Update (December 29th 2009, 22:55): I had the maths exam today and it was like every other maths exam I took: not bad. At least I didn't have the diarrhea problem.

Tomorrow I have both a geography test and a German exam. I'm not good at studying two different subjects at once, so I'll either study a lot of geography and lack of German, or vice versa. Since German is an easy class and I know most of the subjects pretty well, I'm focusing on geography right now. Dear principal, thanks for setting up such a messed up exam schedule. Much obliged!

There's been a change of plans. Tomorrow I'll have to stay in the "New Year's Eve party" at school, because I have exams to take and once you get in the borders of school, you can't leave. Not without a reasonable excuse. Seriously, what kind of a party is it if it's forced? What's fun about something you're forced to do? Well, I'll just try having a positive attitude and see if I can stay in there for 3 hours without losing my sanity. I'll also bring my camera there (thank God it's allowed), so if I'm getting raped, I'll try to enjoy it. Updates to come tomorrow.

Update (December 28th, 21:36): My history and religion exams went well today.
Although I realized that I made a few stupid mistakes later on in the history exam. I have a maths exam tomorrow, and boy, wish me luck... Because some of you know how it went last time.

Update (December 27th 2009, 23:12): Right now I'm on a break from studying history. I've never been good at history and I failed the first test, so I need to study hard on this one that is tomorrow.

Where do I get all the energy on this time of the night? Those thanks go to my big brother for recommending me a cup of espresso. Yeah, when I told him I was a bit tired and needed an energy boost in order to study, he introduced me to the nobel prize deserving espresso. It tasted like crap, but after drinking it, my mind was clear and my body was ready to kick some ass.

I studied well so far, but I started to feel the energy boost wearing off, so I'll get back to study soon. Next week I'll go to school only for three days. Thursday I have no exams to take, and after lunch the school is celebrating the new year's eve. When my brother told me that the "celebration" was nothing more than imprisoning the students in the lunch hall for two hours, me and my mom agreed that I'm allowed not go that day. On Friday there's no school because of the first day of the new year.

I'll just hope that those three days will fly by and that I'll do well on my exams during that.

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While this may be an overused phrase, I mean it. I really do. I hate it. I do know that being educated is the only way to get a proper job. I just don't like what I have to go through until that.

Next three weeks, there are exams almost everyday. Some days even have two of them in the same day. It has only been a week since the last exam period, and now it's starting again. Love of fuck, it's like the principal and the teachers have never been students once. It's like they really don't understand what we're going through.

I miss the summer. I played Left 4 Dead all day long, occasionally with a can of beer in my hand, without any worries nor thoughts. I was planning when to do some of my homework while playing. NOW, it's completely vice versa. I'm studying like hell while planning when to play games. Worst of all, I feel that whatever I do is worthless, I can study all night for a test and can get a bad grade in the morning. Something is obviously wrong about the way I study, and I'm tearing my eyes out here trying to find out what it is.

I hate the education system. Five days of school, two days of holiday. Why not just one more day of holiday? Why couldn't just Friday also be a part of the weekend? Weekends fly by so fast nowadays, that I can't even feel rested anymore. I don't count Sunday as a weekend day, because I get up approximately around noon and have to go to maths private lesson in 2:00 PM. I can stay in there even until 6:00 PM sometimes, so when I get back home, the day is already over, the sun is down, and my head hurts because of the feeling of going back to school the other day.

I decided to try a new strategy. Tomorrow I'll get up as early as possible. That way, I should have as much as time as I need to study. Somehow I don't really like going to bed so early in weekends, but at this point, it isn't up to my liking. I have no other choice. I hate school, but if I'm attending it, I should as well act according to the system.

Now I'm going to bed. Hopefully I won't regret my choice in the morning.

P.S. It also saddens me that Christmas isn't as exciting as it used to be. When I was a kid, I was like "Whoa, I can't wait! I bet they bought me one of those super cool action figures!" And when I got everything I wanted, I would be the happiest kid in the world, dancing around the house out of happiness while it snowed like hell outside. Now, it doesn't snow one inch. It's not even that cold.

