creating my life

living in the interstices of society

2012-01-26T14:09:00.005Z

london I consider myself as living in this interstitial space in society. and what is this interstitial space? it is the space hidden inside the ebb and flow of mainstream society , a space which can allow rapid movement against the stream, or contain fall out material fallen out of favour, or unusual stuff from the mainstream of society. and this interstitial lifestyle that i have is

kong hee fatt choy dragon year

2012-01-23T15:11:00.008Z

london Today, is the start of the water dragon chinese new year. And how appropriate that i wish to talk about money. not that i have deliberately chosen to do so, it is just that yesterday i blogged about the new £50 note and it was mentioned that it will come out in november. added 25.1.12 i assumed it is nov 2012, but i found out after googling today that it allready came out in

new £50 note in november (added 2011 not 2012 as i assumed)

2012-01-22T13:26:00.010Z

london I was in the gym reading the daily mail and came across this article about a new £50 note. Correction. i found out that actually this is old news. the new £50 note came out in nov 2011. the article did not mention the year, and i assumed it will be this year 2012. it said the old notes (issued in 1994) will be replaced by this in 2yrs time. and also tell about the security features in

2012-01-19T16:40:00.006Z

london view from my bedroom window at 4.36pm. looks rather forbidding, these two silhouettes but actually in real life they are rather pretty with the blue sky with that flush of pink clouds in the distance reflecting the setting sun. pictures do give a false mood but maybe it depands on the veiwers mindset. someone who is troubled and whose life is not going well might interpret it as a

sinking ship

2012-01-16T23:09:00.005Z

london I see a big cruise liner toppled on its side in shallow water like a beached whale. What a sight. you never expect to see such a thing, because we all have gotten complacent and dont expect a ship to sink anymore. but on the 100 anniversary of the titanic sinking, we are reminded that ships, no matter how large, can sink. such a large hole on its sides from hitting rocks, so much damage

went clubbing last night

2012-01-14T16:47:00.004Z

london its been such a long time since i went clubbing it brings back memories. walked across the river to the nudityclub night. when i arrived there was no one going in, just two door keepers who confirmed it was the entrance to the club. the other side of the club was the entrance to their other clubnight, fitlads, and there was a big queue there so that clubnight was more popular than ours.

a snapshot of a day

2012-01-12T15:08:00.002Z

the london I wonder what the future historians will make of our present day... what,,they will ask do ordinary people worry about? is it the credit crunch, and the world recession and possible fear of a crash in china? or what i shall be telling them now. it is the price of electricity and gas. haha. today i read that British gas(BG) is reducing the electricity price by 5% effective

telling the difference between asian languages

2012-01-11T14:19:00.001Z

london How to tell korean from japanese from mandarin writings. I like that they described chinese writing as big and scary... haha. a very apt description. link Added. talk about scary, this one is frightening...its burmese more weird writings here

maybe i should socialise more

2012-01-09T20:22:00.008Z

london simon says he is worried about me. that i am isolating myself and not going out with friends much. he is right about the not socialising with friends. most of my friends are doing their own thing which does not interest me so i dont join them. in the past, we would meet up and eat out. a friend would organise a new year dinner to usher in the chinese new year. that kind of thing.

just chatting

2012-01-04T16:57:00.004Z

london i saw a white headphone rather like the kind of headphones that comes with one of the apple products, and cost quite a bit. it was dropped by someone and someone else put it on top of the pedestrian button at the crossing. I was thinking someone can make good money by picking these things up and selling them at ebay or something. people are very careless with headphones. i have seen

do u put the lid down when you flush the toilet?

2012-01-03T08:24:00.036Z

london It is a habit which i adopted long ago. i could do it because i have a toilet that have both a seat and a cover and i always bring the lid and seat down whenever i flush. The chinese thinks it is bad feng shui to leave the toilet uncovered. and this study that flushing spreads the fecal matter into the air if it is not covered seem to support the feng shui view of keeping the toilet

simon booked his flight to phuket

2012-01-02T17:22:00.002Z

london This morning i was thinking simon might like to go on holiday to phuket, and wondering if he will do so this year. Well, out of the blue he tells me he has booked his flight to phuket late feb for 2wks. he said he was browsing the flights and found they cost about £700 all in. others start off at £500 or so but when he goes into the details he found they soon end up around that figure

new year

2012-01-01T17:52:00.003Z

london I think i have lived so long now that eachnew year dont mean much anymore. haha. so i slept through it last night. And was not even woken by the fireworks. People think they are saying goodbye to the old year and looking forward to the new, and wondering what it will bring. to me, it is looking forward to enjoying being alive and seeing in another year. I think when i was younger, i

