2025 in numbers

2025 was to me, a year of feeling my age, or perhaps, more than my age. The prevailing thought is that I am old, that I feel old. The recent medical check up confirmed what I know all along, that I am unfit. The estimated health age is 58.7 years.

The weariness of the mind, of heart, of emotion persisted, a continuation from previous year. While there is peace now at home, it's still lacking in warmth. A cold sanctuary. Also unchanged from previous year are the regular unfulfillment, discontentment, disappointment. Feel defeated, drained, neglected. Grim, I know.

So anyway, here are the 2025 numbers:

125 blog entries. 11 entries per month except November, for 18 consecutive years now.

46 days of commute to work recorded, which covered 2073.1 kilometres, giving an average of 45.1 kilometres per day.

7 petrol fillings recorded. My seven years old Civic is doing an average of 13.5 kilometres per litre of petrol.

23.5 days of leave taken, of which there were 7 half-day leaves and 20 full day leaves. 0.5 days more than last year. =P

118 days of worked till overtime-worthy late. 8 days less than last year. My target was less than 100 days, which I failed to achieve but still, improvement, yay! Clocked a total of 354 hours and 57 minutes, and the average overtime duration is 3 hours 0 minute and 29 seconds. So even though I worked overtime 8 days less than last year, on average the overtime duration per day is 24 minutes more than last year's, that is bad. Oh well, still aiming for less than 100 days next year, and hopefully not at the expense of longer overtime.

Putting the overtime count into perspective: 52 weeks of 5 working days = 260 working days. Take away 17 public and replacement holidays, and take away 23.5 days of leave I had 219.5 working days. Out of the 219.5 days I worked overtime 118 days, that's 53.8%. Less than last year but still, urgh... =(

0 days on business trip. =)

0 online tabletop gaming session held. I think this activity is dead.

28 novels read, all new books! =) Managed to read seven more books compared to last year, nice. Average of 13.0 days for a book, could be faster I suppose, but two weeks per book is not bad.

3 patent filings. Exceeded expectation! =D

48, 21, 18, 16, 7+1, 3 for my own reference.

Happy New Year dear blog viewer, wish you a wonderful 2026.

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心的频道：爱情语言

独处，我可以。清静、不喧闹、无拘无束、自由自在。

宅在家里，我喜欢。外面的世界很危险，人类很累人。

但我的爱情需要肢体的亲密碰触，像牵手、拥抱、亲吻、碰碰鼻子、贴贴脸颊这类的亲昵举动。

这是我的爱情语言，通过身体亲密接触来感受和表达爱。

所以虽然我可以独处，但没有情人老婆仔的亲密接触我很难过，没有了生理和情感幸福感。

怎么能快乐呢？

心的频道 |系列|

Day 3

Third day of my five days break. Still alive.

Day 1: Christmas Eve.
Took leave because of planned medical check up. The medical check up in the morning and going through the report in the afternoon took about five hours. On top of that I had lunch and dinner out, so I am out and about for the majority of the day. Not conducive to my wellbeing. Drained by the end of day.

Day 2: Christmas.
Merry Christmas! Only there was nothing merry about the day. Woke up sick, on top of the ongoing depression. Energy level is non-existent. Envisioned my Christmas to be stuffing myself full of food, playing computer games and watching movies or variety shows. None of that but dead to the world zombie-like majority of the day. Would have continued to stay in bed if not for having to go pick up daddy from the airport. Merry not.

Day 3: Boxing Day.
Initially didn't planned to take leave today, but when manager asked to fill in leave plan for January, and when I realised I need to take two days off by end of January to not have any hard-earned leave burned, I went ahead and took leave today and next Friday. Still sick, still low in mood and energy. At least I got some gaming time in, so finally feel a bit like a break. Overall still feel like shit.

Two more days. Well, the weekend, that is. Don't expect it to be any better. Hope that's just depression talk but I doubt it.