P.P.S. I'm not complaining that I no longer get what I want. I do get what I wish, good ones too, and I celebrate it with my family with plenty of fun. It's just that... I no longer feel the heart warming atmosphere of Christmas. It just feels like another day.

Today my brother brought home a young female Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. Without even telling any of us about it. He said he intended it to be a surprise. Just like how he bought our rabbit.

At first, I didn't really want a dog. No, it's really not because I don't like dogs, it's because of the amount of responsibility they entail. Dog care in an apartment? What if he shits all over the place at night? And makes the house smell awful, and spreads his furs on food?

I was really surprised, and perhaps some of you know the feeling of welcoming a new fellow to the house. My mom and dad were quite surprised, too, and they liked her a lot. When my brother left the house to get her food and cage from the car, I started to express my worries about the dog. Unintentionally in a rude way. I didn't want to do it in my brother's presence, because I didn't want to ruin his enthusiasm.

My mom turned her face to the dog sitting on her lap, and said "I think you are unwanted." The dog immediately looked at me. That moment was probably the saddest moment I had in a while. I think my mom tried to take advantage of my emotional personality, and succeeded. I denied my mom's statement, saying that I did want the dog (seriously), but I was just worried if we couldn't take care of her well enough. Especially in a small house like that.

My mom smiled, so apparently she was half-joking, but a joke is supposed to make both sides happy. It didn't make me. I stroked the dog's head, hoping she would forgive me. Then my brother came back, and showed us the dog's food, pee absorbing blanket, carrying cage, and all that. He also explained that these kinds of dogs never grow much. Even at their maximum size, they are still small. They can also be trained easily, he said, and that a trained dog in her gender never has a habit of pissing and shitting in the middle of the house. It was a relief.

I'm willing to do whatever it takes to please her. We didn't give her a name yet, although we thought about "Present", "Surprise", and an alcoholic drink name that I currently don't remember. Unfortunately no pictures for today, because even though I took some, I need to take a shower then go to bed soon. Goddamn it, two days of weekend are really short! I wish there was another day of weekend. Like that's going to happen...

Other news? I beat Portal. I really liked the game although I'm not sure whether I'm going to start it again or not. One thing that was great about that game, though, was the credits song. It's still stuck in my head.

I will possibly be releasing a trivia game sometime soon. No, it's not the 100Q VG Quiz, and no Archon68, it's not the photography game. I'm not going to explain what kind of project it is, because I started to get paranoid of some little bastards stealing my ideas. No, no such thing happened yet, but it's a high possibility.

All I can say is that it may include both multiple choice and typing questions. With a timer, also. I'll start working on the game as soon as I hit the "Post it!" button.

Also, I took the Swine Flu injection at school. The injection was no different that the others, I took the shot in my arm and it stung a little bit. I feel it was worth it.

Today I had the maths exam that I was studying for months. With a private teacher, actually, I wasn't studying so much by myself, I'll admit. Well, here's the tragicomic story. As soon as we were handed the exam sheets, I realized that I had to shit REALLY badly. Goddamn it, I never thought that such problem would occur. I started solving the questions, but I could feel a huge amount of diarrhea being pushed down my bowels... I couldn't ask for permission to "go", both because they wouldn't let me, and because I didn't want to waste time.

At first I started to sweat a bit, but then the pain was gone. At least for a while. I wrote some things for all the questions but I couldn't come to a clear answer in most of them... Because there was a FUCKING flood of diarrhea insisting to come out! It was five minutes until the end of the exam, and I couldn't take the pain anymore... I asked the teacher if I could go to the toilet. She told me that she would let me only if I handed my sheet. And so I did, inevitably.

As soon as I got out of the class, I stormed to the toilet faster than a speeding bullet. First I closed the door, then ran to the first stall I saw. It didn't have a toilet seat... Without any thinking, I entered the second one (with a toilet seat), and the moment my butt touched the cold toilet, I released all of it. Another second and I would have crapped my pants, I swear.

