Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Drinking (water)



Faith has now learnt how to hold a cup and drink from it! Hooray! No more bottles!

Being married

So the first year of marriage has come and gone. Should think of some nice stuff to do with Wifey. It's a bit difficult with Faith crying for attention when Wifey's out of her sight.

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It's a curiosity here where, for many couples, the day of their wedding ceremony does not coincide with the date of marriage registration. We often hear two terms:

1. ROM
2. "Traditional" ceremony

Questions like:

When's your ROM?
When's the ceremony?

would mean something only if you've been living here for some time.

As far as I'm concerned, there's nothing traditional about the "traditional" ceremony. It consists mostly of getting all stressed up over organizing some pseudo-lavish banquet where a blur of faces flash around before collapsing either in deep fatigue or drunken stupor.

So much of tradition...

Anyway, I'm rambling. Gotta go work...

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

June 6, 1944


Photo by Robert Capa

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother;


-Henry V

Friday, June 02, 2006

I am il (sic)...


Image from Google

Spiking fever + body aches = dengue?

So it would seem. I can hardly sit still to type this and this plague has been bugging me since last Thursday. 37.0 degrees one moment, 39.2 the next, then back to 37.0...

Very, very tiring...

Whatever the case may be, let's hope everyone else that I come into contact with does not fall ill.