Random Updates

Nights in Glasgow can get pretty boring because there are usually hordes of drunken Europeans everywhere singing at the top of their voices and i don’t feel like going out and taking my chances to see if anyone suddenly wants to have some knuckle exercises. All we puny asians do is have dinner together somewhere [...]

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update #1

in case anzyone is wondering, iäm still alive.
so anzwaz, iäm safe and sound in switzerland new zealand GLASGOW and iäm living with 4 dudes, a german, a scot, a dutch, a chinese. there is still 1 room emptz but i expect someone will move in soon. The scot is alwazs out and the dutch is [...]

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Not very encouraging news

I received a farewell card the other day from Acton, Canberra. It was very sweet but then i came across this sentence ” Good luck in Switzerland! ” I double checked the name and address to make sure it was mine.
Yesterday i met up with some old buddy. The conversation went something like this:
J: eh where [...]

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Time won’t let me go

A song by The Bravery. I almost never post lyrics, but i’m a hypocrite.
Whenever I look back
On the best days of my life
I think I saw them all on T.V.
I am so homesick now for
Someone that I never knew
I am so homesick now for
Someplace I will never be
I never had a ‘Summer of 69′
Never had a [...]

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Hari Raya is around the corner..
so, careful guys, we all know who is working overtime yeah… to get the extra duit raya.
Cheers!
hope to get some ayam percik before i go
I’ve joined the ranks with huge wide lcd monitors. 22″ widescreen is. really. amazing.
I’m really tired! really need a week just to sleep.
More later

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Kundang

Fishing was good. We fished through the night and caught alot of different fish – including the biggest, hugest, most monstrous patin i’ve ever seen, had a fish each for breakfast, and brought back a jelawat and a pak su kong for dinner and many telapias for our respective moms. In the morning when the sun rose [...]

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I do have alot of things to say, alot of thoughts and feelings i wish to expel from this plugged up murky hole that is my mind.. but i’m immersing myself in my work and play and preparations and refusing to log in.
I guess i could find the time to blog, like how i am [...]

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Busyyyyyyyyyyyy
am getting roughly 3-6 hours of sleep each night, only. whaddaya mean i’m on holidays?
no updates for a few days! though i might surprise you….

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Links

barely halfway through this article, i knew that it was spot on: this is probably half the reason i am so slow, inefficient and work so many hours.
http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/article/careerist/30301
also, probably the most interesting short book that you will ever read in the near future, for free
http://images.ucomics.com/images/pdfs/sadams/godsdebris.pdf
enjoy!

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Island

I’ve been reading Alistair Macleod’s Island – a collection of short stories set in Nova Scotia – and all of them are elegiac and deeply expressive, and as usual when reading a good book i find myself unable to articulate any of my own emotions and thoughts; it’s as if everything i think, everything i [...]

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