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So, I just woke up. Like, right now (well, more like 3:30pm SGT, but you can't stress the short stuff like that). This is a fantastic achievement for me, as it has been months (years, maybe!) since I've woken up this late. Heck, I played board games all night a few weeks ago, and even then I moseyed home at six, slept at seven, and then was up again by one. Three thirty is a mountain that few men dare to tread, and today I trod all over it with joy and happiness.

Part of the joy was the dream I was having before I woke up, which was long, complicated and had a cute girl in it. Also, there were two dogs, so it wasn't all great, but it was still pretty nice nevertheless.

Next steps is to get myself ready-to-go, and then to-go to Pizza Hut and get myself that spagetti I've been craving. If I time it correctly, I might even be able to go the gym later tonight, which would be a very nice thing. But could that be even more Sunday dreamin'?

Another thing: the Indian trip. Now, it's definitely going ahead - I have to book tickets, and unless the wedding itself is cancelled, I can't back out then. But I also need a vacation, just some time off by myself to do with as I please. So how is that going to work? Fly to Delhi, then do a few-days trip to Jaipur or Nainital or Agra? Fly into Hyderabad, then fly on to Delhi, then come back to chill in Hyderabad for a bit? Decisions, decisions, and my ability to make such decisions is shrinking with the drip-drip of passing time. So tonight I'ma have to call it. Let's see how that goes.

So many dreams, so little time.

Labels: dreams, planning, sunday

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Woke up with the most massive eyebags. Ah, well.

Not entirely sure how to proceed. I could work on the Test Anything Protocol spec for a while. Or on either Singapore.pm or my own much-neglected website. But I don't feel like working, especially not on a computer. Even I need some kind of break!

Other option: play Half Life 2. Yech. So boring. And besides, I'd like to conserve my "Xbox muscles" for playing Bioshock tonight.

So how? The weather's fine, I could go out photographing or something. Or just go for a walk. Or go and check out the photo exhibitions or something. Sigh.

Okay, time to reboot and turn off computer. I'll probably be back in the afternoon/evening sometime.

Dreamed of her again. Also: parents. Also: a beach. Something horrible happened, but I don't remember it at all.

Labels: dreams, morning, plans, today

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First time in a long time I've had an "appropiate" dream (and not a "bad" dream, either! A first from since Saturday or something). Apart from the current ongoing family drama, the overall theme seemed to be a general lack of interesting women. My stomach shows no sign of getting better, which is (obviously) worrying - as is the fact that the pain seems to come and go. An ulcer? God, I hope not. Well, on to the day, let's see how this turns out.

Labels: dreams, stomach, today

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I love my dreamings. The sheer vastness and variety always startles me on waking up. Just now, I dreamed (in approximately accurate order) about my mother, a tution teacher (which one?), my friend, my grandmum, sister, and her friend, my friend's brother, a party, and (therefore) several people I've never met before. And I'm pretty sure I've forgotten some bits in between.

Yesterday's dreams were at an equivalent level of craziness, I think, but can't be sure. I'm sure I've dreamt of my dead aunt in the last week sometime. And the main thing that got this post going was this strange entirely-in-my-head dream I had a few months ago about taking the bus in London (a few months or weeks before we went to London ourselves: it was nothing like in the dream, although I guess the dream was vaguely accurate wrt the Warwickshire area ...)

Went to the Singapore Fireworks Festival (they've changed the name, I know, but I can't be bothered to look up the new one) yesterday night. Good fun. The fireworks were aweinspiring and beautifully done, despite us being in not so ideal a place for watching; but it wasn't horribly bad either. Then had dinner, which was also fun and interesting. Learned how to eat rambuttan, finally.

Okay, house-cleaning time. Better go help the guys. I'll have fireworks photos up later today, hopefully. Ciao!

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My Flickr account has now has 6,000 views! I'm so proud.

Today was weird. Woke up, out of a weird dream, fell asleep again, had another weird dream, which I also woke up out of. Then I took a bath, got dressed, said "f*ck it", got undressed, went back to sleep, had a weird dream, which I also woke up out of. Waking out of a dream is disorienting, and doing this three times in a row is kinda scary. Also, it's raining like a maniac. Wonder how much work I'll get done tonight.

There are multiple good things on the horizon; might be a while before any of them pan out, though. Lesse.

Also: this is very not good. I thought Google could have played it a little better in China - if they'd left a notice on that pages had been removed from the search, I'd feel better about it - but this is just nuts. Isn't this exactly what court requests are for? I would have no problems against Google providing the information on a court request, but to provide it for free? If I was still using Orkut, I'd be really worried about what information I was putting out there - unless I couldn't really figure that out in the first place, what with Orkut having such a horrible interface. But that's another issue entirely.

Labels: dreams, flickr, photos, privacy, sleep

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