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  • The Wild Human

    I watched The Wild Robot with a friend today. It was a friend I don’t get to spend much time with, but I thought it would be nice to catch up and watch a movie together with today. Also because today had freed up somewhat, so I decided it was a pretty okay idea.

    But the movie was really great. It was a painted movie, and there were many beautiful scenes. The story was well paced and well crafted, and I thought it was apt for this current era of the world. A bit too much on the accepting community, but otherwise a great story about learning responsibility in this world.

    A key word used was the “programming”, and how this robot went against her programming. There are many times I am so aware of my programming, and how I would end up choosing something because I just know that is what I am supposed to do. But as I grow older, I learn how to choose things wisely, not because I am taught to.

    There are a lot of scenarios in creative training where we are taught to question, and we do think critically of different situations. But the question I think about now is how much of the critical thinking I employ now part of the creative designer programming? In any case, I hope to say I have incorporated critical thinking well enough, but it is not as programmed as it is supposed to be.

    I am not sure if that paragraph really made sense, but then again, I don’t aim to edit these posts much, I just want to have my thoughts out here, in the wild.

    I also watched an interview with Casey Neistat, and it was a good reminder about my creative practices and what I am good at, and what I like to do. Every few months, I really am reminded of these parts of myself.

    The Wild Human

  • Staycation Ends

    Today started out fine, but man it snowballed through. Thankfully it ended okay, but going through the hump of the middle of the day was really not easy.

    We almost couldn’t find a way to get out of the airport, the areas were all boarded up to direct the human traffic flow. But it meant that we literally could not make out of the airport. We basically ended up running to our Grab Ride, because the driver was driving in circles to try and find us.

    Exits aside, we actually had a great lunch at a Michelin Star Soba restaurant. I had a truffle shoyu soba, and Clarice had an agemono don. Really tasty stuff, and it was definitely worth the 45 bucks we spent on it.

    Before that, we had a tragic Starbucks morning. The regular brewed coffee that I go for had some sediments just floating all over it. I think the paper had broke, and basically I changed a cup for the exact same thing. Meant that the coffee was ultra dark and bitter, but hey, that’s kinda what I was asking for.

    Yesterday, we had a long day of sitting around, reading, and watching movies. We also cycled along the Jurassic Mile, from the airport towards East Coast Park. The sun was great, the wind was really great, and it was a generally easy cycle the whole way through.

    We watched Scream at night, and it was another requel – the reboot sequel, where legacy characters are brought again. It actually felt very much the same as the Matrix show we had watched the day before.

    Matrix Resurrections really felt like that too, but I enjoyed the general idea of it. A little disappointed in the story line, but for the sake of another Matrix show, I don’t mind it.

    The King’s Man, the prequel to the Kingsman Series, was really well done. I appreciated the story, and that they got Ralph Fiennes to get into it. Another classic English actor playing one of those very gentlemanly roles. Great show, and explained a lot about how I personally feel about war as well.

    I really appreciated that I could watch and read things without being bothered because of how I had scheduled my notifications. It was really great that no one could bother me, unless I intentionally made effort to look at my texts. Obviously I did not. But that was a good reminder of the amount of restraint that was needed for me to do that. It really does take an intentional step aside to make sense of that.

    I would really make effort to do those things in the months to come, and to really just go off the grid to disappear. It was a good time of rest, and I wish I could do it more often.

    An imagery that stuck with me was cycling past the Radio Controlled Club – or something along things lines. Everyone there was playing with remote controlled cars, and driving these noisy little cars with really loud engines around a small track.

    Just a bunch of older guys, sitting around a miniature racing track, and chilling out through the day. It was a good reminder of what life really should be like, and what we work so hard for.

    To just enjoy his toil. That’s God’s gift to man. Please help me enjoy my toil, God.

  • Now It’s a Holiday! (Taking leave from work amidst a pandemic)

    When taking a break from work, especially in this COVID situation, it always feels as if you’re not really off from work, or it feels as if there’s no point being away from work. But I deeply disagree with that, because there’s too much of a clash, from too many things. The compartmentalized part of my brain sees it as a constantly overflow. The box holding work and time commitments is continually being over filled, and never cleared, because there really hasn’t been a time to break properly.

    So my biggest tip for taking leave during the pandemic is to cut all notifications.

    In the most current iOS updates, there’s a Focus modes, where you can choose who can contact you, what apps can send you push notifications, and the list goes on. So I am currently completely uncontactable. I mean you could send me things, but I’m not going to see it at all.

    This is great for someone like me who has a big problem seeing that red dot on my notifications. I literally will clear all texts just to have that red button gone. Perhaps I should really reconsider how often I check my phone as well, but there are times when I’m needed to respond for time sensitive occasions, so I leave it on. But in the time to come, it will definitely be off.

    My mental work boxes are starting to clear up, I’m getting a better sense of clarity of what and how much I’ve been taken up by, and how much more I want to let go off in the coming year. I’m planning handovers, and getting the people working with me for my departure. Thankfully I have that time now to plan that, but key for me, I really need to plan for that time for me to leave more brain space open. I’m really filled too much to the brim right now.

    Side note: Finally watched Matrix Resurrections, and I’ll definitely buy the iTunes movie version of it, and watch it a million times over and over. It’s great because of the universe it keeps expanding to, but I really wish there was more backstory into the world of the machines, like how the AniMatrix went into. I’m psyched, just wish there was more.

    Gonna watch The King’s Men in a bit, will probably add that to tomorrow’s post instead.