Tonight, I am attending this school function. And it is an annual event. Attended by my whole entire year level. Obviously, my whole entire year level who wish to attend and have already paid. It is semi-casual.

Do you know how long I ponder on what to wear to this function/dinner? Not even a day. I already had a skirt and yesterday, me and mother went shopping and she bought me this lovely shirt to wear. So I am sorted. I'm going to be wearing my silver heels to this dinner just as I wore it to my formal.

However, the shirt needs a bit of mending from me. One of the buttons aren't aligned properly. *le sigh* I am really not good with stitching, sewing, mending and whatever needles do. But NEVER fear! I will try my hardest!

In other news, I sometimes wish that LiveJ has like a page function that Wordpress free blog offers. So I can treat this blog like my very own little site complete with pages like a...

• me page
• about page
  
• fanlisting joined page
• clique joined page (however could be combined with the 'fanlistings' joined page)
• toybox page
• extra links page
  

Those are the few basic pages that I had when my personal site was hosted. But alas, I am lazy and I just can't be bothered creating a personal site. I remember some of the obstacles that I encountered when I had one.

For example, if you wanted a blog, you could do it manually or use some of the free blogging systems available on the internet like the Wordpress software, Cutenews software and I'm sure there are plenty more. However, I had so much problems customizing WP that in the end, I just deleted it. Unlike Cutenews, WP is one whole entire site itself. Literally.

With Cutenews on the other hand, it was really easy to implement in the layout as Cutenews is just a blog file itself. You create a layout and insert a line of code that will implement the Cutenews blog into your site. The reason I was a bit apprehensive about using Cutenews was because of the "Powered by Cutenews" tagline right underneath the blog. I mean yeah, Wordpress does that too. But WP allows customization to the tagline. I spent some time searching for the tagline in the Cutenews file but I just gave up in the end. It really is hideous.

I'm not saying I'm just going to remove the credit to Cutenews and leave it at that. I have always credited whatever resources that I have used. But I wish it was more 'malleable' in terms of that hideous credit line. And yes, I am that picky about credit taglines even.

And besides the customization process, there was also a small matter of the blog archives. I wish to have my archives for as long as possible. Not when the SQL server decides to crash. Not when the host decides that they would not like to have a site anymore. I do realize that LiveJ would maybe encounter some problems in the future that may affect their extremely large archive, but LiveJ has been around for a long time so is more reliable in some ways compared to others.

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Wow. A calm post which turned into a ranting rampage. Sort of. But I am getting the urge to regularly just type about whatever I feel like. It's a nice feeling. No pressure to blog all the time. Just as and when as I feel like it. It's definitely a nice change.

What have I been up to in the past few days?

Well, first and foremost, the most life-changing blah blah blah thing is that as you may have noticed, the few entries that I have in my old CauseMAX wordpress blog has been imported to this journal. Manually. Following this move, I have implemented a layout found at some community and designed by minty_peach. No, I have not really customize this template yet so modifications to this journal will be ongoing within the next few days/weeks/months/whatever. Please bare with me.

While wondering around Livejournal, I came across arisubox. That's where my icon is from by the way. It features Viewfinder or more commonly shorten to VF around this 'community'. So for the past few days, after finding out about VF, I downloaded some VF scanlations around. More particularly at free_manga and club_vogue.

Club Vogue Community is a scanlation community by the way. Their current project from what I know is Viewfinder series and the Crimson Spell series. Bow down to them.

So anyway, after my last post, I felt like I needed something to keep my on the internet. And then, I remembered the good old Neopets. But I didn't really want to stay on Neopets. I wanted something different but still was categorized under Virtual Pets. I searched all around the internet and finally found Psypets. Let me tell you one thing about Psypets. Even though it is still under Virtual Pets, it is nothing like Neopets, Powerpets or any other virtual pet game out there available on the internet.

Quick tour around Psypets through my eyes. The sign-up page is only one page. If you think that's impressive, check this out. On that same one page sign-up, you also get to pick your pet. Please be warn would-be-Psypet-members, do not expect Psypet's pet graphics to be well drawn out and presented in Flash like Neopets. The pet graphics shown are presented in a pencil-drawn style but I personally like it that way. Not too flashy and slow.

