Monday, December 11, 2006
I made a mistake
I made a serious mistake in not posting consistently in 2006. It has been probably the most instrumental year in my life. The last 5 months or so has been a true testament of what made me who I am - I'm realizing that I am human afterall. Those simple words cannot convey accurately the things I've gone through, the knowledge I've picked up, the friendships I've forged. I'm changing - constantly. I'm feeling, allowing myself to be influenced and not influence. I'm thinking in ways I've never thought myself. As this year comes to a close, I'm becoming a different person again. The line from The Verve's 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' 'But I'm a million different people from one day to the next' couldn't be any further from the truth.
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Updates
I thought I might as well put in some bits and pieces of what's going on with my life, considering I didn't write anything at all in the last few months.
- I finally saw Goo Goo Dolls live in a concert. However, I was left a little disappointed as they opened for Counting Crows (I thought it was the other way round, as it was the Goos that had a new album) and played a really short setlist. Left out many of the other songs I considered to be good.
- GT vs No. 2 Notre Dame was probably the biggest game I was a part of. We lost 10-14, but we made the Irish look really bad. I still haven't gotten over the tight loss.
- I'm in the 2nd half of my college life. The summer was rough. I took maximum classes and never worked so hard before. And after all that, I still made average grades, which really sucks. I pulled off a string of 3 all nighters in a row which I swear never felt like it was going to end. I'm back working until December, but taking 3 online classes, so I'm going to take a break.
- I'm thinking of graduate school already. Let's leave it at that.
- I won't be travelling too far this winter. There was a plan to go to Bangladesh, as I hadn't been there since 2000. Then that plan was replaced by a plan to go to Kyoto. That was also discarded a week ago.
- I finally saw Goo Goo Dolls live in a concert. However, I was left a little disappointed as they opened for Counting Crows (I thought it was the other way round, as it was the Goos that had a new album) and played a really short setlist. Left out many of the other songs I considered to be good.
- GT vs No. 2 Notre Dame was probably the biggest game I was a part of. We lost 10-14, but we made the Irish look really bad. I still haven't gotten over the tight loss.
- I'm in the 2nd half of my college life. The summer was rough. I took maximum classes and never worked so hard before. And after all that, I still made average grades, which really sucks. I pulled off a string of 3 all nighters in a row which I swear never felt like it was going to end. I'm back working until December, but taking 3 online classes, so I'm going to take a break.
- I'm thinking of graduate school already. Let's leave it at that.
- I won't be travelling too far this winter. There was a plan to go to Bangladesh, as I hadn't been there since 2000. Then that plan was replaced by a plan to go to Kyoto. That was also discarded a week ago.
Thursday, August 31, 2006
End of the road
Unfortunately, it seems I won't be able to update as much as I'd like to. Balancing school, work and extracurricular time takes up more time than I have.
It's been a good run of 3 years blogging here. I've not made up my mind as to whether I should just leave this blog, or to archive it somewhere and remove this from the web. Until I've decided what to do with this, I'm just going to leave this here for now.
It's been a good run of 3 years blogging here. I've not made up my mind as to whether I should just leave this blog, or to archive it somewhere and remove this from the web. Until I've decided what to do with this, I'm just going to leave this here for now.
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
One
One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should
One life
With each other
Sisters
Brothers
One life
But we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should
One life
With each other
Sisters
Brothers
One life
But we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other
Friday, June 30, 2006
I'm too busy to blog
Just a note: I've not left the blogosphere. Taking 16 hours of classes, which is the maximum allowed, is no mean feat. Plus with the World Cup going on, I hardly have any time to blog. When things have settled down, or maybe after the end of the summer semester, I'll start blogging again. I'm sorry for the inactivity.
Monday, May 15, 2006
Back in School
So here I am, back in school for the summer semester. I'm taking maximum load allowed by a student for the semester, but I'm going to push myself for it. The end of a rough road is near. Anyway, it's been a rough prep to the summer, as I extended my work for an additional week, as my replacement could not come in due to some paperwork issues. Kinda makes me glad that I'm a permanent resident, I don't have to deal with all the paperwork problems, saves me the headache too. So it's kinda like since last summer, where I've basically had no proper break in between semester switches, but I guess I can't complain at this time. Courses for the semester looks good, and so long as I follow my plan, which is to stay ahead and be on top of stuff, I should be good. I've made several mistakes during my time here and I've learnt it the hard way. I'm determined not to let that repeat. It's only for 12 weeks and once that's done, it'll be another semester of work, so it's a good sacrifice.
I had to move into a new room, as everyone is expected to move out at the end of spring. It's basically a building right opposite where I stayed over the last year and not far at all from my new assignment after the summer. I kinda hate this room already. Due to impending increase in humidity and temperature in the coming months, Housing leaves the AC running in full to combat the growth of mildew or mould. And since I'm only one of the 4 or 5 people living in the floor, the whole floor is freezing. It reminds me of the times I spent back in the chilling environments of Chicago and it really sucks, as I'm living in a warmer part of the country, yet I have to deal with it as if I'm living somewhere up north. Worse still, Atlanta has unusually been chilly. Wind's somewhat cooler and the heat isn't as hot as it used to be, so I don't exactly feel like it's the summer as of yet. I'm sure it'll get warmer in the coming days, but at the same time, this winter hasn't exactly been that cold. As a matter of fact, it's been erratic, suddenly getting warm and then dropping over and over. The weird weather activity that we've witnessed over the last year or so is something to be taken seriously. There's been drastic change in weather patterns and weather strengths and intensity, there's something serious going on.
On another note, due to my heavy downloading spree and the depletion of my available space, I scouted for a good deal for a massive external hard disk. Eventually my brother found an excellent deal and I'm finally the owner of a 300GB external hard disk. I used to download movies then delete them once I was done, as it was rare that I'd watch a movie again, but from now, I will be storing it remotely, so that if a friend or someone else asks for it, I can access to them easily. Also, I've managed to find some really good torrent sites, so there's going to be a lot of downloading and storing of some nice files. I'm about to own the complete series of 'Friends,' something that has eluded me for the longest time.
