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Change

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I’ve been exploring the possibilities of what this blog and WordPress is capable of, and it seems there’s a lot more to it. For starters, I’m still browsing through the themes repository to find one suitable and trim it to the site’s requirement. Another interesting thing is widgets, the little things you add to the sidebars, and I must say, WordPress’s support for that is pretty good. Also, I would probably have to look through a bit of Photoshop tutorials to come up with a banner.

Do expect quite a bit of radical change in the next few days.

Pristine? I think not.

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Had lunch at Seoul Garden (TM Branch) yesterday with a couple of friends, 3 others, specifically. It was pretty eventful, not so much of eating but laughing at the disastrous outcome of a each other’s food every now and then. We opened up with the usual assortment of meat products, then went on to meat and uh even more meat. Now, I’m a provisioner in EQ2, and about nearly all the damn time, I hit pristine with my food/drink crafts, but lol, not so much irl. The attempt at an omelette was especially fun, it was infused with all the carbon left from the previous batches of burnt food (should’ve done it first lol).

Pristine

Not really.

Went down to COMEX after lunch and an epic improvement I noticed was: wider walkways. The joy of walking around not having to breathe the body odor of people and being constantly stomped on the foot. I wonder if the experience would hold true on weekends, consdering the zerg that would always be there. The exhibit spanned 3 halls this time rather than the usual 2. I noticed the increasing amount of prensence Home Electronics made at the exhibit the past few years but this time, it reached a colossal figure. About roughly 1/3 (floor space wise) was occupied by it.

Oh and I must say, the female promoters there look much better than previously. Wished I could get a new camera, my current one is getting antique. :/

Wrapping it all up

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Finally done with all my semestral papers and finally, the long anticipated break arrives for about 1 month +. I’m not totally certain of the duration of the holiday because the academic calender, or Tzar calander (for being large, complex and obsolete, quintessentially worthless), as my friend would call it, effective only until 25 March 2006. In small print at the bottom of the page reads “Last updated: 12/17/2004 13:04:27″. Rofl.

I haven’t had anything plan out for this upcoming holidays (not like I ever have any plans for anything), but I guess its going to be spent mindlessly grinding away in L2 and EQ2, though I hope I could find something productive to do, but that is unlikely, especially with a good friend of mine being conscripted soon (damn you Singapore), which leaves me with an option less for things to do.

Back home after the exams, I watched a science program, The Elegant Universe, which explored the history, the development, the impact and the future of String theory, which is determined to be the “Theory of Everything”.

Sounds dull doesn’t it? No, it actually is one of the most interesting aspects for modern science, especially since it explores areas that have previously been thought of as sci-fi, and sci-fi buffs will definitely enjoy this as it shows how those ideas relate to real-life. It covers topics that’ve long been of interest such as parallel universes (which was what I really after :D) and the fundemental workings of the universe etc.

Now, the theory itself is inheritably complex, but the whole 3 hour long series is broken down into 3 major sections of an hour each, and further sub-divided into chapters. The presenter does an excellent job of explaining most of the theories into more easily understood layman terms, devoid of all those complex mathematical equations that I so passionately hate.

I wouldn’t say I fully grasp the whole concept of String theory yet, but combined with watching BBC’s Parallel Universe the previous week, it certainly has helped me understood it a lot better (I was pretty confused after watching BBC’s Parallel Universe).

A Routine World

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It never cease to amaze me how much stuff people could write on their blogs. To be perfectly honest, I don’t know why I even started this blog as I knew that when I set out on this path, it would ultimately sum up to just about nothing.

Daily life for the most part, is routine, with many of the events driven by probabilty, and all of it down to the smallest event, statistical. There is this same process which we are inclined to go through everyday, no matter what you’re doing. What I do, studying and gaming, follows this closely, reading x numbers of chapters and killing y number of mobs respectively daily.

On a side note, posting this entry itself just made whatever I just said self-contradicting.