So maybe Polyphasic sleeping needs a little more time...

Ok.. I did the 'polyphasic' thing right through to about 5am, this morning, and then decided, I'd maybe get a bit of a lie in, until the 9.30am alarm, I'd already slept... Ended up sleeping right through till about 12pm... so wasn't quite on schedule.

I guess part of me was just not quite ready to go polyphasic during this coming weekend - especially as there's so much running around to do, and I was already starting to get tired, during just the first day...

I'm going to try to tackle this from a slightly different approach for now - instead of making my goal to go polyphasic - I'm going to aim at getting a little more balance into my life. Especially with the lack of exercise, and poor diet (what with constantly going from juicing, and being uber healthy - to going into a keeping up with the joneses mode, where I just go ahead and eat what everyone else is eating...) - I guess it doesn't help that I haven't structured my days, with any kind of regular routine in a while.

I remember the days I used to be 'organised', and I'd start my day at a fixed time each day, start with the same exercise, get some juicing, before going to work - and then coming back from work, it would be the same - some exercise, some food, and then some studying... But that was all living away from home - now trying to find something that works at home should be an interesting challenge... I guess starting the day with the same time each day should at least help.. If I make it a 5am morning every morning - that gives me at least an hour before everyone else wakes up to start collecting my thoughts, and focussing myself for the day ahead.

I guess life is all about focussing on someting, and then letting go - if you don't let go, then you don't allow it to appear into your life... Equally, if you don't focus - then you have nothing to work towards... I guess it's ok to spend your life without an aim, moving from moment to moment, but I don't think that's quite what the 'great' masters really alluded to when talking about non-attachment. Especially, the great wise Buddhists, and Taoists. I'm sure their meaning was more to not be attached to the outcome, or to what you accomplish. But without purpose, or direction, then how are we to know where to go, or where we come from?

Intrinsically, each one of us is a unique individual, and with that uniquness, comes a special purpose, a reason for being alive... Otherwise, we would all be born identical, and experience the world as the same. Yet we don't... Each one of us sees the world differently. Each one of us understands the world differently. It is these differences in understanding, in being seperate from each other, and looking onto the world with a specific lens, that we each come to create seperate worlds. If we were not meant to see things differently, then we wouldn't have been blessed with the diversity of being that we are. Just looking at nature - it is only in diversity, that life flourishes - in monotonous, or monotone replication of life, comes only death (even in our own bodies we can potentially suffer from cancer, which is the consequence of a cell replicating itself as a clone.) T'were we not so gifted to be able to see the path to health and prosperity, we might have something to worry about - but it's good to see that even if the cause is unknown - it's safe to say, "The natives are restless"...

Karachi price hikes...

It seems that even in Pakistan, which I always figured was a poor country, but with rich Islamic values, it seems 'economies' still have a part to play in it all.... I just came across this article which describes the rising prices, and the growing poverty...

I'm sure this picture is reflected the world over, every day - but the question is what can we do to make a sustainable change in these economies? Not relying on the world bank might be an option, living tax free might also be another option... But I'm sure, in time, we'll find a way that works, not just in theory, but in practice as well...

Back to the drawing board with polyphasic sleeping

Hmm... Went to bed last night at about 8pm, for some unknown reason, and woke up this morning at 5am. Around 9am, I decided to re-visit the idea of polyphasic sleeping... So unlike last time, where I started with a full night of 'not' sleeping, I'm going to dive right in, and this time start the polyphasic sleeping schedule, having had a good nights rest!

I suppose part of the inspiration came from reading Steve Pavlina's blog mention a man from Vietnam not sleeping for 30 years! Not that I plan on going that far... but it's interesting how many people are successfully living with a different sleep schedule... More than you'd imagine... but I won't start listing them here - I'll save that one for once I get a blog running on my own website - and then start going into the details of adding all the useful information I come across there! For now, you can follow this link to my del.icio.us bookmarks of polyphasic sleepers that I came across, or try looking at one of over 133 different webpages that people have collectively tagged as 'polyphasic' at del.icio.us.

I'm just waking up from my half hour nap at 9pm (following a schedule of half hour naps at 1am, 5am, 9am, 1pm, 5pm, 9pm), and I'm already noticing something a little 'wierd' to say the least... The fact that I've had a full nights sleep already, clearly my body shouldn't be tired. But when I wake up out of these half hour naps, it seems like I'm 'tired' . Dunno why - but it's interesting, how when I started polyphasic sleeping on 'no' sleep, I didn't feel tired taking the naps straight away... I'm sure over the weekend it's going to get interesting - especially since I'm meant to be at a weekend workshop, as well as helping out with our family tradition of Haleem.. where we cook the dals(lentils), wheat, barley, rice and meat for a day, before serving it up to all our family and friends (or as many as we can accomodate!). Anywayz more later!

Ok maybe I will re-type a little of what I said...

Alright... I suppose I wanted to have some random place where I can find all the information I was referencing, if I needed it, so I guess I will re-type in brief stuff again...

Chatting to Simon from globaltolerance I was reminded of Unltd and how they fund entrepreneurs. Simon happened to mention that they tend to be undersubscribed, and have fund available for people in many different areas... That got me thinking of the conversation that I'd had the day before with Faheem (my cousin Farouk Bhai's brother in law) about a competition that had a deadline fast approaching. As I was looking for Simfonec, I also came across The Oxford Business Plan Competition as well.

These all reminded me of the business/entrepreneurship training that I had been offered by Learninghouse a few months earlier. (one of the perks of being a non-member of the Hub, is that I get included in all the mailings that go out about events and stuff... Kinda a must have to see into the world of the Hub!)

Interestingly enough, I was getting ready to throw in the towel with being entrepreneurial, and going down that tried and tested road of 'employeeship' that all my cousins, uncles and aunts, often poke jabs at - but ultimately rely upon for their security.... Guess I might have to take the heads up with this wind that's come blowing in from the East, and keep following the hints to see where they take me.... Who knows where I might end up?? One thing I'll make sure of though, is that wherever I end up, I'll make sure it's so goddamn interesting, that people will come to read about it! (Zakki - just a reminder that you got so bored, you actually dug up this blog in my profile!) Still - anything to make my family smile, or laugh, or poke fun... Just remember, when I'm a billionaire, you'll still be working for someone else - preferably ME!! Cos then I'll be able to walk, in laugh evilly, and then leave!! (joke!)

Well, best think of which idea to turn into a business plan, got to meet that deadline of
tomorrow, 15th Feb, 16:00 hours! Plus got a website to build for a client! But that'll all be done soon enough!

Update for Valentines Day

Don't you just hate it when you've just spent all your time typing something and the program decides to 'crash' on you?... Well that just happened to me... I was typing away, and then the firefox browser went into a 'hang' whilst I was checking something in my email inbox... I've offically decided now Google mail isn't the future it was meant to be - it sucks! They tried implementing a drop down list from the search box, and the stupid thing had a fit as I was typing, and never recovered. Suffice it to say, I shall not waste my breath repeating everything I said before, but one thing I will find is a program that lets you probe your 'memory' so that you can see inside a frozen program, and at least retreive all that valuable text you've typed, before it has to be forced to quit...

They said computers were going to be a useful extra, but instead they're turning into right little annoying pieces of shiny lights... damn those binary bits!