End of year reflection...

It's the 30th today, and I doubt I'll be updating this tomorrow (seeing (a) I'm at Pete's and (b) I'll be busy cooking and getting ready for the New Years Eve party...), So I thought I'll update this today. :)

This year has been a very interesting year indeed. I've crashed my car: twice, my house got burgled, and oh! I got engaged in the mist of all chaos. :) I would call this a good year, at the very least, even though there seems to be quite a few misfortune, I actually showed myself I can actually handle things. I called people up to sort out the details and all, and in a way that's very important to me, seeing I have a very over-protective mother...

And above all, what's really touching is that every time I fall, I can turn around and count on Pete to be there for me. :) That shows that I didn't say "yes" for no reason huh? :) The fact that I can rely on him and him being a constant support shows that I haven't picked the wrong guy. :)

Here's to 2006, may the year bring everyone joy and happiness. :) And remember: look for the silver lining :)

Small shadow in the mist of happiness...

Well, firstly I just found out mum put a letter on a desk about 2 moths ago... so I missed the deadline for re-enrolling for 2006. *sigh*. I'll have to head into uni to deal with that when they're back I guess.

Then one of our close friends decided to tell us that he rather not come to our engagement party. *sigh* Sometimes I just don't know what I've done to piss him off really. Pete's sure it's not my fault, but meh, I can't help but to blame myself sometimes. It's still kinda sad, it's not like I get engaged everyday you know. I can probably deal with a birthday or something. It's my engagement party man. I already have two of my best friends overseas and won't be making it (they're coming to the wedding, I hope!).

Just the other day he pretended to be his French roommate on MSN just so he won't have to talk to Pete and me. I just don't know what I've done wrong. Sometimes it's just really frustrating that I do try to maintain a friendship, but he just doesn't care.

Kinda like a rejection, really.

Like Petey said, I probably should try my best not to get too upset, afterall I'm getting married to my soulmate. It's one of the happiest day in my life. I shouldn't let other things to ruin my day, I guess.

"I'll start my diet tomorrow"

After knowing how I have to start looking towards planning a wedding... I suppose I should really start getting into shape. But really, it's Christmas, I've already had like big meal after big meal. ARGH!!

My brother actually got me a gym ball. Should I take that as a hint? :P

Still VERY excited really. :) I'm still jumping around :P

I'll float back to earth sometimes. :)

A VERY Special Christmas, and my Firefox is broken :P

Okie, I was so very tired this morning, as expected, and the day turned
out quite different
from what I envisioned...

Short version: Pete proposed, and I said yes. :D

Long version: Well, I'll spare you the details. :P

Anyway, the whole day was then packed with people's warm wishes,
laughers and hugs,
(LOTS of hugs) and people asking me when's the big date. :)

It's been a tiring day, but it's really worth it. :D

So a VERY Merry Christmas from Lisa over here. :) And hope your
Christmas is one that
fills with love and joy. :)

P.S.: If you find the line breaks a bit funny, it's because I can't
update from the web GUI.
I have to email this in, and my Firefox lost its ability to form text
fields at the moment. I
don't know why.

P.P.S.: Petey, you are just THE best. :D Weeeeeeeeee!!

1 day! 'Tis a season to be sleepy

It's now... afternoon on the 24th. I've got red eyes, and I am FAR from being energetic.

Have been really busy lately. Catching up with people, writing emails for family, blah blah blah. Tonight we're heading to the midnight mass, and then Christmas day I gotta be at Pete's place by 8am.

I'm exciting about opening pressies, but man... I'm so tired. o_O

Oh, and seeing I probably won't update this tomorrow: Have a FANTASTIC Christmas everyone. :) Hope you won't be as sleepy as I would be. :)

4 days! I need more hours in a day...

Yes, I do. I thought I didn't do much today, but I actually did...

• Wrote two levels of my HTML puzzle (Level 6 is JUST up, btw :P)
  
• Figured out why there's a Fourier of the ACF in the Algo I'm working on.
  
• Figured out I might have to butcher the algo to get it to do what I wanted
  
• Solved level 28 of Enigma puzzle
  
• TRIED to solve level 29. And failed
  
• Helped my brother and Pete to do their Christmas shopping
  
• STILL haven't guessed the pressie though :(
  

Maybe I should call it a productive day instead. :P

5 days! And VERY unproductive.

I've done 4 levels of my HTML puzzle! And NO WORK on thesis. *sigh*

I know I'm stressing for no reason really. I don't really have a deadline. But I can't help but to think I've been wasting too much of my time. Maybe I'm just being a workaholic, as I am... :P

I came up with all 4 levels last night when I was trying to sleep. To be honest I think they got hard rather fast... maybe it's just me. But that's a good thing right? :P I'll try to make it all logical. I hope.

After a few more levels, I'll post of on some forums :P tehehe...

