Current location:	Sietch Creare
Current mood:	accomplished
Current music:	Donna Summer - Last Dance
Entry tags:	birthdays, comics, dilbert, gay life, music, sietch creare, thoughts, work

00684: Trains of Thought
Lots of birthdays today! Greetings need to go out to my dear friend from my grade school / high school days, Dave, a fellow geeky friend Mika and a friend at work Joie! A very Happy Birthday to all of you - here's coping you have a great day!

On the train ride home today, it just hit me that I can't quite remember when I started to like the music of Donna Summer. Seriously. I know it seems stereotypically gay of me (and it pretty much is, I accept that), but I have no regrets, I just really like her. It all started with one of the dance remixes of Last Dance that really hooked me, I think. Sure, there was Charlie's Angels and all that but it really struck me when I heard it on the dance floor for the first time. The same holds true for a number of her other songs like I Will Go with You (Con te partirò) - there's something about hearing it on the dance floor that makes it all the more uplifting and therefore memorable. I didn't quite understand why my brain decided to think about that today, but it was significant enough to merit a place in today's entry.

I'm getting more and more comfortable with my MRT commute to work, despite the rains as of late. I'm still experimenting with the optimal time for me to leave for work and things have been slightly complicated by the recent experiments in terms of the MRT's operation hours and like I said, the weather. Still, it seems safe enough to conclude for now that I'm better off aiming for a 10:00pm - 07:00am shift at work given the volume of people around the earlier rides. I tried aiming for 09:00pm in recent days but the number of people who ride around those hours is just nuts and I don't see myself battling for a spot on the train every day just yet. By adjusting a few minutes later, it makes a significant improvement in terms of human traffic, although I won't go as far as saying that it means I'm already comfortable during my daily rides to work.

The Sietch is looking a lot better now. Tobie has managed to bring over more chairs so we have decent seating now along with a few more plates and such. We really just need to get a gas range and start experimenting with cooking for things to really get into full swing...that and for me to organize the DVDs into something more meaningful and a lot less cluttered. I've started to update my online video collection file with Tobie's DVDs and VCDs to help me with somehow putting things in some semblance of order. At the same time, we still need to address the shelving situation since all my books remain to be in three separate boxes that I won't even open for now. Once we get the shelves, then I start getting them out of there.

Speaking of which, I probably should try to encode a few more titles before I head to bed. Go, go, Google Docs online spreadsheet! LOL

Yup, that definitely sounds like the Sales world indeed.