Napster has deployed the experimental approach of providing whatever they have in their library for free, up to 5 times per song, as long as the listener views advertisements in the player window. ABC tried that just a week earlier, where they basically uploaded some of their hit shows a day after it aired on TV for free, the only stipulation being that the viewers must view a mandatory 30 second ad about 3 times or so, depending on the 'break.' I thought it was an awesome idea, but at the same time, had no idea how huge internet advertising was. I've grown accustomed to the junk that I see almost everywhere I go, so I thought it was useless to pay for online ads, as I assumed that most other people would ignore them too. But then when you think about the increase in online purchasing and whatnot, maybe it's not that surprising. Nevertheless, I get to enjoy their shows (most notably, 'Lost') and on-demand music at work or at school at no costs. There seems to be more upside to it if I just ignore the ads, but I think it's inevitable that I view these ads, and I think they're shooting more for awareness and exposure as compared to hard sales.
I probably did not blog this, but 2 weeks ago, I made some last minute arrangements to see P.O.D., as the tickets were pretty cheap and the venue not far from campus - within walking distance. Plus, I was getting tired for the semester and needed some serious venting, so attending a really energetic performance by the group was a well needed activity. Only problem was that there were way too many of the younger generation around, but then again, P.O.D. is a Christian band. It was amazing how many young kids there were, when the group asked for kids to get on stage for the song 'Youth of The Nation.' Then last week, I attended a Jason Mraz gig with another friend. It was held at the Tabernacle, which, in my mind is the best concert venue. Jason Mraz was definitely a performer, he played nicely and the atmosphere fit in well with the music. My only regret was that I hadn't exactly paid too much attention to his music prior to this, and as a result, only recognized few of his songs. If I had been more aware, I think I'd have enjoyed the gig much more.
Goo Goo Dolls announced another gig in Atlanta on Sept 3rd, and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers on Oct 26th. The RHCP tickets were selling really fast within 10 minutes of it going on sale, but I managed to secure 2 tickets. I'm not sure who wants to go at this point, but I'm sure I'll find someone, as I expect it's gonna be a packed event and a lot of people would want to go. Goo Goo tickets go on sale in June, and this time, I will not miss it, unlike the one I missed in April.
I guess that's all I've got for now.
I had to move into a new room, as everyone is expected to move out at the end of spring. It's basically a building right opposite where I stayed over the last year and not far at all from my new assignment after the summer. I kinda hate this room already. Due to impending increase in humidity and temperature in the coming months, Housing leaves the AC running in full to combat the growth of mildew or mould. And since I'm only one of the 4 or 5 people living in the floor, the whole floor is freezing. It reminds me of the times I spent back in the chilling environments of Chicago and it really sucks, as I'm living in a warmer part of the country, yet I have to deal with it as if I'm living somewhere up north. Worse still, Atlanta has unusually been chilly. Wind's somewhat cooler and the heat isn't as hot as it used to be, so I don't exactly feel like it's the summer as of yet. I'm sure it'll get warmer in the coming days, but at the same time, this winter hasn't exactly been that cold. As a matter of fact, it's been erratic, suddenly getting warm and then dropping over and over. The weird weather activity that we've witnessed over the last year or so is something to be taken seriously. There's been drastic change in weather patterns and weather strengths and intensity, there's something serious going on.
On another note, due to my heavy downloading spree and the depletion of my available space, I scouted for a good deal for a massive external hard disk. Eventually my brother found an excellent deal and I'm finally the owner of a 300GB external hard disk. I used to download movies then delete them once I was done, as it was rare that I'd watch a movie again, but from now, I will be storing it remotely, so that if a friend or someone else asks for it, I can access to them easily. Also, I've managed to find some really good torrent sites, so there's going to be a lot of downloading and storing of some nice files. I'm about to own the complete series of 'Friends,' something that has eluded me for the longest time.
Napster has deployed the experimental approach of providing whatever they have in their library for free, up to 5 times per song, as long as the listener views advertisements in the player window. ABC tried that just a week earlier, where they basically uploaded some of their hit shows a day after it aired on TV for free, the only stipulation being that the viewers must view a mandatory 30 second ad about 3 times or so, depending on the 'break.' I thought it was an awesome idea, but at the same time, had no idea how huge internet advertising was. I've grown accustomed to the junk that I see almost everywhere I go, so I thought it was useless to pay for online ads, as I assumed that most other people would ignore them too. But then when you think about the increase in online purchasing and whatnot, maybe it's not that surprising. Nevertheless, I get to enjoy their shows (most notably, 'Lost') and on-demand music at work or at school at no costs. There seems to be more upside to it if I just ignore the ads, but I think it's inevitable that I view these ads, and I think they're shooting more for awareness and exposure as compared to hard sales.
I probably did not blog this, but 2 weeks ago, I made some last minute arrangements to see P.O.D., as the tickets were pretty cheap and the venue not far from campus - within walking distance. Plus, I was getting tired for the semester and needed some serious venting, so attending a really energetic performance by the group was a well needed activity. Only problem was that there were way too many of the younger generation around, but then again, P.O.D. is a Christian band. It was amazing how many young kids there were, when the group asked for kids to get on stage for the song 'Youth of The Nation.' Then last week, I attended a Jason Mraz gig with another friend. It was held at the Tabernacle, which, in my mind is the best concert venue. Jason Mraz was definitely a performer, he played nicely and the atmosphere fit in well with the music. My only regret was that I hadn't exactly paid too much attention to his music prior to this, and as a result, only recognized few of his songs. If I had been more aware, I think I'd have enjoyed the gig much more.
Goo Goo Dolls announced another gig in Atlanta on Sept 3rd, and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers on Oct 26th. The RHCP tickets were selling really fast within 10 minutes of it going on sale, but I managed to secure 2 tickets. I'm not sure who wants to go at this point, but I'm sure I'll find someone, as I expect it's gonna be a packed event and a lot of people would want to go. Goo Goo tickets go on sale in June, and this time, I will not miss it, unlike the one I missed in April.
I guess that's all I've got for now.
Saturday, April 22, 2006
Thank you Alan Shearer
So it was confirmed today - the inevitable after the injury he sustained in the game against arch rivals, Sunderland - Alan Shearer announced his official retirement from football.
Without a doubt, he's been the top striker of his generation, and to have been consistently performing well for 17 straight years, that's almost unheard of. He retires holding the record for the most number of goals scored in the Premiership, as well as the record number of goals scored for his beloved hometown, Newcastle United. He broke into the game with a wham, as a 18 year old debutant for Southampton, came in as a substitute and scored a hat trick in his first game - against Arsenal of all teams. He moved to Blackburn for then a British record fee, and his firepower netted Blackburn the Premiership title. He then moved to Newcastle for then a world record fee, and realized his dream of playing for Newcastle for the next 10 years.
