Snore

You know you're severely sleep deprived when you can hear yourself snore. Yes, I'm not kidding. My mind wakes up before my body, and I can hear my own gentle snoring. And yes, it was gentle.

I'm been a little too lazy to blog. Work's good; I find myself doing similar work to the other engineers and it feels good on one hand, but then again I've only been doing this for a month and I'm already tired of it.

OpenBSD and CentOS are cool I suppose, but being locked in a server farm or office interacting with only a black screen and white text can get extremely depressing. Coding is not much of an improvement either.

I guess a good job to have would be one that requires me to be mobile; having lunches/drinks with clients, trying to sell some big ticket product or service. Mobile is good. Extremely Mobile, ie. traveling abroad, would be even better.

Thursdays are official Dumb Days. I'm getting far too old for two hour sleeps.

I read Memnoch the Devil again. It's still captivating, but this time it didn't screw my mind all that much. I see the flaws in her story, and it's not halfway as convincing the second time round as it was the first. Still, check it out - Anne Rice's Memnoch the Devil. And the takeaway quote by Lestat:

"I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself."
- Lestat

Theft

I lost my mobile. Or, more accurately, it was stolen out of my bag when I was climbing in Climbasia.

Send me a text message with your name so I can add you to my phonebook. I'm using an ancient relic of a Nokia now. How the mighty has fallen.

war

"Even the greatest of empires are conquered inch, by inch. Attempt not a frontal assault, which will undoubtedly be turned away, if not out of shock, then of principle.

Borrow instead from the ancient Greeks the idea of the Trojan Horse, where with an innocuous and even welcomed gesture, you get troops behind the enemy's line of defense.

Advance steadily deeper into enemy territory, avoiding the cities most strongly defended. Establish a presence in lightly defended cities. These shall be your beachheads and your safe havens. Retreat to these cities when the expeditionary force encounters stiff resistance.

Any ground gained shall be garrisoned and used as forward bases for further attacks. Never cede these lands;any resistance thrown against you by the enemy will now be weak, half-hearted and ineffectual.

When all land surrounding the fortified cities have been successfully conquered, it will be time, then, to convene the main assault."

Smoke

Big Boss: Do you ever get any girls' phone numbers during your smoking break?
Collegue: No...
Big Boss: That's like pretty useless man.

Intern

Free Perks So Far (Yes, I'm a cheapo.)

Day 1:

330pm : Chai Latte at Starbucks
530pm: Saketinis at Keyaki

Days n:

Toast Box Breakfast
Duck Rice near Pasir Panjang

Last week:

Heineken at 5pm in office

Today:

330pm: Kung fu Panda
540pm: Warsteiners at Balaclava

As far as free perks go, I'm having a blast of an internship :) Not to mention the cans of coke I grab happily and regularly from the pantry fridge.

Alexander : The Virtues of War

Read it.

The sarissa's song is a sad song
He pipes it soft and low.
I would ply a gentler trade, says he,
But war is all I know.