Archive for October, 2004
Friday, October 29th, 2004
There are just a few things on my mind right now:
Georgia Tech vs. Virginia Tech football game
Wow, what a let down. I was so angry at first… then I realized that it’s really just a game and I cooled myself down. Our team was doing so well in the first half and they blew it all within a couple minutes to victory. Now, I feel sorry for our team because they’ve worked so hard and all their work seem to go to waste. I was so excited for Georgia Tech and wanted an upset so bad… as I was walking back, I couldn’t help congratulating some of the VT alumni that were leaving from the stadium. I told them that their team had a great comeback but it really broke a lot of hearts of GT fans. The alumni sympathized with our loss but thanked me for the congratulations.
Test to Study For…
I have a test at 2pm tomorrow. I am planning on studying for a couple of hours tonight and getting up a bit early tomorrow to continue studying before the test. Wish me luck! 
Introverted
I realized that I am being very introverted most of the time these days. It used to be I was mainly extraverted, but nowadays… I don’t particularly feel social. I remember being such a brat back when I was a child – talking loud about stupid little things, being proud and arrogant. Now, I am mostly quiet and seek time alone as a form of relaxation.
Work
Work is going pretty well. I am glad to be working again and making the money I’ll need for tuition and my future. I’ll just need to save more money than I used to when I had my previous job. I think I found a negative aspect of work though – I guess I saw this coming. Since my weekends are really just all work – I feel left out at times when things with friends are going on. I’ve said no to things so many times now, I guess my friends are starting to think that I value my work more than friendship. I hope my friends understand this will never ever be the case.
My Faith
Surprisingly, I think that my relationship with God has become just a little bit closer within the past month or two. It’s true that because of work, I don’t have time to go to Church on Sundays, my attendance to Bible studies (on any level) has been zero this semester… but I feel I’ve took a step in the right direction alone. I’ve had a couple of friends help me just last year while I was questioning my beliefs… they’ve held my hand and lead me one small step at a time. I no longer feel I need the hand holding but this might be because I know that if I faulter with a step, I can always seek spiritual help from those friends again.
Anyway… about the whole studying for the test thing… I’m going to do so for an hour or two. Have a great night
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Monday, October 25th, 2004
It has come to my attention that many Georgia Tech organizations and students buy hosting for their web sites. I suppose personal prism accounts and cyberbuzz accounts do not meet their needs.
I am going to provide free web hosting for any GT-related people; this includes organizations, students, faculty, staff, and even alumni related to Georgia Tech. The hosting account will be provided with the following by default:
Domain Hosting
50 MB Web Space
5GB of Monthly Bandwidth
E-Mail Hosting (mail@yourdomain.com)
Subdomains (http://sub.yourdomain.com)
FTP Access
Perl/CGI/PHP Usage
2 MySQL Databases
FrontPage Extensions (if needed)
Cost: Nada!
It will be hosted by the same server that is currently hosting this web site and according to my record, this server is pretty stable and has an uptime of 60 days (last time it was rebooted was because of a kernel recompile).
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Thursday, October 14th, 2004
I know I have to work 2 12-hour shifts on Saturday and Sunday but I have been looking forward to it since I got off this past Sunday’s 12-hour shift.
This school week sucked. From Monday to Thursday, we had papers due, labs to do, lab homeworks to do, homeworks to do, a quiz, and a test.
Let me explain what this really means:
The paper was due on Wednesday and I worked on it all tuesday night. Spent about 3+ hours in lab trying to get the material ready so I can write about it. Then, I spent the 8 hours after the lab time to write the paper. I finished most of it so I had to wake up early on Wednesday morning to get it done.
We had two homeworks due during lab time this week… this was done in about 7.5 hours on Monday night in the College of Computing building. We got out of the computer labs at some time between 3am to 4am.
Wednesday – we had the actual lab period for the week which took a little less than its intended 3 hours. At which time, had something quick to eat, and hit the library. From 8pm to 4am – we were studying like crazy.
Thursday – I had a quiz in an elective math class in the morning. The quiz wasn’t that bad that it just seems like the quiz always is scheduled at the same day as the test I was studying for the past night. At noon, I took the test. The class is usually 1.5 hours long but our professor thinks that we can pull out finishing the test within 60 minutes. I work through 3 out of 4 problems because I skipped one I didn’t fully understand… the three problems took me 50 minutes to do. Just as I was finishing up the 3rd question, I hear the professor say: “10 minutes left”.
Now in light of all that crap, I felt free after I got out of that class. This is why I’ve been looking forward to work during the weekend all week… that and I think I’m driving to Charlotte after work Sunday night.
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Sunday, October 10th, 2004
So just last night, I had a freaky dream…
It was vacation time for me and some people I knew; it could have been my family or my friends. Anyway, I was in Japan for some reason in a relatively high-rise building overlooking a mountain of some kind. The mountain had a snowcap so it must have been rather tall but I think it was far away because the mountain looked so small out of the window.
