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Tuesday, May 17, 2005

 
Strange new feeling ...

Am going back home with something left undone, and that I'd like to have finished off ... why? Because I have to. Because otherwise I'll be late getting back home. Because otherwise I'll be late with dinner, and more imp., I'll miss my bus later tonight. Also, dun wanna be walking home too late, as the neighborhood is kinda creepy.

Oh, and guess what? I eat breakfast now! And not just any breakfast - BREAD-friggin'-TALK! Seriously, it's almost as cheap as the snack stall at Science - for under three bucks, you can get DELICIOUS breakfast with AWESOME drinks!

Maybe I'll feel guilty I'm wasting money or something and switch off it after a while, but until then ... yum, yum, for my tum, or something like that ...

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Kitties Rock!

Proof undeniable.

P.S. Queen of Wands is my latest discovery: a mature, adult comic of great fun. It's quite bizarre, and quite a lot of fun - the two things I crave most in my online comics. Too bad it's stopped completely now, although I'll be waiting to see if the writer comes up with something else equally interesting ...

P.P.S. Life is good. Just finished the SysAd training today, Sujatha's back in town (although I haven't been able to meet up with her yet), maps are coming along very, very slowly - but just barely, picked up LOADS of good books from the library, and by flicking between Yahoo radio and Beatles-a-rama, I'm picking up lotsa great music. Downers: trip to Taman Nagera have been shelved, maps are slow in finishing and boring like hell, and there still isn't anything really major happening in my life. But I'm getting over things and moving on and stuff, and that's good. Maybe, temporary. But let's see. Even if it's just a temporary respite, it's very, very welcome :).

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Sunday, May 15, 2005

 
New Room, New Time, bring on the Globetrekker's Theme

... which just happens to be my personal "everything's-changing-and-I've-got-my-everything's-changing-blues-but-wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" theme song :).

I'm in my new room now. UNSPEAKABLY COMFORTABLE. Seriously. Wow. This is the most comfortable I've been in Singapore, ever. This is actually more comfortable than my room in Bangalore. Really. I am amazed, shocked, and - in a coupla hours - will be most relaxed.

Had an awesome weekend. For the first time in ages, I hit the streets and went shopping. Mostly window (laptops - oooh! pretty! - and books), but my wallet has been lightened by making some acquisitions of the musical area ... I know possess some of my favourite songs. I won't name names, but the song mentioned at the start of this pool was a surprise, overly expensive, but definitely appreciated inclusion.

Am thinking more and more about the magazine idea. It'll work, if it can be promoted, and it could really get somewhere if we can get a lot of people interested. A slow start might be good for getting the software and stuff working. And it's an exciting idea.

The problems are two-fold: making people excited, then making people work for essentially no money (at first). Tricky. Also, what would Singaporeans make of one more magazine? Would they switch away from the exp. magazines? Would we be able to keep competition at bay? All tricky questions. Requires lots of thinking.

Will think in Malaysia :P. Right now, I've got some heavy duty mapping to do. Aiyee, God defend me from all this boring mapping ...

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Sunday, May 08, 2005

 
Some poets just ... rock

Wow. I love this woman.

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Friday, May 06, 2005

 
Heh.

Discovery Channel show on primitive man ends with various computer generated protohumans whistling along to "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life". Brilliant and hilarious :).

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Oh Me, Oh My

Okay, I guess D-day is here at last. My status?

Well, to start off with, thanks to my illness on Wednesday I've reorganised deadlines. Friday (err, Today, actually) is still my do-or-die Get Everything Out The Door day. Which means: it doesn't matter whether or not it WORKS, but it should be doing - or trying to do - EVERYTHING. So that I can bugfix/make things work over the weekend.

Basically, after tomorrow 7pm, I shouldn't have to add a single line of "construction" code to the program at all - just fiddle around with statistics, show Prof what's coming out, modify it as required, etc. I know - roughly - what the output ought to look like, and I think I know (again, roughly) what the user interfaces for everything will look like.

So tired, almost dizzy. But have to keep going, otherwise no chance. Gotta gotta gotta.

Come on.

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Thursday, May 05, 2005

 
Okay, this might be a lil premature ...

Back in March 2000, I got a crush on a girl. I was nuts about this particular girl for pretty much exactly four weeks at the end of which I asked her out (sort of), got rejected by her (sort of) and then flew off to Pune for a holiday. I can't remember - I know I was in touch with her by e-mail, and have a vague recollection of still having a bit of a crush on her, but I really don't know. I guess in some ways this was my first really big crush, so.

(As an aside, my next really big crush occured in March 2003. A pattern? No idea, but I am waiting impatiently for March 2006, just in case :D - unless of course I meet the girl of my dreams - henceforth refered to as GoD - before that, in which case, of course, it does not matter)

Okay, back to the story. As it goes, I'm not sure exactly what happened between us then and how I felt about it, etc. But I do know I met the girl again in July/August 2000 (I think?) and my feelings flared up for one brief romantesplosion before she shot me down, only a few short weeks later.

Now, what's important isn't the crush story (if you're curious: we re-establish contact, I'm still sorta resentful about the last "episode", contact sorta breaks by itself; repeat this cycle about two or three times until July 2004, when we finally "got it right". Now I count this girl as being one of my closest friends. Ain't life grand?), no, what's really important is the strange state of mind I was in in between the two infatuation incidents.

Firstly, it was a nice positive frame of mind, on the whole. I mean, come on - I had just finished 10th Std ('O' level equiv), hadn't done too badly, and I had a whole buncha months all to myself and nothing to worry about. I literally have no idea what I did in those three months, at all at all (oh, I think I was on the net a lot, because a bumped into a random person who would end up becoming another one of my best friends, but other than that ... this might've also been the time of the famous Vaidya family trip to Kabini River Lodge, but I could be screwing the dates up ...)

Anyways, to return to the point: those three-odd months were spent in a haze of dreammland - or, even better, dreamtime - when reality, improbability and life mixed freely and effortlessly together. I was just sitting back and reading an R. K. Narayan book, and I was suddenly reminded of that time. It's all walking on the edge still, hence the "premature" warning in the title, but if I let myself go just a little bit, imagine myself post-exam post-ISM post-project stress, I think maybe, just maybe, I'm going back there again. Wow. Sounds like fun :).

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Things

Sick. Ugh. Weak and woozy and bits of me keep going out of operation every once in a while.

Perfect timing too! Dun think I'll be able to finish the program by Friday, unless I work through tomorrow night. Which I could do. Let's see how bad it gets.

Also need to pack up, but I guess if I'm sick, that'll have to be managed away. Somehow.

Am now lying in my room watching A Hard Day's Night! Woot! :D

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Sunday, May 01, 2005

 
I Have Home

And this is it.

I have no idea whether I'll live to regret this or not. In any case, it's DONE now. So can't be bothered any more.

(Yay! I have home!)

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