Expression Session

June 25, 2006

Most listened: Bit of Jack Johnson

Current longing: Catching up

Can’t sleep must write but so tired. Sometime I think that I just can’t stop that I keep going as every single second is a new possibility. Its driving me mad. But in general it makes me proud. Everyone is born with some kind of talent and mine to describing and analysing things I think. I so love doing that kinda stuff and appreciate it at its mastery level.

It was my best mates 18th B-day last Tuesday we had a get together beforehand(few hrs ago). Wasn’t a big thing as none of my friends like that kinda stuff. But I throughly enjoyed it. I got to catch up with an old friend of mine from some time ago. Ah good times. Talking to him got me thinking about something thats been plundering the depths of my brain recently and that is going out of your way to do things.

I like to think that I’m a person that puts in the effort to do things, to acknowledge someones present, to use initiative and just downright get business done and then get any future business started early. I’ve discipline myself well I think(refer to previous entries as I’m sure that I’ve talked about this before) and because of that I feel as though I am a greater person.

My best example for this is that I like to say hello and ‘check up’ on people that I know. They might not be my closest mate but if I have affiliated with them in the past then I’d likely have a talk with them. I do this because I know that if someone were to do that to me it would brighten my day a little. I enjoy doing that. Other examples would be if I were studying and sitting next to someone that I know but they don’t know me too well. I’d make conversation with them. As Reggie said @ Nintendo’s 06 E3 conference, inclusion is important, not exclusion. Its good to include people because people can include you and being included is one of mans greatest desires. We need that safe haven or else we crumble. I know that without mine I would.

I’m planning on doing somethings on the end of year holidays with people that don’t do much. To make them feel included.

I also just love conversation, I might not be the greatest speaker as I have a slight stutter but ask anyone who really knows me and they will say that I go to the effort to make conversation.

Few quick points for the wrap. Found a Chinese forum! Yay, now I can learn heaps. Saw FF: AC recently as well, I wanna write a review on it as it was rather disappointing. Got lots of good ideas. Anyways seeya folks thanks for reading. I’m working on cutting out the garbage as I can be a bit of a drag.

-Daniel Johnson

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Prime Destination?

June 23, 2006

Most listened: Not much

Current longing: Beside from the end of year holidays? The new AAF album

I’ve said it time and time again but I am so over year 12. It almost doesn’t seem worth it. People question the relevence/point of what we are learning as in reality we probably ain’t gonna need it. Aye, I haven’t had a school break for almost a year now so I guess its doubling up of sorts.

The other day in Physics I had a brief daydream(its hard to have a long day dream in Physics) about the subjects that I do. I concluded that the only one that sucks is Physics. I love the concept of Physics, I really do. But I have never been one of those science people that can pick up concepts and use them diversely. So I’m doing the hardest science with a class full of sciency people. Eep! I feel as though I struggle to keep up. That once our teach’ gets past the first paragraph of talking my shoulders go limp, I feel a strain on my brain and a sudden tiredness. The energy gained the night before sinks into the soles of my shoes and I become lifeless. Thats literal BTW. I still find joy in the subject.

I’m enjoying specialist maths the most as its the hardcore maths. Rock solid to the bone. Yeah! Theres no gimmicks, just the good stuff. It takes skill to master and I have it pinpointed.

Everything else is pretty good, Chinese is the same old funness, my IT is improving and Maths studies going steady.

I am very proud of myself today, we had our specialist mid year formative(not going for marks) exam, I didn’t do too well because I didn’t revise for it, there were a number of questions that I could have answered if I had revised, so that made me happy. I managed to do the exam and then a Physics lesson with no brain strain, I felt great. I normally have a set amount of energy that I can expire on Physics which has lasted thru the lesson only once or twice before. But this time I did a spesh exam and a Physics lesson. I was so pleased I bragged to about 7 different people about it. Yay!

