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Sab2 week1/52 review
Sleep : almost reconfigured to preference.
Food : no issues except ...
Socialising : ... maybe expensing too much here, but some of it is for business networking.
Travel : Graduating from personal car, to city-wide rail and bus superpass.
Exercise : Not much besides renovations and socialising ... after sleep is stabilised, fix this.
Finance : Most cash has been moved to investment portfolios. Operating cashflow still negative. Treading carefully.
Housing : Completed mark1 renovations before a year in this new flat. Cool. Cleanup pending.
Taxes : Glue and filing in progress.
Quant : Bookmarked something on practical knots.
DEETS :
29 mar day#1
0120: I just presented some math to former client on how to refinance their company. Wonder what they'll say or hate. I think it has a chance to go next level.
0900 : PE networking breakfast. Startuppity chats. Someone closed Maarof, so late by fifteen minutes.
1100 : Follow-up chats with business developer.
1230 : Brunch with investee. Growth chats.
1430 : Shooting the shit with an old trader friend.
1600 : Angel networking with bizdev's mentor.
Some trading in a choppy market.
2040 : Danau Kota watching the cool kids
30 mar day#2
0815 : Enforced dreaming.
0900 : Enforced feeding.
1000 : Tidying logs.
1100 : Tidying asset allocation.
1220 : Off to socialise. Free train! Walking in KL : tree cover is shit, I need a sun hat.
1530 : Documentation.
1630 : Clear app quotas.
1745 : Enforced day dreaming.
1830 : A tiny swim.
1900 : Feeding.
2000 : Clearing app quotas.
2200 : Socialising.
2308 : Meditations on process. Current prognosis : rest and recuperation from the jobs of 2021-2022 is incomplete. As this progresses, more hours of the day will be allocated to sleep and exercise, and sleep cycles will revert to the 26-hour-day. I may need to make 10% returns on my active trading portfolio to cover monthly expenses.
31 mar day#3
0945 : Awakened.
1050 : Done checking positions. Perhaps time to enforce feeding and washing.
1140 : Repaired a sock.
1449 : Darned a shirt. Tested a few different techniques.
1515 : Network sync with ex-colleague.
1830 : Guest arrives.
2300 : Flurry of distracted, clumsy, trades, with negative results.
1 apr day#4
1010 : Reflections on poor experience, with a view to improve. Waking, washing, feeding, tidying of trades.
1100 : Startup fair networking sync.
1220 : Car AC diagnosis. Compressor fucked. To fix next week.
1238 : Iced water.
1330 : Getting shelves from storage, moving them to the forward base.
1540 : Moving operations complete. Soon, to build ...
1657 : B12.
Discussion : it will probably take me a few more days at minimum to discontort myself from the last job - sleep, and certain exercises to be key.
List of subjects I counselled this week ( perhaps, it explains why I am tired ) :
- bedroom furniture procurement
- software new venture development
- personal economics for aspiring parents
- employment law for staff under duress
- diet and exercise : immunology
- workflows : office administration
- marital and career planning
- managing upwards
- beverages : new product development
- software : requirement specification
- realestate : local market conditions for retail
Wait, maybe it is just a sugar crash.
2200 : Cleaned old Algot shelves from the cafe in 2020. Figured out configuration options.
2 apr, day 5
0245 : I think, I should filter in only strategy and investment jobs after sabbatical. However sabbatical will probably focus on technology, as usual.
1100 : Cleaning.
1218 : Enforced feeding.
1430 : Social choring.
1800 : Laundry.
1830 : Reflections on process.
1900 : Review of dietary supplements and other sundry prices.
1930 : Social choring.
2200 : Tax prep.
3 apr, day 6
1100 : Enforced feeding. Rice is being nuked. Clearing inboxes. Prep for massive drilling project.
1254 : Market is down. Asset allocation issues remain to be reflected on. Back to dusty work.
1800 : Marketing strategy consulting for a neighbour in exchange for dimsum. An honour.
2030 : Wine with partner. While I reorganise goods on the wall-mounted bar-top salvaged from the old cafe.
4 apr, day 7
0052 : Nap.
1036 : Clearing inboxes. Enforced feeding time, I guess. Finally improving sleep quality. Sleep quality probably lost due to lack of exercise, rather than lack of time. Hmm.
1800 : Done with mark1 renovations.
1830 : Documentation, and catching up on news.
2006 : Exit front door.
2035 : Curb at Persiaran KLCC, including time to purchase a monthly pass. Social chores commence, including a pricey dinner at McDs, whereby I wonder if there's room to clone them.
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Sab2 week2/52 review
Exercise : improved slightly
Finances : still shoddy; but markets are up
Quant : I found a rope for knot-study
Food, Travel, Socialising : gradually ticking-off chores
DEETS :
apr 5, day 8
0554 : End of post-nap reading session.
1225 : TRX en route from CJ to PJ.
1253 : BU station. Chit chat on tax.
1455 : BV via bus from PBD station. Helping a friend with a lawtech idea.
1900 : Caught up on news, cleaned up and fed at home. The present week must focus on many legal concerns, taxes, and international agreements.
1944 : Meditations on process.
2015 : A tiny swim. Freestyle, a hundred or so meters.
2030 : Social choring and tax receipts. More trucking stuff back to Kajang tomorrow.
Apr 6, s2 m1 w2 d9 2.47%
0931 : Dream capacity improved with fish oil. It's a cargo day. But the past hour has been spent on reading in bed.
1514 : Housekeeping finally complete, for now. Took 2+% of the break to get here.
2035 : 10.7km run, first in a while, wash-up, rehydration and supplementation, documentation.
2338 : oh shit Excel formulae had variable assignment since 2020, and sheets added it in 2022
Apr 7, s2 m1 w2 d10 2.74%
1119 : Awake, and reading the feeds. The week of legal focus begins with ... sex laws, since that's trending. Back to tax receipts in a bit.
1226 : Late, so enforced eating.
1554 : The first few hours post-breakfast are spent day dreaming, studying how my curtains behave in the wind, and on gossip. Still decompressing memory structures ... from the past campaign.
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1830 : Gym, briefly, first time in over a month, upperbody focus. Nerve stress in neck and shoulders needs to be addressed beginning with core stabilisation - flex.
1945 : Dinner with ex-colleagues.
Apr 8, s2 m1 w2 d11 3.01%
0100 : Shower, post-feeding.
0300 : Revised and updated myself on my friend's extradition case.
0348 : Adjusted trading documentation. Middling feelings.
1325 : Picked up at Bangsar LRT for pan mee social. 15mins platform to platform, Sentul Barat MRT to Ampang Park LRT, another 20mins to Bangsar. Net 40mins door to curb seems feasible.
1646 : Done glueing 2022's receipts, less online ones.
Happy spring equinox. We celebrate the miracle of life. Life that keeps you busy, cleaning toilets all your life. Remember, either we are growing, or killing. #hospitality
The rest of the next 2.5 days until EOD 13 will probably be expensed on social choring. Maybe a bit of market research.
I'm just glad to be getting the chores out of the way.
Apr 9, s1 m1 w2 d12 3.29%
0110 : Shower, after adjusting lighting design at home. Perhaps more reading. On the road after a short sleep ... soon.
*Barbie movie foot scene drops*
Internet : no weird pls what how who / Quinten?!
Runners and dancers : first time?
0845 : Exit KL
1059 : On the Penang bridge
1740 : Relationship counselling over cake
Translation for plebs : if you have no conceptual grasp of macro-economics and grand-strategy, your efforts are forgettable.
