Toot…

It’s easy for us to stay in our comfort zone. Once we repeat doing something enough times, it become such a right thing to do that we usually don’t think that there’s anything wrong with it. Cup of coffee each morning? Taking off T-shirt by pulling the collar? Sitting in a probably unhealthy, yet comfortable way? Thinking of somebody too frequently? Keeping to yourself much too often?

Stare at the screen for minutes, not knowing what to type next, with a gazillion thoughts running through your mind? Or lie that you actually have a gazillion thoughts running through your mind when there’s actually none? Heh…

I wonder, how do we learn to do what we do today? Why do we have the behavior that we have? In essence, what happened that made us us?

I have a friend that doesn’t believe I was quite a problematic kid during primary school. Been to the principal’s office a few times, and I’m sure my mother didn’t enjoy the attention when she was asked to see the principal for my misbehaviors. Haha. Friends who are reading this, remember any incident that I did something bad to you or somebody else. Do remind me about them. Haha.

Maybe we should make it a point to try out new things when we can, explore uncharted landscape, forming new experience? Maybe we shouldn’t be overly careful, reserved? It’s amazing what a single smile can do. Funny thing about memories, we remember the smile, the glance. And the smiling back?

Funny thing about memories, I can’t even remember what my lectures this morning were about. Maybe it is because I was busy trying to connect to the university wireless connection, using Wicd?

As I said I would, in my last blog entry, I started using Kubuntu. In fact, I’m typing these very words in Firefox, running in Kubuntu. What I think about it? Buggy. But I can live with it. I changed my keyboard layout, yet again. This time it’s Programmer Dvorak. It’s not such a big change, yeah, I know, but I do have to relearn where to type ‘ as well as all the numbers and symbols in the number row. Now, I’m still not used to typing but is much easier to type. So… for now.

During the Easter Break, I learned how to use LaTeX. Have done two assignments using that, so far. Working on a lab report using in now. This probably means I won’t be using WYSIWYG word processors like OpenOffice.org Writer often anymore. Geek as it may make me sound, but typesetting is somewhat becoming a hobby of mine. Maybe I should contribute to the Gutenberg Project, help typeset some books and compile into PDF.

I started learning LilyPond as well. Heh… yet another seemingly useless stuff that Hean’s interested in, huh. I know… I know… But I have to say, being able to typeset music score, would probably be easier than to use programs like Finale. What’s more? LilyPond is free. And it is a rather simple language to learn. And you don’t need to learn what all those complicated buttons or menus or settings do. You just start typing your song away. Suffice to say, it is a typesetting language, and not a composing tool. I wonder if somebody actually composes using it…

Maybe I’ll learn to write with my left hand… Learn to read Braille. Learn to juggle. Learn Esperanto. Learn to write more cohorently. Learn to seem more interested in events. Learn to smile more often?

How about ending my blog entry with a \end{blog} Heh… Learn to stop making jokes which most people can’t understand.