piss off beggars

hallowe'en is a crap pagan festival. so far i have ignored three lots of trickle treaters (that's a 200% increase on last year) and that's what my students call it. they go out begging and can't even get the name correct. go away!

if it aint broke...

...you really shouldn't try to fix it. at least they didn't sanitise the words which people are wont to do. i'm talking about the classic song convoy. someone re-did it and if you want to download it on to your ipod then that's the one you're stuck with. and it's just not the same. just like the wainui tip.

also. you know you're desperate when you resort to buying coffee from a petrol station. it's only one step up from the stuff mrs miggins used to serve, but at least it's not as dire as starbucks.

some dickhead tried to push in front of me in line just before. i asserted myself. he won't try to do that again. stupid man.

tomorrow is a public holiday. the last one before christmas. i'm not going to do any work tomorrow. i'm going to catch up on my reading. and non-academic texts too.

p.s. pig pen this here's the rubber duck and i'm about to put the hammer down...

it's vegemite...but not as we know it

so they decided to bring out a new version of our favourite spread and for some stupid reason they decided to call it iSnack2.0. come on. who in their right mind is gonna buy that shit? so then after the protests they decided to call it cheesybite which is far more sensible. they couldn't call it cheesymite cos the rock had already commandeered that name. but those buggers decided to addict us to those 'limited edition' chips and then rip them out from under us. bastards.
and why would you add cheese to it when you can put the real stuff there yourself? vegemite is supposed to sit in your cupboard for ever and still be edible...i believe this new stuff expires after a few weeks...laziness...and just not cricket.

i had something else to say now...but it seems i have forgotten it...when i remember i will add it later as an edit. that will probably happen as soon as i log off from here.

quote of the day...

miss, stop doing your nails and get back here...we've worked out the answer.

cheeky shits.

that was my holiday...

i'm home now. what are my enduring memories?

singapore is flat, hot and has tonnes of tall buildings. it is not very green but it is trying to be. it has many different cultures there. there is a huge disparity between the haves and the have nots.

melaka (malacca to us english speakers) is interesting too. crowded and not as developed as where i live. hot, thought the sunburn is fading dammit. smelly, but i'm sure there are similar and worse smells elsewhere (but they soon pass...however the generator is currently eternal). lots of influences. and dirt cheap. 5 star hotel for 250 ringgit?(NZ$100)

most enduring memory? welcome to malaysia...here is my cock. when we first went exploring in melaka we went up this back street cos we could see a mosque dome there (i tried to insert the pic of it here but i don't know how to do that cos it hasn't appeared. i shall have to do some research)...anyway...she was taking pics and i was looking around. there was this dude on a scooter which seemed to be the predominant form of transport there cos there appeared be no road rules and no money and he was an interesting character. let me just say he appeared to be enjoying himself at our expense.
and i think i am a magnet for this kind of behaviour cos i saw it in LA as well. and on another note that is completely away from this entry. who is the idiot that invented over-write, and why do I keep hitting it, and how come I never remember how to turn the bastard off?

live long and prosper…until next time…

singapore is hot

man it's hot here. and it's muggy. and the buildings are really tall. and beer is really expensive, well all alcohol is. consequently they don't have a booze culture like we do cos a cheap bottle of plonk costs $25. they had a bottle of cloudy bay on sale at a restaurant i was at last night for $96.

today i went to the beach. it was lovely there. we had a much cooler day temperature wise which was nice. there was all sorts of plastic floating past in the water which was lovely and brown. i still went in though...up to mid calf. just to feel what it was like. it wasn't as warm as i thought it might be. there were hundreds of ships moored off the beach where i was, just waiting to get into the port.

yesterday i went to changi to the war memoral. that was interesting. i was a little disappointed that none of the prison camp was still standing. seems that the policy here is stuff history, knock it all down so we can build more high rises. this island can fit into lake taupo yet 5 million people live on it. consequently there are tall buildings everywhere. it would be great to be a crane company owner here because they are everywhere. i also went to orchard road to see all the shops. i saw watches that were worth more than my house. they were vulgar by the way. went to raffles to have a beer ($20) and eat peanuts then throw them on the floor. i found that a little hard to do. had dinner at clark quay and saw several lady-boys. two were quite attractive, the third looked like a boy in a wig, and not a very good wig at that. i think you'd have to have several singapore slings inside you to even contemplate going there. speaking of singapore slings i had one of those...when in rome and all...and it was palatible (or is that palatable? i'm sure someone will tell me). also went across to pulau ubin and back. and also because it was mooncake festival a few of fiona's mates and their kids got together and we walked around the block carrying lanterns. fiona thought it was funny to get me a noisy lantern that when i turned it on would attract all the children. so i spent the time surrounded by under 6s.

tomorrow i'm off to malacca so i can collect another stamp in my passport.

no pics sorry. fiona took some so i may find the time and the expertise to load some later.

and don't believe what they say...singapore is just as filthy as the rest of the world.