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五天休息日

在想该叫假期还是长周末呢？最终决定就叫休息日吧。

今天拿了假，明天是圣诞节公假，后天也拿了假，然后就是周末了，所以一共有五天的休息天。

今天拿假是因为要做健康检验，一早就到医院，三个小时多才完成，然后就回家加时工作到中午一点多。

是，我承认，我就是那么贱，拿了假还加时工作。

今晚还要继续加时工作，要查看做到中午放去跑的热流模拟是否顺利。如果顺利完成了，就要再设定另一组数据去模拟。如果不顺利又有问题，那就是更长的加时工作来侦错、修改。

中午忙完了工作后就外出去吃午餐，原本是想顺便买好晚餐，傍晚就不需要再出门了。但没有合适和合胃口的食物，所以很可能晚餐还是要外出。

午餐后回到家不到半个小时，又是时候回到医院去拿健康检查的报告。拿了报告，和医生谈了谈，然后依照医生推荐的跟两位专科医生做了预约后才回家，回到家已是四点半了。

唉，今天多数时间都是在外，我这宅男觉得很累、很不舒适自在。

真的，这所谓的休息天一点都没有休息到。

现在只是希望今晚检查热流模拟时可以是一切顺利的…

还有接下来的四天可以是真正的休息天。拜托了！

随兴随想 |系列|

Home Alone n+2

My quick search located the most recent past 'Home Alone' entry back in 2018.

Really? I haven't been home alone for so many years? Seems unlikely.

Maybe I miss the blog entry in my quick search. Maybe I used some other title. Maybe I simply did not post an entry when I was home alone within then and now. Or maybe it's indeed true, that I have not been home alone for seven years...

Well, I am now.

Being alone when having a depression bout is not a healthy combo. But just my luck. Just my life.

I shall endure. I hope.

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Hello cave

You know, depression, I don't miss you. Like, at all.

You don't have to come knocking routinely.

Honestly, you are not welcome.

I am stressed enough as it is, I could do without the low energy level and feeling down.

So, no thank you.

Could you at least make it a short one this time?

Another depression bout has landed.

Hello cave.

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Rest in peace, Pearly

Rest in peace, Pearly (3rd November 2023 to 13th December 2025), you were the least friendly of the three hamsters we brought home back in 2023, but you were definitely the biggest in size, and probably appetite.

We named you Fury initially, because, well, you sure had a temper, and you would use your size to get advantage over your two sisters. But the elder son didn't liked that, and he renamed you Pearly, and we sticked to that.

You were very good at finding all those buried treats, gotta hand you that. Your two sisters looked dumb and slow in comparison, often needing me to lead them to the hidden treats. Not you though, you found them all by yourself, and in very short amount of time, then you would hide...

Sorry that despite the mighty effort 'mommi' put in for your skin problem, it persisted to plague you these last few months. No worries, we will always remember your nice white fur.

Wished you were friendlier and interacted more with us, instead of always hiding and shying away.

Hope you have enjoyed your time with us, now go meet your sister Brownie in hamster heaven.

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Diablo IV season 11 and new expansion

Diablo IV season 11: Divine Intervention has started. Besides seasonal perks, defensive stats have changed, potion has changed, Tempering and Masterworking have changed, renown is Eternal realm only, season journey has changed, and monsters have new behaviour.

Blizzard has also announced the new expansion, Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred, to be launched on 28th of April 2026, which can be pre-purchased now.

I played the Spiritborn in Season 10: Season of Infernal Chaos, and managed to complete it in time without too much of a grind, so it was on overall an enjoyable season for me.

I was pondering whether to play the Barbarian or the Sorcerer in season 11 a few days ago, a bit of dilemma, though probably leaning slightly towards the Barbarian.

But that is moot now, because the pre-purchase of Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred expansion grants player early access to one of the new classes in the expansion: the Paladin.

Yup, Paladin is back, and yes, we can play the class in Diablo IV season 11 now if we pre-purchase the new expansion.

So it's a no brainer for me, buying the expansion is inevitable since I am a diehard Diablo fan, and getting to play the new class now sealed the deal.

