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Camping is a great way for children to appreciate and enjoy the great outdoors by taking part in activities that bring you together as a family. Here are some tips to help you plan a fun camping trip and ensure that everybody stays safe.
Finding a Family-Friendly Camp Site
Although many campsites are child friendly, not all will meet your specific needs. Find a camp site that has good reviews for family-friendliness and that fulfils all of your requirements. Coolcamping.com is a great place to start, offering sites that only accept tents and campervans, and which offer separate camping areas for families. With generous pitches your family can enjoy the space without feeling like they're camping on top of each other. There are sites that offer hot showers all day, which is a must for many families with young children, and grounds which are in a great location for walking and cycling activities.
Packing for Children
Making sure that you've packed the essentials will help your camping experience run smoothly. Here is a list to help you pack successfully for a camping trip with young children and babies.
- Layers for colder weather
- Woolly / Sun hats, depending on the forecast
- Thermal wear to keep children and babies warm
- A sling carrier for babies
- Swim suits and life jackets, if appropriate
- Nightlights and some glow sticks to keep an eye on your adventurous children
- Travel beds and bassinets for colder evenings inside a tent
- A training potty if one is still needed
- A family cutlery set, preferably one that's specially designed for camping
- Easy meals that don't need to be cooked in case rain prevents a campfire
- A drinks cooler
- A booster with a tray for meal time with a baby
- A thermos to keep a warm feeding bottle at the ready
- Buckets and spades, fishing nets and other toys/tools for fun activities
- A pop-up beach shelter or canopy for relaxing in the shade
- Mosquito repellent
- Tissues and wet wipes
- Anti-itch and antiseptic creams for bites, cuts or rashes
- A first aid kit, including plasters and bandages
- Children's antihistamine for any allergic reactions or hay fever (make sure you ask your GP or pharmacist for advice on dosage and side effects).
- Backpacks for activities away from the site
Making Your Camp Site Safer for Children
Camping is a great way to have some family fun, but with it come a number of risks including trip hazards from cables and scolds from campfires. Here are some ways to make your campsite safer for children.
- Make the tension cables on your tent more noticeable by marking them out with visible material, such as coloured flags and tinfoil, or by choosing cables in a colour that contrasts with the colour of the ground.
- Keep a bucket of water near any lit fires and make sure that children don't go too close to any open flames. Avoid activities that require a lot of movement if there is a campfire nearby.
- Mark off any areas that pose a significant risk to children with visible ropes, such as areas with poisonous plants or dangerous terrain.
- Mark out nearby holes and dips with flags or noticeable poles.
Camping Games and Activities
Here are some ways to encourage young children to embrace the outdoors by keeping them entertained with fun games and activities.
Scavenger Hunt
Have your children collect items such as pine-cones, shells, flowers of particular colours, feathers and leaves. Create a checklist and have them compete to be the first to find all of the items.
Campfire Story Game
Gather round the fire and take it in turns to come up with one sentence that progresses a story. Children get very creative and will have a lot of fun using their imagination to conjure up some great tales.
Nature Trail
Stretch your legs and get some fresh air by heading out onto a nature trail. Using a guidebook create a guessing game to play with your children. They can have some competitive fun and learn about the different wildlife around them.

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Charging an EV
Charging an EV is as easy as charging a phone – you just plug it in.
You can charge inside or outside, in any weather, so long as all equipment is designed for use in New Zealand and for the conditions in which it will be used.
Charging at home
Charging an EV at home overnight is the equivalent of buying petrol at 30c per litre*.
Some power companies offer special rates for EV owners.
* Estimate based on a residential off-peak charge rate and will vary.
?Learn more about electric vehicle running costs
Portable 3-pin charging cable
This plugs into a standard household power point and is typically supplied with your EV when you buy it.?
It can be called an in-cable control and protection device (IC-CPD).
Wall-mounted charging unit
A dedicated wall-mounted AC charging unit is great to have at home or work. They provide more safety than a regular charging cable and can charge faster, yet they're easier on the battery than fast (DC) charging.
Some devices have timers to make off-peak charging easy. They may display information and allow you to control charging with a smartphone.?
To charge an EV safely
- Never use extension cables.
- Never take a cable across a footpath to charge.
- Do not use devices to connect the charging cable to the power supply (such as multi-boxes, double plugs or travel plugs).
- You can use an adaptor to connect the charging cable to the car, provided it is confirmed for use by the manufacturers of the vehicle and the cable.
- Never use modified charging equipment such as overseas equipment that has been fitted with a New Zealand plug. Never use damaged or faulty charging equipment. Have it checked by the manufacturer.
Equipment safety checks
When buying an EV, including a used import, you should only be supplied with charging equipment (such as cables) designed for use in New Zealand.
Do not use equipment that doesn't display a voltage range that includes 230 V, doesn't have a New Zealand plug, or has been modified (even to fit a New Zealand plug). It isn't suitable for New Zealand's electricity supply. Even if it appears to work, you can't be sure the in-cable safety device will work when it needs to.
Some cables come with an industrial or caravan plug that allows faster charging. These require an electrician to install a special wall power point.
When buying a charging cable or wall-mounted charging unit, or purchasing an EV with a charging cable included, ask the seller for a signed copy of a Supplier Declaration of Conformity. This declaration shows the unit has been tested and meets electrical safety standards.
Wall-mounted charging units must be installed by a registered electrician who should:
- install a separate sub-circuit.
- make sure the cable to the socket is capable of supplying the power that the unit can deliver. A circuit capable of supplying 32 Amps will futureproof the installation.
- install a Type B RCD.
- be able to confirm the charging equipment has a Supplier Declaration of Conformity to show the unit has been tested and meets electrical safety law.
Charging out and about
There are two types of public charging stations - fast (DC) and slow (AC).
Fast chargers
Fast chargers help you drive beyond your EV's battery capacity in one go. They can add 100km of range to the battery in 20-30 minutes. They typically cost about $10 per 100km.
Companies installing fast charging stations include local electricity networks, ChargeNet and Chargemaster. To access a fast charging network you generally need to create an account online first.
- All fast charge stations have tethered CHAdeMO and/or CCS Type 2 cables so you don't need to bring one.
- Sign-up to a fast charging network for easy billing and payment.
- It's better for your battery to fast charge occasionally rather than frequently.
- The last 20% of the battery takes longer to charge – that's why fast chargers have an option to charge only to 80%.
- Most pure EVs can fast charge, but many plug-in hybrid EVs cannot.
Slow chargers
Slow chargers let you top up your EV while you do something else. You often find them at places such as shops, hotels and tourist attractions.
Charging is usually free and can take several hours.
You usually need to bring your own supply lead to use this type of charger.
How to find a charger
Websites and apps show the locations of public chargers, whether they're fast or slow, if they're in working order and what type of connectors or sockets are provided or required.?
Visit these websites to find out more
More about charging
How to find a public charger
Safely charging your EV at home?– Worksafe website
National guidance for public EV charging infrastructure – NZTA website


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Dr. Bond just forwarded this to me:
The TimesLeader of Wilkes-Barre, PA has published an article on the return of the suppressed Society of St. John.
Sad to say, this secular newspaper has done more than the Diocese of Scranton to expose the SSJ. Mark Guydish, whose past articles helped to inform the public about the SSJ, has evidently made a serious investigation into their reappearance. The Diocese of Scranton, however, wants to pretend the SSJ scandal never happened. Consider the following statement made by the spokesman for the Diocese of Scranton concerning the SSJ's latest effort to reinvent itself:
"Bishop Martino suppressed the Society of St. John in November 2004. Since that time, he has been taking all appropriate steps open to him under the Code of Canon Law to deal with the priests of the extinguished Society. The Diocese has no further comment on this matter."
What exactly are the "appropriate steps" that Bishop Martino has taken? Why have the priests of the suppressed SSJ been allowed to wander here, there and everywhere with no sanctions being brought against them? How can Carlos Urrutigoity and Eric Ensey still be priests? How can the SSJ be permitted to raise money in the Church's name? Why does the Diocese of Scranton always seem to be drowning in a canonical glass of water?
At the very least, the Diocese of Scranton must tell the public where the SSJ priests are and what their status is. After all, a letter posted on the SSJ's new website claims that the SSJ is now operating under the authority of a bishop in Paraguay. (See http://www.ssjohn.org/documents/pdf/060101_Letter.pdf.) Does the Diocese of Scranton have nothing to say about this latest fraudulent claim? And is the Diocese of Scranton prepared to spend more money to settle more lawsuits after the SSJ priests homosexually abuse more boys?
