Sunday, June 25, 2006
Belgium and other trips
Wooohoo~~ Going to Belgium this Wednesday, for a week, with Anime Society friends ^____^ Getting the Eurostar down and staying at Greta's house (which is apparently really big :P) and should be having loads of fun~ ^_^ Check out my Flickr account when I get back ^_^
Getting back on the 5th July, and then going home to Devon between the 10th and sometime around a week later, depends on whether I have any job interviews and how long I want to stay home ^_^
Hmmm this has been a short entry... Oh well ^_^; If you want to get in touch with me between June 28th and July 5th drop me an email at my gmail account ^^
Byebye!
Monday, June 12, 2006
Another year gone by
Well I'm finally finished for the year, exams finished way back in May but I've had a month long project to be doing and that just finished on Friday! The project was to design a web-based space trading game, basically an exercise in using SQL databases and javascript/PHP/AJAX stuff... I think it went pretty well, our game looked pretty sexy (not least because we stole some graphics from Subspace ;)) and it all worked well. Here, check out a sexy screenshot:
Anyway so that's all over and done with... Just waiting for results now! Plus trying to write up a CV so I can send it to a bunch of companies and hopefully end up with a job over summer! (For those of you who don't know already I'll be staying in London over summer if I can find a job here! :))
A few other things to mention: Firstly, in no particular order, I bought an American copy of New Super Mario Bros and a Japanese copy of Sonic Rush, both for the Nintendo DS. No I don't own a DS, but I am borrowing Florencia's at the moment and I'll be buying my own one at the end of summer, so yeah :P New Super Mario Bros is perfect, it is exactly what a new version of Super Mario Bros should be, it takes the best aspects of Super Mario Bros (NES), Super Mario Bros 3 (NES) and Super Mario World (SNES) and puts them all together with some fun new ideas and loads of levels and it's just so much fun! And to continue with my nostalgia-fest I got Sonic Rush, which again is a great game that is exactly what it should be, Sonic Team have done a great job with it and it plays just like a real sonic game from the 90s (ie. it's hard as hell!), plus as if I weren't overwehlmed with nostalgia already, at the beginning of each level (when I'm playing as Sonic) Tails says "Ganbatte Sonic-kun!" (Japanese for "Do your best/Good luck Sonic!")... It's so cute and makes me happy to my core :P
Secondly, my no-coke no-bacon no-cheese no-snacks diet officially ends today! I can go back to eating whatever the hell I feel like, lol... But it is being replaced, not by a diet, but by an exercise scheme: The plan is to do at least 10 hours of DDR a week. That's just under 90 minutes of DDR a day. Wish me luck :P This heat will probably kill me but I've been making sure to drink plenty of water.
Thirdly: Some people (mostly the biologists/chemists/biochemists) have exams still! Good luck to all of you~~!!! That means you Nathalie, K-Li, Nick, Greta, Ling, Nanna, Vicky, anyone else I'm forgetting! Ganbatte!! :)
Uh, can't really think of much else to say... So yeah, leave some comments or something! Byeee