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Monday, July 26, 2004
Without being mean, you are a pig.
Getting bad headaches lately which on self diagnosis are the result of a big tumour. It feels like there is a big piece of cotton wool wrapped around my brain. P reckons it’s cause my back is prolly out of alignment, I reckon it’s a tumour.
Tumour or no tumour, I don’t subscribe to stupid sexist challenges that R suggests promote good competition.
His statement:
‘Perhaps the poker fad will die soon, and without being sexist, I dont think a girl will win one of the heads up games..’
How is this not sexist? By just saying the words ‘..without being sexist’ doesn’t make it so.
It’s like saying, ‘..without being mean, you are a pig’.
His challenge:
Challenge - first girl to win a heads up game ($6+) with atleast 5 ppl and im one of them. Ill buy them dinner at anyrestaurant they want or they can have a $50 alphutte voucher,after all dinner with me is hardly a prize.
Notice the bit that says ‘… and I’m one of them’
So he is also saying he thinks he is a superior poker player to everyone, regardless of sex, for which there is no quantitative evidence given.
Over all the years we have been playing, I would suggest that there wouldn’t be a significant amount of money that has actually exchanged owners. However some people seem to forget everything that happened previous to their most recent win.
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Getting bad headaches lately which on self diagnosis are the result of a big tumour. It feels like there is a big piece of cotton wool wrapped around my brain. P reckons it’s cause my back is prolly out of alignment, I reckon it’s a tumour.
Tumour or no tumour, I don’t subscribe to stupid sexist challenges that R suggests promote good competition.
His statement:
‘Perhaps the poker fad will die soon, and without being sexist, I dont think a girl will win one of the heads up games..’
How is this not sexist? By just saying the words ‘..without being sexist’ doesn’t make it so.
It’s like saying, ‘..without being mean, you are a pig’.
His challenge:
Challenge - first girl to win a heads up game ($6+) with atleast 5 ppl and im one of them. Ill buy them dinner at anyrestaurant they want or they can have a $50 alphutte voucher,after all dinner with me is hardly a prize.
Notice the bit that says ‘… and I’m one of them’
So he is also saying he thinks he is a superior poker player to everyone, regardless of sex, for which there is no quantitative evidence given.
Over all the years we have been playing, I would suggest that there wouldn’t be a significant amount of money that has actually exchanged owners. However some people seem to forget everything that happened previous to their most recent win.
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Friday, July 23, 2004
The Weak
This week has been pretty tough going, nearly lost my cool a couple of times, but the source of most of my anxiety just walked out the door for another two days, yey!
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This week has been pretty tough going, nearly lost my cool a couple of times, but the source of most of my anxiety just walked out the door for another two days, yey!
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Rabid
Went to the travel Dr today. Had Hep A, Hep B and Typhoid vaccinations, heading back 3 more times in the next 4 weeks to get Rabies and Hep A Hep B finished.
Rabies sounds pretty bad, 100% fatal, 10% of Hong Kong dogs have it, all you need is a little scratchy and your foaming at the mouth.
While the Dr was giving me injections, he yawned and said “I think I’ve had enough for today”, he seemed pretty relaxed to me, a little too relaxed actually. Especially with all those diseases around, but I guess he is prolly vaccinated for everything, so not much to worry about. As for me, I’m pretty worried, after my SARS scare last year I don’t think you can be too careful.
J asked the Dr if he knew some guy and the Dr goes “yeh, slacker, we used to work on STD’s together, that guy is a laid back slacker”
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Went to the travel Dr today. Had Hep A, Hep B and Typhoid vaccinations, heading back 3 more times in the next 4 weeks to get Rabies and Hep A Hep B finished.
Rabies sounds pretty bad, 100% fatal, 10% of Hong Kong dogs have it, all you need is a little scratchy and your foaming at the mouth.
