Gobbledygook

It's Friday! Brilliant!

Long nights and fun times ahead for two full days! Can't say I'm complaining much. After coming back to work from two weeks vacation, I've found it quite hard to motivate myself to do anything. The relatively good amount of sleep deprivation doesn't help my productivity either but at least I've been diligent enough to get the necessary things done.

Today should also be the first day of decent weather in Hong Kong since my arrival. So far it has just been gloomy and rainy. Today, it should be less rainy and more sunny! So, we have a set of plans for today (with plenty of alternative plans to back-up the original 'Plan-A'). I will write about that stuff on Monday.

Sometimes I'm very glad other people here don't understand what us Finns are talking about. Sure, we don't understand what the local people are saying either, but I'm quite sure they don't cover the topics we do - at least not with such passion.

And I'm not talking about those conversations where we comment on appearance of people, or other immature stuff.

I'm talking about how we can go on for hours about politics, environment, philosophy, culture, time-travel, space-travel, future, past, science, pseudoscience, religion, human behavior, human intelligence, human stupidity, personal freedoms, societal structures, compulsory military service, education, etc...anything.

Our conversation usually is rather seriously spoken, though mostly harmless debate, and to an outsider it may actually seem as if we're talking about something important. How wrong they are. They may think we actually know what we're talking about, not realizing we hardly ever have any factual base to our conversations. We just debate for the sake of debate.

I don't have strong opinions pretty much about anything but I can come up with one in an instance once someone says something!

At least I'm lucky enough to have company here who are good at this sort of random debating. Many people suck at it, and it'd suck if I couldn't keep up this "hobby" of mine!

In Finland, I wouldn't do this in public though. But here it's all good. No one knows what we talk about. They only see a bunch of Gweilo's talking in a strange language, with a passion: "obviously debating about something important and intelligent!"

Anyhow, there's nothing much to tell about today. I will try to live some during weekend. Hah, maybe I'll have more to write about then.

Below, a random-quote from Grim Fandango:

Manuel Calavera: How do you do this job?
Membrillo: Without becoming jaded, you mean? The secret to my happiness, Manuel, is I have the heart of a twelve year old child. I keep it in a jar over here. Would you like to see it?
Manuel Calavera: NO.
Membrillo: Sorry. Old coroner joke.