I reckon I’m going to get me a pet donkey.
For one thing it’d be a really useful thing to have when you’ve just arrived back from the supermarket and have more carrier bags in the trunk of your car than you’re able to take inside with you in one go.
But mainly it’s because they are the [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘random thoughts’
December 7, 2008
Donkeys: Ninjas of the Animal Kingdom
November 13, 2008
Travelling – The Agony and Ecstasy
My dream
Is to fly
Over de rainbow
So high
No, actually that’s Yves La Rock’s dream (and my bloody nightmare as, in Egypt, they still think that this trick is new and interesting when everyone else stopped playing it six months ago).
My dream is that, one day, I will be able to find a [...]
November 9, 2008
Introducing Informer Books
About a month ago I made one of my most popular least unpopular postings entitled ‘How To Make Money as a Shameless Writing Whore’ – a posting that got some very positive feedbacks from literally ones of loyal readers of this blog.
I said there that I would maybe expand on the idea one day and release [...]
November 3, 2008
Soap Opera
Of course it’s a perfectly natural reaction to think that we aren’t influenced by advertising at all – “we’re all too clever to be suckered into that”, “a complete waste of money”.
But such thinking is, of course, complete bollocks.
Although there is little more irritating and mind-numbingly dull as a Procter & Gamble washing powder commercial [...]
November 2, 2008
Fiction Faction
Work has been very quiet for the past 48 hours, which has allowed me to get around to doing a bunch of stuff that I’ve been putting back and back. One of these tasks was to fulfill my promise to read one of my writer friends’ new manuscript.
This was something that I had been avoiding [...]
November 1, 2008
How to Steal Music
I am a criminal. And a shameless one at that, especially when it comes to stealing music. It has been one of my major pastimes over the past few years, having downloaded around 2500 tracks over the past half decade.
I was at it again today. As I mentioned in a previous posting, I am going [...]
October 30, 2008
ForEx is the New Porn?
While wilfing away a day or two ago, I saw a link to a feature called ‘Football - the New Porn?’ I didn’t click on it as my wilfing took me elsewhere, and I’m not a big fan of football (soccer to you Americans), but the headline stuck in my head for some reason.
It was from some [...]
October 28, 2008
On Being Bald and Hirsute
Hair only made a very brief appearance on the top of my head between the years of around 1967 to 1983. It was late in arriving and early in departing.
By the tender age of 19, it was already well on the wane. A tragedy – at the time of life when most guys are experimenting with [...]
October 28, 2008
Why I’m Monolingual
Having lived in non-English speaking countries for the past 15 years, one would assume that I would be fluent in at least one foreign language by now.
One would be wrong.
Because, to the annoyance of girlfriends and other friends alike, I remain stubbornly monolingual.
This, they assume, is because I am lazy and stupid. This is not [...]
October 21, 2008
Work/Life Imbalance
In recent postings I have described how I am addicted to nicotine and maybe to alcohol. But I now realize that there is something else that I am hopelessly addicted to and that’s work.
It just became apparent to me over the last couple of days as I have some friends staying with me and would [...]