While the Dr was giving me injections, he yawned and said “I think I’ve had enough for today”, he seemed pretty relaxed to me, a little too relaxed actually. Especially with all those diseases around, but I guess he is prolly vaccinated for everything, so not much to worry about. As for me, I’m pretty worried, after my SARS scare last year I don’t think you can be too careful.
J asked the Dr if he knew some guy and the Dr goes “yeh, slacker, we used to work on STD’s together, that guy is a laid back slacker”
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Green
Heard from maja, sounds pretty nice I wish I had gone now ;) , hi maja, where ever you are, she replied to my email and cc’d a number of others with my original email attached, seriously maja, no fwding mails meant for maja to non maja’s – or ill have to put my censorship hat on everytime I write.
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Heard from maja, sounds pretty nice I wish I had gone now ;) , hi maja, where ever you are, she replied to my email and cc’d a number of others with my original email attached, seriously maja, no fwding mails meant for maja to non maja’s – or ill have to put my censorship hat on everytime I write.
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Cake
K’s birthday last Saturday, her belly is a little bit bigger now, but still not really fatty though ;) . She has started wearing maternity tops which is pretty funni though. We went out to dinner at Tantino’s which was good, up until the end. I thought it would be nice to order a desert and get them to put a candle in it and so we could sing happy bday. So I whispered to the waiter and he goes ‘sure, I know exactly what you mean’ .
A couple of mins later, all the lights went out, and everyone looked, the waiter came out with this massive two tier cake, people started to sing happy bday and everything! He had brought us some other tables cake, for someone else’s bday, the other table were just going ‘what the?’ and I had to tell him it wasn’t ours, and he took it back. The whole restaurant laughed at him and he didn’t come out again all night.
I can’t believe it’s not Terry
Went out after that, met Nic and Tg and Bgs at supermild. Nic called Bgs Terry and Bgs didn’t say anything, then the second time Tg picked him up on it. Apparently Nic has thought Bgs was this Terry guy he went to school with for ages, and Bgs never corrected him. Nic thought it was strange that we were friends with Terry.
Crushed
Went to Mojo after that. Tg tried to conquer her fear of being under things “I have never seen the pool table here collapse before, but what if it did while I was under it and I broke my back?” she didn’t go under in the end, chickened.
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K’s birthday last Saturday, her belly is a little bit bigger now, but still not really fatty though ;) . She has started wearing maternity tops which is pretty funni though. We went out to dinner at Tantino’s which was good, up until the end. I thought it would be nice to order a desert and get them to put a candle in it and so we could sing happy bday. So I whispered to the waiter and he goes ‘sure, I know exactly what you mean’ .
A couple of mins later, all the lights went out, and everyone looked, the waiter came out with this massive two tier cake, people started to sing happy bday and everything! He had brought us some other tables cake, for someone else’s bday, the other table were just going ‘what the?’ and I had to tell him it wasn’t ours, and he took it back. The whole restaurant laughed at him and he didn’t come out again all night.
I can’t believe it’s not Terry
Went out after that, met Nic and Tg and Bgs at supermild. Nic called Bgs Terry and Bgs didn’t say anything, then the second time Tg picked him up on it. Apparently Nic has thought Bgs was this Terry guy he went to school with for ages, and Bgs never corrected him. Nic thought it was strange that we were friends with Terry.
Crushed
Went to Mojo after that. Tg tried to conquer her fear of being under things “I have never seen the pool table here collapse before, but what if it did while I was under it and I broke my back?” she didn’t go under in the end, chickened.
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Porridge
Went to E’s play last Friday night, it was alright, not too long as most plays are, E was really good in it, actually he was really good in the last one we saw too. This one was pretty full on, there was a part in it where E was feeding a crippled guy porridge and the cripple wouldn’t eat it and it dribble all over him. So E got mad and grabbed a tea towel to clean it up, then in an angry motion, snatched the tea towel in such a way that a large amount of porridge went flying into the air and landed mostly on my head and shoulders, with a splatter on my shoe. Later I found some in my bag too. That bit of the play wasn’t so good.
