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August 21st at random

Posted in: 2009 posts | Angry | at random | Books | Delayed Rebellious Phase (Cringeworthy) | In Arrogant Mode | Life | Me. | Piano | Shopping Bag | Twitter | University | University: Year 1

//Ihategroupproject// Had a very bad, bad week. It’s supposed to be a “happy” mid-term semester break holiday but a group project that’s due AFTER the one-week holiday ruined it.
I’m so going to rant about it in a post. Possibly a long one. *Yeah, I don’t have anything better to do. haha*

*sigh* Dunno what will happen to me in the future? Had “meetings” almost everyday at the university’s library without much result to show. Hmm. Maybe because I wasn’t there to see the results. My group doesn’t need me anyway – they have a another leader that is “more leader” than me, someone who met the lecturer face to face, someone who knows what to be done bla bla bla. I'm only a leader by name (I didn’t even ask to be one!). In the end, I started having doubts whether I’m capable to lead in the future, having doubts on my knowledge and way of thinking, having doubts in my abilities and talents… Although I know how lousy I am as a leader, I was rude in every group meetings. I can’t believe someone with that kind of brain is studying in a university. (Yes. My arrogant tone is ON.) Oh yeah. That’s the kind of people who’s going to lead the future of Malaysia (or Sabah), one who doesn’t dare to think far and out-the-box, who only want to “stay safe” and talk beautiful but empty ideas. Some people are just not born with the right intelligence. Yay to the future!
//Books from Kinokuniya// My mum stopped by that book heaven while she’s in KL for a meeting so naturally I made her help me buy these… LOL. I know. Why a 21-years-old-to-be girl is into these kind of things? Blame Disney Channel. *Can’t wait for Camp Rock 2!*
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I’ve always wanted to play these songs on piano!!!
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//Happy, Happy Birthday!// It’s not my birthday yet… It’s Joe Jonas’ (Aug 15th) and Demi Lovato’s (Aug 20th)!!! Haha. Joe dressed up as a birthday cake on one of their soundchecks. JB’s video for Demi’s birthday. Surprise, suprise – Joe’s going to be one of the guest judge for American Idol’s audition in Dallas.
Thanks to the internet for telling me all these on a bad, ruined week. At least, now I know someone else has a better week than me. Haha.
//I may not follow you…// Since Twitter deleted massive spam accounts last July, I’ve started screening my “following” list. Okay, it’s seems unrelated… but anyway.. I just want to keep my “following” list clean. I do read every tweets, you know. My limit is 30 “followings”… So these past few weeks, I’ve been following but actively un-following too… It seems rude actually especially if it’s a private account (how would I know if I like reading your tweets or not when you kept it private?), but it has to be done.
I'm doing the same with the “follower” list. There’s TwitBlock to help me with that. I didn’t block all simultaneously – just those with alarming spamminess rating. Some twitterers are real twitterers (who may only post links in their tweets).. Everyone tweet for different reasons, so I think it’s quite unfair to block them. I do hope they stop auto-following though, it’s really weird to have someone following you just because you mentioned “foot” (as in “foot massage”, real experience!) in your tweet(s).

Time: 2009-08-21T19:41:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2009 posts , Angry , at random , Books , Delayed Rebellious Phase (Cringeworthy) , In Arrogant Mode , Life , Me. , Piano , Shopping Bag , Twitter , University , University: Year 1


Classes… after a month?

Posted in: 2009 posts | Courses | Delayed Rebellious Phase (Cringeworthy) | University | University: Year 1

After over a month, what do I think about the courses (subjects?) I’m taking for this semester?

“Ethics for Professionals” – Mixed feelings. Hate my group.

“Islam and Asian Civilization” – History. Duh. The ultimate bore.

“Art Appreciation” – Just started class 2 weeks ago. Doesn’t seem like what I have in mind. Looks fun but it’s still early to say more.

