I continue to be a sickly cold/flu magnet. I was last sickly towards the end of October and now as Beijing warms up, I have once more become flu-bait! I was supposed to go out brunch on Sunday to the Vineyard Café which looks charming. I was then supposed to go out in the evening to a concert at the Forbidden City Concert Hall which would have ( Read more... )

Apologies for the tardiness in posting and replying. Due to insufficient rest after my recent bout of flu, I had a relapse when there was a cold spell this weekend. It resulted in my white blood cell count spiking to 75 when 50 is normal and the doctor put me on an IV. It doesn't help that I am still having to come to work each day rather than ( Read more... )

I found out yesterday that poor British Chap and his girlfriend have been eating in most nights and ordering from Annie's Italian Restaurant. Annie's is very nice and all but it's the main place we order from when we work late at work so it feels like de facto work food to me :) So for the last few months they've been ordering from Annie's ( Read more... )

I'm back in Beijing tomorrow but trying to get over the flu. Yes, I have flu. Again. Sigh. :P

I'd finished posting my photos but locked them because I decided to split out some Stupid Thoughts into a more restricted reading filter. So anyway the travel photos are below :)

1. First days in Paris. Masai Hotel (1st and 2nd of October)
2. Day 2 ( Read more... )

I arrived in Cannes last night from Paris. Will update soon but for the time being must recuperate in my hotel room.

First of all, the batteries on my mouse are dying ...


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1. Bad news. I ate something Not Very Good last night and was up all night being violently unwell. Very, very uncomfortable. :P As God as my witness, I'm never having dairy in China again. *turns green* Well until the next time.

2. Good news, I've already managed to achieve the £250 fund raising target for Habitat for Humanity well in ( Read more... )

1. Here are some Love Actually user icons. All are adorable, but the Hugh Grant ones make me giggle a lot. Here's the fic I wrote for Love Actually before because I love a happy ending :)

2. kiaforrest has a post here with an image showing how huge Darth Tater is beside the Snowbot. She also has some exquisite images of the moon. As mentioned before, I ( Read more... )

Another day off work. Meep.

1. I updated the post Curse of the Golden Flower 《满城尽带黄金甲》 : Jay Chou 周杰倫 EP with a slightly better quality youtube version of the video and also provided a downloadable version which is much, much clearer than the youtube version. Much as I love youtube, it's not really a substitute for a decent .avi/.wmv file ( Read more... )

'kay remember when I got all spaz and started discussing my Dark Side and the fact that I'm a Spoiler Whore? I was just recently having a conversation with alexandral which reminded me of my comment about Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle not going the way I thought it would go.

I just remembered my other All Time Disappointing Pairing. Little Women. ( Read more... )

"If you build it, he will come" (Field of Dreams)
"If there is a flu, Koala will catch it". (The Doom of KoalaNo please don't tell me about flu shots! It is my Doom - I must catch every single flu that flies past. Also I am so not appropriate for the Codral "soldier on with Codral" ad given that when I'm sick, I must take to my bed and make sad ( Read more... )