Tuesday, April 29, 2003

[the stress]
"oh my god... presentation today and i'm not ready! what do i do? do i have to present? i don't know what it's about! you better come up with me just in case the lecturer asks any questions."

[the uneasiness]
"you can do it!" [showing thumbs up] sheesh
"good luck!" [showing TWO thumbs up] double sheesh
[whispering] "don't worry... don't be nervous!" but i'm not!

[the horror]
"good afternoon, our group, group 6, will be presenting on web based devel.. i mean, web based databl..." [takes deep breath, laughs nervously] "we're presenting today on web based database management systems" [breathes out]

"so... do you like presenting?"
"it's over"
"you know you can really present"
"that's it.. it's over!!"
"hey, you were great"
"heh.. heh..." [eye twitching]
"your research paper was was not bad.. in terms of techinical, your group was good... but uh... the presenting part seemed like you didn't have enough understanding because you were refering to the paper..."
"was i really that obvious?" :O)

end.

Monday, April 28, 2003

i learned something today. about how writing fanfics is not all glory and easy and fun and.... etc. after posting it. we seem to forget the critics, those who flame and the worst of all... MSTs.

dunno what that is? well have a seat and let me tell you a story about how bad fics [and unfortunately a rather good one too] get mangled.

there once was a girl who wrote an absolutely horrendous story. bad in the sense there were sentences that would go on and one in paragraphs without much as a full-stop in between, conversations appear out of the blue without double quotes [ "" ], many many spelling & grammatical errors, the story containing a mary sue, a storyline which conveniently suits the author's whims & fancies.. [ie, one minute one person's here.. then you don't hear from them for the rest of the story. they disappeared perhaps. or, one minute they're on earth, the next they're in the clouds], and the worst of it all.... cliches.

and so, when such a story appears in the midst of our journey to fanfic land... we tend to gawk at it's existence and wonder... "what the fuck?!!". however, most of us would just ignore and move along. but then again... some do take the time [wasted i think] to read it and decide, "hey, let's do something about this so that the author would regret every writing it!!".

and so, off 3 people in particular [ones i'm using in reference to a particular story in which fell upon these cruel people] went into the Mysterious Science Theatre [MST] to give their comments and re-write the fic according to what they think it is about. so they brutally MSTed a really bad fic. but it was hillarious, ironically. because in my opinion, it WAS bad.. and deserved what it got.

however... these same bunch MSTed a rather good fic, helluva much better compared the other one i was previously referring to. minus the number of cliches [sorry to say... but i did find it a little annoying after while but skipped those parts and read on], it had a very good plot, very good english [better than mine] and NO MARY SUES!! everything was almost perfect. therefore, this second one i was refering to did not need to be tortured by those MSTers.

i would like to see if they ever mangled any of mine. would be hillarious though. honestly. at least i can see what my mistakes were and use 'em as future reference. but [yes, there's always a but!!] they should've asked permission from the original owner, because partially of what they did was plaigarism. using the author's story and adding side comments or changing certain scenes to make it into a parody and then calling it their own.

all in all, after reading the MSTed version of the really very bad fic, i had myself in stitches. litterally forced myself from laughing out too loud this late at night :)

well then... you learned something, i learned something... and i'll be looking forward to see if anyone tries to MST any of my stories. should be fun to see my reaction ;p


nights.

Thursday, April 24, 2003

arghh... the archive sucks.. so i'm removing it!
that's it... to bad.. so sad! :þ~
okay.. layout is back!
have been trying to add the archives in so that the pages aren't THAT long...
however, it still looks like a mess... everything's everywhere.
worse comes to worse, i'll just remove it!

then, if you miss something & wanna refer back... sorry! :p
relax ppl, this layout is only temporary...
making some changes n stuff ;p

Monday, April 21, 2003

i tell you.. the 'nuts festival' was simple... nutty. nuts rejoicing, happily sing by the camp fire... some roasting. but i had to get away when they started sacrificing themselves to Lady's Choice. it was good while it lasted. well, now i can have 'em every morning!!

