Crucify Me

I am REAAAAAAALLLLLLYYYYY sorry. Please DON'T crucify me. September is almost done, and I just realized I haven't even blogged ONCE for this month. 残念だね。 I've been busy with school though. As in really busy. The sort of busy that barely leaves you time to sleep, because you have to get your Facebook time in.

But...as a medical student, I digress.

Yeah, that's right. Since I last updated my blog, a lot has happened. I am now officially a medical student enrolled at the University of the West Indies School of Medicine, attached to the Western Jamaica Campus.

The Good:
I'm in medical school.

The Bad:
I'm still stuck living at home.

Seriously, I was really counting on leaving home this year, but I'm stuck down here. Oh well, I'll just have to make the best of it. Nevermind the fact that there isn't a single good-looking honey (by my standards) on the campus.

I must admit however, that I'm quite fond of the way people's facial expressions change when they talk to someone and find out that the person is a medical student. Presented below is a common list of reactions I tend to get:

1) "They offered medicine down here?"
2) "Oh my God, that's so cool!"
3) "You're going to be a doctor?! But how?! You're an asshole!"
4) "Oh cool, have you cut up dead bodies yet?"
5) "Take my wet convulsing vagina NOW, Dr. Robinson! You know, for SCIENTIFIC purposes and all that..."

Medical what the F-?

The picture of me above was taken in the bus when we went to the main UWI campus for a special matriculation ceremony. Take note the epic luggage under my eyes in the picture. They're nothing compared to the size of the bags under my eyes at the moment. I pretty much like all of my classes, except for Introduction to Medical Practice, which is only slightly more interesting than watching paint dry, although I'll admit that 80% of my stress and tiredness comes from the reading I have to do before and after Histology class in order to be able to keep up.

The rundown of the situation is that in five years, and after spending couple million dollars (in JMD) in tuition fees, I'll be legally qualified to put the letters "Dr." in front of my name. Hence, I would become Dr. Lord Gavin Robinson.

After graduating, I'm most likely going to specialize in neurosurgery, but I'll admit that medical research holds a certain sort of intrigue for me. I see no reason I can't do both. (And pimp on the side to make ends meet).

There's an interesting study out about fellatio (layman's term: blowjob) and a reduced incidence of breast cancer. Here's the link.

Wait, what you say? It's a practical joke? Maybe...for now it is. But when I get into medical research, I intend to prove this theory.

Single-handedly.

Peace out,
Dr. Lord Gavin Robinson.

Green Eggs and Ham-onella Poisoning: The Reincarnation of Dr. Seuss

The title of this blog post is a reference to a book by Dr. Seuss called Green Eggs and Ham. Dr. Seuss is the same person who wrote "The Cat in the Hat", if you didn't already know. Dr. Seuss isn't his real name. His real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel. He had a rather...interesting life. Case in point, he used to make propaganda cartoons in World War 2. Here are some of them that I found:







If you don't know what a war bond is, wiki it.

Anyway, as usual of course, I'm digressing. I really made this post to say that about half an hour ago, I made deviled eggs. For the record, when I was writing this, it was 3:17 AM. Anyway, the best part is, I don't even have any symptoms of salmonella poisoning (yet).

Here's a picture. You can ignore the toast; I was just hungry, so I grabbed a slice of bread and stuck it in the toaster, then slapped it onto the plate.



Not bad. I have to send a shout-out to my friend S-K Sucky, for helping me out when I panicked. I was looking on the eHow instruction page for making deviled eggs, and I realized I didn't have any mustard or mayonnaise in the house. She suggested substituting the mustard with black pepper, and told me that the mayonnaise wasn't really necessary. Well, she was right. It tasted awesome. I added salt, black pepper, cinnamon and vinegar to the yolk mixture. Epic win, if I do say so myself.

Next time I try it though, I hope I have all the ingredients on hand. There are some other recipes that I've seen around the internet that I want to try. Here are some links:

1) Chocolate Chip Cookies - It's not so much not knowing how to do it, or not having the materials, as it is finding the TIME to make them. It seems the only time I can get some peace to cook is at like 1:30 AM in the mornings. So be it. I hereby declare that ungodly hour to be Gourmet Time in this household!



2) Log Cake - I dunno about, "Yule" log cake, as opposed to say, "Summer Holidays" log cake or "Losing Virginity" log cake or "Breaking Up With Your Girlfriend Because She Was Cheating on You and Gave You an STI" log cake, but what I do know is that log cakes look so PRETTY! For this one, the issue is definitely getting the icing and the tools to make the decorations. They don't come cheap (the icing AND the tools I mean), and I'm on a budget (it's called the broke-ass negro budget). I definitely want to make it someday. Maybe before summer's done, who knows?



