After a break

Hello everyone,

So I've just stopped blogging long time ago, I remember that exams got up to me and I just didn't have much time or interesting stuff to write about. I've had a fun summer, relaxed quite a bit and the second year of studying began.

Studies.That's one major thing in my life at the moment and I'm doing better I guess. I still can't make myself productive enough, that's what bothers me the most I guess. But on the bright side, studies don't seem to be that hard this term. My goal is to rock the grades out of it and get a scholarship, it's quite hard but I know I've got the potential to do so I just need to stop being a lazy ass.

So studies, they've gotten far more interesting and perhaps will deserve more space in this blog.

That's it for now, wait for a post on an interesting subject soon :)

Update on life I

Quick update

Hello guys, I haven‘t posted in quite a while because I’ve been a little bit busy with life. My studies are going so so… I’ve got the potential to get amazing results it’s just that I’m quite lazy. I procrastinate a lot and only get my shit together when there’s not enough time left. I end up getting mediocre results from tests and such and become disappointed. Other than that I’m really happy.

 I’ve turned 20 couple of days ago and I’ve gotten my first car, it’s Opel Astra I 1.7D. It’s quite old but It’s gonna be ok for start. I’m in a happy relationship and currently quite satisfied with myself. I don’t know if I’ve mentioned before but I’ve been playing online poker for 3 years now and currently I’ve switched to ZOOM cash games at Poker Stars, grinding the micros and learning the general ABC poker. All this work and no play does not make me a dull boy. It’s really satisfying achieving something great, be it in poker, studies or even if this blog get a bigger count of views. 

I’m writing from my university since it’s a break and I don’t feel like studying at all. I’ll write more about my studies next time. Even though it’s hard I have no regrets of choosing math. 

Until next time..

Indecision to future studies

Economics? Informatics? Math?

As I've mentioned previously I'm in my first course studying Mathematics. I'll be able to choose if I'd like to get double bachelor studies, math + economics or math + informatics. My studies would then be based around these two things and I'd get a good knowledge on both. If I choose to carry on with pure math, I could later on choose some additional classes from various math,economics,IT subjects.

I'm more leaning towards pure math since I'd like to be more flexible with choosing classes, where getting a double bachelor would leave me with little freedom. On the other hand, if I get a diploma with a double bachelor my career opportunities might be better in the business area and that's good since I'm not that fond of the idea to bind myself with areas of science.


Who needs Mathematicians?

Some of you might have little clue of the possible work areas for good mathematicians.The career opportunities for them involves in being systems analysts, modeling and data analysis experts, market researchers, programming analysts, actuaries (insurance mathematicians) in  banks, insurance companies, universities, manufacturing, logistics, trading and other businesses.

Bad habits

Our lives are entirely habitual. Everyday we do the same things that we did our entire life. Some of these habits are bad and might have an unwanted influence in the quality of your life. On the other hand you can develop good habits that benefit you (like doing exercises once you wake up or drinking plenty of water when you sit near a computer). Old habits are hard to break and new habits are hard to form.

I myself have plenty of bad habits that I'd like to get rid of (nail biting, throat clearing,swearing,procrastinating, etc.). But I can tell that I've also formed some good ones during my adolescence.

So are there any techniques that help you break bad habits and form good ones? Well let me list a few that I found helpful:

1. Get rid of one habit at a time. Trying to rid of all at the same time is unproductive and reckless. Multitasking will show no good outcome in this area.
2. Replace them. Every time you feel doing something irritating out of habit, do something else to keep you occupied. Start using light profanity instead of those horrible curse words. The best thing is to replace your bad habits with good ones.
3. Make a public commitment. Tell your friends or your relatives that you will start/stop doing that, not wanting to look like a failure will keep you motivated to stick to it. Commit something precious to you, for example make a deal and give your friend fifty bucks and if you don't follow your terms he will get to keep it. Also if you find a buddy who wants to do the same thing, make a bet that whoever snaps the first must pay the other one some money, competing like that will give great boost of motivation.

