Crimbo Season

And so ends another Christmas, which to me, is just like any other day. Mostly.

I'm starting to get really apathetic towards most of the holidays that I am facing. To me, these holidays are just days in which I can spend on catching up on sleep, an enterprise that seems to be getting more and more relevant as time goes by, in spite of the various assurances that this would not be the case.

Perhaps my priorities are placed in the wrong places?

But yes, Christmas. Originally a celebration by the faithful for the birth of their saviour, it has been turned into the biggest mass consumerism event of the entire year. Yes, mass consumerism---the whole ``you should be getting gifts for, oh let's see... everyone?'' kind of perspective that retailers are trying to sell to the people. Bombarded with information that suggests that should one ``not get what one wants for Christmas means something is wrong'', people are subtly suggested to actually spend more during this time period than ever.

And it doesn't really take a genius to realise that.

Surprisingly, I find myself mildly affected by the entire scam perpetuated by the retailers into convincing us that we ought to get some things that we may not really need. But then again, it is likely because of a whole host of other reasons that make me spend just that bit more than usual. Not that I am complaining much (I am still complaining)---there's this intoxicating air that keeps pressuring the self unconsciously to just keep spending.

Anyway, enough of these mumbo jumbo. I need to head off and do more stuff that will relate to the future. Till next time, as always.

Awesomeness Day

You know how some days you just feel like crap, and some days you just feel completely awesome?

Well, today is one of those days. I am actually feeling awesome, even without having imbibed any caffeine (which I still ended up doing anyway just in case things go awry). It's a strange form of empowerment to feel awesome, especially during times where more often than not, one feels anything but.

But that said, it is likely to just be the calm before the storm, but let's just keep all the pessimistic thoughts at bay for now, right?

So another week is rapidly passing, and soon we will be in the year of 2011, where things are guaranteed to be much more complicated, among other things. But that's for another time for me to mumble about.

Anyway, I should best make use of this awesomeness and get even more work done.

Continuous Sleep

It's a Sunday.

What's so special about this day, you might wonder. Nothing really, except that I spent most of the day sleeping in, recovering from the sleep debt that I had incurred over the last few weeks.

It's a most strange thing though, to be sleeping for so many hours at a stretch. My mind feels as though it has been living in the dream world more often than in the real world, what with the whole experience of continuous dreaming. That's right, I actually have the ability to dream in a manner where each dream is continuous with the previous. There's also the ability to dream the same dream many times across time, where each time I get more and more control over what occurs, but I suppose that's a story for another time.

So anyway, continuous dreaming. I woke up this morning feeling rather woozy in the head---it might be that I have been running around fighting monsters just a little bit too much, or that gravity has been acting on my head in a direction that is too orthogonal to what it is used to for more than two-thirds of the day. But one thing is for certain though: I do feel a little more refreshed than before in spite of the wooziness.

Anyway, time for my sleep once more, and off to work I go in the morning.