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2006.12.22 13.03
Ill foreboding, in a land far, far away...
If you don't already know, I'm going to be traveling to Hong Kong from December 27 till January 15. As well as mosey around China for a bit too. I'd be going to Japan, but this time of the year is hell too expensive. And I also don't think I'm ready to take on that many ninjas and samurai...just not yet. Then again, if I could get myself a sharpened sword there... Hehehe, watch out Japan. Though yes, the land of the Hongky is where I'm heading for three weeks these holidays. But to tell you the truth...
I'm afraid of going.
I know I know, I should be joyful and appreciate the fact that I get to go overseas at all. Why is that anyway? People think "overseas" and immediately picture it as a good thing. Maybe it's just because I'm not that excitable. But there are a few reasons I'm scared of going over there.
The only friend I have over there is in trouble. When I last saw here she was in a happy family of three, and she'd just been admitted into the best selective high-school in Hong Kong. We got to know each other pretty quickly and naturally fun was had. Now? Great. Half a year or so after my trip there, her mum began using copious amounts of her father's money to go gambling. And fark, she gambled big. And therefore lost big. She reduced her family to an unfamiliar state of poorness. The only time she spent at home was when she needed to sleep or shower. If she even did those things. My friend now only eats take-away food bought on the street at seedy vendors. She said she's bored of pork. Heh...
Hong Kong is a scary place. For me. It's surrounded by a feeling that I can't describe properly. I walk through its streets and everything feels like it's leering at me, snickering, laughing like it sees me about to die. Or something. I go take a piss or eat a hamburger and I forget about all that. Paranoid? It's Hong Kong... I don't know, I'm just afraid of all that atmosphere crushing down on me and I'll go crazy. Maybe if I just keep thinking about boobs it'll take my mind off it or some kind of crap. Fun.
The last time I went there, the happiest part of my life ended, and the worst began. That year I was in love. And I know that that was the only time I ever said that without any fake-angsty-teenage-misperception-omg-lol. Deeply in love. I went to Hong Kong at the end of June, the term 2/3 holiday halfway through the year. I never thought I'd ever live that happily, everything in the world seemed... oh so happy... June Crisis. If you want to call it that. I still don't know exactly what it was, but something happened then. A wall suddenly appeared. I can guess enough that some particular things I did built that wall, but there had to be more to it... I like it how fate divided the year up in two even parts though, good job Mister Fate. Ha. Things are better now, and I'm happy, just not that kind of happy.
I should prossably just go there and have a good time and stop worrying. Prossably. All of you do me a favour though. If I come back insane, do me a good one and slap me a few. Wish me luck.
Mood:  Worried
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2006.11.13 23.46
The Tale of Your Impression
A story by Sir Ob...
The Tale of Your Impression
I was never a 'normal' one.
You know, when you're a kid, the years you live are brimming with fun. More fun (on the whole) than you'll ever have in your adulthood. That's what everyone who's lived past that stage says. Come on, it's not that hard to enjoy whatever lands the fuck in front of you.
Oops, I swore.
"Have you ever fallen in love Ronald?" my seventy three year old science teacher asked me.
"Been in love?"
"Fallen."
"Do emotions have laws like atoms and waves do," was all I could think. Facts. Heh. (You bastard.)
He laughed like a man who tries to know as little as he can help.
Lunch.
Where the hell was she?
I walked into the next classroom. "Somebody slap me," I said to all those growing faces, "Sarah, kill me." Lightning, and all those faces turn, waiting for the thunder they knew would come. There it was. And I was in my seat.
"Good morning," I smiled.
- ~ -
I want you to know that every part of the above is fiction. I'd wanted something strange and a bit shorter, but by the time I'd begun I didn't remember what I had in mind. So I just let it flow. And, is this what comes out? I also want you to know that none of that story was any form of my thoughts. Perhaps the lighting that I was reminded of. Other than that it was just what my words felt like becoming. I've already forgotten what it's about. But
I think I'm in a nice mood.
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2006.10.20 01.05
"Hey, let's go do something original and creative!" "Plagiarism? Sure?" *hot link* *anti-foot-note*
Been doing a lot of web-surfing. Rules/Instructions/whatever-the-crap-you-want-to-call-these:
1) Grab the nearest book.
2) Open the book to page 123.
3) Find the fifth sentence.
4) Post the text of the next four sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5) Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet. Just pick up whatever is closest.
So so, you're probably complaining about the fact that I've done one of these cop-out entries for today's post. Well... yeah I'd be arsing about it too if I were you. Reason that I'm not is because I can't be bothered for anything else at the moment. Even though there's been a few entries I've been wanting to do for the past few months that I still haven't gotten around to... Oh well, here goes for the 'post'.
