... does no exist. I think my heart is like the size of a pea... I go on for 5 minutes and i'm done. It's actually very annoying and frustrating. I'm not super competitive, but I don't like to feel inferior to everyone else... even the girls man. I like to be not superior, but good enough that I can play pretty decently and help out the weaker players. I guess it's another eye-opening experience to see how it feels to be a weak player... ever since i've been playing volleyball and tennis I've just taken the sport activities lightly. Perhaps a build up of hidden pride? Time to be humbled and actually have to try to get good marks.
With that aside... somehow the instructor of the course knows my name... and just seems to only know my name. I don't remember what his full name is... but maybe his first name is the same as mine. I'm just sorta weirded out how I'm always hearing "good job Gary" (but to me, i'm actually doing a bad job... but that's not the point). Yah... don't know what's happening there.
Anyways, maybe i should get some studying done. Maybe I can do some studying whilst posting. Exercise physiology. Basically going over the respiratory system and cardio. So, the lungs and the heart and how it reacts to exercise and influences exercise as well. First off, learning how the basic system works. How blood gets oxygenated and deoxygenated. Knowing why and the processes that help blood get oxygenated and deoxygenated. Having high partial pressure of oxygen in the alveoli and low pp. of oxygen. Yay diffusion. Knowing what tidal volume, vital capcity, expiratory reserve volume, inspiratory reserve volume, etc... is... when we exercise what happens in our bodies that let us compensate for the lactate generated and the oxygen usage and carbon dioxide production.
ok you know what, this is kinda getting boring. Hopefully, one of u readers figured out how boring that paragraph was getting and skipped to this one. Even I got bored. Ok. Time to study. Hopefully.
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Squash was surprisingly fun
Edit: so all in all, i recommend this. Raquet, ball, court, game face, done.
Tangent
If your bored, and you don’t mind watching documentaries (or an entire season of one), the above link will give you a pretty good idea of the current popular physics theories on the fundamentals of the universe.
Sigh, I have the last three episodes of House downloaded on my home computer, and no time nor the patience to actually see them through, and you people want me to watch all these other “great” shows and movies…. maybe on the morning/afternoon commute, somehow.
*Edited for clarification...
Quick Post
I welcome two sleepless nights without lucid dreaming!
So quick post before I get started on reading my history text, nothing too interesting in my life. I am however trying to email some profs on getting a volunteer position in a research lab so I can both work and volunteer during the summer and won't be bored out of my mind! I'm hoping this summer will be legend.... wait for it =P DARRRY!
I watched way too many eps of HIMYM lately, please forgive!
Alright, Peace Out "Bros"!
P.S. UU! I do have imob, but i'm never online due to the lack of wifi around me!
I am around lvl 9? I tend to forget, but I wasn't very good. I was a mongol I think! Complete opposite for a kid studying in life sci.. but that's how I roll not in RL!
Monday, March 02, 2009
March 3, 2009
- Make a few cell phone ring tones, I've got a couple that I have in mind, but just never having time to sit down and find a music file editor, AND find where i misplaced the usb to phone connection, unless i wanted to go into bluetooth between my laptop and the cellphone, but that again would take more researching.
- Sort music, put in ipod, listen!, i've been listening to things from months and months ago because I haven't done this in so long. So difficult to keep things ordered and i haven't found a music program that I like.
- Day 1 of using a planner, please let it continue...
This list was alot shorter than I anticpated, I think was just the "official" version of it but anyways onto the next topic, not as formal as everyone else, I did listen to the fray's new album and I actually did like, it is true that many songs did sound similiar, but i felt like they kept true to their original album which worked out well for them the first time around. Lately though, two albums which have been on repeat for me have been akon's "freedom" album and kanye west's "808 & heartbreak" album. A slight change, but throwing in different genres here and there do help me to get that mix from when i lazily play through the whole albums rather than stay with a comfortable playlist, in the attempt to get more albums lsitened to, however bad they may be, I tried scarlett johannsen's 2008 album recently, i believe its a year old. To be blunt, it was very strange and she sounded like a man.. i had never heard her sing before but pictured the type of genre i thought the album would fill, it didnt. I'll probably give it another attempt another time to make sure I wasn't biased but it did not leave me wanting to go back for another listen.
30 second Rant section (not really wanting to use proper grammer, although not like my grammer was very good anyways): What's twitter, i keep hearing about it, -m&m go get imob, its fun. if you do friend code, now., - note to self: stop playing tetris on facebook, sprint mode is addicting, - I do agree with standardizing our blogs title with the url name. It has always confused me, someone post a story of what it meant. Although i'm sure someone already did, Repost!, - People say 30 rock is good, i should find out for myself, as are - slumdog millionaire, waking life, and...
