*I got home from college two days ago. It's definitely been a trip. People change a lot when they go to college- and I can definitely see why. It's kind of like getting stranded on a desert island. You're thrust into that strange and overwhelming environment and forced to take life into your own hands or crumble in the process. And I think a lot of people do crumble- or at least find themselves somewhere they don't wanna be in life. Have I crumbled? It's hard to say...
*sigh* It's good to be home...

So I saw Better Luck Tomorrow on Wednesday night. Overall I would definitely say I liked it. But I must say, the build-up was a lot more satisfying than the denouement. Hah, man, I wish I were that cool back in high school. I felt I could really relate to the movie. Almost every one of the characters reminded me of someone I've known in real life. The movie made me reflect once again on the whole college admissions process and how it traps you and turns you into something you don't really wanna be. Yea, I liked the movie- in my mind, it was kinda like the evil version of Orange County or something. "You know how you make decisions that lead to other decisions? And then you realize you don't remember why you made those decisions in the first place?"

We also finally got around to setting up new networking infrastructure in our house. For the last couple years, we'd been running on Intel Anypoint- a phoneline network system that was so problematic that it was discontinued ages ago. This time we decided to go wireless; 802.11b, to be exact. I must say, overall I'm quite pleased. It was easier to set up than I anticipated. Data transmission is at a pretty good rate, and you can use both wireless and regular ethernet out of the same router/hub or whatever (I'm not so good with the terminology). The only thing that I'm disappointed in is the kinda shoddy range you get. The wireless signal just doesn't travel through walls so well, so no internet in some rooms of the house. =/