3) Pound Cake - This is probably the easiest thing on my list to make. It's plain, but of course, I intend to make minor modifications to flavour it to my will. I don't have any particular flavour in mind yet though. I have the skill and I almost always have most of the basic ingredients for Pound Cake on hand, but the idea of making one has just never crossed my mind at the right time. I'll probably try this sometime before the end of next week. Of course, I'll blog about the results, just because I love you guys. I'll even share some with you all. ^_^



4) Chinese Dumplings (Type 1) (Type 2) - This is probably going to be the recipe whose ingredients are going to be the hardest to source. I can already figure out some simplifications to replace the more exotic ingredients, but I'm at a loss for some of them. Like Napa cabbage, I can probably replace that with ordinary cabbage I find at the market. And this may be a long shot, but maybe I can replace bamboo shoots with escallion. As a side note, the Japanese call these edible bamboo shoots "takenoko". Not to be confused with the word "bakemono", which means monster. That might make dinner a bit awkward...

Jiaozi Dumplings


Potsticker Dumplings


Anyway onto the ingredients that are more difficult to obtain. Like this "salt" thing...what the heck is "salt"?! Where am I supposed to find that crap? I'm just kidding. It's going to be difficult for me to get my hands on things like Chinese rice wine, or even sherry (Mr. Chin just went $_$), and I doubt Smirnoff Ice would do anything but be a fire hazard. Also, I could always make my own dumpling dough, but it would probably be a lot easier (and safer), if I bought pre-made wrappers. That probably wouldn't be hard to source though, I have some friends who know quite a bit about that stuff.

5) PIZZA! - My mother has made pizza for me before, but I've never done it for myself. She also uses ready made pizza crust. I want to try it by myself and make the dough from scratch. The varieties of cheese that can be obtained where I live are rather limited though, but I can find Mozzarella (at the low, low cost of an arm and a leg), so that's not really such a big problem. I can get creative with the topping too, so that's not really a big issue. The only problem is time, I guess.


But baby, I've got nothing but time.

Well, I think I'm done for today. The final thing I'd like to say before I conclude this post is: RIP OneManga. We had a good run. You were always good to me, but you're in a better place now (yeah, right).

Anyway, later alligator.
Lord Robinson.

P.S. When I was looking for images of pizza, I realized that it actually looks sorta disgusting. I wonder who else thinks that? Doesn't matter. It tastes awesome. It's actually one of my favourite foods.

Japanese Sexual Terms and Cartoon Voice Actors, what do they have in common?

Nothing actually.

I was going through my vocabulary list this morning, and I was feeling idle, so I cross referenced some of the words with JDICT and Denshi Jisho (which basically is built on top of J-dict plus some other sources). I found some ermm...interesting words.

So, in order to avoid more useless words, let's get to the meat of the matter. The following list isn't ranked or anything.

10 Dirty Japanese Words To Use Before You Die

1) 外出し: sotodashi(noun) - extravaginal ejaculation. You can contrast this with 中出し(nakadashi), which means ejaculating inside, whether intra-vaginal, or intra-anal.

2) 豆：　mame(noun) - female genitalia, especially the clitoris (this actually means pea...double meaning anyone?)



3) 打っ掛け: bukkake(noun) - ejaculating into someone's face. Doing a Google Image Search on this (with SafeSearch ON), will have you in stitches for hours.


4) ビタミンエス: bitamin esu(noun) - literally, vitamin S. In other words, SPERM!

5) おまんこ：　omanko(noun, suru verb) - as a noun, it means vagina. As a suru veb, it means to have sexual intercourse (it has a tone approximately between the words "screw" and "f*ck").

6)　万摺り： manzuri(noun) - female masturbation.



7) 初体験: shotaiken(noun) - first experience in any activity. In slang, it means one's first sexual experience.



8) 傷物: kizumono(noun) - a woman who is no longer a virgin. Literally, "damaged goods".



9) 立ち役： tachiyaku(noun) - the man that plays the male role in a homosexual relationship. It's a term for kabuki (a sort of Japanese play, where men play both male and female roles. Eww...)


10) 入れて下さい: irete kudasai(exp) - "Please, put it in."; "Do me." Preferably a term only used by women (and unfortunately, sometimes gay men...tsk tsk).