Pax vobiscum,
Dr. Jeffrey M. Bond


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Spring is here, everyone! Spring means…
cheap peonies from Trader Joe's, pretty pastel nail polish, Summer vacation planning, rompers (how awkward are they in public restrooms? Good god.), and dress stalking at Anthro.
Pretty dresses might mean flashing a little harmless cleavage. Maybe showing a little back or leg or whatever else you've been covering up all winter.
That's why an inexpensive, do-it-in-five-minutes, homemade body scrub is kind of a no brainer, right?
Let's get schmexy!!
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Here's an easy and low-cost way to organize your yard tools! Simply mount an upcycled pallet on your wall and place the your tools inside it. The front surface of the pallet also has plenty of room to hang additional tools. This is organization and convenience!
o Pallet
o Some scrap 2x4s
o Wood screws
Recommended Tools:
o Tape measure
o Stud finder
o Saw
o Drill
First, find your wall space and choose a pallet.
Instead of mounting my pallet directly to the wall, I chose to first mount three 2x4s, making sure that they would run exactly where the rear pallet planks would but up against them. Make sure you locate studs, then screw your 2x4s to the wall. This way you can screw the pallet to the 2x4s exactly how you want instead of the drywall, thus not having to worry about studs.
I filled up the inside of the upcycled pallet with my long-handled tools such as rakes, brooms and shovels. You can add lots of smaller tools to the front of the pallet by hanging them on wood screws.
Tools like axes, hedge trimmers, and tree pruners can be displayed nicely for easy access on the front of your pallet. I even found some room for our kiddie tools too.
That's it! This is an easy DIY project and great space saver. Tell us in the comments if you mounted your own upcycled pallet for yard tool storage!
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Should I Invest in a Backup Generator for My Home?September 13, 2019
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Clare travel to Wexford this Sunday as they bid to pick up more vital points in their Ladies National Football League Division Two campaign.
A storming first-half performance almost saw the Banner off to the perfect start against Kerry last weekend, before a late rally from the Kingdom saw them take a share of the spoils.
Clare management and players have made no secret of their ambition to reach the semi-finals of this year's league, and a point against one of the favourites to win the title outright will do their chances no harm at all.
Clare boss James Murrihy admits while they are delighted to have picked up their first point, it's a bittersweet feeling that it wasn't more.
"On one hand we gained a point but on the other you could say that we lost two. The overriding feeling is that we would have asked the girl for work-rate and to have a good attitude heading into the game so they could deliver the right performance, and they did that so we couldn't have asked more of them. We were calm at half-time after leading by eight points, but we had actually started slow. We were three points down early on but managed to claw it back level before Fidelma got the goal. That opened it up a bit for us and the other goals coming so quickly after that probably rocked Kerry a little bit. They came out after half-time and hit for us for 1-3 unanswered so we did away with the sweeper and went back 15 on 15 and that seemed to work better for us. We got ourselves back into the game and Laurie's goal looked to have settled us but unfortunately we just couldn't see it out" he said.
With 5 senior teams among the 7 that Clare will face in this year's campaign, many pundits would have tipped Kerry to leave west Clare with all three points from Sunday's game. Murrihy says it might be a valuable point when the final standings are settled.
"You go out to win every game, but if you are to be realistic about it, there are one or two teams in the division who you are not expected to beat. We are taking it one game at a time but we have set a goal of getting to the semi-final. I would like to think that point could be the difference between us and other teams who have a similar target in a few months time" said the Kilmurry Ibrickane man.
Clare now travel to Wexford to face a team who will also be operating at intermediate level when the championship rolls around later this year.There could be a further boost for Clare ahead of this one, as it is hoped star forward Niamh O'Dea will be available after she missed out last weekend due to a hamstring injury. Murrihy is warning that his side need to move on quickly from last weekend's result, and build on the positivity of it.
He said: "We told the girls after the game that while it was great to get a point out of it, and they will be getting the plaudits, they now have to back it up against a team that is perceived to be at their level. Wexford would be a team that are going to be in the mix for the All-Ireland Intermediate title, so for us to go down there and face them in their own back yard will be a big test for us. If we can come out with all three points from it, it will be a good weekend's work. As a group, we would like to think there will be continuous improvement from all of us as the year goes on with the ultimate aim of building to be right for the summer".
Clare v Wexford gets underway on Sunday in Enniscorthy at 1pm.


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Many companies begin to see the price of a multivendor platform. It enables getting different strategies to your issue and isn't going to put all your eggs in the single vendor's basket.
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Recoverability:This dilemma ought to be requested: "Are you much better capable to get better since you utilize a multi-cloud backup method?" The answer for the majority of businesses isn't any. Applying a single-cloud system offers you just as substantially gain, when heading multi-cloud maybe overcomplicates both the backup and restoration strategies.
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With each individual of those views in mind, what does the future keep for multi-cloud backup?
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Although there's price in multi-cloud backup, I think its long term is going to strictly count on organizational backup strategy rather than just the mere existence of several clouds by itself. Time will convey to, but for now, multi-cloud backup is an choice and never a driver for backup and recovery.
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What's hitting the shelves? Smirnoff fruit cider, Nespresso Cuban coffee, craft soda & energy water
Category : Food & Beverage
Smirnoff has announced its entry into the growing fruit cider category, while Nespresso is launching the first Cuban coffee to be sold in the US for more than 50 years. From craft soda to whisky and rum, here are some of the beverage launches hitting the shelves this month.


text: Jo from the Young Carers asked me whether I could create 4 pop-up pictures of young people with different caring responsibilities for their stand in the County Council tent at the Norfolk Show. I could make them however I wanted - photographs, clipart, paintings. The idea is young people visiting the stand will throw counters into a dish in front of the picture that best represents their situation. I decided to commission international artist Eloise O'Hare to work with me on the project and spent several days in her garden enjoying masterclass art lessons, helping her paint in blocks of colour and using the jigsaw and sanding. Here's a pic of a young carer responsible for managing her dad's medication. She looks sweet, strong & very capable. Perfect.


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Friday, April 9, 2010
World War II is over - next up, the Vitenam War
Technically, we're dealing with the Vietnamese Conflict, not the Vietnam War. Hopefully, all our Vietnamese Conflict headings are now updated - I was going to check, but I seem to be having problems accessing the library's website. More than likely I'll have some manual cleanup to do, though. World War II took more manual cleanup than I expected. Just a few examples - headings in which the war started in 1930 or 1936 (typos, don't you love them?), and an instance where the war was a geographic subject heading (which would mean World War II was a place, not an event - an interesting idea for, say, a writer to play around with, but not something that has any place in our catalog).
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Joshi wins strokeplay in All India Amateur golfBy IANS
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
BANGALORE - Overnight leader Khalin Joshi won the 36-hole strokeplay section of the All India Amateur Golf Championships here Wednesday.
Joshi,18, added a 73 despite a last hole bogey. Abhijit Chadha birdied the 16th and 17th but still fell one short and totaled 142 against Joshis 141. C.G.Somiah (69-73) totaled 142.
The top 32 players qualified for the Matchplay, which begins Thursday.
Abhinav Lohan carded a 72 to his first round 75 to finish at 147 in fourth place.
Defending champion S.Chikkrangappa shot 76 for a total of 150 and ended in a tie for sixth, that included Honey Baisoya.
In the International Match India "A" represented by Asian Games stars Chadha and Lohan won the title with 289.
In the first round of matchplay, Khalin will meet Saqib and Lohan will take on Bhanu Pratap. Chadha meets Prince Katojia.


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Have you ever created a PowerPoint Presentation only to face the annoying predicament of not having access to a computer or laptop to show your audience? Don't worry it has happened to the best of us and the greatest solution I found was to burn your PowerPoint files on DVD, that way you can easily store and share them with anyone, as almost everyone has access to a TV and DVD Player these days. So if you wish to learn how to convert PowerPoint Files to DVD and be able to "Put PowerPoint on TV" then continue reading as I will show you a couple of methods to carry out the procedure.
I have conducted a fair bit of research on this topic, as I faced this problem a while back, and after surfing the net for hours I finally found a couple of methods that allow you to Convert PowerPoint presentations to DVD easily.
