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.

Life and Breadboards

Well, its Friday night as I type this. This is my second week back at school. It feels different somehow. I'm in my second and final year. I guess I'm supposed to feel older and wiser. I'm feeling none of the above. I've completed a week's worth of labs more or less. I suppose I'm getting more experienced with them, since I hardly had any issues really. Well, apart from with my Physics labs, where I'm having hell with the breadboards.

Then again, it's REALLY fun watching my group members getting shocked by raw wires and burned by overheated resistors while I just sit there smirking...but I digress, I'm a prick like that.

On a more personal front, I haven't quite lost much weight, yet I'm convinced that my attractiveness has skyrocketed. Seriously. Maybe it's the fact that I'm a second year dude now, and that does wonders for my reputation. Maybe its that nice, shiny "Honour Roll" pin that I got on my first day back. Or maybe it's because I managed to drill into my head over the summer that I'm God's gift to women.

I'm going with the last one. I've been trying to internalize that mindset for quite some time now, but I think I just woke up one morning and I had that attitude. It's awesome really. I suppose it's what everyone calls "swagger". I call it "me".

Yeah, moving on. I'm here, doing what I'm famous for. Obsessively reading...this time, about breadboards, so when we proceed with the experiment next week, I'll be an expert (as always). I'm pretty excited to be working with electronics this year. Honestly.

By the way, the whole neurosurgeon dream, while I'm not going to say it has been thrown out of the window, it has been derailed. I'm going to be going for a PhD in Computer Science. All of my friends who I've told this have been like "DUHH!!! Did you FINALLY hit your head and knock some sense into yourself? That was how it should have been in the beginning!!!"

Thank God I have middle fingers on both hands.

Anyway, yeah, this is just to let the people who follow my blog know that I'm still alive. I guess I'll be back next week with some wacky, witty and original.

Till Then,
Gavin.

Still Here, Sorry To Disappoint You

Yeah, its been three weeks since I've updated. Sorry about that. I've been sorta busy. I'm still here though. I was working on a little OpenGL sample device, to encapsulate shaders, sorta like a template for X-LAX. I've also been brushing up on my shader programming.

My birthday is on the 16th of July. Hip-Hip Hooray.

Thats it. I'm sort of brain-blocked now, so some other time. Oh, and about the evangelion episodes, just go to megavideo and watch them. I don't want to get in any legal trouble for it.

Sorry for the cheerful mood, I'm just brain-blocked as I said earlier.

Peace,
Gavin.

Alive and Kicking

Well, I decided to post this just to remind Planet Earth that I'm still alive. I just handed in my IT SBA today, and I have some more lab reports due on Monday.

Still, I feel pretty prepared for the exams. I have English first on Monday(piece of cake), then on Thursday, I have the long papers for Chemistry and Biology. In between I have a lot of free time to swat :).

Anyway yeah, thats about it, nothing particularly new or interesting.