As part of the Induction Week, on Feb 21/22 (weather dependent) I have to go to Rangitoto and climb to the top. Whoo-di-doo. This is supposedly the “group-bonding” activity?
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Archive for January, 2009
Rangitoto "Excursion"
Saturday, January 31st, 2009New cubing record
Wednesday, January 28th, 200912: 00:25.22
11: 00:26.90
10: 00:22.97
9: 00:31.67
8: 00:32.98
7: 00:30.33
6: 00:27.10
5: 00:28.05
4: 00:27.56
3: 00:24.98
2: 00:24.29
1: 00:27.58
Average (excluding slowest and fastest): 00:27.37
Got my AP letter
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009Got the letter for the Accelerated Pathway for my BE. Induction week starts February 20.
A choice extract from the letter:
“Social activities will also be included in the Induction Week to help students form bonds with mentors and to feel part of a special group of students.”
group bonding activites? ^^;
めざせ Pokemon Master
Saturday, January 24th, 2009 きのうの敵はきょうの友って
古いコトバがあるけど
きょうの友はあしたの友だち
そうさ永遠に
“Yesterday’s enemies are today’s friends”
This is an old saying
But today’s friends are also tomorrow’s friends
Yes, even forever
The hills are alive…
Friday, January 23rd, 2009My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds
That rise from the lake to the trees
My heart wants to sigh like a chime
That flies from a church on a breeze
To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls
Over stones on its way
To sing through the night
Like a lark who is learning to pray
results~!
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009After the long agonizing wait over the holidays, the results finally released. And, to my surprise (yes, really), this is what I saw:
So, I’m happy, and thanks to everyone who encouraged me during those hard times. (Studying is hard. I’m serious.)
so far so good
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009So I decided to set up a server at home on my new ADSL2+ connection. With my ~700kbps upload speed, I figure it can handle it.
After a lot of initial confusion about how Linux works and setting up my network at the same time (switching from 10.0.0.x to 192.168.1.x network due to new modem), I finally got it to some sort of working stage. As you can see, it works! I noticed someone (next door neighbour?) was leeching my wireless connection. So, I set up a MAC address block. Nice and easy to deal with.
I should mention that Linux is really cool in that you don’t need to download software from the internet then install it. All you need is to type
apt-get install [program_name]
and it sets everything up for you, including downloading it. Thus, I got all the software necessary for running a server in a snap.
Now, what have I done in the holidays…
- clocked n hours on UT2k4 (multiplayer via hamachi)
- clocked a few hours on MapleStory (lv26 rogue on Bera)
- clocked a few more hours on other games like Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 and Touhou Project series
- got osu!DS to a state where gameplay is mostly fine, but many bugs to still figure out
- built this new pc
… basically I’ve done nothing. Maybe I should try to find a job >.>
What can you expect me to do these holidays? Well, exam results coming out tomorrow, that’ll be interesting. Scholarship results still have a week? Two weeks? No idea. Hopefully I’ll get into AP, and don’t have to pay much fees. (read:goodresultsgoodresultsgoodresults)
Oh, I almost forgot about family camp (what do they call it now? Life camp?) and our small trip to Napier via Rotorua and Hamilton. Hamilton Gardens was pretty nice. We had a swim and spa in Rotorua… at the motel. Napier… we went and saw the gannets, then toured the city by ourselves. I drove the whole way back, which surprisingly only took 6 hours, and we also stopped a couple of times. I’d say driving from Napier to Auckland only takes 5 and a half hours. Top speed… I nearly hit 130km/h. I noticed most cars were going 120km/h anyway =.=
そして日本語は？まだ少しづつ習っています。 いつかぺらぺらに話せるようになりたいですね。