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| Back with a great excuse |
| 04.12.04 (7:08 am) [edit] |
for the long silence.
Folks, I gone and got meself married. Yup.
:oops: :D 8)
Well.
There you go. Howzzat for an excuse?
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| Sunday |
| 02.21.04 (10:49 pm) [edit] |
Just a quick hello before I go off to research technical terms.
Did I tell anyone that my brother officially became a Liar with the right to charge people stiff fees last week?
8)
Congrats, li'l bro.
(This is just between you and me, he doesn't know I've got this blog up)
:D
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| The job came through |
| 02.20.04 (9:16 am) [edit] |
8)
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| Children and barbarians |
| 02.19.04 (5:51 am) [edit] |
[i]Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them.[/i]
--Murray Leinster, "Med Ship"
I find myself sometimes (I wish I did it all the time) using this statement as a benchmark for my actions, and reactions to events.
Boy, it's so lowering to catch yourself acting barbaric and/or childish.
:?
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| Back & no more interruptions |
| 02.18.04 (8:44 am) [edit] |
Well, I'm in possession of my room and the computer again. Sooner than I expected, too. :o
The client's dragging his feet about sending confirmation, so I haven't got a contract signed at the moment. I'm rather expecting that it will happen, though.
I feel like I've missed so much in two days! Only had time to shoot off quick replies to a few messages I received here on tBlog. Didn't even check my emails since Sunday - you can see where my priorities lie these days :wink:
Speaking of emails, how much junk mail [i]is[/i] out there, anyway? There are filters for the stuff, but some always manage to get through. Spammers are a bit like the old Chinese water torture for the average internet user. They should be threatened with cruel and unusual punishment, I think.
:wink:
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| Good news all around |
| 02.17.04 (3:53 am) [edit] |
I'm not at home right now, I'm at this office. It turns out that I might get a contract for a 3-month interpretation/translatio n stint... 8)
Will involve travelling to the island of Madagascar, though. I've got a half-hour to fill in at the moment, I finished a one-page translation they wanted me to do for the client (it's an IT company, so it's going to take a lot of computer French as well as business French).
It looks like the job's in the bag. I'm knockin' on wood.
:P
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| Pulling the plug |
| 02.16.04 (7:08 pm) [edit] |
on the computer today 'coz m'room's getting whitewashed.
See you folks in a few days!
:)
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| Working Valentine |
| 02.15.04 (6:36 am) [edit] |
It had to happen that way: I get a translation rush job, and it has to be done on site on the morning of Valentine's day.
Oh well, it's not like I was doing anything special this year anyway.
:wink:
I hope all you people out there had a lovely day. Everyone deserves one of those once in a while. 8)
Went to the World Book Fair this morning. Guess what? I didn't buy A SINGLE BOOK!!!
I'm so proud of myself. I'd been finding it particularly hard to resist picking up any book that caught my fancy off the shelves recently.
If you're wondering what this is about, we-ell. Reading's a bit of an addiction with me. I read everything. Before the internet, I'd been known to pick up encyclopaedias and dictionaries when I ran out of reading material.
Like that. :wink:
Today's been a good day. They had some good food out at Pragati Maidan. :lol:
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| Free wallpaper |
| 02.13.04 (2:04 am) [edit] |
And here's a free wallpaper I made of the two darlin's you can see in the last post.
The size is 800X600 and you can [url=http://img16.photobucket.com/...]download[/url] it if you like
:P
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| Meet Beauty |
| 02.12.04 (10:22 pm) [edit] |
and Black. They were both jet black as puppies. Now Black, that traitor, has turned grey and looks like he's going to become white before he's done :)
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Beauty's on the left and Black on the right side. They're Lhassas.
:wink:
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| Face reading |
| 02.10.04 (8:29 am) [edit] |
A small bunch of us stayed back in the cafeteria to discuss a group assignment today. After we'd done the work the talk became more general and we found out that one of the guys was a face reader.
He read a couple of faces - with people attached to them :) - and turned out to be right on the button. I mean, stuff that nobobdy could really know about a person, he just blurted out.
It was rather upsetting to the people he read. I stayed away from it all, having already been burned once.
It was a stranger who read my face, that time a couple of years ago. I was at a distant relative's place, I don't visit them much, and the reader was a total stranger - never met him before, or since. But he just looked at my face and told me things about myself, my past and my future... Well, I don't know about the future, but what he told me about my past and about myself was frighteningly accurate.
I say [i]frightening[/i] and I mean it, not because he said anything unpleasant - he didn't - but because feeling that someone can actually read your mind is downright [i]scary[/i].
