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How to waste a Morning >.<
2005-04-27 20:03:31
This is my routine when I have to go to the univeristy.
7,00 am wake up
7,30 forcing my brain to connect with the world
8.00 ready
8.05 on my way to the university by car
8.25 I am at the university
9.15 lessons start
4.00 lessons end
4.30 back to home.
That's what happened today
7.00 am wake up
7.03 fall asleep
7.10 wake up once again, say "ok I'll be up in ten minutes" and fall asleep again
7.40. OMG I AM LATE
8.10 Everything ready, go
8.15 on my way to the university
8.17, I reach a sort of highway I use to take to go to the univeristy, and there's a lot of traffic. All the cars are stucked.
8.30 Still stucked in the highway, starting to become paranoic
9.00 traffic begins t to flow finally
9.15 I reach the university (One hour ONE HOUR to do 20 km, around 15 miles)
9.20 I am inside the lesson (already started)
9.30 I figure out that I am too tired to follow the lesson, I decide to put my head on the desk
A few minutes later I am almost asleep but suddendly some kind of elephant man sits down close to me and make my desks tremble and wakes me up, I felt an aggressive urge... And for I while I dreamed to choke him.
9.45 I am finally awakened, but the lesson will soon be finished and I didn't follow 30 minutes, so I can't understand things now. Well I'll follow other lessons today
10.00, lesson ends and the teacher says: starting from today there will be no lesson in the afternoon (and that the was the only one lesson I had in the morning), you can come back home.
Resuming I woke up early, get stucked for an hour in the traffic to follow a quarter of the lesson and come back home.
I could just stay home and sleep >.< -
Resident Evil
2005-04-19 15:31:22
Ok today let's talk about something that touches us all. Our secrets.
Well this is actually a funny secret of mine. It's about resident evil, (the video game, not the movie).
When it was aviable, long time ago, I can't remember when but I guess I had not more than 10 years old, I borrowed it for my psx.
Well that game lasted 10 minutes. As soon as the first dog break a window I thrown my joypad in the air and runned away from my room, and didn't want to come back to turn my playstation off.
Well, then I played resident evil 2, 3, 0, and now I am playing 4.
All of them without any problem (maybe... Almost any problem).
But I could never play resident evil 1 again.
Today a friend of mine brought me a game... It was Resident Evil O_o, gamecube version, a remake with new scenes, improved movements and a really beautiful graphic.
Okay that's what I thought: Time is passed. I've played re 2 3 and 0, I am playing right now RE4 and everything is fine. You got scared because you were just a child when you played it for the first time.
I was completely wrong.
Just from the beginning of the game, I could feel anxiety, the game is really silent, you can just hear your footsteps echoing and your brain KNOWS that something is gonna happen, and that's the main point, fear grows inside of you, who start imaging zombies inside every shadows, tricks behind any door, or everything else scary your brain can think of.
This is the capacity of this game, to make you imagine everything even if your pg is just alone in a room. Noother game made me feel this, and now I've serious problems to continue playing...
Or is just that I was scared when i was a child and now that trauma is still inside of me? I have to win it! I have to finish the game! (I don't need any psicologist ;) ) -
A Mean Friday Night
2005-04-15 22:26:27
10.00 p.m. I am talking with lcy84 via Skype.
10.35 p.m., a friend of mine calls me on my mobile remembering that I had to pick him up at 10.30 p.m.
10.55 p.m. In a rush, I get out of my home, I take my car and head to my friend's house
11.05 p.m. I arrived to my friend's house. "sorry, I am late, where do we go?" "Campo dei Fiori" "mmm I don't know the way to arrive there" "don't worry, Matteo is waiting for us and will guide there".
You have to know that Matteo has a scooter, and it's impossible to follow a scooter in the traffic if you have a car, expecially in Rome, where there's always traffic and expecially in that route, where there are tons of traffic jams.
11.50 p.m. I arrived at Campo de Fiori, and luckily enough I found a parking immediatly, Okay I wasn't allowed to park there, but there were tons of other cars parked, and if you follow all the street rules in Rome you'd better go by feet.