But, that's probably enough with polluting your minds with the awesome perversion of the Japanese, here's something to rot it now.

A listing of some cartoon voice actors was on the MSN homepage and I found it interesting. I was always curious about who the voice actors behind many of my favourite cartoon characters were. This list is a good start, but of course GOOGLE is where you may want to search for more information. ^_^

That's about enough pointless information for today I'd like to think. So, I guess it's time for me to shove off. I think I'll resume playing with my new character in Dragon Age (a human female noble who is a warrior).

That's all folks,
Gavin.

P.S. STARCRAFT 2 IS OUT! MUST...BUY...COPY...

So Like, I Wuz Trolling Teh Telly-Veesion And..

The title sounds like the start of a bad joke. Thankfully, I don't think I'll have any bad jokes in this post. Well, at least not more bad jokes that I normally have per blog post.

ANYWAY, I was looking for something to watch on TV the other day and an ad caught my eye. It was for this product called the Body Action System, developed by MMA champion, Bas Rutten.

B.A.S. = Body Action System = Bas, Clever huh? Oh, what's that you say? Not really? Well then:



Now that we've gotten that out of the way, while searching for that picture, my lack of an attention span caused me to get distracted and look at some other pictures that came up in the Google Image search result. Here's another one:



Oh right, we were talking about something before, weren't we?

Anyway, yes, the Body Action System. It's like a training dummy that martial artists can use while training to practice throwing punches, kicks, headbutts, kamehamehas, spirit bombs etc. at.



The television ad claimed it was new and revolutionary. I beg to differ. Have you guys ever seen one of the following?



It's called a Wing Chun Dummy. Been around for like more than a century too, maybe two. It's used by practitioners of Wing Chun Gung Fu. For reference, wiki it or watch a movie called Yip Man. It's one of those Chinese gung fu movies. It's fairly recent too. Either way, here's a Youtube video promoting Bas' product, tell me what you think.



If you think anything like I do, you'd probably just make one of the wooden Wing Chun dummies and stick some pads on that sucker. Yes, make. Get some durable wood (no innuendo here guys, move along...*snicker* wood *snicker*) and try making it. It would be a LOT cheaper too, Bas' product is like $500 USD.

BUT, I'm not bashing it. It actually seems like a pretty good idea/product. If he could get the price tag down to like half of what it costs now, I definitely see a big market for it, not just for serious MMA fighters, but for people who want to get a bit of self defense practice in without having to punch their little brothers in the nose. *cough*

In the video, when Rutten called Slice, I almost had an "anal recalibration" moment. I was hoping that they were going to fight. You know, for ermm... promotional purposes. However, that didn't work out, so Kimbo got to take out all that pent up oppression that results from being a hairy, muscular, black guy out on that poor dummy. Ouch.

I like UFC and other MMA competitions. I don't really watch them often, but the matches I've watched, I like. Whether or not you believe the sport is rigged is unimportant, those guys have worked out and are buff, and it's damn entertaining to see them staggering around after a few good blows. Just saying.

お休みなさいよ！
Lord Robinson.

The Good News Cometh Out

If things work out, within 8 months or so, I should have my own individual website for the blog. I'm been brushing up on my PHP, HTML and AJAX skills to make it happen. The issue is really the time it would take to set up the site, and not exactly the cost (although finding a good cheap hosting package would be awesome).

What do you guys think about a comment system similar to that found on Kotaku and other Gawker Network sites? Minus the whole rating system, I'm actually quite fond of the whole thing. I just like it. Allowing users to add images and videos and stuff to their responses really makes things more interactive. Maybe I should add some Facebook connect functionality too, you know? Make things sooo Web 2.0.

I was on ZOMGAnime and I saw this interesting poll. It said Battle of the Classics: Rurouni Kenshin vs. Yu Yu Hakusho (and the third option was "I haven't seen either"). I loved Kenshin, but watched more Yu Yu Hakusho than Kenshin in my time. So, I picked the Hakusho option. At the time I voted, the percentage score was 45:30, in favour of Kenshin. 25% said they hadn't watched either (morons...XD)

Anyway, what do you all think?

Yu Yu Hakusho:



VERSUS

Rurouni Kenshin:



I'm going to a beach party this Saturday. All hail the power of friends with free passes!! WOOT!! This is a pretty good summer, probably one of the best I've ever had.

Oh yeah, I also finally found the theme song for my armies that I will use to take over the world. Here it is:



Minus smoking weed. That crap will be banned. I intend to make that plant extinct. It's nothing but problems. For reference, look at the Jamaican population.