""For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places"" - Ephesians 6:12
Apr10 s2 m1 w2 d13 3.65%
1422 : A lot of support-eating. Now in Ipoh ... wearing a t-shirt from 2012 when I went support-cycling on a date to Myanmar. Eating and sleeping are two of my least favourite activities, but hey, necessary inconveniences of Maslov.
Apr11 s2 m1 w2 d14 3.83%
0900 : Interesting day, market is up.
1100 : Another AC compressor replacement for the little car.
1400 : Networking with a software friend.
1700 : Adjusted shower with a regulator to reduce flow.
2000 : Sorted and disassembled old pipe-fittings from the cafe.
2127 : US markets open in three minutes.
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Sab2 week 3/52 review
Society : Highly invested. Labour assistance for friends.
Markets : Active study. And progressed on tidying up old business.
Physiology : Refocused on conditioning the ANS / autonomic nervous system.
DEETS:
Apr12 s2 m1 w3 d15 4.11%
0118 : With various social, and other infrastructural chores out of the way, time and space at home begins to feel more like an office again. Excellent.
1100 : Having read the news, and listened to neighbours drilling, it is time to get up after over an hour.
1420 : Reading while waiting for rice to cook, after gym.
If you are more Holy during your sacred month or weekend, you are a hypocrite. Inconsistent holiness is a wholly holey proposition ...
1830 : Second gymming!
1906 : MRT to Muhibbah station ... takes under an hour.
2050 : Networking with marketer.
Apr13 s2 m1 w3 d16 4.38%
0003 : Data in the markets kinda day.
1227 : Up, cleared comms, trades, not yet eaten.
1730 : Small swim, more food, more news, then off to social chores across the city, on the MRT.
2315 : Home to reset, and to prepare for the next day.
Apr14 s2 m1 w3 d17 4.66%
0130 : Training my intuition to grasp live market data is difficult. But it is a good exercise, and something that is easy to focus on during these infrequent study periods. In 2012 I practiced with slow data - 2023 is faster.
0222 : Wondering if B12 is the only thing that gives me super powers. On reflection, it is just part of a constellation.
1134 : I do think worrying about money is making me less productive at more important tasks, so that's probably a reminder of why I generally don't bother about money.
1149 : Enforced feeding.
1307 : Enforced exercise, to improve oxygenation.
2030 : Back from dinner, social chores at home.
Apr15 s2 m1 w3 d18 4.93%
0019 : Market takes a dive. I'm drinking tonic, and meditating on process.
0246 : I have progressed to meditate on whether I am a good friend. This follows an earlier study today, linking physical exercise to a basic function of ANS stimulation.
1721 : Networking with old customer at Bukit Bintang, tested the train again. Sundry purchases.
1900 : Paid-off credit card statement for period beginning before the start of sabbatical. Budget mode begins. Until capital gains start to pay for cost of living, and investment obligations.
2200 : Plumbing duty, in Cyberjaya. Paid with McDonald's.
Apr16 s2 m1 w3 d19 5.21%
0117 : Reflecting on poor my performance is, and getting to tick off more social chores today, helping my dad to move stuff, before I return to focus on work.
0242 : generally I agree with gensler : there's no other reason for crypto to exist, but to desovereignise governance.
1000 : Tow truck drama on the PLUS. I really need to get a thermometer that works. I have only myself to blame, it has been malfunctioning for quite some time.
1200 : Tow truck almost here. Looking forward to reducing priority for social chores.
1530 : Done a back and front cleaning of dad's fridge, and helped him move some shelves, then vacuumed, took a shower, and washed my shirt and undies before being picked up for a cafe stop.
1900 : More plumbing.
2355 : Figured out the KCl hack.
Apr17 s2 m1 w3 d20 5.48%
1346 : Fed, newsed, napped. Almost the end of week three. ANS conditioning not as hot as it should be. Gotta focus on that. Markets are spicy today.
1404 : Desking. Update binaries, sync up with the world, clear administrative issues.
1529 : Financial review : 1Q2023 I managed to drop my expenses back to 3Q2021 level 🙂 This follows various costs of investment activity, for social and financial capital appreciation.
1618 : Car : ""Gasket burnt thro overheating. Will take min 3 days to fix. Not sure about other parts. Can only find out after the engine can be started.""
1830 : ☕ (ping test) : looking for business partners (hands-on) to run a cafe in SENTUL.
Exploring opportunities, and if none found, I will shut down my business entity that previously did this business.
Cheers. Feel free to PM me
1930 : Gym.
2200 : Figuring out how to disentangle yet another overleveraged friend.
2359 :
Banks : Trust us.
Americans : We don't trust you.
AAPL execs : They what ... 🤔⚙️🔒🏧🏦 ... hey guys, we're a bank now. Pick me! Pick me!
Apr18 s2 m1 w3 d21 5.75%
0101 : Job interview in the morning. I should probably read up about said company.
0237 : Bed.
0925 : Front door to Cyberjaya CC MRT in under an hour. Cheery interview, casual.
1440 : News and markets over coffee.
1800 : Back on the train.
1900 : Plumbing round two.
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Sab2 week4/52 review
Physiology : Acquired reading material, maintained focus on ANS conditioning. After a month of taking it easy on B12 and alliums, I should amp more intensive focus now.
Business : Almost done clearing up 2015-2020 ... just waiting for partners to decide on administrative actions now.
Markets : Passively holding.
Documentation : Almost done with 2022. At least various inputs have been accounted for - even if I can't offset any revenue from 2022, perhaps I can for future years which are busier.
Society : Perhaps still, too much socialisation with a circle too small.
DEETS:
Apr19 s2 m1 w4 d22 6.03%
0930 : News.
1238 : Fed, and commuting to KL.
1355 : Car report, cylinder damaged, Rm2k+ fix for neglecting to fix a thermometer. Live and learn, I guess. Two weeks down.
1422 : Food prep, enforced feeding.
1440 : Realestate tidying - time to read the strata acts.
Apr20 s2 m1 w4 d23 6.30%
1000 : Coffee, cold, to reduce the cost of cooling. The days are warm. Soon, enforced feeding, I ate rice three times yesterday - perhaps that is a needful benchmark adjustment, for increased anabolism, and exercise.
1200 : Reflections on my ANS, deescalating various protocols which I have had operating while employed by others. A lot of social choring recently, financial errors, and insufficient sleep.
1740 : Reading of the strata acts. More feeding. Some organisation of neighbours. Off to lepak at the mall. Back in the 90s I'd just sit on the floor and read. Maybe I have to more polite as an adult - maybe not.
1800 : Off to lepak at the mall. Back in the 90s I'd just sit on the floor and read. Maybe I have to more polite as an adult - maybe not.
As I was thinking the other day while jogging, the scenery of cars, clothes, and styling in KL is now prettier and more affluent than it was in the 90s through to the 10s. More incentive to go out and study people.
2330 : It's nice being on holiday. But it is taking me a while to undo all the commercial habits I have developed on the jobs from this past decade. Reminding myself there is no need to worry about what people think about food, or fashion, or cars, or friends, or family. Oh well, until the next job begins, I suppose.
Meanwhile, just for fun, I wonder how long it will take me to differentiate all the fashion brands in KLCC.
Apr21 s2 m1 w4 d24 6.68%
1056 : Reading. I see that my evaluation of market temperature has been limited by my lack of consideration for history before 2q2022. So I must broaden my scope.
1059 : Off to network with foodies. Main output from strategic inquiry : Klang Valley still, after 15 years of fancy coffee, has no brand which is consistently good at pour-overs.
1653 : Studied some of the train interchange routes more. Home, washed, and feeding.
1745 : Rest, with the intent to work. More readings on neurology.
1925 : Social sex is good, but masturbation can be better because there are only half (or less) as many people to think about.