Seriously, how much more can you ask for, for a hometown boy to return? He amassed 379 goals in 733 games in his career, 260 goals in 441 Premiership games, and the record 206 goals for Newcastle in 404 appearences. He also scored 30 goals in 63 games for England. He's probably the only person who was equally impressive in normal shots, headers, free kicks and penalty kicks. He was also the captain for Newcastle and England for the longest time. Showing that not only did he have skills, but also leadership.
I can't even describe how much respect I have for this man - he's the reason why I started supporting Newcastle since 1998, and it's going to feel different from now on when he's not going to be around. I really hope he comes back as the manager one day, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen for some time as he takes a break. He had the chance to move to Manchester United, to win a lot of titles and cups, but loyalty and dream took him to Newcastle, it's just a great pity he never succeeded in winning anything for Newcastle. Nevertheless he brought them to heights we would otherwise not have enjoyed. We came really close on couple of occasions though.
What is going to happen to Newcastle from now on? The future's cloudy - will Roeder get his licence to become a full time manager next season? Who will become the new captain? Who will replace Shearer as the main goalscorer?
Let football decide. It is unpredictable and that's the way many would like it to be.
I think it's just a fitting finale to his career that he had to end it against Newcastle's most hated rival Sunderland. Not only that, he went out of the game after scoring the goal that gave us the lead to a game we eventually won. I don't think you can end a story better than that.
Thank you Alan Shearer, for a great 10 years of service and memories which probably cannot be eclipsed.
Friday, April 21, 2006
The Georgia Tech Terrorist
I had a major scare yesterday, reading some articles off CNN and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (the articles are HERE and HERE respectively) where supposedly someone was caught. The descriptions being the following:
21 years old, Georgia Tech student, Engineering major, Bangladeshi, lives in Atlanta.
All of the above descriptions fits me. BUT it wasn't me. Imagine my relief.
Some dude got caught for harboring some terrorist intentions and whatnot. I was so afraid FBI or someone was gonna call me up or knock on my door and take me for questioning. I don't know the dude who got caught, neither have I ever heard of him. I don't know other Bengalis around in campus except for this other guy who's in my fraternity and it certainly isn't him either. Except for that, I don't think there's more than a handful of students who fit that description on campus, so there was good reason for me to be afraid for questioning.
Even though there is no link or information that I can provide, I thought I'd get in serious trouble just for being against American foreign policies, but hey, who isn't guilty of that?
It's been pretty fun in ATLanta. There was some suspicious item found in the airport on Wednesday which caused the airport shutdown for like 2 hours, delaying all flights and conducting a search, etc. On the other hand, some kids from Riverton, Kansas were planning a Columbia High School massacre style shooting, but one of the guys posted something on MySpace which led authorities to unveil the plot. Seriously, how dumb can you get? You're planning something like that, thinking you're all so smart and cool and then you give it away on the net. Real smart.
It's another example where what you post on the web isn't exactly private, no matter what you think. Blogs, social websites, etc are all on the World Wide Web. Anything on the web is visible in one way or another. Always remeber that: you leave tracks everywhere.
21 years old, Georgia Tech student, Engineering major, Bangladeshi, lives in Atlanta.
All of the above descriptions fits me. BUT it wasn't me. Imagine my relief.
Some dude got caught for harboring some terrorist intentions and whatnot. I was so afraid FBI or someone was gonna call me up or knock on my door and take me for questioning. I don't know the dude who got caught, neither have I ever heard of him. I don't know other Bengalis around in campus except for this other guy who's in my fraternity and it certainly isn't him either. Except for that, I don't think there's more than a handful of students who fit that description on campus, so there was good reason for me to be afraid for questioning.
Even though there is no link or information that I can provide, I thought I'd get in serious trouble just for being against American foreign policies, but hey, who isn't guilty of that?
It's been pretty fun in ATLanta. There was some suspicious item found in the airport on Wednesday which caused the airport shutdown for like 2 hours, delaying all flights and conducting a search, etc. On the other hand, some kids from Riverton, Kansas were planning a Columbia High School massacre style shooting, but one of the guys posted something on MySpace which led authorities to unveil the plot. Seriously, how dumb can you get? You're planning something like that, thinking you're all so smart and cool and then you give it away on the net. Real smart.
It's another example where what you post on the web isn't exactly private, no matter what you think. Blogs, social websites, etc are all on the World Wide Web. Anything on the web is visible in one way or another. Always remeber that: you leave tracks everywhere.
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
The Amazing (Logistics) Race
The Logistics Institute of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech conducts a 'fun' experiment each year, where they send out identical packages to different couriers to a particular destination.
This year, they used FedEx, UPS and DHL to deliver identical packages to 4 locations:
1. Ouadadougou, in Burkina Faso
2. Split, in Croatia
3. Surabaya, in Indonesia
4. Punta Arenas, in Chile
Needless to say, the goal is to find out which courier service is able to deliver the packages to its intended destination in the shortest time, which in Industrial Engineering terms, is a measure of how their logistics & freight network infrastructures are set up. So far, DHL seems to be in the lead. You can track the race by clicking here.
In 2003, the sole destination was Singapore, in which UPS and FedEx tied (the story being quite hilarious, where both the FedEx and the UPS man was infront of the door at the same time, the FedEx guy got to open the door first, but the UPS man got the signature first, hence a tie) and in 2004, FedEx was the clear winner. Somehow there wasn't a race in 2005.
Am I the only one (apart from the people in The Logistics Institute) who finds this amazingly interesting? Or am I just a geeky Industrial Engineer in training?
:: UPDATE ::
UPS is in the lead, by winning 2 of the 4 races, beating DHL to Split, Croatia by 3 minutes after first delivery attempt was unanswered. However, they had some major problems with 2 of the other destinations.
This year, they used FedEx, UPS and DHL to deliver identical packages to 4 locations:
1. Ouadadougou, in Burkina Faso
2. Split, in Croatia
3. Surabaya, in Indonesia
4. Punta Arenas, in Chile
Needless to say, the goal is to find out which courier service is able to deliver the packages to its intended destination in the shortest time, which in Industrial Engineering terms, is a measure of how their logistics & freight network infrastructures are set up. So far, DHL seems to be in the lead. You can track the race by clicking here.
In 2003, the sole destination was Singapore, in which UPS and FedEx tied (the story being quite hilarious, where both the FedEx and the UPS man was infront of the door at the same time, the FedEx guy got to open the door first, but the UPS man got the signature first, hence a tie) and in 2004, FedEx was the clear winner. Somehow there wasn't a race in 2005.
Am I the only one (apart from the people in The Logistics Institute) who finds this amazingly interesting? Or am I just a geeky Industrial Engineer in training?