“Dragon Boat [Club?]” – Sea + non-swimmer + 1st-timer + Sunburn = FUN. Relaxing course, actually. Doesn’t have to think much…

“Computer Programming  & Simulation” – Interesting. Very closely-related to my minor (CG). I can almost say I love it.

“Mathematics I”, “Economic Statistics” – I should love my math courses. Statistics is super hard (my math weakness other than those involving graphs especially weird-shaped ones) but I WILL find my way to conquer it. Logic and Set Theory are my new love.

“English for Research Purposes (ERP)” – I initially wanted to take “Grammar in Context” course (because I want to learn more about grammar) but there’s no more vacancy so I ended up taking this. I don’t really read much journals but I’m familiar with them. I was my mum’s unacknowledged assistant (lol.) when she was still doing her doctorate thesis on something about innovation. She was a part-time post-graduate student… so during my free time, I was the one who looked for journals she needed and wanted for her research. So when I started ERP class, I wasn’t surprised by the terms. What’s even better is I’m going to write my own erm… mini-thesis. I found out that this course will help me in my 2nd/3rd year. English is always my favourite subject, even though the class is held at night (everyone’s tired and sleepy), it’s pretty relaxing. A good distraction, to say the least.

“Digital Systems” – Finally started class last Friday. The subject looks difficult. The lecturer is pretty but she’s very strict at the same time. She’s cool, really.

 

*Title of the courses (originally in malay) were loosely-translated.


Time: 2009-08-16T05:03:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2009 posts , Courses , Delayed Rebellious Phase (Cringeworthy) , University , University: Year 1


“What are you doing?”

Posted in: 1st post | 2009 posts | Delayed Rebellious Phase (Cringeworthy) | Friends | Personal Thoughts | Twitter | University: Year 1

I’m officially addicted to Twitter.

I started tweeting since April this year and so far have over 600 tweets…  I can’t leave my cell phone at home, not because I need it to text my family or friends, but it’s for the sake of tweeting from wherever I am. Sometimes, the thought(s) just come and I have to tweet it out (even though I doubt that anyone would be interested in reading it…). My cell phone credit is used mostly for tweeting from “mobile web” and “text” (expensive but useful when your cell has low battery) tweets. Wow. Signs of addiction, isn’t it?  Speaking of reading tweets, actually, because tweets are in 140-character format, it’s hard to ignore someone’s tweet. At one glance, you may already read the tweet unconsciously. That is what makes it different from reading blog posts.
I don’t know if other people do it but sometimes when I see a long post I might just skim through it or straight away skip reading it. This is where I see the need of microblogs. I had one blog post in 2005 (when I’m still new to blogging) that only contained two short sentences (I think I’d deleted the posts). That should’ve been tweeted and not blogged.
Oh, yeah. Lately I changed my what-to-tweet-about a bit. I actually like to be witty in my tweets but I always fail to do so (*embarassing!* Akira’s style)… But I’ll keep trying. Hehe. I said before that I don’t really care how many followers I have, but I do  monitor who follows me. I follow back those whose tweets I like to read. I block those who are apparently spam twitters. “Spam-like” (contained many links sometimes business-ish, & I think they expect a follow-back) twitterers – I look forward to be unfollowed.
Recently, I also found many ex-schoolmates/classmates on Twitter. Dunno why, I feel it’s easier to chat on Twitter then messaging on whatever-social-site (though I don’t have an account on facebook). The “message” can be seen publicly if it’s accessed from the tweeter’s twitter site, though. To date, I already dragged 3 people to join Twitter… Ren-chan, Mel-chan & my little sister. If you noticed, I also changed the “featured post” section to feature my latest 4 tweets… quite nice lah, at least to me. ^_^

Tweet me if you are on twitter!

Time: 2009-08-01T21:51:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 1st post , 2009 posts , Delayed Rebellious Phase (Cringeworthy) , Friends , Personal Thoughts , Twitter , University: Year 1


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