2102 : Needing to feel special is a sickness, but then again, it's one of those features that drives the species forward at the expense of individuals (On the sentimentality of telling people that they matter.)
2322 : Another train ride, to collect social input, and to check out the horrible junction between Merdeka station and Plaza Rakyat station.
Apr22 s2 m1 w4 d25 6.85%
1051 : Inboxes. First good sleep in weeks or months, so probably got the macros right (diet), bearing in mind a bunch of walking happened, also.
1641 : automated a bunch of sabbatical journaling tools.
1704 : rest and feeding; practiced guitar
2006 : gymmed, fed, off to socialise
Apr23 s2 m1 w4 d26 7.12%
0205 : bed, soon
1743 : social choring, and data entry of tax receipts finally commences
2130 : time to feed again
2303 : dug up some resources for the study of anatomy, and fashion
Apr24 s2 m1 w4 d27 7.4%
0020 : An old customer from Saudi asked if I wanted to go over there to work. I checked the USDMYR and remembered how low GDP-per-capita (hence wages) are in Malaysia. I quoted a moderate rate, for someone of my skillset, in USD ... about a fifth of what a good engineer makes, at a good company in the US. I don't think that is an attractive rate, but hey, it is simply what it is. I am on holiday, and I should not make myself anxious over little things. There are so many chores I have yet to do ...
0042 : I think about how much I have progressed, and how little I have done in certain dimensions, since graduation. I reflect on my friends who have wanted different things and did those things. I spend my days counseling people on rectifying the things they want with the things others want, and optimising for personal happiness. I am grateful for the ease at which I have obtained happiness in life, and so early, almost twenty years ago. And I wonder if I should be less selfish in my work on daily basis. But no, first I secure my happiness, then I think about yours.
0424 : reading on amino acids; mtor; bed
1137 : awakened by daylight, the flat is in a state of half-kemptness; I scroll through the feed to improve my understanding of the world, I guess it is like TV
1213 : data entry resumes; gotta put some rice on the boil
1437 : break
1454 : maintenance of clothing
1825 : joining a friend for dinner
2200 : over 75%done with 2022's data entry for taxes
Apr25 s2 m1 w4 d28 7.67%
0030 : B12 doses
1155 : Long sleep, much dreaming towards the later phases. Sensory data feed and data processing rate maybe 1.3-1.7x baseline; B12 supplementation is such an interesting tool
1826 : Most data entry done. A few peripheral classes to examine. Fed. Did some debugging of the air hammer in my flat's plumbing. Gym soon. Made a salt shaker to improve dosing. Potassium upgrades soon.
2000 : A bit of lounging in the bunk with a view of the sky.
2155 : Reminders to ignore local-scale economics when considering how to act in general. I'm quite cognizant of my choices to live and work in a tiny economy - while some consider the things I have done to be grand, I think of my life as quaint ... like a sort of wooden shack in the grand scheme of things. Whereas of course, you have wooden shackers everywhere gloating about how large their shacks are. These are fools.
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Sab2 week5/52 review
Finances : did all 2022 tax stuff, but realised I'm being audited for 2021, so I've yet to do that; broke out some funds from long-term storage to finance short-term cash flow requirements ... need to bail-out old partnership, send wedding gift to bestie, repair car, whatnot ... plus markets are down
Physiology : cool - gradual improvements, far from perfect
Studies : minor exercises in music
Social life : committed to a volunteer job for the statutory body managing my home; fixed some pipes for old relatives, and had dinner with some others; also saw dad when I went to pick up my car
DEETS:
Apr26 s2 m1 w5 d29 7.95%
0312 : Done with a ton of tax data entry, classification tomorrow.
0421 : after some studies of anatomy, bed; i think i was up to 1.8Mcal today
1250 : tiny breakfast, groceries, and bank address updates.
1509 : home to cook rice. 4.2k bank balance, 1.4k incoming bills, 4k incoming extraordinary expenses ... I think I need to sell some pigs for cash flow
1935 : napping and personal intimacy; reading the news; markets are up. It's my eleventh year of home-ownership. In 2012, I did the whole cleaning, painting, designing thing. Spent a lot of 2015-2020 working on related projects. Had a second place to polish in 2022, and in 2023 I'm pretty comfortable with my ability to strip a house down to its structure, and rebuild everything. Glad I did the study.
1958 : I think it may be useful to treat the ANS as a server which has to be queried by consciousness.
Apr27 s2 m1 w5 d30 8.22%
0342 : much progress on taxes; a jog around the campus; markets are up and down; reading about tax laws, and entertainment businesses in Malaysia
0348 : prototype biz model : you can discuss anything with the vendor, the venue fee is on the vendor, you pay then vendor a total of 200% the venue fee, you get to pick the venue
0417 : querying my ANS; what does it want now; sleep, a little, perhaps
0600 : I often feel these years have been slow, but from others' points of view, I may seem fast; often in this life, I have thought about what it is to be quick in a slower world - we try not to stumble over others, nor let them stumble over us
0616 : listening to the traffic pick up for the day; time for food
1022 : left the flat for an ikea meetup.
1758 : tea and ANS queries, then back to administration
2015 : dietary study ... so far I haven't seemed to find any amino acid which sufficiently substitutes the stimulatory effects of allium; let me try double-dosing the arginine/citrulline today, as a test
2357 : Drove an Iriz today. Janky transmission, floaty suspension. Maybe I'm just too used to the Kancil
Apr28 s2 m2 w5 d31 8.49%
1318 : on the train to Senawang from Sentul, to pick up the fixed car
1418 : an hour to bangi
1518 : an hour more to seremban
2227 : home, supplementing, thinking about condo agm1 tomorrow
Apr29 s2 m2 w5 d32 8.77%
0528 : bit of prep for condo AGM ; tax submitted for 2022 ; didn't realise till just now that I got an audit query for 2021 tax ... so I'll have to follow up on that later
1400 : AGM1 : well my life just got more complicated. Now I'm probably the secretary for entire building. Could have volunteered for chair but managed to get someone just to jump first. As the bard said ...
1500 : the rest of the day is spent half-asleep with social partners
Apr30 s2 m2 w5 d33 9.04%
1400 : business development meeting, but before that I must check on a family home repair
1708 : feeding, meanwhile; biz dev postponed till later this evening; clearing bills
1752 : cleaned up the piano for practice
1854 : kajang run for gear
2100 : adjusted portfolio; tested an old PS2 keyboard with a USB adapted - failed
May1 s2 m2 w5 d34 9.32%
0149 : cleaned up AGM minutes; adjusted portfolio - careless lost $ on transaction fees
0217 : I gave some business development advice to a neighbour. Of course, I tried to present myself honestly, as a boring nerd who isn't a foodie, yet thinks foodies are cows to be milked. Heartless. It's strange where our lives take us, I always say. Where to, next?
0337 : meditation on process; showered and in bed ; still underutilising my capital base ; perhaps i need more manpower; i can only be grateful to have made better mistakes than others; week5 draws to an end, and i should quicken my business
0435 : savouring the aural whine of the nervous system in a silent place -- that sound which makes people feel claustrophobic because it reminds them of enclosed spaces; pondering the weight of flesh borne by each individual muscle; simulating the shapes of embodied heat and cold among other sensations, as if one's body were of another geometry; people do so many things they do not have words to express, hence say they value time spent ""doing nothing""; and they imagine this ""makes them human"", but really they simply lack the intelligence to recognise it as trivia
1742 : Repiped the aunties. Genius, plumber, playboy, misanthropist needs a shower ...
