Finally the stress is over. This week was too much to handle. Two things which were constantly on my mind during the past days were 1. SOK project and 2. My laptop.

Let us start from the laptop experience.. On Monday, when I pressed the power button, to my surprise, the laptop didn't power on. Hmm, maybe the battery is not making contact or the transformer is unpluged.. *goes checking*. Everything seemed to be in place.

I was already starting to worry. And I had a reason to worry. I had many scripts (software programs written by myself) on the hard drive and I definitely couldn't afford to lose the data. I had some kind of a backup, but from my experience, it was practically useless. I spend hours coding everyday, so if I have a backup which is one week old, I'm screwed because I have to redo all the work prior to that week.

Second problem - SOK project. Since I always start working on such projects a couple of days before the deadline, it was already going to be a nightmare to actually finish this god damn thing on time. So when my laptop didn't power up, I was on the verge of panicking. At least my sister was kind enough to lend me her laptop. The OS pretty much sucks in my opinion, it's all eye candy and stuff but it lacks substance. Yes you guessed it, it's Vista! But well, at least it's better than nothing, right?

I managed to finish off the project on time.. after two days of waking up early (around eight) and sleeping well after 1am. But it's done and all. All I have to wait for is the mark now.

Yesterday, after clearing my mind up about the SOK project, and feeling revealed that it's all over, I started working on retrieving my data from the laptop hard drive. After hours of troubleshooting and setting up my main computer (which I used as a server, back when my laptop was working), I managed to retrieve the data.

--- end of stress related experiences ---

Yesterday, a friend of mine picked me up from JC and we went to the university. I was kinda excited, I mean, I could be enrolled at uni in a couple of months. Though, I know that the exciting actually dies pretty much after a while. I learned my lesson with JC.. I was so excited back in the summer to start school, but nowadays, the faster time goes by to leave that college, the better. Friggin waste of time.

Anyway, the reason I went to the university was because of a lecture about how to set up and run your own company. We thought it would be interesting and all. I can't say that it wasn't, but it's just not my field of work. Too much stuff that has to be taken care of, and since I never even had any subjects at school related to business, I was feeling even more out of place. My conclusion after the lecture was: Forget about starting a company, I just want to work and get paid, thank you.

Today, I had another 'interesting' day. I woke up as usual and started getting ready for another day. A day I always look forward to, mainly because it consists of 3 computer lectures, a 3 hour break, during which, we have lunch at 'Dukes'. But today it turned out to be different. My math lecture (the only other lecture apart from the computer ones) was canceled. I was greeted by my lecturer and he said that he won't be giving a lecture because he has a sore throat. I wonder why he didn't do the lecture whatsoever. After all, he only copies his notes onto the board without explaining.

So since the lecture was canceled, I had a four hour break, which was just too long for my taste, so I headed home. I could put to use 4 hours here at home instead of goofing around at JC. And I did put those hours to use. I kept on working on my new website, after all I haven't done much work on it this week because of the SOK project and stuff.. And it's something I like to do, so it's kinda relaxing.

I'm really looking forward for next Saturday. It will probably suck, but whatever. It's always like this; when I don't plan anything, it turns out to be awesome, and when I plan on actually having fun, it turns out to be a disappointment. So, I try and not plan too much about social stuff, after all, I have to depend on others to actually have fun and from experience, having to actually depend on someone isn't really something I like to do.

One last thing, I'm planning to blog about some IT related stuff, mostly about this whole propaganda about "Smart Island" and stuff.. It just pisses me off. This island won't be smart (IT related) just because a couple of Maltese celebrities tells you so. It's just so artificial that I can't stand it. And all this talk about Smart City. ugh. What's so exciting about it? What's so exciting with working with people who are just qualified? Just because you have a certificate and you passed a couple of exams doesn't make you good at programming / ecc. Probably most of you will disagree about this. I passed my French and chemistry exams, just because I studied two days before the exams, I don't remember a darn thing about chemistry now, and I don't even know how to write in French, let alone speak! But to an employer, I'm better than someone without the certificates, even though in reality I don't know shit regarding the mentioned subjects. It's the same thing with software developing, just because you have a certificate doesn't actually make you good at doing the job. Oh, and my excitement levels peaked when I learned that Microsoft is going to establish a department at Smart City. [that was meant to be ironic].

Anyway, I'll talk about this in another post, hopefully I'll have time and motivation to properly talk about it.