...until I'm sweating like crazy, of course. Which was what happened today. *sigh* I usually only want to complain about these hot days when I can't stop sweating and/or when it's a hot humid day.

The weather is often undeniably hot though... maybe I just don't want to see it (because then I'll be complaining daily lol). But I know it's there/happening because I've been experiencing symptoms of dehydration :/ As someone who finds drinking water annoying, I'm drinking more now out of necessity... because I keep getting thirsty. That's how hot it is nowadays.

My point is... I lost something and I dread looking for it today because it will involve me doing some cleaning and I don't want to that when it's hot... sorry, I'm just complaining about the weather in this post... :P

Anyway, maybe it's not much coming from me but... please remember to drink water during this hot season~!

Then... I woke up with a headache late morning :P *sigh*

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Haven't returned to the book since that day. I think short story collections is my kryptonite. I might have to remove them if I get one from the jar in the future. They are giving me fears like one have for thick books - feels impossible to finish them...

Oh but I kind of like the latest method that I tried to get through them. Doesn't necessarily need to go from shortest to longest... maybe just pick one story at random and not start from the first story. 

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Kind of been having some weird craving for bloody movies... Is this what I get after I finish those Alien/Predator movies??? WTH lol

Well, I do have that plan about re-watching/watching Saw movies so maybe I'll move on to that...

Just finished watching the first season of UtaPri. Damn, I still cried watching that scene in the last episode... and I also cried for Ren & Tokiya's episodes before that XD

I know it sounds weird after talking about my previous weird craving but now I want to listen to UtaPri songs lol (UtaPri craving is starting again XD)... maybe I'll also go back to the playing "Shining Live" - JP version, of course. The english version is dead :(

Was going to do something for my room but... I didn't know where to start. I did a bit of organising and that's all. I don't know what to tackle first. 

So... I got an idea after my shower XD. I should think of the thing/place I really, really don't want to organise now and maybe start there...?

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It's back~~~! :\

Sounds like the one we had in October last year.

*sigh*

You know that moment where you avoid thinking about something, then avoid the next thing, and  next thing... until you return to the thing you avoided the first time? Something like that. I don't like going through such cycles. If I can't solve it, I want out. I will escape, even if it's only in my mind. 

Arghhh

Also looked at Google News (briefly!) and found a 3-months-old article about Haruki Murakami translating Fitzgerald's unfinished novel "The Last Tycoon" to Japanese. So that's my TIL [for today] XD... Didn't really see a list on the English wiki (maybe I just didn't look hard enough). Found  a list of what he has translated in the Japanese wiki. Other authors listed there (that I'm familiar with) are Truman Capote and J. D. Salinger. Interesting.

You can learn something from everything. Annoying gesture on camera? Now I know what not to do if I'm ever on camera. Bad book? Yay, I learnt how to recognise a bad book!... OR don't write like that. Lost your way? At least now you know more roads than before [<- Saw this one from a Taiwanese drama years ago]

So is this me seeing things as a half-full glass? Maybe... no? I think I see them both ways. I see a glass that is half full and half empty. 

Which... doesn't mean a thing today XD.. Just some random thoughts of the day.

Purchased something on Book Depository yesterday. It will take a long time to arrive here in Sabah... and I hope it will be here in good condition. It's something I usually wouldn't want to read but I saw some of them posted on Tumblr before... and I kind of liked them. I really wanted to read them last month.. and early this month. Like I was really in the mood for that.  

Oh.. but I did my 1-hour piano practice today. That's the only thing I'm determined to do daily this year. (And because of that, my music diary is getting updated after... erm... over five years of no updates lol)

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Been playing a story event in one of the mobile games I play. The theme is one of the characters suddenly gain the ability to read another person's mind. This made me recall a manga with similar theme. So... I ended up reading that manga again since yesterday... Forgot how funny this manga is. Kie has really crazy imagination XD

While it seems convenient having a friend that can read my mind (like in the manga), I probably wouldn't want to be mind-read like that by them... I don't kno... somewhat sure that people will be disgusted with the things dwelling in my head. 

So how do one avoid having their inner thoughts/feelings heard by a mind-reader? Maybe I can use some kind of codes that only make sense to me alone? And mix it with several languages or something. Make it very confusing. Test if they can read your mind and once confirmed, avoid that person? 

...and that was what I wrote 7.5 hours ago lol. Not sure where I'm getting at with those. Probably had a moment of self-reflection or something. 

The rest of my afternoon was spent on reading "A Vision of Fire"... totally didn't do any cleaning or organising *sigh*. 

I can already imagine someone saying "Just clean/dust more often"... like I know I'm not the kind of person who would do that, tried several times already and I always forget - it's not an option anymore at this moment. I need a low-maintenance organisation method. (There's also the "Don't buy more" way but I'm still trying to manage that area :P)

So, some notes for myself:

- No or less mesh-patterned materials esp metal ones (collect dust oh so secretly. You think it's clean... it's not).

- Textured materials collect dust.

- Things meant to be used [frequently] have to be seen, not hidden.

- If hidden, must be placed in a labelled place. Don't mix.

- Need an inbox place where I can put anything yet to be organised there.

- Use things that are meant to be used.

...and I'm off to do the thing :P    

Other than that... I'm having a pretty normal day.

Read one of the books with short stories and I kept checking if I'm near the end of the story... I don't feel like being patient today it seems. 