2341 : dinner with fam from mom's side. finally found cheap fine-holed showerhead, so installed one to test at home
May2 s2 m2 w5 d35 9.59%
0959 : enforced feeding. today my heap contains LHDN audit, condo management, and gym
1414 : on the train, to get a keyboard. slept well, probably need to reinforce the practice of protein before bed.
2235 : I seem to be up to 110g protein on 2 Mcals, on a day when I do work out. But for neural stimulus optimisation ... i think I have to break this up into two sessions a day, to increase usable minutes of work on desk stuff. A matter of how often, and how hard to punch the ANS ...
2300 : sent wedding gift to bestie, smol but significant; I now have time to contemplate the fact that I have no friends to hang out with at night, because I no longer run a 24-hour business; perhaps time to get that bike up and running for the 24-hour SBUX runs
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Sab2 week6/52 review
Overall, a very socially-oriented week. Physical conditioning steadily progressing. Starting to get creative with finances and business entities. May soon, a cafe in the home. And time to ramp up focus on work.
DEETS:
May3 s2 m2 w6 d36 9.86%
0144 : meditations on process; wondering if i will derail my current peaceful trajectory; ah, holidays
0213 : time to feed
1323 : awake
2321 : Risk on. 2am fed hike. Expecting markets to pop a bit after the hike. May drop first then pop.
May4 s2 m2 w6 d37 10.14%
0230 : Watching Powell with friends.
0444 : All messes are the same in quantity. Just a difference in quality.
1100 : Why is my ceiling leaking -_-,
1511 : Considered remodeling the office, but I can't find a better position for fittings yet. so the plan is to nap, then get back to audit prep
1630 : on the train to dinner with bestie's wedding logistics team.
2100 : home and reading; music quality was good on the train today, but cell connectivity was horrible
2344 : off to counsel a cousin on kopitiams in the morning; social chores which may or may not result in new business
May5 s2 m2 w6 d38 10.41%
0006 : enforced feeding, half a packet of instant noodles 79/2g, half a packet of tofu 400/2g, too much salt in a whole packet of instant noodles
0041 : supplemented; methionine stinks of old mushrooms, but I suppose it lends its unique character to the palate.
0224 : The healing process is good, and I am enjoying the cognitive benefits of a systematic holiday. A lot of energy has been funneled into social chores these few weeks. That has allowed me to build up a modicum of boredom, which then allows me the excess resource allocation to reflect on my thoughts in more detail. Metacognition. Today I am thinking about the transition from exhaustion of creativity, where one is smart enough to engage in routine operations without being able to improve them, to resumption of recreational thought process improvements via mutation and culling of tested technique on a moment to moment basis. I look forward to further recovery, and improvement of psyops.
0829 : Off to coaching. Too late to take a train.
1241 : remodelling uncertainty
1700 : i'm building a duct in my flat.
2336 : I just rearranged my flat - to double my hosting space. So please come by for drinks or food experiments, before I run out of time and study break budget haha.
I DID NOT ANTICIPATE HAVING TO BUILD A DUCT IN MY FLAT
May6 s2 m2 w6 d39 10.68%
1159 : heated chit chat with neighbours on governance; messy trading day, maybe spent too much on fees again ... need ro get back to a desk-oriented system maybe
1951 : day spent half asleep, collecting old toys thrown away by others, networking with a neighbour, and attempting home improvements for a friend; and of course, fretting about my personal operational risks
May7 s2 m2 w6 d40 10.96%
0102 : The fools are quite exhausting today. And for my choice of company, we are equals. 🙃 Also the wet patch on my ceiling grows larger by the day.
0119 : listening to raindrops
0123 : am i partying too much?
0158 : Following what seems like an endless week of social chores, I am worrying about myself. My goals for personal development in the moment match my aspirations for the species. I wish for us to be less subconsciously reactive to stimuli, to move faster, and to waste less energy. But I can only focus on advancing the species by improving myself, for now.
1244 : awake. reaching out to quite members of the strata committee. time to feed. maybe time to tighten all schedules and resume busy-ness.
1655 : translated pre-formal strata chats to Malay for a resident request - good exercise in studying the language of the Act
May8 s2 m2 w6 d41 11.23%
1736 : housekeeping, recycling, and chasing strata management issues; fun but not in the sun
1738 : The plebeian-middle dreams of cars, food, travel destinations, and relationships. It takes a lot of work to sift through individuals to find those who are less bogged down by trivia.
1739 : need to revise ANS calibration, and finops
2158 : got fittings at Daiso, and brown rice. Public nuisance log : two buskers had a guitar and a cello in the tunnel between MyTown and the MRT. A cello with AN AMP. I put five bucks in their box, and said ""this space, it would sound better without amplification; it is so contained"", then I walked off. And they stopped playing.
May9 s2 m2 w6 d42 11.51%
0038 : Doing a quick review of Malaysian workforce benefits ... millions of distracting knick-knacks like x% EPF, various forms of insurance, public holidays, etc. Well, the reason I've rarely been interested in Malaysian employment is that fundamentally the base pay is low. The rest is just spit-shining a turd. Little has changed, on we go! Sabbatical is good so far.
0300 : processing negative feedback from a friend ... I don't see why people would want to re-invest in negative experiences (sunk cost fallacy). oh well, life is a gamble, game on.
0400 : Risk on. A bonfire awaits us.
1040 : awakened by a wet dream. i guess it is time to work
1700 : parcel tax, strata process control, old LLP bail-out, and digitisation of old documents
1800 : more feeding. reading up on warp and weft, and related things which I can never remember
1900 : Heading to Spotlight at MyTown later - anyone want to join me?
2330 : Took the train to Spotlight, to expand my toolkit. Then got home and drove out to meet a Bumble match. I must have thoroughly disappointed her ... she did not want to talk much. I made fun of her car, and she left. What does a girl with an SLK (coupe) need from a boy who plays with needles, eh? As I left the parking lot in my SLK (Perodua), she was crossing the street. I wound down the window, ""bye!"", I said, ""bye,"" she said, looking a little dazed.
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Sab2 week7/52 review
The past few weeks have involved a lot of social choring. But the returns are meagre, and that has led me to believe I should allocate an epoch or at least a few years, to improving the quality of my network. Along with physical conditioning, and commercial intuition, these three areas of improvement are coalescing as a new mandate.
DEETS:
May10 s2 m2 w7 d43 11.78%
1202 : day begins with strata management noises. feeding. swiping.
1243 : I don't want to live in world where people get excited about things.
1400 : To be the change in the world, I am the moistest duvet.
1800 : loads of strata things and some personal documentation
1900 : adjusted lighting at home
2015 : off to iterate on Sudo stuff
May11 s2 m2 w7 d44 12.05%
1224 : cleared inboxes; back to punching work; grooming and feeding
1500 : checked in on colleagues
2000 : Dinner planning bestie's wedding logistics. Adjacent table of young moms discusses how men don't talk about their feelings. Bestie : Jerng doesn't talk about his feelings. Jerng : I talk about ALL my feelings. But (1) I don't have many, and (2) my feelings HORRIFY most people, so ... shhh. 😎
2330 : Nuclear family dinner again this weekend. After this I'm going to cut down back to a mean if 1-2 meetups a year. Seems like a half dozen already in the past year.
May12 s2 m2 w7 d45 12.33%
0346 : Got around to scanning tax receipts for audit 2021. Finally. 13-day turn-around time.
0603 : time to rest
1148 : There truly is very little in the way of alternatives to B12 supplementation for maintaining sleep quality, it seems. Maybe alliums, but that has social side effects. I also reverted to my preferred pillow arrangement for reading. time to feed
2020 : Took it easy after tax. Learnt cafe stuff in sg buloh. Met new person for coffee. Went to mytown to exchange daiso thing. Next things for me to stress about : strata and trading.
