i.justrealized

This is floating room, it’s a demo to be shown in BarCamp, a user-generated unconference participatory workshop with early-stage development focus. No I have no idea what I am talking about.

It’s a really simple application to demonstrate capabilities of a communications system. See you guys at BarCamp Singapore II.

Examinations (find posts tagged ‘examinations’) have yet to begin. I have yet to study (even though I planned to but you know you know) for anything. Yet I’m already looking forward to after examinations already. Here’s a list of what to do after the examinations:

• Go do some exercise: I haven’t done any since a really long time. I just sit in front of my computer and type.
• Get back some money: Well, this is a little personal, so…
• Figure out how to set up an Ubuntu server: This is more for personal learning. It will have Lighttpd, Ubuntu, Python and MySQL, I call it LUMP, haha… And I hope to do something interesting with it too. We shall see.
• Settle some work: Unfortunately, some of my work is incomplete. I have yet to tie some loose ends and I’ve been really slow in these.
• Find back my friends: I have neglected them. I’m too busy with my work and school and some self studying. I never met a single friend that is not my classmate or workmate for the past 1.5 months.

Now, back to studying for exams. Oh ya… Before that, I have a comic to share regarding friends:

See how important friends are? I don’t know who is the artist for the comic unfortunately. I got it through an email.

I just realized that almost everyday I start work reading RSS feeds using Google Reader. This is getting so totally unproductive.

I’ve been slightly more busy these days. Picked up quite a few things to do too. Things are more or less stabilizing. Once I finish off my things, I’ll stop a while and enjoy.

Examinations are nearing too. I haven’t started any form of preparation and I don’t have the bloody Steven Alter book too, I might have to hunt it down to study some day. Probably probably it from a friend for a day or two and really really study it.

Anyway, look at my title, look at my blog. Now I really should work.

Seems like things went well today. What a strange day. I went out feeling quite down. Don’t even feel like going to school today. But overall the day worked out. The work worked out too. I went to my mother’s don’t know who don’t know what friend house to do some installation. Her friend pushed some cash into my pocket which made me a little happy. Before that I was pretty pissed my mom set me up to fix someone’s computer without me knowing in advance. Seems like things went well.

I’ll work harder.

Things did not go well, either with work or with my life. I made several mistakes that could possibly to costly (not in the monetary sense) and I am struggling to remedy. And yesterday I felt I lost something. Maybe I did lose something after all.

I have a blog already, so why have another one? (Question I ask myself a week ago.)

The previous blog has been a great learning experience. Some of the things that I didn’t expect that I would learn are:

• Web design - Admittedly, I’m not really good at that but it’s improving for sure. Polished my “design sense”. It was real bad in the past.
• PHP - I learnt PHP through trying to customize my layout
• Web servers - Apache mainly.
• Internet marketing, search engine optimization - I spent quite a lot of time, using all sorts of tricks to popularize my blog.
• Advertising - Converting visitors into some cash. It started off to cover my web hosting. But it has become an unexpected income for me.
• Something - I find that I become more and more aware of what people like to read, and what people would not like to read. I feel I can somehow predict what to blog and how best to blog to not get flamed.

Unfortunately, many of my posts there aren’t really reflective of what I want to blog. I always had the problem of people getting upset over what I blog. It can even be a mere mention of a name or perhaps complaining about a product. I used to take people’s comments quite seriously and I get upset when people get angry with any blog posts I have. I blogged based on what I think people want to see. (more…)

I am starting to suspect that it is not the caffeine in the coffee that made me drink coffee. Maybe it is just the whole action of drinking coffee that made my mind get prepared for work.

Let’s not get too complicated here. But really, each time I drink coffee, I feel like working. Coffee and work is tightly associated in my brain it seems. A sip triggers hours of energy.

And having said that, yes, I found out I can just drink a sip and throw the whole cup away and it didn’t really matter. Mind works in strange ways.