Month: July 2004

  • Brotherhood

    iTunes is playing: One Love/People Get Ready – Bob Marley & The Wailers – Legend My brother and I couldn’t be more different than chalk and cheese. He’s fair-skinned and gawky while I’m bronzed and supremely athletic. I’d go for a kayaking arvo while he’d pore over camera magazines. He’d think about stuff while I’d…

  • Warming the cockles of the heart

    iTunes is playing: Warm Your Heart – Aaron Neville – Warm Your Heart Because I stayed out late, I had to come home, shake off the beer buzz and work till now. ST didn’t want Jap, so we didn’t do Jap, but we did Bak Kut Teh instead. She also went to the little oasis…

  • Gripe Water

    iTunes is playing: The Great Song of Indifference – Bob Geldof – Great Songs of Indifference: The Best of Bob Geldof & the Boomtown Rats Important to mothers I’ve been wondering for a while what Gripe Water is because I suddenly remember I used to like it when I was a child. (And there is…

  • Coming down the rest of the week

    iTunes is playing: Steal My Kisses – Ben Harper – Burn to Shine [Australia Bonus CD] I want to sue the person that invented lactic acid. The adrenalin rush and euphoria from Tuesday’s big thing wore off with a big disappointing thud Wednesday morning when I fell out of bed. I am still aching all…

  • I am a lean, mean, fighting machine again

    iTunes is playing: Theme from Shaft – Isaac Hayes – Shaft I am officially fit. I passed my IPPT and was awarded $200 for doing it well. Keeping trim the past year has paid off, finally. It’s the first time since 1991 I’ve gotten a monetary award for IPPT. Did I mention I’m officially fit…