Monthly Archives: July 2004

First Day of Uni

★ Posted on at 09:38 am ★

Heh, for the rest of Melbourne Uni’s students anyway.

Went back to Uni for the first time in weeks today just to collect an essay. To my surprise, it was rather quiet. You see the student population, but it wasn’t bustling with as much activity as I anticipated. I recall the first day of classes during February, and you can see social clubs trying to hook in members, as well as short tours around campus by senior students. Heh, looking back at my very first year as an undergraduate, someone I just met commented I had an air of confidence around me like I had been studying at Melbourne Uni for a while, and I didn’t seem like a first year student. That was half the truth, having studied at Trinity College (which has facilities around the campus), I was familiar with my surroundings, hence the confidence, which leads to a projection of confidence. I do think at times I may have a pompous arrogance about me, probably to the extent of looking smug (a totally different subject I can lengthily discuss). I just wonder if I have toned down that attitude in the past 5 years.

Carol was telling me last night how much she was looking forward to going back to classes. Heh, I remember how back in my younger days in primary school up until Uni that I could never get to sleep early the day before classes started. I’d always toss and turn in bed, thinking of odd bits and ends. Last night was no different, haha, even if I don’t have classes today. Although this time I blame it on having a cup of coffee late at Ken’s place and an overdose of Amy’s brownies gave me a sugar high.

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The weather’s letting up slightly, and it’s been much warmer the last couple of days. Although I think this is more a precursor to impending rain, as I do see a grayish skyline at the moment. Listening to some of Hamasaki Ayumi’s tunes at the moment, and my stomach grumbling in the background. Time for lunch.

Perhaps Change is Good

★ Posted on at 05:51 pm ★

Maybe I should complain more, for I find myself adapting too easily to certain conditions.

Been huddled up in my room for a better part of the day already. Didn’t really get much done today other than the usual job search online, some news and a few rounds of Gunbound.

Fast forward 8 or 9 hours, I walk out to grab dinner. I didn’t even notice the rain came down while I was sitting in front of the computer. Crunching on a meatpie now. Before I was pondering the wisdom of Brian and my aunt. Brian said that one’s source of fun and enjoyment comes from his housemates. My aunt said that when you start working, you’d want to come back to a place where you are comfortable and relax. My answers to these were I could find entertainment else where and that I have carved a comfortable little corner that is my room.

Well, my little corner doesn’t seem quite as comfortable as before. I’ve always complained to everybody how cold the winter is in Melbourne. Perhaps it’s not so much the cold as it is the lack of company to keep you warm with laughter and memorable moments. Heh, you’d wonder that after staying with the same housemate for 4 years plus you’d actually click and get along. However, that’s hardly the case, and not something I’m inclined to think about.

So what about fun elsewhere? Maybe a couple of times a week, at a friend’s place, either cooking or playing PC games. Even if my friends didn’t mind, I’m not too inclined to be a 100W lightbulb all the time. Heh, I recall a much healthier social life 3 or 4 years back, when you could still hang out with none couples and in a big group. I also recall how much I disliked being in big crowds, which is how I ended spending time with one or two people, usually couples. Yes, three’s a crowd, so I try not to do it too often. A contradiction? My life is contradictory at times.

I’m thinking now to how this post originated. Even for the short two weeks I was back home, I felt more motivated to get things done. Here I just lack a sense of purpose. Being a hermit and only exchanging electronic messages over the net for hours does not beat greeting my mom with a ‘Morning!’ and breakfast. Heh… *slap* *slap* Just knocked some sense into myself.

Perhaps a sense of boredom and lack of direction. Well, just figured how I’ll spend the rest of this evening. Time to get cracking.

Tinkering Tweaks

★ Posted on at 01:53 pm ★

I have neglected my website long enough, heh, today I decided to update some stuff, mainly minor content updates and structural changes.

Prior to this, I have been playing around with Textpattern (TP) which is a marvellous CMS, and in my mind I can already find plenty of uses for it. It is a customizer’s dream tool, where you can chuck code in and out without breaking the system. However, I still find it a little unpolished in the interface and the documentation (mainly from the support forum and other blogs) vague at best. You really have to know what you’re doing to be able to get it up and running.

The experience I got from playing around with TP helped me immensely in my understanding of how program code is structured and how WordPress works (what this little corner of the world wide web runs on).

Updates include:

  1. Reintroduced my Wishlist. :P
  2. Fixed up the About, Portfolio pages.
  3. Did some very minor design tweaks.
  4. Changed the background pattern tile (colour’s still the same, but different design).

Heh, I’m still to decide on how I want to implement my Family section of this site, which I keep reiterating was the original intention of this webspace to begin with. I’ll probably run that section off TP so I can continuously learn this other package.

Now that University life is over and while I’m still unemployed, I’d like to take the time to experience other stuff.