maRtiN’s cUbicLE: The Chronicles of “Being Grown Up” and “Growing Up”…

hmmm…
honestly i don’t really have anything to say now… i’m just kinda…
don’t feel like sleeping hahahah… instead, now i’m listening to good
ol’ ataris n having some thoughts n flashbacks… u know… that kind
of foolish emotional thingy that suddenly pops on ur mind when u sense
things reminding u of another past things… in my case this trigger is
mostly songs…

well
frankly i’m more thinking into my current affairs rather than those
past thoughts… oh n speaking of current affairs, i don’t really into
that virginia tech massacre thingy… yeah i know it is the worst one,
even surpassing that of columbine massacre… but then again, it does
always happen all the time in the states… why? cause ppl can easily
land their hands on guns there… n as for this virginia one, it’s just
one of the many others… out of all the students, it just happen to be
that poor korean bloke getting frustrated being bullied by some rich
fuckers…but don’t get me all wrong… i do feel sorry for that tragedy as well…

my current
affairs… urmm, well… these days have haunted me as the informal
release of term 2 grades is coming… so far i’ve gotten 3 modules’
grades released… n to be honest they are kinda out of my
expectation… just like what i had back in term 1… i don’t expect
such bad grades for my CT n stats… yet i’m flattered n actually quite
pleased with my TWC grade… those things have left me wonder… how on
earth do they actually grade students in SMU? why were modules that i
am quite confidence at actually turned out to pull my cumulative GPA
down? n on the other hand, why did i turn out to get better grades than
i predict for other modules? these 2 terms that i’ve passed still left
me with no clue of how to actually cope up with this whole freaky
university system…

so yeahh… really this one is just a rambling of thoughts… just feel like jotting this one down, so i did…

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soooo… last time i was complaining in my last fs blog post about fs’ stupidity in which they combined their ‘comments’ altogether with ‘testimonials’… having been away from my laptop for like couple of days, i was shocked when i opened this music blog i usually visit on a daily (or perhaps, hourly) basis. fyi, i always visit some music blogs that post full albums of bands that fits my style… blogspot server-ed blogs like imthescene, thescenealbums, n couples of others just like the kinixtion link i posted above… speaking of which, some of u might have clicked on the kinixtion link n wonder where the hell is the music n the albums since there’s only 2 useless posts n one pure white blank background… n that’s exactly why i was shocked the time i opened that blog 20 mins ago…

reading the comments on both posts n consequently opening this forum thread (which, if u scroll to the end u’ll find out the whole story), it seems that kinixtion had been sued for posting albums of eyeball records’ artists on their blog… n what’s more funny of it, eyeball records sued kinixtion for a fixed amount derived from a moronic reasoning that one access to a particular post equals to one album being purchased…!!!

personally, i don’t think that kinixtion is the ultimate wrong party… i found out many great bands through this blog that i wouldn’t have otherwise found… it is the quickest one in terms of updates as compared to other music blogs… n as for me, i did download music from kinixtion, but i did bought cds i think worth buying even though i digitally had them downloaded already…!! i had the new ataris cd with me, new found glory’s coming home album, the used’s berth, n some others… n one other great thing of kinixtion is that they have so many posts ranging from well-known bands like red hot chili peppers up to those out of the blue such that u actually discover great music!!

but then again, i know they infringe the mighty copyright act… they take away people’s royalty… but hey, how much goes to the artists’ pockets off of one cd being sold? they make more money through concerts! n how can they make money through concert? by more people coming to the concerts! n how can more people come to concerts? by having more people aware that the bands exist and that they play good music! n that’s exactly one good thing kinixtion do!!! i, as i’m sure many people do, discover great music from such music blogs!!!