:: UPDATE ::
UPS is in the lead, by winning 2 of the 4 races, beating DHL to Split, Croatia by 3 minutes after first delivery attempt was unanswered. However, they had some major problems with 2 of the other destinations.
Monday, April 17, 2006
8 Movies
I managed to watch 8 movies over the Easter weekend. Quite a bit considering it was like any other weekend. I guess the fact that this weekend was the first time this year that I was completely free allowed me to catch some great movies this weekend.
Friday
Samy Y Yo (Samy and I)
Broken Flowers
Saturday
Al Otro Lado (The Other Side)
Ellie Parker
Paradise Now
Sunday
The 40 Year Old Virgin
The Ice Storm
A Clockwork Orange
Friday
Samy Y Yo (Samy and I)
Broken Flowers
Saturday
Al Otro Lado (The Other Side)
Ellie Parker
Paradise Now
Sunday
The 40 Year Old Virgin
The Ice Storm
A Clockwork Orange
Saturday, April 15, 2006
Back from the absence
I'm terribly sorry I haven't been updating. Here's an entry to explain what I've been up to for the past 4 months or so. I realized this is the first weekend in 2006 that I have absolutely nothing obligatory and whatnot. Usually I'll have to do some sort of work, assignment, go to a meeting and the such, but this seems to be the first ever free weekend I've had, so I decided to take the liberty to sit down and just go at this.
So... What happened this year? I'm working, I guess that's the most important one. I have 3 more weeks before I return to school for the summer semester, so I guess I can say I'm pretty excited. I'll be taking my first set of my major classes, so I'm really eager to do that. Once this summer is over and I may include the fall semester (which is my work semester again), the rest of my time in university is expected to go extremely smoothly. I guess I planned everything right in my first two semesters where I juggled quite a bit and overloaded myself, but it's definitely paying off. It's really hard to imagine that half of my university like has flown by. It's a sign of good things to come, hopefully.
I've also been taking distance learning classes, to cut down on the amount of classes I'll have to take before graduating. Okay, let me explain what I'm doing. The School of Industrial Engineering at Georgia Tech has announced a major overhaul in curriculum near the end of 2006, so I was still mulling over what exactly to concentrate in - I've been reading about Health Systems, which seems really interesting. It's about management and industrial engineering application in hospital settings, like cutting down on patient wait time and more efficient flow of equipments and human resources being used and such. However, that is currently completely set up at the Graduate level, and the undergraduate program won't be set up before I graduate. So I decided to concentrate on three areas that are kinda overlapping, something that's related with what I do at work as well - Supply Chain Logistics as my primary, and Manufacturing and Quality Engineering as my two other. I figured out a way to get the 3 tracks without having to take a single extra class. On top of that, I'm doing a certificate program in Nanomaterials as well as Engineering Entrepreneurship, which requires me to take 3 additional classes on top of what I already have. Hence, I decided to take some classes which I consider to be a waste of my time or clases that I really aren't interested in outside of Georgia Tech while I'm working so that the class credit can be transfered and the grades won't affect my GPA (I tend to do badly in social sciences) All I need is a C, so there's no pressure to get a good grade, it works out well. So I'm almost completing one of the classes, I signed up for another one, but I kinda got a little too busy, so I'm postponing that til the fall, since the deadline to complete the class is in December. I'll take accounting in the fall as well.
Now what got me so busy this semester? I joined a fraternity - again. I really had a good time when I was with a fraternity in my first semester, but because I didn't really know what I was doing or what was going on, plus I had all these other stuff that I wanted to do, I thought it was the best for me to leave then. Now that it has calmed down a little, I decided to go for it, for many reasons I shouldn't bother to explain, but most important reason was that it's really a good organization to be part of. So I had no doubt that I wanted to go anywhere else but the same one that I was part of. During the spring, the enrollment of greek organizations are relatively low, so there was only two new members, the other being someone I already knew and I was the one who told him to check the place out. We get along great, so we had fun. And since there were only 2 of us, there was added responsibility to do all the things that a new member class would have to do. Which is the main reason why I went missing. My daily schedule was to wake up at 6:30AM, get ready for work, go to work, come back from work around 5:30PM, take a shower, and then if I had class work or paperwork to deal with, I'll do that and then head over to the fraternity house to do all sorts of things and by the time I came back to my room to sleep, it was like 12:30AM or something. It's okay initially, then it hits you, like hard. Since I'm working abour 42 or 43 hours a week, it takes a toll on you. But I've been in many situations as stressful and tiring, that I almost got used to it. So I just took it all in and it all came out fine. So yeah, as I said, everything is sort of settling into place.
I've managed to keep my film watching streak going, though not as much as it used to, just because I had so little time. But I've seen some great ones, Tech recently had 2 film festivals, one for Russian and another for Latin American ones, I managed to catch 2 of the Latin American ones, which were pretty good. I just watched 'Paradise Now' and that was something.
When I went over to Phoenix for my spring break, my brother brought along the entire first season of the TV show 'Lost.' I initially resisted watching it, but out of curiosity, I caught the pilot. I was definately hooked to it, so much that I spent whatever free time there was catching the episodes and I actually managed to finish watching the entire first season during my 1 week stay there. The moment I returned, I went and downloaded whatever season 2 episodes there were available on BitTorrent. I'm officially up to speed and my buddies from my freshmen year get together to watch the show every Wednesday, so I'll be joining them. I also went ahead and downloaded every single episode of 'Grey's Anatomy' and was on my way to downloading '24' but my hard disk space ran out, so I have to put that off for a while. I have enough shows to keep me entertained over the summer. I'll suspend my Netflix account for the summer and just study, watch the World Cup and watch episodes as much as possible.
On an unrelated note, Big Boi, half of the rap duo Outkast came to perform at Tech few weeks back, together with the indie band Cake. Everyone was disappointed that Andre 3000, the other half of Outkast, did not come, but since it's rumoured that he stopped performing public shows, it was understandable. But in my mind, Cake made up for that. It's funny, I was waiting for two of my friends from Emory to come over and we just decided to head over to the stadium a little early, as I was crossing 5th street, I see this guy walking pretty fast behind me. He was wearing a hat like the one Fidel Castro wears, with a face full of beard, and a pretty thick jacket. It was pretty hot that day and I was wondering why he was like that. He walked right by me and headed on to the direction of the stadium. I thought, okay, he's going to the gig, I suppose he felt he was being late, after all, it was already 20 minutes past the gate opening. After a while, when we were scouting for seats and getting ourselves comfortable, I looked towards the stage and guess what, that dude was the lead singer of Cake. I didn't really follow Cake before the gig, only heard few of their songs, so I wasn't aware of how their band members looked like, but they really did impress me, I liked the tunes that they were playing, mix of a slight jazz, light rock and interesting lyrics. Big Boi was sensational, without a doubt, and I just went ecstatic when they played my favorite Outkast track, which is 'Bombs Over Baghdad.' I think to get two major artists to come down and provide a pretty good gig was a sign of really good success for the concert this year.
