This can usually be found on Twitter.
Blogger is breaking in stranger and mysteriouser ways every day, but - thanks to somebody understanding how HTML forms are supposed to work - it lets me POST content into its script, and that's all I really care about. But I would really appreciate that WebKit feature wherein you can rearrange form elements on the fly ... oh well, can't have everything, I guess.
So, a decent day. A valient attempt at getting my clothes to the drycleaners failed miserably, but what to do. Took a painful train to work, when I spent ages trying to work my holiday into order - my workmates needed my dates as badly as I did! Finally managed to make it work, and am now booked on my first Tiger Airlines (Airways?) flight ever, taking me on a holiday from August 19 to August 29.
Getting this monstrous worry out of the way immediately boosted productivity, and I'm almost all the way to deployment tomorrow (I hope). Got home, managed to get some thinking/writing stuffs done for FOSA/SFDS, and then finally reintegrated the Nexus codonposset stuff from the other branch so SequenceMatrix has some of the features it had earlier, except with a sudden lack of inexplicable crashes on the Macintosh.
What does all of this mean? With any luck, I've cleared a small window tomorrow to just work on FOSA stuff and try to check that I've got all outstanding tasks resolved before my holiday. Work should be okay, too, with most of the pre-deployment work done and other competent people around in the office to help. And with any luck, I'll be able to get up early enough to find a drycleaners and/or deliver a package to Bugis.
So, on the whole, a decent day, with a possibility of having most of my pre-departure business sorted out before actual departure on Wednesday - a new and wonderful thing! Let's see how badly tomorrow and especially day after ruin the general effect :).
Labels: decent, holiday, planning
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Sometimes Popagandhi reminds me of Orhan Pamuk; a good example is here. Speaking of OP, while I doubt I will be able to return his book to the library by tonight (although I will try, if I can!), I definitely wanna try "column-writing" once I get back from India. Should be fun.
And oh, yes, India! I am heading back to the homeland early tomorrow morning. It's going to be a pretty short trip, so I don't know how many places I can go/people I can meet (considering that it is Bombay, I suspect a whole lot of people I'd like to meet won't be met). But will atleast do a round-trip of my family (atleast the members who stay in the Bombay-Pune area), so won't be all bad. Will also have a chance to meet extended Pune family, who generally I don't get to meet as my Pune trips tend to be fairly limited.
And oh, yes, Pune! I am working on Pune's Wikipedia page, and am happy with how its turning out so far. A whole lot of work remains, as is obvious from even a quick glance at the page, but paragraphing has much improved, links are more consistent, company lists have been shortened, and the history has been cleaned up significantly. Yay! Hopefully nothing much will happen between now and next week; if it does, of course, that just means more cleanup for me (which is not necessarily a bad thing, just an inconvenient one!).
So, yes. Looking forward to trip so far. Have packed up my camera and everything, and am prepared except for my clothes (which desperately need drying, bless them) and my hair (still needs a cut) and packing in general (no presents this time, so it's just clothes, pretty much).
Labels: bombay, family, holiday, pune, travel
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I'm going home! Just barely enough time to take a quick shower (no shave, alas, which means I turn up pretty unkempt), pack my backpack (no spillover packing this time, praise the heavens, just books, papers, and other long-distance-travel odds and ends), and get out the door. Which I should do right now, really; there's not an awful lot of time before 5am, which is my '2.5 hours before the flight' deadline.
Cheers, guys. More soon!
Labels: holiday, on my way, travel
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I leave Singapore in just over twenty four hours, and I am hopelessly underpacked (NOT packed), underclothed (NO idea what I'm going to wear, whether it's in a wearable state, or what) and I only just put some clothes on the washing line to dry. Hsus. Tomorrow could well be a gawd-awful day.
I was going to go home and get ready, but then I had to help set up a Poy run, and you know how long those can take. Particularly when SeqMat was giving me hell, and our dataset just kept having one problem after another ... all in all, it took us seven hours to figure everything out, and to make it run. Zomg.
Still, I guess there's two things to remember: (1) it's a wedding, which means it Can't Be Screwed Up, and (2) it's a holiday, which means Anything's Possible. Within these two my sanity can rest unencumbered.
