FRIDAY
Today I did 'The usual'. Over the holidays 'The usual' has become usual for me. It's really boringgg. At least I played lots of bughouse today on ICC and FICS. In the process I discovered Thief which is an awesome bughouse interface. It's good because the ptell buttons allow you to repeatedly spam your partner with requests of '+Q' and '++'. I partnered Gavin some way through it, and we owned some team a few times, then I matched Gavin at bullet, and we played lots of that. Afterwards when I played games, I found myself in one game playing the retarded e4 Nf6 e5 d5?+-. At least one positive part of today is that I didn't oversleep and miss toasted tv in the morning :)
Yesterday was another boring day. I baked cookies (from cookie dough of course, I'm too lazy to make them from scratch) played way too much flute - about 2 hours, and read some of LoTR. Sadly, the climax of yesterday was getting to 4000 points on city bloxx with only blue towers (that's average of 160 a tower, it's actually really hard)...
On Wednesday, I went to Eugene's house to play a postponed game (shutup Andy). I got there 15 minutes early, so we started early. I was white, and to avoid his Sicilian preparations - which he has a horrible record with, anyway - I played 1.d4 and we got a Grunfeld. I quickly lost my advantage as white due to him putting pressure on my centre, but somehow I managed to more or less equalise and we got into a N v B ending. I managed to draw this, but annoyingly, I had worked out a line which ended in a draw, and that line happened, but 2 moves before the game ended I had a really obvious winning move! oh well...
After the game we (inc. Eugene's awesome little brother) went to some shop to buy lunch. Then he showed me some random stuff on the computer, and soon Eugene's mum came home, and I was taken to the tram stop. On the tram, a set of ticket inspectors came on, checked our tickets (one person didn't have her ticket and was asked off the tram), and left. Then, AT THE NEXT STOP, another set came on! wth... we had to explain that we all just had our tickets checked, and the inspectors, looking embarrassed, got off. On the way home from Oakleigh I passed about a million urine trees, I hate them. They stink and I had to hold my breath as I ran past them, which prevented me from carrying out aerobic respiration to produce energy.
Oh, and my quest to obtain perfect pitch is almost successful. I can always get B or Bb when I try to sing middle C :P That happens even if I try to sing D ^o)
I'm pretty bored
Friday, October 3, 2008
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Holiday post #4
TUESDAY
Why is a duck?
Let's answer a related question, in the form of 'Are ducks are more interesting than tulips'?
Ducks swim. They move towards bread. They quack. Note that the aforementioned tulip does none of these. It does not even retaliate when you kick it. All it does is sit around, waiting for a festival so that people can pay money to examine it.
Tulips, clearly, are unevolved.
I had the misfortune to attend one of these tulip festivals on Sunday. 'The Tessellar Tulip Festival', or whatever it was called.
Our family, a family of family friends, and their family of family friends went together. For the first hour we walked up and down the 100 x 100 block of tulip-filled land. Then we went around, looked at some stalls, and then sat down. We didn't have enough chairs at first so it took perhaps fifteen minutes to scab some chairs off groups of generous people. Lunch, took about four hours, due to the fact that there was nothing left to do but nobody wanted to admit it, so we all sat around waiting for the sky to get dark so we could go home. In that time I managed to get through my music playlist twice, and I got 175 for a City Bloxx 10-storey tower.
昨日プールに水泳をしにいきました。とてもたのしかったです。といをおよぎました。あとでつかれました。でも、よかったです。
あとでとしょかんにいきました。新しかったです、でもおおきくないです。たくさん本があります。
Yesterday night I finally finished reading The Book Thief. It's an excellent book, and everyone should read it. Now, officially all of Markus Zusak's books are good. I also started reading Lord of the Rings, which I had borrowed from the library. Boring book so far.
Today I haven't done much, but I played lots and lots of flute. That's about it. I have a flute lesson later tonight.
So in conclusion, ducks are better than tulips, and if one of them should be completely eradicated, then the choice is clear.
Why is a duck?
Let's answer a related question, in the form of 'Are ducks are more interesting than tulips'?
Ducks swim. They move towards bread. They quack. Note that the aforementioned tulip does none of these. It does not even retaliate when you kick it. All it does is sit around, waiting for a festival so that people can pay money to examine it.
Tulips, clearly, are unevolved.
I had the misfortune to attend one of these tulip festivals on Sunday. 'The Tessellar Tulip Festival', or whatever it was called.
Our family, a family of family friends, and their family of family friends went together. For the first hour we walked up and down the 100 x 100 block of tulip-filled land. Then we went around, looked at some stalls, and then sat down. We didn't have enough chairs at first so it took perhaps fifteen minutes to scab some chairs off groups of generous people. Lunch, took about four hours, due to the fact that there was nothing left to do but nobody wanted to admit it, so we all sat around waiting for the sky to get dark so we could go home. In that time I managed to get through my music playlist twice, and I got 175 for a City Bloxx 10-storey tower.