The first way to convert PPT Files To DVD is to use a screen capture software. One of the best software's to carry out this procedure would be Camtasia Studio, you would first have to capture the screen while the slideshow is playing and once it is done you will get a video file such a AVI or WMV. You then convert this file into DVD format and use a burning tool Such as Nero to burn the video onto a DVD Disc. The only problem with this procedure is that you would have to obtain two pieces of software ( e.g. Camtasia and Nero also Camtasia is quite expensive) and also when you burn the Presentation onto DVD you cannot control the presentation by a remote control for each slide, You can Only watch it as a full movie. Not to mention if you are new to using Camtasia Studio then it can be a fairly tricky and complicated procedure.
The other way to Convert and Burn PowerPoint Presentation onto DVD would be to use a professional PowerPoint to DVD converter software. These programs are specifically designed to convert PPT Files into DVD format and they have a built in burning tool that allows you to burn them onto DVD aswell. The whole procedure can be carried out by simply clicking a few buttons and then sitting back and letting the software do the rest.
The software that I recommend and use is, Wondershare PPT2DVD, it offers a Free Download, and is one the first and best PPT To DVD Converter software around. The great thing about the software is that it can perfectly convert PowerPoint presentations to DVD without losing the animations or transitions. Furthermore you can control each slide when you play it on TV with a remote, just like you were watching it in PowerPoint.
Therefore for anyone out there who wants to Convert PowerPoint Files to DVD you can either use the screen capture method by using Camtasia and then Nero to burn the DVD. Or if you really want keep your original creation, and be able to Put the PowerPoint Presentation on TV without losing any animations and transitions and also control the slides, then get a hold of Wondershare PPT2DVD. It is free to download, and will convert and burn your PowerPoint Files onto DVD within minutes. Check out the link below for detailed instructions on how to use the software…
Looking To convert PowerPoint Presentations To DVD? All you need to do is get a Hold of the Right Tools and it can be done quite easily; learn more on how to Convert PowerPoint To DVD. One particular tool that I use to convert and burn PPT Files To DVD is Wondershare PPT2DVD (Free Download), it allows you to Convert PowerPoint to dynamic video rather than a series of static images; and also Retain all animations, sounds, video clips, timings and even internal hyperlinks.
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- The areas that will have the biggest impact on practice and be challenging to implement
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Polyacrylamide or poly(1-carbamoylethylene)) is a polymer (-CH2CHCONH2-) formed from acrylamide subunits. It can be synthesized as a simple linear-chain structure or cross-linked, typically using N,N'-methylenebisacrylamide. Polyacrylamide is not toxic. In the cross-linked form, the possibility of the monomer being present is reduced even further. It is highly water-absorbent, forming a soft gel when hydrated, used in such applications as polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and in manufacturing soft contact lenses. In the straight-chain form, it is also used as a thickener and suspending agent. More recently, it has been used as a subdermal filler for aesthetic facial surgery.
One of the largest uses for polyacrylamide is to flocculate solids in a liquid. This process applies to water treatment, and processes like paper making. Polyacrylamide can be supplied in a powder or liquid form, with the liquid form being subcategorized as solution and emulsion polymer. Even though these products are often called 'polyacrylamide', many are actually copolymers of acrylamide and one or more other chemical species, such as an acrylic acid or a salt thereof. The main consequence of this is to give the 'modified' polymer a particular ionic character.
Another common use of polyacrylamide and its derivatives is in subsurface applications such as Enhanced Oil Recovery. High viscosity aqueous solutions can be generated with low concentrations of polyacrylamide polymers, and these can be injected to improve the economics of conventional waterflooding.
It has also been advertised as a soil conditioner called Krilium by Monsanto Company in the 1950s and today "MP", which is stated to be a "unique formulation of PAM (water-soluble polyacrylamide)". It is often used for horticultural and agricultural use under trade names such as Broadleaf P4, Swell-Gel and so on. The anionic form of cross-linked polyacrylamide is frequently used as a soil conditioner on farm land and construction sites for erosion control, in order to protect the water quality of nearby rivers and streams.
The polymer is also used to make Gro-Beast toys, which expand when placed in water, such as the Test Tube Aliens. Similarly, the absorbent properties of one of its copolymers can be utilized as an additive in body-powder.
The ionic form of polyacrylamide has found an important role in the potable water treatment industry. Trivalent metal salts like ferric chloride andaluminium chloride are bridged by the long polymer chains of polyacrylamide. This results in significant enhancement of the flocculation rate. This allowswater treatment plants to greatly improve the removal of total organic content (TOC) from raw water.
Polyacrylamide is often used in molecular biology applications as a medium for electrophoresis of proteins and nucleic acids in a technique known as PAGE.
It was also used in the synthesis of the first Boger fluid.


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New Delhi: Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma left for Switzerland in the intervening night of Thursday-Friday, as speculation about a possible 'Virushka' wedding in Italy reached fever pitch.
Anushka boarded her Swiss Airways flight in Mumbai, and her beau Virat left from Delhi. The India captain reached Delhi airport at around 11.30 pm, and his flight took off at 2.45 am.
Virat refused to let security personnel take pictures with him. There's no official confirmation from the couple yet – but if reports are to be believed, the Virat-Anushka wedding is all set to happen this weekend in Italy.
The presence of Anushka's family at Mumbai airport on Thursday further fueled speculation of an impending shaadi. Her father Ajay Kumar, mother Ashima and elder brother Karnesh all left from the airport.
Meanwhile, sources say Virat Kohli's family and close friends have already booked their tickets to the Italian city of Milan. What's more, his former coach Rajkumar Sharma excused himself from a crucial match on December 7


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Top Gear
Now I has been around for a while. No, not round, *A*round. OK, maybe just round as well.
One of my first memories is that of being in a car and turning into the street of the house in which I would grow up. If my memory serves me right (what were we talking about?) I was in the back seat, either that or "in the back" behind the back seat, in the luggage space of our blue Hillman Hunter (sorry Milos, no relation), similar to the one below, but an Estate (wagon). Hence the child accessible rear space. I used to love it back there. A playroom as we drove! Before mum told me off (crazy woman thought it was unsafe!) and I had to crawl forward to the rear seat, or even over again to the front seat. There, I'd put my head in mum's lap as she drove and I'd go to sleep. Snug, safe. Those were the days of wonder and innocence.
But one thing troubled me about driving with mum from Colac, or from Melbourne, back home. How could she stay awake for over an hour? It was beyond me. My sister and I counted the lines whisping underneath us (or so it seemed – I hope mum wasn't driving in the middle of the road!) one whisp, two whisp, three whisp, bored. Asleep in three minutes. Maybe someone else came in magically and drove for her, maybe there was an auto-pilot that only came on when I was asleep… I'd wake up and we'd be home, turning up the drive.
The car, back to the car, would have been a 1956 vintage, or maybe an earlier model. My father died in 1957 and maybe it was his car. Was it? [Maybe my sister will correct me on this. ADD: No, mum bought it when she came back to Colac – Dad worked and died in Shepparton]
I have always held this memory precious as one of three that I recollect from when I was aged three years old. The other two are not relevant here (though I do miss when our pretty young maid used to bathe me so gently, so slowly and so comprehensively.*)
OK then, the real second: Grandmas's birthday was one day before mine, and there was an upsurge of disappointment I felt when the penny dropped that this big family gathering at my Uncle Ed's was for her, not me. For my birthday I received a plastic pencil holder, full of colored pencils, that was shaped like a pencil. I recall holding it, and stifling a sob. I recall the emotion as vividly as I recall the party.
Third: looking at a dark brick house, up near Geelong College primary school, that I think Mum was considering buying before the house in the other street, (car, corner, remember)? This was an emotionally neutral occasion, thankfully.
Mum was changing gear as we turned the corner. I can see the car from the outside, in a wide-view, turning past the empty block on one corner and the Smith's (not that name but I can't remember) on the other. How can I have seen this view and remember it so vividly when all the while I was in the car? Spooky mystic weird. It's a mystery.
Since that time I have been in many, many vehicles. I remember being driven to the Saturday morning Legacy children's group in Mr Grenville (name? Paula help me out, again)'s Mercedes. His model had a speedometer like a barber's pole – weird, eh? It was the first car with automatic transmission I had been in. I was maybe six or seven. I was cheeky, I was restless, I was who I am now, only more-so (as I have said before.)
All the other cars mum owned (a 1966 Holden HR, registration JPZ-367, a 1972 Datsun 180B – second hand) or any that my older sister owned (can't remember the makes, but one of them was so light we nearly got blown off the West-Gate Bridge when I borrowed it one time [or was she driving?] – another time we were stoned/pissed and got pulled over by the police, and I talked my way out of it, amazing since I could hardly stand up [don't tell her OK?]) when I was growing up (to the point of getting married, the growing up stopped) were manual transmissions.
