On Crankiness

Thanks to jet lag, this is exactly how I am feeling nowadays. I am so cranky, it is driving me insane. I'm fine until I suddenly crash. That's jet lag I suppose, you just have to wait till you are over it.

Being back is bittersweet. When I am here, I want to be there, when I 'm there, I want to be here. It is a vicious cycle and there really is no solution. I wasn't supposed to be back so soon, but one day I was up late at night and it occurred to me that it was time to move on. It wasn't an emotionally overbearing thought, just this gut feeling that made me realize that I was ready, and I was. So I called up my travel agent at 3am and changed my ticket. It was hard breaking the news to others, but I had to do whats best for me at the end of the day. 

It is good to be back though, I didn't realize how attached to the luxury this part of the world offers until I left it all behind for a couple months. Sure, it has its down-sides, and many many of those, but when it comes to the big picture it is still a pretty one.

I have so many more shattered and fragmented thoughts, I am too tired to share though. Maybe soon!

=)

On google

I was bored, so I went on Google.com and decided to google myself. The Internet is truly one freaky place.

A. I found that this website called spoke.com or something has a profile of me, and they have me down as currently working for the first company that ever hires me. I never even hear of this site, yet there I am.

B. I found pictures of my messy apartment back when I used to have my OWN apartment in a city far, far away. I had forgotten that I entered a messy house contest on a blog, and I never imagined they would end up on google. Honestly, I never imagined they will appear on the blog itself. I never checked back till I found the pics now. Needless to say, I lost that contest, and thank God for that. Some houses are scary messy.
The blog in question is www.andfaraway.net
The pictures in question? you have to figure that out for yourselves

What's frustrating though is that, when you are looking for something in specific on google, it can fail you. I guess some things are better left unseen and ungoogle-able.

Randomness

Some inspiring quotes to remember and turn to in times of need:

Randomly picked up from the net.

"Boke Me"

Nothing like some Yehya this late at night to bring a smile to one's face:

Perspectives on glass...

Click on image to see where from.

Privacy? What privacy???

I love BBC Focus magazine + website. I always learn something new, interesting, and every once in a while, that just adds to my paranoia. Enjoy:

Once deleted, can text messages be retrieved?

D.B, Leeds

Yes they can, so if you’ve been having an affair or doing something dodgy at work, beware! Messages are laid out on the SIM card as data files. When you move messages around or delete them, the data actually stays put. All you’re doing is telling the phone to point at the files in different ways. Deleting a message from the inbox, for instance, just tells the phone not to point to it any more when it’s listing the contents of that folder. Even when you ‘permanently’ clear messages, you’re simply getting the phone to stop listing it in the deleted items folder. You can’t recover such texts on the phone itself, but there are plenty of commercially available software packages you can buy that allow your PC to read data directly from a SIM card. Some of the more advanced tools figure out the file structure on the card, thus allowing those long-hidden deleted messages to be resurrected.

Submitted by G.M

From HERE

What you may or may not know about sleep

Interesting, no?

Raccoons!

In Montreal, I saw raccoons for the first time in my life. It was on the view point of Mount Royal, and they look cute yet scary at night. They were going thru the day's garbage and were very close to us. It was as though they did not fear humans... maybe they really didn't.

Ferrari World

Ferrari World finally opened up its doors to customers after making us wait for a couple of years. BBC News covers it, and I must say, it looks AWESOME! I really can't wait to go there!

Che-che-check it out!

Chocoholics Anonymous 3

Here they are, as promised: