Letting Off Steam

Anybody have any good ideas for letting out anger in a peaceful way? All my usual methods are impossible at this point in time. Any help would be much appreciated – I really need it.

I guess I should explain… I’m really fucking pissed off. And I feel helpless at the same time. Maybe I’m pissed off because I feel helpless, I don’t know. I don’t know why I feel this, either. So might be a good idea to avoid me if you were hoping for a nice conversation. I don’t want to upset anyone.

Well, that is all.

P.S. Alex, if you read this – this may well be proof that I’m not quite as buddha-like as you first thought =P. That said, you’re on my ‘I could never be angry at this person, ever’ list, so you probably wouldn’t even notice! I mean, who could ever be angry at Alex?

Girls

Aaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggghhhhhhh!

That goes for girls in general – nobody in particular.

Flying Home and Uni Choices

Last night I decided that I’d had enough of the city for a while, so I booked a flight home Sunday morning. A couple of times recently I’ve felt rather suffocated by the city and where I live. Mostly when I’m feeling a bit blergh and I want my music up really loud and stuff. I can’t do that here. The IT Faculty has the week off next week due to APEC, so I figured I might as well take advantage of it. Probably come back for work Thursday.

This Saturday I’ll probably go to the UNSW Open Day. Recently I’ve been thinking that I’m not so sure if I want to continue doing an IT degree and go on to have a career in IT. I mean, sure I like IT, but it doesn’t tend to challenge me or make me think all that much, if at all, which is something I really need. So I was kind of considering an Arts/Science (Physics) course at UNSW. Probably not, but I’ll check it out and see what I think.

Hasta La Vista, Carnales

Yes! I totally wiped out the Carnales in Saints Row! They are a gang, by the way. A red one. And they’re pretty mean. But yeah, I killed their leader a while back, then his brother took over, then he tried to run away, so I shot down his plane and then got his house and all the cool Carnales cars. Rockin’!

No CBP At All… Oops!

Went to read lecture slides for Collaborative Business Processes just then, and saw an announcement asking that all 3:30pm tutorial students (me!) please attend the 2pm tutorial if possible. Oops. Oh well, I guess I’ll just read everything and hope that I don’t miss too much. I mean, some people in my group can only make it to 3:30pm tutorials anyway, so I won’t be the only one, but still… I feel slightly bad. Missing all classes for CBP for the week. Heh…

I <3 xkcd

Just one of many awesome strips.

Linux On Airbus In-Flight PCs

A Brilliant Day Out

Zomg, today was awesome! Better than awesome, even! You’ll know from last post that Emilly and I spent the day together, although we didn’t end up going to the zoo as planned. We would’ve only got maybe 2 hours there, so we decided to give it the flick. So, quick round up of the day. Just to jog my memory if I ever need it in the future, as much as everything.

Caught the train out to pick Emilly up, went to Wagamama’s on Darling Harbour for lunch (delicious, as always), ended up at the Maritime Museum (actually really fun – we totally owned the quiz about the Aboriginals in Arnhem Land!), left because the novelty started to wear off, meandered through Darling Harbour, stopping to watch a couple of shows for a little while, then somehow made it to Alumni Green at UTS, where we sat/lay and talked about bugs, grass and clouds. Then caught the train to drop her home (~4hrs/180km on the train today… lol). And that pretty much sums it up, as much as I want to! Hope you all had an equally brilliant day (or even better!).

Early Rising

I think I might try to make the effort to get up earlier more often. I was up at about 7am this morning, and it’s the nicest I’ve seen/heard/smelt/felt Sydney in a long while. It’s nice and peaceful and the air is fresh(er than usual), and the sun is shining in my window, something which I often miss when I get up later on.

Anyway, today should be pretty exciting! I’m off to Toronga Zoo with Emilly. Woo! I’ll report back about the day later on (possibly tomorrow). Wish me fun!

Rant – I h8 it wen ppl tlk lik dis

This is a note of advice to both present and future loved ones, as much as anything. See, I’m a bit of a spelling and grammar freak. Not as much as some other people I know, but I do get really annoyed when people constantly shorten things for the sake of convenience, but at the risk of losing comprehension. That’s just in general. What I dislike even more is when people write ‘meaningful’ things like that.

Case in point: In reply to a “Hey Dad!” message on my Dad’s ‘wall’ in Facebook yesterday, he replied with “Hi Jamo. Gr8 2 hear from u. I recon u r fantastic and I luv u heaps“. Embarrassment aside (and there’s a lot of it, by the way), this message essentially means nothing to me. You might think I’m going a bit over the top here, but look at it this way. If somebody thinks you deserve something nice said about you, doesn’t it make sense that they would at least make the effort to write it properly? I mean, if I’m going to tell somebody something special, I make sure it sounds like I really mean it, and one of the best ways to do that (IMHO) is WRITE IT IN PROPER BLOODY ENGLISH. Is it that hard?

I guess it sounds like I’m just picking on that particular message in a way, which I’m not. It happens all too frequently these days (and strangely enough, it seems to come from my parents most often). I also know that Dad means what he said, but the way he wrote it makes it sound completely worthless (and me too, for that matter).

So basically, if you ever end up writing me messages like that, for some reason or another, make sure you put the tiny bit of effort in to make it sound meaningful (ie in English), or else you might not be writing that type of message for much longer at all…