Freezing

We decided to move to the north.

It's freezing cold here. And without a car, we trek through the snow to get everything from food, groceries to toilet paper.

Bbrr.

Educated. Or not.

Education doesn't just come from a book or a classroom, you know.

You need to learn from people and the environment around you as well.

You basically just need to learn how to use your brain to process information you see.

Try it. It might hurt at first, but I promise you your brain is like a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it becomes. At least...I hope it does.

ouch

the thing about being with someone who has a pointy, european nose is that it keeps poking my eye everytime i lean in for a kiss on my forehead.

That's love

Last night, the love of my life spent more than half an hour outside in the cold without his shirt on, trying to herd a kitten (using his shirt) to the gate so that it could be reunited with its mother on the other side of the wall.

Life.

How does one choose one's passion in life if one has many?

Or worse, none?

I ate some more oranges today. And 86% chocolate. You need to have more than 75% cocoa for it to contain some health benefit. Good thing we like dark chocolate.

oh dear

once again, i wake up and i still don't know what to do with myself.

everyone else around me seems to know. must of course just be me.

i woke up today and realised that instead of having oatmeal for breakfast (what i usually eat everyday), i felt like bread.

and the good thing is, we have bread.

so i ate bread. and a banana. because you know, you could always use the potassium.

sometimes there are so many things i want to do that i get overwhelmed. i just need to do them one by one.

Of thinking

They say that when you have too much time on your hands, you start thinking of things you shouldn't be thinking about...

Book

If I ever decided to write a book...I wonder what I would write about.

Inactivity

Loverboy and I have established that I have gained some weight in the last few weeks. It could have been due to my inactivity from being sick, or it could just be I haven't been watching my eating.

Whatever it is, it's got me feeling mighty miserable.

Sense

I find that the more I try to make sense of the world, the less I understand.

Eyesight

If the majority of your day consists of sitting down in front of a computer screen, your eyes might get tired looking at a screen all day long. You're supposed to relax your eyes by focusing on something in the distance every 30 minutes or so.

Eyes weren't meant to focus short distance for long periods of time.

On the same train of thought, man was not meant to sit on a chair for long periods of time. Hence all the health problems linked to desk jobs.

Oranges

Oranges are in season right now. But they're not orange in colour. They're green.

But they're oranges all right, once you peel the skin off.

Today, we went to buy oranges.

And so now, we get plenty of Vitamin C.

Drained

I didn't know it was possible to feel so drained after doing nothing.

Guess even doing nothing takes up energy.

Medication

Have you ever seen one of those tv ads for medication where they picture you running through green fields all happy that you're healthy, and then suddenly a voice runs through a long list of side effects...and you begin to wonder why anyone in their right mind would take any medication where its side effects outnumbers the symptoms you're trying to treat in the first place?

Have you?

A Voice

Sometimes it isn't that I've nothing to say. It's that I've got too many thought processes going on and so many little stories that I can't find how to connect the dots coherently.

I don't know how to make it all sound like it makes sense.

How do you make sense of little sights you catch on the roadside of people living their lives out? Do you try to find a common factor, one storyline about many people to tell?

The truth is I've got plenty of things to say. I just haven't found my voice yet.

Slavery

Don't you think having live-in maids who are underpaid, have no personal freedom, no proper working hours, and are kept from moving about on their own equates modern-day slavery?

Attention Span

It's harder to focus on things these days. I lose interest in things very quickly. I surf articles I think I'd like to read, but give up halfway because I lose interest in the topic.

Not good when you're bored of things. 

What does one do when one gets bored too easily? Nothing seems to hold my attention for very long. 

Today

I did nothing but roll around in bed all day long. I set up a laptop to watch Mighty Ducks 3. It was hilariously bad.

I did do some laundry though. Now that's useful.

Ceiling fans

Have you ever looked up at a ceiling fan and wondered if a ceiling fan had ever dropped and sliced up anyone? Especially when you see one wobble so...

Bedridden

Not feeling very well. Have been confined to bed. A lot of rest, the doctor said, is required.

What a load of baloney.

Already I'm bored outta my wits from doing nothing and you want me to take it further and lay down all day long and do more of...nothing?

Facebook

Do you ever wonder why people add you to their facebook friends' list when they clearly have no intention of reconnecting with you? Like when someone messages you out of the blue saying they went to elementary school with you...and you think back, and yeah you remember a little ponytailed face that slightly resembles the profile picture...so you add them thinking...hey this might be fun...only they never message you again.

I suppose facebook has reinvented the way we socialise online. You're now expected to keep up with people by going to their facebook pages. It's acceptable to never have any real contact with them. As long as you keep up to date with their walls...that's as good as talking to them without really talking.

I think.

Body or brain

So I keep thinking about which is stronger. The body or the brain. My high school math teacher once told us of a top secret study that was conducted by the US military on this. Apparently they had a volunteer convict on death row do this.

Instead of the chair, they had him sign an agreement to an alternate end. They told him they were going to bleed him to death for a study that was going to aid medical research. They put him on a chair in a white room (why white?), and had him put his arm through a hole in the wall so he could not see what was being done to his arm on the other side. But he could hear what was going on and someone on the other side would narrate what was happening.

So they had him sitting all comfortably on the chair, with his arm unseen through a wall. Then they cut his hand and told him that he was slowly bleeding. He could hear the dripping of his own blood into a container of some sort. The narrator on the other side kept score of how much blood he was losing and at what level should he begin to feel drowsy, pale and faint.

Apparently they didn't really cut him enough to really bleed all that much. But they had a drip on the other side filled with some sticky liquid dripping into a pail and it sounded like his blood. A few hours later, the man, having truly believed he was bleeding to death just stopped breathing. He just died, from sheer belief that he had bled to death.

We all believed my math teacher. Nobody thought to question how he knew about this top secret study if it were so top secret. Boy were we gullible.

Or were we?

Maybe the brain can overcome the body. It's just mind over matter, folks...mind over matter.

Breakfast

I woke up at 6:30 am today. I didn't feel like having breakfast yet so I rolled around in bed for a bit. I've read that you should have breakfast within an hour and a half of waking up in order to start up your metabolism and have it running efficiently.

Didn't feel like it, so I stayed in bed thinking maybe my body wouldn't know it was awake if it hadn't gotten out of bed yet. I wonder which knows better. The body or the brain.

Fighting world hunger

You know how common sense isn't very common these days? Well I'm going to call entries like these, uncommon sense...entries that start with a Did you know-like theme.

The UN has released figures showing that the Asia Pacific region has the largest number of hungry people in the world at 642 million, compared to 265 million in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Bet you thought more African children were suffering from malnutrition than Asian kids, eh.

Oranges. Beware, they can be dangerous

My lover broke his nail peeling an orange for me today.

Who would have thought oranges could be dangerous.

He yelped in pain.

Poor him.

This morning

I woke up and walked to the bathroom. I felt like a bowl of jello hobbling to the bathroom. I need to get fit.

So I rolled my exercise ball to the desk.

And I've been sitting on it ever since.

It's not morning anymore.

I read about how exercise balls are making an appearance in offices these days. Experts are discussing the pros and cons to having exercise balls instead of chairs in offices. One guy made an excellent point. What if you lose your balance and fall off? Might not look so professional, would it? What would you have to do to regain your composure after falling off a ball in a suit?

Worse, what if you fell off because you fell asleep at your cubicle?

Lines of boredom made real

I don't even know what the title of this blog means.

I do know, that I am bored out of my wits with life. And I can't seem to find the motivation to change it.

So humour me while I write about how disinterested I am with everything.