Mum gave me the HR when I left school so I could drive to LaTrobe Uni (and to the beach), and she kept the 180B (which was the car I did my license test in). I promptly lost my license for speeding in the HR two months later. I used to run out of petrol all the time too. I once put 42c of petrol in and expected to get to Bell's Beach and back… Idiot.
The first car I bought myself was after I was married (or just before). It was a Triumph TC2000. It only broke down four times a month. The sump cover was held on with three bolts (one stripped) and a mess of gasket-goo rather than four bolts. It had a nice 4-gear stick-shit in the centre console and was great fun to drive. Once, early on, the transmission seized in the middle of an intersection in Torquay. I had gone surfing. The car just froze and people started tooting. I tried to push it out of the intersection, but it wouldn't move, downhill even. It wouldn't come out of second gear and the wheels wouldn't turn. The road was semi-blocked by my car, which had a surfboard sticking out the window, until a tow-truck from an RACV garage came, an hour later and took it away.
We figured that the sales-yard had used the old trick of putting banana skins into the gear-box to silence the noise of wear.
It was not a station-wagon, though there was one in the yard but that one was beyond my meagre loan acceptance earnings. I have beautiful pictures of No1 son, then a curly-haired, rosy cheeked, completely lovable cherub of three himself, standing in the open rear trunk of this car. Why? I think we were packing for a picnic or unpacking from one, and had put him in there to keep him out from under our feet for a while. So funny. Note, it was not a station-wagon but still here is evidence of an hereditary need to get "in the back".
Eventually all the breakdowns were getting too much for us and we had to get rid of it – note the wood panelling the doors! – before it drove us (ha ha) broker than what we were.
The next one that came was a Chrysler Sigma; yes, a station wagon (estate). And a big drop back in social status. Most of this model were branded Mitsubishi as they bought Chrysler out at about this time. It was Japanese car under the bonnet anyway. It turned out to be an ex-rental and I determined that the yard had wound back the mileage, as the service manual showed it had had its 30,000 km service while the clock read only 26,000km. I took photos of this. I got $400 bucks off (about 5% of the purchase price) when I threatened to take them to some authority or other and sue the bums. That was the first time I sold my soul, btw.
Then over a few years (maybe eight) as the Sigma started to fall apart, I sensed the embarrassment No1 son was feeling whenever I parked next to the Mercs and Beemers and Land Cruisers as I dropped him off at college. So I dumped it for next to nothing and went for a Holden/GM Berlina (the 5 litre V8 of course) – again a station wagon (notice the melancholy search for the warmth of love, the reassurance of having a mother [Dad had died, remember], of not being ignored as kid, of moving away to Geelong from those horrible people who hurt my feelings in Colac – as represented by my love of station-wagons. The fact that I could put my surfboards AND my golf clubs "in the back" had nothing to do with it) but this had an automatic transmission. I bought it at a big, reputable dealer this time. I was told it was an ex-rental. I was told the rear-end – the differential (another long story) – needed work. I was told that the electronic drive for the rear-left window was not going working. But at least it was not falling apart and it was presentable enough at school. This beast took me up and down from Melbourne to Sydney many a time after I had run away from home at 38 and had moved up there to work at Westmead Hospital.
No, I didn't ever crash – I chose that photo because it was the same colour (white) and everything!
Once, on a holiday to Ireland, way before this car (was it late 1983 early 84?) we rented a car. There were five of us crammed into one the smallest cars in the world at that time (model?), even though we had ordered a medium sized vehicle. Another fucking shyster. As I was driving around, occasionally I would have to drop a gear, back into 3rd, say, whenever a leprechaun or a whiskey distillery jumped out in front of us. But sometimes, only sometimes, the car would unexpectedly lurch down, the engines would rumble instead of whine and the RPMs would DROP significantly. WTF? My father-in-law accused me of fucking up the gears, riding the clutch or something, basically calling me a bad driver – even though he was a mad dangerous skill-less killer himself behind the wheel. Then it happened to him and he realized something other than MY clutch-work was amiss!
We had been told (and it was etched into the gear-stick! and in the driver's manual) that this car had a transmission with four gears. Guess what? It had an undocumented fifth gear! A fifth gear was a rarity in those days, a new luxury that had trickled down from the big boys. This is why we didn't suspect it straight away. Four gears were new enough! The fifth gear had a lower ratio that, of course, was not meant to be engaged when I was trying to slow down, but rather when I was cruising! My father-in-law failed to apologize to me, btw.
And in my first few years here in Asia, taxis and the people driving me around all had manual transmissions. Then HK taxis went automatic, we guessed it was because so many drivers were fucking up their clutches, riding them up the steep-ish Cotton-Tree Drive towards Mid-levels or up to The Peak. So I moved to Singapore where taxis are still mostly manual. And here the drivers tend to ride the clutch too, but as there no hills in this Euclidean plane (i.e. two dimensional… i.e. flat) city/country, it's not such a big strain on the gear-box…
(Made of candy-floss – will melt and disappear in rain)
Point of excessively long preamble down memory lane:
There is a very large, but finite and countable number of automobile gear changes that I have experienced in my life. Lots. Down – Up. 1>2>3>4>5<4<3<2<1 … Up – Down. Real lots of them. 53 years (nearly 54 – pay attention to FB) of driving or being driven in manual transmission cars. Think about it. So many changes of gears. Sure, sometimes you cruise for miles and miles without a change, but if you're in traffic you change (or you should) as the flow demands (or in an automatic, the car does it for you). There has been a lot of drive chain ratio changes that I have experienced. I'm thinking hundreds of thousands, if not more. Several trillion. Got the point? Let's move on to the punchline.
So, Monday (tonight is Wednesday) the plan is: drinks with Madame Chiang and Indy at a bar in the Esplanade Theatre complex, then I'm gonna be walking over the Helix Bridge to the Elvis Costello concert at the MBS, right? I SMS a taxi with my new Galaxy/Google Singapore Taxi app. Works well, SMS comes, my taxi is on its way…
E@L: The Esplanade.
TaxiDriver: Huh?
E@L: The Esplanade. The theatres.
TaxiDriver: Huh?
E@L: The ESS PLAH NUT.
TaxiDriver: Huh?
E@L: The ESS PLAH NAYDE
TaxiDriver: Huh.
E@L: The ESS PLAR NARD. The Big Durian!
TaxiDriver: Oh, oh, OK. Durian, yes, can … We call that the Esplanade.
E@L: *aaaaarrrgggghhhh*
So we head off.
We start in 2nd gear and in the first 5 metres he has changed up to 3rd. Huh? As we come out of the driveway, he drops back to 2nd, then moves onto the road which requires 3rd obviously. As we putter forwards about 15km/h he goes up to 4th. Then we cruise down a slight incline and he goes down to 3rd, to gear-brake perhaps. He pumps the accelerator a bit, then back to 4th. We approach the intersection at D****** Rd and he pumps again and brakes at the same time, creating an inertia neutral event, but he doesn't quite stop as the traffic comes along. He creeps in with the car in 2nd and as soon as he finds a slot between the oncoming cars he goes to 3rd. Before he straightens the wheel to follow the road he is in 4th. Pump. This is weird.
He drops back to 3rd again. The traffic light ahead is green so he moves up to 4th and down to 3rd again just to be sure. Obviously he is not certain. Pump. Because he shifts up again to 4th, and decides to go back to 3rd. Maybe 4th was better after all. Pump… I KID YOU NOT!
This went on for at least 15mins until I got to the Durian/Esplanade,(near the new Marina Bay Sands). Gear change, pump, gear change, pump. Relentless. At least four to five changes as we went past Chjimes (a small block) at 40km/h – maybe 4 secs.
There is something wrong here. This man has a psychological problem. That is why he was deemed suitable for a career in the taxi driving profession!
He is one of the millions and millions of taxi drivers in Singapore, and Hong Kong to be fair, who are fucking nutters, with ticks and jerks and obsessive-compulsive disorders. One of my friends thought I was joking about this, that I was making it all up. Then one night, as we shared a cab to Clarke Quay, I nudged him to look up – the taxi driver was sweeping his hand back over his greasy hair every five seconds. Sweep. Sweep. Tourrette's.
There's something going on. I was told today that I sound like a conspiracy theorist. There's nothing like the facts – someone IS sending these crazy people to drive me around for a goddamn reason! And it can only be that the GAHMEN tracking my movements, in case I do or say something seditious!
Meanwhile, back to gear changes…
THE NUMBER OF GEAR CHANGES I HAVE EXPERIENCED IN MY LIFE DOUBLED – *AT LEAST* – ON THAT 8km DRIVE ON MONDAY!
