i'm not greedy. i only hope that we win the league ONCE before i find my first job, then twice before i get married, three more times before i have my first child, and then 4 more times before my waistline reaches 36 inches, and then 5 more times before i consider retirement, and 6 more times while i'm enjoying senior citizen privileges, 7 more times before i cross over the other side. thats.... a mere 28 times. if i live to become 80, its just once every alternate year. is it REALLY too much to ask? Can somebody just buy us out?
i was at the Christian gift shop and i saw the "read the Bible in a year" book. or "Bible rearranged for daily reading". all of them share a common thing, there's a DATE attached to each "portion", or day. instead of DAY 1, DAY 2 ..... the actual date is written. of course the first question on my mind is, "what about february 29?" then i realize an even bigger flaw. "what if you bought the yearly-Bible on July 27th, or any other random date for that matter, other than January 1st???" are we supposed to
1. wait until we reach january and start the journey?
2. start reading from today's date and go the whole round, in which case there would be no chronological order to the daily readings!
3. start reading from "Jan 1st" and pretend that its today? using a bookmark to help.
4. try to "CATCH UP" on your readings till you reach today's date in double quick time? (that leaves me wondering WHY we need a portioned daily reading if thats the case? we might as well just read the regular Bible? what if today's date is September 3rd? i would have to finish the entire Bible in 3 months instead of the desired 365 days.)
upon deeper thought, i have concluded that the 365-day Bible should label the days as "day 1, day 2..." instead. it is more sensible, and would greatly help in the above 4 situations. the only drawback would be that forgetful people who started on 1 January, thats a conditional probability of 0.137% (assume 50% of the people are forgetful, notwithstanding leap years). which works out to be ... less than 14 out of every 10,000 users of the book, will find the actual date feature useful. somebody should tell the publishers to change the system to a "day 1, day 2..."
i was supposed to be doing webcast at Starbucks, learning about how economists utilize mathematical calculations. Alas, all i'm doing here is reading reading reading, blogging. i love old books, those that have turned yellow and have spots growing all over it. you can almost smell the years that come with the book. of course, everyone loves a crisp brand new book (especially cheryl, who never opens her book past 45-degrees), and i don't mean to say that i am a book killer, destroying perfectly good books. i just love books that are ALREADY yellow and half rotting. anyone with an original copy of the "teenage textbook" will know exactly what i mean.
side note, after suffering a half-spoilt apple earphones for a week or so, i SUPERLOVE my bose headphones that puts me in a world of my own.
side note 2, what do you do when u have a laptop on and you really wanna shit while you're sitting at starbucks alone? risk losing your seats and having to buy another cup of overpriced coffee? or risk losing your laptop?
The past few months has been really trying for me. i think my entire perspective on life has taken a big turn. i feel like i just had a leonard-moment. "appreciate the simplest of things in your life. stop, look and realize that we have smooth pavements" (of pavements and numbers, Tham, L 2010) i'm doing quite a few really intimidating things that i would never have had the courage to do awhile ago. and yes all you BAD FRIENDS (read: jackson) out there: no more saying the word "F***" in front of me from now on! i'm a changed man. *nods*. haha..
(ok you all can say it one time a year, whenever liverpool wins the league and you feel really really shiok)
alright. its time to watch webcast. :)
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