{"id":1120,"date":"2008-11-01T04:40:35","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T09:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2008-11-01T05:01:50","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T10:01:50","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/11\/01\/hello-world","title":{"rendered":"hello world"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n<i>\u201cThe greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<div align=\"right\">Richard Moss<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>i just slept for what must&#8217;ve been a good ten hours or more. boy does waking up from that make you feel refreshed. i miss my days of long sleep :-)<\/p>\n<p>wednesday, got home, and immediately left to sunway for the dinner\/event thing for international peace. good fun, spent time with john, carmen, ruben, sk2, her sister. yet another night at a hotel, tsk tsk. been ages since i had a room share, but we seemed to survive without throwing shoes at each other<\/p>\n<p>work, caught some judo, dinner. walked out of dinner a lot. my tolerance level for silly people is generally pretty high, but i felt my top wanting to blow many a time that night. apparently, i was not the only one who was about to blow their top<\/p>\n<p>then supper. visited mcdonalds, after what must&#8217;ve been a very long time. i ate, finally. good company helps that, clearly<\/p>\n<p>short sleep, and then work&#8230; met up with aizat, suanie, and headed to izzy. we&#8217;ve now booked the speaker&#8217;s dinner place. went home, and headed out for dinner with parents. yum. didn&#8217;t know halloween was such a big deal here. they downed some margaritas (tgif has some amazing ones). i didn&#8217;t. we however had a mostly serious talk, which i was surprised went pretty well :P 42!<\/p>\n<p>caught some crap on cable tv, which explains why i fell asleep on the couch. today, was lunch at some open house&#8230; dinner later will also be at some open house. i think i&#8217;ll head back to pj tomorrow. busy week ahead.<\/p>\n<p>answer or no answer, i&#8217;m glad things are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/10\/28\/humble-pie\">back to normal<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/10\/21\/so-much-to-do-so-little-time\">anticipation doesn&#8217;t kill<\/a>, really. silence does.<\/p>\n<p>oh, movie updates. haven&#8217;t seen that many recently. miss the cinema. caught <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0795421\/\">mamma mia!<\/a> (great stuff, and the GSC Signature gold class is well worth the rm60 they charge &#8211; go there, the privacy, the seats, its all just amazing), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0467197\/\">max payne<\/a> (not so good). 2 in october is not so bad, i guess&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>its november now. the year is almost over. boy has it passed by so fast.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20hello%20world&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F11%2F01%2Fhello-world&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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