February 2025 - Japan trip

Our 10th trip was plagued with arguments. 

My sister kept complaining there were too many stairs in each city and train station. She went to complain each mea made her sick. She went to bitch how I am denying her time to watch Twitch in the hotel. Then she said I had cocked blocked her from her shopping time. 

Hey! Just a minute. She was the one who wanted to get out of the hotel at 10am when sun sets at 4pm, when temples, shrines, museum closes at 4pm. Many of the retail stores close at 7pm, but the ones she wanted o see closed at 5pm and many were permanently closed. It has been 5 years since I have flown to Japan. This time around I was too occupied booking my flights, hotels, restaurants, tickets to sea world, plus comparing transit passes. Besides, I was the only one doing the research. 

 I was not fussed about retail, as the shops I dig, were HUGE and opened late late. I was happy to haphazardly stumble upon gems then to waste transit time to a location that does not have the ONE THING I truly desired. For her it was another plastic toy.

One evening in the first week she stated that I was lazy. Excuse me. I woke up at 5am. I did my morning routine. At 7am, I went out to play Pokemon Go and did raids with others. By 8am, I refilled my water bottle and portable batteries before house keeping came by at 9am. All the while she kept saying she needed more sleep time.

While she purchased fluffy toys, socks, and stickers. I purchased travel pass holders to hold our paper reserved seat tickets neatly, no fancy brand or anything, just soft to touch and doesn't cut the hand. I do like those pass holders connected to a retractable string. So good for IC card. I began to see everyone was using their smart watches on the IC card readers. That's so cool. I want to do that too.

Save on holding so many transit cards. 

Day 1.

February 2025

Hot, hot, hot. Summer is meant to be hot I get that part. When it melts your brain now that's extreme HOT!

I no longer tell mom to leave the windows closed on extreme hot days. I just close them when I am home. This way the heat cannot come into the house through out the day. Of course, I cannot do this when I am at work or out with friends. Oh well, you lose some, win some. I just cannot be bothered to educate thick headed individuals anymore. It is tiresome.

I have started to use cooling pads from Kmart and IKEA over the last few summers and I do get a decent good night sleep out of it. I have tried to pass this information onto my family members, but they said only animals would be found using cooling pads, and that none of their friends have ever mentioned using a cooling pad. Note: these friends are invisible. I care about about my own health above popularity. Besides those folks sleep with the air condition ON. Inhaling filtered chemicals every summer.

 

 

January 2025

It is so exhausting hearing my family members talk about how the restaurant they are dining in was making money off of them and will close shut for business for being too spicy or lacks additional ingredients. Ugh. Cost of living is impacting a great deal of people at the moment. The very ideal these business are still gonna continue on despite current challenges is called having guts to gamble it. I am grateful to have the right dish come to my table the first time.

Hope no one has spat in their noodle soup.

 

More sad is how every conversation with my sister somehow veers off to females in gym active wear are telling her off about her clothing. I am like is that for real? She goes yes, it occurs in Starbucks and it all starts with the person grabbing her drink. It occurs on the trams, on the train stations, on the trams, on the bus. Then it occurs again on her dates, the male she was dating would say the same thing. Though she has no been on a date in years. Look, if the guy left for gym attending individual is not a reason to be vindictive and talk about it non-stop to me. It is killing my brain with all this "whinge-ing" behaviour.

So not a winning topic on date night.

Meanwhile, work we are seeing a decline in interests to run DEI activities. I am teaching myself to write normalisation rules in XML.

Holiday mode for many.

 

Unfortunately, the city group was inconsistent and seems to lacks presence for the last few years. I really do not know who to say "hi?" to and inform that I have checked into the meet up event. I have begun to join another group to do raid days away from the city. I have scored a hundo Giratina Altered from dinner raid on New Year's day. What a magnificent start to the year. Followed by our first mega raid day and I got sufficient candies on my account on a decent pace. No stress. No rush to find a lobby. No need to report in my location, as a group we are stood under the same gym and waited for mid-hour reset. It was a very refreshing way to raid.

My mind is free of stress and clutter.

 

 

December 2024

There this one thing everyone wants - "happiness".  Oddly, they think it is a destination than a feeling. The movie "A Perfect Day" demonstrates what feeling "content" looks like. At the same time, the movie showcases a heap of unusual looking toilets. Hee hee.

Short break.

Daylesford was a lovely country town to walk around despite it was hilly. Sad that the north Hepburn Spring area where the hot spring is located had empty shops and restaurants. Many of them were labelled "for lease". It will sure take a while to revitalise the areas.

 

Aging siblings.

It is such a sad state to watch your sister try to fill the void by talking how about commuters and Starbuck patrons have offended her or done her wrong "somehow". Dude, I have errands to do, I do not want fill my mind with negative thoughts on a 32 degree heat. Save your brags for your mates.

Bro finds parking in the city very stressful. I try to tell him where there super tram stops are located, road works, no through roads, speed humps locations, and up coming events. Whether any of it sits in his brain is another question. 

It is puzzling, it is 2024, everyone has an Internet enabled smartphone, but they cannot find someone else to talk to, find information on events taking place in their city, and check today's weather. What the fuck?! This is bullshit. Omg! Stop with the lies, people.

