Apprentice Procrastinator

ドラフトの掃除

2010-09-14T00:05:00.003+09:00

Getting rid of stuffs in my drafts (the ones I don't mind publishing)

Summer is all about this (7/26/09):

Today's sights (8/12/09):

...mostly happened when I was out cycling.

Someone jogging with a pig! A black pig nonetheless. Noticed it could run pretty fast too. Too bad it didn't go "oink oink".
A guy cycling with a snowboarding goggles. FTW?
Yomiuriland! Yea, I cycled from my house at Yukigaya right up till I got near to Yomiuri-land. Word of advice: Get a good bike, my cheapo bike left my arse feeling pretty...ouch
Edit: Bought new bike, am lovin it!

Of what you are doing (8/2/08):

Podfather

2010-02-08T01:34:00.010+09:00

Adam Curry aka Podfather

Y'know kids, long long ago, during the age Apple still doesn't provide that nice "Podcast" section in it's iTunes software, people have to download podcast manually and put 'em into their iPod/mp3 players. Or they could just (like me) use iPodder or Juice or whatever new names they had changed to since then. You'll have to get each podcast's URL thingy and manually put it in to the software and then wait for it to download the podcast and then, wait again for it to put it into iTunes. Then you can finally listen to the darned podcast. Of course, you have to sync your iPod with your PC if you want to listen it on your iPod first.

Sheesh, kids nowdays have it easy.

By the way, that guy above?

He's once an MTV VJ, introducing the latest and coolest songs to those teens who have now grown up into our parents (Try imagining MTV in 1987). He's also the Podfather, the pioneer to all that is podcast that we know today. Of course, there are a few others back then too but I happen to listen just to him that time. Also apparently, the intro to his podcast, the Daily Source Code hasn't changed much throughout the time. I was pleasantly surprised to find that out when I resubscribed to his podcast recently.

Good memories, those days. I loved listening to his podcast in the train during my daily commute to KLCC.

Oh yeah, his podcast's intro?

With 16 million dollars worth of airplane strapped to my ass, and the next generation radio content in my ears. I like to think I'm flying into the future.

格好イイじゃねか？Plain coolness methinks, I still remember that time when he got that quote. It came from one of his listeners email if my memory serves me well.

And his recent podcast, he talks about Tweetdeck! Muahahah, another Tweetdeck user! W00t!

A justified winter

2010-02-06T23:05:00.001+09:00

We Tokyoites always go gaga whenever snow falls in the metropolitan area. There's a damn good reason for that. We suffer the cold winter but usually never have the pleasure to actually see snowfall.

Till now, I had only seen two occasions of worth-to-brag about snowfall over here on Tokyo. I always think of it as some form of reward for suffering the biting cold winds throughout this winter. Seeing all the white fluffy stuff laying around makes me forget the cold and pick it up to throw to someone. And I most certainly did that (to my housemate).

Hey, how often could you get plastered by snowball in Tokyo?

Schrodinger's Cat

2009-11-28T22:03:00.012+09:00

The last part really made me laugh.

For those not familiar, "Schrodinger's cat" is actually a sort of experiment where a cat is shut in a box which you cannot possibly see/hear/observe anything going inside and the only possible outcomes when you open up the box are:

The cat lives (and all is well)
The cat dies (and PETA will go mad)

Fortunately this not a real experiment per se. More of just the kind of of stuffs old and overly smart scientist* like to think up in their own imagination.

Back to the experiment, both outcomes are possible. A 50-50 chance of having the cat in the box being dead or still be alive and annoyed. The cat at that particular moment is described as dead and alive. Something that as ridiculous as it may seem, is also completely true.

*Oooh.. last.fm's playing BOA!*

*dances to the beat*

OK, here's the important part. When this realization came to me, I felt so enlightened and felt that I immediately have to share this with the world before the Vogons decides to demolish Earth. Something that no scientist has ever yet noted about this world famous "thought" experiment. It has to be, without any doubt nor scientific debate (not even quantum science could refute), that the animal has got to be a cat.

Why, you ask?

No other creature would ever go into a box this willingly. QED.

Curiosity kills a cat. Huh..

Or maybe not!

