xtreme sports

There's this extreme sports competition in Singapore next month, and it sounds like lots of fun, but then I read more and it spans like 50km... so I guess I might not be in shape for it, but I would certainly dig the fun stuff like, you know, fun stuff to do with ropes and stuff, but not the running and swimming and running and the like...

James said his plan to sample famous Singaporean food before flying off backfired, because normally he wouldn't go out of his way to seek out stuff like the best char kway teow or whatever, and so after eating the stuff he now craves it and it so happens he's flown off already.

Minds and conventions endow symbols with meaning. Helped my sis with stats, tried to explain how the summation notation is just notation. That's a big part of mathematics, the shorthand, the notation, the being able to write out a proof compactly, to fit it on one page so the mind can encapsulate and see tons of ideas all at once.

The DVD has arrived, amazingly fast. I guess I was just expecting it to take longer. Have yet to watch it, but will soon. Meeting Aaron (at 3pm) and not sure who else, maybe Say Yang, maybe his girlfriend also. Going to this Settler's Cafe I think it's called, where you eat and can play all sorts of board games for free on weekdays (before 6 or 7 on Fridays, I think). Somehow I seem to have heard about it before, I think someone else must have mentioned it before.

Went to skin specialist today, got a prescription for the drug I've been taking. Another 3 week supply. He also referred me to a Hematologist, because there's some disease which might explain my hives and presumably I don't want to have this disease, and there's a chance I might have the disease, though he thinks probably not. But my hemoglobin count is high and so is my hematocrit.