Still alive

I don't usually post lyrics.
but this song is just too good and funny to pass up.

If you haven't played portal or checked out half-life 1&2 i suggest you do so asap.

:F

the song itself.

Lyrics to Portal credits

Spoilers, read at own risk!!!

This was a triumph
I'm making a note here
HUGE SUCCESS
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction
Aperture Science

we do what we must because we can
for the good of all of us except for the ones who are dead
but there's no sense crying over every mistake
you just keep on trying until you run out of cake
and the science gets done and you make a neat gun
for the people who are still alive

I'm not even angry
I'm being so sincere right now
even though you broke my heart and killed me
and torn into pieces
and threw every piece into a fire
as they burned it hurt because I was so happy for you!
Now these points of data make a wonderful line
and we're out of beta, we're releasing on time
so I'm glad I got burned
Think of all the things we learned for the people that are still alive

go ahead and leave me
I think I prefer to stay inside
maybe you'll find someone else to help you
maybe black mesa
that was a joke, haha, fat chance
anyway this cake is great, it's so delicious and moist
look at me still talking, when there's science to do
when I look out there it makes me glad I'm not you
I've experiments to run, there is research to be done
on the people who are still alive

and believe me I am still alive
I'm doing science and I'm still alive
I feel FANTASTIC and I'm still alive
While you are dying I'll be still alive
and when you're dead I'll be still alive
STILL ALIVE, still alive

I'm in art school.

This sums up my current feeling about art school very nicely.

From Postsecrets.com

buying music online

Ah, the joys of capitalist consumerism.

I just purchased Radiohead's new album online.

If you haven't been keeping up( like me ). Heres the story.

Sometime in the past, Radiohead's contract with their previous recording label expired. Being the fine, intelligent chaps they are they opted not to renew it or sign another contract, instead, they decided to operate as free agent musicians, selling their music through the internet directly to the public. Cutting out the evil middleman known as the recording label.

What's special about this is that they are allowing consumers to pay whatever they want for the album. So i paid GBP 1.45 for it. 45p is for the credit card wrangling fee or something, where as the one pound is for the music itself. Pretty good deal if you ask me. You could pay just 45p for it, which is the minimum charge, if that is what you wish, me? My conscience was nagging.

Yeah, apparently it's been done before by some other band, but this IS Radiohaead we're talking. Currently one of the biggest band in the world.

SO yeah, this is massive.

It feels surprisingly good to buy something and pay whatever you want for it. It gives you a sense of satisfaction for some reason, and it feels great cause you KNOW you're not being ripped off. I must say this is the happiest purchase I've ever made in my life.

Radiohead giving away free music, Nine Inch Nails going independent....

The music world is in for some serious awakening

Intention

My friend showed my a movie she had done up for class while I was in London over the weekend. It was a script for a 3 minute silent black and white short film. It was cryptic as it could get, featuring a boy in a hospital room listening to sounds ffrom a glass apparently.

She asked me for feedback, I found myself stunned and unable to speak, now that I look back, I wonder why. Was it the fear and intimidation of class and status I had imposed on myself when I'm confronting her? (she's much older than me and I sort of respect her in more ways than 1) Or was it the fear of judgment? I found myself unable to articulate the thoughts in my head, unable to form sentences, I paused for quite some time before making another comment that was neither what she was looking for nor the clear abstract of thought in my head.

Maybe it was my first time looking at a "non-shooting script", but I just couldn't get the short film, according to her all her other peers got it. I'm left wondering if it was just me, or everyone else pretended to get it but me.

At the end though we did reach some sort of conclusion, she thought of a way to improve the script and make it visually dramatic, though was it with or without my help, I can't say.

Looking back though, I realize the first thing I should have done is asked her the intention of the short film, because that nagging thought at the back of my head when I was reviewing the script was really a voice telling me I can't get the intention of the film.

I think that intention is the most important thing when one is creating something. It outlines the principles of the work, supplies the foundation on which that piece of work will be built on, and if the intention is clear enough, will determine the visual look and feel of the work.

From now on every time I do an ad or a project, there will be a post it on the side of it outlining the intention of the work.

I can't test this intention theory of mine, so it remains a thought I suppose, but like Scoot Adams once said: "It's as good as knowledge".

At least thats what I like to tell myself anyway.

On the seventh day

Today I discovered Facebook.

GOodbye to all that is associated with good and friendster.

Quote of the day.

Upon chance, I stumbled across a quote by Gandhi.

"Be the change you want to see in the world"

I think.

Food for thought.

Viagra

This much, too much.

Millionaire asshole Tony Stark FTW.

I simply can't wait.

ACCOMPLISHMENT.

TOday I finally got windows xp running on my macbook pro, which to me is huge, because first of all I've been putting off doing it for more than 3 months(yeah it goes under the list of things I wanted to do but never got around to until now), and the last time I tried to do it a few months ago I was so traumatized by the experience I decided I would not attempt it until I was ready.

Well, the trauma mostly arises from the fact that I didn't know how to choose startup discs when starting up, but still, on my young, small, naivette and innocent mind it was a huge scare. Well I managed to install it, but after that the whole thing seemed to go bonkers, not letting me right click and ejecting cds, I remember how I frantically restarted the computer(probably causing damage to my hard drive-which I repaired some time earlier), holding down the eject key-silly me- in hopes that the mofo would spew out the windows disc and let beautiful, sweet OS X take over.

I cannot begin to describe the amount of relief when it finally happened. I was sweating machine-gun bullets and vowed never to do it again.

I almost developped windowsonmacophobia.

Fuckin scary.


But thats over and done with... now I can run all the windows apps I always wanted to on my mac!

mwahahahahahahahahahhaa

A era dawns.

Missed flight.

Thanks to the mistakes made by various persons - myself included - , I'll be staying in Malaysia for another week or so.

I was supposed to fly off on the 8th, 12.55am, which means that I'm to arrive at the airport on the night of the 7th.

Stupidly, we kept thinking 8th, 8th , 8th. So we went to the airport on the 8th, 930pm or so, almost 24 hours after my supposed flight took off.

Thus began an hour of blaming and shouting.

Thus the missed flight.

So I suppose I should take the blame partially for relying too much on other people.
Namely my parents.

Well, on the bright side of things, I'll have another week here...

that gives me time to dot things I've somehow put off for three months ever since I came back.

:D