My first year at boarding-school is already half-gone. I don’t know if I should be overjoyed or gutted, frankly speaking. *is mildly amused.*

Maybe I should be quite gutted - as well as my few readers - since being in the middle of a school year means that the workload’s pretty heavy. For starters, GCSE Food Tech is not as easy as it sounds.

Wait, Food Technology? Isn’t it just cooking?

Correction: While Food Tech may include quite a fair bit of cooking, we don’t cook just for the fun of it or to practise skills. We actually have to cook based on our projects. Say, if your task is to cook something for a vegetarian teenager, you have to crack your brain trying to find out what a teenager will (or won’t) eat, if it’s healthy enough to support growth+development of the body, and all sorts of other criteria. Oh, if an existing recipe sounds good for the task but isn’t vegetarian, you have to modify it yourself - while keeping as much flavour in as possible, depending.

Ooh, additionally, there’s the theory part to consider. I’m fine with it because yours truly is a sciency + languagey person, so write-ups for my coursework are pretty easy. And making modifications isn’t too bad. But there’s just so much work involved altogether, which is the big issue here. xD Ah well, I’ll live. And it *is* GCSE, so who says I can slack?

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EDIT// WRT developments on this situation - this is what happened when I was on the phone with my dad (a.k.a. “ji-chan”) today:

Good to know that me parents care. =) Anywho, that’s my decision - take her off when I get back hom so she can enjoy some free traffic for now. (Tch!)

I thank you guys for your thoughts and support though. I’ll still leave this post if you or any odd-stumble-uponers want to say anything. // END

Question: How do you cope with unreasonable behaviour online without stirring up a storm?

So here’s the deal - Person whose site is new (to me at least) in the design community (though the claim is said person’s designed for over 3 years) asks for affiliation on Surrealle and I accept. Here’s what I recieved after replying to the application:

Well, you can imagine that the application had similar hyper-ness injected. But that’s not the point. Digression aside…less than a month after being affiliated, this is what I get in the mail.

And just like that, my link gets taken off. I would do the same but as I’m stuck with no access to FTP/Cpanel for 3 more months, I can’t “return the favour”.

I don’t know what to say. Just that I’m irked/mad (in-between) and I give up on people.

What say you?

And a happy new year to all of you, mes amis. I can’t believe that 2007 has gone by so quickly; it was only yesterday that I was still packing my stuff to get ready for my first year in an English boarding school. Tee hee. =)

I think there’s been a chain of “news” now: New year, new layout, new approach to the netizen-community as well as YM.net. If the layout’s malfunctioning (it shouldn’t; I spent 8 hours cross-checking it in IE, FF and Opera), do let me know.
As it is already, I cleared out the old post categories and renamed some. Now here’s what I’ve got:

- Academia: School-related stuffo.
- Connexions: Musings about people all around.
- Cyberspace: Self-explanatory.
- Edibles: Bloggage related to GCSE Food Tech, or just about anything related to my work in the kitchen.
- Randomness: Refer to my note on “Cyberspace”.
- Rantage: Rough situations? Here they are.

I’m trying to keep the names short and simple instead of too long-winded. It’s a bit unpractical if they’re lengthy, so to speak. I’ve got some more categories to add so I can segregate my posts a lil’ easier - but I’ve yet to name them. =) Besides the categories, I already cleared out “Ariane”, rewrote bits of my profile (still working on it), and am also in the process of rewriting all the pages under “Site”. Might have stuff under “Interactive” in the future but I’m still planning. (That’s my problem; too much planning and not enough doing sometimes! Tch. -_-) And if that wasn’t enough, I cleared out most of the old posts. Less clutter = a happier Ariane.

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