Tuesday, November 20, 2007

My new homepage

Made a new page. :D http://glutinous.zensaki.com/

Friday, November 04, 2005

blogger

Blogger can host photos now! Interesting :)

At work at the moment, bored :( But it's lunchtime...

Tuesday, July 05, 2005

blogging

Logged in to fix Kim's post :p What a noob hehe ...

I'm going to test out blogging on my Xanga for a while, it might get a little bit more traffic than here. I have a link to this blog, so see how. But I dunno, whatever.

Might be fun to write more than I have been :p

Sydney was ok. Played a lot of Tekken. Didn't spend as much time at CeBIT as I was going to, it was really aimed at businesses. Moved to Parramatta :)

I can't really remember now, it was too long ago >_< Ate lots of interesting food. Bought some crap. Cheapish clothes ! Bought a jacket from Saba that was pretty expensive before O_o

Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Glutinous' Simple Recipes

This is in reply to Pang's post. Hahaha! So funny!

Here are my recommendations of easy things to make:

French Toast

1. Get some eggs and sugar.

2. Beat the eggs and mix in the sugar.

3. Dip a loaf of bread into your mix, so that it is coated in your sticky goodness.

4. Fry the bread.

Pancakes

1. Mix together some egg, milk, flour (preferably self-raising), and sugar. Not sure about exact ratios. Be conservative with the sugar, and put enough of the rest to get a just-very-slightly-watery viscosity (liquid enough for it to be easily poured onto a frying pan, and yet thick enough so that it will form a moderately thick layer on the pan).

2. Heat up the pan - minimal heat.

3. Pour some mix in the pan and let it fry. For circular goodness, use a ladle to pour it onto the pan. Once it looks like the bottom is cooked enough, flip it and cook the other side a bit more (but not as long as before).

Steak

1. The hardest part is choosing the right meat part to buy - just ask the butcher.

2. Heat up pan - max heat.

3. Chuck in steak.

4. Wait 1 minute.

5. Flip.

6. Wait another minute.

7. Eat.

Mashed Potatos (to go with your steak)

1. Get some potatoes.

2. Wash (just roughly) and skin them (or not if you prefer to eat mashed potato with skin bits in them - it is good for your skin apparently).

3. Boil a pot of water.

4. Chuck in potatos. Leave for ages (I think like an hour).

5. Take out your potatos (they should be really soft and mashable).

6. Mash them (with a spoon or whatever - you can buy special spoon things for this too).

7. If you want gravy. Use a pre-mix. :P Hey actually, I just remembered you can get pre-mix mashed potatoes, too - just add water.

Spaghetti (with pre-made sauce)

1. Buy some mince meat and jarred spaghetti sauce.

2. Defrost it. Easiest is to just leave it in the sink for a whole day. You can try with a microwave, but be careful not to cook it in the process.

3. Make big pot of boiling water and chuck in the spaghetti sticks. Leave it to boil (takes forever).

4. While waiting, heat up a pan - medium heat. Chuck in the minced meat and sauce. Stir around a bit until it looks ready (should not take too long). Leave it to simmer while waiting for the freaking spaghetti to ready.

5. Take your spaghetti from the pot. Put a sift in the sink and pour it in to get rid of the water. Combine with your sauce.

6. If you want a bit more fanciness, then cut up some onions (and anything else you might fancy?) and chuck it in with the sauce and minced meat when you cook them.

This is all assuming you use non-stick pan. If you don't... er... buy one. Oiling stuff is bad for you, and you will waste initial food while learning to master it. :P

Can't think of much else...

Boiling stuff is fun. Boiled vegetables are the easiest. Carrots, broccili, and peas are popular. Just remember to cut/skin them first...

And yes, I do make it sound easier than it is. Just experiment. :P You will be GM Cooking in no time.

Monday, May 23, 2005

sydney: day 2

What up !

This is my second day in Sydney... I'm blogging from a netcafe in the city, underneath a McDonalds O_o It's abit expensive but what can you do. If I'm in the city more I guess I could just buy membership to here :p

Had a super tiring day yesterday ... my flight touched down at 6am Sydney time ... that is 4am Perth time :\ I could only get an hour or two of sleep on the plane and we had already landed, oh well. Started the day off with some coffee :p Then caught the train to Charis' house; even though I'm a 'student', it cost $8 for the ticket, soo exp ... I think Sydney is expensive :p That was about 7am, I think Charis forgot I was coming because I woke her up heheh :p

Then after Charis did some crap we went walking .. just walking aroud, it was pretty cold! We went to Cockle Bay for breakfast, it was nice ;) I had toast, eggs, hash browns, mushrooms and spinach... Never had spinach for breakfast before but it was pretty good :p And my eggs were poached, interesting... they called that 'vegetarian', but now that I think about it, vegetarians don't eat eggs, do they :p

After that, it was abit of a blur, I was so tired... and full from the breakfast O_o Went around and around, Charis bought some clothes from David Jones and I fell alseep in this really soft chair ;) Here, there are two David Jones stores across from each other, one sells all girls stuff and the other sells guys stuff, cool :) Then we went to Starbucks; I wanted to have Green Tea Frappucino but I got an ice blended White Chocolate Mocha instead :) Because I was feeling really sleepy at that point, the first coffee having worn off. Then I was quite jittery, and Charis laughed at me :p We walked around for so long ... went to Kinokunia bookstore and also this 'jackets sale' that was selling leather and crap, it was pretty sucky ...

