T'is but a blog about the current beings of the world, the Web and the once sad but now not state of mind of a single individual Aekasitt Guruvanich.
This fellow whose name originated from the Sanskrit roots: एक [ éka ] : Alone, solitary, single, happening only once, that one only सिध् [ sidh ] : To be accomplished or fulfilled or effected or settled , be successful , succeed
is a happy go lucky man.
He traveled long and far to escape from a certain responsibility that everyone must face. A debt all men pay; job hunt. How does this hero with no super power, much like Batman minus the money, the butler and the swag, defeat this impending doom? He should probably stop blogging and go back to work, but he chooses not to.
Along came a bright light that shined bright through the plight of slight weight plaguing the state of late morning snoring making it a bore with no awe from all these chores before my eyes that are both tired from applying mathematical knowledge into the abyssal of work with no perks, no joy; such a void.
"Leadership is Social Influence. It means leaving a mark. It is initiating and guiding, and the result is change. The product is a new character or direction that otherwise would never be. By their ideas and deeds, leaders show the way and influence the behavior of others." - The Art Of Leadership by George Manning and Kent Curtis.
One of the key to lead others is to have a vision that sees what others cannot. Visionary leaders are the ones who change the world. Their ideas maybe simple, but their actions reach far and wide.
Not going to go out with a bang because that's overrated. Last 30 days have been fun blogging, especially the part when I make sure not to waste my time too much. Missed out on 2 days, but I'll do better next time.
Na na na na na nana na nana na nana na na na na nana na na BATMAN
Been working on all of the Android labs in Embedded Systems Software class which I never enrolled in and it has been fun. This of course is done in the spare time which I am not playing Syndicate or Skyrim. The labs are straightforward as it should be and it presents many features of Android applications. I used to have negative feedback for this professor after I went to his workshop last year, now I feel like this year's resources have been greatly improved and he deserves a lot more credits than I gave him. That is all.
"I read about it," said Samwell, but his friends retorted before he could finish that sentence.
"Yeah yeah we know. You read about it from a very old book."
That was one of very unremarkable scene from Game of Thrones series that I have been watching. I found it astonishing that every book mentioned in the series had much value to it while every time I visit the book store nowadays, I find books about every useless thing. Aisles and aisles of cookbooks with the same recipe, translated youth fictions about vampires and dragons, books teaching you how to be rich as if it could be taught, self-help books all teaching you to believe in yourself, I find them all borderline useless. Yes, of course, I find books that I am looking for every now and then and I understand that different people have different tastes. I still do love reading books much more than other media as a form of learning, though my university professors seem to prefer Powerpoint slides. It occurs to me that these books are there to be sold, not to educate. Back in time, when the population barely know how to read, authors were scholars, men and women of wisdom writing books on the sole purpose of passing on their gathered knowledge. Though the entire population were not a big fan of those books then, they never cease to stop serving their purposes.
Today when the population know their letters, and are much or less eloquent enough for casual readings, they do nothing but. On the other hand, not a lot of people know how to program. Not a lot of people understand programs either. Programs are interacted with all the time, but never to be understood by the general public. As arrogant as it may sound, programmers are the 21st century scholar arranging language features into place to serve a purpose. Years from now when everyone is to required to know a programming language, our programs are the ones they will paraphrase.
More often than naught, men and women fluent in many languages are more open to higher learning. They were the advisers of kings and rulers. They are surely not the same as the people who write stories encouraging teenage girls to love blood sucking creatures. And programmers of today will rise up to do the same. I find that fascinating!
There it comes. I knew it would one day, but it finally came. A day with zero effort in doing anything. It happens in a lot of summers, but I really hoped it would not happen this summer. I'm a slacker.
So I need to do something, change up a little bit before I slack off throughout my summer. I ended up sending my resumes to a bunch of companies in Hong Kong today. Too little, too late it may be, it is something. And my brother whose birthday was yesterday, still has been pushing me to apply in Bangkok as well. What is there to do in Bangkok I wonder?
I'm the fucking slowest reader in the world especially since I literally just dozed off after reading 50 pages of "All Quiet on the Northern Front" again today. It felt good though just by reading something you really enjoy again. Even though the book really is such a downer, but it is a great book. The descriptions of scenery in the book is well done and everything you can possibly learn about war from a book, is offered.
