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SF Purchases

Posted 2002-02-15 (金) 午後5:25 by terra

I was a zombie through half my lectures earlier. Quite a horrible feeling to be so tired yet trying to keep awake. The only lecture that I didn’t sleep in was my New Media Arts lecture thanks to a cup of coffee that I had prior to attending the class. Caffaine can be such a life-saver. Half-an-hour ago you were away in Neverland and now you’re completely awake, the pupils of the eye dilated and everything you see becomes so clear. Through a glass, clearly.

During my lunch break, I had the opportunity to browse through the fair that was held at the Forum in the Arts faculty. There was this stall selling second-hand books that were mostly in good condition, some nearly mint condition. A single book was going for $6 and 3 books for $16. I’m very happy to say that I managed to acquire my own copy of one of the best science fiction books of all time: Alfred Bester’s The Stars, My Destination for only $5.66. Needless to say, I also purchased 2 other books. They are: George Stewart’s Earth Abides and Frederick Pohl’s Gateway.

Subjects: Books 書物, School 学校

Mood: Gratifications

Tags: Alfred Bester, Corinthians, Frederick Pohl, new media, science fiction, second hand

Issac Asimov-obsession

Posted 2002-02-14 (木) 午後9:10 by terra

As you can probably tell from the side panel of this page, I’m having an obsession with Issac Asimov books right now On my wish list is the entire Robot Series which includes, in series order: I, Robot, The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawn and finally Robots and Empire. I’ve already read all of these books but they’re so good that I have to own them. I’m probably going to order the first 4 books from Acmabooks.com which is this pretty decent Singapore online bookstore.Unfortunately Robots and Empire appears to be out-of-print. The only places I can get a copy at reasonable prices are Amazon UK and some Australian bookstores.

I also discovered to my horror that my Foundation series (which I’m currently re-reading) is incomplete. It’s missing Foundation and Earth, the last book in the series, which is another out-of-print book. How did I know this? By accident actually. I was ..ahem.. downloading (illegally) some ebook versions of the Foundation series so that I could read them on my computer if I didn’t have my book with me, when I noticed one book that I didn’t have. At least it’s comforting to know that it’s quite possible to buy the book online even though it’s probably impossible to get new copies of them direct from the bookstores in Singapore.

Subjects: Books 書物

Mood: Gratifications

Tags: Amazon, book, Empire, Foundation, Issac Asimov, library, out-of-print, robot, yoga

Self-disgust

Posted 2002-02-14 (木) 午前1:41 by terra

I am somewhat disgusted at myself for having devoured an uncountable number of Chinese New Year cookies. Enough to make me feel sick to the stomach, literally. I weighed myself earlier today and I think I’ve put on about 1kg in the last 48 hours. So much for yoga and swimming last week. Tomorrow (or rather later) marks the beginning of my intended week-long (hopefully anyway) diet hehe. It’s going to be the mid-term break soon and if I’m going to the beach I don’t want to look like (as my friend calls it) an ‘aircraft carrier’ LOL.

Subjects: General

Mood: Raves and Rants

Tags: Chinese New Year, disgust, holiday, swimming, yoga

Neglect

Posted 2002-02-01 (金) 午後6:54 by terra

Awful… I’ve been neglecting blogger as you can tell. Rather busy of late. Yesterday I finally managed to take time to update my Squaresoft Repository website. Kind of shabby writing but I thought I should put something up to satisfy the visitors for the time being while I sort the rest of my life out. On a good note, I’m going for my old junior college’s fun fair tomorrow. Should be fun.

Subjects: General

Tags: blogging, Squaresoft, website

Feeling Jittery

Posted 2002-01-16 (水) 午後10:40 by terra

I’m feeling jittery at the moment. School makes me feel nauseaus sometimes. I think it’s definitely the homework. I had pretty great day earlier, an interesting lecture in the morning, lunch with some friends in the business faculty canteen. When I got home, I did a bit of surfing, spent some minutes on some yoga postures, and after that, TV for an hour.

So I thought: okay, maybe it’s time to check out what homework I may have been assigned. I drop by one of my computing modules’ website (database module), and lo and behold, I see 6 tutorial questions that I have to get done by next Monday. Suddenly I don’t quite feel so good anymore.

I attempted the first tutorial question and decided to give up. It wasn’t too difficult but it’s really tedious. I wasn’t in the right frame of mind then, and neither am I now. Maybe I’m just tired. I’ve been sleep deprived for various reasons these couple of days - yoga may be my spiritual caffaine that supplements me with energy to overcome lethargy, however, it can only do so much before exhaustion creeps in once again.

Subjects: General

Mood: Raves and Rants

Tags: database, yoga

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