Moving on, on Psypets, there is no 'bot shop' for you to buy stuff. And some food that you get during your game, it can be combined with other ingredients and be 'prepared' to make another food item. Your pet can hunt, start projects and die. Yes, one major difference between Neopets and Psypets is that in Psypets your darling pet CAN die. So please make sure you feed your darling(s).

That is just a really really really brief tour on Psypets through my eyes. I know that there maybe some inaccurate facts in there about Psypets, Neopets and whatever thing that I have included up there but really, what do you expect? I'm not the Time Machine.

I found the ye olde' GaiaOnline community site again after one year. I would say, "Ah yes, the good old times there..." but I never really had a good old time there. The whole thing was not bad. It's just that for individuals like me, it's very hard to gain golds to buy items. Quick rundown...

You create a character and are given the basic items of clothing when you sign-up. The whole point of the 'game' is to buy the super-most-expensive-rare-gazillion-gold thing to equip/dress your character in. The fastest way to gain your golds is by posting in the forum like you have no life. You do have some games available to play but the golds granted are very little. Downright stingy in fact. And some games require you to spend your hard-earned gold on equipments to play certain games.

The problem for individuals like me...well, I find it hard to just post and post and post and post until I have gazillion golds. In a month, my record high forum posts amounted to less than 10. Ten being the highest posts I have ever and will ever post in a month. I just don't know what to say in the forum.

Take for example a mock thread...

Post your fictional band's name here.

I'd call mine Simster.

The Holloway Experience.

Hello Kitty Is Awesome.

Lol ^

Notice the last post 'Lol ^'? They can just post that and gain gold. But I can't bring myself to enter that and count that as one post. Just a fucking 'Lol ^' and you gain 10 golds? I consider that cheating.

Maybe the rules have changed now. But now I'm one year the wiser and somehow have lost interest in those sort of things.

I remember last year's end-of-year holiday. I had so many things to do on the computer. And I always had Photoshop open. I always felt like I had so many things to do on the internet that it was more than my dial-up could handle. But I'm on my end-of-year holidays again and I feel empty. In a way.

I have like, nothing to do. I've hopefully temporarily lost interest in Photoshoping. I have no interest in creating sample layouts for non-existent sites. No interest in seeing other people's works. No interest in connecting to people. Just bleh basically.

Really hoping it's a temporary phase. It's really quite an empty feeling.

[Imported from WP-CauseMAX]

OK, so the Statistics & Modeling exam wasn't too bad. I knew that I could pass but I wouldn't get anything higher than just an Achieved. Studying gets me the Merits or, God forbid! An excellence?

I have the final final final final final  exam today. The most dreaded of all, Economics. After some talk yesterday, mostly with my mother, they are finally prepared to face the fact that the Economics exam is the one exam that they should not expect me to get anything higher than a barely-attained-Achieved. Expect something more like...NA(Not Achieved).

In other news, like say...my own customized Firefox, I have installed a few more extensions to it. Mainly to facilitate this Wordpress blog. I've always had ScribeFire installed but now I'm thinking that I should just delete that space-hoggers/whatever-you-want-to-call-it thing. Unlike Deepest Sender, SF will publish a 'Powered by ScribeFire' tag line right underneath the post you just published. It's disrupting. Stop it. Please.

One interesting extension I also added yesterday was ScreenGrab!. We'll see how that turns out.

Overall, out of all the extensions I have, I've only ever utilized about 15% of them. It's really sad but it's in case of emergency. Sort of. Like say, FireFTP. When my FTP program decides to have a day off and piss me off, I have FireFTP there right behind my back.

[Imported from WP-CauseMAX]

My current status: exhausted, frustrated, excited

Exhausted. I have studied really hard-core since last...Monday? Tuesday. I mean like studying from morning to night. I only break for dinner and to wash up. Somehow this year I actually really want to get grades higher than just an 'Achieved'. I want my 'Merits' at least. So I'm exhausted from going all out. But I hope it's all worth it. If not I'm going to be pissed.

Frustrated. When will my exams end?!?!?!

Excited. After my exams end, I am so going to town. No, I will not get so 'intoxicated' that I can't even remember what the fuck I did. I just want to 'taste'...

Well, two exams down under my feet and two more to go. *sigh* I'll just finish up, trod upstairs and resume studying Statistics which involves questions like "What is the probability that Abu and Ali give head to each other?"

My answer: I don't care.
Grade awarded: Fail.

[Imported from WP-CauseMAX]