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In which I try to ‘collaborate’

Posted on August 23, 2007 at 6:17 pm

Blame Anna for making me do this.

RBJ August 2007 Collaboration:

1. I begin with the easiest. I love Manchester United. To the point of distraction. Love me, love Manchester United. It’s a prerequisite.

2. My friends are important.

3. Having said that, I suck majorly at maintaining friendships. I’m very good at hanging up on people or ignoring them even though I don’t mean to. I lose their friendships and then, well, you can guess the rest.

4. I buy DVDs and they sit on my shelf for months before they’re watched.

5. I’ve actually been drunk to the point where I was lying on the toilet, drowning in my own puke. (yes Carina, it’s true)

6. I didn’t realise how important my father was to me until he fell sick. Before that he was The Bank and the Totally Uncool Dad. Still the Totally Uncool Dad, though.

7. I’m lazy.

8. I rank London 07 as the best holiday so far.

9. I have a shitlist. And it’s alphabetical.

10. I’m working on a hitlist. Also alphabetical.

11. Anyone who gives me Godiva chocolates is forever in my good books.

12. My first job was totally unrelated to what I studied at university.

13. My second job is.

14. I kinda liked Westlife. A LONG TIME AGO. SHADDAP.

15. The one place in the whole world I had wanted to go to as far as I could remember was Old Trafford.

16. I copped David Duchovny’s ass. It was awesome.

17. One of the things I want to do is go for a Star Trek convention in Las Vegas. Let the hilarity ensue.

18. Very rarely do I take other people’s advice.

19. The experience with The Supervisor From Hell left me with asthma and on steroids to control it.

20. I tend to read too much out of situations.

21. As much as I like closure, there are a few things I’d simply rather avoid.

22. I like confrontation on one hand, on the other I despise it because more often than not I lose my temper.

23. I prefer going to the movies alone.

24. Wreck my Sunday routine and I’ll be pissy as hell throughout the work week.

25. I avoid 99% of high school classmates. Like the plague.

26. One night, drunk off our faces, Marie and I actually plotted to throw beer (or something, I forget) into our former high school’s swimming pool. Or something. I do remember it involved beer.

27. I despise owing people money.

28. Which is why I try not to borrow any in the first place.

29. With strangers: introvert; among friends: unhinged.

30. Schadenfreude, unfortunately, is another favourite pasttime.

31. Words like positive psychology have me rolling on the floor laughing.

32. Yet I hypocritically put on a grave facade of interest when the topic is discussed.

33. Oh yes, I am very cynical.

34. Currently I have over 2000 mp3s, and yet I can never find anything I like when I have to create a playlist.

35. Marie is the only friend who is allowed to call me ’siao char bor’. Across the mall. At the top of her lungs. And I’d answer.

36. My life goals change almost every day.

37. Except the one about taking over the world. Get in line, Stewie Griffin.

38. Worst habit ever? Mouthing off.

39. I do not get along with a lot of people.

40. That is why I like being a hermit with the occassional social event. Saves money, too.

41. I am not obsessed with James Bond.

42. Or Jedi Knights.

43. Or Ruud van Nistelrooy.

44. I own a Garfield mug received on my 7th birthday, and I remember the person who gave it to me.

45. The longest time it took me to reply to a text message was a year.

46. I hate cleaning. No, I really hate cleaning.

47. All my keepsakes are chucked in a Harry Potter tin.

48. I watched the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, with extended scenes, in one sitting.

49. I only buy my books from Borders or Amazon.

50. I now have Anna on my shitlist. :P

If I’d learned to concede defeat

Posted on January 22, 2006 at 9:46 pm

My patience has been sorely tested with the PHP sunrise/sunset calculator of this theme. I’m STARING AT THE FUCKING CODE EVERY FUCKING HOUR. Somehow it just doesn’t work when I key in Kuala Lumpur’s coordinates, which is pissing the hell out of me. I KNOW my coordinates are right. It does bring me to wonder if it has anything to do with the daylight savings time variable, since Kuala Lumpur obviously does not observe such a thing. The nighttime theme kicks in at 1pm KL time, and the daytime theme kicks in at about 2am, but even a daylight savings time variable shouldn’t be tossing the whole thing out of whack.

Right now, it’s responding to coordinates of MANCHESTER, UK. Nina claims it’s kismet. I agree, but I’M NOT IN BLOODY MANCHESTER RIGHT NOW!! Unless someone wants to give me a job there!!

What it took to customise this theme

Posted on January 21, 2006 at 2:46 am

I found this theme sometime ago, with a nifty PHP-based sunrise/sunset calculator, which I customised to reflect Kuala Lumpur’s time. Anyone remember SPM’s Math syllabus? Put it this way, I may have sucked royally at Math (and Add Maths), but damn, that chapter where you calculate latitude/longitude and all that shiznit? Some use finally came of it. And it will be the last. Unless anyone wants to buy me a plane?

The overall layout didn’t need tweaking AT ALL, but when I discovered the sidebar’s font issue with the default theme for daytime, I moved towards the extra daytime theme. And then, there were the comments page, still a little crude but at least it’s slightly more stylized now. I seriously suck at this.

Never let me deal with hardcore PHP or CSS again. *whimper*

[Edit] At the moment the time/day thing is STILL not working (despite messing with the latitude/longitude by keying in KL or London positions). I give up. I honestly do, because I DO NOT KNOW enough PHP or CSS. :(

A design thought

Posted on January 6, 2006 at 9:24 pm

If I knew how to create Wordpress themes, what with the CSS file and its other incarnations that make up the entire blog (sidebar, header, footer, etc), I’d love to resurrect the layout Tiffie made for me sometime ago.

Wtfstats

Posted on November 10, 2005 at 10:33 pm

Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (….Murdoch University Library Student Computers…)

No referrer. Crap. I wonder…

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