So yeah, nothing too special going on with me, even though I've not blogged. Things hasn't really changed - it's just work, movies and hanging around with friends for dinner or late nights. Just the way I like it. I guess there could have been more that I said, but nothing else is coming to my mind now, so I'm just gonna leave this post here and may get back to it at a later date.
So... What happened this year? I'm working, I guess that's the most important one. I have 3 more weeks before I return to school for the summer semester, so I guess I can say I'm pretty excited. I'll be taking my first set of my major classes, so I'm really eager to do that. Once this summer is over and I may include the fall semester (which is my work semester again), the rest of my time in university is expected to go extremely smoothly. I guess I planned everything right in my first two semesters where I juggled quite a bit and overloaded myself, but it's definitely paying off. It's really hard to imagine that half of my university like has flown by. It's a sign of good things to come, hopefully.
I've also been taking distance learning classes, to cut down on the amount of classes I'll have to take before graduating. Okay, let me explain what I'm doing. The School of Industrial Engineering at Georgia Tech has announced a major overhaul in curriculum near the end of 2006, so I was still mulling over what exactly to concentrate in - I've been reading about Health Systems, which seems really interesting. It's about management and industrial engineering application in hospital settings, like cutting down on patient wait time and more efficient flow of equipments and human resources being used and such. However, that is currently completely set up at the Graduate level, and the undergraduate program won't be set up before I graduate. So I decided to concentrate on three areas that are kinda overlapping, something that's related with what I do at work as well - Supply Chain Logistics as my primary, and Manufacturing and Quality Engineering as my two other. I figured out a way to get the 3 tracks without having to take a single extra class. On top of that, I'm doing a certificate program in Nanomaterials as well as Engineering Entrepreneurship, which requires me to take 3 additional classes on top of what I already have. Hence, I decided to take some classes which I consider to be a waste of my time or clases that I really aren't interested in outside of Georgia Tech while I'm working so that the class credit can be transfered and the grades won't affect my GPA (I tend to do badly in social sciences) All I need is a C, so there's no pressure to get a good grade, it works out well. So I'm almost completing one of the classes, I signed up for another one, but I kinda got a little too busy, so I'm postponing that til the fall, since the deadline to complete the class is in December. I'll take accounting in the fall as well.
Now what got me so busy this semester? I joined a fraternity - again. I really had a good time when I was with a fraternity in my first semester, but because I didn't really know what I was doing or what was going on, plus I had all these other stuff that I wanted to do, I thought it was the best for me to leave then. Now that it has calmed down a little, I decided to go for it, for many reasons I shouldn't bother to explain, but most important reason was that it's really a good organization to be part of. So I had no doubt that I wanted to go anywhere else but the same one that I was part of. During the spring, the enrollment of greek organizations are relatively low, so there was only two new members, the other being someone I already knew and I was the one who told him to check the place out. We get along great, so we had fun. And since there were only 2 of us, there was added responsibility to do all the things that a new member class would have to do. Which is the main reason why I went missing. My daily schedule was to wake up at 6:30AM, get ready for work, go to work, come back from work around 5:30PM, take a shower, and then if I had class work or paperwork to deal with, I'll do that and then head over to the fraternity house to do all sorts of things and by the time I came back to my room to sleep, it was like 12:30AM or something. It's okay initially, then it hits you, like hard. Since I'm working abour 42 or 43 hours a week, it takes a toll on you. But I've been in many situations as stressful and tiring, that I almost got used to it. So I just took it all in and it all came out fine. So yeah, as I said, everything is sort of settling into place.
I've managed to keep my film watching streak going, though not as much as it used to, just because I had so little time. But I've seen some great ones, Tech recently had 2 film festivals, one for Russian and another for Latin American ones, I managed to catch 2 of the Latin American ones, which were pretty good. I just watched 'Paradise Now' and that was something.
When I went over to Phoenix for my spring break, my brother brought along the entire first season of the TV show 'Lost.' I initially resisted watching it, but out of curiosity, I caught the pilot. I was definately hooked to it, so much that I spent whatever free time there was catching the episodes and I actually managed to finish watching the entire first season during my 1 week stay there. The moment I returned, I went and downloaded whatever season 2 episodes there were available on BitTorrent. I'm officially up to speed and my buddies from my freshmen year get together to watch the show every Wednesday, so I'll be joining them. I also went ahead and downloaded every single episode of 'Grey's Anatomy' and was on my way to downloading '24' but my hard disk space ran out, so I have to put that off for a while. I have enough shows to keep me entertained over the summer. I'll suspend my Netflix account for the summer and just study, watch the World Cup and watch episodes as much as possible.
On an unrelated note, Big Boi, half of the rap duo Outkast came to perform at Tech few weeks back, together with the indie band Cake. Everyone was disappointed that Andre 3000, the other half of Outkast, did not come, but since it's rumoured that he stopped performing public shows, it was understandable. But in my mind, Cake made up for that. It's funny, I was waiting for two of my friends from Emory to come over and we just decided to head over to the stadium a little early, as I was crossing 5th street, I see this guy walking pretty fast behind me. He was wearing a hat like the one Fidel Castro wears, with a face full of beard, and a pretty thick jacket. It was pretty hot that day and I was wondering why he was like that. He walked right by me and headed on to the direction of the stadium. I thought, okay, he's going to the gig, I suppose he felt he was being late, after all, it was already 20 minutes past the gate opening. After a while, when we were scouting for seats and getting ourselves comfortable, I looked towards the stage and guess what, that dude was the lead singer of Cake. I didn't really follow Cake before the gig, only heard few of their songs, so I wasn't aware of how their band members looked like, but they really did impress me, I liked the tunes that they were playing, mix of a slight jazz, light rock and interesting lyrics. Big Boi was sensational, without a doubt, and I just went ecstatic when they played my favorite Outkast track, which is 'Bombs Over Baghdad.' I think to get two major artists to come down and provide a pretty good gig was a sign of really good success for the concert this year.