I remember once before class I've made a deal with a friend that whoever swears gives the other one half a dollar. He snapped in like two minutes, but then later on we've remained quiet for quite some time. It was hard to concentrate trying not to slip a curse out. There's a popular method to set up a jar in the home, where one must put some money if he's caught swearing. You should try it out!

I can't think of anything else right now but I would like to hear some of your thoughts.
How do you guys deal with habits? Leave some tips in the comments.

A Day for Kids

Women's Day!


Today on my way to the university I saw a mother with two children, apparently she told them that today was Women's day. And I heard them talk a little.
"Mommy, when is the day for kids?", one child asked her.
"1st of June", she  promptly replied. 
"Yay! The day for kids is on 1st of June!", the child cheered loudly and happily.

Seeing that brought a smile to my face, which I carried on for the rest of the day:) So men don't forget to get some flowers to the women you love I know I did. Cherish them because without women the life would lose all its charm. 

Happy Women's Day!

And let's start waiting for the Children's Day :) 

Meteor showers - Perseids

 Perseids aroused my interest in Astronomy

I became interested in astronomy a few years ago. I was reading up some articles about technologies and I found out that there's gonna be meteor showers on 13th of August called the Perseids.  I had no idea things like that were happening at that time. I became fascinated by it so I decided to look more into it.

The Perseids are called that way because the point from which the meteors seem to be coming from lies in the constellations Perseus. The earth travels through a cloud of dust which consists of particles ejected by a comet called Swift-Tuttle.

I remember the first time I heard about it I set up to spectate that glorious event. I was still young and was living in a city apartment. I wanted to get somewhere out of city to spend the night observing them but I had no one to go with. I still didn't want to miss it so at around 1 am I went into my balcony with my blanket and lay down on cold concrete. I only saw a small part of the sky and there weren't too many stars there because of the light pollution but I remember seeing the constellations Pegasus and Cassiopeia. It took quite some waiting and  I was about to give up but then I saw one. It was really exciting for me that time. I saw a few more and it was too cold so I went to bed.

Two years ago I was in a village shack that is owned by my father. It's far away from the city and the night sky is the best seen from there as far as I know. The meteor showers were magnificent, I saw dozens of them falling. I can still remember the day very well. After that day, the night sky became something much more for me.

Gaming, my life story.

Since my childhood I've enjoyed video games. I had a sega mega 2 and I remember how I could just play it all day long but my parents weren't so supportive, they tried to limit my gaming addiction but it was just too strong.

After a while I got a PC and oldest game that I best remember is Gothic. My bro said it's a fun game where you have to kill dinosaurs. Actually it was a really good RPG but at start there were some dinosaur-like creatures. So since me and my brother were not that much familiar with all sorts of games, we called it dinosaur hunting. So I played gothic 1 & 2, without ending neither of those (didn't want to use any cheats) and then I discovered the internet.

I've started going to the interenet cafe very often, spending all my money on it. At around 12 I found runescape 2 and just went with it. After some time we've installed internet at our home and the no-lifing began. Spending nights at the pc, doing quests and stuff, it all seemed so fulfilling. My mom used to go crazy, taking away pc cables and hiding it but often I would find it and nothing could stop me.

Then I discovered Lineage 2, it was quite popular in our country. It required long amount of time to level up but hey I didn't care. I've played it for 3-4 years, no-lifer is what my friends used to call me. Well later I've discovered alcohol and I had less time for games, it was quite fun drinking with friends just for the sake of getting drunk. But I would still play mmorpgs.

World of Warcraft seemed boring to me and I was loyal to L2, but a little later I tried WoW again and ofc i got hooked up again. Played it for a bit until around 17, that's when my hard-gaming ended. Not completely, but I couldn't play that much as I used to.

I still enjoy playing some competitive games with friends, especially the strategy ones. But mostly I just surf around the internet now. I guess I'm addicted to it now..

The most stupid accident of my life...

So here's a short story that I will probably never forget.

So basically I was with my friends at a friend's house because his parents were out of country. We were watching basketball the #1 Most popular Sport here that everyone's crazy about except me. So I drank a little too much of beer,rum and some wine. .
Then we decided to meet some guys who were volunteering where the game was played. We met them at some parking lot, and hanged out.

