Uncle Su’s Got Some.

I think I should focus more on picking up photomatrix and Photoshop CS2 (both of which are installed in my lappie) rather than focusing on fantasizing about big-ass DSLRs.

That’s all ladies. Goodnight.

Clamber, originally uploaded by Miss Aniela.

I haven’t been studying

I haven’t been putting in enough effort for the past, frick it let’s be honest here, for the past one and the half year. I have diluted my academic skill so much that I cannot stay put concentrating on the textbook for a mere 30 minutes without cringing, and I cannot help thinking of what I want to do for the next hour while I’m supposed to be studying for the whole day anyway.

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I am in love with photography.

I’m glad I have a new hobby now. Something to take my minds off the stressful classes and the demanding job.

A well-framed picture can draw a smile on my face for up to days. That’s the kind of pride I get with my photos. Thank god at least I have a Fuji F810 to achieve that. Welcome back to pappy, boy.

I will try to spend some time during the holidays bugging Raoul and Rangga to teach me photoshop. I’ve got a pirated CS2 installed mint on my lappie, just need a good mentor to teach me how. Picasa has been a good tool, but I’m “bigger than my body”, so says J.Mayer.

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I think I’m beginning to appreciate what Kai was saying last summer about how he needed to feel appreciated on daily basis. At first I thought that he’s just being a wuss about things, but hey, now I know that he’s just as human as I am.

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I have been feeling choked for the past few weeks. Something similar to the time when I was still in Sec 2 and I have just been promoted to Treasurer of the student council. What with captain duty, school work (I dropped from 1st in standard to 50+ish). At that time I really wanted to quit and just focus on my studies. A great mentor/teacher of mine persuaded me otherwise and I did not regret that. So every time I feel choked now, I remind myself of that event 4 years ago, and I know that I am going to be fine. You’re not going to quit on yourself, boy.

New pictures uploaded. View them here.

This is probably the coldest night for Seattle in 5 years. School was closed for today, and will be closed again tomorrow. Temperature will hit the teens anytime now.

I am typing this from the comfort of my home, with electricity, internet access, warm water and a full-blasted heating system. Someone out there is holding a placard saying “Pregnant, just fired and confused.” She had 3 layers of clothes on, but no hats or gloves. I hope she has somewhere to go to tonight, because if its this cold outside, it’ll not be a matter of a shelter anymore. It’s life or death.

God, I don’t talk to you often and most times I’m busy ridiculing you. But please wrap your warmth around them who are outside in the cold tonight. That’s all I’m asking for. Dammit.

I want to be back home driving my old man’s 91′ Civic and soaking the tropical sun.

But you win some, you lose some, right? At least I have… I have… Shit I have nothing I can look forward to at this moment! LP!

I was looking at my organizer and suddenly I realized that OMG I’m going to be really busy this whole month. Wait, I will be busy all the way through Christmas!

Gosh, I need a break! Planning of riding down to Cali. but there’s nobody to go with (or nobody who’d trust my driving skill, rather). I thought that I’d be a great idea if I visit my sis at Pleasant Hill before she go back Indo for vacation, then after that to LA to visit my dearest Dian and Sam, say hello to Yuan 哥哥。 Along the way I can visit Berkeley, Stanford and CalTech just to survey the area. Just in case I land in any of them whattt…

…Back to reality super busy la! Have to apply here and there, write personal statements, finish my research paper (2200 words recommended, ok!), juggle with my job… Settle this and that…

On another note, I was browsing through some of my old books, and when I got to “First Things First” by the Covey company, I feel a sudden urge to shred the book apart and/or burn it and/or flush it down my lavatory. That book talks so much about goal setting, role-playing, responsibility shiit and more. Makes me sick to my gut!

I better get me some sleep. More fume-smelling cancer-causing bee-pheronome-making organic chem lab tomorrow.

Funny how one can find solace in writing blogs. What does that even symbolize, huh?

In times of boredom, I blog. In times of sadness, I blog. In times of happiness, I blog. I tired, I blog. You can twist my 10 fingers and I can imagine myself blogging with my toes, mainly bitching about how some asshole twisted all 10 of my fingers.

Anyway, I was in my office yesterday, minding my own business, appearing like I’m busy doing something, when Matt came up and asked me if I wanted to join him in his meeting with the CAPS and the IPMs. My answer was something between the lines of “Uh…No, thanks. I have to uh, be uh… somewhere. (Smile)”

And the guy just gave me this suspecting look. “Su, you met someone over the weekends didn’t you? You cheeky…”

Uh, omg this guy is psychic! Yes, I “met” someone over the weekends. No, technically speaking we didn’t “meet” physically. No, it  wasn’t someone whom I haven’t already know personally. And no, its not a singular “She”, but more like a plural “SHEs”.

Ah, Fall is coming indeed. Haaa-Chew!

Home Office…

Office Office.

