Sep
4
How much does your life weigh?
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About 40 kg is mine. I should find a place to store my pictures. Loosing my data is my biggest worry. I can replace almost everything else but my pictures.
I was so tired today after yesterday’s swimming performance. If I was drilling the water the day before, today I was hammering it hard! It’s getting crowded with the kids back to school! Very annoying, I wish they return after I leave.
One chick at the CS hiking event took some of my pictures and put them on her web page. It is a nice compliment. I was happy she chose the one with the bridge in it, I also liked it very much. Her pictures are rather common and their quality is quite bad compared to Nikon d200’s performance. As soon as I get more cash, I will buy the Nikon d700.
Sep
3
Packing time!
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I will try this time not to throw away 90% of my clothes. Thanks to the “discount courier service” I might be able to ship the extra kilograms in one box. Only 12 days before I leave Dublin. Dublin and Ireland in general has made it to the bottom of my list of big cities. I was not impressed by Dublin. If it was not for the awesome high tech swimming pool, I would probably move away earlier. The rain, The rain the rain! It kills your mood. The coasts have their unique charm but it is not exceptional compared to other coastal cities.
List of cities from the best to the worse:
1. Lyon (best city to live in: the two happiest years of my entire life)
2. San Francisco (very pretty)
3. Chicago (windy but nice pier)
4. Brisbane (very good weather but extremely poor architecture and very noisy: birds + bad electrical converters)
5. Versailles (I had very good impressions)
6. Melbourne (I would not mind living there longer)
7. Sydney ( I like this smaller version of New York)
8. Paris (so so but I never really had the chance to live in Paris)
9. New York (too extreme: poor, rich, dirty, pretty, noisy, scary, crowded)
10. Dublin (bad weather ALL THE TIME)
11. Saigon ( too young to remember anything about it but it cannot be worse than South Bend)
12. South Bend (very shitty there can NOT be anything worse than this shit hole)
Sep
2
A moment like this!
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I’ve been waiting for this day for a very long time. Today was THE DAY. The fastest member of the team squad started to eat meter by meter the gap that separated us. I expected him to pass me with every lap that went by. This moment never came and we swam for 3 kms. After the first kilometer, I started to gain speed over the other members who were slower. After 2 km, I was faster than the girl and the polish guy. At 3 km , the fastest guy stopped as I continued my lengthy workout all by myself: 6kms. I know they saw my speed and they probably wondered about the Tech Toc I wore!
It did take me 2 full years of training! Such a good feeling! I never stressed out and never broke up the perfect rhythm given by the Tech Toc. Extremely smooth and long arm moves! I loved it!
A DRILL: I never understood the meaning of this word in swimming techniques before. How can one drill the water like a screw would drill a piece of wood? Today I fully understood its meaning as I drilled the water myself!
Sep
1
Since 1999, the year I arrived in the US, I have discovered for the best and the worse the usage of the World Wide Web: INTERNET. I’ve become extremely good at surfing the internet and finding everything I wanted. Even though I have not found happiness using it, I have found ersatz to my social life. Everything is “easier” on internet, you can say whatever and be whoever you want. Most of the time I stay very sincere to myself, maybe too much sometimes! There is a risk of disconnection with reality and it has become a real burden to me. Staring at two dark screens all day long is not very healthy. I would like to be less dependent of internet. Social life might not be as fun most of the time for me, but I should deal with it in different ways than trying to escape or ignore it completely.
In the end, I went to the CS Hiking event on Saturday. I had a very good time meeting new people and walking for a whole day. I took a lot of pictures and I posted them on Flickr. I did not have many pictures of myself though :(. I need to meet people with fancy SLR cameras and also someone who would take my own pictures. We went to a restaurant/bar in Dublin after the walk and I had my very first GUINESS. It was not bad but I prefer a Heineken.
Aug
30
My current mood!
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This nice song describes very well how I feel now: Fairytale Gone Bad by Sunrise Avenue…I kept on playing it on my winamp. Funny, I went to look for the video on youtube and I discovered the singer’s face for the very first time. I would never picture such a young face based on the strange old voice in the song.
note: This video has been seen more than 6 million times!!!
