This can usually be found on Twitter.
So: I woke up at 6pm, slept at 12mn the next day, then woke up at 5pm the day after that. Apart from being darn near impossible to translate into anything resembling a normal work schedule, this implies an 18 hour work day, followed by a 17 hour work 'night'. I have no idea if this is even possibly supposed to be sustainable.
Pan is coming along fine, and Objective C is really a beautiful language to work with. I hope I can pull off working with it more, although I don't entirely see how that's possible.
I also have to call home tonight, which obviously I'm enormously nervous about. What could they possibly want to say that they haven't said before? Why now? Oh god.
Labels: objective c, sleep, today, work
This post was posted by Unknown at 5:18 pm | 0 comments | Post a Comment
My stomach's acting up again. I've gone back to wondering whether lack of continuous sleep is the key to the whole "fatigue" thing. It's been about two hours since I woke up, and it's still hurting something awful. Maybe I should go and see a doctor about this. Maybe I should eat less spicy food. Maybe, maybe.
Bathsheba still hasn't arrived yet. Darnit.
Labels: bathsheba, sick, sleep, stomach
This post was posted by Unknown at 2:45 am | 0 comments | Post a Comment
I just finished reading Small Gods by Terry Pratchett, easily my favourite Discworld novel to date (narrowly beating Reaper Man, which, although a more interesting premise, wasn't executed as brilliantly as Small Gods imho). It's really an amazing books, and although I generally complain about Pratchett endings, this one is perfect.
Now, if only I could figure out my screwed up stomach and all this staying-up-all-night things ...
Labels: book, novel, sleep, small gods, terry pratchett
This post was posted by Unknown at 6:02 am | 0 comments | Post a Comment
It's 3:40am, I've been up since 10-ish am, and I'm probably going to be the first person asleep in my house tonight =/
Labels: sleep
This post was posted by Unknown at 3:39 am | 0 comments | Post a Comment
Yeah, but it's not all bad, really. Except that I'm still going to be sleep-deprived in the latter parts of the day. But getting (precisely) six hours of sleep every night isn't a completely bad thing, and for the first time in a while, my sleeping hours have corresponded (vaguely) with Real World Sleeping Hours (11pm-5am), so, again, not a dead loss. Actually, I might even make it to the late sixes or sevens or so before getting completely sleepy!
My lust for a new laptop rushes on unabated, particularly after realising that NUS Notebook Offer prices aren't really that great. Latest focus: a (possibly hypothetical) Lenovo Thinkpad R60 with ATI Radeon X1300 Mobility. If I do buy it, it will be my first computer with a dedicated graphics card. Oh my.
This post was posted by Unknown at 5:25 am | 0 comments | Post a Comment
Didn't sleep much last night (3-4 hours or something), so here I am in bed again early in the afternoon. With any luck (ha!) I'll be awake in four hours or so, and fresh enough to embark on a long-delayed expedition to Orchard. Thanks to being up, I was able to watch Bangladesh decisively beat South Africa; a pretty nice movie, and one of my favouritest movies ever, so it wasn't all bad. I was sort of resigned to staying up all night tonight, but with my somewhat altered schedule, who knows what'll happen tomorrow?
Oh, and also: my sister's birthday! Happy birthday, sister! Her presents are downstairs, and hopefully the means to have them delivered home will become available soon ...
This post was posted by Unknown at 1:06 pm | 0 comments | Post a Comment
One of those "headaches all day long" days, and managed to get close to nothing done. Am seriously just waiting for
This sort of thing is seriously sad, and is one of the major reasons I still prefer Singapore despite all the issues they've got here. Not that it can't happen here, or anything; there's just going to be a whole lot less of it here, just because the state is richer. Or the government's iron fist. Or something.
One of these days something like this is going to happen. And then you'll be sorry! You'll be sorry!!
(Err, if the last link has vanished off the face of the internet, it depicted a group of eskimo fishing in a seal hole, turning around to look at a desert which has snuck up to them, complete with donkey, cactii, dead cow skeletons and guy staring back).
Anything else to grouch about? No, not really. I need sleep. Or, at any rate, some sort of shot to my brain. As of today, plain old coffee just ain't cuttin' it.
Labels: headache, india, internet, sad, singapore, sleep, ugh
This post was posted by Unknown at 8:05 pm | 1 comments | Post a Comment
So, here we go again; dead sleepy at 8am. Fun for the whole family.
There's a lovely essay I just read about creative inspiration and copyright, i.e.: if you borrow characters from another writer, are you stealing, etc. Nice.
Am vaguely considering just staying up all day. Apart from the danger of staying up at night because of the Bangladesh/Bermuda cricket match. Also, did you know that hauling sand to the beach could get you in trouble? As usual, there's plenty of weekend career worries, brought on by a combination of having to call home on Sunday and having way too much free time to think about such things on the weekend. Of course, going into work, say, now, instead of lying in my slowly chilling room moping might be a good idea, too. And getting my lamp fixed so I can read a book before sleeping ... yeah, it's possible. Certainly possible, for sure.
On the other hand, these more and more frequent day-night-day attempts can't be good for my health. God, my health. I honestly haven't thought about that in ages.
Labels: health, links, random, sleep
This post was posted by Unknown at 7:34 am | 1 comments | Post a Comment
Do you think that's quite enough sleep? Doubtful. It's 7ish now, but I'm likely to get very sleepy all at once in an hour or two, just as I should be getting ready to go to work. Sigh.
All important India-Sri Lanka match on tonight. Should be interesting.
There was something else to mention ... but no, not really. My Flickr stats are climbing nicely. Interesting things are happening in all my friend's lives now, I think, which is nice. Saw this movie just now: it's like a Guy Ritchie film without the same level of "cool" - or jokes, or violence - but decent enough timepass anyway.
It is not an awful lot of fun to go to work underslept and with a crass headache. Particularly when you've already spent a lot on coffee and taxis this week. Argh. Maybe I should just spend the night at a hotel or something.
This post was posted by Unknown at 4:44 am | 0 comments | Post a Comment
Just finished uploading a whole bunch of photos to my Flickr account. As usual, Flickr "friends" see more photos than the rest of y'all. I'm also busy trying to use the new Collections feature on Flickr - essentially, what used to be sets should now become collections, and entirely new sets are going to be culled out of my photographs. Dunno what it'll all look like when the dust settles, but it should be fun!
As an aside, I really like how much better I've gotten at taking photographs - and, in retrospect, how good some of my earlier photos were. Hopefully, this exercise will help dredge out the oldies, so they won't have to hide in obscurity no' mo'.
It's way too late, and I'm kinda hungry, and have gone from being moderately sleepy to not sleepy at all, so, umm, yeah. Tomorrow will likely be a pain in the rear end. Still, lesse.
Labels: flickr, photography, photos, sleep
This post was posted by Unknown at 5:29 am | 0 comments | Post a Comment
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
This post was posted by Unknown at 4:38 pm | 0 comments | Post a Comment
"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."