Sigh. I kid you not.
* wasn't this a case study from Freud?
Not Self-Aware (I Am a Tourist In My Own Life)
I have real trouble turning off my internal narrator. The enthusiasm of this continuous monologue is what first made me think I should try my pen at writing/blogging. Then I found out most people have a voice inside their heads who comments on the action, that other people have their own internal narrators and that I was not unique after all. How disappointing, I thought it was just me. But no, we all have one.
Except for those people who, as Izzy insists, are Not Self Aware.
Like the guy tonight that everyone in our cheap Outback style Chiang Mai restaurant found out was from Las Vegas. He lives here, we all leanred, but those people he was with before, they were not his FREINDS, they were his NEIGHBOURS. The Vegan guy would not shut-up. He kept talking continuously at indiscreet volumes to the two Thai girls at his table. On and on he goes. "That happened to my mom, who is," he leans forwards and speaks slowly, "EIGHT EE SIX YEARS OLD." They kept eating, not looking at him. Wondering, what the fuck is he yelling at us about? No doubt. He then sends back his steak because it is "a touch more medium than well done. I prefer it more WELL-DONE/medium than medium/well-DONE, as I requested, so could the chef please JUST COOK it a little bitty MORE, thank you sir, I'd appreciate that." The blank-faced waiter nodded and took the meat back to the kitchen, shrugging his shoulders to the chef.
My waiter rolled his eyes. Tourists. Not self aware, as a species.
This guy could not be self-aware as the voice in his head would not be able to get a word in edgewise. I often wonder, are people who talk incessantly like this capable of… like, *contemplating* anything? Can they ever stop… and just… think? Ever? Are they afraid of what their inner narrator might tell them?
I'm trying to get rid of my inner narrator. I was once told he is slowing me down. Then again, other people say that I think too much. I'm not doing any thinking, of course, I'm just listening to the inner narrator. I've been presuming he's been doing the thinking for both if us and therefore knows what he's doing, and ergo facto, so do I.
Perhaps I should study my Eckhart Tollë a little more, eh? BE in my present. Stop listening to that inner voice. Stop worrying about the future and regretting the past (which is what my inner voice is or should be talking about, according to Tollë, rather than saying mundane things like "Long shot: Phillip picks up his fork and examines it for traces of dirt").
And keep those cheques and money orders coming in, says Eckhart.
Yes, I should stop being an actor in the movie that is my life and just live it without awareness. Like a brain-washed new-age zombie. Like a tourist.
As long as I am alive to live it that is.
I just hope that they way to achieve this inner calm is not by talking loudly to uncomprehending people in restaurants, like a total wanker.
The country town of Nan was a bit quiet last night.
Street market at 9pm. More street than market.
My narrator was haranguing me on helium for the drive back from Nan (on the Nan river, same river that flows through Phitsanulok from two weeks ago) to Chiang Mai; he was having a field day. I only wish I could recall some of it for you. Passages of great descriptive power, episodes of dramatic irony and then some of irony and drama by themselves. Discourses of great social and political import. All of them concerning feats of dangerous driving even more harrowing than earlier in the week. Feats to leave you gasping. More knife-edge curves and split-second swerves… More good luck than good decisions on the corners… It got to the point were E@L had to say, "Please DON'T text while you are driving at twice the recommended speed, on the wrong side of the road, going into a blind curve, with the setting sun right in your eyes!!"
Reply; a pleasant "Hoka-ay. No ploblem. Solly."
As I couldn't sleep due to anxiety for the first hour of this trip and due to a full bladder for the last, I also wish that the pictures from my mental camera could be downloaded to share with you. Other than close-ups of oncoming trucks, I mean. Snaps of rice paddies reflecting the burnished clouds of sunset and the silhouettes of the hills.
Snaps of the teak jungles draped in a suffocating omnipresent vine infestation. Snaps of village markets, rickety shanties on those hillsides, plus large modern mansions with satellite antennae. Snaps of the weather-beaten, lined and tanned face of the man pushing a tractor-tyred cart to the market, or the weary grandmother in traditional hill-tribe dress keeping a hand on the exhuberant children under her supposed control right by the road-side.
I think next time I'll go by bus.
This bus pulled up next to us at the lights in Lampuang.
Nan — With The Lot II
E@L was kidnapped today. Taken from the Chiang Mai airport, whisked off in a dark van by a person who spoke no English, and driven for hours into places unknown.
"Are we going to my hotel?" asked E@L. "Le Meridien in Chiang Mai. I have booked on the internet for tonight until next Friday."
The driver looked confused. "No go Chiang Mai. Tonight I go witchew Nan."
Nan. That was the name of the hospital E@L was to do the demo at tomorrow.
"But tonight I stay Chiang Mai hotel, right"
"No, no. I take you Nan." It is a very long 'a' in Nan: Naaaaaaahn.
We had been driving for two hours already, which is why E@L thought he had better check.
"Nan is, tree, tree… tree tousant kilometer. Take [he held up three fingers] four hours more to drive. You go Nan two day, Chiang Mai I drive you Friday."
Shit. For some reason, E@L had done this trip's accommodation booking himself, online. That means he had to pay in advance. Shit. He had no idea that Nan Hospital was not in Chiang Mai. That there was actually an entire province, 200km (not 3000) from Chiang Mai, called Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahn.
E@L had confirmed with the Thai team about the trip twice, to makes sure there'd been no schedule changes. Yes, you can book, schedule no change. But no-one mentioned that Naaaaaaaahn was a separate place, distinct from Chiang Mai and that a separate hotel booking had to be made.
Shit. Why had E@L decided this one time to book himself and not just turn up, expecting everything to have been done for him? Mainly because they normally put him up in a shit hotel (the Imperial Pei) when he goes to Chiang Mai (which is rarely).
So he's gone searching online for nice deals at better establishments – like maybe a Lanna Villa somewhere, or maybe there'd be a special at a top-line hotel, seeing as how the Thailand Tourist Industry is a basket case at the moment. And there was. The lady who organizes his Thai trips could not get a better corporate rate than the on-line rate for the classy new Le Meridien in the heart of town, so she said he could book it himself. She neglected to tell him that he'd only need it from Friday, not from Wednesday.
Shit. Amazing drive though, over three mountain ranges. Fantastic scenery. Village tribes in hovels, kids playing by the side of the road, water-buffalo being driven up paths, terraced crops on the hillsides, wild jungle in several national parks, waterfalls,… As mentioned, it is about 200km as the crow flies, but more like 350km by road. Long and Very Winding Road. And it was lock to lock for the entire freaking trip across those mountains. E@L tried to sleep but was getting tossed awake at every corner. Sleep would have helped him not see the danger at each glance where his driver cut across the double yellow lines or overtook slower vehicles on the approach to a blind corner or a crest. And going as fast as he could, of course. Eventually, as they were coming into yet another blind hair-pin bend at speed and the driver pulled out across double yellow lines to overtake about 40 yards before the corner, E@L had to cry out: "No, no, pull back! Please, stop trying to kill me, OK?"
"OK, solly," the driver said, and from there on in he went like a grandmother going to church on Sunday. It took nearly six hours.
p.s. The hotel in Nan is shit.
(…but it has free Internet.)
I swear to doG I am going to die on one of these business trips. I've told you before. Check the old blog. Forget the immense cardiovascular risk factors, strokes, heart-attacks and prostate cancer.
E@L has his date with destiny as a passenger in a Datsun.
(Something to tide you over. From The Chronicles of Bruce)
Bruce finished his burger, licked his lips and scrunched up the burger-juice-filled paper to place it in the ash-tray.
Remember ash-trays? Remember cigarettes?
"True story," he said. Immediately I went into disbelief mode. It must have showed. "I kid you not." And he put on this butter-wouldn't-melt look which was quite hilarious on someone with his school-of-hard-knocks appearance. Big shoulders and arms to match his belly, a huge red head with no hair and a bristly goatee and moustache on his acne-pocked face. His thick fingers hardly seem long enough to wrap around the stubbie holder of Beer Chang, but he had already put two down while nibbling on his burger.
"OK" I said, "the hamburger story, let's hear it."
"Righto," he laughed and wet his whistle. "You know Soi Cowboy, right? You're not a total beginner here, right?"
I nodded. I knew it. I fingered the label on my coaster.
"Here's the set-up: This is a few years ago, before I was living here. We had this work do in Bangkok, training, marketing, whatever. We'd been at it in the conference room all day, so then we moved on and had few beers and some Thai nosh at Cabbages and Condoms , you know it? Soi 16, not bad grub if it's your first time in Thailand, not too pricky. Know what I mean?
