Backpack Friday's

I'm thinking of getting my bike out and just go biking through the city with my camera bag and camera. Problem is; this Friday it is raining. And I have a team programming project to work on. God damn. and my ipod is sitll on the frits so I need to find my other mp3 players and stick it with some music. Although I do look forward to doing something like that. I would have to pace it out correctly.
I look forward to it.

P.S. According to Vancouver Forecast. it is 100% Probability of Precipitation.
"Rain at times heavy" Aw man. haha I guess I wear a poncho eh?
Oh well, rainy day. Stay home and work on program.
That sounds good.
For now.

-Ghost

Halloween has come to an end.

And so the war-like crackle in the background has faded.
The cheers and wows.
Silenced they are now.
The smog drifts away.
The clean-up a pain.
Everyone sits against a wall.
Laughing and reminiscing the day.
What a fun it was.

Ah, another year has gone by. Fireworks and all.
Trick-or-Treating for candy and everything.
Some fun things can happen but at the same time;
Some very risky. We ran into some detours.
Trying to put eight people into a car with two roughly backpack-sized boxes
and a backpack is rather difficult and hard.
Haunted House was interesting. Great design art and blending of people.
Unfortunately I do not have pictures as we never got around to it.
But it was an enjoyable night. We all had our laughs.
We came down to the park near my area and had some midnight fun.
Although me and Azlan are slightly disappointed my buddies went through
so much of my fireworks. It was worth the fun in general to an extent for us.
Quite happy Azlan could make it out despite him being sick. We all went home for a good night sleep

However though me and my bud Azlan have decently enough (thankfully) to sell off and get more / have left-overs for next year or for other random purposes. Two boxes of one specific firework is rather interesrting and can be quite the entertainment.

And so once again. Another year gone by. We sit at our desks with our work infront of us and wonder. Where life will take us;
We meet friends, we retain friends, we lose some. Everything is a silent stall.
Leaves are blowing quietly down from the trees as winter slowly approaches.
Once again life takes us on a journey that none can seem to discover. A slight deviation of tone today for this blog. In a subtle morning everything seems so still.
A cup of tea or coffee, a sandwich, morning / afternoon breeze and lovely slow music is whats needed to yawn and wake up to a grateful day.


-Ghost

Halloween is coming and ipod woes.

On a side note. My iPod has come across a nasty downfall. The index has disappeared.
The songs still exist on the ipod (which I am happy to inform people; check your ipod if hte files still exist if this happens to you). Happily I don't use iTunes which is probably why most people have this problem because iTunes probably uses the same index.

Hopefully I can fix that soon. Programming has been great and plenty of fun. Lots to come on that. This update was intended for October 12th but has been postponed till now.
Other then that I am very, very pysked to announce (Although probably has been already)

Bleach Original Soundtrack Volume 3 is being released on November 5th 2008. I am very excited for this as Bleach is one of those anime's that are wonderful to enjoy in an anime form rather then manga. As Bleach takes on a intensive artistic background. I shall do my Bleach post someday; although re-reading on some notes about Bleach and commentary. I'm quite happy that I was on-dot about Bleach's creative aspect in the sense it's character design focused. Bleach is quite well made, artistically and the music is changing (in a good sense) and matches well.

Some anime's that I "loved" died in this aspect as after Gundam Seed Destiny. I haven’t really turned my face to look at Gundam as much as I used to. Only the old stuff now. Gundam SeeD and Destiny had the problem of predictability and repetition in music. Their music was designed to "specific" to one scene, when the OST came out. It was near rubbish. Certain scenes would have music you'd probably have listened to many times left the scene dull as the music over-played on the character speaking. Other then that the series was good. A bit repeated in Destiny but netherless not bad.

Bleach however; I will keep this short. Is a long term anime and one must keep their eyes open as we have yet to discover the background of Ichigo's dad who has quite a special kimono. Appearing constantly in the after-show comedy plots. The fact that in the current arc one may have noticed *Spoiler*

His “hollow transformation” powers have much, much longer longitivity(spelling error!) and higher immensity in power. Kind of singling that things are still happening in the background. If I am to remember they are left off doing preparations. One can’t really say they “left” the arrancar arc since it is the main arc to Bleach.

