Moonsharke

As in the last post, this year is going to be pretty exciting. I will actually try out techniques that I read about and ideas that I thought of this year.

So, don’t be surprised if things change dramatically around here.

This site will be the center of all my actions and I will share all my thoughts, reflections and experiment results here.

I found myself standing outside of Outram Station on a cold saturday morning at 9am. This is unusual. Normally I should be rolling around in bed at such a timing. Normally I would then engage in a sleepy debate with my equally sleepy moral self on why I should sleep in on that specific Saturday. Normally it will end with a compromise on the next best timings to wake up. 9am is normally not one of them.

Today is a little different.

I yawned and strolled around the station. A donation group has made the station their base camp, and their little inexperienced involuntary volunteers moved out in fan formation towards gullible patrons. I shifted to a position out of their detection range.

She comes out of the gates in the sleep-walking state that I was in a few minutes earlier in a pink top and a hot air balloon necklace. We then set off for our target destination for brunch – Red Star Restaurant. Unfortunately she has not been there before. Fortunately she has the almighty Iphone with her and Google Maps on that Iphone knows how to get there. Unfortunately Google Maps’s calculations did not account for civilization.

“Why are we walking through the factories?”

“Eh, this is supposedly the fastest route to our destinations.”

“This does not look like a route that people would normally take.”

If you have been around an industrial area on a Saturday morning, and on a lazy one  such as this, you would get that outer-worldly creep, that “we are the only ones alive” feeling. Even the hustle bustle of Chinatown left us behind. We continued walking through the silent buildings, overgrown car park lots, spoked, but hunger gave us strength and moved us forward.

We then arrived at a junction. Google Maps says to turn right and continue in a counter-clockwise circle to arrive at the destination, which in reality is to the left of us. We decided that Google Maps is not acting in our best interests anyway and headed left instead.

Red Star turned out to be in a run down building that looks like a car park. A lift that looked in need of repairs took us to the 7th floor where suddenly civilization returned and we were surrounded by the restaurant patrons.

The food is pretty good and reminded us of Hong Kong. The dim sums are better than average and the ambience is relaxed. Just like a lazy Saturday morning should be. The bill is pretty thin too.

After that we went walking around Chinatown area and took some pictures of the area, bask in the hot rays of the afternoon and disappeared into the crowd of tourists, new year celebration trinkets and buskers.

Not a bad Saturday spent.

Here’s another update on the situation – things have finally become really interesting.

I have multiple projects that I have been interested in for a long time, and I finally have some time to look them over and deem them feasible to proceed making into a reality.

First off, there’s a de-stress site which my project team mate is really confident of – she has been incubating this idea for the better part of a year or so, and like me, has finally got a chance to make into a reality.

Then there’s a potential collaboration with a brilliant and driven person I have known since the university days. He is very focused and I am sure that the project we will be working on is going to pay back in multiples.

What makes me excited is the fact that I will finally have enough time to start regularly blogging about all the things I am going to learn and share with the community. There are many various directions I can take for this pet project, and while I’m having fun visualizing the potentials of each possible path, I cannot stall for too long, given my on-off nature. Persevere!

A different lifestyle is in the works. Over the next few weeks I will release more information about that.

Till then, enjoy your 2011! Things are about to get exciting.

2010 has been illuminating, a kind of forecast of what life could be like if i remain stagnant for the next 5 or 10 years.

And its pretty fucked up.

Looking back at my 2010 resolutions, I realised that I did not fulfill any of them at all.

Maybe they are not heartfelt goals to begin with.

As one matures, superficial wants fade to the background, leaving behind the important elements, the building blocks of life – the real life that you want to have. The stories that you can tell your children. The tales that make you the legend.

So, here’s the hopefully more mature list that I can fulfil this year.

1. Get myself a car license. Seriously, I place this below all others because I have no need for a car yet. But its sort of like a life skill that I would want to learn as soon as possible, then have it get out of the way.
2. Get myself a bike license. After the car, it’s gonna be the bike. Why? Eventually I want to travel overseas, and renting a bike is probably easier than a car. I have always been wanting to do a motorcycle trip after watching the motorcycle diaries and the Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It’s kind of like a dream I have always wanted to do, and if that is ever going to happen then I’d better do it before I get too old to.
3. Buy a camera. maybe a DSLR. maybe one of those point and shoots. If I am ever going to do the motorcycle trip, then I might as well get one to document the journey.
4. Get a second income. Website designing is simply not cutting it. Passive income is the holy grail for retirement. There are many things I can do, many places that I can see, if I am just profitable enough to not hold a full-time job. I have been inspired by some highly determined individuals to make it some day. If they can do it, why not I?
5. Get a life. This is the shit right here. A lack of this is the main reason why I’m in a mess right now, and have to celebrate the end of the year alone. This is an on-going goal, and I suspect I will not fulfill it next year. Doesn’t matter. One has to start somewhere.

Start planning before the day is up!