What I Did?

What I did that was worth mentioning:

I made the website remember your name and email address for both the Replies part of the blog and the Guestbook. If you have a horrendously long email address, be thankful that you don’t have to type it out. 😛

What I did (in real life) that was worth mentioning:

I went for the KLue UrbanScapes party, upon finding the under-your-nose restaurant Grappa Soho. Imagine me asking a friend over the phone directions, while walking towards it (and then after that, past it!) Don’t blame me, the signboard wasn’t lit. 🙁

Oh, what am I talking about? A tiny rock gig inside a birthday bash.

Don’t-call-us-space-rock soundscaping rockers Damn Dirty Apes played their new simple-tune punkish song, which got the crowd in a frenzy. I finally got to see Chi-Ren (I thought that was a girl’s name) singing Drift Away (Part 1). It was worth looking at how they play indeed. They shoegazed for quite a bit, before a wham on a pedal, and then *spin and jump* punk-style guitar-playing! Then, they hit the pedal again, and it was back to shoegazing. Wow.

Meet Emmett of the Butterfingers who poses with a violin nobody gets to hear, and a horn section which sounds like electric guitars. He was heavily fagging (or was that a disguised roach?) I don’t know what smoke does to his lungs, but it sure was superb, be it his sustained wails and singing, which was relatively far from the microphone. The crowd bounced to the singles, to the point I wish I was on the other end of the room where the most pit was.

Yes, I went alone. Ironic it would be that the people who invited me couldn’t come.

I’m sick of being Fong-Fei-Kei-ed (see definition) that I wrote modified lyrics for it! Yes, some of you may not like Linkin Park, but I like their song In The End nevertheless, and this is the tribute: Thinking Dark – This Weekend. Have fun singing along, especially DJCyberSonique who shares my pain!

I Am A MUTLIMEDIA Graduate!

MUTLIMEDIA


You guessed it right – I finally got my first year certificate for my Informatics International Diploma in Computer Studies, with majors in Business and Mutlimedia! How great is that?

So great that I have to wait another semester to get my certificate reprinted. So great that I have to be the picky perfectionist and notice that it’s Multimedia and not Mutlimedia. Dang, now I’m even spelling it Mutlimedia by reflex.

Maybe it was not meant to be. Maybe I was meant to be a Mutlimedia dude, not a normal Multimedia dude. Why did I pick Multimedia/Mutlimedia and the Internet instead of Software Engineering? Simply because Software Engineering had C structures (too complex) and networking. (I didn’t want to be opening floor tiles and crimping RJ45’s!)

I wasn’t really good with Multimedia proper. Perhaps, I am a breed, a hybrid of a programmer and multimedia dude, where my skills can only be quantified as that of a Mutlimedia graduate! A new class, surpassing all the rest! 🙂

On the other hand, I’ll just tape my mouth and wait for the reprint. 😛

Picture Me!

Updated the About Me! page I have, with pictures of me! I have to satisfy my innate narcissistic quota by doing that.

The new Quotes entry is this:
“If you think I have a big head, wait till you see my mouth.”

Oddly, there is a feeling of dejavu with that quote, like I had heard of it before. I wonder if my brain is secretly regurgitating stuff. Even pickup lines which I just coined like “Hey baby wanna free my willy?” and “I don’t want to be friends, because that’s only 1% of what we could be.” sound like I have heard them somewhere before. If you have heard them before, tell me!

Maybe it’s about time I recount my misadventures in my blog. How about that Thursday when somebody could’ve peeed on my left shoe? (As told here: Wet Adventure.) Or about Friday, when I had to change a tire in the rain, with waterproof bantings as shelter from the rain? At any rate, I figured I would fall in a swimming pool on Saturday! (I was out the whole day, but thankfully it didn’t happen to me.)

