So I caught some sort of chest cold a long time ago and THOUGHT it went away. Then it came back.
I have not been exercising at all recently. Sleeping less than normal. Felix keeps us busy. I have also been negligent in eating well. This all has led to me getting some horrible mucus build up that just will not go away!
I have been coughing horribly and have had lots of nose trouble. I have had to quit dairy for the time being and have been trying to find something that will help me with this problem.
I even decided to try garlic. . . in the form of tablets. Anyone know knows me knows that I am a vampire and I avoid garlic and onion more than almost anything else! I found some garlic horseradish combination tablets that should help, in theory, with the issues I have been having. The garlic, I know, will help me long-term if I keep taking it, but I cannot stand the taste of garlic, so that is the only way that I can take it.
I decided to try out pineapple since it is supposed to help. I asked my boss where I could buy pineapple in this area. To my shock she ran down and bought it for me. She knew they would run out of it soon, so she went to get it for me for that reason. It was very nice of here. She also refuses to let me pay her back. I have a good boss. :-)
The pineapple does seem to be helping. However, it is tearing up my mouth. My boss bought what appears to be a whole pineapple cut up. I have nearly finished it off, but my mouth is hurting from it. Next time, when I buy it myself, I will buy a much smaller amount of pineapple.
I have also been drinking insane amounts of liquid. I am trying to drink about 4 liters or more of water/liquid per day. The toilet and I see a lot of one another now.
Well, off to my next class.
August 25, 2010
Randomness
Well, I know I have not been writing much here lately. I have no excuse but being damned tired and busy, oh and sick.
Felix is doing well. He is getting bigger and more interested in his world. It will not be long before he is crawling around getting into mischief and causing altogether different headaches from what he causes now.
He SEEMS, and I am trying to be unbiased here, to be more intelligent than average. For comparison I have a former co-worker's daughter. She and Felix are a lot different, things that she should respond to, so I feel, she does not. Felix seems to be much more interested in things around him and in general to be much brighter than my co-worker's daughter is at the moment. Siew agrees with me that he seems to be smarter than average.
He has also become tricky. He wants people to hold him and walk around with him. He will cry and cry when this does not happen. Poor Siew is at her wit's end dealing with him all of the time. I wish I could help her more, but I have to work. For me, he does not do this as much. That may not be true now that I think about it. It might be that he is the same with us both, but since he sees me less he does not do it as much. It is a matter of averages.
He is growing fast. He loves to play superman. This is a game where I lay on my back and hold him in the air and I "fly" him around. Occasionally he "lands" on my stomach in a standing position. I have a few other games that he likes to play, like kung-fu where I move his hands and feet in martial arts like motions. I have been trying to encourage him to crawl by laying him on his stomach and giving him something to push from using his feet. He is not strong enough to pick his body up yet, but he can crawl a few centimeters on his own. He does not like to do this yet though.
He is an alert boy who loves to watch people. He is always calm and happy when we go out shopping. He refuses to sleep during these times. He is too busy watching people.
Siew and I are both tired, but we love the times when Felix is happy and chatty. We love to see him develop. He is even trying to roll over, a little, on his own and even trying to sit up.
There is a lot for us to worry about with regard to him, but we will do our best for him. He is our wonderful little boy.
Felix is doing well. He is getting bigger and more interested in his world. It will not be long before he is crawling around getting into mischief and causing altogether different headaches from what he causes now.
He SEEMS, and I am trying to be unbiased here, to be more intelligent than average. For comparison I have a former co-worker's daughter. She and Felix are a lot different, things that she should respond to, so I feel, she does not. Felix seems to be much more interested in things around him and in general to be much brighter than my co-worker's daughter is at the moment. Siew agrees with me that he seems to be smarter than average.
He has also become tricky. He wants people to hold him and walk around with him. He will cry and cry when this does not happen. Poor Siew is at her wit's end dealing with him all of the time. I wish I could help her more, but I have to work. For me, he does not do this as much. That may not be true now that I think about it. It might be that he is the same with us both, but since he sees me less he does not do it as much. It is a matter of averages.
He is growing fast. He loves to play superman. This is a game where I lay on my back and hold him in the air and I "fly" him around. Occasionally he "lands" on my stomach in a standing position. I have a few other games that he likes to play, like kung-fu where I move his hands and feet in martial arts like motions. I have been trying to encourage him to crawl by laying him on his stomach and giving him something to push from using his feet. He is not strong enough to pick his body up yet, but he can crawl a few centimeters on his own. He does not like to do this yet though.
He is an alert boy who loves to watch people. He is always calm and happy when we go out shopping. He refuses to sleep during these times. He is too busy watching people.
Siew and I are both tired, but we love the times when Felix is happy and chatty. We love to see him develop. He is even trying to roll over, a little, on his own and even trying to sit up.
There is a lot for us to worry about with regard to him, but we will do our best for him. He is our wonderful little boy.
August 5, 2010
Perhaps
I forgot to mention my most interesting creation theory.
