'Good Fren' and I watched 'Cashback' on DVD tonight.
It's a feel good movie, but not in the American Disney manner. The soundtrack is great too.
I find the protagonist's obsession with freezing time and imagining the girls naked in the supermarket very familiar. I must have written about this earlier. During extremely long and fruitless meetings earlier in my career, I used to imagine people naked around the table. It started with imagining everyone in T-shirts and shorts. Like how hilarious it would be for serious-looking people trying to make decisions in their homely wear. As the meetings got longer, my imagination stripped them naked. You should try it. Once, I had to fake a cough to swallow my laughter amidst some very poker-faced stalemate situation.
Just yesterday, 'Good Fren' and I were having a discussion about time. How, despite one's wealth and ingenuity, time is the great equaliser. Everyone only has 24 hours a day. I love having discussions with 'Good Fren' because it's a great way to spend time together. Spend part of those 24 hours together. It's great to have a partner.
Some people compartmentalise their time by the hours. E.g. 8 hours of sleep, 1.5 hour to get ready and to work, 10 hours at work, 1 hour to get back from work, 3.5 hours for gym, laundry, dinner, tv, surfing online, read, shower and get ready for bed.
Some people compartmentalise their time by days. E.g. 2 days of conceptualisation, 1 day of drinking + hangover, 3 days to build that model, 1 day of sleep for the week.
Some people compartmentalise their lives by years. E.g. 4 years of studying, 10 years of working, 2 years of family starting, another 15 years of career flight, 2 years of disease-battling, 1 year of remission, 1 year of slow painful exit.
Some people do not compartmentalise at all. Time exists in such abundance that it is a torture.
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i was just thinking over this subject of time (not in the same way as yours though) and u blogged it. lol
yup, it's nice to have a partner who you can talk to just about anything under the sun :))
haha talking about compartmentalization. i was jus telling someone life isnt compartments but a big connected circle. but of course, we can always choose to organise this big round circle into bite-size compartments lah. =)
The storyline sounds like Fermenta by Nicholson Baker...
... His "Fold-powers" are easier; he can stop the world and use it as his own pleasure ground. Arno uses this gift not for evil or material gain (he would feel guilty about stealing), though he does undress a good number of women and momentarily place them in compromising positions--always, in his view, with respect and love.
And imagining people naked at work is a subset of your 8 hrs at work.
Whether you do that or not has no bearing on your productivity assuming the agenda doesn't concern you or you can effectively segment your thoughts.
Oops! Just crapping ... :D. But you may want to refer to Randy Pausch's lecture on time management? http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
It is indeed true that everyone has only 24 hours a day.
But doesn't a guy who has to work for a living leave him with lesser leisure time compared to a rich guy who can spend the same amount of time bumming out on a beach?
In this context, the rich man actually gains in terms of the amount of time they have to spend on leisure activities.
Same goes with intelligence. If you are smart and hence more effective and efficient at the things you do. Given a difficult task, you can actually spend less time performing this task than someone with lesser intelligence. You indirectly gain extra time to be spend on other more interesting activities than the other guy!
Time doesn't seem to an equaliser in these 2 contexts. But of course it is based on the assumptions that people derive more pleasure from time spent on leisure activities than work...
Just my 2 cts worth....
Do let me know your views.. You sure have interesting ones..=)
Interesting thoughts of people around the meeting table to be strip off eventually. I used to have thoughts that they are big baby arguing over "toys". Imagining them with the pacifier and bib. :)
Actually, there are people who know they need company / partner but refuses to find one or to commit into one just because he/she think that/do not feel that is the life he/she wants. Because of this very peculiar thought of a person, he/she tends to disconnect himself/herself to the world. Rejecting everything and goes into long term sadness, loneliness and eventually leading to depression.
Hi BM, are u a graduate from NUS architorture?
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