Aug
30
The herpes crisis is finally over, only faded red spots are visible. I am so happy….a real pain in the ass! I managed to cook enough food i think for at last 5 meals, all I have to do is to prepare the salad to go with the meals. I wanted to dedicate more time learning about Softimage. It is very interesting! I am trying to convince myself to attend the hiking event organized by one CS member here in Dublin tomorrow….7-8 hours is a bit too much, besides the weather here is so unpredictable. It could be hell on earth if it rains.
We had a dude who came to check the place and he seemed keen to take over but my flatmate didn’t trust him: potentially dirty and noisy person. He was fat with dirty teeth and a strong smell. Not a very good general impression at first sight, I’d say! I no longer worry about this flatmate hunt. My current flatmates had really bad experiences before, consequently, they are a bit paranoid since. We do not have many replies so far, I doubt they really have the choice. Maybe bad timing due to the summer holidays! Soon it won’t be my business anymore. It is so hard to find a really good person though, in the end, other priorities will force them to accept whether they want/like the person or not.
Aug
27
Zovirax and Viralief!
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I bought these two creams to relieve the pain. The blisters are extremely contagious and kept on spreading around. It hurt so much yesterday, it was like if I was literally burned. The worse seems to be over but the healing process is long and painful. I didn’t realize last week it was an herpes outbreak so by scratching the itchy blisters, I helped spreading the fucker around. If I had used the creams right away, it would not have been so bad.
To keep myself busy, I started a 3D modeling project. It is fun. I am using a professional software called Softimage. I thought I would intuitively learn it easily like many things that are computer related. I was wrong and I had to read step by step the tutorials and the books. It is fun. I hope I will have my very first 3D friend soon. It is not easy and it requires lots of imagination, it also combines technical skills and mathematical basics…
Still nobody to take over the room :(. Claire is on vacation for 2 weeks. She went to Spain with her boyfriend. There is only me and Rallez at home. It is nice and quiet.
Aug
24
GREAT Songs!
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Electric feel from MGMT, I discovered it today at the mall and I loved it! The instrumental at 3 min 04 sec is very nice!
Any other world from Mika. Just found this one accidentally. It is BEAUTIFUL, the music AND the lyric!
Aug
24
herpes simplex type 1 virus!
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I was curious about these weird red blisters on my neck and in the back of my left ear. I suspected these fever blisters I tend to have periodically on my lips but I never thought they could spread on such a large area of my body (neck, behind the ear, a few on the back of my scalp, and on my chin). It is very unusual to have such a huge amount. Well it is now confirmed, I have herpes outbreaks. It is extremely painful and there is no real treatment against it. I have to wait between 7-10 days for them to go away thanks to my own natural defense *sigh*. I am glad I did not have the type 2 that usually occurs in the genital area because that would cause great PAIN! I had to take a lot of precautions to shave today since a few of these blisters are located on my chin. I cannot wait for them to go away! Stress and lack of sleep last week were the main culprits of the weakening of my defense system allowing the herpes to appear. It is indeed impossible to get rid of it once you have it.
I read carefully about the symptoms and they do confirm that fever can occur. I never had fever when it was weaker but last week, I did have a stronger fever. I thought it was due to the cold. And I also had these enlarged lymph nodes in the neck. I thought I had cancer or something! Sadly for me, I had something more severe, my left brain was sore for two days. It was also a consequence of the herpes outbreaks called encephalitis. Some virus cells invaded the brain tissues. It was minor this time but the pain was very acute!
Aug
22
Strange allergy!
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Some weird skin reactions on my neck and several painful spots below the ears. I have no idea what might have caused these. I hope it’s nothing important. We might have found a replacement to take over my room. Let’s see how things go.
My body tends to compensate stress reactions caused by a major event in my life. So I was tired, had strange dreams and obviously I developed some allergy symptoms last week. I just wish all this is over soon.
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