We fly to Saigon today. I prefer to call the city the way its locals call it. I consider myself a fairly seasoned traveller. The biggest dilemma for me is deciding whether or not to bring the newly-polished* VanPod II, as well as my digital camera charger. My main bag will be small, because I …
Month: October 2005
Went to HMV and picked up several CDs by James Blunt, David Gray, Beth Orton, Beck, Beautiful South, Clementine, Lee Ritenour, Nik Kershaw, and Youssou N’Dour. Since I had to take some $#(*% work home to make up for the holiday I’m taking this week, I decided I should at least listen to some new …
Bonjour and ¡Hola! It appears that my recent post on a certain Arsenal midfielder’s misadventures in a recent match, has attracted attention from Google searches all over the world. This is what my Mint stats say: On further investigation, it appears that those favourite search keywords, combined with a keyword from another post (to do …
I hadn’t heard about teen mag Vainquer until I read about it in the Sunday Times today, but this lad is going far. Congratulations to Kristiano Ang, who even has a Wikipedia entry about his magazine. I particularly like what he said in his Founder’s letter: Vainquer Teens is an international magazine. Despite whatever criticism …
This evening I watched two different matches at the same time: Man United versus Tottenham Hotspurs and Arsenal versus Man City. Man United looked good in the first half. Smithy put up a spirited show, though I and my boy-cousins weren’t too sure what Scholes was up to. Things looked topsy-turvy when a defender scored, …
I watched Goal, the first in a trilogy about a poor illegal Mexican immigrant, Santiago, who plays football in Los Angeles for fun. An ex-Newcastle player spots him, and the rest is history. Sub-plots: 1)The hardworking father who has never watched his son play football, and does not think he should bother flying to Newcastle …
As part of a promotion, I was treated to a free full body massage at a new spa today, right after work. How refreshing! However, soon after the massage began, I realised I had forgotten to cancel my regular appointment with a foot reflexologist. But it was too late to get up – I was …
[ Update: 9 of us so far! I’ll send everyone an email this week. In the meantime, read about what my co-organiser RamblingLibrarian has to say about the meetup. ] A few of us were thinking of setting up blogs in our organisations. Then we thought, why not have an informal Gahmen Bloggers Meetup? There …
I had lucid dreaming last night. Thought I’d better write about it… You know how you start off doing one thing in a dream, and it slowly modulates into something else? First, I dreamt that I was with a group of friends in a studio, watching a band play. But I ended up playing in …
“Everything from Morph to Creature Comforts to Wallace and Gromit was there. It had all the film sets, the props, the models, everything. It really is a bit of tragedy.” Read on… Considering other recent world calamities (which I don’t need to write about), this is rather minor, but I still felt a pang of …