Day 2, I'm in so much pain.

I guess I'm just too out of shape because I've been in pain yesterday and today. My complete lower body... ugh.

I''ve been starting to write my story, which is based on the failed attempt at the new year. I've switched some plot details around, so it should work better.

Tomorrow(today), I'm going to start my work painting the interior of a house. Yay. 80/day

Day 0: I feel like giving up already.

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I woke up this morning thinking "Why wait until tomorrow to start?"
So I went out as soon as I was ready to go for my run... the one I was planning to do everyday.

Above was the route I was supposed to do. (Well, I am supposed to run along the field at Thomas Kidd, but Google maps won't allow that.)
The route is about 5 km long, and it took my 46 minutes today.
About a third of the way through, I just wanted to stop, but apparently if I don't make this day perfect, I won't be motivated to follow through with the run the rest of the week, and that'll ruin the month, summer, etc.

I don't want to be responsible for the nude looting of 2008?

Anyway, yeah.

Beginning on Monday.

I need to start up some shit.

Music, Book, English, whatever.

I'm just reminding me and making a promise.

Ok.

PS: I am so glad that I'm done school permanently. I am just so tired of it all. Ugh. Now I am free!

No More Driver's License.

Not for another 2-4 weeks anyway.

It seems like there was a problem with the "production" of the license, which seems pretty bogus anyway. I can't help but be reminded of this, when I first passed my test. I mean, scary dude cancels my exam, then phones me, and now this?

I somehow feel like maybe the government or some secret (evil) group is watching me, using me, and guiding me.

(Out of the blue, I decided to wear a pretty nice shirt today. It became useful when I went and got a new picture. What a coincidence.)

Concentration is something I apparently lack.

I had an exam today (Mining and the Environment) at 8:30am, and I had barely studied. It was a 25 question MC exam, which is far more difficult than it sounds.

Why was I unprepared? I blame Wikipedia, and my concentration.

I spent the entire evening (from 9pm to 1am) reading old The Twilight Zone summaries episodes on Wikipedia. They were so compelling that I found myself unable to pry my eyes off it.

That was disgusting.

I don't know if it was because the course notes were dull, or if the show was just that good.

Ugh.

(Three more exams to go, Thurs/Fri/Sat at 3:30pm).

Anyone paying attention to the news? Bell + Throttling Internet

Basically, Bell Canada has decided that certain internet traffic such as Bit Torrent should be regulated so that the quality of everyone else's internet wouldn't suffer.

Not only have they done this, but they do this to smaller independent ISPs who buy their bandwidth from Bell.
They are deciding that torrents should be slowed down on their networks, which is a serious problem. As a provider, it isn`t their place to regulate the content. They shouldn`t have a say on what is good traffic and what is bad traffic. Believe it or not, there are legitimate uses to Torrent files (Like the show "Canada's Next Prime Minister", which was produced by CBC and legally released on the internet) and they`re hindering it. The real question is that since they're doing this, what else could they eventually decide is taking up too much bandwidth? Videos on the internet like Youtube? Large Podcast files? Voice over Internet? Where will they draw the line?


My take on this is that Bell and other providers shouldn't claim to sell bandwidth if they can't provide it. I mean, there shouldn't be the bullshit "Up to 6 Megabits/s" when they can never deliver up to that speed. Perhaps they should change it to an 'at least' service of 50KBps, which is more like what it is.

When Bell sees that bandwidth quality is facing a problem, they shouldn't be focused on regulating and slowing down certain processes, they should instead focus on expanding the network, and increasing the speed and total bandwidth available. If they don't, the Internet will just get more and more congested.

PS: Please go to here to learn more about this issue. Seriously, its important to us Canadians.

So tired

I sometimes feel like I'd be happier if I just skip all of this finals bullshit.

I mean, do I seriously need them?
What if I don't want to be a Miner?
What if I don't want to be an Engineer?


I sometimes feel like I'd be happier if I just got a simple, well-paying, satisfying job,
and then I remember that there is none.

The Plan

So, instead of working, my goal for this Summer is self-improvement.
I'll try to allot time each day for each of the things I want to do, whether they be writing, or running, or learning a new language, or learning music, or learning a new flawless accent. ( My English is still terrible)


Basically, I think that if I spend an hour on each every day, I would get results. I couldn't really do this if I have to work 12 hour days. I'm going to have to be fairly strict on my protocols, or whatever.

Thoughts? Comments?

Not ready for this exam.

I've been wasting my time on trivial things, now I'm screwed 200%.