2011-12-26T18:49:00.002Z

london it is great entertainment to observe others and what they get up to. There is one group of people, the majority it would seem if the statistics have anything to say, who go shopping. This they do online, in increasing numbers it seems, or hit the shops during boxing day and the following days. I enjoy seeing what they buy. the daily mail purports to show what the bargains are here. But

2011-12-20T15:31:00.015Z

london well, christmas is coming and though i dont celebrate it, i thought i shall put up this wreath on my door, just for the fun of it. I found it and it looked kind of festive. sunrise 8:04 AM GMT sunset 3:54 PM GMT high 8.2C low 5.9C Added. 21.12.11 as usual, the Daily mail is providing our daily laugh about the weather. Today they are saying it is a heat wave when only a few days ago

1 year ago

2011-12-18T09:04:00.006Z

london I happened to see a post i made on 15dec 2010 and saw i got some real good beef bargains, and my kettle which i am still using. i thought i had it for longer time than only 1 year. I am glad i write a blog so i can see what happened before. i tend to forget the time i had things, thinking i had it for longer than actually. It is rather sad that i dont get any more of those beef

i won £50 in the premium bond draw

2011-12-14T16:42:00.003Z

london Every month there is this draw. this month i won 2prizes of £25 each. its not that often i win, so it can be rather nice to win two. i dont spend anything for christmas because i dont celebrate it, so this money will just go into my bank account. haha. it is really one of the joys of my life that i dont do anything different for christmas, and so have no stress about christmas and so

can you manage on £40,000 a year?

2011-12-13T15:11:00.003Z

london You hear often in uk from people on £40,000 a year saying they cannot cope. that is the average wage for a family with both parent working. of course, if it is before tax, than the after tax pay will be only £34,000 which is not as much as it seems at first glance. it surprised me that they cannot cope even on the lower figure. i think there is something they are not doing right. well,

do you still do this?

2011-12-12T13:59:00.001Z

london An interesting survey of 3000 people asking them 50 tasks that is made redundant because of technology. I still do the following from the list. 3, record things using VHS. 16, use an address book. 17, check a map before or during a car journey. 25, look up something in the dictionary 26, have a phone book 27, watch videos 35, watch programs at the time they are shown. 36, dial 1471 when

living with a smoker

2011-12-11T23:13:00.007Z

london Simon has been smoking in the living room. usually he smokes in the kitchen, but it has been getting cold, so he smokes in the living room with the window open. But of course, the cigarette smells linger on. Especially when the ashes falls behind the sofa. I dont know why cigarette smokers are so careless with where they put their ashes. it gets everywhere but they dont seem to mind it.

couples different attitudes to money

2011-12-06T22:33:00.003Z

london I am watching a tv program about money , where different couples, for eg a gay couple, a couple both of them on benefits, newly weds, a black couple who earns equally, a couple where the husband is happy in his job, but wife wants him to change job and be a lawyer so he can earn more so she can send the 2children to private school. During the course of the interviews, their different

money saving

2011-12-01T22:13:00.012Z

london there is a tv program tonight about how to penny pinch, and i taped it but i have lost the recording. My original plan was to go out and buy bargain meats in the supermarket rather than stay in to watch it. i prefer to be getting the bargains rather than watch tv programs about it. I have no guarantees that i will get the bargains, but if i go there, it opens me out to be able to grab the

things i witness when walking around my area

2011-11-29T14:57:00.005Z

london I was walking this morning to my library,when i saw a council truck which collects used furniture ,back to back with a garbage truck which has a big grabber and they were feeding it with sofas and stuff and it was crunching it into smithereens before gulping it down into its innards. so that is what they do with old furniture , now i know. i thought they recycled them but these are old

how would u reacte if you have been burgled?

2011-11-26T15:28:00.003Z

london There had been two reactions to burglery in the news recently. One is a letter supposedly of apology by a young thief to his victims, but instead of being sorry he told them they were stupid and proceeded to tell them why. Then there is a school teacher who wrote a letter to the burgler and posted copies of it in her neighbourhood. link to both Most of the comments sympathise with the

musings

2011-11-22T08:25:00.033Z

london written on 21.11.11 nighttime, and posted on 22.11.11 Fog in the mornings now. But still quite mild temperatures. about 12C-9C. this must be the longest indian summer for some time. as usual the dailymail start making panic headlines but the fog is really of quite short duration. i know u will say but 50 flights were cancelled. but it is just a measure of how full heathrow is , that it

i found another bike today

2011-11-16T11:55:00.006Z

london I pass by this bike everyday as i walk from my gym to the library. normally i ignore it, however yesterday i noticed that it was not locked to the fence. there was a broken wire lock dangling from it. there was also another wire lock but it was not connected to the fence. Well, i walked on as i figured the owner will soon get back to retrieve it or someone else will take it away. This

what world are they in?

