I REALLY don’t get all those fuzz about the date 29th Feb. I mean, SURE it’s a day that comes by once every 4 years, but dates like these are arbitrary anyway. So, why be so hyped up about it and all that?

What I *REALLY* don’t get is the comment that people make about having a birthday on February 29th! “Oh, I think it’s great to have a birthday today because then you won’t age as quickly” or “Oh, I don’t want to have a child born today because then I won’t know how to count his age” or “Oh, I’m actually 7 years old today because I was born on the 29th Feb, 1980″…

I mean… COME ON!!! Hasn’t anyone noticed that people count the age in the unit of years and not of birthdays!?!?!?! No one I know would ever say “I’m xx birthdays old”!!! So it DOES NOT matter how many actual BIRTHDAYS you’ve had, the number of years in your life is still not going to be effected!

If I hear anything in the TV/radio about this whole Feb 29th and age again, I think a vein is going to pop somewhere in my head. *sigh*

On a lighter subject, I heard on the TV this morning when I was heading out the door about a tradition that in the times of strict courting rules, 29th February is traditionally the only day on which women can propose marriage to the men.

So, yah, maybe 4 years from now… if I become desperate enough….. *laughs* j/k, of course… I wouldn’t do that anyway. d :

Or maybe this even year…!!! I still have 3 hours left of February 29th, 2008 to spend. d :

On a related note, a big congratulations to a very very very very very very very dear friend today… ( ;

If there’s one thing that I feel like the folks in the US definitely got it right on, it’s their holiday system. I mean, the idea is really simple, but the effect is just brilliant… pure brilliance! When the holidays are always the first-, second-, or third-, etc monday of some months, every time there’s a day off, it’s always going to be a 3-day long weekend.

I really don’t know about the others, but I have to admit that I really do hate having a mid-week holiday, ESPECIALLY one on a Thursday. I mean, when you have a day off on a Thursday like that, you don’t really get to feel like you’ve rested, your boss still expects you to get the work done before the end of the week, and it makes the Friday feels like another Monday. Imagine that — a week with two MONDAYS and zero FRIDAY… that does kinda suck, yes?

Reading S.’s blog this morning made me realize how I would never quite experience anything quite like the first few days of undergrad again.

Sure, I’ve had a few more “orientations” since then, but the one for my grad school was more like a few weeks of full-day math review classes! (And some of the “review” was more like “brand new” concepts for me.)

The one for work was a lot less stressful, but then again, it was definitely not like the fun/carefree/bonding events like what we had 8 years ago. (Typing that last sentence suddenly made me realize, that in a couple of years, I’d have known all of my closest friends for more than a decade already. Now, if that doesn’t make one feel … old … I don’t know what will.)

On an unrelated note, I had been hearing about my company on the news quite often lately — not so much about the team I’m currently with right now, but almost everything about the team I had spent most of the last year with. Unfortunately, the news and the buzz around everything right now doesn’t quite put us in the very best of light, but I guess that does come with the territory of being the market leader for many of the daily essentials. That’s where all the spotlights are always on.

But anyway, I always had the impressions that this kinda news really shouldn’t be made public for at least another month or so when it’s really effectively in place. But I guess considering the number of people involved who’re required to be made aware of the changes at least this long in advance, there’s really no way to keep it under a lid. Knowing that though, i really wonder how the company’s planning to deal with this kinda thing.

I’m not a big believer of celebrating a holiday like this valentine’s day, as… well, I think it doesn’t make that much sense to be spending money for overpriced roses and teddy bears on such an arbitrary (or as some would say, a Hallmark’s) day like this. I mean, sure, it’s nice to have a day to celebrate “love,” but it’s not like people should need to spend 1,000B/rose or a whole week’s worth of meals on gift to say the things that could be said even more meaningful in some other ways. Besides, if there should be a “special” day to celebrate this kinda thing, I’d personally go for a day that actually would have *some* meanings… A birthday, an anniversary, or something a lot less arbitrary… (where all these gifts would not be this overpriced)

I had kinda quit the blogging world a while ago, feeling that I had neither the time nor the material to keep up my blog.

Well, you know, when you spend more than 8-10 hours a day at work on average (doing what? I’m not so sure myself), you couldn’t help wondering if there’s anything you can really write about.

That’s especially true when one of the clause in the contract that I signed before starting work did mention something about forbidding employees to blog/talk about work or something (sure, I’m not in CIA or anything of that sort, but apparently, there are a lot of confidential materials floating around my head at any point in time.)

So, seriously, it would seem like there’s nothing else for me to actually blog about… now that I’m hardly having the time to do anything outside of work…

But then again, when I really thought about it… that’s not so true. There had been plenty of hey, that was pretty interesting moments from time to time, but when I don’t make any effort to think about them, they just slipped my mind, leaving my days as uninteresting as ever.

But that’s going to change. I’m now resolved to make the efforts to remember all those little interesting things in life. Just to make sure that the days are not just passing by…