"Prik is chili, isn't it?" I half-guessed, the bulge of a Thai phrase-book in my pocket.
"Correct. Full points. And afterwards, we put the most of the ladies into a couple of tuk-tuks, while the boys and I, plus one or two of the more… adventurous, or maybe broad-minded is what I mean to say… anyway two of the ladies from the company joined us, and we crossed over the road to Asok and went to Cowboy to check out the show at Long Gun. We stayed there a while, watched the banana popping show and the lesbian show… The girls thought it was hilarious, but tame. It could be pretty gross for some I guess, but not as bad as it used to be at over the road there at Nana, pre-Thaksin. But these ladies they thought it was a tame! They wanted to see some real on-stage fucking. I swear to God, women, I'll never understand 'em. I had to take the girls to a gay-boy show next night, see some real action, but that's another story.
"Anyway, it was getting late and no bird in the bar had really taken my fancy. I suppose I was in one of those moods, you know how it is. You can get so over the whole girlie bar racket, right? Some of the other lads had hooked with a bar-girl each and had already headed off to some short-time hotel, or maybe they'd risked the 1000Bht surcharge for a guest at the hotel, I don't know.
"There were four of us left, the two company ladies, and one other guy – we called him L-G (or Algie, like from that Oscar Wilde, some play…) We called him that because it was his idea to come to Long-Gun tonight, as it's his favorite place – obviously it was, because he knew the girls' names and he had already picked up his favorite, a girl called Pim, he'd taken her out a few times before. Actually there were five of us, counting her. And then there was me, with no lady… We were walking along the Cowboy strip up to Soi23 past all the theme bars to find a taxi when L-G noticed a hamburger stand right at the end. There was a girl buying a burger there. She was in normal clothes, a bit suggestive, but not in the uniform of one of the bars on the strip.
"I said – They looked good.
" – The hamburgers or the girls? Long-Gun asked me and everybody laughed.
"I said – I meant the burgers.
"So he said to me – Why didn't you get one?
" – Burger? I asked.
"He said – No, the girl! There's one right there for you, and you can share the burger with her as well. It's a bargain!
"This pretty girl, she was a stunner actually, had paid and was just collecting her burger and turning to walk away when Long Gun approached her. I swear to God he said, – My friend is very shy, he would like to take you home tonight. Indicating to me. She stopped, looked at me for a second and smiled, and then she nodded!
"Well as you can imagine I was very embarrassed, but I got over it. We got in the taxi together with her still eating her burger. We went back to my hotel, I paid the excess and she stayed the night. And she was brilliant in bed. I kid you not, some of the best sex I've ever had. Just a random girl who happened to be standing at a burger stand. And she was lovely and polite, and had this perfect body. It was amazing."
Bruce was rubbing his chin and staring out over my shoulder.
"Did you get her name, her number?" I asked him. "Did you ever go with her again?"
He gradually focused back on to me. "No, of course not. I wouldn't want to have her number, I might be tempted to call her. That's not how I operate. I'm not like L-G. Gotta keep a distance. Variety keeps you safe. You never know, otherwise I might fall in love with one of them. And that'd be the fucking end of me, wouldn't it?" He laughed and knocked back the last third of the beer.
"Bloody L-G, you know he married that bloody hooker, Pim. Stupid fuck-wit. She took for a grand ride alright. But that's another story, too…
" 'Nother one, love!" he called to the fierce-eyed waitress who was upset because Bruce could never seem to recollect her name.
With The Lot
Bruce had an added exaggerated loll to what had once been called his "unfortunate" gait this evening. Four hours in the car yesterday morning, an afternoon on the vinyl seat in the cop-shop's backroom, cheap sheets in the hotel last night and no talcum to lubricate the creases (it had been a rough and spontaneous trip to Buriram to bail a mate out of prison), then another fours hours in the car back to Bangkok, to deliver the chastened mate off to his non-too pleased wife, and then through the traffic jams to his own apartment off Wireless Rd. Sweat rash, flaring around his tackle. "Out of action" until this settles down. In his immuno-suppressed condition he was susceptible to such hazards. He made his way slowly to the pharmacy on Sukhomvit Rd just up from the Marriott where Pei, the lovely attendant, found some of the appropriate cream – part hydrocortisone, to take away the itching, and part mycolytic to kill any fungal spores – in fact the base cream probably did most of the hard work.
Pei was big-boned girl for a Thai, well-fed with it, though she presented an amazing, classically beautiful face that kept drawing your eyes back to it: the gentle line of her nose, her full lips, her huge almond eyes and those not-too-high cheekbones. To the Thai men however she was too brown-skinned and hence working class. In a westerner like Bruce's opinion, she should get an eating disorder or hit the horse and become a cat-walk model. She should be selling magazine covers, instead she was selling people like Bruce lotions to rub on their balls.
Bruce usually picked up his medications – a wide range we won't discuss here – from small shops like this. Girls like Pei and the splendidly grumpy pharmacist Boochit (Bruce's called him Bullshit) made the effort of topping up his prescriptions a pleasant chore.
He came around the corner into Soi 4 slowly, past the fried cockroach and locust stands, gingerly stepped down to the road to avoid a herd (two) of baby elephants on the footpath and waddled eventually to the entrance to the infamous Nana Entertainment Plaza. He looked in briefly, saw the gaudy sign of Pharaohs and thought back to the pre-Thaksin days when all sorts of things counted as "entertainment" and how the shows were now a poor shadow of their previous shadowy hyperbole.
He had a sour stomach from the food in Buriram. There were locust stalls there too – this was not just a Nana phenomenon to shock gullible tourists – but the hot and sour Isaan soup he'd had for early lunch had sat there for hours. He needed a western food fix.
The small stall stands squarely at the Plaza entrance. You have to walk past it to go in, but Bruce was not wasting him time tonight as he couldn't take a girl (or two) home with this broad purple rash (it looked like a bruise in the dim light of his bathroom) all around his arse.
Minn was a short girl, as chubby as Pei, but with a square puffy face and not at all attractive – except when she smiled. Any slight joke would break her face in half with immense perfectly aligned teeth in a captivating and contagious smile. Bruce gave her a wink, and she recognized him at the rear of the solid contingent of European men around the front of her stand.
"Sawaddee na klhup, khun Minn," he wai-ed to her. Her hands were full of utensils so she could only continue her brightest of smiles. She had on a yellow 'We Love The King' polo-shirt under her grey apron.
"Sawadee kaaa, khun Bruthe, she said as she flipped three burgers over on her hotplate.
She arranged another bun to toast at the side of the hotplate, pulled up a patty and dropped into a small puddle of fresh oil, cracked an egg into a ring and laid some bacon down. The usual for Mr Bruthe.
"Best burgers in town," said Bruce to the big fella in front/next to him who had noticed the special attention given to him by the short-order chef and was staring blatantly. "You live here, or are you a tourist?"
In a soft Aussie accent the embarrassed man replied, "Live in Singapore, come here one week a month. For work… Look didn't mean to stare, just that… well, your Thai is very good."
"Yeah, this is the place for burgers in Bangkok. Fuck McDonalds and Burger King, eh? I been living here since 2003. All my mates we… if we are in this part of town, we always come here for a burger. You're an Aussie too, eh?" asked Bruce.
The other man nodded. His 70Bht burger was delivered wrapped into a tight triangle of butcher's paper with a perfect one-third of it exposed, just begging to be chomped into.
"Certainly looks good," said the man as he admired its tidy presentation – lettuce, onion, tomato, beef patty, squirt of mustard, squirt of tomato sauce, fry-toasted bun, neatly tucked into the white paper which was folded in such a way as to hold any juices.
"Come over to the bar here, grab a beer to wash that down," said Bruce. "If you got time."
"Yeah, I've got time."
"Wanna tell you story. True story. What's your name, lad?"
The man, no longer a lad, had dripped some juice from his first bite of burger onto his goatee where it eventually fell onto the striped t-shirt stretched over his protuberant stomach, and it joined a stain from his lunch, or breakfast, or yestrerday's dinner… "My mates call me The Expat at Large," he said. "Please to meet you…?"
"Bruce," he said. "You can call me Bruce…"
"Like the sketch in Monty Python," laughed
Novel Idea
I have decided (another decision made at 2am when I couldn't sleep due to the new meds being pathetic and making things worse) to stop writing on this blog before lunch and twittering away on Facebook and to spend at least two hours every morning – 9am to 11am, for example – writing a novel. Not necessarily my novel, mind you. ANY novel would do. Even a story, short medium or long. This enforced sitting with a pen from my new writing kit (see above) in hand and my novel-writing notebook (a present from Mercer Machine almost exactly two years ago) in front in me seems to be the only possible way I get to make a start.
