Random thoughts.....
Unheard of since I arrived in Manila...two nights out in a row...
The first with work colleagues on Sunday night to the new (well relatively speaking) Crowne Plaza hotel to try their dinner buffet...particularly their Ice-cream Teppanyaki (the latest craze to hit Asia's buffets). Ice-cream Teppanyaki involves the scoops of your ice-cream of choice being flattened on a chilled teppanyaki grill and then your garnishes of choice being folded in...at this particular buffet you could choose from m&ms, crushed oreos, various cereals, nuts, shaved chocolate etc...once everything is 'folded' in..it is placed in your bowl and covered with your sauce of choice....all very gooey..but it tastes good!
And then dinner last night with a couple of Kiwis (the people, not the brown feathered things!)...it is so nice to just sit and chill out with a glass of wine and talk about not a lot!! Being Kiwis their recent election did come up as a major topic...particularly the oddities....the naked politician walk...; the rodent exterminator registered as a voter and one of the main points of discussion being their Prime Minister's mad dash to a rugby match...breaking the speed limit in the process.....for a country that doesn't often figure in the news...a fairly interesting and entertaining election!
The other subject we discussed was how we were all avid BBC news junkies! Which then took us to the radio's "World Service"....the comforting pips, the chimes of Big Ben and then the voice..."This is London"...all very reassuring! I was telling them how when I lived in Jordan as a child we were living down by the Dead Sea and at that time there was no TV reception possible so we could only listen to the radio....we used to sit round the radio in the evening (all very reminiscent of pre-TV days) and listen the World Service news, at the time - of the Falkland Island's conflict....and Brian Hanrahan's now famous line of "I counted them all out, and I counted them all back."
Have still not found somewhere to live...the latest story on the animals is one pet allowed, not two....so am now debating which cat to 'dispose' of!!!! Seriously, what difference does one more cat make?!!!
In the blogging world.....Platypus (NSFW...as it was a Friday post!!!) has taken another hiatus...again, hopefully, not for ever. Spike seems to have had a few problems with being 'found out'....Jakartass set me a link to a great blog Toast and Honey from the brief clips I have read it looks like a 'settle down and read from cover to cover with a cup of tea' blog! Thanks, Jakartass (tried to send you a mail but it bounced back..). Mia seems to be going for brevity in her posts of late....
At work we have an influx of people from headquarters...(always reminds me of that classic line from Airplane....
"You got a telegram from headquarters today."
"HEADQUARTERS?!? What is it?"
"Well, its a big building where generals meet. But that's not important right now."
the influx is resulting in frantic pulling together of presentations and the like....all in a day's work!
The first with work colleagues on Sunday night to the new (well relatively speaking) Crowne Plaza hotel to try their dinner buffet...particularly their Ice-cream Teppanyaki (the latest craze to hit Asia's buffets). Ice-cream Teppanyaki involves the scoops of your ice-cream of choice being flattened on a chilled teppanyaki grill and then your garnishes of choice being folded in...at this particular buffet you could choose from m&ms, crushed oreos, various cereals, nuts, shaved chocolate etc...once everything is 'folded' in..it is placed in your bowl and covered with your sauce of choice....all very gooey..but it tastes good!
And then dinner last night with a couple of Kiwis (the people, not the brown feathered things!)...it is so nice to just sit and chill out with a glass of wine and talk about not a lot!! Being Kiwis their recent election did come up as a major topic...particularly the oddities....the naked politician walk...; the rodent exterminator registered as a voter and one of the main points of discussion being their Prime Minister's mad dash to a rugby match...breaking the speed limit in the process.....for a country that doesn't often figure in the news...a fairly interesting and entertaining election!
The other subject we discussed was how we were all avid BBC news junkies! Which then took us to the radio's "World Service"....the comforting pips, the chimes of Big Ben and then the voice..."This is London"...all very reassuring! I was telling them how when I lived in Jordan as a child we were living down by the Dead Sea and at that time there was no TV reception possible so we could only listen to the radio....we used to sit round the radio in the evening (all very reminiscent of pre-TV days) and listen the World Service news, at the time - of the Falkland Island's conflict....and Brian Hanrahan's now famous line of "I counted them all out, and I counted them all back."
Have still not found somewhere to live...the latest story on the animals is one pet allowed, not two....so am now debating which cat to 'dispose' of!!!! Seriously, what difference does one more cat make?!!!
In the blogging world.....Platypus (NSFW...as it was a Friday post!!!) has taken another hiatus...again, hopefully, not for ever. Spike seems to have had a few problems with being 'found out'....Jakartass set me a link to a great blog Toast and Honey from the brief clips I have read it looks like a 'settle down and read from cover to cover with a cup of tea' blog! Thanks, Jakartass (tried to send you a mail but it bounced back..). Mia seems to be going for brevity in her posts of late....
At work we have an influx of people from headquarters...(always reminds me of that classic line from Airplane....
"You got a telegram from headquarters today."
"HEADQUARTERS?!? What is it?"
"Well, its a big building where generals meet. But that's not important right now."
the influx is resulting in frantic pulling together of presentations and the like....all in a day's work!
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