2105 : fed. 1. Time to chill.
2. That means, preparing to lose a lot of money, and having it be okay.
May13 s2 m2 w7 d46 12.6%
0915 : prep for strata committee meeting
1330 : second meeting, helping bestie plan wedding
1715 : movie with friend
2045 : groceries
2154 : home, feeding
2327 : Test results :
Body - weak
Trading intuition - weak
Social network - weak
Alright, that's a few things to work on!
2357 : improved the regex in my journal tool; credit card spending still out of whack.
May14 s2 m2 w7 d47 12.88%
0027 : besides work, maybe violin and sewing machine studies next
0030 : Nio is better than Tesla. For now.
0128 : maybe I'll pump up my bike and finish recycling soon
0207 : I used to work a lot, during this one job I had for five years. Being solely responsible for the viability of a 19-shareholder enterprise, running around the clock, was slightly unnerving. Since that job, I may have gotten lazy, as less has been demanded of me. I need to make the game harder. What shall I pretend is the opportunity cost of not getting things done each day? Maybe if I pretend that the world is an interesting place, full of people with fundamental value, then the game will increase in difficulty. Maybe I should pretend ...
0326 : cleared some receipts
0419 : pumped bike, changed batteries, packed recycling, showered.
0930 : off to eat before social choring
1600 : Risk off. Selling everything.
Based on weekend behaviour.
Nah. Too much noise. Just gonna ride out the 15% chance of a 15% dip.
2100 : done with family chores for the day. home. eyes on market
May15 s2 m2 w7 d48 13.15%
0914 : caught up on sleep
1312 : strata admin work; bad trades when I woke up, monitoring markets now; partnership cleanups next; took out some recycling; studying some technical price histories
May16 s2 m2 w7 d49 13.42%
0032 : Some people are bored because they need to make money. Some people are making money because they are bored. Don't confuse their motives ... the outcomes are very different.
1012 : wrote a note on the math of resource allocations towards cognition, in time, and the resulting reliability of cognitions. Separately commented on software design patterns : Micro-services were a reaction to badly architectured monoliths. The cycle back to monoliths is only possible because of the communal exercise in encapsulation and separation of concerns which is now better on average in software. It is a learning process for the community. Over time, the community's intelligence increases, enabling different displays of the same.
1359 : seems like this week's chores are all about corporate governance. practice in public markets has been brutal, of sorts, but I am improving in my ability to manage risks. i think i would be better at this if i took a more disciplined approach, or if i spent more time focusing on it like a business
1415 : also managed to break out the violin and tune it up yesterday
2003: strata chores; reintroduced raw garlic to my diet. fixed up a bike tyre at a cute old uncle shop on Jalan Pahang.
2300: strata chores continued, a collection of signatures. counselled my uncle on my aunts
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Sab2 week8/52 review
Month 2 has been almost entirely dominated by social chores. Not amusing. Some business administration is also getting done.
DEETS:
May17 s2 m2 w8 d50 13.7%
0319 : a ton of email cleared
1137 : enforced feeding. chores
1403 : Cleared inbox. Breakfast break.
1418 : Aesthetics aside : in terms of mechanics, if you're not comfy walking on the balls, ""tiptoe"", please don't wear heels - it'll really fuck up your tissues. Just try walking as such without the shoes, to find out if you're good. #jerngmansplainseverything
1630 : third attempt to patch the white shirt. studied the technique of running thread through the same hole multiple times to fill it.
1800 : I think I've finally cleaned up enough hardware and admin stuff to get back to software studies tomorrow. Took fifty days of break!
May18 s2 m2 w8 d51 13.97%
0830 : off to meetings
1644 : A cougar a day, keeps boredom at bay.
- nocontextmemes
May19 s2 m2 w8 d52 14.25%
1420 : past day littered with social chores and strata+sudo administrative details. home to rest; wedding chores coming up tomorrow
1620 : housekeeping to improve hosting space
2212 : tax returns are in, yay; I keep pressing the wrong buttons and paying unnecessary fees, boo
May20 s2 m2 w8 d53 14.52%
2330 : done with wedding chores, on to after-party
May21 s2 m2 w8 d54 14.79%
0143 : Done with bestie's wedding! Now I can add flower arrangement to my LinkedIn. Nothing like a full day of wedding activities to remind oneself, of the colossal proportion of trivia that dominates the daily thought processes of the average citizen. Looking forward from this chore, to getting back to work ...
1644 : back to software development, yay
2241 : espeak meimei; espeak -p 25 meimei; espeak -75 meimei
So, my friend wanted to learn how to make the computer talk ... #nsfw
May22 s2 m2 w8 d55 15.07%
0519 : updated linkedin profile with jacketed pix from the wedding; dating profiles later
1119 : Awake. Enforced feeding.
1800 : AWS Lambda studies. Various strata and sudo administrative chores.
1900 : networking with neighbours
2100 : networking with food business enthusiasts
May23 s2 m2 w8 d56 15.34%
0202 : Some people did not find their schooling useful. Others did not find employment useful. Some do not find other people useful. We are all avoiding useless things.
I am not sure that learning new things is useful. However, that indicates that I am studying sufficiently difficult things. Otherwise I would have more certainty about what I study, and therefore render the study useless.
1711 : Learnt how to stamp friendly loan agreements. burnt 30 ringgit because i didn't understand why my car wasn't starting. there wasn't anything wrong with it
2217 : strata planning
2322: fed. meditations on process
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Sab2 week9/52 review
Highlights this week : more coding, which is good
DEETS:
May24 s2 m2 w9 d57 15.62%
0231 : bed ish
1205 : awake
1730 : checked out the old car detailer nearby, deposited checks to buy out sudo partners, tested some crappy cendol, sent shoes for resoling, did a bunch of strata management
May25 s2 m2 w9 d58 15.89%
0549 : studying compilation of arm64 binaries and deployment to lambda arm64, no joy - git is complicated; OK - so I need a (git) binary on Lambda-arm. This runtime uses Graviton2 chips and Amazon Linux 2. I'm not in the terminal of a c6g.medium instance learning how to use RHEL/AL2 ... as I try to figure out how to compile and download the relevant binaries so that I can upload them back to Lambda later.
1151 : awake
1452 : started doing squats; 10lbs x2 x20 ... gotta get that to 60lbs x2 x 20. time to code
1624 : Compiling (git) with LDFLAGS=-static causes it to skip (git-remote-https). Now I'm compiling a dynamic executable to compare the output.
1757 : sudo administration continues; strata noise continues. SOCSO-EIS-RIA claim approved. cool.
As for lambda-arm binaries ... I really need to understand compiled binary linkages more. This is a deficit in myself which can now be addressed -slowly.
1900 : bike ride around the hood
May26 s2 m2 w9 d59 16.16%
0056 : The only time I ever get to rest and empty my memory, is while waiting for machines to do things.
0413 : resolved git on lambda arm issue - time to rest
1300 : meeting neighbour for networking; got stuck in rain at KFC; got car back from ketuk guy
1730 : some coding, some study of mum's keyboard, off to social chores at KLCC
May27 s2 m2 w9 d60 16.44%
0340 : mid-week. I think I need to thoroughly revise the framework code I initiated in 2020 before deciding how to move it forward
0454 : two months into sabbatical, i guess i should be grateful that it didn't take longer to settle chores procrastinated from 2012 to 2022. and it's good to finally have time to refocus on work, after doing other people's nonsense for a coupla years.
1648 : I don't have much time. I should focus more on the present, to be productive.
2057 : It's true for dating, and maybe for jobs as well : developing markets attract all the turds who didn't want to play in developed markets : speaking for myself of course.