2011-11-11T11:11:00.016Z

london I know accommodation in london is expensive, but i never knew how much till i saw this beginning statement reviewing the hoxton, in shoreditch in east london. The Hoxton is all about knock-down prices. So much so that their quarterly sale of rooms at just £1, a clever marketing ploy if ever there was one, attracts half a million worldwide hits in under 20 minutes. Telegraph Rating 7/10

just fancy writing

2011-11-07T13:40:00.001Z

london There are lots to write about and there is nothing to write about. I mean lots of news happening that i could comment on, or tv programs like downton abbey that so many newspaper columnists have wittily (i have to google the spelling, it looks weird but if google says it is the correct spelling then it must be right, right??) written about, but that is the nub, isn't it? so many are

aug-sept-oct2011 electricity bill

2011-11-04T13:44:00.006Z

london it is that time of year again for bills. period 21july - 31oct2011 i used £65.54 for 103days +duel fuel discount £3.85 - Vat5% £3.08 before 17aug 2011 103kwh used over 28days first 55kwh x 22.145p = £12.18 next 48kwh x 10.224p = £4.91 total £17.09 16.5p = 1kwh after 17aug 2011 257kwh used over 75days first 148kwh x 24.076p = £35.63 next 109kwh x 11.765p = £12.82 total £48.45 18.8p =

time goes slowly after the clock change

2011-11-02T19:31:00.003Z

london That is how it seems to me and to simon too. he came in and told me he thought he had missed the big match between manchester united(or is it city) and another team that is going to come on tv at 7.45pm. And it is still only 7pm when he checked. and i have been waiting for it to be 8pm so i can go to the supermarket to see what bargains are available. it is the clocks changing so that

mild october

2011-10-31T07:32:00.002Z

london yesterday we changed back to GMT. sunrise 6.52am sunset 4.37pm today. So here I am at 7.08am, able to open my curtains and switch off my indoor lights as it is so bright outside. (Though i can see my neighbour in the flat opposite sitting by his open window smoking and with the lights in the room on. it is a shared flat,3men i think in a 3bdroom flat; and they sometimes leave the light

guess what i found

2011-10-28T19:39:00.005+01:00

london Another vacuum cleaner. This one is a zanussi brand. I know i got a lot of these bagless vacuum cleaners, but i did not intend to take it. i saw it and walked past it to the shed where i keep my bike , intending to ride to brixton to buy ginger. But when i reach the shed, i realised i forgot my knapsack.so i had to return and going back the same way i passed it and felt well i am fated

passion for something

2011-10-23T21:20:00.005+01:00

london the title is a bit deceptive because i find i dont have much passion for anything. I like not having a passion even though everyone might think that it is a dull life to have no passion for anything. I like things, but not to the extent of being passionate about it and going to extremes to do it. I have been passionate about things when i was younger, so it is really a case of been

google chrome

2011-10-18T16:51:00.005+01:00

london Today i went to the google store in tottenham crt road to try out the chromebook. Their name for the laptops. the store is way at the other end of the road from oxford st. there were lots of the laptops to play with and no one else there. it was a small screen samsung. it was not easy to clear the url box for a start. Unlike with my laptop, i just have to double click on the previous

Dodgy gas boilers/lease option deals

2011-10-16T08:11:00.009+01:00

london I have always suspected there was something dodgy about gas boilers. They always break down and dont last long. gas boilers constantly need annual maintainance. Even if u dont believe it needs it, you dare not stop, because of fear of gas leaks and explosions. this article makes me glad i did not replace my gas boiler when it broke down years ago. it seems all gas boilers have to be

if you dont ask you dont get.

2011-10-14T14:00:00.001+01:00

london I have a tale to tell of getting a refund from sainsburys and also that their self help machines can short change you by a £1. this had happened to me once before when i gave the machine a £20 note and it did not have enough £1 coins and i realised it gave me £1 short. i was able to go to the desk to get it. But yesterday night i was there, and bought some real bargains, a chicken for £1,

2011-10-10T15:48:00.003+01:00

London I have changed the font as I have been told the vivaldi font is hard to read. If someone were to ask me what is it about London that is so different and attractive to everywhere else in the world and why I chose to live here, my answer now would be very different from when I first came here, or 10, 20 yrs ago. I have been here 30yrs now and the reasons were different every decade.

