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.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
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.
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.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Avatar
Well, as of last Thursday afternoon, I'm away from school on my Christmas holidays. So yesterday I went to watch Avatar. How do you like them apples?
When I saw the preview for Avatar, I KNEW it was something I had to watch. (Not that I'm a Smurf fan or anything...O_o). Anyway, it was a pretty big in Jamaica, since they had a massive premiere on one side of the island(which a friend of mine got invited to, but not me...grrr...), and at the local cinema, they finally realized the joys of 3D. Yup.
To be honest, I sort of spoiled the movie for myself by reading reviews. That's not saying the movie was bad (it was really good actually), but I guess my expectations may have been a bit too high because of all the reviews I read. The 40 minute fight scene at the end was awesome, but in my opinion, it wasn't epic on the scale of Star Wars(like some reviewers said it was).
I'm not one for a love story, but I'll admit that it never got in the way of the film too much. It's not particularly like the story was NOVEL though, those who have played Assassin's Creed might have a rough idea of what one of the main plot devices was. Here's a hint, if it looks like an Animus, sounds like an Animus, but its not called an Animus.....
What annoyed me about the story was its environmental crusading, brought out through its one-dimensional human characters("But Gavin...it's in 3D!!" "Shut up."). You have your stereotypical evil corporate mogul that wants a mineral called, brace yourself for it..."unobtainium". You have his loyal army of futuristic soldiers with all forms of mechs and ships that burn forests and kill natives without remorse (apart from one of the better looking female pilots, how convenient is that?). You have the tree-hugger scientist who is so arrogant, she is convinced that you can just TELL people to kindly move because they're resting on the million dollar ore motherlode. And you have the Copenhagen summit, which...wait...where did THAT come from?
Yeah, I sort of find it a strange coincidence that the film came out during Copenhagen, but ugh...whatever.
Now, I'm going to talk about the computer graphics. The CG in the film is AMAZING. In the Marine base, I could honestly not differentiate between which parts were computer graphics and which parts were the physical set. The forest is even prettier. The forest is vibrant, alive, pretty and just REALISTIC(well, if you consider trees with glowing purple tendrils to be realistic, but please, just play along). I mean honestly...the night scenes in the forest were some of the best CG I have ever seen in a movie.
The Na'vi(read: "Giant Smurfs") run into the uncanny valley problem at a few points, but to be honest, I hardly noticed it in any of the main Na'vi characters. It really shows more in the flat Na'vi characters.
I would definitely tell you to go ahead and watch Avatar, its not like you'll be wasting your money. Watch it in 3D too. Seriously. Avatar, my dear readers, is CG history in the making. Let's hope that the game adaptation of it won't be rubbish.
In other news, since I can't remember if I said this before, but I stopped learning 漢字 by grade. I've just started reading Japanese news online and learning 漢字 as they come. Basically, this means that my vocabulary consists of mostly kanji pertaining to economics, at the moment. Hm.
Now here's the sad news. In a move that can best be described as some sort of perverse parting shot, school has left me with two projects to do. The first, is a Chemistry project on Industrial Processes. A MASSIVE Chemistry project at that too. Also, I have my Caribbean Studies Internal Assessment (a project) to do. Wish me luck.
Later,
Lord Robinson/Gavin/Haze
When I saw the preview for Avatar, I KNEW it was something I had to watch. (Not that I'm a Smurf fan or anything...O_o). Anyway, it was a pretty big in Jamaica, since they had a massive premiere on one side of the island(which a friend of mine got invited to, but not me...grrr...), and at the local cinema, they finally realized the joys of 3D. Yup.
To be honest, I sort of spoiled the movie for myself by reading reviews. That's not saying the movie was bad (it was really good actually), but I guess my expectations may have been a bit too high because of all the reviews I read. The 40 minute fight scene at the end was awesome, but in my opinion, it wasn't epic on the scale of Star Wars(like some reviewers said it was).
I'm not one for a love story, but I'll admit that it never got in the way of the film too much. It's not particularly like the story was NOVEL though, those who have played Assassin's Creed might have a rough idea of what one of the main plot devices was. Here's a hint, if it looks like an Animus, sounds like an Animus, but its not called an Animus.....
What annoyed me about the story was its environmental crusading, brought out through its one-dimensional human characters("But Gavin...it's in 3D!!" "Shut up."). You have your stereotypical evil corporate mogul that wants a mineral called, brace yourself for it..."unobtainium". You have his loyal army of futuristic soldiers with all forms of mechs and ships that burn forests and kill natives without remorse (apart from one of the better looking female pilots, how convenient is that?). You have the tree-hugger scientist who is so arrogant, she is convinced that you can just TELL people to kindly move because they're resting on the million dollar ore motherlode. And you have the Copenhagen summit, which...wait...where did THAT come from?
