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Month: April 2016

  • Random injuries

    Yesterday I put my back out by looking at Destroyer. She was on the floor by the fridge, doing nothing much in particular, I glanced down at her and a fist sized bit of muscle under my right shoulder blade clenched and wouldn’t release. Between that and burns and near choking, it’s been a pretty […]

  • Hanggliding Over Volcanoes

    About four months ago, I gave one of my old friends a floppy disc, one of those archaic, flimsy ways to transfer data from the last century. He vanished back to the depths of Kent with it, I flew back to Singapore and didn’t hear another word from him for months. That made me sad.

  • Singapore blues

    ​ I had a dispiriting day at work where I didn’t really get much done, and left at 6:30 feeling like I was skiving off early rather than leaving half an hour late. Even taking a client call on the way home and having to placate somebody ranting about poor service from a different company […]

  • A packed Sunday

    I didn’t sleep much last night – I took a long time to get to sleep, and then my alarm went off at 6 to tell me it was time to get up and go ride my bike. Of course, that woke up La Serpiente in the adjacent room, so then I had the difficult […]

  • Anniversaries and terrible ideas

    We had a day of birthday and anniversary celebrations today. In the morning, a birthday party for a three year old over at East Coast Park. Everyone else there seemed to know each other from the same church, a place in a shopping mall near our old flat in Chinatown, surrounded by Korean barbecue joints […]

  • Three personal failures

    All this week’s meditation and contemplating has yet to make me a good person, as evidenced by three things today.

  • More cupcakes

    Tonight La Serpiente protested at being made to go to bed, alternately wailing for her mother and then her father and then her mother again. During a pause in the wave of complaints, I slinked out and went to the almost-open hotel up the street, where there’s a branch of The Marmalade Pantry, a cake […]

  • Running With The Mind Of Meditation

    I’ve been reading a good book about meditation, Running With The Mind Of Meditation, which I got out from the library at the weekend. People often tell me that I should meditate to relax after the stress of work, but I sometimes find this counterproductive. On Sunday, for example, I read some of the book, […]

  • Dirt Candy

    Last week when we went to the library, my wife picked up Dirt Candy, a cookbook from a fashionable New York vegetable restaurant. (Note that it’s a vegetable restaurant and not a vegetarian restaurant, as the author and chef takes pains to point out. The former celebrates the wonders and tastes of things you dig […]

  • A bit broken

    “Do you need a medical certificate to take the day off work?” my osteopath asked, quite kindly. I sit at a desk all day and the most strenuous it gets is walking out to buy a sandwich, but it was nice for him to offer.