2011-10-08T18:45:00.001+01:00

London I was at the library computers this morning and opened my web log and was surprised to see that the font was not what I have posted. Yet, when I looked at it from my laptop at home, I can see the script I posted. That is the trouble with computers. Rather like life really. That each viewpoint of the same thing can look so different depanding on who (in this case, which computer) you

2011-10-07T14:01:00.001+01:00

London There are quite a number of things that run through my mind as I read the papers. It may not be linked to the article, but is prompted by it. I don't want to single out any one by mentioning it because than it seems I give undue importance to it. So let me talk generally. It might be confusing for anyone reading this because it will seem disjointed. But hey, this is my blog so there

2011-10-05T15:33:00.001+01:00

London Another happy day for no particular reason. That is why I don't think it is very important to know why you are happy. You can be happy for no reason at all. The previous day I said I have found a eureka moment, when I realise that amassing things is what makes us happy. But of course, like knowing how to drive a car

2011-10-04T07:33:00.001+01:00

London We all suspect things don't make us happy. I was reading this guy's denisonberwickblog where he discussed it. He was reviewing a book Tim Kasser's "The High Price of Materialism Reading him, I suddenly realise what the real cause of the happiness is. It is the act of collecting. We are happy when we amass things or experiences or whatever. It can be even money, but the act of

feels like summer

2011-10-03T16:39:00.000+01:00

London Today really feels like summer. For the first time this year, the breeze coming in through my window is warm. It reminds me of Malaysia, during sunset, as during the day, the air is very hot and not like this at all. The Indian summer had lasted long enough to warm up the air. I know how it feels to have really hot weather, so I can appreciate this mildly warm weather we are having.

another life little mystery

2011-10-02T15:46:00.001+01:00

London I am convinced that there are souls that want to make their lives difficult. Take religion for eg. If that is not an example par excellence of souls wanting to make their lives as difficult as possible, how else to explain the existence of religious practices that dictate to their followers to follow strict rules. I was reminded of it when I read this article about a traffic light

re posting

2011-10-02T07:46:00.001+01:00

London Hello everyone. The last few days I have been disciplining myself and not get online and it has done me good that I can resist the temptation to go online. It can be very addictive being online and wasting time surfing the net or reading blogs. I got a lot of reading done, which is great to rediscover the joy of reading for pleasure. But now that a new month has started, my quota is

2011-09-30T15:28:00.003+01:00

LondonI am continuing to write offline in my documents and saving it on my pen drive and post it in the library computers.I shall send it my email this time, as the fonts do not transfer when I copy and paste. Let's see if sending it my email to the website will enable the fonts to be kept intact. I got a daily mail M&S £5 voucher today. They wrote me an email some time ago saying as an

life

2011-09-29T15:22:00.001+01:00

I am writing this on my word document and doing it offline. This is because I am near my broadband limit of 40GB from talk talk. 40GB is a high limit, but someone here is using the laptop to watch tv programs, He thought it wont take up lots of broadband but it seems it does. I can monitor it from my talk talk website,and I saw it was using 2-3G a day. I think all this downloads of movies,

bloggers new interface

2011-09-24T17:31:00.001+01:00

london I have seen this alert a number of times telling me to try it. My god, when i did, it was so alien, nothing of the previous interface remained and i was totally lost. instead of showing everything in one page, it seems to have broken it into separate pages. I cannot find the features that were so easily found in the old interface. I quickly revert to the old interface and i hope they

nude day in san francisco today

2011-09-24T13:19:00.005+01:00

london I like living in london, but even so, i am envious when i read this ... naked day in san francisco to celebrate the fact that the city allows nudity anytime. it is an amazing thing to be allowed to do. USA is a prudish place as a whole, with the general population rather hang up about nudity, but it is refreshing to see SF being different and being allowed to be different. Here in

more laptop sheenanigans

2011-09-23T18:30:00.005+01:00

london As usual life is always made interesting with laptop problems. Now and then, we who uses the laptop always comes across things going wrong with it. Yesterday, i was using my laptop on the bed. simon came to sleep and moved the tray which i was using to rest the laptop on , and the legs of the tray collapsed and pitched the laptop off. the usb lead which connects to the cooler , whose fan

Free drink at Young's to celebrate their 180yrs.

2011-09-21T18:07:00.007+01:00

london Only for those in london who can get the evening standard today. There is a voucher there for a free pint of bitter, glass of wine or soft drink valid today to sunday. Added. 22.9.11 got an email today telling me i can download a voucher for free pint. and at their website it is available to anyone to download. and it seems young's have branches all over the country. link That is the fun

soho pink sunday

2011-09-18T18:08:00.004+01:00

london I thought i shall wander there seeing i got a coupon in the saturday mirror for a walkers crisp pack. The only co op supermarket near me is the one near soho. I got the crisp, bacon flavour, (all artificial flavour i m sure. its amazing how they can duplicate the flavour from chemicals) and i saw in the receipt that it costs 60p. What a lot of money for such a small snack. found out that

other people's lives

2011-09-16T15:36:00.010+01:00

london I was walking back from the supermarket, after my gym, (I bought 2chickens in tesco, 2for 1 for £4. Very nice price, £2 each. not possible to get that price nowadays, and i bought the last 2chickens there. but the offer lasts till sunday, so there should be more of them in your tesco. this pimlico tesco is a v small branch. I would never have known of this offer if i had not read it in the

