"Vacation"'s over

It was a short working week last week, with Monday and Tuesday being replacement holidays for my company.

If I didn't had external training from Wednesday to Friday, I would most likely have taken the three days off as well, since Monday this week is a replacement holiday as well.

Take three days annual leave to enjoy a ten days break, nice deal really.

But I had training, so no ten days break for me.

However, compare training to working, especially since I resolutely refused to work once the training was over, was almost like a vacation.

So I had it easy for ten days, and now it's over.

So sad.

Back to the hectic work life tomorrow.

*Sigh*...

Other |temperamental thoughts| category entries.

Dragon and phoenix

Many, many years ago, I got myself a drake mount in World of Warcraft after some mind-numbing reputation grind.

Got a few more drake mounts since then but of the less 'pretty' version, the one I grinded for has translucent wings and got nice light trail when in flight. =)

Blizzard gotta make money, so to make sure players keep paying the monthly subscription they have many of these tedious and absolutely not fun grinds.

Curse myself for being such a sucker, I recently decided I want to get the rare dragon and phoenix mounts.

Both of those mounts have very low drop chance in raid dungeons, meaning each character can only do it once every week for those not familiar with World of Warcraft.

Raid dungeons are meant for 10 to 25 level appropriate players. But the mounts I am eyeing for are in old content, meaning low level raid dungeons and I have several characters high enough level to be able to handle those raid dungeons solo.

Thus the grind began.

On my eleventh attempt I got the dragon mount, woohoo!

astral dragon mount

Oh ya, not just any normal dragon mount, but the starry translucent type.

Well, it's called the astral cloud serpent in the game but to me this is a dragon, the oriental version.

Still running the raid dungeon solo for the phoenix mount, currently seventeenth attempts.

Hope I can get it soon.

Other |geeky gaming| category entries.

Random behaviour for September 2019

I tried to maintain that 150 minutes exercise, well, walk really, resolution I set in May as a long term thing but eventually I lost it about mid of July, when workload cranked up again.

Did kept doing it for quite a few weeks though, with the following time per week, in minutes: (May) 171, 192, 220, 288, (June) 133, 139, 174, 164, (July) 169, 172, 63, 247, (August) 12, 118, 15.

So I have succeeded in my May resolution. feel good +1

Didn't set any impromptu resolution in June, neither in August. Good thing too, as August turned out to be a bad month, busier than July...

I did had an impromptu resolution for July, which I purposely didn't announce to avoid unnecessary grief.

My July's resolution was to keep my hair without the weekly shave for the whole month, which I succeeded (feel good +1) and learned that I can no longer tolerate my hair being longer than, say, 5 mm.

Goodness that was a hard month, I shaved as soon as the month has ended, even though it's not the weekend.

So I guess it's either bald or wig. =P

It's the last day of the four days long weekend, and since I haven't shaved my facial hair all these days, I am going to just keep them.

So, for September 2019, my impromptu resolution is: to keep my moustache and beard.

Because I can.

Other |flickering fling| category entries.

  

View spike

I like to record stuff, number of view of this blog is one of them.

When I record the view count this morning, I did a double take.

There is a sudden spike in the number of view in the last 24 hours, which is strange since I haven't been posting any link to my blog on Facebook lately.

What got me mightily curious is the magnitude of the spike, it's not within the normal range, say, compared to when I do post on Facebook.

So I went and checked the statistics as provided by Blogger, and it seems like the spike in view count is primarily from the land Down Under.

Hmm...

I do have family members there but don't think they read my blog. Even if they do the view count is still way too high, it's like going through more than a year's worth of blog entries in a single day.

If it's a bot then usually I get some spam comments with links.

Really curious.

Other |temperamental thoughts| category entries.

Still holding

Many years ago, a young lady let me hold her hand.

And interlocked her fingers with mine.

Our lives are thus entwined.

Many years later, still holding.

Still loving.

May there be many more years to come.

Other |sane side| category entries.

心的频道：真实

我知道，最近的文章都比较悲观，消沉、负能量满满的。

要明白，这部落格不是为了取悦他人的。

这部落格不是为了观数流量、赚广告费什么的。

这部落格根本没有广告。

也没有只为了吸引人，跟文章没关系的图片。

这部落格鲜少有图片，因为比起画面，我是比较偏于「文字」的人。

这部落格是我的日记，记录我的生活，那些我觉得重要的事与物。

人生很多点点滴滴值得记下来，记忆力不好的我，用文字把那些瞬间凝固。

以便往后我可以回顾人生、重温过去。

那就是这部落格的主要目的。

如果可以让有心去阅读的他人有所领悟或收获什么的，那我觉得何乐不为呢？

毕竟，从他人的经历学习，是比较精明的经验累积。

不必事事都要自生经历才体会领悟的，尤其是失误的冤枉路。

我的人生不是都是彩虹和晴天的。

我是有忧郁症的人，有低落和负面情绪的日子很正常。

负能量是要面对和应付的，不是避忌或绝口不提的。

阴天、雨天也有它们的美，它们的意义。

没有雨天就不会有雨过天晴的那心境、那感慨、那喜悦。

今年八月至今我过得不是很快乐，我低落消沉。

所以我真诚坦白的如实记录。

就是如此而已。

心的频道 |系列

八月至今

很快，八月就要过去了。

整个八月至今，能记得的好事就那么一宗。

其它的就只有叹息…

说真的，我不是很肯定自己是不是在忧郁症中。

不太像，但又有些相似的症状。

八月至今，是很多的无奈。

事事不如意。

就是安分守己也会飞来横祸。

萦绕着晦气、阴气。

死气沉沉。

累，身和心。

尤其是心，没有了动力。

仿佛迷失了方向。

每天在忙，但不知道自己为何要这么忙，为了什么？

总会觉得生活没什么意义。

我只有，无奈的叹息。

随兴随想 |系列|