Labels: bombay, holiday, trip, wedding
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So I wake up around 3am, after 5.5 hours of sleep: not bad after yesterday night, but hardly satisfying, right? Get myself something to eat, and get to watch some classic episodes (Seinfeld's The Invitations and The Simpson' I Love List. So, not too shabby. I still have to book Indian Airlines tickets (they won't accept international credit cards), but now that the dates are getting closer, I need to think about how I'm actually going to spend my ridiculously few days in the Bombay/Pune region ... let's see. Anuja leaves on her trip day after, so hopefully her part of the ...-to-Bombay trip would have been sorted out.
And that's nothing on the whole post-job planning required! Which also means I'll be possibly/probably buying a new laptop before the end of June, 2007, i.e. within the month. Oh me, oh my. And I still don't know whether it's an Apple, neither.
Anywho, I really ought to get back down and clean up in the kitchen. Went out running with the guys yesterday, which was fun. Am probably going to try to sleep for a while again now.
Lesse.
Labels: family, holiday, indian airlines, today, trip
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So, holiday over. Well - this one. Kerela trip looms in less than a month. Like, zomg.
Holiday was fantastic - I was vaguely considering writing one huge blog entry on the whole thing (or a series of smaller blog posts, one per day), and I guess I might, but right now, I just can't be bothered. But, you know, someday. Maybe. 700+ photos are up already, and that's only for the first four days of the holidays! The rest are coming, never fear, though it might take a while. I've got photos all over the place.
There's good things, bad things, and worse things:
Except more soon.
Labels: holiday, home, photos, return
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I'm through check-in and emmigration, so it's much too late to worry about anything I've forgotten/screwed up; at this point, it'll have to be explained, rather than fixed, so eh.
I have to stay, this was the quickest I've ever gotten through check-in/emmig: for one, I've only got one document this time, rather than three (passport instead of passport+student pass+multiple entry visa); for another, I checked-in online at the British Airway's website (very easy to use, and completely Firefox compatible, btw), and only have to duck my bags in, and for a third, the baggage lines were almost completely empty. So there.
It's always a pleasure getting to Changi; travel was decent, despite travelling during peak hours, and my cabbie gave me a long lecture on Comfort cabs and their evil ways (he'd transitioned to Premier at the start of the year). Money exchange was quick and easy, check-in was (as mentioned) botherless, and emmigration was a breeze (the officer seemed to give me an approving nod when she finally found the Re-entry permit tucked away at the end of my passport). Now it's two-or-so hours of boredom, followed by thirteen-odd hours of boredom in a little metal tube high in the sky.
The plan: on landing, clear immigration and be at one with my brand-new bag; call Zuji up, and cancel my hotel booking; then take the Heathrow Express into Paddington Station - my first bit of open defiance this holiday. I suppose if you're going to do it, you might as well start early, eh? Or: if 'twere done that 'twere done, 'tis best 'twere done at the earliest.
See you on the other side!
Labels: changi airport, holiday, travel
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'sbeen a good day: the rain fell incessantly, except when I needed to go somewhere, when it very conveniently stopped =). On my way to the airport now, and sweating badly in my full-length pants. Gotta run!
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It's Friday morning: and I oughtn't to be here for Saturday morning! Yay!
Still need to: get traveller's cheques, start packing, finish packing, write program. Am I missing something? It can't possibly be *this* easy, can it?
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Less than 24 hours to fly, and I haven't even started packing (I bought the bag I'm taking to London less than six hours ago). Thanks to minor miracles such as the Internet, I'm already checked in, though. My flight leaves at 10:55pm tomorrow, giving me just over 24 hours to go, actually. The plan is to sleep for a while now, wake up at 2am or 7am or whenever, pack everything I need (clothes, camera, a book or two), then go to work (on the way to which I buy my traveller's cheques). Come back home around 7pm or so, catch a cab to the airport at around 8pm (hopefully avoiding the 6pm traffic crunch). Even if I'm delayed, I can go on until an hour before take-off, which is 10pm approx. Sounds good? Might leave early if I feel like, but with the unreliveable boredom of sitting at the airport, I'm much more likely to be late than early.
Labels: holiday, packing, travel
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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."