Yeah, I sort of find it a strange coincidence that the film came out during Copenhagen, but ugh...whatever.
Now, I'm going to talk about the computer graphics. The CG in the film is AMAZING. In the Marine base, I could honestly not differentiate between which parts were computer graphics and which parts were the physical set. The forest is even prettier. The forest is vibrant, alive, pretty and just REALISTIC(well, if you consider trees with glowing purple tendrils to be realistic, but please, just play along). I mean honestly...the night scenes in the forest were some of the best CG I have ever seen in a movie.
The Na'vi(read: "Giant Smurfs") run into the uncanny valley problem at a few points, but to be honest, I hardly noticed it in any of the main Na'vi characters. It really shows more in the flat Na'vi characters.
I would definitely tell you to go ahead and watch Avatar, its not like you'll be wasting your money. Watch it in 3D too. Seriously. Avatar, my dear readers, is CG history in the making. Let's hope that the game adaptation of it won't be rubbish.
In other news, since I can't remember if I said this before, but I stopped learning 漢字 by grade. I've just started reading Japanese news online and learning 漢字 as they come. Basically, this means that my vocabulary consists of mostly kanji pertaining to economics, at the moment. Hm.
Now here's the sad news. In a move that can best be described as some sort of perverse parting shot, school has left me with two projects to do. The first, is a Chemistry project on Industrial Processes. A MASSIVE Chemistry project at that too. Also, I have my Caribbean Studies Internal Assessment (a project) to do. Wish me luck.
Later,
Lord Robinson/Gavin/Haze
Saturday, December 5, 2009
A Compendium of Whats New Since I Last Updated
Yes, its another one of your favourite types of post to read, my beloved Happy Desolation readers. It is my greatest pleasure to present to you, the billionth "Here's Whats New Since I Last Updated This Blog" post.
To celebrate this special event, I have decided to do something new. This something new, is actually a compendium of everything interesting that has happened since I last blogged. Without further ado, I present it:
Yes, nothing has happened. Oh wait, apart from the following:
1) The pace of school has sped up. I have end of term exams starting next week Tuesday.
2) I'm hot. I'm losing weight. Still a bit puffy and fluffy though, but the chicks like it that way, don'tcha? (Screams of "NOOOO!!!" lol)
3) Directly related to number 2, I've started Pai Lum Tao Kung Fu classes. Yes, Yours Truly is a Kung Fu ckhead.
4) I've learned a lot of Japanese since I last updated, but my rate of learning has slowed down, thanks to this millstone around my neck called school.
Christmas is coming soon. That means Christmas PARTIES!!! Heheheheheh...(would any one of my DEAREST FRIENDS reading this, be so kind as to hook me up with some free passes...thanks...you guys are the best!!! lololol)
I really forgot about Happy Desolation for a little (not forgot as in forgot that I had it, but forgot more as in NEGLECTED it). I really, really do want to be more regular with my blogging in the future. If things work out as they should, I should be actually.
Well yeah kids, that's about it really. Have fun till next time.
Peace,
Lord Robinson.
To celebrate this special event, I have decided to do something new. This something new, is actually a compendium of everything interesting that has happened since I last blogged. Without further ado, I present it:
Yes, nothing has happened. Oh wait, apart from the following:
1) The pace of school has sped up. I have end of term exams starting next week Tuesday.
2) I'm hot. I'm losing weight. Still a bit puffy and fluffy though, but the chicks like it that way, don'tcha? (Screams of "NOOOO!!!" lol)
3) Directly related to number 2, I've started Pai Lum Tao Kung Fu classes. Yes, Yours Truly is a Kung Fu ckhead.
4) I've learned a lot of Japanese since I last updated, but my rate of learning has slowed down, thanks to this millstone around my neck called school.
Christmas is coming soon. That means Christmas PARTIES!!! Heheheheheh...(would any one of my DEAREST FRIENDS reading this, be so kind as to hook me up with some free passes...thanks...you guys are the best!!! lololol)
I really forgot about Happy Desolation for a little (not forgot as in forgot that I had it, but forgot more as in NEGLECTED it). I really, really do want to be more regular with my blogging in the future. If things work out as they should, I should be actually.
Well yeah kids, that's about it really. Have fun till next time.
Peace,
Lord Robinson.
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