Oh yeah have you noticed on fast food joint counters, they have this “I’m (insert cashier’s name)” on their display? I’m guessing this is so that it’s easier to pick up cashiers at fast food joints (who are probably wishing to find a rich boyfriend or something, so they don’t have to work, ha!)

Wet Adventure

Aim properly! (urinal.jpg, 3145 bytes)

I went to a public loo
When a spurt of water came down my left shoe
The guy at the urinal to my left
Looked professional, didn’t flinch, and was deft
I first thought that his aiming
Hinted that his devices needed calibrating
I washed off at the emptied stall behind
A high-pressured hose I would find

Proof-of-concept Comes… Round!

For the majority who use Microsoft Internet Explorer, you are in luck. An exclusive, proof-of-concept skin, showing off the power of my elite JavaScript skills, has been made!

Meet the Round skin. It makes blog text actually appear to be in a circle! However, the algorithm’s not perfect, so it looks jagged at the edges, and maybe a bit heavy at the bottom. Also, HTML is disabled in the Round skin, so you can’t click on any links inside the blog entries. 🙁

Of course, the Blueprint skin is still default for the rest of the browser world. You can also pick other Skins if these don’t suit your picky eyes.

Don’t come asking me for the algorithm. If you know how to get it, it’s worth understanding. 😛

Blueprints!

On the left hand, we have disorganized, mishmashed, sonnet-writing, jumbled up scatterbrain Albert. He likes twisting, contorting and making his sentences unneccessarily long and complex. To celebrate that, he made the Cross-worded skin for his website, and it was the default skin. On the right hand, we have logical, analytical, systematic, spatially-inclined and schematic Albert. He likes technical details and has a knack for computer programming. To celebrate that, he made the Blueprint skin for his website, and made it the current default skin.

My Office Desktop!

It’s time again for me to show off, so check out my cool Office Desktop! It’s also linked from my About Me! page!

How’s my life? Life should be good. It’s the holidays. So why is it not good? Life is not good because the perception of you that everyone has agreed upon has finally dawned upon you. You may think you’re a saint, but when people assume you slaughter goats, you have to take action. You may think the line is drawn a mile away from where you are, but you might need your eyes checked.

In my case, it finally dawned upon me, seriously, of my arrogance. My deliverance of certain sentences, with certain intonations, give the impression that was not intended. To say that I sometimes don’t intend it either would be a lie. For once, the deadpan sarcasm I once looked so high upon has betrayed me. I used to think deadpan sarcasm and a straight face was funnier than a punchline done with a smile. Sure, the joke told may be of more humorous value, but most people don’t get my jokes. 🙁

I have to rant. At least I didn’t jump out of the psychiatrist’s office window.

Reply dangit!

Yes, reply, for it has been made easy! If you replied before, it remembers who you are (as in your name and email) so it doesn’t bother you for it again! Cool huh? I am too sleepy for my usually bombastic fit-in-more-words-than-necessary self. There’s also a weird salty taste in my mouth, but heck.

Connections

(A regular poem this time, too lazy to compose a sonnet!)

My Sad Internet Connection, exaggerated - connection.gif (4486 bytes)

My Internet Service Provider is really mad
I came online happy and now I am sad
I cannot be connected more than an hour
Without my download speed turning sour
I could hear static on the line
Which sent shivers down my spine
I could just go out and buy a new modem
But a Ferrari’s no use in a jam

Trapped Sonnet

There is no image – the hint is in the last line! 😉


I relate to you this, my life so frail
I’m trapped and controlled, so rescue me please
I would go in circles and chase my tail
Would I get a bonus or badly miss?
Skinny as heck I eat but don’t excrete
I expand and I keep getting bigger
Soon in this tiny world I will not fit
Life can be a maze but it’s sometimes clear
I slide about, swerve, contort my body
Those who say the world is round are liars
I am sadly my own worst enemy
Or worst, a clone of me – are we brothers?
These suicidal numbers control my spine
One, two, three, four, six, seven, eight and nine