Happiness; Coming and Going
March 10, 2008
Originally Written on 8th March 2008
The title is a line from Lucky Man – The Verve a truly inspiring song. Of late this line has moved me considerably.
I want to talk about something that has contained a considerable amount of happiness; this past week. As you may have noticed from my previous post this week has been the first week back at University. What can I say it has been an incredible week, I am so surprisingly delighted with how the week has unfolded.
People
I used the word surprisingly intentionally. This past week has not been enjoyable because I am back at Uni, moving around and seeing people again because frankly I did plenty of that over the holidays. It has been the surprises that are hooking me.
Firstly I should mention that I do a fair bit of traveling, this semester I have to go to 3 university campuses spread over 2 Unis. Usually this results in me catching 6 ‘pieces’ of public transport a day just to get to my most distant campus and back home again. Anyways, I have been simply amazed by the number of friends that I have met on my travels, this week about 5/6 times that I have required to use public transport I have seen and chatted with someone I know. Its not that which surprises me though, its that everyone I have met are different people whom I bump into around the place occasionally. It is like everwhere I go there is somewhere ready to talk to, it has almost reached ridiculous levels.
It isn’t just on the move though. Around Uni, in classes where I wouldn’t suspect to know anyone I am meeting more people and engaging in great conversation. I also heard from one of my Chinese buddies whom has returned to Australia. I met up with him Friday and we are both so stoked about it. He is one of my best buddies and it is great to have him back in Australia. ^_^
Classes
Something else which surprised me was how much so I am enjoying my classes. There are two, new classes in particular that I have been pleased with. One is a marketing course which a friend told me was simply God awful and the other is a course which deals with language and technology. I can already see how the marketing course is going to benefit me and I find it to be an interesting class. The other class is even more so right up my alley, we learn about language and technology, namely computer technology. Some of the topics we are covering are language learning thru technology, blogging, Google, Second Life as communicative tool, the methods and limitations between certain communication methods etc. I am so excited to be a part of only a class of 5 people studying this subject. It is all focused on learning through exploration and flexibility. The course allows us to gain education in something relevant to us. This means that my tutor has encouraged me to study more about blogging. Infact just being in these classes has encouraged me to want to go out and do more research and to an extent write papers on this kinda stuff. Its so complelling.
DP’s Gamer Blog
Thats right, my gamer blog. Theres been a lot of developments here as well. There has been an increase in posting frequency which I admit is unintentional but I just have had to share it. I have reached a state where I simply love writing in my blog and I really wanted to share some more articles.
The most significant surprise is with my traffic which is looking to 2.5x that of the traffic 2 months ago. My RSS readership has peaked as well. Also just yesterday I think I got a plug on the Brainy Gamer podcast. Micheal whom runs the site offered free plugs so I took him up on that offer and nearing the end of the podcast there is an advertisement by Matty Jay. Micheal also added his own kind words afterwards which I am very thankful for and I really wasn’t expecting.
Conclusion
Yeah so this week has been awesome. I am meeting up with even more people at and around Uni. I am throughly enjoying my classes and my blog is picking up steam. I am just so wrapped with how life is progressing.
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Some Reasonings and Stuffs about the Scribble Pad
March 4, 2008
Originally Written on February 18th 2008
There are a couple of main reasons why I post in my personal blog. If I had to be selective I would say that my three main reasons are to:
take a freeze frame of my life or what is on my mind at the time for future reference or interest
- I’m always interested in back tracking what I have done. Sometimes it is to understand how I felt at the time, other times for reference to see what was good or bad about what I was previously doing. So that I can look at what I was doing and then improve on it.
- to organize my ideas in my head so that I can make the best decisions
Every time that I am unsure of what to do in a particular situation and want to make the right decisions I usually let it out on the blog. Generally this starts with me trying to write a certain mold of story. For example I might want to write out the pros and cons, more often than not I get frustrated with this and write about something slightly irrelevant. From there I slowly lure into what I really want to talk about and as I write ideas are bouncing back and forth. Then I’ll hit a point where I know the answer and my problem is solved which leaves me with a page of unfinished writing, irrelevant to what I really wanted to talk about of which I don’t know how to finish. Which means that I awkardly try to conclude on something which I have already lost interest in myself.
So its not about the writing itself but rather what I get out of the writing.
- to write for me, to express myself in a language that directly speaks to me
Its good writing for myself because occasionally I’ll hit a streak and just be pumping out sentences in which I myself can’t get enough of. Its like writing to impress yourself.
I also wanted to add that;
There is a trend that I have always had since I started personal blogging. I usually write up my thoughts and then leave it in the Word document until I feel like posting. I never write an entry and then post it up on the website once I am finished.
Now today is the 18th of Feburary and as I scroll thru my long journal file there are 3 posts in which are pending to be published from about two weeks ago to now. Then there is another 4 posts in which I won’t post up on the website.
Reason being because they are unfinished or just articles which I want to keep to myself. Theres nothing really interesting within them but they bear a significance for myself and will stay that way. You know, it isn’t actually very often that I don’t post something on the website, just seems to be that way recently.
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