My next book would be The Picture of Dorian Gray which is waiting there right next to my bed. Hope I don't doze off reading that one either.
I remember shitless! It's so confusing starting android over again since everything there is to know about it is not programming. It was like the first time learning Java because you spend most of your time familiarize with all the packages and resources offered to you rather than coming up with new functions that are actually useful. Plus learning UDK at the same time can be a bit confusing.
Still watching Game of Thrones. Finally catching up to my last episodes in season 3. I do feel like this series has given me a lot of after thoughts so it would have been even more fun following it weekly like everyone else. But it has been really fun and I'm sure I can rewatch the whole thing some day.
UDK's going nowhere since no replies from team members. They're "busy"
Another day, another dollar. It's only but a shame that my sleep cycle is so fucked up because of GoT marathon right now but it's a good thing I only have one season left to go. Season 3 which I started downloading last night and finished within the hour. I've seen popular TV shows before but this is crazy!
Missed another day of the June Challenge. Guess I should be more careful, but what is a man to write every single day? I can barely think of anything to write anymore. Most projects are on-going plus my reading list has expanded. Miss somebody a lot now. Someone I shouldn't be missing.
Been waiting now. Technically, the interviewer said that the interviews will still go on until around June 7th and results will come out 2 weeks after that. That would be yesterday. That would be no result, not for me. So good bye Deloitte.
So Plan B is now in effect. It's a simple plan really, I just need to not be a loser and start learning something new. Something new includes but not limited to UnrealScript, Android Java, Statistics, C++ and etc. This would be phase 1 of the plan since phase 2 is being a loser and start getting fit. As much as I hate to say it, being unhealthy sucks. Losing weight will help a lot in the years to come.
Last blog was about Romantic Comedies but this one took a different turn did it not?
I would dare say it's one of the best show I've seen and I've seen quite a number of shows. It's done immensely well in the aspect of productions and I've been told that the books are just as good if not better. I have finished season 1 (in one go I dare say) and look forward to season 2. Sitt out.
When I was growing up, watching movies have always been a family thing. We used to go to mum and dad's room on Saturday night to watch late night movies back when we were in our old house in Nakornpathom. We grew up, and we grew apart from that.
The movies we watched were two kinds, either a 007 movie, oh back then it was the classiest shit on the planet, or a romantic comedy. I loved them both and I still do now. James Bond aside, romantic comedies were a treat for me. What's not to love about happy endings when the guy gets the girl and she can't help but answer his wave of affection with a kiss? Well, most of that were bullshit... but still...
Lately, since I'm home and watching movies with my family again, we have been steered towards RomComs again. Ones like Enchanted, The Vow and such. They've been nice :)
Not 5 minutes after we left Namdhari Sikh temple at Asok, we ran into an accident. A motorcyclist in front of us crashes into a cab. The guy flew head first into the cab's back windshield. You can hear it into your bones too when it happened. If not for his helmet...
The guy got up from the street and tried to pull up his busted bike as well. He adjusted his helmet back into position looking completely taken over. The taxi driver left his cab and came down to see the unlucky guy behind him. The taxi's spoiler has fallen to the street floor and the bike is in no driving shape. The guy looked even worse when my brother rolled down his window to ask him if he was ok. No answer, probably still dazed from what had happened.
We had to drive off because of incoming traffic behind us. As we drove pass them, I noticed blood coming down from the cyclist's head under the helmet. We heard him mumbled.
I just registered my Skyrim launcher into my Steam Account so I can take snapshots easier. They look really nice and they are the reasons I'm so drawn into this game.
The city of 'Solitude' where lies the Bards College
After you've been turned into a Werewolf, you can activate 'Beast Form' once a day
***Spoiler Alert: Mention of the Elder Scroll by leader of the Greybeards***
Decided that it's probably best I stay away from people for a while, more specifically the opposite gender. Though that sounds more like I have been kidnapped by an alien with a really awesome impostor writing blogs in the same particular style and being just as lazy, it is not true.
Summer is always a great time to reflect on one's actions. And my actions say that I have been searching for something that isn't there. Like Quantum physics would suggest that the act of observing itself changes the result, I just need to lay low and see what/ or rather who sticks around to be there at the end.
