Strangers
Warning: Rantings ahead… (Not for overly-imaginative minds)
Sometimes you will wonder, what it takes to become just another stranger to someone…
You’ve gone out together, went out for lunch or sometimes even dinner and all it takes is just a few months to forget who you are?… On top of those, you’ve sought advice and other issues, and you’ve simply forgotten who this person is? ?
Its understandable to forget after a few long years, but months?? Does your dictionary have the word friend?
Really, I have only these few words: “What kind of friend are you??”
Song Choice: Feel My Soul (Yui)
I am really beginning to like Yui albums.. Don’t really know japanese, but going by feelings, its quite soothing to hear her music…
On a sidenote, “Tomorrow’s Way” by Yui is good too. Both of these songs are replayed on my last.fm countless times.
Below are the Japanese and English Translation to the song “Feel My Soul”
Japanese Lyrics (and guitar chords for my own archive)
Standard tuning
--- ----- --- --- ----- --- --- --- -----
|Dm |Fsus4| F |Gm |Csus2| C |Dm7|Am |Cadd9|
| - | --- | - | - | --- | - | - | - | --- |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 |
| 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 2 |
| 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 3 |
| x | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | x | x | 5 | x |
--- ----- --- --- ----- --- --- --- -----
Dm Fsus4 Dm Fsus4
Dm Fsus4 F Dm Fsus4 F
nakitsu karetetan da toi kakeru basho mo naku
Gm Dm Fsus4 Csus2
mayoi nagara tsumazuite mo tachi domare nai It's just beginning
Dm Fsus4 F Dm Fsus4 F
kimi ga kureta egao otoshita namida wa
Gm Dm Fsus4 Csus2
boku no mune no fukai kizu ni furete kieta ha
F C Dm Fsus4
I feel my soul Take me your way sou tatta hitotsu wo
F C Dm Fsus4
kitto daremo ga zutto sagashiteru no
F C
sore wa guuzen dewa nakute itsuwari no ai nanka ja nakute
Dm
You're right, all right
Fsus4 Dm Fsus4
You're right, all right Scare little boy All right
Dm Fsus4 F Dm Fsus4 F
nando mo kurikaesu douka ikanaide
Gm Dm Fsus4 Csus2
sasayaku you na kimi no koe wa itoshikute hey
F C Dm Fsus4
I feel my soul Take me your way mou furimuka nai
F C Dm Fsus4
kitto kono te de ima tashikametai yo
F C
itsumo tanjun na hodo kurushinde ikite yuku imi wo shiritai kara
Dm
You're right, all right
Fsus4 Dm
You're right, all right Scare little boy
Gm Dm7 Fsus4
sotto tsubuyaita kimi no kotoba you say it
Gm Am Fsus4 Csus2
ugokidase mienai kedo michi wa hirakareteru
Dm7 Fsus4 Csus2
F C Dm Fsus4
I feel my soul Take me your way sou mogakinagara mo
F C Dm Fsus4
kitto kono mama zutto aruite yukeru
F C
sore wa guuzen demo nakutte arifureta yume nanka ja nakutte
Dm Fsus4
You're right, all right You're right, all right
F C
itsumo tanjun na hodo kurushinde yorokobi no imi wo shiritai kara
Dm
You're right, all right
Fsus4
You're right, all right Scare little boy
Cadd9 Fsus4 Cadd9
Fsus4
ooh la la la ta..
Cadd9 Fsus4
ooh la la la la la ta..
Cadd9 Fsus4 F
English Lyrics:
FTI: Find More Free Time
Thought this was an interesting article. Originally saw the link at Lifehacker…
Maybe I should take some of those advice…
Source: http://zenhabits.net/2008/07/reclaim-your-time-20-great-ways-to-find-more-free-time/
20 Ways to Find More Free Time
Not all of these will be applicable to your life — choose the ones you can apply and give them a try:
- Take a time out. Freeing up your time starts with taking a step back to take a good look at your life. You need to block off at least an hour. Several hours or half a day is better. A whole day would be awesome. A weekend would be even more ideal, though not necessary practical for many folks. With this block of time, take a look at your life with some perspective. Is it what you’ve always wanted? How would you get to where you’ve always wanted to be? What do you enjoy doing, but don’t have enough time to do? What things actually fill up your day? Are there things you could drop or minimize to make more time? We’ll look at some of these things in the following items, but it starts with taking a time out to think and plan.
- Find your essentials. What is it that you love to do? Make a short list of 4-5 things. These are the things you want to make room for.
- Find your time-wasters. What do you spend a lot of your time on that isn’t on your essential list? Take a close look at these things and really think about whether they’re necessary, or if there are ways to reduce, minimize or eliminate these things. Sometimes you do things because you assume they’re necessary, but if you give it some thought you can find ways to drop them from your life. Figure out what you do simply to waste time — maybe surfing certain sites, watching TV, talking a lot at the water cooler, etc. You’re going to want to minimize these time-wasters to make room for the more important stuff, the stuff that makes you happy and that you love to do.
