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I'm kinda getting bored of this whole schtick. There's only so many games you can play, random websites you can visit (oh, hey: you should check out the most ridiculous Batman comics ever released! Pathetic, yes. Funny, definitely) before you get bored stiff and solid. And somehow Wikipedia just isn't fun any more.

There's stuff to do, but it just isn't as sit-down-and-join as Wikipedia used to be. I won't be heading thataways without a whole lot of preparation, which would distract from my busy schedule of playing Xbox games and chilling (although I guess a good part of that chilling is "hanging out with friends", which, hey, doesn't really qualify as "wasting time", does it?).

Sigh. I guess I'm going to have to make the effort after all. Oh me, oh my.

Labels: boredom, effort, things to do

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Boredom percolates everywhere; I stare at the screen and hope for starlight. Only the whiteness of the websites appear. One last glance, and then I disappear.

Labels: bored, boredom

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It seems like forever since I last really achieved something. I suppose programming achievements don't count; they aren't real, they don't matter. Like all programming, it's just scribbling with chalk on clouds of thoughts, or something therelike.

The biggest problem of a lack of achievement is getting to sleep at night: your body wants you to, your mind wants you to, but something inside you says that as long as you're awake, the day is not wasted; there might be more happening, if you can just stay awake ten more minutes, there might be one e-mail sent (or received), one phone call or SMS arriving, something - anything! - which will make your last 15 hours on earth worthwhile in some small, but locally significant, way.

This almost never happens.

Phrase of the week: It's turned out nice again! Lovely.

Labels: boredom, pointlessness, today, underachievement

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To start off, this crazy country never stops surprising me. And this post is interesting, if a little drawn out and tedious.

There is good news. The weather is finally turning: I could have slept without aircon or a fan tonight if I was so inclined.

There is, also, bad news. Both last week and this week so far have been tedious, boring weeks without much to recommend them. Last week was spent trying to catch up on Singapore time, the weekend on catching up on sleep, and this week catching up on work from last week. I woke up today at 2pm from right in the middle of a dream, which is always awful because your mind is all over the place and all you (well, I) can do is sit and wait for it to gather itself together. Ugh.

This might be a reaction to London. London's full of little alleyways which wind off in odd directions: it's a walker's paradise, with a million roads to walk down and discover something new. Chelsea or Southwark could keep me happily occupied for years. Singapore just doesn't have that, except maybe for bits in Bugis. Otherwise, it's HDBs far as the eye can see.

I know (hope?) that I'm just looking at the bad side, and the good side's going to pop up at me soon enough and all that. The one positive hope is that I am bored; generally, this leads to me doing something about the boredom, which last for a good while. Of course, it won't be that straightforward: expect another extension when I fly home (Bombay-Calicut-Bombay-Pune-Bombay - in just over a week, no less!). But - no, wait, BUT! - as of June 21, 2007, I am unemployed again. Good stuff.

I am really, really, really looking forward to that.

Labels: boredom, links, london, really bored, singapore, weather

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