Nation States (www.nationstates.net) is a game where you run a country, shaped according to your decisions on several daily political issues. Today's issue was pretty interesting, so i decided to do a copy-and-paste here. Hope the creator, Max Barry doesn't mind too much (his books are an interesting read as well, you can get them at the central library) ( ' ._. ' )

The Issue

Everyday when I come home from work, or from shopping and pass by the park, I will always see this man, jogging. Always, always, regardless of what time it is, for years and years.

seeing him labouring and panting away everyday makes me think 'hmm, maybe i should get out and exercise more.'

and now that i think about it, even with all that exercise, he still looks EXACTLY the same. same belly, same stoutness, same size, same flab under the chins. (-____-)

apparently jogging does nothing to slim you down.

There there, I admit it. I'm a horrible procastinator, but that just goes to show that i'm only human.

People who get things done are the so called CEOs, mothers, robots, goody-two-shoes, prefects, eh, you get the idea. People who are in the science, engineering and accounting faculties. I belong to the arts, business, humanities side.

Oh anyway, i was on leave the whole of this week. my game plan was to fly over to sabah sarawak, but then someone said that there's a terrorist warning on east m'sia so that plan got ditched. i'm a little peeved that nothing happened after all, but to be politically correct i have to say its great that nothing had happened... world peace yeah.

my other game plan was to renovate my room. so the whole week was spent browsing in IKEA, COURTS, V-Hive... in which everything i wanted was out of stock, so i only bought one new key piece of furniture, which arrived today. so my renovation is one week behind schedule, and yay i'm heading back to work tomorrow.

at least one side of the room is nicely done up. :)

the other side of the room, however, is full of boxes of stuff that i moved over from the other side so it looks like a east berlin / west berlin split down the middle of the room. i forsee horribly difficult week ahead, in which a double-decker bed frame has to be dismantled, a crumbling-to-pieces wardrobe has to be lugged across the room, new curtains have to be put up, and i have to somehow find space to put 3 huge boxes of stuff. i have half a mind to ditch all my trophies, i've too many / i'm too good.

i think the whole thing would be done up by the end of the month tho, so do pop by my place for some wii, pizza, baking or whatever. it'll be cool.

ja~

I'm suffering from depression - or some aspect of it. I have no idea why.

I just have this huge urge to do things to screw up my life, something to rock the boat nevermind that it capsizes, and i'm majorly pissed that i can't. i have watchdogs for parents. and i have a huge overdose of conscience in my system that makes it such that i can't risk dying and leaving them all sad and alone. bugger.

bleah.

i lead such a boring life.

i was just playing pokemon gold - again - solely because i suddenly had this fixation that i want a pure eevee team - Eevee, Vaporeon, Flareon, Espeon, Umbreon and Jolteon, and defeat the Champion's League with that. its tedious. you have to walk around a lot and go through multiple processes of hatching an eevee egg.

and of course there is no reason for this at all, except for a general 'what the heck, let's do it' feeling.

and this is my life. 'heck, i want to learn to cook. let's level that up from level 0.'

'hey, 300% returns sounds damn cool. let's do it man.'

My life is one big game in which i spend Questing.

i need some new interesting quests to while my time away, else i'm gonna go fight some major big boss for the heck of it.

And if i die, it'll just be like the many mmorpgs i'd played and given up, the EXP gets forfeited, and i quit the game coz 'that's all there is to it i guess.' who knows what comes after that right?

But right now its no boss battles, just mini quests, and its very very silly randomized sidequests at that, since there's some admin out there setting down rules that you need to be at least lvl 50 to attempt this quest or that.

Meh.

its nearing the end of the year again, and i'm gonna be freaking 24. shucks.

once again, let's do a review of the futile effort that is my new year resolution for 2009:

1. get back to 45kg. and remain there over the freaking christmas holidays. - i gained. shucks. but i'd been jogging once every two days so hopefully this is just a timing issue :)

2. write. draw. growl. - did a little bit of writing, submitted some drawings for competitions, growled a lot. yay!

3. go overseas with lester at least once! - we broke up. baaaaah.

4. read investment books - i did! it was a stupid book, but i did! yay!

5. be more sociable, be a better person - i guess so....

6. make a conscious effort to look better - eep. i totally degenerated, sorry.

7. save up and buy stocks that actually appreciate - ...i'm sorry... but this is called tuition fees no?

8. figure out how my credit cards work and what are my existing insurance policies. (i have the feeling it'll never happen bleehz) - it never happened. whoa i'm psychic.

9. quit surfing the internet when i have nothing to surf for - noted.

10. get better at work... really... - work scope's changed, so i guess this doesn't apply anymore? :D

all in all, its a pretty futile year once again. let's get some new resolutions!

2010 Resolutions:

1. Get out there and meet new potential boyfriends.

2. Submit some prose somewhere.

3. Get fit. Get leaner while you're at it.

4. Make a conscious effort to look better - starting with the scruffy hair.

5. Invest actively and sanely.

6. Quit the internet and manga addiction.

7. Get in the habit of tidying up the place.

8. Learn cooking/baking.

9. Read one book a month and newspapers everyday.

10. Increase thy income!

Gambatte!