You have got to be sceptical when someone tells you that shifting the sofa round will make you richer. Or that turning the bed round so that the window is on the west side will prevent STDs. Fengshui is in essence, I think, a money spinning operation that feeds on people’s “better safe than sorry” [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Location, Location, Location
Posted in Shits and giggles, tagged cambridge, coincidences, fengshui on May 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
That Don’t Impress Me Much
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged C.S. Lewis, Movies, Narnia on May 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There were lots of things that made this movie look promising. There was the inexplicably more emo Peter, the look-I-have-boobs-now Susan, and a whole new imaginary dark country next to the previous imaginary country. Of course, we musn’t forget the handsome guy who has been slathered all over the promotional posters. But that’s kind of [...]
Time’s A Wastin’
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged boredom, sian, unemployment on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Alas, I have once again joined the ranks of the unemployed (by the official economical definition) i.e. someone who is searching for a job but cannot find one. My self-worth has plunged and I fear that soon I will crawl inside the bottle, never to emerge again. Terrible, terrible. Soon, I shall become a burden [...]
Criminal Profiling
Posted in Shits and giggles, tagged a spot of nonsense, humour, profiling, serious business on May 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As an extremely responsible member of the cyber community, I feel it my duty to warn my audience about dangerous characters that infect our society. They need to know the risks that they take whenever they step beyond the thresholds of their homes and take the appropriate precautionary measures. (Etymological question: Why precautionary? Shouldn’t cautionary [...]
Nobler in the Mind
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Philosophy on May 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I could never be a Stoic. I can never be a Stoic for the same reason that Jim Carrey can never play Gandhi, or why you can’t walk a tightrope if I poured a jar of ants down your pants. There is something built into my personal universe that makes me want to change a [...]
The End of Days
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ending, religion, work on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nothing so dramatic is happening of course. It’s not even really my last day, seeing as I’m coming back in term 3 for a week. But I suppose reflecting at the end of the extension won’t be as poetic or whatever. I’ve been reading my previous posts about SJI, and I laughed out loud at [...]
Right Out the Back End
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged euphoria, work on May 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Some things just need to be got over and done with. Then life opens up into a rolling, pleasing vista full of promise and pleasure. (That just sounded incredibly gay). Things like getting your ears pierced. I was in primary 1 when that happened. Bloody hell. Didn’t know why I did that, seeing as my [...]
Injuries, Death, and Other Unfortunate Mishaps
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged clumsiness, death, injuries, luck, work on May 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I was coming back up to my desk after a trot around the school (clearing my head of the marking) when another one of my little accidents occur. There’s this red roll-y chair with slippery wheels that my butt has been resting on these past 2 terms. So like any mind-fucked butthead (I’m kinda pissed [...]
White Horses and Lamborghinis
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged days of yore, fantasies, romanticism on May 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Between the ages of 7 and 12, I went through this phase where my favourite animal was the horse. was so sad that people invented the car and bus because I could never do the Enid Blyton thing and trot to school on a sweet black pony. But of course, ponies were never good enough [...]
I Wanted Boots But Got Leg of Lamb Instead
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged machines, morning ramblings, work on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The mornings are always the same. Come in early, fiddle around on the computer a bit. Watch other people walk past my desk and to the toilet. People, please be careful when you walk to the toilet. You tend to reveal more than you realise. A charge past me usually indicates that there’s a rocket [...]
