In the December of 2004, I spent a few weeks working on a programme with an NGO dealing in rehabilitating victims of trafficking and prostitution in Kolkata, India. I’m not normally the bleeding heart type, and I have a big axe to grind with those badly run NGOs who accomplish absolutely nothing for their communities [...]
Like many couples, straight or gay or bestial, Z and I fight quite a bit. As much as any couple edging close to the one year mark, in any case. (We never fight on holidays though, but more on this later.)
It’s been nearly a year, the longest either of us have been attached to a [...]
Most Chinese people have reunion dinners. I have reunion high tea.
My family believes in getting it over and done with, so this means we gather around 3pm, eat by 5pm, and be done by 5.30pm. Past experience has shown that other people don’t start before 7.30pm, and evidently have more things to say to each [...]
The Legal Janitor called me an Ah Pek* today. I decided to embrace who I truly was.
Checklist:
36 year old camera
White tshirt.
Obiang camera strap, also 30 something years old.
Backroom of shop selling clothes that look like that.
Shorts, with a fly that can’t stay up.
I love being an Ah Pek. And a cheeko one at that.
ALSO I [...]
Hard to believe how far it’s come — I remember the old days of b2, the first Wordpress releases, the frustration, the classic theme, and the sleek little darling Wordpress is today. So this is very nostalgic; as well as very exciting, about what is to come.
Give Wordpress a go on your own space, or [...]
Exactly a year ago today, I was rather taken aback when a lady asked me: “How do I get to Bangkok from here without flying?”
“Why don’t you fly?” I replied. It had never occurred to me this was possible or even desirable. “And there’s that problem in the South.”
She went ahead anyway, though not before [...]
Otto’s Guesthouse, Koh Kong
It requires a bag of tricks and should be first rehearsed before being attempted. You will need a large plastic bag, and plenty of courage, for such an experiment. Let it first be said that the only reason this experiment awaits you is that you are a cheap bastard, or a poor [...]
Mr. Sanguine took a few days off his work and packed himself off to Kolkata, and shot a documentary of (the NGO) Calcutta Rescue. His pictures can be found here. Why is this link here instead of on my sidebar links?
from Mr Sanguine’s Calcutta pictures
Because Calcutta, as some of you know, is very close [...]
Canon users have always said we were ahead in R&D — well, I buy it now. I totally and completely buy it now.
(link at Gizmodo, link at Dpreview discussion board)
A fortune cookie told me: “Pineapple Tart Explosion starting.. soon”.
