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FIRE IN THE HOLESunday, August 30, 200912.47ammacs for dinner i spent the weekend doing artz and craftz thursday night i got home and i drew four axonometric in-motion diagrams of that thing you use to kiap hot plates out of a wok. friday i went out and bought 3kg of terracotta air dry clay and a block of styrafoam and a glue gun. then i got home and i carved some styrafoam and stuck on some clay.      to get the styrofoam out i'm going to set it on fire. video coming soon. today i went to school and i made some shit out of acrylic. i only cut myself four times! three times with a metal ruler and once with a cutter.   i'd be having a lot more fun if all this wasn't schoolwork. and if my damn tutor would stop rejecting my work and making me start from scratch. but i'm having fun. especially when i saw other people still working on their clay models today.
unimaginableMonday, August 24, 20099.00pmhey, i'm home early! i'm eating my dinner of microwaved beef hor fun and i'm trying to find some article on steak i read a while ago. i tried to find it a few months back but i failed because i thought it was from reader's digest. but they're now bankrupt, and the article was from Time. crazy rich article writers. LOOK AT THAT BEEF.
old juicesSaturday, August 22, 200910.51amblizzcon! i speculated one of the two remaining diablo 3 classes would be some physical ranged character and hopefully another meelee character. they've announced the monk, and it'll have to do since i don't have any rogue archetype around. the new wow expansion has got me excited too, i'll probably play it for the lore and quit again when i run out of free time. funny how the leaks were all true. Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-looking Statements: Information in this press release that involves Blizzard Entertainment's expectations, plans, intentions or strategies regarding the future are forward-looking statements that are not facts and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Blizzard Entertainment generally uses words such as "outlook," "will," "could," "would," "might," "remains," "to be," "plans," "believes," "may," "expects," "intends," "anticipates," "estimate," future," "plan," "positioned," "potential," "project," "remain," "scheduled," "set to," "subject to," "upcoming," and similar expressions to help identify forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause Blizzard Entertainment's actual future results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements set forth in this release include, but are not limited to, sales of Blizzard Entertainment's titles, shifts in consumer spending trends, the seasonal and cyclical nature of the interactive game market, Blizzard Entertainment's ability to predict consumer preferences among competing hardware platforms (including next-generation hardware), declines in software pricing, product returns and price protection, product delays, retail acceptance of Blizzard Entertainment's products, adoption rate and availability of new hardware and related software, industry competition, rapid changes in technology and industry standards, protection of proprietary rights, litigation against Blizzard Entertainment, maintenance of relationships with key personnel, customers, vendors and third-party developers, domestic and international economic, financial and political conditions and policies, foreign exchange rates, integration of recent acquisitions and the identification of suitable future acquisition opportunities, Activision Blizzard's success in integrating the operations of Activision Publishing and Vivendi Games in a timely manner, or at all, and the combined company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits and synergies of the transaction to the extent, or in the timeframe, anticipated. Other such factors include additional risk factors identified in Activision Blizzard's most recent annual report on Form 10-K and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. The forward-looking statements in this release are based upon information available to Blizzard Entertainment and Activision Blizzard as of the date of this release, and neither Blizzard Entertainment nor Activision Blizzard assumes any obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements believed to be true when made may ultimately prove to be incorrect. These statements are not guarantees of the future performance of Blizzard Entertainment or Activision Blizzard and are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors, some of which are beyond its control and may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations.
oh manFriday, August 21, 200912.08amyay i passed my driving. barely. boo i screwed up my presentation in school next project has arrived. it involves a1 tracing paper and clay and wires. due in a week. from ubi back to school my father insisted i drive. fist time on an expressway. wow, i never knew it was so hard to decelerate from 100km/h. or how hard it is to decelerate at all in auto cars. once we got off the expressway, i took my first corner at 60. in an suv. oh, and i didn't have my two little triangles. .
oh boyThursday, August 20, 200912.13amtomorrow will be a tiring day. good night.
oh, yeahTuesday, August 18, 200910.54pmi'd almost forgotten how it feels like to avoid doing homework and feel massively guilty about it. ugh. back to school.
i can't believe itMonday, August 17, 200912.00amthere was a time when i actually watched tv. not just that, i watched channel 8, amazingly. random youtube search and i finally found it. and of course: i need to buy all the asiapac comics. some of my fondest(?) childhood memories include standing in popular bookstore reading them off the shelf.