speaking of royalty, copyright, n shits like that, i once read this official myspace blog of funeral for a friend, in which they talk about how they are done with recording their new album which will be released this may, n they say, "…we seriously can’t wait until May for you guys to hear it, or maybe earlier if it leaks on the net (hey, we’re realists!)…" u see… even artists are realists! hohoh… i like these blokes… hahahah…

so yeah… with kinixtion going down, i lose one out of couples of music blog i know… but the journey will always go on… hahahh… leave me a msg if u want the URLs to these blogs i know… hahah… n keep the great-bands-n-music-found-outs continued… hohohoh…

oh n btw, do visit my newly made myspace account here n do add me to ur friend list if u have myspace account… hohohoh…

omg FS is really turning to a bloody stupid thing… last time i opened it (that was the time when i update this blog with this last post),
it still has ‘comments’ separated from ‘testimonials’… but to my
surprise, they combined it together when i opened it just now… on
your profile, it’s now read "Testimonials and Comments for
<your-name-here>"… the first thing that popped up to my brain
was, "what the hell??? so why did last time they introduce ‘comments’ at
the first place?"

up to that point, i still think that it is okay having them combined together… it won’t hurt anyway… so yeah i had three testimonials (which is now regarded just as good as comments, so let’s call this newborn thing ‘commentmonials’) waiting to be approved now… n as what i usually do, i reply testimonials as soon as i get them… so i finished typing to reply metha’s testi… n when i hit the ’submit’ button, the page refreshed itself just to tell me that there is an error because it said "You have reached your maximum allowable comments for this profile"… n i went "what the ff…"

the snapshot of the stupid refreshed page:

so now these genius ppl from FS have cleverly combined comments and testimonials together, and cunningly limit everyone’s allowable amount of commentmonials for anyone else?? what now??? a brilliant way to cut down its server’s overload isn’t it?? bloody stupid fiendster team!!

i’m sooo gonna make a myspace profile… to bad not so many ppl i know using myspace…

after what feels like a lifetime curse, this term is finally over… i’d say that it’s not an exaggeration, taking into account all those lousy project mates (well, some of them ARE, really), some shitty profs with their boring-long-lectures, and the fact that these 6 modules i was taking will surely be the "GPA deflator" for my cumulative GPA… really those 4 exams are fugly horrible (imagine having 120 MCQs in 2 hours for econs n 4 essays with topics form out-of-the-blue-in-the-corner-of-the-textbook for TWC) n i’ve never had enough sleep for the past i-don’t-know-how-many-weeks… i’m pretty relieved by the fact that i am well alive after that 13 hours sleep last night with the thought of freedom after the 15 weeks journey…

anyway… that’s exactly why i never opened fs recently n never update this blog… hahah… really last term was a disaster… all i can do now is just praying that i won’t fall on the end-tail of the bell curve… hohoho… ok let’s see what we’ve missed… ermm… my birthday on march 25… kucing, mini n andri came… literally spent a weekend with them… i know i shud’ve spent time studying but hey come on… who spent their birthday studying anyway?? hohoho… so yeah… we had fun… hmm… thanks to all who remembered n greeted me… what else ya?? the rest is barely filled with project meetings n catching-ups for exams… bener2 kaya gak ada idup hahaha…

n even though this term’s over i won’t go back indo straight away… i’m taking marketing on summer term n i’m quite excited bout it… it’s not the summer term per se which made me excited, but rather the feeling to start a new thing… to commit to a new activity rather than being burdened by this term’s stuff… to finally (i guess) being able to study as well as having real fun here… well at least summer term i’m only taking one module so i thought it won’t be that much of a burden…

hmm… what else…. actually i had a lot to say throughout the hiatus, but forget all those by this point in time… hahah… on a lighter note, my music library is now a staggering 21.17GBs… i really need to buy an external hd for a backup hahaha… oh yea, also went to all the mass throughout the easter week n visiting several catholic churches around school… n that’s also one thing why i lack of time studying… of all the weeks in this year, easter week is on week 14 while the exam is on week 15! anyway again, glad it’s over hahah…

so yeah… just an update to tell i’m still alive hohaohoho… now the time has come for slacking around before summer term kicks in… n i’m really hoping this term doesn’t pull my GPA down… or if it really does, i wish it won’t be too bad… hohoho…

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