Random occurrence can be stranger than premediation. i say this because the first letter of my previous 7 posts spell "PANTLES". there wouldn't be a last S because i don't repeat starting letters for consecutive posts. and yes, i'm serious. this wasn't planned at all. on top of that, my 1881st post was published on 11/02/2021. i missed publishing a palindromic post on a palindromic date by just one day! well, i suppose i still have 02 december, if i follow the way the americans and japanese write the date. but my next palindromic post number will be 1991, and i don't think i can write 109 posts (excluding this one) in 10 months. i'll need about 11 posts per month, or roughly one post every 2 to 3 days. well...i probably COULD, but the majority of them wouldn't be very meaningful.

had a bit of drama in final fantasy. well, not drama drama, but it was annoying anyway. so, i messaged someone who was recruiting for their raid team. i read the ad wrongly, and later realized that they were looking for a role that i couldn't play. but the leader assured me everything was ok and even got me to join their discord server. ten minutes later, he said that the role was no longer available due to a miscommunication. i am disproportionately upset because he had TWO chances to tell me that there was a mismatch. i hate having my expectations raised and dropped like that. but well...this is not unusual in games. another contributing factor to my upsetedness is that due to bad timing, the raid tier was released when i was about to finish quarantine, and you all know that i didn't have fibre internet for my first month here. so i'm very behind in raids, to the point where i'm still at the first of 4 fights, whereas a not-small number of guildmates have cleared all 4 fights already. it's more annoying because if i clear this tier, it'll be the first time that i finish an entire expansion's raids.

well, the plan is to move on and either find a team, or rely on matchmaking. there are pros and cons to each approach, and i've cleared fights with randoms as well as with a fixed party before. not sure why this particular incident got me so bent out of shape, but it'll pass. that person is on my blacklist now anyway, so that's a small measure of petty revenge. yes, it's not much at all, but i'll take what i can get.

the oddest thing happened yesterday morning. on the way to the carpark beside the town hall, i had to cross an inclined bridge made of metal. the stupid design of the carpark and town hall is something for another post, but suffice for now to say that i don't have a very high opinion of the design. since it rained on sunday night and in early monday morning, the bridge was wet, and i slipped. my right foot went out under me and i fell. i don't remember how i landed, but it wasn't an all-out fall; i still had some dignity intact. but the odd thing is, the quadricep muscle on my right leg (and only the right leg) has been aching since then. i suspect the fall may have caused me to hyperextend it, or worst case, it's a minor tear. whatever it is, it's made going up and down stairs quite unpleasant. as luck would have it, there are very many stairs both at the new town hall and in all my schools. hopefully it gets better within the week, or more ideally, overnight while i sleep.

it's weird - i find myself thinking the same thoughts every day at certain places, but by the time i reach home, i'll forget what exactly those thoughts were! location-dependent memory, i guess. well, my usual philosophy is "if i can't recall it, it probably isn't that important". maybe i should make more effort, like record it down on my phone the next time i'm in those particular locations.

oh! i forgot to update about staying over at my supervisor's place! it's the second time i've done so, and somehow or another, earthquakes happened on both nights so far. i made chicken curry for them using the pre-made spice pack that i brought from singapore. good news is they liked it! better news is that nobody suffered from food poisoning! as an indirect consequence of this (because my supervisor told some colleagues that she thought the curry tasted good), the board of education wants to do one school lunch per school term that features singaporean food...and i've been asked to find recipes! quite exciting, and i'm actually very surprised/touched that they even thought of this idea. now, all i need are recipes that are easy enough to make, and which have ingredients that are easy enough to source for. i also told her about the cute teacher. unfortunately, she doesn't interact much with the school staff (aside from the english teachers because they work with the JETs), so she wasn't able to tell me anything about him. but she did say that she'll keep a lookout and let me know if any information surfaces, so that's nice. feels like i've got an ally in this endeavour, or something like that.

so many more things to blog about, like graduation ceremonies, primary school kids, valentine's day, a potential zoo trip, and the cute teacher, to name a few topics off the top of my head. but it's getting late, and there's still school tomorrow morning. also, i don't have complete information about graduation yet, so best for me not to blog about that at this time. and it's almost time for me to sleep anyway. just going to do a bit more mindless crafting before calling it a night.

-random thought of the day: Need better-quality sleep.-