昨日プールに水泳をしにいきました。とてもたのしかったです。といをおよぎました。あとでつかれました。でも、よかったです。
あとでとしょかんにいきました。新しかったです、でもおおきくないです。たくさん本があります。
Yesterday night I finally finished reading The Book Thief. It's an excellent book, and everyone should read it. Now, officially all of Markus Zusak's books are good. I also started reading Lord of the Rings, which I had borrowed from the library. Boring book so far.
Today I haven't done much, but I played lots and lots of flute. That's about it. I have a flute lesson later tonight.
So in conclusion, ducks are better than tulips, and if one of them should be completely eradicated, then the choice is clear.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
My Music List
Here is a list of my favourite songs (max. 1 per artist)
Notice that it is much better than Jamin's playlist :P
A Thousand Miles
Vanessa Carlton
Beat It
Fallout Boy
Beijing Welcomes You
Various
Better In Time
Leona Lewis
Bring Me To Life
Evanescence
California
Phantom Planet
Cry For You
September
Disturbia
Rihanna
Do You Hear The People Sing
Les Miserables
Everytime
Britney Spears
Feel Good Inc
Gorillaz
How Could This Happen To Me
Simple Plan
I Believe
Savage Garden
I Come From a Land Down Under
Men At Work
I Just Want You To Know
Backstreet Boys
I'm a Survivor
Destiny's Child
I'm Yours
Jason Mraz
Let It Be
The Beatles
Running
Evermore
Save Tonight
Eagle Eye Cherry
Skater Boy
Avril Lavigne
Smooth Criminal
Michael Jackson
Superman
Five For Fighting
Sway
Michael Buble
Thank You
Dido
The Hardest Part
Coldplay
This Love
The Veronicas
Time Of Your Life
Green Day
Where The City Meets The Sea
The Getaway Plan
Wonderwall
Oasis
Won't Go Home Without You
Maroon 5
You Will Only Break My Heart
Delta Goodrem
Please comment.
Notice that it is much better than Jamin's playlist :P
A Thousand Miles
Vanessa Carlton
Beat It
Fallout Boy
Beijing Welcomes You
Various
Better In Time
Leona Lewis
Bring Me To Life
Evanescence
California
Phantom Planet
Cry For You
September
Disturbia
Rihanna
Do You Hear The People Sing
Les Miserables
Everytime
Britney Spears
Feel Good Inc
Gorillaz
How Could This Happen To Me
Simple Plan
I Believe
Savage Garden
I Come From a Land Down Under
Men At Work
I Just Want You To Know
Backstreet Boys
I'm a Survivor
Destiny's Child
I'm Yours
Jason Mraz
Let It Be
The Beatles
Running
Evermore
Save Tonight
Eagle Eye Cherry
Skater Boy
Avril Lavigne
Smooth Criminal
Michael Jackson
Superman
Five For Fighting
Sway
Michael Buble
Thank You
Dido
The Hardest Part
Coldplay
This Love
The Veronicas
Time Of Your Life
Green Day
Where The City Meets The Sea
The Getaway Plan
Wonderwall
Oasis
Won't Go Home Without You
Maroon 5
You Will Only Break My Heart
Delta Goodrem
Please comment.
Holiday post #3
SATURDAY
Here it is! The newest diary entry so far!
On Thursday I got up early, and played lots of 1-minute. Then, at 10:30 I was all ready to go, and realised my mum (who was at work) had my wallet. So I wasted 10 more minutes finding money, a student card and metcard. Fortunately the bus came quite quickly, as did the train. At 11:25 I was dinging the doorbell of Zhigen's house.
The house was huge (or rather, the garden was). After Zhigen showed me around, we watched that Robin Williams rapping thing ^o) and other weird stuff. (And I was made to drink some of the seemingly infinite supply of apple juice.) Then we played some basketball. Or I did at least, because Zhigen was eating.
Then Derek came, driving under an L plate. After I revealed Zhigen's hiding place, we went inside and watched the Turkey U16 World Youth championships dvd. Then Zhigen's mum took us to some obscure place - well, obscure to me because I can't remember where it was - to eat Yum Cha for lunch. We ordered way too much food, but somehow managed to eat most of it.
Then we went to Waverley Cinema to watch Mummy 2. It's an awesome movie, esp. when the mummy rips off his head to throw it at someone and then grows it back again :P. 'Soon after, mummies were found in Peru' haha
After the movie Zhigen's mum dropped Derek off at his house, and when we got to my house, I made Zhigen come in, and they had dinner at our house, after we played table tennis, and also after Zhigen owned me at darts :P.
Thanks for an awesome day Zhigen and Derek.
