Gaurav's Blog

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It's a philosophy, anyway:

We only go forward, not backwards

Oh, and I have a job now. With a programming language I have no experience with, no idea about. Oh me, oh my.

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With Punch an' Pie from a week ago.

In other news, ahem, ahem. Perhaps the Beatles catalogue is finally hitting the web? Not that us Singaporean residents will get our grubby paws on it in any case. But it'd be an interesting step in whole Internet/media/DRM/copyright situation. Lesse, lesse.

Labels: apple rumours, beatles, jobhunting

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As far as I'm concerned, the primary difference between "strain" and "stress" is that stress is when you're worried, now, and are aware that the stress will end eventually (whether by your body and brain just "shutting down", or by someone falling out of an apartment building, depends on your interpretation). Strain, on the other hand, is what happens when you're stressed out and you know it's not going to end any time soon.

Long day today. After much cool dreamings (see post!), was awoken at two for our quarterly month cleaning, which was a huge success. I was tempted to take "after" photos: it's extremely unlikely we'll ever have things this sparkling clean again. Why? Because we're moving out in early December, it seems. Early December! This means the househunt begins again, and you remember how painful it was the last time around. You don't? That's cool, I'm sure it's in this blog somewhere. Time to practice your 733t G00g7e s[i11s!

Er, hmm. In other news, my parents are now sliding into some sort of super OMG-WE'RE-WORRIED-(but-don't-let-that-worry-or-pressure-you-tee-hee)-BUT-YOU-HAVE-TO-GET-A-JOB-ALREADY-BCOS-WHAT-ARE-YOU-GOING-TO-DO-WITH-YOUR-LIFE-OMG-OMG-OMG mode (I'm sure parents have a better name for this). Which means they intrude into what I have come to quaintly refer to as my "personal" life. Which, as you may be aware, is a move of sheer genius-like proportions, since the only thing I'd hate more than an uncomfortable life is to have aforementioned uncomfortable life intruded on upon. So, hmm. Interesting week again. If things go as I suspect they will, I might have to take up smoking. It is the number one way of "dealing with stressful situations" amongst my friends, apparently. Although if I had to pick a vice, it would have to be alcohol (massive consummation of sugar is NOT a vice. It is merely "no way to lead your life").

So I'm using lots of inverted commas this afternoon. I'm stressed. And likely to remain so for a while. I'm sorry. Deal.

Labels: jobhunting, life, stress

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So, here we are again.

Just finished catching up with Order of the Stick. My planned recovery from my sleep snafu isn't going fantastically well, what with me being up at 5am (awoke at 3ish or so, after getting to sleep around midnight). What this means, apart from I'm going to be really groggy at my interview later this morning, is that I'm going to be horribly out of it all of today. I mean, I'm seriously behind on my sleeping here. All I've been doing in the last twenty-four hours is: (1) sleeping, (2) trying not to sleep, (3) trying to sleep. And what's it all for? For three friggin' hours of sleep. Oh my sainted aunt.

The good news is, I'm out of the house - one way or another! - in exactly one hour. And I'm back in - again, one way etc. - before lunch, giving me time to contemplate or - more likely, like - forget everything to do with today morning.

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So. In the middle of this whole pretty dismal job-hunting session, I've had to turn down a really good, interesting, well-paying job because it doesn't fit in with what I want to be doing. For better or for worse, it is definitely behind me now.

Bah, humbug.

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