just...Sunday, August 16, 20096.12pmhow can i resist with an ad like that? mtn dew. so hip. so edgy.
honeymoon: over3.46amit's official. school has started. first assignment ever: drawing lines. a1 size paper. divide into four quarters. total lines drawn: 2. top left: divide into four again, top to bottom. top strip: divide into 16 with vertical lines. second, 32 parts. 64. 128. total lines drawn: 2+15+31+63+127. top right, divide into sixteen, four by four. top four squares, divide each into 8 with horizontal lines. second row: 16. third, 32, last, 64. total lines drawn: 2+15+31+63+127+3+3+7*3+15*3+31*3+63*3. bottom left, divide into sixteen. draw crosses at the intersections of the top two rows. next row rows, divide into smaller rectangles. draw smaller crosses there. repeat for the remaining rows. .... i'm going to stop counting because that explanation didn't even make sense and was probably wrong. bottom right, divide into sixteen. construct a circle in each section to rotate a line 180 degrees in 16 steps. everything done by hand. one pencil, sharpened once, no eraser. it took me an hour and a half. and that's because i didn't care about being neat and i really didn't erase any mistakes. other people restarted over and over. idiots. anyway, cakewalk. long, tedious, but a cakewalk nonetheless. assignment 2, a mere part of which i just spent my entire weekend doing, involves stupid home-made cameras that don't work. i'm up at four in the morning right now because i'm trying to figure out how to Explain the word, your ideas, and your process of thinking in 16 graphics. fucking vague instructions. i thought no tutorials = less homework. if that's true, i'm going to seriously die till i'm dead in week three when tutorials start. bitching about tutors: i've only met them once or twice, but my general impression is dropping. apparently, architecture is about design, and they're trying to cram all this creative stuff down our throats. all this photography and whatnot is supposed to be practice for us to communicating ideas. and it may be just me, but most of them have serious problems communicating. in the most basic sense of the word. our year coordinator is from india, and lived+worked in japan for several years. the guy who gave us the camera shit is german. my studio advisor is a french woman. the two guys both have thick, thick accents, and try to speak like literature teachers. the woman seems like she can't speak english at all. the honeymoon is over. half a year of chillaxing is becoming a fading memory. seriously. give me more drawing.
TOTTO-CHAN IS THE BEST BOOK EVERFriday, August 14, 20099.49pmvoylah!  a pinhole camera. i was pretty sure i signed up for architecture, not amateur photography. fucking hell. but it's nice to have a handphone with a camera. it's awesome!  even waileong agrees.
shut up shut upWednesday, August 12, 20092.17ami just spent... two hours reading lecture notes? and making notations? before the bloody lecture? fuck. i'm going to sleep. this devotion won't last anyway. two lectures tomorrow. the first is 11 to 1pm, and by the same guy that made the entire archi freshman body stand up one by one for self introduction. he expects reflection essays every lecture. i need to find out which lectures i can safely skip, and fast. no tutorials, so the next lecture is... 7pm! to 9pm! six hours to kill.
blarghTuesday, August 11, 20097.21pmi've got a small chain mail napkin. i could blow my nose on it, just barely. i need heavier wire, a decent pair of wirecutters, and a second pair of pliers. and something to do with a big square piece of chain mail. school tomorrow. driving tonight. night driving! last lesson. i mounted the curb in the crank course. station number 16. i've reverse parked my m113 between two others by sticking my head out the driver's hatch and looking back, that's good practice. i've never worried about curbs or corners because i could flatten small trees. damn. lost out there. tomorrow in school, i will be testing if i can play wow over the wireless network there, from my portable hdd. results may determine... certain actions i may take. i mean, if i gotta stay overnight for projects i'll probably need to take breaks and stuff. oh no, i'm rationlizing.
wouldn't stop an arrowMonday, August 10, 20094.23amfour more hours and i now have 60cm² of chain mail. enough to make one bracer. one really thin bracer. wow. it's amazing how a combination of a mindless repetetive task and a mindless droning tv show playing in the background can keep you awake.
this is why i wear leather12.03ami have a bunch of wire lying around. i'm tying to make chain mail. it's been three hours, i've managed 19cm².
