Rolling with it

August 19, 2005

Well that’s one way to describe me ATM. I spose that I’m feeling pretty happy. I’m putting in the usual effort and I’m rolling with it. Hmm just like that Oasis song lol. Anyways I’ve had 2 maths tests this week, I managed put in as much as I could with them and am pretty satisfied. I have a group of 3 chinese assignments to do but they aren’t due until ages. A 600 character piece, damn that’s gonna be hard. And a Maths assignment. I started and finished my The Crucible assignment in English and to a good level. So I’m staying consistent with school.

I’ve been reading(on my own accord, we had to watch the video in English) The Crucible which has been pleasantly interesting.

My site has also been kicking up the success, we have plenty of forum members and its at least twice as fast as the old forum which is great. The forum is so well set out and we have some cool mods in it as well. The site has been getting a few updates too and many of the inital errors should be gone in a few days. Especially the terrible forum errors. I made another wallpaper too, I’ll get it up on dA soon. I recommend that you check out my site and forum, the links are in my sig.

With other forums I’ve decided what I will do, I decided not to post at E-mpire, I didn’t really want that anyway. I have focused most of my attention on NRX, Adelindie and Aussie-Nintendo. Mainly NRX. I still need to continue my argument with Grover on AI. I’ve been doing heaps of research. AN is fine, I haven’t really been doing much there.

dA is going great, I’ve hardly put up many of my walls(don’t worry there’s more than just abstract I’m just doing it based on my sites order). I’ve received heaps of full views and a few comments which is great. I need to add some favourites though. I have about 5 in mind. I’ll get onto that soon.

I should also have a job interview this week, I need to get it for the holidays. So that I can pick up the games, cds and music player stuff as well as putting money towards next years China trip. I need to catch up in games, CDs are fine but in total there are like 30 cds on my list to pick up sp lots to look forward to then.

With the debate that Grover and I having I have needed to some some surveys and overall general research on the PSP and a few other things. I would have had all of my material if my damn history didn’t delete itself. I am working very hard to ensure that I put in a good word. Thing is though, since the argument is on lots of things games based(and me being a pretty much single sided Nintendo fan) its been difficult to get a overall perspective, so that’s what I’ve done. And I’ve been thinking about picking up another console(non-Nintendo), I really dislike the approach of the PS3 and Xbox360 and will pick up a Revolution(so many incentives, it links to my DS, online Nintendo games(OMGz), I can get games that I’ve missed in the past, its meant to be the new standard of games and I still don’t know much about it, so theres heaps to look forward to), the PS2 and Xbox are too old and the support for them are dying(no more Xbox games being made :/). Plus there are hardly any games that interest me on those consoles. So I have been looking into the PSP, it looks to fill the void of a regular portable consoles(DS is diff. approach, this is more normal). It looks to have heaps going for it and from my research there are already(Aus. Launch) 3 games that I would like to buy on it. I don’t really care for the media stuff too much. But I want to pick one up. Price is a major issue(specially when you want to pick up a $400 music player) so I have made up my mind. If there are at least 15 or so games that intrest me and it comes out cheaper(like $100), in a diff. colour and has some sort of Platnium range and some progress in its overall development(ie internet) then I might pick it up. Maybe.

To finish, I’m busy for the next few weeks, having a 3 round cycle of visits to friends places, ending in a sleep over..I think. And I have to prepare for the Duke of Ed canoe challenge another great event, especially when one of my mates that doesn’t do it can join along(again). Chris(my brother) and I are also planning a few parties to have over the school holidays, we need a job first. So very much to look forward to…but it always seems like that.

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Surrealism

August 8, 2005

Wow lets use this thing eh?

I feel so surreal ATM. I feel as though I have reached a point that I’ve been wanting for ages and now I’m not sure what to do. I have found my true identity, to the truest point. Its so good to be realistic to yourself. I am not trying to be anybody or anything, I am me and I feel more me than ever before. Its not like I’ve been much of a follower though, a bit a few years back in say year 5 or something like that with some of my friends and that kinda lasted till about year 7 when I moved schools. Although first year there I use to be a bit of a moocher myself. lol, other than that though I have been 100% Dan and have been loving it. But now I feel as though for some reason I have seen enlightenment.

I spose that you could say that I have been enlightened by learning from others mistakes. Unbeknown to them lol. I’ve seen people that are ‘fake’, they try and be someone that they aren’t just so that they think that they are socially acceptable. They are lying thru themselves. I am so glad that I am me and not fake like many people tend to be. That I don’t need to change if my friends change, unless its me. That I don’t copy what other people do and that I’m not a bland trend. God thank that.

So what else has been going on with me then. I picked up 7 CDs the other day:
In between dreams-Jack Johnson
GTO original Soundtrack-Tokyo pop

(What’s the story) morning glory?-Oasis
Feels just like it should single-Jamiroquai
Rush of blood to the head-Coldplay

Karma and Effect-Seether
Feel good Inc. Single-Gorrillaz

My brother also picked up:

Live in Texas-Linkin Park
Reanimation-Linkin Park

So that’s another thing that has made my life so surreal lately, I’m not use to getting so much music.

My forum life has also seemed to taken a shift. I’ve started to realize a few things. You see when I started off on forums I was a complete spammer, I learnt from my mistakes though and became a better poster to the redefined person that I now am. Now that I’ve learnt all of this I’ve started to realize somethings and just how pathetic people like me really were. They were just a pain in the fork for the rest of the community. ATM on my main forum of interest (well generally ATM its not really); Advanced Media Network there are a few people that were like me, irrertable.lmao yeah just like me. They bombarde every thread and talk just utter trash. Its funny though to see what happens when it comes down to a thread with intense debate going on, lol. So yeah, from what I learnt at the start of the year, when AMN was in the pits I’d just move over to another board that I’m on for a few days. I’m on 4 ATM, I mod at one, admin at my own and the other one is a local game indie site. So I haven’t been spending much time there. The local game indie site; Adelindie is actually on a roll of good conversation and its going really fast actually. I’ve been talking there. I’ve been having a debate with this guy about DS and PSP. Its good, I could do a much better job if I actually knew a bit more but I’m going well. So that’s another thing that seems t be so surreal to me. A central forum. I’ve started to grow a bit out of AMN actually, well not grow out, its just that its annoying with these people around, not to mention community problems that have been evident to me for a while. Such as many new members not getting the credit that they deserve yet members that the “veterans” that stay mainly to the general discussion and well aren’t very veteran enough, well thru my eyes. Its just frustrating when a vet posts to a game thread and they say something rubbish and then everyone follows onto it while some new member that posts a few times every week gets ignored. Its just frustrating. I try and have a good variety of posts. It’s a pity that the graphics board is deadish, I really want to get things happening there. So I’ve been thinking of maybe spending a bit more time at this board that my brother is on. Its very professional and has many many more veterans that are actually worthy of their title. Pity that the site is pretty much hated by AMN likewise. Its called E-mpire. It’s a good place. I think that I’ll just post at both places, just to check my options.

School has been another thing that has been eating up my time. I seem to go to school and then come home and spend ages revising and doing assignments. Ah well, I’m a hard worker and these are my final years. Its hard though I never seem to have time to program><. I need to get further in that. I’ll make the most of it in my Uni years I spose.

On one last note. I apologize for such a lack of work, I’ve been waiting for my brother to get the next version of our site up, as everything is tagged with the address. Well wallpapers. I’ll leave my sigs on our site. We have everything set up we just need to test really, damn web space company taking ages.>< Expect a lot of funky stuff from me soon.

Thanks for reading my first journal. Sorry that it was too long. I had heaps to spill.

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