Month: May 2004

  • Burfday

    Listening to: I Idolize You – Ike & Tina Turner – Nutbush City Limits S organised a drinks outing at where else because it is his birthday Wednesday. There’s cause for celebration because he’s the last of the Mochikens to get to Thirty. Would’ve been less raucous if not for the fact S and H…

  • The day that was

    Listening to: Karaoke Queen – Catatonia – Equally Cursed & Blessed I read in Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything, ‘it is easy to make any banal situation extraordinary if you treat it as fateful’. But life’s little moments are always banal unless one treats it as fateful. Great epic adventures don’t need…

  • We once were you and me

    Listening to: Positively 4th Street – Bob Dylan – Masterpieces (2) It’s not that I am not over you. I have been healthily over you for some years now. But you’re getting married. I wish you well and all that. Your well-being is no longer in my realm. I once loved you. That love lasted…

  • Tantric

    Listening to: La Luna en Tu Mirada – Manuel Galbán/Ry Cooder – Mambo Sinuendo I had to get out of the house today, so I went and had dinner with a close friend, his brother and his mother. Then we went to his house and watched tv with his housemate, his boyfriend and his housemate’s…

  • Love Letter

    Listening to: Better Days – Bruce Springsteen – Greatest Hits As if I needed a pick-me-up. Checked the letter tray and found something addressed to me. But it had ‘On Government Service’ on the envelope, and had my rank before my name in full. Thankfully it wasn’t another ‘love letter’, or SAF100. It was a…