Anyway, the foundation of the building started shaking a little. Everyone in the office looked out the window, and we saw this giant shockwave of some kind coming toward us from far away. We were all on a floor where the entire outer wall of the building was glass so we could see clearly what was going on outside. It looked like a reactive wave from an explosion or bomb or something except it wasn’t fiery (I think it was more dusty and sandy)… imagine that something hit the Earth at a very high velocity, creating a giant wave from the center point of the impact on outward. This wave was huge and coming toward the building really fast from far away.
Everyone was in shock as to what they were witnessing… then we finally started to embrace for impact. I hit the ground and got myself under a desk and got in the “head down and cover your head with your hands” position as taught back in school in preparation of hurricanes. And for a split second that I braced for chaos to hit, I was thinking about how much impact this wave would have on the building’s structure because if the structure faltered in any way – there was no way for any one of us to survive in the building.
Then it happened, as the trembling of the building got more violent, the wave must have hit the building. We felt the final impact of the wave and it also broke the windows of the building. All I remember is hearing glasses shattering and falling on me – and I either woke up or moved onto another dream.
I hadn’t had much time to think about it since I was working most of the day but now that I think about it, I feel like I had a small glimpse of what the victims of 9/11 felt like… it was nothing but terrifying. Not only because I was completely helpless as to what would happen once the wave hit the building but because I was completely clueless as to what kind of event could have triggered such an event.
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Wednesday, October 6th, 2004
I don’t go into politics often in my blog because I just simply can’t stand it… but nearing the Presidential Election 2004 and all the media attention for this one topic, I wanted to express my views, which shouldn’t make you change your opinion since they are my opinions.
Are you influenced?
Anyway, here we go – everyone needs to formulate their own opinions about the Presidential candidates and Vice Presidential candidates. This means, unless you know you’re not going to be influenced by a third party (friends, media, and so-called political analysts), do not read the newspaper or listen to the news. This also includes that you turn the TV off promptly after the debates so you don’t hear all the “analysts” pretend like their opinions matter in the election. They don’t, not at all.
Watch the news but be aware that the media may be out to influence your decision. Don’t think the media is completely unbiased – I see them as sources of current events and not opinion-makers.
Kerry vs. Bush
What are these two candidates arguing about on the issue of Iraq? I simply don’t understand how people are debating on which candidate will make a better President of the United States in respect to the War in Iraq. They both have already said that they will succeed in Iraq. Unless the war in Iraq ends just before the election… the war will continue in Iraq no matter who is elected President as both candidates have already said that they will do whatever is necessary to win in Iraq.
So those of you who like Kerry just because you didn’t like the fact that Bush ordered the pre-emptive strike against Iraq need to think about what to say when Kerry continues the war if he’s elected. Those of you who say Bush have murdered all those American men and women fighting for a free Iraq need to understand that the war will continue even if Kerry becomes President. In a War, there are always casualties. Kerry becoming the next president doesn’t mean that all of our Soldiers in Iraq will become bullet-proof and there won’t be anymore casualties.
Neither candidate gave specifics to what they were going to do in Iraq after they became President – if anything, this is the most important part. They both might have said: “I can make it happen in Iraq – I’m not going to get into specifics of how I’m going to do that, but vote for me!”
War in Iraq
How many of you supported the War? How many of you still do? I understand that the way things are going in Iraq isn’t exactly how everyone envisioned it. The news I’ve heard on a daily basis for the past six months is certainly not what I expected when I tuned in as Shock & Awe began my sophomore year. I don’t like the fact that our people are changing their mind about the War just because it’s not exactly going as they’ve imagined.
Anyway, after watching the Presidential and Vice Presidential debates so far – just wanted to get that out.
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Friday, October 1st, 2004
My estimate about finding a job within about a month of being laid off by my previous employer was right.
Went into the office to interview on Wednesday and by Friday, everything has been decided and I told them I’ll be working for them. The pay is okay but a little below what I expected… but maybe I had high expectations.
I’ll be working in downtown Atlanta, like maybe a five minute walk from the Omni Hotel and CNN center but like 10 minute drive from school. I’m rather excited about working again, it’s similar to the job I had before except I actually work at the office during the weekends and work couple hours everyday during the weekday from my apartment. I love this kind of work, especially because of my interest with linux servers and my wanting to learn more and more about them. Of course, this isn’t the kind of job that people expect a computer engineering student to go into… but then again, I’ve never wanted to work for companies that we are expected to want to work for. Actually, I’ve mentioned this before, but I want to either work for a small firm or start up my own.
So there are multiple reasons why I decided to accept this job:
1) Money – I need the money or else, I’ll be broke in about another month.
2) Tuition – Yea so, there seems to be a high possibility of a tuition hike for the spring semester and the following fall semester.
3) Experience – The 1.5 years I’ve worked my previous job, it seems to have given me a fair share of experience in this industry but there are still more than enough things to learn.
4) School – I get so sick of thinking about school and grades that I need a break from school. If I wasn’t doing anything during the weekends, I’d certainly have school in the back of my mind all the time. I’d hate it. Working a peaceful job during the weekend gives me a break from Tech.
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