Category: Life

Argh!! I don’t know how I managed to pull this off… This morning, I mistook bus number 165 for 166. 166 is the bus number I take to work every day. Damnit. During the first 15 minutes of the ride, the route both buses take are the same. After that, they both go different ways. By the time 165 had taken a different route from 166, I had already fallen asleep!! [X(]

I woke up and looked around, fucking shocked to find myself in an unfamiliar place. Quickly boarded off, crossed the road and waited for a bus back. It was 8.30 already. I soon gave up and flagged a cab. The driver had to top up his cash card and so he stopped at a petrol station. He was kind enough to lift the $1 peak hour surcharge. But I had to pay $3.50 for his entering into the CBD area. The grand total was $12.00. [:(]

While reading php-Mag, I came across another interesting blog and from there, I learned about GeoCaching. From what I’ve read, GeoCaching sounds like “treasure hunting”. People would store stuff in containers and hide them in suitable places, most of them in the wild but safe location. They would then submit the GPS co-ordinates of the location of the item to GeoCaching.com. I’ve found out that there’s quite a number of hidden caches in Singapore (Click on the Seek button in the link.). I’ve read that even a foreigner who was probably here on vacation, participated. Click here for a sample of a hidden cache somewhere in Singapore [:)].

It sounds like a healthy hobby to pick up. My ex-tutors advised me to pick up a hobby just to spend less time on my computer. The only problem to this is I need a GPS device. A simple one costs around S$150 if I buy it from amazon.com. I was wondering if Pocket PCs are GPS compatible. Getting a Pocket PC would be better since I can do lots of stuff on it [:D] . But it’s very very expensive [:(] . Hmmmm…. I might consider monthly installments…

Oh yea… KDE for my Gentoo installation is still compiling… 36 hours already. Hope it finishes before I leave for the lanparty.

I signed up for an upcoming lanparty that’s to be held at Funan IT Mall. It’s called: “eXe” – The DFI Singapore LAN Party 2004. The registration costs S$18 and each person is given a goody bag. I’m more interested in Transpo. It’s used to strap around the tower to make it easier to carry around. There’s also a SurgeArrest and a eXe lan party t-shirt. The maximum number of people they’re accepting is 50. I feel that’s too little.

Just 48 hours ago, Monday, I began installing Gentoo Linux on my Pentium 2 233MHz machine. Last night, I was finally able to complete the installation. Right now, I’m trying to set up KDE (Click on the link for some screenshots). Sort of like a graphical user interface. The machine’s still compiling the software! I’ve heard that if you try to compile Gentoo from scratch, it will take 3 days on a modern machine. What about an almost-antique machine like mine? Weeks I say. Haha.

I came across a quote by Albert Einstein “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind”. Which led me to here.

I had always known Albert Einstein as a scientist. Little did I know who he truly was till some googling was done on the above-mentioned quote. I randomly read some of his quotes and most of them are very provocative. His words may change the way I perceive. I feel another wave of confusion flooding my mind. [X|] And I have a whole new respect for Albert Einstein.

There is this program on Arts Central called ‘Human Instincts’. It’s a documentary that explains some common human behaviours through science. Don’t know what time the program starts but it should be around 11.30pm-12am on Wednesdays. I usually lie down on bed and watch TV until I feel sleepy.

My boss told me in his office that he might bring me to Paris with him some time during March. To talk to the developers there on how we can work together to integrate their websites with the one I’m working on now. Upon hearing this I frozed for a few seconds. It feels something big and if I cock up, I’ll cause trouble everywhere. [:(] . Worse still, French people have a heavy accent and I might have trouble trying to understand what they’re trying to say. [X(]

I need to work on my knowledge now. Gonna go learn what XML and RSS is all about. I have a feeling it’ll be helpful.

“Scattered” by Green Day.

I’ve got some scattered pictures lying on my bedroom floor.
Reminds me of the times we shared.
Makes me wish that you were here.
Now it seems I’ve forgotten my purpose in this life.
All the songs have been erased.
Guess I’ve learned from my mistakes.

Open the past and present.
Now and we are there.
Story to tell and I am listening.
Open the past and present.
And the future too.
It’s all I’ve got and I’m giving it up to you.

Loose ends tied in knots.
Leaving a lump down in my throat.
Gagging on a souvenir.
Lodged to fill another year.
Drag it on and on until my skin is ripped to shreds.
Leaving myself wide open.
Living out a sacrifice.

If you got no one and I’ve got no place to go, would it be alright?
Could it be alright?

I’m limiting myself to a cup of coffee a day, just to keep my headache away. Can’t believe I got so hooked I had 3-4 cups a day last year during my industrial attachment. So now, during work, I have a cup in the morning to rev up myself. During afternoon, if I feel too sleepy, I go for a hot cup of Lipton tea.

I did a lot of thinking since last week. The result is more problems to think about [:(]. One thing for sure, I know myself a lot better than before. Perhaps this is just temporary. Perhaps I’m entering the next chapter of a book titled ‘Erik Yang’. Perhaps I’m heading towards a mental breakdown. Perhaps… perhaps… perhaps…

I might have unstable personalities, behaviours. I don’t have a particular favourite color, food, music genre, anime, manga or hobby. It all boils down to my mood. If I feel like having chicken rice, I go for chicken rice. It is/was never my favourite food. Sometimes I think I’m mature, other times I find myself having childish thoughts. And sometimes I feel like robbing a fat kid of his McDonald’s happy meal. No self control.

All the thinking might be affecting me indirectly. I misinterpret what others type, my emotions are mixing and running wild, can’t concentrate well, and my rate of spelling errors is going up.

And so I went back to listening to my old Green Day album, Dookie. Feels so darn good to listen to their songs again. [:)]

Excerpt from “Chump” by Green Day
Maybe it’s just jealousy
Mixing up with a violent mind
A circumstance that doesn’t make much sense
Or maybe I’m just dumb

Back when I started listening to Green Day, a lot of their songs didn’t make much sense to me. I had a poor understanding of english cos I didn’t pay attention in classes and I don’t read much. All I liked was their music and the singer, Billie Joe’s voice/style-of-singing. But slowly, I’m beginning to understand the lyrics.