Reticulating Splines

Hi there! It’s been months since my last post, but yeah, I haven’t had much success managing my time to blog. Anyway since now I got back (and hopefully be able to post regularly again), did you guys notice the change of theme? Apparently I’ve had it with blackish theme and decide to move on to another theme. At least this one is more readable than the previous one. And yeah, before I forget, I want to clarify certain things about this blog. My sanctuary is NOT a dedicated Pokemon blog. It’s my personal blog. It just happened that one of my favorite game is the Pokemon series, so here I am bragging all about Pokemon. Nevertheless they’re fun games to look and and certainly worth playing.

Anyways enough with the mumbo-jumbo talk. What’s with today post anyway, you might ask. Well, it’s all about reticulating splines…wait, what was that? Yep, reticulating splines. No, it got nothing to do with Sims, Sims 2, Sims 3 and whatever Sim title you might think of, it’s just the way it is. Reticulating splines. Integrating curves. Scrubbing terrains. Searching for llamas…okay it’s starting to make no sense at all. I admit the idea of this post is from those Sim games but it’s not about the games.

Reticulating splines. It’s that loading message we saw when playing the Sim games. First created when Sim City 2000 came out, it has became a running gag throughout the whole Sim series. Reticulating splines is actually a term related to the creation and connecting graphical lines to render images, hence it goes into the loading screen. However, it was simply chosen because it looked cool anyway (at least it does look cool for me). On general term, reticulating splines can be defined as collecting the ideas or brainstorming. So you probably know what the next few paragraphs are for, right? Yep, reticulating splines.

Starting a new semester can be quite exhausting (I intend to use more socially inevitable rude words but oh well). This semester I got the top two hardest subjects in my faculty. Apparently the Faculty of Information and Communication Technology in Swinburne did give me a hard time choosing subjects, not because there were so many subjects to choose from, but because there were so few subjects that I could take. It’s not their fault though, my college degree exempted me from so many subjects I had to choose which one not to be exempted…okay, that was lame.

So yeah, I got Database Programming, which is the most difficult subject in the faculty, and Advanced Java. Apparently my friend got the Advanced .NET and those two are the second most difficult subjects. And I still got two other subject, which unlike my friend, I know for sure that taking less than four subjects here is considered a breach of visa. My two other subjects are Professional Issues in IT and Web Application Development.

It is now week four from all twelve weeks during this semester. And I find it hard to do these subjects. Almost all of them have weekly assessments, so I had to do much work, and therefore I had to postpone buying that PSP! Not to mention the one that I want was the PSP Dissidia Limited Edition which is actually a ridiculously limited edition, because apparently SquareEnix Japan decided to put it into a lottery system, and only people in Japan can enter the lottery. Best bet is eBay, but the price is pretty damn high, around AU$450 or so. Oh well, some other time maybe. At least I get my laptop’s hard drive upgraded, which is sort of late because I got my laptop from 2007, and yeah, my laptop’s still running quite smoothly because I know how to choose one.

Despite all these tensions and subjects pushing me to the edge, I had to admit that having a companion here would be very damn nice. And voila! Turns out that I always had a companion here. Two, in fact! So here are the pictures of those two that always there for accompanying me doing all these hard work.

And yeah, those two are my comrades here. My Master Grade XXXG-01W Wing Gundam ver. Ka and SD Gundam Exia. I didn’t say that my companions were people anyway. So that’s it for reticulating all those splines that had been scattered here and there. Well I guess in the next post I’ll be talking about something else, hopefully something that’ll be useful. So see you next post…

jovee~

and by the way, I’m still reticulating splines…