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Organised
Chaos Part 1 of 2
22 JAN 08
I
am not really a New Year kinda guy. I hate going to National events
where thousands of masses gather at one spot. I’m not anti-social…
I just hate the going home part. MRT all packed and cabs all taken.
Most of my New Year is spent sleeping so I don’t really stay
up for the count down. And when the year hits 2000, 8 years ago,
I was peeing at the toilet in one of Civil Defence camps. (I was
there because of the Gahmen’s paranoia on the Y2K scare.)
Actually, being the
pessimistic person that I am, I see no reason to celebrate for
every new year. Things are getting bad to worse. The polar ice
caps are melting. Politicians are getting greedier by the day.
No progress of peace in Palestine. Things in Singapore getting
expensive.. so why are people all psyched about? If I have my
way, I think New Year should be spent on mourning, contemplating
on suicide, singing songs about death and crying your eyes out
till you shit in your pants...
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Nolah..
I’m not THAT pessimistic. A New Year to me means God giving
you more time to straighten yourself up. I don’t know how
many people passed away in year 2007.. I’m just glad to
be alive. Although I totally do not like this world we live in,
I am thankful that God is giving me more time to be a better person,
a better Muslim… even though my progress in achieving that
goal is snail slow.
So
moving along, I would like to share with you some of my habits
whenever a new year approaches and that is to get things organized.
First of all, I gotta tell you guys that I’m a messy person.
I spend so much time on my projects that I don’t really
keep my room clean. I mean, I can find my stuff easily, but there’s
this constant clutter I can’t seem to get rid off. Anyway,
since I have this never-ending projects, external and self-imposed
and ideas swimming in my head; I have accustomed to having a sort
of book to keep all my shit together, for without it, my life
will be haphazard and I will be a walking mental mess. So just
for this 2 part blog entry, I wanna share with all of you readers
who wants to straighten their life out the cheap and painless
way and trust me not all organizers are created equal.
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Wanna
help me clean my room?
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I
have not tried those Palm Pilots, Blackberries most corporate
people use. One of the things that I wanna buy when I have wads
of cash is one of those… I like the idea of having a “search”
feature and storing thousands of contacts in a microchip rather
than having stacks of paper. But then again, I don’t really
like to be so dependant on technology, because I if I do, I
will be eventually become more and more complacent.
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And
there was one instance when my ex- boss called me to her office
and she was all teary eyed because her $400 digital organizer
just refuse to sync with her Microsoft outlook on her PC. (And
she expects me to figure it out.) The closest digital organizer
gadget that I got was when my Mum purchase some stuff and she
got this pocket sized, black thinga-ma-jig with buttons on it
as a free gift. You can store phone numbers and all but much
to my dismay, all stored data will be wiped out clean once the
batteries went dead.
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For
a long time, I did buy and use those organizers you can find at
Popular bookstore. The pages are pretty much the same but the
covers come in all sort of styles and colors. I’ve seen
a leather cover that looks like human flesh and another one made
out of blue fur.. I think they might have skinned cookie monster
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it is, I like the fact that they have every date and single lines
all nicely printed and ready for you to scribble your crap on. They
even have unnecessary information like a world map, a world time
difference, metric unit etc. But soon, I also realized this pre-made
organizer books are a pain because, most are fat and bulky. It was
like lugging a bloody phone book. I did bought a small one but the
space they gave for each day was too small and worse, on weekends,
they gave me 3 lines. So that means, scribbling close to the edge
of the paper was norm. Some days on the organizer are left empty
because there wasn’t much going on. Maybe I should just write
random stuff I plan to do... Things
to do today
"5pm- Eat Ice cream”
“5:17pm - Burp”
"7pm- Constipation"
Nah,
I don’t think so. So that means, there’s a lot of
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The
problem with organisers - ALOT of wasted space. |
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eventually, after trying different types of organizers, replenishing
pages, caressing countless furry covers, I finally found the best
book and I’ve been using it since.
Same time, same channel,
Evil Bunny
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