I was shocked at the time. After I got back home I felt worse. The guy said nice things. But I felt [i]naked[/i] and I did NOT like the feeling.
If telepathy actually exists in this world, I hope nobody ever manages to prove it to me. I have problems with the idea of video phones. I'd have no privacy at all, not even in my own mind, if telepaths wandered the world.
Uurgh.
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| Your blog has been viewed 999 times. |
| 02.09.04 (3:03 am) [edit] |
That's what it said when I was in the 'My Account' section just now.
Thought I should record it for posterity.
8)
[edit: side benefit - short blog again :wink: ]
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| Thank you, Tblog |
| 02.09.04 (2:09 am) [edit] |
For those of you who expressed concern over the whole power failure thing, thank you. Nothing to panic about, it's just that the Authorities don't want us to get too complacent about things like hot water for showers and juice for computers. Yep, we're all properly grateful :P
Oh, and UPS is [i]not[/i] the United States Postal Service!
Now, about the subject of this blog: Tblog.
This is a [i]nice[/i] place.
No, really. I'm not really into blogging, to tell you the truth. At least, I wasn't. I did try to do something like this a couple of times before, at blogger, but somehow I never could keep it up. I tried to think of why I like Tblog enough to keep coming back almost every day, and this is what I came up with:
:: free and no ads
ads are a pain. I'm not working and I'm going to school right now, but as soon as I can, I'm going to contribute my two bits by upgrading to tblog pro. They deserve it just for offering the service free and with so many perks in the first place.
:: linking and tfriends
those are awesome ideas. I mean, ok, I do know html and I could go around adding links manually, but a one-click solution from any blog I'm reading and that I like is sheer genius, not to mention labour-saving :)
:: site layout and blog templates
i love them. The clean look is so attractive, makes the same kind of impression that the Yahoo homepage used to make back in the dark ages of the internet (10 years ago :wink:).
:: The PEOPLE
ok, I guess this is the most important thing of all. Shondratasha talked about this in a [url=http://www.tblog.com/template...]recent blog[/url] and I mostly agree. Good crowd, people.
More about this some other post, I'm looking at the length of this one and gettin' the heebie jeebies.
8)
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| Power failure |
| 02.05.04 (9:14 pm) [edit] |
Okay, power's gone off right when I was going to write this blog...
On UPS right now and it's screaming!
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| The Bhutan |
| 02.04.04 (9:16 am) [edit] |
is what I'm off to research right now. Inquiring minds might, uh, inquire: why Bhutan? Well, the short answer is, I had to go pick a course where you, or I, have to know everything about everything. Or so it feels like at the moment.
Which is not such a bad thing, now that I come to think about it. This could just be FUN!
[i]It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty to do.[/i]
-- Jerome K. Jerome
8)
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| Back-to-school blues |
| 02.03.04 (8:20 am) [edit] |
My French course started today. The instructor seems nice, she's Spanish, with a lovely Spanish name, but has lived in France most of her life. The group's small and seems quite friendly. I hooked up with a nice woman who got me caught up with the institute and people and stuff generally, since I was a complete stranger.
But for the life of me I don't understand how I got trapped into yapping about my country, my language(s) and myself in front of the whole class -- all eight of us :) -- for more than half an hour. My jaws hurt. My head hurts. Still.
Phew. Back to hitting the books, after such a long time. I wonder if I can carry it off?
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| Cravings |
| 02.02.04 (3:34 am) [edit] |
I've got this intense craving for pasta. Right away. It's a public holiday, and there's no sauce in the fridge or freezer, but garlic and olive oil will do.
I wish the water would boil more quickly.
:wink:
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| Ushering in February |
| 02.01.04 (8:00 am) [edit] |
Feb's brought with it a new wave of cold in Delhi. Not nice.
Also confirmation that WMDs in Iraq never were there to begin with. That poor guy Ritter, who shouted himself hoarse before the whole business started. But really, I'm more sorry for those thousands of other poor guys who lost limbs. And their families. And those poor Iraqis.
Ok, ok. No politics. It's just because I felt so [i]angry[/i]. And sad. All countries and all peoples have their problems.
I need to go do something to cheer up.
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| Born free and nostalgic |
| 01.31.04 (7:14 am) [edit] |
I watched [i][url=http://movies2.nytimes.com/gs...]Born Free[/url] [/i] with my li'l cousin today. She's seven and very difficult to please when it comes to anything on the box apart from cartoons. But as soon as she saw the kitty cats tumblin' around, she pronounced that the movie was "good". 8)
The classics still make me cry. I remember crying when I first read the book.
