Daily Routine: Music and Podcast over iPod, Mandarin over the Toilet Bowl and Exercise over Stairs

By Chee Ming on Aug 5, 2008 | In Random Thoughts, Exoweb | Send feedback »

I've sort of created a routine lately while in Tallinn. Obviously, most of my time is spent hacking and doing some computer related stuff so that hasn't really changed much.

But since I am in Tallinn by myself, I've been spending more time listening to music and podcasts using my iPod. In fact I've been more routinely watching video podcasts such as Geekbrief, Rocketboom and Macbreak. I watch them during intermissions and I get to maximize my time while walking to the office or waiting for food. And in Tallinn, you wait for food.

I am quite happy that FLOSS weekly (or some they claim) is back more regularly and able to hear lots of interesting open source related stories. On the other hand it was sad to hear that Lugradio has ended. Lugradio guys are really funny.

And while in the washroom, I find myself reading my book about chinese characters. I have been learning a bit more (and forgetting) chinese characters. So another good way to spend your time. My favourite character so far is fen 分 radical, which means "divide". There are many words that uses that radical like 吩 (instruct, order), 纷 (disorderly, confused) and 份 (portion, share) and its pretty simple to remember these words by breaking it down to its different components, such as 口 (mouth), 丝 (silk) and 人 (people). It was really enlightening.

And another thing that I've been doing a lot more is climbing the stairs. I moved to a new apartment recently and this building's elevator will be turned off at midnight. And because I've been going hone a bit late, I have to climb up 17 floors. Yes 17 floors! And I did that for like 1-2 weeks before I came to Tallinn and I've been mostly climbing stairs since. I have turned this punishment for going home late to be something beneficial to myself: A bit of exercise every day, in sort of a not so intrusive way. And it only takes 2-3 minutes to climb up 17 floors. Okay I climb 2 steps at a time and I am kinda always racing for time. But life is more fun that way!