Hurray. My NEET life is ending in around 2 weeks, as I'll be going back to a company to work as a COBOL programmer. orz

Anyway, being a NEET isn't that bad, if you'd ask me. You have all the time in the world. You can do whatever you like, as long as you have the tools ready. I've been trying to draw manga faces, for example. However, I find that I can no longer focus when reading books as my mind always constantly wanders around when I read, thinking of things to create, stuff to do.

I find that I get really boring when I write about myself, since everything is in a matter-of-fact tone. Which is why friends are important, blah blah blah. Heck about "true friends" or "best friends forever". Did some thinking these days, and I found that it's not really worth the time and effort to always look for perfection in things. In fact it makes things seem hard to do. It cripples me. Perhaps it's just not befitting of me to be a perfectionist. I'm not talented at anything, after all...

Take for example, this blog. If I were that concerned about the quality of my posts, I would not have posted at all. I'm simply not good at writing yet. I write just to sort out my thoughts. Not to entertain. Nope, never thought about having readers.

Anyway, I'll talk about my misconceptions of hard work. I once thought that hard work is just about spending every minute of your life doing something using your best efforts. Like a brute force algorithm. Wrong. Actually, hard work is deeper than that. It is generally, work that does not yield immediate effects. It is frustrating and painful, even though it pays.

I used to greatly despise people who work hard when I was much younger, because these people complain alot. Now I see nothing wrong with complaining that much. It's merely a side effect of working so hard on something and probably never seeing your efforts bear fruit. In crude terms, I thought they were lame and stupid. Now that I'm "lame and stupid" myself, I see them differently. I valued intelligence more than anything. I never realized that intelligent people work hard, too.

Anyway, I hope we (me and Weesiong) can make it for the End of Year cosplay event, organized by STAC. We have decided to represent NicoNico by putting up a performance for the NicoNico medley, dressed as Touhou characters. Yes, they are girls, I know. I'm not sick. It's just a personal aspiration of mine to be able to crossdress properly. It is going to be hard though, and I'm definitely going to put in hard work this time.

A few months, or possibly a few years of never seeing results of your work is much, much better than never trying, and never seeing anything at all. Yongjun, a guy I've met in IRC, told me something along the lines of this: "Work hard, start something new, no matter what it is." Thanks Yongjun-sempai. I will never forget these words.

Hurray, myself.