00.00 am. Here I am at Campo de Fiori. It's nothing more than a little square, with a statue in the middle and some bars opened till 03.00 am, it's called Campo the Fiori (that translated means: field of flowers, because long time ago people used to sell flowers there), where you just walk around or sit down somewhere and drink something and have a talk with your friends, or you can meet someone else, since it's really crowded and there are lot of foreigners people.
But it's not a safe area. People get drunk too soon and they go around with beer bottles, GLASS bottles. And it's a very cahotic place.
01.00 am, I am just under the statue in the middle of the square talking with some friends, where I hear someone yelling, I turned around and I could see that the crowd formed a circle surrounding something, I couldn't understand what was happening, so I looked from the top of statue's basament, and I could see someone fighting. At the very beginning I thought that two drunken people had just a quarrel, but soon I realized that they were two groups facing each other. Than situation got worse, they started to punch themselves, then they started to throw chairs "borrowed" from the bars around and all GLASS bottles that were on the ground. If a bottle catches you it really hurts, but if crashes on your face... you could be ruined forever... Anyway as soon as they started to throw bottles everywhere crowd started to run away in different direction, without going too far, because everyone was curious to see how it ended. Then I saw a bottle thrown just in the middle of the crowd, I thought "ok someone is hit for sure", but luckily it hit a wall without hitting anyone with shards.
I thought that I was far from that fight, and really I didn't care about that, but I heard a crash really close to me suddendly. Someone had thrown a glass really close to me, I thought that it was better to fall back :) anyway there was a police car that didn't do nothing, I guess they were waiting for back up, but when other police cars arrived (with an ambulance), those people where faded away (nice timing, police, and they KNOW that it happens really often there).
3.00 am. Me and my friends were talking about what was just happened, discussing that the bars shouldn't sell alchool in glass bottles but just in plastic glasses, and we were a little bit ashamed for what we would look like to foreigners, and why people have to do something like that, and even more throwing dangerous things everywhere, with an high risk to hit someone who didn't do anything. But while we were talking, ANOTHER fight thought place, and the same identical thing happened, glasses, insults, punches and other things you can imagine (police had just gone away), so we decided that it was better to come back home.
3.20 am, I reach my car, I start the engine, and head back to home, then I look into my right rear view mirror, and I see that someone took it away. There was everything except the mirror, Now, someone has to tell me WHY they had to steal my mirror, if you want to do something out of spite, break the whole rearwiev mirror, not just stealing the mirror.
I headed back home thinking how much people can be idiot and why sometimes happen to you thing you just don't deserve. Maybe I'd better stay home :)
4.00 am, I am back home and I am writing this journal.
'Night to all
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Sometimes you deserve it
2005-04-06 18:10:56
Okay after I got rid of "2nd rule of encoding" (read my journal to understand what I am talking about) an had all the episodes ready, I aborted the project. Yeah I did it. Something else came in my mind just when I finished to prepare all the footage -.-.
Now I am preparing something else and I've already find some unexpected problems in the way (I am not gonna explain it now it would be really really boring).
But this time I deserve it ;) Maybe next time I'll consider better what I am doing before wasting hours in finding a way to prepare my footage :D
Talking about life... I am a little bit tired and I am just waiting for something to shake me, in this period looks like I don't wanna do anything, but it's time to get over it, univeristy exams are always closer and we all can rest "after we are dead". -
2nd Rule Of encoding :|
2005-04-04 18:54:53
It's been a while since I don't write in the journal. That doesn't mean that nothing happened to my life, on the contrary, maybe too many things happened too suddendly.
Anyway Since my collaboration project is dead before starting, I looked for and found another idea for an amv. This morning I finally prepared my last episode chosed for my new amv.
Then something happened, I started premiere and he didn't read ANY of the files I encoded from the dvd >.<.
The reason? Simple, I put "fast recompress" instead of "full processing mode" in virtual dub mod.
Luckily, I had one of the file I made for this project encoded with "full processing mode" option, and I could understand immediatly what was wrong with other files.
This meant one day of encoding wasted.
But I learned something that I started to call the 2nd rule of encoding:
Always check if a file works on your editing program, THEN encode other files with the same options you picked for the first one.
maybe, One day I'll tell you which is the first rule imo ;)
Have a good time!
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