111201, 1047hr, illinois time.

i realise i'm more of a morning person than i thought i am. feeling pretty upbeat and happy right now, for no good reason really, except i finished my psychology exam in one hour, and have the rest of the day to study for japanese for tomorrow, and communications if i have the time. i like feeling in control of the situation. which wasn't quite the way it was last night.

i was so grumpy, because i was slower with psychology than i thought i would be, i couldn't finish before 12, to have an early rest. alvin tried so hard to cheer me up, with all his usual goofy tactics. but i was so determined to remain stern and what-i-thought-was-focused, i didn't really respond to his efforts, i feel quite guilty about it now. the turning point came when i was reading my textbook in the kitchen, waiting for the muffins to bake. alvin disappeared for a while, then reappeared with a chair. he placed the chair right in front of the oven, and with his goofy kid voice, said, "alvin not good with words. alvin only know how to do." my whole grumpy resolve just melted away, and i couldn't help but smile. such a sweetie.

by the way, i also updated some stuff in the people section yesterday, in view of recent romantic developments. [ok, not very recent, so i'm kinda lazy, big deal. bleah.] so here's what i wrote about alvin. and what i think about the E [for edwin, by the way] saga, in retrospect.

seeing how much website work i was doing yesterday [yes, setting up a gbook requires a lot of effort.] it's hardly surprising i took so long to study for the psychology exam huh.

it also motivated me to think about getting my own domain name. how does cinker.com sound to you? cink.com got taken, which i'm quite bitter about. cinker can stand for cindy ker-hoo. hahaha...how about that? i felt quite tempted to just upgrade my geocities account, cos i've been here since the beginning, and i'm really well adapted to the services and tools they have. but the price was ridiculous, it's about $9 a month plus setup fees, which makes it more than 100 bucks a year. man. is that the norm? i don't think i'll get a significantly better deal elsewhere, will i? in terms of value - stability and technical support - for money, at least. is it worth it? i'm just getting increasingly bothered by the geocities ads..because they're getting bigger and simply taking up too much screen space, and i'm wondering if i'm just too frivolous.

the way i design my pages, i like to leave a lot of border, so the ads that appear at the top corner are less likely to block the content. [i do put a lot of thought into my design ok! it just doesn't look like much. haha.] but my laptop has a small screen, and i am getting irritated myself that these huge ads are destroying my concept. and i wonder how irritating these ads must be to a bunch of other people. [yes, i mean you and you, out of the 6 readers i have.] i also have plans to expand my astrophysics and GLBT components, and it just seems more appropriate for them to exist more independently, as subdomains, rather than sub-directories.

but the moolah....argh...alvin will probably think i'm crazy, spending not just time, but also money on this website of mine. eek. actually, don't think any of my close friends will understand either, except maybe poachie dear.

hmm. i almost did go through the upgrade with geocities yesterday actually. i went to the final stage of clicking on payment....then my mouse strayed a little and i clicked cancel instead. thank god for little technical defects like that. i definitely need to think through this. and do my accounts. and ask for more opinion. at least i already know what alvin would say. bleah.

ok, before i go back to studying, big thanks to kind souls to responded to my desperate plea for guestbook entries. now it doesn't look so pathetically empty anymore. hehe. tk and ws liked the smiley icons, a little obssessively i think. haha... liping didn't leave her url, but i had it bookmarked; [unless liping doesn't want it known of course, then let me know, ok?] kai's blog is an interesting new discovery; faith is having finals too; kenneth thought i was on break or maybe he was just gloating; and ed is my favorite, cos he's always been there for me. thanks guys! people who didn't sign. shame shame! haha...