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About Bach and Keats - Thinking about the scene early in the movie TΓ‘r, where the ghastly Juilliard student Max announces that because he’s a pansexual BIPOC with an overactive...13 hours ago
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Damn It, Who Keeps Sending Me Guitars - Specifically in this case a Tenor Baritone guitar? I mean, I already have a tenor guitar (more than one), and I have a baritone guitar too. Why would I nee...1 day ago
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It's been a minute - I'm still not quite right yet, so here's a cartoon I nicked from our pal, Bob! And here's one from a Dodgers fan: The caption read, "So what do we d...1 day ago
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No! Yes! No! D’oh! - D’oh indeed. E@L’s first work trip was proposed for Monday to Friday next week. The Victorian rep who would be supporting the Sydney apps lady is going to...3 weeks ago
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Where does Lee Hsien Loong stand on the future of 38 Oxley Road as the government revisits the issue? - With Lee Hsien Loong no longer Prime Minister, his current stance on demolishing 38 Oxley Road is unclear. The historic property, subject of past family ...3 weeks ago
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Cluedo – A Family Photo Shoot - and Episode 214 of Understanding Photography with Kim Ayres - I was once asked by a business client if I could do a photo shoot of her with her husband and 2 kids. "Could you make us look like a *normal* family?" sh...3 weeks ago
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Macro Views Of various Writing Instruments - Dark Roasted Blend Sorry about the sound πππ7 months ago
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All masked up - Well, Hong Kong has finally abandoned the requirement to wear masks. You may remember that people in Hong Kong started wearing masks back in January 2020, ...1 year ago
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TV stuff - "The sea was angry that day my friends. Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli." - *George Costanza.* There's something irresistibly addictive...1 year ago
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Last Will And Testicle - Why has Old Knudsen vanished from the face of the Earth? What has he been up to? Has his rash cleared up yet? What the fuck happened to Game of thrones ...4 years ago
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City Guide: Things to Do and avoid in Lhasa, Tibet - Why visit Lhasa? Lhasa ΰ½£ྷ་ས་, literally the “Place of the Gods,” is the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, is located in the southeast of Tibet, and...4 years ago
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Need a Flashlight in Thailand? - It’s a good idea to have a flashlight or headlamp with you on vacation as you can use it walking around at night from your car to your room or on the beach...5 years ago
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Nuance - Someone on my FB feed shared this post today: I had two reactions to this. Interestingly, they are contradictory to each other. My first reaction was a hea...5 years ago
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Later Gator - Well, it's been a long time coming. I start and stop. I read more than I write. The truth is, what began as a creative outlet has become a place to whi...5 years ago
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Cantonese speech and food in Kuala Lumpur: culture shock - The photo above is of Kuala Lumpur all dressed up to celebrate Merdeka Day. The Federation of Malaya gained its independence on 31 August 1957. That was al...5 years ago
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A little bit of shopping at Valentino - It was the holidays. I got bored at home and there was nothing much I could do. I couldn't reorganize my makeup, or my ward-room (Its a room converted to a...6 years ago
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Clearing Up - A Story. - His hair is yet another shade closer to white, and there’s a frailty that wasn’t there in the Autumn. It’s the 28thApril, the time for planting, and for...6 years ago
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So Long and Thanks For All the Fish - It’s renewal time for this site and I don’t think I’m going to do it. In case you didn’t notice, I almost never post anything here any more (my last upda...8 years ago
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2011 - 2015 : A Chronology of Authoritarian Rule in Singapore - *Apr/May 2011 (General Elections):* A year before elections, PM Lee Hsien Loong announced a "24-hour cooling-off" before polling day, stating that no ele...9 years ago
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Th-th-th-that’s All Folks! - My new blog, Spike In Manila, is now up and running. There’s still a bit of work to do to get things working correctly, not to mention the overall look of ...9 years ago
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Obama’s comments on the Great Barrier Reef - In the last few days I’ve carefully read comments emanating from the Coalition government that suggested an undue intervention in Australian politics by Pr...9 years ago
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It never happened;-)
who died?
something happened?
1989?
xoxo
Sav: you people! I really have to be serious about this. Today is the 20th anniversary...
In HK I had dinner with an American journo who had been arrested during the Democracy uprising - he was bashed and tortured. Fifteen years later he still couldn't sit still for more than 5 minutes a time because of damage to his lower back. There's the big picture and there's the hundred of thousands of little details.
I remember it well. I lived in Lockhart Rd and joined the million march - it was very emotional and foreigner or Chinese it didn't really matter. Everyone was family for that day.
Er...send in the tank division? :D
There was such a panic in HK - everyone thought the Chinese would roll their into into Mongkok they way they into Tiananmen Square. It was a tangible fear, I felt it still when I arrivd only 9 months after The Handover. Chris Patten had such trouble negotiating with the Chinese as well, he was well aware what cold-blooded murderers they are/were, and it made everyone really nervous about what woudl happen. The protests in HK still go on, I think because of this genuinely felt concern/paranoia.
i am sorry, sugar. i didn't mean to make light of the day. one day we'll sit on a veranda and tell you some stories. xoxox
Sav: you are always forgiven, never forgotten. With a nice bottle of red and some slow Georgia traffic up the tree-lined avenue... and while we sit there, we'll discuss how to spell 'verandah'. ;-)
my favorite pedagogue, i would adore discussing the vagaries of spelling that word with you.
xoxoxo
Sav: are you saying I'm an idealogical paedagogue? Well I am not averse to the dropping of the first hemi-vowel in these Greek daigraphs. "Economy" instead of "oeconomy" for example. On the other side of the coin, I still tend to call my gullet an oesophagus. Nevermind, I am strictly pro-fetus and anti-foetus! (But of course pro-choice, yet anti death penalty!)
i laughed out loud as i read this, sugar! be glad that i am happily married because if i were not, i would propose marriage to you! ;~D xoxo
Sav: yeah, yeah, get in the queue... I've had these promises from women UP TO HERE! (hand chops throat)
(apologies for typing "daigraph" instead of "diagraph" - that was a 'CabMerlot typo'.)
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