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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

15 mins before lecture

Posted 2002-01-08 (火) 午前9:54 by terra

It’s 15 mins before my first lecture. I’m at the school’s computer lab at the moment. Earlier, I had breakfast at with my mom and dad. Because my lecture on starts at 10AM, my dad dropped me off at the Arts faculty where I popped into the library to check out some novels. I borrowed Arthur Clarke’s The City and the Stars as well as Asimov’s I, Robot. The books are kind of yellowed and spotty, and a little dusty too. They smell…I don’t want to smell them. The Clarke book was printed in 1975 and the Asimov book in 1983. Strange, I’ve Raymond Feist’s 2nd Edition Magician at home, which I believe was in 1983, but it doesn’t look half as bad as the Asimov book. Oh well.

It appears that blogger’s publishing facility is down. So I guess this blog won’t get to appear until I get home. It’s now 5 mins before the lecture. I’m not feeling too good. A sense of dread maybe?

Subjects: Books 書物, School 学校

Mood: Raves and Rants

Tags: Arthur C. Clarke, blogging, Issac Asimov, library, Magician, Raymond E. Feist, robot

First lecture of the new year

Posted 2002-01-07 (月) 午後11:23 by terra

Fantastic.. my first lecture of the new year begins tomorrow at 10AM. I’m feeling a bit delirious. There are butterflies swarming around in my stomach. It’s 11:15PM right now. I know I have to start making a habit of sleeping early, but it’s probably going to be a bit hard getting used to again. Going off to reread a chapter of Anne Rice’s Queen of the Dammed first. Why am I reading this book again? There’s a funny explanation to it. I had a strange dream a few days ago, in which Lestat — Tom Cruise version — appeared. I can’t really remember what it was about, but I guess my dream could have been attributed to new QOTD movie trailer which I saw online a few weeks ago. The actor who’s playing Lestat is Stuart Townsend, I’ve not seen any of his films before, but he seems a pretty good Lestat, except for the lack of blonde hair. I’m not one of those fanatical Anne Rice fans so I’m not too fussy though.

Subjects: Books 書物

Mood: Raves and Rants

Tags: Anne Rice, Lestat

Good intentions

Posted 2002-01-06 (日) 午前1:13 by terra

I had meant to sleep early: my eyes are almost hurting because they are so tired and dry. Looking at the time now however — I guess not.

I wanted to mention something about this last year (actually, to be less vague, over a week ago) in my blog, but because blogger.com was down, I put off the update until I forgot all about it. Anyways, just wanted to say that I watched Miyazaki Hayao’s Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi last week in the best cinema in Singapore and totally loved it. I can’t wait for it to be released on DVD. I already have the Mononoke Hime DVD at home, so it’ll be the second Miyazaki film that I’ll purchase.

While we’re on the topic of Miyazaki films, My Neighbour Totoro was showed on TV on New Year’s Day morning. I only managed to catch the last half-an-hour of it. However, the version that was being shown was the Chinese-dubbed version of it, which as usual sounded awful. To make it worse, the broadcasters must have used an old copy of the film or something because the picture quality wasn’t too fantastic. The colours looked murky and the lines of the drawings were blurred.

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像

Mood: Raves and Rants

Tags: anime, Avalon, DVD, Final Fantasy, Kawai Kenji 川井憲次, Lord of the Rings, Miyazaki Hayao 宮崎駿, music

It's a new year again!

Posted 2002-01-01 (火) 午後10:15 by terra

It’s a new year again! While I really like to be optimistic about beginnings, I can’t believe it’s the end of the school holidays and back to school again. Yeeeeeeeeewwwww… This semester looks pretty bleak…programming assignments, school homework etc. =( Last sem seems like a holiday compared to this one. But then again, school hasn’t really started yet, so I really can’t say for certain. Let’s hope things aren’t as bad as they look like they are going to be.

New year resolutions? Not many that I can list — didn’t really think about it. Well, let’s hope I can find something to enrich my (boring) life, get good grades, and basically enjoy as much as I possibly can.

Subjects: General

Tags: new year