Keeping in touch across the miles
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stunt show!
My good friend Tristan Bell is going to be in Paramount Canada’s Wonderland‘s stunt show this summer! I don’t yet have all the details, but it only makes sense that this zany, attention-loving guy would eventually come to do a show of this caliber. I’ll post more when I know more…
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books these days
Working in the book industry, I’m exposed to more than average amounts of book articles and opinions. We also get free books from publishers every once in a while, as gifts. I don’t know whether my disappointment in the quality of books I’ve chosen to read lately is simply due to my having grown up…
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Still talking about Cambodia. We did visit Angkor Wat on the second day and really took our time looking at the largest series of carved reliefs in the world. They mostly depict stories from Indian Epics and Angkor period wars and are beautifully carved. It is still possible to get up close and Asians usually…
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when handwriting needs refinement
I just have to comment on this post. I started watching the new Doctor Who 2005 series recently and was taken with the female main character who, for once, is not the typical annorexically-inclined, yet somehow still buffed up female actor that graces North American screens these days. Despite that, she is very pretty (intended…
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people proximity in the big city
Y’know, people complain so much that other people they see on the street never smile or are rushing everywhere, or always look miserable. However, I would argue that just because a person is out in public, doesn’t mean they have to be in “people person” mode. There are times, especially when I’m going home at…
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an anniversary of sorts
For me December 31st/January 1st isn’t the only start of a New Year. As time passes, I seem to have collected more and more such “new years”: school beginning in September; my birthday on October 5th; the typical New Year’s; school ending in April (or, previous to post-secondary, in June); the spring season; and, finally,…
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The next temple we visited, after some lunch and a rest, was The Bayon famous for its faces which look down on you from all directions as you wander around. This again was built by Jayavarman VII and is another Buddhist temple. Around the walls on the lower leavel are bas-releif depictions of scenes from…
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how much are those kittens in the window?
For several long, dark months, the pet store by my house had no kittens in the window. When I first moved downtown last September and was jobless, one of the few great joys in my life was to watch random numbers of kittens playing with one another in the pet store window by my abode.…
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May day update
April and May have lots of public holidays here in Thailand:April 6, 13, 14 & 19May 1, 5 & 12.Absolutely Fabulous.In April we went back to the UK for 2 weeks, from 9 – 22, for the Easter period. We spent most of this 2 weeks with Trish’s parents, and one night over in Yorkshire…
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Angkor
Cambodia, that name alone for me, summons up images of death and destruction, skulls lying in fields of mud, brutality born of ignorance and the name of an unseen dictator that sounds like a child’s name for a pet parrot. These images are from the past, today Cambodia is trying to catch up with the…
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