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Archive for July, 2007

The Lost Ones

So, I’d been back at college for a week… For the most part, it’s alright, I suppose. As much as I’m glad to be back and actually doing something useful with my time, I still feel like it’s the holidays. I can’t seem to shake it off. Hopefully as time passes, I’ll get more used to the routine… as much as I hate routines.

I have a rather shit timetable, as I mentioned before. On Mondays, I’ve got a three hour break in between classes, and on Fridays, I have a four hour break. Such a waste of time, in my opinion, but I have no choice but to go with the flow.

And on Friday, since we had a four hour break, I suggested going to Ikea. Lo was enthusiastic about it while Shrek decided she wanted to go home since her mother was in town (she’s a foreign student). That left me and Lo. We decided to take a train and then a cab there instead of a cab all the way as that would be more expensive.

So there we were in the train station, laughing at nothing in particular and when the train came, we immediately boarded it, not checking if we were on the right one. Halfway through, and us still laughing at random stuff, Lo looked around and asked, “Where are we?” That is not one question you’d like to hear when you’re going somewhere you’re not entirely familiar with.

We looked at which train station we were at and found out, much to our amusement that we’d boarded the wrong train. Instead of going to the east, we were headed in the opposite direction! At that point, we got off at the next station, checked the station directory and boarded the train back. On the train back, we realised that we were much closer to the west Ikea than we were to the Ikea in the east. So guess what we did?

That’s right, kids, we got off and proceeded to board the train that was going in the wrong direction (which was now right since we were going to the west). The hilarity of it all! Finally, we got off and then hailed a cab to take us to Ikea. Yay us for reaching our non-destination! At least we still ended up at an Ikea outlet, lol!

We had lunch there, I absolutely love having lunch in Ikea, lol. It really is deliciously good, especially the Swedish meatballs. I’m in love with that. We also had raw salmon with mustard. Ooh, that was good. I love salmon. :p On top of that, we had fish with chive sauce. It was pretty good as well. Of course, we shared the three amongst ourselves. If we each had the three, we wouldn’t be able to finish, seeing as sharing was already a problem. xD Oh, the coffee there is really awesome too! Haha.

During lunch, we were talking and laughing like crazed idiots who ran away from IMH. We were showed to a table that was next to a couple, she was rather grumpy as me and Lo sat down, banging her bag and throwing her utensils on the table. o_O I looked at Lo as we went to get our food.

After we ate, they finished and left. Then sat a guy next to me… after a while, a lady sat opposite him. She disturbs me on a very high level. She had bought two chicken wings, and as I went to get more coffee and came back, she was sat there, tearing away at the chicken like a barbarian. I SWEAR, I’m not kidding. The guy beside me left and she was still sat there eating the chicken like she wasn’t a lady at all. We kept sneaking glances at her. She blatantly was looking at me. When she was done, she cleaned her fingers on the serviette, stood up and left. Weirdo, honestly.

We continued eating and I said I hope two cute guys would sit next to us. I then looked up and saw two not-cute-at-all guys walking towards us and I told Lo. She said I jinxed it by saying I wanted two cute guys next to us, lol! And then I noticed they sat down at a table in front. Phew. xD She said if only that Prison Break guy would sit by us. I asked what about Jonny Depp since she liked him and she said no, she preferred the Prison Break guy. xD

She thought of some really ridiculous situations and staged them. xD What if: Jonny Depp sat next to us. What she would do: Gawk at him, ask him “Would you sign my fillet?…” And since she doesn’t have a pen, “…with my fry?” ROFL! Had me laughing for ages! She was trying to drink her coffee but I couldn’t stop laughing so she was like, “Stop!” LMAOOO.

We walked around Ikea, looking at stuff. We love Ikea, haha. All in all, it was a really fun afternoon and when it was time, we made our way back to college for the next class. I wonder what we’ll do for the four hour break next Friday, lol!

And it’s back to college!

-le sigh- I’m going back to college again tomorrow, after four months of holidays. How crazy is that!? After all that slacking! Goodness. It’s going to be tough, but I’m sure it’ll be a good academic year. :) I’ll work triply hard and try and get better grades this time. It’s no longer a choice now. It’s more of a must. Subjects look good enough, as do the lecturers. No, they don’t look good, but they are good lecturers. :x

ANYWAY, point is, I’m STILL having mixed feelings. I want to go back, but I don’t want to. It’s all rather annoying, really. I wish I could just make up my damn mind, lol. I can’t wait to see my friends again, that’s for sure. ^^ They make college more fun than it’s supposed to be. Well, wish me luck! Haha.

Yesterday was my parents’ 22 years anniversary as well. They went for a talk in town in the early afternoon so I had time to bake brownies as a surprise before meeting them for dinner. It was my first time trying that recipe. It turned out pretty good, though a bit too sweet and sticky. I’ll be sure to reduce the sugar and butter for when my sister comes back from Melbourne in mid November. :) I’m just glad they were happy about it, seeing as I always manage to disappoint them in one way or the other. :x

In other news, UH changed servers earlier this afternoon due to some problems with the other server. Thanks to the fast work of MJZ Hosting’s Katrina. :) I wasn’t around when she moved it so I was pleasantly surprised. They are my first hosting company, so that definitely put them in my good books, haha.