The bell rang when my "job" was done. I reached for the toilet paper box, and guess what... THERE WAS NO FUCKING TOILET PAPER INSIDE. Two guys entered the toilet in the mean time, and I heard one of them say "Eeeewww, this place smells FAINTLY of shit." while entering the stall next to me. I stood up, inevitably without wiping my butt, and went into the other stall. Thankfully there was toilet paper inside.

As soon as I got out of the toilet, I heard everybody talk about how bad their exam went. Later that day I learned that I scored %27, while the highest score in the class was probably something around %50... I was excepting such a bad mark, but you know, this comes as a shock. After all that studying...
My first exam score was %75, I hope I'll do better next time.

Worst of all... 27 isn't actually the score that I deserve. My real score is 17, because one of the questions were cancelled as they were mistaken, so they just handed 10 points to everybody.

TL ; DR? I got a shitty score from the maths exam just because of my god damn bodily functions... And a bit of not studying, actually.

Good news, donut loving US citizens!

I took part in NG TF2 mods vs regulars dedicated server, and it was a lot of fun. I played as a medic all the time and I believe I did a good job. We had some mods on our side like Rig and Malachy, it was fun healing them and ubercharging them.

Thanks to all the ones I played with, also the one who arranged the whole thing, for making me forget about school and my other problems at least for an hour. Yeah, I played from 4:00 PM EST to 5:00 PM EST, but it was 11:00-12:00 PM in here. Gotta say it was kinda hard leaving the server because I had a lot of fun...

I favourited the server and I'll make sure to track down other NG events like these, they are like medicine while you're playing in the midnight of a Sunday night, while having that ugly feeling of starting a new school week the other day. Thankfully, this week, Thursday is half-day and there is no school on Friday and the other Monday, but I still REALLY don't feel like going to school while typing all this.

I took a lot of screenshots, nearly 60, and I'll make something like a slideshow of the screenshots and upload them to SpamTheWeb (since I know it's going to be blammed on NG :)), I have some interesting ones. I'll keep this post updated and provide the link to the slideshow. I'm planning to start working on it tomorrow.

Well, that's it for today. Now I have to go to bed and prepare myself for a "fresh" new school week. >:(

Update 2: I got Photoshop&Flash CS4. YEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAWW!

Update: My Animals&Dinos update post has been updated.

I got Photoshop CS4 Extended trial today (getting the full version soon), and I made this Team Fortress 2 related lolcat image. It's not great, but I think it's good for a first attempt.

I'd really like your opinions.

EDIT: Wait, my trial was supposed to be a 30 days trial, and it just expired... WTF?

Yeah I decided to make this post when I saw Archon68's. :)

Universe Collab: A collab that Archon68 is hosting, about the creation and evolution of the universe. My part is about the dino age.

Progress: %88
Estimated release date: November 2009 (my part only, not the whole collab)
Links:
Collab thread
Updates list

The Sniper's Contracts 2: A stickman sniper game which will be the sequel to The Sniper's Contracts.

Progress: %40
Estimated release date: March 2010
Links:
About the game
The original game

100Q VG Quiz: A challenging video game quiz including 100 questions.

Progress: %50
Estimated release date: December 2009
Links:
About the game

I made this thread a couple of minutes ago, not knowing that NG mods didn't appreciate "image dumps". Rules are strict.

Haven't started a topic since like 4 or 5 months, and this one got locked when I finally did. Tough luck.

The thread was locked in 8 minutes, it might be the fastest lock ever, I don't know, what do you think?

EDIT: Looks like they deleted the thread, so the link won't work. Well, it was called "Funny pictures thread", a thread to simply post funny pictures.

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I'll still update my previous Animals&Dinos post, so I suggest you keep checking on it.

November 1 update: Looks like it's been a month since I haven't updated this. I'm getting Photoshop&Flash CS4 on Tuesday (November 3), as well as AS3 Programming University. It's going to be awesome. After that, I'll resume working on my part, mainly because the effects and all the new functions will make a much better part.

I'll also be able to contribute the "Photoshop the ..." threads, which means... YEEEHAAAW!

October 1 update: Renamed all the symbols. Phew...

September 25 update (unrelated): School is going well for now, my class is a nice one, kinda boring but still good.