My "race-car"

It didn't take me long to slip on some piss and fall down, I went to the bathroom to clean myself up and just as I was coming back I saw a shopping cart carelessly left at the middle of the lot. Suddenly a burst of childhood memories flashed through my mind and I remembered how cool it used to be to run with your shopping cart, jump on it and ride it. So I ran to it, pushed of the ground and rode it like the wind until suddenly it flipped upside down and i landed on my foot. Short after I was jumping on one foot around the hospital, waiting for X-ray results, which weren't so good.I broke my ankle and spent ~6 weeks with a plaster.

Now it's a good laughing material with friends, no regrets.

Me and friends

So my close friends are really important in my life. Most of them are from my high-school and we've really bonded over the last years of it. Basically the most fun experiences in my life came spontaneous when being with them and no plan what we're gonna do next. Here's one story..

So we finished the school and passed the maturity exam,so what now? A send-off party. We traveled over a 100 miles to a friend's cabin by the lake, of course the cabin was taken so we set up tents. And just as we arrived we had drinks, I had beer and whiskey.

This time we decided to make a beer bong , we heard it would get us more drunk, so since we're poor bums we thought it would save us money. We would ask some one to 'hit us' then proceed to get down on one knee and start chugging as someone pours the beer (beer is strong here).  Long story short I've got too drunk passed out, can't remember much of the first day it wasn't too fun so it doesn't matter.

Next day I wake up in a car, my bones were hurting as hell and I felt as if I was sobering up and that was not acceptable! So I woke my friend and told him to hit me. The slight headache immediately passed so I took some beers and went fishing. After a little my friend joined, I couldn't catch a single one and he was pulling fishes every 5 minutes. So I decided to catch something else.

The retard

Before that day I saw some crayfish in the lake, I used to go catching crayfish with my dad when I was younger (I don't know is it hunting or fishing, basically what you do is put bait, wait for them to come and just pick them up). So I found some frogs, peeled their skin, dropped them in the water and waited for crayfish (little did I know they hang out more at night) so I got some small ones but that was not enough. Since there were so many frogs I caught a bunch of those and cooked them on the fire 'If the french can do it, why can't I?' I thought. So me and some friends ate some weird stuff, another friend to whom I promised to leave some got really mad so naturally out of guilt I went looking for crayfish again. Found one which I called 'The retard' and was done with it.

So we hanged around and the time flew fast. It was already dark and we were sitting near a bonfire, talking smack and laughing our butts off. After a while we went on a boat and rowed to the middle of the lake. While we were drifting a friend's head was dragging under the water, we assumed he's fine and ignored him, instead we shouted, screamed and laughed a lot to make sure that if there was anyone else near the lake they couldn't get any sleep. That's all I remember.

Moral of the story - even if you don't remember the details, the fact that you remember how fun it was is enough.

So it begins..

I'm a silent guy who often lurks the web. Having too much spare time I decided to blast a blog of my own.

Here I will post stuff that is only interesting to me, but you can read some too, just not too much. In between the bear fights at my apartment (family tradition) I'll post whatever is on my mind at the moment. That stuff might be geeky and too difficult to understand for some of you sometimes (I'm studying mathematics and I am a nerd at heart) or impossible to understand (perhaps I decide to blog while I'm not supposed to).

A little about me..

I am a Lithuanian.Lithuania could be described as the green plains in the north-east of Europe, one of the three Baltic countries and it shares borders with Latvia, Belarus, Poland and the Kaliningrad region (Part of Russia). Lithuania has some awesome castles, most of them were destroyed but some are still standing and are extremely magnificent. 

As I mentioned before I'm in the first year of university, studying math. I've always been good with numbers and math was quite easy for me. I consider my self smarter than average and I am always spending lots of time at the computer... My social life is still great, I love going out, having a drink and spending quality time with my friends so I consider myself happy. I don't think too much about the future ( I mean it's 2012, people say there will be no future after this year, right?) and I try to enjoy every day of my life.. I really don't want to get old and regret for the things I haven't done, I want to make my own mistakes and learn from them!


So that's all for now, you can get back to whatever you were doing.