Saturday, 18 April 2009
What Have I Been Up To This Past Week
Well, my 10 days long Easter break is coming to an end pretty fast. I barely remembered any of it. Well, absent-mindedness becomes me. In other words, I was dead bored for the most of that time. ( partly due to my own reclusiveness and partly due to my half-dead brain who won’t recall details of my past week, and also partly due to my lack of money T.T)
However, certain activities did manage to stick. I think they were Facebook quizzing (some of the results I posted here), watching shows on my laptop (Gilmore girls, 30 Rock, Ugly Betty, America’s Next Top Model, American Idol), doing half-assed notes (which I will most probably redo once I get a better pen and am back in my cellar, the library) for my two remaining tests, grocery shopping (Call me Aunty [and I shall kill you]) and for the past two days, music archiving and binge eating >.<
Both are unpleasant activities which I have decided to ramble about a little. Lucky you~
Let’s go with music archiving first, shall we? As one should have already known, I have a new laptop (since lugging around the CPU across continents was not on my top 10 favourite pastimes list). So that means brand new softwares, and by extension an empty music library on the new iTunes. This in turns renders my ipod unupdateable as I would lose my current playlists when sync it with the new (empty) itunes. (This is one of the reasons I actually hate Ipod and all their I-family. Bunch of secretive twats…) So I left my ipod alone and used my phone for a while because it was much easier to drag-and-drop files and manually create my playlists in forms of folders compared to the doing it on iTunes, with all their rigid categorizations and organizations which is completely wrong for processing creative materials such as music. Holiday pictures fine, files and documents great, but do you think you sort art by alphabetical order? I don’t think so.
Well, long story short (kinda), I put off redoing my music library on iTunes until I had the time to go through at least half of my over 3000 tracks I have on my laptop, (It’s lucky I didn’t manage to complete transfer my entire music collection over. I shall do that when I get back home this year.) and apparently, that time started yesterday. So far, I’m a quarter of the way through and my ears have numbed more times than I can count using my fingers. Good thing is, the numbness caused me to organize it at a slower pace, and I manage to get the songs into more suitable playlists as opposed to just chucking stuff into big vague categories like Pop, Soundtrack, Rock, etc. Bad news is that the number of playlists created is getting a little too many, which means some fine-tuning and mergers will be needed later on. Worst part is my free time is nearing its end! Why didn’t I start this sooner? @.@
Next on the agenda is my slip from grace on my path to an eternity of healthy eating. The culprit : My suddenly needy sweet tooth and special offers on Mars cookies, Snickers cookies, chocolate mud cake and cheap knock-offs of Mars and Snicker bars. The type of food that I have been basically abstaining from except a little every now and then, and boy, I have to say, it’s freaking liberating to just binge!! Screw diets, screw weight/figure watching, screw acne, screw consequences and, as made famous by a certain royalty, “Let them eat cake (and chocolate)!”. Rejoice commonfolk!
I have been consuming all the deliciously liberating treats mentioned above for the past two days until I was feeling sick repeated, but I couldn’t be bothered. I finish a quarter of the choc mud cake for dessert less than an hour after lunch (which was the time I took to go to the supermarket to get the cake). 15 minutes after that, I was having more cookies and chocolates. And best of all, all this took place before tea time! It is so true, as reported by Details magazine in one of their past issues, that it IS very liberating to just screw it and let loose. And keep letting it loose. Whatever the reason behind it may have been, a bad breakup, layoff, stress at work, emotional distress (which might have been mine considering how calm I am doing the infuriating work of archiving my constantly expanding music folder), just felt like it or whatever, the important thing is just throwing all that away; release your anger crunching that cookie, sink your teeth in the comforting texture of chewy nougat, and letting yourself free in the sugar rush and chocolate high
Of course, in order to not have to join the embarrassment that is reality television in the form of a contestant of “The Biggest Loser” in at least the next 20 years, I shall try to tone down the binging and bring back some aspects of healthy living, beginning tomorrow.
For now, Snicker-flavoured cookie? =D
However, certain activities did manage to stick. I think they were Facebook quizzing (some of the results I posted here), watching shows on my laptop (Gilmore girls, 30 Rock, Ugly Betty, America’s Next Top Model, American Idol), doing half-assed notes (which I will most probably redo once I get a better pen and am back in my cellar, the library) for my two remaining tests, grocery shopping (Call me Aunty [and I shall kill you]) and for the past two days, music archiving and binge eating >.<
Both are unpleasant activities which I have decided to ramble about a little. Lucky you~
Let’s go with music archiving first, shall we? As one should have already known, I have a new laptop (since lugging around the CPU across continents was not on my top 10 favourite pastimes list). So that means brand new softwares, and by extension an empty music library on the new iTunes. This in turns renders my ipod unupdateable as I would lose my current playlists when sync it with the new (empty) itunes. (This is one of the reasons I actually hate Ipod and all their I-family. Bunch of secretive twats…) So I left my ipod alone and used my phone for a while because it was much easier to drag-and-drop files and manually create my playlists in forms of folders compared to the doing it on iTunes, with all their rigid categorizations and organizations which is completely wrong for processing creative materials such as music. Holiday pictures fine, files and documents great, but do you think you sort art by alphabetical order? I don’t think so.
Well, long story short (kinda), I put off redoing my music library on iTunes until I had the time to go through at least half of my over 3000 tracks I have on my laptop, (It’s lucky I didn’t manage to complete transfer my entire music collection over. I shall do that when I get back home this year.) and apparently, that time started yesterday. So far, I’m a quarter of the way through and my ears have numbed more times than I can count using my fingers. Good thing is, the numbness caused me to organize it at a slower pace, and I manage to get the songs into more suitable playlists as opposed to just chucking stuff into big vague categories like Pop, Soundtrack, Rock, etc. Bad news is that the number of playlists created is getting a little too many, which means some fine-tuning and mergers will be needed later on. Worst part is my free time is nearing its end! Why didn’t I start this sooner? @.@
Next on the agenda is my slip from grace on my path to an eternity of healthy eating. The culprit : My suddenly needy sweet tooth and special offers on Mars cookies, Snickers cookies, chocolate mud cake and cheap knock-offs of Mars and Snicker bars. The type of food that I have been basically abstaining from except a little every now and then, and boy, I have to say, it’s freaking liberating to just binge!! Screw diets, screw weight/figure watching, screw acne, screw consequences and, as made famous by a certain royalty, “Let them eat cake (and chocolate)!”. Rejoice commonfolk!
I have been consuming all the deliciously liberating treats mentioned above for the past two days until I was feeling sick repeated, but I couldn’t be bothered. I finish a quarter of the choc mud cake for dessert less than an hour after lunch (which was the time I took to go to the supermarket to get the cake). 15 minutes after that, I was having more cookies and chocolates. And best of all, all this took place before tea time! It is so true, as reported by Details magazine in one of their past issues, that it IS very liberating to just screw it and let loose. And keep letting it loose. Whatever the reason behind it may have been, a bad breakup, layoff, stress at work, emotional distress (which might have been mine considering how calm I am doing the infuriating work of archiving my constantly expanding music folder), just felt like it or whatever, the important thing is just throwing all that away; release your anger crunching that cookie, sink your teeth in the comforting texture of chewy nougat, and letting yourself free in the sugar rush and chocolate high
Of course, in order to not have to join the embarrassment that is reality television in the form of a contestant of “The Biggest Loser” in at least the next 20 years, I shall try to tone down the binging and bring back some aspects of healthy living, beginning tomorrow.
For now, Snicker-flavoured cookie? =D
Monkey J
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