Best Kept Secret Award
30 September 2007, 12:57 pm. 20 Comments. Filed under Internet, Web-related.
So I got this award from Chien Yee (Thanks!) and it's time to pass it on:
This is hard. But here's to those whom I don't think has received this award yet and is a "secret". (Do you know how hard this is? Obviously if I've discovered the blog it's not an undiscovered blog.) So in no particular order:
- Leila and Seth of Valamity
- Hev of Amarantine
- Hydora of Contemplative
- Imdolien of Eternity
- Zala of Beautiful Tears
Well they're not exactly secrets. My blog isn't a secret. But I don't know any secret blogs. So the ones I like but I didn't award are the ones I think are too well-known to be deemed as "secret". The award originated from Bobbarama.Com. Check it out for instructions on awarding.
On another happy note, I just discovered my production capacity without the Internet. Due to our stupid Internet bandwidth restrictions, I have this 800mb weekly limit on my computer. That means, no mass Facebook-ing, Bebo-ing, deviantART-ing, forum-ing and restricted blog-surfing. All this contributed to first-time-in-centuries no assignment-rushing on the night before deadline for me; three assignments done in one week including a research essay. I didn't know I could be so great... *self-admirance*
Update: Bah. I just busted the 800mb limit. Like I care. 
HM forum suckers
20 September 2007, 8:53 pm. 42 Comments. Filed under Internet, Rants.
One of my regular forum-hangouts: Happymapling.net. It's really a place controlled by power-hungry, up-themselves and arrogant bumming moderators with no life. I used to be obsessed with MapleStory and now that I've made friends there, I'm not quitting for the suckers, I'll just top my blog's Rants category even more. (I was going to refrain from making another rant post but Belinda said I should rant more.)
'Pho': How to be attractive to the opposite sex
Perfectly self-explanatory:
"Be yourself" doesn't work. Yourself isn't what girls want. If it is then you wouldn't have any problems. What they want is money and looks. They can lie to us and themselves all they want. In the end, the guy that looks like Brad Pitt that drives the Ferrari is going to get the chicks.
Ever wonder how girls can somehow manage to get with the one guy that abuses her? Because they are biologically attracted to guys with money and good looks. Those same guys are general the type to abuse people as well. You don't get the good job by bending over. You have to be the pusher.
Since the majority of my blog visitors are female (at least I think they're female), I can sort of expect comments against 'Pho''s theory. Making generalisations like that is bad, boy, bad.
Holandica: ZOMG off-topic! SPAM!!!
It was just a normal sunny day in a normal thread...
dr zeik: Summa's going guy hunting tomorrow. I r teh convinsar!
zedex: ...
That sounded perfectly normal to me in a chat-type sort of "General Discussions" topic but in comes a twenty-year-old someone with too much authority on his hands lacking people to enforce his powers upon...
Holandica: SPAM
(and since HM bans spammers, someone had to defend himself)
zedex: i was replying to the previous post... it meant for speechless. but typing out speechless would have a different meaning
Holandica: then you could have said: "Im speechless I don't know what to say now ... elephants are pink WOOT F666 o.O"
This twenty-year-old must've wasted twenty years to not learn that conciseness was a virtue.
DaMirrorLink: Programmer-Wannabe
The forum was recently restored to a previous state a while ago. Of course, some of the new posts were not backed-up in the back-up used for restoration so these posts went missing.
MySQL got rolled back, thats all
Firstly, other people on this forum aren't going to understand what MySQL means. He just likes acting cool and smart since he wants to be a programmer in the future. Well unfortunately, I know that MySQL is a database management system using Structured Query Language so you can now tell me what "rolling back" such a system means. This is exactly like one of those little "web designers" that makes comments such as "Your CSS looks so cool!" (That might really be just my own problem.)
I'm not this mean and picky all the time. I finished my last test of this round of tests last night, which went extremely well, but now I have essays and assignments and more essays and more assignments. Ranting is good for health, guys.
Block up the damn hourglass
31 August 2007, 1:38 pm. 14 Comments. Filed under Internet, Personal.
... and freeze it.
I woke up this morning at around 9am, but I stayed in bed until 11.15am; that's me, the essential part of my daily holiday morning routine—waste my life like crazy. What did I accomplish? Day-dreaming for more than two hours, and I'm sleepy again.
Aside from sleeping, I figured I waste my 24-hours each day most intensively on the Internet.
After I woke up today, I turned on my computer. I click onto my daily forums through my bookmarks toolbar and I lurch on them for half an hour. I check my RSS feeds for any new updates and now I'm here. I just can't help having this love-hate relationship with the Internet. It's brought me wonders like friendship (online and offline) and leisure that I won't regret but I also have to blame it for eating hooga chunks of my life away.
I don't think I've been under-performing in terms of school work, I just think that perhaps I could've done so much better. I've always been leaving my assignments and exam studies to the last moment and still been able to manage reasonably well. Inevitably, I think that maybe if I didn't have the Internet and I spent my life like a nerd, I could've been a top student... And then what? Something for my parents to show-off to other people I guess. Or, I get to bask in my own glory. Is that the life I really want though? Even if it's not, I'm definitely not "living my life to the fullest" yet.
It's taken me four days to complete what would be a two-hour assignment. Ouch. I'm suffering something what I would call a minor epiphany and it's not a great feeling at all. I feel guilty. I wonder if other people are studying like crazy now? I wouldn't really know because the people who will read this blog and comment are very likely not studying like crazy at this moment. 
So what do you do to stop procrastinating? I procrastinate until I suddenly feel tired of procrastinating and two minutes later I want to procrastinate again. It's not working at all.
Update: If you downloaded the latest design Season's Epilogue, please update to the newest version 1.02. Thanks Skye for pointing out the bugs.
