It’s been busy with work and study, so there’s not too much to say, except that I’m really looking forward to post-exam time. In fact I’ve already made a list of things I would like to do this summer (but definitely not limited to):

• Wander down Queen St West and pilfer through vintage/thrift shops
• Have a picnic in Scarborough Bluffs (with Lunchables…omnomnom)
• Visit High Park during cherry blossom season
• Walk along a beach at sunset (and a lot of beach-ing in general)
• Buy and construct a 1000+ piece puzzle
• Play a crapload of boardgames
• Read a ton of books I’ve been missing out on
• Camping, including hiking pretty nature areas (campsite’s been booked already!)
• Get a lot of exercise
• Frequent patios just to chill
• Go to concerts/musicals/exhibitions, as my workplace is pretty close to entertainment/theatre district

I am open to suggestions and/or interested participants in any of the above! Hope you guys are all enjoying the spring weather. Also hopefully I will have more interesting things to blog once this exam is out of the way. I am pretty much going to be a major party-pooper until then.

According to Best Buy anyways…

In site-related news, you might notice the addition of a profile box to the navigation and a few more menu items at the top. I went for a haircut at Pacific Mall yesterday with Jo and she indirectly reminded me that I should probably have an ‘about’ section, in case people were confused when they reached this site.

Before I joined Twitter, I never really noticed its significance on social networking. I sort of blocked it out like I did with Friendster or AsianAvenue – passing them off for another ‘internet phenomenon’ that would eventually disappear or at least fade into obscurity. But as time passed, I realized the popularity of Twitter was only growing stronger. I began to see it everywhere in the news, but didn’t fully understand how it worked. I thought, what’s the big deal?

After being a Twitterer (?) for a few months, I can finally make connections between what is mentioned in media and how it relates to me. The amount of interaction that Twitter opens up is immense, but it’s a different kind of interaction than, say, Facebook. It gives you the ability to speak your mind, provides a medium for you to deliver a message at once to people who want to hear what you have to say, and to some degree, tightens the gap between us and celebrities. The real-time blogging aspects forms connections in a different way than dated, retroactive methods. The flexibility of the Twitter API makes it easy to share across platforms and create interesting mashups. I can’t really describe the experience to someone else – you’d have to try it out for yourself, because everyone will use it in a slightly different way.

Not to say that everything is positive. The service begets the same privacy and social risks just like Facebook or MySpace. Also, it’s not as if my “tech routine” wasn’t tedious enough. I’d just be assigning myself another site to check everyday.

I think the New York Times said it best:

“Your identity on Twitter is more your ability to take an interesting conversational turn, throw an interesting bit of conversation out there. Your identity isn’t so much identified by the music you listen to and the quizzes you take,” as it is on Facebook, [said Andrea Forte]. She called Twitter “a comparatively adult kind of interaction.”

I’m certainly not a power user of Twitter, so I probably haven’t harnessed all that it has to offer. But now I do see the big deal, and have made peace with the fact that ‘tweet’ is becoming a part of my everyday vocabulary. I look forward to having more of my friends share this experience with me.

Tiny update: I stopped importing this blog feed to Facebook – my personal level of accessibility was a bit too high and that scares me…

Another update: THANKS JUSTIN for giving me another way to waste time bugging me to join Twitter.

The next day, Lis hosted another birthday celebration, this time karaoke at Ten23. Because of all the mutual friendships, interestingly enough, it was a lot of the same people from the night before. So of course what’s there to do but have another awesome time? :) After karaoke we headed to Alice Fazooli’s for dinner. They seated us in the lounge where the live DJ was blasting music, so we had to yell at each other the whole night. Also, they messed up Tracy’s order and subsequently did not charge her anything.

I got a couple mosquito bites on Friday, which thrilled me. That signifies that it’s really SUMMER! :D To celebrate, I think a layout change is in order. I was getting sick of the duo-tone colour scheme of the previous layout. Also, I’m pretty sure something there was inhibiting my WP stats plugin from working.

Hope you like it :D

As a student, I haven’t experienced any direct negative impact just yet. I still have my co-op job, and despite being a bit busier than usual at work, life goes on as always. I still have two years of school before being thrown into the workforce. Therefore I haven’t really thought about what I would do if I actually can’t find a decent job at graduation. I’ve always just kind of taken a “things will turn out alright” approach to life.

That being said, is it time to worry? Are you worried? About your job, your finances…etc? Should I be questioning my future, flailing my arms, and having panic attacks? Is it time for me to accept the reality?

On another (less desolate) note, you might have noticed a layout change. I think this one’s much more functional, and it saves an extra click on the first page because it displays full posts. I made some minor tweaks, including making the text area wider, so apologies to you all with the archaic 800×600 resolutions :P

What’s with the layout? What happened to your previous entries?

This is a temporary layout, until I feel like I should stop being lazy and actually modify it. Though isn’t it purrrrdy? =D I just don’t think it’s practical enough and doesn’t reflect the time of year one bit. But that’s okay. It’s just I’m being rebellious. Against uh… Mother Nature. Anyway, long story short, I’m still trying to access my old SQL databases (Lunarpages is being a bitch), so hopefully I can get my content back. If not, then, well…fresh start, I suppose.

Fobulicious? WTF?

Fobulicious = fobulous + delicious. Yea okay I’m delusional and uncreative. I desperately wanted a new domain so I didn’t really think about the name much. Leave me alone!

What about all your other sites (fanlisting, collectives)?

Why thanks for remembering! They’re gone for good. I don’t have the time to maintain those anymore. They were fun while they lasted, but ultimately really served no purpose other than to feed my ego.

So… what are you gonna do with all your storage space?

Host! If you’re looking for free hosting, look no further! Just drop me a line with some basic info on yourself (and your website of course) and I’ll probably host you because I have a crapload of unused webspace. You will get a crapload of webspace, bandwidth, a subdomain, email forwards, private FTP, script installations, PHP/MySQL/etc, and (the best part) yours truly as a hostess. All I ask is that your site be either very pretty, or have good content (bonus points if it’s both), and not be illegal/pornographic. Also you must not be a psycho. I’ll probably set up a more “formal” page on hosting info, but for now, a simple email will do.

How’s life been?

Since this is a blog, I suppose I should talk about how I’ve been doing. I started work about a month ago… pretty lame, yes, another bank job downtown. It’s actually quite funny because last term I worked at a commodities trading desk when oil was having its crazy volatility run, and now I’m working in Trading Credit during this credit crisis. So basically I’m always working with busy, short-tempered, and pissed-off bankers/traders. Thank you, co-op.