10 August, 2007
(0 ) 22:32 It's been a week of school. Well, 3 days, actually, since I skipped the lecture on Wednesday and Thursday was National Day (happy 42nd, by the way). It's kind of hard to believe that my days of slacking are over. Hah. But school is interesting as well. I confess that I'm not having the time of my life there or anything, but I'll get by, I suppose, as we all must.
School seems busy as it is already, but I have a good weekend, because I only have one lecture on Friday and nothing on Saturday and Sunday. Oh, did I mention? I finally stopped working on Saturday morning. I want my unadulterated weekends back so I can finish up work (and get in some real good slacking when I don't have any deadlines coming up).
Probably going to get a laptop next week at the computer fair on campus, but not a Mac. It's too expensive, and a PC will do as well. I'm not going to do broadcast or film or whatever anyway, so no time-consuming rendering of videos for me. Can't wait for the new lappy, but I have no idea how I'm going to connect it to the internet, seeing that I have only one modem at home, and that the phone line is all the way on the other side of my room. I'll have to cannibalise the modem from my desktop and steal the long phone wire as well. But all in good time.
Finishing up The Kite Runner. It's actually due today, but I've still got a hundred pages left, I think. Eh, I'm a slow reader, so help me. It's not bad; not a book to read in public if you don't want to tear halfway on the MRT ride home. But I don't think that it lives up to its hype. Then again, I wouldn't know, because I haven't read books of a similar genre, so I can't compare.
Alright, I wouldn't say it's only "not bad". It's pretty good. But reading it wasn't earth-shattering or anything. Just heart-wrenching and way too identifiable and human. Perhaps that is precisely why it is the best-seller it is.
Anyway, have been marathoning Lost episodes for the past 3 hours or so, and I can't help but watch episode after episode. The moment the video stops playing, I load up the next, eager to find out more about the Others, the Dharma Initiative, the fates of Jack, Kate, Sawyer and all the others.
Lost holds a special place in my heart. That sounds so cheesy, but it does. I used to watch it together with Daddy. It's a pity he can't watch it with me now. The last episode he did was the one when Walt communicated with Michael through the computer in the hatch. I wonder if he remembers.
School seems busy as it is already, but I have a good weekend, because I only have one lecture on Friday and nothing on Saturday and Sunday. Oh, did I mention? I finally stopped working on Saturday morning. I want my unadulterated weekends back so I can finish up work (and get in some real good slacking when I don't have any deadlines coming up).
Probably going to get a laptop next week at the computer fair on campus, but not a Mac. It's too expensive, and a PC will do as well. I'm not going to do broadcast or film or whatever anyway, so no time-consuming rendering of videos for me. Can't wait for the new lappy, but I have no idea how I'm going to connect it to the internet, seeing that I have only one modem at home, and that the phone line is all the way on the other side of my room. I'll have to cannibalise the modem from my desktop and steal the long phone wire as well. But all in good time.
Finishing up The Kite Runner. It's actually due today, but I've still got a hundred pages left, I think. Eh, I'm a slow reader, so help me. It's not bad; not a book to read in public if you don't want to tear halfway on the MRT ride home. But I don't think that it lives up to its hype. Then again, I wouldn't know, because I haven't read books of a similar genre, so I can't compare.
Alright, I wouldn't say it's only "not bad". It's pretty good. But reading it wasn't earth-shattering or anything. Just heart-wrenching and way too identifiable and human. Perhaps that is precisely why it is the best-seller it is.
Anyway, have been marathoning Lost episodes for the past 3 hours or so, and I can't help but watch episode after episode. The moment the video stops playing, I load up the next, eager to find out more about the Others, the Dharma Initiative, the fates of Jack, Kate, Sawyer and all the others.
Lost holds a special place in my heart. That sounds so cheesy, but it does. I used to watch it together with Daddy. It's a pity he can't watch it with me now. The last episode he did was the one when Walt communicated with Michael through the computer in the hatch. I wonder if he remembers.