- But it was their lives I wanted, not their service. It was their years I supped upon to feed my own, and their blood I used to quench the sword. I still thought of humans as I thought of other animals then, and felt nothing for their tears and cries. I did not realise that as I bound the power of the river, swifts, and stone into the metal, I also filled the sword with sorrow and the despair of death.
That was from a short story called "Under the Lake" by Garth Nix from his book "Across the Wall". I'm really glad that my motherboard's instruction manual didn't go up to page 123... "Across the Wall" was the book second closest to me. Goodly-yayus. Oh and there was actually a number 6 to that list of steps... "Tag five people". I say screw that. Why should I force you to do it? I bet I could be eloquent enough to pursuade you all to do it (heh) but if you can't be bothered then pheh, good on you :D
Enjoyus. By the way, the kind miss who owns the blog that I found this on is traceymodo, another LJ-er! Kudos, and soduk to her.
Mood:  Crappy like usual
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2006.10.04 19.02
Man, an alarm that I set last year just went off. It was meant to be for seven in the morning... Geh.
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2006.10.03 17.00
Stupid subject line didn't fit...
Here's what was MEANT to go in the subject:
"Hey honey, can I talk to you?"
"Sure."
"...it's about your weight. I think you have Fat...itus."
I know, I know, longus time no do-bloggus. Hehm. Well... yeah, I've been wanting to blog for a while but...I just can't be bothered, y'know? It's the holidays too so I've chosen to fill up my agenda with eating, sleeping, and the occasional computing. (computing rarely does involve blogging. "Aw, crap...") So as you can see, I'm a bussy bizzy man. (How the crap do you spell busy? Oh, well there we go, hello.)
I just wanted to do a quick post today to talk about something particular and actually rather minute. ('my noot' hehehehe) Just a few hours ago I went to see the movie "Stormbreaker." Yeah, I repeat- movie. Alex Rider is an actor now! Wiaaaow... Yeah well the movie was better than I expected so I'll give it that. They played "Feel Good Inc" by the Gorillaz too which absolutely blew me over. And also kind of funny because about half an hour earlier I'd just bought their album Demon Days... Heh. Coincidences, what'll they think of next?
But steering back towards the subject that was the purpose behind this whole post. Whilst I was browsing the aisles in the Reject Shop (hey, shut up, they sold Demon Days for ten bucks. Cool things) I saw/heard the dumbest/funniest thing. A 40 something year old woman was walking along with her 8 or so son.
Said kid was jumping up and down and suddenly goes "Orrrw...A BOUNCY BALL!!!"
With which the mother responds with "Frawr, I'm not getting another bloody bouncy ball ya twerp."
...okay, don't you just hate it when people tell you "you had to be there" jokes? Yeah, me too. ...sorry. But just imagine the mother with a typical yob voice. And, and and... imagine it was funny. Hahahahaha. No? Crap.
Well that was all, really... I'm going to watch "Napolean Dynomite" with caramel popcorn, coconut juice and a Magnum drumstick now. Have funny-dipped-fun...
Mood:  Heh
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2006.09.04 16.20
"It looks like a-" "No, it doesn't..."
Oh, the panda post has been 'updated'.
Mood:  Annoyed
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2006.08.31 23.30
"I feel like...." "I know. You're smiling."
Everyone. My god. I have the most beautiful news I have ever held in my soul. It's strange, in a way. Because I think, after a very, very long time... I'm beginning to like myself again.
I don't think you will truly understand what it means to me, but to give a comparison, it's like coming out of a shell you've lingered in for a long time, and then finally coming out and having the light pour around you, lifting you up. For the past few years I've been in that shell. The world to me was what life had chosen as a physical representative to show me what misery, pain, and tears were. I would see people smile and laugh. I would be miserable. I saw them at school. I would go home and there would be no choice but to feel worse. I used to think, "Is being a live really worth it. What purpose is there if the everyday goals of enjoying one's life are dissipated before the journey to them has begun? This is how life intends for me to live through it."
Is it worth it.
I went on, smiling whenever I had been lucky enough to forget everything I'd learnt about pain. I think everytime I laughed or smiled, I knew things were not as bad as they seemed, but for some reason I never learnt anything from it. All I did was cry over the life I'd been handed, hate who I'd become and the things I'd done. I thought that was so because a bad person and a bad life went hand in hand. Suffice to say, I can be very depressing, or get very depressed.
Well... Today, as you all know, was African Awareness Day (AAD). When I was in Science during first period, I was mad that Africans had come and screwed up the system. (Mixed up periods and all that.) That was my first impression. Recess came after Photography and I bought a Milo Bar and 2 Wagon Wheels. More on that later...
After music, was of course: African Awareness Day...assembly. This is where things begin to get strange. Pardon me, all of you, I forget her name but it was when the women who spoke of the "bombings from four directions." I sensed some of the people around me feel tired of her speech but for some reason I was... compelled all throughout. There was something about her story, the way she spoke of confusion, death, the happiness her mother felt when she saw her come home. Whilst all the while, she was standing there, knowing she was safe. Do any of you get me? She ran where she could when her school was bombed, she kept running and "dropping to her tummy" and running and dropping down and running for a quarter of an hour, she got home and she refuged at a river for three days without food, and there she is. She went through that and now here she is alive safe fed living growing feeding. Did you see the way she smiled? She went through near-hell yet she kept going through it, she came out and she can still smile.
Are any of you getting me? Here I was, getting depressed almost every day, thinking that just because things are bad, nothing good ever comes. I've had a sh*t past few weeks. But today? Wow. Pretty much the entire day was... good. Did all of you see Afro Moses? Maaan... "Loving yourself is not vanity. It's respecting the soul that god... or whoever- gave you. If you love yourself you can love the world." Plus he plays some fancy music. And he played that song that I've wanted to hear for a long time but I don't know the name of it... Well anyway he really put me in a good mood. And I swear... I felt like a bazillion hugs during his performance. ("performance" hardly does it justice) I'm glad Simon and David were next to me, cos if it was a girl I bet she would've been squished to death by the end of it. (...to sound positive) Like I said, he really put me in a good mood.
This is the first time I've every really actually appreciated and enjoyed an event like this. Usually when it's Genes for Jeans day or something I just act positive about it out of respect for the cause that the donations go towards. Today I loved every minute of it. And my highlight of the day came at the very end of the school. I hope nobody really saw me but I was jumping up and down like a happy little twit all the way down the L-K lawn. Not saying why :D
I guess I've just finally realised what I've foolishly denied for so long- No matter how many tears you've shed, one day you will do nothing but smile.
Getting late, time to finish off. I hope you all realise too, that yes- crap happens. But stay in there long enough and sooner or later, you'll be able to admit that it's not always bad. In fact, most of the time it's great! You laugh, you smile, and the sooner you realise you're actually doing it, the sooner you can truly appreciate it. Oh! I forgot to finish off my story about the Milo Bar and 2 Wagon Wheels. The Wagon Wheels didn't last five minutes. However, resisting the urge of temptation, I decided to ration my Milo Bar. Bad decision. Halfway through the assembly, when the two girls dressed up in African clothes were talking, I pulled out the bar just to see if I could resist. Because I'm a dolt I'd put it in my pocket. Mind you, it was a decent temperatured day and we were in the hall with a thousand bodies accumulating body heat. Ahem. Milo Bar? More like melted blop of liquid squishy mush. Damn I'm an idiot. I guess some things never change... Have a beautiful day!
It is worth it.
Mood:  Alive and in love
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2006.08.26 22.20
A composition's draft...
"August"
That's what I have so far of my composition for my Music assessment. Or at least what fits into one minute which is the limit of Sound Recorder. It's not a very creatice name, but I think it does okay. You can hear near the end that my fingers are starting to get unco though... so bear with me. And it's not complete so yes it does sound a little empty. Any ideas would be well-welcome.
Mood:  Usual self
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2006.08.26 21.40
No wonder so many people die
Read
To think our world is progressing... Quite the reverse, I'm blunt to say.
"Despite the despair at the rapidly deteriorating situation regarding water and associated biodiversity, there is room for optimism."
Turn that tap off in the kitchen you forgot about. You're making me mad.
Mood:  Dissapointed with mankind
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2006.07.25 00.00
"Hey hey, you can't put that poster there!" "Cheap advertising. Get over it."
Hrm... let's try a little "cheap advertising"... or a so called "publicity stunt". Any of you 9M folk reading this? Guess my awful tactics worked then. Hally do.
"PANDA???"
"PANDA."
~September 4~
Alright, seeing as there's been so much talk of this panda here looking like a penguin, take THIS:
"PANDA???"
"PENGUIN..."
Mood:  Cheap
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2006.07.10 23.25
"Your life sucks" "Like a lollipop" "..."
Well, no evil-memes today, but I was clearing out my My Documents folder when I came across this link to one of those "Answer some questions and get a score" thingies. This one's about life and here it is for me:
Hrm, so according to this:
- I'm moderately clear-minded and focused
- I'm exceptionally fit and athletic
- I believe in what I do and say
- I'm not very close to my family and friends
- I do not seek love and joy enough
- I am solidly stable with my money
- 70% of my life is "good"
I think that's... generally alright. Though I know the friends/family things is incorrect. Because it's an average, it included the answers where I was close to my friends, but also the questions where I said I wasn't very close to my family. And I may not completely and drastically yearn for love as much, but that doesn't mean I don't (plutonically, where did that word come from?) love my close friends. But to hell with licorice and anything else that's ever opposed me...
"Ugh, this cupcake tastes like crap!"
"Why?"
"Cos there's licorice on it. And licorice taste like crap. But the only thing I'm eating is the licorice so it tastes like crap."
I went to a party on Saturday and Adriana brought some fancy cupcakes she made which looked like they had spiders on them, though unfortunately the legs were made of licorice so it tasted like crap. She doesn't really know why she used licorice, but I guess cos it's black and easily cut and all. Those cupcakes were crap Adriana. (Just kidding! To tell you the truth everything else like the actual cupcake was actually really good. Same as the spider's abdomen thingy. Too bad spiders come with legs...)
Mood:  Hungry
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2006.07.10 01.15
"You drinka ma cuppa of souppa?"
So, by deleting that meme, I have thus thrown away 20 minutes of my life. So be it, that meme was crap. Yeah, I know, it's rare of me to simply toss something away like that, but I realised how much I really don't like it. And besides, I get to type another blog, and include an image of crap! Bargain, I say.
Speaking of noodles, I just drank a cup of this:
While I was concocting this here beverage ("Add 250ml of boiling water, stirring briskly, blah blah blah..." Oh and an eye of newt. Gotta have an eye of newt. And NO, not 'newt eye', it must be 'eye of newt'. It is always, eye of newt) ...where was I. Ah, while I was brewing this thing, I was busy inspecting the box.
First thing I noticed was the big slogan it had. SOUPED UP. Oh yes, yes after I drank this beverage I was indeed, SOUPED UP. Boy do I not feel just so splendidly SOUPED UP now that I have drank this soup! I am so SOUPED UP I could go for another cup! What in the crap is SOUPED UP??? Who the hell drinks something and says "Well gee my fellow, aren't we just SOUPED UP today?" "Hey mate, let's get SOUPED-FREAKING-UP." I'm making a bigger fuss over it than I need to but that is honestly terribly uncreative of Country Cup's advertisers. I just want you to know that I'm SOUPED UP.
The second thing I noticed was that the box had indeed a subliminal message on it! Yes, how mysterious of Country Cup... However I was able to figure out what the subliminal message actually was. Country Cup was actually trying to say "This tastes like crap". OMG SHOCK SHOCK SHOCK. I spy with my little eye...a subliminal message! And there it is! How do I know that this is in fact what Country Cup is trying to say? Look near the top right corner of the box. See that green, oval-kinda shaped thing? Read it. It says "99% fat free". Now being around food as much as me teaches you a few things. Anything that says "+70% fat free" tastes like crappus. Ye be learned... (actually, it tasted alright)
Ah... I sense that. It's when I start getting boring and you can tell it's another "Sir Ob rants for a million paragraphs how much he hates something" entry. Well... yeah. So how about something a friend hates? Okay! A friend of mine was discussing with me those annoying display pictures of people who take photos of themselves in front of mirrors. Then they have "this gigantic FLASH covering half of them" ... "and the rest of the picture is crap and dark". Well, I'm not sure I fulfilled all your dislikable traits, but I tried. This is for you Alex : )
Hehehe...(not 'hee hee hee'!!) Enjoy the rest of your day guys, and remember. Keep SOUPED UP.
Mood: Really, have a nice day!
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2006.07.02 16.25
"It's the holidaaaaaaaaaays!!!!!" "...piss."
Holidays holidays holidays... What can I crap about in the holidays... For some reason this holiday is seeming rather uneventful. Uneventful as in not many events. I got out of bed on Saturday and it felt as if some tsunami of boredom had come over the house. At least I was feeling bored. What is there to do what is there to do what is there to do? - A wise man (probably)once said. I guess I should probably start with a shower, seeing as I smell like a regurgitated crap. But then what? I just finished Half Life, and my video card isn't fast enough to run Oblivion properly, so there goes video gaming. Hrm... v-card, that reminds me of something...