Quantum mechanics my friends!

*Young scientist being young, play RPGs and online flash games.

I Shudden!

2009-10-16T03:20:00.000+09:00

Yup. Still not asleep. This is annoying.

Sleepless

2009-10-16T01:32:00.000+09:00

Sleepless night. Especially since I already slept earlier on. 1:28AM at the moment. Not really that late yet (for a student).

As you can see, I took the chance to take photos of my new desktop plant. That is, a *real* plant on a *real* desktop.

Gah....Mr. Sandman, come back here hit me on my head with your sandbag again. Please?

Exams in summer? I wilt.

2009-07-19T12:35:00.002+09:00

Exams right now. Trying to study in this weather, it is nearly impossible not to think of going off somewhere cool like the sea or somewhere closer like this Yazawa River.

Note to self: After exams, get a nice book, iPod, ice-cream and lepak over here. Oooh... better bring mosquito repellant too.

Go on haffa laugh..

2009-06-02T00:42:00.000+09:00

Cats vs Dogs

2009-04-15T19:37:00.001+09:00

see more Lolcats and funny pictures

Oh, the shame!

2009-04-08T22:39:00.002+09:00

The Christmas banner is still on my blog. Snow's still falling as well (look closer at my blog, you'll see white dots falling).

This blog is stuck in the past.

"Will update soon!", I'd like to say but being a procrastinator that'd be a lie.

It will be updated!

Sometime, somewhere, out there in the future.

Or maybe I should just post my tweets?

Meh.

Gettin closer....

2009-01-14T23:27:00.001+09:00

Just to keep this going on.

2008-12-20T00:01:00.003+09:00

Sometimes when I'm bored, I'll read a lot of thing. Sometimes beneficial, educational to the downright dumb. Whatever it is, it's all done in the spirit of procrastinating. Oh, that work can wait. Shush!

So here's one from the best-of-craiglist which more often than not
will always have something intersting to read.

2 Girls on Bus

Date: 2008-11-14, 2:15AM EST

When you got on the bus talking excessively loud I gave you the benefit of the doubt... I noticed you (the one with platinum blonde hair) had some anime keychains and laminated drawings on your backpack (I don't quite care for Deidara [from Naruto] but I did not mind the Light and L and Riuk [DeathNote]).

When I actually started listening to what you and your friend was talking about I was aghast and apalled! How could someone in their right mind, in this day and age, use the word "like" more than 150 times from Westboro to Bayview (I started counting)... I was sickened.

And when the girl, who got on at Tunnys Pasture, came on and proceeded to sit in the seat you weren't going to sit in and had to move your backpack out of the way to get to the seat, I thought that you and your friend did not need to stop your horrifying conversation and glare her.

And to make matters even more unbearable the topic of your conversation was religion! I believe the term you didn't know was Agnostic, even though you just tell people you're Atheist. And no English is not the most spoken language in the world... Your friend, in some stroke of non-retarded genius, was right about there being more people speaking Mandarin/Cantonese. To which you replied, "Well, like, that's like, because all those like, people, like started learning Mandarin, like, like a couple like, years ago." (Give or take several "likes")

I, dumbfounded, could only shake my head and shudder... and leave the bus very quickly, which the girl you glared at did also.

So, like, when you, like get on, like, a bus and like, your like, having a conversation like that, like with your, like friend. Please consider, like everyone else who, like, have to like, put up with your like, incessant chatter.Like like, you like kinda sound like slightly like brain damaged!

Yes, I do get some stuff from craiglist at times.

Home is closer than you'd think it is.

2008-12-14T21:12:00.001+09:00

Buying a second hand Nat Geo magazine from a book store here in Japan later reveals that it was originally bought in Malaysia. Huh. I wonder how it came to Japan.

Finally!!

2008-12-12T00:35:00.002+09:00

Though I have to admit that I wasted the whole night fooling around with it o_O!!

Hey, they mentioned Malaysia!!

2008-11-26T13:40:00.002+09:00

The report coincides with the publication by the human rights group Privacy International of figures that suggest Britain is the worst Western democracy at protecting individual privacy.

