a.k.a. I’m Going Away From This Blog For A While With such a long academic break ahead of me, I have started to think long and hard about specific issues. Issues like my academic pursuits, and the changes I am looking at effecting in that area. My skills, my prospects; the battles I choose to fight, [...]

When I am sitting at a corner, waiting for transportation (yes, I’ve decided that juggling hourly-rated work between restaurant serf, in addition to Mac serf, might perhaps pay my debts and still raise enough funds to send me to India this November) – looking, colloquially speaking, at my worst: it is not a good idea [...]

Isn’t it strange to converse with someone who lives in the same house as you do, in this manner (via comments in Flickr)? “Where is my iTalk?” “Oh, it’s in my bag.”

1. FoodLoft 7th Floor, Central Chidlom (nearest BTS station: Chitlom) I’ve swooned about this place time and again, and for good reasons – this is what we should have back home, or in any city in the world. I’ve described it many times as a cross between Marche and Mezza9: where the only resemblance to Marche comes [...]

Yesterday, at 2.30pm, a new member of our family was welcomed into the world: Amelie, measuring 17”, 2Ghz G5 and 160GB, is the latest addition after siblings Roxette (12” iBook) and Natasha (12” PowerBook).

Jim passed me one of those musical batons, and what’s a blogger to do but comply? Total volume of music files on my computer: 17.98Gb ??? 4021 songs, 11.8 days The last CD I bought was: Manu Chao – Esperanza Song playing right now: The Weakerthans – Everything Must Go Five songs I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot [...]

Three weeks isn’t a very long time, yet it is this very brevity which misleads. It makes you assume you are only stepping out for a short jaunt – something of a cross between a vacation and a residence – and naturally, to expect to find things mostly unchanged upon your return. And the truth [...]

So I’m finally back, and only reluctantly. I have seen great contrasts, Seen many beautiful women, Witnessed the grotesque, Leapt for opportunity, , Photographed Buddha (or tried to), Seen Angkor (and Bayon, and Takeo, and Ta Prohm), and climbed way too many flights of stairs, Met all sorts of people, Some nice some not so, like the “good man/bad man” aspect of Angkor architecture [...]

Update Her revenge is sweet, only 100 baht, and found through shopping, too. Among the first things I will do when I get home, is to lay down plans on printing a t-shirt screaming: “Shopping Widow”. Designed for girls with metrosexual boyfriends, and girls with typical girlfriends. Anyone wants one?