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My Eccentricities and Quirks

Everyone have their quirks, some are more noticable than others. Mine falls under the noticable category. So, in this post, I’ll reveal eleven of them, which you may or may not know of.

1. I have a wild imagination and am open about it. Usually I spontaneously talk to my friends as if they were beings of my imagination (wizards, ninjas and so on). Some of them give me ‘the look’ when that happens. You know the look parents show when they pretend to be impressed at their five-year-old child’s scribble of an artwork.

2. I used to be a loud and proud farter in secondary school. I would warn my friends about it by saying “curfew” and anounce the estimated quantity of fart in grams. (I know how to manipulate a  potentially loud fart and turn it into a silent fart.)

3. I hate revealing my vulnerabilities to people I don’t know/don’t know well/don’t like. (That’s why I suck at camp team-bonding crap)

4. I wrinkle my nose and hold my breathe when I use a toilet filled with urine vapour. This results in me being out of breath when I walk out of the toilet.

5. I constantly feel my pockets to check if my keys, phone and wallet are in there. I would be able to narrow down the area at which, my items may be lost at, if it becomes lost.

6. I enjoy solitude sometimes.

7. I am very particular about my privacy and have no respect for people who do not know where to draw the line.

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8. I am addicted to shopping on Ebay

9. I become particularly bitchy and spontaneous when I get cranky and tired.

10. At times, when I pass by a funeral procession that reminds me of my grandfather, I feel immense sadness.

11. I don’t want a traditional funeral for myself. If I die a natural death, I’d want people to come up to my coffin and laugh boisterously like I always do. They should all have a feast of chicken rice, barbeque sting ray, kang kong, hot plate tofu and kaki fuyong for dinner at the funeral. And drink a cup of milo-si-kosong-peng (iced milo without condensed milk, add skimmed milk). Wow, that’s really sad. I will be looking at my mourners eating my favourite foods… Oh yes the epitaph! I want it to say: here lies a wizard and a ninja, who lived to eat and laugh. And I’m not joking.

Okay, that’s all for now.

Logen L.

Solitude and Crowds

I was in a horrible mood at the end of school. The feeling accumulated throughout the week. Perhaps I was too used to the peaceful solitude I had during the holidays that I forgot that people are cruel. You would have hoped your worth and presence wasn’t taken for granted… Although I have much to say about this, I’ll shut my gap.

To add on, I was beyond pissed at having crappy lecture theatres where you get to see less than one-quarter of the screen and sit on chairs that are linked with other people. The combination resulted in vibrating chairs whenever someone stood up just to look at the screen.

Not to mention, some lecturers really should quit their jobs. In plain terms, my lectures were a waste of time because I’d have understood more while self-studying. In even more simple terms, I’m bloody pissed because I was made to feel like an idiot who cannot comprehend a supposedly simple topic.

Sighs… Let go of the anger and resentment…

You know what, I prefer to be alone…

Logen L.

Averse to Hair and Itching

Instead of last week, school began this week due to chicken pox.

I screwed up my hair with the hair cut. Actually, this is a subjective view. I’m not as averse to it as my friends are. But I admit, this wasn’t the hairstyle I wanted.

As always, my hair has too much bulk to pull off a certain look. Therefore, I’d be doing some repairing by bleaching it brown. Not only does this change the colour but it also thins my hair (in theory that is). If this doesn’t work, I’ll be seeing my neighbourhood barber to see how he can salvage it.

Oh well… I’ve got to source for a salon that can fulfill my eccentric hairstyle requests in the future. And someone needs to give me lessons on managing unmanagable hair.

Besides the hair issue, my eczema has worsened after the chicken pox episode. I’ve currently increased my dosage of antihistamines to no avail. Well, if the itching continues, I’ll become unpleasantly temperamental like before. I was told by the doctor that my eczema was stress-induced but I’m not sure if I’m stressed. Unless you count getting pissed off…

Thinking about whatever is already starting to piss me off again… Why am I the unique one to get some stupid skin condition…

Logen L.

