Keeping in touch across the miles

More big plans for this website! I’ve discovered I can automatically install scripts on my server that will let me (and my parents) update this place easier. It will also mean more things to do on here for you guys – if you choose to participate. These are the things I’m going to implement: –…

Happy Canada Day! I decided it was high time for what has become my monthly update. Except I seem to have missed june entirely… I can’t believe how quickly the time flew by! Work has become more hectic, which I quite enjoy. The people are great too, I think I can safely say the environment…

Almost 3 months into the assignment here in Bangkok now (get home 1 week in 4 though – till Trish joins me) and I finally got my first few hours out as a tourist today. I visited a Wat (temple), though it turned out not to be one of the usual tourist venues. I just…

Soon after classes and assignments finished in April, I went to England for three weeks to see my parents and do my internship at a design firm. It was a really great experience, and I got to see all of dad’s side of the family, and some of mum’s. We went to London where we…

Hot-desking it in Asia (written at the end of April)… I have been here in Bangkok for 4 days this trip, and I hope it’s true that April is the hottest month of the year in this country. It’s been 38 C outside today, though it’s cooled off to a balmy 31 at 8 pm.…

Ugh, I really dislike losing an hour to the clock change. It’s very annoying – I was lying in bed lazily this morning, thinking I had all the time in the world. Then I got up and looked at my computer clock and saw it was actually 12:10 PM!!! Nooo, I thought. It feels like…

Went to see The Passion, or The Passion of the Christ as it is called in England, on Tuesday with Dave and Linda. I am glad I went to see it. No surprises however, just the straight story as it is told in the Bible. It did make the whole thing more real for me…

Looks like I wasn’t too careful with my bandwidth this month. Lots of people were looking at my portfolio because I’ve been applying for jobs all over the place, so I guess that ate up all the upload/download “credits” that I’m allowed per month. I’ve moved my files and the main portfolio is at a…

I tried to blog last week but lost it all, so here goes again. Captain’s log, Star Date 401 Dave and I just got back from a couple of days in London. We stayed at the Sheraton Hotel in Knightsbridge, courtesy of Dave’s points: sheer luxury, lovely down-filled pillows and duvet, as well as a…

Spring ‘as sprung, the grass is riz etc Already things in the garden are beckoning, and yet we now have a real backlog of work in the house to get done before the visiting season starts. Hopefully, we will have a new dining room and upstairs bathhroom by the time we get to Easter, and…