Thursday, October 27
Podcasts and Indies
music: The Arrogants - Antony And Cleopatra
I'm addicted to podcasts. They're hilarious, informative and an awesome language tool. The effect is just like after watching a tv programme with plenty of intelligent dialogues. It's like I've caught the flow and sentences could form easily in my head. Spectacular. However, there is one podcaster who disagrees with this. He thought that it's freaky, that one of his listeners had been using the podcasts to improve on his English. Well, I don't see anything freaky about a non-native English speaker using podcasts to learn the language. It actually works and rather effective at that. Unless you intend to listen to that particular podcaster's show which uses motherf**ker and a**hole throughout the podcast. Hah.
I'm liking songs by
The Arrogants. Female vocalist in a band is hot.
Nada Surf sounds lots like Coldplay. Pretty good pop/rock they have. I don't think I've downloaded so many songs in a week before. Broadband rocks.
Sunday, October 23
Broadband
Yep.. I've set up my dsl connection! Took me a painstaking three days to do it. Which is rather a waste of effort, strength and time. I should have had gotten the ethernet network card earlier instead of using the usb port. The modem went undetected when I plugged it into the usb port. I messed with all the settings to no avail. Two days after that, I decided to just purchase the card. It was quite a task to pry open the piece of metal at the back of the casing, and so, more time wasted. When everything was set up beautifully, I plugged the modem to the ethernet port and yeehaw, broadband! It took a year for the dumbass company to make it available to us. Wow. And very wrong timing too because I'm facing a major, major examination and now I spent so much time setting up the connection.
Anyway, immediately I open the pre-downloaded TLW Season2 torrent file on Azureus. Unfortunately, the highest download rate recorded was merely 6kb/s. I came to realise from forums that I need to forward the port the one Azureus is using. I forwarded the port but no stark improvement. I didn't think that would have anything to do with the client. Then, I went to find some podcasts to test the download speed. Found
Lesbian Soup which is really amusing and downloaded like three podcasts at maximum speed. Eventually, I switched to BitComet client today. The download rate is higher now.. about 22kb/s max. I thoght that multiple connection like p2p should be really fast, as claimed, but apparently direct download from the server is twice faster. Humpph. 99 hours for 4.45GB of Season 2.
Wednesday, October 19
Horrific
music: Franz Ferdinand - Do You Want To
The previous semester, one week was all I took to revise for my examination. Miraculously, I was placed the 20th position in the entire school, among 100 others. That gave me a whole new confidence to repeat it for my final semester. As a result, I came very close to failing my Algebra. Nevertheless, my other subjects managed some pretty satisfactory scores compared to those who had revised a month earlier. Surprisingly, I also scored the highest in English although I finished and handed the paper in 45 minutes earlier than the rest. I felt like I could be confident enough to do the same for my public examination which is only around the corner. But no. Thanks. The borderline score of Algebra truly spurs me to perform better in the penultimate examination.
Some people couldn't care less about other's choice for a spoiler-free conversation on recently popular shows namely Desperate Housewives, Lost, The Apprentice, The Amazing Race, etc. They would reveal all the spoilers and plots they've gathered from the internet, all the juicy details that are meant to provide suspense as you watch the series. Some has even gone a mile further by purchasing the bootleg DVD box set and start a 5 episodes daily marathon. Then, gleefully and boastfully, they blurt everything out sparing nothing.
Hey, where's the fun now?
Finally, my slr is fixed. But not entirely, because the metering system is completely a goner. I didn't want to leave the camera there for another month. So, I payed $110 and took it. It's a rip off, charging me that amount for a substandard service. It wasn't much better than before. The lens mount is repaired, which my initial problem was. However, I expect the camera to be fixed and returned to me in its original state with everything else functioning properly. He's just so fucking hard headed and wouldn't listen to my explanation. He really gets on my nerve and I'd rather have it back. Oh, and he has a tendency to underestimate his clients' intelligence. I asked of the Dynax 5D and got a reasonable price quote of $3100 that comes with a 18-200mm zoom lens. But I wanted to know if the price could be reduced further if I had wanted the 18-70mm kit lens instead. His reply which didn't answer my enquiry was, "The lens with longer focal range is better. You see, digital camera multiplies the focal length. 18mm becomes 27mm and 200mm becomes 300mm". Yeah dude. I know that. Maybe you should be aware of a new breed of intelligent consumers who do research before buying. Just because I'm 19 and a female doesn't make me less knowledgeble in this area. What a fucking air head old man.
Oh yeah, skip fucking school today because many are doing the same and there's a certain fucking face I don't wanna see.
Wednesday, October 5
Inside Your Heaven
music: Carrie Underwood - Inside Your Heaven
Yippee.. got a hug from my crush today ^_____^
Got to touch her arm too XD
Didn't get to play with her frinch though. I've not missed doing that for the past two days after she got a new haircut. Lol. She's so cute with it.
Whoopsie.. I forget that I'm trying to shake this feeling off. This means I have to find a hot celebrity that I could swoon over and day dream about instead of her. *sigh* I've got over Gywneth Paltrow, Portia de Rossi, Jorja Fox, Marg Helgenberger, Elizabeth Mitchell, Jennifer Beals, Marcia Cross... Uhh, perhaps it's time to make way for Maria Sharapova :)
I've been down
Now I'm blessed
I felt a revelation
Comin' around
I guess it's right
And so amazing
Everytime I see you
I'm alive
You're all I've got
To lift me up
The sun and the moonlight
All my dreams are in your eyes
Saturday, October 1
It's All Coming Back
When I thought my infatuation over her has dissipate, it resurfaces. She has a tendency to do cute things that she doesn't notice herself. The other day at the cafeteria, I playfully leaned on her while we were standing back to back, not anticipating her to reply or anything. But she reciprocrated by doing the same until the end of break :) Yesterday, she did that again for the sake of fun. It felt nothing to her but damn, I was trying to read my newspaper yet couldn't because that little action drew my concentration away. I felt every sensory parts responding to the touch, even through the physical barrier of our clothes that separate ours skins. I wasn't thinking of sex or becoming excited by her touch. Conversely, I felt comfort and contentment. The kind of feelings when you are cuddled up with your loved ones, no exchange of words, just savouring the moment. While I was napping against my arms before the class started, she shook me up only to tell me that I look cute that way. I don't think I ever look cute. Her action was sweet though :) She has succeeded in making me think of her everyday, almost every hour. Thank god it's not every second. That has not happened for the past four months when I thought I had a crush on her. She is unconsciously causing me to fall in love with her. And this is certainly can't be happening.
