I just lost the entry I was trying to write by stupidly pressing on the F5 key. It's too late to start writing everything all over again so I'll just summarise whatever I had written just now:

a) I slept a lot today
b) I watched some of the Olympic events today, namely swimming and gymnastics and I enjoyed myself because it reminded me of my childhood when I could watch the events for most of the day. Not like now when I most probably can only watch the news for the daily summaries.
c) I read "Tuesdays with Morrie", a book which I bought for D for Christmas but never got down to reading. Sister got that book as a present from someone else. Reading it made me think a bit and it was good for me, I guess. Even though there are many online reviews that it is repetitive and over-idealistic, it still makes quite a lot of sense to me and it briefly made my eyes water a little. I think I'm happy with most of the books and movies I consume, save for those that really are bad. I'm too mainstream.

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Had six cups of water in the last hour. I know it's quite stupid but it's just me trying to make up for the lack of fluid intake. Working life is bad in the way that I hardly get to drink the necessary 8 cups. I made some mental notes today.

1) Drink at least 8 cups of water daily
2) Have more food. More food.
3) Be more optimistic.
4) Talk less nonsense.
5) Give of more of myself to people.
6) Revise Japanese more frequently
7) Read more and be more proactive
8) Fill in application form for volunteering at a local hospital.
9) Exercise more frequently

I know that the purpose of living will not come to me easily. It's time to take more concrete action.