The heat-wave over the past half a week or so (with another week and a half to go?) has been absolutely stifling. It's the kind of muggy heat that casts a smoggy pall over everything, and leaves everything looking grey and drab. Even the swim at lunchtime yesterday didn't help too much--I guess it wouldn't have, because it starts to get seriously muggy only in the afternoon.

Everything else has been stifling of late--spending too much time writing too much and not actually doing anything useful, trying too hard when I really shouldn't be; I've just been going around generally snuffing the life out of everything, the way a breath of frost does as it glides over the botanical pretties of the world.

And I exaggerate, as usual, under the guise of being lyrical.

The day, and the weekend, have come and gone, and I've done absolutely nothing (much as I plan to get something [useful] done every weekend), not since finishing up the last 5 episodes on the TVB soap haha.

It's always a bit of a stretch to try to get philosophical and/or intelligent quotes and the like from a soap, but what I really liked, was this phrase, about living in the present, and caring about nothing else, whether from the past, nor in the future.

We should all 珍惜当下，活好当下 (and of course you have to read that in Cantonese, it sounds weird translated to Mandarin haha).

So there, 2 months down, 10 to go in the year, time really flies.