the storm dies at last

yes! i'm done!

"...ohhhhh, happiness is here once again..."

i figured i disappeared and gone without blogging for the past 2 days. and i practically didn't chat with anyone online. i was busy working on my database assignment. -sigh- i was so panicky 'cos i thought i didn't think i can finish it! the few of the questions were really difficult. brain racking... or wrecking... whatever. it's due tomorrow and i'm just done printing the whole thing out. got a lot of help from jason fortunately. and apparently he finished it before me. haha... if i had been able to focus on my work properly i might have taken less time. at long last i'm done now! and this assignment is the last of them all for this subject!!! *jumps in joy*

for the past 3-4 nights, i have been sleeping really late. just last night, i slept at 5am. well alright, it's morning already but i consider it one cycle of the day. and barely after 6hours of sleep did i wake up automatically and continued working on it. needless to say i got it figured out(although it probably isn't as desirable solution, but figured out nevertheless) and got the stack in hardcopy.

i had a lecture on friday morning (as usual) and went to the computer lab on campus to do my work. jason and i stayed there the whole bloody day until 5pm. so that was 7hours straight facing the computer screen in campus. and i came back and continued my stuff.

so today, i shall flood my blog with multitudes picture postings! then you'll understand why i couldn't focus on my work fully... hehe XD

i found this rjc student's non-blog that seemed like he was living in dismal in singapore. maybe some people has seen it before, he's called Gabriel. and i find some of his stuff interesting. especially the part where he lists out a bunch of phrases that are english, only that they sound so wrong. so here's Gabriel's Homepage.

a friend of mine shared this piece of creative writing with me. it's title The Missing Piece from someone called Shel Silverstein studying at a university. i like it too.

need to send huge files to a friend? wish you can do it by email? how about this YouSendIt that lets you upload the file to them from their website? they send an email to your recipient and allow downloading of the file for 7 days or so. maximum is 1gig. however, i tried sending and it was probably my connection problems, that i couldn't finish uploading 300+MB to them.

speaking of connection, my pacnetbb had problems on saturday morning. wee hours morning. my connection was interrupted slightly before 3am and it didn't got back up until 12noon. there was an outage apparently so tough luck for me. a lot of my resources for doing my work were online so i can do very little without internet connection. i trudged on for slightly more than half an hour before i headed to bed because i wasn't getting very far.

another friend who includes interesting news clips in the blog brought this to my attention. another interesting new technological breakthrough. Konarka is a company that manufactures solar cells. the difference is their products are not hard and stiff like "first-generation" solar cells that're being used for solar heating panels currently. they claim theirs to be third generation. apparently the second generation are more flexible than the first, but not as efficient. so it would be interesting to see how in future we can have a jacket that recharges our handphone or a laptop that never needs to plug into the wall socket. bring them to picnics! of course the news article was on military applications but i certainly won't mind having a handphone that lasts indefinitely... :)

i also surfed a few sites here and there, related to pixel art. and some were recommended by a friend. the most prominent would have to be eboy! man, their work is amazing! i also came across this one with a few tutorials. it's from china but good no less, called ourcall.org. and another called pixelfreak which is amazing too! i normally look around for more tutorials on how to draw... aha! that's what was distracting me... :P

so that's pretty much just about enough rant i can unload. glad i can finally heave a sigh of relief for the moment.

*only got one nia*