Tag, you’re it!

[Edit2] *le sigh* So I do have a rather shitty timetable. T_T Well, at least I’ve got some good lecturers instead of the rubbish ones the last time, and some new lecturers. It’s definitely time to buck up. :) Somebody form a cheerleading squad for me, please. xD [/Edit2]

[Edit] This morning, I got an email from TFL and I got accepted to build and manage the Acid Eyeliner fanlisting! I did a quick layout and a bunch of codes. So if you are a fan of Acid Eyeliner, an unsigned band from Sydney, Australia, do join, yeah? :D [/Edit]

Since the last update, I have managed to finish the fanlisting’s layout and install the management script. Took too many tries, that Enthusiast, but it worked out smoothly in the end. :D

Not only did I finish the fanlisting, I manually emailed all 140+ of the old members to get them to join the new FL but about 50 (or possibly more) emails didn’t get through. I’m thinking it’s because it’s been three years since I started it and people didn’t update their emails and stuff. Ah well.

Also! Geeky me, I set up a collective. :) Not only that, I also set up a media area. LOL. Ha, I’m surprised I actually did all that in such a short time. :p Yay me! LMAO.

I’m still adding more stuff every time because I’m still not satisfied. xD I’m very hard to please, lol!

I got tagged by Grace, so that’s here: Each player has to post 10 random songs that they have in their iPod, mp3 player, or whatever they use to listen to music. Take your ‘music source’ and set it to shuffle. List the first 10 songs, without skipping any (don’t be embarrassed). At the end, you must choose 5 people to be tagged and list their names.

The Used – I Caught Fire
Green Day – Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) (Live)
Nelly Furtado – Te Busque
Drake Bell – Golden Days
Bowling For Soup – She’s Got A Boyfriend Now
American Hi-Fi – Another Perfect Day
The Academy Is… – Neighbors
Say Anything – Ants In My Pants
Good Charlotte – Falling Away
blink-182 – Stay Together for the Kids

I’m going to cheat and tag everyone who reads this post, lol!

College starts again the week after next. I have mixed feelings about it. After four months of holiday, I don’t see how enthusiastic I can be about going back. I will miss my free time! T_T But I’m also looking forward to going back and making use of my time and working my brains. All this holiday-induced brain numbness is so not good for me. I feel brain dead!

I’m hoping my timetable wouldn’t be like shit. *prays hard* Then again, year three (the final year) should have lesser classes and more projects, right? x_x I need to do well this coming academic year if I want to go even further. Let’s just hope and pray that I will achieve my dream job as a webdesigner after everything, okay? Okay. Haha.

Ah, I can hear my sister talking to my parents in the hall via video webcam. She’s been in Australia since early February for a year and a half of university. I miss that stupid girl so much, haha. We are very much alike as we are different, I think, but that’s what makes her awesome and I love her a lot. :p She’s coming back in November, before her birthday at the end of the month. Pity she’s missing mine, which is in early October, lol! But it’d be good to have her home. It’s way too quiet without her around. She’s mental, I tell you, lol! <3

I love being a geek.

The past couple of days, I’d been searching for more plugins to stuff my WP with and you can see them all here, lol. A bit too much, isn’t it? :p I’ve still got a bunch of stuff to do around here, till I’m satisfied with it because now, I’m not. xD I’d also been thinking about adding a visitor section but I’m not sure how well received that would be… What do you think?

I recently reapplied (and got accepted) for the Ben Adams fanlisting at TFL because I used to be listed on there but due to a series of unfortunate events (LOL!), my listing kept moving around to different hosts till I totally gave up doing anything about reuploading the members list onto a new fanlisting management system. Now that I’ve got my own domain, I’ve decided it needs a fresh start. So I’ll be doing up a new layout and installing a new fanlisting management system for it. That sounds like a lot of work. Meh.

Inspired by Anberlin

Wow, my own domain. This seems rather surreal, lol. I’d always wanted my own domain, and I’ve finally got it, 5 years later. xD

Well, I’ve called it Undivided Honesty after pulling a poll, making my friends and family decide from a bunch of possible domain names. Seeing as one of my top favourite bands is Anberlin, that bunch of domain names all consisted of Anberlin lyrics.

Reyrey guessed it rather quickly. :) Then again, she was one of two wonderful people who got me into Anberlin. The other one is Pinky. (Of course, those aren’t their real names, they’re my nicknames for them. :p) I met them on DougiePoynter.net (RIP) and they’re so much like me that it’s scary, lol! I love them both, for being them and for introducing Anberlin to me. ♥

I guess there’s no need to explain about the layout now, haha. What better layout to open Undivided Honesty than an Anberlin one? :) This caused me days of headache before I found a miracle article to help me make a WordPress layout easily. Stupid me for not finding it earlier. :p

Well, guess that’s it for the first post, lol.