Monthly Archives: March 2006

Lazy Saturday

★ Posted on at 05:25 am ★

Heh, my friends don’t understand what’s with waking up at 730am in the morning. They complain you’d have to get up this early to get to work everyday, and should take a break from it during the weekends. I only think that my weekends are short enough as they are, and I’m not going to spend time sleeping in bed. Brain’s been conditioned to require only 7 hours of sleep at most, and will snap me out of sleep the moment the clock touches 7 hours after I slumber.

I can finally declare my new PC rig stable and I have figured out that if general methods of resolution do not fix a thing, you have to think outside the box a little. Apparently the problem was my dingy KVM switch that would not input signals to the computer at times, causing me to think that my sleeping monitors meant that my computer had already crashed.

Two thirds of the month has gone by (I can’t count, when mistaking two thirds for less than half of a given numeric number – story for another day). Need to start studying a bit, which was the initial cause for waking up so early. That and to assemble Destiny. Woot! Thanks to my cousin for getting it to me all the way from New Zealand via Japan. Added some detail to Freedom over the last few days and I think it needs a playmate now. Heh. :P

Off to make that morning vat of coffee.

City Entertainment

★ Posted on at 05:05 am ★

Went to watch theatre’s version of The Lion King last night. It brought back memories of how the movie was, which I watched on the bigscreen nearly 12 years ago (1994 if I recall correctly). The live version was spectacular on its own.

Turned up at the Regent theatre on Collins street. Heh, watched Harry Connick Junior tap dance on a Steinway piano (ouch!) not too long ago in this theatre. It has a nice feel to it, slightly grandeous with the chandeliers and if you bought VIP tickets, leather seats. I won’t talk too much about the show itself, for you should go see it yourself. The script was true to the movie, with slightly abstract pieces added throughout. The cast mimiced (this word looks weird, mimicked looks more apt, so which is correct?) their movie counterparts flawlessly, especially the power duo of Timone and Puumba. Heh. Makes me want to just rewatch the original Lion King by Disney, which I think is one of their better animations.

My only previous experiences with theatre was the Phantom of the Opera in Singapore. People who have watched it ask you only one question, “Did you feel the heat?”. Heh, I most certainly did. Then there was that Dracula ballet I watched with my cousin in the Arts Centre performance hall just beside the Yarra river. Both productions were quite marvellous, and had a different tone to that of the Lion King. The Phantom of the Opera was amazing in how the props were made up, you felt really immersed in the set they were acting on.

Heh, the city was crowded with people last night, which is very rare for a Wednesday night (middle of the week, neither here nor there). The Commonwealth games opening ceremony was up last night. It ended around the same time as the Lion King, and you could see people moving in droves away from Federation Square. There’s a big screen TV there, and it’s just for the atmosphere that people turn up in these public places to mingle.

There were fireworks and my friend complained it wasn’t a very spectacular opening ceremony throughout, until Delta Goodrem appeared and performed (this game’s theme song?). It was a good song apparently. Heh, darn it.

Okay, time to run off to work again. After finishing that vat of coffee in front of me.

Restlessness

★ Posted on at 09:00 pm ★

There seems to be a certain restlessness in the air surrounding me. It feels like something is constantly on the back of my mind. Maybe there’s just the amount of things I feel I need to get done.

There’s work, and even while it takes up most of my day, there seems to be that little extra bit that you need to do or can do. Heh, it’s still good that I can detach myself from work. I can imagine myself working until the wee hours of the morning just to get things done. I wouldn’t say my work is terribly exciting, but you do feel a sense of accomplishment finishing off the things you need to do. Work keeps respawning itself, heh, and unlike assignments, you can’t just do it, hand it in and forget about it. There’s always something to follow up, to query and the things you do give you a little more insight into how the clockwork of the industry I work in ticks.

Outside work, there is the social life I have. Heh, am quite happy that I have friends and people I care about. Just that I can’t do all the things I wish I could do for them. It’s also a little hard being responsible for the promises you make. Always want to whip up a meal for people, and it ends up being cooked by someone else or just eating out. Been thinking about how food works, and noticed that it is my style to just mix everything up. It’s quite Chinese in implementation, with less decoration and more focus on taste. Need to work a little on those presentation skills (presentation of the food of course).

Then there’s the personal hobbies. Heh, people have hobbies to take up spare time. I don’t know if a person can have too many hobbies. I try to put in some gaming time, but half an hour a day really isn’t realistic in getting the most out of it. Spending more time on it means I have to neglect all the other things that have priority. Heh, cooking takes up time (shopping, preparation and even chomping down your food takes time). So does cleaning up after yourself. Room was like a tornado gone past. Cleaned it up and it looked presentable only for a few hours before I unpiled my laundry all over the floor. Back to square one.

Spent the last two weeks setting up my current desktop. It’s a screamer of a computer. Heh, I don’t really feel the upgrades only cause I upgrade them so often that each increase is only marginal. Been having a little problems with system stability and did a little investigation Sherlock Holmes style and finally managed to reduce the instability. First problem was a cable that did not plug in properly to the optical drive, causing corrupt data to crash the entire system spontaneously. Then my computer would stop responding for no reason after I left it for a day or two. I think I’ve narrowed it down to the crummy KVM switch I bought. It’s still a hunch but I have a strong feeling that is the cause of my computer woes. Will know in a few days.

Computers are fun for me cause they’re like puzzles that exhibit peculiar behaviours at times. It’s satisfying to know that you can find cause and effect from these problems and draw a solution.

Heh, it’s 12am already and I’ve spent about a half hour writing here. A little less restless now. Sometimes you need to just unload everything that is on your mind. There’s a full moon tonight. Dreaming of the stars tonight I hope. Heh.