mabinogi (it's fantastic!)

Truly, there is nothing in the world quite as awesome as 3 minutes and 31 seconds of pure, unadulterated Tiffany cuteness.

Well, except maybe watching the HD-version full-screen on netbook during a study break.


Tiffany thinks you should be studying!

AWW. FANY FANY HWAITING! BRIGHTER THAN MUSHROOMS!

stream of consciousness

I feel like buying a kitten.

Big Bang Theory fans/watchers, there's an inside joke in that line.

In other news, there's less then 4 days left to my first paper PL3238 Social Cognition, and I am (as usual, well and truly screwed.)

Random thoughts follow:

I love my netbook. I get so much more done on it then my desktop.

I owe people money, people owe me money. Cycle never stops.

Graduation feels like it's coming soon. Moo.

Big Bang Theory rocks.

Oh, Left For Dead 2 is out. One more thing to add to the backburner.

SNSD Hello Baby Episode 7! Now to wait for Episode 8 and I have something new to watch.

I want to make a scrapbook.

I need more $$$. Any way I can do work while still studying?

But not tuition, I don't think I can teach very well.

On that note, I really need to wake up my idea next semester.

I know, I've been saying that for the last five. But meh.

My musical taste really is at least five years old

I made a highlights video for voxsports in less then 12 hours. Go me.

I like the word "myxomatosis."

Maybe I should go for career counselling.

A NEW CHALLENGER HAS APPEARED!!!

C-C-C-COMBO BREAAKERR!!!

Sica is so cute.

Ah.

on the cusp of something

Well, a whole lot of crap came down this week, with a 50% essay and a 70% group report coming to mind. But now that those are over and done with, I rewarded myself by sitting down to watch the entire Season 1 of Big Bang Theory in one sitting!

And woots. That's done. I'm proud of myself! I actually overcame my short attention span for once! History books, folks.

95% cause of short-attention spans worldwide.

Not to say working on the group project wasn't fun. In some strange, twisted sort of way, that is. There was a fair bit of blasting SNSD and other general sleep-deprived craziness, which helped, I guess. Might have been the best project group I've ever had. Ah well, thanks guys.

In other news, I got a Google Wave invite, and playing around with it is fairly fun, although I can't really see how I can utilise it to its full potential, I mean, for my own use..

Examinations loom. Gloom doom doom.

Got a quiz next week. 20%. Gonna have to webcast and revise for the final exam through that quiz. Maybe start tomorrow. Blargh.

So, back to my rather unexciting life then.

Dear readers - wait, I have readers right? Just checking. "Hey guys, what do you want me to write about?" I'm not really going to do another jdentification installment because it takes me really long to compose replies and wait for questions, so, any general thing you want to hear from me?

*the sound of one hand clapping*

Hmm. Thought so. Ah well.

*emo one corner*

Here is kitteh! I... I lost it again. What was I talking about?

Graduation

It's been some time since I've blogged, but don't worry, absolutely nothing interesting has happened. So, there's just been alot of whining about my Lit essay due monday that I'm going to die for, as well as a Voluntary Corps event which, surprisingly went quite well.

And sleep, alot of sleep, unnecessary and evil which is going to cost me dearly.

After talking to Wilk on the bus after VC event I'm seriously considering not going on to do my honors. Aside from the fact that I'm really treading precariously on the verge of not being able to do a second-lower anyway, I realised that the only real reason for me to do another year is to get a shot at doing a Masters. And what the heck, a Masters in Psychology? What am I going to end up doing, research?

I srsly, do not see myself writing a thesis paper for my year four, or even for a Masters that will lead me to a Doctorate. There's just no conceivable way that I could commit myself to all those statistics. I've been hanging on to sanity so far because everytime there's stats involved, with all those t-tests, one-tailed or two-tailed whatnots, or dear (deity of choice) ANOVA, there's been helpful group members who are far more proficient at this then I to rely on. Srsly.

Individual thesis? OMGno thanks.

So am I going to graduate next year? I don't know. Sigh. Should I? Economy's so irritatingly difficult now, plus I'm really not sure what I can do with this degree of mine, plus I don't really know what I really want to do anyway.

So true, ya?

Decisions decisions. So hard to make. Help help I need some advice. Anyone? WOULD YOU KINDRY?

