Sam's Sanity Diary

 I don't really have a list of resolutions but here are a few areas I definitely need to pay more attention to in order to grow. 1. Study comedy 2. Take care of my health 3. Be more organised Studying Comedy For the past 10 years, I've just been doing the comedy grind aimlessly and recently, I had to take stock of what jokes I really had and to be honest, I have less than 30 minutes of usable jokes, 20 minutes if you just count the decent ones, and maybe 10 minutes if you want a really tight set. Meanwhile, other comedians have a tight hour after a few years of doing it. I think me just "grinding" aimlessly is not a good way of doing it. It was sort of what I needed to do for a few years, but it's about time I took it seriously. I've only taken two comedy courses in my life - an online Masterclass by Steve Martin and also an in person class when Dave Reinitz and Barbara Holliday (Flappers Comedy Club) came to Malaysia. Both times, I would say I kind of took it...

2nd day of the year. Fought with the wife again this morning. It was inevitable. A few days ago, I just asked casually if she had seen Max's folder for his certificates (small achievements here and there) because he has a new certificate to put in for his participation in the rock climbing competition a few weeks ago. She said ok, it's somewhere in her mess of things piled up in the corner of the room. I said, ok if you see it, pass it to me. That was a few days ago. This morning, she decides to clean the pile of things, and she couldn't find the folder and was screaming at the helper and blaming her for everything. I KNEW that if I got involved, I she would start attacking me too. But if I stayed out of it also, she was just going to keep spiralling and nothing would get solved. So I told her to calm down, and there is no need to find the folder today, it's not urgent, just clean a bit at a time, I'm sure the folder will show up eventually. Sure as clockwork, she t...