And yes, I am playing the Paladin in season 11. Like many others. =P

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累

这几天很累。精神上的疲累。

早上累得不想起床，需要很艰难的逼自己起身工作那种。我平时不是这样的。

下午三点左右就开始累得想要躺下来，是那样的情况。所以这两天一下班我就躺平休息到情人老婆仔叫吃晚餐才起来。

晚上睡眠素质不好都已经是那么久的事了，怎么这几天会这么糟糕的精神状况？

工作上这几天是有一定的压力，但工作压力也不是新鲜的事啊…

况且，虽然还没有找到最新建的热流模型，在网格优化后不能运行的原因，但我已经有了没优化的模拟数据，已经没有了不能交报告的担忧了啊。

优化网格只是为了减少电脑资源的运用，和模拟计算的时间，纯粹是我个人尽善尽美的要求，不是经理或项目管理在乎的事。

现在头隐隐作痛。真是的，健康越来越糟糕了，唉…

心语细述 |系列|

*Fingers crossed*

Worked overtime both Saturday and Sunday.

Not very long hours on both days, but still, long enough that cannot be swept under the carpet and pretend that it's not working overtime.

Still possible to hit the target of having less number of days working overtime than last year though.

Just have to stay strong and not give in to unrealistic deadlines. Just less than a month to go.

Really hope I can make it this year.

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Honeymoon is over

November, my self-proclaimed slacker month, is over.

Back to eleven entries per month. Not sure to feel happy or sad.

Slacker extraordinaire gotta slack, but then I also like to write... So conflicted.

Anyway, back to eleven entries per month, so can't be slacking off for too many days.

Or do I have to? Hmm...

Time for a change? Or perhaps still sticking to eleven entries for this month, so that this year will end with 125 entries as usual, and only starts in January, a new year thing?

What should the number of entries per month change to? Or simply random every month without a fixed number?

Something to mull over.

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Pickleball, round 5

Played my fifth game of pickleball yesterday with colleague friends at a proper indoor pickleball court.

My first pickleball game was played in an indoor court as well, but that was a converted garage and I can't in good conscience called that a good court.

That said, all my subsequent pickleball games had been outdoor in a shaded basketball court, so the first indoor court was still better since it's a real pickleball court and the wind factor was eliminated. If only the flooring and the lighting were done better...

Anyway, basketball court is free of charge while the indoor court has, to my opinion, still quite a high cost comparing to other indoor racquet games. So can't really complain.

Here's hoping with more pickleball courts popping up everywhere, the price will go down to a more reasonable and economical range. *fingers crossed*

Before I write this entry, I checked and found out that my previous last pickleball game was back in June, five months ago. Time flies.

Well, the colleagues still have regular pickleball games, it's just that I have been bogged down by work so I have not been joining them since June. To be honest, the after pickleball game traffic is also a factor, need a lot of self-convincing that the waste of time in the bad traffic is worth it.

Anyway, was a great session yesterday, enjoyed the game and the camaraderie. But two hours for four players was too much for me, I am super unfit so despite taking more breaks than the other three, I am aching all over today.

More importantly, it's a gathering of colleague friends, so it's all worth it.

Pickleball series: | 1st |  | 2nd |  | 3rd |  | 4th |

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二十一年

情人老婆仔，结婚二十一周年纪念日快乐！

感谢你的陪伴和爱护、对我这番薯的包容和接纳。

谢谢还是让我牵的手，和那些每天都要的抱抱。^_^

今天拍拖、溜达、吃午餐、购物，没有买到漂亮的裙是有点失望，但并不意外。

我们还要继续走下去，一起变老（和变胖）哦，呵呵！=P

心语细述 |系列|

Master or slave?

This blog entry is about digital wellbeing, particularly about smartphone usage time or screen time. Well, my smartphone screen time, that is.

I have wanted to write this entry for ages, at first I was waiting for sufficient sample size for worthwhile statistics, then I never got to actually analyse the data when I do have sufficient sample size, so it joined the heap of entries and ideas gathering dust at a corner of my mind.