ah.. enuf of the corny-ness... how ever else should i begin? :þ


am in mucho genki-ness today. finally reformated my computer. but it was one heck of a long job. woulda been faster if i, the idiot that i am, didn't go and screw up the partitioning and forget to label the damn volume for the primary partition because.. you know why?? they [refering to the stupid computer] went and decided they should give it a name. one that goes something like this:

█δ~O»Z▒╓¬εY

and how did i manage to do it in the end?? mind you, i was using COMMAND PROMPT, no luxuzy of our dear Ms Word's "symbols" to provide me with any just a click from the mouse. man... i had to try out almost every darn symbol the damn keyboard can produce using ALT + [numbers here].

in case you wanted to know [i managed to jot the particular numbers down] it's :
[2011] [2027] ~ O [2223] Z [2225] [7894] [170] [2030] Y

the numbers in the [<- thingys ->] you need to type after holding down the ALT button. hehe... :p

and so after the tedious amount of work i had to put in for this, embarked on the journey to re-installing i did! and the rest was easy lar. just installing & stuff :)

still have a couple more things to do... la la la... and damn... just remembered about a stupid presentation... oh man.. i'm so unprepared for...

i can feel the end is near... goodbye cruel world... ;p
[and i haven't even started anything] somebody help me!! arghh.. ack.. ackk.... X| [<- that is suppose to be me dead... go figure]
i think i've gone nuts.

see what i mean? notice the 3rd change in layout in the last couple of weeks? yep.. definitely gone nuts.

well then, i best be joining the rest of the nuts.

[in a distance...]
hey wait up! macademia and almond told me i could join y'all...

Friday, April 18, 2003

mwahahaha..... i got something today!!!

a rather big white chocolate bunny all the way from australia XD such a lovely gift on behalf of easter.... sankyuu Nal!! i absolutely luv it :þ i ate it's ears already.... *drool*

and then... someone new reviewed... hehe.. [again!!]

and then... i got this really sweet long mail... actually a couple of days ago *grins*

i decided today to dig up my old trance stuff.. and the new ones i've had for ages which i haven't even listened to and was listening to it... man, how i miss trance music!! paul oakenfold has some really cool stuffs!! get tranceport if you must!! fantastic album. then there's dj tiesto. it never occured to me to download more of his songs since i actually think he's an excellent dj. then the other day my friend passed me some mp3s with quite a number from dj tiesto. sheesh... why oh why didn't i download more of his songs before?

i am what you call, and avid downloader. that means, in this context, that if i find more than 3 or 4 good songs from an artist, i'll go and download either the entire album or search for their more popular songs and just download... even though i've not heard it.

used to use Audiogalaxy... oh how i miss it... and they had a msg board for every artist and stuff like that.. even groups for rance music, rock music... etc. so i'd have ppl sending me recommended trance music [i have a collection of a lot of unknown artists] and some of which i heard before only later to find out how famous they really are or i'll post a "what's the top 5 best songs by [artist's name here]?"

ok ok.. going to watch a movie... God of the Gamblers. supposedly really old chinese movie. i luv those ;) those were the days when we didn't have Astro and relied on our local channels to provide entertainment. watched everything under the sky.

jah ne! ;p
i wrote an entry prior to the one before this... but decided it wasn't suitable so i took it down.

not exactly NOT suitable... just didn't feel like it should be there. something i wasn't sure i really wanted to share as yet.

perhaps some other time ;)


jah!
just watched 'johnny english' and even though it is a comedy... i found it hard to laugh. i did laugh of course... at the slapstick jokes.

i think i've lost all zest for life. haha... well, that's a bit of an exaggeration. i do get excited when some things happen. maybe it's just now... during the movie, my mind was actually preoccupied. i was actually thinking of other things while watching the movie!! sheesh... never happened before...

