This is an example of the stuff I talk about if we hang out together.
But nothing compares to this:
It doesn’t work on me though, I just cleaned my keyboard yesterday.
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Well, the actual results came out 3 days before the end of last month, but I didn’t have the time to write about them. During the semester, I relaxed a bit on paying attention during Java lessons, because the lecturer was focusing on the basics of programming. After my background in Visual Basic, as well as PHP and Perl, the semantics of Java was relatively smooth sailing. So, during class, I tried to read up on more advanced programming topics, like multi-threaded programming, inheritance and poly-morphism. There’s a lot of things I don’t know, and it kept me a happy camper during lesson time. I couldn’t do the same for the network fundamentals class though: there are many new terms to learn, like network devices, connections, and theories of network design, as well as the humbling experience that the Internet evolved from a small network in Arpanet into the bludgeoning monster that keeps growing exponentially every second. Kind of like Katamari Damacy without all that cute animation. It gets a bit spooky thinking that the only things that form this creature are switches, routers, and many million kilometres of cabling. I wonder how it feels like to have all those cable dumped in Singapore? Anyway, I am quite happy with the results this semester, even though I did not achieve the ludicrous 4.0 GPA. It is a really hard feat to manage, especially when I plunged in and took the Introduction to Web Graphic Design module as my elective. This is one really subjective module. Some of my classmates got a B+, which is obviously better than the B I got, but I’m not complaining. My strength lies in coding stuff up, and the odds are I’ll go into Computer Science, so the B isn’t too big a blip on the radar. After all, we’re talking about the person labelled “The Art Terrorist” by his art teacher back in secondary school! Rather, my biggest worry was for my mathematics. It was 4 whole years since I touched anything beyond +-x÷ on a calculator, and I didn’t traditionally score well for my secondary school and junior college math, so I was exhilarated that I got an A this time round!
Blogging things somewhere enables you to accumulate an archive of your life’s history, so that you can go back to it frequently. That makes for really good “ah-ha!” moments when you realised that things had changed within that 1 year since you wrote that entry. For me, the most striking thing that has stood out so far is the weather. Never mind why I suddenly thought about the sky today, (I have no idea why either) but if you dig into this blog archive, you can see an entry in March last year where I complained about the heat. Well, I’m surprised that I even complained about the excessive sun last year; just ask anybody on the street, and they would agree that this March is unusually wet and cold. While La Nina might have grown stronger these days, the subtly accented coolness in the air really underscores the difference between the two Marches. It shouldn’t really matter much, in tropical Singapore, if not for the fact that I was stuck in school for the past 4 weeks, working on a video for the school’s enrollment drive. I don’t believe it explains why I didn’t manage my time well enough to fit everything around work time, but at least it accounts for being in school from dawn till way past dusk. Nevertheless, we’ve finished the video now, so I should be reasonably left-alone to write more… I think. Already this is sounding like an attempt to excuse myself, so I’ll stop for today. It’s Sunday! I’m going to just kick back in bed and catch up on the long queue of anime, manga and Life-hacking that I missed for the past 3 weeks or so. I have more than 380 LifeHacker posts to catch up! |
