Another cool tidbit from Lifehacker: How to upload your video to Google.

Indecisiveness is one of the biggest reasons why I waste so much time. This has become painfully apparent as I have to get more things done with the same amount of time. This was also painfully illustrated when I was choosing the colours to paint my Clementi flat.

Recently, I wanted to eliminate indecisiveness as a key source of inefficiency in my life by learning how to make good decisions quickly. This wish was fortuitiously granted when I stumbled upon this (very long) article on overcoming serious indecisiveness via Lifehacker.

Now, I just need to read the damn article. Maybe not?

I’ve always been concerned how non-anonymous blogging can be a liability (see here for a list of bloggers who got fired) or a source of embarrassment. It’s good to know how to blog safely .

This is funny and reminded me of Suyin:

Is God such a comedian that he created life, saying unto the male of the species: ‘You will climb mountains, conquer continents, develop technology beyond the wildest dreams of those who walked before you, the very forces of nature will tremble at your might, but you will never, ever know where your pants are. So here’s something called a woman – she can help you with that.’

More stuff from Seneca that struck me:

But putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately. Listen to the cry of our greatest poet, who as though inspired with divine utterance sings salutary verses:

No time. No time. No time to blog. Too much has passed and too little has been recorded and will soon be forgotten and lost.

In a previous post I wrote that I almost bought Seneca’s On The Shortness of Life. Well, I bought it today and have started reading it. Was reminded of Chris when I read this passage from On Tranquillity of Mind:

But nothing delights the mind so much as fond and loyal friendship. What a blessing it is to have hearts that are ready and willing to receive all your secrets in safety, with whom you are less afraid to share knowledge of something than keep it to yourself, whose conversation soothes your distress, whose advice helps you make up your mind, whose cheerfulness dissolves your sorrow, whose very appearance cheers you up!

I’m starting on my new tech adventure by purchasing a domain name and some server space!

This is my first WordPress post on my new Routhost server after wasting too much time looking for a template that I like for this blog.

I was on Infinology’s 30 day free trial program before I switched to Routhost due to cost considerations. My first and only WordPress post on the Infinology server is gone; I don’t know how to import it to my Routhost server.

Why Infinology and now Routhost? Daryl was using Infinology and recommended it last year. Chris was using Routhost and recommended me this year. Routhost was more suited for my needs as a beginner.

I thought since my days are so packed recently, I better get down to blogging and not waste time designing the site now, design can come later. Better to keep posting quickly, gain momentum, do something than wait for substantial and well-thought out posts on well digested matters, which may never come.

You are ‘regularly metric verse’. This can take
many forms, including heroic couplets, blank
verse, and other iambic pentameters, for
example. It has not been used much since the
nineteenth century; modern poets tend to prefer
rhyme without meter, or even poetry with
neither rhyme nor meter.

You appreciate the beautiful things in life—the
joy of music, the color of leaves falling, the
rhythm of a heartbeat. You see life itself as
a series of little poems. The result (or is it
the cause?) is that you are pensive and often
melancholy. You enjoy the company of other
people, but they find you unexcitable and
depressing. Your problem is that regularly
metric verse has been obsolete for a long time.


What obsolete skill are you?
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Via Edward’s blog.

Via email, Chris alerted me today to a new interesting-sounding nightspot in Singapore:

Cold Bar Shiver as you drink at new ice-cold bar in steamy Singapore

SINGAPORE (AP)

Not only the drinks are ice cold at the Eski Bar, a new nightspot in tropical Singapore. The room
temperature is so cold that staff wear heavy coats and ski caps, and patrons get a 10 percent discount if they show up in winter wear.

The bar contains a decorated, industrial strength freezer, with the mercury ranging from minus two degrees Celsius (28 degrees Fahrenheit) to just above zero (32 degrees F). The goal is to attract thirsty clientele who need a break from the round-the-clock, sweltering, Southeast Asian heat.

So far, the gimmick is working. The directors of Eski Bar, which officially opened this month near Singapore’s Chinatown, plan to open another, larger outlet next month. 

It’s a very clean look. They get a lot of women coming in groups,‘ said Violet Oon, a public relations consultant to the bar project.

It’s not a traditional idea of a night place. Everything is white and ice blue. If you go inside, it’s like an igloo.

There’s wraparound upholstery. Perhaps it’s psychological, they feel cocooned from the world.‘

Eski Bar features a freezer‘ room with glass mosaic tiles on the bar counter, an alternative to a stainless steel surface that might be sticky and painful for patrons’ elbows. There’s also a chiller‘ room, where the temperature is a more normal 18 degrees C (64 degrees F), and an outdoor area for those who can’t stand the cold.

The decor features ceiling and wall lights shaped like melting ice cubes, as well as a transparent plastic curtain at the entrance to keep out the heat. Beer and white spirits such as vodka are served ice cold, and one cocktail is called Sleeping Polar Bear.

Those involved in the project include Andy Lim, a former building contractor, and Andrea Teo, a television producer

TODAY – 3 March 2005
By Jeanine Tan

THERE’S a nightspot that brings new meaning to the term ‘’chill-out joint’‘.

The Eski Bar at Tanjong Pagar Road, which opened three weeks ago, is the first bar in Singapore to operate in subzero temperatures.

The bar is divided into two areas. The non-smoking Freezer area, where the temperature can drop below zero degrees Celsius, leads into the Chiller area, where smoking is allowed and the temperature is that of a very cold air-conditioned room.

While the idea of such cold bars is nothing new, it’s a novelty in tropical Singapore. Indeed, you experience a bit of a culture shock when you’re greeted by a blast of chilly air as soon as you step into the 750 sq feet bar from the muggy weather outside.

The bar plays chill-out tunes and can accommodate about 40 people. The good news? It has no cover charge.

The $120,000 Eski Bar is the brainchild of Elaine Teh, the executive director of Octopus Holdings, which also owns about 30 other small nightspots. She conceived the idea of a ‘’cold bar’’ about two years ago, but it was only recently, after meetings with the innovation team of Asia Pacific Breweries, that the idea came into fruition.

‘’If two people have the same idea, it should be something good,’’ said group managing director of Octopus Holdings, Andy Lim.

For Teh, vanity was her motivation in setting up the place. The self-confessed lover of hats and winter wear noted that many women own winter clothing, but rarely have the chance to wear them in Singapore. ‘’I’ve seen a lot of people come in with their coats. Even if customers don’t have winter wear, we have spare ones for them. Women like this place because their skin won’t get sticky,’’ she said.

It’s not only the fashion lovers who will get extra mileage out of the place. An incentive for drinkers is that beer stays chilly here. It also apparently isn’t as easy to get drunk here.

‘’I’m not much of a drinker, but here I can have six martinis and won’t get drunk. It must be the temperature,’’ said Lim.

As cool as the bar looks — the all-white Chiller area is designed to look like the interior of an igloo — a whole lot of effort was put into designing it. For example, it was impossible to use steel for the bar top counter, because if customers placed their arms against the counter, their skin might freeze against the steel. Special heaters had to be installed so that the water wouldn’t be too cold for the bartenders.

But it’s certainly been worth it — what was meant to be a prototype has proven so successful that a second, bigger outlet will open in Circular Road next month.

Via Blogger Templates, I found a template I liked here and just uploaded it for this site. I like the simple layout.