Blah, enough ranting about crap.

I haven't beat Assassin's Creed 2 yet, but I have beat Dragon Age (DLC not included). I'm going to replay now with a different origin story. It's a really epic game as I said earlier. As it pertains to which ending I got, I took the cop out way, involving Morrigan. I don't want to spoil things for people who haven't beat it or even played it, so I won't say anymore.

This has been Gavin Robinson, here to say that you just wasted like 10 minutes of your life.

Tata For Now,
Lord Robinson.

I Steadfastly Refuse to Talk About The World Cup, But I Would Humbly Suggest That A Certain German Octopus Be Promptly Eaten

This is the unsightly bastard I refer to. He needs to fry and die!!

Actually, I'm just kidding; it doesn't matter. As long as Germany has fallen, I can tolerate Spain's victory. ¡Viva España!

In other news, I have now linked my formspring.me page to my blog, so feel free to seduce me, abuse me, harass me or confuse me as you see fit. Come on punks, make my day.

I slowed down in playing Dragon Age a bit, since I got Assassin's Creed 2. It's pretty good. I like Ezio. He has some really funny lines. I mean, the first glimpse I got of Ezio (apart from him being born), was him telling his rival about the "handling" that he gave his rival's sister. What's not to like about it?

As an interesting side note, I've noticed that lately, I've been laughing more at dialogue in games. I'm either getting dumber from playing all these games, or game dialogue is getting wittier. Probably both.



Anyway, just jawboning with the faithful audience of my blog. Back to Assassin's Creed 2 now. Or maybe some Dragon Age first. If I don't get too engrossed in them, I might have a special article for you tomorrow on something I found interesting. Reading The Sum of All Fears this morning brought the issue to my mind, so I did some research. More on that tomorrow. Or whenever...

FailOSaga is coming on great by the way. I have a rudimentary battle system. I'll also work on that...whenever.

Either way, my birthday is 5 days from now.

Peace,
Lord Robinson.

I Wanted To Blog About the World Cup and A Friend's Boyfriend Problems But Dragon Age Wouldn't Let Me...Seriously

Seriously, it wouldn't let me. It's too addictive. It didn't want me to goooo!! :(

Hm. Let's start with my friend's boyfriend problems. I'd really like someone to come with suggestions about how to advise a friend on how to get rid of a dangerous boyfriend. Really...I'd appreciate it, I can't seem to figure out a solution AND get it into her thick skull.

Now, onto 2 things that actually mean something: The FIFA World Cup and Dragon Age.

This world cup, I supported England, up until Germany kicked their asses anyway. So now, I have an ermm...this person I know called it a "grudge" against Germany. I'm now rooting for the Netherlands, since they beat Argentina. Well, maybe beat isn't the word. Rape seems more appropriate.

I never wanted Argentina, Brazil or Germany to come to anything in this World Cup. Two out of three isn't that bad I guess. Let's see if the Netherlands can be this year's champion.

NETHERLANDS MI TING DEH!



(Fun fact: The French flag can be obtained by turning the Netherlands' flag sideways. Compare. I learned that from the ship scene in a movie called Lord of War. The movie stars Nicholas Cage, who as regular readers know, is one of my favourite actors. Epic stuff, you should make an effort to watch it.)

Now, onto Dragon Age.

Dragon Age is just that addictive. So far, I've logged like 27 hours of gameplay. It is REALLY engrossing. The characters are well defined, the available choices you can take are diverse and the world is vibrant. It is EPIC!


NERD ALERT - Skip this section
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My character is a City Elf rogue. I play with him more like a warrior though. He has high dexterity and decent strength, but I should do some work on his cunning, although its not bad. He's been lugging around this massive greatsword I got in Ostagar close to the start of the game. So far, I'm like 17% done with the game. That's what you call a reliable weapon.

Moving on to my other characters.

My Allistair is a TANK. I'm amazed there's still any of him left after the number of times he's been burnt, sliced, frozen, poisoned, trapped by roots, knocked down etc. I always make sure to get him the best armour though, since I know he's going to be eating the largest slice of damage pie.

しかし、私のモッリガンがとくい。
Translation: However, my Morrigan is my point of pride.
I have transformed her from a simple witch, to sword-wielding, D-cup wearing, Amazonian princess of badassness. She wields a greatsword (slightly weaker than the one my player character brings around). She can actually wear armour almost as heavy as Allistair. She also does most of the killing in the party, usually finishing off enemies with that ice spell she comes with (I forgot the name).