This also includes close friends as well, so I hope they won't be too pissed.
Of course, after a lot of unsuccessful job interviews and more, it is time to get back to my Android roots. Already went ahead and got the Android bundle IDE uploaded at my Prof.'s old website and now getting familiar with it.
First order of business would actually be starting on my old ideas which is a simple Android game controlled by the Gyroscope. The game is called 'Gyrome' as a word play on the name 'Jerome.' Next semester, I will also be taking COMP4521, Embeded Systems, given it's offered during the semester. It is a project-based course where 100% of grades lie solely on the Android application you are to design by the end of the semester. By then, Gyrome would be completed I think.
When I was a child, I always loved the smell of the air just when it was about to rain. It is a very distinctive smell, musky yet pleasant as many sources tend to identify it; A very special mix of air and soil. As it is the 5th day in a row that rain struck upon Bangkok city, I realize that it is unlikely to stop anytime soon. The sound of water dripping from the roof can be heard from my bedroom and it cacalms me. When I was revising materials for final exams last semester, this was the sound I listened to. Luckily, even something as special as thunderstorm sound can be found on the net easily nowadays whereas you would have to wait for a rainy day in the past. Some like me were fond of those days, that you would be able to do a lot of things inside as you would do outside. It of course was a bad experience for me when I was in the tennis team and had to miss practice. Back then in California though, it never really rained. Just drizzle. Fo shizzle ma nizzle.
Decided to spread out the work loads for our Final Year Project today. Even though I know that everyone else is probably doing their own thing over the entire summer and won't be able to pick up the work at this point, but I felt like making it clear what needed to be done. Work is divided into three categories like so:
Map & Level Design: Actually drawing up the maps, learning a lot about 3d graphics included in UDK and using Unreal Kismet to set everything in place.
<Requires overall knowledge of how all the codes work and how to apply it in particular maps, Kismet Programming, Possibly 3D animation program like Maya or 3Ds max>
Player and Bot Programming: Researching how to create 2D player and bots in our 3D environment and efficiently programming the bots to work well in side-scrolling platform.
<Requires a shitload of OOP Programming in Unreal Script>
UI and HUD Programming: Designing the user interfaces including our Main Menu, Pause Menu and Loading screen. Programming the correct Sequence Events that call them up accordingly. Plus, the on screen Head-Up Display that appear in game.
<Requires creating all such contents in Scaleform and perhaps Adobe Flash>
This is meant for our current three members of the team. I have a general idea that I want to be doing the second task here which is Player and Bot programming because I feel that it will challenge me the most. However, the best programmer on the team right now in my opinion is Genio so I want to see how he can manage with that, given he won't be too busy with his current job at Ribose. Melkar said that he's learning the project at the moment as well, so I'll have to wait for everyone's answer on this.
Like everyone else I make mistakes all the time. The mistakes that I regret the most, not unexpectedly since I have been called overly social, are the people who I failed to get to know. It sucks that sometimes the things you do, whether the reason is just tend to draw people to think otherwise.
***SPOILER ALERT : Clark Kent is Superman.
Next year is my last year in university, and after that real life. No matter how far off I push it, it will start eventually. And sooner better than later right? I still don't know what I want to do yet so right now, I'm just focusing on what I am good at. I would like to think that it's Programming that I'm good at and our project is going to be amazing. No mistaking that.
***SPOILER ALERT : Like seriously, Man Of Steel was a pretty decent movie. Lois Lane is redheaded now! Yeeee boiiii
Had a chance to talk with my old friend today, Lauren from California. It was so nice, especially getting to see that innocent right-wing nutjob of a girl become completely opposite. She's had met a lot more people than when I last met her and that opened her eyes a lot. But the thing she said today really brightened my day the most.
"Sitt, I know that we'll always be friend so I'm not worried. Cuz you're my homie. My nigger!" drunkenly spoken my Lauren :)
***SPOILER ALERT : Love the ending. Major man crush on Henry Cavill even without the famous Superman hair curl.
Back to Unreal Engine. I have been learning how to do stuff in the past week. It's a lot like when I learned Java since there are a lot of stuff built-in. The most important thing is learning how to tune these features according to your need. So I learned how to use Brushes and stuff in the Editor to make some layouts for my map design. Since the game we are making is based on an underground lab in my idea, I made some pipe lines connecting each other like the Sewage system as can be seen below:
It is rather fun, game designing, but the more you get into it, the more it is about being detail-oriented rather than programming itself.
Plotting an evil plan today. Well, I didn't really plot it, it kind of just happened. Basically I have a friend over in Bangkok at the moment from Hong Kong who I've seen every now and then. We're not close, but both open so I just said what the fuck, I need to get out anyways. She's here now and... well she's here with a cuter friend in Thailand. They're both traveling together. Her friend is really different. She's cute though and she's not in UST so that's better.
Being a gentleman of sound mind, I'm so gonna fuck this up somehow.
Meeting them again tomorrow. In fact, I separated them at one point tonight since my friend wanted to go out and drink a bit while the other was busy...well texting her boyfriend and being a straight edge. Her friend went home and we went into a club on Khaosan, but since it's a Monday night, it was rather empty. Didn't feel like doing anything, so I convinced her to go back to her hotel since her friend seemed mad at her. Really wish I had done more clubbing in Thailand, it seems more relaxing here than LKF. MKTHXBAI
Not feeling all great after I found out my results this semester. So now I'm just listening to songs on Spotify non-stop today. Still working out daily. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
I found out this song named Radioactive by Imagine Dragons, which is really quite nice. I think it speaks well in its own unique way. Been using Spotify ever since I came back to Thailand. I like the songs both new and old, but my favorite channel is still Eminem's
Gotta be honest here that I didn't do a lot of Unreal Development ever since the break started since I have been enjoying break too much. It's like everyone is conspiring against my get in shape plan because the more I try the more people are setting up dinners outside in expensive restaurants with delicious food.
So far, I have discovered more of Unreal Engine's capabilities. Its graphics are not as high as CryEngine which of course is not an issue for me since I plan to do everything from my Acer laptop. Unreal Engine runs perfectly fine on my laptop so I have down my fooling around with the UDK editor and created a few basic stuff. No yet designed a whole level since the art-form for the platform is unclear. Our Final Year Project supervisor did not specify any boundaries for this project so it is up for us as group members to decide the direction. I chose Unreal Engine for two main reasons, one is the abundant resources online which we could study plus friends' experience which they can pass on, and the other is... Dishonored, Bioshock and Mass Effect. Three of my favorite games this past year were created using this engine. Of course that would be something to aspire to but it is important to take a step back and look at the fact that these development teams are usually consisted of 50 people with 2 working years per game at least.
It's going to be fun, both the process and the outcome.
Not to my surprise, it's house cleaning time. The thing you learn from growing up to be the youngest child of the family is... well everything. I remember the good old days when my dad would just call me over for every plumbing situation that we had so I could stand there observing how to do it.
On one hand, I was not interested in it at all. It's completely the opposite of when my dad asks me to teach him how to fix a problem on the computer. I was not an enthusiastic learner nor was I an enthusiastic teacher, but I knew I had to go through it, since it was to be my duty from then on anyways. The days before I cleaned all the filters in our air conditioners and today I fixed a clogged sink in my bathroom.
Oh the wonders of what I will be doing tomorrow... *cough that was sarcastic cough*
Though the complaints, I was grateful today at knowing how to do these stuff. I feel just a bit of pride in myself knowing that I'm not one of those brats not being able to touch filth. I often remember how both my parents teach me the value of wealth, not through words, but through actions. With my grand fathers and mothers having immigrated to Thailand when they were young they had to start from nothing. My dad once told me that his dad was only a little boy flying in to Bangkok in one of those tiny water-landing planes with his father and they started their own hole-in-the-wall shop in Phahurat, Indian district of Bangkok. There is always one of those people in your life whom you can never imagine being young. That person for me was my grandfather. We would drive for an hour from our house into Bangkok when I was around 7 to visit that hole in the wall. My grandfather, who I called Papa (father), would always give me a piece of raisin and 20 Baht. I would stand there for a while when he talked to my dad in Hindi which I don't understand. Looking at that old shop really made me remember how my parents both grew up in a much more common world with much less comfort. So really, house cleaning is not something I should be complaining about at all.
