750words.com – It’s either saved my life, or ruined it.

Lynn introduced me to 750words.com, a tool that has helped motivate her to write and feel kick-ass even before she gets out of bed every morning. It’s a pretty good idea: a site that encourages you to write 750 words a day, sending your reminders to your email and awarding you points for the tasks that you have completed. It gives you the freedom to write whatever you like (and keep it private), pushing you to just keep going.

I’m currently on Day 3 of my 750words journey, and I am not sure if my life has been saved or ruined. It doesn’t really have anything to do with 750words in itself, but more to do with the fact that I am, deep down, a quintessential kiasu Singaporean with addictive/obsessive characteristics.

750words gives you points depending on how much you write. You get points for hitting the 750 mark. You get extra for going over 750 words, writing without distractions, or writing for many days consecutively. You also get to have badges for certain achievements. All this feeds into my competitive obsessive-compulsive nature.

The 7 Links Blog Project

16 months. 247 posts. Now it comes down to just 7.

I’ve just been invited by Aussie Pete to participate in ‘The 7 Links Blog Project‘. For this project, bloggers from all over the world make a list of their top posts in a range of categories, creating a sort of one-stop shop for 7 notable posts from their blog. Each blogger than extends this project by inviting 3 others to participate.

Baby, Please Make A Change

Do you ever get that feeling, that you just need something to give you a kickstart, another boost shake things up again? I get that feeling on quite a regular basis.

Sometimes it’s my hair, sometimes it’s my nails, sometimes it could even be the country I’m in. This time, though, it was the blog.

Caption this!

I’ve just watched this amazing video on Facebook, and decided that something must be done.

CAPTION CONTEST!

What do you think the babies are talking about? Leave a comment with your answer. It can be anything you want, except sex-related – come on, they might not be wearing shirts but they are babies, so keep it under M18 plz.

Off I go!

I’m off to Thailand for 10 days tomorrow. The weekend will be spent at a meeting in Bangkok, where I have to make sure I present myself as an intelligent, mature person, and then the rest of the trip will be spent (mostly) in the boyfriend’s home in Kanchanaburi where I fully intend to collapse into a lump of useless putty.

I’m looking forward to the break, just chilling out and hopefully catching up on my reading, which I have been so remiss in for the past year or so. I’m bringing Catherine Lim’s Miss Seetho in the World and Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse 5, and I hope to at least finish one of them within these 10 days. I’m also bringing my new compact camera (yay!) so I hope to be able to take lots and lots of pictures to share! (There is a bit of a conundrum, though, because if I really become a useless lump and just stay in my boy’s house, there wouldn’t be that much to photograph. Hehe.)

Anyway, I’ll probably get online a few times in the 10 days, so it’s not like I’ll disappear completely. I hope not to be online too much, though – I don’t intend to be so easily contactable by the “outside world”!