Hiatus Once Again

I'm going on hiatus.

It's the first time I've announced this without thinking about it too much. And I pretty sure I want to. I need to settle offline things first and motivate myself to write.

Signing off until around the 2nd week of August.

Tentative Announcement of Transfer

I don't know whether I was drowsy or drunk when I thought about this, but I've decided to start a new blog. I felt that I had to start fresh again. Also, this blog has too many posts I don't even want to look at anymore like the ones I posted before high school. And the layout is out of hand already (or I'm really phobic of editing an XML template unlike the pure CSS templates in the old version of Blogger).

I hope I start it right when I transfer. And that everyone who reads this will continue reading the next one.

Hmmm... I forgot to post about this week. I'm not really in the mood right now to type about things like that. After dinner, or some other time.

Signing off.

It took me a long time to reinstall the modem to our computer. It took a lot longer just figuring out why the computer doesn’t connect to the internet. Doesn’t matter now. I’m here, after a very long time. Oh, no.

Why did I have to reinstall that, anyway? We were having lots of problems with spyware, viruses and freezing, so we had everything reformatted. All the files in the computer before were erased. I’m relieved that it was cleared, except there were photos, school notes, artwork and lots of important stuff I wanted to save copies of first. Oh, well. I’ve got a fresh start on customizing it, though. And relearning how to. Then start organizing all my files this time.

So what happened between the last time I posted and now, which is almost a week from last time? A lot. I sleep off almost the whole morning, read or use the computer in the afternoon, then draw or watch TV at the nighttime. How fun. No, seriously. I’m not bored this summer.

My room got messy again. Intruders Slobs My sisters did it. The idiot box is on all day, the semi-organized stack of boxes and books under my desk toppled. I can’t find lots of my drawings anymore. All my pencils and pens disappeared. Horrible events, indeed.

Started going to math summer classes last Tuesday. Even though it’s a review of what we learned last year, it’s still tough. There were lots of topics we didn’t study in-depth in school and had to learn. That’s four hours of brain torture every T-Th, but it might save my grades from sliding below 2.5 (it almost did last quarter).

And it rained yesterday. It’s amazing. The rainy season will come in about a month. But it’s still hot.

The new layout: Darn it. This is too hard to figure out. It’ll probably take me hours to figure out how to fit a header image properly. Make that days, because I’m a big procrastinating slob. Or I might switch back to from XML to the original coding style. Or start a new layout from scratch. When I started editing the code, it looked terrible.

And that would be all for now.

Signing off.

And It Goes On...

The gates of hell have reopened. Hiatus has been lifted and I'm back to blogging.

So, what have I been doing while I was avoiding this thing, and why did I stop blogging for a while, anyway? Well, requirements. And I think no one's interested in the answer for the second question.

Ah, whatever. It was another one of my mood swings, those times I get frustrated when I blog, but it lasted longer.

Why am I frustrated at it? I'm supposed to love blogging. Yeah, I do. But not when...

And then some more stuff that happened while this blog was on hiatus.

• I missed this blog's 2nd birthday last February 22.
  
• I found out how to play around with the XML for Blogger beta. That means a new layout coming soon after months of delaying it to figure it out.
  
• Also...
  

...not really in the mood for that right now. I'd really like to write, but I'm kind of exhausted from the first 2 days of clearance period. Doing almost nothing, then suddenly being required to do something is tiring.

Signing off.

Practicing the End

This blog will be under hiatus until the 2nd weekend of March.

Still the end of all this nonsense is indefinite.

I don't want to explain anything yet.


Signing off.

Before I start avoiding this thing again, I'll take the chance to update.

Okay. So, why haven't I been posting very often? School and requirements. Besides that Moodiness. I dunno. Sometimes, I don't feel like blogging because I think I going to make a post that sounds foolish, sentimental, something that I wouldn't want to look back at. I think I'm starting to avoid blogging where people know me and my reputation in fear that it will change what I am thought of. Is it a bad thing?

Will that count as anything?

Vague...

Right now, I'm thinking of what I'll do with this. Something I've been working on for almost 2 years and afraid of changing.


Signing off.

Changed layouts, again?

As you can see, I've switched to Blogger beta already. I tried the new layout options and then... this happened. The pretty layout that was here before is gone. I'll try to figure out the new scheme for coding and fix a customized layout again. Either that or I'll switch back to the old template-editing style.

Signing off.

Blog Name Change?

Disclaimer: This post isn't meant to offend anyone else whose blog/site is titled Perfect Imperfection or any other site title in this post.

I've been thinking about changing the name of this blog for a while. Perfect Imperfection doesn't really suit my outlook in life anymore. I think I wasn't thinking right when I created this blog.

Though I still think philosophically, I'm not too vocal about my deeper thoughts. I'm still introverted like before, but I've become more spontaneous. I may not be the one who admires all the beauty in the world, but I don't abhor anything. Perfect Imperfection sounds like a title of a poet's blog and I'm no poet at all.

What does it leave me with?

• Gray's Place in the Internet- Can you get more unoriginal?
• Gray's Blog- I swear I'll kill...
• The Life and Times of a Person Called Gray - Get me my great-great-great-grandfather's bolo.

