p.s. that was just a test.

okay. so let me just say.... WOW!

it actually worked!

that's soooooooo awesome. so right now it's like 4:34am. and here i am testing out this wicked new "blogging-system" which probably will change my world.
okay, so it probably won't change my world... but man. this is so crazily efficient. i check my email like 20 times a day, so this might just work out dandily! and you probably will be hearing more from me. =D

anyhow, so i figure that it's about time for a quick update as to what i've been up to for the past couple of months...

x. overloading at uni was a really good idea round about 8 weeks ago (or however long it's been since uni started)... but now it's just seeming pretty stressful. most times when i go to uni, i still feel more like a staff member than a student. and i'm not liking that too much. i have the luxury of having my desk look over the main pedestrian crossway on campus and every time i look outside, i see hundreds of students rushing about, carrying laptops, assmably rushing to hand in their assignments... and then there are those who are just chilling out,  just walking with friends. when i see all this, i think about how much work has changed my student life. two years ago i was like that and now, i'm at uni four days a week and three of them are spent holed up in an office at a desk in front of a slow computer. isn't that sad?

x. worse, i feel like my social life is inexistent now. but then... i'm pretty sure i felt like this the same time last year. i distinctively remember a conversation that went along the lines of "something's just got to give in my life right now". and then in the end, after months of deliberation, i decided it was serving in church. that, i regret. so now i'm actively serving (not as much as i want to be)... but at least i'm putting it as a priority. my only worry now is how next semester is going to go. i think i have that bad habit of living in the future. some people? living in the past is their thing. that used to be my lifesong, but not anymore! now i'm all about thinking what the next six months are going to be like, or what next year will hold for me.

x. this brings me to say... i've made quite a few decisions about next year actually. i've been forced to really. i know that i can't stay (and don't want to stay) at Curtin. as soon as i'm out of uni (which is most likely to be at the end of next semester), i'm definitely finding a new (and proper) job. not that Curtin hasn't been good to me. it's definitely been good. but i've been applying for jobs and for grad school. depending on how the latter goes, maybe i'll be able to call the eastern states "home"... at least for the next couple of years anyway.

see? there's that future talk again. all this talk has gotten me so serious. but... maybe it's just because it's almost five in the morning. why am i not tired you may ask? maybe it's because i spent all of thursday night "burning the midnight oil" finishing off an assignment that was due on friday. just for the record, that's the first time i've ever done that for a uni assignment. it felt weird. and i definitely don't have a good feeling about how the result is gonna go. but then i guess that's something which makes uni, uni right? so anyhow, i totally slept to catch up for it last night. slept 14 hours. which is something i haven't done in about a year. but it did feel sooooo good. in any case, i ended up waking up at five pm this afternoon, so that's the reason for my  five am psychosis. not something i'll work into my weekly routine i don't think.

next thought.

i don't usually like to think of myself as a shopaholic. i like shopping online, but that can probably be attributed for my love of receiving mail. don't you love getting surprizes in the mail? i do!! i gotta say, i was really popular this past week. got more than 10 letters... which okay i admit sounds pretty lame, but some of them held some good news! and who doesn't love good news? so yes. anyhow back to my original thought. my shopping list of desired items has been growing and growing and growing. and now that list contains the likes of:

x. a canon ixus 100 or 110 - i'm still not 100% decided
x. a ghd straigtener - preferably one with the fat plates (as opposed to the usual skinny ones)...
x. a 32GB iPod touch - my 8GB is pathetic and useless.
x. a new clock - random i know, but mine has stopped working and i've constantly been thinking about buying one that actually suits my room decor.
x. a new car (yes, one with 4 doors this time)
x. a new babolat tennis racquet - i already bought the sneakers, so of course there needs to be a matching racquet!
x. hair rebonding - technically this isn't a purchase... but then again, for $120, it technically is.
x. oh and yes while i'm at it, i'll add hair cut too.

well. at this time in the morning, that's all i really can think about. but i'm sure my list actually is a lot longer.

so anyhow. all i meant to say at the beginning of my little "rant", was that this year has been really interesting so far. hrm. or not. it's more like. things this year have been totally routine, but then there's little stuff coming out of nowhere which is making things interesting.

oh and p.s. just for a random thought, i really love the big taboo. i could play that game forever!

so here's me, keeping things happy.
xoxo. pheebs.

so much has changed.

wow. so you can email to your own blog huh?

who came up with that idea? totally awesome.

everytime i hang out with friends or even when i'm walking alone and just thinking of random things, i always have the thought... woah. i should definitely post about ____________. and then by the time i get home, the thought is totally gone and i never remember what it is i wanted to post about!

so wow. if this whole email thing works... maybe i'll even start posting stuff from my iTouch!

technology never seems to amaze me. watching movies about all those totally futuristic things? totally bugs me out. but now i think about it, so long as i don't have some eviil robot taking over my life... technology's pretty cool.

peace out y'all.


xoxo. pheebs.

*at the tip of my fingers*

so i've always known that i'm not exactly the most technically savvy person out there. but it only really just occured to me that not only am i totally under-utilizing my mac, but i just don't know enough about what the internet and technology has to offer!

so check this out. there's a user who has posted up a list of 25 of his top mac applications that he could not live without. of this list of 25, i currently have three installed on my own mac. these are: skype, handbrake and firefox. okay, so two of which are not mac-specific. that makes this even more pathetic to think about.

now going beyond this, the other 22 - i never even heard of! and to make things worse (or embarrassing), questions like "what's a BitTorrent client?" and "how does RSS feeds work?" crossed my mind.

i asked my brother to explain to me how RSS feeds work. his explanation was clear and simple. but somehow, i just can't get it. but. i have dared to be brave and have now downloaded NetNewsWire to dabble in. i will let you know how it goes!

in any case, i'm sure this is going to be interesting. but somehow, i'm still worried. downloading things from the net, whilst illegal, is moreover worrying for me! i just can't do it. i never know what looks like a good file or what files are going to have viruses. i don't know how people do it! it took me ages to get the concept of a torrent and how that whole thing works. somehow, i'd rather PAY for my stuff and do it the "right" way, rather than have to worry about downloading a worm or a trojan or another crazy computer bug.

hah. "computer bug". i guess really am a noob.

=.=

oh. and don't even get me started on the intellectual property argument. i've been thinking WAYYY too much about it the past few days. actually, you know what? i think i'll keep that topic on the table for a another dawning day. =))