The power of a Weekend

I was analysing my time management and just realised how important a weekend is to my existence. Just woke up about an hour back and have been lazying around watchin TV. My room is in a mess and the only reason for this is that I have skipped the last couple of weekends.

So what are the most important tasks that a person like me performs during the weekend.
- Laundry
- Collect all the small stuff lying around in the room and dump it in a big box ( well hidden from the view)
- Go out and blow a lot of money.
- Check the mail (snail mail)
- Get the grocery shoppin done so that I do not have to rely on chineese delivery every night.
- Check the bank and credit card accounts.
- Read other peoples blogs.
etc etc

My room is in a mess right now .. theres stuff all around the room and most of it is trash ... I was supposed to go to work today but I guess thanks to the expected snow storm in the evening I will just tanker down at home today. This should give me some time to get my lazy bones into action and get some stuff done. But right now ..its time to hit the bed again and lazy around a bit more :-).... weeekeend ... I just love it.

Books added to the collection

Over the last month I have been adding some good books to my collection. I usually depend on articles on the web and when I started out programming for mobile devices most of these books werent available...



1) J2ME :
This one has just come out - Developing Scalable Series 40 Applications -- A Guide for Java Developers. I have the earlier book by Micheal and read only a couple of chapters... rest of the stuff was not relavant for me. This book however is a charm. I know it deals with only nokia specific issues but it does provide a lot of handy code examples that will work on all phones. I think this could be labled as a complete j2me book. I havent read any j2me books and am sure there might be better ones out there but this book does it for me.

2) BREW : Wireless Game Development in C C++ with BREW
This book is really good and I mean it. I have been through a 4- 5 chapters and loved the writing style. Some people may argue that its a bit old but compared to what is out there these days this book still rocks.

3) Symbian series 60
Well Its been a long time since I worked in this platform but will have to start soon. So I got these 2 books.
- Developing Series 60 Applications
- Professional Symbian Programming.
The first book i believe is the best to start off coding with. It explains everything and gets u started. Very easy to get through the symbian learning curve with this one. The second book ..i just got a very good deal on it and i figure it will be a good reference book as time goes on. Havent even opened the book yet.

Will be adding more books as I look towards more time reading stuff ... havent done that for a while.

On the way back - Seoul Airport

on the way back right now. The sleep cycle that I had planned for this trip worked out. Now I have to see whether I still have a Jet lag. I am feeling tired though , would love to lie down in my own bed.
Have been doing some thinking on the plane (when I was awake) and have come to the conclusion that there are a few things that I want to do in the coming years. Offcourse I havent set any date for when to accomplish these tasks...yet...
- visit amsterdam for 3 days.
- go sky diving
- drive from New Jersey to Seattle in a week. This should be fun.
- Be regular in the gym for atleast a month.
- get up everyday at 6:00 am (work days) and go to sleep on 11:30 pm.
- Would love to go Bungie JUmping some time

well thats a part of the list .. cant wait for the plane to land. This is torture - sitting in one seat for over 12 hours. Will close down my Laptop now and try to get another hours sleep.

Leaving Bangkok

Well my time in Bangkok is over now. It was a very very short trip. I will be leaving for the airport in an hour so I thought I might as well let the world know that I will be back in Jersey tomorrow morning after a gruelling 23 hour flight. I hope to stay awake for the first leg of the journey between Bangkok and Seoul and plan to sleep from Seoul to New York. This should get me to the office on Thursday morning in good shape but I don't think this is gone happen. Already my body clock is telling me that its sleepy time. Can hardly keep my eyes open.

Anyways, personally this trip was a good experience. There will be more blogs in the days to come about topics that I have thought abt blogging in the recent past but haven't been able to for some reason or the other.

3 days and 4 nights in Bangkok

Its my third day here in bangkok and its been a good trip so far. Havent done a lot of exploring so as to say but have been to the markets here in Nana, Ari and Sana. The Thailand downtown is a awesome place. Its very much like an Indian city minus the livestock on the roads. There are high rise buildings and banners of branded goods and also plenty of old style buildings with really small walk ways. There is also a lot of new construction coming up. I am staying in the LandMark hotel in Nana district. Very nice hotel. Will be getting back stateside tommorrow after a 23 hour flight.

23 hours..... not looking forward to this at all.