EDIT@2320h - Looking at an old blog of mine, I found this:

"I feel like a child beneath a curtain of stars, with no one to guide me. Yet even as I sweep my bewildered childlike gaze across the dreamy pinpoints of light, I recognise and I know that each star has it's own place in time, location and destiny. Time marches on without regard for us all and before we know it, we will die, leaving our children to live our lives again vicariously. They will relieve our memories, our fates in their so many years later. Our simple lives are chains of pre-connected events, linked together by a fabric of choices which we make. Of course then, our choices are therefore the most integral part of our lives, being that we are most affected by these self-same choices we make, and this is also why we spend the greater part of our lives agonizing over them. I hope with only sincere intentions, that everyone I know would be able to paint the picture of a serene glade within their heart, and I hope that all their troubles would soon end."

WHAT. I COULD WRITE LIKE THIS IN SECONDARY SCHOOL. WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO MY VOCABULARY.

SHOWDOWN OF THE FATES

BECAUSE THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE.

*highlander theme plays*

And for no reason... let's do it... MAGIC THE GATHERING STYLE!

*music abruptly dies*

SNSD Jessica aka Sica
Birth name: Jessica Jung (제시카 정)
Korean name: Jung Soo-Yeon (정수연)
Date of birth: April 18, 1989
Position: Lead Vocalist

VERSUS

SNSD Tiffany aka Fany
Birth name: Stephanie Hwang
Korean name: Hwang Mi-Young (황미영)
Date of birth: August 1, 1989
Position: Vocalist



Ba-da-dum!

Oh wow, the sheer number of inside jokes and info that makes this post incomprehensible to the average reader is killing me. Lollercoaster!

P.S.: Yes, yes I know, Sica is imba. =/

SNSD IDENTIFICATION CHART (GENIE EDITION)

As an addenum to my previous SNSD Identification Chart, this post is made for people like Jeremy, Shawn and CS (as well as everyone else of you out there) who -still- utterly can't tell them apart.



As usual, the proclamation, YOONA IS OVERRATED. TIFFANY AND JESSICA <3! BRIGHTER THAN MUSHROOMS FOREVER!

Oh, here's the reference MV (Genie). Personally, I don't like the song, but well, Sica and Fany look particularly deadset gorgeous in this MV, so, what the hey, I'm biased.



Right, sleeping time!

WindGaming Part I: The Castle of Dr. Brain

Remember a while back on Twitter and Facebook I mentioned that I was doing alot more gaming on my little Wind then on the behemoth of my desktop? Well, this is really true to a large extent because aside from minor 5 minute distractions (read: flashgames), I've been investing a bit of the slack times I have on games that, you see, normal people wouldn't be playing in this day and age nowadays.

A fair bit of what I have been playing are classics, truly pre-modern-era games that are no less entertaining today then when they were released some 10 odd years ago? Case in point, the first thing that I've finished, a little-known Sierra On-Line gem released in 1991, The Castle of Dr. Brain.

It stretches to 640x480 in DosBox, and really doesn't look too bad with 2xsai interpolation.

In this little puzzler gem, you pretty much play as a student who's attempting to audition for the job of a mad scientist's lab assistant (the afore-mentioned Dr. Brain), but to do this, you have to go through a castle filled with a whole series of tasks and puzzles, ranging from logic and memory puzzles to word games to magic squares to simple programming to astronomy puzzles.

A cipher puzzle. Can you decode it?

Some of the puzzles are rather easy, but there are also some that would seriously stretch your brain to the maximum, even for adults. Don't automatically reach for a walkthrough or go for Google for some of the general knowledge questions and it'll be even more challenging. The writing is also fairly clever with lame jokes and typical Sierra humour abounding (try examining every object). For a decent challenge though, play on Expert difficulty.

The Astronomy Room. How good are you at finding constellations?

Now, with all that in mind, on to the bad points. It doesn't take more then a few hours to burn through this game, even on Expert difficulty. At least with the assumption that most of my readers are intelligent and suave individuals like myself. Also, the puzzles aren't randomized, i.e. they don't change between plays, so there's really not much replay value once you've completed the game once.

A simple programming puzzle in the Robot Room.

Still, it's really quite an enjoyable puzzle game for the small amount of time spent. It runs smooth as butter on the MSI Wind using the DosBox emulator. Plus, you'll feel smart just for beating it, so what's the harm in that? =D