From Charlene who gave me an ‘L’
1. Love
2. Life
3. Library
4. Lillies
5. Leads (The type that journos obsess over.)
6. Lamps
7. Luck
8. Light
9. Lavender
10. Laughter
Comment and I’ll give you a letter; then you have to list 10 things you love that begin with that letter. After, post this in your journal, and give out some letters of your own.
‘The wit of the staircase’ or l’esprit d’escalier, which in French, means the perfect witty response or quip that one can think of, usually only after the conversation has ended. It could be on the staircase, on the way out of the place, or even a few days later.
Whatever the circumstance, it usually hits one with the lightning bolt clarity with the regard of slapping one’s forehead with the words ‘why didn’t I think of that before?’
I suffer from l’esprit d’escalier. A lot. Read the rest of this entry »
We went to a boat party on Saturday, one of those with themes, where everyone dresses up in costume, such as witches, vampires, ghosts and ghouls.
It was mostly the expat set that the party was catered to, and for a moment it felt like one of those mad uni parties I used to attend down under. Of course, this was more of an international crowd (by ‘international’ I mean more nationalities than just Aussies.)
We hopped on the boat at the Marina South Pier, which is impossible to get to; unless you have a car, want to pay for the cab ride there, or manage to find the feeder bus to take you there. Read the rest of this entry »
The many things that I love about WordPress is the fact that it allows me to catch spam comments, gives terrific layouts and is open source.
Naturally, one of the things about WordPress, is that it has nifty functions that tells me who is reading my blog.
So if you are, it is only polite to leave a comment that you stopped by.
I really don’t mind sacrificing traffic for privacy.
If this (referring to visits from you-know-who) keeps up, my posts would just go password-protected hence forth.
I won’t lose any sleep over it.
