Month: June 2005

I had my first encounter with some of those, uh, door-to-door religion salesmen yesterday. It wasn’t pleasant because they made me angry but I managed to keep my cool and didn’t slam the door on them. First mistake, they were insulting my intelligence by talking to me like I was an idiot *and* in an…… Continue reading Those Pesky People

Yes, that’s Troy’s hairy thigh in the picture. I’m sorry if it disturbs you. The happy-looking girl in the Polaroid is, of course, yours truly. Troy took the picture of me with our Polaroid camera shortly before I took a picture of the picture of me with my digital camera (how’s that for meta?). The…… Continue reading Holy Missing Ghost Town, Batman!

+ See? I look like the guy on the t-shirt. – Yeah, but I look too happy, unlike the monkey. + Why wouldn’t you? – Why wouldn’t I what? + Be happy? – *pause* I don’t know. *confused because for once she actually had no reason to be unhappy* We got ours for free but…… Continue reading Bad Monkey!

From this week on, every Thursday I’m going to post a short short story that I wrote myself. Feel free to do the same if you like. The following story was originally written to amuse Troy at work. There was this ghost who went to see a doctor because he wasn’t feeling well. The doctor…… Continue reading Short Short Story Thursday

— It’s starting to feel like Canada again, now that the temperature has gone down to the high 20s (Celsius degree). — I seem to handle hot weather worse than Canadians, who are used to cold weather. — If Canadians did live in igloos, they’d all be homeless by now. — We went to Toronto…… Continue reading Wonderfully Random

Summer is not officially here yet, but it already feels like summer. In fact, it feels pretty much like Jakarta (Indonesia) during the dry season. I can’t say that I like it. I hate hot weather. It turns me into Ms. Grumpypants. The heat made me so grumpy a couple of nights ago that Troy…… Continue reading Crazy Hot Spring

Neil passed me this book meme, and while I’m not really an avid book reader, I just thought I’d do it, just for the fun of it. So here goes. Books owned. I left behind hundreds of books in Indonesia. Here in Canada, assuming that all the books that *I* picked at book sales are…… Continue reading Book Meme

This is not a post about rabbit. It is said that if the first words you utter on the first day of the month are “rabbit rabbit”, you’ll have good luck all month long. As I said before, this is not a post about rabbit. I just wanted to share some silly trivias from our…… Continue reading Rabbit Rabbit!