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It’s never easy. (to come up with a post idea at 2am)

It’s 2am, I’m sick. My 3rd night in a row looking/writing code, firing off e-mails and reading my textbooks. At this time of night, everything is quiet and you’re left with just your thoughts and a blank wordpress post.

So what do I do? I pick up the book that I got from the Epic Expo, cause I’m all about the sustainable living. Especially after Al Gore allegedly brainwashed me into thinking that the north and south pole will most likely melt tomorrow. I joke, they probably already melted.

But that obviously doesn’t work, so now I’m in an epic chess match against Eve (my trusty *shiny* MacBook). But since I’m stuck on what opening to use…

Today my classmate noticed that I had World of Warcraft (WoW for all you hardcores) installed in my laptop. He asked me, “So how does it perform on the MacBook?” Me having completely low standards in Video cards and resolution only means 1024×768 (the usual standard screen of a web user) responded, “Oh… It’s good! Performs fine by me! *grin!*” To which he said, “And how long have you been playing for?” I said, “Just a few months, I’m not really that big of a gamer and I got sucked into it cause of my friend.” And the eventual question, “And what is your level?”

I think he’s still laughing at me and that was from 3 days ago. How embarrassing! I think they’ll eventually revoke my geek license.

1:45 am 1 Comment

Yay, 29 years old.

I’m 1 more year older today, then it’s 30. That’s the year when I’ll start having trouble concieving kids right?

Anyway, this year was good one. Lots of developments, on every front of my life. But let me tell you what I did today. I slept in (10am… yay!), I went to church and then I pigged out at some all you can eat hotel brunch that had bread pudding that I would sell my soul for.

Then I went to splurge my birthday money on books.

Yes, good birthday.

8:59 pm 13 Comments

Academic Type?

Let me shatter people’s perceptions of me. I’m not an academic. Yes, I’m Asian which means that my family (and/or culture) puts a high value on getting that paper. When I say paper, I’m not talking about money, I’m talking about that degree/diploma/masters/PHd. It’s about the perception that if you have it, then you have a better chance of succeeding in life.

That being said and sarcasm aside, I am working towards mine and I do see personal value in it (this from the guy taking a robotic programming course… just for fun). But I’ve never been the ‘Academic Type’, I’m a late bloomer Nerd.

In all honesty, I was actually quite the slacker in high school. A jock even. *gasp!* See, I was only enrolled in the advanced program because that was the only way I could be in the school’s tennis team and be in the provincial championships. Back then, I was all about: girls and sports (and skipping class). It honestly couldn’t have been further from the nerd-dom that I suffer today.

So to all you jocks out there, there is still hope. I mean look at me, nerdy old me (although I was in the 90th percentile in the physics and math provincial exams). Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go put on my headgear and study.

11:22 pm 1 Comment

Sometimes I wonder…

Why did I decide to go back to school when I’d be up at 2:30am studying for my 2nd midterm this week. And slowly realizing that I’d probably have to do this tonight again. Or how I managed to drink that last cup of coffee and still manage to sleep 5 minutes later. Sometimes, I also wonder how much time it takes for my sanity levels to drop back down to ‘normal’ levels. It’s about the same time I realized that other people are out of my control.

When people say “It’s impossible, it can’t be done” to me. My first reaction is always, I guess you apparently don’t know what I’m capable of.

7:36 am 2 Comments