That is the end of the spoilers.

Continuing on; Bleach does a fantastic job of mixing and matching the music; and not having one origin of music just makes the play so lovely and fantastic. A common thing you will notice in most animes’ is the same style of music. Bleach has a twist from different origin’s and even in “names and titles” of spells, casts, zanpaktous’ and locations. Span from English to Spanish and to German backgrounds.

Spanish usage in the themes were used due to its presentation of words with certain tones. Quoting Tite Kubo “became interested in Spanish because, to him, the language sounded "bewitching" and "mellow". Another aspect I love about Bleach at the current moment. I’m not sure if this is true with more newer, and recent animes. Is that the first majority of episodes, 1-167. Were broadcasted in regular 4:3 Aspect ratio. Something like 640x by something. Episodes 168+ is done in widescreen 16:9 which is beautiful I must say. Full screen without much degradation in quality. That 2^nd closest from HQ / HD. Haha. Any user with a 21” monitor and less can enjoy this fully and those with 22” and 24”+ will enjoy it just as much with a proper widescreen view and not black edges.

I think that is it for the night. Early morning more over since it is 12:50am as of October 16^th. I need to get up early and do some studying and what not. I’m looking forward to the rest of the school term. Next year will be rather interesting but what the hey right?

I wish everyone good luck on their remaining mid-terms for those who have it and best of luck to the rest of your semesters.

Adios-

Ghost

P.S.

Radio is still down unfortunaly. My computer is offline to prevent distractions. I do most of my work on my laptop now. Since I love my laptop <3>

Into the month of October

Amazing isn't it. How it is already October. The year 2008 feels liek it only just started and now it's already come to an end.

This is going to be a short post since I have an assignment to finish.
I've been doing a lot of things and met up with some old friends?.
She got a Pentax k1000 with 6 lenses for roughy $200. We talked about it and had some fun playing around with them while discussion some info about analog and digital camerea over soem coffee.

I've been playing around again with the speakers that I pulled out of my garage. I mentioned it earlier a month ago. Quest "QB5" (I think they are) have taken over the speakers that are on my stero of some 11 years now.

Sound quality is beautiful.

In recent news. I have my computer disassebled to keep me from hopping onto it and not getting work done so radio will be offline indefintely for the time being.

And the fact we are doing a lot of stuff on the network so it's a bit slow to broadcast. However. Laptop is in my room under the table shelf which is hooked up to the moniter that was connected to my PC. 24" Dell. You got to love it.

Also, my friend has "lent" (which will also indefintely probably remain in my hands) her analog camera which she found in her mom's closet. A Canon EOS 1000. Yes. One of the first series of eletric 35mm (135mm) film cameras. I will do the details later.

Back to work. I'l finish the rest of this after assignment is finished.

Ciao.

Ghost

Langara Computer Havoc

Apparently their is a maintenance going on with the computers down here in Langara.
Computers crazy slow; the initial boot up takes forever at the current moment.
Now; though once the computer is in for a while (if your patient enough haha) Speed is a lot faster as the server computer has probably registered the computer you are on into the system.

Plenty of fun. Stayed over at Azlan's place over Sunday to Monday...
Kinda crashed our day =\ so we kind of crammed the night with homework. Till early morning which was unfortunately very tiresome.

Feel kind of bad; hope I didn't hinder him too much haha.
Most things are going fairly well. First assignment for CPSC 1150 (Program Design) is coming along well. Written algorithms is quite the pain staking task.
One has to think outside of the box rather then the logical language.
Basically writing out the hard format of the information and how it would be processed rather then how it should work within the code itself.