I'm guessing this is hormone-related... Or maybe it's lack of sleep (still don't have a normal sleep cycle). Or just purely caffeine. Every time this happens, I never knew what to do. It manifests in different ways. This time, I'm also annoyed by the stuff I watch. Just yesterday I suddenly crave watching something educational and/or documentary. Although I ended up with Shang-Chi :P - haven't finished watching yet but this is so cool! People might rave about the fighting scenes (oh I love them too) but I'm loving the main characters' expressions so much because they remind me of familiar acting styles(?) that I like.

...maybe I can try new positive things to distract me from this state of annoyingness?

White, cloudy sky. 

Suddenly recalled how it was so hard when one get sick during shift work. You're basically able to work if you still can walk. Since we were short of staff, we should keep in mind that there's no one who can take over your shift (okay, technically we had candidates... like me who once worked the night shift the day before who had to go down to the office in the afternoon, the same day. Yeah, yeah, the benefits of screwed-up sleep cycle... there's also Kakak, who will take care of things when she could). Also recalled that one time our boss got complaints that one of us sounded angry on the phone, which might be the other senior who had a coarse, deep voice due to cold (but it could have also been me #oops).

Oh wow.. I don't know why I suddenly recall all these details from the past. It's just making me remember unhappy things and I don't like that.

Good news. I finished "The Doomed City". Funny how I didn't really feel like it's a 400-page book.. well, until Chapter 5. It dragged a bit there although I was looking forward to it. 

Other than that, I'm pretty much feeling Saturday-ish on this public holiday Thursday. And with this rain, I'm very much in lazy mode. I just want to go take a shower now and go to sleep early. I don't know why I'm feeling moody and mean this week. Like if I don't hold myself back, I might say things that will make people unhappy.

To me, this is a bad habit of mine that I will not throw away any time soon. Sometimes it works perfectly when dealing with tasks that require different level of focusing. I consider three tasks at one time doable (and normal, for me). Read once before that the more you do, the more your focus will be divided (=less for each task) so doing more tasks might not be beneficial. 

LOL.. why do I sound like the beginning of a How-to article? 

Not doing that. This topic just came up in my mind at noon. I don't really like multitasking but it helps getting things done efficiently. As long as it's a reasonable number of tasks. The real challenge is when you're "changing gear" back and forth from multitasking to being focused on one thing. I get distracted easily at times but there are moments where I get into the zone. I think going back to reading physical books regularly this year helped me develop back that focus-on-one thing. At first, it was hard to read for a long period of time. I think I'm better at that now, months later... but probably not as good as before [the reading slump]. 

Was checking this before publishing and the part "don't really like multitasking" is bugging me. I don't particularly hate it. I just don't like that I'll have less focus when I do more than three tasks. I think I'd come to embrace and like it when I multitasked at work (the job really required the skill if you want to get anything done *sigh*). I guess I only like multitasking when it works (advantageous & efficient) ...? Since doing too much at one time beats the purpose (I might make more careless mistakes). I'm more a fan of being able to switch between those two smoothly because each has its own uses.

It's just going to be that. Go out to get more books. Been eyeing the books from the MacMillan Collectors Library series again and I really want "Jane Eyre"... and [recently,] "Dracula". I know Popular has this but I'm not sure if they still have them in stock. 

Anyway, funny thing happened last night. It's not a big deal but I just find it really funny that I thought yesterday was Saturday, so I missed watching my 7pm Cantonese drama XD. When I was reading before bed, I suddenly recalled that it's Thursday and I didn't watch the drama at 7pm as usual. It's funnier when I recall more.. I actually wanted to watch TV at 7pm but didn't switch on the TV because I'm not interested in the weekend 7pm drama (still thinking it was Saturday). My body remembers the routine :P

It's Friday and I don't know if I'm going to finish "I'd Die For You" by the end of the week. Been having fun reading super leisurely at my own pace recently. I'm crushing over Fitzgerald's writing again so I'm savouring this book at a much slower pace than my usual reading time. I've been doing the same with "The Changeling" which I thought I might have difficulties finishing at first. The chapters in "The Changeling" are more uniform in length so it's easy to think "I'll stop reading after one or two chapters." Now I'm already near the end. I would not be surprised if I extend another week to finish the other book.

I've been ignoring "Something Happened" really hard at the same time. I want to DNF it but I still want to know the ending. So I added a new tag ("Semi DNF") on Goodreads for that book. The auto-add tag thing made me put the book back into "Want to Read" shelf XD. Now my reading progress resets to a new one which is crazy lol. I'll take this as a sign that I should deal with the book soon :D 

Yeah. So that happened.

Fortunately, I still get to sleep peacefully lol 

Because of that, I kind of did a bit cleaning-up in my room. Mostly under the bed. No white snake spotted. I did found some silverfishes though (which is close enough?).

Speaking of white creatures, I had a dream few days ago about white centipedes. The funny thing was, for some reason, I thought they were termites. Even though they were clearly long and leggy.

But I'm having so much fun reading "Charmed Life" again! It's just like the first time I read it. I love the main character. I'm annoyed by the main character's sister. People manipulating each other. Hidden secrets. I can't wait to get to the end. 

Regarding anime, I've only been following "The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent" and Hetalia World Stars (love my tsundere and oresama countries lol)... Haven't caught up with the latest episodes of "So I'm a Spider, So What?" & "Moriarty the Patriot". 

Started playing ME3 multiplayer again. I should perhaps continue with my ME2 insanity playthrough but... I want something short for now XD

Trying to finish old currently-reading list and I'm kind of unmotivated to finish them...? Yikes. 

Is this slump? Will this develop into a reading slump? 

I hope not. Maybe I should add something new? Something I really want to read now. Or something short... like a manga. Let me think about it first.