3 Day Week

On Infrastructure

Car lights fixed. Checked up on the check at the bank. Knuckling down. Portfolio up slightly. Sore throat vs. mouthwash and coffee. Drive less. Run more. Think harder, not farther. Nasi paprik sayur. A friend joked that it sounded like ad copy, so I snapped a pic to go with it. She said it could be promoted as poor man's food. "50% rice, and 50% sayur; 50% food, and 50% lore. Wicked." You can't get much lamer than that.

On Study

Need to make some tough decisions today. Focusing first on lunch! The present, the present, the present! Focusing on the present - off for a run. Today's studies include increasing haptic feedback to the nervous system, via creatine supplementation. Side effects anticipated. Some times I look at my work and think, I'm such a bad trader. But I've only been at it for 108 days part-time. Give up? Giving up for the night. At a friend's place. Quiet enough to think in, but not static enough for serious studies. Ho, hum. Attempting to set up Chicago Boss on Windows 7, I am descending into the world of Cygwin. If i end up bricking this win7 install, it's going to be hilarious. Greece is stuck; and I am finding a bit more comfort in a 70:30 stocks:warrants asset allocation. Installing my first Windows SDK and .Net infrastructure while I'm at it. Oh well, a good day. This is going to take a while. But it's good to be in a strange lands again. Windows SDK is required for Erlang on Cygwin. Giving up for now since I have dinner to attend to - will get back to this later. Oh. At the Cygwin prompt, I can run Windows programs, like erl.exe.

On Society

Nicholas Berggruen - now ain't that a poster child. Doing laundry. Catching some shut eye. Waiting for the rain to stop. Going to catch up with a coder friend whom I referred to an ad agency over dinner. Just did a massive amount of dishes. Feels like childhood again. Sheep always think that some other department's staff are disposable; wolves just ignore the sheep. #marketing #finance #technology #hr #wtf It's been a disconcerting 4 years, but perhaps my patience will persist. Don't say he's shallow. Say that he overeacts to superficial compliments. It's truth.

On Job

Most of the world thinks it's still CNY. I have given years of my life just to test people. I think it's worth it. The necessary self-doubt of choosing to specialise in non-specialisation, regards the possibility that one is insufficiently specialised. I hate getting yelled at for breaking the curve. -_- #neuroses That's what I get for focusing too much on the present I suppose. Next up: figuring out how to maintain SLAs, without being compared to folks who don't target the same. #tough Enjoyed a quick chat with one of my seniors from fixed income at the AMMB FMD - I miss banking - it's been a while since 2007!