Whoa OMGKFCPIZZAHUT,  UCLA is having a Spring 06 opening in the engineering school, and application closes on October 31.

Should I apply? Stress man…

I’m back in Seattle for now… I will be spending the next few days overcoming jet-lag, cleaning up my room, settling long-overdued bills and trying to not get myself fired from my new job in the student government.

Meanwhile, I kind of like wordpress.com’s new HTML text editor, but it seems that the advanced editor, which used to be accessible through alt + B, has cease from working. Oh well, at least alt + G still works.

I will be flying back to Indonesia tomorrow morning. Goodbye, friends! ‘Till next year we meet again. =)

I’m back in my slacking off, boxers and no shirt, hunched back, messy haired self. You know, one of those days.

I should recover back some of those momentum that I had when I first touched down a few days back. Maybe visit my Alma Mater and help out with Teachers’ Day or something.

Sigh.

ps: Apparently Seth aka GatheringWool is Junyi! How he make those pretty comics one ah? Junyi, reply me leh!

The past few days have been heartwarming for me. All the memories that I have in Singapore are coming back to me again(not that I am having amnesia or anything).

I am reminded once again that I have a strong group of friends here in Singapore.

The kind of friends that sacrifice their studying time just to meet up with me. The kind of friends that spend time checking with tens of other friends to see if they are availabe to meet up with me. The kind of friends that let me decide on the venue and time of the meet up, and then go on to update everyone of the meeting. The one who organize everything without me having to lay a finger or break a sweat.

The kind of friends that SMS you, call you on your local number, email you, put up a blog post in their own blog just to find out or confirm that I am coming to Singapore, just because I was lazy forgot to inform them about it.

The kind of friends who keep themselves updated with whatever’s going on with my life, and the kind that share with me theirs, minus facades, lies or deception. The kind that are just glad to meet me again. The kind who only need a stool to seat round a table and converse their hearts away until the sky turns dark. The one who even suggested thatI should bring a video camera and tripod the next time we meet up a year from now, and record whatever wacky, witty, crazy, dirty conversation we are having.

I am thinking that I should even take a picture of each lady that we spend time ogling at.

These friends are the ones I’d take a bullet for.

Why the fuck do them Indons refer to themselves as “Aku” and “Kamu” when they’re talking to their romantic partners, byt uses Gue and Loe in other cases? I don’t, and I don’t understand the point behind that. You mean, once she’s your girlfriend then you have to start calling her in such a formal way, just to show what again, affection? BAH.

Sounds so fuggin’ fake, can? Facade, anyone?

Gimme’ real world anytime now.

School ended today with a bang. Well not exactly with a bang, but the ending part is right.

I will be busy with a lot of todo list items and nitty gritty admin stuff. Like, buying souvenirs?

And I will be in Singapore by next Wednesday, yippie!

Before I forget the independence day of the other country I care most (Forgot Singapore mah), HAPPY BIRTHDAY INDONESIA!!

I was reading UW’s summer daily and saw this piece on suicide awareness.

It was saying that some of the symptoms of a suicidal person include lack of appetite, withdrawing from friends and family, unable of sleep (or over sleeping), short temper, short attention span and very impatient.

I for one am against suicides. I like to think in a logical and economic way. I think that no matter how bad life is, it beats having you losing your life. That, my friend, is a big f87k up.

Killing yourself just means that you have the rest of your life as opportunity cost, which is frankly quite dumb to barter with.

To all of you out there pondering over committing suicides: Live.

Me: Hi, I want to ask, what special offers do you have right now?

Dominos: Hmm… How about the special medium pizza with unlimited toppings for $9.90?

Me: Yeah, sure. I’ll have that, thank you.

Dominos: OK, phone number please?

What came out of that conversation is a whole 12″ of mouth watering pizza with all the toppings you can name. Salami, italiam sausage, beef, chicken cubes, bacon, mushroom, pineapples, olives, extra cheese. Heck, there are so many toppings on that pizza that half the meat fall off when I pick a slice up.

I am a full boy.

wordpress.com has come up with a new feature: auto-saving.

That’s right. For the past 2 minutes of me writing this post, it has been saved twice, automatically by wordpress.com. Kind of reminded me of Gmail’s auto-save functionality.

Thing is, everytime it autosaves, the post cursor goes back to the top of the post, and that to me is unacceptably irritating.

I hope wordpress.com fixes this immediately, or else I won’t be able to blog as effectively.

I was having a conversation with a certain classmate today and it drifted to the topic of alcohol consumption. He mentioned about having a drinking party and its going to be a BYOB (Bring Your Own Booze) and that some should bring popsicles and stuff like that to ease the tongue after a strong drink.

I was acting all experty and even suggested a few cocktail concuction names that don’t even exist. He was convinced at first, but doubt sets in and he went “So… Wait, you don’t really drink, do you?”

Caught me red handed.

I don’t really drink, but I can spout a whole lots nonsense when it comes to the topic.