What could be worse....

....than working late most days, and having to trundle back to a treacherous site every morning in a corner of the world where you have no social circles to speak of?


Working late most days, and having to trundle back to a treacherous site every morning in a corner of the world where you have no social circles to speak of, in the goddam rain. Everyday.

Transport for London

No Tube access from my place today.


The bus stops were all full of lots of pissed-off confused people, all peering blearily at bus stop signs, clearly not understanding any part of it. Every gundu in the world was trying to take a bus somewhere, me included.

But my bus took fricking hours, happily chugging around London in traffic jams - too many replacement bus services and too many temporary bus passengers!

My combined trip of bus and Tube took 2 hours. -_-"

Lady peeped out just as I snapped, YES YOU'RE ON THE RIGHT TRAIN FA CRYING OUT LOUD

Lots of delays due to TWO 'person under train' incidents (this basically means some poor soul has been kabished by one of the trains), so chaos everywhere basically. Lots of BO, bleargh.

I did get a nice day out though...

The O2 in the distance

And ended up in a nice Malaysian restaurant to end the day. :)

Le weekend...

A nice flight home, and vodka cocktails. But nothing more blissful than the advent of le weekend.

Fire alarms are annoying

Wasted an hour trotting down and out of a building, and then back in and back up again. Fire is given so much reverence in the West - must be the burning-in-hell cultural fear thing. I prefer the general South East Asian approach - wait for an actual fire before actually doing anything, then just basically run out yelling at the top of your lungs:

FYYYEEEEE-AAAAAAHHH!!!!

Bloody Monday

This is Monday for me, at 6am. A different kind of depressing.

That, and being mildly amused looking at the cabin crew trying to give a safety demonstration ("to inflate the life jacket, pull the toggle on your right") while trying to maintain their balance when their F1-driver-wannabe pilot swings wildly around the runway.

The laziest post in the world

Irony much?

junkie the slacker

Actually, quite the opposite. My work, my studies and my travelling have converged like three vectors ganging up on a tiny point to pretty much swallow me into a head-pounding, self-loathing vortex.

So yeah that means I'm kinda lazy to update these days, although I've been Plurking like mad regularly. Join Plurk and Plurk with me! Been also using it to brush up my language skills - I've discovered its hidden use as an excellent language tool.

I know I still owe you guys my Greece trip post and photos. So sorryyyyyyy.... Oh I bought the Sony Ericsson C902, will check it out in Friday and will post a review on that too!

(Throws a random distraction into the fray) You know the song Brimful of Asha, by Cornershop? You should definitely have heard of this at some point - the chorus of the song goes

Brimful of asha on the 45
Well it's a brimful of asha on the 45

And so on and so forth. BrainyBoy once told me, hey, he's always thought it was

Grim poodle basher on the 45
Well it's a brimful of asha on the 45

I looked at him and I was like, look, that makes no sense. He retorted yeah, like 'brimful of asha on the 45' makes a whole lot of sense.

Point taken, I suppose.

Then there's the Eiffel 65 song, Blue:

I'm blue da be dee da ba dai
Da be dee
Da ba dai
Da be dee da ba dai

He suggested:

I'm blue and I'm in need of a guy
And I'm in need
Of a guy
And I'm in need of a guy

*Weird look from me to him* Ok........

I'm blue if I were green I would die
If I were green
I would die
If I were green I would die

Yeah, BrainyBoy's weird. But that's what makes him awesome. Looking forward to seeing you this October, boi!