Berry Much

“But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

Life's A Milkshake. Shaken, Not Stirred

"Life is difficult for everyone. Each and everyone of us have a fair share of stress and worries (some bigger than others) and we all need someone in our lives that we can lean on. We are inclined to believe that we can't talk to someone because they have problems too or that your family, friend or loved one would be better off without you or your problems. You’d find out that they need you just as much as you need them."

Of sleep and more.

These days, gaining sufficient sleep has become a curiously difficult task. Despite the fact that everyone is bestowed with 24 glorious hours a day, Earth is still revolving on its axis as we know it, hence I am forced to believe it is because of my status as a (possibly) final year ACCA student.

Granted that (with some help) I have manage to uphold my routine of being punctual for a few weeks straight (most days than some), except that nasty tutorial on Thursday where the venues are smacked on two different ends of the planet. This being on time practice is mindlessly tiresome which makes me wonder how I've managed it so consistently before this! (haha)

The canons of being an accounting student have not changed over the years since enrollment in May 2008. Well maybe it's got a bit tougher and I've got stupider (no, I'm serious) ..

The proliferation of peers falling behind is just depressing and has continued unabated over the years. It has become a crisis of abundance; especially when you suddenly find yourself caught in that whirlwind of despair.

Cutting back on sleep time to cure this case of perpetual stupidity is definitely a challenge. It's as if I am summoned to move mountains and divide the seas, so to speak. If I were to superanalyze my daily tasks down to the minutes, I definitely can snooze lesser, take fewer showers, eat faster, never watch another episode of Big Bang Theory and stop restocking Tiny Tower.

Time. We always think we have so much of it.

Backdated; March 2012. 

At Fingertips

Since I acquired my own iPod, I finally comprehend what the hype was all about.

The multitude of crazy useful apps have since dominated my existence, and I find myself using it all the time and I can't imagine life without it (which is funny cos I made it so far without it before this and now there's no turning back). And that scares the shit outta me, being so dependent on a gadget.

Believe me when I say that there's an app for everything. When I mean everything, I really do mean just that. Otherwise, how do you explain this? -_-"

My initial purpose was to use it as a media player and ebook reader to immerse myself in the free books available for download. And soon curiosity over the other apps took hold of me — plus from recommendations of various iPhone/iPod/iPad users that I know soon led me to the wonders of apps like Office, PDF Reader (to check my timetable and the likes of it) Camera+, SoundHound (record a snippet of song, upload it to the Internet and instantly get to know the song title and artist of the song! I’ve been using it a lot when I listen to song in my friend's car or while window shopping and can't place a name to the song — you can’t imagine how many times I’ve tried to memorise bits of the lyrics, scurried to type it down in my phone's notes, and then later Google the lyrics which is too damn mafan), Hippo Dictionary (an absolute lifesaver to help translate pin yin chinese characters to English and vice versa), at one point I got crazy about restocking my Tiny Tower on a timely fashion and a whole lot more lah.

In retrospect, I sometimes think having a power devise that one can easily slip into your back pocket and bring it everywhere and anywhere is a destructive thing. I find myself having no time to let my mind wander/daydream, as every possible free time; be it while commuting or in the loos — is spent immersing myself in ebooks or taking care of the welfare of my people on Sims.

I don't people watch on my train rides anymore. Don't even get me started about how these power devises are putting human interaction at risk. Haih.

Out of the Usual

Woke up to get cracker and cheese. Heading back to bed now. Tak sampai twenty steps pon! Absolutely love being at home on a Monday night lor :)

See you tomorrow, May!