2130 : 5sets 20 reps 10lbs per arm dumbbell racked squats today across two visits to the gym.
May28 s2 m3 w9 d61 16.71%
0407 : One of the more surprising things about having survived till 40 (itself remarkable) is how little difference there is between 14yo me and 40yo me.
1135 : Awake. Come. News read. Time to feed.
1905 : Grazed on the usual stuff. Supplemented. Reminding myself to workout. Nap. Connecting with old and new friends on text. Surrounded by weakness. I must improve my environment. My mind is slow, from working so long for others. Did some administration for the partnership. There is a lot left to do ...
2000 : One of the most interesting things about Malaysian food culture, is that the dominant citrus soda is an electrolyte drink (think Gatorade), called 100-Plus.
2030 : lifted. bkt. cycled to supermarket at raintreerain. tofu
2122 : Going to Kiara cafe to talk about running cafes. Let's go!
May29 s2 m3 w9 d62 16.99%
0925 : rise and grind
1742 : some sudo administration. some strata research
1930 : My potassium chloride finally turned up in the mail. Had to reorder after the first package got lost. It's not as salty as sodium chloride - sweeter, perhaps. I'll have to test some more in the days ahead.
2000 : Extended the frame holding the curtain against my shrink-wrapped office. will monitor energy consumption further
May30 s2 m3 w9 d63 17.26%
1342 : feeding before a visiting technician examines the leaky ceiling
2155 : a day full of fixing stuff for other people. then I bought rice, and picked up my cereal from downstairs.back to coding
2359 : I think I just claimed unemployment insurance, for the first time in my life. Before 40!
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Sab2 week10/52 review
Progress on all fronts has been slow, and steady.
DEETS:
May31 s2 m3 w10 d64 17.53%
0930 : Awake. Enforced feeding, washing, work.
1200 : All sorts of Jho Low associate talk today.
I wonder what Epstein is up to meanwhile.
2003 : So has Jho's aide been disappeared by himself, his enemies, or a witness protection program?
2222 : How to spend unemployment insurance:
1. re-sole old Batas : RM 60
2. take friends out to eat : one was ill -postponed; one chose Hanam Korean
2.1. we sit down, i'm like, ""that's a really cute butt""
""Where?""
""over there [eyes], in brown and white. that butt is really well dressed. It's really cute""
""Yeeer""
""[To table griller] you have a really nice office. All the girls are really cute.""
2.2. ordering food
""which set do you want?""
""I don't care. You're the foodie. You know what I see? [Opens menu] meat, meat, meat, [turns page] meat meat, meat meat meat, veggy, veggy, veggy""
I'm glad we can still be friends despite differences in curiosity.
2328 : re : the view that gov.my should create universities and hire PhDs to professorships until MY runs out of unemployed PhDs
Well it would be a pile of shit, but I'll take a pile of shit universities ( like the ones we currently have ) over no universities ... any day.
Jun1 s2 m3 w10 d65 17.81%
0024 : Breaking news : potassium chloride stimulates my nose nerves more than my tongue nerves, relative to sodium chloride.
1200 : Rise and grind.
1500 : 8Y: Difference now is I made the table smaller, and switched to air-conditioning. The monitor, lamp, powerstrip, and trashcan, are likely the same. This is what good friends are for 😛
1640 : time to get more social chores out of the way; waiting on personal tax audit, partnership wind-up, and strata management, right now.
2230 : Ticked more social chores off the list. Back to work in a bit. Someone asked how much EIS insurance was in terms of months ... well it's about 5.618 months of mortgage. Not perfect, but useful nonetheless.
Jun2 s2 m3 w10 d66 18.08%
0039 : When I'm paying 50% attention to markets, I'm making 10% a month. When I'm paying 25% attention, I'm losing 10% a month on the same assets. So, I am reminded to switch assets to higher beta assets whenever I have less attention on markets. Right now I'm supposed to be studying, so high beta is safe.
0213 : Finally down to software, for a bit, today.
0354 : The flat is clean, and I have progressed a bit at work. Down in the streets below, a woman is screaming. It is a natural part of the hood. I feel privileged and return to my work.
0420 : Malaysia : 1JUL2023 ... RM 7.21 per hour minimum wage, RM 14.20 per big mac
1610 : Got 10h sleep finally. Haven't woken up this late in a while. If this reverts to my preferred circadian practice, it'll be 26h days with a moving sleep time.
1748 : Reading tax governance in Malay, today.
2045 : rest is good.
Jun3 s2 m3 w10 d67 18.36%
0125 : I just realised I should have superglued my missing skin patch
0550 : Cleaned up Sudo document stores a bit.
Fixed up the bike lights and batteries.
Sometimes I wonder if I'd be happier drugged up with the boys and their expat wives doing parties by the pool. But I figure, I'm not inherently cool enough - I already find it very commercial to dress up in shirts, study hipster food, and drink alcohol just so that I have friends ... I think if I spent even more time on diminished mental capacity, I'd just have no time for my own interests at all. That being said, business is business ... it really depends on who's paying the bills in any year.
0854 : time for bed. relatives still making noise. oh well.
1400 : done with some contractor supervision at the aunties' place.
1613 : back at a desk. More shared storage housekeeping.
Jun4 s2 m3 w10 d68 18.63%
2013 : I tried to buy some real property in 2011. It took 27 months to transact. I didn't learn the details of the process.
I tried again to buy some in 2021. It took 13 months to transact. Since then I have studied the process in more detail.
Low priority learnings - eventually one graduates.
2330 : Went to get some documents from dad. Ended up helping with a traditional activity : scavenging unused pots from the playground.
Jun5 s2 m3 w10 d69 18.9%
0308 : laundry after a haul from seremban and kajang
0534 : I have no respect for people who feel shame. It is better to focus on higher classes. This is probably just another aspect of my scorn for the timid.
0623 : time to sleep. liquid bandage tests have been interesting. slow, gradual progress in studies
1430 : food and beverage industry networking.
2010 : found the lost audit report and accounts bag from 2021
Jun6 s2 m3 w10 d70 19.18%
0643 : done some coding. accompanied partner to the clinic for antibiotics. time to rest
1910 : Interviewed more strata management agents for my volunteer job. A bunch of scanning and filing to do for my old partnership and other things that need to be sold. Advising a friend on employment termination benefits and obligations over dinner.
Eventually, some software development gets done. It is like sculpture at this point, since I am brokering mainly between developer experience /DX and the IETF standards, and Amazon.
2350 : I spent the evening a friend to steelman his new business pitch. It led me to think about my own economics, and so I updated the copy on my dating apps.
LOL : it's difficult to explain myself to people who work to stay alive, or who work to have money to do this or that, or who work to have a family.
I decided that I didn't need to extend my life, and therefore didn't need money, fundamentally in 2004 ... since then, I have amused myself, among other things, by finding ways to take money from other people
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Sab2 week11/52 review
A VERY stressful week. All sorts of counterparties flaking out, and lots of remedial work was done.
DEETS:
Jun7 s2 m3 w11 d71 19.45%
0323 : shopped online for a few knick-knacks like cord locks, and chair feet. Integrated past purchases of high-visibility vests and LED lights for biking. It's good to get stupid shit out of the way.
1630 : jocelyn chia comedy ruckus : Malaysians need to get out of their own asses. Ah well, butthurt basically defines our national brand.
1717 : breakfast of rice and furikake, B12, methionine, arginine, lysine, leucine, creatine, beta alanine; fired off the procurement order for services to wind-up; coached various employees on seeking legal support; attached new owners to the owners' forum; checked on procurement protocols with the managing agent; caught up a bit with friends on text; plugged myself into GS talkshows on Spotify at 2x speed; probably gonna hit the gym for squats; next I think ... scanning documents
Jun8 s2 m3 w11 d72 19.73%
0332 : Apple Vision heralds the beginning of the ""plausible acceptability"" augmented reality sex industry. AAPL stock should be up.
