Primary Rule of Writing: Show, don’t tell.
Resolution: Stick to it, for frig’s sake.
Common points
Last night, I went for dinner with some of my housemate’s friends. There were two Spaniards, a South African, a Turk, one Italian and two Polish, along with me (Australian-Indian) and my housemate (Korean). A more diverse bunch in so few I don’t think I’ve ever seen, crammed into a little London kitchen.
It’s amazing to see the world through the independent migrant’s eyes – even though I’m an immigrant in Australia, having lived there for so long and being with the family means that it’s not too far off “ordinary life” (for a given value of ordinary, of course). Here however, with no family nor close friends when most land up here, you very quickly establish close relationships, especially with those you live with. Should a new migrant walk in the door (in this case, me), they’re all very quick to open up and welcome gladly – it’s as though they’re saying, “here’s another like us; welcome, we know what you’re going through.”
It’s a whole world I never knew existed, and it’s gratifying to see it and be a part of it. (apologies for the clumsy writing, the head’s not in it today)
Is the Apple rotten?
Customers ask: Is Apple going rotten? I say it started with that charge for 802.11n. The accountants took over.
Handheld amusement ahoy!
So, I be thinkin’ ’tis high time I got me a handheld gamin’ …
… ok so forget the pirate thing for a minute.
I’m considering buying either the PSP or the DS. Lite edition of either, I guess, as that’s what’s available. I’m not sure of a couple of things, so I must consult my ever present friend, teh internets.
Question for those of you who have both: Which is better? =D
Questions for those of you who have either:
- Name one stand out game I must get (Other than – PSP: Lumines. DS: Mario Kart DS, because I already know)
- Name one stand out feature I will appreciate.
- Battery life?
- Is it really that good?
- Anything else I should take into account?
- How much did you pay? (I have to think whether to buy it here or after I get back)
Question for those of you who have neither: so, how you doin’? what do you want from London? :)
Yarr!
Yarr! It be talk like a pirate day t’day! Avast ye!
Google Australian Election Site
Google has gone and set up an Election 2007 site for Australia: hey, thinking of the little guys down under. Props, Google.
Bleargh
work work work work
work work work work
work work work wokr.
wkro.
lunch!
wrok.
work work work work.
blah.
retrospective
Going on the point I made just before, I went back and looked at what I had written oh so long ago, back when this used to be the dke project, all the way back on friendlygrocer :)
The first thing I picked up on was that my designs overall have probably been slipping :) Back then, each page, each post was carefully crafted by hand, for without script-enabled hosting, what other method is there? And the other thing was that it wasn’t just a blog, it was a whole personal site, and that’s something that going down the blogging platform path takes away from you, I think. It does make a lot of other things a helluva lot easier (no need to FTP in every update, for one).
In the spirit of one-upmanship
The Yankee Prankee: probably one of the ultimate pranks you can ever pull.
Belated
Beep-beep. Beep-beep.
The SMS tone woke me from my reverie. I glance down at my phone, wondering who it might be, whether it was ok to check it at work or not. Bugger it, everyone else did.
“Can you make some time for me tonight? I will be home about 9.”
Shit. Guilty conscience twigged. Had she found out about something I didn’t realise? Was she angry with me? Was I about to be chucked out? I don’t know what I’d done wrong, or that I’d done anything wrong, but something about the words doesn’t sound right.
“Sure, hon. Should I be prepared for anything? =P” I reply, angling for a light-hearted tone. Who knew, maybe I was entirely on the wrong track.
The reply was swift.
“Not at all ^^”
Well, that didn’t help.