The final member of the team I normally bring around is Wynne. I got her fairly recently, but she's already an indispensable addition to the team. Her revival spell has saved my party's bacon many times when Allistair or Darrian (my player character) has been incapacitated.

I've been playing the part of goody two shoes so far. What a friend of mine recently pointed out to me was that Dragon Age and Mass Effect are unusual for Bioware RPGs as you don't really have good and evil, but rather the choice of being an agreeable guy or a really rude guy. It's true. If you think about it, you can probably see the progression from KOTOR with the well defined Light/Dark sides, then Jade Empire with the ambiguous Open/Closed Fist Styles to Mass Effect and Dragon Age that lack any REAL good/evil system, but are more karmic. By karmic, I mean that you don't actually get rated on a scale for your amount of evil/good, but rather, in game events are determined by the manner which you respond to certain situations (for example: insult a man at an earlier stage of the game and he comes back to murder you close to the end).

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I think I've found a my new favourite chauvinist pig this morning. His name is Borgore. He's a dubstep artiste (although lots of Dubstep fans are insulted when people classify him as that). His lyrics are almost pornographic, definitely misogynistic. They never fail to make me laugh. Here's a quick selection of some of his songs:







Peace,
Lord Robinson

Tomorrow is the Day

I have my Valedictory Service tomorrow. After tomorrow, I will have nothing more to do with Montego Bay Community College.

Heck yeah!

Oh no, wait, they're having the ACTUAL graduation ceremony in November, but if things work out the way I plan, I doubt I'll be going.

A little bit more than two weeks after the ceremony, I'll be having my birthday. How old will I be? I'm not telling you. But, I blogged on my last birthday too, giving my age back then, so if you dig around the blog for it, you just might find it. ^_^

I finished Fallout 3 yesterday morning as a good guy. My Karma rating was pretty high. Like most games where you get to choose good or evil, I intend to play it again, as a bad guy. Fallout 3 has some epic music too. This is one of my favourite songs from the game. It's called Butcher Pete, by Roy Brown.



For those of you that have been following the news for the past two months or so, you should know about the giant oil spill caused by BP in the Gulf of Mexico. This video manages to capture my sentiments of how they're handling the situation perfectly. I found it funny, although not hilariously so. (It was one of Youtube's promoted videos.)



Now that I'm done with Fallout 3 and Jade Empire, I think I'll try to fight my way through playing Mass Effect with my crappy PC. I may also write some code for...something. I don't know yet. We'll see. Here's something I wrote two days ago. It's a simple walk demo for a 2D RPG. Maybe I'll make a full game out of it. I just need a plot...

I made the character using the Charas-EX character generator. The walk demo application itself was written in C++, using SDL. Play no attention to the unfortunate fact I called it FailOSaga.



TTFN,
Lord Robinson.

VATS: A Gift From The Fallout Gods

I started playing Fallout 3 this morning. As usual, yes, I know I'm a bit late. My latest memory upgrade has allowed me to play more games since I can now meet the recommended system requirements. I don't really like playing games on the minimum system requirements.

Like most other games where humanity is an endangered species, and you are NOT a super soldier in a special armour suit, ammo and weapons and other items are scarce. This of course, makes things difficult.

I would also like to digress for a minute and say that Fire Ants in Fallout are gay. Moving on....

I was a bit impressed by the start of the game. I can't think of any game that started with a first person in-game birth scene apart from Star Wars Republic Commando, and even then, it was cloning tank, so its not exactly the same thing. You really get into the action pretty fast.

The music selection in the game is awesome. Somehow, 1950s show tunes fit a post-apocalyptic world perfectly. I mean, a man crooning in the background while you blow off the head of a savage raider using VATS (the game's built in targeting system) really adds to the atmosphere.

My SAT results are due in 6 days. My graduation is in 9 days.My birthday is in 28 days. See, things got epic when summer finally managed to come around. My Japanese has been improving steadily, although my speaking is still a bit rusty. Tae Kim's Godsend grammar guide is working some epic magic for me. I intend to try and finish James Heisig's Remembering the Kanji over the holiday; maybe when I finish Fallout 3 I'll start.

That being said, I wonder what the beach looks like? Does it still have sand?

The Boy That Wants To Go To The Beach,
Gavin.

3 Games, No Exams and A Yearbook For Good Measure

My exams finished a bit under a week ago, but I've been a bit occupied, so I haven't been able to blog(until now).