September 23 update (unrelated): Another "dammit". I looked up at the school's opening ceremony schedule again, and looks like 08:30 is the time we arrive at the school, and 09:00 is when the ceremony starts. My mom wants me to go 15 minutes earlier to "have more time meeting people", but... Anyway, apparently, at 09:00 we have to attend a dumb ceremony, which, before our national anthem, involves a little "celebration" of the first graders of the primary school while usually "Barbie Girl" plays in the background. I hope they found another song to play this year.

After that, we have a confrence from 09:40 to 10:40 usually involving the meeting with new teachers, then from 11:00 to 12:30, we all go to our classes and teachers come in our classes in a specific order to introduce what's going to be done the whole year. After that it's lunch time, from 12:30 to 13:30, which, last year, was a meatball and french fries sandwich which was really cool, I hope it will be the same this year. Then we finally leave.

I've been hearing rumors that classes aren't going to change from now on until we graduate from highschool. These rumors are probably due to some class types having only one class. (According to the Turkish education system, this includes social studies, Turkish&maths, science, and foreign languages. I chose Turkish&maths because I want to be a writer.) However, there are two classes in my type, so we might still get mixed up as the years progress, which, boy, is what I hope.

This post has basically become a diary for me... :)

September 23 update (unrelated): Dammit, I just went to school with a huge luggage of books in my hand, climbing up 3 storeys only to discover that they haven't hanged the lists yet. According to the principal, we'll only be able to see them tomorrow. Great. Apparently, I won't be able to sleep tonight because of the anxiety only knowing that I won't be able to find out who my classmates are until morning. Another thing that sucks is that it will be teachers who decide who will take which locker. Hell, I don't want to just have one of the bottom lockers which will require me to bend down on the ground everytime someone above me uses their locker...

At least I was able to check out the classes. They are for 14-15 people just like last year, nothing's much different, only the tables and chairs have changed.

September 23 update (unrelated): My school starts tomorrow. However, according to the new cool system, the first day of school is different. We will have no lessons in the first day, instead, we will have a meeting at the confrence hall and teachers will introduce us what we are going to do and we will meet new teachers if there are any. Now I'm going to go to school hoping they have a list of classes hanged up on the bulletin board, so I will manage to know who my classmates are. Boy, they better be good ones. I will update this post to tell if I liked my class or not.

Tomorrow the school starts at 9:40 and is dismissed at 13:30, after tomorrow it will be from 08:30 to 15:45 as usual.

September 22 update: Changed the design of the flowers.

September 22 update: The frog now moves his eyes to the fly while catching it.

September 22 update: Happy Madness Day. Haven't updated this post for a while, but this doesn't mean I'm not working on it.

September 10 update (unrelated): Some of you might know about my 100q Video Game Quiz. It won't be a simple quiz, it has 100 questions about any video game from Super Mario to Batman: Arkham Asylum, divided into 4 sections. At the end of each section, you will get a rank depending on how many sections you completed, and your score. As you progress through sections, the number of possible answers and the difficulty will increase. Check out this post for more info.

September 3 update: Here's the latest screenshot.

August 24 update: The frog now opens his mouth while catching the fly, and closes it when he does so. I'll also make him turn his eyes to the fly while catching it.

Here, I uploaded a picture of me and Kral as my profile picture.

August 23 update: I'm back. Most of the trip sucked, to be honest. We were staying in a village, so there were thousands of mosquitos there, they bit my legs from 5 DIFFERENT PLACES, they are still itching. It had WiFi but we couldn't connect it. The shower had a dripping problem which we couldn't fix, and the floor wasn't much clean.

As for the pros, the sea was really wavy, it was so much fun. The people were nice to us. We got to meet two dogs; a kangal (national dog breed of Turkey) called "Rocky", a german shepherd called "Kral" (Turkish for "king"), and a chihuahua called "Pinky".

Rocky was so named because he was told to be really strong, a waiter told us that he had caught 2 thieves, and standed on them until the employees arrived. He also has the ability to break his restraints. However, Rocky was told to be treated very badly. They didn't feed him properly, and kicked him out of every place they didn't want him to be. We feeded him with meatballs and lots of other stuff while we were having dinner.

