sometimes when i'm home and i accidentally slam a door close i would apologize even though there is nobody else around
which is a good thing — because where would they sit ? yes my living room is very minimalist and ocd but have
you ever taken your vaccum cleaner and run it across the entire bay window with zero obstruction ?
it is so immensely pleasurable

i still get insecurity panic attacks on occasion [ we're on different continents > nine days out of ten after all ]
but he disposes of them very efficiently, often with a fast paced monologue, recounting the things he loves about me
the sweet things i do for him ; he even lists my weaknesses, and then uses them as reasons to be with me
on the surface perhaps that sounds cruel but it's actually very comforting

our first time flying together
this photo taken just as the plane commenced its decent into narita
we held hands and enjoyed some final moments of serenity and calm before
the department store hopping and label chasing madness began

miniwave and celebration to me — i'm a fellow of the society of actuaries
though when it's two in the morning, and the biggest attraction in town is sears
it's difficult to celebrate very hard

less than a month into my secondment at the hong kong branch, i'm already tired of its office polit-cliques
and yearning for the simpler days in the dublin office — even if that means getting yelled at by brighde
and her undergraduate degree in photocopying every time i forget to
fan the stack of paper before loading the laserjet

sumimasen [ excuse me ] the eye bags
you try flying hong kong and the us + canada east coast
return twice a month and see how much sleep you get
i think i'll redeem some eye cream with my miles

virgin atlantic manager said all i need is find something i like and say kore kudasai [ this please ] and i will go far in japan
well, you don't even need to go through all that at this lovely noodle store — just pick out the bowl you like
match its name on the ticket machine and press the button ! no need to look at or talk to anyone
the only time you need to open mouth is for insertion of delicious noodles

laurie thinks i'm missing winter photos on my blog, so we'll be flying together to a snowy tokyo
this christmas season and in style too on first class with cathay pacific — hmm, does krug go with kaiseki ??
reputed to be the most expensive in flight meal on a commercial airliner [ eleven courses plus drinks ]
it might not be photos of tokyo that i'll come back with

nothing much new lately, except for the new
italian restuarant in the ifsc selling pasta, pizza and pane
but that's just three cutie patootie ways of saying
carbohydrate and fat

this is only the second time that i've used this lens here
do you know how difficult it is to find somewhere in dublin city that looks good for a whole 180 degree frame ?
i cloned out fifty pieces of gum in this shot alone

on another flight to hong kong — part of me wishes i were more adventurous, and travel somewhere other than toronto and hong kong for my long weekends
boss ran a marathon going thru austria, switzerland and germany a couple weeks ago ; big boss returned from scuba-diving in the maldives last month
me ? i don't like the sun ; i like the dark ; in the dark i can sneak into the y galley and steal all their peanuts ; my mum craves them
one time i got like sixty bags for her which is about as adventurous as i get

i like the international financial services center — it's got a very "sim city" feel
streets are narrow and at right angles, there are distinctive residential and commercial zones
it's a place where you could love the ebb and flow, but perhaps no one person or thing in particular
other than marks and spencer's simply food of course

taken on a quiet weekend at the ifsc
lately i've been inspiring and teaching others to play the piano ! you should be scared
though perhaps not as much so as the bacteria at home on my kitchen sponges
i upgraded my detergent from "classic" to "antiseptic" yesterday

we had a lunch discussion over which were the smartest and dumbest veggies ; brussels sprouts and potatoes i think the consensus was
[ secretly though, i think carrots are smarter ] but the most mysterious vegetable ? definitely baby corn ; their taste is very faint and indistinct
i need to eat several in quick succession just to register its taste properly, and of course there is the question
that just stares you in the face — why do they look so much like corn ??

this is where i've been staying the last two years
my secondment from the dublin office will be announced in a meeting this afternoon
in the meantime i'll just enjoy a care free last few weeks here — some mangos and blueberries while they're on sale at m & s
crunches and jacknives as i watch queer as folk, and a road trip if i feel like singing cantopop in the car again

their shower suites have always been disappointing
i have pissed with more thrust than the so called hydrotherapy jets but the large jug
of molton brown body cream makes up for it — you can never overestimate
how much moisturizer transit pax can soak up

on my way on a spur of the moment trip to new york
life has been rather dull in dublin — unless you count taking out the trash last week
which was already quite the house keeping event, considering i still haven't removed
from the washer my laundry from a month ago

maybe it was a slow weekend in the chat room
but prefixing an @ grand hyatt to my bio line increased the number of pvt's i got substantially ; and it's not difficult
to see why — definitely "can accom"

on my way back to the land of marks & spencers and
their boxes of spaghetti bolognese with my two new favorite sentences :
for your convenience no need to pierce film
for best results please microwave

on my way back to dublin after some client meetings
very glad monday is a bank holiday — i might be able to fit half an hour of course 8 studying between my alias dvds
god bless shanghai

taken after a mind-numbing dinner with three underwriters who were much too far apart from me on the life table for us to have had anything to talk about ; in fact they all smoke
so we aren't even on the same life table ; cough

if he likes me so much that he is willing to cheat on his lover with me
would that preclude trust in any long term relationship he and i could have ?
tina probably answered it best on will and grace when she asked rhetorically
when am i going to find a married man who's going to be faithful to me

he would pick his nose, play around with my camera, and then pick his nose again
he just would not stop picking it !! in fact if you look carefully nikon's fantastic continuous servo af
correctly determined his nostrils was where all the action was at
and kept them in focus instead of his eyes

taken very early one monday morning
an australian girl at the course 7 seminar asked me to join her on a 6 am to 7 pm day tour
of guang dong from when the seminar ends which may i remind you is in the middle of summer
how many things are wrong with this invitation ?? i count five !!

how best to set the alarm for that 9 am meeting after stumbling into the hotel room drunk in the middle of the nite ?
most would fumble with that dusty clock radio or the tv remote and set the alarm there, but that's annoying to do even when fully alert
you could dial the front desk for a wake-up call but that requires talking with people ; the key is the breakfast card — just mark down the desired time and someone will knock as ordered ! sure the eye contact probably won't be pleasant but at least he comes with food

keep your eyes peeled for the shiny new matching gold mpc baggage tags on my otherwise poorly co-ordinated luggages :)
elite tier cards they are like rim jobs — if someone be wanting to give one, i'll be wanting to take one, and i'd feel
pretty validated afterwards too ; seriously if someone's willing to stick their tongue up your ass
and then lick ? you must have gotten something right

taken with eyes barely opened at six in the morning
couldn't sleep from the seven grade pigs excitement last nite
at one point close to the end, there were four of us left
and we were all pigs of the sixth grade

besides attending meetings of no added value in calgary
i am also using this trip to land in canada and become a canadian permanent resident
renewal of this status requires me to be in canada two years of every five, and progression
to the next tier [ citizenship ] requires a continued residency of three years

in alberta for three days with hong kong actuary girl
did some sight seeing with her after i finally managed
to stop playing around with the dual automatic
scrolling doors on the minivan