Went to look for a DVD but they were all crap. Then walked around in Chinatown to look at haircut places, now I'm feeling I cbf cutting hair .. I'll just cut and dye at home. Hrmm, really no time to do stuff at home though .. so I guess if I'm bored here .. :)

Last night we went to dinner at this japanese place, I had katsu curry and Charis had this 'steak' ... it was a pretty shitty steak :p Stringy and tough, and the sauce tasted abit like fish... My curry was good :P After that I took a taxi back to the apartment (did I mention that my luggage was 20 kg+?). I had to drag stupid luggage up and down the stairs at the train station ... omg Japan flashbacks huh :P So many stairs !!! Central station here looks like Osaka central trainstation :) The platform, anyway ...

Today I woke up late and just been walking around ... watched some Jerry Springer on tv before I came out :P Caught ferry, $5 wtf ... I went to Darling Harbour and walked around for the past few hours :P Played some Tekken, owned some guy 4 times in a row then been owned for every other match :\ Oh well, I might go and play now again hehe :)

Tomorrow is CeBIT, I'm surprised because there are the flags flying in all the streets advertising it O_o I'll try take along the camera and take some photos :)

I don't have any net access at the place I'm staying at, so I might not be able to upload photos until I get home -_- Or something ... see what happens ...

I'll try find some net at CeBIT and update again ;)

Monday, May 16, 2005

new headphones !!

Haven't posted for a while, but thought I should document the day that I got some new headphones :P

Bought a pair of Shure E2c canalphones, and from listening briefly just then, they get the thumbs up :) The isolation is pretty crazy... when I put them in, I can't hear anything of the outside O_o And I'm still only using the silicone sleeves, they also have some foam sleeves which are supposed to be even better for isolation. Bought them to replace my ~4 year old Sony MDR-EX70SL canalphones... they've served me well but I think it's time to put them into retirement :) Got a pretty good price for the headphones too, thanks eBay!


Sony MDR-EX70SL




Shure E2c


Going to save the foam sleeves for when I go to Sydney ;) That'll be in a week's time; Sunday 22nd of May. Will be there for two weeks while I act as housewife :) I'll also be attending CeBIT Australia 2005 from the 24th - 26th of May... fun fun :P I'll take a camera along and post some pics on the blog.

Other than that... for all those that don't know... I was working at TSG Consulting for the past 4 months, but just resigned. The reason for that is that I'm starting at Motorola's Global Software Group very soon :) Should be interesting...

Motorola interview was quite straightfoward for anyone that's interested. It was quite funny to do an interview after being out of the 'scene' for so long... Hopefully this is the last interview I have to take for a while :P

Sunday, April 17, 2005

Long-Overdue Post

How long has it been since the last post, hey? I think I will send an email out to the guys to write something. Our poor blog hasn't been updated much lately. -_- I will just write some stuff for the time being.

What have I been doing? Right now, I am working on Java stuff. Despite the horrendously slow virtual machine, I quite like it. :) More specifically, I've been learning J2EE technologies, leaning towards using the open-source implementation, Tomcat. Looking into the Struts Model-Viewer-Client framework, too. All in all, I have been doing *alot* of learning, and have much more reading ahead of me. -_-

It has generally been a very long time since I did any web work, so I thought I would update my skills a bit. I would have liked to look into the Python and Ruby-based (I hear good things about Ruby-On-Rails - what a cool name) web application frameworks, but there is only so much time I have. :( There are quite a lot of Java web development jobs right now, so I thought if I stick with Java, it might prove to be a useful endevour in the future. :) Apparently, Python is making quite a bit of headway into the web application area, too. That is pretty cool... but I think Java is still the King of Web Applications, right now. I quite like Ruby better and would like to see more people adopt it, but nothing can be perfect...

My first Java web application project is going to be my homepage; I am going to completely revamp it to make it more nifty and smart. :) Including a new design that is going to use vector-based graphics made with Sodipodi, touched up with Gimp ofcourse. Might look into some Blender stuff, too. But just a bit - 3D modelling is something I am a complete newbie with. I plan to write a simple blog app, based on shamelessly stealing code from existing implementations. Pebble is one such blog application that I very-nearly was going to use outright, but I didn't really want anything so complicated, so I decided I would just write my own. I'll make Blogger export posts from here to there, too, so I get free updates to my homepage from the other guys (if they write entries). This would all be a great learning experience, and I am finding it kind of fun (so sue me anti-geek all you people). :P

