Gazing into the future
11 September 2007, 11:52 pm. 13 Comments. Filed under Personal, School, Site-related.
I would like a nice cozy house, a sexy boy, a (mixed) pretty baby and a hot pig. (It's not really weird, I love my stuffed pig "dulu" and I'll make him sleep between me and the sexy boy.)
// end dreaming
I had trouble deciding which general education paper to take for summer school in January. I thought about Japanese, but the university won't let me to take the Japanese paper because I'm "too advanced" in it already. And then I thought of DANCE 101G because I'm a total dance dork, but none of my friends would do it with me. So, my friend pushed me to take Philosophy with him. How is philosophy? I know some of you art lovers out there might have taken it or are currently taking it. It sounds hard.
I hate night exams. I just finished my Economics test at 8:30 and got home at 9. For the whole day before the test, I would be studying for the test. And once I get home from 12 hours in school, I'm too tired to study more for the next test. The truth is, I really need to study for the next test because I hadn't done any work on it before. Eventually, I end up studying late, sleeping little, getting pimples, growing ugly, no sexy boy and no one wants me for life.
// end nightmaring
I always knew how dodgy my site URL might sound to some people, but this is the cutest search referral to this site I have found so far: "WILD ON X". Time to update my site name?
WordPress murdered my juice
28 August 2007, 2:56 pm. 24 Comments. Filed under Design, Site-related.
The way out of a design-block is to rant about a design-block on your blog, because I just finished my first WordPress template! It was the third design I said I was on the verge of scraping, but right after the rant post I changed the colour scheme and now it's complete... After three days.
So I finally get to open my virtually empty Resources section... After two months. It's only virtually empty because I have stacks of PHP tutorials sitting in the corner of my D drive.
Coding the template for WordPress sucked the juice out of my brain and I'm waiting for it to recover in 24 hours. Perhaps because it was a first attempt, but I thought it really did have the potential of driving an inexperienced sane person nuts, let alone a somewhat insane young lady like me. I had to do several peek-a-boos in the default WordPress theme and Han's How to write your own wordpress theme. But there's always differences between one coding/tutorial and your own template so that was... trouble.
Well, I'm satisfied with the design because I actually feel like using it for my site design. I guess if you could create a pre-made design that you think is good enough for your actual site, then it should be reasonably good enough for you to offer to visitors.
I'm going to see if working on my Statistics assignment will help recover my sweet brain juice. Critiques and error reports for the template (or anything on the entire site, really) is welcome.
History dug out
5 August 2007, 4:47 pm. 26 Comments. Filed under Miscellaneous, Site-related, Web-related.
When you look back at your old design works, do you feel proud about how much you have improved?
Fortunately, thanks to Internet Archive, I've found one of my favourite designs from the past. And unfortunately, I think I like it more than this current design. I shall enlighten you with a little snapshot: Version 12. How bad does it feel? To think that you designed better three years ago than now? But I'll comfort myself by the fact that I have certainly improved in terms of layout accessibility and coding. By the way, Version 11 had 46 header slices. I crown myself Queen of "Optimisation".
So what were you like several years ago? According to Version 4, I was quite a little brat. You know, that type of attitude many 13 or 14-year-old girls roaming on the web has (I'm just being stereotypical here), which a lot of us probably despise of. The following proves self-explanatory:
Splash page:
Requirements :+: CSS :: PHP :: 800 x 600+ :: IE 5.5 :: Sign Guestbook!
I then greet you all with a "Would you like to vote for my site at DNW Top 100?" pop-up. Surely, that earnt me a lot of votes! I mean really, it did. I also had a changing title bar! How cool is that? But the post on 14 July 2003 was "teh biatch":
Watch out people... You skip the splash page I kill you...
Reason? I placed my OKcounter on the splash page. I wanted to see the numbers go up so skipping was a no-no! Attention-seeker. And I also had a "Wall of Shame". Hee hee heee.
Forgive me, I was 13. I really want to know what I had on my ancient "Wall of Shame" and how I constructed my "Rules/FAQ"; but those pages were gone.
A while ago I also dug out my childhood diary and this was on the front page: (excuse the poor English, it was during my first year in NZ)
Date: 15.9.98
... some people get some letters from me. The letters inside, I had write somethings about Jenny was so bad, when after holidays, she came back to NZ, she didn't have any friend can play with her, Ha! ha! because I'll writing letter to everybody about she was very very bad...
Hey, how cool was that? Miss eight-year-old egghead. Incredibly cute though, the last pages of the diary were filled with my personal "love stories" from 2001. I wonder what I'll think of myself now in a few years' time?