Until today, when I finally went and located the screenshots of the weekly digital wellbeing report I received every Monday, put them together in a folder, compiled the data, and did some simple statistical analysis.

The initial plan was to have at least 30 sample size, so at least 30 weeks worth of data. The first screenshot of the digital wellbeing report was dated 24th of April 2023, more than two and a half years ago... slacker point +1

So the figures I am sharing in this entry are from 132 weeks of data, a pretty solid sample size that should give us high confidence level of insights to my smartphone usage time. I seemed to have missed two weeks in 2023 since I started taking screenshot, else it would have been a sample size of 134 weeks.

the data

Based on 132 data points, my daily average screen time is 19.5 minutes, the standard deviation is 8.9 minutes. The number of weeks within these 132 weeks that my daily average screen time was (1) less than 10 minutes = 6; (2) between 10 to 30 minutes = 107; (3) between 30 to 60 minutes = 18; (4) more than 60 minutes = 1.

So, 85.6% of the data indicates that my daily average screen time to be less than 30 minutes. Ya, I am not a phone person. Caveman, remember? =P

That one week when my daily average screen time was more than 1 hour, well, I checked the date and instantly know the reason. That was the darkest time of my life thus far.

my longest daily average screen time in 132 weeks

On the other hand, the shortest daily average screen time was 7 minutes, happened only once. There were a few 8 minutes, but only one 7 minutes.

my shortest daily average screen time in 132 weeks

While I am not really a phone person, I have nothing against it. There is no denying that smartphone is a tool that has brought us a lot of convenience, a multitude of functions in a mobile computing device with access to the internet.

There is also no denying that there are a multitude of problems induced by smartphone usage, so much so that there are numerous studies and published papers on this subject matter, where some describe smartphones as the epidemic of the 21st century. Just google it if you are interested.

Smartphone addiction is real. I know with absolute certainty as I am a father of one. Hopefully just one, and hopefully no longer am but was, but perhaps that's asking too much...

Digital detox is something a lot of us should practise. Smartphone is a tool, be the master of the tool instead of being enslaved by it.

Other |sane side| category entries.

Scribble Pad is eighteen years old!

Happy 18th birthday, Scribble Pad!

As per custom, here are the accumulated number of views based on the counter. The one for 2025 is as of 18:33 hours.

2008: 4746
2009: 13300
2010: 23226
2011: 31677
2012: 37412
2013: 42469
2014: 46926
2015: 50532
2016: 53716
2017: 56798
2018: 59939
2019: 62732
2020: 65840
2021: 68205
2022: 70269
2023: 72064
2024: 74382
2025: 77048

Pleasantly surprised by the number again this year, but honestly not something I sweat about.

I write because I like to, and this blog is really my online journal that I can, and have many times used, to look up things that happened in my life. Handy tool for goldfish memory me, hehe.

Nursing a headache now so I won't write much further. Health has been getting worse as I get older...

Just like to say thank you for reading this blog. I sincerely hope you get something out of it.

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Looking forward to November

Because it's my self-proclaimed slacker month, with only four blog entries to upload. May write more, but will only post four entries. That is just how it is, for years now.

Yes, I am a slacker, used to call myself the slacker extraordinaire, something that I cannot crown myself with anymore since I joined the department that changed me from 'cheap labour' to 'cheap labour with no life'... =(

Looking forward to Movember too, something that I support since I was made aware of it.

Gender equality is all good and well, I wholeheartedly support equal rights and opportunities, but in my humble opinion, majority of the initiatives are for the betterment of female. Don't forget about the male side of things, if it's really equality that we are after. So ya, I support Movember and will do my part.

To be honest I am also hoping a new month will bring some positive changes. Would be fantastic without the hectic work.

Here's hoping I will regain some slacker points in November. One can dream.