exercising the mind to prevent dementia

2011-09-13T19:26:00.000+01:00

london i think I am convinced that there are some people whose soul just wants them to suffer or make their lives difficult. I am sure you all have met a kind of person who invariably break things or wreck some appliances or other when others have been using it for years without any trouble. Everything they touch goes kaput or they will break it. I am sure u all laugh at my always saying '

about the time and date function in my laptop

2011-09-08T21:23:00.015+01:00

london Life is very nice for me now. That is why I shall talk of something quite mundane like the time and date in my laptop. The reason why it has been acting up is because i have found out where the battery is and taken it out. i read somewhere that if u dont use the battery and periodically drain it completely it will have a short life. And that is so with this battery. And they suggest

if the soul wants to go, it will go, if not it will stay

2011-09-05T00:36:00.009+01:00

london I asked simon what the food was like, because there is a tv program that we were seeing about a man who was trying to improve hospital food. simon said it is inedible. only the soup was nice, even though it is from a can. (maybe it was because it is from a can. simon like most people have got so used to salt and suger in his food, he will like any food with it. so if a patient says the

emotional roller coaster

2011-09-01T18:47:00.000+01:00

london I am usually a placid guy and dont get emotional. But recently i got a real emotional roller coaster. It has all blown over by now so i can look back on it with a bit of equanimity. But when it happened last friday with a call from simon, saying he is in a bad way, he is in essex hospital and had liver failure and was so bad they are going to transfer him to royal free hospital in north

the motion of dismissal in the strauss-kahn case- the full report

2011-08-27T05:10:00.009+01:00

london If you have often wondered what exactly happens in these rape cases here is a classic account. It is the report submitted by the prosecutor to explain why he ask for the case to be dismissed. its an extraordinary read. What intrigued me is that it is a brief blowjob. Short of threatening to kill you, you can run away. it is impossible to force someone against their will to give you a

drugs to increase sex drive

2011-08-20T22:29:00.014+01:00

london This article about jane fonda admitting to using testosterone to increase her sex life at 70yrs old, makes me realise that if any old person says they are having a great sex life, it is because they are using such drugs as testosterone or viagra or its slow acting equivalent. personally i think it is great that we have these aids to improving our libidos. we men have it great with viagra

what is reality?

2011-08-15T17:55:00.022+01:00

london I think what i mean is that different people have different realities.all the people i mention below have experienced realities different from me. I am glad my reality is nothing like theirs. Added 19/8/11 i livenear pimlico, and it seems there are bedbugs in a hostel called airways hotel. 2 sisters in their 40s were treated in hospital for a combined 100 bedbug bites. it must be really

olympic marathon swimming in hyde park

2011-08-13T17:54:00.006+01:00

london that row of splashes are the swimmers sharing the water with the ducks and geese. I read of it at a website called 3guysonalondonbus, and decided to cycle there as i find cycling quite nice to do in london since they have improved the infrastructure. the roads are more cycle friendly now. the swimming race is held in the serpentine, in hyde park. it was very pleasant to be sitting in

riots in london

2011-08-09T15:56:00.014+01:00

london Reading the papers today gives me a feeling which i always get when i read the papers, that i live in a parallel universe where nothing in the papers seems to appear in my world... i am talking of riots in london, but i live here and i dont see it. Just as well. So i am not complaining but it does make me feel as if i live in a parallel universe where all these things dont happen.

rent controls in new york

2011-08-06T08:14:00.030+01:00

london Latest: USA lost its AAA rating to AA+ Added 7.8.11. I was doing the charity food run today and the volunteer driver told me she rents her 2bdroom flat with garden with another for £520 a month each. (effectively the rent for the flat is £1040 a month). And they share the utilities bill, council tax etc. she lives in tooting bec which is in zone 3. what is the rent on a flat in zone 1? i

free samples of frozen yoghurt

2011-08-03T13:24:00.008+01:00

london added 5.8.11 There has been a glut of vegetables with this hot weather we are getting lately, that will explain why the supermarket is selling reduced ice burg lettuce for 40p each. Also, in brixton, i can get 5tomatoes for 50p and cherry tomatoes for the same price. Yesterday, there was a coupon for free frozen yoghurt from pinkberry in the metro newspaper, for their opening of their

clarence house garden opening

2011-07-29T17:44:00.014+01:00

london Normally I dont bother to go to these things, but I am curious to know what is behind that high wall hiding clarence house. We are all have heard it mentioned as the home of the queen mum, and now of charles and his sons. I booked the 2-4pm slot. there were stalls set up throughout the garden which is a long strip running the front of the building. There was a wedding cake like

