Ahhh, the ever infamous song by Green Day. Not that I have anything against the some or the band. I just didn’t like the fact that just last year, every radio station had to play the song every hour.

I wish I could fast forward the whole month and the first part of October just in time for semestral break. But until I find the ‘Click-ish’ solution to my present situation, I have to figure out the following:

1. How to be a recording artist and the audio engineer in a span of a week
2. How to extract all the parameters for our thesis. And prepare the project proposal as well.
3. How to master the 2nd law of thermodynamics by Wednesday
4. Read 3 chapters of Rappaport by the end of the week
5. Present a panel discussion for Comm 3
6. Submit the taxation assignment in CE 22
7. Help with ‘MC in a day’ seminar this Saturday

And that’s just for this week. Come to think of it, the next weeks will be tougher.

However, there should be overwhelming good news to counteract my stressful weeks ahead…

Cheska will be back by Friday~ and

Congrats to my dear friend, Jamie for passing the MedTech board exam!

First and foremost, I have a new layout (again)! And this time, I made it all by myself.

That means, I can tell everyone with a straight face that I am pretty much familiar with PHP and CSS.  Woohoo!

Special thanks to Stock.Xchng for the free use of the photo in the header and footer, Theme Viewer for the free themes I can choose to base my site on, and, of course, my Dearest for all the useful tools and tutorials. Talk about spoon-feeding. I really do feel spoiled.

Even if I pretty much like the layout and the site will stay this way for a very long time, I would still like to read more about PHP and MySQL. I got excited to see that PHP has a similar form as C — only that it is used for webpages. Since I’ve been programming in C ever since first year College, studying the conceptual part of PHP was like a breeze making me inspired to dig deeper in the topic. Kiko also gave me a brief explanation about the bugs in the ESC website he was working on and I was interested to know the details of it all. That means, I should learn more about MySQL databases and how to process them to understand the bugs better. Who knows? Maybe I get to help him on the website. Would that solidify my geekiness? Hehehe, maybe.

Now that site layout is done, I could concentrate on the actual content of the site. I have been meaning to write a post on the family trip I just had more than a week ago so I better start with that.

I really hope everyone likes this layout as much as I do. BTW, I already used a higher JPEG compression for the images so that it could load faster. It would be nice if I actually have feedback on the layout *hint* leave a comment *hint*

As anyone can see, I have changed the site’s layout to a more personal design. This way, I have smaller chances of having the same look as another random blog.

Don’t get me wrong, though. I still have yet to read on PHP to implement hardcore programming. Thanks to the WordPress Theme Generator and a few photo manipulations here and there for my header and I was done. WYSIWYG modules still works for wordpress newbies like me. Not that I hated the new theme, I pretty much like it. This gives more character to the objective of the blog anyway. Learning more about PHP would allow me to tweak the layout at the point when self-nagging comes to an end.

By the way, the photo in the header came from stock.xchng — the best site to go to if you’re looking for free images for your own personal use.