What I Did on My Birthday Yesterday

I was pretty happy yesterday. My birthday was relatively uneventful for most people, but I thought it was a good day.

In the morning, I played Project Gotham Racing 2 and some Paper Mario for quite a while. Then at about 10, I went online and did what typical people do online. Chat, surf, and vegetate in front of the LCD screen.

Two friends and I went to Hard Rock Cafe for lunch, and then made a (mandatory) stop at Safeway (a.k.a Woolworths a.k.a. supermarket a.k.a. living needs supplier a.k.a...... hey wait, I should stop this stupidity).

After we came back, I decided to take a nice nap. This nice nap lasted until 6:45pm, when I woke up and ate some microwave pasta, a can of sweet corn, a cup of soup. Of course, this was finished by a nice bowl of peaches and some ice cream. :D

Uneventful. Heck, today I had a test for Introduction to Programming. I was highly amused. :D

(I'm one hell of a boring guy. :D But what can you expect from a bored guy? To me, winning a few races in PGR2 is an grand event since I'm terrible at racing games. Expect another random idea tomorrow. Hopefully.)

Random Ideas Streaming In

As you might or might not have noticed, I have made an effort to post daily recently. Another thing you might have noticed is that they were mostly unrelated. (except for the my Internet is erratic part) Obviously, you cannot expect this trend to continue. :D I'll have more assignments soon and thusly, will be pretty busy as time passes. Of course, my brain is still nowhere where it used to be, and that would mean that if my brain's capabilities were to slowly return to normal, you might see me blog very often anyway.

I think it's good for a blogger to keep to a proper schedule of some kind eventually, but without me knowing what my workload will be next week, and the week after next, I have no idea how it would work out. I'm about to just glimpse through my programming book since I have a midsemester tomorrow in typical lazy person fashion.

I hope a good rest today will allow my brain to boot up just fine tomorrow. :D

April Fool's Day

I know last year I just decided to patch together something up for April Fool's day. This year, I did plan something. However, thanks the the reliability of Arrow's Internet, I couldn't get it out in time. I thought it would be pretty meaningless to put something up any more - so I decided against it. I'm not sure if I'll plan it out for next year (or use this year's plan next year), but you can be certain I'll be trying my best to make you guys laugh on April 1 2007. While my plans didn't pan out, I'm sure chewxy's plan is panning out really well. I suggest you go and look at his. :D

Chewxy: Me Nekkid

And yes, don't waste your time commenting my post, go there and join the fun. :D

Coincidence? Probably.

I've been thinking about coincidences in my life. There are loads of funny ones, and some that are just plain scary. A lot of my life has been associated to the number 4, 13 and 14. I live in a house whose number is 27 (13 + 14) on road number 4. (I think my address is on whois. Not sure.) When I go to a restaurant where the tables are numbers, there is a 50% chance that if I choose a table, it will be either table 4, 14, or 24 (this is at complete odds with the fact that there are so many other numbered tables).

That meant that when I came to Arrow, I was expecting to stay on the 4th floor, which came true. What I wasn't expecting? Two seniors for actuarial science staying on the same floor (it's one thing to find a senior on your floor, but I think it's another story if you find the president of the Actuarial Students Society on your floor). A person in the room whose door is directly opposite mine - shares a birthday with me. A housemate whose name is highly similar. (if it were the same, I think it would already be safe to say it's time to find out what trick destiny is trying to pull).

Among the funnier ones? HELP University College was founded one day before I was born. My year of birth is 1986. 1+9+8+6 = 24. 2/4 (2nd April) is my birth date. That about all I can think of for now. I don't think it'll be that long before I find more. (Pointless fact: Oh yeah, the Faculty of Economics and Commerce in the University of Melbourne was founded in 1924.) I'd say you can probably find a pattern of some kind in your own lives too if your look hard enough. Funny things happen to a lot of people. :D

Full of Crap

(I'm posting using the wireless connection available in the ICT Building. Not that Arrow's Internet is down, I just happened to be here with my PowerBook.) My blog has been comment spammed very slowly. While I am doing my best to ensure no strange comments crop up which are actually spam, you will see the occasional SpamKarma slip-up which I will have to delete manually. On another note, how much comment spam do I attract?

In general, thanks to the non-popularity of this site, it attracts very few comments. That means me keeping track of spam comments are made a hell of a lot easier. I don't have to read through a post or two every once in a while to make sure the newest posts are comment spam free. As a general rule, if there's a comment, there's a 50% chance it's spam. Then again, you guys sometimes type nonsense in your comments, so I'd have to say the number of useless comments can escalate up to 90% of total comments, but I appreciate your comments, regardless of how worthless they are.

Why do I appreciate it? Because you guys took the time to type it out and send it. That shows me you have something to say or something that I blogged actually meant something to you or made you want to reply. :D