Yesterday was boring. Not worth writing about at all, unless you want to hear about how I scored 224 million in my game... In that case, I suggest you, umm, what was the phrase? Oh yeah, 'get a life'.
Today I tried to make a tic-tac-toe playing program, but failed. The stupid machine won't play any moves that aren't in the first row, so it plays 2 moves maximum and then stuffs up. >=[ I also spent lots of time looking for new songs. I'll publish a list of my songs soon.
I watched some of the AFL grand final, but found it too boring and went to play table-tennis with my dad instead. Halfway through we realised that the ball was cracking, so we looked for a new ball. After a while I found three under a bunch of wood leaning against the wall :)
Tomorrow:
Is Sunday.
We're going to see some strange Tulip display or something, with a few other family friends
Is Lily's birthday
Here it is! The newest diary entry so far!
On Thursday I got up early, and played lots of 1-minute. Then, at 10:30 I was all ready to go, and realised my mum (who was at work) had my wallet. So I wasted 10 more minutes finding money, a student card and metcard. Fortunately the bus came quite quickly, as did the train. At 11:25 I was dinging the doorbell of Zhigen's house.
The house was huge (or rather, the garden was). After Zhigen showed me around, we watched that Robin Williams rapping thing ^o) and other weird stuff. (And I was made to drink some of the seemingly infinite supply of apple juice.) Then we played some basketball. Or I did at least, because Zhigen was eating.
Then Derek came, driving under an L plate. After I revealed Zhigen's hiding place, we went inside and watched the Turkey U16 World Youth championships dvd. Then Zhigen's mum took us to some obscure place - well, obscure to me because I can't remember where it was - to eat Yum Cha for lunch. We ordered way too much food, but somehow managed to eat most of it.
Then we went to Waverley Cinema to watch Mummy 2. It's an awesome movie, esp. when the mummy rips off his head to throw it at someone and then grows it back again :P. 'Soon after, mummies were found in Peru' haha
After the movie Zhigen's mum dropped Derek off at his house, and when we got to my house, I made Zhigen come in, and they had dinner at our house, after we played table tennis, and also after Zhigen owned me at darts :P.
Thanks for an awesome day Zhigen and Derek.
Yesterday was boring. Not worth writing about at all, unless you want to hear about how I scored 224 million in my game... In that case, I suggest you, umm, what was the phrase? Oh yeah, 'get a life'.
Today I tried to make a tic-tac-toe playing program, but failed. The stupid machine won't play any moves that aren't in the first row, so it plays 2 moves maximum and then stuffs up. >=[ I also spent lots of time looking for new songs. I'll publish a list of my songs soon.
I watched some of the AFL grand final, but found it too boring and went to play table-tennis with my dad instead. Halfway through we realised that the ball was cracking, so we looked for a new ball. After a while I found three under a bunch of wood leaning against the wall :)
Tomorrow:
Is Sunday.
We're going to see some strange Tulip display or something, with a few other family friends
Is Lily's birthday
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Holiday post #2
WEDNESDAY
You may be reading this because you've heard about the overinspiring success of Holiday post #1, or maybe you're a stalker and you need to know about every last detail of my life :P. Either way I'm happy that this is being read.
On Monday morning I did my run again, but that was about the most exciting thing I did all day. I simply couldn't find anything to do. I ended up wasting lots of time on ICC and playing the flute for a bit.
At night I downloaded Game Maker. And I spent lots of time making a game which is suspiciously similiar to Winterbells. But it's fun - well, for a jason-designed game that is.
I spent most of yesterday learning basic C++ from a tutorial. It's the coolest thing ever, but the syntax is really frustrating to get used to. I made lots of programs, of which the factor finder and prime generator are my favourites. I'd be happy to send it to you if you're interested (whether it's possible to be interested is another matter...)
As a result of all this C++ work, I neglected to practise my flute much yesterday, and so I played really poorly at my flute lesson. At the start the teacher asked me to play my daily (more like yearly in my case) exercises for this little girl, and I played them okay, but I must've looked really uncomfortable or something because immediately afterwards my flute teacher said I looked nervous. The rest of the flute lesson was relatively pathetic too, and I stuffed up a lot of my pieces.
Today my alarm sounded at 6:05, but I turned it off and slept in till 11:00. Then we (mum + grandma + I) had yum cha for lunch (cnr Blackburn Rd/High Street Rd), where I realised that I got owned by Zhigen - it is called yin cha after all! After lunch we went to Oakleigh where I got a haircut from a friendly barber and got new buttons for my blazer and did all the stuff that I need to do. Because I missed my morning run, I ran home from Oakleigh, and in trying to take a shortcut home I ended up going way further. But I don't mind, that's exercise.
