By Chewxy, on May 19th, 2010%
Has it really been two months since I’ve written anything here? Hard to believe. The truth of the matter is that life, as always, has been hectic these days – hang on, I’m not Metrodad, why am I writing the same exact sentence as he did?
Most readers know I don’t like the concept of countries. It’s an outmoded concept of sovereignty over a piece of land. Anyway, before I get derailed into explaining why the very idea of countries are dumb; the thing about countries is that they have stupid little “permission to travel” documents, known as passports. It’s with these little pieces of papers that countries protect their sovereignty. And passports expire. Mine did a couple of days ago, and so I had to renew my passport.
Now, for most countries, one can renew one’s passport online, or via mail – you know, like civilized people in the 21st century do. But in my case, I had to go all the way to the High Commission in Canberra to renew my passport (because the Malaysian government doesn’t allow online renewal).
As soon as I realized I was scheduled to physically be in Canberra, I rubbed my hands with glee – because Honeysuckle Creek is in Canberra. And for those of you who do not know what Honeysuckle Creek is famous for – the technicians at the tracking station there were the first people to see Neil Armstrong on the moon. Of course, I then found out that Honeysuckle Creek tracking station is no more, and it’s been relocated to the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex.
Continue reading NASA – CDSCC; Or Why Google Maps Suck
By Chewxy, on February 21st, 2010%
I finally settled in at my new place. It’s been a mad 3 weeks. That’s all I want to say. What’s the point of blogging then? I don’t know. I will continue to blog once my desk is in place. Until then, read . . . → Read More: Settled!
By Chewxy, on January 26th, 2010%
I’m moving houses again. This time, to a different state. So, as you can guess, I’m packing stuff up. And because this time round I cannot just put everything into the car and go (Australia is testament to failure of human cognition of large distances – one simply cannot visualize the distance from city to city) – I actually have to use a removalist. And so I started packing.
Then this is what I found:
Yes, you would have noticed that the guitar is larger than the box. No worries, you say, because the guitar headstock snaps off and it will go into the box, right (afterall, when it came, the headstock had to be manually snapped onto the neck)? So I flip to the back and looked at the place when I first snapped the headstock onto the neck, when I first bought the game: Continue reading Rock Band Guitar Design Failure
By Chewxy, on November 23rd, 2009%
This was my favourite star constellation when I was younger:
Continue reading Orion
By Chewxy, on June 22nd, 2009%
Note to self: I don’t think self-promotion in an exam paper is a good idea. I’ve done it twice already O_o. I don’t think I should do it in the next exam.
I’m quite glad I blogged about this. It came out in the exam. I don’t think I did a good job explaining it though (hence . . . → Read More: Self-Promotion in Exam
By Chewxy, on June 20th, 2009%
I am not a mathematician. I can point you to one, though – Kurt Godel. He is dead, so I guess you gotta wait till the End Times or the scientists at Umbrella Corp to perfect the zombie creating virus. Kurt will tell you that any consistent set (such as the [censored, exam topic] set) is . . . → Read More: How Screwed I Am For Exams
By Chewxy, on April 29th, 2009%
I had a strange dream last night, which caused me to wake up late this morning. In the dream, I went to class without pants. And when I went to class, my experimental econmics lecturer was auctioning off a pair of pants that fit me. There was some strange talk about private valuation, and stuff like . . . → Read More: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