0601 : My learning from recent trades is, I can exit at a good time but re-enter too early.
Reviewing personal finances, I'm going by the heuristic of ""a $10 weekly habit annualised is $500"", so I'm looking for ways to get rid of $10-$100 habits which have no long-term value in my portfolio.
1500 : networking with an ex-colleague who was terminated, whom I connected with when he photoshot my bestie's wedding. We talked about product and services business development.
2300 : TIL :
An ""websocket gateway"" application functions to open, maintain, close websocket connections.
It can interact with backend FaaS, such that a single websocket connection can persist across multiple short-lived function invocations.
2358 : also TIL how WKW, Faye Wong, and the Cranberries are related
Jun9 s2 m3 w11 d73 20%
1815 : Today's networking run-rate was RM27.5 or RM14,000/y. Gotta chop this down a bit.
Jun10 s2 m3 w11 d74 20.27%
0300 : a bunch of scanning of old documents
0514 : Aurora Serverless v2 - PostgreSQL - scales to zero after 300s - 30s cold start - minimum active cost $0.12/hour. nice.
0552 : Sabbatical 2 : so far investment loss tolerance in any single asset class has been stretched to around $6,000.
Sabbatical 1 : it was up to $26,000.
So as far as personal development goes, still got quite a ways to go before I even reach training magnitudes of a decade ago ...
0623 : Time to rest. More business networking, with the condo chairman, then more work later.
1330 : I'd like to announce that I have entered into a long-term relationship with the ants in my home.
They make a trail, I find their hole, and I chem it. They find another hole. Repeat. They don't find holes fast enough. I put bait to feed them. Repeat.
2135 : networking on real property tax matters
Jun11 s2 m3 w11 d75 20.55%
0309 : Super-duper tired. The point is not to be concerned with being thanked or not, but take profit regardless. Speaking of profit-taking, I haven't sold a single ADA since the price crashed 35% or so on SEC enforcement. In fact I've been buying a bit more. Perhaps an issue haha.
0544 : I spent most of yesterday helping other people. Even when I ask for help, I end up finding problems to fix for someone else. Hmm. Such is genius.
0600 : time for more aggressive sleep
Jun12 s2 m3 w11 d76 20.82%
2237 : Cleared a bunch of admin work. Phew. Cleared queries on RPGT and audit\amendment with LHDN. visited cosec to lock in services for wind-up. doted on strata management kids
People who can't think of what the world would be like without money are fools. But that's not a bad thing. Just acknowledge the deficit, and proceed with awareness. We need to know whose feelings can be hurt, so that we avoid hurting too many feelings, in this life.
10g of 40% liquor is about 0.54 standard units of alcohol. Straightforward amount for a quick drink. There is no safe amount of alcohol - one just keeps pace with the business environment. I guess if I do retire ""from business"", then I'll have a decent reason not to bother with alcohol. But that would probably mean retiring from ""a certain type of woman"" also.
Jun13 s2 m3 w11 d77 21.1%
0051 : In my recent studies, I find that I may have broken another law quite some time ago. I wonder how much of a problem it will present to me in the future. I don't feel comfortable posting about it - but I will after further study.
Meanwhile, I do wonder about all the folks driving around on their phones. Oh whatever.
I also need to work on my grammar and spelling. Working with less-literate classes for too long, puts me out of touch with standards.
0249 : meditations on process. i have not been granting enough control to my autonomic nervous system, of late
1000 : Tactical indicator of autonomic nervous system stress : increased right-hand dominance.
I really need to come up with more metrics for monitoring the ANS. The only thing at the top of my head is kinesthetic bandwidth, or the degree of somatic data which one is able to consciously manipulate simultaneously, and how many times per minute. The APM that really matters ...
2200 : A busy day, dealing with current stressors of engagement with uncertain service providers, multiple government agencies for reassurances of absences of registration, and switching phones again. At least, a working phone for the first time in a year.
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Sab2 week12/52 review
A week of relative relief. A lot of hammering out slow progress, and the highlight was nailing down a hyponatremia hypothesis after six months of testing. Not horrible for Month 3.
DEETS:
Jun14 s2 m3 w12 d78 21.37%
2359 : most of the day was spent servicing my friends. a few hours were spent on strata management. differing levels of appreciation, based on differing trauma levels in each counterparty.
Jun15 s2 m3 w12 d79 21.64%
0030 : Business is very simple. Be sure of what makes you happy, and it will be easier to find happiness.
Relationships are low priority for some people. They are high priority for other people. People for whom relationships are a high priority should focus more on networks who have high priorities on relationships. For these, it is detrimental to invest in networks who have low priorities on relationships - they will probably make each other sad.
1617 : Horrible fortnight full of diaper changes. Gonna get another 20sen coffee and think about process.
Backlog as of day 79 ... 21.64% :
Good time to check contracts, and increase my bounce rate for items I didn't commit to.
Admin:
- sell inventory
- sell mm
- mm mCorp data
- pay monthly bills
- refund fire insurances
- windup plt
- meet new people
Practices:
- knots
- keys
- strings
- freehand
- aws plumbing
- photography & editing
- dev : ios, android, react, vue, meteor, etc.
- reclassify framework descriptions
- increase left-side dominance
- restore grammar quality
2028 : Today I am thinking about thinking. I haven't done this in a while. I used to do it more when I was in college.
Recently I've cleared some stuff off my schedule, so I have more time to think. Hopefully it will be a productive period.
It is, I suppose, a valid way to pass time while waiting for expiry.
One wonders how one will end. Perhaps this is a half day of rest.
2259 : Protocol test : salt, creatine, B12
2341 : Gonna cook my nuts.
Haven't cooked nuts in ages :D
Almonds, sunflower seeds, etc.
Jun16 s2 m3 w12 d80 21.92%
0334 : Emotional sensitivity is probably my least favourite thing about Malaysians. It is putrid, rank, vile, and their butthurt is a pain in my butt ... at this rate, probably a life-long pain.
2147 : Started the day by locking in dates for a legal briefing for my committee.
Sent a draft timeline for financial management of a wind-up situation to the cosec.
Next, a counselling session for a prospective cafe subsale buyer.
Third, gym - 10lbs x 2 hands x 20 res x 5 sets ... racked squat ... somewhat light-headed. Decent work out, then.
Laundry.
Jun17 s2 m3 w12 d81 22.19%
0315 : sorting out chargers and cables at home.
A bit of legal advice for a friend's friend.
Paid bills.
Fed.
Time to study knots.
0354 : Haven't been on Slack for two years - happy to see they switched 10k message limit to 90 days. Great for small ops
0405 : showered; rest is good. time to read a bit of code.
0552 : Time to feed, and rest.
1517 : improved the balcony fittings. centered a plant, and distributed chairs symmetrically. completed piping of air-conditioner outdoor unit condensate. cleaned some acrylic stains off clothes, and aired out the flat.
1518 : I got my $4 body scale to work. Turns out it was just being a princess about the battery voltage, and the batteries are weird 1.7V each ... swapped to 1.5V batteries and the scale behaves.
Modern life.
1545 : I probably need to cut down on fiction for social purposes. It's eating into my memory space.
1547 : testing dried cranberries infused into vodka.
1701 : stupid shit in front of me right now : testing chilli powder as pigeon repellent -_-
1940 : Day 81 - 22.2% - Recently I've been more disciplined about how I spend my time and money. Resultingly my friends realise we don't have much in common outside what social dainties money can buy. Hehe. It's good to reduce distractions. I have spent much of the day so far on home improvement, feeding, and meditation on how to optimise processes. There seem to be two areas of focus ... physical conditioning, and software engineering. Aside from that, a number of calisthenic amusements.