Tomorrow Derek & I are going to Zhigen's house + movie, that should be fun. Way better than staying home again :) Hope he doesn't make us watch star wars youtube clips haha :P
Mood: Excited, tired
Ever wanted to know how to solve a Rubik's cube? Or how to train your Runescape character faster? Then check this site out, it has lots of cool stuff in it: http://www.geniusprophecy.com/
You may be reading this because you've heard about the overinspiring success of Holiday post #1, or maybe you're a stalker and you need to know about every last detail of my life :P. Either way I'm happy that this is being read.
On Monday morning I did my run again, but that was about the most exciting thing I did all day. I simply couldn't find anything to do. I ended up wasting lots of time on ICC and playing the flute for a bit.
At night I downloaded Game Maker. And I spent lots of time making a game which is suspiciously similiar to Winterbells. But it's fun - well, for a jason-designed game that is.
I spent most of yesterday learning basic C++ from a tutorial. It's the coolest thing ever, but the syntax is really frustrating to get used to. I made lots of programs, of which the factor finder and prime generator are my favourites. I'd be happy to send it to you if you're interested (whether it's possible to be interested is another matter...)
As a result of all this C++ work, I neglected to practise my flute much yesterday, and so I played really poorly at my flute lesson. At the start the teacher asked me to play my daily (more like yearly in my case) exercises for this little girl, and I played them okay, but I must've looked really uncomfortable or something because immediately afterwards my flute teacher said I looked nervous. The rest of the flute lesson was relatively pathetic too, and I stuffed up a lot of my pieces.
Today my alarm sounded at 6:05, but I turned it off and slept in till 11:00. Then we (mum + grandma + I) had yum cha for lunch (cnr Blackburn Rd/High Street Rd), where I realised that I got owned by Zhigen - it is called yin cha after all! After lunch we went to Oakleigh where I got a haircut from a friendly barber and got new buttons for my blazer and did all the stuff that I need to do. Because I missed my morning run, I ran home from Oakleigh, and in trying to take a shortcut home I ended up going way further. But I don't mind, that's exercise.
Tomorrow Derek & I are going to Zhigen's house + movie, that should be fun. Way better than staying home again :) Hope he doesn't make us watch star wars youtube clips haha :P
Mood: Excited, tired
Ever wanted to know how to solve a Rubik's cube? Or how to train your Runescape character faster? Then check this site out, it has lots of cool stuff in it: http://www.geniusprophecy.com/
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Holiday post #1
SUNDAY
I've decided to do a holiday diary kind of thing. Because:
1. It is less of a waste of time than playing chess.
2. It can maybe help improve my writing skills.
3. I can feel like I've achieved something if I read through a list of what I've done.
4. Diaries are cool!
Last Friday was a very long day. Even though it wasn't stressful or anything, I was really looking forward to the holidays, and didn't really concentrate in any classes (not that there was any need, just take Latin for example :P). In the last period we got our reports. Getting a B for Biology was a bit annoying, but everything else was ok. In Tim's words, "I did well because you can't get straight As in the Senior School".
Speaking of Tim, I went to (but not into!) Tim's house again after school, and on the way we talked about various things. One of these was whether he wanted to come to my house on the holidays. He said no, and gave a reason which made me feel really concerned. Tim's life (in school and out of school) is a nightmare, even though he's such an inspirational friend...
Yesterday I slept in till about 11:30, for the first time in years. Then I passed time for a few hours by playing flute/chess/darts. At night I decided I didn't want to waste these holidays and came up with a list of productive things to do. These included:
Mood: Happy/accomplished
p.s. Please give some feedback/suggestions by talking to me on msn or emailing me (jasonltang@gmail.com).
I've decided to do a holiday diary kind of thing. Because:
1. It is less of a waste of time than playing chess.
2. It can maybe help improve my writing skills.
3. I can feel like I've achieved something if I read through a list of what I've done.
4. Diaries are cool!
Last Friday was a very long day. Even though it wasn't stressful or anything, I was really looking forward to the holidays, and didn't really concentrate in any classes (not that there was any need, just take Latin for example :P). In the last period we got our reports. Getting a B for Biology was a bit annoying, but everything else was ok. In Tim's words, "I did well because you can't get straight As in the Senior School".
Speaking of Tim, I went to (but not into!) Tim's house again after school, and on the way we talked about various things. One of these was whether he wanted to come to my house on the holidays. He said no, and gave a reason which made me feel really concerned. Tim's life (in school and out of school) is a nightmare, even though he's such an inspirational friend...
Yesterday I slept in till about 11:30, for the first time in years. Then I passed time for a few hours by playing flute/chess/darts. At night I decided I didn't want to waste these holidays and came up with a list of productive things to do. These included:
- Going for a 1.5km run every morning
- Attempting again to learn C++
- Making another game on Game Maker
- Improving flexibility
- Playing more flute.
Mood: Happy/accomplished
p.s. Please give some feedback/suggestions by talking to me on msn or emailing me (jasonltang@gmail.com).
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