Kral was so named because he was a "royal" dog, and he was also very silent and calm, unlike other german shepherds. He sit in our balcony both nights, we don't know why, maybe because the lights were on, maybe because he liked us. My brother called him "my bodyguard", because he seemed to have followed my brother every place he went. We took a lot of pictures of him with us, I'll soon post one as my profile picture. Unlike Rocky, he was well feeded and well treated, we also feeded him ourselves just like Rocky.

Pinky had gotten her name from her pink collar. She is a waiter's dog and she is well treated, although she constantly got punished for some reason. Her punishment was to stand on top of a wardrobe, she couldn't jump off probably because she was afraid.

August 21 update: I'm going to a vacation for the weekend.

August 15 update (unrelated): Well, happy clock day. A day when every shitty clock submission can get passed with ease...

August 13 update: The frog blinks now.

August 11 update: I just found a dinosaur encyclopedia, a children's pop-up book actually, my uncle had bought it for me when I was a kid. I wasn't interested in dinosaurs back then, but even though it's a children's book, it's a great resource because it's simply written.

August 10 update: I'm back. After a fun vacation (and the only one, sadly), I'm ready to get back to flash work.

August 8 update: I have a confirmed return date now, it's either August 10 or 11. I'm having a pretty good vacation, but I'm also looking forward to go back to my own house, my own room, my own bed, and own computer. Doing flash work, surfing on the internet properly, playing Left 4 Dead...

Yeah, I forgot to say, I'm a big L4D player, add me if you want, my nickname is almost always "raiden".

August 7 update: I'm still on vacation, and so far it's pretty cool, looks like I underestimated it. I'm using a friend's Macbook to write this, and I must say it's confusing for an all-time Windows user like me. I'll still be looking for getting back in Flash work when I'm back.

Since up to only 9 collaborators can be co-authored for some reason, only top contributors will be credited in this collab (like all collabs). I'm doing my best to top contribute, but it's so much fun to do Flash work and I'm always glad to help.

August 4 update: The preloader is done, it's just away from a few finishing touches.

I'll be going on a vacation tomorrow, for approximately 10 days, I might still post stuff, but I won't be working. I'll update this post when I'm back.

August 3 update: chubbthehippo is almost done with the preloader animation, I'll start coding it as soon as he sends it to me.

July 30 update (unrelated): Some of you might know my movie WoW: Vecahot Proof. The grandma mentioned in that movie, my grandma, died last night. She had bumped her head a few months ago, so I guess her brain had some physical trauma. She was also too old, she lived 85 years I guess.

I was sad when I heard about her death, but she lived a long and a good life, and died without suffering. In the end, that's all that matters.

It was the first time ever that I actually heard about one of my relatives' death, so I'm not really used to it.

Let WoW: Vecahot Proofbe in memory of her.

Her funeral is tomorrow, apparently we have to go early in the morning.

July 28 update: Made the sun a bit brighter, and the first dinosaur now blinks while walking. Also, a new screenshot is posted.

July 27 update: Me and chubbthehippo are working on the preloader of the collab.

July 26 update: Turned the frog's eyes to white, and made the mountains a little bigger.

July 25 update: The frog won't be deleted, click this link to learn why.

July 25 update: Made the red grasses orange instead, and changed the mountain shading a bit.

July 24 update: It seems like frogs didn't exist at that time, so I might remove it and replace it with a crocodile or something like that.

I'm a part of Archon68's Universe Collab as I mentioned before, and I'm doing the Animals&Dinosaurs part.

In this post, I'll post things like what is left to improve on and how I'm doing. I'll also keep changing the screenshot as I improve the movie.

Right now I'm doing good. I feel I'm getting better at Flash every minute I make this movie. I got to know that everyone can draw some good things if they take their time.

Things left to improve on at the moment:
1- Some details of a meat eating dinosaur.
2- Grasses.
3- Mountains.
4- A herbivore dinosaur, I think I'll redesign it.

If you have ideas about what should be improved, feel free to post it here.

In other news, I finally got promoted to scout, and I bought CS: Source off Steam, but I'm doing terribly right now compared to all the other experienced players. :)