Break is quite nice. A bit chilly outside today, staying inside since I only have a t-shirt on me. Long day; still have a short nip with school work to finish. After that it should be nice and breezy. Things have been a bit tensing up. I guess from procastination and what not. Everyone has those right? Quite the pain it is.
I know I said I will be updating and what not. Things have been quite busy; to an extent. I shall post photos of me and Azlan disassembling a Nerf gun we found in his house to fix a button that would cause the wheels within the gun to shoot out the ball. Apparently the button got stuck when pressed in too much. We took it apart and I filed down the button to make it not get stuck when pressed in and viola it worked.

Anyhow; once again it apparently looks like time is up and I have to head to class.
I will see everyone later : )
Ciao!

-Ghost

Week Two!

It is the second week of class.
Things are going quite smoothly.
Math is starting to kick in and we did our first Java tutorial for our program.
Met some new friends along with old school friends.
Some discussions here and there during lunch hours and other things like that.
Class is starting so I will update later.

Ciao

-Ghost

Radio is still offline for the time being : (

The Start of the Year

School has started; High School and University alike. Everyone has gone to many places as it seems.

Staying here locally in UBC , Langara College or SFU. Some to the east side of Canada or out of country. (These two lines are out of format... I wonder why.)

Although I did not start off with where I wanted; wanting to go to UBC first was my main goal but Langara is quite a cozy place to be in. Lots of people here to get around with and familiar faces to appear once in a while although I must say it’s quite interesting. Ah well; moving on. As of this semester I’m taking CPSC 1150 and another math course. Although what I will be taking next semester I don’t know yet but will be added with CPSC 1160 and 1180 and Philosophy 1101 (CPSC = Computer Science for those that are confused at the abbreviations) Having only two courses does have its advantages. A slow relaxaive (if that’s even a word.) start to the year. Next semester will have roughly five courses.

However, I might be taking Business Management 2230 for Co-Op. Co-op person came to our class and talked about it and said we can still register late for the course so that will be interesting. My friend David and I have been getting around quite fun. Although our staked our library corner on the third floor by the window has been taken; we do manage once in a while. The plan so far is quite good. Langara to UBC Transfer is quite well accepted and has some `specialities `apparently. I might see my friend Young maybe in a co-op or just perhaps in the future.

As it seems everyone is getting comfortable with their new life but I am sure it will get hard soon as we all will start having homework and labs and everything else kick in. Some have said two is little but CPSC 1150 is not a light course but plenty of fun so that should be exciting. I look forward to our future works. Math even doing fundamentals is entertaining; it`s nice to go back to the beginning sometimes and practice and relearn this stuff; although it is a bit of a hinder due to the fact I can`t do certain math courses but I`ll manage I assume. English next semester will be fun, fun, fun.

My teachers are fantastic though so far. My math teacher and Program Design teacher are funny. Good environment so far; until of course stress starts kicking in but that`s another story for another time. On a side note; I did buy a new laptop; and under $800. A Toshiba A300D Satellite laptop; quality is good. Had some issues but I don`t know if that is default issues or not but still it`s very nice with Harman/Kardon speakers which have nice sound quality to it. I guess I will post a picture of the laptop when I get back?

Other than that, how is everyone enjoying the early start of school? Had a good summer I hope? Bah, didn’t get a chance to meet up with friends during the summer which is just unfortunate ; ( but oh well; there will always be some sort of time during the summer. I figured I am able to use my laptop during math without the battery dying and can charge it during CPSC 1150 since we are working with certain materials which is overall fun. That way I will have power to last the day. Cables are kind of hard to stretch around in my math class. In the future I might be able to do better (that and I can charge during my off hours in the library).

I must say though; they have some decent computers over here. They have I think 3 computer lab rooms (which can be used for drop in too; for whatever browsing need you need; “academic” purposes ) Got to check how many have these, with roughly 20-30 computers each. Spec’d at Pentium 4 3.0Ghz equipped with 1GB ram and 19” monitors.

But anyhow; I shall save this and keep it in a tab for posting later tonight. Which is now. Current time is 11:08. Typed the entry while I was in the library; taking a break from doing my homework and studying.