In A Year's Time

There's always a period of lull before you return to school that gets you itching and excited to go. This lull period's especially significant because it is truly and really my final school vacation (december's gonna be hectic and easter's spent mugging) before I take my first step into the corporate world.
Already our priorities are shifting. Job applications are now more important than almost anything else. Interviews take precedence over school work. You start to realize that its really the end of your growing up process. Soon its gonna be you fending for yourself in a vicious, dog-eat-dog world where salary, promotions and position are all-important.
You never truly appreciate how your family, school and a network of friends have sheltered you from the wider world until you reach this point. In a year's time you'll either be financially-independant or better yet providing for your siblings. In a year's time, you will no longer have free rein of the relatively flexibility of school hours and lax discipline but will be bound by the rigid, long hours that defines the modern succesful corporate career. In a year's time, you'll find that you'll have almost no time for your friends, family and loved ones - you'll say to yourselves: "I can meet them next time", and "next time" sadly never materializes.
This is my worst nightmare and sometimes I fear its not too far off the mark.

The previews for this game look awesome!

I'm Just Plain Nuts

Blasted Clock
My body clock's taken a turn for the worse. To think I used to criticize some friends for this problem. Less the pressure of work and school forcing me to get up before 0900, my first glimpse of the sun everyday occurs at noon. I drag myself out of bed, have lunch, read about a hundred pages of anyone of the 5 books I happen to be reading at the moment. Later in the day, I feel the lethargy of having done nothing at all set in and so I guiltily trot off toward the gym - my most productive two hours in the day. I reach home for dinner and because I've woken up too late I find myself wide and awake till 0300 the next morning. Grrr. Can't wait for school!!!

Where Are All My Stuff?????!!!!
Its terribly irritating to lend stuff to people and not get it back. Its just plain disgusting, uncivil not to mention something a friend should never do. But thats the problem I've encountered time and again. Every once in awhile I go looking for some book, game or program that I've not seen in awhile. Alas its always the same story. I lend it to somebody thinking that the chap's a responsible individual who'd taked care of his friend's property and put a priority on returning it. This is very often NOT the case. Grrr. Sometimes people just suck.

Good Games Are Like Drugs
I really feel like playing a good game or two. The last three years however have seen a torrent of very mediocre and crappy games flood the market. Good games are like drugs. They take hold of you and mercilessly grab a 100% of your attention. Once upon a time a great game would hit the shelves and I'd be completely sunk into it - I'd ignore sleep, human interaction, food, drink (basically the things a normal human being does on an average day). Take STARCRAFT and the original C&C for example. Those were the games that had a life span of 2-3 years and provided constant entertainment for the young and old, male and (some) females alike. Sigh. What do we get these days? Nowadays we get violent, anti-social games like MAFIA, crappy soccer games like FIFA or just plain senseless stuff like DOTA. Geesh. Appeal to game creators: please produce something playable!

I'm just plain nuts actually ;p

and because i am a shoe-maniac ... here's another pair of court shoes added to my collection ;p

a nice new pair of racers ... a little muted for me ... but should pls some people haha

a new 65 litre back pack! its primarily for the coming US trip but i'm sure it'll come in handy for the many vacations i got planned! the price was retrospectively depressing though ... i am such an idiot when it comes to bargaining ;(

Of Bags And Shoes

Working vs. Slacking
When you're working you've got cash but no time to spend ...
When you're not working you've got no cash but too much time on your hands.
Ironic quandry of our lives.

Anyway I just happen to find myself in that second category and while I have cash its not gonna last for long. Just made three purchases today ... some stuff I dun really need ... but HECK just felt like pampering myself ;p