Perhaps some aliens were cruising the galaxy and happened to see our little planet, devoid of life, and thought they could stir things up a bit. So, they planted the seeds of life and then left.
On occasion they come back to visit their creation. Perhaps this is where UFO sightings come from.
This, to me, sounds more plausible than a god creating the universe and plopping us into place at its center.
What would be even more interesting, and likely, is that the aliens did it because they were BORED and wanted to see what would happen. It is also possible they were on a seeding mission as well.
There are lots of possibilities for life, the universe and everything. Why must we insist on something that is illogical?
Perhaps some aliens were cruising the galaxy and happened to see our little planet, devoid of life, and thought they could stir things up a bit. So, they planted the seeds of life and then left.
On occasion they come back to visit their creation. Perhaps this is where UFO sightings come from.
This, to me, sounds more plausible than a god creating the universe and plopping us into place at its center.
What would be even more interesting, and likely, is that the aliens did it because they were BORED and wanted to see what would happen. It is also possible they were on a seeding mission as well.
There are lots of possibilities for life, the universe and everything. Why must we insist on something that is illogical?
August 4, 2010
Warning, you may not like this post
I have been listening to The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams and it has really stirred up some old thoughts that I have not had in a long time.
On a side note, I have really begun to enjoy listening to books while I am driving to and from work. It really helps the trip to sail by and makes it much much less banal than it would otherwise be.
Back to the topic.
I had a thought, while listening to TSoD this morning. The thought was this, if there really is a god, or gods, why don't animals worship it too? This may seem horrifying to you. But, think of it this way. If god, or gods, created humans to inhabit this universe, why oh why would it have created ONLY us to be aware of this fact? I really doubt that that is the case. If it were, I am sure that all being would be require to worship god.
This brings up several things I thought of, and asked people, when I was a child. Things like, what happens to babies when they die, because surely they are not aware of god and could not have been saved. Or what about people who live in some remote place who have never heard of god (I am speaking of the terrifying Christian god who, according to my grandmother, condemned all non-believers to immediate fiery hell), what happens when they die? If god created us, who created god, et cetera, ad nauseum.
All of these questions I started asking my grandmother around the age of 5. . . she did not preach to me about god so much after that.
Why did I stop believing in the god that I was raised to believe in? Well, that gets complicated, but I will try to keep it simple. I was very unhappy with my life. I prayed very hard each night, unto tears in fact, for my life to improve. It never did. This made me doubt what I already questioned to the point that I gave it up. This was also spurred on by my reading of Asian philosophy and books about other religions.
I realized that what I had been taught, did not make a damned bit of sense. I, even now, cannot fathom how people can delude themselves into these belief systems.
I have for a long time now been saying, whatever you believe is what will happen to you. My idea with this is that if you want to believe that there is a flying spaghetti monster god then knock yourself out, but leave me out of it. I do not care what you believe, that is your right as a living being. I get angry when these religiously blinded people try to pawn their religion onto me.
Another factor of my whatever you believe is what will happen to you. belief is that all religion is ultimately completely personal. If you go to a church, or a mosque, or whatever, the person sitting next to you does not believe the same thing as you! Let me state that again, the person sitting next to you does not believe the same thing as you. Think about this. If you really were to talk to the people in a church and ask them what they believe, and they were to give you completely honest answers, not very likely as that is, they would all tell you something completely different.
Humans are all different creatures. We all have, to some degree, different ways of thinking about and viewing things. This applies to religion as well. The same group of people you interviewed would more LIKELY tell you the drivel that their church leaders spew forth.
If religion is so personal, why are there churches? Because some smart people have made it so that churches have all of the "answers" and they use these answers to control people. Who would not want a cushy job that provides you with everything you need, for no real work at all? Smart fellows, those who setup religions. What better way to control people, and not have to actually work for your own living?
I know that some of the people who read this may find this post offense. Please keep in mind that this is my blog and I can say what I want. . . and you can too in your comments, however I may have to moderate some comments if they get out of hand. This is not to discourage comments however! I want to know what people think about these sorts of things. I also want to do this without insulting anyone.
On a side note, I have really begun to enjoy listening to books while I am driving to and from work. It really helps the trip to sail by and makes it much much less banal than it would otherwise be.
Back to the topic.
I had a thought, while listening to TSoD this morning. The thought was this, if there really is a god, or gods, why don't animals worship it too? This may seem horrifying to you. But, think of it this way. If god, or gods, created humans to inhabit this universe, why oh why would it have created ONLY us to be aware of this fact? I really doubt that that is the case. If it were, I am sure that all being would be require to worship god.
This brings up several things I thought of, and asked people, when I was a child. Things like, what happens to babies when they die, because surely they are not aware of god and could not have been saved. Or what about people who live in some remote place who have never heard of god (I am speaking of the terrifying Christian god who, according to my grandmother, condemned all non-believers to immediate fiery hell), what happens when they die? If god created us, who created god, et cetera, ad nauseum.