So yeah, nothing too special going on with me, even though I've not blogged. Things hasn't really changed - it's just work, movies and hanging around with friends for dinner or late nights. Just the way I like it. I guess there could have been more that I said, but nothing else is coming to my mind now, so I'm just gonna leave this post here and may get back to it at a later date.
Friday, March 31, 2006
Quick Update - March
I realized I have not put in a single entry for March, so before March ended, I wanted to put in at least a single entry so that the archives won't be messed up.
I'm currently taking a leave from work, spending time with the family at our new 'home' in Scottsdale, Arizona, which is technically Phoenix, Arizona. I'll be returning to Atlanta, Georgia tomorrow morning, so I guess I'll type up a longer entry during the flight, and then upload it when I get back.
I'm currently taking a leave from work, spending time with the family at our new 'home' in Scottsdale, Arizona, which is technically Phoenix, Arizona. I'll be returning to Atlanta, Georgia tomorrow morning, so I guess I'll type up a longer entry during the flight, and then upload it when I get back.
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Quick Update
I'm not gone if you were wondering where I went after my last update.
My apologies, I've been pretty busy with work, fraternity, academics and a lot of movies. I'm happy in a sense that I'm getting a lot out in a single day, waking up everyday at 6:30am, work for about 8.5 hours, come back, shower, eat and hang around at Delta Sig or do my online class readings and assignments, then go back to sleep around 12 or so. I'm starting to survive yet again on a short sleep cycle, but since its consistent, I don't feel as tired. Plus, there's the weekend quality movie watching run that has continued for some time. Really good movies the past few weekends.
So that's what I've been up to. If you wanted to know. I'll try blogging more often.
My apologies, I've been pretty busy with work, fraternity, academics and a lot of movies. I'm happy in a sense that I'm getting a lot out in a single day, waking up everyday at 6:30am, work for about 8.5 hours, come back, shower, eat and hang around at Delta Sig or do my online class readings and assignments, then go back to sleep around 12 or so. I'm starting to survive yet again on a short sleep cycle, but since its consistent, I don't feel as tired. Plus, there's the weekend quality movie watching run that has continued for some time. Really good movies the past few weekends.
So that's what I've been up to. If you wanted to know. I'll try blogging more often.
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Newcastle finally chops Souey
The day has finally come.
With the horrid 3-0 defeat against Manchester City which left us hanging in 15th place, Newcastle board finally made the right decision by sacking manager, Graeme Souness.
I must admit, I was never in support of him, even when he was appointed. It has been a rough 16 months with him at the helm. He bought time off the chop by getting Michael Owen, but I knew he wasn't going to last for long.
Oh, this makes me so happy. I've been waiting for this. Glenn Roeder and Alan Shearer will take care on a temporary basis, but since none of them have the licence to coach, they cannot do so permanently. But whatever it is, it's a start. Who should be hire next, Stuart Pearce? Martin O'Neill? Being Sir Bobby back?
I've noticed that only former Newcastle players or those who are from Newcastle can be successful being the manager of Newcastle, as evident by the last decade under Keegan and Robson. So that should be good enough clue. If for some reason we cannot get them, then someone should come in for a year or two, while Shearer gets his licence and then put him at the helm.
Oh, and we need a complete re-shuffling of the physio department. Bad managers and constant injury's what's holding the club back.
With the horrid 3-0 defeat against Manchester City which left us hanging in 15th place, Newcastle board finally made the right decision by sacking manager, Graeme Souness.
I must admit, I was never in support of him, even when he was appointed. It has been a rough 16 months with him at the helm. He bought time off the chop by getting Michael Owen, but I knew he wasn't going to last for long.
Oh, this makes me so happy. I've been waiting for this. Glenn Roeder and Alan Shearer will take care on a temporary basis, but since none of them have the licence to coach, they cannot do so permanently. But whatever it is, it's a start. Who should be hire next, Stuart Pearce? Martin O'Neill? Being Sir Bobby back?
I've noticed that only former Newcastle players or those who are from Newcastle can be successful being the manager of Newcastle, as evident by the last decade under Keegan and Robson. So that should be good enough clue. If for some reason we cannot get them, then someone should come in for a year or two, while Shearer gets his licence and then put him at the helm.
Oh, and we need a complete re-shuffling of the physio department. Bad managers and constant injury's what's holding the club back.
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Cyber Identity
Well, it's been a long time since I last blogged. It's not that I haven't had time, well, I have time, just not for blogging. Let's try to summarize what took place since the last time I posted an entry.
I've re-pledged to the same fraternity that I quit in my first semester at Georgia Tech. It doesn't happen often, most people end up joining a different fraternity. But I had a great time at this one, I quit because of commitment issues, not because I didn't like it there. Now that I've decided my major, got my work issues settled and more adjusted to Georgia Tech, I am now more or less settled down, which is the reason why I decided to go back. At one moment though, I felt like I wasn't going to. It seems that the bitter taste is still lingering around since the last time I was there, but hopefully, I'll be able to make amends this time round.
Notice some changes in this blog? Yes, some of the profiles are gone. It's recently come to my attention that companies are starting to go online to seek extra information to screen potential new employees to companies. Social network sites like Friendster, Facebook and Xanga seems to benefit by getting paid, or in some cases, are free to , getting them access to view the profiles of potential applicants. It's pretty insane, I know. So what happens is, some dumbass people will have stuff like a picture of them piss-drunk, doing drugs or even information about their political or religious allegience and assume that the person going through your resume or application does not approve of your actions, your application is in serious jeopardy of being discarded. Though I do none of those mentioned above, maybe except for the political part, I still do not want to risk having to go through such a thing. The last few days, I've been going through different websites to erase my profiles or information completely. Though search engines like Google and Yahoo! still generates links that point to my blog or other places, these results should be buried pretty deep in the world of internet due to inactivity by the time I seek full time employment, which may be in about 2 years or so.
So you've noticed my blogger profile is gone, soon, I'll have to change my URL just to avoid the hits, I'll let you know about it sooner or later. Maybe I might just keep it. Don't worry, I won't delete this blog for now, I've got too much stuff here for me to delete. Or maybe I'll export it to be hosted through my university domain, I'm not sure for now.
