Feeling the effects of sleep deprivation

Posted by mkhairul - May 2, 2008 at 08:05:27 am - No Comments

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After reading Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honour (and all of it comments), I started to ponder about myself in the old days. There was this mini waterfall thing in the school. After one look, I remember exactly the image of what I saw of the waterfall. When class is in session, I would draw and draw and draw until the class is over. Sometimes the teacher took notice but I really didn’t care. Even stationaries on my desk is subjected to my drawing, the angle, the shadows. At the end of the day, my sketch book is filled with drawings from Dragonball, comics and scenery.

Good times.

And then I started working. With nothing, no PC at home made me stay all night at the office to learn new stuffs. Amazed with problems and trying to  meet with employers expectations made me stay all night, debugging, coding the problems. Eager to achieve plus with freshman’s optimism and enthusiasm, I volunteered and suggests solutions where non of my colleague wants to be part of. Naive and foolishness which costs me my sleep. Sometimes the inevitable problems (critical errors and such) requires immediate attention. But all is not lost. There is still time, by realizing this, I believe the ability to remember can be re-trained. Sleep as my body tells and try to wake up with full of ideas.

"I wake up in the morning with ideas that please me, and some of those ideas actually please me also later in the day when I’ve entered them into my computer."
  – Interview with Donald Knuth

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