I want something clever, never thought of before and not currently being used as a blog title. Nothing that sounds so much like a fan shrine title, either. Suppose I combine words that I like.

• Turbulent Majesty- Fan shrine. End of story.
  
• Enigma- Fan shrine, band name, overused blog title
• Wild Tempest- I googled it up and found someone using this as a username. Oh, well.
  

I know. I'll name it after a song that I like. *looks at playlist*

• Fate Breaker (Wild Arms 3 dungeon theme)- The song sounds idealistic and searching, I like it. But the title is a little poetic.
• Sheep will Sleep (Guilty Gear Isuka, Sol/Ky/I-no theme)- Makes the blog sound sleepy...
• Psycho Killer (Talking Heads)- Run, run, run, run, run from the psycho killer's blog.
• Waltz (Honey and Clover)- Romantic-sounding title
• 100% Pure (Tantei Gakuen Q)- Sounds like a personal title, but I suspect someone uses this as a title. And my character isn't pure -_-.

While looking through the playlist I ran into a track called "Drunkard Makes Wise Remarks" from GG Isuka. It is a potential name for a "wise guy's" blog. Just remove the "drunkard" part because it doesn't apply.

• Calesa Hijacker Makes Wise Remarks- "Calesa Hijacker" is a random title I gave myself. There's a story behind it.
• Wise Guy Makes Wise Remarks- Sounds funny and redundant

Here I end listing down blog titles I've thought of. I might go with the "Makes Wise Remarks" thing. Either that or I'll think of another possible blog title.

I will change my blog title. The title "Perfect Imperfection" drives me mad.


Signing off.

Hiatus on Hell Week

This is the first time I've put this blog on hiatus. That's because I didn't really need to because my schedule still allowed time for updates. Now, well, my sked is maddening. There's too much work so I couldn't come up with things to post besides complaining about piled-up school work.

I'll be back on December 1 or 2 to update, when I don't have much to do except study for the periodical tests.

Wait for me until then.

I should have put up this kind of announcement a week ago.


Signing off.

Non-School Related Post

I feel the long weekend slipping through my hands already. For the first 2.5 days of it, I played the Magna Carta game that I quit and dug out again. I can't find any new RPGs to play. For the rest of it, I worked on this layout and went out somewhere.

It's been a while since I've been designing layouts. I started this one when some inspiration from other people's sites (probably caused by envy of their cool layouts) hit me like typhoon Florita just recently. This one looks like it was thought of for a week, considering my tendency to procrastinate with these things. It only took me 30 minutes to make the graphics and an hour to fix everything else. Just like the other layouts, it looks weird. Weird and bright.

My sister says it doesn't fit me and the way I post. The blue and the gray were part of the original plan, since my blog is kind of calm and discreet. I just added orange because I was forced to look at color wheels recently for a project. It contrasts with the other colors, making it look less dull. I just don't know if it reflects my personality. What kind of person am I, if I'm even one?

I also "rediscovered" some old scraps of paper from before, and I found a story that I thought of, supposedly for the English Sci-Fi play last year. It was a different one from the other story I suggested. It's about people in a new settlement in a far-off planet after the Earth was destroyed by... I don't know. I didn't continue it because I couldn't think of some details in the plot. After that, I created a soundtrack for it in case that was the story we were going to present. Mostly Guilty Gear themes and some others. Also tried sketching how the characters look like, the locations, etc. I feel a little bad that I didn't go on working on it.

Currently absorbed with:

• Homework. Oh, man.


• Trying to fix the header part of the layout.


• Magna Carta: Tears of Blood


• Trying another layout


• Completing the story about people in a new settlement in a far-off planet after the Earth was destroyed by... I don't know. I should give it a title.

Signing off.

I just noticed that this is my 101th post in this blog. Ah, well.

The weekend is here!

And it's really relieving. A break from the hectic and insanity-inducing schedule at school. Even the homework for next week is less than what we usually have. I'm even done with most of them. All that's left is to study for the long tests for the week.

I'm kinda stuck here. Here's a site that was suggested in School Arts (forgot what issue) for some inspiration for our Art project. We were assigned to do something like Monet's Water Lilies. I don't really have ideas yet.

We're going to Tagaytay tomorrow. Um, yeah. I forgot how it looks like since it's been a while I've gone there. The last time was on a Grade 4 field trip, but we only visited a retreat house.

I want to make some more new pages for some sites, play video games, draw stuff and take pictures but my sked doesn't seem to allow.

I want new batteries for my digicam. I haven't been going out recently, heheh.


I crave for... lasagna.

That was random. Will post next time.

Signing off.

Happy 6/6/06, everyone!

Naw, I don't believe something unfortunate will happen today. Just that it's neat how the numbers match up.

The first thing you might have noticed when you entered is the layout change. I finally placed it up when I found out that Walagata switched off all free accounts, including mine. So I found another image host for the header pic. It took me a while to clear up the coding, add new content on the sidebar. I'm not too satisfied with the header, but I think it overall it looks okay.

A new discovery: I just found the smudge tool in Photoshop. Perfect for blending colors. Kind of late because I could have used that tool for a few drawings I finished. Wah.

And that's about it for now.


Signing off.