And I guess I have that list of things to do in that previous blog entry. But what about entertainment? Oh right, I have a bunch of Pokemon and DVD stuff to watch. Thing is though, I'm trying to ration them. Yes, ration them like breadcrumbs on Captain Cook's vessel! It's stupid, yeah, but I don't want to crap my way through a bunch of films, then have nothing to do for another week and thus inevitably be bored again anyway. Oh then again there's the last episode of The OC to watch... Hehe, time to spoil the plot for everyone! Ya reddy?
Well, in the second last episode, Sandy Cohen gets killed by the president (aka Arnold Schwarzenegger, who takes on the role of Terminator and ultimately destroys Sandy's house including the bagels.) Kirsten Cohen gets kicked out of Orange County because everybody thinks the Newmatch people are too ugly to date. Seth Cohen gets his skateboard eaten by Summer. And Ryan gets...um, aids. Uh, from Marissa, who got it off... Jimmy. Yeah, bet you weren't expecting that, eh? Eh? So that's the second last episode of the OC, I'll tell you what happens in the last once I watch it. Very dramatic series, yes... (come on, how can Terminators not be dramatic?)
Well, I'm bored again. And I should probably say something funny so my boredom doesn't breed with my creativity and give birth to a crappy blog. Um, ooh, you know what's funny? Seriously, do you know? Well take a guess. Taken one? Well get one free. Jokes. Yes jokes are funny, at least I think so. So here's a joke!
Okay, so there's this guy, he's had a really bad day at work and his wife yelled at him over the phone and he's really upset. He walks into a bar and he orders a beer. 6 minutes later, he orders 6 beers. The bartender looks at him oddly but decides not to question him seeing as he's paid for it. Another 6 minutes later he orders another 6 drinks but this time it's beer. The bartender asks him why he keeps on buying six beers. The man ignores the question and buys another six beers after looking at the clock, which showed it was 6 minutes since he last ordered six beers. The bartender minds his own business and simply gives him six more beers. The man continues drinking but stops when he gets to the sixth glass. Um, I forgot the rest but it was really funny.
Enjoy your holidays.
Mood:  Bored
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2006.06.26 00.10
"Look! Look! I made a-" "peice of crap from the looks of it."
Blergh. I'm up late-ish for a school night (then again there's that strikus thing on Wednesday...) and I've been er...'constructing', for want of a better word. Construction, as in cranes. Construction cranes like in construction sites where you have cranes. Those cranes. No. Not those cranes.
THESE F*CKING CRANES
Yeah, one of them. Of course, I have no problems with these cranes, just problems making them. See, just earlier I took my second attempt at making a paper crane. Things...didn't exactly go too well. Here's a photo I took of it:
Looks like I didn't learn too much from my first attempt.
Looks like its parents had some kind of inbreeding going on or something else disgusting. Otherwise the crane was flying through an x-ray, got shot by a radioactive bullet, and fell into a toxic sewerage drain next to a nuclear testing zone. That's not its wing by the way...that's its GOD DAMN TAIL. Seriously. CRAP. Yes, seriously. How the hell is
THIS
Meant to turn into
THIS???
It's a load of crap that's how. Okay, bad mood over- It makes sense, the honest problem is just the fact that I'm not going to become an Origami Master any time soon. Damn. I really want to learn how to make a crane...
Mood: CRANE
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2006.06.24 14.05
Hiatus schmiatus
Yeah, I feel like blogging. So what the hell.
I just need something to do on my computer. That's right, Sir Ob is running out of things to do. See, I have a little list of things on Black-Boris (that's my computer) to complete, though there are a few issues...
1. First off I'm doing the tedious job of organising, and clearing out my hard-drive. Now, when you spend about five or more hours a day on your computer, you tend to accumulate a rather large amount of files. Doing a file count, there seems to be a total of 126,826 files on my computer. Wheee, what absolute fun going through all that will be. To make it worse, every time I go through about five or so folders, Explorer takes up 100% of the CPU usage. Which is of course, bad.
2. Secondly, and this is pretty much the same as the previous, I'm planning on doing the same spring cleaning of my Hotmail inbox. As of today, there is a total of 2311 e-mails in my inbox, 802 of which are unread. To say that I'm lazy is hardly doing it justice. Not to mention that my router dies and disconnects whenever it feels like it.
3. Another stupid thing is about this lot of games I'm attempting to play... There's a number of problems here. Either it's that I can't install it, I can install it but apparently I don't have the right disc inserted (cos I'm using an ISO disc image), or my video card aint on par with the below-par hardware requirements. All of which, is crap.
