5 Oct - 11 Oct

Location: Singapore
Read: National Geographic, Trisham Shandy, Brothers Grimm
Listened: Piero Umiliani, Alan Hawkshaw, Guy Boyer, And Now In Colour
Watched: Serial Experiment Lain
Worked on: Lyteframe from Flash, fixing recursive loops in as2, dreamsyntax text, trance sounds in garageband

23Sept-4Oct

Location: Singapore (Siglap)
Read: National Geographic December 1993 (Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Easter Island, Nebraska) - Post-communist era development of a Russian middle class, ikea russia is (was) responsible for 10% of Ikea’s global sales volume and symbolic of the rise of Russian consumerism - but corruption in Russia has prompted even the reclusive Ikea owner Ingvar Kamprad to state they were halting all investment in Russia, Grimms’ Fairytales, Trisham Shandy, National Geographic November 2001 (why UK traffic is on left side and US traffic is on the right side of the road - due to historical usage of wagons)
Listened: A History of Private Life - paganistic beliefs of witchcraft persisted in Britain even up to the times of Queen Victoria’s reign and old buildings are still being dug up to the discovery of unusual items buried in their walls (West London building in Highgate discovered with: 2 shoes, 1 candlestick, 2 strangled chickens, 2 once-live chickens), Adults with Autism, Gogol Bordello’s Immigrant Punk, Another Case of Milton Jones,
Watched: Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar, iCarly, Neo Angelique on okto
Discovered: Millau Viaduct, Petra, Socotra Island, Aposematism, Ununquadium, CamelCase
Learnt: How to crochet a granny square, Russian, Georgian Alphabet

22 Sept

Location: Singapore
Ate: Salmon Sandwich, Instant Mushroom Soup, Cabbage Soup
Drank: Coffee, water
Worked on: Isometric drawing of Geylang (Pixen and Photoshop), Packing room
Listened to: Radio adaptation of Philip K Dick’s Imposter, BBC7’s The Seventh Dimension, Ronnie Barker Specials, the Navy Lark
Discovered: Aposiopesis (praecisio), Anapodoton, Anacoluthon

Week of 15 September to 21 September

Location: Singapore (Geylang, Shenton Way, Keppel, Newton)
Worked: Nonstop - Finished one site (using jquery, lytebox, and many preloaders), Finished illustration and poster for a friend’s film going to festival next week, Started on another two sites, Started on Isometric illustration of Geylang Road, Packing for Moving house
Ate: Tiny bits of finger food
Drank: Horrendous Amounts of Alcohol over a few days of non-premeditated revelery including a mojito, white wine, red wine, double vodka cranberry, triple vodka, and probably some more.
Lost: Myself (for a couple of hours, waking up in keppel unexpectedly instead), my bag, my wallet, my phone, my camera - but found them back the next day in a building with no name, and was late for work.
Bruised: Left shoulder, left knee, left elbow, left hip, fourth finger on left hand
Turned: 25
Discovered: Norman Doors, Samuel Johnson, Subungual Hematoma, Diseases of the Spleen, Pixen, Sickle Cell Disease
Watched: Valerie and her Week of Wonders
Reading: P. Maguire’s From Tree Dwellings to New Towns, Brothers Grimm Fairytales, Dave Cutcher’s Electronic Circuits for the Evil Genius, Donald Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things

Back to the normal programming tomorrow.

14 september

Location: Singapore
Listened: Zomby, Burial, Altern-8, and a bbc programme about indigenious african fruits
Smoked: 1 cigarette
Drank: Water, Diluted Sugarcane Juice
Ate: Fried Egg, Awful unmentionable food at Beach Road, Prawn Omelette
Worked on: Flash, BitmapData
Read: Child-Land, bits of Philip K Dick’s Game-players of Titan
Discovered: Grange Hill, Textpattern CMS, Infinite Broom and Local Connectedness in Topological Spaces

Weekend of 11-13 September

Location: Singapore (Little India, Havelock, Tampines, Dhoby Ghaut, Geylang)
Read: Chapter 1 of Anna Karenina (in Russian)
Listened: DJ Hixxy, Burial, Zomby
Watched: Zai Kuning at Post-Museum, Simian Mobile Disco at Zouk, Blood Ties
Ate: Dim Sum at Lorong 17 Geylang
Worked on: Illustrations, jQuery
Discovered: Gazumping, Glee Club, Postal Symbols

10 Sept

Location: Singapore
Ate: Oatmeal, 2 Chicken Wings, Satay
Drank: Water, Milo, One Beroca Tablet
Listened: Earworms Rapid Russian, That Mitchell & Webb Sound, Miranda Hart’s Joke Shop, moskva.fm
Discovered: Visible Human Project, Pyrolysis, Myth of Tithonus, Hoki fish

9 sept

Location: Singapore
Listened: DJ Hixxy, Dougal & Gammer, Earworms Rapid Russian
Ate: Oatmeal and Raisins, Maggi Goreng, Mars Bar, 2 Wasabi Peas, and a Cheesy BBQ Meltz from KFC.
Drank: 2 cups of milk, water, red wine
Smoked: 3 cigarettes
Presented: Geylang Happy Hour
Discovered: Neuroplasticity
Worked on: AS2 XML Gallery, Dreamsyntax essay

8 sept

Listened: Earworms Rapid Russian, David Attenborough on Dodos (which means “stupid” in Portuguese), Fascism and Creativity, DJ Hixxy, Technohead, De Mosselman
Reading: Processing, a programming handbook for visual designers and artists
Discovered: Reverse Dutch Auction
Worked on: Dreamsyntax (new site design), Dreamsyntax (maps), office food maps

7 sept

Location: Singapore
Listened: Earworms Rapid Russian, MOSVKA DFM
Watched: Sergei Parajanov’s Ashik Kerib
Smoked: 1 cigarette
Ate: One Chappati and daal, three sugared biscuits, Omelette, Tofu
Drank: Watermelon juice, milk, water
Worked on: russian vocabulary lists
Discovered: Grape Nehi, Apiary, The Uses of Google Algorithm in Computational Biology