School projects are moving along slower than a bill through the Canadian government while their deadlines are flying into my face at light speed. My parents keep worrying that I'm not doing as much work as I should be. Whenever they find out about a project I have, they never give me a break about it. It's true that I procrastinate a lot, but it's also true that I'm good at getting things done regardless. Even my homework, I'm constantly being given more by teachers, but rarely do I do it at home, and it usually finds itself done in time. Other times it's projects that I never say a word about, but finish off in a day. And sometimes it's days like today, where they find out about it indirectly and tell me how I shouldn't have procrastinated until now. And yet in about half an hour I came up with all the ideas I needed and sent it off to the other members of my group. I'll see what they think and write it up properly in time.
I should probably mention that the reason they found out was because I was using it as a reason not to take a shift of someone at work tomorrow. This person says they need to study for some tests this week, but I know they had tonight off and I agree it's good to study, he's doing it a bit late and I don't see any advantage in it for me. I'll take it mostly because my parents are forcing me to, and I'll even finish my project on time in spite of it all.
This probably sounds a bit haughty of me, and it is, but it's just how it is. Even when I seem to bite off more than I can chew, I've made it through mostly unscathed and without choking. I'm getting better at picking and choosing (when given a real choice) and I really work better when not pressured by my parents.
Anyways, moving on. My bike is still in working disrepair. I've re-screwed a petal to the frame and I just re-tightened the seat. The gears still act strangely, but I've gotten used to it. It has that breaking down feeling, like any robot in an intense fight scene, and intense moments it has. I've been riding along Sydney's busiest streets. It's scary, the pot holes on the sides of the road are deep and traffic has different reactions (thank you to the semi who moved into the passing lane, there was enough room but I think you made the better choice). All I can say is that while fun, it's scary. Also, I've changed up my clothing now that it's getting colder. I've now got on gloves for the wind chill, three jackets, one warm, one protective and one noticeable and I'm still wearing sunglasses (for the rain, wind and dirt), but I'm looking for some lighter lenses. I'm also still wondering about cycling in the winter.
I'd write more, but I can't remember what I've already written.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Planning Guide
I've trying to get some plans on the go. Some of these are personal and some of these are for others. I've got ideas and stuff for Chistmas (which started way to early this year in my opinion, I want my Christmas at Christmas) and stuff for every week and day otherwise.
Anyways, let's start with my plans for me. I've given up on playing piano because I don't see myself with the patience or the time to play it, even though I love to hear the sounds as my fingers dance on the keyboard. I'm trying to cut back on video gaming, I've already cut back a lot, but I still play some and I just want it gone while I don't have the time to waste. I'm learning to manage my time better on the computer, though there are still hours being lost to nearly nothing. I've also stopped drawing for now for the same reasons as piano. If ever I get the time back, I'd love to continue, just not now.
Now, that time is being cut back to make room for work and somethings else. I'm trying to make melon bread, a Japanese snack of bread covered in cookie with no melons. That'll just take a few night of practice, I've already made on unsuccessful batch, it wasn't cooked enough, the dough was too soft, the cookie wasn't attatched and such. I'll be trying again and again until either I get it right or my mom stops supplying me with ingredients to waste.
I've also learned html at school. It's a computer language for the internet, and with it I learned how to make websites. I'll be testing it out with a few things, which will hopefully appear soon enough.
I've also wanted to get back in contact with my Japanese friends, but for some reason I haven't had the courage or the will power to do it. So I'm starting up another blog. This one will be exclusively in Japanese and I'll be designing it for cellphones. Hopefully if they're still interested in staying in contact they'll follow, and hopefully I'll get enopugh courage to e-mail them back and tell them, or just continue e-mailing them. I also hope to get better with my Japanese through this.
The e-mail part also counts for my Western friends whom I want to stay in contact with, and most of who havew given up on writting blogs. Even I had my down period and I'm sure that the quaility has gone down now that I'm back on this side of the world, but I hope I can just keep this up. I'm trying to get 鰤ちゃん (burichan, her nickname) in an online chat, but so far she's lived up to being 無理ちゃん (murichan, miss unreasonable). I'm just teasing.