I think that if I get to the office on time, this would the ideal place to perform this task. I can't do it at home as I probably just keep organizing my pron files, cataloguing them by number of participants, number of observers, language (mainly Japanese), flora, fauna and the amount of squint-eyed defocusing that allows me to perceive the relevant anatomy through the typical Japanese hatching. I don't know what Japanese genitals actually look like. Fuzzy things with anti-aliased chequered outlines I can only presume. Having a cock with all those edges must hurt. No wonder the girls (dogs, horses, etc…) all go "ooh, ooh", and look away, their eyes closed in pain. I don't know how the Japanese manage to find the will to procreate, it seems such an unpleasant experience. Plus by the far the majority of their spermatozoa seem to end up in procreatively neutral places, a finding that explains the current downturn in birth-rates in Japan.
So with blank paper in front of me, not pron, I hope soon to make a start. I think it might be best If I follow the sage advice of many wise dead writers and "Write What You Know About". What DO I know about? Japanese pron! I might start my novel with a story about two (or more) fuzzy genitaliated Japanese people who have weird sex on public transport. Now, at last, I'm in my comfort zone…
Shagging in Public
Here's a meme that should score some hits…
It was confession time this morning. A friend of mine who is no longer famous admitted to having shagged by the Singapore River late last night, near the multi-colored bridge not far from Gallery Hotel. I pressed her for details (natch! I'm always thinking of you guys!) Not just oral; full sex. With a friend, she modified, not some random guy. She seemed to think herself quite the outrageous tart…
"I once had a shag on a public bench in a park, surrounded by squawking swans," I casually countered, placing a coffee sachet in the new (2nd hand) Philips Senseo. I was in my late 30s at the time, hardly the over-hormonized youth, but still capable of outrageous acts…*
Her chin dropped. "Oh my god, really?"
E@L you wild action-adventure hero! I didn't mention that it was nighttime and I was petrified and drunk at the time and that the swans were more likely ducks or geese (I couldn't tell in the dark) that had been trying to sleep until our shenanigans disturbed them.
I had to drag the two of us into a park in order to gain some privacy, as afforded by the nocturnal conditions, for my partner (the sexual aggressor in the situation) seemed intent that it would be neither here nor there if we should do it outside the nightclub on the footpath, in the lights of the traffic streaming down Main St. Maybe she thought the pulsing lights meant we were still on a disco-floor, one of her other preferences for deeply intimate contact.
I decided that 'there', at the side of a billabong, in a nearby park, under some coolibah trees possibly, rather than 'here' on the street would be the safest bet for not getting arrested for public indecency and interfering with protected wildlife. I found a bench just out of the street-light, and a few ducks, geese and/or swans scampered away from us. In the fevered breathing and fretful searching among disheveled clothing (it is freaking cold in country Australia at night, this was not a nekkid thing) we managed somehow expose the appropriate regions of engorged flesh sufficiently to unite them briefly for some awkward but cathartic grunting…
Another safe bet would be to find a condom, but in the struggle to achieve our physical unification, one of the aggrieved bloody swans took it! (Not really, but wouldn't it be funny if…?)
I press the blue light on the coffee machine and a shot of espresso moistens the bottom of my cup. I seem to recall that the bench-top conflagration didn't last quite as long as it took me to prepare this nice coffee.
I seem to recall also that the lady in question sort of came to her senses (omni animale sunt embarrassed post public coitus) at this point, and horrified at what had happened (again) started off at an exceedingly brisk pace in search of her hotel, in which direction she knew not, with E@L following up the rear shouting directions and apologies for allowing himself to be raped by her (again)…
I retire to my room, feeling a mixture of smugness and shame, and commence this blog.
So where, gentil reader, have you "done it?"
* (I'm not counting the semi-public performances of horrific indecency perpetrated by Bruce and the myriad others who write under the E@L pseudonym that have occurred behind the velvet drapes of certain clubs in Wanchai (HK), not to mention Manila, Phuket, Hanoi, Kiaoshung, Beijing, etc…)


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Editor, Daily Planet:
Robert Denham, in a letter in the July 23-25 issue of this newspaper, claims that the Bay Area needs 300,000 housing units per year to keep up with projected growth. I assume this projection comes from the growth-obsessed Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG). ABAG was responsible for loaning Patrick Kennedy over $72 million dollars (including an $8.2 million dollar refinance job for the decaying Berkeleyan building) to create hundreds of dinky rental units in Berkeley, without bothering to check if they were needed.
For two years I tried to warn the Zoning Adjustments Board and the City Council of the impending apartment glut, as projects came before them for approval. I can still hear them whine "the desperate need for housing" as they approved almost every rental colossus which was proposed.
About a year and a half ago, a Daily Cal article entitled "City Housing Construction on the Rise" (Feb. 26, 2003) quoted several local developers who were exuberant about rental housing, including Patrick Kennedy. The article stated, "Kennedy maintained there is 'unlimited demand' for more housing in Berkeley." I wonder if he believes this now.
UC's fall semester begins in less than a month, and we will see if the many new apartments and dormitories rapidly reach full occupancy, or if they, too, will suffer vacancy problems along with the pre-existing apartment houses.
Despite ABAG's meaningless growth projections, Berkeley's population is considerably smaller now than it was in 1950, and there has been a net increase in housing units during each decade since that year. Moreover, current events suggest that our population is actually decreasing. For example, UC Extension's English language program, which had an enrollment of nearly 3,000 students, closed in May. Also, Berkeley's largest employers have recently experienced layoffs and hiring freezes. Even the U.S. Census Bureau estimates that local population has dropped since 2000. Where's the growth?
Common sense would suggest that you don't need more buildings when you have fewer people. Empty storefronts only accentuate the lack of need for more construction.
Yes, bungalows and condos are way too expensive—so much so that many people think we are in the midst of a speculative real estate bubble, fed by low interest rates and easy lending practices—a bubble which may be just about to burst.
Nonetheless, Mr. Denham refers to the desperate need for additional housing of all kinds because of the "rapid pace of household formation fueled by immigration, maturing of the population and economic growth." I'm baffled. Unlike other parts of California, Berkeley's population is simply not growing at this time.
As for increasing density on University and Shattuck avenues, does anyone really believe there's an "unlimited demand" for cramped, poorly constructed units on noisy streets? Just as overbuilding rental housing was a mistake, condo-mania will be the next blunder, unless people wake up and notice that Berkeley's planning process has been taken over by those who benefit from endless construction—whether it's needed or not.
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Tickets for Adele's shows in Australia were immediately being resold for more than $5,000 after they were released on Monday.
Tickets for the singer's show at Perth's Domain Stadium were on sale for $5,645.18 through Viagogo – more than 18 times the maximum ticket price of $308.77, with no guarantee of the seat number.
Reselling sites were offering tickets for $2,590.29 for the Adelaide and Melbourne shows, $1,946.29 for Brisbane and $1,349 for Sydney.
Adele's tour of Australia, in February and March next year, was announced last week. The singers has attempted to circumvent scalpers in the past through the use of paperless tickets and has spoken out against the practice in public.
The Viagogo tickets – which were offered through the primary seller Ticketek for less than $310 – had been promoted to the top position on Google using Google AdWords, prioritising the inflated listings over the authorised ticket seller. This meant many people searching for tickets may have mistaken Viagogo for the authorised sites.
Fans shared their frustration as the websites of official agents struggled to cope with the demand. Many fans spent an hour or more trying and failing to get through, although some were successful.
Adele's shows in Brisbane, Perth and Melbourne are at Ticketmaster-affiliated venues, and went on sale two hours earlier at 10am AEDT Monday. Tickets for the Sydney and Adelaide shows were being sold through Ticketek from 12 noon AEDT.
On Monday Ticketmaster announced a second show in Brisbane and a second in Melbourne.
There is extraordinary demand for the tickets to Adele's Australian shows, the artist's first tour of the country, and scalpers are taking advantage, using automated bots to buy tickets in large quantities at high speeds before flipping them at inflated prices on resale sites.
Some of these tickets available through Viagogo may have been legitimately purchased during presales offered to stadium members last week. But with the high quantity of tickets listed so early in the day, it is likely that many were listed for resale before they had even been bought.