Anybody remember [url=http://www.greatdreams.com/th...]Thor Heyerdahl[/url]'s [i]Kon-Tiki Expedition[/i]? That was another one that made me dream.
Now, was the [i]Snorre pig[/i] song in that one?
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| Cold waves and ice cream |
| 01.31.04 (6:21 am) [edit] |
I don't like feeling cold. Not a-tall.
I like ice cream. I [i]love[/i] ice cream. Even when it's cold outside.
I think one of the bestest, purest pleasures in life is standing outside Nirula's at 10 o'clock at night, chomping down on a cone of nutty almond praline ice cream, when I'm blowing ghostlings out my nose every time I breathe out.
Mmmm.
It's worth the red ears and nose.
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| Dreams and other things |
| 01.31.04 (5:19 am) [edit] |
Discovered a new blog today. I don't agree with everything [url=http://kiremaesing.tblog.com]Kire Mae Sing[/url] says, but her style sure is her own. Worth checking out, if you've got the time.
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Here's a picture I'd like to share with you.
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The original graphic was a scan of an antique image copyrighted by Anne G. Shelton, who kindly gave away the right to download the graphic and mess with it on [url=http://www.stamphistory.net/a...]her site[/url].
This is for lookin' at. Do tell me if you like it, hate it or just don't care...
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Hey, I got my seven-year-old cousin to learn the 3 times table today! What an accomplishment. She got a round of applause from everybody when she finally got it right. :)
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| Money and my horoscope |
| 01.30.04 (2:39 am) [edit] |
Here's what my horoscope says today:
[i]Ingenious new techniques for making money grow may come your way today, Capricorn, and while you're not one to jump into anything, you are certainly likely to give these ideas some serious thought.[/i]
And here I've been goin' and throwin' away the stuff. I knew I should have been listening to my momma when she said it didn't grow on trees.
:wink:
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| Eeks... and prizes |
| 01.29.04 (11:24 pm) [edit] |
Hokay.
First the prizes.
Congrats to [url=http://silentfear.tblog.com]silentfear[/url] on winning first prize -- 300 tBucks!
Second prize goes to [url=http://benontheblock.tblog.co...]benontheblock[/url] -- 100 tBucks!
And here's the [i]eeks[/i] part:
Third prize I keep for myself, 'coz, while giving awesomely detailed and accurate answers, both silentfear and benontheblock forgot to click on the cute li'l "send mixedmuse a [b]Private Message[/b]" link.
Seems I also forgot to post a reminder. :oops:
Oh well, we live and learn.
xoxo
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| Tbucks giveaway! |
| 01.29.04 (9:54 pm) [edit] |
I'm RICH!
Boy, that sounds good. I'll say it again.
I'M RICH.
Heeheehee. I'm rich, I'm rich, I'm rich...
:P
Yep, I hit the jackpot. [i]How[/i], you ask, [i]come that this newbie's rollin' in the stuff?[/i]
It's like this. [url=http://sulkbrarian.tblog.com/...]Sulky[/url] , whose good taste and judgement I applaud, finds that my blog [i]makes milk come out her nose[/i]. In fact, she's so happy with it she sent me 500 tBucks. How's that for generosity?
Thank you, Sulky.
8)
Which is why I'm in a position to make a few of you richer too. Don't forget to thank The Sulkbrarian.
And now, ladies, gents and others, here's theeee... [drum roll]... [b]giveaway[/b]!!!
The first person who identifies the picture I'm putting up gets 300 tBucks. The name's not enough, you got to give some context too. The next two bright people to nail the answer down get a 100 each.
G'luck all, and here's the pix:
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| Collectable Quotes #004 |
| 01.28.04 (9:42 am) [edit] |
[b]Thinking hurts[/b]
[i]Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says, but what it means.[/i]
-- Umberto Eco, in "The Name of the Rose"
Here's another one:
[i]Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.[/i]
-- John Andrew Holmes
So what is this thing about blogging?
Do I really want everything I key in on this blog, or anywhere else for that matter, to be the stuff of Pulitzers? Or is it acceptable to wince a little when I go back to read what I wrote a day, a week, or a year ago?
I thought I'd decided that perfection was for... other people. It's true. Because I want to do everything perfectly the first time, I often end up doing nothing at all.
So screw perfection.
Let's try the other thing for a while. Like blurting out whatever comes to mind. I can talk about how I can't stand apple in any form except, uh, boiled with sugar. :wink: And without [i]any[/i] cinnamon, thank you. Or how I love to curl up with a book, a coke and an extra extra large packet of plain chips, and no interruptions.
I just finished a Jennifer Crusie romance, it was good. :lol:
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