I actually enjoyed the dinner I cooked tonight (stop the presses!) and have even done some (teensey bit) of study for my Chinese test tomorrow. Feeling really sleepy – especially considering I’ve been awake less than 12 hours. Might go to bed now but first thought I’d share my evidence – I’ve always said that maths [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Long day?
Posted in Just Blogging..., tagged maths on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Progress!
Posted in Just Blogging..., Study on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, I handed in my English essay today. I am not looking forward to getting my result for that back. As I write this Julie is sitting in my lap. She never does that. Yay me! When she puts her head up for me to scratch under her chin it really looks like she’s smiling. [...]
Free Rice
Posted in Cool Sites, tagged fun, rice, world hunger on April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So it turns out that not all the news is bad news these days. Tonight on the 6pm news they had a piece about two schools, one in Indiana (U.S.) and one in Uganda, being connected by a website. The website was FreeRice.com.
If you go to the website you will see a little (English) vocabulary [...]
Senbazuru IV: The Beginning
Posted in Cranes, tagged Cranes, senbazuru on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Right. As of today, I will provide updates on the progress of my 4th senbazuru. It probably won’t happen very often, as I don’t do them that much – only when I have about 100 other things I should be urgently doing. As I have a 4,000 word essay due on Monday which I have yet to [...]
It’s not just me
Posted in Just Blogging..., tagged restaurant, smoothie, Taipei on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just flicking through some blogs today and found this post at andylovemaggie. They’ve written their comments on a strange artsy sort of restaurant in Taipei – one that I went to and wrote home about! Looks like they too were more impressed with the architecture that the food (which I guess is why people go [...]
Natasha Bray
Posted in News: "School Canyoning Tragedy", tagged funeral, tragedy on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Natasha Bray’s funeral was held at 1pm on Monday in the Elim Christian Centre. Family and friends attended to remember a loving, bright girl who will be missed by many. Natasha was farewelled in a white casket surrounded by pink flowers, and some of her friends who spoke wore bright pink t-shirts with a white message on [...]
Tom Hsu
Posted in News: "School Canyoning Tragedy", tagged cerebral palsy, Taiwanese, tragedy on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Huan (Tom) Hsu’s funeral was held at 10:30am on Monday morning at the Howick Baptist Church. Tom was a 16 year old from Taiwan, in his second year as an international student at Elim Christian College. He also lived with cerebral palsy. I remember hearing a man talk about him in an interview, I think it [...]
Portia McPhail
Posted in News: "School Canyoning Tragedy", tagged funeral, Portia McPhail, tragedy on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The funeral for Portia McPhail was held this morning at 9am at Elim Christian Centre. She was farewelled in a white casket covered in soft toys and orchid flowers. The 16 year old was a student at Elim Christian school where she played and coached netball;
Described as gentle, kind, beautiful and mature, Portia was always [...]
D is for dunce
Posted in Study, tagged Chinese, fail, uni on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have like, 10 million tests next week. Ok, not 10 million. But a lot. My English essay worth 40% is due on Monday (havn’t started), I also have a mini-test on Bleak House (havn’t read it), Wednesday is our first major Chinese test worth 30% (havn’t begun studying)… it goes on. What the heck is [...]
First cold night…
Posted in Just Blogging..., tagged AngryAsianMan, b-boys, bedding, chilly, Little House on the Praire on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wow, tonight is cold. Really cold. Ever since reading The Little House On The Prairie books when I was little I’ve had a secret plan to become a bedding-hoarder. You just never know when you’re going to run out of cow chips, get snowed in or have to care for lost wanderers rescued from the [...]
