A coherent dream

Last night I had a dream. I think I have dreams every night, but I remembered last night’s dream very clearly after waking up. Unlike other dreams, this dream felt… structured. Usually my dreams are quite surreal, but this one was not. Furthermore, it was in the first-person so it felt incredibly real at the [...]

The Ritual

For the past three days I have been performing a ritual of ever increasing mindlessness as the days wear on. It’s a ritual that has served me well in my past vocations but during this recent spate of intense indolence I’m inflicted with, it boggles the mind why I continue to bother.
Every morning I wake [...]

The Perfect World

When one is feeling as blue as I have been as of late, one becomes accutely aware of the imperfections present in one’s environment. Had I a better mood, I would shrug off these small imperfections with a smile and get on with whatever it was I was doing, but at the moment this is [...]

The cycle of despair

Since my parents left roughly two weeks ago, I have become acutely aware that I am almost completely alone and as such have been feeling very depressed. Not only this, but I have become aware of a cycle which could well see that this situation goes unresolved. The strategy I have followed to date has [...]

Culture Shock

At present my mood is what could only be described as having gotten out on the wrong side of the bed. I feel a mixture of apathy towards doing anything, disappointment at the grey overcast day that greets me outside my window, frustration as I watch my free time vanish into nothingness, frustration as I [...]

Puneshed severely all sorts of crime

Having had the internet set up in my apartment on Friday night, I’ve been so busy catching up on everything I have missed over the past few days that it is only now I have found the time to post. Today marks one and a half weeks since I arrived in Beijing and having had [...]

Re-establishment

After such a long absence since the last time I updated my blog, the events of the past 24 hours have stirred me to actually make something of the 10RMB ($1.70AU) I spent to use the internet at a nearby internet cafe. Yesterday night I flew into Beijing and was escorted to my apartment which [...]

Efficiency

A lot has happened since my last post which, I see, was only six days ago.
Firstly, this week has been a relatively quiet week at work as the students have been having their athletics carnival. In fact, right after posting my mug set completion post I went to work and had to sit in on [...]

Desensitisation and squalor

Since around 11:30am today I seem to be feeling the effects of a bug I contracted from someone or other. I can’t remember how long my nose has been running for, but my throat has started itching today and I’m already starting to feel quite drowsy. I had a sleep today between I think around [...]

Gadgetry

I write this after having just completed Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow on my Nintendo DS Lite. I am surprised how my portable gaming devices have come along since arriving in China. When I first arrived I came with little in the way of electronics: a digicam with 3 memorysticks totalling 544MB of space, my two [...]