My First Month of 2008

It`s been for quite some time now since the last time I posted a blog... well, nobody cares really...

The first month of this 2008 seems to be a very busy start of the year for me... I kinda like the sound of that... it feels like my whole year will be busy this time unlike last year which seems to be like I could really wanna die out of boredom and shits stuffed that happens during the last couple of month of 2007, besides that I don`t have a computer to tinker with except with this 166mhz... besides being old... the ps/2 port are somewhat screwed up and I could not find a spare serial mouse type at some or almost all pc shops... I had to content myself with using the mousekeys and it`s really ackward to use... but the good thing about it is I kinda learned/knows almost all of the shortcut keys from windows which are somewhat cool... and I kinda been used to it that even though there`s a mouse I could use at some other computers I could get my hands on, that I would still be using shortcuts... I think it`s much faster than moving and clicking the mouse...

Anyway... I celebrate my x-mas and new year back home in BF with my mom and a couple of old friends... same old xmas stuffed and scenario... drink till the sun start to rise... and New Year`s are somewhat different... I always used to watch Igor lights up all the firecrackers we had during New Year eve, but this time there`s no firecracker but instead it was replaced by his fire poi? forgot what it`s called, but it`s nice to watch him err... with some other kids who gathers around ignorant (I think I`m also one of them hehehe...) of what the heck he is holding and doing some exhibition with it and some extra fire breathing talent... The kids are in awe... They kinda like watching him than all these firecrackers around us... after that both of us went back to our own home and afterwards I went to some friends house and had some drinking session... During my holiday stay there err... it was a bit ok... It`s not what it used to be... but what I really like when staying there is that I`m able to go and hang out at some bar in BF with Francis hehehe... Good thing we where able to do that at least once before I went back home to the province...

Well... back here at some province again...

The first thing I did when I went back here was bought some paint at some hardware store and so I could paint my room for the new year, So my room would be or feel somewhat new too. I painted it with violet, why? uhm... well, I like to paint it with that color...
 

After that paint project, for my next one... I went back and forth to manila for some stuff so could make my other computer work again, I was supposed to do this before the 2007 end but I was being to lazy to look for parts back then. And now I was finally able to run this Fedora without much of a hassle from some of my hardware, thanks to yum and the other repo site like livna and those extras from fedora itself that I was able to install and set up my video card and some other stuffed(including the tv tuner I had) with ease unlike before... It`s been a week from now since and much of the settings are a ok... I was able to finally make the saa7130 tv tuner to work the other night from fedora...

Well, I`m really quite happy now that my lab is finally reborn... at the same time with a new look at my room... and as for the 166, I won`t return it to the box for now... It`s really been useful for me for the last couple of months... taught me a lot of things... And that I was able to refresh my memories with some programming language using it... Including c++ and SDL which in fact I was in the process now of making an old style 2d role playing game as a hobby... for now it`s at the messy infant stage but it can already load map, characters, and conversation/dialog from external data file. Doing it slowly and easy at the moment... well, without a mouse to work with during that time... it`s really making me work slowly specially with the test map graphics... ^_^;

So, that`s about it for my First month of this 2008 year...