even when kinokuniya called me up yesterday and told me that saiyuki reload 2 had arrived... instead of jumping with joy, i was "uh.. okay.. all i need now is to collect the book before the end of april, before the voucher expires". sad isn't it!

i was told recently i had an attitude problem. i shoulda probably asked what exactly was it i did that gave the impression, but i left it at that. because i roughly know why. but how can you not retort when everytime you wanna do something, you're either being bugged or made assumed that what you're was doing wasn't important? if i just nodded and said yes, agreeing to everything... at some point my bubble would burst. well, i've just decided to keep a low profile... and do like the dog does. wag it's tail and wait on my master's every whim & fancy.

the only way to get people off your case. "off my case"... a phrase i once used and regretted it. some people just don't take you seriously. when you try to be serious, they think it's a joke. when you wanna joke.. and honestly, i joke over matters which ARE jokes, they take it seriously.

oh what to do... what to do [a friend once said].

Saturday, April 12, 2003

check out my gaiden layout... hehe...

actually, i kinda copied serena's codes. sorry yah!!! hahaha.... i was bored to i decided to "understand" her codes by altering it. and lookie here... see what's turned out!

ah well, looks boring to me... might change it again.

bye bye... :þ

Friday, April 11, 2003

hi hi.... [<-- sounds so genki like]

actually, it does sound kinda cute. it's like saying "bye-bye" and not "bye". you'd notice that it does make a difference. just "hi" or "bye" sound so monotonous... that's why you must double it to double the fun and make it double-tonous. smell a corn? i sure do.

so, it's been one helluva week. well actually no. it's another one of those stupid weeks.. but not quite. fast-forwarding past all the details, the lesson i've learned from this week is....

*** patience with parents, one must have! ***

what do you do when you know it, your parents know it.. and you tell them that you know they know it... yet they still do it? don't understand? don't bother.... ain't bothered to explain either. parents are parents.. just gotta live with them and remind yourself everyday how much they love you, how much they've done for you and the way they are is because they're looking after us. so... i can't even get mad at them without feeling guilty.

*** result in irreversible words, anger does naught ***

oh shut up yoda!! grrrr..... how can God give them such power?? kisama... it's sacrilege!!! okay, i'm just going over board... but who cares, isn't it?



i've only gotten 4 reviews. 4 measely reviews. it's so sad... after all the effort i put in. okay lar.... i shouldn't be complaining because i write because apparently i like to.. so i should just be happy it's there and not expect more. but still... i don't want so much effort gone down the drain. shimatta!!

oh look... now i'm starting to curse in japanese. well, it's for a good cause... that way you minions [just kidding] won't have to understand [assuming you don't]. i'm doing it for the purpose of saving your souls from this already corrupted language we call english. so, you should be happy :þ

uhmm... that's all folks... lost my train of thoughts.


oyasumi!

Sunday, April 06, 2003

yesteday... well, early this morning about midnight, i changed the layout of my blog... if you haven't already noticed.

this friend, good 'ol serena, decides to sms me earlier yesterday and asked if i wanted her to create a non-blogger-provided layout. and so i obviously said yes... and glad of it, i am! isn't this a handsome picture of sanzo?? hahaha... yes, my favourite character in saiyuki. rather big though... but i don't mind it... it fits all resolutions, which is good :)

thanks serena... for the time & effort you put for me!!

and so, on to other things...
i finally finished Sweet Surrender, the third chapter. it was a long and tiring chapter to write. roughly 4200 words. the longest i've ever written, including one-shots. man... come to think of it, it's even longer that my research paper :þ basically, whatever i put in there... has gotta do with whatever i believe in. mostly anyways. just hope i get good responds from the readers at ffNet. don't think i'm ever gonna write anything as deep as that... in a long time :)

of course serena was the first one to read, first one to review. always ever so supporting. also manage to have a chat with her last night at msn. dun usually use it though... since i use icq more often.


well, that's all i have to say really... for the moment. thanks everyone who reads, who's helped, who're my friends... and for being who you are :)

Friday, April 04, 2003

WARNING: major ooc-ness from blog writer ahead. not immediately, just somewhere there. [ooc by the way simply means out-of-character]


i was reading my friend's blog just a while ago... as you can see on the "friends blog" link and she was just mentioning a few things about her best bud. ahh... yes, she was talking about me. had a sudden feeling of despair because i miss her... you know, when you suddenly miss someone, even though it's just for that slight moment, it still pains?

