Tossed salads and scrambled eggs

Lately, I've taken to finding solace in watching Seinfeld and Frasier. Besides the pointless mafia wars, this is about the only predictable event I have lined up every evening. I like Frasier Crane, he's a very likable man with some very unlikable habits, the subject of which is central in quite a few episodes. It is interesting to see how an "elitist" like Crane can sometimes be confounded by ordinary problems that are readily solvable by Joe Sixpack. The effort the guy goes to just to find a satisfactory answer is well worth my 20 minutes every night. Many nights, especially when its raining(which is quite a common occurrence nowadays), it feels so good to just stay in, have a scotch, and sit back laughing along with the Crane brothers. Sometimes, I really wonder if I'm finding excuses for myself for not going out and meeting more people. Damn. All that psychiatry must be rubbing off me if I'm psychoanalyzing myself. LOL.

Anyway, last Sunday was Sean's wedding. I must profess, that my friendship with Sean was fleeting at best. After all, we did not exactly keep in touch after graduation. Which was why I was especially touched that he remembered me and invited me for his big day. When I met him at the wedding reception, it was as if time never left. He recognized me straight away. We greeted each other with warm smiles and firm handshakes, filled with the silent recollection of days gone by. Ah, those were fun and grueling times. My study years will never have been the same without them.

 His wedding was eventful for me. This was the first time that my table consisted of less than the optimal number of people required to "maintain" a table. More than half of my table was absent, and so me and my companions have had to join another table.  Now this is a first for me. I've always seen tables being broken up and people joining other tables, but I've never been part of the "joinees". Eric was remarking that those who accepted wedding invites but never send word they will be absent should be shot, and in his own words, "no friend liao". While I wouldn't go that far, I do agree some consideration is in order. But I guess there's nothing much I can do about that. These people will always be there, in a multitude of other scenarios, whether we like it or not.

Face it

Well, I'm dead beat. Got back to work on Tuesday and was greeted by a truckload of work. Work always seems to pile up faster when you're away for extended periods. My initial thought on restarting the blog was to make it almost a daily affair, but I guess I probably spoke too soon. I was so drained at the end of Tuesday that I hit the deck after going on Facebook for about half an hour. Almost exact same routine repeated itself the next three days. Things seems to be looking better now, but then I guess for my line of work, something unexpected always seems to be lurking around the corner. ~_~.

Speaking of facebook, I can never really get why some people bother to post the most nonsensical and mundane things. I do understand that the facility is all about sharing what you are doing currently and keeping friends up to date, but is there really a need to tell all your friends what time you woke up or what you saw on the way to work today? Maybe I'm not that into the social networking thing yet but I've always thought that people should ease up on those updates. Just start a blog instead! Then they can write all the nonsense they want, like yours truly here.

 One thing I'm guilty of on Facebook though, are the games. Heck, I think I'm hooked on Mafia Wars. Its almost like its a daily thing for me. that's pretty much all I'm checking Facebook for every end of the day. The silly updates are pretty much just obstacles in the way of subjugating my fellow mafioso.lol. And the ironic thing is, its not even a proper game, its just words and text. There's no action involved, no hand-eye coordination needed, no thinking necessary and no brownie points for thinking about it either. Why are there so many people wasting their time on this? Its a mystery that will probably never get unraveled.

Quote of the day: "why don't you tell me what everyone else seems to know?"

Cheerio!

It's kinda out of the blue, but I thought it would be a splendid idea to resume blogging, an activity that for some reason, have seemingly escaped me the last three years. Much has changed since then, and much has remained the same. Ever since the last entry, I have been in my job for coming to 3 years now. Time has passed, perhaps a little more quickly than I have hoped. Although filled with its share of anguish and disinterest at times, the job has been engaging so far, and provide a much needed source of funds to support my other engagements.=).

Anyway, it was not an easy task resuming blogging. For starters, my previous blog was hosted on Friendster. As I already have another blog here, I thought it would be easier for me to consolidate this foundation. First off, let me begin by saying I searched high and low as to how to migrate old posts from Wordpress into Blogger. The first search result I found involved some archaic steps on editing .bat files to run a java program. For some reason, this method did not work well with me, seeing it wont import dates of past comments. Finally I stumbled onto this. What simplicity. All I had to do was to export my blog from Friendster and convert it there. Likewise, the subsequent importing into Blogger was a simple affair. 

However, I did realised that the formatting is a little off. Paragraph spacings are a bit out but I guess thats something I can live with. In any case, I look back at my past entries with amusement. It is easy to remember what I must have felt at those times when you have a corresponding entry in soft copy to refer to. I find myself chuckling and shaking my head as I go through those past months in fast forward. Mine was not a glamorous or exciting existence, but still, it was an enjoyable reread.

That was actually what piqued my interest in restarting my blog. I have just come off a one week long break, and although refreshing, there were times when I felt that I should write certain things down. I was deliberating between getting back to journals or the blog. In the end, convenience won. I still have my old journals, and from time to time, I like to look through them and reminiscence about the past, although it gets hard when I come across faded ink and falling out pages. I guess thats not a problem when you are clicking instead of flipping.

In any case, it has been a while, and at the time of writing, we are coming to the end of 2009. It has been an eventful year and things can only get better as the days go by. I hope I will be able to document events as much as I can, though that is of course, subject to daily inconveniences such as work and sleep. I will be continually sprucing up the page layout as well, so expect to see minute changes every now and then. I will not be publicizing this blog much, so if you are reading this, you got here by yourself.=).