- Schedule the time. As you sit down and think about your life and what you want to do, versus what you actually do, you will be looking at ways to free up time. It’s crucial that you take a blank weekly schedule (you can just write it out on a piece of paper, or use your calendar) and assign blocks for the things you love — the stuff on your essentials list. If you want to exercise, for example, when will you do it? Put the blocks of time on your schedule, and make these blocks the most important appointments of your week. Schedule the rest of your life around these blocks.
- Consolidate. There are many things you do, scattered throughout your day or your week, that you might be able to consolidate in order to save time. A good example is errands — instead of running one or two a day, do them all in one day to save time and gas. Another example is email, or any kind of communication — batch process your email instead of checking and reading and responding throughout the day. Same thing with meetings, paperwork, anything that you do regularly.
- Cut out meetings. This isn’t possible for everyone, but in my experience meetings take up a lot of time to get across a little information, or to make easy decisions that could be made via email or phone. As much as you can, minimize the number of meetings you hold and attend. In some cases this might mean talking to your boss and telling her that you have other priorities, and asking to be excused. In other cases this might mean asking the people holding the meeting if you can get the info in other ways. If so, you’ve saved yourself an hour or so per meeting (sometimes more).
- Declutter your schedule. If you have a heavily packed schedule, full of meetings and errands and tasks and projects and appointments, you’re going to want to weed it out so that it’s not so jam-packed. Find the stuff that’s not so essential and cancel them. Postpone other stuff. Leave big blank spaces in your schedule.
- Re-think your routine. Often we get stuck in a routine that’s anything but what we really want our days to be like. Is there a better way of doing things? You’re the creator of your life — make a new routine that’s more pleasant, more optimal, more filled with things you love.
- Cut back on email. I mentioned email in an earlier point above, regarding consolidating, but it’s such a major part of most people’s lives that it deserves special attention. How often do you check email? How much time do you spend composing emails? If you spend a major part of your work day on email, as many people do (and as I once did), you can free up a lot of time by reducing the time you spend in email. Now, this won’t work for everyone, but it can work for many people: choose 2-3 key times during the day to process your inbox to empty, and keep your responses to 5 sentences. (Read more.)
- Learn to say no. If you say “yes” to every request, you will never have any free time. Get super protective about your time, and say “no” to everything but the essential requests. Here’s how.
- Keep your list to 3. When you make out your daily to-do list, just list the three Most Important Tasks you want to accomplish today. Don’t make a laundry list of tasks, or you’ll fill up all your free time. By keeping your task list small, but populated only by important tasks, you ensure that you are getting the important stuff done but not overloading yourself.
- Do your Biggest Rock first. Of the three Most Important Tasks you choose for the day, pick the biggest one, or the one you’re dreading most, and do that first. Otherwise you’ll put that off as much as possible and fill your day with less important things. Don’t allow yourself to check email until that Big Rock is taken care of. It starts your day with a sense of major accomplishment, and leaves you with a lot of free time the rest of the day, because the most important thing is already done.
- Delegate. If you have subordinates or coworkers who can do a task or project, try to delegate it. Don’t feel like you need to do everything yourself. If necessary, spend a little time training the person to whom you’re delegating the task, but that little time spent training will pay off in a lot of time saved later. Delegating allows you to focus on the core tasks and projects you should be focusing on.
- Cut out distractions. What is there around your workspace that distracts you from the task at hand? Sometimes it’s visual clutter, or papers lying around that call for your attention and action, or email or IM notifiers on your computer that pop up at the wrong time, or the phone, or coworkers. See if you can eliminate as many of these as possible — the more you can focus, the more effective you’ll be and the less time you’ll waste. That equals time saved for the good stuff.
- Disconnect. The biggest of distractions, for most people, is the Internet. My most productive times are when I’m disconnected from the grid. Now, I’m not saying you need to be disconnected all the time, but if you really want to be able to effectively complete tasks, disconnect your Internet so you can really focus. Set certain times of the day for connectivity, and only connect during those periods.
- Outsource. If you can’t delegate, see if you can outsource. With the Internet, we can connect with people from all over the world. I’ve outsourced many things, from small tasks to checking email to legal work to design and editing work and more. That allows me to focus on the things I’m best at, the things I love doing, and saves me a lot of time.
- Make use of your mornings. I find that mornings are the absolute best times to schedule the things I really want to do. I run, read and write in the mornings — three of the four things on my Essentials List (spending time with family is the other thing on the list). Mornings are great because your day hasn’t been filled with a bunch of unscheduled, demanding, last-minute tasks that will push back those Essentials. For example, if you schedule something for late afternoon, by the time late afternoon rolls around, you might have a dozen other things newly added to your to-do list, and you’ll put off that late-afternoon Essential. Instead, schedule it for the morning, and it’ll rarely (if ever) get pushed back.