I lost £50, Clarence house garden open and salty food

2011-07-28T15:24:00.006+01:00

london I guess my soul wants it. I was going to pay some money and found i was short of £50 when the cashier counted it. I was very surprised as u can imagine. i was at the gym earlier, and took out the money and counted it, and i think that must be when the £50 note fell out without me noticing. Ah well, I have made whoever finds it happy so that is my good deed for the day. haha. That is the

electricity bill may-june-july2011

2011-07-25T14:23:00.013+01:00

london So my early summer electric bill came to £59.29 + £2.73 5% vat - duel fuel discount £1.27 - direct debit discount £3.39. i used 370 kwh over 91 days. averaging 4.06kwh a day. average of 16.02p a kwh. first 180kwh x 22.145p = £39.86 next 190kwh x 10.224p = £19.43 total £59.29 for 3months. Not bad considering it was a rather cold spring though not too good either as april was warmest

2011-07-23T20:17:00.000+01:00

london My life is rather peaceful and uneventful, exactly as i want it. That is why i dont have much to say about it. haha. But it is not so with the news... There was the bail out(again ) of Greece, with this time a definite intention to full economic integration of all the EC countries. Difficult to know what the future implications are of this. Does it mean Germany will have to pay the debts

raining... like it or loathe it?

2011-07-17T13:48:00.011+01:00

london added. Oh my goodness, now the top policeman, paul stephenson, has resigned for accepting a 12k spa holiday. wow , this hacking scandal is like a domino effect toppling figures right to the top. /simon says he wont be surprised if cameron goes next. I dont think so, as he is a elected MP unlike paul stephenson who has been appointed. And there is no rival in his party for his prime

riverwalk house sw1

2011-07-13T18:02:00.010+01:00

london There has been a rather ugly high rise by vauxhall bridge which i often pass by. it has been govt offices till earlier this year, when it was closed. it was originally owned by the crown estates. The Crown has exchanged the long lease of Morley House in Regent Street with Derwent Valley for the freehold of Argosy House in Great Portland Street and Riverwalk House on Millbank. And the

endings and beginnings (my adidas trainers)

2011-07-08T13:47:00.012+01:00

london I dont suppose anyone else in the world is much interested in the closure of the news of the world. it is a uk sunday newspaper selling more than 2million every sunday. and it is a rubbish newspaper selling scandal and pious righteousness when it suits it, so it is only fitting that it got hoisted by its own petard and got visited by its own nemesis. Added/ 17.11.11 it just goes to show

bargain meat

2011-07-05T09:01:00.010+01:00

london I have not gone meat shopping for some time and decided to do it yesterday night. Did n't expect much as monday is usually not a good day. So i was surprised to find so much cheap meats reduced and no crowd waiting to pounce on it as usually happens. the chicken was organic free range 1.5kg. the mince beef were 700mg 11%fat. roast pork 1.37kg mackerel were gutted and headless making it

london gay pride 2011

2011-07-02T19:09:00.000+01:00

london nice bods and legs. I caught the tail end of the march when i arrived at trafalgar square at about 3pm. There were lots of drag queens but i like muscle men/bears so i shall put this picture up . the crowd in Trafalgar square is straight-ish. So i walked to soho where it is gayer. haha. In past years i forgot to go to soho, so this year i have remedied the oversight. the streets were

summer in london

2011-07-01T18:19:00.004+01:00

london It truly is summer now. Even though on paper the highest temp is 20C it does not feel like that, it feels warm. I wonder why that is so because in april when it was the same temperature it was cold, and this even when the sun is shining. The winds are warm i think because they are coming from the south whilst the wind in april is from the north; so that even when there is no sun , hidden

2011-06-28T12:48:00.000+01:00

london I know i tend to talk of souls calling forth and that things happen because your soul asks for it. But today, i realise your soul may call for it, but u dont have to accept. haha. today i got an email from the foodchain saying i had been entered into a draw and won two tickets to see jimmy summerville, at the hear and now tour in the O2 on july 2. i googled it and it seems to be a big

what other souls have called forth

2011-06-26T16:33:00.007+01:00

london What a strange thing that I have witnessed around me. First , it was simon telling me he had been given notice of a fine by the congestion charge people. he said he had paid the congestion charge via a shop in chelsea but cannot find the receipt. So he went to the shop and ask them. And found out that they had mistakenly put down the date as july 2011 instead of june. What a strange

free chocolate from thorntons

2011-06-22T18:27:00.006+01:00

london A lot of people dont like prominently mentioning companies or products in their weblogs as it smacks of giving them free publicity. one blogger even refuse invitations to freebies not related to his blog as he is afraid he will lose credibility. But i dont mind. I kind of like freebies. haha. I can have this easy attitude about it because no one is going to pay me to endorse them. haha.

cherries from the garden

2011-06-21T09:10:00.003+01:00

london from ian's parent's garden in essex. I remember long ago ian and i would drive down to his parents place to pick the cherries from their tree in the garden. today, ian called me and said he had been there last week and got the cherries before the birds ate them. And he cycled to my place to give me them. that was yesterday, and i had allready eaten almost all of them. they are so

does no one email you?

