Australia day

The office finally decided to close on Australia day. All it took was one humble book. No, it was not the threat of being sued, or anything that involved a law book. ‘Empty cradles’ by Margaret Humphreys, is a very powerful book. Something I would have to explain in another entry soon.
I have been away [...]

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It was raining ash

My brush with the bush fires raging in the hills came in the form of ash falling in the pool.
The Japanese girls came over on Sunday and the boyfriend had gone over to his friend’s place, to meet the newest member of the friend’s family. (His wife gave birth to a healthy baby boy).
It was [...]

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Advance Australia Fair

I am not a happy camper at the office for the moment, because I was told that business as usual would go on, on Australia day. Intially I was perfectly fine with the situation, because I would show up for work as usual, in an office that would sooner rejoice for fireworks on the fifth [...]

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Karma, karma and karma

I have not been updating for awhile, because everything that’s happened lately seems straight out of a soap opera. I am still shaking from what happened just five minutes ago.
Also I have thought long and hard about it and have decided to have a livejournal for locked and private entries only. It is not to [...]

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The effort continues…

Our office opted for a less extravagant New Year’s staff party than what was previously planned, going for a simple lunch instead, and decided to donate the rest of the money in the budget to the tsunami effort. I liked it that way. Still got to bond with my colleagues. The only thing is that [...]

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How it ended

It unraveled over coffee. He wanted me to clarify a lot of things. Things that he wanted to know, because he wanted me for the long haul. He made it quite clear that he did not want something that was short term and that he was willing to make sacrifices, like moving to Singapore. (A [...]

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A Hieronymus Bosch start to the New Year

Somehow the Fates have conspired that I won’t have the New Year’s Eve, I was tempted to have. Adonis called me, just after I got off work, but because I forgot to turn my mobile ringer back on, I missed his call. He had planned to spend the last dying minutes and the new ones [...]

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