I mean, I've already had an incident of being cyber-approached - like, I mean a serious one - recently. That's evident enough that you leave trails everywhere in the internet that can be tracked back. It's kind of scary, especially when you think about not knowing who it may be that's looking up your information. Admit it, we all do it time to time, minor or major. Some people do it out of curiosity, some out of desperation, some may be a serious addict. By putting up obvious and very public (I don't care what you say, your blog is public if you don't have password protection) information up, it's really easy to track things. So the only way you can erase is by erasing what you have about yourself. People putting up pictures of them smoking weed or joining 'I-hate-my-work' clubs (Don't misunderstand - I love my job) is just plain stupid, and it's inviting trouble to yourself. And when it hits you, you'll be blaming the company for being nosey, but in reality, there is no one but to blame yourself.
So I'm taking actions for preventive measure. I'm being a little paranoid, but it's gonna help, even if it means just a little.
I've re-pledged to the same fraternity that I quit in my first semester at Georgia Tech. It doesn't happen often, most people end up joining a different fraternity. But I had a great time at this one, I quit because of commitment issues, not because I didn't like it there. Now that I've decided my major, got my work issues settled and more adjusted to Georgia Tech, I am now more or less settled down, which is the reason why I decided to go back. At one moment though, I felt like I wasn't going to. It seems that the bitter taste is still lingering around since the last time I was there, but hopefully, I'll be able to make amends this time round.
Notice some changes in this blog? Yes, some of the profiles are gone. It's recently come to my attention that companies are starting to go online to seek extra information to screen potential new employees to companies. Social network sites like Friendster, Facebook and Xanga seems to benefit by getting paid, or in some cases, are free to , getting them access to view the profiles of potential applicants. It's pretty insane, I know. So what happens is, some dumbass people will have stuff like a picture of them piss-drunk, doing drugs or even information about their political or religious allegience and assume that the person going through your resume or application does not approve of your actions, your application is in serious jeopardy of being discarded. Though I do none of those mentioned above, maybe except for the political part, I still do not want to risk having to go through such a thing. The last few days, I've been going through different websites to erase my profiles or information completely. Though search engines like Google and Yahoo! still generates links that point to my blog or other places, these results should be buried pretty deep in the world of internet due to inactivity by the time I seek full time employment, which may be in about 2 years or so.
So you've noticed my blogger profile is gone, soon, I'll have to change my URL just to avoid the hits, I'll let you know about it sooner or later. Maybe I might just keep it. Don't worry, I won't delete this blog for now, I've got too much stuff here for me to delete. Or maybe I'll export it to be hosted through my university domain, I'm not sure for now.
I mean, I've already had an incident of being cyber-approached - like, I mean a serious one - recently. That's evident enough that you leave trails everywhere in the internet that can be tracked back. It's kind of scary, especially when you think about not knowing who it may be that's looking up your information. Admit it, we all do it time to time, minor or major. Some people do it out of curiosity, some out of desperation, some may be a serious addict. By putting up obvious and very public (I don't care what you say, your blog is public if you don't have password protection) information up, it's really easy to track things. So the only way you can erase is by erasing what you have about yourself. People putting up pictures of them smoking weed or joining 'I-hate-my-work' clubs (Don't misunderstand - I love my job) is just plain stupid, and it's inviting trouble to yourself. And when it hits you, you'll be blaming the company for being nosey, but in reality, there is no one but to blame yourself.
So I'm taking actions for preventive measure. I'm being a little paranoid, but it's gonna help, even if it means just a little.
Sunday, January 15, 2006
I'm not gone!
Sorry for the lack of updates since I returned from Singapore. It's been pretty busy, as I had the Housing Staff Training right after I returned, as well as getting back to work, catching up and all. I definitely was looking forward to getting the first week done and over with, and I've had a pretty relaxing weekend. My friends and I planned a mega movie marathon, but since some of the guys were kind of late in getting over to the theatre, our planned schedule got messed up, and we only ended up catching two movies, which were 'Syriana' (Brilliant!) and 'Munich' (Excellent, but fell slightly below what I expected it to be). Had the plan gone right, we would have caught 'Hostel,' 'Geisha' and 'Narnia' but that wasn't to be. Not to worry, I'm planning another marathon next week where at least 'Hostel' and the much anticipated 'Brokeback Mountain' is in the offing. We might or might not add something to those two.
The Housing Staff training was basically Thursday evening, whole of Friday and just the early part of Saturday. I had braced myself to be busy over the whole weekend, so it was a pleasant surprise to discover that I could sleep in to get my body back in sync with Eastern Standard Time and do a little shopping before my work term started. Work this week was hectic, since a lot of thing has changed since I left in August. It's the nature of the company, it's always implementing new stuff and our focus changes pretty rapidly. I'll be working for the same company every 4 or 5 months until the summer of 2007, but I can tell that by then, we'll be doing completely different stuff, which is interesting. One colleague from Tokyo was here for a knowledge exchange, so I was helping translate, and I realize how horrible my Japanese had become. I was actually finding it hard to converse! This is what lack of usage of a language does to you. It was pretty scary, as I can still read pretty well and comprehend what is being said to me, but when it came down to writing or speaking it, I had a huge problem. This really needs working on, it'll be a huge waste if I am to forget Japanese. On the other hand, since we deal with a lot of Europeans, the office might start to conduct French classes, as early as next week, which I'm pretty excited about. I intend to learn Spanish some time into the future, but heck, if the office is going to conduct a French lesson after work, I'm taking that up without a doubt.
The problem though, is that I might be overloading myself yet again. I'm taking two classes online, one a technical communications writing class and the other, general psychology. It's pretty fun stuff, psychology class is pretty much structured, whereas technical communications is a self-paced course and I've gotten a little ahead of schedule for the first couple of weeks since it's pretty much introductory stuff. However, there's no pressure to excel here, so I can take my own time for these classes. I do my readings in the train to and from work, so some of the class prep is done every day.
Yep.. that's pretty much the update for now. It sucks that I'm gonna miss a whole lot of events for January. There's the Lenny Kravitz/Aerosmith gig tonight, but the ticket's beyond my budget, Russel Peter's probably not worth the 50 bucks, but I might just give Sevendust a shot. Jamie Cullum's coming to Atlanta again in March, but I've yet to make up my mind about him, whereas Michael Buble's a little too pricey. Since I wasn't working last semester, my credit card bills are stacking up, so most of my earnings over the month will be paying back bills, but I should be completely fine by the end of the month.
Alright, that's pretty much it for my update for now. I'll update whenever I can.