In order of importance, here are the sins that occupied my time:
1)Jade Empire
2)Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2
3)Mass Effect - leading to PC problems somehow T_T
4)Sisyphean tasks

I might as well start explaining the items on this list, so lets go.

First and foremost, the Jade Empire I refer to is an RPG by Bioware. It's an epic RPG with an Asian mythological framework. In other words, it's Knights of the Old Republic + Buddha + Bruce Lee. I love the gameplay, it's pretty good. For those of you who are wondering, it's like maybe 3 or 4 years old (I'm not 100% sure). The story is a bit cliche though...but that doesn't make it any less fun to beat up some ghosts or Imperial soldiers. I recently beat the game following the Way of the Open Palm(simply put: what would be called the Light side in KOTOR).

I now want to replay it as a follower of the Closed Fist style(you guessed it, the Dark Side). The game dresses it up saying that Open Palm isn't necessarily good, while Closed Fist isn't necessarily evil, but I never really bothered myself with the technicalities.

Bioware, despite having this little problem with avoiding RPG cliches, are really masterful storytellers. I was impressed by KOTOR, and I'm impressed by Jade Empire. I'd give it a 9 out of 10.

You guys should totally check it out. Here's a gameplay video:



I know I'm a bit late in getting around to playing Modern Warfare 2, alright? Geez...pushy bastards. In my opinion, the game deserves the amount of hype it has been getting. However, while the multiplayer is quite fun, the single player story is pretty neat. If Robert Ludlum and Tom Clancy got together to make a game, this would totally be it. It has quite a few adrenaline-filled, fast paced moments just like what you'd expect to see in the hottest military action movies; from escaping Russians in a snowmobile to chasing down arms dealers in Brazilian slums to sex scenes, there's something in it for everyone. Well, everything apart from the last thing on that list. :P



Now, we move on to Mass Effect, the third item on our list. Before I start, I'm going to say, I never finished it. In fact, I don't think I did 10% of the game. Why?

F**king HAX!!

Well no, not really. But it was buggy and my PC is a bit crappy; it crashed quite a few times while I was trying to play the game...so I'll probably put off playing it to sometime in the not-so-distant future. Still, from what I saw so far, I liked it. The film grain effect was slightly annoying (don't worry, you can turn it off, and you'll probably get used to it anyway). However, I kept it on, and was richly rewarded during cutscenes (such as conversations with NPCs and the like). It REALLY adds an element of realism to the looks of the characters. Well, the human characters anyway. Turians look a bit unnerving to me, film grain or not.

Somehow my PC got screwed up when I was playing Mass Effect. It blue screened and reset a couple times. Long story short, System Restore FTW!! Thankfully, I'd done a restore point on like the 4th of June (not to my knowledge...the system restore fairy was really looking out for me on that one), so I didn't really lose much (apart from my dignity...this is the first time I've EVER had to use system restore since it came as a feature -_-).

Now, I've saved the painful part for last. I am now finished with Community College. It will be official when I actually finish the graduation ceremony, which will be held on the 27th of June. Oh, no...wait, that wasn't the painful part...that should have been at the top heheheh.



We're not getting a yearbook. Why? I dunno. I don't know of any other years that got one though. I have decided to change that. I've started to round up a bunch of friends to make a yearbook. I can't believe that a school would just let us go like that (despite the fact we're only too glad to leave) without a yearbook. It's just so...gauche. Anyway, I've decided to step in and fix their gaffe. I'm not as insouciant about these things as I may look.

With luck, it should be done by the week after the graduation ceremony. To keep costs down, we intend to distribute it digitally. I'll let you guys know how that pans out. So far, I have some awesome people willing to help. Here's to hoping.

Risen from the Dead,
Lord Robinson

P.S. For those of you who don't know what a Sisyphean task is
go wild.

Staying Alive

That song, apart from being awesome, serves two other purposes. First and foremost, it represents what people in the eastern part of the island are probably trying to do right now, in the midst of all the unrest being caused by the attempted arrest of Dudus. (For those of you who don't know, google Christopher Dudus Coke and Jamaica). Secondly, it represents what I need to do next week, when the bulk of my exams descend upon me. From Tuesday to Friday, I have exams. All long papers. That's Biology, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, all on sequential days. No time to swat during the week. I'm not too worried though.

Thankfully I haven't (entirely) wasted the two weeks I got before these exams. I really feel like I have a lot more Biology in my head at this point in my life than I ever will, including after graduation from medical school. T_T

Bring on the summer!! Now I've gotta go on MSN and have a quick study session with some friends (seriously, studying on instant messenger actually works).