4. Finally, I'm planning on formatting this whole thing. That's why I'm getting all these files organised, so I can burn/copy all the files that I want to about 20 DVDs, or Boris-100 (my 'thumb' drive). It's going to be a long process, as I have to find the Setup(install) files for pretty much every program that I want to keep, check to see if they're the latest version, and then download them again if they aren't. One of the hard parts about that is that half the time I'll need to find the patch or crack to them. Tedious, tedious...
So as you can see, even though I have a lot to do, I'm having a lot of troubles to deal with. Poop, poop, and mega poop. Apparently Windows Vista will make things easier. Well, considering that Windows Vista needs a big-bang video card to run, and I want to have Black-Boris all clean BEFORE I get a new video card, looks like it's all crap for me still.
Moving on from computer-tooter, my geetar's D string just died. Not that I wasn't expecting it too. In a way I'm glad that it had broken, because almost a year ago it was already dying but I just couldn't be bothered to replace my strings until I had to. Pity too, I was just getting better at it.
And just so that this entry isn't a two-topic rant, here's a list I compiled last night of the ten people I talk to most on Messenger. See if you can put them in descending order! (Most talked, to least talked)
- Alex C
- Alyssa
- Chelsea
- Erin
- Gareth
- Georgia
- Kieren
- Libby
- Shelby
- Tracey
And a bit of crap if you're bored:
World Cup Finger Soccer
I bet your cat can't use a lappy
I personally think it says "poop"
Have fun.
Mood:  I just like this image
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2006.06.19 16.20
Temporary hiatus on Otamop
General Drummond: "Hiatus? My my, isn't this just atroscious."
Karst: "Quiet, fat man."
Uuugh... you know, being lazy is a beauty in itself. Today I ate a fruit-cup, two Boost bars, and about thirteen twentieths of a peppermint Freddo. Then I got in the car back home and ate a chicken-mayo sandwich. Then when I got home the first thing I did was put down my bag, take off my shoes, and then jump on the floor sleeping. Pleasures, pleasures. Be lazy, it's only good for you.
I haven't been blogging much with this LiveJournal. Been busy with that site I mentioned earlier. I'll tell you this now- It's going to take a fair while. See, first off, I had to go and LEARN CSS before I even started. I think I'm alright with that now. But, now I have to go and LEARN how to use an advanced graphics editor. Advanced, as in not Microsoft Paint. Yes, it's time for me to take a step forward from that rudimentary program and absorb some vector drawing skills... (Doesn't mean I'll stop making pixellised images though. No, never...)
So as you can see, I'm going to go through a lot before I even start to work on the actual site. And after I learn what I need, then I need to go through the tedious task of producing the content. Yes, it's going to be fairly content-heavy. Well... not in terms of files an- Well, you'll just have to wait and see. And by wait, I mean about 2-999 months. Yes, I'm going to take that long. I said 999 to give me 'some' lee-way. Last time I set a deadline for myself, the site turned out like an 80 year old horse's crap shed. So, I'm going to do this steadily. What that means though, is that most of my time will be spent working on that, and the rest, either doing schoolwork, or playing some long-awaited games of mine. Or going out spending my time at fancy restaurants with a beloved partner. Ha, what wishful thinking. Both the fancy restaurant, and the beloved partner.
And I bet I'm getting more boring with these entries as well. So it's all for the better. See you in a few months.
Mood:  ?
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2006.06.15 16.27
"Exciting news!" "Oh absolutely... COUGH" "Was that sarcastic?" "Sarcastic? Never..."
Yes, exciing news indeed. Or at least 'okay' news. (To tell you the truth it's pretty crap news.) I'm starting up a new site to replace my old, decrepit Pomato site, seeing as it's been dead for too long. The reason is because I've wanted to make Pomato better for a long time, but never got around to it. But then I noticed the holidays were nearing... You know how much I love spare time. And after some of the praise I've gotten on my LiveJournal, Otamop (yes it's a link to the same page you're reading right now) I thought that I entertain people enough to have an adequately good reason to start a new site. Also, I've been learning a bit about CSS recently too.
SO! Now I'm starting work on it, which is convenient because I don't have any more assignemnts due and I have four DVDs, two albums, 5 Pokemon episodes, and three Pokemon movies to fill in my holidays. You'd think that with all that I'd actually be MORE busy. No no no, with all that, it means that I have plenty of relaxing multimedia activities in between working on the site. And not being relaxed all the time was the reason I got so angry at working on Pomato, and closed it down. But I'm all good now. And I'm going to think accordingly to HTML 4 for this, so you know what that means... CSS!!! That's right, no more messy unorganised crap-dong coding, and also generally better navigation throughout the site. Um...or whatever.
