Kettles and other Metals. And by Metals I mean a motorbike sword.

So, fair to say I haven't been in these parts for a while, and the only excuses I have are laziness and many, many distractions, but I'm back now! And I plan to stay for a while so u had better put on the kettle. :)

So...I think Im gonna need a fresh take on this whole blogging thing. Out with the old and in with the new and all that. So to start, something funny.

I think nearly everyone has seen this guy, I think he probably wants to sue RTE for actually showing it to millions. It even made it onto collegehumor, which is based in north america. Instantly opening it up to another, oh 300 odd million people.

That poor dude.

Anyway, here it is again for your enjoyment. I love how you can hear him say "aw shit!" at the end if u have it loud enough.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZvCK2o6Zbo

Scored myself a new game this week, Devil May Cry 4, for like 15 bucks new. I was well pleased with myself.
I've played a nice bit of it now and I think its pretty good. Having played DMC2 before, I kinda knew what to expect but Im finding that when I've nothing else to do or am stuck inside, I've started to crave the stylish, button bashing, fun it brings. And getting any less than an 'S' grade for style at the end of a mission makes me sad, but yeah, if you havent bought it already then I'd recommend it. Especially for that price!

Just a final few notes on DVC4, I actually think Nero's sword could rival Cloud's from FFVII in terms of coolness. Its a sword like, but also somehow a motorbike. Seriously.
And the sound effects are actually ripped straight from Resident Evil, so its kinda like that but less retarded.

Ok, I think that's enough blogging for the today.
I'll leave you with my cool thing of the day. This is a club in Beijing.
It's called "The ChinaDoll Club" and when I saw it I just thought it was wicked. The work of six contemporary chinese artists is integrated into the interior, it's got custom made installations and furniture, each depicting everything from sexy female forms to Chinese dolls.

 Until next time. :)

Sitting Down and Hitting the Town

Oh Yeah. That's awesome....FYP is officially DONE. Woo Hoo!! Handed in my absolute monster of a report today. It actually looks like a book. 

I'd be totally lying if I said I wasn't stressing out last night with it. Was up all night trying to make it perfect and I'm pretty tired now 25,000 words later. 

I just like sitting down now without having to worry about doing it. It's greeeaat. Thinking of hitting the town later to celebrate  if I don't collapse from lack of sleep and food beforehand.  

Hopefully that won't happen. 

Speaking of foooooood....

This is our food of the blog. It's a cheesecake. A strawbraaary cheesecake. Chosen cos I had my first ever taste of cheesecake last weekend. And it was yummy. Hence it makes it here, my blog, where it'll live forever. :)  

Note: (The cheesecake I had wasn't actually strawberry...though it had strawberries on it, but it wasn't strawberry. You get me? This one was chosen cos it looks pretty awesome. :) )

Until next time!

Disbeliefs and sighs of relief

So yeah, I was glancing back at my last 2 posts and realised that both of them had pictures of food in them, so I think I'm gonna start a food of the blog section. So here is todays' food of the blog. Its Oriental Pork. The lads cooked some today and it was yummy. It didn't really look like this pic...even though we have chopsticks in the house, but it still looked nice. :)

But now to other matters...

Demo Day is over.
No, seriously. I'm super serial.
I never thought the day would come when Demo day would be in the past. But it is! Look at a calender, and you'll see it there, in the past. Still in a state of disbelief over it.

Words can't really describe how happy I was at 4:30pm on Friday. But I did look a little something like this...

As opposed to how I looked the weeks leading up to it...



See what I did with the black and white there? As an art critic or someone else who likes to use unnessessarily complex words(you know who Im talkin about) might say: "It really shows the incongruity between happiness and despair through the utilisation of downcast black and white shades in lieu of vibrant ravishing colour."
(Eugh. I hate U.S. dictionaries that think he word "colour" should be color. It keeps underlining it in red. It's not wrong!!! I don't know how to change it to UK dictionary...or if you even can.)

But yeah, I should be an artist or something obviously. :)

Until next time amigos. :)

Sighs and Donuts

Hi! 