6 Days! :)

6 days to go, and I haven't done any work :(

Now, here's all I've gathered so far on the pressie from Pete. (That's after intensive poking and squeezing and shaking)

- In the middle there's something that seems like a thin small hard covered book.
- There are two tubes on either side of the book, slightly offseted
- They're attached to the "book"
- It's not TOO heavy. It's almost as if they're made of cardboard...
- Pete ordered it on the internet...

I'm stumped. :|

6 more days, and I'll find out :P

A very cruel form of torture (10 Days!!)

Pete and I stayed up til 1am to fix his system... not to mention we then had to send the spreadsheet over via dial up...

It wouldn't have been that bad, except he was using excel. *sigh*

Here's what we've learnt so far:

• If you're making a "less than" comparison, and the cell you're checking is empty, it'll assume it's zero.


• Under VB, the operator "&" can be used as a boolean AND when it's a simple statement (e.g. (TRUE)&(FALSE) will give you FALSE), but not when it's more complicated. (e.g. ((TRUE)&(FALSE))&((TRUE)&(TRUE)) gives you "FALSETRUE". I kid you not.)


• Has anyone written a program to transform the psuedo base-26 column assignment to numbers yet?


• Nested IF-statement, or just an IF-statment with a lot of ELSE IFs, are very very VERY evil to code in excel

Honestly, I haven't been THIS frustrated for a long time. Although it does bring back some memories. Ah... thold undergrad days.

At least it's all done. We can ALL have a merry christmas, in 10 days time! :)

13 days, and no U2 tickets...

10 Reasons why it's better to see the Vertigo concert on DVD (Sour Grapes Version)

1. We don't have to line up in and camp for a whole night


2. Probably see more of the band from DVD than if we're in the GA places


3. We can hire a projector, and that'd be even better!


4. With surround sound and sub, the sound might be better than at the concert. (Taking into account the noise)


5. You can sit in the comfort of your own home to enjoy U2


6. You don't feel self-conscious when you want to sing along to the songs


7. ... or when you forget the lyrics of some signature songs


8. No parking problem!!


9. Endless encore!!


10. And it actually works out A LOT cheaper...

*sigh*...
*sob*

16 days!!!

So, a bit over two weeks til Christmas. All pressie sorted, I think. Just need to wait for a parcel, get my folk's pressie, and then go get some other bits and pieces. So, the only other thing need to be done is to make sure I've done enough work between now and then. *sigh*...

Stupid research isn't going anywhere, so I've decided to write my paper now instead. That shoudl at least be okay on the productive scale. I think.

Christmas in the Park tomorrow, it's basically an excuse to have a big picnic with half of Auckland. But it's kinda a tradition. Evermore's playing, then again I'm not a huge fan of Evermore... (It just reminds me of OC. o_O And I don't even watch that show!)

Alrighty. Maybe I shoudl take my friend's advice and just chill this month. Plenty more stressing to come soon anyway. :P

Christmas Countdown!! 18 days!!

That's right folks! We've got the tree up (it's a tiny tree, since my cat sees Christmass trees as her nemesis. You should've seen her attacking that thing.) and I'm starting to get people's mass email forward about "Remembering Jesus in Christmas". (Pete has some pretty scary statistic on that one. But I won't bore you much on it.)

Christmas always gives me mixed feeling. I hate Christmas carol. It makes me ridiculously depressed. I blamed it on the fact that for one December I was working in a HK department store, for 10 hours a day, with Chritmas carols playing over and over and over again. the only carols I can stand is the Little Drummer Boy. Because of the "pa ra pa pum pum" part, and because it wasn't on the playlist.

But it's also a GOOD time. It's the only time of year that I don't feel guilty about doing no work. I don't know why, coz I feel guilty even if I don't do work on a holiday. Comes Christmas I feel like it's my birth rights to bum around and do nothing. :P

Well, sadly that doesn't kick in until around 20th, so I'll better get back to working. *sigh*...

Spud, Part II: Satanic Potatoes

JUST back from the bach, and it was a REALLY cool trip. Although there IS one tale to be told. The tale, of the Satanic Potatoes.

*cue mysterious background music*

Story goes, Pete's decided to make baked potatoes for dinner, and popped a few potatoes on the oven tray. He was then off to the bathroom, and I kept reading. Suddenly, strange sound came out of the kichen, so I went over to ahve a look. And there it was, the potatoes all shaking on their own. And then, one of the potatoes tried to jump off teh tray, or at least shaked its way to the edge. It didn't succeed. But then Pete came back from the bathroom, and saw the same thing. I'm not seeing things. *phew*

But really, I'm having WAY too many strange tales with potatoes. Maybe they're trying to tell me something...

We are going on a Summer Holiday!!

Well, kinda. Not quite. Almost. :P

Pete and I are off to his bach for a long weekend!! Yay! Probably still ended up doing work there, but meh, close enough. :)

See you guys when I'm back!! :D

Weeeeee