Let the Japanese teach you how to get up, dressed, brush teeth, prepare & eat breakfast, bind your tie in just 5 minutes!
Monkeys, as I imagine, swing on bars. But not this one; this one works in bars.
Monkey works at bar
Japan has all the weird stuff, you gotta applaud the trainer though.
Some days are bad, some days are really bad. This week hasn’t been the best week. A couple of wrong decisions. Been busy (as usual). I stopped talking about me being busy by the way. ‘Cause it really came to me that if I am really busy then perhaps I should spend less time complaining that I am busy.
I still get amused once in a while with videos like the following. They had this Optimus Prime dancing with the music. That really made my day, I hope you don’t think I’m nerdy or what.
And then I go back to work. Work and back to bed. Bed and back to work. A typical routine that troubled me the pass couple of weeks especially. It turns out that I’ve been slow. And stress didn’t really help. I seem to work slower with stress.
I stopped reading my books. I read a lot of nonsense, we’ll leave that to next time. I returned all my library books. I brought back a Python book by the way and once I read the first couple of chapters I realized this book is more of a productivity destroyer. I chunk the book back into the library it came from and returned to work.
You see what I mean by work here is basically work work, school work and friend work.
We all know what’s work work already – it’s basically work in return of monetary value.
Then we have school work which is basically work in return of knowledge. I value knowledge a lot. I love to learn. I don’t have the time.
And finally there is what I call friend work. It really isn’t the traditional type of work as in you work because you want something in return. In reality, ‘friend work’ – as I call – is merely the act of maintaining friends with people (which I admit I’m not at all great at). You basically get closer friends in return by doing friend work and in return we get unexpected pleasure. I use the word ‘unexpected’ because in my opinion, if you were to expect something to come out of dinners with friends or even just a phone call to a friend, it seems to be not much different from work work.
I really is pretty hard to maintain friends and provide for them unconditionally. I often think really hard about friendship, kinship and blahblahship. My friend once told me that there’re 2 types of friends – a mutual friend and a ‘liability’. Liabilities are people whom are seeking you as a friend, come to you when you trouble and periodically just disappear in your life till the next time they’re in trouble.
So I started to count liabilities. Who are my liabilities. Who actually come to me when in trouble and disappear somehow. And then I realized there’re like, erm, a lot of people actually. Then comes to the question if they’re worth helping the next time round.
I think about it. And I think really hard. Eventually I came to this decision that I will help, perhaps not to the extend like I would help my better friends. But I’ll still help. Helping in hopes of maybe one day – just one day – when in trouble, that person might just help you when you seek him or her. The only difference, may I excuse myself, between work work and this type of friend work is that in work work, you work in expectation of something in return. Well… And in this type of friend work, you sort of work in a hope – not an expectation – that somehow, someday, the appropriate someone would be there for you when you need some help.
Anyway, the above is just some thoughts I have and I am writing it down more as personal note.
Been kinda busy lately therefore not really blogging. I have so much things I wanted to say but don’t have the time to. I’ve been busy with my assignments, the Java assignment is done, yet not done. Hanging in the middle. My E-business module is largely about research which I am quite good at.
And then there is work which I code with ActionScript:
(Coding with ActionScript.)
Also busy with this work which I code with a coffee cup as you can see:
(Development with coffee cup, you just have to move the cup around and the IDE would start constructing. They call that scaffolding.)
Next week would be better. Schedules are tight and my reading has stopped too. Coming week would be prelims for my university. But let’s look at the brighter side shall we? That means semester is ending!
Woman thinks she’s about to be fired, goes into office over weekend and destroys past 7 years’ worth of archives.
Angry Employee Deletes All of Company’s Data
When Marie Lupe Cooley, 41, of Jacksonville, Fla., saw a help-wanted ad in the newspaper for a position that looked suspiciously like her current job — and with her boss’s phone number listed — she assumed she was about to be fired.
So, police say, she went to the architectural office where she works late Sunday night and erased 7 years’ worth of drawings and blueprints, estimated to be worth $2.5 million.
“She decided to mess up everything for everybody,” Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office spokesman Ken Jefferson told reporters. “She just sabotaged the entire business, thinking she was going to get axed.”
It didn’t take Steven Hutchins, owner of the architectural firm that bears his name, much time to figure out who’d done it — Cooley was the only other person who had full access to the files.
Police arrested Cooley Monday evening and charged her with causing greater than $1,000 damage to computer files, a felony. She was bailed out the following afternoon.
Kinda funny actually.
(Happy new year everybody!)
It’s the end of the year again. 2007 is going to end in like a minute but the good news is that 2008’s coming. (more…)
I’ve grown to be more flexible already. I maintain a to-do list of the day and never plan my day like you would in an event schedule plan.
It really didn’t make sense after a while, planning things this way:
- 8 AM, wake up and blah blah
- 9 AM, start to do work on Flash
- 11 AM, read a nerd book
- 12 PM, go for lunch
- …
I rarely follow them, what I plan usually turned out this way:
- 6 AM, somehow woke up for no reason and have nothing to do
- 7 AM, since I’m on track I’ll go for a bit of breakfast
- 8 AM, so filling now. Tries to work some Flash
- 9 AM, realizes it’s unproductive and try to read a nerd book
- 10 AM, falls asleep reading nerd book
- 12 PM, my brother wake me up for lunch
- …
It just didn’t work out at all. These days, I have a to-do list, ranked in priority:
- Finish section A for e-business assignment
- Work on at least 1 question on computing assignment
- Work on Flash
- Read nerd book
- Renew nerd book
- Optional: Have breakfast
Okay, the ‘have breakfast’ part is lame but you get my point. It does kinda help me get organized and nowadays I sleep as and when I like, read as and when I like and work as and when I like. If it’s not productive, I usually go to bed. It kinda messed up my sleep cycles to a certain extends, I’m usually well and awake at 2 in the morning programming. It’s kinda bad for health I heard but things seem to get done.
And when things get done, I get happier as the result. And happier persons do get healthy right?
There is this thing my friend was telling me about liver repairs occurring between 12 to 3 AM in the morning when you’re sleeping. And once you missed it, your liver gets poorer as the days pass by. Ever heard of this? Can anybody verify this?