TTFN,
Gavin.

Dubstep and T-2 Weeks To Exams

As of late, I've started listening to a lot of Dubstep. It's really awesome stuff.






I really love the warbled basslines most of them have.



Dr. Philth has really earned a place in my heart. Well two really. One for awesome music, the other for the most awesome name EVER!! Now I finally have real motivation to mess around with that copy of Fruity Loops Studio I have lying around on my computer. With a bit of effort (and the grace of God) I can probably make something that sounds as filthy as these slime monsters (yeah, that was a lame one...bear with me, I'm new at this).

I finally got my exam timetable. I have my Caribbean Studies exam in two weeks (plus my SAT subject tests next week Saturday). Should be manageable. I don't intend to touch a Caribbean Studies book, much less look in its general direction. I also intend to get a distinction doing that too. Don't follow me. I'm what you call an idler, or to be more politically correct, a wasteman.

So while I'm here, making beats on the eve of probably the most important exams of my life, remember what your good friend Gavin Robinson told you. Don't be like him.

Later folks,
Gavin.

Mmmm...Asteroids

The other day, I started playing this copy of Homeworld 1 that I ummm..."got". :)
It is an awesome game. A VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY most verily, I say unto thou, an awesome game.

I first heard of it almost a decade ago, when I was a lot younger, and my feet never used to be able to touch the ground when I was vegetating in a chair around my PC. I had gotten a copy of Half Life for Christmas, and was reading the instruction manual that came with it in the form of HTML pages. They advertised Team Fortress (something which had not crossed my mind in the ten years before this sentence), and Homeworld.

The other day, feeling like a pregnant woman, but with game cravings instead of food cravings, I tracked down a copy and started playing. The plot seems pretty interesting so far, and I love the mothership design, it is really cool.

I'm out of prison, at least until the 12th of April. Mock exams finished on Wednesday morning, and in the afternoon I went to a function for the honour roll students (no, I'm not on it, I just snuck in to get free food....fine, I am on it, so what?). The food tasted gre- umm, no, I mean, the food tasted free.

CAPE exams are coming up within a month and a half. But then, I realize I whine and grumble and moan and bitch about them every blog post, so I'll spare you this time.

I'm thinking about getting up to some idleness this Easter Holiday. Not rob a store and spend my life in jail idleness, but scientific idleness. (No dear schoolmates, not biological weapons either). I was thinking about building some circuits slightly more advanced than those we're required to do for Physics class, just for the fun of it. If I run into extra money that is, money is always my limiting factor.

I can't remember if I mentioned this in a blog post, but I think I'll do a simple webshow. Something 15 minutes to half an hour long. The premise of the show is simple, its just me commenting about world issues and giving my personal views and the historical background on them, as well as me talking about my personal life, and random things or cool webcomics I might stumble across on the internet.

By the way, you guys need to listen to some GOOD music. You know, like Benny Benassi. I can't believe that none of my friends know who he is...I'm like, in a state of SHOCK right now. I know that electronic music isn't for everyone (seizure warning), but damn, open your minds people!! Here, I'll save you some work, here are some of his songs:





Get off your lazy ass and go look for the rest yourself.

But, no ranting. I'm a nice guy. And ranting doesn't go well with my sexy, sexy face. Right ladies? :)

Anyway, I suppose thats all for now. In the meantime, entertain yourself with this cool Lego video.



Later guys (じゃまた）、
Gavin.

P.S. I finished the Physics syllabus, and the mock exam was great, with luck, I may have something in the high 80s or 90s.

Japanese Dancehall Slackness and Mock Exams

Recently, a couple days after my colossal failure in the cross country race (well, not really failure...but blah), we had this lecture on dancehall music by this Professor named Dr. Sonjah Stanley Niaah. Or at least I think that's what her name was.

Anyway, it was pretty interesting, and long story short, dancehall music seems to have some MASSIVE financial benefits that Jamaica could utilize if the country were able to effectively control the distribution of its music on the global market.

Also, I also learnt that Japanese girls can really beat themselves against hard surfaces such as floors and men better than most Jamaican girls...seriously, I have proof. At the end of the presentation, we watched this film called something like "Born in Jah-pan" (can't remember the exact name, and couldn't find it on Google). It was done by some Japanese student doing film school in America. It was pretty awesome.

