You ever get those days when you’d just like to crash out in the house, enjoy the peace, read a book and contemplate life? I had one of them today, but I still have to leave the house because the family downstairs are driving me insane.
I think Khmers are actually at their happiest when they [...]
Saying I can’t stand Christmas gets me accused of being a grinch, a grumpy old sod, and any number of other things, but balls to the lot of it. If there is one thing I really hate, it is being told to have a good time and looked upon as some kind of defective scrooge if [...]
I didn’t realise that I was following in the footsteps of Gregory David Roberts until I read Shantaram. Then again, I’m sure neither had several hundred other people that had got a taxi from Mumbai airport into Coloba and stayed at one of the crappy hotels on the sea front just down [...]
Men don’t get periods (well, we did joke about whether Irish Dave was the alpha female of the group and whether we were all going to synchronise with him the other week), but I often wander whether men are just as susceptible to some kind of cycle. And that’s not the kind with a bell [...]
Words and phrases I traditionally associate with workplace stress include Underground, Office Politics, Reply To All, Meeting, Presentation, Room Booking, Season Ticket, What’s For Lunch, Deadline and… did I mention Meeting?
Here in Cambodia, the picture is somewhat different. Earlier today I was trying to write a report on my students despite a small child [...]
There’s the Instant Messaging application. And What Kind of Flirt Are You? Then there’s Likeness. And True Match. And Send Sunshine. And Are YOU Interested? And Booze Mail, Are You Normal, X Me, Superpoke, Super Wall, Compare People, Top Friends, Hot or Not, Vampires, Growing Gifts, Pirates vs Ninjas, Zombies, Werewolves, Cute vs Sexy, Hugs, Snowball [...]
