A Hectic Semester Start

It's almost 5 in the evening. It's the start of an another new semester, and things weren't looking too well from my side.

I registered for six subjects this semester; Professional Communication Skills (PCS), Control Systems, Communication Systems, Analogue Electronics II, Electromagnetic Theory (EMT) and Probability and Statistics (PNS). Now, there's some problem with me taking PCS. See, this morning, my friends and I went to the PCS class at 10. At that time, EMT Lecture 1 is also on, but we went to the Lecture 2 which is 11 to 1. However, at 12 till 1, EE students are supposed to have their PNS lecture. So, in short, at 12 to 1, our EMT lecture clashed with our PNS lecture.

When I told Dr. Naufal, the EMT lecturer, about the issue, he said,"It's not his problem." Which is true. The clash resulted from us having the PCS class at 10; if we're free at 10, we can have EMT from 10 till 12 instead, and not clash with PNS. Problem is, I don't want to delay PCS till another semester, or even after internship. Sure, I can, but by that time, the other subjects I'm supposed to take would be full with presentations and projects. I don't want to drop PCS now that I already registered for it, and have made my timetable especially with PCS in it.

Anyway, I've talked with our lecturer for PNS, Dr. Ratna. She said that such a problem occurs every new semester, and she promised us to see Dr. Naufal about the matter. Knowing Dr. Naufal, I know how hard it would be to try and talk him into changing the timetable, but I'll keep my hopes up anyway.

Anyway, I went to the ROBOCON early semester meeting last night, and after undergoing a serious change of organisational structure, I was made the new Director of Media and Publication. Congratulations to me.

Back In UTP With Enol and His New PC

The title is pretty much self-explanatory.

I arrived around 5 in the evening. Took all of my stuff to my room, and bid goodbye to my family.

Gad's got his most wanted Macbook already. It's leaking so much pure ownage, it makes Enol's laptop look like one of Mydin's disposable RM5 calculator. Except that, Enol had also upgraded to an actual desktop PC, with widescreen monitor and Intel Core 2 Quad processor. SO brand new, the monitor's got no icon whatsover. Blank. Got it, Enol? Blank?

Anyway, I'm sitting in front of my computer here, just finished unpacking my stuff and putting everything where it should, or almost all of it - the rubber mat in the upper cabinet is missing - and faced with a frustating poblem.

My 120Gb external harddisk isn't working! Damn! Must've been during that time when it fell of the top of the CPU when I was packing! Well I didn't think much about it that since, well, I was busy packing, but...damn! All the Youtube robot videos I downloaded during the holidays and the movies and the rest of the pics, documents, mangas, animes, backup documents, Whose Line videos.....

Like I said, damn. I wish I could bring it to the shop from which I purchased it and ask to see if I can in any way repair it, or at least recover all the data inside. Course, chances are that it's naught, but well,I've got so many friggingly important stuff inside, that I just gotta try. Try, and believe in it.

And all this happened when I just bought a new 500Gb internal HD....!

20 years of existence...

I'm 20 years old now.

Well, 20 years and one month old. My birthday's on June 16. In true Sodrohu fashion, I'll posting on this rather, rather late.

Normally, as a tradition, my family and I would go out and have dinner at Geylang, near the Tebrau Straits in Johor Bahru. However, that day, I was in KL. Wanting to celebrate my birthday anyway, my mom, bro, sis and I went out to dinner at the Cheng Ho restaurant in Wangsa Maju. It was Monday night, and turned out on Mondays the restaurant is closed. Figures. Anyhow, we settled at another nearby restaurant and had dinner there instead.

Being 20, for me, is.......creepy. On one hand, I knew that I am getting older. On the other hand, I also knew that I'm getting nowhere near as mature as I wanted to be. Three years ago, I was rather childish. Now, I'm getting better, perhaps not childish, but otherwise still immature. Coupled with the fact that I'm supposed to graduate and start working in 3 years' time, it freaks me out even more.

Oh well, I guess time and experience will help. Godspeed.

Is this blog dead?

Looks like it.

I haven't been updating this blog for an entire five months. That's a new record. Previously, it was two months. But truth be told, I don't want this blog to die, with this being my only personal blog. I have lots of stuff to write here, about the world, and everything else that interests me. I want to share with the world my view on the local and global issues in today's world. At least, that's the idea back then 2006 when I first started this blog. So then, what happened?

Turned out that maintaining a blog is a lot more demanding than I expected. Okay, so the prospect of logging on and typing some stuff on the computer for around half an hour every week or so isn't really that troublesome. Then again, I'm not the kind of guy that's good at doing stuff consistently, unless you count sleeping, eating, crapping and the like. Sometime after I started this blog, I just don't feel like updating no more. Not for the lack of things to post though; I had tons of them dwelling in my head. And that, unfortunately, is the only place they are going to dwell.

Call it laziness. Call it slacking off. Call it whatever you want to call it. This syndrome affects all of us, and it extends way beyond just blogging. It can happen to any of us, to anything that requires constant work done.

Well, not all of us. Other people can go on and on doing the same thing every week, either blogging or else, regardless of how tiring and inconvenient it is. Guess that's what they call passion. And I guess that's what I lacked.

Is this blog dead? No, but it's not too alive either. Guess I'll need to really start posting more frequently, and put some more passion into it.