cccxxxix) It's A Pot.

In nearly a year of taking daily pics, apart from a few lucky shots.
It's pretty evident that I'm not exactly the most inspiring of picture-takers.
Booo.

cccxvi) Comfort Food.

2.5 litres. Hell yes I polished that off in one sitting.

clxviii) How Do They Know?!?!?!?

Oh wait, I'm logged in... Doh.

clii) Choke.

You know you're breathing in a 21st century capital city when you can look directly at the sun without any eye protection and still be able to walk away without singed eyeballs.

xciv) Eat Your Fruits.

According to my mother, this is three days worth of fruit.

#291: An Announcement.

Looking at the state of my finances. Reality comes and bites even harder.

I'm gonna have to postpone my Grand America Roadtrip.

Until next year.

Crap.

Guess I'll just have to drive up from Argentina next year instead.

Whoops...

The pace of life out here means that I'm constantly having to think 10steps ahead in pretty much every aspect of life... this is especially easy for those of us who have good time-management and organisational skillz. Those lucky bastards... (¬_¬)

The problem here is that by always focussing on step 10, I find myself rushing through life a lil bit faster than most and then I'll occasionally forget that steps 2, 5 and 7 are not always foregone conclusions. Which kinda messes things up. These past 10days I've definitely messed things up.

Whoops.

Guess I was due for a good cockup around this point anyways. There're always my trusty psuedo-cliche philosophies to fallback to... in this case:

Perceptively Nutz, Addendum A:
"Within every failure is a lesson/opportunity to be gleaned."

The results of my goddamn impatience led to an illuminating insight into a personality which had previously baffled me before, with very little chance of a resolution. I got my answer from that case so suddenly and unexpectedly that I almost missed it in the whoosh.

It's a shame though, coz it woulda been a pretty fun journey to discover the answer the long traditional way. But of course, I apparently have a pretty "special" way of looking at things. Can't really expect everyone I meet to get that.. =)

A Realisation.

Gotta go back to work for the first time in 4 months from Monday...

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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In other news: It's been a long-ass time since I last went to a club event and stayed from beginning to end and didn't even notice the time go by.

Taichung?

Quickest 5 hours of my life.

Excellent. (^^)b

It's quite simple really...

For some reason, the question I get asked most by people back home is whether I've found a girlfriend out here yet. And for some reason, they're always surprised when I tell them I haven't. After all, everyone else who comes out here seems to have no trouble at all in finding a partner (or two).

So this is what happens - the girls I've met out here generally tend to fall into one or more of the following areas:

- I'm attracted to them in that way, but they're not attracted to me in that way.
- They're attracted to me in that way, but I'm not attracted to them in that way.
- I'm attracted to them in that way, but I cannot talk to them either literally or figuratively or both.
- I can talk to them either literally or figuratively or both, but I'm not attracted to them in that way.
- I can talk to them either literally or figuratively or both, but they're attracted to someone else in that way.

(There's overlap there, but Meh, I don't care =P )

It's been commented a bunch of times that my approach to life is pretty flippant and free-spirited. Actually, I see it more as a direct result of the fact that its hard to take anything seriously when you're dealt a deck as brimming with juicy ironicness as the above. Comes with a wicked sense of humour too!

See - and so it's not so surprising after all is it? o(^-^)o

Its the beauty in its symmetry...

Where my passion for all things ironic-alicious comes back to bite me in the ass...

The fact that the girls that like me, I don't like back... and the girls I like, don't like me back.

I love it. I hate it. (^_-)

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...for Valentines Day today one of my students gave me a gigantic bag of chocolate and cream filled donuts... she's 5 years old.

So young yet so smart already - This girl is gonna make some guy in the future extreeeeemely happy... (^_^)

It speaks my soul!

Its so fitting that in the two days before, the weather was brilliant and blue and bright and cheery... and then come Valentines its all cold and wet and gloomy... GLOOM YA HEAR?!?!!! GLOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!

MWAKAKAAKAKKAKAAKAAA!!!

*laughs like the maniacal cold bitter twisted lonely soul that resides within these fleshy walls*

^_^