What about Glass Bottles?

Singapore - Mother Tongue is a compulsory subject to take up until Uni. Being classified as Chinese racially, I had to take Mandarin during my formative years - but I’m still not good at it lol

Interesting - in Singapore the widespread expectation in 2025 (at least among the elderly) is to get a plastic bag / food containers (sometimes multiple) from the shop whenever one buys something. Albeit since 2020 these now cost 5 & 30 cents respectively

I’m not an expert, but you mention that you have job security - you could use that by allocating Friday as your unofficial self-learning / rest / low-work day, and block out the time on your work calendar if you can. It works better if the day is one where you can WFH

I’m in the same boat; I no longer have any motivation to self study and pursue excellence in these skills - ‘AI’ has destroyed that. At least back when searching Google / Stackoverflow / reading Documentation was still a thing I saw the value in making my own notes so as to reduce the friction in recalling the concepts, but with AI it’s become trivially easy to get an answer to any question.

I’ve been distracting myself with learning other skills (i.e. how to drive, taking certifications, applying for Working Holiday Visas), but these are dead ends.

I’m still employed, but only a matter of time before I get laid off I think.

Or just fill it up with trees, bushes and flowers

Some days do be like that tbh

Thanks - eventually I just did my usual routine, but slightly later than usual. Wasn’t able to go back to sleep, both before and after exercising. It’s afternoon now and my head feels slightly heavy and my legs feel slightly “minty fresh” (sciatica).

I did think about just going for the exercise when it was 4am, but it’s always the question of “if I let go of exercising at 0630 would I finally be able to sleep / what if I could have actually slept more if I hadn’t woke up now” that gets me

Hello, reporting from Singapore :)

Thank you :) And good to hear that you’re doing well - haven’t experienced that feeling in a long while.

I guess I’ll try and sleep early tonight to sleep off the pain, after doing a few rounds of stretches to relieve the tension.

Urgh, feeling down. I think I slept in the wrong position and now my lower right leg is throbbing and feels warm, and my sciatica feels weird. It’s giving me a headache.

Worse part is, I need to revise for a tech interview tomorrow and this weird pain is going to waste my day today. Sigh

If you play Hermindinger / Azer you can simulate Tower Def lol

There’s a thread on Reddit showcasing some hilarious Code Comments within the Generals Codebase: https://old.reddit.com/r/commandandconquer/comments/1izpkmh/funny_generals_source_code_comments/

Examples:

    // Assumption: Things with a KINDOF_STRUCTURE flag can never be built from 
    // a factory (ProductionUpdateInterface), because the building can't move
    // out of the factory. When we do our Starcraft port and have flying Terran
    // buildings, we'll have to change this ;-)
    // Remember: To ASSUME makes an ASS out of U and ME. 
    Player.cpp

    // HERE WOULD BE A GREAT PLACE FOR AN IDIOT TEST:
  // REJECT SIMULATION NODES THAT ARE OFF SCREEN!!!!!!!!!!
    // HERE WOULD BE A GREAT PLACE FOR AN IDIOT TEST:
  // REJECT SIMULATION NODES THAT ARE OFF SCREEN!!!!!!!!!!
  W3DTerrainVisual.cpp

  //
  // force the tree control to redraw, it seems to have problems updating
  // the plus signs, lame ass Microsoft
 //
  HeirarchyView.cpp

  ; String is returned by const for a reason.  Bad things will happen 
  ; if you modify it.  You have been warned.
  locale.cpp

  // We need to be able to grab w3d's from a localization dir, since Germany hates exploding people units.
  W3DFileSystem.cpp

  // I can't take it any more.  Let the record show that I think the UpgradeMux multiple inheritence is CRAP.
getAutoHealBehaviorModuleData()->m_upgradeMuxData.muxDataProcessUpgradeRemoval(getObject());
  AutoHealBahaviour.h

I Used To Type Like This Because I Treated Shift As a Spacebar Alongside Spacebar. Not sure why, just felt natural. Now I only capitalize certain named nouns

This is the premise for the Red Alert series in Command and Conquer - Stalin becomes the aggressor when Hitler was wiped

I don’t watch streams, but I do watch a lot of Let’s Plays (i.e. Materwelonz, WoolieVersus). Sometimes to watch them play games that I normally wouldn’t, sometimes to listen to their insights at certain hype points in games I previously played, and usually due to loneliness (i.e. parasocial relationships).

Regarding the last point, it also tends to be the reason I gravitate towards games with strong story, or MMOs. Feeling like I belong to a community keeps the loneliness at bay. Outside of games, I like to be in crowded areas, though not necessarily interacting with anyone.

Not OP, but even with exercise 4 times a week I still feel tired enough to want to take naps in the middle of the day, and I still have brain fog / whatever condition is causing me to not be able to think and analyze in real time. I suspect it’s related to depression.

Updated my journal

I like the Lemon scent - it typically lasts the longest for the liquid I use

LMAO where is this picture from