Some updates? Monday was ok. Had meeting for my comm. Things are starting to pick up here in hall. Thurs and Friday is mad. I got evening class on Thurs so I can't go for Touch Rug training, and Fri is Tennis trials and I also have DE Club meeting arghh. Today at sch was ok, the buttons I rushed out were just for show I guess. The one I put the most work into, I chose and now I have to come up with the models and mechanisms. =S Also stayed back after class to practice my modelling in SolidWorks. It's quite problematic. Sigh.

It no wonder after all these stresses, I turn back to gaming as an escape. I've spent my nights completing campaigns in Left4Dead2. Cr0wning a witch makes one happy. So does running down rollercoaster tracks with a chainsaw in hand. Lately, I've discovered Minecraft which is pretty interesting. Too bad multiplayer is not available. I first came across a reference to it online, and eventually tried the free version to see what it was like.

The Story of the Yellow Tower

The free version essentially was a world builder, without the danger and survival aspect of the Alpha version. You wander a giant random computer generated landscape, with an infinite number of blocks at your disposal. I spent some time building the foundations of a house and then wandered off. It's fascinating and yet scary to see this entire HUGE island, with you as the only active life form. Furthermore you movement speed isn't very fast.

This is the online version of Inception's Limbo. Literally.

People spend ages building giant things, like an actual representation of the Earth, larger-than-life sized video game characters. Me? I set about building a tower. I wanted to see how high I could go. And be very careful about it. I put together two blocks side by side and started hopping about in a zig zag manner, placing blocks, going higher and higher.

I did this very carefully because I thought if you fell off, there would be no continuing. Like Life. Ever continuing, moving forward, you can't return to the past. Midway I changed to glass, thinking it would make my tower nicer. In Limbo, you can do anything. As I got higher, I switched to yellow, hoping to make it visible against the sky.

I kept my head down, placing blocks one after the other until I couldn't go any further. Then I looked up.

All this is mine?

Pretty cool isn't it? I knew I had to jump off sooner or later. This would be fun. I had to remmeber this once in a lifetime thing. Or did I? I looked through the shortcuts and saw one that said - Save location: Return. Well. Here goes. I hit the key and got ready.

That's quite a fall.

I jumped. And plummeted allllllll the way down to the ground. I hit R to return. I was back up. Wow. The thing that you spent all your time being so careful about and thought was a very rare moment was actually repeatable. That was quite a good feeling. I jumped down a few more times, plunging into water and enjoying it. If only life had these replay keys huh?

After having my fun, I travelled to my (unbuilt) home and looked back. This whole series of events occuring at 3am or so, with me being tired and with the peaceful music made the whole experience pretty surreal. And the tower building was addictive. But I probably won't go back. Even though it tempting. It's just creepy being the "last man on Earth" there. Nothing but you, infinite blocks, and calm music. You feel like you might go crazy.

The Tower.

Will update more on my Minecraft aventures if I have time. I wanna watch other people's videos because it's so exciting! Everyone has a different world and you follow them on a journey of danger and survival as the most basic level.

Haven't blogged in ages. Cos I had to hide from XW. Lol. Recess week is ok. In between slacking and doing work slowly, I managed to complete most of the work due next week. Went for XW's birthday party. Saw her play with her fully auto nerf gun lol! I got my plush Companion Cube! And I managed to shrink my large CC shirt. Now the bottom at least doesn't touch my kness anymore. =S I'll try and shrink it again once more.

Hall life is kinda depressing.I only got allocated 1 comittee so I have to start hunting for spaces. I din't get Photocomm fuck. =.= Damn pissed and irritated. I joined touch rug out of desperation because they're still taking people. That and CMB and DE Club I guess. It's dangerous now cos I may not get enough points. Fuck this shit man.

And fuck all the spammers.

Hmm I really feel like building a mini trebuchet in studio. Since I got all the tools. heh! Shall try it one of these days.

Fucking tired. Been sleeping at 4am the past few days. Staying back in studio and playing buaya week. T_T I gotta book at 830am tomorrow fuc thank you, SAF. Right in the middle of a school week. Genius. The only reason I'm doing it is cos I got afternoon class and I wanna get it done and over with. Side effect, I need to rush work for tomorrow COS I DONT HAVE TIME TO DO IT COS I CANT BRING IN MY LAPTOP YOU DICKS and I CANT DO FINAL TOUCH UP ON MY FRI PROJECT TOO AND I HAVE TO RUSH BACK TO SCHOOL THANKS TO YOUR STUPID BRIEFING.

I ORDed so FUCK OFF I WANNA STUDY. ORD back to study my arse if you keep bugging me every few months. AND thanks to my progammes, I had to leave sch late today instead of staying in hall and I'm just lucky I made the last train and LRT. =.= And then Indesign had to go and fuck over my 1/3 of my project so I had to redo it. I'm too tired to finish the last 1/3. I'll have to try to finish it on the train tomorrow. Fuck.

Busy with buaya week. I've been sleeping at 4am consistently thepast few days. =X I got some new presents from my buaya! A rug and slippers. And a welcome home sign! lol! The rug is niceee! I can keep it long term as a souvenir. =P I've also been busy doing stuff of my own. I oughta sort out the pictures. It's bit and pieces here and there.

