hey ho, its off to work..

Back at work. I seem to lack my usual zeal and overflowing energy that i used to enjoy. Its probably due to the dratted weather: my body is trying hard to adjust to it.

The dreary week was not improved by the available food for the week. A brief glance through the menu plan only evoked memories (previously deeply buried) of military fare. My predictions of "nothing can be worse than this" from years ago are now disproved with a very real counter-example.

Work has been interesting today: going through someone's code to check his work, and hoping that I can figure out what's going on. It might have been easier to do it from scratch, but he really put alot of efforts into things. I think I should cherish his hard work and take the harder path.

back to work.

Uninteresting times.

Being one of those who have been blessed with an uninteresting life, the absence of regular activity can drive me nuts.

I took a day off from work today - needing the time to take my theory exam and get some rest. For some reason, the inhabitants of aachen have recently taken to driving around with loud engines at 2-3am, increasing my sleep debts to levels far above what I tolerate.

After the theory exam, as the stress started to bleed off, the reality of the situation kicked in. I'm not in shape to go to gym (I never go to the gym when I'm too exhausted). I have work to do. I'll probably not be able to sleep from now till this evening. oh no! what have I done? Can i get back to work?????

unfortunately, the servers at work are still malfunctioning and I ran out of reasons to cancel my day off.

--> I've been sitting down, reading and watching the world pass by. The other chioce is to get back to work and get something productive done.

I think i should try to live in interesting times. Does anyone want to pronounce that old chinese curse over my life? :)

erm dude.. its saturday

I know. I know. its saturday. I should be having a life instead of going on and on, writting blogs which are unread by the world at large.

never fear. My invisible friend shall read it. ;)

Spotted a comic recently and since it really reminds of lab life (and the life which i now have), let me share it with the lost souls who stumbled here.

incredible luck

gee. I can't help but to notice how lucky and popular I've been recently: daily offers of wealth, shared profits, unclaimed inheritance..

there are even people who are concerned about my sex life and erm.. physical assets and endurance.

In fact, I get more mails from these concerned people than the regular people i know (even those in germany).

I feel so loved..

update

the past few weeks have been rather hectic - with migration work, new algorithms to be designed, experiments to be made, scripts to be written, bugs to be solved..

to make it more interesting, quite a few of my colleagues became parents (or got married), so the department is running at sub-optimal efficiency at the present time.

the only plus to all these is the continuous influx of books which I've purchased. I think I've had 100 book purchases since then. Since I'm a fast reader, I read about 2 books per week - so you can calculate how long these would last me.

Thankfully, not all books are thin: some are thick and full of abstract points which have to be re-read and digested. Unthankfully, these books are also heavy, and lugging some of these around can be murder.

Why do i have an attraction for books? well. it seem to run in the family: my dad has an extensive library and I seem to do quite well in following in His steps. The main difference is that I'm reading my books and he no longer does that.

Another reason is that books teach. Imagine that we have the opportunities to gather some of the finest teachers in the world across all ages. Imagine that we could get them all in one room, and we can take private lessons from them and see the world through their eyes. How would our world be recoloured then?

of course we can't gather such an assembly (though perhaps, we could in the afterlife, in heaven) but here's what we can do instead: we can gather great books. Books that teach us to look at the world as they did. Books that teach us about life. And we can apply these thoughts. Even if we do not agree with the views, the very act of analysis has already developed our minds: do we agree with this view? why do we agree/disagree? could there be another way of looking at the situation?

of course, this way of reading means that you test all you read, not because you want to doubt, but because you want to have a broader perspective..

have a good weekend, everyone!