The title pretty much sums it up.

Uh. Where should I start?

A couple of weeks back, we acquired a new bad habit, first the little green pills, then the little blue ones.

The first night was akin to being drunk but without the cost of having to drink too much alcohol. And there wasn’t the hangover puking the morning after.

The body relaxes; muscles soften and turn into mush. Soon total shutdown takes over.

Second night on, it had no effect on me. I could only watch as the effects overcame him. I got increasingly frustrated. As a last resort, we tried another. This time, it worked, occasionally. But it wasn’t any better… drowsiness the next day was something we had to content with.

Soon we realized we sleep-talk too often. Rubbish we’d spout and not remember the next day. It was bad. And dangerous!

If one of us took it earlier than the other, we’d find ourselves an amused spectator to the most interesting antics. He tried to fix a pole but was swaying too hard; he ate an ice cream and broke a cup that he had no recollection of doing. I was smoking but somehow ended up sitting on the cig!

We’d tease each other as we regaled each other with stories of the night before. But we agreed, sleeping pills are bad!

Then there’s Yasmin. So far I’m doing a good job with the daily dose. Not bad for someone who’s never been one to take anything religiously.

Meetings on Wednesdays have been amusingly frustrating for two weeks in a row. Twice it involves an angmoh (Supersize Me!). The first versus a Vietnamese, the second time versus a PRC.

Both times I just sat there and made monkey faces… I knew there wouldn’t be any conclusions. If we weren’t civilized people, chairs would have flown just to get points across.

Well, I did very much wanted to bang my head against the wall. Heh.

A domain was registered last month, the same day my poor hamster youngling, Nutt, committed suicide on Feb 14th.

Of all bad habits, he decided to be a fussy eater and refused to eat the quality American hamster food I got him and his two brothers, Chip & Dale. A Japanese wannabe I suppose. Tsk. Or Marukan proved too irresistibly good that he was willing to die of starvation just to prove his point?

It was sad waking up to see him laying there, his little body stiff, while the other two remained oblivious to his death. He was gingerly wrapped in newspapers and buried by Ernest, who had to hug me for a while before I could brace myself. Sniff.

I hope Nutt is happily frolicking in a field full of sunflower seeds in hamster heaven now.

Yes, the domain. Details shan’t be disclosed but it’s parked somewhere in the World Wide Web waiting for me to shake my huge ass and get it a permanent home. Soon it’ll be bye bye AutumnSunset and hallo “whatever”!

In good time.

Meanwhile, I’ve been checking my logs to gauge how much server space is needed. Apparently, Spiders and damn bots looooove me! They’ve been eating at the resources and they keep coming back for more.

Loving them? Hating them? I remain undecided. They render the site more searchable yet invites “unwanted guests” which spams. (Yes Redz, hence the spam block which deleted your comment.)

Which brings me to another love hate situation. Eek! I hate complexities and this would be an algorithm I’ll never figure out!

Before I gained knowledge on the area of online marketing, I never believed that it was an effective medium. After all, I hate ads! Online ads are annoying and/or intrusive!

But based on statistical evidence from tracking logs, it seems P(ay) P(er) C(lick) ads prove more successful in driving traffic than given credit for. At least that’s from the data gathered so far and the presence of enquiries only when the ads are switched on.

Hmmm. Need to gain access and check server logs.

No, it’s not this site obviously, it ain’t work either. Though there was someone’s idea of a joke and the ad for autumnsunset ran briefly. The same person who is leaving for Beijing and leaving me with a mountain of work to deal with! Grrr…

Actually I should applaud myself (how’s that for thick skin?) for generating freaking over 5000 words and then
de-duplicating them on spreadsheets, all within 4 hours. But at the same time I shot myself in the foot… the challenge now is to find the root category each word came from and dump them there.

Different categories for different accounts, different upload methods. And its just a part of everything else.

Sigh.