All of these questions I started asking my grandmother around the age of 5. . . she did not preach to me about god so much after that.
Why did I stop believing in the god that I was raised to believe in? Well, that gets complicated, but I will try to keep it simple. I was very unhappy with my life. I prayed very hard each night, unto tears in fact, for my life to improve. It never did. This made me doubt what I already questioned to the point that I gave it up. This was also spurred on by my reading of Asian philosophy and books about other religions.
I realized that what I had been taught, did not make a damned bit of sense. I, even now, cannot fathom how people can delude themselves into these belief systems.
I have for a long time now been saying, whatever you believe is what will happen to you. My idea with this is that if you want to believe that there is a flying spaghetti monster god then knock yourself out, but leave me out of it. I do not care what you believe, that is your right as a living being. I get angry when these religiously blinded people try to pawn their religion onto me.
Another factor of my whatever you believe is what will happen to you. belief is that all religion is ultimately completely personal. If you go to a church, or a mosque, or whatever, the person sitting next to you does not believe the same thing as you! Let me state that again, the person sitting next to you does not believe the same thing as you. Think about this. If you really were to talk to the people in a church and ask them what they believe, and they were to give you completely honest answers, not very likely as that is, they would all tell you something completely different.
Humans are all different creatures. We all have, to some degree, different ways of thinking about and viewing things. This applies to religion as well. The same group of people you interviewed would more LIKELY tell you the drivel that their church leaders spew forth.
If religion is so personal, why are there churches? Because some smart people have made it so that churches have all of the "answers" and they use these answers to control people. Who would not want a cushy job that provides you with everything you need, for no real work at all? Smart fellows, those who setup religions. What better way to control people, and not have to actually work for your own living?
I know that some of the people who read this may find this post offense. Please keep in mind that this is my blog and I can say what I want. . . and you can too in your comments, however I may have to moderate some comments if they get out of hand. This is not to discourage comments however! I want to know what people think about these sorts of things. I also want to do this without insulting anyone.
August 3, 2010
Addiction
So, this will be a bit of a shock, I know it was to me.
I have given up computer games. I gave away all of my discs and deleted any downloaded games.
If I cannot play the game with Siew and/or Felix, then I do not want to play it. As an example, I kept The Sims and its expansions because Siew likes that and I can play it with her, were we both work together on a family in the game.
I will still play board games and role playing games, assuming I can find willing players that is.
I miss having a group of friends to play games with. I used to have friends like that in a few of the places that I have lived. However, here in Malaysia I have no such friends. I am not sure if I can find any friends that are into that kind of thing, probably not. I can bring Felix into gaming and see how that goes, if Siew doesn't forbid that completely that is. :-)
Felix is growing fast. He has been fussy, but he's slowly getting to be less fussy, more aware and more talkative. I look forward to teaching him all of the many very strange things that I have learned over the years. He is going to be a very unusual child, that is for sure!
I have stopped, for the time being, going to my Bujinkan class. Taking care of Felix has high priority, which also includes helping Siew as much as I can to keep her sane. So, I stay home on weekends to help wash, cook and clean, et cetera.. After he is more stable I will return to classes. I'd like to attain a high level in that art.
I would like to learn a lot and be able to teach Felix what I know of that and other martial arts. Many people think this is a bit odd, but I want to have a person to be able to survive anywhere with what they know, instead of being a useless moron who should just be a Zombie, like so many others that I have met in the world. I want my son to be a capable person in everything he does. Hopefully I can guide him towards this objective.
I have given up computer games. I gave away all of my discs and deleted any downloaded games.
If I cannot play the game with Siew and/or Felix, then I do not want to play it. As an example, I kept The Sims and its expansions because Siew likes that and I can play it with her, were we both work together on a family in the game.
I will still play board games and role playing games, assuming I can find willing players that is.
I miss having a group of friends to play games with. I used to have friends like that in a few of the places that I have lived. However, here in Malaysia I have no such friends. I am not sure if I can find any friends that are into that kind of thing, probably not. I can bring Felix into gaming and see how that goes, if Siew doesn't forbid that completely that is. :-)
Felix is growing fast. He has been fussy, but he's slowly getting to be less fussy, more aware and more talkative. I look forward to teaching him all of the many very strange things that I have learned over the years. He is going to be a very unusual child, that is for sure!
I have stopped, for the time being, going to my Bujinkan class. Taking care of Felix has high priority, which also includes helping Siew as much as I can to keep her sane. So, I stay home on weekends to help wash, cook and clean, et cetera.. After he is more stable I will return to classes. I'd like to attain a high level in that art.
I would like to learn a lot and be able to teach Felix what I know of that and other martial arts. Many people think this is a bit odd, but I want to have a person to be able to survive anywhere with what they know, instead of being a useless moron who should just be a Zombie, like so many others that I have met in the world. I want my son to be a capable person in everything he does. Hopefully I can guide him towards this objective.
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