Met up with two of my French friends today for dinner. I'm glad they're enjoying Bangkok and all the other places in Thailand. I always love showing people around Bangkok since it gives me a chance to fall in love with it all over again.
Bangkok is a great city and possibly the most fucked up place on the planet. You can find the most beautiful sights right here and the most traumatizingly disgusting sexual acts two minutes from that particular location. You could take the Skytrain and relax a bit or get stuck hours and hours in traffic on the road. I really do love this place.
Man Of Steel in Theatre next Thursday :) With Tickets already booked by Leo, Woot woot!!
I did this a lot when it was during Final period, when you just run into an article at 1 in the morning and kept reading and reading links after links until the sun is up. I know it's not the healthiest of things to do, but I stumbled upon Batman Wiki.
Apparently, there's a shitload of stuff I didn't know in the DC universe. I mean, yes I'm a big fan of the Big Bang Theory and I laughed at every joke they made sounding nerdy when they talk about their obsessions over comic books. There was also that one episode which I really loved when it was the girls who actually argued about comic books. I laughed and laughed.
Comic Books Wikis are one of the things I can spend hours and hours exploring. Not just because I'm geeky and nerdy, but because it actually is literature, perhaps the most popular kind. When you read a wiki about two authors discussing how to properly end a character's role like they did for Barbara Gordon, the second of five Batgirls, you can see that it was a big shift in the story line. You ask yourself just a tiny bit whether or not comic books really are for children. Batman especially has one of the darkest story lines that I've ever seen. This was no longer just about a guy in a cape fighting petty thieves, it was more.
Barbara Gordon being shot in Batman: The Killing Joke
Then you read about how Barbara Gordon came back into crime fighting business after getting shot and paralyzed from the waist down as 'Oracle' She uses her detective skills from being taken under the Bat wings, and formed her own team of Super heroines called Birds of Prey. Not even going to go into details here since it just keeps going on and on. I also spent a shitload of time studying up about Robin as well. Possibly one of my favorite characters in the Batman series.
Well, when I was in Hong Kong, I remember getting spammed over and over again on Youtube by two commercials. One was Jolly Shandy, a drink that tastes so bad, they had to add 0.6% alcohol into it to attract younger audiences convincing it's a cool drink. It really isn't. It sucks.
The second, always popping-up commercial was Mike Chang's 6-pack shortcut. In fact, I did look up his channel. Before I go on ranting about how annoying it is, it's not. It's an amazing channel with a shitload of tips that I need to know now that I started gymming. I did anyways, when I had a gym back at HKUST. Damn, it's been less than a week and I feel like I need to do something otherwise, my glutton's gonna take the best out of me this summer. The good thing about this channel is that it has a lot of videos about working out without a gym, so that's what I'm after now. If it helps, it helps.
When was the last time that you just dived into a game, kept thinking all day when you're outside about going back to play it, waste hours and hours of a perfectly sunny day staying inside just playing? I remember growing up and having a NES console when I was younger and all we did, my brothers and I, would play this Japanese football game that was totally out of this world. Until today, I still don't know what that game was called and now I'm stuck in this new realm of Skyrim.
It's only right to say how much I have enjoyed the game. As geeky as it may sound, I love this game. Though I know the craze of this game is already over with. Nobody plays it anymore. It's sooooooooooooo old now by game standards. But hey... FUS RO DAH!
Tomorrow, I'm heading out to meet some friends coming over from Hong Kong and all I'm fearful for is how I'm gonna be talking like a nerd all day long due to this blasted clusterfuck of a game. Fooled around more with UDK Editor today as well. My Final Year Project is progressing slowly but surely forward. By the end of this summer, I will have a clearer idea of where our game is going.
As my blue-eyed friend and I stared out from the top of LKF tower to the IFC towers, we were once again talking about the Dark Knight jump. I mean...yes, it was an amazing moment in cinematography, in an epic movie, performed by amazing cast...mancrush moment on Batman.
