Taking a short break

[V!] – V’s Flickr, 19th May ‘07.

hey guys, I’m back. It’s surprising how fast time goes by, almost an entire month since I last blogged. That’s pretty long I’d say.

Anyway, you can probably guess why I haven’t been updating. School’s been hitting me pretty hard, and I’ve only gotten past the worst of it yesterday. Almost everything’s been cleared except for two group reports and a lab demonstration. And guess what? My first exam’s on 12th June. Pffft. I see people revising for their exams, and what am I up to? Still clearing the damn assignments. Life would’ve been a little better if my management paper wasn’t up so early, argh.

Well, that’s the bad stuff about school. On the upside, my assignments have been doing pretty good. The network administration assignments are almost a guaranteed HD (80% and above), thanks to work experience and CCNA studies. You know you did good during the presentation when the tutor screws all of the other groups upside down with “This is crap!”, and your group gets nothing but “Impressive. Well done.” Got my management case study back today during tutorial, and that one’s a D (70% – 79%), not too bad.

Other than school, work had been (and still is) a little rocky. The network equipment went crazy, and I was running up and down the buildings visiting tenants here and there. After the firefighting, things have settled down (I think) but I’m still awaiting further news from the hardware manufacturer.

So I have a huge backlog of stuff I would wanna write about, but hmm not sure I still remember them. I’ve been to Phillip Island (penguins!) and St Kilda as well, ‘cus SJ jie and her mum came down to Melbourne ’bout two weeks ago. Photos galore, I’ll put up a few here in a later post.

Add all of the above up, and woo man, I was losing sleep all the while. Burning the candle at both ends and in the middle, I was seriously dying. Had 15 hours of sleep yesterday so I’m recovering : )

I’ve also learnt that Krispy Kreme’s glazed donuts taste damn blardy goot when they’re hot. Woot, hot glazed donuts are slurpalicious.

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Addendum:

- The Korean Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) has developed a chip that allows mobile cameras to take decent photographs in low light places properly. Hello to good looking night shots!

- Microsoft talks of suing open source operating systems for patent infringement. Linux founder Linus Torvalds replies here, and Microsoft has said that it won’t be pursuing the issue heh.

- Creative’s new MP3 player looks like a stone and is named the Stone as well. Looks pretty nifty though.

- Take a normal USB Wifi device, throw in a cooking wok and you could be on your way to a DIY wireless broadcast device! Kewl. An engineer used a $10 cooking wok as a substitute for a $20,000 satellite dish, and it actually works just as good :O

- John Cornwell’s beer-launching fridge. Very useful when you’re thirsty in the middle of a soccer game and don’t wanna take your eyes off the set.
Good: if you do manage to catch the beer.
Not good: if it ends up leaving a dent at the back of your head.
Bad: if it hurtles towards the TV display and smashes it.

- Condom in a McDonald’s Happy Meal :D Talk about early sex education.

- Breathtaking pictures of New Zealand at knuttz.net.

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