Here's an interesting site, LifeGem. It's a company based in the US (has branches in UK as well) that offers to create artificial diamonds from the cremated carbon remains of a loved one, whether of the genus homo sapiens, canidae, felidae, or any other species you like. The gems are offered in 2 colors, blue or yellow. They're really quite beautiful.





On the other hand, maybe it's just me, but there's something... weird about the idea of carrying around the remains of a beloved family member. Granted, it's technically the same as carrying a locket of hair around in a... locket (no pun intended). It just seems a bit.. gelee to me to be carrying around what's technically the remains of somebody you used to love. What do you think?
 

Another sleepless night. Sigh. I occasionally experience insomniac nights, where my thoughts start wandering into random threads, and weird scenarios, likely and unlikely, play themselves out in my head. Crap, I'm gonna be a zombie again today. A green-haired zombie. I must admit, my hair colour isn't looking bad. It's actually quite interesting (I hesitate to use the word 'cool').

Anyway, I've been musing on your average blog. I occasionally spend some time surfing blogspot, and there appears to be quite a number of people who feel the urge to tell me (and the rest of the world) what they had for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Tea and supper optional. I don't get it. Do they truly believe their dietary choices are of any interest to the rest of us? I wouldn't bother with such a question even for my closest friend. Perhaps understandable in a gf/bf relationship, but not otherwise. Others include every routine detail of their day-today lifes. The kind that goes "I woke up, had breakfast, went to work/school, had lunch, finished work, went home, had dinner, wrote this, and am now going to sleep." One of my friends suggested that maybe they don't have anything better to blog about. If that's the case, why write? If your subject matter is that dull, nobody's going to read it, no matter how many acquaintances you pester into linking to your blog. It's one thing to share highlights of your day/week/life, it's another when your life is so dull that your readers fall asleep skimming your blog (Now there's an idea, a possible cure for my insomnia!).
 

This post is just a place for me to post some irreverent/irrelevant thoughts which really have no place anywhere else. I'll be updating this post from time to time, and linking to this post from the side panel. Check back occasionally for updates.

• I wonder if I can persuade blogspot to subsidise me something for converting fypher away from friendster.
   
  
• Oh god, will my guestbook ever be obvious enough?
   
  
• Just wait till I get my hands on the incompetent idiot who manages my particular MSN server...
   
  
• Never redesign a webpage when you're short on sleep and can't tell the difference between great improvements and great eyesores

 

I don't usually write about my day-to-day life, but I'll make an exception here... OMG, my hair is green!!! Ok, so I've been planning to dye my hair for some time now. Today, went to buy some dye, bleach, etc. After bleaching, my hair is yellow. Right, apply blue dye. Wait 40 minutes. Wash it off. Look in mirror. Recall art lessons teaching the primary colours.

Sigh. Thank god it was semi-permanent dye only, good for 20 washes. Hopefully i'll get it out in a week or so. And no, I can't post any pics, not because I'm malu, but the green just wont show up in the pic. In the meantime, I guess I'll wear it proudly. And some dark glasses, preferably.
 

How dumb can events get? I was bored, sleepy (VERY sleepy) and stuck at uni in front of a computer. I get this weird idea of seeing if Google has my blog in its database. Turns out some of its servers do, and some dont. Yeah, little known fact, your search results may differ depending on which Google server you get assigned to. It's random. If that last part left you scratching your head, forget it. Anyway, I see a Xanga site with my name on it. I'm like 'wtf'? After all, I joined Xanga in 2004 and forgot about it a month after I joined. Guess what's on my Xanga site? A link pointing to this site. Zzz... ironic. Google doesn't know this site exists (at least the Google server I was assigned to), but can send me to a Xanga site which I don't remember existed. On the bright side, I found a couple of pages belonging to some long-ago friends. Fypher, nice to see you've finally adopted MSN. =D
 

Just finished the Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb. For those of you who have no idea what I'm blabbing about, its a book. Well, 3 books, actually. Interesting storyline. Very poignant, bittersweet. Definitely not your average hack-slash-and-toss-fireball fantasy story. No skilled hero(ine) excelling at his field above those with decades more experience. Just a lot of character development and angst, if you go for that kind of thing.

This is kinda sad, I've been reduced to writing book reviews to have something to post in my blog... Oh well, hopefully I'll get my mind functional and considering the world again soon. Okay, that last line doesn't read very well. Let me see if I can explain it a little.

I sorta live life in two modes. One as a sleepwalker (sleepliving?), and another awake and wondering at the world around me. When sleepliving, my mind basically doesn't operate on anything beyond the most basic tasks. Curiosity is nonexistent. Eat, sleep, play games, read novels, study (sometimes... oh do stop sniggering, you...). This phase, which I'm currently in, is when my blogs usually dry up and die. Notice the lack of posts recently?

And then, there's the awake mode. Which is usually when my environment has just changed, and my mind is curious, and, given something unusual to consider, will mentally jump from that something to something else, and something else, and so on till I have enough material for several blogposts at once. This is the first time I'm actually maintaining a blog and coming up with a few interesting posts while in my dead-to-the-world mode.

And no, I don't have any idea why I switch between these two mindsets, nor do I have any idea how. I wish I did, life is definitely more interesting in the awake mode. On the other hand, I do wonder if the average stereotype of the burned-out frazzled office worker isn't what I just described. If so, I had best find out what triggers me soon. I have no wish to sleepwalk through the rest of my life.

I really should clean up this post a little, but it's 8am in the morning and I have yet to grab any shuteye. Despite my opinion of sleepwalking, it's time to grab some zzz's.

ps - I sincerely apologize to any sleepwalkers I may have inadvertently offended. Go back to sleep.