As an experiment last night, I prepared a pot of coffee using my new coffeemaker, and poured half of the pot (6 cups) into my stainless steel thermos flask. That was at 10pm last night.
This morning (9am), I opened up that flask and poured out a cup of coffee to drink. Mmmm mmm… delicious, hot brewed coffee. It's wonderful. That's almost 12 hours of keeping the coffee—my room mate claimed that the coffee will only be kept warm for only 4 hours.
Well, I knew he was wrong, but I'm more glad that I could actively prove that he was wrong.
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Yesterday was the annual SSA trip down to the outlet shops at Grove City mall. It was an interesting experience, in that I didn't have any real need to purchase anything, but I went nonetheless, in part to just escape the usual drudgery of doing things only on campus, and in part because I wanted to take Ida out on a random trip around somewhere near campus, yet not that near that it is very familiar and all. The Grove City trip was much fun, considering that we walked all over the place looking at goods [and not really buying any of them]. I needed a new pair of jeans because I was fast wearing out the three that I have now, and have already donated the three that I could no longer fit into. Thankfully, I managed to get one of thos jeans, and damn, I must admit that my thighs are just too darn fat. I need to lose those flab soon, otherwise I'd find myself in the unenviable position where I can no longer fit into "normal" pants because of thick thighs.
There has to be an easier way of losing fat in those regions that don't involve intense amounts of running. Maybe I should take that whole skipping/jump rope thing seriously.
Bose is now officially my favourite audio equipment manufacturer. The kind of fidelity and ease of use… it just blows your mind away. I currently own this set of in-ear headphones, and when I return to Singapore, I will most definitely get one these noise-cancelling headphones. Why wait till when I return? Well, that's when they will actually be physically useful, since the SNR at home is really low due to the fact that I live in an apartment that is on the lower floors of the buidling—if I want to do some music composition/remixing/developement, I will most definitely need to fix that problem. And hopefully by then, I would have sufficient disposable income that the cost of the device doesn't put me off by too much.
And I'm still waiting for ASUS to bring out a better battery for the EEE PC—Edythe-EEE is literally not having a good time with the default 4400mAh batteries.
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So the previous night, I went to watch The Other Shore with Ida at the Philip Chosky Theatre. This play was written by Gao Xingjian and was played by the School of Drama in CMU. It was an interesting play (I will not bore you with details of plot/themes—see the link given) in the sense that it used abstraction to great effect. While it was still possible to watch the play and leave with some idea of what was going on, I found that going into the play with concepts of Chinese thought like Daoism, Buddhism and even Confucianism helped in the comprehension just that bit more. In fact, I found myself seeing, at times, two or three different images/interpretations for the scenes, based on my understanding of both Eastern and Western philosophies. That said, the other really fun thing about this play was the fact that we were seated on the stage.
That's right, there were about four to five rows of seats on the stage in which some of the audience can sit at. The theatre was obviously designed to be the traditional front-view only style, but this set-up meant that it was converted into an amphitheatre of sorts. It wasn't much of a bother, considering that the choreography was sufficiently well done that we didn't miss out on anything despite sitting on the "wrong" side of the stage.
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Back to reality. Need to study for a pile of midterms next week, as well as run a few experiments and even write some code for the routing daemon (otherwise life will be sooo screwy for the week coming). Thankfully, it is mid-semester "break" [of one day], so there should be some extra time to get more stuff done [hopefully].
Till next time.
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