This can usually be found on Twitter.
Isn't this the cutest thing ever?!
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My grandmother passed away two days ago, on Thursday, 27 January, one day short of her 95th birthday. She was in the hospital after a hip replacement operation. All her surviving children gathered in Mumbai for her cremation the same evening. None of her nine grandchildren were there: five of them were in the US, two in India, one in Johannesburg, and one in Singapore. So it goes.
Once you count in Linda's recent death, this brings the total count of human beings I know who died in the last year to four (grandmom, aunt, grandmom, Linda); six, if you stretch the definition of a year somewhat, and count the deaths of my cat (Jan 11, last year) and my (other) aunt's dog (December). Not a pleasant year to be in.
I suppose this is the sort of thing which should inspire deep and meaningful questions about the nature of life, family, relationships, intimacy, friendships, and the life, but it doesn't. Not for me, anyway. I think maybe I'm just jaded. Life is, and then it isn't - do we have to make it worst by ascribing meaning and purpose to something so purposeless? Hmmm.
I haven't had "big thoughts" in quite a while, and I honestly can't tell if that's a good thing or not.
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and they pull you right back in again.
Sigh.
(P.s. Please don't interpret this post to mean I'm disappointed or despondent or depressed or anything. Really. Today (err, yesterday as I type this) was a really good day. I just wish I didn't feel so weak all the time, and that I could sleep a full night's sleep like normal people, and so on and so forth. And I'm living in my own past just a little bit more than I ought to be. What to do. Life is like that sometimes.)
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So, two months after I decide to use up my discounts with the Lonely Planet online shop, the very book I buy is available for free on a deal that I would very definitely have paid for! Double sigh.
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Is there any thing as too many Star Wars jokes? Not hardly likely.
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Have been insanely busy lately (well, not really - more like have lots of things to run around to, and with cooking at home recently, things have been just plain taking longer. Also, programming at work has gotten very twisty and messy lately, which is always kinda stressful, but I'm pulling through). So quick updates:
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And other amazing signs. Have a great day, everyone.
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It turns out I suffer from obscurism, which is:
The practice of peppering daily life with obscure references (forgotten films, dead TV stars, unpopular book, defunct countries, etc.) as a subliminal means of showcasing one's education and one's wish to disassociate from the world of mass culture.
From Douglas Copeland's definitions, obviously.
Labels: Douglas Copeland, obscurism
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A free-verse comment on Amazon. Fascinating. Courtesy the Infinite Cat project.
Nice article on life from a bioinformatician's point of view. Is this where I want to be, I wonder.
I am re-reading The Gospel According to Jesus Christ. The depth in that book is amazing. The way things and themes and whatnots keep coming back, then vanishing, then suddenly reappearing again when you least expect them. Good stuff.
Labels: bioinformatics, career, cats, Jose Saramago
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How the freak does he do it?! I look at the title, "Regular Expressions", I look at the first panel, and I think, he's lost it. No way in hell this is possibly going to be anything but silly, stupid, pointless, useless.
See for yourself. If that ain't the cutest thing ever. Randall Munroe is A GOD.
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Other than that, can't complain. Had a respectably nice day (very nice day, I guess, despite latent angst), and am quite looking forward to next week. Nothing specific to report, or anything; just a general sense of good humour, a feeling of being surrounded by friends, and a feeling like all my many flaws and inferiorities, just for this week, don't matter.
Besides, there's so much to do; so much of which I'm so good at. There's a brilliant feeling comes from contributing to something not so many others can, however tiny or minor it might be :).
Happy ... err, today, everybody.
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This is by far the coolest thing ever! Thank you, Mr. Google!
(I know, I know – don't anthropomorphise companies, they don't like it ...)
But still ... wow. The sheer coolness of it. This would have been impossible before Google showed up, just because no company would let itself be that nice without getting something in return. I mean, woof. Wow. Amazing.
(Thanks, Amit!)
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Best comparision ever (see point #10)
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The first Malaysian trip will occur sometime in late January, rain permitting. It will be a three day jaunt over a weekend, probably starting on a Saturday and taking Monday off. It will involve the use of SBS Service #170 to get to Johor, then take a Transnasional bus to Malacca; spend the afternoon, night, morning, afternoon there, take a bus to KL, meet the Vaidyas, then take a bus back to JB, and the 170 back home. Well, y'know, or something like that. Alternatively, skip the Vaidyas, spend all the time in Malacca. See how, ah.
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Just saw The Twilight Zone (the movie). Fun! I love how the Twilight zone let absolutely anything happen, as per the sensibilities of the writer. Good fun.
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Nice analysis of the Episodes 25 and 26/End of Evangelion question (Future proof!)
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On the other hand, this either doesn't include work, or assumes that I'm
going to be dead sleepy throughout today, and don't mind this.
Or both.
Sigh.
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I was just about to get up and go back home, but I figured there's very little chance I'll blog once I get back home, and do have stuff I want to write about. So.
New Year's Day couldn't be better, in my humble opinion. Woke up late-ish. Hung around until Viks came over, then him, me and Atiyab watched Neon Genesis Evangelion from about 5:30pm to about 6:30am the next morning. Good times. We cracked open (with great difficulty; let it be recorded that Atiyab made the final, successful assault) a very nice Australian Shiraz wine at midnight; it was pretty heavily alcoholic (14%, I think), but the taste was brilliant. Eva was fun as always, and this is the first time I got to watch the whole series in one shot, and it was good to see the first sunrise of 2007 before going to sleep.
We got two days off (Monday, Jan 1, for New Years', and Tuesday, Jan 2, because Hari Raya Haji fell on Dec 31, and was pushed on), but I didn't know that, and was very pissed off with how late I came in today. Luckily, I didn't need to come in on time at all!
Unfortunately, seeing how I'm blogging at 12:16am, before a 40 minute walk back home, it doesn't look like tomorrow is going to be all that early either. Sigh.
Had a nice chat with home on Sunday night. I think everybody was pretty relieved to be out of this year, and only moderately apprehensive about the next, which was nice. We talked about my blood tests, and what comes next, and so on. Pretty nice. A lot of (moderately) old friends seem to be popping out of the woodwork as well. Also, this is the year I apply places, etc.! How exciting.
Chatted with Rohit today, which was nice. He's a great source of information on 'merican graduate schools, having been there, done that. Surprisingly enough, he took my suggestion, and visited the zoo. Odd, that. Still, his social life is improving, so what can I say, but all the best?
There was something else ... sigh. There's too much else. I need to respond to one of Rivka's posts on languages and intergenerational communication. I know what that feels like!
I have 36 tabs open in Opera, quite astounding. I'm impressed. And it's 12:30am. I'm outta here. I just needed to record that my health was okayish, life could be (much, much) worse, and things are hopefully just going to get more interesting (with a new UROPS I'm involved with, WebAdmin training going strong, and no end of new year resolution flying about like so much dust in the air).
So, err, yeah. Let's see.
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"A beach house," he said, "doesn't even have to be on the beach. Though the best ones are. We all like to congregate," he went on, "at boundary conditions". "Really?" said Arthur. "Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where body meets mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other."