Besides Java, I am also doing an Advanced Graphics unit at my university. So far I have made OpenGL programs to generate a 3D Sierpinski Gasket, and another that is rendering of our solar system with orbitting planets and moons. But my gasket was wrong apparently. I didn't have the unit text book at the time, and couldn't find out the algorithm to generate such a shape, so I had to think it up myself. I thought my psuedo-Sierpinski algorithm was pretty good. :P My solar system one was meant to be completely accurate, but when I finished it and ran it, you couldn't see anything because the planets are so freaking far away from each other, the sun is so freaking large, so you just end up with a black screen, with a yellow sun and no planets (too small to be rendered I guess). -_- So in the end, I just hacked up a few values to make everything look nicer, but vastly unrealistic. :P The code is a bit dodgy in some areas because both projects I did in one night (and a very, very late night it was). When I have cleaned it up, I will post it on my homepage. :P In the process, I discovered my NEC Versa E6000 laptop's graphic card (an ATI Radeon 9100 IGP) is not accelerated under Linux. :( Hopefully something comes out soon. There are official binary drivers, but it only supports 2D for my chip. :(

All that programming stuff aside, I found a new band I like today: Little Birdy! I really like the singer's voice. Very cool people... and from Perth! :P If they have a concert here, I think I would go. Depends on how the crowd is like - if it is anything like the teeny-boppers at the Avril Lavigne concert I went to (bad idea - but hey, I got the tickets for free :P), then no thanks. :P

Also got Liferea setup on my laptop, so I get all the RSS goodness from all my favourite sites. :P

Okay, that should be a big enough post for now. Man it is so easy to write about stuff forever.

See you.

Steven

Tuesday, December 07, 2004

leaving now ...

Woohoo !!

But I'm so tired .... not enough sleep the last few days x_x;;

Time to go to the bank!

Sunday, October 31, 2004

The "Best-of #Racoon-Hole Awards, 2004": BRA 2004

Inspired by the ARIA awards, I'd like to present:

The Best-of #Racoon-Hole Awards for 2004 !!! :D

Ahem. The awards are collated from our discussions on Monday, October 18th, in the early hours of the morning. Time that could have better been spent on writing dissertations (that were due on the 21st) :) Anyway, let's begin !

Ray: Best Single: m-flo loves Melody and Ryohei Yamamoto - miss you

Ray: Best MTV: m-flo loves Melody and Ryohei Yamamoto - miss you
Maybe I'm abit biased, this is maybe my favourite song EVER ...

Ray: Best Album: L'Arc~en~ciel - Smile / S 1st Album
Both of these albums are good :) I can't decide !

Ray: Best Newcomer Album: SG Wannabe 1 - Wanna Be+

Ray: Best Mixtape: DJ Rectangle - Wax On Wax Off
Woohoo ! Got this one because of the intro that I downloaded, it was just 'wax.wma' ... a good find :) Was playing this one at 4am on more than one occasion...

Ray: Best Rap Album: Chingy - Jackpot
Chingy has a funny voice ! His name should be 'Chinky', that would be better :D

Ray: Biggest Disappointment: Lee Soo Young 6
Well, I was dissapointed :\

Ray: Most Downloaded English Artist: Norah Jones, 2 Albums by request

Ray: Worst Album with Longest Production Time: Utada Hikaru - Exodus
Once again, dissapointed >_< What a crappy album ...

Ray: Most Promising Upcomer, Japanese: Ryohei Yamamoto

Ray: Most Promising Upcomer, Korean: Loveholic

Ray: Most Promising Upcomer, English: Jin

Ray: Biggest Drunken Night: Jin Concert, Metros
This night ... wow, that was drunken. Me AND Kim ... I wonder what happened ? I think it was the 'Sprite Surprise' :D First night vomiting not in a toilet, too ... apologies to the cleaners at Metros :P

Kim: Best Alternative: Cold Play

Steven: Coolest Hair: Outkast - Hey Ya

Ray: Biggest Skank: Britney Spears
Carpe Assum wtf ! Grotty ... Paris Hilton is abit of a skank too.

Andrew: Stupid Fag: Taboo Black Eyed Peas

Ray: Most Overplayed Song: Black Eyed Peas - Where is the Love

Andrew: Coolest Suit: Outkast - Hey Ya

Ray: Best Ad: Virgin 5c Ad

Steven: Most Fun Activity: Final Year Project

Ray: Most Boring Activity: Final Year Project

Ray: Most Profitable Activity: Final Year Project

Ray: Best Use of Q2 Rocket: Final Year Project

Ray: Most Played Game: AQ2

Andrew: Latest and Greatest Craze: Supa Golf

Ray: Best Hottie: Song Hye Gyo

Kim: Artist Who Have Been too Long in the Spotlight: Michael Jackson

Ray: Ugliest Nose: Michael Jackson

Kim: Most Overused Word in a Song This Year: Yeahhh or Skeet Skeet Skeet

Ray: Most Frequented Room at Uni: CSSE G.9

Ray: First Song to go From Video Game to Radio: Lil' Jon - Get Low

Ray: Biggest Burger: http://snopes.com/photos/commercials/bigburger.asp

Ray: Most Disturbing Picture: WARNING ... this picture is really disgusting ... click at your peril. We cried for days. Steven even screwed up his Dissertation because of it :'(

Chu: Hottest Chick: Alice, although Kim disagrees.

Wednesday, October 20, 2004

#racoon-hole awards 2004

Coming soon :)

Let me finish off my thesis first ...