oh wowSunday, August 09, 20099.08pmmr. eyeball's penis just exploded from too much blood
cheated feelings8.34pmhurray, it's national day. the only person who watched the entire thing was my mother, who's a PR. what a loyal family. on house, a patient's eyeball just popped out of his socket. oh, and house got shot by a guntoting angry expatient's husband. hm. g i joe was horrible. it didn't even have the saving grace of cool cgi like transformers. transformers did mystic, spiritual crap, which i can swallow when there's cool robots around. gi joe had 'science' and 'technology', where particle accelerators can 'weaponize' nanotechnology with the correct 'protocols'. and there's nothing nice to look at, except sienna miller. the other chick was so-so. the weapons were disgusting. super sonic gun thing looked like a little metal pipe on a vintage ray gun. super accelerator suit things are plastic crap next to iron man. vehicles were toys. and not the kind that transform. the kind that look like plastic with pop-up weapons. and while shia lebooof may be annoying, at least he's not channeling sylvester stallone. wow runs fine from a portable hdd! should i start wowing again? i mean, school's starting, perfect time! oh, and i thought i was going to school tomorrow, but it's a public holiday. and i have no lectures on tuesday. what.
Thursday, August 06, 2009
and we come back from the commercial break12.04amso i've pooped a lung. round two! go go go googling 'food poisoning, headache' gives me a really cool page with all the possible food poisoning possibilities, it's like a buffet! i've found two that fit: Noroviruses are a group of viruses that cause a mild illness (often termed "stomach flu") with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, headache, and low-grade fever. a definite possibility. perhaps i vomited out anything i might have crapped, so no diarrhea, and the fever was really low grade. i've had stomach flu before with all the accompanying waterworks and the fever, so i went over to wikipedia to check if there's other sorts of stomach flu. results inconclusive. Salmonellae: Salmonellae are bacteria that may cause food poisoning; the illness itself is often referred to as Salmonella or Salmonella infection. Salmonellae cause a moderate illness with nausea, vomiting, crampy diarrhea, and headache, which may come back a few weeks later as arthritis (joint pains). woah, salmonella! that's serious. again, no diarrhea. let's see if i get joint pains soon. so, recap: the headache was definitely a part of the sickness. it peaked with the vomiting and faded slowly after. depression and funny lights possibly entirely imaginary, and i hope they are, because i do not want my eyes bugging out on me for whatever reason. more facts: - i took my temperature with my handy h1n1 thermometer at least six times throughout the headache and before/after vomiting, i remained a constant 36.2. BUT i definitely remembered feeling a bit colder than usual, so possbily that low-grade fever there. - the headache did not subside in the least. all the migraine sites i went to suggested sitting in a dark, quiet place. didn't help. i spent thirty minutes laying in the dark, feeling like shit. then i tried reading a book. that was stupid. i tried playing my ds agian. that was stupider. lastly i gave up and went back to the com, looking at the screen for 30 seconds at a time. - i ate lunch with pehpeh and waileong. i ate ravioli in pesto sauce with bacon, olives, and garlic. waileong ate linguini in pesto sauce with bacon, fresh chili, and baby clams, though he only found one suspected clam. we shared a yera, some sort of lamb burrito type thing. one iced lemon tea came with the yera, which we also shared. pehpeh had steak, and a bite of my half of the yera. both are fine. - we finished lunch at 2. went home at 4.30. i took my nap at 5, woke up with the headache at 6.30, threw up at 8. so, why i think this is a migraine: shared food, no one else is sick. the pesto sauce was probably the same batch. five hours till i felt nauseous. the headache was humongous. i was vomiting and wasn't sure if the headache or the vomiting felt worse. funny lights in my eyes. i've played my ds on a bus in the day, in my bunk in the night, in the jungle on top of an m113, and i have never experienced anything quite like yesterday's... thing. i'm breezing through boring rpg text and i realise i didn't see half the sentence because i just saw funny colours. i brushed it off as being sleepy, which i was, and i shoved the ds under my bed with my glasses and took my nap. why i think this is food poisoning: it seems highly unlikely for a migraine to suddenly appear 20 years into my life. that pasta really, really stunk of garlic, and i was the only one with garlic. my breath was horrible for ages. rotten garlic maybe? i'm pretty damn sure i've eaten mozarella before, ravioli or not. i'm sincerely hoping the funny lights were entire because i was sleepy, because like i said, stupid lights in my eyes are fucking scary. coincidentally, i discovered recently why i see tiny red pixels in my eyes when i stare into dark places and blue ones when i stare at lights, but that's another story. but right now i have no more time for playing doctor! i'm not sicking up any more and my headache's almost gone, and i've finished season 5 of lost! applause to the writers, they've redeemed themselves in my eyes. seasons 4 and 5 were amazing, because it starred the island and not stupid little people getting into fights. well, yeah, they fought, but other more important and interesting stuff was finally happening. and they gave me the scene i asked for, sort of, where one guy (daniel, a cool nutcase, not like locke, an annoying nutcase) goes off and does something obtuse and inexplicable, then comes back and APOLOGISES FOR HIS RUDENESS and proceeds to EXPLAIN WHY HE DID WHAT HE DID. amazing. my favourite character instantly. and of course he dies an episode later. even my second favourite character first appears pointing a gun at someone and shouting "ARE YOU HIM?" with no other explanation, and i can't forgive that. it's a show full of idiots. characters can be good or evil, i don't care, but one important thing is that i defintely have to like them. anyone i don't like is the antagonist. and in this show everyone was the antagonist. jack is a leader, except when he's suddenly selfish and insecure. kate is repentant except when she's sudddenly selfish and scheming. locke is mr visionary leader except when he's still a pathetic, insecure loser. everyone is prone to attacks of i'm-suddenly-gonna-do-whatever-i-want. i want to see: good side, bad side, overcome bad side. instead i keep seeing: normal side, bad side, bad side causes problem, people get angry and fight. and, somehow, no resolution. but wait, i must stop bitching, because all the annoying fighting has stopped. or rather, i can ignore it because there's an actual good story going on. time travel is normally pretty stupid, but the writers did good. themes are unifying, or at least coming together, and revelations of new information actually seem plausible and not random retcons for a new story direction. i'm scouring lostpedia now, to form my own unified theory of what the fuck is going on. it's fun, like a puzzle, and i'm probably wrong on every count, because tv script writers don't have to make logical sense. and somehow i'd mistaken this super comprehensive site, lostpedia.wikia.com, for lost.wikia.com, which is vastly inferior, and i din't notice till season 5. which is rather lucky, actually, since i avoided a lot of spoilers. anyway, i'm trawling each theory page in hopes of seeing a bigger picture. this is the reason i watched this show. this is the reason i didn't drop it in season 2. it's one big puzzle. the edges are all missing as well as a good chunk of the middle. the writers better supply these parts, and not just force everything together and slap it in a frame. or leave out all the million pieces that are missing right now.
the internet is my doctorWednesday, August 05, 20092.55pmyesterday evening i woke up from a nap with a humongous headache. i took some panadol and then started to feel nauseous. i also had a cough which i'm pretty sure i caught from pehpeh after i finished his carbonara with his fork. and after he took a bite of my yera. i think it was called yera. but more importantly. humongous headache. nausea. about an hour later i threw up, hot, sour vomit that burned my throat with stomach acid. OMG OMG OMG WHATS GOING ON DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSTICS GO GO GO first i googled 'headache, cough, nausea'. the first site gave me answers such as Acid-Base Imbalance, Acute Appendicitis, Acute Renal Failure, Animal allergy, and Anthrax. notice they're all starting with A. that's cuz i only bothered with the A's, i figured the 180 possiblities they listed weren't going to be very helpful. shitty site. the next site was a forum post with the title "I have a cough,tired, have nausea and lightheaded", and had this little story: "I have been having these symptoms for about 2 weeks. I can't work out without coughing and feeling like I'm going to pass out. My kids have been sick but they are better now. What could this be ? " and the stunningly brilliant reply was: "Your probably just sick." HOLY SHIT WE GOT A DOCTOR HERE the third site was a full-page warning about how garlic is the spawn of the devil. this wasn't helping. it was at this point that i threw up. by then i'd ingeniously placed my wastepaper basket right on the floor between my feet, and thanks to that i managed to get 90% of my sick into a plastic bag!!!! amazing! i did mention that my throat got burned by