Sunday, August 31, 2008
3:06 pm
I haven't been blogging much, I know, but what's the point in noting down "I did this, I did that, I went to *insert name of a place* and ate *insert name of something edible*, blah blah blah" just for the sake of it?
Pointless. 'Nuff said. Besides, that's not how blogging should be done.
Anyways, I'm typing this entry through FireFox because somehow, I can't access the Internet on my Internet Explorer.
Tried to install it again- didn't work. Uninstalled and installed it again- didn't work. Uninstalled and installed IE8 Beta 2- didn't work. Uninstalled IE8 and installed IE7 back- DIDN'T BLOODY WORK.
Well, it was just another excuse to not touch anything that required me to use HTML because for some reason, when I toggle between full style text and HTML coding on FireFox, it gets messed up and adds SPAN codes when I don't need it. Plus, I always check the coding after typing in full style mode because I can make sure that the code shows what I want it to show (yes, I'm anal that way).
Imagine the number of times I need to edit the codings each time I toggle between input styles.
The reasons why I keep IE when FireFox works perfectly fine for me are because it doesn't distort my codings, AND, certain China websites that host manga scanlations don't work in FireFox. It's just my luck when only those websites have series that other FireFox-friendly websites don't.
Pfft.
Anyway, my degree classes started just this week and we've already got article readings to do, notes to print and assignment plannings to submit in the very near future.
Speaking of which, I miss note-printing in Temasek Poly. The whole "Bring your own paper and print for free" thing is sorely missed, now that we need to pay 10 cents per piece in PSB Academy.
Shall be heading back to TP for cheap printing. And for BizPark's chicken chop.
*Salivates*
To the horror of all Windows-users' horrors, we have to use iMac for at least 2 of the current semester's modules. It's my little personal nightmare, frankly.
Mac is okay to use, but when you have lots of windows opened, it gets confusing about going where to restore them again.
And I can't use the Shift-Home/-End shortcuts to highlight text. Darn.
At least we have an amusing lecturer/tutor for our Intro to Media Production module:
He wears skinny jeans to class.
Yes. Skinny jeans. Add on to the obvious visual fact that he is quite slim?
*Guffaws*
Even I have more meat in my legs than him.
It's the single most darnest, entertaining distraction, because the moment you really took notice of him in skinny jeans, it is impossible to pay attention in class anymore.
I dissolve into a snickering, giggling mess every time I dared a look.
The one frightening thing about him is that he's only graduated about 3 years ago from his own course.
He is a musician of sorts (which he admits, and one newly-made friend found his MySpace page), which is fine because he knows his way around the media software, but when it comes to the theories behind it? It's an absolute train wreck. You can't bear to watch him attempt to explain things, and yet there's a perverse enjoyment in seeing him struggle to make sense while subjecting yourself to listen to what ends up being more confusing when he's done.
I half wanted to take over the class when he got to the part on frequency, amplitude and decibels. And I almost launched into a detailed answer for another coursemate's question pertaining to that area when minutes later, our lecturer still could not figured out what was actually being asked.
Hey, my Physics may have been the one subject with the worst grade in my O' Levels result slip but I did pay attention in class when frequency and amplitude were being taught.
Difficult not to, when during then we had a better Physics teacher. Who was a little psychotic and a tad sadistic. Then again, almost all our teachers in my secondary school are like that, and he was better at teaching Physics as compared to all the incompetent trainees and substitutes we had afterwards.
All right, work to do.
Have to force myself to be more conscientious this time, which, I can foretell to be quite a feat to achieve.