A conversation late last night / early this morning with Big Boy and LR over ice cream, cheese rings and coke brought about this nugget of wisdom / crap ( Read more... )

[Written at the Johannesburg airport, back-dated in Singapore ( Read more... )

One of the things I am very sure that I learned from Velma was how to matte lipstick. I was about 9 years old, and matte lipsticks were not so readily available then -- especially because the 1980's was all about glossy lips ( Read more... )

I've finally decided which Szymborska lines to commit to. There were too many to choose from. But her Travel Elegy just spoke to me last week, for some reason. So here goes:


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I miss Slackerville already.

Last week was spent slacking in Malaysia with the Polish Tourist, jhybeturtle and EM, where nothing was accomplished except:

• finishing more than a carton of cigarettes
• drinking flavoured, authentic Polish vodka
• eating awesome meals
• hanging out in random coffee shops
• a trip to Melaka for Japanese tourist photo ops, pineapple tarts ( Read more... )

fairlycloudy tells me at our smoke break after the Gross lecture: "I just realised that you're a megalomaniac!"

And I say: "Huh?"

She says: "When he said that 'Everything is physics' that got you excited. So I realised that the reason why you're so into physics is because it makes you understand everything. That's megalomaniac.

And I say: "Yeah, and control ( Read more... )

I think there's a weird gene in my system that gives me goosebumps whenever I'm in the same room as an honest-to-goodness, dedicated-his-life-to-theoretical-physics physicist. I couldn't help it, as soon as they introduced David Jonathan Gross this morning as a Physicist, I wanted to stand up and clap (which I did). I think this is the flip side of ( Read more... )

Human beings are funny creatures. I think Bjork said it best:

"If you ever get close to a human
And human behaviour
Be ready to get confused"

But there are human beings and there are Amateur Human Beings (AHBs).

Human beings are flawed. AHBs are just as flawed but they imagine themselves to be: (a) perfectly fine; (b) better than others; ( Read more... )

Spent most of the day discussing Money and the Women's Movement, specifically where funds that support women's rights are invested and who's investing them. Interesting stuff that AWID is looking into to track trends in financial support and fundraising for women's organisations and rights. But one of the most interesting things mentioned today was ( Read more... )

You know who you are who needs to read this: The Fool-Proof Break-Up Recovery Plan