2011-06-19T21:41:00.005+01:00

london People complain that they get too much emails. I dont get much, not even spam, and u might think me perverse but i would like more emails but not spam. It is kind of dissatisfying to see the notice saying no mail when i log on haha. So how do i solve this? I subscribe to a website called http://www.dailylit.com/ I have been reading regularly stories sent to me daily so i get emails that

writing

2011-06-18T08:43:00.015+01:00

london I just read a boingboing article about a guy who blogged for AOL . this guy wrote the article in thefastertimes.com i am sure the boing article must have driven huge amounts of traffic to that website and made it known. in fact, i put my email to subscribe to it. all on the strength of that AOL article. It was very well written and shows the pressures on him to put in key words in his

riding naked in london naked bike ride 2011

2011-06-12T13:48:00.008+01:00

london One of the highlights of the year of living in london is to ride naked through the centre of london in the naked bike ride.this is the 8th year. it was on yesterday. And it happened to fall on my birthday this year and i cannot think of any better way to celebrate it. Its an annual affair that i look forward to participate. this time the route is circular and took us from hyde park

prepacked salads reduced to 10p

2011-06-08T22:13:00.008+01:00

london Today I saw the effect of the e.coli scare in the sainsburys. Just got back from there and they have a glut of the prepacked salads. reduced from 95p to 10p. Such overpriced salads and it is supposed to be their basic range... but at 10p they are cheap, so i bought 3packs. I saw this article in the telegraph from as long ago as 2sept2008 warning of the dangers of e coli infection in

a skewed world

2011-06-07T12:36:00.018+01:00

london Have you often wondered why babies cry so much? It is a survival trait, the cry baby survives... the quiet baby gets forgotten and left behind or get squashed. Looking at this picture and this... he forgot to drop his baby at the daycare and left the baby in the parked car on a hot day, makes me realise that if that kid is a cry baby, its presence would never be forgotten. Or do u

women authors

2011-06-04T07:37:00.003+01:00

london Naipaul said he thinks woman authors are inferior to him. Even jane austen. A lot will disagree with him, but i think i agree with him. he says jane austen is too sentimental and it is true in that her women heroines always gets their man. most of us men, will say it is sentimental, but women will see it as romantic. this link at overheard in new york describes to me the real world

moths, a millionaire who cannot read, a sofabed too heavy to bring back.

2011-06-03T19:23:00.008+01:00

london A number of news items caught my eye. A millionaire in today's standard said he is ashamed that he cannot read. And it was this that made him want to prove himself. This is supposed to illustrate how bad it is that so many kids cannot read in schools. yet, when i read his story, i thought, hang on, shouldn't he be saying it is not important to read, as he cannot and he is a

hows life

2011-06-02T17:44:00.005+01:00

london Lovely june is here. melton mowbray pie each about 0.56 kg. at £12.50 /kg they cost £7, but reduced to £1.40 when i bought them.they are lamb joints. I happened to turn a corner and saw the shop assistant reducing them. I got one pack and there were two guys came up and i thought they will take the other pack. One of them was talking to someone on the mobile asking what to buy... he was

what did u get up to this bank holiday?

2011-05-30T18:38:00.008+01:00

london I am always on holiday so today is not special to me. Instead i found 3 small pieces of carpet. Can anyone tell me what they are used for? Are they meant to cover bald patches in the floor carpets? They remind me of the olden days when people have hard floors with no carpets or cannot afford wall to wall carpets so they buy these small pieces of carpet to put their feet on and feel the

musings about lending, rice, pork,rita, telephone

2011-05-26T17:13:00.016+01:00

london Yesterday simon got a call and i overheard him say no. I asked him what it was about, and he said it was from a friend who wanted to borrow £500. Simon said he would let him have it if he had any to spare but he had not. I said well sometimes it is simple when you dont have money. Then u can just simply say to anyone who wants to borrow money that u cannot do it. If you have money, u

found another vacuum bagless cleaner

2011-05-22T14:54:00.001+01:00

london I have not found things for some time so was getting withdrawal symptoms. But yesterday when i was walking to the library at about 9.30am I saw this lovely bagless vacuum cleaner and it was so enticing i took it even though i allready got one. (Found that one on 27.11.2008) Oh dear, i wonder if i am getting an addiction to vacuum cleaners, esp the bagless ones. I think the technology