It must have been the fifth time we talked about this when we're up here, but this time, the conversation was joined by our very own super Homosexual friend who spanked me with an umbrella he got from the girl I was having a woman-crush on. (AKA. a normal 'crush')
We were then joined again by the ladies we came to this club with. My blue-eyed friend tried again to make his approach while I take away the heat from our gay friend and this cute girl named Elinor. This was when I realized, we were quite drunk. I knew I was making advances on this girl all night, but the reason I came out that night in the first place started texting me. After we came down to the club from the roof top again, I just left instead. I knew there was nothing I could do since the girls were becoming boring. Two of the nicest girls I've ever known, but I left the club to this possibly taken girl, what the fuck was wrong with me?
I met her in front of 7-Eleven. Oh the joy of that place. She was looking nice in her one piece dress, and her smile melted me a little. She was accompanied by her tiny little friend who probably had a Napoleon complex. I skipped the introduction since I knew both of them and I just again tried to talk to her privately. It was dumb luck that the other girl was then approached by this British creep, making cheap advances on her. I didn't mind because that let me really tell my 'friend' what I wanted to do to her that night. She was telling me that I should talk to her friend since she was going back to her place and not home. I moved my attention to her friend now but it was too late since the British creep just began to really creep them both out. Napoleon fled the battle dragging away Joséphine de Beauharnais. I just looked at them when they walked away since I told myself that I'm not running after a girl anymore.
Yours truly, Mr. British Pick-Up Confucius then grabbed me by the shoulder and said,"Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose." I had never wanted to punch someone in the face more in my life. I said fuck it to myself and went into Big Pizza to get a nice slice of pie. It was majestic.
I texted her a short, "Where are you?" looking to meet up again but her phone died. Holding my Vegetarian pizza, I walked up the hill of LKF towards the club which I left my ladies and gents, I met the creep again. This time he was hitting on a Korean chick who spoke middle school level English. I began laughing loudly at him openly as his friend asked me if I knew him. I told them, he had just cockblocked me. His friends said that they had just met this creep tonight as well and decided to go out together. Holding a pizza in my hand, I decided to cockblock him back.
It was but 5 minutes later that I began kissing this Korean girl intensely in front of the guy. I was stopped at one time by another random guy congratulating me for being awesome.
"You wear this hat and yet making out with this gorgeous lady," he said. It was only right that I gave him the rest of my pizza. I had my hands free now and I began making out with her again. That was then when my friends, both gents and ladies walked by me. I said good bye to the Korean girl and came back to my peeps. I was immediately congratulated with a fist bump from the girls and I decided to just shut the fuck up. The only reason I really left the Korean girl, who is GORGEOUS, was because I had a mission. I tried sending texts to my Josephine again and failed. So we, 5 of us cabbed back to Fo-ge-dai-ho.
I was later informed that throughout the whole taxi-ride, my blue-eyed friend was being touched heavily by our never-shutting-up gay friend, as he was doing the same to his target. Oh how I love sitting shot gun.
This summer begins quietly with a slightly delayed flight from Hong Kong to Bangkok. Friggin PIA called us at lunchtime saying it would be delayed by 1 hour and ended up being delayed by almost 2. It was not much a bother though because even though we had to spend an hour extra at the airport, at least Yousaf and I got to spend that extra hour in Hong Kong.
It has been almost half a year into 2013. It was carried out with the theme of good byes. Ever since the last semester started, every day there was a reminder of how some of us were leaving Hong Kong for ever. Graduation is like that. It is another line that tells you to get your life going even though it is just another day that you get older. I have one year to go until that line, and I plan to make the most out of it.
Looking back on all my blogs, I definitely figure out one thing. I write so much more on my down time. I try and try not to have such a time anymore and so far it's been good. It has been really good since I tend to give a lot less shit about everything and everyone. I still do, yes I do, hit on all exchange students I set my eyes on. I do have to say, the Irish drive me crazy ;)
Natalie and I at the entrance of Levels
Asked a girl out on Valentine's too. I did it in French. My floormate Coco taught me how to do it. It was a lot of fun. I also know how to say "voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir." Should have said that instead.
FATALITY!
UST Bucket List Item# 14: Spent an afternoon lying on the grass at LG7 lawn outside Milano Fresh: checked.
Got ear raped by a guy in Seafront cafe because he figured out what kind of noises scares the hell out of me.
