Chasing After Rainbows

I am done with the cleaning up of the hard disk , leaving behind only this month (June). It was quite monotonous Would search for duplicates the next time. I received a message (and haven't reply) from my secondary/middle school classmate saying if I would attend my form/homeroom teacher's "farewell". I don't know what he meant by "farewell". It varies from a farewell party to a funeral. I checked on my other classmates' blog, but they never even mention anything about it. One did say that she was not able to contact him, though she could be refer to someone else. I was informed at the very last minute (Thursday actually) that there would be another 生徒会 meeting at school that conflicts with my class outing , though for the latter, I could go there after 3pm. The problem is that I don't know what I would be missing, who's coming at when and the location is a lot further away than my house. I don't plan on staying there overnight, but prob...

I'm currently in the middle of cleaning up my hard disk of unwanted images and some flash files. I have deleted about 200MB of files so far and there seems to be more waiting to be found. The majority are from 東方, Fate/Stay Night, Lyrical Nanoha, and whatever that I found ugly by current standards. The images you have seen me uploaded are among the best I have and does not contain things unsuitable to typical readers. (yes, I do have images that are unsuitable to some people, but I don't put them up anywhere.) It looks like there are a lot more files to check through. When I was transfering from the old portable hard disk to the new one (via the laptop) between February and May this year, there were about 50,000 files (not sure how much that is in Megabytes), and that does not include images stored elsewhere. I should get going now.

I have been using Firefox for quite some time now, but not long after I upgraded to Firefox 3 recently, I have been facing problems like high memory and CPU usage (carried over from Firefox 2), taking an awfully long time for stuff to load and other stuff, even more visible on my 2002 PC, despite the 1.2GB (1020MB+250MB) amount of RAM. The browser is more likely to freeze, the "save to" dialog not appearing and not able to click elsewhere when trying to save images. These problems were not visible in other browsers. I am using Safari 3.1.1 right now by the way.

With my parents currently giving me a miserable amount of monthly allowance, which was half compared to when I was in secondary/middle school, my expenses would easily be more than my allowance and there isn't much in my bank account. How little? Let's put it this way: at the current prices, an airplane ticket to a place 5 hours away would cost between 1/2 to 1/3 of what I have. It's not even enough to cover all the other expenses like accomodation and other related things. With current commitments to school studies, club activities and the 生徒会, it would seem difficult to find a part-time job without affecting the other 3 or finding a time to take a break. The time when I am actually doing nothing is quite rare, even after doing stuff at places like Facebook. I haven't felt very happy deep inside for a long time that jokes don't seem funny. In fact, nothing significantly new has happened around me before these days. To tell you the truth, I actually don't care i...

As I sat in the 生徒会 room today, doing the task I was assigned to by people of higher up positions, I came to think about the unused portion of papers that were cut, especially if they made up more than a quarter of the original amount. The temperature of the air conditioning of the room was set too cold for comfort. Then comes the time to eat, roughly in the middle of the time I was there. A teacher bought them for us and someone brought them into the room. The problem is that the food seem alien to me and were too spicy, just like the camp last week where I didn't finish everything (except for the McMuffin from MacDonalds™). All this wastage could have been avoided if sufficient portions and the food people want were given. It may not seem much, but it adds up. Not feeling well at that time, for this week in fact, I lay down on a couch and took a nap. Then someone told my group members to write a report (which I don't like) and send her by email about whatever crap she wants u...

(I'm feeling better now, but not yet fully recovered.) When I'm bored traveling, but not in the mood to read, I would be listening to music. As there are too many songs on the PC, along with the amount of incorrect/corrupted song info, I would first correct them and then use iTunes to put the songs I want onto my iPod Shuffle™ (2G) . I do put songs on other devices such as my mobile phone or PSP, but I find the navigation and putting the songs in there more troublesome, with the memory being shared with other things. Without the screen on the iPod Shuffle, it would be less distracting (and maximise battery power) when using it, though you migh not know what song is being played. On one side of the headphones that came with the iPod Shuffle™, it seems to have become softer lately and have to adjust the problematic side so that the sound volume balances. To make matters worse, I could barely hear the music when I am at a loud place such as a crowded place, the subway when under...

For yesterday and today, my eyes feel heavy, but I was not sleepy . It was raining when I was sleeping. I'm not sure when it started, but there were large clouds (that reflected lights from the ground) as at 2am. Today was the outing of the library club. It was an hour after the appointed time before we actually start to head there. We had a buffet at a hotel that looked liked a high class with staff wearing formal attire everywhere. I'm not sure how to get there, but it was on the other side of a hospital near the train station and walk in some direction until near a flyover/viaduct of a busy highway. With part of the condition mentioned in the first paragraph, I didn't have the mood to eat or play with the others. After 3 hours after eating, followed with confusion and disappointment, I headed home and went to sleep until it was dark outside.