[here comes the ooc part, oh and i'm just dramatizing it :þ]
*** one tear, just a single drop, trickles down my cheek as i read that small part of an entry written in my friend's blog, over and over again. oh how i miss her, kindred spirits we are. she left a few months ago, leaving me alone hundreds of miles away. over foreign waters, different country... different timezone ***

i realize yet again why she's my friend. the truest bud i've ever known. just when you think you're about to forget, someone up there helps you remember. the times we spent chatting, tried philosophizing.. some of it worked though... others we just abandoned to avoid further tarnishing of our already embarrassed souls, hence why we try. haha...

many a time we have talked about how we should be psychiatrists/psychologists... if we can help each other.. and i must say a lot of other people, should put our "talents" to practice. ahh.. i think i'm begining to suck at this 'philosophy' crap. see what i mean by ooc-ness?

so, back to where i was... ah yes, this friend of mine, since you revealed my name... i'll pay you back the favor you did for me, Nal. do you know how we even started being good friends?

haha... i was just thinking of it... and it seemed pretty strange. i think we were in form 1.. or maybe 2. could be two, because i think it was only then were we in the same class. missed the chance of being her classmate in primary school though. erm, answer to the question currently buggin your head... yes.. most of us who were in primary school went to the same secondary school together. so right.. we were in form two.. and you know how all good friendships begin with a little of something called trust?

yeah, can you believe what's the first "secret" we shared? "psst... so, like who do you have a crush on?"

haha... *sigh* brings back the good ol days of innocent admiring. what we did from far and that was it. nowadays.. there's no rooms for anything of the such. because we tend to realize what people are, so even if you may like a person from far...everything is like being in the beautiful gardens of eden til they open their mouths. or if you catch an unpleasant sight of what they unconsciously did.

recently, i thought i found someone interesting. yes these days i don't jump to the "i think i'm madly in love with this guy" phase but go to this "hmm... let's check him out to see if he's a good catch" and man, i proved myself right once again. the next day i saw him... ergh... just everything about him turned me off.. and hehe... i caught him with his fly down. man, it was kinda embarassing... didn't know if i shoulda told him. he looked so zonked, so i thought maybe he really was too blur to zip up his pants. man... hahahahaha... sorry... i'm such a meanie.

oh look, i've gone off topic. typical me. well, this entry is dedicated to my beloved best friend [such good friends come in very small packages. i've so few.. and she's one of the greatest] who i miss so dearly and wished i was with her having an ice cold blended coffee at our usual cafe ;)

i missed those days [though its only been 2 months] where we'd meet up, sit on one of those big comfy chairs, have us a drink and talk about the funny/weird waiters and how some of them are acting so weirdly. i think they probably already know us, not personally though, since we're seasoned customers :p

haven't had an ice-blended coffee in 2 months... arrghh... i'm deterioating!! gimme coffee... gimmee coffeeeeeeeee!!! man, i drink coffee everyday, but it ain't the same without you Nal :)

[presses ooc OFF button]
yeah, so it's been just another one of those days. i've yet to finish the 3rd chapter for Sweet Surrender. i've been bugged by my other muse... well, considered lar... since i've not met her and only communicate thru sms-es & emails (on rare occasions these days). emails are such a bother, but i like writing them... but i don't like to write them. takes me ages to complete it.

well, that's it from me... til i have something to even bother to write/express :)