Upgraded to the latest Xubuntu last night. It took about an hour, but it was a no-fuss upgrade. Cool new desktop features! Best of all, my Eclipse IDE doesn’t crash anymore when performing certain tasks.
I am in the process of exploring the desktop to learn what more stuff it can do.
Delayed post. Luna visited last weekend! I am glad she went, because if not I wouldn’t have found time to explore HK. The company is also very well needed, and from a best friend nonetheless.
Lantau island pictures soon! (damn these assignments!!)
Just spent the last two FULL days holed in my flat, in front of the computer. The object-oriented course assignment was to add features to the JHotDraw application – meaning, modifying and adding to existing code.
I never experienced so many ups and downs in my life! In those two days I felt frustration, glee, despair, euphoria, anger and shock. Figuring out somebody else’s program, with not a lot of knowledge on the programming language, is extremely difficult – and Java is the hell of it all. I have done several similar activities before with PHP, but those were nothing like this at all.
In the end, we prevailed! Hurrah! +2 INT buff for me for learning some more Java shit.
I just got myself a Nintendo DS Lite.
I’m starting to think it’s one of the best purchases of my life! I love you DS Lite… *twinkle eyes*
In other news, I have a paper to finish by Monday. D’oh!
I did a couple of firsts last Saturday. I ate lunch in one of the local restaurants near the apartment for the first time. (Before then, I pretty much just got my food from the grocery or McDonald’s across the street). No English menu, and no English-speaking waiters at the time. I attempted to use some of my learned Cantonese, but a lot of things I said did not make sense haha. Anyway, the waiter called his boss, and I ordered beef noodles over the phone. Everyone was nice throughout, so the meal was pleasant.
Later on I had my first haircut at the salon just below the apartment (same building! Isn’t that convenient?). The hairdresser didn’t know English too, but I managed to ask (in Cantonese) if anyone can. One of the assistants can, and so I explained what I wanted through her. Still, the result isn’t quite what I expected. But, I like it! I think.
Between the lunch and the haircut I had an impulse to go to Sham Shui Po again to look around. That place is really heaven. All the computer stuff I need in one place – plus I stumbled upon a camera shop that sells cheaper than any shop in Mongkok! Sham Shui Po is my favorite place in the whole wide world.