2200 : Basking in privilege - the beauty of my home. With a tummy full of iced water, after a nap. And tomorrow I could be sick, dead, or in jail - you never know.
2205 : Coming to terms with my hyponatremia.
Jun18 s2 m3 w12 d82 22.47%
0100 : Checked my bank account statements. I owe $103,647. ^_^ I wonder if I will live long enough to pay it off.
1400 : continued with paint touch-ups at home. fed. off to the gym in a bit.
1452 : Expertise is a middle-class value. Specialisation, is the brand which the the poor attach to themselves, in order to ascend economic ladders. Maybe this is why Malaysia lacks a strong middle-class ... no aspiration, to specialise. So, the middle in Malaysia, are among the global poor.
My LinkedIn handle has been generalistforhire for as long as I can remember. I wasn't raised with middle-class values. I was raised to simply enjoy my existence as a clever person, and to let others revolve around me. Perhaps that is an upper-class value.
Games.
Jun19 s2 m3 w12 d83 22.74%
0229 : The world is made of strange social relations.
0540 : I didn't really anticipate spending weeks of my life writing logging software. But since the world is no good, there I go.
1500 : a heuristic to fix right-hand dominance, is simply to interrupt any process requiring both hands, and require the left hand to exert more pressure and/or speed than the right hand. so i go to train my nerves.
1502 : awake, washed, fed.
1632 : touched up painted items. thoughts about the slowness of the wind-up process. counselled a friend. sodium levels seem ok today. gonna keep monitoring. moving next to clear inboxes, SOP maps, and bills.
1835 : learnt about EXCISE tax today.
2359 : work out was ok - sodium seems to be doing its thing, muscle are hydrating as well as they ever have. I guess it's a good learning after six months of training.
Jun20 s2 m3 w12 d84 23.01%
0333 : cleared inbox.
0420 : patched grouting. time for snack
1727 : disengaged with flaky corporate services provider. will try to DIY more. went to SSM and got a bunch of contacts. Pigeon repellent test. Today I tried chilli flakes. Massive failure - the pigeons are very happy. Tomorrow I will try chilli infused water.
1728 : wait, maybe it's not the chilli infusion, by the vinegar from fermentation which is irritating. Let's try white vinegar ...
2349 : miscellaneous checks on the strata management of two buildings
2355 : Time-saving devices. I have all the plumbing parts and know-how to build a push-button soap-water shower-spray. But I don't have the balls to install it in my home because I think my guests will find it weird. So I am going to experiment with a spray bottle instead.
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Sab2 week13/52 review
Weeksalad
DEETS:
Jun21 s2 m3 w13 d85 23.29%
0052 : showertime
0335 : somatic rest, and memory calibration on the balcony chairs
0508 : Investment banking salary report : It's good to be reminded of the life I didn't pick. They say it's hard to know what you would have done, unless you did it. Well I did it. I took the hard way. Because the easy way was well ... too predictable. I've lived most of my adult career in a small, backward, country, where I don't have to worry about a visa ... studying local politics, small business practices, and little communities. I guess that's just what I wanted to do.
0551 : It is indeed, a strange thing ... to be given more than you can explain to anyone. On one hand, your peers look to you as a princely thing, on the other, your peers forget you as a flaneur of untouchable streets. Neither set of peers could possibly recognise the other. And to be in between, is wonderful. And to comprehend certain things, is a blessing. I have enjoyed living this design. I wonder where it will go, each day.
0634 : I can't remember when I made these cards for fun. It was somewhere between 2008 and 2012. Thereafter my LinkedIn URL was /in/generalistforhire . It's been a while, so I thought I'd change it to /in/directorforhire, but it seems that URL is taken. So I've updated it to linkedin.com/in/boardops, which succinctly captures my career direction since 2005.
1738 : poked away at all the chores
Jun22 s2 m3 w13 d86 23.56%
0700 : not yet slept - decided to hop to a spot of work
0934 : bedtime
1625 : up.
1649 : Settled SSM query by telephone.
1930 : AWS community meetup.
2257 : Keeping up with trends. Reading about DSVs. Learnt a bit of mechanical engineering - Isoflot syntactic foam is very cheap! Also, how high-pressure stuffing boxes are made.
Jun23 s2 m3 w13 d87 23.84%
0209 : A fun thing about cultural anthropology is ... going to five people who hate each other, and trying to figure out how to get all of them to like you. Oh wait, that's politics ...
0223 : Progress has been made on many fronts, and I have a major distraction (PU injection) in 7 hours - so it is a bit of a rest day. Either I sleep now, or I distract myself.
0235 : thought from a few days ago :The perfect watch doesn't exist : automatic charging, quartz regulated, with an LED for darkness.
0318 : Jalan Raja Alang market and food stalls are chugging. Saloma Bridge is closed at midnight?! Anyway, I might resume night walks in KL. Maybe this is how I die. Care to join me? No need to be a billionaire...
2235 : full day of meetings and meetups. Next chores done in 13.5 hours.
Jun24 s2 m3 w13 d88 24.11%
2236 : loads of meetings. then a nap.
Enjoying the last of your days. Few people actually do it. I've been doing it for ... years. It leads to a strange life.
2307 : TIL the USA banned trans fat over 0.5g/serving in 2020.
Fat check : ( total fat )
- canned chips : about 29%
- instant noodles : about 18%
Per 100g
- canned chips : 489 Cal, fat mass 29%
- instant ramen : 445 Cal, fat mass 18%
- dry rice : 130 Cal, fat mass 2%
- hard tofu : 79 Cal, fat mass 0.5%
- apple : 50 Cal
- cucumber : 15 Cal
So the main nutritional value of canned chips and instant ramen is calories, and fat mass.
2340 : Made some negligent errors this weekend. Must improve paranoia. Adulting is such a chore.
As a teen, I was judged to be cynical and intolerant of fools. I didn't necessarily agree. I would like to think that I've managed to maintain the same brand to-date, and I'll be forty this year. I hope to continue to move fast and to make frequent mistakes, until I am dead, while heavily prioritising neither peace nor performance. I find that it works for me.
Jun25 s2 m3 w13 d89 24.38%
0001 : daydreaming before bed
1144 : finally caught up on sleep
Jun26 s2 m3 w13 d90 24.66%
2000 : A lot of strata management work. Wondering how many turds I have to polish today. Aside, that included a sibling or two.
Jun27 s2 m3 w13 d91 24.93%
0329 : Quite the horrific fortnight. Not much work is getting done, but hopefully soon various distractions will be deleted. Physical conditioning and home improvement have been ok.
0410 : It's interesting to note how the mass media drama of mortality surrounding a few blokes in a can, triggers a wave of anxiety among the more fragile members of society. Based on my limited view, there's been a severe uptick in people complaining about their feelings of desolation.
It's clown town camaraderie season once more. A few hundred more refugees probably died today. More fuel for the fire.
All in all, the average living human does not sit comfortably with the idea of themselves and their associates passing away. Those with internal monologues can't control their inner screams. Those without shall frantically splutter to contain palpitations.
How tragic to live amidst the froth.
0422 : 24.93% today. Running out of time.
0426 : Evidently not much to depend on outside myself - so, I think, I must improve my internal forms.
0504 : Optimism is a crutch. Time to cut back, a little. Negligence will be the death of me. I guess that makes me more of a maniac, than a depressiac. Ah, repressible extroversion.
1334 : Time to move a small mountain. And some mole hills.
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