It’s amazing how much of the world goes by in the short span of 7 days.

Not that I can recount much of what’s happened, as I do have a very short term memory for most things. Heh. Kids from now on will never know of people as the 9th planet of the Solar System. Palm oil is a growing resource as a fuel substitute as it is the cheapest form of vegetable oil to be turned to biodiesel, allowing it to run engines to produce power etc. Nikon’s new DSLR was announced a few weeks back and Canon is ever waiting with a replacement model to compete with it. Had a picnic at the botanical gardens with cousins and noticed how many different types of flowers there are speckled around the area. Cooked for friends and still not getting thick slabs of meat to cook quite right (although a few theories have popped up since then). The most ludicrous was me having a dream of picking a lock using a pin Oblivion style (a game I was playing a while back where a mini game was involved with you watching the individual locks click when you tinkered with it to unlock a door).

Then again, after a while, the little details seem to just melt into the background and I seem lost in a world that loses its sense of familiarity. I am constantly reminded of everyone around me, and how the media portrays other people’s lives and while seemingly distant seem to have a subtle impact on your own.

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I have an ever growing To Do List, mainly involving me doing something for someone else, but it was a voluntary decision. Not that I mind it very much, it’s just after work you just feel like unwinding and doing your own things (after having spent an entire day doing things that you are required to do, not something you really want to do). I wonder if people go through work like that on a daily basis. You do the things that you are supposed to do, knowing what it’s for and why it needs to be done. Things get repetitive after a while, and people are a contradiction in the sense that they are always trying to look for new experiences to excite themselves yet wary of stepping into uncharted territories that will go against their own well being.

Back to that to do list. Settled some personal things that have been dragging on for a few weeks now. Working through it slowly. If I can fix up at least 3 or 4 issues each day, there’d be one less issue to worry about the next day.

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Photography has been going a little downhill of late. A little uncertain about subjects again. It’s like I’ve raised my own standards again for taking pictures, but I’ve been photographing people I know of late that I’ve sort of lost the idea on what I was previously trying to accomplish. Sort of diminised to old habits again of just getting everyone into a picture and hurriedly snapping ths shot before everyone got impatient (same thing happened to the ribs I cooked for friends, and while they tasted right, came out undercooked). Feeling a need to have a little more confidence in controlling situations. It’s like one needs to convince other people to be patient and that the outcome is worth waiting for. Perhaps its being polite (again an old habit, although I must say, it should be a good one).

I do realise that great things happen when a person is confident of their own abilities. It’s when you are feeling insecure and unsure, that Murphy’s Law occurs, and that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong! Be sure to make that a constant reminder for daily things. Heh.

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This is WD40. Something I’ve wanted to buy for a while and is the wonder cure for doors that creak when you close them (or you could spray olive oil on the hinges as well, you know, those cooking sprays. They work too.) First discovered it working at my uncle’s hardware store in KL. Heh, thinking of other things to oil now. My creaking neck and shoulder could use some oiling.