The Housing Staff training was basically Thursday evening, whole of Friday and just the early part of Saturday. I had braced myself to be busy over the whole weekend, so it was a pleasant surprise to discover that I could sleep in to get my body back in sync with Eastern Standard Time and do a little shopping before my work term started. Work this week was hectic, since a lot of thing has changed since I left in August. It's the nature of the company, it's always implementing new stuff and our focus changes pretty rapidly. I'll be working for the same company every 4 or 5 months until the summer of 2007, but I can tell that by then, we'll be doing completely different stuff, which is interesting. One colleague from Tokyo was here for a knowledge exchange, so I was helping translate, and I realize how horrible my Japanese had become. I was actually finding it hard to converse! This is what lack of usage of a language does to you. It was pretty scary, as I can still read pretty well and comprehend what is being said to me, but when it came down to writing or speaking it, I had a huge problem. This really needs working on, it'll be a huge waste if I am to forget Japanese. On the other hand, since we deal with a lot of Europeans, the office might start to conduct French classes, as early as next week, which I'm pretty excited about. I intend to learn Spanish some time into the future, but heck, if the office is going to conduct a French lesson after work, I'm taking that up without a doubt.
The problem though, is that I might be overloading myself yet again. I'm taking two classes online, one a technical communications writing class and the other, general psychology. It's pretty fun stuff, psychology class is pretty much structured, whereas technical communications is a self-paced course and I've gotten a little ahead of schedule for the first couple of weeks since it's pretty much introductory stuff. However, there's no pressure to excel here, so I can take my own time for these classes. I do my readings in the train to and from work, so some of the class prep is done every day.
Yep.. that's pretty much the update for now. It sucks that I'm gonna miss a whole lot of events for January. There's the Lenny Kravitz/Aerosmith gig tonight, but the ticket's beyond my budget, Russel Peter's probably not worth the 50 bucks, but I might just give Sevendust a shot. Jamie Cullum's coming to Atlanta again in March, but I've yet to make up my mind about him, whereas Michael Buble's a little too pricey. Since I wasn't working last semester, my credit card bills are stacking up, so most of my earnings over the month will be paying back bills, but I should be completely fine by the end of the month.
Alright, that's pretty much it for my update for now. I'll update whenever I can.
Saturday, January 14, 2006
GT 78 NC State 87
Final Score from RBC Center in Raleigh, NC
NCAA Men's Basketball
No. 18 N.C. State Wolfpacks 87 (14-2, ACC 3-1)
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 78 (9-5, ACC 2-1)
NCAA Men's Basketball
No. 18 N.C. State Wolfpacks 87 (14-2, ACC 3-1)
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 78 (9-5, ACC 2-1)
Fulham 1 Newcastle 0
Final Score from Craven Cottage:
English Premier League
Fulham 1
Steed Malbranque (75)
Newcastle United 0
English Premier League
Fulham 1
Steed Malbranque (75)
Newcastle United 0
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
GT 85 Centenary 69
Final Score from CenturyTel Center in Bossier City, LA:
NCAA Men's Basketball
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 85 (9-4)
Centenary Gentlemen 69 (2-12)
NCAA Men's Basketball
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 85 (9-4)
Centenary Gentlemen 69 (2-12)
Sunday, January 08, 2006
BC 58 GT 60
Final Score from Alexandar Memorial Coliseum in Atlanta, GA:
NCAA Men's Basketball
No. 11 Boston College Eagles 58 (11-3)
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 60 (8-4)
NCAA Men's Basketball
No. 11 Boston College Eagles 58 (11-3)
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 60 (8-4)
Saturday, January 07, 2006
Newcastle 1 Mansfield 0
Final Score from St. James' Park:
English FA Cup 3rd Round
Newcastle United 1
Alan Shearer (80)
Mansfield Town 0
English FA Cup 3rd Round
Newcastle United 1
Alan Shearer (80)
Mansfield Town 0
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Vanderbilt 67 GT 76
Final Score from Alexandar Memorial Coliseum in Atlanta, GA:
NCAA Men's Basketball
Vanderbilt Commodores 67 (9-2)
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 76 (7-4)
NCAA Men's Basketball
Vanderbilt Commodores 67 (9-2)
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 76 (7-4)
Monday, January 02, 2006
Newcastle 2 Middlesbrough 2
Final Score from St. James' Park:
English Premier League
Newcastle United 2
Nolberto Solano (27)
Lee Clarke (90)
Middlesbrough 2
Yakubu Aiyegbeni (54)
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (87)
Getting ready to go back
It's been pretty uneventful few days, just packing, meeting friends here and there. I don't really place much importance on new years and stuff as well. [Dammit, Middlesbrough just scored an equaliser.] It was nice seeing some of my close friends after a while, whereas some days were just wasted on being told that I was to help with the clearing of the furniture, which didn't happen.
I've been pretty unemotional about leaving this sunny island, probably for good this time round. Well, I'm here as a visitor this time, so that may be it. But the thought of not having any idea when I'll be here again or seeing my friends is something that's been bothering me. I've had mixed memories, but mostly good ones recently.
There's 2 more days. I'll be dropping by to check out the new SA Village and then some more gatherings that my parents were invited to. I didn't manage to meet my closest friends, but I guess that's something I have to deal with, due to situations. I'll make added effort to make sure I keep in regular touch with close friends
2006 is going to be interesting, because I'll be working 34 out of the 52 weeks as an intern. I'll only be studying full time over the summer semester, whereas I'll be taking online or distance learning classes while I'm working (I'm still working on what I'll take during the fall semester) I dropped by to the local branch of the company that I work for and talked to the boss here and that was pretty interesting.
Since I'll be working for the same company throughout my co-op involvement, this year will more or less be associated with work and what I learn from it, so I'm really looking forward to it.
Alright, back to watching the Newcastle game!
I've been pretty unemotional about leaving this sunny island, probably for good this time round. Well, I'm here as a visitor this time, so that may be it. But the thought of not having any idea when I'll be here again or seeing my friends is something that's been bothering me. I've had mixed memories, but mostly good ones recently.
There's 2 more days. I'll be dropping by to check out the new SA Village and then some more gatherings that my parents were invited to. I didn't manage to meet my closest friends, but I guess that's something I have to deal with, due to situations. I'll make added effort to make sure I keep in regular touch with close friends
2006 is going to be interesting, because I'll be working 34 out of the 52 weeks as an intern. I'll only be studying full time over the summer semester, whereas I'll be taking online or distance learning classes while I'm working (I'm still working on what I'll take during the fall semester) I dropped by to the local branch of the company that I work for and talked to the boss here and that was pretty interesting.
Since I'll be working for the same company throughout my co-op involvement, this year will more or less be associated with work and what I learn from it, so I'm really looking forward to it.
Alright, back to watching the Newcastle game!
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