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Why… Hello there, Sun!

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Blast it. It’s another all nighter. And for what?

After a rousing exercise routine (backs and shoulders), I decided to go home.

I was nearing ISR, then suddenly… I decided to poke around a bit. A “little” bit turned into “quite” a bit.

I felt like I haven’t seen these guys in weeks. Two weeks, actually, since last week was Spring Break for them, as well as the week before… well… I was busy.

The first thing I run into… what the heck… it’s a group of people trying to imitate Bae Seul Gi’s Bokko Dance. Quite random. Then I visited the Knox/Das/Liao palace in Wardall. Then stopped by the business major’s studying in Wardall lounge.

Oh, the funny thing is how two random strangers pointed out that my earbuds were Sennheiser CX-300′s. I guess it pays to be… particular about your earbuds. Indeed, I’m loving these.

Then… I ended up debugging Brian Chung’s MP for a few minutes. Man, I missed the good ol’ days when I had to get down and dirty with C in ECE 199 (now called ECE 190). I’m not lying: I actually do. It’s kinda funny, but it seems as though you think you’re not going to miss it ever… and you end up missing it quite a bit.

But all my garbage electrical engineering classes? Yes. I will always not miss them. Ever.

It seems like the ECE/CS course load at UIUC is getting weirder. I don’t know if I should say harder or easier, but I think it’s becoming more relevant. Looking at the CS coursework: I feel like I want to go back for a BA in CS… all the classes look so fun!

And… indeed… it is 4:30 AM.

I have yet to write a good entry… this is getting quite annoying…

The proper motivation?

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I guess it took a good friend from back way back when… WAYYY back when I was a freshman in college to push me into “code mode”. [Insert Age Joke Here, for all you freshmen that are reading this...] Derek Remund, a totally cool and amazing guy that God placed into my life, just as I was beginning to realize what computers were all about.

He’s taking this sweet class called Programming Studio, a class I would have dearly enjoyed. You see, my education at UIUC comprised of quite a bit of theory, and very little hands-on-ness. I mean, there are benefits for being taught hard-core theory, but there’s nothing like actually putting code to compiler (in my case, code to browser incompatibility insanity).

I had the pleasure of talking with him on the intricacies of web mashups. What little knowledge I had of JSON and REST and other subjects to do with cross-site scripting methodologies, I tried to pass on to him.

Of course, this was no one way street in terms of information exchange. I keep looking at Derek, and am amazed at how deeply he understands the code. He is the closest thing I have to a hacker: I’m so thankful to have a friend that can give me this kind of point of view on the subject.

We jokingly talked about how a couple years from now, we’d be talking about this past Thursday night, when wearing our maroon hoodies we came up with the idea for the next big thing. We didn’t, but I’m still searching.

Whatever we talked about, whatever we joked about… it seemed like it was towards something. I definitely need to find many more friends like this… not in separate geographic locations (like Texas and Ohio), but all in the same place. Well… at least, leverage technology (uh oh… Josh is using the word “leverage”) so that we could all sit down and talk about these issues. Maybe I’m wanting too much… can’t have all my friends work together.

Manager JK is slowly being cultivated, spouting off buzzwords and management techniques like no other. Uh oh… time to go learn some more Ruby to stave it off.