Dilemma of Summer 2008

There are two possible outcomes starting this Summer. I could either Work in the Industry, or not work.

At first, the choice seemed pretty clear.

Plan A:
Working would net me the following:
1) Money (which means power)
2) Experience (necessary to generate more money.)
3) Contacts (people who could net me more profit)

...but I stumbled upon some problems with this, namely the lack of the perfect job. So, starting late March, early April, I devised an alternate plan.

Plan B
1) Not work
2) Chill, hang out
3) Go to California
4) Go to Paris
5) Come back, chill some more.

This new plan obviously lacked the key point of Plan A, which is the money. The trade off of this is obviously I get to live in The City, and I get to have spare time. Truth is that I haven't really ever had a long break of just doing nothing. I crave for it like a little boy craves for some delicious and moist candy.

So, I decided to follow Plan B, and I've been subconsciously working against getting a job. I probably only sent out 6-7 resumes this year. (compared to ~30-40 last year). I was content with the decision until I see my friends getting ready and excited for work. It made me want to go too... but alas, its too late.

Until now.




Plan Gamma
This is a really sweet deal. 29/hr would net almost 5000/month. (well, probably close to 3000 after taxes + expenses) With overtime, this could easily be 7000/month. (or again, 5000)

That's a lot of money, and it is really tempting...



Which leads me to Plan 9, or namely
Plan B, but with a better deal.

I can't openly discuss that deal yet, but someday...

What Time Travel feels like.

Time speeds up, yet it feels like each 'second' has lasted for an infinite time. You'd only feel the weight of a small fraction of the time all-the-while it has been bleh. Sight and sound also seemed to move at a different pace, which is extremely weird due to the fact that this ruins causality.
Time doesn't necessarily have to be linear to the person experiencing it. There could be a stray memory of future events which don't make sense until experienced in real time,at which point you're like "Oh, I get it." This also gets me paranoid. How do I know that I am not actually experiencing a delay-of-reality instead of  actually seeing the future?

An analogy would be like navigating a space-probe from Earth. There is a delay in time due to the vast distances of space. Each object moving that you see would have already moved for a while by the time you see it on screen... and by the time your command is sent back up to the probe, you already lost four minutes (time spend in transit)

This gets weird because you know that the things you're seeing is from the past, and you realize that they wouldn't be in effect until the future, so you would have to try to navigate ahead of time. Some people (eg, creators of lost) believe that time is self-coarse-correcting. When travelling through time, you can actually see,experience, and predict possible outcomes and possible realities. You try the best you can to see the most accurate one, but because of the time delay, this becomes impossible. This is when reality would 'melt' away the possible outcome and then actually show the real outcome.

Anyway, I'm gonna have to say "Never again." I don't like to travel through time anymore.
 Before tonight, I would have had lingering doubts about doing that... not anymore.

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Terrible from now until Tuesday

I've got too many things going on.
1) 40 page report that hasn't really been started due next Tuesday (20% of grade)
1b) Presentation on above due Thursday. (haven't started) (5%)
2) Assignments/labs due wednesday, friday (Five, not started)  (approximately 6%, 6%, 4%, 4%, 5%)
3) Final on Tuesday (40%)
4) Talent show tonight (wednesday) (10%)

I'm confident that I can do this, but there's a lot of work left to be done.

PS. I've added three more years to this domain, along with a 3 year whois guard. That's right, you can't find out my address and phone number by doing a search on me anymore!

Scary

So yesterday, I went to the dmv to take my road test. I went to the counter for my appointment... and they told me that some guy named "Johnny" came into the place physically and cancelled my appointment. He knew my drivers license number and he told them that he was my instructor.

Now, I obviously don't know any instructor johnny, so this whole thing creeps me out. I've told maybe three people about this exam, and they wouldn't cancel my appointment, which makes it all the more confusing.


A couple minutes ago, I had a call from a Private Number speaking in chinese asking me about my driving appointment... He asked me my name and if I had an exam yesterday and who booked the appointment. I answered those and then he promptly hung up before I had a chance to answer. The strange thing is that he didn't seem to understand english very well. (which means that this probably wasn't a call from the dmv)

I've been going over the possibilities of how this could have happen...
1) One of the few people I told about the exam wanted to screw with me and cancelled my appointment (highly unlikely)
2) A random malicious person went to the dmv to cancel my appointment so that some other person can take my place. (It isn't hard to read the little calendar thing that they write the DL/name on)
3) Some creepy guy has been following me and is prepared to wage a holy war on me.

I think 3) is the most plausible result...

Maybe this was the terrible thing I predicted would happen last month...