The two worst countries in the 36-nation survey are Malaysia and China, and Britain is one of the bottom five with "endemic surveillance".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6108496.stm

Written in 2006 though. Wonders if it has gotten better...

1,2,3,4 by Feist in Sesame Street? I guess it's inevitable.

2008-11-11T21:50:00.002+09:00

I love counting to the number four. lol.

On how to make a quality blog

2008-10-30T00:00:00.002+09:00

The quality of the blog is directly proportional to the amount of time I waste.

Quality of blog ∝ Time procrastinating

Halloween train

2008-10-29T23:26:00.002+09:00

Remember Yamanote line from the previous post? (For god's sake it's just below)

On Halloween, there's the.......... Halloween train.

Crazy stuff definitely and some locals just hate it.

Me wanna see it.

PS: Then I realised the above video was this year's one.

argh

FYI: Japan's trains

2008-10-13T20:58:00.002+09:00

An estimated 3.5 million passengers ride every day on Tokyo's Yamanote Line, with its 29 stations. For comparison, the New York City Subway carries 5.08 million passengers per day on 26 lines serving 468 stations.

From wiki.

NYC Transit's Rank Among the World's Subway Systems 2007

Annual Subway Ridership
1.	Tokyo *	3.011 billion
2.	Moscow	2.529 billion
3.	Seoul	1.655 billion
4.	New York City	1.563 billion
5.	Mexico City	1.417 billion
6.	Paris	1.410 billion
7.	London	1.015 million
8.	Osaka	878 million
9.	Hong Kong	867 million
10.	St. Petersburg	828 million

*(I live here!!!)

I'm gonna get sick of trains soon.

旅！Summer vacation.

2008-10-08T15:00:00.009+09:00

From TokyoShizuokaHashimotoKobeKyotoNagoya

旅！ 12:43 AM August 15, 2008 from twitterrific

I've got to tell you, whoever who thought of the Seishun 18kippu(青春18切符) ought to given an award. It's an absolutely wonderfull ticket for us students who wants to travel around Japan. You just have to fork out 11,500yen and the whole of Japan is yours to explore. Love it.

From TokyoShizuokaHashimotoKobeKyotoNagoya

morning clouds are beautiful...出発！ 05:06 AM August 15, 2008 from txt

Well, this is the first (beautiful) sight that greeted me on my journey's beginning. More to come later cuz my dinner's done and I'm hungry. Tata.

Tokyo was hot. So I travelled. ::Ibaraki::茨城県::

2008-10-08T14:17:00.006+09:00

@azrilel FREEDOM! Except for the reports la.....aduhai... 03:18 PM August 05, 2008 from twitterrific in reply to azrilel

So with the exams over and done with, I hurriedly finished up my reports...

Off to the sea!!!? 12:17 PM August 09, 2008 from twitterrific

..which were supposed to be sent in by the 18th August. Then again, how could I be a procrastinator if I couldn't find something that distracts me from my report.

haiyo..cant see the sunrise at Hitachi..so cloudy 04:58 AM August 10, 2008 from txt

Had fun at the sea tho. Too bad I didn't bring my camera to snap up some pics while over there.

Ibaraki is so nice and cool. So unlike Tokyo. 05:36 PM August 10, 2008 from twitterrific

Well, at least I know where to run off to when the summer heat becomes unbearable. Also, Ooarai's(大洗) outlet store is there for the shopaholics. Personally, I think it's pretty small when compared to the other outlet stores.

Got back home and my yet-to-be-written report awaited me. Gah!

Who Benefits Most From The $700,000,000,000.00 Bailout?

2008-10-04T21:13:00.002+09:00

Thanks to GraphJam.

Here's to summer!

2008-09-23T23:40:00.002+09:00

Hobbes: Summer days are made for doing things. Even if it's nothing.

Calvin: Especially if it's nothing.

Laughed a bit

2008-09-13T00:51:00.002+09:00

These two quotes randomly appeared side by side. The second one complements the first one nicely methinks.

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.
- David Frost

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- e e cummings

So I laughed. Today's not wasted then eh?

Off and Away!!!!!

2008-08-15T00:03:00.001+09:00

Go figure...

PS: I'm not sure about Ishikawa though. Where the heck is that? There's one near my house....... lol