I've noticed that my recent entries have been boring one-topic dilly-dangs. Oh, well then. Um, damn. (I'm not that fazed) Oh and for those of you who are annoyed by links opening in new windows, I've stopped doing that in this LiveJournal. Hooray for better-ness. I'm done borifying, adios.
Mood:  Kinda excited
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2006.06.14 22.45
The Ecstasy of Euphoric Elation
Wow whee, woo whee, I feel greeeeeat...!!! I know I know I know, I'm probably the last person you'd imagine in a really really good happy mood. Well, to make things less weird, I am kind of unhappy about this. There you go. But other than that, Sir Ob is UBER-BEST-GOOD.
Oh yeah.
But anyway, oh my god I can't stop just...feeling great. Heh, trust me I'm not high either. It's a combination of two things I think. See, after today I handed in my English essay (which I screwed up) and got back home, I realised that I had no more assignments and what not to do. For the past week I've been having a rough week committing suicide with schoolwork. I think I'm doing better than I did in year seven though... In year seven if I had an incomplete assignemnt due the next day, I wouldn't even make an attempt to finish it. I'd just say to the teacher "It's not here today". Hellus? I hate it when people excuse their way out of assignments because they're "sick" or their printer "didn't work". Yeah, bullshitus, Dr Dumbcrap. And now that I think about it, what I did in year seven isn't much different to that. And the worst thing is, I was nowhere NEAR as... eloquent as I am today, even though I thought I was ten times better. I hate 2004 me. 2006 Ronald is the great one. I think I've learnt a hell of a lot since then, and I'm pretty sure I know what I think I know now. Hooray, who's the wise one now, Mister I'm-In-Year-Seven-And-I-Think-I'm-So-Good?
So that's the first part of my great mood. Second? Oh, I was just at the library today and I borrowed the Cat Empire's Two Shoes album! If you haven't heard it, the tracks on it really really put you in a good mood. And seeing as I was already in a good mood... Like a smiley face gone high. I also borrowed Bjork's Post album. I was sitting at the desk peacefully when I looked up, and Bjork is just... THERE. Staring at me... her eyes seemed to say "Borrow this cd... borrow this cd..." So I got up and did so. Hoo hah. Lullaby by the Cat Empire is goooood... Or at least it makes you feel good. In this case, great!
I think that's all. Have a great day guys. And "Be happy. Don't worry..." : )
Mood:  UBER-BEST-GOOD
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2006.06.11 20.40
Reunion Video
Just two quick uh, announcements today. First off, I've compiled a little Advent Children clip for you guys. Well, the initial reason was so that I could see a certain scene over and over again (cos it's massive-awesome), but I thought I may as well stick it here so you guys who don't know anything about Advent Children but want to see what it looks like can do so. Mind you though, this is pretty much at the very end of the movie, so if you don't want spoilers, then don't see it. The file is 26.4mb in size. Providing you don't have any other downloads/uploads running, it'll take about:
- 2 and a half hours on 28kbps dial-up
- 1 hour on 56kbps dial-up
- 16 minutes for 256kbps broadband
- 7 minutes for 512kbps broadband
- I can't be bothered to work out what it is for those super ones
So yesm. A slight problem with this video however, is that the audio and video aren't in sync. Which means you hear the sounds after you see the corresponding action. This is due to an issue during conversion between the DVD .VOB file to video .AVI file. So blame WinAVI Video Converter. Ooor, you could believe that they're moving faster than the speed of sound and thus the delayed sound. I mean, they are the two strongest fighters on the Planet...
Advent Children - Reunion Right-click and Save, blah blah. I even went to the trouble of typing up subtitles for you guys. How nice am I. The reason it's in Japanese even though I bought an English edition is because the default audio track is Japanese on the DVD, so that's what my video converter chose. Enjoy.
Oh and just a note... FFVII - Advent Children is one of the strictest copyright movies ever. It's the DVD equivalent of HL2. They've got crap about "Don't copy, pirate, etc, blaaah, or else we'll FIRAGA!!!" But in my humble, humble opinion, I don't think this is too much pirating. I mean, it's only seven minutes of the entire movie. Consider it a trailer. So if one of you Square folks happened to stumble upon this journal, I constructed this video with the intentions of personal purposes. (even though it's on the interent.)
My second announcement...uh...isn't much of an announcement... Well, I've started working on a new website. It's only got a homepage and a blog but I think it's a good start. I've put a lot of effort into it, so I hope you guys like it. I personally think it's an excellent site, but I'll leave that to you. Have fun taking a look...
falling-girl.net/boris/lint
Mood:  Satisfied
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2006.06.10 20.40
Ho hum, I am awake
Cloud - "I feel lighter. Maybe I lost some weight. All that dilly dallying."
