Monthly Archives: September 2007

On sale

September 21, 2007 – 10:27 am | By | Posted in Army / National Service, Living | Tagged , | View Comments

Tremors II

OK, I got my sleep inter­rupted by a very long series of tremors, and we’ve just turned on the telly to watch CNA talk about last night’s quake, after­shocks and then this morning’s shak­ing news. “Nor­mally our build­ing code is suf­fi­cient to build build­ings of safety”, says the engineer/professor who’s a guest on CNA right …

September 13, 2007 – 8:35 am | By | Posted in Living | Tagged | View Comments

Tremors

7.20pm This just in. Naomi thought the cat was under the sofa rock­ing it, caus­ing her to feel a lit­tle dizzy. Then we found the cat on his perch, and so she asked me to sit on the sofa to feel it sway­ing a bit. “Why ah?”, she asked. Being the pro­fes­sional bull­shit­ter that I am, …

September 12, 2007 – 7:34 pm | By | Posted in Living | Tagged | View Comments

Basket, kenah bluff

I just had a funny con­ver­sa­tion on IM with a friend that went like this: D: Hey, I ask you ah, the iPhone is it worth buy­ing? M: Of course, old tech­nol­ogy, but looks beau­ti­ful. D: Yay, I’m order­ing one, and choos­ing the engrav­ing on the back. M: Order from where? D: Apple site lah! M: …

September 12, 2007 – 1:29 am | By | Posted in Toys | Tagged | View Comments

brb, RWC, dnd

Watch­ing <a href=“http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/” onclick=“javascript:_gaq.push([’_trackEvent’,‘outbound-article’,‘www.rugbyworldcup.com’]);urchinTracker(“/outbound/www.rugbyworldcup.com’);”>this. Be right back. Tech­no­rati Tags: <a href=“http://www.technorati.com/tag/rugby” onclick=“javascript:_gaq.push([’_trackEvent’,‘outbound-article’,‘www.technorati.com’]);urchinTracker(“/outbound/www.technorati.com’);” rel=“tag”>rugby

September 10, 2007 – 1:00 am | By | Posted in Living, Media | Tagged | View Comments

Vale, King of the high ‘C’s.

Luciano Pavarotti, 1935 — 2007 Tech­no­rati Tags: Pavarotti

September 6, 2007 – 4:57 pm | By | Posted in People | Tagged | View Comments

Who wants to be a superhero?

Cap­tain Obvi­ous We’ve had Sur­vivor (1997 — yes, that old!), Big Brother (1999), Fear Fac­tor (2001), Amer­i­can Idol (2002), America’s Next Top Model (2003), Beauty and the Geek (2005 — a favourite), amongst many, many oth­ers. Granted, the format’s nowhere near new, but there are now so many “real­ity” tv shows that the mak­ers of …

September 6, 2007 – 12:00 am | By | Posted in Living | Tagged , , | View Comments

Now That You Got It remix feat. Damian Marley

I like Gwen Ste­fani, and I like Bob Mar­ley. But Bob Marley’s um… not around, so it’s great that Stefani’s new sin­gle fea­tures one of his many sons, Damian “Junior Gong” Mar­ley. Unlike Bob, Damian’s not a reg­gae artist. It says on wikipedia that Damian’s musi­cal spe­cialty is “Toast­ing”, which is the Jamaican style of …

September 5, 2007 – 6:33 pm | By | Posted in Media | Tagged , | View Comments

National Days

I was just won­der­ing the other day that there were lots of inde­pen­dence days in August. We had ours, they had theirs, and they shouted Merdeka till they were hoarse. Then a cou­ple of days passed and I thought it was a lit­tle late to talk about things hap­pen­ing in August. But then, for­tu­itously, I …

September 5, 2007 – 12:00 am | By | Posted in Places | Tagged | View Comments

In My Time

I’ve never been to an Army Open House because I don’t have kids to bring them to, and my fam­ily would scream if I asked them “hey you wanna go to the Army Open House and see Army gear and stuff?” and they’d scream, “We wash your Army gear every time you come back from …

September 3, 2007 – 1:37 pm | By | Posted in Army / National Service, Living | Tagged , | View Comments