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27 June 2008 | No Comments
Just thought I’d make a post as a milestone jump from one exactly one year ago.
This year’s birthday is a good one. Not as melancholic as last year. Career has moved on a bit but still needs work. Love life is interesting.
Thanks to the One who turns disasters into masterpieces.
Also realised that it is only once in your life that the age you turn on your birthday is the same as the date your birthday falls on. Glad I realised it before it came, but I’m still wondering how it changes anything, apart from the fact it is pretty cool.
Back Cracking
27 June 2008 | No Comments
Had treatment from a chiropractor today. Not that I am in pain or anything - more a “check-up” visit that chiropractors recommend, in the same way you go to the dentist to check your teeth.
I don’t feel much different at the moment, but I attribute this to the fact that I am bionic and my bones are made of adamantium. Still, it was an interesting experience. I was told that today’s treatment was easy and that the next time I go in the real pain will come.
Best part was that I got a pretty hefty discount for the session. Included a free lunch too. No complaints here!!!
Fuel Price Hikes
19 June 2008 | No Comments
Interesting article in Time magazine on fuel subsidies in Asia and the recent cuts thereof in many Asian countries, including our own.
The graphs are interesting. Took the liberty of doing a scan for y’all:
The other thing I never realised before is an angle found in this excerpt:
But regardless of the intentions of politicians, subsidies and price controls tend to produce unintended consequences. They distort normal consumption patterns and subvert the law of supply and demand. When oil supplies are low and crude prices rise, consumption falls, bringing prices back down as demand and supply balance out. But if consumers are insulated from the market, paying an artificially low price for fuel, they tend to use as much or even more — which strains supplies further and forces oil prices even higher.
Food for thought.
Surreal
12 June 2008 | No Comments
So accelerated and surreal. But so, so, so exciting!
Life has been topsy-turvyfied.
Bye Bye Kizzy
5 June 2008 | No Comments
Our family pet slipped away this afternoon. Her stomach was pulsing a bit, so my dad took her in to the vet, vet gave clean bill of health, so dad took her out again. On the way back, she started coughing traces of blood, so she goes back to the vet for observation. After a couple of tests and some waiting, she somehow just left us.
All quite shocked, because only a few hours ago she was quite normal. Think she was about 5, which is very young for a cat (like a teenager).
She was the most talkative cat I’ve ever known. Say something and she replies. Greet her in the morning and she greets you back. Always chatting about something. Was very, very endearing.
What hits me the most is just how devoid of emotion I am. In Standard 6, when my little fat kitten got run over by a car, I went to school weeping against my macho sensibilities. Now, though admittedly with a cat I didn’t exactly spend a lot of time with but with who I still had a lot of fun and looked forward to seeing everyday, I feel quite sad, but life goes on and I can suspend thoughts of her death to do other stuff just half an hour after finding out.
More a curse than a blessing. I’m pretty messed up, because I should be messed up now but I’m not.