Quite a lot of activities going on this week, went to karaoke on Tuesday after work and later on swimming today yesterday. And those were to two days when we tried to race against time to catch the last train… and made it :). (but seriously probably it’d be less stressful if we make sure that we reach the station by 11:15pm).

But anyway, it had been almost a year since I last went to the karaoke lounge to sing my heart out, and Advent sort of came up with the idea of going after work. It’s sort of a sudden arrangement in a way, but in the end it was me, him and Hui Ying who ended up going. And surprisingly the rates were pretty reasonable: we sang for five hours with …

Caught the typical flu + sore throat = that sucks.

Worse is that now the difference is that it was meaner, bad-er (intended to be grammatically incorrect :p) and had more attitude: instead of being cured after a day or two, it’s already day four the symptoms just became worse. Not to mention that those symptoms cycles through like… sneeze fit for one day, then fever for one day, then coughing like no end on another… and so it goes.

Then there’s the fatigue and phlegm-y coughs, and sore throats aren’t easy to bear.

Blegh. That’s never fun no matter how you look at it.

Anyway, still have to work somehow. But definitely I needed some rest.

From the finite continuously seeking the infinite, that what everyone is doing all the time. From that perspective, everyone is moving in the finite continuum and has yet to reach. Yet does that proves that the infinite does not exists?

Guess that’s an answer to be sought by those who asked.

闭上眼睛，慢慢放开在你们身上搭上的幻影。

就这样重新认识自己吧。

Closing my eyes, letting the illusions being imposed on you all slowly.

And from there let’s try to know who I am myself.

If there’s anything that I can describe how I have been for weeks, this describes my situation best 😛

Gotta go to work and do some final cleanup.

Nobody can be responsible for the rut that I put myself in.

… Work is getting tiring… thud

Anyway, three weeks of work without rest (read: even weekends) starts to wear me out somehow, I woke up today with the feeling that it’s Sunday -_-||. Just for the sake of not missing a deadline (hence trying my best to make the department’s progressive payment happen), just felt as if I’m pushing myself too far.

Sigh… really hoped that the choice I had made is for the best of things…

Ordinarily I would say that I look forward to finishing my task and taking a breather, but knowing that more work lies ahead of me (and the urgency of it) just makes me weary. Does give me the feeling of screaming “When will all of this hell would end?!”

Till the meantime, just wish me luck …

For one thing, translating Chinese blog entries to English isn’t something that I started recently: all this while I have been taking up the habit to translate my own Chinese LJ posts since the beginning (until recently that I decided to only translate drifting thoughts and impromptu posts as I believe those are more worth sharing). And I still have to say that translating is hard work even though I have been doing so for like four years.

Recently I have been spending some time translating some useful Chinese articles on personal finances (which is posted in KLSE Financial Homework, my blog on financial matters which still lacks some original content ^^|||), and dealing with subtle nuances of dealing with different styles of expression can be a challenging task indeed. Sometimes I just sat down …

If you see everything as an illusion, nothing will be real.

The thing is that for the most of us, what we perceive and able to perceive are perceived to be our reality.

Which, in this case, the paradox of an illusion is also a possible reality because we perceive it to be.

- the full circle -

Steve Jobs is evil, no doubt about it.

Not only Apple tempts me with their new iPod range, those guys are smart enough to put me in the dilemma of not knowing which is more important: 160GB (i.e. bringing my whole music library on the go) vs. wifi + touch screen + coolness factor.

Not to mention that their prices just shouts an offer that I can’t refuse at all. ARGH!!!!

… At least lucky for me, my plans to replace my iPod is pretty low in my shopping list priority.

… For now, that is…