like the kind I did back in high school. I felt overwhelmed with nostalgia, opening doors to thoughts and memories that I haven’t experienced in the longest time. I admit, sometimes I miss those days… I had not a care in the world and felt more freer to express myself. Now, well, I’ve got a lot more to think about, and some days, I just can’t get anything out, no matter how inspired I feel.
I wonder, if I tried to be a little more laidback, would it benefit me, or would it be a detriment?
Last month reunion with my ol band club rocked! Went east a week earlier to spend 6 days with my brother’s mom in Bangkok and meet my half-sister in Krabi. More fun was that after a 15 hour train journey to Krabi some cretin threw themselves in front of a train the next station along, so I got stuck on a train station for an hour whilst they scraped the bugger off the line, and whilst all this was going on my sister was on a train on her way to meet me, and then, stuck whilst the power to the lines was off. Good timing there.
Onto the reunion, it was awesome. We rocked the stage, 8 songs never seemed enough for us, some of us hit by hilarious accident on the stage, we stayed together in Singapore for 5 days, yet that didn’t stop us having some epic games (2 truths and a lie, dare or die) with an even more epic sex game of catch between Diandra (a mom of 2) and myself in the middle of lunch and dinner. Also I got HARRASSED by Diandra’s son during sleep. That was interesting too.
Unfortunately, the “take photos of ugly people” game never really caught on. Guess Singapore how much fun people and tourist were having.
We battled the rain showers hard too, and we prevailed. Was good fun. Then, onto the irish pub. Had no beer, my friends got drunk and said “Oh yeah” a lot. I met my girlfriend. The moment was so lovely and I’m glad she’s healthy wealthy and happy.
October, I welcomed a new girl to my life, Alina :)
In general, was woohoo good. Key points to remember though….
Anywho, fuck you recession. Now I have to pay 1.75x for duck spring rolls (and unfortunately not tasty ones).
There have been two burglaries in the house I’m in at my accommodation since mid May. We’re very near the back entrance which is relatively unmonitored and on busy bar nights it’s a prime target. My next door room neighbor had his laptop stolen, so naturally I’m nearly shitting myself about that, door jimmied open then grabbed laptop. Another happened the other night at floor down. So I bought myself some “accessories” to secure the laptop when I’m not using it. A bonus of it being that it’s so fucking heavy and big that it’s damned difficult to steal in the first place, yea which is good. Hopefully that’s the last I’ll hear about such incidents.
Second, I went to a teachers party last Saturday that was just “awesome”. I was just messing around with some colleagues at the beginning, a big football game made parking a nightmare for some but we got everyone eventually (no thanks to English teacher the bitch who missed his train, hence I had to collect him whilst all the maniac football fans were freaking everywhere). Got free food, we went to Megabowl and had something like 2-hour long game set of bowling the back to our friend’s house where they were too late in our search for booze after an awesome stir fry… so we got lumbered with 8 2-litre bottles of quite possibly the most foul tasting cider ever known to man. You know that tramps hang about in car park lifts and leave nasty smells? Yea something like that. My friend drunk too much and there’s so many things he did and said it was just freaking hilariously hilarious. Although thanks to him I’ll probably never drink again. I may not ever drink again. Period.
I’m computer literate enough to write and press the button and release all of my thoughts out unto the universe. iPads, netbooks, television inside vehicles - I don’t understand any of this. If you go out to lunch with a friend, I dare you to count how many times they look, touch, text on their cell phone. This doesn’t bother almost anyone but it bothers me, visiting with people used to be enough, thoughtful convo and a good meal used to be enough for people. Now while we talk to each other we have to browse through a new apps or be having a entirely different convo with someone else with another mode of technology. I wish it’d go away. I love the idea of solitude and entertaining myself with actually actives. It might be my my love for reading and writing, but it seems that almost all of my peers have forgotten about the pleasure of actually knowing and spending time interacting with people, which is sad. And pathetic.
there is another great gift we have, and that is the ability to learn from the past.
“ Hi class, my name is Mr. Rendika Biell. No, Igor Biell. I mean, you can call me Igor, sure.
Just found out that I have to teach a morning class today.
when I wish I didn’t need a car.
I am currently living somewhere in UK, which means no family here. Yesterday morning my car doors were frozen shut, makin’ me almost an hour late for work. Actually, I’m not sure if the driver’s side door was frozen or not, because I can no longer open it from the outside anymore because… on Monday the handle for my driver’s side door BROKE. Now I can only crawl across the center console from the passenger door and THAT IS REALLY VERY SAD.
So yesterday I spent a good half hour slamming myself up against the side of my car, trying to break the seal around the door without breaking the glass or any of my bones.
Today my neighbor who saw me banging myself against the car and crawling through my car yesterday come over and pour hot water on my door. THAT’S all I needed to do?! Shit.
So now I’m still crawling through my car, but not banging my body against the outside of my car, which is a bit of an improvement, no? Will have to remember the British hot water trick, and look like less of an ass and/or a car thief in the future.
