i've got the sniffles, mommy

I know I'm supposed to be sick... But...

(I'll just let the pictures do the talking for now, I'll come back and write a paragraph or so of stuff under the respective pictures when I take a break from mugging and being sick.)


Having this installed and patched on my hard drive was just way way way too -tempting-...


Server Mycenae! Come join me please please.


Character Creation! It took me all of one look to -instantly- spot my future character class.


ROCKSTAR POWER, YEAH!

The somewhat clunky interface, not used to the drop down menus and shortcut keys. But hey, it's free.

Combat! OMG, I love it! FF Style! Except for a turn time limit.


End of the tutorial area. I chose Harbin as a starting town.

Aaand, here's my freshly made character! Waiting for post-exams!

Atlantica Online

Anyone? I am so in.

a few steps away from perdition

I less than three my netbook very very much. It's such an... enabler. I feel so much free-er with it than ever. Studying outside the confines of my room, being able to make use of the NUS facilities that I'm paying too much of my school fees for. Heck, even being able to watch episodes of Big Bang Theory on the painful 1.5h bus ride home makes the $600 price tag seem oh-so-worthwhile.

It also runs games. Hell, if you check the Games list that I've been finishing up, you'll pretty much see that everything I've completed has been on my netbook so far. Granted, most of everything there are small adventure games which each take on average 2-3hours a piece to complete (not that they aren't fun, most of them are awesome), but still! It runs Gyromancer too, which just came out a few days ago - and it's all kinds of awesome fun.

I like the keyboard. It's got big, comfortable keys which are surprisingly easy to touch-type with. Doesn't feel cramped at all. I could play The Typing of the Dead comfortably with this.

And I just love the battery life. 6hours on a full charge for such a light, tiny little thing (of course, without wireless, which cuts it to 4h). I almost could do without lugging a charger around.

Best economic decision I've ever made on the spur of the moment, bar none. Yay for impulse buys and a twitchy click-to-buy finger.

♥Netbook.

Of course, I'm not necessarily saying that my poor 4-year old computer is useless though. The 22" still gives me real estate when I need it to, and HD stuff is an absolute joy to behold on it (HD SNSD is = boomz in pantz.) Not to mention I'm pretty much going to finish Torchlight soon on it. It really just needs a good clean-up, which will come hopefully after I finish my reservist (oh what a pain).

And I've already bought (seriously bought, not pirated) Windows7 for it, so I really have no excuse not to clean it up, sort out my hard disks, make a few backups and upgrade to Windows7.

Hmm. Exams are here. First paper in 2 days. I feel strangely zen. It's as if I already know I'm doomed, and I'm (rather) calmly accepting it.

Ah well, I need to break out of this, and I know just what to do.

Do not go gently into the good night.

Not sure who said the above. Dylan Thomas? Who was he? Poet, writer, and etc. It means "fight to the death". Or in this case...

In this case, it means awesome!

3!

2!

1!

ARE YOU READY?

HEAVEN OR HELL!

ROUND ONE!

FIGHT!

Although, you know, for Trauma -

Pictured:

Top - Social Cognition.

Middle - Developmental Psychology.

Bottom - Trauma Psychology.

I never really got good at fighting games.

(I tend to mash.)

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. =/