Observations

Two random things that come to mind...as of now

1) Are pets, hmmm specifically dogs, a reflection of their owner/s...by that i refer to the person/ family's personalities and way of life etc

2) When someone snores (snoring patterns), does it tell you something about that person?

Thoughts, opinions and the like are welcome :)

System shutdown

I think most of us have faced this at some point in our lives

When you've been working on your PCs, laptops...it's been a long day of staring into the screen

Much effort has gone into your excel sheets, word pages, programming stuff etc etc

You then come to the end of the day, thinking, 'ah, i can finally close this'

Then you click on the explorer button to 'shut down/turn off' the system

It then says, 'saving data', and then quickly progresses to 'shutting down' and then you're just about to take a deep breath, or the deep breath is half held when...

The shutting down process has taken more than a minute...you wait cursing the damn microsoft updates, thinking these things could not have better timing! And yet your damn computer has you waiting and waiting and waiting 

You finally think to yourself, 'enough is enough...f#&$ this', pull the plug and be done with it

Why am I talking about this at length? Well it's happening to me as well...only difference is that it's my brain system that refuses to shutdown and sleep! and no plug to pull and be done with it!

Morbid? 

Errors

Do pardon the errors in earlier posts

Its just that one rarely knows what to write on

And when the thought comes, one has to dash off immediately

Before the thought slips out

Am sure this happens to all

And one also doesn't like to go back and revise

To keep with the authenticity of the post :)

Cheers!

a festive christmas

or is it?

otherwise the busiest, most crowded street in town

Universal pronunciation

What really gets me riled up in the land where the supposed 'universal' language came about, is that the people have way too many ways of pronouncing a damn word in their own little 'universal' dimension. So why does one call it the universal language when there's no one universal way of pronouncing the same words that make up the won

So what i'd like to know:

1) Tomato: To-mat-o, To-maa-to, To-may-to
2) Gross: G-ross, G-roce

Only to name a couple!

Losing faith in 'being polite'

My first time in a dorm, with other poeple from various countries and backgrounds...so far so good; so i thought! (they're lovely, though). So we're six of us in the dorm and share a hallway and a kitchen...thankfully, each of us have our own rooms, having very thin walls doesnt help the cause though...but i'm not complaining.

The area of my concern is the main door to our flat. The problem occurs when someone enters or leaves the flat. It's one of those things that in various scenarios will make you go so:

1) If you're sleeping, and the door closes, it'll make you get up with a frightening fit

2) You're writing away furiously into your book/paper; either a love note, or a hate note or penning down thoughts for an upcoming assignment...the unexpected occurs and the next thing you know, your pen's been flung to the farthest end of the flat OR the next time you're cleaning the top shelves, you find a bunch of them there, not knowing how they got there in the first place

3) You're using your laptop doing an eletronic version of the things listed in point 2 and then the door shuts and you furiously look at the room door, then when you look back into the screen, it looks something like this...'jhfoiy ure0u reu yth;ioftbru yrj mbrp yureu pfj hlyib0-E P'

So i decide that it's high time for me to do something about this...For most of the people who know me very well, they can vouch for the fact that i can be a stickler when it comes to being polite...yes, so i hate telling things as they are, being blunt etc etc...and try and be the 'nice'person (well most of the time) and avoid unpleasantness.

I casually mention something about this to a flatmate who vigourously nods her head, (she and one more fellow roomie to share my sentiment about the door), when we hear the darned 'S-H-U-D-O-O-M ', leaving a thundering after effect!

And then i say to myself,enough is enough, storm into my room and make a poster that reads, (politely, mind you), 'please shut the main door gently', go to the common area to pin it up on the message board...only to hear a 'S-H-U-D-O-O-M ' after a couple of hours!

So then, as if to defy the laws of the hall office, i scribble over the Important Notices put up by the hall manager on the darn main door itself, thinking ok, now everyone WILL have to read the damn 'plead' now, get back into my room thinking this has to work and guess what happened next................

the oldest 27 year old

back to school, always wanted to be a student for the rest of my life
obviously selectively forgot the exam fever i always have
ok so i'm growing older, but hey my memory not supposed to be giving up on me so soon
from all that i've read, 35 years is when one would start questioning their memory or attention span...

well, i guess my attention span is more of a problem...
if i were a child growing up in today's world, i'd be labelled off as someone with an 'attention deficit disorder'
fellow sufferers like me take comfort in the fact that it's the mark of a true genius...and for a long time i believed in that...

not so sure about that anymore!
come January and results, i'll finally figure that i am a genius...
or maybe not... gulp!