Monday, January 02, 2006
Long Overdue Post
Finally an update about me going home for Christmas... Which is ironic because I'm now back in London :P Sorry it took me so long, I dunno what it was about being home but I just wasn't in the mood to write anything... Maybe later on in this post it'll become apparent why, I dunno what I'm gonna write yet, let's see :P
Well I wen't home two weeks ago, was pretty nervous about it since there was some sucky stuff going on and my time at home last Christmas wasn't great really (is anybody's first Christmas home after their first term of uni good?) so yeah... But actually it was really really nice to be home. That's my excuse for not writing anything in the first few days of being home, it was too nice being home :)
Then of course I got my hard drives... Mmmm, Christmas presents. I got two 400GB hard disks, installed them, and set about installing Windows XP and Gentoo Linux... Give me a moment to rant about Gentoo... Gentoo is just amazing, with Slackware (my old distro) there were so many problems that I never got around to doing half the things I wanted to, but with Gentoo setting things up is just so much more intuitive, installing everything (fluxbox, xmms, opera, gaim, etc) that I normally use was just a matter of a few 'emerge' commands, and once I got that done I was free to get all sorts of things working at last... ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) means sound works in flash, including on Google Video) and I even got Japanese Input working at last! わい〜 すごいですね？ ^___^ Just love it so much! Back to the hard drive stuff... Here's some info for ya:
kaoru@localhost /home/kaoru $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 46G 11G 34G 24% /
udev 442M 192K 442M 1% /dev
/dev/hda6 46G 33M 44G 1% /home
/dev/hda7 182G 86G 87G 50% /home/kaoru
/dev/hda1 49G 4.8G 45G 10% /mnt/windows
/dev/hdb1 367G 343G 5.3G 99% /mnt/media
shm 442M 0 442M 0% /dev/shm
400GB -> 367GB when formatted in ext3, ouch -_-; And yeah it's full... Gotta watch some stuff and then burn it to disc :P
Aaanyway, enough going on about that... Christmas was pretty good, I didn't get much but had a nice roast beef dinner and a couple of great Gameboy Advance games, Gunstar Future Heroes (similar to the original, and therefore amazing) and Puyo Pop Fever (yay Sonic Team) which are both pretty damn addictive and very fun... So there goes my lectures this term XD
Now to write out (for the second time, but only one person can read where I wrote that so :P) why I didn't write a blog entry after Christmas... I was really busy. Which is really weird, because I got nothing done... :P I dunno, it's kinda hard to explain, I was lazy and slept all day and chatted online all night, and yet every time I actually wanted to do something (like write here, work on my website, read some O'Reilly Linux Kernel Edition 2, work on my other website, take photos for dA, draw for Izumi and K-Li etc) I was always busy with something. Sorry everyone, I'll try to get some stuff done this week! >_<;;
New Year's Eve/Day was good, went out with James and John, met up with Sean, Dave and Ben, and saw loads of people out :) It was a great night... Not much else to say about that, just happy new year everyone~!! Hope everyone has a good 2006!!
Which does kinda bring me to a point... end of the year obviously makes people think/talk about how the year went... Did anybody have a good 2005?! I don't think anyone did :/
Well I'm done writing, and this post is waaay too long already :P Leave some comments~!
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9 Comments:
Aww, glad you had a good time back home! And it's nice to have you back! :D
Nope no one had a good 2005, certainly not me =/ But let's drink to 2006 (well, drink something XD) and hope it'll be a better year! Take your time (XD) with my kiriban and HAPPY NEW YEAR!
See you soon ^_^
By izumi, at 4:59 PM, January 02, 2006
It's good to be back ^_^ *huggles* See you soon~!
By Kaoru, at 5:03 PM, January 02, 2006
Happy New Year! :D
I hope your christmas went well. And bah on 2005, I see 2006 as a greater year. Already, it's starting to kick more ass. :P
GOOD BYE 2005
HELLO TWO THOUSAND AND SEX^H^HIX
By Lance, at 8:45 AM, January 03, 2006
Yay. Sound at last and a slightly less sucky *nix distro. Well done you. Having a bit of trouble finding a decent present for you but I'm still looking...
By Gary, at 2:06 PM, January 03, 2006
lance: HAPPEH TOOKAYSIXX!
gary: presentwise anything Prince of Tennis (VCDs or OSTs) would be great, in fact if you find the whole series (178 episodes) on VCD and it's too much to be a present i'll pay up to £30 :P
By Kaoru, at 5:15 PM, January 03, 2006
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By philmartin26592788, at 5:30 PM, January 03, 2006
*ponders* the VCDS will most likely be dubbed into Chinese...
lalalala
you don't know how bored i am... i even googled for this site cos im THAT bored.
the laptop you want i believe my little cousin owns it :P
mwahahahaha.
you don't know how weird it is to see this all in chinese *blinks*
meh......... !_!""" going now..
By kachookee, at 5:49 AM, January 09, 2006
Heey Carmem~ Are you having fun over there? When are you back anyway? (Guess that question can go to your or Gary, whoever reads here next :P)
the VCDs would be chinese? meh ok then, don't worry about it ^^;
Byeee~
By Kaoru, at 5:25 PM, January 09, 2006
We're back now and I couldn't find your VCD's or anything related to Prince of Tennis.
By Gary, at 1:56 PM, January 11, 2006
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