Both Ticketek and Ticketmaster have warned the public that tickets purchased through unauthorised sellers including Viagogo and Ticketmaster Resale – Ticketmaster's own resale site – will not guarantee a ticketholder entry.
"We urge fans to avoid the resale scalper websites," a Ticketek spokesman told Guardian Australia last week. "They are predatory and misleading. There is no guarantee those tickets are genuine and you risk being ripped off. We see countless examples of people who buy from resale and never receive tickets or find that they are the third or fourth buyer of the same ticket. Fans should only purchase tickets from the official ticketing agent."
A Ticketmaster spokeswoman also urged the buyer to beware, warning the public that "unauthorised tickets may face entry problems".
She explained that tickets to Adele's shows won't actually be printed until one month before the event, meaning "anyone listing tickets online unofficially won't actually have tickets in hand. We're feeding this info to fans as it's hugely important to remember when looking at any tickets listed by non-official selling partners."
As the Guardian reported, resale sites including Ticketmaster Resale and Viagogo stand to gain major profits in fees which are charged to both the buyer and the seller of resale tickets. Moreover, such tickets might not even get the buyer in: each stadium reserves the right to refuse entry to anyone who arrives with a ticket sold to them through an unauthorised seller – and while the resale site may offer a refund guarantee, they still walk away with the fees.
Under the umbrella of the global touring, events and promotions group Live Nation Entertainment, Ticketmaster's own resale site stands to gain at least 25% on each secondary sale it makes. Last year Live Nation's resale sites facilitated a gross transaction value of US$1.2bn globally.
Adele is a Live Nation tour, and tickets are not available through Ticketmaster Resale.
Scalpers are also using bots to buy tickets at higher speed and in higher quantities from the primary sellers Ticketek and Ticketmaster, and flipping them on the resale site Viagogo at inflated prices. Legislation is yet to catch up with the practice in Australia, although Senator Nick Xenophon revived his fight to get the federal government to legislate against these bots in September.
Speaking to Guardian Australia last week, Live Performance Australia's chief executive, Evelyn Richardson, advised the public to "know where you're buying your ticket from". "If you're buying on a secondary site, you can't be sure that the ticket you're buying is a valid ticket," she said.
"If it's for a show where the promoter or the venue say you can't resell, then they reserve the right to cancel the ticket – and they may do that. And if you bought it on a secondary site, then getting a refund is going to be difficult."


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You folks in the USA already have theses but us across the pond have waited a long time to get these in the UK. I got really excited when I saw these in Boots. The USA seems have more of a variety of them but we have six, three of them are tinted with colour as well as just flavored and three of them are colorless and flavored.
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Top 10 Products £10 or Less!
Make up can be expensive so here is a list of 10 items I use that cost less than £10.
1. NYC (New York Colour) Individual Eyes – Blue Eyes (smokey) £2.99
For £2.99, this little palette packs a punch! It comes with four eye shadows, a primer and an illuminating gel. The eye shadows are really pigmented and blend beautifully together for a perfect smokey eye. The primer works really well which was a surprise I didn't expect it too and the Illumining gel is really pretty.
Festival Look Book
With festivals happening here there and everywhere and Reading festival isn't far away I thought this post would be fitting.
MUA Power Pout Lip Tint + Balm Review
So like usual I went to stake out the different make-up stores and that means I went to Superdrug! I saw this on the MUA stand and had to get it!
You may or may not know that these balm stain products are the 'in' things right now and they're all basically carbon copies of the Clinique Chubby Sticks and they're rather expensive. Revlon have come up with a great 'dupe' and that's reasonably priced but I wanted to try this one because it was £3! that's correct you read that right £3, but is it any good, read on.
Acid Wash Nails
Acid wash nails are a little grunge, and very easy to achieve. Carry on readying and be impressed by your own handy work!
Chanel Rouge Coco Shine Lipstick – Boy
Owning designer lipstick always makes you feel good, and rather posh. Or if your like me re-applying in in Costa on a Saturday afternoon is the top of sophistication. (Yes I know my life is so exciting.)


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TIP #1 Communicate three to five unique selling propositions and back them up with reasons to believe.
The essay question asks, "Why would your peers select you to become a member of the Kellogg community?" Any time you are asked a "why" question, the answer is a list of reasons. To answer this essay question, you have to make some critical strategic decisions about why a student member of the admissions committee would want to champion your candidacy out of a stack of thousands of other applicants. You must identify your top three to five unique selling propositions – the reasons that students should lobby for you to be admitted.
Why only three to five sales messages? You may in fact be courageous, quirky, loyal, generous, wise, determined, entrepreneurial, resourceful, intelligent, artistic, energetic, sporty, and many other things as well, but if you attempt to tell your peer reviewer everything about you, you run the risk, paradoxically, that she will finish reading your essay and feel she doesn't know you at all.
The goal of the application and the essays isn't to tell the student member of the admissions committee everything about you; it's to tell her the most important things and to convince her that your experience, values, attributes, and/or unique perspective will translate into concrete benefits for your future classmates. The most important test of your sales messages is their authenticity. You must separate fact from fiction and reality from aspiration. Without evidence and examples your reasons to buy will simply be a set of empty claims. Marketers back up their benefit claims with what companies like Procter and Gamble call "reasons to believe." In the essay, you should provide an example or two to support your selling proposition.
TIP #2 Be explicit about how you will contribute actively/concretely to the student community given your strengths and background.
There are three elements to constructing an effective sales message. The first is to ensure that the message is targeted and relevant to the buyer you are targeting. The second, discussed in the tip above, is to support the sales message with reasons to believe. Some applicants stop there, believing they've clearly articulated an authentic strength and that the student member of the admissions committee will be able to infer why a particular attribute or experience will be of value to his or her Kellogg classmates. The most persuasive essays go one step further – supplying concrete examples of how this strength will enrich the experience of other Kellogg students.
Given the amazing variety of clubs and student organizations at Kellogg, there will be plenty of outlets to exercise your talents and devote your leadership energy to serving your fellow students. If your background has prepared you to offer something valuable to a particular campus organization, you should describe how. For example, if you look forward to studying with a particular professor, you could write about how you plan to assemble a team of other interested students to assist that professor on a research project. If you have an extensive professional network and connections in a certain industry, then you might write about hosting a speaker series or a career fair so that other students will benefit from your world class rolodex.
Don't make your reader figure out why your gifts would be valuable to the class; be explicit about how you plan to contribute to the Kellogg community and enrich the experiences of your classmates.
TIP #3 Be careful to avoid bragging.
Early drafts from our clients often run the gamut from misplaced modesty to off-putting braggadocio. Achieving the right balance between the two while touting one's accomplishments is sometimes tricky. Your reader doesn't want to hear why you are the greatest candidate to apply to Kellogg since the school was founded in 1908. Remember that the student readers will be asking themselves if there is evidence that you are a giver or a taker. Are you someone they would like to have on a team, as a friend, and as a fellow alum? Will you make the school proud?
Review your wording and tone carefully and seek out second readers who can help you strike the right tone. You'll certainly want student members of the admissions committee to be impressed with your accomplishments, but you must walk a fine line between sharing your achievements and boasting. You'll want to reveal your human side and stay focused on how you can contribute and be an amazing classmate. For this essay in particular, set aside any notion of one-upmanship and instead write from the heart. Feature achievements in which your accomplishments added value to a team or an organization and benefited others versus simply furthering your career.
An MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, Stacy Blackman founded Stacy Blackman Consulting in 2001 and has helped thousands of MBA applicants gain admission to the most selective business schools in the world. The Stacy Blackman team, comprised of MBA graduates, former admissions officers and expert writers, editors and marketers, helps clients develop and implement a winning marketing strategy. For more in-depth analysis and tips, check out Stacy Blackman Consulting's Harvard Business School Essay Guide.
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Ok so, about 4 months ago (according to him) a guy contacted me on OKC. He was cute so we flirted a bit. Then he suggested we move our chat onto gchat because the OKC chat app is shit (true!).
We chatted a bit on gchat and then he sends me a file of videos. Videos of him fucking some woman who I am still not sure even knew she was being video taped. At the time I was just flabbergasted. I don't do well with flabbergasted. Offended? Sure. I'll tell you to fuck yourself in a heartbeat. But I was so shocked I didn't even know what to say.
Nice rhythm.....
?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????? What the hell do you say to that?!
So I just stopped talking to him, hoping he would go away. And he did...until today when he sent the following message:
Four months later, I still want to "bang [you]." :)
Ew. FUCK. OFF. Any horrible (or good!) online dating exchanges this week? Share!


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