- The Golden Right-after-work Time. Other than mornings, I find the time just after work to be an incredible time for doing Essential things. Exercise, for example, is great in the 5-o’clock hour, as is spending time with family, or doing anything else relaxing.
- Your evenings. The time before you go to bed is also golden, as it exists every single day, and it’s usually completely yours to schedule. What do you want to do with this time? Read? Spend time with your kids? Work on a hobby you’re passionate about? Take advantage of this time.
- Lunch breaks. If the three golden times mentioned above don’t work for you, lunch breaks are another good opportunity to schedule things. Some people like to exercise, or to take quiet times, during their lunch breaks. Others use this time to work on an important personal goal or project.
GTD: My Own
I’ve been quite busy these few days trying to streamline the stuff I do online…
What I did so far:
- Created a new official Google Account.
- Added Filters for sorting purposes as well as incoming mail
- Sent important emails over
(not fully finished yet… too many emails across too many email accounts) - Cleared my 1000 plus unread emails in one of the email accounts
- Uploaded and updated contact list in Google Mail
- Started using Google Calendar
(to be used on top of my planner.. cannot keep my physical planner with me all the time in Army…) - Set up SMS updates
- Went back to using Google Reader, subscribing to all my the usual reads
(Thinking of using Sage also, but that will result in duplication of service… still considering… ) - Synchronized Google Mail Contacts into Thunderbird
(So I can access it offline and the updated email contacts can also be shared across all Thunderbird managed Email Accounts.) - Migrated all Google Mail Accounts in Thunderbird to use Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) instead of Post Office Protocol (POP3)…
(This is to reduce the extra need to login to the accounts themselves to delete emails due to the limitations of POP3, where emails are not deleted automatically when deleted from Thunderbird) - Installed Mozilla Sunbird
(Decided against the lightning extension as it would bloat my Thunderbird client… May consider its use later after I ORD.) - Setup synchronization of Mozilla Sunbird and My Google Calendar and other Calendar’s I have access to.
Phew.. List look short but still took quite some time… That’s not the end yet.. I am still changing stuff here and there, but for now, am happy…
Ciao!
Sporting Some Aches
No choice… Its been almost 10 months since I last bowled. Due to the upcoming Past Vs Present Tournament, I had to go practise, even if its just once….
160+ average. Not bad. The rate of score depreciation isn’t really that much, from my usual 170+. Started with a first game of 109 (horrible!), but got back my average with the 207 and 180+ games.
Went over to swim after 6 games. Went for about 10 laps. Thinking of it, I shouldn’t have done so. Now my left shoulder and both legs are aching. Prove of long term non-sports (except running) lifestyle…
So after a “Sports Day”, I am Sporting lots of aches.
Ordering Pizza in the Future
This is video about Ordering Pizza in the Future.
Though it was posted a long time ago, it is still quite creepy viewing it now…
However, I won’t be surprised if such things were to happen in the near future… With people giving out so much information on Social Networking websites (sometimes road-side surveys when we aren’t thinking), such things may not be very far-fetched…
So hope this won’t happen and just get creep out now first eh?
Humour: New Built-in Orderly Organized Knowledge Device
Just for Laughs… I saw this in a forum and a library joke website…
Announcing the new Built-in Orderly Organized Knowledge device, otherwise known as the BOOK.
It’s a revolutionary breakthrough in technology: no wires, no electric circuits, no batteries, nothing to be connected or switched on. It’s so easy to use even a child can operate it. Just lift its cover. Compact and portable, it can be used anywhere — even sitting in an armchair by the fire — yet it is powerful enough to hold ass much information as a CD-ROM disk.
Here’s how it works: each BOOK is constructed of sequentially numbered sheets of paper (recyclable), each capable of holding thousands of bits of information. These pages are locked together with a custom-fit device called a binder which keeps the sheets in their correct sequence. By using both sides of each sheet, manufacturers are able to cut costs in half.
Each sheet is scanned optically, registering information directly into your brain. A flick of the finger takes you to the next sheet. The BOOK may be taken up at any time and used by merely opening it. The “Browse” feature allows you to move instantly to any sheet, and move forward or backward as you wish. Most come with an “index” feature, which pinpoints the exact location of any selected information for instant retrieval.
An optional “BOOKmark” accessory allows you to open the BOOK to the exact place you left it in a previous session — even if the BOOK has been closed. BOOKmarks fit universal design standards; thus a single BOOKmark can be used in BOOKs by various manufacturers.
Portable, durable and affordable, the BOOK is the entertainment wave of the future, and many new titles are expected soon, due to the surge in popularity of its programming tool, the Portable Erasable-Nib Cryptic Intercommunication Language stylus (a.k.a PENCIL)