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心的频道：第七个

今天收到公司要为最近呈上的发明概念申请专利的通知，嘢！=)

这是我第七个专利申请。^_^

不是躺赢、不是「喷到」，是我费了蛮多功夫尽量优化，和模拟了好多组合来提供最优数据。所以我心安理得、理直气壮的接受。

不应该这么想，但我开始有点希望可以在接下来的半年内再多两个，那就会达到另一个里程碑：十二个月里五个（或更多）。

不希望就不会失望，但心里还真的是冒起了这念头…

怎么都好，第七个。我开心，我感恩。

心的频道 |系列|

W.A.(2)

Workaholics Anonymous entry #114:

I am on leave today and I did not work overtime. Win.

Went out for car maintenance, sent the car to the service centre, came home, then picked up the car in the afternoon. Their inefficiency and slowness in service, coupled with the bad traffic on the way back, led to truncated, not so long stretches of time at home.

A lot of unnecessary wasted time, yes, but also in a twisted way less time for me to be tempted to work overtime.

Did feel a bit guilty knowing a certain colleague would most likely be looking for me to help on his Computational Fluid Dynamics issues, but I resisted that moment of weakness.

I have done well today.

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三天长周末

为了不让年假超额作废，明天星期一拿一天假，凑成三天长周末。

过去两天，星期六和星期日，都有加时工作。是的，就是这么贱。

除了对项目管理失望，也对自己失望。

原本打算就只是星期六加班而已的，但今天星期天醒来后才突然想到昨天那热流模型漏了些东西没有改上。唉，所以昨天跑的模拟，原本以为已经完事，待星期二复工时才善后，变成需要修改然后再跑多一次。

所以今天又加时工作。早上修改了模型后开始跑模拟，晚餐后模拟完成了便做善后的工作，然后因为觉得结果不够好又修改了些些，然后又跑多一轮模拟。

我就是那么贱。

但我真的是打算星期二复工时才看这最新模拟的数据的，明天拿假真的打算不工作的。

希望自己可以坚强守着这信念。

随兴随想 |系列|

就知道

一开始就是说什么:不用那么精准的模型的，快快跑个模拟给个大概的估计，看这样的厚度、这样的设计，是不是能解（都不知道他们哪里生出来的）目标功率？

但我知道，一旦我报告了热流模拟的数据，就会被当成是一定可以做到的事。会突然间忘了那只是个粗略、少了细节的模型，是为了快速有个粗略估计的模型。

会忘了这热流模型不精准，是因为其他功能小组的东西还没完成，我没有那些资料来建精准的模型。我只是那位非常不愿意，但每次都被你们推去跑在前面的、无奈的散热工程师。

然后还会冲着那些，我在没资料的情况下，自己估计来见模型的部分，说不是这样的，要改成这样或那样，然后再跑多一、两、三、四、五轮模拟…

相信我，我也很想一开始就建精准的模型，给高置信度的模拟数据。我也很想等其他的功能小组先做了他们的部分来减少我需要建的热流模型的版本，和每个版本要跑的模拟数量的。

我也不想当其他功能小组有些更近时，我就得一改再改我的热流模型，然后跑模拟跑到天荒地老。

要我赶工来完成的模拟数据报告发出去后，一个接一个的细节质疑和更改要求，我回那只是个用来快速粗略估计、看大方向的模型就重复了三次。那位叫我赶工做这样一份数据的领导一声都不出…

我也知道，以后其他人的部分完成了，我把那些细节都建进模型里，然后新的模拟数据没有达到这粗略模型的功率的话，我也是会被摆上台，怎么都要我死出可以达到那粗略估计的功率的散热设计来。

不然就是，精准模型达到了目标功率，就突然要提高目标功率了，或要降低成本但一样要达到功率，或又提高功率又降低成本…

我就知道，因为总是这样。

随兴随想 |系列|

无难事

在还没放弃越来越不好看，变得纯粹要搞吓出演者的〈密室大逃脱〉前，有看到过大张伟一句歪理金句：

“天下无难事，只要肯放弃。”