Yes...I know in my last blog I said I would update more regularly...well technically I said I would try to update regularly so I wasn't lying. But I have been and still am faaaaairly busy. To say the least. 

To give a breakdown of the endless work ahead...Demo Day is Friday week, Software in the Monday after, Flash in Friday after that,Report in week after that,Databases in week after that and also Systems Analysis...PLUS another Distributed Systems project sometime in there too. *sigh* No, I don't know how we do all this work either.

4th year, is not fun.

But it'll all be over soon and what will we do then? We'll be in the REAL world. And that scares me a little bit.

 

While I'm here I might as well rant. Why oh why is demo day on the Friday of Rag week?? What sense does this make? None. I felt like crying when I saw the line up of cool stuff that's going on during the daytime. 

DODGEMS. They have frickin' BUMPER CARS man. 

But no, I won't get to enjoy the feeling of acting like I'm 5 again, I'll be FYPing it up. In my room. *sigh* 

...........*Begins to cry*.... 

..........*Begins to sob*.....

I'll just have to get over it. Tough it out y'know? Grrr and all that. 

*sob*

At least donuts(my new obsession don't ya know - jam ones, none

of this icing crap) are always there to cheer me up. 

And now for a homer moment:

 "Mmmm...donuts..."

*Droooool* 

And Tea...don't forget the tea. :)

I'm baaaaa-aaaack!

Hello. After quite a long absence from my blog I have returned to grace you all with my presence....

So... yeah. What have I been up to? Well, not much apart from college stuff. Which is all very exciting as Im sure you all know. Crazy FYP...um...parties, project and assignment drinking sessions and a whole bunch of lecture bbqs. (How awesome would that be. Seriously, lectures...but with a bbq. Like outside in the sun with burgers and stuff. And sausages. That bbq smell on a sunny day. We could have t

hem in that little green area beside the csis. It could totally work.) 

I wish I wasn't lying. Yeah I've been doing all that stuff minus the party bit(well there has been some parties..not many, but they existed) drinking session bit and bbq bit- (Seriously Colin, I'm waiting for a bbq now. Even your hot plate thing would do. Think of the burgers. And we could say "Toss another burger on the barbie" in Australian accents. Come on.) 

Oh yeah.

Anyway, so yes I'd like to keep this blog thing going now, update it a bit every few days, vent my rage, log my happiness, record my boredom and all that. Might even give it a little makeover....some love and affection.

Oh. Try and give me an answer to this question after thinking about it for about 10 seconds, like I had to do today- I'm interested to see what other peoples answers would be...

"What is the hardest decision you have ever had to make?" 

Life or work or college related. A bit personal for an interview I thought but had to answer it on the spot!

Have a great weekend! 

 

 

*sniffle*

Oh I hate being sickly. As if trying to concentrate on study wasn't bad enough, someone had to throw a head-cold into the mix. And it's disgusting. :( My eyes start crying at random times...and I'm not sure whether thats from the head cold or just from thinking about the amount of work there is to do! I just wish it would go away and leave me alone -the cold that is...actually the work can go away too if it wants. That'd be great. Thaaaaanks. 

Ah having a cold has it's benefits. You get slightly pampered - as I type, Ferg just handed me a cup of tea and jam rings. Service with a smile. Haha. And my mam came out to the house yesterday with a bag of goodies for me, including biscuits, corn flakes (if you know me at all you'll know how much i love them), grapes, a box of cappuchinos, a can of pringles and a ton of other stuff. Of course it's not nice when you can't actually taste any of it. Oh well.

Anyway, looks like I'm gonna have to summon the energy to get back into the study now. *sniffle*   

Presentations. Again :)

Hello again, 

I was just thinking about our presentations which are (thankfully) over and done with now. As they were kept fairly open, it was interesting to see all of the different ideas and views everyone had. Some people took a fairly personal approach to the presentation, talking abut their own views on things while others stuck with facts after researching different topics.

All in all, it was good to get some more practice in for presenting, (The only presentations I've ever done were all done this year!) and I think it helped shake some more nerves off for the future...of course seeing colm make it through some serious "typo's" helped too! Haha!