Birthday Season 2010 - Wrapping It Up

With my sister turning 16 on Sunday, we now conclude Birthday Season for this year. Oh, and I'm back home.

With my multiple assignments closing in last week, I sorta lost the time to afford posting without hindering my chances of getting my assignments in on time. Actually, my Declarative assignment got handed in with around 70% completion. It turned out to be harder than originally expected, and thus concludes the lesson of university time management.

Then I came home on Saturday, a relatively eventless affair, catching the bus down was a simple 2 hour ride playing an emulated GBA rom on my PSP, undisturbed. Although once I'd gotten home it was straight back to the technology to start my Computer Science project, which was due in around 48 hours. And I'm happy to say that I finished it completely, with help from Steve, who also had the task of completing it while going home for the holidays. Now all that's left to do is relax (and start reading over past materials).

On Sunday it was my older (and when I say older I mean the older of the two) sister's 16th birthday, the most notable gift was an extendable desk lamp which was later given googly eyes and the name Lawrence. We went out for pizza that night at a place called the Mediterranean Food Warehouse. They make very nice wood fired pizzas and I'm you're passing through Paraparaumu on the main highway I'd recommend it.

The night was concluded with my other sister's (now Miss Thirteen) failed attempts at stealing the conversation, and me staying up until about 2 finishing my project.

Because of the late night I didn't wake up until just before lunch, but I went out to the beach with my sister (the other one, Miss Sixteen) to take photos of seagulls for her painting portfolio. And in doing so we realised you can't actually get close enough to fill up the entire photo with a picture of a flying bird. But we tried.

On the way home I managed to get a glimpse of our new house on Toru Road, and we also discussed the making of a mini-documentary about our house. We start filming tomorrow, and I hope to possibly have it uploaded by the time I get back to campus in September.

Facebook Trial Week (and a bit) - Day 12
It has been a huge success! After almost two weeks and almost 100 friends, I have decided to keep in touch with my Facebook Account, much to selected people's delight. I'll still keep you posted with this blog, and once I get things working right, the posts will aslo come up on my Facebook wall, so you can check out everything from there too. We now move on to...

The Final Section
Seeing that I missed Sunday's post and it's almost Wednesday... I figured, let's have a video and a link.
The Super-Late Weekend Watch: This week's most popular video worldwide, with just under 5 million views, is a clip of Roger Federer's trick shot at a Gillete commercial shooting.

The Super-Early Mid-Week Website: Japanese Text Smilies - They're upright, they're descriptive and they're so darn cool if you can pull them off. This page is a nice big reference list if you don't know how to convey a particular emotion, or if you're looking to learn a new one. Good for facebook posts too. Click here. And for all your other emoticon reference needs, check out the main site, Cool Smilies, here.

And with that, I'm taking a short break from posting until the 1st of September, when I get back to campus after a nice break from things. But I'll still be floating around online. It's just too darn distract- ooh, what was that?!