Beat Procrastination By Focusing On Your Goals

By now, you would have been aware of my knack for procrastination. I have complained about it throughout my blogging life and yet, I have done nearly nothing about it.

Recently, I read a section of the NLP book and was goaded into thinking about it. This section talked about outcomes, the outcome of a goal. It implied that we should refer to our goals as outcomes, because the whole point in setting a goal is to attain the outcome. In referring to goals as outcomes, we are reminded that the focus of the goal is the outcome.

Furthermore, it predisposes that people always have an outcome, in whatever they do. This desire could be conscious or unconscious. For example, you could be arguing with a friend. This indicates your desire for him to agree with your view. At this stage, you could try and serve your outcome by controlling any anger. Yet, if the argument escalated into verbal abuse, you would not have served your desired outcome.

Naturally effective and efficient people constantly think in outcomes. They instinctively question themselves if what they are doing are congruent with what they want. It does make sense, doesn’t it. To unconsciously check with yourself if whatever is happening is falling into your outcome(goal). And to take steps to correct the situation if your goal isn’t reached.

Now, how does this relate to my procrastination behaviour? I have a tendency to get distracted. Half the time, this is how I procrastinate. I’d come across a funny video online and neglect my tasks at hand, because I believe time is on my side. By the time I awake from the spell,  three hours would have passed.

However, if I possess the ability to think in outcomes, wouldn’t it reduce the procrastination. After all, procrastination for me is more of a distraction and bad sense-of-timing tactic.

At the initial stage, it requires conscious effort on my part to be aware of my purpose, goals and outcomes. Once it becomes habitual and second-nature, it’d be easier.

For the past five days, I have been battling procrastination by using this technique. It is damn tough. The first few days, I allowed myself to be distracted for six hours before accomplishing two-third’s of my outcomes for the day. Today is the same, but slightly better. Well, good habits don’t come easy…

Logen L.

Help Needed with Justice Tribunal

I have not completed Justice Tribunal (an anti-discrimination community site) to the extent desired. There are some texts that I need to work at code level to configure. Nevertheless, the functionality is already there.

I need people to test the site out and feedback for improvement. I will also need volunteers to moderate the site.

So, if anyone out there is interested in helping. Inform me.

You can comment to this entry. Or if you prefer a private means of communication, email me: logishblog [at] gmail [dot] com. Put the subject as: Justice Tribunal Affiliate.

Logen L.

Who’s in My Class? Shocked…

I finally checked the class list to determine who had made it in the same class as me. I was shocked, for more than one reason.

Firstly, I was pretty sure that at least ten people from my year 1, semester 1 class had made it into the new class. Nope, fat hope. Six people. Out of the old class, only two guys (inclusive of me) made it to this class. Oh well…

Here’s the other reason why I was surprised. I was thinking about how my Year 1, semester 2 class would react to certain people in my class… I’m sure as hell fine with whoever I am talking about. Hahaha. Controversy because of hair.  That’s all I can say.

And I had thought I could have the quiet country life in the new class. Sighs.

Logen

Down with Chicken Pox

I turned in before dawn today. It was unusually cold and I was shivering. Curious about the temperature, I checked my wall thermometer expecting it to be around 24 degrees Celcius. It was not.

I have high fever. The worst part of it was, I couldn’t sleep with the nasty headache. I spent the night worrying if it was chicken pox (my sis had it), dengue or hair-straightener-poisoning. If you ask me, I have no desire of the first two. The wait period is both 2 weeks, one has the chance of giving me scars and the other requires that I have IV needles stabbed into my forearm.

Anyway, it turns out that I have chicken pox. Sighs. School begins on Monday and I’m going to miss the chance to build a good foundation for my modules. I guess things don’t always go our way. I have to put off the salon visit too.

I intend to self-study during the MC period. And I can treat it as extra holiday. My foot!

Logen