Japan looks SLACK!! I'm pumped to go man, because some of those sessions down there seem worse than the infamous real Jamaican "Passa Passa". Seriously, the girls were just beating themselves against any rigid object in sight, human, table or otherwise. My mouth didn't close for like the full 35 minutes of the presentation. I've gotta admit though, I can't say I found them attractive. Not because of the self-hatred leading to the self-abuse. I just mean I don't find Japanese women, or Mongoloid women on a whole physically attractive (with exceptions). I don't know why, its just something with me.

But, enough about Japan, which is in the future, and more about my life in Jamaica in the present. The pace of things at school is getting intense. We're wrapping up the final lab reports, and (supposedly) have started studying for mock exams. About two weeks after mock exams, our CAPE exams will start. Beautiful huh?

I'm a bit nervous waiting for a response to my application to UWI medical school. I think I have a pretty good chance of getting in on my first shot, but I'm still worrying a bit. I shouldn't really, because with the way things usually are with the University of the West Indies, I won't be getting any confirmation of acceptance until late August. So it doesn't really make sense that I worry now, but I still am. Ugh. I hate when that happens. >_>

As it pertains to studying for exams, I'm trying to finish up the entire Physics syllabus by myself. It's not going badly. In fact, I think I can finish by next week Thursday (March 18th).

Electricity and magnetism are pretty easy, but they tend to slip out of your mind if you don't study them for a while. Operational amplifiers and circuit construction are awesome. In fact, last week Thursday, we built a couple of simple circuits using NAND gates combined to make different logic gates, such as AND, OR, NOT, NOR and XOR gates. We (the class) tested our output on a bunch of pretty LEDs (ours were red, and their cheap design kept on confusing us as to where the anode and cathode were, as well as causing the legs to break easily). We had a circuit building race (unofficially anyway). We never won, but we definitely had a lot of fun.

Pretty good for a Thursday, I'd say.

In other news, I'm thinking about starting my own little webshow. Nothing too involved or overblown. Just me, my camera, my room and my head full of wacky ideas. I pretty much have everything I need. I have a microphone and a camera that can record high quality videos. I don't know how much exactly, it's a Coolpix S620. Its megapixel rating is 12.2 MP, but its quite unlikely that videos are made at a resolution that high (since a still shot at the highest resolution is about 2.56 mb). Videos and pictures come out looking very good. I'll keep you guys posted on it. In fact, with luck, my first episode should come out early next month, after the assignment pressure with labs has eased up, and I only have to worry about studying for exams.

Anyway, I think I've said all I can really say for now.

じゃまた、
Gavin.

Urgh..Blast

(For those of you wondering where I got that title from, its a line from Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones. Its famous for high quality dialogue such as seen above, you guys should totally check it out. I'll write a post about it some other time..)

So, I haven't updated in a while. Maybe you all figured I was busy. Well I'm not. In fact, I wasn't doing a damn thing but spending time being too lazy to update this blog. I'm in the library right now, watching everyone read what I'm writing over my shoulder. I don't mind, if I never wanted anyone to read what I was writing, I probably wouldn't be writing it on a blog, don't you agree?

School has gone into overdrive. Chemistry, chemistry, chemistry is a bitch. I had this murderous project over the Christmas holidays, and although I haven't touched it since the holidays finished, it would hardly qualify as finished. Ha.

As for Japanese, Tae Kim's grammar guide is a godsend. I'm currently in the advanced expressions section, learning about the causative and passive forms. I've finally passed the hell that was counters. In my opinion, its probably not as hard as everyone makes it out to be. Causative-passive is giving me more problems at the moment, because I can't figure out which particles to use. Meh. "Ageru" and "Kureru" were also pretty easy to learn. People complain about a lot of crap needlessly.

For those of you that haven't figure it out (morons...) I'm the writer of The Thousand Chapter Story...thats something I need to update as well. But then again, maybe on some other day. Maybe...

The Logos ship is in Montego Bay. For those of you who don't know what that is, its this ship that sells books so cheaply, its like they're giving it away. I need to go back and get more books. MORE, MORE, MORE, HARDER, HARDER, HAR- oh...wait, wrong context. I finally got Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, to add on to the Fellowship of the Ring, which I bought the last time I went on the ship, a couple years ago (the ship only comes once every few years). I'm quite upset that I couldn't find the third book, Return of the King...but I'm going back later this week, so wish me luck.

Oh yeah, I got this AWESOME digital camera for Christmas. :)Expect photos of my pornographic encounters with a variety of vixens very soon. In your dreams that is...everyone knows those are reserved for Facebook.

Peace,
Lord Robinson.