[o]    Tue, 5 May 2009 21:32:55

Mnjul went to Kyoto, Japan for a five-day trip last month. The pictures he took can be found in http://www.csie.ntu.
edu.tw/~b94075/kyoto2009apr/ (needs Flash player).

Mnjul    Sun, 8 Feb 2009 04:42:54

Short news, I have really nothing good to say. The recurrence of an MDD episode is really killing me! Well some clue you might find on my Chinese blog but, oh well. Anorexia, diarrhea, insomnia, weight loss, indifference of happiness, loss of interest to do anything, blahblah.

I hate this.

Mnjul    Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:21:01

Well, let's talk about good news first. This is probably the only good news I have for the recent months: Just today I've been accepted to the master program offered by my current department (Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University). Beginning in 2009/9 semester I hope I can make good graduate student. Oh, my current expected commencement from university is 2009/6. Blah.

Lesser good news: I recently bought an EEE PC 901 (the cherry-red one, which I think is available only in Taiwan). Modded it with 2G RAM, and installed a vLite'd Windows Vista; it's running great! I had originally worried about its keyboard size, yet it turned out that wasn't an issue. The only thing I can be unsatisfied with, with this price point just above about 400USD, is the screen resolution at 8.9". I really wished it could be 1280x768, because 1024x600 is rather too little :p (I'm not nearsighted nor astigmatic).

Now the bad part. The fact what's good back in this spring has ended up fading away has caused major relapse (on my problematic mental conditions) since this September when I came back from Canada and from Bali island (in Indonesia, for my graduation trip together with a couple dozens of my fellow classmates). Insomnia, panic attacks, hyperventilation and other horrific anxiety disorders are really pushing me hard. Don't want to talk about the specifics too detailedly here, but you can get the idea that I'm living no fantastic life here.

That being said, I joined the photography club in our university this semester. I think my views about photography are changing! Well, however, I don't have time, recently, to do leisure photographic works.

Talking about having no time, I am really overwhelmed by the number of things I have done/I have to do. Besides updating HopperLive for Messenger 2009 and other scripts, I am trying my hands of bringing Juvenile (you know what that was?) back online. Besides Juvenile (called Re:Juvenile now), I'm still having the idea to revamp my Flash-based Chinese personal website too, and a major revamping of this # Middle Sea website. Being a part-time student technician for my department, I have a lot of jobs to do too, writing PHP's and managing databases, so on. I haven't even arranged out the several thousands of pictures I took back in this summer. School studies are of ...well, enormity, too. Oh by the way, I'm giving a one hour lecture on CUDA next Monday on one graduate school course, talking about parallel programming.

If you're really patient enough to read here - please do drop me a line at my guestbook. That would be much appreciated.

» I'm in Canada! by Mnjul, 2008-08-21