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Traveling by sea to China has easily been one of the best decisions i have made in my life. The solitude was priceless; i experienced a level of rest and relaxation that i haven't had in years - perhaps ever. But even more valuable was witnessing the remarkable sights, the majesty of our planet and the terrible beauty of the construction/ ( Read more... )

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Last night i had a bit of a breakdown after dinner. Fortunately i'm not depressed or it could have been a lot worse, but... gah i am still... You know it's not my opa dying in and of itself that's hard - we've known for a while it was coming - it's a whole bunch of other things that make me feel sad, things like my other grandfather being not far ( Read more... )

I was talking to my sister over breakfast Saturday and she was telling me about how she gets together with mates and does like cook-offs where they make all this fancy themed shit. And i realized that even though i've pondered getting seriously into cooking, as a career even, the whole gourmet/by-recipe thing doesn't really appeal to me. The food ( Read more... )

From a funny night a few months ago when we went out to the local comedy club and i got dressed up all city-style. Of course because my monitor is all green i have no idea how bad i look(ed), which is probably a good thing.

Posting this from work due to something that's left me pretty much offline the week or two at home. My monitor died. For the first few days it was all red. Now it's all green. I can't see pictures properly. There's hardly any contrast - anything red or purple disappears like black. I guess i'll have to get a new monitor - this one did only ( Read more... )

I'm still not comfortable writing in this journal, and all my old posts since July last year are gone forever, but i'm going to stay around so i can talk to my friends and see how they're going ( Read more... )