Tifa - "Maybe you're fat"
(It's from Advent Children. ...well, except for the second line)
I feel better now... This morning- Well, I should say 'afternoon', I woke up at about 3pm. Finally, my week's lost sleep has been replenished.
Site for today, hey...lemme fink... You know what, I think I'm running out of idea. I know a lot of good sites, but they're either ones most people know, aren't useful to everyone, or are single pages. So I'm going to be lazy for once and list a site some of you probably know, but not everyone. It's altavista.babelfish.com" Yes, that one. For those who haven't come across it before, or have heard of it but never known what it does, it's a translator. Type in "I want Pocky with that rissole", select "English to German" (damn, there's no Indo though), and you get "Ich wünsche Pocky mit dieser rissole". Nifty. Oh and for less intended purposes...you can make it say stupid things. For example, turn something into Japanese, then back to English, and you get something stupid. "The liquidity that this organisation of strippers abruptly rekindled was ambitious" then becomes "The flowability which this constitution of the stripper makes revive suddenly was enthusiastic". Mwuaha, have fun.
I guess I should explain my recent purge of sleeping hours. Fortunately it's only been this week. Monday night, I was up on the computer reading through about 8 websites till late. Tuesday I was playing geetar. Wednesday was the big one. I had a major Cooking assignment the next that I somewhat neglected over the weeks. Rather that attempt worming my way out by wording my way out in eloquence, I decided to actually do it. The unfortunate thing is that half the time I spent doing it, I wasn't doing it, which resulted in me taking a fair few hours, and not getting any sleep at all. So the following day I was a zombie in a coma. In fact apparently I fell asleep in maths. I think I did. I think it was worth it in the end though, as I was one of the only people in the class who handed it in, and everybody who didn't got freaking burnt by practically the entire Food Tech staff. Mwuaha, Sir Ob is the victor. Oh wait, that Thursday night I had killer stomach pains at half past midnight, almost as bad as Volomorsus. So Friday night comes and I FINALLY get some sleep. Oh and sleep I did, sleep I did... I slept for about 7-10 hours or so, woke up, then it began raining. And you know what rain does to sleepheads.
But enough of the Adventures of the Coma Zombie, onto typing a barrage of words and boring you. Oh what fun. Oh wait, speaking of Cooking, the night I had to do that assignment I brought upstairs a bottle of thickened cream to see the nutritional values on the bottle. For some reason I thought to myself "I wonder what this tastes like", and of course I had to open it to taste it, so I did. But it was one of those annoyingly-difficult-to-open lids, so when I did manage to take it off, I jerked the thing a bit, getting a bit of thickened cream over my hand and pants. Oh but it doesn't end there, no, no. As if that god of Piss-Me-Off would let me off that easily. I went to clean up the mess and put the bottle on my slidey-keyboard tray thingy. Now, it just HAD to be on a slant... and at the side of my line of vision I see the bottle slide, slide, sliding down my keyboard tray. Then PLOP. The damn thing falls on the freaking floor and regurgitates two metres of its crap across the floor.
So if you ever have a bottle of thickened cream... May God have mercy on thee.
Another thing that's gone wrong, and I'll try to be brief on this, I've got a feeling this blog entry is alread too long for reading purposes. The other day Gareth finally lent me Half Life, after I asked him for it two months previous. (See Chrasy, he only took 2 :p I want N&S!) But yes, he gave me two discs, the game, and a few add ons. Long story short, I wasted an hour and a half of my life trying to get it to work and all this and that, then I open it up and it says "Please insert the CD". And so I do, then it says something like "The CD cannot be verified". Oh go eat a crap, I say. I hear Half Life 2 installation is even worse. *shudder*
Ho hum, got my Maths semester test results back. I got a measly 77 out of 100. Give me a few minutes and let me work out what the percentage of that is.(Jokes) Apparently it's not too bad cos the top mark of the 'smart' class was 93, and one of the smart-masters got 76. Kieren got 78 so she gets the satisfaction of beating me by one mark. I still maintain that 77 sounds cooler though.
God I need a muesli bar. Oh that was a good muesli bar. And I need to try a Large Sized Big Mac sometime too... Hooray for fatulatence.
Cloud - "Are sins ever forgotten?"
Vincent - "I've never tried"
cough*BULL*cough
3 years ago:
Cloud - "Why are you in here?"
Vincent - "I've been in here for years to atone for my sins."
Stoobid.
Mood: Refreshed
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