PoGo in hot summer.

So fabulous to have a Pokemon ambassador willing to come out in hot heat to organise 3 hours raid route. Steve and I bumped into each other. It seems we both chose to go and do a suburb 3 hour raid event. lol. The pattern went like 2 - 1 - 1 - 2 and reverse every 30 minutes. Overall, we did 36 raids. Which is more than most would like to commit to, but we did it in 30 degrees heat. 3 shinies out of 36 raids, that is pretty decent.

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November 2024

There is a strange complexity to humans. The state of "un-grateful-ness" and the blaming game. If you are basically inadequate do not go blaming others for your own fallacy. I never in my right mind blame people for no good reason. I rather ask questions than to make statements. I prefer facts and figures to assist me in getting to the answer or conclusion which I so seek.

 

However, unsolicited suggestions are nice, but they may not always suit the situation.Take for example, person A is a picky individual who only wants to hang with beautiful people and will never develop deep friendship.

Person A: You should leave your hair down, you would look better. 

Person B: I have an itchy rash face. 

Person A: Why don't you see a skin specialist? 

Person B: My dermatologist recommended I tied my hair until the rash and itch has subsided. 

Person A: So when would that be?

Person B: I have no idea, but I hope soon. However, eczema comes and goes said my dermatologist.

Person A: Can't you do something about it? You look ugly at the moment. 

Person B: Thanks for flattery. I will do my best to medicate myself, but the body will heal at its own pace.

Person A: So, you are an unhealthy individual.

Person B: I guess, so.

Person A: Best we do not hang out.

Person B: Sure. I respect your choice.

 

Overall, I do not think individuals choose to be unhealthy, sometimes these things are genetic deposition. Well, correct if I'm wrong, but medicine is not exactly cheap and people can only afford the best care based on their knowledge, their salary, and access. Even specialist are picky in who gets to be their client and who they want to go all out in assisting in such matters.

 

 

Many humans are picky lot, who destroy this planet, and rob animals of their homes. It is a sad state of affairs to see this planet filled with humans of this kind. I pray for a better tomorrow by educating others to tolerate other people's looks and feelings. So that, we can move away from such superficial interactions and focus on repairing this planet instead.

October 2024

Anything that could go wrong did went wrong. Well, mainly at work. Staff cannot decide on which date to run an event and then they refuse to plan communication in advance. I can only do so much before a desk shift or before a day off.

Then I am learning there is thing about sending out reminders. If it has been sent out by staff newsletter on Monday, it cannot be sent out via email on Tuesday or Wednesday. We can probably get away with a reminder in the Thursday all staff meeting.

There was no BCC field in a calendar/meeting invite. You had to forward the email with BCC field. What messed up was the UTC was set to American time instead of Australian time. Whoa. That meant the invite was sent out with a 9pm start time instead of a 10am start time. Of course, this was all done in the last minute during lunch time a day before the event. A month in advance would have been better. However, no one from the work stream or social committee wanted to take up the task.

Moreover, casuals, volunteers, and security staff do not have access MS Teams, with that being the case, they cannot fill in MS Teams forms. On that basis our bake off poster was not forwarded on said the supervisor of volunteers. I did my best. Other people will have to take up the mantle. I do not have the energy to suggest to an adult, you know, you could just ask them to email in their entry or not bake but feel free to attend the event when you happen to rostered in.

On the day of the event, there were volunteers who asked why they were not informed. I could not be bothered to justify someone's else action. I'm too busy topping up baked goods and informing punters how to vote.

Now I am writing a guideline and hoping people could follow it. However, I fear we will be short of people to help with planning events in the near future.

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Family is unwilling to work on increasing cash flow. Just happy to depend on grandpa. Um. Cost of living is going to be higher than what's grandpa can put out. 

Sis states she avoid much of the north side of the city due to lack of toilets and too much homeless people. Actually, these homeless hang in malls and near toilets more than you can imagine. Also, those bibe bashers are loitering around the shops too. Since we look like young Asians they will continuously approach you. I said you need to build a better defence and learn to stay on the move.

Sitting down and looking pretty only attract flies in the city. The rich does not hang in the city. They did not in the 1886 and they will not in 2024. 

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PoGo the game has been quite. More and more players are pissed by the new features, which does not benefit their play style. Coach potato. We hardcore continue to walk and play. My sister insist we sit and play. I tell her this game does not operate that way. To find research task is to swipe a poke stop and each street can have up 50 poke stops. It takes time to go through all of time. Sis whinges. Too much walking is hurting her joints. I told her you can hide in the shops while I play PoGo. I rather be fit and able to move as I age then to sit and develop joint problems. Sedentary lifestyle can ruin your health.

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September 2024

The cold weather continues into spring. Still it is that time of year for spring cleaning time. What springs to mind is how I have been sloppy for the last 5 years and how I have let my table to go the dogs. I so gotta get my act together and prepare for advancing years. The expectation will be more medicine and more document and they require space on the table... I do not have a table. Sis fill every table draws with nail polish and eye liners like mom has done to every draw in the bathroom. Hoarding, hoarding, and hoarding some more.

I cannot wait to de-clutter my life. Well, one aspect of it anyway.