I'd also like to get in contact with some other people for the holidays. Terry, have you gotten a web camera yet or do I need to fly over there and drag you to the closest Wal-Mart? I'd try setting this up with someone else, but it's hard to be tech support over a computer the other person is failing to use, or at least I don't feel like it.
As for Christmas, this time my family is meeting in Quebec for a few days on the slopes, and possibly in the bars of the province where I'm of legal drinking age. Then it's back here for the week. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone, challenging my brother's fencing with my kendo and seeing Avatar in theatres (which is rare because I've lost interest in most movies).
Anyways, that enough of my plans.
Anyways, let's start with my plans for me. I've given up on playing piano because I don't see myself with the patience or the time to play it, even though I love to hear the sounds as my fingers dance on the keyboard. I'm trying to cut back on video gaming, I've already cut back a lot, but I still play some and I just want it gone while I don't have the time to waste. I'm learning to manage my time better on the computer, though there are still hours being lost to nearly nothing. I've also stopped drawing for now for the same reasons as piano. If ever I get the time back, I'd love to continue, just not now.
Now, that time is being cut back to make room for work and somethings else. I'm trying to make melon bread, a Japanese snack of bread covered in cookie with no melons. That'll just take a few night of practice, I've already made on unsuccessful batch, it wasn't cooked enough, the dough was too soft, the cookie wasn't attatched and such. I'll be trying again and again until either I get it right or my mom stops supplying me with ingredients to waste.
I've also learned html at school. It's a computer language for the internet, and with it I learned how to make websites. I'll be testing it out with a few things, which will hopefully appear soon enough.
I've also wanted to get back in contact with my Japanese friends, but for some reason I haven't had the courage or the will power to do it. So I'm starting up another blog. This one will be exclusively in Japanese and I'll be designing it for cellphones. Hopefully if they're still interested in staying in contact they'll follow, and hopefully I'll get enopugh courage to e-mail them back and tell them, or just continue e-mailing them. I also hope to get better with my Japanese through this.
The e-mail part also counts for my Western friends whom I want to stay in contact with, and most of who havew given up on writting blogs. Even I had my down period and I'm sure that the quaility has gone down now that I'm back on this side of the world, but I hope I can just keep this up. I'm trying to get 鰤ちゃん (burichan, her nickname) in an online chat, but so far she's lived up to being 無理ちゃん (murichan, miss unreasonable). I'm just teasing.
I'd also like to get in contact with some other people for the holidays. Terry, have you gotten a web camera yet or do I need to fly over there and drag you to the closest Wal-Mart? I'd try setting this up with someone else, but it's hard to be tech support over a computer the other person is failing to use, or at least I don't feel like it.
As for Christmas, this time my family is meeting in Quebec for a few days on the slopes, and possibly in the bars of the province where I'm of legal drinking age. Then it's back here for the week. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone, challenging my brother's fencing with my kendo and seeing Avatar in theatres (which is rare because I've lost interest in most movies).
Anyways, that enough of my plans.
Some Fun
Okay, so my most recent posts have been about how busy and boring life is. I can't say that's much of a surprise, but I can say that there is some fun in all of it.
Recently I've been playing a new video game called Uncharted 2. It's about a treasure hunter looking for a legendary eastern jem. It's the video game equivalent of a blockbuster triple A movie and it looks like a corss between National Treasure and Indiana Jones. It is amazing, I love the story, graphics gamepaly, witty chit-chat and everything. The one thing I don't like is that I've been playing it too much (a few hours every few days is too much right now) and my brother can't get his copy of the game to work, so we haven't been able to play together.
I also just recently met up with my old friends again (the ones who used to be at my grade level). We hung out, played games, went out for pasta and watched Stargate Universe, a new continuation of the Stargate series and currently the only television show capable of holding my attention. I've given up on effectively ewvery other series. But back to my friends, it was genuinly fun, something that's been hard to come by with all my school and other work.
Television isn't the only thing that's lost it's grip on me. I'm not as into junk food and I'm reading less. Two out of three of those I should just be thankful for. The third is kind of bad, but it probably has to do with my lack of time at night and none of my books catching on. I was reading the Alchemist, but it got too cheesy with omens and such that it feels childish and not in a fun way. I'll look out for smething better to read, like something new in the Ender's Game or Discworld series, but that will only be once I have time and money.
