2006-11-06 : 29 and 12 months (and 5 months)
Having a birthday party (in conjunction with Roie) in Adelaide on Nov 25th. Mail me for details. Would love to see everyone.
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2006-11-06 : Wanna see something gross ??
OK so I go in to the dentist’s the other day, because like 80% of the English speaking world, I’m a little slacker than I should be and put off going to the dentist as often as I should. OK, so the last time was about 8 years ago. I’d like to justify that by…
2006-11-04 : There’s a chap who knows the art!
Photographing landscape and scenery is one skill which has always evaded my grasp. I'll give it a go, but it always ends up as being a washed out facsimile of what I'm actually looking at. Or the shots come out flat & 2 dimensional. Sometimes, with a bit of effort, they're not *that* bad. So…
2006-10-31 : Kripa karke mendak phenkne ki pratiyoghita kahai he batanye ?
Inspired by a post at Flashpackers, it occurred to me that having been in Shimla a couple of weeks now I'd kind of developed a tendency to get on with life rather than being a tourist in a new place (although having made that outlandish claim, I suppose I'm still photographing anything and everything that…
2006-10-30 : Optimism
2 things strike me as overly hopeful about the ambulances here: 1) I sincerely doubt that should you need to get into one that you'd be able to lie in the back – they're essentially Suzuki Carryvans, which like its stablemates the MightyBoy and the Sherpa, seems to have been designed for carting individual cartons…
2006-10-26 : How to win friends & influence people
The other night we dropped in to Barista for our post-lecture coffee, and there were these two blokes sitting in there chatting away. When we sat down, they said – with great big friendly smiles on their faces – to Rob (Dutch), Ricardo (Colombian) and myself: “You are English, yes ?”. We made it clear…
2006-10-26 : w00t!
OK, that's another exam out of the way. 2 down, 6 to go. Although for some stupid reason I'm considering rushing the last two and tacking on another 9 day course. Maybe I'll wait til I get this exam (shaping up to be trickier) out of the way on Monday or Tuesday and then see…
2006-10-23 : Some slight turbulence
The stuff I posted earlier today – which is dated from a few days back – I actually wrote before, it's just the pace of this course has been so flat out I hadn't had a chance to edit the photos and get all that organised. But as I take a brief break from study…