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Version 4 was a private testing operation.
I’m finally writing out some actual blog entries and am making a fresh new start.
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Here’s some interesting video…

Hi from Multitouch Barcelona on Vimeo.

Finals!

Wow… It’s already finals now…

Hmm… These are the finals that I have to take….

• Physics of Musical Sound (Monday)
• Spanish (Tuesday)
• Calculus 122 (Friday)

Studying for Physics of Musical Sound now… what we call PMS…. hahahahahhahahahahaha -0-

Time of the Year

It’s that time of the year again…
The time when a year comes to an end as well as a year starts all over.
It’s the time of the year, in which I:
- Notice how I never keep my promises of updating blogs
- Try to keep updating in the new year
- Try updating knowing that I will fail miserably
- Trying to find a new start….

dunno what i’m trying to say here.

Everything simply put, Happy New Year!
Hope everything was OK in the past year and will be OK in the coming year as well.

iPod nano

oh! Guess what?!

I received the new iPod nano! The blue one to be exact! (I prefer the green one, but I didn’t buy it so I guess I won’t be complaining)

I’ll talk about it later.

West Wing… again

My first visit to the West Wing cluster was 2 days ago… or technically 3 days ago… wait… it’s morning now on Saturday, so 4 days ago…
Wow, day counts are getting so hard these days and time flies!

If day counts aren’t your thing (apparently it’s not my thing), I shall tell you that I first visited the West Wing cluster on wednesday. I was working quite hard at the library, doing math and other whatnots, then at 3 am, we were thrown out with the annoying ringer. For those at CMU, they know what ring I’m talking about. It’s quite hard to describe in words; something like a muffled 3 short school bell rings that scare the hell out of you when you are concentrated in your work and hear the – what it seems like – earth shattering sound.
Anyway, we (meaning myself and 3 others) decided to go to the West Wing cluster, because the UC is always way too cold with the AC turned on to the max.
I was astonished with the amount of computers (of different operating systems; macs, windows, and linux) as well as the smartboards, the wall (which was a whiteboard on its own), and small group study area.
That night, I left the place shortly after arriving, procrastinating, deciding to sleep. As I walked home, I thought to myself, ‘I’m definitely going back there some time.’ The sad bit is that I ended up there every single night then after until now.

The next day on a Thursday night, the usual bell goes off at Hunt library and I walk to West Wing to finish up on my physics homework and get a quick start on my programming assignment. Around 3 am, Minji walks in claiming that she needs to print something… Young ha, Minji and I ended up staying up the whole entire night showing each other our home towns as well as vacation places on Google Earth (we love the caribbean). Oh, I almost forgot; we also reminisced upon the latin american way of “partying.” We miss Tequila awfully a lot. We stayed until 7:30 am and went to Schatz to eat breakfast and I went straight to class… on Friday.

Friday, now yesterday, as weird as it seems to me right now (I still believe I’m stuck on Thursday night), the programming people taking 15-100 with Roberts had our assignment due the next morning. We initially went to Hunt library to quickly find out that they close early on fridays – at 9 pm. We quickly gathered our things and headed out to… the West Wing cluster.
We pretty much wrestled with our laptops while staying there; frustrated over not getting things done right, we tried to enjoy our time together, laughing while looking at the photo booth pictures taken from my mac the previous night. It was soon 1 am and Young ha and Sang ho went back home (Sang ho is not taking the course, yet he decided to tag along; he seemed to have enjoyed my selection of music on my iPod. Boys Like Girls, anyone?). I was left with Jiho for the next hour and Jiho simply gave up and went home, telling me to call him as soon as I’m done, whenever that may be. I did. It was 3:30 am.
He asked to meet at 6:00 am; I agreed. And guess where we met at… West Wing cluster. Jiho reluctantly gave up on the assignment; he just couldn’t find the files. We are now at the UC, looking outside at the gloomy day with the drizzle trying to find out where we could eat breakfast. CMU seems to assume that everyone is sleeping in late on saturdays; the earliest ones opening is at 10:30 am unlike 7:30 on normal weekdays.

I must say, my quick attraction to the West Wing cluster and naive thought of “wanting to come study here again,” was a… … stupid one. I ended up being half of this week now; I actually spent more time there than the amount of time spent in my dorm all this week. Now, it seems to have become a second home to me on CMU.

Oh, West Wing cluster, how I despise you, you remind me of the work I’ve been doing in there for the past few days! (I believe I’m genuinely going crazy lately… more on that later)

West Wing Cluster

I’m at the West Wing Cluster at CMU here.

It’s actually quite nice here.
A bunch of PCs.
A bunch of iMacs.
Hightech looking whiteboards with scanners on them.
Big plasma screen.
Some kerboros thing or whatever. I still don’t get it.
Printers.
Piano in the lounge next door.

All good… All good….
Only if I could finish my work now…

The reason why I’m here?
Well… I was at the library rotting away in my books and “Processing,” then got kicked out because it was closing at 3AM… I must admit though, we were busy messing with the Photo Booth application on my macbook pro… Laughing out loud, reminding ourselves of the “silent library” videos on Youtube.

Anyhow, I’m in the West Wing cluster now and probably have to go back to work.

Nack signing out for the day… or the previous day, shall I say.. haha

Physics

I’m taking a physics course named “Matter and Interactions I.” It’s named 33-111. I’m in section G.

I’m starting to hate it… The problem is that I understand all the aspects of topics covered in the course, but the book seem to use some random ways of describing them. Definitely not used to the wording.

I have another problem now… I’m not feeling confident in the class. I used to be the one who always raised the hand to answer the questions in Physics class in High School and even if wronged by Laura Durrance, I really thought nothing much of it. However, now I lost all the confidence I had in the subject.

I’m doing the homework (which is never called homework but “assignments” numbered by weeks) for the class that’s due tomorrow. I am currently doing number 3. It’s a simple question of a mass hanging on a string and another string pulling it horizontally at the middle of the string and creating an angle theta on the original string with the vertical. The simple question is to find the force on the second string. I quite simply came up with mgtan(theta) as the answer. But now I’m doubting myself. After using all these vector notations to describe everything and having struggled in problems 1 and 2, I am really doubting myself of the simple answer, which I came up with only after 4 lines of equations and a simple drawing.

My confidence and pride towards my answers are now gone.
I feel like an important part of me has been torn away.
It’s like a shark loosing all its teeth and having to feed from a straw or something. (Yes, I know that analogy was weird… but so what?)

*sigh*

I wish I gain my confidence back in Physics.

Physics
Physics
Physics
Physics….. 

Korea

Yes… I’ve been lazy once again and have decidedly not updated this blog for a while now.

Well… what’d you know… I’m updating it this very minute LOL

Anyhow… For those of you who are in Korea at this current moment, here is my phone number while my time here: 010-9442-3473
For those outside of Korea, you should mark: +(00) – 82 (korea country code) – 10-9442-3473

So yeah…. that number, you can call, and I will answer. Simple, eh?

Watch

My dad brought me back a Diesel watch from the business trip he had to Ecuador.

Nice looking, nicely worn, nicely big, nicely designed.

very nicey indeed.