Gaurav

Check out http://www.jouwstraatnaam.nl/?beschikbaarheid&lang=eng for more details; it’s for a good cause and lets me name a part of the world, which sounds very cool.

I’m hoping to walk four kilometres five days a week. It not a very interesting route (work to the train station), but should help me get a little bit fitter.

I’m slowly putting a list of all my books online. I’m optimistic that this will help me next year, when I’ll have to sell a chunk of my library. So far, pretty slow, but so good.

It’s the distance from work to my workplace. At the moment, it takes me just under an hour, but hopefully I’ll become a faster walker eventually. It’s not great exercise, but it is a lot of fun and is not too time consuming (waiting for the bus would take around 10 minutes wait + 10 minutes there, and could take up to 35 minutes in bad traffic). And I need to lose weight, so there’s that.

Walked something like 13 kms from Changi Point to the East Coast Park beside Changi Airport on Sunday, and it was crazy. Ended up with painful feet, aching joints, and a vague sense of achievement. The vegetation is lovely and – I think – very Singaporean. It was nice.

... this is directly in contradiction of Have a library in my house – I’d imagined that I’d sell my old books, but would I, really? Probably not. I’d just keep ‘em. And I probably wouldn’t have the business mettle to run a bookstore-business by myself.

(Of course, I might re-open this if I read through The Shadow of the Wind one more time … :-P).

A nice walk, and lots of fun! My boots need mending, though, so it might be a while before I manage something similar. And there doesn’t seem to be so many pretty parks out here in the east … ah well. Another year, and I’ll be out of Singapore anyway.

A whole lot cheaper than the print edition, and I really wouldn’t have the time to read it properly in print anyway. With the audio edition, all the MP3s can float around in my iPod until I turn my mind to them; as long as I keep taking the stuff I don’t want off my ‘pod, I don’t think disk space should be too much of a problem. Yay!

Going to really cut back on food this week and see if I can definitively make it into the low 90s. That’ll be quite an improvement (to my self-esteem if nothing else). Inaugurated this plan by having way too little pizza. I will be hungry tomorrow morning, but hopefully it will be a good start.

But I’m not quite there yet; I’d like to give the floor a good sweep and mop, need to throw out some old paper, need to get my papers organized, and need to limit the mess to even smaller areas of my room. Then I can tick this entry off.

I’ll just buy the Scrubs soundtrack next chance I get.

I don’t want to fast on workdays, and I had a really heavy, guilt-inducing dinner tonight, so maybe I should fast on juice all of tomorrow? It’ll make me feel better about tonight, at any rate!

GoodReads (http://www.goodreads.com/) is good enough for me; it’s got reviews and book discussions going on in the corners, a fantastic trivia quiz, lovely integration with Facebook, and is really free top-to-bottom. It even has a half-decent interface! I’m calling quits on this goal; I’m no longer as much into web stuff as I was, and man, GR is doing a much better job than I could ever.

I mean, yes, Script Frenzy and Nanowrimo are great at forcing you to put mind-to-paper, but I usually end up forcing out something insipid and uninspiring, which makes my mind ache at the very thought of coming back to it and adding more.

I’m starting to think that maybe I’ll get more out of the whole write-a-novel-or-screen-play thing if I try to make more time through the year – or whenever I feel like – to write something, or improve something I’ve worked on better. Yes? No? I don’t know, but atleast it gives me something to do until Mar/Nov!

I mean, yes, Script Frenzy and Nanowrimo are great at forcing you to put mind-to-paper, but I usually end up forcing out something insipid and uninspiring, which makes my mind ache at the very thought of coming back to it and adding more.

I’m starting to think that maybe I’ll get more out of the whole write-a-novel-or-screen-play thing if I try to make more time through the year – or whenever I feel like – to write something, or improve something I’ve worked on better. Yes? No? I don’t know, but atleast it gives me something to do until Mar/Nov!

My biggest goal right now is to try and get Singapore.pm started up again, but I’ve signed up to a couple of mailing lists, and am keeping my ears to the ground with small tasks I can finish up over the weekend. Won’t have serious time for that for atleast a couple of months (until I get SequenceMatrix done and out the door), but I had a very tiny documentation patch added onto a CPAN module we use extensively at work, so am feeling happy about this at the moment.

Bought it fairly spontaneously. Bad news: incredibly expensive, and one “feature” (I thought you could view your calendar online, which I’d love to have) turned out not to be (you can publish your calendar, but that’s free-access-for-all, which I didn’t really want). Figured it was a waste of money and was cursing myself for it.

Within half an hour, it “made me happy” by allowing me to send an e-mail with an attachment which was rejected by Gmail. It’s probably a bit early to move everything off of Gmail and onto .Mac, but that’s a good sign, I think! It’s nice having e-mail which I paid hard cash for, so they can’t deny me features just because.

Am going to play around with it a bit more, particularly with this iWeb thang, and see how it goes.

We’re moving house (again), and it would greatly simplify things if my computers and monitors were out of here before then. The monitors are on their last mile in any case, and the computers might (possibly?) be useful in the office, but that’s about it.

A website about where to give stuff for recycling in Singapore: http://www.nea.gov.sg/cms/rcd/locations/map.html

It’s too far! I barely cycle anywhere anyways nowadays. Maybe once I start cycling again, I’ll get back into this …

Haven’t cycled in ages; I’ll “give up” on this until and unless I finish some of my more short-distance bicycling goals.