Fruit Ninja Memories

It has just occurred to me that I neglected to mention a very important, and very enjoyable, part of my time so far at uni.

Roadtrips!

We had so much fun on them. So much so that we ended up discussing how awesome it would be if we could do them when we're 50, with various responsibilities and stuff. I hope we can.

You may ask why it randomly came to me just now.

Well, thanks for asking. It came to me because I was playing Fruit Ninja, jogging my memory of last summer's roadtrip, where four or five of us sat around playing Fruit Ninja at any one time. Oh, the things we do when we're young and foolish.

Also, it's remarkable how silly little things like that can take you back in time.

Word of the Day: Ninja

Full size awesomeness.

Macbooks are awesome.

Provided you have money. They're a bit of a luxury good for me at the moment. I'm typing from my dad's new Macbook Air, and it's a dream machine. Small, compact, yet it feels solid. It's a beautiful machine, screen-wise and build-wise.

After using this, and my iPhone, I've come to realise that processor power blah blah blah means diddly squat. It's all about how the operating system utilised. Hence, this computer whizzes along. Start up time is like, ten seconds. No joke.

Battery life is excellent. But you probably know that already, since it's a Macbook.

It doesn't seem like an 11 inch notebook. Like, I've just forgotten how small it really is. Not only the screen size, but the keyboard as well. It's full size, which I've never seen on a netbook. The best I've seen on one of those toys is 90% full size. An annoying thing is the missing delete key, which makes the keyboard exactly the same as the wireless one that comes with the iMac.

Also, the fun factor. Two finger swipe, three finger swipe, etc. It's awesome fun.

Again, they've lived up to the mantra of people wanting to use their computers, not hating them.

Anyway, I'm supposed to be running down the battery on this thing for my dad, which is proving extremely difficult to do. It's twitched one per cent since about 15 minutes ago.

I was thinking of getting one, but a) they're a tad expensive for me, and b) I just ordered a new battery for my laptop. Oh, did I mention that I'm only considering getting one because the battery on Bumblebee died? Sad, but true.

Word of the Day: Mantra

Syooopersonic

This video is so indescribably cool. It's just that. It's actually indescribable how cool it is.

Anyway, I am feeling quite close to supersonic. Yes, I know it won't last for very long, mostly owing to this backlog of work that I have, and something unforeseen will come and disrupt it. However, at this point in time, it's all pretty good.

I think it might just be Tuesdays. I always have a certain day that's really good every week. I think it's Tuesday this semester.

First lecture, it's a bludge. There's about 20 people there. So that's all good.

Next lecture, French culture. Hang with Irene and Zara (ha, I've stopped calling her Taylor Swift. Caught you by surprise, didn't I?). I usually walk to my next lecture with Irene after that, so we chat on the way.

In that lecture, I usually hang with the Kanji. Today, I hung with Eugene, who was making a guest appearance, and his girlfriend. That was also all good.

The tute after that is slightly meh. If I'm not being bombarded with the off-topic opinions of Left-Wing Dave, I'm stuck in a group where everybody's as clueless as me, and talk less than me. But yeah, it's manageable.

French culture tute after that tute. Again, hang with Zara and Irene. Then after that, I walk to my car with Zara.

Turns out she's actually quite conversational and funny. We ran into Kanji (not literally) and she asked me whether it was true that he was an alcoholic. I told her the story about how he and Rui thought they were dolphins after drinking one too many on the roadtrip. She laughed, showed me the dolphin ring she was wearing, and told me it was the funniest thing she'd heard all day. That made my day.

Also, my phone was going nuts yesterday. First, I get a call from Grant Thornton, which I missed because my phone was on vibrate. I called them back, left my number, and got them to call me back. About 15 minutes after that, I got a call telling me that my iPhone had finally come in. Later, at the worst possible time (while I'm applying my screen protector to my iPhone), GT calls me back to tell me to send my academic transcript to them again because it's too small. I'll be positive like Meng is, and pretend that it's because I'm in the interview pile that they want my transcript.

And, to cap it all off, Arsenal are on the verge of signing a defender. A completely un-Arsenal signing. He's tall, he's old-ish, and he's experienced. Cool name as well. Squillaci.

Mad fer it.

Word of the Day: Supersonic

iShutthehellupandroidfanbois

One of the most bizarre things that I've noticed over the past few weeks is to what extent people care about what people do with their lives.

Take the people that keep knocking the iPhone on the forums. The way they keep banging on about it, you'd think they were being paid to trash the iPhone.

It's so far beyond irrational, it's not even funny.

Spending your time declaring your love for something, I understand. But spending so much time trashing something, which has no discernible impact on you is just mind-boggling. Why do people care if somebody is using an iPhone? I mean, grow up. It's a phone. It's not like it's a massively destructive weapon doohicky. And, more importantly, it's not stopping you from picking whichever phone you like.

Moving on. Maybe Android is more customisable, whatever that is. Or open, whatever that means.

And that's the thing. I don't even know what that means. And I don't think most people care. It's just a phone. All I know about the iPhone is that it looks good, works very well, is reasonably priced, and I'll be getting a new phone in 2 years. So really, it's not that big a deal.

Now to uni/life stuff. Pretty boring stuff. Signed a phone contract. Got into a few more awkward situations. Finding out that I'm a lot poorer than I thought I was. So on and so forth. Whatever.

Word of the Day: iPhone