how quickly the joys of a relatively relaxing holiday fade into the background, as a return to old habits of sleep deprivation snap back into place and the constant tiredness reclaims its stake.
*sigh*
to make things worse, i've been on training most of this week, as i'm on deployment to another business line for the next 3 months. when things are busy (as it has been for the past 6 months) i don't get a chance to switch my mind off during work and to feel the tiredness except for the involuntary yawns. sitting in training is a different matter... in the constant battle to stay awake and alert, i'm sure that half the information has either never made it into my ears, or has only passed through as a fleeting fog. i feel like i've retained so little, and can only look forward to struggling with incompetence and lack of understanding once i start answering queries.
tried to make up for it by taking an afternoon nap yesterday, which actually turned into a 3 hour sleep! not sure if it was that which made it difficult to sleep later that night (or should i say earlier this morning... :$) i tossed and turned, my mind being rather uncooperative in resting from the thoughts it was engrossed with pursuing.then i overslept this morning, and rushed to get to work on time. felt reasonably ok in the morning, but by the afternoon session my mind had wandered a world away from what i was supposed to be learning. perhaps it was the recent reacquainting with a few tadashi maekawa poems i had read a few years back (a trip down memory lane courtesy of checking my sitemeter referral logs, which showed that someone had found my post by searching for the book in which i saw these translated poems), coupled with an old poem of mine i recently revisited, and the sleepless thoughts of the night before, which produced the rather unexpected situation of my drifting mind suddenly coming up with the rough draft of a new poem! thought i'd better get some of the words down on paper before it all drifts away, and work on refining it when my mind is more awake.
or perhaps it will come together more when i head for bed tonight :p
hee i noe wer the photo is taken. my gym is there! ;)
ReplyDeleteand i like the pano photos u took on your recent trip :)
ha, then you know better than me where i was, cos i can't remember the name of the place... great world something?? i remember there's a cinema there called something liked that, cos that's where i watched the narnia movie :)
ReplyDeleteglad u like the panos - didn't merge that well but you can't pick the problems unless you look closely at fuller size pic ;)
building name = great world city
ReplyDeletecinema = golden village :P
the panos are something which my casio cannot do :(
ahh... heh ok got a bit mixed up :p
ReplyDeleteall digicams can do panos... it's whether you have accompanying software to stitch the component shots together. see here for a brief explanation.
the stitch feature on the canon camera itself just helps you compose the individual shots by ensuring you have overlap and that adjoining shots more or less line up, but you can still take shots for a pano without using this feature.
can email you some links to free stitching software to try if you are keen to play with panos via your digicam :)