For reasons that I needn't go into here, I got into a conversation with a delivery man the other night ( Read more... )

When you see this, post a random quote from Carmina Burana on your Facebook status.

Then post this meme in your journal for others to enjoy :D

(*Alternatively: Post a random quote from Carmina Burana on your Facebook status just because you feel like it. Then turn it into a new LJ meme!)

me: *Step 1: scooping cold cooked rice from rice cooker into bowl in preparation for Steps 2 (spoon yesterday's vegie chilli over the top), 3 (heat in microwave) and 5 (dinner!)*

rice: *refuses to be easily scooped*

me: *tilts rice cooker pot to facilitate scooping*

entire rice-cookerful of rice: *splot*

me: oops

if anyone wants to know what ( Read more... )

The hotel restaurant menu that has been placed in my room is all written in Chinese, except for the following... description? poem? I'm not sure what to call it... read on and see for yourself!

Increases gradually in Hunan happy food hot food's person. the lake merchants are addicted to spicily also gradually become famous ( Read more... )

... trip here was uneventful: Cathay Pacific are a reasonably comfortable airline (interestingly different style of seats such that when you "recline" your chair you don't crush the person behind you, and you can lean on the seats without wobbling them, useful for getting in and out without annoying your neighbours); I watched Twilight and found it ( Read more... )

And people used to think I was weird for putting sweet chilli sauce on my cheese-on-toast... I particularly like the Chocolate-Chip* Pancake Sausage On A Stick. ("Hot sausage! Onna stick! With chocola-- ... wait, WTF ( Read more... )

Poll just for insomnius

Ah, Darwin. You make me smile even in the face of personal-life ennui and the fact that I'm still at work at almost 9pm. (Yes, I know it is my own fault, I could have left 15 minutes ago when I finished what I was working on; but it is raining and I am disinclined to go out in the cold wet dark!)

Darwin on the Pros and Cons of Marriage

Marry ( Read more... )

I recently did some thinking (and didn't post it here, cf previous post) about the ethics of the internet and social networking sites etc. In a nutshell, Baroness Susan Greenfield was reported by a number of media sources as saying "Facebook is BAD, mm'kay?" and I disagreed with several of her reasons for asserting this ( Read more... )

Lee: *makes the fantastic realisation that there is only one zoo on the planet*
Lee: when is your mate james next coming back from hong kong?
foxe: in the zoo :p
Lee: I am not.
foxe: my lecture tomorrow is going to be ace!
Lee: it is in chester
foxe: not you, james
foxe: huh?
Lee: whyfore? what zoo?
foxe:oh no wait, I am thinking of the singapore zoo ( Read more... )