Stolen (and corrupted) from nisaba, foods to try - I've eaten eighty-three of the hundred entries, so wanted to focus on the ones I've not tried:

( Not Eaten )

Is London-bound. Already miss her and would like to extend advance thanks to those ensuring she has a fabulous time

Firstly, let me point you fine folk at war_poetry, a community I started some years ago solely for people to post occasional poems on. It's still running, filled with mostly people I don't know and moderated by someone who took over the baton - these fit it's purpose entirely, to be somewhere for shared glances

Secondly, as pointed out by scatterbeetle and my cousin-in- ( Read more... )

Does anyone on my readership have more than a passing familiarity with home fabrication?

Thank you all for the texts, posts, emails, pokes on Wednesday; though I'm only reading most of them today they were very much appreicated ( Read more... )

Once more xkcd captures the tone: A Proper Attitude

Sex is very strange here. Or treated very strangely, I should say ( Read more... )

Amusingly one of my team commented yesterday that I wasn't a proper Westerner

I was challenged some weeks back: by mr_tom for the Top 5 most bizarre Singaporean foodstuffs, to which I would respond:

1. Pig Tendon Soup
2. Frog Porridge
3. Durian
4. Buttermilk
5. Dragonfruit

In my bio I use the phrase 'fringe-feeder and social caterpillar [...] found in too many interconnected subcultures'; the truth is becomming apparent with the differences in social networks that can be seen on my profiles on MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn