[Mood: Fine] [Mentally: Stressed] [Physically: Aching] [State of Mind: Relational]
Relational databases. That's what I'm in charge of. And I have to create a repository to be a central location for queries and retrieval of results. I thought it was okay, until Gabor went through it with me just now. I was totally shocked. He wanted a couple of databases with relations to each other, and the relations are all over the place. It's definitely gonna mess the whole thing up. I decided to read on a paper which was released by another university on biological databases and their suggestion on overcoming the ever-growing list. It looked promising, and I might just implement it.
Life has never been so different for me. I mean, when I was in Singapore, I don't have to worry about food, washing of laundry etc. Only had to think about doing well in my school, and clean my room. Coming here in Japan, the things I have to think about piled up like crazy. Things I never knew I had to worry about, came. For example, what to cook for breakfast, dinner, lunch, what to buy when going to the supermarket, the expiry date of the food bought, budget for the month, how long the food must be cooked, whether to was the dishes after eating or leave it for the night, washing of clothes, what garbage goes into which plastic bag (Japan has 4 garbage bags specially for PET bottles, cans and bottles, plastic and combustable rubbish), whether eggs will last for the week, how much rice to put in the cooker for 1 person, how much water to put in after that... Blah blah. But I can safely say I have managed to overcome them.
I modified my lifestyle a bit. Waking up at 6am, I did my prayers. By 7:30am, I will be concurrently preparing breakfast and cleaning the hostel. After breakfast, wash the dishes, then leave for work. By then it will be 10am. At 2pm, I rushed back to the hostel, did my Zohor, and concurrently cooked lunch and rice for dinner. After lunch, did my Asar, and I'll be back to work by 3:15pm. At 6pm, left for hostel again to do Maghrib, then prepare the ingredients to go with rice for dinner. After dinner, did my Isyak, and back to work at 7:30pm. From then on, it will be work all the way until12am, and back to the hostel, do some minor cleaning up, and most probably be in bed by 1am. And the whole routine starts over again. It will only change if I have to go to the supermarket to buy groceries, which will take me like 2 hours.
The feeling is different living alone. Eating alone. Walking alone. But I guess it is quite an experience for me. Made me realized the things I took for granted in Singapore. Almost everything.
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