Also need to rush a bit of work for my modeling class. I think my 2nd cube may fail ARGH. =( I probably not eating lunch tomorrow. [Select Twisties] [Add to inventory] Nom nom. Work work. Got mob briefing on Thursday ARGH WTF. =.= Stupid shit. I gotta go home on Wed night I guess. Have to rush my buaya thing after class. Then leave. Go camp on Thurs morning, then back home andrush to school I hope it doesn't take too long. RAR. =.=

I hope I won't be late for class. And OMG buaya week closing clashes with my sketching class again. FUCK. I keep missing out on events. =(

Cbox getting spammed. sigh. Anyway my b'day chalet was great. Love all the presents and stuff. Checked in on Friday, and stayed till Sun night. Actually we didn't do much. Just stayed in the chalet and chilled and played Car Town IT'S MY NEW FB IN GAME! CARS! WHEE! Hahaha. About 20 people came on the actual day. At least we finished most of the food. The laptop bag is super cool and super awesome and the mouse needs some getting used to but it's nice and also with the attached mousepad! And the t-shirt is something I'd wear. Haha! Car Town isdown for maintenance. I oughta get down to doing stuff. Shall upload pics and tag people soon.

ACK. Busybusybusy. I'll just get this outta the way in a quick one. Sch was ok. Did tutorial. A bit stressful. Just realised I have to finish modelling the 3D thing in 3hr or minus marks. And I definitely needa practice! NEED SOLIDWORKS. After that went back to hall.

I gotta finish work for tomorrow! Also, had a Cultural Management Board (CMB) meeting today. Plenty of stuff to take note of. Also had buaya week opening. We made food. Gotta do stuff for my buaya too! And do a poster by tmr. Guess I dunnid sleep tonight. It's ok. I always sleep late. I always say that. Get your priorities straight. Sch work. Hall Stuff. Sleep.

Suddenly into classic rock now. Freaking awesome. Smoke on the Water. Sweet Child of Mind. Highway to Hell. Hotel California. Etc. Rocking out tonight!

Man I feel like taking a break. Been chionging work. Well not really, but been doing it fairly consistently. Plus that long meeting in studio on Mon which lasted till 8 or 9pm. Then another studio session today followed by me staying back to slowly put together my cube till 5 plus. Achievement unlocked! Last Man Standing. Last person to leave studio today.

Something's wrong with my lappy. It's getting a bit laggy when I play flash games like it will freeze for a second or two before continuing which often kills me. =.= Also while blogging the screen will also freeze before all the words come out. WTF. And RAM is only at 76%! Tomorrow only got 2-5 class so I'l be meeting the rest for lunch. That's good. Gotta try to do some work too. I'm feeling kinda sleepy. Oughta try to sleep earlier today andsleep in tomorrow. Heh. =) Pleasant change for once.\

Mediafire seems to be down.Dammit. I'm trying to get my songs.

Got work to do. Ahh. Ok. I joined Sheares Productions (Sets) and will be designing and (I guess) building the sets. I most likely will be taking up Publicity Head for another comittee. Not getting PH for block comm was a blessing in disguise maybe? And also joining Photocomm. Heh. Sport. Softball! Should be fun.

Today was submission of our modelling work. My cube failed again. Needa redo for real. Augh. Curve also redo. Sigh. Try to cut the curve. Shit I forgot to bring my trisquare. Maybe I'll do it tomorrow after studio then go back to hall for dinner. Yup. I needa finish my metamorphosis for tomorrow. Then do another cube and my curve after class. And work on my page layout for Thursday tonight. Draw 3 cubes for Thurs too.

Rahh two printers in my room now. Lol. Actually one Print/Copy/Scan/Fax and one A3 printer. Oh well. Lexmark sitll not working. I just tried it. Busy day today. Went to buy a lot ofstuff at CP in the morning. Got a power tray. No ****ing vernier calipers at Home-fix. @#$%. Bought new slippers too. And a whole ream of A3 paper. Getting reamed by the cost of everything. Ha-ha.

Then went to COMEX and bought a new printer. Deliberated for a really long time before settling on HP. It's the cheapest at 389. Gonna get my D90/D7000 after they release it. Went home for dinner then headed back to sch with all my stuff. Insane but I did it.

Ahh I wasted today. Today woke up early for my lesson. Fought sleep for ID1321. I'm always fighting sleep for that. Oh shit man. I need to read the notes. I think I zoned out for most of it. After that went studio to workon our project. Got a bit done. Then I went to work on my styrofoam sphere. It's done. I hope it's ok. =\ This is the most stressful mod. IN the end Christian came and commented on our project. We decided to change the item. Back to square one.

Then came back to my room. Relaxed by playing World of Goo. Didn't get much done today. I need to do work tomorrow! Roar.

Spent yesterday making my SNDC gift till 430am. When sch and hall life fight, there can only be one winner. And you will lose out somehow. I missed out on plenty of fun tonight. Damn suay. My sketching class had to clash with SNDC. If anyone want to see the effort I put into my gift cum apology, it's in my FB Random album. =X Paper stars till 430am FTW!

Was quite a rush. Went down to sch for class, then left straight after. Went back to hall, changed to formal, then went to give my gift. She was bathing so I had to wait outside her room. =X Changed out then rushed down 20 mins late. Went back after lesson, and also pangsehed my group mates. Formalised myself and joined the events. However she didn't seem very happy throughout. =X I hope the gift at least shows her I tried to put in effort even though I bailed on her at the last min cos they told us so late!

Cos of rushing around, I didn't get dinner, and only had 2 garlic bread at dinner. Plus PSed my group discussion. And I also walked to and fro SDE in the middle of the night to collect my stuff. =\ Oh well. I think I did make a nice gift! =(

Urgh. Got a friggin headache. This is bad. Might be from lack of sleep or the constant suqinting at the really faint lines on my drawings. 2H and I really oughta sharpen my pencil. Ah well. I feel slightly better now. Went to check my mail and read some stuff. Shall get back to work soon. I gotta sketching class on Thursday. Which clashes with SNDC. Ahh. =( I'm going to come really late.