今天继续加时工作赶工，希望可以完成热流模型，然后隔夜跑模拟，一切顺利的话，明天有第一组模拟数据来给那荒谬的数据需求期限。

希望和现实是有差距的，果然现实比较靠近我预估需要的时间，而不是那荒唐的要求时间。

偏偏我还是命贱的承受高压赶工了几天，但现实很残酷，没有奇迹。

今晚做到十一点多时，看看进展和剩下的工作量，我突然想起大张伟那歪理金句。真是的，我为何要为了那不合理的要求折腾自己？把自己逼得这么辛苦？

真的给我赶出来了，反而会变成新的期望值吧？以后都会认为这么短的时间有第一组模拟数据是正常的，根本不知道背后的压力、付出、痛苦、牺牲。

所以我选择了放弃。我不继续赶工到三更半夜。

明天星期一是屠妖节，是个公假，命贱的我还是会加时工作。我的长周末都给了加时工作…

希望我会尽量控制自己啦。适可而止，应该放弃时就应该放弃。

随兴随想 |系列|

不谢·凋谢

今年不再加时工作，来保住少过一百个加时工作天的数量，那希望已经破灭。

在加时工作九十九天后坚持了五天，第六天就已破功。是个星期六，加时工作了七个小时…

那天，我心想，希望现在这份工会让我不必加时工作是不可能的。毕竟是个用人不用本钱、用到尽，超卷的一个团队。

所以我就只希望可以在今年剩下的工作天期间，每星期只需要加时工作一天，那样的话我至少还可以保住今年加时工作天数量少过去年的目标。

不能好好策划项目的领导层很失败的把一个项目蜕变成五个项目，做一个项目的团队人数当然承受不了，所以领导层把其他项目给暂停，调动员工来援助。

我就是其中一位被拉进这异变项目的员工，只是我在做着的另一个项目没有被暂停，依旧催命似的要模拟数据和报告…

我一星期只加时工作一天的计划被不会计划的领导层给完美破坏，不谢哦。

我真的会凋谢。

心语细述 |系列|

An unusual chore, part four

Aching all over today, no thanks to the unergonomic working condition yesterday. Let's not forget it's also rather stressful, what with being on the tiny ledge eighteen stories from ground.

Yes, I am out on that bloody ledge again, way too soon since the previous excursion, no thanks to the darn pigeons hell-bent on making their nest there.

Goodness knows how they got through the net, our best guess is the tiny gap on one side of the wall, which we think they could squeeze through if they are really determined.

Regardless of whether it's determination or pigheadedness, two pigeons got themselves trapped on the wrong side of the net on the eighteen floor ledge, unable to get back out because the curvature of the net we put up makes the gap behaves like a one way trap.

Last thing we need is two pigheaded pigeon starved to death leaving their stinking corpses on the ledge. No thank you.

Wifey and neighbour caught and released the pigeons while I was at work. I probably would have tried to open up the net to let them out instead of trying to catch them. No complaints though, gone is gone.

Anyway, went out onto the ledge with additional net to patch up the gap. Nailed the net to the wall on the side as well so even if the pigeons are still pigheaded enough to try the stunt again, the net should not open a gap like a one way trap anymore.

Took me around 45 minutes, but I am thoroughly drained after that. Some serious exhaustion kicked in, mentally and physically. So ya, I am aching all over today.

I said this less than two months ago: let's hope I don't have to do this again anytime soon.

Other |sane side| category entries.

Plaques

After an invention idea got approved by the company patent committee and has been filed, it can take many years for the filed patent to be granted.

I have two patents filed about five years ago that finally being granted in USA, and for that I was offered a plaque each to commemorate the occasion.

While I appreciate the reward money for giving the company worthwhile invention ideas, honestly the plaque is a lot more meaningful to me. The award money is long gone and I have goldfish memory, so hopefully the plaques will last longer.

Took the trouble to go to office to collect the plaques today, at the cost of 2.5 extended working hours to compensate for the time lost. Worth it, especially since wifey agreed to tag along the journey.