the stomach acid, right? fun stuff! several paper towels and a mop later, i realised the cough was gone thanks to the cough medicine i ate earlier. i surmised that the cough was just a cough and a red herring impairing my accurate assessment of the ailment afflicting me. i think i saw this on house once. occam's razor! two diseases attacking at once! highly unlikely! but i went and googled 'headache, nausea' anyway. i did this in 30 second intervals because it hurt to look at the computer screen. boom! results! Headaches can be such a nagging problem. As a symptom, it can be a cause of some serious ailments. Headaches that come with vomiting and nausea can be signs of migraine. what? migraine? isn't that just headache at the eyes? anyway, i have a lead! off to the wikipedia! and holy crap! more results! Signs and symptoms 1. The prodrome, which occurs hours or days before the headache. 2. The aura, which immediately precedes the headache. 3. The pain phase, also known as headache phase. 4. The postdrome. at this point in the typical house episode, there'd be flashbacks of all those apparently innocuous little signs that were actually key bits of information. Prodromal symptoms occur in 40–60% of migraineurs (migraine sufferers). This phase may consist of altered mood, irritability, depression or euphoria, fatigue, yawning, excessive sleepiness, craving for certain food (e.g. chocolate), stiff muscles (especially in the neck), constipation or diarrhea, increased urination, and other visceral symptoms. in waileong's car on the way back i was feeling really depressed! though that could have been because i just spent 200 bucks on art suppiles. Aura phase Visual aura is the most common of the neurological events. There is a disturbance of vision consisting usually of unformed flashes of white and/or black or rarely of multicolored lights (photopsia) or formations of dazzling zigzag lines (scintillating scotoma; often arranged like the battlements of a castle, hence the alternative terms "fortification spectra" or "teichopsia". after i got home, before i took my nap i was playing my DS! but i couldn't see the screen properly because of funny lights in my eyes! i thought i was fucking imagining it or maybe i'd stared at the sun for some fucking reason. but i hadn't! so i gave up and went to sleep. Pain phase FUCK Postdrome phase The patient may feel tired, have head pain, cognitive difficulties, "hungover", gastrointestinal symptoms, mood changes and weakness. yeah my head still hurts when i shake it. DUN DUN DUNNNNN okay, mostly likely i had a migraine. but why? i've never had one in my life before. Migraine attacks may be triggered by: * Allergic reactions * Bright lights, loud noises, and certain odors or perfumes * Physical or emotional stress * Changes in sleep patterns * Smoking or exposure to smoke * Skipping meals * Alcohol * Menstrual cycle fluctuations, birth control pills, hormone fluctuations during the menopause transition * Tension headaches * Foods containing tyramine (red wine, aged cheese, smoked fish, chicken livers, figs, and some beans), monosodium glutamate (MSG) or nitrates (like bacon, hot dogs, and salami) * Other foods such as chocolate, nuts, peanut butter, avocado, banana, citrus, onions, dairy products, and fermented or pickled foods. i think i can safely rule out menstrual cycle. i didn't drink or breath smoke recently either. so i've narrowed the other options down to a few: loud noise - my next door neighbour was doing renovation work right when i got home. but i spent a year in an armour, loud noises are my bread and butter. not very likely. sleep patterns - my sleep pattern has been pretty regular recently. so mostly likely not that either. unless a normal sleep cycle is unhealthy for me. stress - OMG SCHOOL STARTING no i'm not that worried. drawing every day! ha ha ha ha ha most likely, food - for lunch i had some weird shit i've rarely eaten before. ravioli stuffed with mozzarella (AGED CHEESE) and bacon in pesto sauce. there was a lot of garlic in there too. mozzarella is a confirmed trigger, as is bacon, but garlic commonly relieves migraines, according to dr. google. it better be that mozzarella because if i have to give up bacon i might as well shoot myself and be done with it. so i need to set up a controlled experiment, as soon as this residual headache is fully gone. i hope you've enjoyed reading this blog entry as much as i enjoyed hot, sour vomit all over my floor. oh, funny story. right after i'd finished barfing and i was trying to control the remaining aftershocks, i was slumped over the wastepaper basket, as you can imagine. unfortunately i took a breath, and man, that was not nice. i burned my nostrils too. that shit was sharp and tangy. have a nice day! and right after i click Publish Post: I POOP A LUNG >:█
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