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Went to E’s play last Friday night, it was alright, not too long as most plays are, E was really good in it, actually he was really good in the last one we saw too. This one was pretty full on, there was a part in it where E was feeding a crippled guy porridge and the cripple wouldn’t eat it and it dribble all over him. So E got mad and grabbed a tea towel to clean it up, then in an angry motion, snatched the tea towel in such a way that a large amount of porridge went flying into the air and landed mostly on my head and shoulders, with a splatter on my shoe. Later I found some in my bag too. That bit of the play wasn’t so good.
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Thursday, July 15, 2004
f*** up
I swore at work today. I have been working in non-swear work environments for quite a while now, and managed to not swear, without any effort, but today, it just came out.
By 10am today I had been interrupted 4 times by A asking me questions. A does this despite the fact that I have my headphones on, he actually gets up from his desk and comes over to mine so I cant ignore. Who ever invented open plan should be shot in the head. Now these interruptions last at least 10 mins, making 2 thirds of my hour devoted to dealing with his issues,. Then I realised I had left a whole heap of files at home that I needed, and I said ‘great, I didn’t ******* copy the files over’.
Is this a sign?
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I swore at work today. I have been working in non-swear work environments for quite a while now, and managed to not swear, without any effort, but today, it just came out.
By 10am today I had been interrupted 4 times by A asking me questions. A does this despite the fact that I have my headphones on, he actually gets up from his desk and comes over to mine so I cant ignore. Who ever invented open plan should be shot in the head. Now these interruptions last at least 10 mins, making 2 thirds of my hour devoted to dealing with his issues,. Then I realised I had left a whole heap of files at home that I needed, and I said ‘great, I didn’t ******* copy the files over’.
Is this a sign?
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Friday, July 09, 2004
Ni hao, Zhong guo, zai jian aodaliya
Well, tickets are booked and half paid for, we are off to China in September. Going to KL then Hong Kong, then an organised tour to Beijing (hmm, dunno if that was such a good idea, heard some bad stories, not about Beijing, I mean about organised tour), then Shanghai for like a week and a half. My friend said that all the tour groups in China have to wear matching vests and hats.
and another thing:
Where’s Maja?
Where is maja?
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Well, tickets are booked and half paid for, we are off to China in September. Going to KL then Hong Kong, then an organised tour to Beijing (hmm, dunno if that was such a good idea, heard some bad stories, not about Beijing, I mean about organised tour), then Shanghai for like a week and a half. My friend said that all the tour groups in China have to wear matching vests and hats.
and another thing:
Where’s Maja?
Where is maja?
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Happpy Bday Nanna
I ran into my cousin at my Mums art thingy on the weekend and she told me she went to Nanna’s and found a Penthouse magazine with post-it notes all through it. Apparently Nanna took it to her women’s council meeting to demonstrate the sort of degrading material that is available in the local newsagent. Nanna turned 87 last week.
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I ran into my cousin at my Mums art thingy on the weekend and she told me she went to Nanna’s and found a Penthouse magazine with post-it notes all through it. Apparently Nanna took it to her women’s council meeting to demonstrate the sort of degrading material that is available in the local newsagent. Nanna turned 87 last week.
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Thursday, July 08, 2004
Happy bday nai
Happy bday to nai! Yey. But I cant think of a present that’s good enough for him. If anyone has any good ideas add them as comment and nai, you can choose the one you like the most.
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Happy bday to nai! Yey. But I cant think of a present that’s good enough for him. If anyone has any good ideas add them as comment and nai, you can choose the one you like the most.
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Fear of First Aid
Now I have overcome my fear of first aid good and proper, I might start working on my other phobias. At the moment I am working on the phobia of closing my eyes in the shower. I think this is more common than you would expect, but quite difficult to overcome.
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Now I have overcome my fear of first aid good and proper, I might start working on my other phobias. At the moment I am working on the phobia of closing my eyes in the shower. I think this is more common than you would expect, but quite difficult to overcome.
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