My Book

I was going through my old computer folder today, where I keep all my old college papers, assignments, and documents. I came across a document that I had forgotten all about it. Back when I was in my 3rd year of college, I had an idea for a novel. I had written a list of characters and some of their basic characteristics. I had also written a brief plot outline. Back then, my writings skills were poorly developed as opposed to now and my knowledge of the great English literary works was very limited.

After going through the plot outline, I felt that I can fulfil that idea I had all those years ago. So, I think I feel like adding a little more to that outline that I wrote years ago. The whole idea for writing a novel was to have a First-Person-Shooter (FPS) game based on it. Back then I was really into FPS gaming.

I also wrote the first chapter to my autobiography. I think I'll publish that on this blog when I'm done writing it. :-)

Photo ID

I finally went down to the AustPost office at the Northland Shopping Center and applied for a "Proof of Age" Card today. Cost me $10 and the lady at the counter said that it takes about a month for it to come through the mail. Great!

Since, I've had a lot of free time for a while, I've been involved in a lot of personal projects.

• I have completed a Linux certification. Took me more than a month to prepare for it. I should get the Certificate in the mail in 3 weeks time. Hopefully, this should secure me a real IT job. But somehow I doubt this will be enough.
• Started the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification (self-prep). From the feel of thing so far, it feels this will require just the same amount of energy and commitment as the Linux one did.
• I've done a lot of reading lately. I've read or perused a long list of books in the past week. Such books like "1984", "Moby Dick", "The Phantom Tollbooth", Dante's "Inferno", and "Midnight's Children". And I gotta tell ya, Moby Dick and Dante's Inferno are one long stories!

Book

In the past week I have read a number of books that include "1984" by George Orwell aka Eric Blair.

1984 is a real masterpiece. Only some one who has lived under a totalitarian regime can really appreciate the message Orwell tries to convey. I really sympathized with Winston Smith's frustration when it came to bringing about change and how the majority (The Proles) were too dumb and primitive to even realize they were oppressed and poor because of the Party. That's how I see the majority of the people in real life --too dumb and animalistic.

The character of Julia really depressed me. She hated the Party as well but her motives were too selfish and that's the kind of people who depress me. Sure they are on the right track but their reasons to do so are so materialistic and self centered. May God curse these kind of people.