Oh, right, I forgot; in preperation for live in uni, I'm living off of tips as opposed to paychecks. This means I can get my priorities straight while saving up against student loans. The downside is I can't buy every fleeting interest like before (not that I did). Sadly it also means I have to save up before I can buy better gloves to keep my fingers from freezing in the lowering temperatures and for my graphing calculator for pre-calculus. I'd also like to say sorry to anyone serving me at a restaurant in the near future, buy those dollars I'd usually put to your excellent service are in short supply.
Getting back to fun, I've also gotten in some manga. I ordered some stuff online from Japan. Four books cost me nearly a hundred dollars, as compared to their Japanese price of five canadian dollars (luckily this was before I started paying with tips). Thankfully, three of them have turned ut to be good so far. I got the latest Fullmetal Alchemist volume, which is always a pleasure to read, even with the complex science and military talk. Genshiken is decent, I'll probably read through it if my Japanese pick up again. Rookies is atarting out well, it was suggested by my history teacher and is entertaining without feeling too much like GTO. Naruto was the black sheep. I usually get it because it's easy to read, but it's dying on me and I don't have the patience to wait for it to get better, which I don't believe it will (no, I don't believe it だってばよ！). Once I get my schedule straight I'll see about getting back into my Japanese. I want to start at Ghost in the Shell, but that'll be a while yet.
As far as anime goes, I've only watched a few episodes in tha last few months. I've been trying to hunt down something of quality. I got through three endless eight before I left Japan and Haruhi behind. I'm not interested in most new series, I'm mostly going back. I went through Golden boy, which was great for quality but got to be almost pornographic, even by Japanese standards by the end. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, it just wasn't what I was looking for or expecting. I then watched some of the old Lupin the third, and I finally understood why my old classmate wanted my to call him Rupan (Lupin in Japanese), he does look just like him. It's a fun show but it's just a "heist of the week" show. I saw the first episode of Mobile Suit Gundam, and while I think it's better than the new series, I've just seen too many of those robots.
Recently I've been playing a new video game called Uncharted 2. It's about a treasure hunter looking for a legendary eastern jem. It's the video game equivalent of a blockbuster triple A movie and it looks like a corss between National Treasure and Indiana Jones. It is amazing, I love the story, graphics gamepaly, witty chit-chat and everything. The one thing I don't like is that I've been playing it too much (a few hours every few days is too much right now) and my brother can't get his copy of the game to work, so we haven't been able to play together.
I also just recently met up with my old friends again (the ones who used to be at my grade level). We hung out, played games, went out for pasta and watched Stargate Universe, a new continuation of the Stargate series and currently the only television show capable of holding my attention. I've given up on effectively ewvery other series. But back to my friends, it was genuinly fun, something that's been hard to come by with all my school and other work.
Television isn't the only thing that's lost it's grip on me. I'm not as into junk food and I'm reading less. Two out of three of those I should just be thankful for. The third is kind of bad, but it probably has to do with my lack of time at night and none of my books catching on. I was reading the Alchemist, but it got too cheesy with omens and such that it feels childish and not in a fun way. I'll look out for smething better to read, like something new in the Ender's Game or Discworld series, but that will only be once I have time and money.
Oh, right, I forgot; in preperation for live in uni, I'm living off of tips as opposed to paychecks. This means I can get my priorities straight while saving up against student loans. The downside is I can't buy every fleeting interest like before (not that I did). Sadly it also means I have to save up before I can buy better gloves to keep my fingers from freezing in the lowering temperatures and for my graphing calculator for pre-calculus. I'd also like to say sorry to anyone serving me at a restaurant in the near future, buy those dollars I'd usually put to your excellent service are in short supply.
Getting back to fun, I've also gotten in some manga. I ordered some stuff online from Japan. Four books cost me nearly a hundred dollars, as compared to their Japanese price of five canadian dollars (luckily this was before I started paying with tips). Thankfully, three of them have turned ut to be good so far. I got the latest Fullmetal Alchemist volume, which is always a pleasure to read, even with the complex science and military talk. Genshiken is decent, I'll probably read through it if my Japanese pick up again. Rookies is atarting out well, it was suggested by my history teacher and is entertaining without feeling too much like GTO. Naruto was the black sheep. I usually get it because it's easy to read, but it's dying on me and I don't have the patience to wait for it to get better, which I don't believe it will (no, I don't believe it だってばよ！). Once I get my schedule straight I'll see about getting back into my Japanese. I want to start at Ghost in the Shell, but that'll be a while yet.