I now have three plaques at home, starting to look more like a collection than just an out of place ornament when I just had that one.

I know many colleagues with double and even triple digits patent in their bag, I salute them, but these three plaques are mine, and I am proud of my achievement.

Hope my other three patents will get granted in USA in the coming years, and hope I will have more invention ideas being approved for filing.

Other |enjoyable events| category entries.

W.A.

Workaholics Anonymous entry #108:

Three days free of working overtime. Cautiously optimistic. Celebrating small wins.

Random break out in sweat, but wifey said that's most likely andropause. No involuntary twitching, or other withdrawal symptoms.

There was a moment of weakness yesterday, in the last few minutes of working hours, when saving the progress on the thermal model, thought of probably just need another hour to complete the model and almost acted on it.

Successfully resisted the temptation, and ended the work day within the fifteen minutes grace period not considered as overtime.

On a positive note, made good progress on Diablo IV latest season with the gaming time now made available staying away from working overtime.

Other |nutty nuts| category entries.

Threshold

Today's Sunday, just finished my overtime work about half and hour ago.

It's actually a comparatively short one today, just 1 hour 37 minutes. It was 7 hours 36 minutes yesterday (Saturday), so...

But working overtime today marks the threshold between two digits and three digits, for today's the 99th overtime for 2025.

Looks like my target of less than 100 overtime this year is not going to happen, what with one more quarter to go.

I actually did pretty well earlier in the year, by the end of June my running total was 42 overtime, still good for the less than 100 target.

Actually by the end of August it was still okay, with a running total of 69 overtime, but September broke everything. Eight months of effort destroyed in a month.

I worked overtime 25 days out of the 30 days in September, really easier to count how many days I did not worked overtime...

Today's overtime is also the 11th consecutive day of working overtime. Before this stretch was a 3 days break after a 9 days stretch of working overtime.

As of today: a running total of 99 days of working overtime, 303 hours 53 minutes clocked, which is an average of 3 hours 34 minutes and 30 seconds per day of overtime.

If I do not work anymore overtime for the rest of 2025, I can still achieve my target of less than 100 days this year.

Ya, right.

Let's hope I can at least work less overtime than previous year. *fingers crossed*

Other |wretched workaholic| category entries.

久违的动一动

最近每天都加时工作到开始怀疑人生，开始自己警惕自己。

今天决定要好好运动下，抛开平时不规律的、林林总总的室内运动，到户外快走。

沿着因为填海而不再是沿海，而是那做了快十年都看不见终点的建筑工程旁快走，享受车辆排放的废气和建筑工程的灰尘…

就当作是一种锻炼吧，反正我的肺早已被很热忱于癌症研究的邻居每天都会分享好几次的二手烟给废了。=(

数额已被耗尽的脚踝那「咯咯」声帮我保持快走的规律，果然身体是会告诉我们讯息的，谁需要科技哦？=P

走到填海建筑工程局部完成且开放的部分，终于都可以离开马路旁而再次沿海快走。但，变成打卡地点的那地方就是有比较多的人…

冷眼观看那些不理通告横跨草地的人们，哪怕就是省那十步路，就是要踩死那些草走出一条泥路来。

也要避开那许许多多在海边拍照的人们。这个人人都可以自称是网红的时代，搞不好一个不小心拍到我这路人甲，然后在没有得到我的同意下上传到网上。被人认出的话有损我的宅男名誉咯… >_<

老实说，我也不是很想要别人抄袭我的颓废look啦，呵呵！=P

那位托着行李袋走了那么远的女士，你辛苦了。你必有要拖着大包小包走那么远的原因，我只是不明白为什么你那两位朋友没有帮你拿一、两袋，或托一些些路程？

别管我，我只是靠观察别人然后脑里乱想来转移注意力，来忽略那脚很累要放慢步伐的信号。

来回共走了五十五分钟，很满意，毕竟真的很久没有好好运动了。照我这么烂的健康状况，明天应该会享受肌肉酸痛的快感啦…

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