Been sorting my bookmarks in Opera, they were kinda cluttered before but now they are up to scratch which is brill. I’ve added a few blogs in as well. Altho I don’t have much of a collection as my friends don’t really blog much. I am subscribed to Garions blog but its full of garbage. Ugh. So if you have a decent blog mail me the link danielprimed@gmail.com

Quick round up now. I also found a fabulous forum on China with everything that I need and more, so pleased! So I can tick that off my list. My Grandpa brought some of his photo prints and slides over. I love the slides they have such beautiful quality. He’s done some stunning pictures. It’s gonna take me ages to go thru the slides as I like to really look at the pictures. Chris reckons that we can get ADSL in our area now so we are gonna apply for it soon. Should be good as I wanna pick up more Jamiroquai stuff, depthcore music and some other things.

A few small things on the laptop have been bugging me recently. Winamp doesn’t enqueue songs at all(it did before), since reinstalling Winamp my DVD control buttons have unsynced and I only get feeds from IGN and Gamedev.net every Friday. Hmmmm

Still looking into doing my blog/portfolio site, I’ll get working on it on the holidays in 2 weeks.

Until next time friend. Goodbye and Godbless.

-Daniel Johnson

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Real Time

June 17, 2006

Most listened: Space Cowboy-Jamiroquai

Current longing: Photography

Its crazy this thing that has been bugging me recently. I wrote about in in a unpublished entry, after my last entry something happened that threw this stuff back in my face. I don’t know what to think about it now.

I’ve been a bit of a grump this week. With my brothers absence from school I have had a new feeling of independence. I’m not sure what to make of it but I’m glad that I’ve had it. It’s made me ignore others and focus a bit more which I think is important. I’ve had a hard week but I’ve got thru heaps of work and revision. I am disappointed though as today I just haven’t been able to do much work. Perhaps I need the break. Its bugging me though but I guess its ok. I keep on having breaks were I’m getting busy on the laptop with something, then I feel as though I need a break from the work that I’ve done on the laptop which isn’t exactly school work.

I borrowed a book on the history of Chinese nature which has been good so far, I don’t think that I’ll read the whole thing but its good.

I got my mark back for the specialist test a week ago, I got 76% which was one of the highest marks in the class, the bets being 86%. A bit less than my previous 93% but I am really happy with it. I only got one question completely wrong the rest I knew what I was doing and lost marks for simple errors.

I made 3 pretty good sigs this week, one of a pic from the new MGS Digital Manga, one of Richard Ashcroft which turned out pretty badly and one of toad from one of the Mario games which turned out okish. I also finished my Xin Tian collection of photos, the last few turned out really well.

Thats something thats intrested me in the last few hrs, Photgraphy. I’ve been talking to someone from GreyCobra who is really good at it getting a bit of advice. I need to post up my collection once they are all on dA, I have about 3 left. So then I can get some feedbakc of them. After reading some photography tutorials on Friday night I think that I have a fairly good idea of what he’ll say.

Its my Grandma’s birthday tommorow so we had Chinese for tea and her and Papa came around. On the way to pick up the meal I started talking to him about photography as he use to be in a photography club where people would take a picture and every week a special judge would come in and review them. They had meetings and shared tips and work etc. He’s had his film SLR for about 15yrs now I think. He likes to photography flowers and scenery, mainly close ups though. So he gave me some advice about taking a good photo and his own thoughts about the subject matter. I went thru and showed him some of this other guy’s(Molnies, that has helped me out a bit, Greycobra etc.) photos and we analysed them. Then we went thru my Xin Tian collection.

My overall impression is that they aren’t too bad for a first effort. I could have done much better with a better quality camera, more time and more experience. Some of the shots are a bit for the sake of it, something that looks nice. I managed to frame/crop and prepare them fairly well I just need to get better at composition, lighting etc. I think that my photos are intresting to look at, there are prolly about 5 quite good shots there so I should be pleased with the result. Oh I also managed to do a good job of removing dead spots from my original pictures.

I’m really happy with the results and wanna do some more photography. I’ll keep practicing a bit and see what happens. I’ll be sure to do some research. I wish Chris would hurry up and get my photos on the site as he’s had 4 weeks to do it!

Also been setting up my new blog/portfolio site. Still need to get some ideas grounded.

Thanks for reading

-Daniel Johnson

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Nexfinity

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