As far as anime goes, I've only watched a few episodes in tha last few months. I've been trying to hunt down something of quality. I got through three endless eight before I left Japan and Haruhi behind. I'm not interested in most new series, I'm mostly going back. I went through Golden boy, which was great for quality but got to be almost pornographic, even by Japanese standards by the end. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, it just wasn't what I was looking for or expecting. I then watched some of the old Lupin the third, and I finally understood why my old classmate wanted my to call him Rupan (Lupin in Japanese), he does look just like him. It's a fun show but it's just a "heist of the week" show. I saw the first episode of Mobile Suit Gundam, and while I think it's better than the new series, I've just seen too many of those robots.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Scattershot
It well describes my usual tactics; I prefer chaos to order. However I'm having a bit of trouble. I've gotten things under better controle now, but I still need to make some changes to get what little of a life I may have on track (it would only be back on track if it had been there before).
Anyways, I've been trying to organize my time a bit better. I've been trying to get to bed before the next day, in which I have been unsuccessful. Usually there's still homework to be done, hygene to be maintained, work to do or something science related to read. Thankfully I'm only slightly sleep deprived, but I would still like to get some more hours of somnus.
I accept the fact that it is mostly due to my procrastination that I'm still up early the next day, but that only narrows down the source, I still need to put it to its end.
On the school front, I need cycling gloves with fingers. It's getting to be below two-hundred-and-seventy-three degrees kelvin slowly and my regular cycling gloves only cover my plams. Today my fingers were almost numb with cold twice.
I've also solved the problem of rain-soaked clothing by wearing a good jacket and bringing a spare pair of pants. I also use glasses as a windshield.
Ironically, I see nothing wrong with my broken bike.
In math class, I'm having a bit of trouble in conforming my notes, but that'll just take a night with a cup of tea. What I'm mostly successfully working on now is getting into the habit of writing down work. I'm too used to doing everything in my head with only a few hints and answers on paper. I've started today with writing down all the relevant information. I'm still doing work in my head, but it's a start.
I'm also trying to get ahead in other school work. I'm far ahead in my multimedia class due to my familiarity with computers and I'm doing well in both French and geography with good notes and some uncommon knowledge.
My social life is a schrodinger's cat. I'm hoping old ties are still alive while wondering which new ones have come to life. It's a slow process and so far I'm treading carefully.
Hopefully some of these will work and things will get sorted out, and if not, well, that's my life.
Anyways, I've been trying to organize my time a bit better. I've been trying to get to bed before the next day, in which I have been unsuccessful. Usually there's still homework to be done, hygene to be maintained, work to do or something science related to read. Thankfully I'm only slightly sleep deprived, but I would still like to get some more hours of somnus.
I accept the fact that it is mostly due to my procrastination that I'm still up early the next day, but that only narrows down the source, I still need to put it to its end.
On the school front, I need cycling gloves with fingers. It's getting to be below two-hundred-and-seventy-three degrees kelvin slowly and my regular cycling gloves only cover my plams. Today my fingers were almost numb with cold twice.
I've also solved the problem of rain-soaked clothing by wearing a good jacket and bringing a spare pair of pants. I also use glasses as a windshield.
Ironically, I see nothing wrong with my broken bike.
In math class, I'm having a bit of trouble in conforming my notes, but that'll just take a night with a cup of tea. What I'm mostly successfully working on now is getting into the habit of writing down work. I'm too used to doing everything in my head with only a few hints and answers on paper. I've started today with writing down all the relevant information. I'm still doing work in my head, but it's a start.
I'm also trying to get ahead in other school work. I'm far ahead in my multimedia class due to my familiarity with computers and I'm doing well in both French and geography with good notes and some uncommon knowledge.
My social life is a schrodinger's cat. I'm hoping old ties are still alive while wondering which new ones have come to life. It's a slow process and so far I'm treading carefully.
Hopefully some of these will work and things will get sorted out, and if not, well, that's my life.
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