Things work out by themselves

2011-05-18T19:12:00.003+01:00

london The reason why i say that is because of the past few days. let me tell you what has been happening to me. I checked my books which i borrowed from the library to make sure i renew them in time and found one book ' At home' by Bill Bryson I could not find at my flat. I asked simon if he had seen it. He said he had in the kitchen. Which puzzled me because i keep it in my room usually. I

being in the centre of things

2011-05-17T17:38:00.005+01:00

london I dont know about how other people feel who dont live in london, but I feel with the news that is happening that I am living in the middle of an improbable soap opera. Take the arrest in new york of the French head of the international monetary fund (IMF) for attempted rape of a chamber maid in his new york hotel whilst in the middle of delicate rescue operation of Greece from bankruptcy.

rice is heavy

2011-05-10T22:32:00.010+01:00

london Added. 16.5.11 i was in sainsburys and saw their basmati rice is also the same price. 4kg for £4. i dont recall them selling it at that price before, or i would have bought it. so it looks like competition from tesco is making them change. the shelf was empty of the rice , all sold out, but may be worth buying as a change from tesco's. the quality is difficult to judge without eating both.

2011-05-09T13:38:00.003+01:00

london I saw a purple rose yesterday as i pass through a luxury housing estate as a short cut to my flat. its only May and the roses are allready out. usually roses comes out in june onwards. it is lovely in london and i say it because it is not too hot. Temp hovering around the 20C. and thank goodness we got some rain... dont believe all those newspapers wanting dry weather and lamenting

£305 rtn MAS to kl

2011-05-07T13:01:00.010+01:00

london Added 9.5.11. 2 friends told me they booked for £506 each. it seemed MAS opened it on thursday, and most of the cheap tickets were gone by friday. Travel agents will know of it first and booked the cheap seats for themselves and friends or favoured customers.maybe a good reason to befriend them hey? Added 8.5.11 Dont get too disappointed if u dont get it. Paul L tried and it was impossible

how to fold a pop up tent

2011-05-05T21:43:00.006+01:00

london I found three pop up tents recently. Two of them i was able to fold up without really knowing how i did it. the third tent was a large one. it was a tesco leaf 2 man tent. with a detachable base. the printed cost was £34.97. i think it is out of stock because i cannot find it in google. i opened it when i got back and it instantly unfolded into this big tent. Then i found out i could

2011-05-02T10:11:00.005+01:00

london london This is the only picture i took of the wedding. detail of the curtains that i found. the flowers i was told are deadly nightshade (or belladonna so called because if u drop the oil from the flowers onto your eyes, they cause them to dilate which seems to make them more alluring. i can only marvel at the kinds of things that people do to make themselves attractive. haha. it blurs

wedding fever growing

2011-04-28T22:07:00.001+01:00

london So easy to feel left out with all this press and tv coverage of the wedding. I dont intend to line the street to catch a glimpse of them, unlike all these people who are camping out tonight. but it sure is easy to feel out of synch with everyone else. Fortunately, my life do not follow everyone elses so i can resist the temptation to feel inadequate and isolated. haha. it is one of

electricity bill feb-march-april2011

2011-04-27T17:55:00.002+01:00

london my electricity bill for 1 feb 11 to 20 apr 11. total cost for 359 kwh over 79days = £55.35 plus vat at 5% £2.51= £57.86 minus discounts £4.98 = £52.88 breakdown as follows 1feb-27feb 132kw over 27days first 53kwh x 22.145 = £11.74 next 79kwh x 10.36 = £8.19 total £19.93 28 feb - 24 mar 117kwh over 25days first 49kwh x 22.145 = £ 10.85 next 68kwh x 10.301 = £7.00 total = £17.85

religious superstitions

2011-04-26T06:40:00.002+01:00

london when it comes to beliefs, there is nothing new. People seem remarkably in agreement about incorporating fertility into it. Spring is a good time to celebrate fertility and according to this article everyone seems to be copying each other. Associated with the Cybele cult was that of her lover, Attis (the older Tammuz, Osiris, Dionysus, or Orpheus under a new name). He was a god of

not so cheap national express funfare and finding easter eggs in the daily mail

2011-04-22T14:03:00.009+01:00

london Update. 28.4.11 megabus is £1 train one way fare fr bournemouth booking up to 11june 11. john could have booked the fare to london on 9june. and wait till they open the booking for 13june to get his return. and it would be only £1 each way. train is only 2hrs journey time. since national express bought megabus they have deliberately reduced service so that there is now no bus service

summer is coming and more bargain meats

2011-04-21T15:18:00.004+01:00

london The Easter bank holiday is this weekend and allready we are having good summer weather for it. It is unusual, as most easter bank holidays are cold and wet. it looked like the weather is reverting to olden days when december was cold and spring comes in april. it is just that over the last few years, winter has occurred in jan, feb, and spring comes in May, that so many have forgotten